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Earth to stars

Is the world we live in, more than what we understand? Theories challenge the known facts, so does any...

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Ballina Council wrap

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Financial woes

Byron Shire’s financial woes are not the result of a lack of money, but rather the waste of it....

Is the world we live in, more than what we understand? Theories challenge the known facts, so does any association of letters in words, that we make and combine in theory first, they share the same function. We can make images in our head of the stories being told, by using the symbols we have learnt to use, giving us our internal language. Reading books requires the same function of use. We make images in our head, an ‘image-in-action’. A universe we create ourselves.

A you-in-an-inverse state, is making our own internal universe. We send instructions to move our body, is it constructing your mind to do something? Of course it is. Closing the eyes is seeing the first page of our individual all-inclusive book, of being in our inverse state. You can’t see the stars in the physical without using your eyes, instructions have to be sent.

It Is described as going through the gate of the eyes to see the stars. We open or close our eyes and interpret the echoes. It can be called a functioning star gate, or a fail-safe mechanism to perceive the presence of the internal and external universe, (a you-inverse). In one package, being alive.

Is there more? When returning, into our inverse state, it’s only the first page of the book; have we read our own book, or stories already told? Physical star gates are said to have been found in the ruins of ancient civilisations on earth, and were used to travel through, to the distant stars that our eyes see. Some say it is mythology, or say it is the inner vision, others say it is part of ourself. We have a star gate, a description that will always be a theory. Until it is used.

Robert Podhajsky, Ocean Shores

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