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Foster Adoption

February 22, 2010

Update on Foster Care/Adoption Journey and IVF :)

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Update on Foster Care/Adoption Journey and IVF

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Widely Spaced Siblings

November 16, 2009

Are we Reincarnated? [music involving Chordal Mutation]

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Firstly,this is a composition i wrote in 1993 involving chordal mutation. In this piece is a three note chord which one by one each of the notes descends by a half step until i arrived to the next chord and the next until i arrive near open position and then go into something a bit different. Back in my college days i stumbled upon it and basically with this work i did it with a dozen chords as opposed to one or two. I originally called the piece “World from Space” and thought this music might do well with some pics from space.

Secondly i came up with the idea of typing up some thoughts i have gathered in my past years reading on the subject of reincarnation. I have read dozens of books on the subject of reincarnation and past-life regression and i personally feel as many of the authors do that the past life regression cases can’t be explained any other way. These are researhers, scientists, scholars, former atheists like Michael Newton, who in their fields tend to feel reincarnation important to consider. As for me i personally have my very own personal story of a past life recollection that has always been with me since a young child. The information in my recollection could not have been obtained by a 4 yr old boy who did not even learn about that specific historical event until highshool years.
I am not claiming to have answers and want people to be comfortable in their beliefs no matter what they are as long as we love one another and live in peace. My mind is open and not shut, and my eyes are wide open too. I am still learning and i won’t be held hostage by any belief system. I don’t want to be blissfully ignorant with a “no compromise” attitude. I will admit i once was trying to convert the world and for a long time, until i started listening, reading, and thinking. Now i find myself more free than i ever have been. The hardest thing about life is living in a world in which we as humans come to a state of people who will not compromise and who make other peoples lives difficult.
I don’t care what you are. If you are a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Atheist etc if you feel comfortable in your belief system and you benefit from it positively then this is great. I am happy for you. But I think there can be a problem when we try to coerce others to gravitate toward our belief system. I am very guilty of doing that and for a long time. I have come a long way to learn the lesson that i must love unconditionally and i still have a long way to go. If i was perfect i would not be here on the earth “school” learning to evolve and grow spiritually toward a greater understanding that we are all the same and equal and brothers and sisters. There is no need to convert anyone but to love them. But don’t love them thinking that they will eventually come to think like you if you are kind to them long enough.
What a big subject. I could go on and on.

One day as i was sitting behind my computer i typed in “reincarnation” and many videos came up and i watched with great interest the videos by Michael Newton and Brian Weiss and all the young children past life memories. The more i researched and the more i bought books, the more i came to realize there could be something to this that the mainstream church does not want us to know about. I can’t tell you how liberating it is when one can finally dispose of their fears one by one that religion seems to infect us with from an early age. I believe In the end we will all be alright. If we screw up we only hurt ourselves and may have to come back in a next life and feel the same pain and hurt we inflicted onto another. Now that would seem to be fair and something a Loving God would allow us to go through as opposed to opening a trap door and thrusting us into fiery flames. Silly isn’t it?

Well maybe reincarnation and karma is the way it works, i don’t know for sure and no one does and no book can claim to have the “exact truth.” All we can dois carefully weigh the evidence we look into but to be on the safe side is to love one another.

One other thing i noticed the correlation between the idea of reincarnating in many lives and chordal mutation. Perhaps our souls grow and evolve toward a specific “light” or “goal” such as love. Each note in Chrodal Mutation gradually moves into or transforms into a different chord etc.
Some things to think about !

Peace and LOVE

Ray

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Russian Adoption

November 2, 2009

Vika’s Journey Home – Our Russian Adoption Story

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A combination of our two trips to Russia to bring home our little girl. She was 2 years old at the time

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China Adoption

October 24, 2009

Chinese Adoption for Jairus Cheng Yu

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Welcome home Jairus Cheng Yu!
Born: April 1, 2007
Adopted: August 25, 2008
American Citizen: September 11, 2008
Welcome home little man!
for more info visit www.alkemaeleven.com

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Russian Adoption

October 12, 2009

Russian Adoption Journey part 2 0001

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Part 2 of our Journey to Samuel (make sure to also check out part 1). If anyone can translate the “Russian Parts” for us, we would gladly appreciate it.

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China Adoption

Chinese adoption – Mikayla’s Story

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From the moment we met – to now…and FOREVER! To learn more about our family, and our Adoption process and being home, please visit us at www.alkemaeleven.com or www.freewebs.com/alkemaeleven

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Russian Adoption

October 4, 2009

Russian Adoption Journey part 1

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This is a video diary of our travel to meet our future son.

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Widely Spaced Siblings

September 23, 2009

Atlus – Dokapon Journey™ [NDS] GAMEPLAY

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Dokapon Journey™ is a cute little game, and therin lies its poison sting. The magical girls, giant pigs and wide-eyed zombies sucked me in before I realized just how brutal the game is. Equal parts board game, RPG and Battle Royale, it’s a four-player free-for-all that delights in turning friendships and genre conventions on their heads. (Publisher Atlus calls it a “friendship-destroying RPG”). The story, such as it is, concerns a kingdom called Dokapon whose towns are under siege by monsters. The King hires four heroes to send the monsters packing”hires” being the key word here, because this game is all about the Benjamins.

The four heroes in this sibling title to Dokapon Kingdom™ on the Wii have only one goal: to make money. Their world is a game board, and they move with the aid of a spinner. If one hero lands on another’s space, s/he can fight them like any monster and the winner can take the loser’s items, towns, money, equipment, or name. Players can also attack each other from afar with lighting bolts, meteors, poison and other magic spells. Each character has a job that the player chooses—fighter, spy, a couple flavors of mage—but most don’t seem different from each other. Spells are bought from shops instead of learned, and players have lots of control over their stat points when they level up. Since all the characters are evenly matched, the only way to win is with skill and luck.

There is one very Faustian way to overpower everybody else. If a player goes to a certain island, he or she can choose to give up all items, money and towns to become a Darkling for a month’s time in game. Darklings have horns, and quintuply-multiplied spinners and stats. The only way to cope with a Darkling is to stay the heck out of the way until its contract expires.

For more info game :
www.atlus.com
www.atlus.com/dokaponjourney
www.youtube.com/user/AtlusUSA

Available Now in Store www.atlus.com

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