Hello everyone

I'm laughing cause once again we are preparing for another Hurricane.
Since this is my first 'season' in hurricane country the first 3 that came ripping through here were pretty scarry and the worst of all was Hurricane Charley that was the first one to come ripping through my town. Even the last one had me scared to death it was going to enialate this town once again...

this time I don't feel the big fear I have felt in the past 5-6 weeks. I don't know where it's gone but I am glad it's gone

This time I am doing the stuff we need to do to prepare. I have a 'safe' room in the house which is a walk in closet so if I couldn't get out to another shelter I could stay here. But so far the eye of the hurricane is not headed for here.

Speaking of that if you guys want to see some neat pictures go to the N.O.A.A. webiste (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, www.noaa.gov) and look at the pictures they have taken from 'inside' the eye of the hurricane. They are really neat.
The eye of Hurricane Charley came right over this house I am in and I thought when it did that the hurricane was over. That was the first hurricane I'd ever been in so I was pretty ignorant as to how freaky it was going to be!

I went to the beach yesterday and had a nice relaxing day. The water was as flat as glass and very clear too. I have noticed when ever there is a storm in the Gulf no matter where it hits then maybe 3 or 4 days later the water is amazingly clear, like looking through a peice of glass. the one thing amazing yesterday was that the water was 'cold' (well cold for Florida anyway), I was in the Gulf last week too and it was still very warm. I was hoping that the cold water meant this new hurricane would not build up to be so strong since maybe the 'gulf stream' (which is what runs below the southern tip of Florida that has been unusually warm) had cooled off....... but I checked just awhile ago and that Hurricane Jeanne is now a Catagory 3 and headed for Florida.

So I'd better get going and get things ready. Most people here are ready in this town cause after putting stuff away and preparing 'again' for Hurricane Ivan most everyone, like myself have just left things 'put away' or 'prepared' for a hurricane. It's such a job to initially get ready for it that's it's just easier to leave it like that and now I see as I drive around my town that no one has taken the plywood off their windows, I guess it will probably stay that way till the hurricanes are over.
Right now we are already getting 'the weather' which are the most outer band of the hurricane which for now is only gray skies and wind but the rain will come soon.
I am on the west coast of Florida almost directly across from West Palm Beach which is on the east coast which is also where that hurricane at this time looks like it's gonna make land fall. IF that hurricane keeps going west then Port Charlotte (my town) is gonna be a real mess!
The weather guys are saying it/hurricane will come inland 'a bit' then go north. I can only hope! This town is STILL so devistated from Hurricane Charley that I still am amazed at the intensity of the destruction that a hurricane can do.

Take a look at those pictures of the eye wall on that NOAA web site. I'm tellying you that standing in the eye of the hurricane is probably one of the most beautiful sites you will ever see, and probably 'the most perfect' day you will ever see too which is so 'wild' cause in just a little while hell follows with the hurricane force winds!

so I guess that's attributed to life too huh? Just when you think you can relax and you feel like you're in heaven always remember that 'anything' can happen.

'The I Ching makes you aware of what is going on outside your immdiate preception'.............
I read that many years ago and I liked the feeling I got .....
it's a comforting feeling to know someone is 'watching my back' and in this case it's God so I feel pretty darn lucky EVEN on the days I don't feel so lucky

I'm so glad to see my friend stn0505 back on here today posting. He's a great friend and a great student too.

I haven't make the 'great student' rank yet I am still a fledgling with the Super I Ching but I will 'get it' I am sure of that cause The I Ching is in my soul. From the first time I heard the words 'I Ching' my life 'changed' just like that. It was like a lightening bolt... I didn't even know what I Ching meant but all I knew is that 'I had to have it'....
that's a message from God and I am so happy to have had the books to study and the passion to NEVER quit. I may have not learned the better way of the Super I Ching cause I too think/know it is Superior to the other way of doing the reading...... BUT..... I did study almost daily for 14 years the book of Changes by Wilhelm/Baynes and that book is good for anyone to study who would like to become a better person. Just the daily practice and the many zillion times I have thrown the coins and read the interpretations in the book, to do it repeatativly and to read manytimes the same stuff over and over can only lead you to become a better person. I am so happy to have been given the I Ching by God himself, I can only assertain that is how it happened by the way I first 'felt' when I heard the words 'I Ching' and that I have never been able to put the books down and quit and beleive me I have tried to at a few different times in my life.
But I never could! So here I am and happy to have God/Jesus/I Ching in my life.

By the way I am a Taoist/Christian who also loves the book 'A Course in Miracles'...........
I have received the Tao by the Babtisim of Fire in the Taoist Temple by the Enlightened Teacher Mr. Tsai in San Francisco, CA. in 1992.
I was given the I Ching by God in Oct. 1989, then taken to the Taoist Temple in 1992.

I had moved to San Francisco to go to a 3 month travel agency school. I came from a very very small town in the north west corner of California. I remember a lady there saying 'hey when you go to San Francisco you can find anything and everything you need right there in that town'....
Well being from a 'small' town I took that statement litterally so when I got to S.F. I looked in the yellow pages under Taoist and called the number I found in Dalyes City (still near S.F.). I wanted someone to study the I Ching with. Well they didn't study/practice the I Ching but they did the Tao de Ching and I was intiated into Taoism and it was one of the most profound moments/days of my life.
What I loved and still do about the Taoist people I know there is that they do not try to 'get you' to become a Taoist, they bring you to God then you or you and God can choose your walk with God.

I feel lucky/fortunate that I have always had the I Ching with me and that it fits perfectly with me walking hand in hand with 'The Course of Miracles'.....
both of those books 'I Ching & and A Course of Miracles' ARE constant miracles to me.

Over years of 'learning' through trial and error like most humans do I have learned the most important lesson from the I Ching and that is 'you can't live with one foot in one world and one foot in the other'....
meaning if love is your strongest focus then you will lean that way and eventually be consumed by it (nice thought/feeling huh? ) but also at the same time if you spew or spread hate then it will consume you too long before you have realized that it has consumed you to a point of no return. We have the choice everyday of practicing being nice and sometimes that means just keeping your mouth shut.

Honor, loyalty, respect and Love that is what I have learned from the I Ching, it's a must to get these things in your soul. To have been given a way to communicate directly with God is an honor to say the very least, there are no words to describe the love of God. But I guarentee you that through experience with my own self and others I have watched and read about....
no one can bullshit or manipulate God and he WILL kick ass and take names... I've seen it done.

My very first teacher of the I Ching said this to me and I wrote it down;

From experience you gain trust.
from trust you gain faith.
From faith comes respect.
From respect comes Love.

Sometimes those things can happen over night for us, it just depends on God but most of the time it's been a process for me atleast to 'get those things' inside of my from my head to my heart which I call 'the Miracle Mile' cause it takes so darn long to 'get it sometimes!'....

What human hasn't been frustrated before to the point of attacking another one?
all it does is brings suffering. We need to call 'a Spade a Spade' then go on with life. Even the scum bags can redeem themselves. I mean 'hey' look at Saul the Christian killer in the Bible, he was the scum of the earth BUT Jesus appeared to him AFTER he was ressurected from being dead and Saul became Paul (like who would want anything to do with your old life when a guy like JESUS is standing in front of you chatting
Well as the story goes Saul becomes Paul and is the biggest fan or one of them of Jesus ever in the history of man!

The book 'A Course in Miracles' was given to the author by Jesus himself. She was a Jewish/Atheist too like Saul/Paul.

Anyway that book has been a companion to my I Ching books to help me to learn and practice the teachings and the direct words of Jesus. Hey he is like the coolest guy there ever was so since he can communicate instantly with God WITHOUT the I Ching I'd say he's a guy to know

I love my pals here on this site and the new ones I have not met yet.

Even the little dip shit that posted the hate mail a couple of days ago is worthy of staying and becoming human if he can get his head out of his ass and start looking where he is going. Really!
When a child is behaving badly a parent should correct the child so it will not fall into bad behavior which left unchecked would end that kid up in prison someday forever.
when a person comes to my home and is disgusting I will correct him immediatly, if he just came in unannounced and attacked he would probably get killed or in the least sent to jail.
If a person attacks my family 'well look out'... then the 'She Bear' is on the loose and who knows what will happen other than there's gonna be heads flying and blood flowing.... and there is nothing wrong with that behavior. What person would not protect their families with their lives? If they wouldn't then they are not real people anyway.
But in this case my friends here that have become like family because we all have one thing in common 'The I Ching' WHICH is the language of God which will not be violated PERIOD....
I will always stand up for what I beleive in. I have been here awhile and watched this group grow but mostly I have felt a wonderful bond as I have been able to study the I Ching with honorable people and the best part is that I can do this at anytime of the day or night. I just log on and start reading what people have posted then refer back to my Super I Ching book and try to follow along and see 'how they got those answers'

Next month on the 14th will be my 51st birthday. I have lived a long time in that I mean I have had a very full life, like I have had many lives in one life time. I used to be scared to speak up for myself, I used to not treat myself as I should have which is no different than I would treat Jesus if he were living in my house....
Ya..... THAT'S how we all should treat ourselves and never accpet less.
It's takend me forever for that information to 'make the miracle mile' but it has.
I'm not gonna let some punk kid get away with behaving like a little brat.

That kid needs to make a public appology to this group which would make that person a much better person..... but..... (no pun intended) .......

as I have learned through the years......

some people will get it and some people won't, I pray that everyone does cause it's surely the easier softer way to live with your heart full of love rather than full of hate cause just know one thing 'Hate will never let you win but Love always will'

Ciao for now and now time to get ready for the NEXT Hurricane .... Jeanne

With Love Always,
Ces