Retrospective 2024-51

This is a retrospective of week 51, 2024 (2024-12-16–2024-12-22).

I’ve listened to podcasts with Bill Plotkin¹ and Penelope Smith^2,3 this week.

Bill Plotkin recited All True Vows by David Whyte and said:

Life serves life.

—Bill Plotkin https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8?t=2948

Help a small child feel totally welcomed in this world. … The fact that they are seen and accepted for who they are, that’s a real gift. … The second thing is to learn how…to be able to see yourself, including the parts of you that are still emotionally very young and fragile, and to be able to hold and love these.

—Bill Plotkin https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8?t=5359

Everything that’s worth learning in childhood is, you know, somehow connected to the natural world and its processes and systems.

—Bill Plotkin https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8?t=5616

It’s worse than you think, and the solution is closer at hand and easier than you might have feared.

—Bill Plotkin https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8?t=5736

Penelope Smith said:

It’s really incredible to see people regain and recover their native ability because they get happier.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/YfWBJUb0Nl0?t=237

People do have to learn how to breathe, center themselves, get grounded, so that you can listen to another being. I mean even people have a hard time listening to each other.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/YfWBJUb0Nl0?t=975

…what makes it almost urgent now is that unless people connect, unless they reconnect with themselves as part of nature, we’re lost. We’re polluting the earth, we’re polluting our own home, we’re poisoning ourselves and everyone on it.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/YfWBJUb0Nl0?t=4611

And so, if we shift and we communicate with all the other beings, then we certainly don’t want to hurt them anymore.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/YfWBJUb0Nl0?t=4667

One of the major things people discover is that they get more true communication, instead of their mixing in their own thoughts and feelings, when they actually unite with the animal. Instead of looking [at] them as a thing, they are one with the animal… And suddenly they get the dog’s thoughts, their feelings, they get how the dog smells, they can experience life as the dog. And your dog willingly give that to you, because they want you to understand them. They don’t have any problem with you…feeling one with them. I mean, what better way to understand them and to communicate with them.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/tB36cH9G1iM?t=1858

They already get if you’re in tune with them. People think, well you must talk to your animals a lot. I say, I don’t, we just get it from each other. … Don’t you have the same thing with humans that you’re close to? You just get things from each other, you don’t keep talking… After you’ve been with each other a while…you flow with each other.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/tB36cH9G1iM?t=1951

When you open up to telepathic communication with other species, it opens you to many, many worlds, many understandings, tremendous wisdom, ways of living in this life that are really, really beautiful and full of joy. So, I wish for people this tremendous joy that opens up to you, and peace, and learning, and the wisdom of all species who are helping us in this life. I wish that for everybody, that they can have that incredible solace as they walk through the world, that we’re walking together with trillions of other beings who give us great, great help.

—Penelope Smith https://youtu.be/tB36cH9G1iM?t=3479

Notes:
1. Nate Hagens, “A Path Toward Holistic Adulthood with Bill Plotkin | TGS 146”, Published: 20241016 (Recorded: 2020916), YouTube Video, 1:36:36, https://youtu.be/S25UKlLq5m8.
2. Suzanne Giesemann – Messages of Hope, “Learn to Awaken to YOUR Spirit by Learning to Communicate with Animals: Penelope Smith”, Published: 20240707, YouTube Video, 59:58, https://youtu.be/tB36cH9G1iM.
3. Penelope Smith Animal Talk Animal Communication, “Close-Up Television Spotlights Penelope Smith Animal Talk Animal Communication”, Published: 20240319, YouTube Video, 1:20:10, https://youtu.be/YfWBJUb0Nl0.