ATSDECK
May 5, 2011 - May 16, 2011
Cinco de Mayo, 2011​
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DAY 66 (2 MONTHS, 5 DAYS) ON THE DROPS
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I actually had to force myself to write something today. Reason being, I've been feeling...well...I just can't seem to put my finger on it.
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It's been intense and overwhelming - not in a bowl-you-over sort of way (well, OK, at times), but just that it is felt all over, and almost puts you in an otherworldly state...Just a weird feeling.
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Again, more of these indescribable and novel sensations you get on the drops. You do get the feeling at times that your body is moving between realities. It's really hard to get a handle on, but it's the closest approximation one can find for these periods.
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The first the reason I had to force myself to log on and write is due to what I would hazard to say is lethargy. It's not exactly lethargy, however...It's a sort of feeling of heaviness; but also this sense of feeling an overall numbness and increased dopiness.
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At the same time, there is this feeling that I am moving more gracefully...If I can use that term. It's almost like I've glided at times, and felt as if my body were spending more time in an altered state (really reaching here).
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I understand that the hot and cold flashes were actually the symptoms of the drops recalibrating my default body temperature. The experience was the erratic changes in temperature, with the result of bringing the body to an optimal default state.
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The second reason I had to force myself to write was that I wanted this period / phase to pass, so I could have the benefit of hindsight to digest and assimilate what I had gone through to more clearly articulate it.
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What I'm experiencing is, at the same time, some lack of coordination and clumsiness. My fingers aren't finding the keys as easily. It feels like my motor functions are diminished.
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It's hard to put into words, but you know the local anesthesia your dentist gives you to numb an area of your mouth? I feel like my whole body has been shot with that.
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My motor functions, coordination, etc., are shit. I'm having to edit and rewrite these sentences a lot, as I'm just hitting the wrong keys.
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What I suspect is happening with regard to the vacillation between poor motor function and periods of gracefulness is the same recalibration that occurred with the body temperature.
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It may well be that the body is actually recalibrating its motor center to function more optimally; in a way that we would be operating on a higher level / from a higher plane. Again, I'm reaching for terms, but I'm seeing a pattern (or "patterin" as Bob tends to pronounce it hehe) here.
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I should also add that this heaviness and lethargy may typically be what people associate with depression. I can say, it's nothing of the sort. Part and parcel of this experience is that, again, I'm gliding through experiences completely unscathed that might otherwise elicit an anxiety or stress response.
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I've been in this state for about three or four days now. It is an all over body sensation, and it is actually partly what I was referring to during my private session / engagement when I expressed to iON that I'm fine with the shifting - as long as I can still function. To which, iON responded, "Screw that." haha
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I'm able to function, and work is getting done, but I will say I've been taking longer to do things, and it's been a bit of a struggle at times (ahem, iON...*staring*)
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However, that being said, someone on the outside might not notice this, because my work flow has been optimal (not that I really give a shit, because the drops have also evoked this sense of ease and insouciance...Yeah, I used the word insouciance).
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This is saying a lot, because, and I'm not patting myself on the back here, I'm in a work situation that demands a lot of multitasking, attention to detail and thinking on your feet. If I can go through the zombie phase and still function, so will you. Somehow, the drops are able to twist, turn and stretch you, and still allow (to a reasonable degree haha) you to function.
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Of course, there will likely be some who will just call in "ascending" to work. If you can do that, more power to you. haha
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I have been able to pull it together, but along with my motor functions, yes, this anesthesia seems to have hit the grey matter. There are times I can't scrape two thoughts together to make an idea...Or even a notion. At these times (more editing) I'll just give up and enjoy the no-thought state.
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That is a good example of the zombie state Bob has referred to. You feel great, but to hell with you being able to tie your own shoes. haha But you're the most content, joyful invalid the world has ever seen.
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So, for what it's worth, I believe you (drops users) will be experiencing this same period. Maybe not everyone, but when you do, you might try to avoid engaging in rigorous physical or mental activity during those periods.
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One can only imagine what recalibrating is occurring during this period. We did learn from iON that our temperature gauge was being recalibrated during the hot flash / cold flash periods, so this will be interesting to hear about.
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Along these same lines, just before the period I'm experiencing now, and which has extended into and segued into it, was an earlier period (ending last week) of dehydration. This dehydration started a week or so ago. It was strong for about four days or so, and decreased as time went on.
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I would say, in total, it's last about seven days or so. I'm still on the tail end of it...If it is, in fact, the tail end, or just an ebbing.
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(Side note: the anaesthetic quality I'm speaking of is the closest I can come to describing something that blurs the line of what physicality is.
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I also refer to the "otherworldly" sensation one has, not only during this recent period, but also, at other times as a result of the drops.
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It's almost as if you're detached, but that word is also inaccurate and falls short.
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If you can imagine having an energy body - not even around, in or just outside of what you call your physical body, but interspersed with what you call your physical body, then this anaesthetic seems to be either affecting that energy body; is bringing that energy body forward / merging it with your physical body; or is exciting what we call this physical body / bringing these cells to a higher (our larger) state.
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The sensation of this in our experience is what I've likened to feeling like one is anaesthetized, vacillating or jumping between parallel worlds / realities, or just feeling "odd".
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The anaesthetic is sort of this sense of a warm, vibrating energy field (which, for the purpose of getting this thought out, I call our energy body) that permeates our physical body. It's the deep, at times imperturbable sense I've referred to as little man bliss. haha
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It's not as if the so-called physical body becomes numb, but seems to be occurring on a deeper, unseen level.
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One feels both this warm, fuzzy feeling, as well as a sort of what I've called detachment; a lack of care or concern for what one used to feel these things for. Our view / perspective sort of becomes one of a natural, default state of removal from these cares coupled with an attitude that things will work themselves out.
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It's a sort of physical involvement in this environment, but on another level, a sort of feeling removed from things. This is where this parallel world shifting sense-feeling comes from...
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It's very hard to put into words...Perhaps if someone is reading this, especially, those on the drops, they'll be able to put it together.
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It should go without saying that the symptoms I'm describing are ascension symptoms; but we're still learning what this means.)
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The dehydration was pretty profound. I'm a big water drinker. I have a bottle with me all day, and will consume about four or five liters a day. Well, this dehydration struck and lasted for days without letting up. So, include whatever accompanying symptoms you get with dehydration as well.
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It is likely partly responsible for the lethargy...Perhaps...But the drops keep you going, so it is fairly easy to weather; that is, if you can stick with the process, knowing that all of this is of great benefit to you.
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Now that I've been through several of these periods / phases, I can say that it is imperative to know and be secure that what is happening is revolutionary and it is bringing you into a perfect state.
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Whatever is happening to you after you've started the drops, you don't need to ask - it's the drops. Even if you've just started and you're not feeling anything, they have, in fact, began affecting your cells immediately.
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Carolyn Dean stated on one of the last two Cash Flow shows that all of these symptoms are symptoms of your body going through shifting and changing. And many of these symptoms are like detoxifying the body. As was stated at the outset, your body is detoxifying, among other things.
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Do not fret. Enjoy the ride. It is a weird ride, but it's all worth it.
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Now, having said all of this - in particular, about the dehydration, it should be known that iON mentioned electrolytes in one of the last two Cash Flows as a next step or phase with regard to the drops.
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Again, I don't see this as a coincidence; especially, as another drops user I spoke to volunteered they were experiencing the same period of dehydration. I believe iON is including this subject, as it will apply to a broad range of drops users - if not all.
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It's also funny that Matt, the drops' seller, is also coming out with an electrolyte formula.
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Don't think the irony is lost on me that Matt has come out with these drops, as well as ReAline, a formula that counters or eases the intensity of the drops. And he is now coming out with an electrolyte formula to counter the imbalances / dehydration that the drops create. haha I don't think it's a racket, but it is funny.
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On a side note, I did take "after" photos and compared them to my "before" photos. It just confirmed something I already knew, which is that I've lost weight. I haven't been able to find a scale for the life of me, but when I do, I'll share just now much.
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I've visibly lost weight, so I know it's significant. And I've not changed my diet, nor have I taken up exercise. It just happened. My features, as well, are more youthful. Nothing extreme, but I can see it.
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I've ordered my third bottle of drops. I'm on the last few days on my second bottle. As iON has stated, the drops will become more potent (one can assume, for existing users) as time goes on.
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Looking back, and comparing with other users, it seems there is a definite process or schedule to the shifting that occurs (sinuses, increased / decreased appetite, hot and cold flashes, irritability, dehydration, lethargy, energy bursts, etc.).
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The irritability comes in, as explained by Carolyn Dean on a recent Cash Flow, because your body is going through these shifts. It's simply a byproduct / symptom of what can be pretty significant physical shifting. I've experienced this myself, so it's nothing to worry about.
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Factors like the irritability and what amounts to periods of discomfort, etc., make this whole process more real. It brings the notion of ascension down to Earth, instead of remaining this ethereal sort of quixotic image that's been presented.
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It's not that we're not headed there, but the nuts and bolts of the process brings the experience home.
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It seems the different aspects / physical (and mental?) processes that are addressed / affected are done in phases or steps, each aspect treated and calibrated, etc., followed by another.
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It would make sense that the drops don't just buffet the entire body and mind and blast you so hard with everything at once you just fall in a heap. This is the purpose of the drops - to ease you into / through this process.
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I believe iON has said that folks who haven't prepared themselves - in one way or another (drops or not), will experience much of what we're experiencing on the drops in rapid succession; possibly, all at once, and in such an overwhelming way that it might be too much.
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As far as how and when these phases / shifts occur, I had hot and cold flashes in the very beginning, but also experienced a less intense form of the same about a month or so on the drops. So, there's no telling how long each calibration can take, or if it may reoccur.
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Just plan on walking around and going through all of these physical shifts - while being joyful or content / calm - and enjoy the process of ascending.
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It's pretty funny. You would think the process of ascending would be easier and more pretty.
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Instead, you have all of these runny-nosed, dehydrated zombies walking around with a smile on their faces saying, "Isn't it great - I'm ascending".
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"Oh, yeah? Well, how about ascending somewhere else. You're scaring my kids."
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Ain't it great?
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May 16, 2011
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DAY 77 (2 MONTHS, 16 DAYS) ON THE DROPS
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If any of you out in drops land, anyone considering the drops, or anyone misdirected to this site through no fault of your own and want to know what the hell is going on here were curious about this user's status at this early-yet-advanced phase of drops usage, look no further.
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I...don't really have much of an update...but here's where I am with the drops. I'm doing ten drops, twice daily. This is the maximum recommended dosage as, again, the body will only use what it needs and the rest is wasted.
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Starting out, for folks considering or just starting the drops, it is suggested to start low at two to five drops. Remain on your dosage (one, two, three, four or five drops, twice daily) for a week, and then increase the number of drops by one.
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If you decide to have an engagement / private session with iON, he can prescribe a starting dose for you, but the numbers above are fine. The drops can generate some pronounced sensations, including increased energy, but also at times in ways difficult to describe, so some may wish to go easy starting out.
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At this advanced phase of my experience on the drops, I've dropped all supplements. The last holdout has been coffee and, to be honest, there are so many physical benefits of using the drops - and the sensations so pronounced, that I'm just drinking out of habit.
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All of the energy and clear thinking, etc., that caffeine has offered, the drops have also offered in spades. I basically can't really feel the effects of the caffeine, save to a much lesser degree...If at all. I would religiously drink two cups, but that's gone down to one. Again, this is mostly for taste / out of habit.
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I am on my third bottle of the drops. I heard on one of the Cash Flow shows that iON had suggested (joking or not) to someone who'd had an engagement / session with iON that if he was almost finished with his bottle (after being opened for thirty days or so) to just chug it. So chug it I did.
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I actually had more left than I'd thought. Maybe half of one of those plastic NyQuil cups. Having a mouthful of the drops is different than a couple of drops "under" the tongue. You get the full flavor - and a lot of it. haha
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The drops do have an acidity to them. And the flavor is somewhat bitter. In my experience so far, the flavor has been more redolent of peanut butter. Here, the mouthful was threatening my gag reflex. haha
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I was very curious what consuming this much of the drops would do. I'd say that, after about an hour an a half or so, I starting feeling the same pleasurable feelings; and it was much more "complete", for lack of a better word. Whatever my body would use was there aplenty, and the experience was great.
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So, then, on to my third bottle. It's been said that the drops become more potent as time goes on. I would say this is the case, but it would definitely be nice to get iON's take. It seems that those using the drops / experiencing ascension are always the last to know. haha
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I definitely feel like the overall sensations the drops provide have been ramped up. There is a somewhat more pronounced experience of shifting going on. It is, as usual, difficult to explain. There is more of a pronounced feeling of shifting in the body. It's almost as though you could feel something coursing through your body (veins?). Maybe I'm just paying more attention...
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In addition to these physical sensations, there are also periods where you feel a little more lightheaded / dizzy. It's hard to get a gauge, because what is happening is so subtle.
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In a recent discussion with some folks involved in the iON situation, it was learned that the individual having these experiences - in particular, ascension, wouldn't necessarily recognize / be totally aware of the process.
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You're right in the center of it, and profound changes / shifting is occurring, but it's like you really have to be perceptive and to strain to see the signs / hallmarks of this experience.
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What's also funny is, as was described by one individual engaging the drops / the iON situation, you have no idea how to describe this to people.
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I've thought about this myself. When I got to the point that I knew this was significant, I stopped to think how I would explain this to my friends / family and I didn't know where to start(!).
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I've actually broached the subject of trying this "new supplement out" and the subject was just dropped (OK, sure, pun intended).
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Once you engage this situation, and you get to a point where you a) know it's real and b) can grasp what it's about (even in broad terms) - when you've finally gotten to that point, the Catch-22 is that you'll find it virtually impossible to relate.
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Even if you try to relate this, if you've grasped it enough to give it the ol' college try, your audience will most likely not be receptive.
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This is where folks of a similar mindset come in; but even then, it's hit or miss.
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I've been friends with a guy (Renato), someone who's had the most bizarre experiences, for some time. I didn't start really getting out there with this subject matter until the time I met Renato (years ago).
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Over that time he's shared the most bizarre experiences, but even still, as I've written about the iON situation, and have talked to him about it, there is a bridge to gap.
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Can't imagine where one would start with folks more ensconced in what we used to call the "real world".
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Oddly enough, the way you're best able to discern the degree to which you've shifted is simply to notice how little you're involved with / care about what is happening in the Outer Kingdom; what iON and Bob Neveritt call the larger, global village / planet.
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To the degree that your cares / concerns have faded away can be considered a litmus for your progression. And with the drops, and engagement / involvement with iON / the iON situation, the further away these cares become.
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The interesting (and humorous) paradox here is that people will start on the drops and they'll ask iON if they're changing or not. They'll say, "Yes, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling happy, warm and fuzzy and relaxed, but am I changing?" haha
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We used to use certain experience as markers of changes, or shifts (e.g., strife, struggle, or discomfort / pain, etc.). What iON calls the more unpleasant experiences is "contrast".
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This contrast can range from stress and a scary experience, to physical discomfort or pain, to jealousy, having to pay bills, or any myriad so-called unpleasant experiences.
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What happens when you engage the drops / the iON situation is that this contrast diminishes...And diminishes...And diminishes.
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What you discover is that things are going swimmingly. All is well and getting weller, as iON says.
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What you considered contrast is receding, quickly, from your experience. Where that is headed is to a place where the only contrast you will experience becomes a matter of preference: do I wish to have this experience, or that experience (there are so many from which to choose)?
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iON's made the analogy that contrast in the ascending / ascended state can be, "I've had chocolate cake. Now do I want a bigger piece of chocolate cake; or a different kind of cake?"
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The contrast becomes having to choose between two (or more) wonderful preferences.
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So, when you're on this journey, which starts as soon as you engage the drops / the iON situation, what you considered concerns / cares / contrast starts to recede. And it recedes further and further from view. The process continues.
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The difficulty in gauging one's position in all of this is, it seems to me, we've used contrast as a gauge for experience. This could be considered one reason we chose to take on this body; what iON calls the "meat sack body".
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The contrast provides experience; and it can also act as a gauge. However, what does one do when that gauge starts to recede and lose its effectiveness? Well, you ask iON. haha
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Seriously, though, consider what you talk about all day. Consider how you relate to other people. The common denominator was contrast; of any type / form you can think of from financial struggles to the global state of affairs (the Outer Kingdom).
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What happens when you become engaged here is that all of that impetus - the contrast recedes. And when that does, so does, to a great extent, your grasp on where you stand. It's an interesting (and completely acceptable to me) paradox.
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This is why, to me, people ask iON if they're shifting / changing. You are, but your reference points are receding.
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On an interesting side note, in the last Cash Flow, David Worcester remarked on Jesus' ascension, saying that he didn't go anywhere - the world just fell away.
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This is a great example of the experience one has in this situation. The world, and all of its troubles falls away.
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And when the contrast gets reduced to such a degree, one really finds out what there is to talk about.
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When you get to this point, and I'm experience a great degree of it now, you're sailing on the resonance that iON / the drops provides.
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You have been struck like a gong / tuning fork and you're reverberating. You're just in this place where you are not only not overwhelmed by circumstances anymore, but you, more and more, glide through your day almost floating.
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You are still engaged in your same day to day activities, but you have changed; your perspective and being has changed, and you will notice this. Perhaps not to a great degree initially, but you will.
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Now, again, being in that state, without contrast to burden and distract you - to compel you to commiserate with others, what is there to talk about?
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What happens is you, more and more, get to this centered, calm, buoyant, ebullient state and what used to galvanize, excite or compel you to interact with others, at least on one level (contrast) is virtually erased.
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So, and iON has said this, at some point (presumably, when one has ascended) this inclination is no more. One just is.
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Still, we're (I'm) not there yet. And I'm interested in sharing the process. This is just me.
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I know for a fact that there are people who have engaged the drops who are sitting back, saying, "Holy shit! This is awesome!" and just enjoying the ride. To you folks, Rock on!
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Even if the whole thing is bizarre, creepy, cultish, or not your cup of tea, iON's primary refrain is that you are the center of your universe. You are more powerful - and loved - than you know, but you are soon going to realize this.
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In addition, nothing matters except what brings you joy / bliss. If you want a more "down to Earth" example, Joseph Campbell​ is one of the only early proponents of this adage (​see Youtube video​)
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It's the exact same principle. A great quote from the Youtube video is, "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for your where there were only walls."​
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The idea of joy and bliss are foreign notions to most of us. We've only had fleeting glimpses of this. I write, because I am speaking to that part of myself that needs to hear that things are going to be OK. Things actually are.
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Things are now, but your mind has lead you astray. And it will keep leading you astray unless you get a handle on the situation.
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All I can honestly say is, after years of writing about the shift that is clearly occurring, I've finally come to a place - via the iON situation, where I can truly relax and know that it is really happening.
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Working the drops in here, these drops aren't just some liquid you ingest to feel better - although, this will happen.
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The drops are a part of the entire environment that has emerged, which speaks through J.W. and calls itself iON.
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I'm alternating between writing what I know here, and stepping back and reading the words, and I recognize how far out all of this can sound to someone just stumbling upon all of this. But it's true.
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There is so much more operating here. And after engaging with all of this for about ten months, I can say that these drops are primary to iON's purpose for emerging at this time.
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Again, despite how profound and real all of this is, there will still only be a limited number of people who will engage the drops, or iON. At least in the start; as we've seen so far.
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All of this may seem too facile; too good to be true. Again, I understand how easy it is to dismiss this entire situation given how it has come about.
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However, in all sincerity, this is the real deal.
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To those laughing this off, or who may be considering engaging this situation, all I can say is, from someone who's had an equally troubling time, what could it possibly hurt?
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If you're cynical, pessimistic, or skeptical, then it's clear you've had your turn at trying to figure things out - for a long time. To that I would say (a la iON), "How's that workin' out for ya?"
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Whatever your preconceived notions are of how this should play out - drop them. Believe it or not, Bob has referred to iON as First Contact, the Second Coming, the Mystery Landscape and an environment.
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And iON has referred to himself as the essence of the Guf, a dodecahedron of zillions of souls, and a future ET, who has returned to assist us through the shift / ascension process.​
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In my estimation, all of these are true, but not in the way that you have been lead to believe, or in a way that you have envisioned.
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Everything you've been told, in a broader sense is true. But how it is playing out is unlike anything you could have imagined.
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All I can say is, once you engage with this situation, your perspective - your entire being will change.
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That's a tall order, but it's all here for the taking. Believe it or not.