The Sheep Parade

 

Each year during the last weekend of October here in Cedar City, we have the annual Livestock Festival.   It involves all sorts of ranching demonstrations and competitions involving cowboys on horses, sheep and cattle.  There are venders selling interesting things, and a wide variety of "county fair" kinds of foods that can be eaten.  The highlight is always the Sheep Parade which takes place on Saturday morning down Main Street.  It starts out with a herd of Texas long horn cattle, and ends with a herd of about 1000 sheep, with everything fun in between.  These are the photos I took yesterday morning.

The Mood

These past 3 days I have attended an on line conference presented by a remote viewing association called Applied Precog.  It is aptly named because associative remote viewing involves the skill of precognition.  Attendees listened to 6 presentations by excellent speakers, and also had the opportunity to try our hands at doing 6 remote viewing targets. 

I had pertinent and personal takeaways from all of the presentations.  The one I will mention here helped me explain something that happened before my recent trip.  The speaker was Dean Radin, who is the chief scientist at IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences.  IONS does research into topics related to consciousness and psychic phenomena.  Dean’s particular topic a few days ago was “Analysis of Pre-Sentiment Data from Twitter”.  Words used on Twitter were totaled up as to their frequency, and those positive and negative words were correlated via graphs to positive and negative world events.  The significant time frame was at about the 2 week mark prior to the event. 

So this demonstrates that the mass consciousness can perceive and subconsciously react to upcoming events that are either positive or negative in nature.  This is then reflected in the verbiage used on Twitter, for example. 

As I thought about this, I wondered if an individual could precognitively perceive a negative event that is coming up in the future for them.  This very thing happened to me about a week before the recent trip that I wrote about previously. 

About a week before I was to leave, I got word that the friend who was coming out to travel with me had to cancel because of illness.  I started to feel a bit down at that point, and that feeling got more pronounced as the week progressed.  I felt sluggish and definitely lacking in enthusiasm.  The frustrating thing was that I just couldn’t put my finger on why I was feeling that way, which was unusual for me. Was I bummed because my friend wasn’t coming?  Was I coming down with something?  It never occurred to me that there would be issues with the upcoming trip. 

I was still feeling down when I arrived for the trip, and then found out that the situation was not ideal.  The negative feelings that had been plaguing me involved the people, the food, the lodging, and the travel company.  In fact, these feelings didn’t clear up completely until after I was home for a few days when I attended my Tuesday night meditation group. 

So after listening to Dean’s presentation, I wondered if I was precogging my upcoming travel situation.  That may be why I had such a difficult time pinning down my distress.  Don’t get me wrong, I do not regret going, and had some high points in addition to the lows.  It was quite a mixed bag.  The future is generally hidden from us, and not yet fully manifest, and outside of time and space.  Nevertheless,  it does exist out there somewhere.   We are all multidimensional beings and always connected to everything, so it is possible that we can get precognitions about the future, hence the success of Dean Radin’s research. But, as in my case, it may be difficult to pin down. 

As we all become more connected to our multidimensional selves, the events that I am describing may filter up into our every day awareness, and thus we may be able to work with them on a more conscious level. If this happens to me again, I will be on the alert!  

The Final Day

 

Our final day was spent at Zion National Park.  Or should I say our final HALF day!  This trip was billed as a 6 day, 5 night trip, but in reality it was a 4 ½ day 5 night affair.  Our day at Zion was cut short for a variety of reasons, much to my disappointment.  Fortunately for me, I live close enough to the park that I can drive down there any time.  I plan on doing just that in the beginning of November when the cottonwoods are at their peak of fall colors. 

So there you have it!  A trip to some great locations with some highs and lows, especially involving the tour company.  Major issues with the food, and the last day cut short.  And of course, missing the friend that got sick and couldn't come.  Nevertheless, it was great to get out of town during this unusually beautiful fall weather!

The North Rim

One of the reasons that I went on this trip was to see and experience new activities and places.  Today we went to a place that was brand new to me.  We drove south into Arizona to the north rim of the Grand Canyon.  The route took us up onto the Kaibab Plateau.    Here is the view towards the north from an overlook.  In the distance are the Vermilion Cliffs.

Upon arriving at the north rim, we went directly to a nearby corral for our mule ride.  The ride took us through a ponderosa pine forest near the edge of the canyon for an hour.  My mule was named Gus!  I firmly hung onto the saddle for the whole ride.

Before lunch at the Grand Canyon Lodge, we walked out to an overlook to enjoy the views of the canyon.  Fabulous!  Where we were was near the start of the Bright Angel Trail that goes from the north rim, down to the bottom and back up to the south rim.

Here is the historical lodge where we had lunch.

There is no lodging in the main building.  Instead, one can stay in one of the many cabins there.

Point Imperial is the highest point of the Grand Canyon.  It is located eleven miles east of the main lodge.  

On the way back to the main highway, we stopped to enjoy the beautiful aspens in their full fall glory.