Tuesday, July 21, 2026 ... Storms flood roads, brought down trees across NYC area for 2nd time in a week. This was accompanied by ongoing warnings of a tornado alert - always anxiety provoking as they can destroy everything in their wake. The fact that thre tornadoes had already touchdown in New Jersey was not at all comforting to neighboring states.

I've taken many pics from my terrace at this angle but none that show the Brooklyn arch of the Verrazano Bridge appearing to be falling over. Even some of the buildings in the pic above, seem more like Escher sketches than reality as we experience it.

Tornadoes always remind me of spiraling consciousness - in and out of realities. Then there's the parallel with Dorothy's experience in the "Wizard of Oz" as a tornado moves her consciousness from physical reality to a dreamworld or illusion.

Around 8:00 last night I fell asleep - or should I say it was pulled out of my Ellie consciousness to the other side. I wasn't particularly tired, and not sick, but experience has taught me to go with it as my consciousness changes focus from this reality to the grids that create the illusion.

My final thought before 'leaving' here - was to use whatever powers I have over the weather to make sure my neighborhood was safe. There are people who can "work the weather" - myself and two other members of my family among them. The only time it doesn't work is if the weather event has to occur for an outcome we are not aware of.

Wednesday morning

I was (gone) asleep until 5:00 this morning when my wake-up dream found me somewhere out there with Judy Garland loudly singing, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" to the world smiling knowingly at each other before my consciousness spiraled back into my physical body.

I immediately understood it to mean ... humanity was finally waking up from the dream.

Tornadoes always remind me of spiraling consciousness - in and out of realities. Then there's the parallel with Dorothy's experience in the "Wizard of Oz" as a tornado moves her consciousness from physical reality to a dreamworld or illusion.

I walked to the window and looked out. The ground was dry and the trees appeared undisturbed. Apparently nothing disastrous had happened in my area of Bay Ridge. Whew! Yes, I know I am protected but sometimes you just have to double check.

Seated at my computer, Z told me to check Crystalinks' search engine for things I've blogged about the "Wizard of Oz". We laughed when I read this blog from 2019 - The Wizard of Oz 80 years Later. In one version of the story, Alice was renamed, Ellie.

The classic musical fantasy The Wizard of Oz premiered in the US on August 25, 1939, and is still considered one of the greatest films of all time. This year The Wizard of Oz returns to the big screen for its 80th anniversary. Like "Alice in Wonderland" - "The Wizard of Oz" is laced with metaphors about reality for those who know where to look.

Crystalinks debuted online August 25,1995.

The WiZard has always been Z to me. The "O" in Oz represents "O" Zero when the dream, illusion, simulation, or whatever creates this reality in time ... comes to an end. The spiraling yellow brick road represent the golden ratio - consciousness creations. The Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion represent Human Emotions. The Emerald City is the color green for healing. The Tin Man represents Alchemy in the illusion of Time. Humans fell asleep in the poppy (substances) fields - but are getting closer to waking up. The metaphors go on and on ... down the yellow brick road to Oz.



Also of note World War II officially began one week later on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations on Germany by France and the United Kingdom.

World War II opened the doors to time travel experiments and present-day alien adventures paralleling the Nazi's agenda to create the next level of human evolution with alien-human-hybrid biogenetic experiments. After the war those experiments continued with gray alien abductions of humans to create the perfect hybrid - human emotions combined with AI intellect. They concluded in 2007 when the aliens left - leaving behind drones to monitor Earth until closure - so humans don't destroy the planet until the simulation closes forcing the experiment to loop back to WWII ... again.

Just as early humans - such as the Neanderthals phased out of the simulation - so too humans today are evolving into something more that already exists in the grids and timelines. It all ends with the closing of the simulation. Bear in mind that time it's not linear. It moves like a slinky, a funnel, or a spiraling tornado.

Alexander Volkov - June 14, 1891 - July 3, 1977 - was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer, and author mostly remembered for the Magic Land series of books based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. His first book, The Wizard of the Emerald City, is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed - for example, "Dorothy" becomes "Ellie" and Oz is renamed "Magic Land". First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular. In the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story.

As to last night's storm ... the sky at sunrise over Bay Ridge was overcast with what appeared to be smoke from Canadian wildfires.

Google reported ... New York is still experiencing haze and elevated pollution from Canadian wildfire smoke today, though conditions have modified from last week's severe peaks. The color of the wildfire smoke reminds me of sepia.