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Life at Pineal

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

Seeing what was unfolding in the matrix I decided to break away and start a new life in Portugal at Martin Kenny’s Pineal Foundation.
That life in a newly established community is a roller coaster is an understatement. I arrived half of September and only now I find the quietness and right perspective to reflect on my new life. It’s been a very steep learning curve too, which I love as all l want to do is being/becoming (I’m not sure which word is better) the best version of myself.

The current situation of many of us who are awake forces us to make bold decisions. I left my four children back in the Netherlands as they are not aware of what’s going on or not (yet) capable to decide to leave everything behind and take the leap into something which will hopefully turn out to be better. There’s no guarantee of the latter, so I innerstand that they can’t (yet) make that choice. (I add ‘yet’ in the hope the universe will answer my call that my children are joined here with me).

As too much has happened since the three months I’ve been here, I won’t recount on all that has happened since then. I’ll just go on from the here and now.

It’s all about perception
The other day I overheard a conversation between E. and J about something that happened earlier. J’s self-composed manner of behaving and speaking triggers some people here. E. had come to help in the kitchen, started doing something which was not immediately necessary and J. told her so and then asked her: ‘Do you want a direction?’ As the strong headed woman E. is, this triggered her and she replied: ‘I don’t need directions’ and took off.

Women are programmed ever since feminism took a hold of society to be strong and independent. (I won’t go into the underlying agenda to disrupt the family unit here, see … for more on that). So when somebody, especially a man, tells us what to do, we get easily triggered. Often there’s also an underlying pain of not being taken seriously and seen for who we are by one of our parents, usually our father. Any trigger though is a signal we need to heal that which triggers the trigger.

It’s all a matter of perception. Is J. trying to boss you around?

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