I went through a "phase" when I quit drinking. I rented a video of Shirley MacLaine explaining chakras. I have no idea in which life she learned this stuff.
You joggled my memory (maybe an eighth chakra?) about Shirley and the Self period of introspection. I think it was the 70s, she was interesting, and so likable. Besides that, her brother was quite likable at the time, too. Thanks for a boost to my eighth level of enlightenment!
For some period of time, her family lived in Arlington, Virginia. My ex mother-in-law went to high school with her brother (Warren Beatty.) He and Shirley were both born in the state capital and their family moved around in Virginia from city to city. I think Shirley was already out of high school when they lived in Arlington for the second time. You have a good memory, Gina. There is a sect of Buddhism that believes in 8 major chakras (most sects say between 4 and 7), while others suggest there are tens of thousands of them throughout the "subtle body" of energy channels. The 8th chakra is tied to the soul, not to a physical part of the body. Shirley's video was very interesting. It was not just a celebrity front...she knew what she was talking about. Interesting factoid: In high school (this is in the 1940s) Shirley played baseball on an all-boys team, holding the record for most home runs, which earned her the nickname "Powerhouse".
Obviously y'all don't see what I see in me in this picture. I'm a curious person and always have been. I'll take the compliments though. Thank you.
This is what happens at basic training in the military. They shave your head, give you a uniform and ship the clothes you came with back home. You are rebuilt as military.
OH! You have to see my transformation when my glasses come off. I'm more of a character actor - A cowboy with a hoster full of Lead, an astronaut looking for alien life, a sheriff looking for Crooks, a scientist studying insects under a microscope, a Dashing Young lover , an Explorer seeking Treasures or Bigfoot, what it boils down to is you can be whatever you want to be. In reality I love a good mystery real or written, I love my pets and all animals in general, I love my garden and nature, I love all kinds of music specially playing on an extra good sound system, I love talking to knowledgeable and interesting people, I love to eat, and most importantly I love talking to children and seeing their eyes light up when you've taught them or they experienced something they didn't know. I love play acting with my grand kids, there was a game I made up called "Crooks", we hunted down criminals like Black Bart, Slimy Sam, plus others. I had a chest under a bed and in one of the spare rooms that we pull out it was loaded with all kinds of laser guns, swords, ropes, the grandkids would pick out their choice of weapons and we'd be off to catch the crooks. The bed became a rowboat and some chairs we had we turn around and they became horses. The story's lasted about 15 to 20 minutes never kill the crook always catching him alive. My grandkids always wanted to play more they really enjoyed it.
I had to think about this also. It started early. Elementary school report cards always came back with the word "Reserved" as if this was a bad thing. One teacher tried to "fix" it. I dug in deeper. Later, it was "shy." Not really. Just prefer to watch rather than compete.
My fast reply to this topic would be, that I am really a nice person, good heart, and just a bit of attitude if I am mad about something. Now out the door I go for the day lol.
We’re along the same lines but although I was and am Extremely competitive, I nearly always waited for an invitation to do so thus learning early how to shrug my shoulders and move on.
I remember those assessments by early school year teachers when we were kids. I guess maybe it was a valuable insight for parents to know how you did in a pack environment. But even if you did trust the psychological profile of a kid done by a teacher, exactly how much chaos would there be in a classroom with 30 assertive 6 year olds? One would think the only thing that needed to be "fixed" was being disruptive. I do recall a classmate (Shirley) insisting I show the teacher how I could play tunes by striking my knuckles with a pencil as though they were a xylophone. Lord knows how that was incorporated into my evaluation ("melodic but delusional")...or into Shirley's ("enabler of trans-percussionists.") Perhaps we helped put the teacher on a different career path,