11th Anniversary of THE DAY FROM HELL
25 AUGUST 2014 - "THE DAY FROM HELL"
Today is the day 11 years ago, August 25, 2014, that was the day from hell. Jeris and I sat in the VA surgery waiting room expecting to be there a long time but actually it was a very short time. The surgeon came out and said it was an open and close because there was nothing they could do (for Gerry). The cancer was too extensive. It’s also the day that Shar had her brain aneurysm... again, making it the day from hell. And today 11 years later you are both alive and well. Thank the Lord.
Sandra Lee Lehl (Hansen Logan Hansen) 8-25-2014
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A LETTER TO FELLOW GENEALOGY ENTHUSIAST re: the ancestors
I have worked on family history since 1982, and most of it was for the Logan family of Scotland and Ulster, of which I've learned I am not a biological member. How bizarre to discover such a life-altering fact at the age of 69. I am starting over with a new family from different origins, namely Wales (originally known as Cymru).
This phenomenon probably did not occur in other parallel time dimensions because I was dead from cancer in 2014.
It was only by a combined circle of human love, an army of prayer warriors, and the Deity they petitioned, that I was allowed a few more years of life in this aging, degenerating shell.
I do the work -- pleasure actually -- of genealogy for my daughter, my granddaughter, for those who have gone before us. In researching the deceased loved ones and their lives, I'm becoming acquainted with many remarkable human beings whom I am proud to call "family" -- rich and poor, of all social classes, some highborn but, more often than not, hard-laboring salt-of-the-earth people. God bless them all.
I have traced the bloodlines of my newly discovered family, the Salisbury's, back to the Middle Ages. That journey has included the story of the USA and its colonial period prior to the American Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Salisbury's have been an integral part of the American experience, nearly all of the Salisbury men -- and women, too -- served in the struggles that bought and preserved our freedom, from the World Wars of the 20th century, to the American War Between the States where my great-great-grandfather, Edward Salisbury, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, and then on to the Wars of 1812 and to our nation's Revolutionary War against England, in which, I've learned, my 3rd great-grandfather, another Edward Salisbury, husband of Abigail Hawkins, served as Continental Soldier at the Battle of Ticonderoga, New York, plus other venues, to include the Battle of Oriskany -- after which (coincidentally?) my Vietnam War U.S. aircraft carrier was named.
[Clarification. There were 3 major battles at Fort Ticonderoga — located at the southernmost point of Lake Champlain, New York. They were fought in 1758, 1775, and 1777. The first in 1758 was considered a battle of the French and Indian War -- also known as The Seven Years War. The Battle for... and the Seige of... Fort Ticonderoga (1775, 1777) were actions of the American Revolutionary War.]
Today, too many Americans, due to lack of oral traditions and/or familial cohesiveness, feel disenfranchised from their own nation -- which is a nation of immigrants, of indigenous, of former slaves, of refugees. It is indeed a great melting pot -- always has been. Today, far too many Americans feel unattached, floating in a limbo of haze -- electronic, pharmacological, ecological, misinformational. This should not be the case. Our heritage is too great for such dissolution and such disillusion, to occur.
Optimistically, I am ecstatic to know I, you and fortunate others, have regained some grounding and understanding by way of genealogical research. Some always had it, but only a minority. Research of heritage and traditions, I believe, is integral to the ordered flow and flux of human history. I might even say, essential.
Some scientists theorize that humans contain genetic memory in the cells of their bodies, passed from generation to generation. In light of this theory, during the last year, my daughter Jessica -- my only child who thought she was a Logan but in actuality is a Salisbury/Salusbury -- has felt emotionally drawn to the dynasty of the Tudor kings and queens of Wales, Scotland, Brittany but primarily England. Lo and behold, within the past five months, we've learned by way of DNA analysis and on Ancestry (dot) com, that as Salisbury family, we are genetically linked to the Tudor dynasty. My daughter's 13th great-grandmother is Katheryn of Berain Tudor, Mother of Wales. Jessica's 16th great-grandparents are King Henry VII Tudor and his wife, Queen Elizabeth of York Plantagenet. Remember the War of the Roses? Their marriage was a peace treaty of sorts. And then, there's the notorious King Henry VIII. He is Jessica's 16th great-uncle... but in the silver-lining department, Queen Elizabeth I of England, one of Britain's greatest and most beloved monarchs, is Jessica's 1st cousin, 16X removed. Of course, that also links Jessica and Stella to Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I. In some providential way, being blood relatives to Queens Elizabeth and Boleyn, and other great women, must, I pray, compensate for the scoundrel who was the murderous, polygamist Henry the Eighth.
And so be it, that is my raison d'etre here in the twilight years of my present incarnation. I do look forward, and backward, to meeting the ancestors again. Time is a human construct. In all truth, we of all the human race, have always been together -- past, present, future.
Gerald Edward Logan Salisbury
County Lancaster, Nebraska USA - 10 March 2017
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SAPIENTIA
What I learned when I died... and returned
13 December 2020
Not until you are told you are dying, do you become aware you are not your body but merely consciousness inhabiting the body of an animal: a highly evolved ape. And you’re living in a world of apes that think they are the crowning achievement of natural evolution. Wrong.
Consciousness. What is it?
Some call it Spirit. Some call it a Soul. I prefer Consciousness because in all things it is what fits best. Like any ethnic group, it begins with a clean slate and builds upon that. As with an ethnic group – or race, or nation – Consciousness accumulates a culture.
Consciousness floats in the ethereal quantum Universe. With the advent of every new life, the brain (and heart) imports a portion of the Great Universal Consciousness and names it Gerry, Sandra, Jeff, Jeris, Jessica, Stella, Ryan, Derek, Tanner, Tonya, Jason, Kalah and so on and so forth.
Each portion in all truth can call itself an individual... divided/extracted from the whole.
Time is a concept invented by man (and other conscious entities) to help us navigate this minuscule segment of the Universe which many of our kind come to believe is the only portion/segment in existence, as in, “The world is Planet Earth and Homo sapiens sapiens... and we are the entire sum.”
Nothing is further from the truth. We are fully functioning droplets of individual Consciousness within the massive “Cloud” that constitutes the Whole of Consciousness.
Call it what you will... Cloud (which I don’t particularly like because it describes an Internet cyber alternative). Call it Cloud... as in Heaven, Nirvana, Valhalla, Elysium, Happy Hunting Ground. Your choice.
When we as individuals have traveled through life -- from beginning to end of the inhabited body -- 0 to 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120 circumnavigations of our little planet around the star we call “Old Sol”... And when that body breaks down and is no longer a useful vehicle, we as individual portions of Consciousness depart the aged or broken ape body and transmigrate back to the Whole (the Cloud, if you prefer) from whence we came. This journey of Consciousness is called Transmigration.
This affirmation has long existed in Buddhists, Hindu’s, Kabbalistic Judaism, even certain sects of Mystic Christianity and Messianism as they were at their inception... but were gradually dispensed because specific portions of Consciousness disapproved of the notion that leaders, monarchs, magistrates, royalty could ever be reincarnated as mere peasants, slaves, campesinos, field workers.
Unbelievably, it is valid. And rebirth location (body occupancy) is based on thoughts and actions in the previous incarnation. Hindus and Buddhists call it Kama or Karma. In affirmation, one book of wisdom says, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”
We are all individualized portions (Heb. Perushim) of The Universal Mind. That Greater Consciousness is the Source of All That Is. Intelligent, sentient, compassionate, loving... it is the so-called “Kingdom of Heaven” that Messiah Yeshua identified in his Jewish Coming.
It is comprehended by a portion of us.
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Y’shua called “The Heart” a special organ of receptiveness within us... and I’m not sure if He was being literal or figurative in that identification. In human anatomy, I have learned the human heart has its own internal command center, and functions independently of the cerebrum/cerebellum. A man shot in the brain may still have a beating heart that continues pumping blood until the victim has totally bled out.
Connie Francis may have been right when she sang, “Yes, my heart has a mind of its own.”
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Gerald Edward Logan Salisbury
13 December 2020 /
25 August 2025
Today is the day 11 years ago, August 25, 2014, that was the day from hell. Jeris and I sat in the VA surgery waiting room expecting to be there a long time but actually it was a very short time. The surgeon came out and said it was an open and close because there was nothing they could do (for Gerry). The cancer was too extensive. It’s also the day that Shar had her brain aneurysm... again, making it the day from hell. And today 11 years later you are both alive and well. Thank the Lord.
Sandra Lee Lehl (Hansen Logan Hansen) 8-25-2014
*****************************************************
A LETTER TO FELLOW GENEALOGY ENTHUSIAST re: the ancestors
I have worked on family history since 1982, and most of it was for the Logan family of Scotland and Ulster, of which I've learned I am not a biological member. How bizarre to discover such a life-altering fact at the age of 69. I am starting over with a new family from different origins, namely Wales (originally known as Cymru).
This phenomenon probably did not occur in other parallel time dimensions because I was dead from cancer in 2014.
It was only by a combined circle of human love, an army of prayer warriors, and the Deity they petitioned, that I was allowed a few more years of life in this aging, degenerating shell.
I do the work -- pleasure actually -- of genealogy for my daughter, my granddaughter, for those who have gone before us. In researching the deceased loved ones and their lives, I'm becoming acquainted with many remarkable human beings whom I am proud to call "family" -- rich and poor, of all social classes, some highborn but, more often than not, hard-laboring salt-of-the-earth people. God bless them all.
I have traced the bloodlines of my newly discovered family, the Salisbury's, back to the Middle Ages. That journey has included the story of the USA and its colonial period prior to the American Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Salisbury's have been an integral part of the American experience, nearly all of the Salisbury men -- and women, too -- served in the struggles that bought and preserved our freedom, from the World Wars of the 20th century, to the American War Between the States where my great-great-grandfather, Edward Salisbury, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, and then on to the Wars of 1812 and to our nation's Revolutionary War against England, in which, I've learned, my 3rd great-grandfather, another Edward Salisbury, husband of Abigail Hawkins, served as Continental Soldier at the Battle of Ticonderoga, New York, plus other venues, to include the Battle of Oriskany -- after which (coincidentally?) my Vietnam War U.S. aircraft carrier was named.
[Clarification. There were 3 major battles at Fort Ticonderoga — located at the southernmost point of Lake Champlain, New York. They were fought in 1758, 1775, and 1777. The first in 1758 was considered a battle of the French and Indian War -- also known as The Seven Years War. The Battle for... and the Seige of... Fort Ticonderoga (1775, 1777) were actions of the American Revolutionary War.]
Today, too many Americans, due to lack of oral traditions and/or familial cohesiveness, feel disenfranchised from their own nation -- which is a nation of immigrants, of indigenous, of former slaves, of refugees. It is indeed a great melting pot -- always has been. Today, far too many Americans feel unattached, floating in a limbo of haze -- electronic, pharmacological, ecological, misinformational. This should not be the case. Our heritage is too great for such dissolution and such disillusion, to occur.
Optimistically, I am ecstatic to know I, you and fortunate others, have regained some grounding and understanding by way of genealogical research. Some always had it, but only a minority. Research of heritage and traditions, I believe, is integral to the ordered flow and flux of human history. I might even say, essential.
Some scientists theorize that humans contain genetic memory in the cells of their bodies, passed from generation to generation. In light of this theory, during the last year, my daughter Jessica -- my only child who thought she was a Logan but in actuality is a Salisbury/Salusbury -- has felt emotionally drawn to the dynasty of the Tudor kings and queens of Wales, Scotland, Brittany but primarily England. Lo and behold, within the past five months, we've learned by way of DNA analysis and on Ancestry (dot) com, that as Salisbury family, we are genetically linked to the Tudor dynasty. My daughter's 13th great-grandmother is Katheryn of Berain Tudor, Mother of Wales. Jessica's 16th great-grandparents are King Henry VII Tudor and his wife, Queen Elizabeth of York Plantagenet. Remember the War of the Roses? Their marriage was a peace treaty of sorts. And then, there's the notorious King Henry VIII. He is Jessica's 16th great-uncle... but in the silver-lining department, Queen Elizabeth I of England, one of Britain's greatest and most beloved monarchs, is Jessica's 1st cousin, 16X removed. Of course, that also links Jessica and Stella to Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I. In some providential way, being blood relatives to Queens Elizabeth and Boleyn, and other great women, must, I pray, compensate for the scoundrel who was the murderous, polygamist Henry the Eighth.
And so be it, that is my raison d'etre here in the twilight years of my present incarnation. I do look forward, and backward, to meeting the ancestors again. Time is a human construct. In all truth, we of all the human race, have always been together -- past, present, future.
Gerald Edward Logan Salisbury
County Lancaster, Nebraska USA - 10 March 2017
****************************************************
SAPIENTIA
What I learned when I died... and returned
13 December 2020
Not until you are told you are dying, do you become aware you are not your body but merely consciousness inhabiting the body of an animal: a highly evolved ape. And you’re living in a world of apes that think they are the crowning achievement of natural evolution. Wrong.
Consciousness. What is it?
Some call it Spirit. Some call it a Soul. I prefer Consciousness because in all things it is what fits best. Like any ethnic group, it begins with a clean slate and builds upon that. As with an ethnic group – or race, or nation – Consciousness accumulates a culture.
Consciousness floats in the ethereal quantum Universe. With the advent of every new life, the brain (and heart) imports a portion of the Great Universal Consciousness and names it Gerry, Sandra, Jeff, Jeris, Jessica, Stella, Ryan, Derek, Tanner, Tonya, Jason, Kalah and so on and so forth.
Each portion in all truth can call itself an individual... divided/extracted from the whole.
Time is a concept invented by man (and other conscious entities) to help us navigate this minuscule segment of the Universe which many of our kind come to believe is the only portion/segment in existence, as in, “The world is Planet Earth and Homo sapiens sapiens... and we are the entire sum.”
Nothing is further from the truth. We are fully functioning droplets of individual Consciousness within the massive “Cloud” that constitutes the Whole of Consciousness.
Call it what you will... Cloud (which I don’t particularly like because it describes an Internet cyber alternative). Call it Cloud... as in Heaven, Nirvana, Valhalla, Elysium, Happy Hunting Ground. Your choice.
When we as individuals have traveled through life -- from beginning to end of the inhabited body -- 0 to 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120 circumnavigations of our little planet around the star we call “Old Sol”... And when that body breaks down and is no longer a useful vehicle, we as individual portions of Consciousness depart the aged or broken ape body and transmigrate back to the Whole (the Cloud, if you prefer) from whence we came. This journey of Consciousness is called Transmigration.
This affirmation has long existed in Buddhists, Hindu’s, Kabbalistic Judaism, even certain sects of Mystic Christianity and Messianism as they were at their inception... but were gradually dispensed because specific portions of Consciousness disapproved of the notion that leaders, monarchs, magistrates, royalty could ever be reincarnated as mere peasants, slaves, campesinos, field workers.
Unbelievably, it is valid. And rebirth location (body occupancy) is based on thoughts and actions in the previous incarnation. Hindus and Buddhists call it Kama or Karma. In affirmation, one book of wisdom says, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”
We are all individualized portions (Heb. Perushim) of The Universal Mind. That Greater Consciousness is the Source of All That Is. Intelligent, sentient, compassionate, loving... it is the so-called “Kingdom of Heaven” that Messiah Yeshua identified in his Jewish Coming.
It is comprehended by a portion of us.
------------------------------------------------------
Y’shua called “The Heart” a special organ of receptiveness within us... and I’m not sure if He was being literal or figurative in that identification. In human anatomy, I have learned the human heart has its own internal command center, and functions independently of the cerebrum/cerebellum. A man shot in the brain may still have a beating heart that continues pumping blood until the victim has totally bled out.
Connie Francis may have been right when she sang, “Yes, my heart has a mind of its own.”
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Gerald Edward Logan Salisbury
13 December 2020 /
25 August 2025
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