“I have learned that there is not time in these days in life to make things perfect. Good enough almost always works just as well and no one knows the difference except you.”
~ Miriam Balsley
Miriam Balsley is the co-writer, narrator, and hostess of the Yucatan Travel Movie. She knows how to get things done.
Copyright (c) 2011 Miriam Balsley used with Permission
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The Life Science Top Ten Unexplained Phenomenon article on the Taos Hum brought back memories of a phenomenal horseback riding experience I had there.
The Beautiful Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico, Photo Credit: Dreamstime
While visiting Taos, New Mexico, a number of years ago, the children and I also received unique riding lessons. During my first visit prior to the visit with my children, I had seen a sign saying that a certain Taos resident, a pueblo Indian, could teach a person to overcome horseback riding problems. Among the list of riding problems enumerated, I saw fear in mountainous regions alongside cliffs.
My riding problems were banal in comparison to mountain-riding fears. I usually fall off or the horse refuses to move while I’m sitting on it. I also knew that my children, who have an innate ability to ride, would enjoy the experience of learning from a skilled Native American horseback riding instructor, we signed up for the class.
It turned out to last 4 hours long, during which my three children and I rode bareback through ravines, pinon forests, and open fields. Our Indian riding instructor kept coming over to me and reminding me that when I fell, I should keep my elbows close to the body so I wouldn’t hurt myself or break an arm. He said that I was bouncing all over the back of the horse … and we were only walking!
At one point, our instructor who was wearing a cowboy hat and had long raven-colored hair, made me get off the horse and walk it, the seat of my jeans wet with the horse’s sweat because we had been riding bareback.
I had been afraid of the horse moving at a faster pace than walking because I, too, felt I would surely fall off. Nonetheless, when our instructor helped me back on the horse, the horses all began to trot.
Even though I had no saddle or stirrups, I after 4 hours of being either on the horse or walking it, I was too tired to care. Amazingly, my body simply knew how to ride in harmony with the horse’s bouncing. I stayed on the horse as if I knew how to ride!
For me, it was a phenomenal experience. I wish I could have lived nearby and received on-going lessons from this amazing teacher. Although Taos is small, it brought me some amazing experiences.
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I read with intrigue Live Science’s online article on The Taos Hum in their list of Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as ghosts and intuition instead of giving specific relatively unknown unexplained phenomenon in those categories. However, it was a delightful surprise for me to see The Taos Hum” in the list, because I visited Taos a number of years ago.
I don’t remember hearing a hum. However, I do remember exploring inside one of the pueblo houses, something tourists seldom have an opportunity to do.
A retired “Governor” of the pueblo invited me and my children into his parent’s house. At the time, he lived in the town of Taos, but maintained the house after his parents’ passing. The children and I enjoyed climbing onto the roof of his ground-level home, and the children climbed the ladder on the roof to the next house.
He also played a ceremonial drum for us. It was covered with a gorgeous hand-woven tablecloth and looked like a round coffee table until he unfurled the cloth.
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In yesterday’s post I said I felt disappointed when I read Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as intuition and the body/mind connection. I guess I expected items that were more specific and also something I didn’t know about.
However, I was not disappointed with their Number 10, because it was very specific, and it was a surprise to me: The Taos Hum.
Even though the online article says that only 2 percent of people can hear this hum, still, it is intriguing to think that many people agree on hearing this low-grade hum when they are in Taos, New Mexico.
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I felt a little let down when I read Live Science‘s list of Top 10 Unexplained Phenomenon because it included such broad and well-known topics as:
I also felt disappointed because the list did not include crop circles and orbs.
However, when I got to Number 10, I felt a jolt of delight because they actually did list something I had never heard of before.
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The Tampa airport articles in which a runway has to be closed so that compass directional signs need to be revised agree with Charles H. Hapgood‘s book The Path of the Pole. They both say that the magnetic north pole is shifting westward. In the articles, the magnetic north pole is described as shifting westward from northern Canada towards Siberia in Russia.
I’ve heard some people voicing their fears that because the magnetic poles are shifting faster recently, this might represent earth changes connected with prophecies about the end of the world on December 21, 2012. However, since Hapgood’s book was published in the 1970s, before the 2012 furor, and since his book has maps showing actual reversals of the magnetic poles in the past, it appears that pole shift is a normal earth phenomenon.
The Tampa articles describe magnetic pole shift as being associated with a floating molten iron core in the earth’s center.
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The 1970 book, The Path of the Pole, by history professor Charles H. Hapgood includes maps of the earth showing the many locations of previous north and south poles based on the geological study of rocks. Therefore, it would seem that recent articles about the shifting magnetic pole, and how the shift has lead to the Tampa airport having to close a runway for a couple of weeks to revise that runway’s signs of compass headings, is not a recent phenomenon and therefore a non-2012 event.
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According to Charles H. Hapgood, in his The Path of the Pole, the magnetic field of the earth is in constant motion. It always drifts westward, as is the magnetic north pole described in articles about the closing of the Tampa airport runway. Hapgood assumes that the magnetic poles eventually come back to its original position, in line with the earth’s axis of rotation.
There are magnetic poles and geographical poles. They are seldom in the same place.
Is the present pole shift unusual? Will the poles reverse? Are we in the time before the 2012 cataclysm?
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The recent articles on the Tampa airport needed to change their runway signs because of the magnetic pole shift leads a person to wonder: Could the present shift in the poles be connected with the 2012 phenomenon in which some people think that with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar on December 21, 2012, the world will also end.
According to a Mail Online article:
This could mean that prior to 1904 instruments had not yet been invented that could measure pole shift and that the poles had always been shifting. Therefore, if magnetic pole shift has occurred over the centuries and millennia, it would mean that it would not be associated with the 2012 phenomenon.
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Tampa International Airport has had to close its main runway for about a week because the compass directions painted on their main runway need to be changed.
The magnetic north pole, which is in the Canadian Arctic, is moving at the rate of 40 miles a year toward Russia. As a result, the compass headings on airport runways eventually do not represent the correct direction and the new compass directions are painted over the old ones.
Some people who think the shifting of the magnetic poles represents the end of the world associated with the upcoming end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012.
The movement of iron in the molten earth’s core causes the shift of the earth’s magnetic poles. This has been going on long into our past. Because of the changes in the earth’s magnetic poles, airports regularly change the compass headings painted on their runways.
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