Keeping Up With The Kardashians – Season Six

Yes, of course, I’m still keeping up with the Kardashians.  In fact, I love, respect, and enjoy them now more than ever.  While other reality TV shows promise “backstabbing betrayal,” Keeping Up With The Kardashians delivers a jigunda slice of Kardashian life that’s chock-full of familial love, loyalty, glam, glitz, and bling.

My happy life as an everyday goddess is the Kardashian’s polar opposite in the outer world. The K-Dolls (Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie) are all gorgeously stylish and fashionably put together, external qualities I admire but lack. I haven’t a fashionista gene among my otherwise delightful bits of DNA. This, however, in no way diminishes my appreciation of Kardashian razzle-dazzle chic.

The Kardashians, Jenners, Odums, et al are exquisite to watch in their assorted domestic habitats, and in their varied roles as normal people with celebrity professions. They’re seemingly fearless about divulging delicate details; next-to-nothing is off limits. Take this season for example.  Matriarch Kris Jenner broadcasts her pre-Kim’s-wedding plastic surgery. Who else in Hollywood would do this besides a Kardashian?  What else is NOT off limits besides a mini face-lift?  How about menopause, incontinence, maternal angst and pride? Oh yeah; and that’s just Kris who’s stunning throughout. 

I Love, Love, Love the Kardashians; and I’ll be keeping up with them for as long as there’s something chichi to keep up with.

Is The Song In Your Head A Musical Hallucination?

Have you ever had a song in your head that kept you singing (or thinking) the lyrics (or melody) repeatedly? If you answered yes, you’re not alone.  It could be harmless, OR it could be the result of malfunctioning brain networks that normally allow us to perceive music. The brain is amazing when it functions perfectly and is even more so when it doesn’t.

Fourteen years ago, 83-year-old Reginald King began having musical hallucinations following bypass surgery.  The array of pop tunes and Christmas carols playing on his personal cerebral channel were both frightening and frustrating and could neither be turned off nor tuned down. Eventually, he was seen by Dr. Victor Aziz, one of two European researchers who had been studying this phenomenon. Dr. Aziz and research partner Dr. Nick Warner found that more than a third of their patients with musical hallucinations were deaf or hard of hearing, women more often than men, and on average 78 years of age.

Dr. Aziz believes people are more likely to hear songs (in their head) they’ve heard repeatedly. He further speculates that musical hallucinations would become more common in the future noting that, ‘”people today are awash in music from radios and television.”  Add to that the unwavering use of iPods by people of all ages and there you have the makings of a musical hallucination zoo (www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/health/psychology/12musi.html?).

So what does this mean for me (and you)?  I frequently listen to my favorite music on the radio or cd player (driving here and there), my computer (at work and home), and my beloved iPod (my commuting companion). I wonder if my ritual music habits will eventually lead me to Nirvana or to some other musical paradise…perhaps Gagavana?   There are two songs currently playing on my daily hit parade.  Click on the blue links below to see what they are.

Ticket to Nirvana

Or to Gagavana

What might make it to your hallucinatory playlist if your musical brain networks begin to malfunction?  Please comment below; I’d really LOVE to know.

EDG Meets Kryon

My introduction to Lee Carroll and his work with Kryon came two plus years ago when my BFF synchronistically discovered them.  At that time, my new agey interests were not yet ready for Carroll or Kryon who then seemed way too woo-woo for me. Said BFF attended a seminar which resonated with her spiritual evolution. Kryon seminars and workshops are hosted domestically and internationally by New Age thinkers including a United Nations group in NYC (the Society for Enlightenment and Transformation).

Fast forward two plus years and I’ve now read and loved two of Carroll’s books, The Journey Home and The Parables of Kryon (both Hay House books about spiritual growth and enlightenment).  I’ve studied channeling and I’ve been exposed to concepts which have further thinned the line between mysticism and science. I was ready to attend the two-day interactive seminar when it synchronistically appeared on my proverbial doorstep.

The Kryon team I had the good fortune to meet consisted of Lee Carroll (internationally known author and channeler of the angelic entity Kryon), Dr. Amber Wolf (transformational and quantum living healer), Dr. Todd Ovakaytis (enlightened physician & researcher), Robert Coxson (interdimensional musician, facilitator, and healer), and Connie Okelberry (divinely inspired jewelry maker). The seminar brought together New Age concepts and quantum physics in a way that felt significantly main stream.

My spiritual path includes developing my inner (and outer) Goddess and a sensitivity to what is beyond the life I’m currently living.  Carl Jung once said, “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” My guess is that Kryon would agree.  (Please click on the blue links and connect with Kryon and Connie)