Zeus' Palatial Blog

Zeus, where have you been?
A question I’ve been asked more than once recently.

To be honest I’ve been around, but my “free time” has dried up as I have many things on the go as it were. GoldBear and I continue to work on a project that eats a great deal of time and resources, so that’s where I’ve been the last month, or so. There is light at the end of the tunnel, because Beta testing begins soon, which means that the fury of programming is finally coming to a close (until we add something else into the mix). Once the heavy load portion of our little project appears I’m taking a vacation.

That’s right I’m going on vacation - without computers. A little sand, surf, sailing, and relaxing to reward myself for a job well done (and yes my wife is going too). Which means I’ll return to the world of the Palatium in mid February.

As a further note I think I’m going to shake up the Community a little. It’s been 13 years and time for something new. You’ll have to wait until February to hear about those plans though.

At any rate Happy New Year to all and we’ll all talk soon.

We’ve flown into December and as my oldest son is fond of reminding me his birthday is coming up quickly. He let slip it was only 20 days until his birthday about 50 times this morning. Yes, he has a December birthday as he was born at 23:30 on December 22 in the middle of a snow storm. What does that mean to us? Well, seeing as both Hera and my families are rather large we happen into a month long barrage of Christmases and Birthdays. By the time December is over every year I’ve contracted for an addition to the house. Don’t get me wrong I am not complaining as I realize just how fortunate our families are to be able to come together and share with eachother. I’m simply afraid that my children will disappear in the monster amounts of stuff they have. Justification usually comes with the donation of outgrown toys and things to local charities and organizations, so I suppose all the outpouring of love gets paid forward anyways.

Hmmm - paying it forward - that’s a term I’ve been hearing more and more of lately. The best form of paying it forward that I’ve seen is taking the feelings from a kind act someone has done for you and giving that same feeling to another person by doing something for them. It actually works exactly like energy manipulation in psi since one thread of energy charges another, which charges another, which charges another, and so on. I’ve been really attempting to use some of my free time lately to “pay it forward”. The funny thing about it is that the more I do things for others the more I realize that it makes me feel just as good. And due to the cyclic nature of the Paradigm Shift it all comes back to me eventually to make my life better. For people just starting the shift please read my Paradigm Shift series, because it is extremely difficult to get the ball rolling. Once it starts though .. wow.

A friend of mine pointed out last night that I hadn’t updated my blog in nearly two months and people would start to think that perhaps I’d lost interest in psi, or even fallen off the face of the Earth. Let me assure all of you that I have neither lost interest in psi, nor have I fallen off the face of the Earth. I have simply been incredibly busy and haven’t squeezed updating my blog into my daily schedule. Guess it’s time that I change that up a little though.

People in other communities that I haven’t visited recently due to my lack of extra time have been asking me whether I still practice psi. This question always concerns me because psi isn’t something you pick up try a little and then put down. Psi is a way of life. Everything I do everyday has something to do somehow with psi. Whether it be intents that I’ve laid down to establish goals, or information I’ve gathered in order to do something I am constantly using psi in my life. I suppose I find myself using psi for slightly different things being a parent than I would have when I was younger. My wife and I are constantly in flux with work and personal schedules so it’s nice to be able to reconnect with her on issues of mutual interest when we clear our schedules for each other. We also like to stay one step ahead of our sons. It’s not always possible of course, but knowing what the kids are up to at any given time is a real time saver as a parent. When they were younger psi also saved loads of time in deciphering what was wrong and how we could go about soothing them. I realize that this level of psi won’t appeal to everyone since not everyone is married and not everyone has kids. But when I was younger my friend group used to use psi in order to communicate get-togethers and locations where we all were. For the younger set I was a teenager before cell phones were popular and GPS was still a secret military thing, so we would use psi for things that you’d use your smart phone for these days. Making psi an integral part of your life isn’t really that difficult, it just takes some creativity and an open mind. The benefits of a psi-life are worth the effort.

As you all know I’ve postponed the Psychic Reading course due to my full schedule and will be pushing it into 2010. I am expecting a slowdown in the dead of winter for work, so that will give me the necessary time to actually finish writing up everything. I realize that many people are anxious for new material unfortunately it does take a lot of time to put it all together, so you have to be patient. The Psi Palatium has been around for over a decade already - it isn’t like it’s going anywhere.

Those of you that haven’t joined the chat channel regularly should consider doing so. It’s a great community that can have some wonderful conversations if you start them up. Don’t be shy - there’s nothing to lose and a whole new life with psi to gain!

Okay, I really need to get this whole time thing under wraps because having hit the autumnal equinox already is simply mind boggling to me….

The boys are back in school mode and thing are going relatively well. Being up most nights myself trying to keep myself in school mode is an entirely different story. As I get older I find it a little more difficult to motivate the boys and myself. I just can’t wait for hockey season and the 7am games.

Where’s the last month gone? Well, we’ve been renovating the house and that’s pretty much zapped any spare time I have. And if remodeling the inside weren’t enough we’re also doing new fences, a patio, and gazebo over the hot tub. If anyone finds a money tree please let me know — actually never mind - it continues to be a great reason to massage reality for necessary income. Always with the psi somewhere!

Personally I’m doing wonderfully and really needing to switch focus to my quickly approaching deadline for the Circle’s fall classes on Psychic Readings. Don’t worry it’ll all work out in the end - how is a mystery. Or it will be until we know all about precognition!

With Mother Nature having abruptly brought summer to a close it’s a shift in schedules again as I get ready to send the little Olympians back to school.

Construction, renovation, family gatherings, and psi have kept the summer rolling and me as busy as ever (which is why I’ve been lacking in the updates to my blog). Plus my free time has been eaten up by a project that GoldBear is creating for his continuing education. If friends have the means then they can help friends that’s what I mean!

Hercules and I recently did a broadcast empathy test just for fun. I randomly chose 100 vehicles, colours, shapes, fruits and/or vegetables to think of and Herc had to tell me what I was thinking of. He correctly identified 98 out of the 100 random things. This is only one recorded test, so we’ll have to see how he does over time, but it’s quite a positive looking “official” test for what I have always known about his abilities. I’ll keep everyone posted on how he continues to develop with the tests.

Apollo on the other hand is not so much of an empath at this point. His strengths tend more towards PK though he has been working his telepathy as of late which is nice to see. I haven’t gotten to the point with him where I would test him quite yet, but that’ll come as he gets older.

For those younger people that don’t have parents that encourage psi, or help to develop it - sorry. I believe that my kids should know that anything is possible within reason, the rules, and reasonable responsibility. Hopefully they’ll surpass me someday in their specific fields of psi and teach me a few things about Oneness and the Total Self.

It’s been over 10 days! Where have I been??!
Well, to be honest I’ve been quite busy and haven’t been hit by the “writing mood” lately.

Hera has gone on a new schedule for work (which they seem to do to her every three months just to see if I’m paying attention) which leaves me constantly adjusting my schedule to be sure I can be home to watch the boys - or have someone with them while I am … called away. It’s also been interesting because the boys have chicken pox (we’re in the winding down stages now), so I’ve had to be careful with outside contact for them and the many people who seem to have never had the potentially life-threatening illness (didn’t realize that the chicken pox could be deadly? Usually only to us old folks but it happens.). Thankfully both the boys only have a mild outbreak on their arms alone (what “luck” can do), so it hasn’t hampered their energies at all. We’ve had to call off taking them out in public and most of their friends have stayed away, so I’ve had the extra fun of coming up with weeks worth of entertainment. What’d I come up with? To start out they helped me put in a new floor in the playroom - now it’s all sponge soft and you could drop from the ceiling without hurting yourself (good for the budding psychokinetic). With the playroom fully finished all their toys and games came back out of storage so they have 500sqft of fun! It’s been hot outside and they’ve really wanted to go to the splash park and since we can’t go I built them one in the backyard. Okay, so I’m a little on the crazy side with things for the boys but if I can have fun too then it’s totally worth the effort. I’ve been overworking getting the deck supported to hold a hot tub and building a new patio (oh yes and I really must get to building the new fence) so I figured a distraction that could cool me down too would be a brilliant change of pace. With a few pumps, lots of hose and some ingenuity we created a water recirculating, solar powered (must be environmentally friendly .. plus water and hydro are expensive) splash pad. Slipping slopes, sliding streams, moving showers, dumping buckets, slides, pools and inflatable castles with drawbridges. Now I get to work on my projects for awhile and then I can go play too. Why not? As long as you have the energy available you can be as young as you want to be .. right?

Though it seems like my days have been filled with construction and playtime I’ve also been working on my psi (not that I don’t always work on my psi since it’s a way of life but I’ve had dedicated time away too). I’ve been actively working with others to harness new ways of doing old techniques. It’s always interesting to compare notes on what works for everyone and how they go about it. There may just be a faster and more efficient manner to carry out an activity. I’ve also been out in the grove during gatherings and visiting local energetic hot spots. The nice farmers that own the land we go traipsing through I’m quite sure think us odd enough (I gain their permission before setting foot on private land - it’s the right thing to do), but since we don’t destroy anything and they end up with “bumper crops” we have a wonderful agreement. I even get some calls after storms damage their crops as to whether we might be “visiting their fields in the near future”. It’s not that we do a lot to the fields, but if there is energy available the plants will respond - it’s common practice really. Of course it helps that many of us have other outdoor interests such as herbology, botany, bird-watching, etc. so we can be a “naturalists club” to the farmers without having them worry about our “other” activities. It’s all in the marketing They all know the truth of course since I’m open about it, but if they feel better thinking about us as a naturalist club then so be it.

Talk about it, tailor the marketing, and more people than you think will accept it.

Well, I’ve made it around the sun again. That must mean I’m either doing something right, or I continue to amuse the fates so they’re keeping me around. I had a nice laid back day with no plans. Hera and I did some much needed chores and then I took off for a mountain bike adventure for awhile (something I don’t get to do too much of anymore). All in all a great day.

Nothing uber exciting has been happening as far as psi is concerned. Life itself has kept me pretty busy, so I haven’t had time to pursue other interests. Hopefully having wrapped up a couple of projects and starting into fewer new ones I should be able to get more time together to be more social in the Palatium again.

As long as I’ve been working in my path some of the reactions I receive when people discover the psi aspect of my life never cease to amaze me. Now to be fair I do have a very strong personality and presence and am assured of what I do; however I love exploring the concepts and ideas of others as well. I am quite open regarding my involvement with psi and with the Psi Palatium Community itself, but it doesn’t always come up in conversation so some people stumble onto that area of my life accidentally. Most people Online know me only through my work with psi. Offline however I come across much more scientific due to my educational background and business dealing in computer and business consulting. This Offline desync with my Online persona is what catches some people off guard when they realize what constitutes a huge portion of my life (and actually is my life base).

I’ve experienced negative reactions, skepticism and shock and awe however the vast majority of people that I deal with Offline (friends and otherwise) suddenly will open up and gush forth info to me. I still find it amusing that a good 95% of the people that realize what I do with psi will feel as if they’ve suddenly found someone that won’t think they’re crazy for their own feelings, and experiences. When people discover my involvement with psi for the first time I can generally count on one of two initial reactions. The first reaction is the person that will confirm it with me, go confirm it with other friends of mine and then return at a later time to ask questions and talk about psi. The other reaction is much more fun where a person will realize what I do in psi and then launch directly into a conversation regarding their experiences etc while hoping to tap into feedback from me.

For those of you wondering about the negative reactions - yes I’ve had a few. Many years ago, before I started my company, some co-workers of mine from a certain religious background were quite horrified to learn of my involvement with psi. My co-workers were quite convinced that their Holy texts forbid psi outright and that made me quite a bad person. Now this could have been a bad situation since I was technically their Team Leader, but instead we talked about it and I asked them to talk with their religious leader regarding psi and that we could even all get together and discuss what was and was not acceptable. So after openly discussing the issues (meeting with religious leaders) and generally being open and honest about drawing parallels between the differing aspects of their lives and religion and my own we came to a mutual understanding and common ground where everyone was quite happy. I ended up learning a lot about their religion and so did they. Was it a negative experience in the end? No, but it started out that way. To be perfectly honest I’ve never had anyone outright walk away from me for my involvement with psi.

What brought all this on? Last night I was fixing a friend of my in-law’s computer. I’ve known her through my in-law’s for many years and while testing out Internet speeds and connectivity I tend to bounce back and forth to different pages on the Palatium website simply because I know how fast each page should load. After hitting up the Palatium website a few time she commented that it seemed like an interesting site. I proceeded to explain about the Palatium and my involvement after which she took to reaction #2. It was a great conversation that she actually got her son in on and we’ve scheduled a session with a group of hers that is just beginning to wonder what their dreams mean (a recent discussion — how convenient is that timing?).

You just never know where the next corner will take you (well, you do if you’re psychic because it’s like having a GPS but that’s kind of like cheating too isn’t it? Guess we’ll have to wait for the Art of Psychic Readings to see)

My 7th wedding anniversary is Monday. Apparently they happen every year (go figure). I haven’t yet decided what we’re doing, but I still have a couple days to come up with a plan. As luck would have it Hera and I were married on the same day that we started dating, so I didn’t have to remember a new date mostly! The funnier thing about my wedding is that Hera received a reading from Rhyannon about a decade ago (the only psychic reading Hera has ever received from someone other than me) that pegged our wedding date to a “T”. Psychic readings aren’t accurate (hahaha) sometimes they can be if you hit the right chord with a person. It was a lot of fun actually because the reading was almost 6 months before I actually asked Hera to marry me, so nothing was set at all. Rhyannon may deny her skills sometimes but I still have the log of that reading that so accurately portrays several different aspects of Hera and her life - accurate, tasteful, and fun (what more could you want in a psychic reading).

Is Rhyannon the only one that can do accurate psychic readings that lurks around the Psi Palatium? No, not at all. Rhyannon just happens to be the easiest one to pick on since I have a great log of Hera’s reading! Many people these days don’t know that when the chat channel first started we had 20 or 30 psychic readers that would give an hour or so of their time every week to read for members and guests. Over the years we’ve gotten away from readings though as other things in our lives came into play and psychics have gone on to other things.

But I’d like to reverse the trend.

My want to bring things back in focus to the origins of the chat channel is the major push behind my upcoming Psi Palatium Circle course regarding Psychic Readings. Everyone can learn how to do psychic readings, especially if they’re already sensitive. And to be able to give back to other members and guests actually helps in understanding the self. The understanding in turn allows the reader to progress faster. So the cycle is great on both sides.

How else are we hoping to help the community? We’re bringing back Skywind’s Teacher/Student database. Since we have such a huge membership that doesn’t ever come into the forums, or chat we’re going to allow people to register with the database and thus hook up with other members online, or IRL to learn and progress in psi. We may bring back part of the certification program in order to allow people the Teacher designation; however the database (registration and certification if necessary) will be free of charge as always.

The Psi Palatium is always free of charge (it’s been that way for almost 14 years!) and as long as the ads continue to help with the cost of the community Hera let’s me keep it Online! Not that I’m telling you to click the ads of course *wink wink* It’s an easy way to ensure we’re here well into the future!

After a week away I have returned to the mountain (and yes I brought my family back with me). The boys had great amounts of fun and took to the lake like fish yet again this year. We added a kayak to our repertoire of stuff at the cottage and actually got some nice use out of it in the many rivers.

While away there was quite a shift in energies from the 15-17, but it wasn’t unexpected. Any of you that have been around the chat channel probably saw me mention the intense shifting that was to occur. Shielding is such a good thing. I was able to get some good practice time in while in the wilderness though “work” kept me occupied I made sure not to burn out (all about balance).

Now that we’re back on the mountain Hera is back to work, as am I, and things are slowly returning to the normal grind that is our lives. I will be back in the chat again so be sure to stop in and say hi!