Messed up Mark

Augh, what a blase week it's been! My learning disabilities are as bad as ever. I constantly feel stiff in the back of my head and my back as if something is pressing down on me with a vengeance. It's hard to learn Spanish in class and I'm beginning to realize that my learning disabilities are also auditory. It's so hard to function sometimes that I just lie in bed and nap. On top of this I'm getting lots of "interference" in my daily life. There are so many small blocks through the days that these add up to a significant amount of time and energy and it's hard to get anything done. This includes internet access disappearing or being very poor quality at inopportune times. So it's even hard to make phone calls. Even my trust Mac is misbehaving.

But the week before was a little more interesting, so that's the story I'm going to tell.


The day after Christina and I went to the hot springs, I woke up with extremely sore arms, wrists, and hands. They were so sore that I couldn't type. I spent the morning just lying in bed listening to internet radio broadcasts. It wasn't until the afternoon that I realized what this was: the reconnective healing energy that I always carry in my hands was moving up my arms. I could tell because of the magnetic quality of the energy in my arms. I don't know if it was from the minerals in the hot spring or the Matrix meditations that I was doing each morning. But it sure hurt. Luckily it only lasted a day.

This activation proved to be extremely useful because I gave three Matrix phone sessions during the week that turned out to be excellent. One woman had pain all over her body and she could barely lift her right arm. We managed to clear most of this and she can move her arm completely now. Another woman had sinus problems so bad she could barely talk or breathe. At the end of the session she said she could breathe again. The roots of these problems all involved intensive shamanic work as well as Matrix work since their problems were primarily due to other people. It all stretched me to my limit. But I was persistent and was pleased with the results, especially since both women said they felt emotionally free and at peace.

Shortly afterwards I was wondering if the learning disabilities were due to some kind of outside interference, the kind I had helped clear in these sessions with clients. So one day I cleared the interference with my learning channels and ended up channeling a whole big post on physics on the Matrix discussion board after reading my of my library book on quantum computing. I was quite proud of it since I know next to nothing about physics. It was only the beginning of a whole bunch of things I was starting to see. But the next day the blocks were back stronger than ever and I've been walking around muddy pretty much ever since. It's hard to even begin a Matrix meditation.

In the midst of all this intense stuff it's a bit of a relief to spend time on simple things like food and cooking. For example, it's the season for habañero peppers here. The first time I discovered habañero peppers was in Vancouver, when I bought a bag of them the size of a basketball for two dollars at the organic dollar store. I'd never seen them before but I love peppers of all types so I wanted to give them a try. I was making a vegetable soup at home and took a small bite of one pepper and it didn't taste that hot. So I put four peppers in the soup. Yow! I don't know how I ever finished it. It was like medicine and I had a healing crisis with headaches from the peppers cleaning out my system that week.

Since then I've learned to respect the power of the peppers. So for the sake of helping out friends, if you decide to explore habañeros when they are in season in Canada this fall, this is what to do: wash them, chop them into small pieces, dry them for two days, bag them, and when you use them do so with great respect, as if you have a piece of the fiery breath of God. But they are very medicinal. This is what the photos are about. I've also thrown in a photo of my current try at cactus soup that gets a little better each time I try it. I made this one with nopales and fresh sugar snap green peas.

While we're on the topic of food, I wanted to warn everyone about California apples. I bought some by mistake and didn't realize it until I saw the stickers. I soaked them in a disinfectant solution just like any other vegetable here, and you can see the result:

Note the difference between the apples and the tomatoes, which were soaked in the same solution. Needless to say, I threw them out. So eat California apples at your own risk, especially if you're trying to lose weight (toxins force the body to protect itself with fat).

One thing everyone has probably figured out by now is that I've given up my hermit ways of many years. This was no accident. Something happened to me in Vancouver last fall when I was working with the Matrix groups. It could have been Connie's work, or maybe Alan's. Anyways I've always been social but before I didn't care one way or the other and never got lonely. Now I do. I tend to socialize a lot more. It's a new way for me.


Unfortunately my friend Luisa from class had a very bad fall that caused serious bruises and I haven't seen her in almost two weeks. She's lucky nothing was broken. But my new neighbours John and Hillary invited me over for an evening not too long ago. They're Americans who love exploring the towns in this area and they showed me some excellent pictures. Also John has a science background so after Hillary retired we had an interesting conversation about historical physics. (Of course with my LD I forgot the whole thing.) I was surprised to learn that a comprehensive field theory doesn't exist yet because I kept writing on the Matrix board, it's all about fields.

When Christina was here, she introduced me to a discussion group. They meet twice a week and have discussions in English and Spanish. It's pretty impromptu, as people just show up and form a table and start talking. I wish I could understand more, but the Spanish people are unusually patient and helpful, often speaking slowly and using simple words. Some of them also want to learn English and some of them just want to help the poor gringos out. Last time I ended up in a more advanced group but I didn't mind as they enunciated very clearly and I was actually able to make a couple of two-word jokes in Spanish. We did speak English most of the time and there was a lot of laughter at our table.

I just realized that this post has been all about me. Thanks for reading this far! Enjoy watching the banking meltdown in the US and realize that US and Canadian banks are closely intertwined, so now is not a good time to be buying houses or bank shares or taking out loans. Or buying SUVs. I wonder if there will be more cyclists in Toronto this spring?