practice pronoia

Well one accepts that the universe is conspiring on your behalf then should n’t you do everything (within reason) to help others?

So without even seeing any direct evidence of the this universal conspiracy – if you accept it then you maybe you can send out postive vibes youeself and also do PMA squared.

PMA^2 = Positive Mental Attitude x Positive Meaningful Act

Free audio download from Mr. Pronoia himself…

http://www.freewillastrology.com/beauty/

I volunteered to march with one of the puppetry groups in the Village Halloween Parade…and I got to wear a Shamanic Cow costume. (Apparently cows help lead you to the underworld on the Day of the Dead…who knew?) It was so much fun, I forgot to ask someone to take a picture of me with my cell phone…fortunately, the Internets helped me out….

http://flickr.com/photos/flickr4jazz/2991100300/

What you don’t see in this picture is my five fellow Shamanic Cows, including two charming British women who had impulsively flown over from England to attend the parade, watch the marathon (which was the same weekend), and celebrate the election…

Yes. Celebrate the election.

Happy Halloween!

and a dime yesterday…for a while, my money mojo had faded because I was a little downhearted. Now I’m beginning to feel the pronoia vibe again.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8201478015841155798&q=randy+pausch&ei=vuuJSMe9FaCCqgOkv_2hCA

that was wrong. Well, it all started with my ordering the wrong envelopes and calling to make the right order before it was delivered. But by Murphy’s law they sent the wrong envelopes anyway.
The delivery guy waited patiently while I made the call to solve the problem. I didn’t get angry. I told him it was my initial mistake anyway. He commented that he really liked my pen and I absent minededly told him he could have it. He said “Really?” and smiled.

We straightened out the order on the phone and the delivery guy said he’d have them to me first thing today. I thanked him and didn’t give it another thought.

When I got in this morning the bag with the envelopes were hanging on the front door and there was a message for me from the delivery guy that if I needed anything else please call.

Treating others with respect sure has nice benefits. :)

This practicing pronoia is really difficult. No, it really is. After years of thinking of the worst interpretation most people’s behaviour this is like a sea level change. Let’s try again.

They secretly want to help me but they don’t want to look like a goody-two shoes so they feign indifference or even antipathy.

Well I actually cut my neighbours front lawn at the weekend withouy being asked. Would you say that this is a manifestation of auto-pronoia?

Hmm, I shall try this again – but not bad for a first go (even if I do say so myself.)

appeared yesterday. Last night when I got home from work I noticed my lawn had been mowed. It looked wonderful!

The neighbor’s lawn was mown also. No one was home so I don’t know if they did my yard or if my landlord did it for me.

I will get to the bottom of this mystery but in the meantime I am just so happy I didn’t have to buy a mower yet. :)

it has felt, instead, as if life is stacked against us. we’ve been feeling bullied by it, not encouraged.
but i think we may have turned the tide on that last night. getting by with a li’l help from our friends. (thanks Mel!)
it is habit to notice when things go wrong. and we feel the insult deeply, especially when what we are trying to do is right and good and ecological, etc., and it goes wrong. we wanna rant, and scream, and chastise the Universe for not frustrating the Bad People with the Bad Goals. go short out the electronics that are killing thousands (the bombs, the tanks, or even the walkie-talkies!) NOT the diesel truck we wanna convert to veggie oil!!! We need to believe the warmongers and earth-rapers are not getting all the damn breaks.

works for a property management company. Yesterday he called a friend and said he was cleaning out a house that they told him to take the furniture to Good Will.

He said it was a couple of chairs and a dining set that were very nice and he knew my things are still in Texas so he asked her if I would want them. He didn’t have my phone number.

He dropped by the chairs last night and is bringing me the table today. :)