Solar Eclipse Totality, Perseid Meteor Showers and John Denver's Astronaut Dream

"This will be like Woodstock 200 times over." - Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: CNN

Excitement is building but some Solar Eclipse viewing plans are in a state of flux. Oregon has issues. Wildfires have closed parks and trails: JournalSentinal. What you need to know: Forbes.

Barring any cloud episodes, there should be no problems in the heartland for the HUGE Solar Eclipse block-off-the-town party in St. Joseph, Missouri - 2 min 38.5 sec, site of full totality is expecting a massive turnout. Four years of planning and preparation for this event. Fox4KC has the story.

Check your location: HowtoEclipse.com

Weston, Missouri:
2 min 6 point 2 sec. totality, hopes to see a few Solar Eclipse watchers. Activities planned: Verna Kowertz with Main Street Galleria says shops will all be open for the day. Music and an Antique Car exhibit are part of the itinerary. 

Special events are booked solid. Sorry! Holladay Distillery's Moonshine: Solar Eclipse Watch Party is FULL. Red Barn Farm and Green Dirt Farm events are also sold out.

Parkville, MO: 1 min. 20.7 sec.
Kansas City, MO: River Market - 20.5 sec.
Updated list of events at KansasCity.com

More 2017 Eclipse stuff.

Perseid Meteor Shower peaks this weekend, 8/12/17. My favorite one to watch. For 2017, the Perseids are visible from July 17 to Aug. 24. I saw one earlier in the week, a happy accident. Details at Space.com

Paranormal backstory: When I first discovered I could channel, sometime in 1998, I was thinking about John Denver, sad that he was gone. And then he connected. I don't remember the full content. I wrote it somewhere in my journal. He told me he loved watching the Perseids.

Confirmed. That made me ever more curious about what information is available from the deceased and how we are connecting with them. John Denver, Perseids: Songfacts. Turns out it was a pretty big piece of trivia.



"One night on a camping trip to watch the Perseid meteor shower, when it was literally "raining fire in the sky," I started writing this very personal song of my rebirth." - John Denver, on writing "Rocky Mountain High"

I had been a long time John Denver fan. Not the fan who knows every detail and closet confession, rather one who thought he was talented and doing (Eco, Conservation) things that I admired. It didn't occur to me to seek out the dirt. The internet hadn't been invented. I did hear grapevine media stories about his character flaws years later.

Finally, I interviewed him while I was working at KCMO 810 AM (Now 710 AM) a year or two before he died. He started out a bit cautious because of freshly circulating headlines about a DUI. However, after I told him his was one of the first albums I bought (with my allowance) and named Grandma's Feather Bed as one of my favorite songs, we closed the distance. I waited decades for that interview.

Regardless of the negative headlines, he was booked for an area concert: Topeka Performing Arts Center 08/13/95. He graciously invited me to the show. I declined. It might seem odd but I didn't want anything to alter my rose colored memories of the singer I idolized as a kid. Some of that dark element/personal challenge is related in this article: Telegraph March 1997.

John was on the list and wanted to fly in NASA's space shuttle program.
The Challenger disaster changed that. Smithsonian

His song Flying for Me is a tribute: YouTube

The day of the launch in 1986, because it was such a spectacular opportunity to think a non-astronaut could be part of the experience, and there had been so much preparation and celebration for the first Teacher in space, I watched the event. Then the unthinkable happened. Astonishing! Unbelievable and heartbreaking. Cementing the gut punch, cameras panned the faces of the families and loved ones who were present in the stands, displaying and underscoring the immediate impact of the tragedy.

I believe John was destined to write his song. It resonates from the heart and his influence is reflected in the comments on this version of Flying for Me.

-- "This song of John Denver is the song that push me to pursuit my interest in astronomy and my support for the United States space program. It is still one of the most inspirational song written by my mentor. May they all rest in peace."

-- "I too was "one who wanted to fly." I applied, along with Christa and 11,000 others, to be the first Teacher-in-Space. The Reach for the Stars ~ National Rocket Competition that I direct is dedicated to her memory."

This Documentary Challenger launch failure. Includes highlights on Teacher, Christa McCauliffe. 

John Denver died 10/12/97. About the DUI. Obits: CNN and The Independent.

Perseid info: Newsweek
Catch it on Slooh
Interactive Perseids from Space
NASA Perseid real news. Blog

No matter what turmoil, drama, tragedy plays out in the day to day here on planet Earth, the downtime comes. Chaos ebbs for a precious few hours and the night sky blooms a thousandfold sparks. Somewhere out there we are found. The stars are calling. - Talking to Nightlights

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SciXFriday, 2017 Solar Eclipse countdown, misc. and mayhem

"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interesting Links - 

• The Solar Eclipse Stamp. Limited Edition.The stamp reveals the Moon when you touch it. FYI - the moon also brightens when the stamp sheet is next to a sunny window.

• 

  Solar Eclipse Stamps 2017

  This is the first stamp to use thermochromic ink. Totally cool. Newsweek
  
• Ever heard of a Total Eclipse Chaser? Meet one who has seen 10. Adventure
• Meet another. In the name of Science, this Eclipse Chaser has seen 14. Missed 5. Quartz
• Crop Circle news. Are these orb images real?  Express
   
• Perennial conspiracy mayhem = Planet X imminent (Sept 2017) collision with Earth. AOL Official NASA on Planet X, Niburu, etc.: "There is no factual basis for these claims." = Hoax
  
• Common link for this trio? Human - Alien - Octopus. Answer: Consciousness. Quartz

Think there's no magic in the world? Think again. My guest this week is Stanley Krippner. We're going to talk a bit about Native American Medicine Man Rolling Thunder. He did things Western minds have no explanation for. Article published in 1981 Mother Earth News

Dust is a fantastic Sci-Fi short film created by Ember Lab. Enter a world; believable, captivating and quite dangerous. Will you see it coming?

Dust from Ember Lab on Vimeo.


Wendy's Coffeehouse Schedule -

8/13 - Stanley Krippner Ph.D. - The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder

8/20 - Chad and Alta Dillard - Orbducted in the French Quarter. Paranormal, UFO, Unexplained - 'High Strangeness' overload. Mike Clelland has a related post on his blog: Hidden Experience. Audio Interview Podcast Episode 25/The Confessionals. Facebook Link. Book available in Etsy

8/27 - Rey Hernandez - Video Interview. Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters/FREE at Experiencer.Org. UFO Contactee studies ongoing. Rey posted several video sessions with Experiencer, Alberto  Results suggest the phenom is happening on multiple levels of awareness. Consciousness Studies
9/3 - Dr. Richard House - (Real name) was a teenager when something/someone told him he would die at age 33. NDE and an extraordinary mystical journey, Between Now and When

9/10 - Annie Kagan - The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, life after death revelations from a brother who reports back in on his experience in the afterlife. Book Promo on YouTube

9/17 - Maureen St. Germain - Waking up in 5D

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20 years in the making - Talking to Nightlights II

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”  - Terence McKenna

Blink off.

I am working on a new book to update my paranormal adventure with the Energy and my interactive nightlights. In revisiting the beginning and taking into account advice I was given for 'Talking to Nightlights', I want to incorporate the suggestions in the new work, suggestions that were too late in coming for the first book but appreciated none the less. I tucked them away for a later day. And that later day is now.

My challenge? Omit some of the personal process in my new creation, tidy up the writing and make it a bit leaner. After twenty years of living the story, I now have a better understanding of what I can omit.

In those early days it was all so novel, beyond defining and that made it very hard to let go of anything on the chance it somehow related and connected dots yet to be revealed. Indeed, some of it did and does connect dots I had not yet accounted for.

Honestly, now I let the journal hold onto any extra stuff. It helped to get it out at the time and let my life unfold around the experience. A friend suggested I create a fiction to tell the tale but my fiction pales in comparison to the wonder of the experience. It felt disingenuous to try and cloak it.

Completely foreign, the experience with non-corporeal beings expanded to include guardian angels, ghost people, transdimensionls (ETs) and pets. The guides stepped up to assist me in my efforts in learning to connect to those elements via automatic writing, channeling and telepathy.

Blink on.

Talking to Nightlights is about sharing the very first transitioning steps of a profound, life-changing spiritual metamorphosis. It's choppy, uneven, gushy, rough around the edges, confusing at times because the terms are too vague when intended to convey complex information that doesn't translate to linear form or a language I comprehend.

That's what happens with this stuff. Learning to decipher unique and relevant meaning in the code is part of the evolution of consciousness. It requires work, dedication and patience to understand the nature of the flow. And it is personal, unique to the experiencer. There will be ebbs, low tides and overwhelming information floods.

The key is to simply go forward, give in to the process and allow the unknown to manifest in the reveal. Trust. There is a truth in setting yourself free to drop the form and let it all be.

When I revisit my words, and no matter how many times I review the content, I always find something I didn't know. The channeling remains fresh. And I'm glad I chose to include some of the personal process in my book because I knew there would be others like me who had not been exposed nor prepared for this kind of metaphysical, supernatural, paranormal event and might appreciate hearing how it can just start - for absolutely no reason - then shake up the very core of your life foundation.

When that happens, the world shifts, reality cracks and you undergo an intense realignment of conscious awareness and reassessment of your mental state.

You begin to reexamine superficial appearances and question all that you encounter that seems to operate without conscience or heart. Lock-step conformity holds no appeal.

I could not imagine how to make sense of my story without including the process of unfoldment to demonstrate that, no matter who you are or how tight you think your handle is on the “real” world, reality is relative. Each is a co-creator. Higher awareness is ever-present.

We are designed to make mistakes and muddle through a few things before we get our bearings.
Awakening to a world where multidimensional awareness is a part of the daily routine takes a bit of getting used to. I was left with the knowing that the world is a multi-layered energetic arena and a much more entertaining place if we can allow for that, whether or not we comprehend it.

So much more has happened since that initial introduction. We truly exist in a space, in-and-out-of-time. And when we are granted more exposure to some of the shamanic realms, wonder unfolds exponentially.

In 2009, I was given an incredible glimpse into the out-of-time existence. For a period of several weeks in early spring, reality shifted, time winked and dimensions merged. Mind-boggled again. 

From the Reviewer -


Bio: Garrett, Wendy – A psychic channels messages from a spirit through a blinking nightlight.

Growing pains here. I have had to make peace with the term “psychic” because I had not considered myself in that light. I even turned on a friend who referred to me as one. Labels are a challenge. 

I thought I was telling the story as a Broadcast Journalist who went AWOL and found God. I was too close to the material. The reviewer offered a chance for a redirect. Annoyed at being called a psychic, I thought – right out of the chute  – the label misdirected the intent and the direction of the book.

I have mellowed. And I do give readings. One reading made no sense at the time. I addressed the client and said it was about their white cat. Informed the cat was tabby and they didn't have a white cat, I let it go. The information was meant for a white cat. We reconnected about a year later and they told me that their yellow tabby cat had turned white.

I am not psychic. I am a channel and an intuitive, and sometimes, I know things. 

TALKING TO NIGHTLIGHTS, Channeling Energy and Awakening for Spiritual Insight
iUniverse (132 pp.) $13.95 paperback
April 25, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-595-41919-7:

In 1997, Garrett, who’d had psychic experiences since childhood but kept them at arms length to maintain a normal daily routine, began the channeling adventure of her life when she discovered that a blinking nightlight conveyed messages from a spirit, whom she called the Energy.

Informed that the Energy watches over and influences humans—Garrett worked with her own spirit guides to learn how to better connect to the Energy and as a result, soon understood the Energy well enough to sit at her computer and allow its messages to flow through her fingers.

A spirit thousands of years old, the Energy spoke of multiple universes and imparted information to help the author discover more about her spiritual self and her life connections to those around her. A spiritual Deep Throat, perhaps the most revealing bit the Energy divulged is what she could expect after her death, which she will experience many times before becoming a spirit like the Energy.



Several conversations were developed into discussions about science and metaphysics. For these, the Energy received help from other spirits, whom Garrett had channeled before.

To better understand this information, she studied books by respected physicists like Stephen Hawking, and those titles are included in a recommended reading list.

Eventually, the Energy told the author, she would move on to a higher plane of pure energy and take on a physical form again.

The spirit also transmitted positive messages about love and a touching message about the death of the author’s cat.



Positive messages about a unique experience of spiritual awakening. 

And so it is.

A new beginning with an observation: Cats are multidimensional. Talking to Nightlights II