Einstein inspirational quote on the intuitive mind versus the rational mind

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

~ Albert Einstein

Carol Chapman at The Villages in Florida

I enjoyed speaking at The Villages. This was a new experience for me as I have never spoken at a retirement community before. I’ve spoken in Unity churches, private living rooms, spiritualist churches, activity centers, libraries, and a nursing home.

The Villages is located in the middle of Florida. Even though it is called, “The Villages,” it is actually a city 12 miles square. It looks like a resort, with beautifully manicured walkways. Golf carts grace parking lots. There are restaurants, activity centers, heated outdoor pools, golf clubs, and many fit, attractive-looking seniors walking around.

I had a rapt, engaged audience and enjoyed being there very much.

My visit to The Villages was part of my southeast tour in which I am speaking on Have Your Heart’s Desire, inspired by my latest book of the same name.

Inspirational quote: “Oh, Great Spirit…” by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark

“Oh, Great Spirit

Whose voice I hear in the winds,

And whose breath gives life to all the world,

Hear me, I am small and weak,

I need your strength and wisdom…”

~Translation by Chief Yellow Lark, Lakota Sioux, 1887

(Click on the photo above to enlarge it.)

Photo by Carol Chapman

Inspirational quote: Oscar Wilde on beauty . . .

“I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.”

~ Oscar Wilde

What is he talking about? It’s a nice quote, and certainly, it makes you think. But, really? What about Greek statues? They are perfectly beautiful, and they were not made to be useful.

Oscar Wilde must have had something in mind when he wrote this.

Yucatan Travel Movie now available for easy, inexpensive download & rental on Amazon

I am pleased to announce that the movie, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza, is now available on Amazon for inexpensive rental or to buy downloadable.

Whether you’re interested in traveling to the Yucatan or you’re an armchair traveler who enjoys watching videos about foreign locales, you’ll enjoy Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza.

It is an authentic, genuine video made with a camcorder showing what you can expect if you travel to the Yucatan. Narrated by Miriam Balsley, who loves to travel in Latin American countries, she takes you both to well-publicized tourist destinations and also to relatively unknown gems, giving you a flavor of the wonderful, rich experience of travel in Yucatan.

Whether you’re after Mayan ruins, delectable native cuisine, shopping for crafts, or enjoying the turquoise water of the Riviera Maya, Yucatan Travel is for you.

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Inspirational quote on love with a photo of a red rose on Valentine’s Day

Inspirational quote on love:

“… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.”
–  E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

with an inspirational photo of a red rose to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Inspirational quote: Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth…

Geological history of the Sahara – Could it have been Atlantis?

Horses in Giza Desert by Anna Serio. Public Domain photo.

For the last couple of days, I’ve been wondering if the Sahara desert could have been Atlantis? It turns out that at one time the greatest desert on earth was under the sea.

Atlantis was supposed to have plummeted into the sea around 9000 B.C. according to Plato.

Therefore, the question is, if Atlantis sunk under the sea 11,000 years ago, could the Sahara have risen from the sea sometime after that? According to an online Encyclopedia of the Earth article:

“Only a few thousand years ago the Sahara was significantly wetter, . . .”

Sahara Desert

Then, the next question is: Was the Sahara significantly wetter a few thousand years ago because of greater precipitation or because it had risen from the sea?

The article goes on to say that, in truth, the Sahara had once been under the sea.

“During the Mesozoic much of North Africa was under water and marine deposits were deposited.”

Sahara Desert

The Mesozoic includes the time the dinosaurs ruled the earth and ended 65 million years ago.

Therefore, as much as I’d to have discovered something really exciting–that the Sahara could have been Atlantis risen from the depths of the sea--it is not so, since the land of the Sahara rose long before Atlantis sank.

It was an interesting theory, but it doesn’t hold much water (couldn’t help myself).

Inspirational quote: expert once beginner

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

Could the harbor of ancient Carthage been a harbor of Atlantis?

Ruins of the ancient city of Carthage, Tunisia , by Patrick Giraud, 8 Sep. 2006, Wikipedia Commons

According to “modern-day Indian Jones” David Hatcher Childress, the harbor of ancient Carthage resembled the harbor of the capital of the mythical lost city of Atlantis. We know the description of the Atlantean harbor from Plato’s  Timaeus/Critias.  Carthage, ancient and modern-day city with a population of about 20,000, is situated on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Tunisia on the northern end of the Sahara Desert.

Two large, artificial harbors were built within the city, one for harboring the city’s massive navy of 220 warships and the other for mercantile trade. A walled tower overlooked both harbours.

Carthage

Childress had said that the Sahara Desert is a possible location of the mythical Atlantis, especially considering that the harbor of ancient Carthage resembled that of Atlantis. Nonetheless, it doesn’t seem possible , that ancient Carthage could have been associated with Atlantis, considering that the Sahara desert is a desert and Atlantis was a huge island/continent.

However, Carthage is along the Sahara and the Sahara is a dried seabed. Here’s a possible scenario: Atlantis plunged into the sea around 9,000 B.C. Underwater, the ruins of Atlantis became a seabed. When the land rose, the seabed dried and became the Sahara Desert.

I know it’s a long shot, but, when was the Sahara a seabed? After Atlantis plunged into the sea? It deserves further research, doesn’t it?