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"Autumn is a second
spring when every leaf
is a flower."
-~ Albert Camus

Om-Times Magazine October 2009

From the
Publisher’s Desk
This past month has been a very busy and very
exciting time for the Humanity Healing Family.
The Humanity Healing Network was asked to
participate with the Open Mind Resource Center
– a project put together by Ronald Alexander to
help individuals who are struggling with today’s
challenging times. The OMRC website links many
of today’s innovative leaders in areas of Business,
Personal Growth, Relationships, Physical and
Emotional Health, plus many other topics which
can offer you the tools and guidance you need.
Several of HHN’s Community Network Support
Groups are featured, including:
 Emotional Recovery
o Group Facilitator Gary Eby
 Journeying to the Light
 Broken Hearts United
o Group Facilitator Rea de
Miranda
 Distant Healing Meditations
 Suicide Prevention
 HHUG Brigade
 Prayer Warriors
I would like to thank the dedicated Group
Facilitators and the incredibly compassionate
members of these Groups for sharing themselves
to help others’ Heal. If you are not already a
member of one of these Groups, please join us
and “help heal the heart of humanity, one soul at a
time”.
In addition, several videos from Humanity
Healing are featured in the Words of Inspiration
section.
I would also like to thank Ronald Alexander,
Rhonda Bryant and the rest of the OMRC Team
for the opportunity to be of service to others.
Please see the Open Mind Resource Center page
after Ronald Alexander’s article.
Humanity Healing Foundation has also had a very
eventful month.
Thanks to the generous support of our extended
community, HHF succeeded with the Global
Giving Challenge. We will now have a permanent
presence on their website and in their community
of corporate and individual donors. This will help
us achieve our goals with projects such as the
Uganda Outreach.
Speaking of which, HHF will be taking its next
steps in providing both Hope and solutions in
Uganda. In October, 2 hectares of land will be
undergoing development in the Model Farm
phase of the project, providing immediate jobs for
100 with a minimum estimated number of
beneficiaries of 500. The farm is located in Bugaya
Zone, Nakatalage Village; Bugabula County,
Kamuli District, in Eastern Uganda.
We have started two new sections of OM-Times
Magazine: The Lighthouse Calling and The Path of
Service. The Lighthouse Calling will honor individuals
who turn their personal struggles into a source of
inspiration for others. The Path of Service will
recognize organizations whose actions are making
a real difference in raising Humanity to a new
level. We hope you will find inspiration in these
two new sections as well as enjoyment of the
increased number of multimedia enhancements.
Much Metta,
Christopher Buck & Liane Legey
OM-Times Magazine October 2009 Edition
 editorial
embarrassing compulsion to have
especially when you are
surrounded by some of our more
rational friends. And yet, as we
all now know "Now" is a very
good time to start listening to
Mind over matter shatters
all our muses, because we are
Mayhem, which likes to think -
all living through a time of
"It is..." the dream.
great interpersonal and even
tumultuous social change, which
I like to think that
occasionally screams for some
poetry is the art of putting
one or something else's help --
your mind in motion whilst you
or what we all now call guides.
let your own "Intellect” just
sit back for a while, and watch
The poet then, like all
your own emotions dance over
artists, may in fact be just
matters you may not have ever
another form of channeler.
really explored before. Indeed,
Just another part of this "New
the best of poems can invite
Age". As a matter of fact, as
your mind to wander, like some
both a writer and reader and now
sort of exotic dancer perhaps
editor of this Om-Times Poetry
(of any gender you like),
column, I have sincerely begun
through veils of the most
to understand, that these people
acceptable social memories, and
are another form of spiritual
out into a world of hard cold
cook whose words often swirl
realities that you may not have
though my mind, sometimes even
even "wanted" to see before,
rhyming their way through all my
whilst still more beauty is
other reasoning's, like some
about to be...revealed within
sort of verbal seasoning which
the deeper recesses of your
insist on being stirred into the
owned mind. Deeper, not
Streams of this human
necessarily meaning darker, if
consciousness, which we all can
in indeed you are compelled to
then just share. And they may
continue to reach for things of
therefore even be a quite
light.
necessary ingredient to all our
understanding of this our
This can oddly entirely
"whirled."
mental event can occur to both
the writer and the reader, as
I personally think they
many poems seem to have this
are...indeed they may even be
need to be read and thus perhaps
the very breath of change.
just be heard, sometimes even by
the hand that supposedly write
So here's to hoping...you like
them down. That is...part of
this month’s brew too! And
the compulsion to write them I
happy Autumn to you all!
do believe, being someone who is
himself quite often so
Nichespur
compelled. We poets tend to call
Editor
this being taunted by our guides
or Muses to use the more Ancient
vernacular. And to be honest
this is sometime a quite

OM-Times October 2009 Edition

Contents
8 COVER STORY: The Multi-faceted Jennifer
58 True Happiness: outside-in or inside-
out?
60 Responses to Harm
62 Wing-Nuts
63 The Decree of the Golden Circle of Love
64 Miracles
Sky 65 Experiencing My Own World Without
End
11 Art and Poetry 66 Frog Medicine
12 Water
13 Human Being 68 Short Stories
14 Sweet Flower of Comprehension 68 Perceptions of the Fall
15 Breaking Free 70 The Story of Jack-o-Lantern

16 Health & Healing 74 Movies that Inspire: The Winged Migration

16 Reiki: A Healing Touch An Interview
with Pamela Miles 76 Digital Media: The Power of Gratitude
20 10 Basic Things for a Healer to
Remember 77 Relationships
22 The Power of Expectation and How it 77 The Emotional Vampire Survival Guide
Effects Your Health 80 7 Steps to Successful Attraction
26 Foot Detox 83 Is Your Intuition Real Gold or Fool’s
28 Nine Imagination Techniques to Help Gold?
Children Cope 84 Relationships in Sickness and Health
30 Food for Life 86 Being

32 Healing Cuisine 88 The Path of Service

33 Tofu Miso Soup 89 stopglobalwarming.org
34 Vegetarian Paella 90 GlobalGiving
35 Grasshopper Pie
36 Healthy Snack Ideas 93 The Shift
94 The Voice of the Matrix
37 The Lighthouse Calling 96 Toxic Programming
38 Meet Alexa Dectis
98 World Vision
41 Just Spiritual 98 New Energy for a Nuclear Weapon-
41 Karmic Footprints Free World
46 The Art of Javier Ramon Brito 101 Message about Peace
47 The Spiritual Significance of Music 102 Gaza Development Authority
48 Drumming Through the Loss
51 The Rhythm Method 104 Spiritual Destinations: The Holy Land
54 Finding Compassion
56 Do You Know What the Biggest Yes in 111 Book Review
Your Life Is?
112 Recommended Reading

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People
The Multi-faceted
Jennifer Sky
Celebrity Ambassador
Humanity Healing Foundation
In her thirty-two years of life, Jennifer Sky has
had an extraordinary set of experiences,
as a model, actor, philanthropist, illness
survivor and now writer.

As an model, Jennifer appeared in top fashion

magazines, including Seventeen, YM, Allure, Elle
and Vogue Bambini, was featured on several
covers, including Sassy, and represented
California Tan, Pepe Jeans, Dannon, Baby Ruth
and Ford in extensive advertising campaigns.
Jennifer retired from modeling at eighteen and
returned to Florida to study acting. She was
immediately cast as a series regular in The New
Mickey Mouse Club: Emerald Cove. After a
season of working steadily in Florida, she
returned to New York to study under several
acclaimed acting coaches, and co-starred in her
first movie, Deadline, which debuted at
Slamdance Film Festival. At twenty she moved
to Los Angeles, where her acting career
continued to flourish. She spent her first year in
LA in a contract role on the popular daytime
soap opera, General Hospital. She guest starred
on such television shows as Buffy The Vampire
Slayer, CSI, Boomtown, LA Dragnet, Charmed,
Sins of the City, Pacific Blue, SeaQuest: DSV,
starred in TV Movies, Colombo likes the
Nightlife and Our Son, the Matchmaker, and
had reoccurring roles on McG’s Fastlane, CSI:
Miami and Xena: Warrior Princess. This last role
led to the title role as Cleopatra in the cult
classic, sci-fi show Cleopatra 2525. Jennifer also
appeared in feature films, including the
comedy, Meet Market (which co-starred Julian
McMahon), Shallow Hal, internationally
successful horror film, My Little Eye and Never
Die Alone with DMX. As a popular actress, Jen
has been interviewed and photographed for
numerous publications: from online sci-fi fan
blogs, to TV Guide, to posing for edgy
magazines such as Stuff, Loaded, FHM UK
(photo’s by James White) and the cover of
Maxim.
In 2003, Jennifer was diagnosed with giant
hemangiomas of the liver and underwent
successful liver resection in 2006. Through her
illness, Jen and Alex Band (lead singer of The
Calling and her ex-husband), became
passionate supporters of Donate Life America,
the nonprofit charity branch of the United
Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Their
involvement has brought in more contributions
and interest to Donate Life than any other

OM-Times October 2009 Edition

individual, and they now co-chair the spin off
organization, Alex Band’s Donate Life Rocks.
Jen started studying writing in 2001, and
graduated in 2008 from UCLA’s master class in
memoir taught by PEN nominee Samantha
Dunn, where she completed her first book titled
A Model Life. A Model Life is a young adult
memoir about Jennifer’s transformation from
dyslexic-chubby-outcast to teenage model, and
the five years she spent in the fashion business
traveling the globe alone: a hideously beautiful
world she just managed to survive. She is also
honored to have post-modern fairytale queen
Francesca Lia Block as her ongoing mentor.
Additionally, she writes a bi-monthly opinion
column for a The Stuart News, a Florida
newspaper. Jennifer is also an accomplished
poet, as you can see from her poetry following
this article.

Jen currently lives in Los Angeles, California with Towards the other side
her two mutant fairy cats Pargie and Sixers.
God is great
Jennifer’s first project with Humanity Healing i say
Foundation is the Uganda Outreach Project
whose mission is to help displaced children in over, over in my head
Uganda. Jen’s healing energy and compassion
is what keeps hope in the hearts of the people it makes room for the pain
we are trying to help.
that grows steady, then retreats
To read more about Jennifer and her projects,
to come again, a tide
visit her website.
a moon pattern inevitable…
To learn more about or donate to Donate Life
America, visit: no escape.
I hide under the covers
of this forgotten den
ignoring the chest wound
clinging, to knowing
God has something planned
on the other side.

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The Path
sometimes I wish
I knew god/ goddess/ higher power's
plan ahead of time
so I could prepare for the fight,
pack my bag accordingly...
candles and sage, to light and purify
a soft blanket for the winter nights, both kinds
fruits; cherries and nectarines, to feed and re-grow
little jars of how my lost love smelled,
and how my future love will, so
I will always remember,
and know him when he appears.
a place for my friends, my family
the hope, support they have given
unconditionally; like the baby grass of spring
that shows up, no matter what…
but I guess they are here,
always with me,
inside my cut open,
stapled back, chest
I wish I knew and understood
that all would be okay,
has a reason,
is part of the path...
but in the end,
I kinda do

~ Jennifer Sky
OM-Times October 2009 Edition
Art &
Poetry

Everything one invents is true,

You may be perfectly sure of that.
Poetry is as precise as geometry.

~Gustave Flaubert

Om-Times Magazine October 2009

 WATER
by Robert Strzalko

Water nourishes The largest of mammals

The hungriest of soil Is carried by you
Fills the sap The smallest of
Of tallest trees creatures
Water released Crawled out of you
Through the clouds
Pours energy into me When I was conceived
I was held in your arms
Water comprises When I die
Most of my body Your rains
Water covers Will return me to soil
Most of the earth
Water cools
For what is life The hottest of fires
without water Water carries life
A desert? Through my blood
What is my soul
without rain Without water
Barren? There is only dust
There is no connection
Water cleanses me To hold energy
No matter how dirty Together
I am
Water quenches my thirst Is water love
No matter how thirsty The essence
Water heals me That binds us all?
No matter how wounded
Can we sustain ourselves
our planet
with polluted water?
Water freezes
Water flows Water never dies
Water is mist It only changes forms
The mist of life itself We are like water
Though we can only see
Without water Our reflection
I cease to exist When it is pure
As do
Trees, plants, and animals Submerged in water
I find myself
Blue water
Deep water
Pure water
Pure soul

Om-Times Magazine October 2009

Human
Being
By One Light

why do we choose to be human?

with bodies that hurt

with eyes that often cry
with voices often unheard or unspoken?

just look between your sighs

listen to your heart sing
the love theme
of your life.

just listen to Spirit

who speaks
in all your languages,
knows all your
longings and fears,
and most important of all,
your dreams

why do we choose to be human?

perhaps to have
hands and hearts
that can reach for luminous bodies
in a dream lit sky

and for the lessons taught

from gaining inner wisdom
growing greater each day.

be still, dear Soul

and know that you ARE --
and that is all

you ever need --

to
(BE).

Om-Times Magazine October 2009

Sweet Flower of
Comprehension
By Nichespur

Sitting upon a pool of dancing lights

Lofted, lifted by the waters might
So far above the organic sludge
That gives it life
The green green leaves unfurl.

Through darkness, daylight, and

global strife
While good folks die and hard men
thrive
Through bullets, and bottles, and
other
Poisonous affairs of life
This plant it grows
In swamp lands where naught but the
lowly beggar Might
Ever stop to see and share it’s sight.

And oh how the wind and rain might

rip around it then
In storms and commotions, which
never ever seem to end
Until of course they do.
As thus the lotus blooms.
On the end of a long and lofty stalk
Still tethered to the earth below

As thus the lotus blooms.

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Moment by moment as we face the demons of our
past we become stronger, healthier, and more
present. We begin to play life differently by seeing
our patterns, our hidden addictions, and the blocks
that keep us from living fully. As we see these vices,
we begin to choose whether we want to suffer any
longer, or decide to co-create a fuller, richer, more
centered existence with our higher power.
We are reborn moment by moment and choice
by choice. Re-emerging into a new relationship
with ourselves and with each other. Our
journey is like that of a butterfly. At first
satisfied in the comfort of our cocoon. Then as
we grow, the pain of confinement and
limitation becomes unbearable.
~Breaking Free~
by GypsyJewel
In the existential struggle of leaving our past
behind, we break free from the bondage of our
cocoon.
We are weak and vulnerable, yet
magnificent.
As our wings emerge, we begin to explore life
from an entirely different vantage point. We
are free to fly gracefully and unencumbered
through the winds of change. As we transform
individually, our metamorphosis expands
collectively. Now moving forward on this ever-
changing journey of life, we continue to
support each other with loving energy.
Knowing that when one forgives, we all
forgive.
And as one heals, we all heal.
~
 Reiki: A Healing Touch
An Interview with Pamela Miles

Pamela Miles is an internationally

known Reiki Master and pioneer of the
use of Reiki in conventional medicine.

Pamela is the author of the popular

book: Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide

http://www.reikiinmedicine.org

10 Basic Things a for
Healer to Remember
by Alison Kain
1. A healer should never forget that they
are a vessel/channel and nothing else; the
healer does not determine the outcome of a
healing, the client and Spirit do. If a body is not
willing to accept the healing, no healing shall
occur. If a body does heal, then you can
sincerely reassure the person receiving the
treatment that it is their own desire to heal in
conjunction with Spirit’s energy and the cellular
reactivation of their “internal healer” which has
been initiated which does the main portion of
the healing process. ***This keeps you (the
healer) at once both humble and grateful in the
face of what transpires, while also providing
you with the freedom and honor to witness
miracles at work, whether that be the miracle
of the body or any other context you wish to
ascribe by your own definition of “miracle”.
2. All people and all bodies are different
therefore what technique or position works
best on one may not be the most effective for
another.
3. Energy, arguably, while having a “mind
of its own” does not always most efficiently
redirect itself to the root or core of an issue.
Energy will merely go where the body is most
needful, therefore the practitioner should have
knowledge and an intuitive understanding of
how to redirect energy and why. If you do not
get to the root or cause of an illness with
energetic sessions this may be because you are
not being shown the whole picture and thus
may require several sessions in order to wholly
address the client’s complaint.
4. You are being allowed a sacred position
by a person who agrees to let you be the
channel for their energy work; this means that
everything which transpires in each session with
each individual should receive the utmost
respect and privacy is honored as if the client
were opting for a western medical treatment.
5. Every single body possesses a wisdom
which therefore can tell you a tale if you know
how to “listen”; ask questions when
appropriate and work to develop both your
knowledge and your intuition to build your skills
as a “channel” for the energy which passes
through you. An open mind can be as
imperative as an open heart to strengthen your
channel for healing energies.
6. Some people are more naturally
sensitive to energy than others. This is not a
determining factor on whether the client will
receive healing or not. Some will report a great
success in terms of relief of symptoms or a
lessening of their issues after a span of time has
passed.
7. Many people have allergies and
sensitivities. Please be thoughtful and inquire as
to whether any specific scents tend to create an
issue for someone. (e.g. Often individuals
receiving chemotherapy become very easily
nauseated by scent so unscented products are
usually your best bet for the first session until
the recipient can assure you they are not
experiencing any atypical sensitivity to any
odors.)
8. Judge not any who have emotional
releases while receiving a treatment. Receiving
intense energetic sessions may trigger deep
unforeseen and unanticipated releases which
are imperative to the rebalancing process.
Please be kind enough to allay any concern or
embarrassment which a client experiences by
helping them to understand what is happening
to them and why.
9. Proper intake procedures are as
important in an energy session as they are in
any other healing practice; if someone reports
an issue to you, you can be sure you are meant may hold, you are not the one who is doing the
to heed it. (e.g. Some souls cannot endure actual healing, the client is. You, therefore, have
touch either because of physical pain or no right to dismiss, disparage or work to change
because they are uncomfortable with touch of another’s beliefs or regimens as they pertain to
strangers. Please honor this even while you additional methods of treatments; this is a
open yourself to intuit ways in which to help highly irresponsible and ill-afforded practice
the client to overcome this potential challenge.) which actually narrows the potential successful
treatment and/or cure for a client. An energy
10. “After Care” is as important as the healer cannot say for certain that what modality
treatment. Clearly defined “rules” are best being opted to practice by them is “the” answer
provided to the client prior to a session already to all issues and illnesses or dis-eases any more
on paper so that they can refer back to the than can a gynecologist effectively treat a sore
sheet in case of question. If some may throat, liver cancer or brain tumors.
experience a toxin release but you have not
explained it thoroughly, or completed the
follow-up too soon following a treatment where
the person may not be fully mentally “present”
yet (back in their body wholly), then you may
accidentally create needless worry, upset, fear
and confusion for them should they experience
toxin releases. Please create a document which
clearly outlines the after care instructions to
help ease your client’s mind and processing as
well as helping to avoid any possible issues
which generate the need of the participant to
follow-up with you via phone calls or to make
unwarranted accusations against you later. (e.g.
Upon completion of some energetic sessions a
client may experience a brief bout of diarrhea
which is simply a blocked chakras way of
removing the toxic build up if dealing with
either the sacral or the solar plexus blockages.
An explanation well-made in advance can allay
worries that this person is suffering unduly
since this period generally lasts only 24 hours or
less, though there are exceptions to this rule.)

Lastly, though not a “rule” per se, it is important

to recognize that no one modality of practice
(regardless of how wildly successful) is the “one
answer” to healing. We are not a “one size fits
all” society and therefore cannot deign to make
holistic and complementary medicine the same.
If a client has cancer you may work with them,
but complementary medicine by title itself
represents the core element of being an Daniel Kobialka, Timeless Motion
augment to an existing practice which is usually Purchase the Timeless Motion CD
western in nature. Despite whatever beliefs you
 The Power of Expectation and
How it Effects Your Health
Summary: Can your beliefs physically hurt
you? If you merely expect to get better when
you are ill will you? Studies confirm that the
power of the placebo affect has a profound
impact on how we heal. Take care to foster
positive beliefs that benefit your health and
well-being by being aware of how you
program your mind in various situations.
We Accept Positive and Negative
Suggestions without Conscious Thought
Once, when I was nine years old, I came down
with a horrible case of tonsillitis. I remember
going to the doctor, (something that was rare
in my family; you only went if you were really
sick) feeling miserable and scared, but also
knowing that this man would somehow fix
me. As he declared his verdict regarding my
illness, and took out his prescription pad, he
asked my mother “Is your daughter allergic to
any medications?” My mom hesitated for a
moment, and I looked at her questioningly.
Was I allergic to anything? This seemed really
important. What if I was? What would
happen to me? My mother said no, the
prescription was written and we were sent
home.
That evening after taking my antibiotic, I
began to shake uncontrollably. I complained
of an immense headache and continued
shaking as my mother held me. She didn’t
seem very concerned, yet I KNEW I was
allergic to this pill that I had taken. Before I
fell asleep that night, I told my mom that the
medicine had made me sick and I wouldn’t
take it anymore. The next morning, my
mother had me drink a tall glass of iced tea
that tasted funny. Later that afternoon, my
mom asked me how I felt. I told her I was
doing much better, and that’s when she
dropped the bomb on me. She had laced my
ice tea that morning with my medication.
Guess what, no allergic reaction. I was never
allergic to the pills, but my powerful
subconscious mind, accepted a mere
suggestion by the doctor that I might be, and
my body acted accordingly.
Your Mind Runs Your Body
Most of us have no idea how powerfully
awesome our minds are, and how incoming
information continually reshapes our
experience. When I took that antibiotic, it had
a nocebo effect on me. A nocebo is the exact
opposite of a placebo. A placebo offers health
benefits without any medical reason to do so,
while a nocebo harms your health without
any medical explanation. Researchers are
finding more and more evidence that what
we believe, or expect to happen medically,
has a profound effect on what actually does
happen.
Currently, pharmaceutical companies are
flummoxed by this placebo effect when they
test new drugs. As much as 75% of relief from
pain or depression, in some trials, can be
attributed to the placebo effect. In essence,
the person never took any medication, only a
sugar pill, and their condition improved
anyway. They simply believed that they would
get better. Studies also find that people
receive more ‘relief’ from red placebos than
from any other color, and the higher priced
the placebo is, the more the patients report a
reduction in symptoms. On the other side of
the coin, people who believe they are going
to die in surgery have a higher mortality rate
while under the knife than people who do
not. What the heck is going on here?
Again, we have to go back to the power of
belief. The subconscious mind, which not only
controls the autonomic nervous system,
(breathing, heartbeat, blinking-things we do
without thinking) also stores our beliefs. We
program beliefs into our subconscious mind
in five ways:
1. Through repetition
2. Through listening to authority figures
3. Through listening to our peers
4. During times of high emotion
5. During altered states of mind
If you believe, or have been programmed to
believe, that a doctor or a medication can
harm or hurt you, your powerful
subconscious mind tweaks the automatic
processes of your body to make it so.
Your Mind Can Create Symptoms of Disease
or Heal You Based Solely on Suggestion
Advertisers use the power of repetition to
program beliefs into your subconscious mind.
Take for instance the great Dristan campaign.
In the early 60’s, Dristan was simply a modest
selling cold and headache medicine. Then one
day, a New York City advertiser invented the
sinus headache and named a series of
symptoms to go along with it. After a
fantastic advertising campaign that let people
all over America know about this new
disease, people began experiencing this sinus
headache and sales of Dristan went through
the roof. What we expect often tends to
realized.
Consider how for many of us, going to the
doctor brings about a heightened emotional
state, and how we often see them as
authority figures. If you believe that a pill,
given to you by a doctor when you are in a
highly emotional state will cure you, it often
does, even if it is only made of sugar. This is
the power of subconscious beliefs at work.
This placebo effect is not limited to just
medication. Trials in the 1950’s and 1990’s
show that ‘fake’ surgeries are just as effective
as real ones. What??? Yes, Dr.’s performed
fake operations on half of their patients in
both heart and knee surgeries (they simply
made incisions and stitched the patients back
up without any actual surgery taking place)
and the patients with the ‘fake’ surgeries
reported just as much relief as the people
 who actually had the procedure done. In this guided meditation, Mitch helps you to
unlock the power of your mind to control pain.
The power of your mind to heal your body is
absolutely fantastic. We are only beginning to
tap into the vast healing knowledge that
comes from within and understand this
mind/body connection. Take care in what
information you choose to believe about your
health and well-being. Think positively about
your outcome in medical situations and allow
your power of belief to help you heal.

In this video, Brandelyn and Mitch welcome you to

Mind over Matter and discuss how Creative Mind
Power can help you realize your goals. For more
information and an MP3 download for helping your
mind heal your body, please visit our website at:

http://shop.itsyourmindthatmatters.com About the Authors:

Brandelyn Jokiel and Mitch Friedman, are

Directors of Mind Over Matter, a Santa Fe-based
company that helps people utilize creative mind
power to overcome obstacles and lead happier,
healthier, and more productive lives. As Certified
Clinical Hypnotherapists and authorities in the
area of NLP, Mitch and Brandelyn teach people
useful tools to enhance their lives through their
show, Mind Over Matter TV. You can view past
episodes of Mind Over Matter TV by visiting:

http://www.youtube.com/brjokiel

Connect with us on OM-Times!

Brandelyn Jokiel

Foot Detox
By Kimberli Ridgeway
A foot detox is an avant-garde therapy based on
the research of the medical scientist Dr. Royal
Rife. It Uses electricity and water to pull toxins
out of the body. The stated goal of the unit is to
improve liver and kidney function through an
electro-magnetic detoxification process.
After I had two treatments, I knew I had to
breakdown and purchase a unit not only for
myself, but for my clients as well. Way back
when, the units were kinda pricey running about
3000 USD a unit. Well worth every penny!
Now, you can get no name brands on ebay for as
little as 250 USD a unit.
Why detox the feet? Think of it this way, if you
have a jar of “stuff” the heavier stuff settles at
the bottom. Same with the body, accumulations
of certain minerals (some minerals good, too
much bad), heavy metals, and other toxins
accumulate ate the bottom, in our feet. It is
believed that it is difficult for the blood to move
these toxins around once they settle in the feet.
The unit uses controlled low frequency direct
electrical currents to assist in the healing of the
body. It balances the bio-electrical field of the
body. Your cells bio-energy can also be
unbalanced by:
• Poor diets – food additives, processed
foods etc
• A lack of fresh fruit and vegetables
• Little or no regular exercise
• Drugs and anesthetics
• Illness and disease
• Stress and worry
• Smoking
•
•
Alcohol
Joints problems: i.e. arthritis
• Insomnia
• Poor circulation
• Liver and kidney dysfunction
I have used the foot detox with many people
with various conditions. I have seen the unit do
many wonderful things for people to create
wellness and balance in their body. My
recommendations for TI’s are to get a unit if you
can and do a detox every other day for at least 3
weeks. Be sure to drink something like
poweraid, because it will deplete your
electrolytes. Also, if you have blood sugar
issues, keep something to eat handy, it can
drastically lower your blood sugar levels. If you
have a pacemaker or any other electrical device
in your body it is recommended that you not use
the unit because it could cause the devise to stop
functioning. Also, if you are taking any
medications, take them after your session,
because the unit will pull the meds out of your
system, therefore upsetting the dosage.
Any questions feel free to contact me.
Technical Definition
The Footbath Detox system works on the
theory of electrolysis. By a process called
"ionisation", the apparatus breaks the water
molecules down into thousands of ions. After
the ions are broken down there is a vigorous
chemical reaction between Anions and Cations.
Through the process of osmosis, the Anions
move in to the body in large quantities, which
then activate and strengthen the cells in the
body. In addition they activate various kinds of
enzymes and balance the flow rate of the
metabolism. In this way the toxins that are
stored in the body in the muscles, fat, tissues and
various organs are extracted through the feet and
deposited into the water through the process
called osmosis. Thus the system improves the
function of the elimination organs and speeds
the function of waste removal, particularly in the
liver. The Meaning of Positive and Negative

When a nuclear achieves a saturated status, it For the purpose of the Footbath Detox
sets up a magnetic field under the process of discussions, positive and negative relate to
electrolysis, and either it losses or gains electrical rather than chemical phenomena.
electrons, the magnetic field helps to generate
neutral particles (i.e. Anions). Through the When the Footbath Detox is set to positive, the
osmosis process around the body, the movement current is directed to the positive pole, which
of these particles runs through a membrane from results in the production of more negative ions
a lower concentration in the water. Therefore,
to a higher a positive polarity
concentration (i.e. large generates a negative
amount of Anions) in ion flow which, we
the water through the believe, may raise
electrodes. blood pH from acidic
toward alkaline.
By putting the
electrodes, in the water, When the Footbath
together the feet the Detox is set to
control panel on the negative, the current is
display board transmits directed to the negative
the electricity to the pole, which results in
electrodes, to stimulate the production of more
chemical reaction positive ions in the
between the alloy, water. Therefore,
water and salt. In this negative polarity
way a lot of ions are generates a positive ion
produced. Because of flow which, we
the neutralization in the believe, may lower
ion itself, this process blood pH from alkaline
induces the Anions to toward acidic.
easily enter our bodies
and may remove the Approximately 95% of
excessive bacteria and people in this culture experience a state of
toxins out from the body until the body is acidity; that is, their bodies contain an excess of
regulated to the equilibrium. hydrogen ions, and their blood pH is lower than
7.45. These people may greatly benefit from
exposure to high concentrations of negatively
charged ions. However, we have found through
muscle testing that most people prefer a mixture
of positive and negative ions in each Footbath
Detox session. For more information on this and
other subjects, visit: www.peacemeds.com
Nine Imagination
Tools to Help
Children Cope
by Charlotte Reznick PhD
As a parent, you may not realize that your child
possesses many of the answers to life's
challenges—right in her own imagination.
Through learning and practicing visualization,
kids can develop emotional self-care skills to
help themselves with a variety of everyday,
practical concerns. These imagination tools can
help your child:
• Love, accept, and appreciate himself.
• Reduce pain and heal other physical ailments.
• Overcome fears, such as fear of the unknown,
abandonment, doctors, disasters, and dying.
• Deal with bedtime issues such as insomnia
and bedwetting.
• Cope with death, divorce, and other losses.
• Handle anger, hurt, and frustration.
• Achieve success at school and in sports.
• Live peacefully with siblings and parents.
Here are nine imagination tools you can teach a
child to
help her
deal with
stressful
times and
navigate
the
challenge
of
growing
up.
TOOL #1: USE THE BALLOON BREATH.
With her hands around her navel, have her
breathe slowly and deeply into her lower belly
so it presses into her hands like an inflating
balloon. The balloon breath has calming effects
and facilitates a waking state of focused
concentration and receptivity to positive
suggestions. Kids can use it to calm down
before musical performances, soothe anger or
hurt feelings, or wind down at night, for
example.
TOOL # 2: DISCOVER A SPECIAL PLACE.
This is a safe, special place within your child’s
inner world where he can relax, regroup, or
take mini-vacations from the stresses of life. It's
a place to pose endless questions about life
issues, and create numerous positive, possible
solutions. Your child might visit his special place
to find courage before taking a difficult test at
school, or to get away from a bully's harsh
words.
Tool # 3: CONSULT AN ANIMAL GUIDE.
This is an imaginary guide—a kind, loving, and
protective creature—that helps children tap
into their wisdom. It's often safer and easier for
animal friends to offer solutions to problems in
creative ways, than expecting logic and linear
thinking to do the work. Your child's animal
guide can help her fall asleep, or practice
patience at school in long, boring classes, or be
brave before a trip to the doctor.
TOOL # 4: CONJURE UP A PERSONAL
WIZARD.
Wizards come into play when animal friends
"just won't do." His Personal Wizard is a mentor
and magical teacher in human form who brings
a different level of wisdom: human but
extraordinary. A wizard can give advice, conjure
up special powers such as math answers, and
even cure troubling feelings like jealousy, anger,
and grief.
TOOL # 5: RECEIVE GIFTS.
Gifts from imaginary helpers can be thoughts,
objects, or ideas that symbolically provide
children with exactly what she needs in the
moment to help her. Gifts can be obvious or
require further explanation by the animal friend
or wizard. Sometimes gifts are hidden and need
to be unwrapped or dug up. When a child goes
to her special place and asks a wizard or animal
friend for a gift containing the solution to her
problem, she often finds the answer.
TOOL # 6: CHECK IN WITH HEART AND
BELLY.
This tool is comparable to suggestions of "listen
to your heart" and "pay attention to your gut
feelings." Children are encouraged to take a few
minutes to "check in" with their heart and their
belly, and to notice what messages are there for
them. The heart and belly often have two
different, but equally important, messages to
relate.
TOOL # 7: TALKING TO TOES AND OTHER
BODY PARTS.
The body is a repository for lots of hidden
information. With this tool, children discover
where and how they stash different feelings in
their body. Kids then find they can have a
dialogue between emotions and/or symptoms
to find answers to their concerns. For example,
your child might discover that his stomach
knows exactly why it hurts every day 30
minutes before school starts—it doesn't want
Mom to leave, and it's afraid she won't come
back.
TOOL # 8: USE COLOR FOR HEALING.
Color is especially helpful in healing pain.
Feelings and symptoms often have different
colors associated with them. They can be
unique to each individual and change over time.
You can teach children how to imagine a color,
such as ice blue or deep forest green, cooling
down his hot fever. When a child imagines color
inside or surrounding her body, it can be a
remarkable tool for transforming pain, shifting
emotions, and accessing healing energy.
TOOL #9: TAP INTO ENERGY.
When words are insufficient, a loving touch
from a parent can do wonders to restore calm
and well-being. For example, you can help a
child "pull the pain" out of his head by holding
your hand about three inches from his forehead
to give him a direction in which to send his
pain—out and away.
You're now armed with nine simple, efficient,
and totally free options to mix and match—
depending on the situation and your child's
favorite. When we teach our kids effective
imagery techniques to solve their own
problems, it can transform their world.
Charlotte Reznick PhD, author of the LA Times
bestseller The Power of Your Child's
Imagination: How to Transform Stress and
Anxiety into Joy and Success (Perigee/Penguin,
2009), is a child educational psychologist,
UCLA Associate Clinical Professor of
Psychology, and creator of several therapeutic
relaxation CDs for children, teens, and
parents. An international workshop leader on
the healing power of children's imagination,
she maintains a private practice in Los
Angeles, California. Visit:
www.ImageryForKids.com

Food for Life©
By Lonny J. Brown, HHC
Now that the medical establishment is finally
acknowledging that diet has something to do
with health, hardly a day goes by without
another announcement about the preventive or
curative properties of some vegetable for some
particular disease: "Broccoli prevents cancer."
"Soy products reduce high blood pressure." It's
as if the vegetable were a newly-discovered
medicine for some previously incurable disease.
This is a short-sighted view of the food/health
dynamic.
Actually, it was the elimination of these natural
foods from our diet that caused the illnesses in
the first place. Broccoli "prevents cancer"
because the absence of natural anti-oxidants,
enzymes, fiber, and other nutrients causes
cancer. In the pendulum-like history of
conventional medical wisdom, the experts are
beginning to sound a lot like our grandmothers:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. (no doubt
due to the high Vitamin-C content of the fresh
fruit.)
Notwithstanding the deluge of advice about
what food is "good" for which ailment, eating
healthy is not complicated. We only have to
remember that the human body evolved on the
earth over billions of years in a totally natural
environment; while eating processed, refined,
preserved, engineered "food products" is a very
recent experiment - one with mixed results. The
price we pay for convenience and novelty in our
mouths is dysfunction and disease in our
bodies.
What to Eat
When choosing what foods to put into your
organic body, consider...
* Did it come from the ground or from a test
tube? (One good rule of thumb when reading
labels: if you can't pronounce it, don't' eat it!)
* How has it been altered? (Nutrients are
stripped to increase shelf life.)
* What non-food synthetics have been added,
and why? Preservatives, emulsifiers and
coloring agents are added to processed food
products for business profit, not for the health of
the consumer. Frequently, chemicals are added
that are known carcinogens.
* How old is it? How long is it "designed" to
last?
If put back in the ground, real whole foods will
grow. Natural and organic compounds will rot.
But man-made synthetic ingredients will remain,
inert and unchanged, for years. They are also
indigestible and cumulative in the body.
How to Eat

The other side of dietary quality is quantity.

Too many of us with easy access to food eat for
One's state of mind while eating is also
the wrong reasons: boredom, depression,
important.
sensation… anything but real nutritional
Stress acidifies the system and impairs digestion.
requirements. The fact is, we humans survived
Eating fast and not chewing sufficiently creates
and evolved over millions of years in harmony
mal-absorption, blockages and diseases of
with the natural cycles of hunger, exercise,
toxicity. The antidote is a calm dining
satiation, and rest. Today's "three square meals a
environment, a peaceful mind, and plenty of
day" plus snacks - combined with a sedentary
time to enjoy your meal. In general, when we
lifestyle - is a perfect recipe for obesity and the
treat our bodies as temples and our food as
systemic ailments we now commonly accept as
sacred offerings, our health tends to be
inevitable, ranging from allergies, headaches and
optimized.
digestive disorders to high blood pressure, heart
disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating too much
food is just as damaging as eating unhealthy
food. Studies show that systematic caloric
restriction is a proven life-extender. I
recommend eating one main meal per day,
leaving the dinner table 2/3 full, and fasting one Holistic Health Counselor Lonny J. Brown is the
day per week. author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph,
Publ.), "Meditation - Beginners Questions &
Answers" (www.WritersCloset.com), and
"Enlightenment in Our Time,"

(BookLocker.com/LonnyBrown). His writings on

holistic health have appeared on AOL's
Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative
Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many
other progressive publications. Brown teaches
holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress
reduction courses at hospitals, schools and
businesses throughout the US.
www.LonnyBrown.com
 In this Section:

Healing Cuisine  Healthy

snacks
 Tofu Miso
soup

FOOD  Vegetarian
Paella
 Grasshopper
pie
• Healthy Meals * Healthy Tips * fall deserts
 Miso soup is a traditional
Japanese soup consisting

味噌汁
of a stock called "dashi"
into which is mixed
softened miso paste.

Tofu Miso soup

By MayLin

Tofu Miso Soup

Serves 4 people

Ingredients -
Step 2 - Add ingredients
* Water - 1 litter
add the miso paste to the saucepan. Slowly mix
* Vegetable stock - 2 tablespoon
in the miso paste until it all disappears, and
* Miso paste - 4 heaped tablespoons
continue to simmer gently.
* Tofu - 1 packet
* Spring onions - Half a bunch
Tip: It is important to keep to a simmer and not
to boil the soup, as it will lose the rich flavor
(You may also add Mushrooms, Carrots and
and it will taste more salty.
Ramen noodles. Boil the noodles separate and
add once the soup is done, stir in noodles and
Step 3 - Simmer and serve
serve).
finally, slowly mix in the chopped tofu and
spring onions and continue to simmer until all
Step 1 - Prepare of the ingredients in the soup become warm. It
is now ready to serve!
In preparation, add the water and vegetable
stock to a large saucepan, and bring gently to
the boil.
Enjoy!
Finely chop the spring
onions, and chop the tofu
into small cubes. Once the
stock is boiling, return to a
simmer.
Vegetarian Paella • 2 cups (14 oz) artichoke hearts, tough
outer leaves removed and quartered
• 1 lemon
By RAk • Lemon wedges, to garnish

Preparation

Heat the olive oil in a paella pan and saute´the

onion and garlic until the onion is tender and
translucent. At the same time, heat the broth in a
separate saucepan until simmering.

Pour the rice into the paella pan and sauté for
about 3 minutes. Add the bell peppers and
tomatoes and cook for a further 3 minutes. Add
the simmering vegetable broth and cook over
medium heat for 20 minutes or until almost
tender and almost all the liquid has been
absorbed. Stir in the peas.
This vegetarian paella is so moist, full of flavor,
and substantial, that you will scarcely notice it is
meat-free. The green, red, and
yellow bell Peppers add a Paella is a rice dish that
vibrant splash of color to the originated in its modern form in
pale rice, while the tangy the mid-19th century near lake
artichoke hearts, delicate peas, Albufera, a lagoon near the
and juicy tomatoes ensure that eastern coast of Spain's Valencian
this vegetarian paella will satisfy region.
even the most demanding tastes

• Serves: 6
Sprinkle the artichoke hearts with a few drops of
• Difficulty: Intermediate
lemon juice and arrange over the rice in an
• Preparation time: 60 minutes
attractive pattern. Continue cooking until the
liquid has been absorbed and the rice is tender.
Ingredients
Serve the paella straight from the pan, garnished
• 1/4 cup (2 fl. oz) of Olive Oil
with lemon wedges
• 5 cloves minced garlic
• 1 large yellow Onion, chopped
• 4 cups (32 fl. oz) vegetable broth
• 2 cups (16 oz) Rice If you like this Recipe, you will find some
• 4 medium tomatoes, skinned, seeded more paella recipes on one excellent
and chopped book by Penelope Casas:
• 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and cut
into thin strips Paella! Spectacular Rice Dishes from
• 1 small green bell pepper, seeded and Spain
cut into thin strips
• 1 small yellow bell pepper, seeded and
cut into thin strips
• 1 cup (4 oz) green peas
 Grasshopper
Pie
By Pat Buck

By
Grasshopper pie is usually so named
because of its green color, though
modern recipes may omit coloring the
pie green. It was likely invented in the
1950s in the United States, and may
have been inspired by a drink called the
Crust: grasshopper developed at about the
same time.
1 ¼ cups of Ice box cookie crumbs (1 package of
cookies usually makes two crusts).

5. Tbs.Margarine melted

2. tbs. Sugar. Filling

Melt Margarine, add crumbs and sugar. Stir till ½ cup milk
all equally moistened. Press round 9”pie pan.
Bake 350° over 8 minutes. 35 large marshmallows

Cool and Freeze: Filling can be made any time 5. Tbs.green crème de menthe
there is another spare moment!
1. Tbs.creme de cacao

From the book”Please don’t Paint the 1/2pt.whipping cream

Peas”, A Guide to a Decorative Painting and Heat milk and marshmallows in top of double
Cooking
boiler until smooth. Set aside to cool. Add
liqueur.

Whip cream until stiff. Fold into liqueur

mixture. Add drop or two of green food
coloring if desired. Pour into pie shell and
By Pat Buck freeze.

Remove from freezer 10 minutes, before

serving
 What are snacks? Snacks are smallish portions of food

Healthy eaten between meals to keep your energy up and keep your
stomach from growling. For those with small appetites
snacks provide a convenient way to provide much-needed
nutrients.

Snack Pre-made snack foods are not always healthy or nutrient-

rich. Homemade snacks are more wholesome, less wasteful,

Ideas less expensive, and more delicious.

To resist the urge to snack on unhealthy foods, it is best

By MayLin to plan ahead and keep healthy snacks on hand.
Try These Healthy Snack
Ideas
* Apples

*Watermelon Slices, Red Grapes, Kiwis

*Cucumber and Bean Sprouts

*Soy Yogurt and Fruit Slices

* Whole grain Crackers with Vegan Cheese

*Tomato salsa with Baked Chips

*Whole grain low-sugar Cereal and Soy milk

*Raw Fruits and Nut bars

*Whole grain Pretzels and Peanuts

*Guacamole, Hummus, and Veggie Chips

*Soy Smoothies

* Wheat Toast

* Mix nuts, Orange wedges

*Frozen Bananas, Strawberries

*Organic dried Veggies with Vegan Ranch

Dip.

Namaste'
 The
"Darkness reigns at the
foot of the lighthouse"
Lighthouse
Calling
~ Japanese Proverb

As Lightworkers, we are the Light

in the Dark.

The Lighthouse Call is the

opportunity to overcome adversity
and shine your Light for others.

This Feature is dedicated to

honoring those individuals whose
personal examples serve as a
beacon of inspiration for others.

If you know of an individual whose

personal example is a Light for others
and would like to see them featured
here, please email:
newsletter@humanityhealing.net
 Alexa Dectis
Four-term Pennsylvania State Ambassador
for the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Recording Artist and Actress

Born an illusion of perfection, Alexa Dectis

never wanted to be ordinary. Shortly after
her first birthday, she was diagnosed with
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). As she
grew older, her strong spirit made up for
her weak muscles. At the age of five, Alexa
had a series of realizations, in which she
learned to embrace her disease. Alexa
recalls, “I realized that having SMA was not
something to mourn. It was a gift from
God. I knew that I had SMA because I had
something to learn, or something to teach.
From that point forth, I knew my purpose in
life was to inspire others.”
towards disabled individuals. This merely
Mission in mind, Alexa knew that the most enhanced Alexa’s already ardent
effective way to do this would be by joining determination. She relentlessly met with
the performing industry. Once she arrived industry personal, auspiciously earning their
on the scene, Alexa was stunned to observe trust. Alexa appeared in various
the resistance that the industry showed commercials, TV shows, and print
campaigns, no ordinary feat for a
young actress. “I knew that if I
could sit here in this chair, be on
TV, sing, and write songs it would
help people realize their potential.
I want people to see all that I have
accomplished and realize their
potential. Your time is not as
limited as that of other people, so
why not do something with it?”
Alexa says.

Once she reached her teenage

years, Alexa began co-writing the
songs for her debut EP. Upbeat,
heartwarming, and hopeful, the

OM-Times October 2009 Edition

lyrics evoke a purposeful sense within the
listener. “As cliché as it sounds, I write
Interview Questions
By Sri David
what I know. I know what it is like to live
life in a chair. I know what it is like to roll
Alexa, you mention that at age 5 you had a
your eyes at the popular schoolgirl. I write
series of revelations about your disease
to connect with others.” Alexa explains.
and that you mission on earth was to help
Unable to afford the cost of recording,
inspire others. Will you tell us more about
Alexa used her creativity and zeal to make
that?
her dream a reality. She began singing on
the streets of Manhattan, putting every
When I was very young I was able to walk if
dollar she earned towards recording her
I was holding on to something. As I got
EP. Ignoring those who thought she was
older, I got weaker. Around the age of five I
being unrealistic, Alexa would sing for hours
began practicing meditation, which really
each day. “When I sang on the streets,
helped me. I was able to become more
every person that walked by was a constant
accepting of my condition. I also started to
reminder of why I perform; so I can inspire
wonder what my purpose in life was. I
others.”
knew that there had to be a reason I
couldn't play on the swing set with all of my
friends in kindergarten. I finally came to the
conclusion that I was in a wheelchair
because I had something to learn or
something to teach. I began to view
everything in life as a gift, even having SMA.
It is something I became grateful for. I am
able to inspire people because of it. To
be completely honest, inspiring others
means much more to me than walking.

What is the message/lesson you believe

you are here to teach?

I believe that I am here to help others

realize their potential. If I can sit here in
this chair, be on TV, sing, and write songs,
imagine what you can do. I also want to
help people embrace love. Love is the most
powerful feeling in the world, imagine if it
With her EP, Fairy Tale, now released,
was the most abundant emotion people
Alexa is anxious to soar through her future.
felt.
“Since I was five years old, my biggest goal
in life has been to be on Oprah. I know that
Despite being born with SMA, despite the
by being on her show I can inspire millions
hardships you have faced, you show so
of people in just one hour. That would be
the greatest gift I could ever ask for.”

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much gratitude. How do you keep such a to make their conditions better and enable
positive outlook? them to maximize their full potential. I
I keep a positive outlook because I tell never want a child to feel unloved. If we
myself I am going to. I am still human could all open our hearts and homes to
though. While there are times that I do these children, the energy and success of
complain, I try to reprogram my thought the world will flourish.
process. Negativity will not lead me
anywhere. However, positivity will lead me Is there any additional message you would
everywhere. If everybody told themselves like to share here?
that they were going to remain positive at
all times, there would be a huge decrease in Always be accepting of your neighbor and
negative energy. I also view everything in embrace humility. Love everybody, regardless
life as a gift, even the things that others of their appearance, cultural beliefs, or
would consider "bad". For example, when I wrongdoings. The day we love each other will
be the day the world is at peace.
pray, I thank God for giving me SMA. I have
it because I have something to learn or
To connect with Alexa or to purchase a copy of
something to teach. The same holds true her EP, visit:
for every other situation you may be faced
with. View it as a gift that you can only http://www.alexadectis.com
learn from.
http://www.myspace.com/alexadectis
What have been your sources of
inspiration and why?
To donate to the Muscular Dystrophy
God is my main source of inspiration. To be Association, click on the picture below:
pure love must be inexplicable. That is why
those of us who will accept the love, feel it
so vividly. I could sit here for hours trying
to convince everybody to love each other
and not get very far. However, God can do
everything that I can't. Therefore, I am
awed by such a light.

After Oprah (and we share your dream

about sharing a message on Oprah) what
are your goals?

One day, I would love to be on Oprah. That

has been my biggest goal since I was five
years old. After fulfilling that mission, I
would like to continue to spread messages
of love and potential. I really want to help
orphans. Those are children with no
stability or love surrounding them. I want

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KarMIC Footprints
Reducing your Karmic footprint
4 ways to re-think and Recycle the Fruits of your actions
Posted by RAK
What is Karmic Footprint?
Karma is a Spiritual concept usually applied by
Eastern religions; for some, Karma is the Law of
Retribution in action. As a Law, it
does not necessarily represent a
bad thing, but the need for
balance in nature. It allows us to
learn and understand diverse
points of view, through
experiencing the different aspects
and perspectives of life.
But the truth is how can one
balance one’s lives in such a chaotic world?
If you share the common belief that we are all
One and we are all related, we realize that the
minimum actions and dealings can ripple in our
lives, out to other’s lives and on to our entire
Planet.
So, how can we grow as Individuals, help
Mother Earth and reduce our Karmic footprint
on our already overloaded
planet?
There are many different types of
Karma, but the one type we are
going to concentrate on here is
the Kriyamana Karma, which
corresponds to the result of the
gathering of all our actions (good
or bad) in this current life. We
can say that our Karmic Footprint is the
aggregation of our daily actions that can create a
wave and influence and touch other’s lives. As a
result, if we are able to change, transmute and
reduce most of our impact, at least the bad
aspects of it in our present situation, much can
be done for the good of our Earthly community.
There are no miraculous keys or definite
solutions, but there are suggestions that may
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 help you actively
reduce your
negative influence
and consciously
contribute to the
clearing of the
energy of the
collective, not
only spiritually
but physically.
The Lavoisier’s Law
If we understand clearly that everything around
us is energy, including matter, we can use a little
of the concept of Lavoisier Law of
Conservation, where he states: “nothing is lost,
everything transforms itself”. He proved this
when he established that although matter can
change its state in a chemical reaction, the total
mass of matter is the same at the end as at the
beginning of every chemical change. So our
Goal is not to necessarily eliminate collective
Karmic residues, but our main challenge would
be recycling our collective Global Karma to
another level of energy, releasing negativity
through Alchemy of Intentions + Actions.
Using Ethical Judgment as a Soul Compass.
Treat the earth well:
It was not given to you by your parents; it was
loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our
Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children.
Native American Wisdom
We all have needs, that is undeniable, but what
is the true measure of our needs? Do you know
how to define Necessity? Do you really need a
convertible red car; is this going to be the
guarantee that you are going to be fully satisfied
and happy? What do you need to be happy?
Amazingly enough, joy does not come with the
complete satisfaction of your material desires;
because to find happiness, you should start to
search from inside out. So, here are some
personal tips in how to help consistently in the
transmutation of the energies of Mother Earth:
1. Reduce the excess in your life: Simplify
You need a give a hard look at the clutter in your
home and life. Do you really need all those things
you have? Aren’t you creating more work and stress
for yourself and holding onto memories (not
necessarily good ones) because you are afraid to let
go? Here is how to deal with this: Ask yourself, did I
use this item the last six months, or will I use this
item in the next six months? If the answer is no for
both questions, it is time to let go.
Spiritual tip: Select all the items you intend to get rid
of, clear them with blessings from your heart, and
make an intention that these items will find someone
that will benefit from and find joy with them. This is
an intention that will ripple good vibes to whoever
receives or acquires each item.
As you clear the clutter in your life (and I mean life,
not only home), you create space for the new to
happen, opportunities to manifest; and if you are
sending good vides, you are actually planting
happiness.
2. Conserve Resources
When we speak of conserving resources, we are not
only speaking of nature resources, as we assume that
you are already doing this like everyone with a
holistic ecological vision, and can understand and
practice this. We can do that by using alternative
ways like the use of solar power, reducing carbon
emissions by having carpools instead of driving
alone, and reducing the amount of electricity you use
on regular basis. Nevertheless, we can go further, and
deepen our contribution to this planet.
Have you ever considered Compacting as a spiritual
practice? Compacting is a commitment, like a vow
one can make in reducing buying new things that are
not really necessary for a period of time, let’s say one
whole year? Of course this practice does not include
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food or material items you need to replace others in
your daily activities. But think, why not by a good
used car, maybe more affordable, and that have
everything you really want, instead of getting on the
Merry-go-round of credit and debt? What about a
used book instead of the same brand new one for
almost 30-40% more?
Why can you say Compacting is a spiritual practice?
Compacting is a practice that will help to induce
yourself to a point of balance, stability, self-
sufficiency, and will tame your ego and prevent the
“brilliance of glamour” to take over your Spiritual
Path. It is one way to practice detachment to what is
the standard philosophy of a commercially-geared
society.
As you do this, you are
saving a lot in resources
used in the making of
new products. When you
decelerate the rate of
planned obsolesce of a
good, when you
“freecycle” items you no
longer need; you are
helping Mother Earth and
empowering many little
communities and business
thriving to insert
themselves into a new
economic paradigm.
Never throw away, instead “GIVE” it away!
Think about it.
3. Alchemize and transmute what you no
longer need
Alchemy is both an ancient philosophy and
practice which aimed for the achievement of
ultimate wisdom as well as immortality. I prefer
to think of alchemy as a spiritual way to deal
with stagnated energies and transform them
into something good. Of course, the concept of
good cannot always be translated into
monetary compensation, but it can be
rewarding in joy, satisfaction and beauty.
From Trash to Treasure
There are many things that may no longer serve you
but would benefit other people. For instance, formal
clothing, like a formal suite that you have outgrown,
can be a key factor to facilitate someone in getting
their first job; a heavy coat your kids do not use
anymore can bring relief to a less fortunate Mother’s
heart in knowing that their child will be comfortable
and healthy during winter. There are things in life
that are priceless, not only in the intention but also in
the act. Always see if you can be the vehicle of a
blessing to someone!
Plantings the Seeds of Goodness
So you recycled all your cans and plastic and paper.
What do you do with the residual money you
gathered from it?
For many years, I lived in
the countryside in
California. I had an old
Pumpkin jar (instead of a
piggy bank) where I
gathered all the money
acquired with the
recycling practices of my
household. As an
alchemy practice, I believed that it was possible to
transform Trash into Treasure. I used that Energy
(the money) to buy seeds: I bought seeds of wild
flowers, vegetables (the easy ones to grow) and more
trees to plant. The money generated by my trash was
now used to give gifts back to Mother Earth. Our
family grew vegetables and we feed all the neighbors,
and there was always plenty to donate to our little
town food bank. We spread seeds of wildflowers on
the highway sides, so the next season they would
make a pretty comforting landscape for those who
would pass that point, they would enjoy them with
happy eyes.
You can also use the recycle jar to collect money that
is no longer in your budget to donate to causes you
support (like Humanity Healing Foundation). I
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remember breaking the recycle jar to send a donation
to the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina. It was a
big decision for us because we had decided that year
that all the collection of money would go to sponsor
some wolfs in Canada on a sanctuary, but it was
worth it.
4. Practice Emotional Recycling
We sensitive people often feel the impact of others’
feelings in our collective lives: their sadness and their
lack of hope, one way or another interferes in our
lives. Knowing and being aware that all of us are
under the auspices of the Law of One, we know that
when one is helped, all are healed. But how can we
help each other?
If you bring the possibility of relief, or the
beginning of resurgence of hope into someone’s
life; you are also cooperating with the combined
cleansing of our collective minds and souls.
Dedicate every single random act of
kindness you do as blessings, and purposely
dedicate this energy for the general
cleansing of humanity’s emotional wounds.
As you place yourself as an active member
of this Human Community, you realize that
we are all responsible, directly or indirectly, for all
the challenges we are facing as a Collective Race.
Our shadow side (made by our collective projections
of fear and rejections) must be healed, and we can
mindfully practice this philosophy as we chose to be
aware, act and live in the present moment.
Here are some personal suggestions:
1. Refuse to be part of negative or less then positive
activities; decline to be involved in gossip and any
conversation that would demise someone. Practice
the wisdom of the three monkeys: “See no evil, speak
no evil, and hear no evil”
2. Make a practice to include in your daily prayers, a
prayer and/or a benediction for those that have no one
to pray for them. Remember that we are a result of a
collaboration of many actions, thoughts and cares of
many different people. We are never alone. We can
heal others with our goodness of heart and loving
energy, even when they do not know. This is the real
material that miracles are made off.
3. Create something beautiful as a
gift to kindness.
Plant a tree: create little oasis in
your garden (no matter how small
it may be) and dedicate it to the increase of goodness,
healing, love or any other virtue you may chose.
This is something I embrace as my personal gift to
kindness and for the increase of hope, faith and
integrity in the world: as a project I built a section in
my yard where I hung a diversity of wind
chimes of different formats, colors and
materials. I cleared the space, consecrated
the pieces and blessed every single one with
a different prayer and wish. As the winds
blow in all the different directions, they
carry all the prayers for those in need. From
time to time, I recharge them with new prayers,
replace some crystals and meditate in gratitude to all
the elementals that are joining me in this quest of
diminishing our Karmic Footprint.
 Last reminder: In order to actively reduce
the impact of your actions and help create a
new moment for all, you need to work not
just with the intention, but always follow up
your intention with ACTIONS.
http://www.freecycle.org/
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The Spiritual
Significance Of Music
by Javier Ramon Brito
The term “spiritual” means connecting to the
source. Music that connects you to the source
is spiritual music. Connecting to the source
also means healing. Healing is making
something whole, returning it to its natural
harmonious state, in alignment with the
source. The source is energy. Energy is
vibration. Vibration is sound. Harmonic
sounds are music.
Music speaks to the soul because it is the
soul’s language. It transcends the limitations
of the rational mind. Ludwig van Beethoven
said that “Music is a higher revelation than all
wisdom and philosophy”. To connect to the
source you need to transcend and leave
behind the rational mind and to unleash your
intuition. Music without linguistically spoken
words activates the intuitive side of the brain,
facilitating this process. When Albert Einstein
was asked about his theory of relativity, he
said: “It occurred to me by intuition, and
music was the driving force behind that
intuition. My discovery was the result of
musical perception”.
For most people, healing music is
synonymous with relaxation music. For
others, it also involves uplifting music, when
stimulation is needed. For some, it also
means inspiring or inspirational music. But
the spiritual, healing power of music goes far
beyond that. There was a time when music
and healing were one in the same, as
documented in all ancient traditions. In our
modern society, we are just rediscovering this
truth, assisted by the current shift in universal
consciousness.
The movements of the planets can be
transposed into audible sounds and rhythms,
as Hans Cousto has demonstrated. The Earth,
the Sun, the Moon, and all our planets have
specific musical tones and frequencies. As
Barbara Hero’s research has demonstrated,
not only the orbits and spins of our planets,
but also the Chakra energy centers of our
bodies and each of the different organs of our
bodies have specific musical notes at specific
frequencies. Our vertebrae also responds to
specific musical notes at specific frequencies,
as June Leslie Wieder’s work has
demonstrated. In the collective universal
symphony of wellness, health, and prosperity,
everyone has their own personal music scale,
as part of their own individual uniqueness in
the cosmos. Music and sound, used
scientifically and intuitively, can align the
frequencies in people’s bodies, minds and
souls. As Dr. John Diamond states: “To me, as
to Pythagoras, music is not merely
entertainment or amusement… but
therapy…for actuating… the healing power
that exists within us all: Life Energy”.
It is possible to identify and restore the
missing musical tones in people’s systems.
Tones relate to meridians and organs of the
human body. And those meridians and organs
relate also to very specific emotions.
Harmony can be restored with the
appropriate use of music and sound to
produce healing. This is the beautiful holistic
power of music reconnecting you to the
source and returning you to your natural
harmonious state, in alignment with the
source. Alignment with the source is the
essence of spiritual music, which is also your
soul’s prayer. The prayer that aims at
attaining the highest joy of all: spiritual joy.
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The Art of
Javier Ramon Brito
Javier Ramon Brito is a Composer, Music
Healer and Recording Artist of Spiritual
Healing Meditation Music. He describes
himself as an intuitive musician. A firm
believer in the healing power of music, he
wonders not why musicians are often
compared to medical doctors. “I am like a
psychologist, because I work with people’s
emotions and dreams”, he jokes. “Or like a
kinesiologist, because I believe music can
balance the meridians of the human body”,
he adds. He is a member of the Healing Music
Organization and of the Sound Healers
Association.
Javier Ramon’s philosophy of life has been
enriched through the years with the study of
various spiritual disciplines. Visit his HEALING
WEBSITE. He composes music with a clear
intention to promote spirituality and joy.
“Spiritual awareness and enjoyment are often
considered as opposites, but I believe they go
hand in hand, so both are important
ingredients of my music”, he remarks.
Being an intuitive artist, his main concern is
not to closely follow traditional musical
structures. “I like to create music for people
who seek a spiritual connection as well as
food for their souls…music to accompany
their prayers… music to accompany their
meditations or reflections”, he explains. “And
as joy is of utmost importance in the current
shift of universal consciousness, my music
wants to foster joy, the emotional state that
increases the energy of life, so I also compose
happy songs”, he adds.
Javier Ramon’s personal style combines the
sounds of piano and western classical
instruments with oriental sounds. He also
incorporates angelic choirs, oriental vocals
and special effects as appropriate to maintain
the warm, spiritual intended nature of his
music. “I adore vocals, but normally choose to
use wordless vocals, because scientific studies
have demonstrated that music without words
activates the brain’s right hemisphere (the
intuitive one), which is the one I am more
interested in”, he explains.
His pieces are enriched by rhythms carefully
selected to sooth and invigorate the main
meridians of the human body, from swing and
bossa nova to oriental drum beats. “I want
people to feel well”, he remarks. His music is
unconventional and unpredictable because it
blends different musical styles -from baroque
to pop- with spicy tunes and harmonics of a
defined and colorful oriental taste.
The following song is Peace from the album of
the same name. To listen to more tracks or to
purchase Javier’s music, visit:
http://www.musicbrito.com
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Drumming Through The Loss:
Creating Your Own Personal
Drumming Ceremonies
By Afia Walking Tree

A few weeks ago, I lost a dear, beloved friend, Brindle, who spent over 30
years playing African Diasporic music, and was one of the most powerful
women drummers I know. Brindle was the lead percussionist in Pele Juju.
Shortly after her passing, she was honored at a drum and dance gathering.
When I first arrived, I felt so overwhelmed with grief that I wasn’t sure I could
even drum. For her sake, I found the courage to enter the building. As I began
to play a traditional life celebration rhythm, Lamban, I felt its healing energy
slowly creep up my arms, and into my body. My heart center was activated and
my own inner rhythmic life-force brought me completely present with a deep
gratitude that I was alive in that moment. A joy filled me for all the special
moments Brindle and I shared over 12 years of friendship.

And as I drummed, I heard my mentor and friend, Jules Stept’s words to me,
"grief is only part of the truth of what is happening now. Stay true to your
feelings, and remember to come back to what is going well, what is true in you
right now, and what you are grateful for." As I reflected on these words, my
experiences with Brindle, my activation on the land and conversations with
beloveds, I realized that when we move through grief and loss through
drumming ceremonies it bring us into aliveness and gratitude. As we know,
drumming has always been a sustainable form of expression and vibration, and
so we can use it a as vehicle to energetically aid us in the process of letting
go—a job, loss of home, loss of relationships, death of a loved one, outmoded
patterns or any significant loss that is accompanied by grief.

In Indigenous African and Indian pantheons, specific rhythmic vibrations

(based in foundational codes or beats), chants, colors, foods, costumery, and
theatrics, invoke particular energies that respond directly to our bodies’
resonance, allowing both individual and collective release and upliftment. As
we grieve losses, I believe it is important to be intentional, utilizing these
primal elemental beats that can energetically re-align the body-spirit
connection, and open our heart center, creating a renewed feeling of joy and
appreciation of life.

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Ceremony to Release Grief Three Universal Drum Beats That Celebrate
Life
As in all rituals, there is a process.
1. Become present of your surroundings, and The following are three simple universal beats
carve out a space to have this sacred ceremony. that we all know and I wish to I call
You may bring in photos that symbolize the loss foundational vibrations that have been used in
as well as what your intentions and offering at ceremony at the core of indigenous rhythms
this time. Flowers, and other sacred totems from the beginning of time. These beats create
displayed on a clean altar cloth will give you a waves of magic, miracles, or “spells” that enter
feeling of specialness. into the spirit and body of the beings invoking
2. Bring your desired drum(s) be it a conga, the release of loss and transition to bring forth
djembe, dunun, ashiko, new seeds. When played
tambour, ngoma, a pot, a in succession and
bucket (whatever you repetition, the body
have really that can receives the vibration and
provide a percussive dances itself forward into
sound). awareness, release, and
3. Light a candle to ignite celebration.
the pathway into seeing
what is here with us now Drum notation key: Bass
that we are seeking and or tone sound = GN;
to the journey ahead. Pause for one beat = ^
4. Pour libations (purified (Beats together means no
water) in honor of the space in between; the
speed of the rhythm is up
drumming ancestor to you, however I
lineages as well as our
recommend beginning
own and thank them for slowly then moving the
their divine presence, vibration in energy and
affirming the miracle of speed.)
life, birth, and new
beginnings in our lives now. 1. The first beat is one we hear most often in
5. Invoke and call upon the spirit of the the indigenous first nation’s prayer songs, the
ancestors that you honored, acknowledge the Pow-wow and Sundance. It is the very simple
loss and thank its presence, and then the yet captivating one-beat (GN ^ GN ^ GN ^ GN
intention that you wish to offer with your ^). Try repeating out-loud with a chant or
drumming in this ceremony. affirmation.
6. Take a few deep breaths, then once you are 2. Then there is the one-two beat (GNGN ^
connected to the breath, you are ready to GNGN ^ GNGN ^ GNGN ^) repeated to create a
begin. heart-beat that will bring you back into your
body after reeling from loss, and help you to
remember who you are.

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3. The 1-2-3 beat (GNGNGN without pauses) is
the beat upon which much of African music is
based, is also referred to as “six-eight” time
signature. Without going into the technicalities,
the beat feels like a running, horsey movement
that is activating.
As you come to a point of closure in the
ceremony, go backwards and honor those who
came to be with you, the gifts you received and
gave, and breathe in silence for a few minutes
to be present with this new-found energy. Also
honor everyone in the circle in whatever ways
you desire in that moment. You may opt to
leave the candle until it goes out on its own,
anoint yourself with the sacred water and a
plant in your midst. Walk in your fullness of life,
gratitude, joy and love… in the now! We are
alive! We are beautiful! We are creative! We
can do anything we put our love and heart into!
Afia Walking Tree, M.Ed
is a world-class percussionist, spiritual
activist, empowerment facilitator, leadership
development advocate and educator. She
serves as a visionary and director for her
brainchild, Spirit Drumz, through which she
has facilitated transformational and
culturally relevant programs using the
drums of the African Diaspora to activate
empowerment and healing, nationally and
internationally. Many express that Walking
Tree is one of the most dynamic facilitator
and activist for humanity that they have
seen in action.
www.SpiritDrumz.org
Five Women Drum
Masters students and
lead drummer, Afia
Walking Tree drum
and dance Yamama, a
rhythm from Guinea,
West Africa
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 The Rhythm Method
By Joy
Rhythm.
What a word! Close your eyes and spell it. Not
that easy, is it? Rhythm is one of the deepest
connections we have to everything. Truly,
EVERYTHING.
Space has a pulse. Energy moves through
and around us in waves. If we find a way to
make a pleasing, moving
rhythm within the world,
things just seem to fall into
place and feel better.
Most of the winning moves in
video games I used to play
with my kids were related to
finding the correct rhythm
within the game. Rhythm was
the key to getting past moving
obstacles or lining up those
green mushroom sections for
the coveted '3 UP' bonus.
Rhythm is important in
communication. If you get out
of rhythm during a conversation, you can
talk over each other and bruise relationships
as you step on each other's ideas. Writers
can even make the reader more interested in
what they've got to say by using rhythm.
Biographer Douglas Brinkley reported that
Hunter S. Thompson admitted to typing and
retyping F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great
Gatsby" over and over because he wanted to
study the rhythm of the writing; capture the
music of Fitzgerald's words. If anyone has
ever heard Johnny Depp recite Hunter's
work, you'll immediately be drawn in by the
cadence of each compelling word. A
message, delivered in an enticing way, can
capture a reader's imagination and pull them
into the story. Again, it's all in the rhythm.
"Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain" and
"The Rhythm is Gonna Get'cha" are just two
examples of how musical artists are drawn
to its power. Rhythm is absolutely critical to
music. All the beautiful swirling of melody
and harmony can be dashed to shreds by the
wrong rhythm and actually make a song
unbearable.
As a musician, I can recount
the horrors of performing
with a poor rhythm section or
a drummer that is constantly
speeding up and slowing
down. Initially, we often find
ourselves drawn to music by
its rhythm, even more so than
by its lyric or tone. All the
uproar about early Rock and
Roll centered on the rhythm.
Remember, the rhythm is
gonna get'cha.
However, rhythm, I'm
discovering, is not an easy thing to manage.
It goes haywire at times and can rip through
our lives like an earthquake. The earth out of
sync with its own rhythm bumps and grinds
clumsily, its destructive power building and
swelling with each seismic wave. As in our
lives, until the right rhythm is re-established,
chaos and destruction rule.
Lately, I've noticed things happen to me in
rhythms. There's this recurring pattern in my
life that seems to have a rhythm gone
wrong: a seismic fault with erupting geysers
and a monster to unleash upon my world.
Sometimes, I even think I'm its willing
captive. It's not that I want, or even ask, for
the weirdness it brings to my life. Most of
the time, I'm trying to do what I THINK will
avoid it. Instead, though, I wake up one
morning and there it is: stomping all over
my own private Tokyo and spewing its
radioactive fury. I wonder if I've become
addicted to the guilt of being its
victim...over and over and over. How do we
get in a place like this? Every attempt I
make to change the pattern seems to wrap or
warp back to the old destructive rhythm.
How do I re-establish the right one? Why do
I keep stumbling back into the wrong one so
easily? Egad...I'm like one of those
drummer
s I just
bashed!
Thinking
back, I
can't
really
remembe
r when I
had the
right
rhythm going. Was it when I was too young
to know better? What led to the shift in my
rhythm...the place where it went wrong?
Does it get worse over time? It seems like it
does. It is Bigger and deeper and
progressively harder to recover from,
afterward. Could it be that the wrong
rhythm's ability to come back so readily is
that there are just simply very few 'right'
rhythms. So, I try to change something to
get the rhythm back on the right track, but it
just creates a variation to the 'wrong' rhythm
track, instead. Is it, then, the work of our
lives to constantly try out options until we
get that right rhythm? What happens then?
Will the chord resound in all its harmonic
glory? Is that when we get to live happily
ever after?
I heard someone say something that really
seemed to hit a rhythm I needed to hear
recently: "You can't love someone for what
you think they can be; you have to love
them for what they are right now." It was
like a big "DUH" went off in my head.
That's exactly what I had always done:
fallen in love with the potential of what
someone could be - once I helped them find
it, of course; Dangerous stuff.
But, thinking through the statement, I also
realize it isn't really only true for "LOVE"
relationships...husbands, wives, significant
others, etc. We usually do have to love other
things in our lives and other people for the
potential we see in them. It is part of the
human experience; changing things around
us to make them better. What struck home
with me, however, was that if you're going
to commit to someone for the long haul...to
have and to hold, for richer for poorer, in
sickness and in health...then you have got to
love them for who they ARE RIGHT NOW.
When we partner up with someone to take
on life, there are too many other areas to
address to spend time fussing about "fixing"
each other. There's a whole world of fixing
to do as we build your nest together.
Perhaps when all the energy is wasted in
fruitless efforts to 'change' our partners, the
rest of everything else that actually needed
that energy goes unchecked and damages
our chances to avoid the wrong rhythms. Is
that why our rhythm goes wrong? Maybe it's
in loving each other for which we ARE that
we finally find the right rhythm. God
promises that if two of you shall agree,
mountains can be moved into the sea. The
right rhythm could be all in the dance. After
all, it does take two to Tango.
 brains in a way that we have learned to
smile and agree to almost anything, as long
as it makes us look good. With jobs on the
line and people struggling to hang on to
what little they may have, we also learn to
"grin and bear it" to keep our hold on
security. Allowing our morals and ethics to
be sidelined by what it sometimes takes to
be successful has to be a major contributor
to a faltering rhythm. At least, I believe it
was for mine.

From a young child, I learned to smile and

say, "Yes, ma'am." It's what got me through
my home life relatively uninjured and
guaranteed good reports all through school. I
lived with a lot of rules and learned to bluff
my way through what needed to be said in
order to get away unscathed. I learned to
make the grown-ups happy by smiling and
agreeing with them, yet cursing at them
from behind closed doors. Old habits die
hard and I think I'm just now, in my mid-
life, realizing the damage I've done to my
own rhythm by holding on to my childhood
But this isn't an article about
defense mechanisms.
relationships...or is it? It is about rhythm and
how it relates to our lives. Our lives are
We don't normally tap our feet unless we
basically a relationship with everything
feel the music. I want to feel my life without
around us...right? The experiences we share
pleasing the 'grown-ups' any longer. The
make up our existence. So, then, how much
'Pleaser' in me cringes at the thought, but I
of the rhythm of our lives is affected by our
am going to try being more genuine in my
relationships? How much am I willing to
life. I can't bare the thought of my efforts
blame on my dancing partners? How, in this
continuing to be wasted. The current rhythm
big, wide, world do we NOT step on each
is so off, it has to change - somehow.
others' toes? Maybe the problem is that I'm
trying to dance with a rhythm I don't really
Maybe I'll write a different story and sing a
feel. I never was much of a dancer, after all,
new song, as I go off marching to the beat of
and faking it to keep my dance card filled
a different drum.
has not been very successful. A guru once
warned that if we are not genuine, our
efforts will be wasted. In anything we do,
Author Bio
we must be genuine. That's a tall order in Basically, I'm just a free spirit
this world, especially in these times of inhabiting this energy field for the
instant gratification and robust materialism. duration of my assignment. I find
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define my purpose, follow its path
have driven the ideal of happiness into our and remain true to the intuition that
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Finding
Compassion
Rev. Judi A. Lynch
How many times have we found ourselves
wondering "How did this happen?" after living
through a certain event or witnessing a
situation that has gone wrong. After all, we had
the best of intentions when it started out.
Maybe someone treated you with complete
disrespect that was totally unwarranted or you
see another soul having their heart broken by
someone they love very much.
As enlightened beings it is hard for us to
imagine how people can treat others with such
disregard. Where is the compassion we are all
supposed to have for each other?
There are many people who work in professions
where having compassion would seem a
requirement for the job. This is far from the
case sometimes because of ego. If their ego has
not reached the balance point, they can
consider themselves far above those needing
help. Irrationally thinking that the people they
are helping deserve the situation they are in
and need someone "better than they are" to
save them from themselves.
Some people are taking out their past hurts on
those who get in their way. They don't always
realize how their actions are the result of an
unhealed trauma from their past. They may
think it's quite humorous or somehow elevates
them above the other person in a game only
they want to (and know how) to play. They
seem to have a paranoia that everyone is
against them and they have to strike first.
Every time we experience lack of compassion in
another, we have to remember that several
things can be at the root cause. First, that this
person has most likely been hurt by someone
else and feels the need to lash out. Secondly,
that this person has not yet found the balance
point in their ego for true understanding of
unconditional love. It is something they may not
be able to learn in this lifetime and we have to
learn not to let it harm our own soul's growth.
A child comes into this world feeling
compassion for other children, animals, and
even objects that get broken. Growing up they
learn and experience many things that can chip
away at those feelings of caring about others
with the love and respect they deserve.
 “As enlightened beings it is hard
for us to imagine how people can
treat others with such disregard.
Where is the compassion we are
all supposed to have for each
other?”

The hardest thing for us to feel sometimes is

forgiveness for the person's actions and to
remember that there is always another soul
out there who has been through something
much more challenging to forgive. Reaching out
to others who need your unconditional love can
help to heal and release the hurt you have
experienced.

When we find the compassion in our hearts to

forgive those who lack it, we set our souls free
from the hurt and help others to do the same.

Daniel Kobialka, Wild Mountain Air

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Author’s Biography

Spiritual Advisor and Healing

Light Energy Channel.

President of the non-profit charity

Crystal Healing Foundation, Inc.
"Do You Know What The Biggest Yes Is In Your Life?
By Marsha Cook
What IS the biggest yes in your life? I heard these
wise words at a Hospice volunteer training. And
guess what? I have not been able to answer the
query yet. I have a bazillion little yes’s that occupy
the time and space of my everyday, but I do not have
the slightest idea what the biggest one is!
To know the answer to this wondrous question,
you must first understand that the question is
actually an answer. Yes, is the answer – does
this sound like double talk to you? Let me
simplify – First you must find the question,
because the answer is yes. Since I have yet to
decide what my question is, I will definitely
direct some time and energy toward figuring it
out. In the meantime, I will share this
conundrum with you!
What I know for sure…I know that the greatest
motivator in my life is Love. Love is the reason
we exist. I know that staying in the moment is
the best way to make a choice, and, all that we
feel, do and experience in life is all about the
choices we make. I know that the toughest
hurdle we should work to soar over is
judgment. Judging, though appearing to be a
part of human nature is actually a learned
behavior. One that if we lived without would
benefit the world! I am also positive that
whatever the question is; it is one for which
there is absolutely a zero possibility that the
answer would be a NO.
Ever notice how questions lead to more
questions? We should pause and examine that
for a moment. Suppose your question is in the
realm of volunteering/helping. Would the help
you provide fall into the family category; work
or friends? Might your volunteering take place
within the community of your religion; or, the
population of your neighborhood? Could the
assistance you want to offer involve your faith;
is it health related? The list of ‘what’ may be
infinite.
In any of the above mentioned categories, the
next set of questions would involve who, what,
where and when. Just to tie up any loose ends,
here is another question – Is it correct that a
good question is one that is useful; one that
takes you on a journey of discovery; one that
teaches? And, let me add another top notch
query…human beings are multifaceted
creatures: With such a complex make-up, can
there truly be a single yes answer in our lives?
Ever wonder why we suffer from burnout? That
answer is easy – we are on fire! We answer yes
to so many questions, people and things that
life gets away from us. You could compare us to
Om-Times October 2009
a rocket that’s fuel propelled emitting flames
that burn brightly until they burn out; that is
just what we do. The fuel tank empties, the
flame dies and all because we do not take the
time to establish ourselves within our lives. So
many of us are unaware of what the Big ‘Yes’ is.
So, we pour a bit of octane into a little yes, and
then before we know it we are repeating the
process ad finitum. We say yes, until there is
nothing left inside. You would think there
should be a better way to do things.
According to the author of the above quote,
there is. Just say No. Sounds like an anti-drug
slogan from a public service television
campaign. Unlike the Nike brand commercial
that tells you to “Just do it!” With
such sound bites no wonder we say
yes all the time. Once upon a time
there was an afternoon television
show called, “Starting Over.” The
story core revolved around regular
folks like you and me who, due to less
then stellar choices, needed a way to
begin again. They also needed
guidance and a plan to follow to take
their new steps toward a successful life. The
protagonists in the show were ‘life coaches.’
They conducted group meetings, as well as
individual counseling sessions to provide their
‘students’ with the necessary tools. Of the many
skills requiring mastery was the ability to know
how and when to say no. Sounds simple, does it
not?
What are some of the reasons we cannot say
no? We want to be liked; most of us are givers,
not takers; as children we are trained if we see
something broken, it must fixed; and lastly, it
feels good to be needed. How do we remedy
these rationales…by understanding them? The
need to be liked is Universal; is it realistic?
There will always be someone that does not
agree with our way of thinking. Keep in mind
that ‘we can’t please everybody all the time,
just some of the people some of the time.’
Then there’s the word selfish! Takers are selfish
– right? Shame on us for wanting to take from
others; giving is so much better. At least that is
what we are taught. Giving is a good thing, if
the reasons are based in right action, and not in
fear of any kind. And, ponder on this for a
moment; taking may simply be another form of
giving.
The third ‘understanding’ is easy – ‘if it ain’t
broke, don’t fix it.’ And even if it is ‘broke’ must
we be in charge of everything?
And, last on the list but not least is
the need to be needed. If you Love,
honor and respect you, you will not
need others to do it for you.
Now all we have to do is figure out
what our biggest Yes is. Then we will
have a good grip on life and know
when ‘No’ should the answer be! The only
flame left to burn then will be from the light of
joy that comes from the knowing!
About the Author: Marsha G.
Cook, MSNH, CPT, VPHB
http://www.marshagcook.com
contact: info@marshagcook.com
 True Happiness:
outside-in or inside-
out?
Dirk Boehmer

“To BE or not to be? That is the question” asked

already Shakespeare’s Hamlet in terms of
existence.
And I would like to add:

“To feel INSIDE-out or outside-in?, that is the

question” in terms of happiness….

Or in other words:

Where do we actually take true pleasure and

happiness from?
From the outside or from our inside?
Often we live in the socially and media triggered
illusion-world that we gain true felicity ONLY
via constant distractions from the outside and via
altruistic (yet often selfish) help and devotion to
others in order to receive in turn maximum
appreciation and caress (of our ego) by others...
But if we internalize this as our life-motto, we
soon end up chained to a mental
rollercoaster of fluctuating
happiness, with (out of question)
some real heights but also with many
headfirst looping and steep descents
into unhappiness or vales of tears
when things or other people's
reactions tend to not fall into the
expectation-scheme as we internally
anticipate them to do so...
Hence, why not change our perspective a little
bit and focus more on a state of emotional
Detachment and self-distance as to the
ostensible myth of extrinsic status and self-
actualization....?
We will be astonished how much true intrinsic
peace, self-esteem, flow; happiness and lightness
of being we'd explore within our
SELF.....thereby enlighten our own life and in
turn implicitly the ones of others.....
Because we only can truly love
others, if we can accept and love our
own SELF for what we really ARE
(and not for what we are supposed to
be, because in the latter mode of
being do start most of our life-
entanglements via mutual (high)
expectations, which can easily lead
to unhappiness or senselessness when they are
not properly fulfilled).
Because LOVE and (also Self-Love) implies to
my logo therapeutic understanding (as to Prof.
Viktor Frankl) to follow one's own quiet
conscience (instead of the outer, often socially
distorted, consciousness, which is not to be
confused) in seeing and appreciating others and
our Selves for their/our inborn inimitability and
uniqueness.....
And to help (for self-help!) others to become
what they in mostly want to become (apart from
all educational and social exigencies),
themselves being lead by their own inmost
spiritual free will and inborn sound and safe
mind....
It is my personal experience that the more we
love ourselves and each other in terms of
positively "letting go" the more we do not only
gain more true lightness-happiness but also can
much better cope with the death / loss of
someone beloved (like I lost my mother just
recently)....
Of course, loss is an incisive experience
accompanied by an excruciating suffering from
a "breach" in our well-roundedness, but
"everything needs a crack - that's how the light
get's in" (Leonard Cohen).
Hence, if we are stable in our inmost happiness
and our own self-appreciation as to whom we
really are, we will not only be our own safe
haven, lighthouse and anchor in order to survive
those dark and stormy times.....
But we can also grow strong on those adverse
events, because spiritually contemplated they
implicitly bear the irrevocable chance for us to
pause, to self-reflect and to sharpen our self-
perspective for the 1001 opportunities of instant
meaning that lie in front of our eyes in the here
and now, but might have so far been overlooked
in our targeted urge for reaching out farther,
higher, faster and for more etc.
This is sometimes the pivotal point of our life
when we suddenly find out that LESS on the
outside is truly outperformed by the MORE
which resides inside of us...
Which is often an essence-innate abundance of
virtues and skills which we unfortunately often
have unknowingly hidden behind our own
immunity-veil of socially arrogated outer
insistence and hence, forgotten to be seriously
discovered, explored and hoisted by us precisely
for our own (and airily shared with others)
inmost contentment and happiness... ;-))
Hence, go for more inside-out! And others will
gladly follow....;
RESPONSES TO HARM
By Mary Cook

When someone harms us or is hurtful in some commonly become angry with our own body, or
way, we tend to absorb and retain these energies. diseases that we contract through our unhealthy
We often obsess about the experience and tell habits or neglect.
everyone we know, letting the story and its Ironically we believe that maintaining vigilant
feelings grow. Our response attention to the components
to harm may be self- of past negative
righteous indignation, or Experiences will alert us to
chronic pain and suffering. prevent repeat episodes.
It may be retaliation. Or it Conversely this is the very
may stimulate our own force that precipitates
feelings of low self worth continuing problems. These
or self hate. We might patterns of externalizing
invest time, thought and what is wrong, without
emotion in wondering why taking responsibility for
someone hurt us. We can solutions, keeps us stuck in
reflect on their possible escalating negative patterns.
thoughts, feelings, The amount of painful
upbringing, goals and energy that we absorb from
motivation. We can spend the original problem
copious amounts of time multiplies from our
thinking of the ways they defensive and offensive
should change and mend reactions to it, and repeated
the hurt that they cause. recounting either in our
Our communication, body minds or to others. This is
language, and actions are how the energy of harm
often attempts to manipulate or punish, those expands, attracting similar experiences,
whom we feel have hurt us. Additionally, our preventing solutions, and blocking the flow of
responses to others who do or say anything that our own evolution.
reminds us of a past hurt, generally elicit overly
strong reactions. We are all imperfect human beings with healthy
and unhealthy traits. We live on a planet where
Even when our own behavior is harmfully pristine paradise, natural disasters and constant
wrong, we tend to focus negative responses onto change coexist. And yet we court false beliefs
those who confront or impose unwanted dictating that we should have all that we desire
consequences on us. We thus add to our own for as long as we wish, and none of what we
unhealthy behaviors, the emotions of anger, fear. This denial of the duality and
bitterness and blame toward others. We transformations of the earth and its inhabitants
puts us in constant conflict with life. Attempts to
capture cling and control external circumstances
are doomed to failure and misery. This focus
causes us to forget what we have to give, and
overlook the blessings that we do receive. No
matter how, when and where harm began,
responses that increase our negative energy
diminish, and if severe, preclude the possibilities
of natural joy, hope and appreciation in the rest
of our life. The dark and light side of life is
inextricably woven together. Just as ignorance
precedes knowledge and healing follows illness,
shadows are necessary to allow us to more
clearly see and appreciate the light.
Cultivating a mature adult relationship with
ourselves means that we acknowledge the whole
of who we are.
This entails
honesty, deep
understanding,
and
responsibility
for our well
being, learning,
growth and
integrity. It
includes setting
healthy boundaries between aspects of
ourselves, other people or situations that are
destructive. It is wise to do this without anger or
other negative emotions, because a mind full of
complaints and criticisms isn’t capable of
finding a solution. We can refuse to participate
in or add to any harm that visits us. Our best
response to harm or potential harm is to seek
safety, assistance, healing, a better
understanding of ourselves, and personal and
spiritual growth.
Instead of focusing on who hurt us or why, we
can identify the consequences of harm that we
carry inside of us and in our interactions with
life. We can surrender all of the ways in which
we are hurtful to ourselves and others. We can
shift our focus from harm to healing, from
perpetrators to helpers, from past hurt to present
safety, from victim to miracle, from anger to
peace, from despair to grace. And we can do this
work with the emotions of compassion,
curiosity, faith, gratitude and humility. This puts
us in the energy of the solution and in harmony
with life, regardless of current conditions. When
we no longer feed the fire of negativity, we can
rise from the flames of harm and allow our
hearts to tell a whole new story.
WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM Mary
Cook has a Master’s degree in psychology
and is a registered addiction specialist, with
33 years of clinical practice and 29 years of
University teaching experience. She is a
writer, a national speaker, and has a private
practice in San Pedro, CA. Mary is
available for telephone and office
counseling, consulting, guided meditation,
and speaking engagements. Her book
“Grace Lost and Found” will be published
early spring 2010. Please see website for
further information. Contact her at 310-
517-0825.
 Shared by
Marty’s
partner and
Human
Ambassador
to the
Squirrel
Nation
Chris
Anderson

Marty is my playful side coming

to the surface. He is designed to
be a relief-valve for a world that
takes itself far too seriously. A lot
of the ideas I plan to explore with
him are gentle reminders that
the material world is always
swinging from left to right...
duality is the nature of the
journey here on earth. Marty
questions beliefs and fears, is a
bit self-serving, but at his core
there exists a love supreme... the
mask that, when removed,
reminds us there is really only
one life, and we all are it.

To see more of Marty’s videos and other video

creations of Chris Anderson, click here:

www.songofsilvercrow.com

OM-Times October 2009 Edition

The Decree of the
Golden Circle of LOVE
In this living moment of the eternal now, I AM merging my 5D awareness with my 3D awareness. I am
connected to MY I AM PRESENCE that completely guides my life.

As I invocate and decree, I AM in full service to the Christed Light. I AM pledging to honor my Creator,
my Self, all others, creatures, animals, all kingdoms, known and unknown, as I AM here to fulfill my
sacred contract which is my purpose and mission for being here at this time as we begin to ascend into
the New Earth frequencies.

I AM requesting to be protected at all times on every level of my being by the Christed Light , to open
myself to the golden gates of grand opportunities, expansion of my horizons, and to be blessed in every
moment of my life.

I AM surrounded by a beautiful world filled with an abundance of everything; prosperity, water, food,
shelter, harmony of all beings , healthy animals, fertile soil, forests and trees and flowers, infinite natural
resources and minerals, connection with all kingdoms great and small, happiness and joy radiating from
WITHIN and every aspect and area on this planet.

I have been called forth to join this Golden Circle of LOVE.

As I AM giving LOVE, I AM receiving LOVE.

As I AM receiving LOVE, I AM giving LOVE. It is simply a Golden Circle of LOVE.

I AM now re-membering and re-cognizing that I AM a brilliant pillar of golden LOVE. I have always been
LOVE.

I was always LOVE and will always be LOVE for that is all there is….LOVE. I go forward through my
journey knowing everyone and everything that surrounds me is LOVE, as I integrate the new crystalline
frequencies for the Gates of Heaven have opened on Earth.

I AM A GOLDEN ROYAL CHILD OF OMNICREATION. I AM HOLY, SACRED AND DIVINE. I AM AN OPEN,

AWAKENED AND ENLIGHTENED ASCENDED MASTER OF CO-CREATION FOR I AM LOVE. I AM THAT, I AM.

By Jacqui Johnson
www.goddessofdivinity.com

To download Jacqui’s free e-book, click: AFFIRMATIONS Of One-Ness E-Book


Miracles
By Martin Rayne
What constitutes a Miracle? If this were
asked as a "Question on the Street" many of
the responses we hear would be expected;
spontaneous healing of the body and mind
(the lame to walk, the blind to see, etc.) as
well as a person brought back to life, etc.
Most of these are the Miracles that are easily
recognized and focused upon.
manifestations of Love, the Miracles, with
every breath we take, at every moment of
our existence. Let us not ignore those that
manifest so large in our physical sight; yet,
also, let us not forget to look beyond them to
see the others that are always before us and
that we have become shortsighted in
remembering each day.
As we embrace that Love, we are not only
embracing Spirit; we are embracing our
Self...and the Miracles that are there inside
which we all share.

I ask what of the "little" Miracles? We have heard it mentioned throughout

These are the ones that take place in and
around us every day. The smell of a flower,
the touch of a loved one, the smile of a
child's eyes, the wonders of nature, the
universe around us...the silent presence of a
friend when you need one without one word
being said. The "little" Miracles are in
reality not little....they are what encompass
the larger ones...that Matrix which binds
them all together.
A true Miracle, born anew each morning, is
our physical body. Look at our skin upon it.
Dead skin cells are replaced with live skin
cells continually. There we are see life from
death....the seed that is buried in the ground
takes root and reaches up to grow into a
vibrant flower, fruit, etc. We see examples
of the cycle of life from death daily.
many communities that we are Miracle
Workers. Let us take the next step and
embrace that We Ourselves are Miracles
Birthing Miracles at Every Moment.
Of course all in perspective and keeping this
to heart as well...what we may take for
granted on a day to day basis to another can
be perceived and received as a Miracle for
them. We Are Miracles for One Another.
Perhaps if we hold this to our hearts, then
the differences we experience become less
magnified as we see so much that we share
as ONE.

There is one binding quality that all

Miracles flow from: Love. True
Unconditional Love is transformational;
never dying, ever-evolving and manifesting
in more ways that we can perceive
throughout all the Sight that we have. I have
heard the expression that God is
Love....however we term Divine Source if
only one word could be used to describe
Spirit I feel Love fits this well. We see the
Experiencing My Own World
Without End
by Cindy Shelton

I was at a conference that was training people

to be speakers. The program was held near the
beach, I believe it was South Padre Island.
While I was there, we did a lot of cool exercises
including using one’s imagination in “entering”
the body of another person (that is a story unto
itself).

Anyway while there, they showed a video on

“If this was the first day or the last day of your
life”. It was a concept that I began to play in my
head. I woke up early the next morning and
started walking along the beach as the sun
started rising. It was a magical moment just
being there at sunrise.

As I thought about this being the first day or

the last day of my life, everything around me
began to shift and change. I felt a vibrancy
inside me that was palatable. I became filled
with awe. I began to dance and skip along the
beach. I felt myself expanding. As I expanded, I
became one with everything. I felt more alive
and vibrant, as if a thousand fold. I felt intense
and immense feelings of joy and ecstasy. I felt
as if I could walk on water, even though I did
not try it. The phrase “world without end” is
echoing in my mind as I write this now.
Everything felt infinite. Words are so
inadequate in explaining the experience.
Cynthia Lee Shelton, LCSW is an alternative
psychotherapist with over 25 years
I thought once having reached such an experience. She combines her extensive
experience that I would live the rest of my life counseling background with meditation,
in it. Alas, this has not been so. I even go visualization, EFT, and vibrational
months and years without thinking about it. techniques. Cindy’s goal is to teach others
And once I remember it, I think, how could I how to live an empowered, spiritually
forget this. It was so magical. It gave meaning fulfilling life.
to existence.
www.cynthialeeshelton.com

OM-Times Magazine October 2009 Edition

OM-Times Magazine October 2009 Edition
Frog Medicine by Chris Anderson

One of the perks of living in a rural area is the
immediacy of nature and the astonishing
unfolding of it all. The sacred Wheel of Life is
more easily recognized and embraced when
viewed from the perspective of being at the
center of this unfolding miracle: Life. In many
ways, we are all living expressions of the Great
Mystery, each one of us personally being the
hub of all of Creation... we are the place where
Life (Father Creator) is expressing itself.
Lakes, ponds, marshes, streams, creeks, rivers
and seas are, in the material world, the place
from where this pouring forth of all living
“beingness” emanates... its’ origin point and the
nucleus of the wheel.
(complete with a small waterfall) has become an
oasis for birds, squirrels and bunnies as well as a
multitude of other form and fashion of wildlife,
even occasionally inclusive of a neighbor’s
straying critter.
One of the more engaging families that have set
up residency at the waterhole is a small and
demure colony of frogs... gentle little creatures
who busy themselves with sunning on the lily
pads or occasionally having a nosh on the banks
of the pond, snatched morsels made up of
inattentive insects and newly emerging plant
sprouts.

This Injun Elder’s personal pouring forth is in

the attendance of my humble pond, a small
water-garden implemented in my back yard next
to my patio. A place where I’m able to set in
serenity and observe the sun’s passage toward
the other side of the planet ~ a meditative niche
I’ve created for ruminations and contemplations
and meditations... my personal satori.

To my delight, the 100 gallon water repository


Frog Medicine is strongly associated with
transformation. Beginning life as an egg, it
becomes a polliwog, then a frog. It is thus a
reminder that life for us here in the corporeal
world is a miracle of change and transformation.
Those of the Clan of the Frog who elect to
operate from the higher octave of their element,
water (Spirit), will spend their life in constant
transformation and growth, ever seeking
knowledge and wisdom... seeking
enlightenment.
Interestingly, frogs have a keen sense of hearing,
unique to their species, so they hear octaves and
pitch that other aquatic animals do not. The song
of Frog often foretells of the imminence of
rain... forgiveness: cleansing. Frog medicine can
bring rains for every purpose ~ to cleanse, to
heal, to help things grow. In my mind, Brother
and Sister Frog are strong reminders that the
only thing we need do is seek Atonement ~ the
rest will work itself out in Divine order.
. know not it is there. 6 Yet still and white and
To the Chinese, the frog is a divine creature that
protects against misfortune and brings wealth
and good health to the family (Atonement). The
Money Frog, Chan Chu, was the pet of Liu Hai,
God of Wealth, the symbol of wealth and
prosperity.
In American Indian culture, Frog Medicine is a
significant totem. It is said to teach insight and
depth of perception: sensitivity for the needs of
others ~ the recognition that, as the Master said,
“For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was
thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger,
and ye took me in”.
The frog represents new life and spiritual
cleansing, assisting people into their next stage
of life and providing opportunity for
transformation to unfold. Yet, truth be told, it is
not in change or transformation of ourselves that
a new life begins to unfold, but in changing our
mind and remembering what is actually real...
what the Oneness is that enfolds us all. Who we
are as children of the Divine.
A Course in Miracles states, “T-30.III.8. The
Thoughts of God are far beyond all change, and
shine forever. 2 They await not birth. 3 They
wait for welcome and remembering. 4 The
Thought God holds of you is like a star,
unchangeable in an eternal sky. 5 So high in
Heaven is it set that those outside of Heaven
lovely will it shine through all eternity. 7 There
was no time it was not there; no instant when its
light grew dimmer or less perfect ever was.”
This Injun’s suggestion for mindful living is to
welcome Frog Medicine into your life and see
what happens... see what you can remember
about the Divine Creation that you actually are.

Author Bio
Part Native American and part
Scandinavian/Celtic mix, the world of
the white man knows him as Chris
Anderson. His Native American name is
N'got M'Kwan in the Algonquin
language of his ancestors
(Potawatomi)... or Onefeather, as his
family and friends know him.

Writer, artist and mystic, he now

devotes the latter half of his life to the
quest for spiritual truth. Having
attained the age of Elder by the
standards of the tribe, he shares his
unique, gentle wisdom with all who
seek him out.

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The Perception of Fall
By Saskia Röell
Since I moved to America eight years ago, I’ve
discovered that there’s never been a season that fills
my heart with more happiness and joy than fall. I’ve
lived in six different countries and traveled all over
the world, but nothing can compare with fall in New
England. To me, it is truly magical here.
I’m not the only one who loves fall. Apparently, no
matter where people live, they find fall one of the
most extraordinary seasons of the year. Why is that?
Do we unconsciously know that we’re ready for a
new phase, for change, and fall is the sometimes
bittersweet season of letting go, which is a big part of
change?
By the end of August, when the sun turns from bright
yellow to a deep golden honey color, I feel my
body’s longing to come to rest after the intense heat
and spell of the last months of summer. The rush
eases for me a bit and I drift back to a slower pace. I
don’t need to run to the beach anymore, but listen to
the ocean’s lullaby from my front porch. In those
sacred moments I allow myself to close my eyes and
digest what’s happened over the past year. While I
rock back and forth in my chair, I soothe my mind
with the knowledge that I’m ready to face the
challenges the new season will bring.
After my eldest son left the nest last year to go to
college in Amsterdam, I’ve barely had time to
recover because the next letting go is just around the
corner. For me and for many others, this fall is not
only nature’s change of season but a new season of
motherhood, too. Although my heart will be wide
open, the joy will be accompanied by a stream of
tears and by challenging feelings I want to honor and
allow. I wish I had another year to adjust to the
changes the seasons bring.
I’m certain in my knowledge that life is about
expansion, that change is the only constant, and that
change sustains life and ignites growth. But since I’m
a deep feeler and a mother, this season’s letting go
requires a strong double trust: I trust myself and I
trust the Universe to help.
As I wake up this morning, I can't believe it’s really
happened. It almost feels surreal. The house feels
empty and so do I. When I walk into the bathroom,
the emptiness strikes me like an unexpected punch in
the stomach. I don’t stumble over hairdryers, make-
up, or piles of laundry. All signs of my daughter are
gone. I turn around and go downstairs. In the fridge is
her vegetable juice that from now on will never be
touched.
Yesterday, I took Systke, our 18-year-old daughter,
to the airport and gave her the final push. She left the
nest to spread her beautiful, strong wings to fly
across the ocean and start her new life in Amsterdam.
Hours before her departure, I drove to the shopping
mall to buy her a pair of black suede boots. As my
last gift to her before she left, these boots were
symbolic. These specific boots will “fit” her into the
new world of being a college student in Amsterdam.
For days before she left I pondered about what to
give her. I wanted to come up with something special
that would help reduce culture shock and help her
shift from being an “All American Girl” to a down-
to-earth Dutch girl. These boots would surely do the
trick.
The day before she left, I saw her go out of the house
in a bikini. I wondered whether she was ever going to
pack. We were getting pretty close to departure day,
but when I asked her if it would be a good idea to
start packing, she announced that today was a “Beach
Day.” Of course, the sun shone brightly and the sky
was blue. What more could I have wished for her?
I admire this brave, courageous girl who takes her
first footsteps in Amsterdam today. At our final
goodbye, I whispered in her ear that her wings are
powerful and strong, and that the world would
welcome her with arms wide open. She just stood
there and looked at me. She must have been
wondering what the future will bring for her. Upon
arrival in Amsterdam she has no housing (in Holland
you don’t live on a campus) and the arrangements for
the school she’ll attend aren’t finalized because she
still has to take a language exam. Getting into the
sorority where she wants to become a member is a
matter of a "lucky draw." In other words, I’m sending
her off with uncertainty.
I ask myself why our life isn't simple and easy, or
maybe even less extraordinary. The answer is simple,
because deep my heart I know I didn't sign up for
“simple and easy.” This extraordinary choice of my
daughter’s brings extraordinary challenges, and – as
we trust – extraordinary results, not only for me, but
for Systke, too.
Sometimes even I worried about why she didn't
worry more herself, about all the things that were
unsure. But I know why. In her mind, there’s no
place for worry about anything, about how she’ll find
housing on the day of her arrival in a city where the
housing need is beyond telling, about how she'll
become enrolled in school without the language
exam, about whether or not she’ll be “lucky” in the
sorority lottery. Her mind's not programmed with
worry or fear, but with lots of faith and trust. She
firmly believes that all will be well, that she’s safe no
matter where she lands. Yesterday, she told me that
her level of anxiety goes only as far as finding it
annoying that nothing is finally arranged. The rest of
the “how” she leaves to her parents and to the
Universe.
In the last weeks before she left, I watched her having
non-stop fun with her friends. Her life was One Big
Party. I smiled a lot because I saw how she stayed in
the NOW. It almost seemed that she was never going
to leave. “This is how I cope, Mom. I can’t think of
leaving all of you behind," she said one day.
Then the day arrives. As I wave my final goodbye,
tears stream down my face. I run to the car and drive
away and it goes against every fiber in my being to
leave her behind. I wonder how we mothers do it.
But in my mind’s eye, I see my "little" girl standing
in line with a suitcase full of faith. Not a small one,
but a huge one. Next to her stands her dad, who has
the honor of flying with her on the first leg of this
amazing journey. I know everything will work out. It
always does. But as a mother it’s a challenge to let a
child go out into the world of the unknown.
Back home, before I go to sleep, I climb the stairs to
Systke’s pink room. I must admit that it takes some
courage to face my pain. Her door is wide open and
the room looks like a hurricane has paid a visit to our
attic. Clothes are strewn everywhere, the bed is a
mess – indeed, nothing has changed. It looks as
though she’ll be coming home tonight. But in the
doorway I find one black Cinderella mule from her
prom – forlorn and forgotten in her hasty packing.
How could it be more symbolic? Is this a sign that
she hasn’t completely landed on the other side? Is
one foot still here in this world she just left?
I pick up the mule and put it on the mantel above the
fireplace. My mind drifts back in time. Oh, how I
loved her first footsteps in her golden sandals, and all
her steps in all the different shoes that came after. I
close my eyes and tell the Universe, "Now it’s your
turn. You take care of her.” I promise myself I’ll
make sure our son, Florian, who flies to Amsterdam
next week, takes that mule to Systke so she’ll fully
land, so she has the right shoes to dance in, until the
morning comes.
And as I watch the sunrise this morning, I surrender.
About the Author: Saskia Röell
Transformational Life Coach
www.saskiadivinedesign.com
www.weavingourdivinethread.com
T he Story of Jack-O-Lantern
by Tammarigan Tyrsdaughter
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away,
there lived a man named Jack.
Jack was a handsome man, big and strong,
equal in prowess both in battle and in bed.
He had many friends, and many a young
lass pined after him.
It so happened once, when Jack was in the midst of a
battle, laying low the foes of his tribe, that he
suddenly saw a wondrous vision. A woman,
beautiful beyond his wildest dreams, dark of hair
and eye, and with skin as pale as virgin snow, riding
a flaming chariot, spear in hand, and a raven on each
shoulder.
As the chariot drew close, the woman spoke to Jack.
"Come with me," she said, "for I love Thee, and
would have Thee with me for all time."
But Jack was frightened, for he recognized the
woman for what she was. "I don’t want to go with
Thee," he answered in a shaking voice, "I know Thee
- Thou art the Morrighan, the Chooser of the Slain,
and I am not ready to die."
Bright sparked the eyes of the Goddess in pride and
anger, and She wheeled her chariot and was gone
from Jack's vision.
But as he stood there, frozen in awe, an enemy
warrior struck him a great sword blow across the
face. Jack did not die from his wound, but his face
was forever ruined, and the lasses that pined after
him before, now ran from him in fear. And so Jack
did not marry.
Time passed. Jack learned the art of a Harper, and
became known across the land for his beautiful
melodies, for though he could not sing, his hands
were skilled and gentle on the strings, and his lilting
tunes brought both joy and sadness to the heart.
It so happened once, that when Jack was travelling,
he stopped at an Inn on the crossroads. He was
served his dinner by a beautiful middle-aged woman,
full of figure, with dark, all-knowing eyes, and raven
tresses braided in a crown around her pale face.
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When Jack got into his wagon, and was ready to
travel on, this same woman,
wearing a dark cloak, stepped from the shadow of a
nearest tree.
"Do not travel further, Jack," she said in a husky
voice, "Come with me instead, for I love Thee, and I
would have Thee with me for all time."
But Jack was frightened, for he recognized the
woman for what She was. "I don't want to go with
Thee," he answered in a shaking voice, "I know Thee
- Thou art the Morrighan, the Phantom Queen, and I
am not ready to die."
Bright sparked the eyes of the Goddess in pride and
anger, and She whirled around, her dark cloak flaring
around her like the wing of a raven, and
disappeared into the shadow.
Jack continued on, but not half a mile along the road
his horses spooked and ran wild, his wagon
overturned, and he was gravely wounded when he
fell out and was caught under the wheel. He did not
die, but he lost his arm, and could play his harp no
more after that.
Time passed. Though Jack was never again a warrior
or a Harper, his family, his kin, cared kindly for him.
But everyone grows old, and in time, his
brothers got old, and his sisters got old, and the
younger generation no longer cared for him as well
as his own siblings.
It so happened once, that right after his last
brother's death, Jack was crossing a small river at a
ford. It was late autumn, and he paused on the
bank to take off his shoes and socks, and roll up his
breaches before wading into the almost-freezing
water. Then, when he looked up again, he noticed
something strange. Where the bank he was on was
still red and gold with autumn leaves, the other bank
was white with snow, which lay in a thick blanket, as
if it had been there for weeks. Amidst the snows,
behind the dark shapes of old, gnarled trees, he saw
a village, half-hidden in the mist. Warm, golden
light shined from the windows of the houses that
seemed familiar and welcoming to him. In front of
one the houses he thought he saw his dead brother
wave and fade into the gathering gloom. He also
noticed an old woman on the
other side, crouched by the water, and covered in
dark, shapeless rags. She seemed to be washing
something in the river, and her arms were red up to
the elbows, and where she touched the water, the
river ran red as blood. To his horror, Jack noticed
that what she was washing looked very much like his
own best embroidered tunic that he was wearing for
his brother's funeral.
The old woman looked up, and her face was as white
as snow and deeply lined, with grey wisps of hair
framing it like a halo, and deeply sunken black eyes
that seemed like the pits of the night.
"Cross the river, and come to me, Jack," she said in
a harsh, raspy voice, "for I love Thee, and I would
have Thee with me for all time."
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But Jack
was frightened, for he recognized the woman for
what She was. "I don't want to go with Thee," he
answered in a shaking voice, "I know Thee - Thou art
the Morrigan, the Hag, the Washer at the Ford, and I
am not ready to die."
Suddenly, where before there was an old woman,
The Great Queen stood in all Her Otherworldly
majesty, the dark rags magically
transforming into the dark wings
of a raven.
"Thou art a fool, Jack!" She
raged, as her black tresses flew
wildly around Her face, and her
eyes flamed like stars at
midnight.
"Thrice thy time came, and
thrice I offered thee my love, for
I had chosen thee as a wife
would
choose a husband. Thou could
have been a young warrior at
my side. Thou could have woven
songs of splendor at my feast. Thou could have
lived with me in peace and with thy family about
thee. And thrice you rejected me out of fear. Now I
reject thee. Never more shall I come to thee. Never
more shall I
call to thee. But by my curse thou shalt live for as
long as this candle burns."
She reached across the river - it seemed easy now,
for She was more then human - and placed a candle
on the ground at Jack's feet. Then she was gone,
snow and the misty village disappearing with Her,
Leaving nothing but an Autumn forest behind.
At first, Jack was terrified. The candle was small -
surely it would burn down and die within minutes,
and Jack along with it. But as minutes passed,
he felt great relief, for not a drop of wax rolled down
the side of the candle, and it did not seem to be
burning down at all. Carefully guarding the
flame of the candle, Jack went home.
Time passed. Year after year, rolling in unending
cycles. Everyone whom Jack had known as a young
man had long since passed away. No one was left
who even knew who he was, and in his small village
he was just treated as a crazy old man, a burden on
everyone, and a helper to none, for while he lived on
and on, he also got older and
older, and weaker and weaker,
and even his mind started giving
out after awhile. After a very
long time, all he knew was
that he had to keep his candle
burning, lest he die.
His house fell into ruin, his field
went untended, and all that
would grow there were some
turnips that his neighbors
planted for him out of kindness.
One night, a lightening bolt
struck his house, and it burned down. Jack then took
one of the turnips from his field, carved it into a
lantern, and put his candle there, so that it would be
protecte
d from
the rain.
He left
his village
and
started
wonderin
g about
with his lantern, looking and calling to friends and
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 family long gone. His body grew older and older, his great fear, and to light the way for all the lost
until even his flesh disappeared, leaving only a spirit souls wondering about in the darkness looking for
without physical substance. He hardly even noticed, the passage to the Otherworld.
for even as a spirit he still could not pass
to the Other World, wondering this one with his
lantern, a sad and lonely ghost, forever cursed from
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his fate by his fear.
by Tim Robbins”
And that is why turnip lanterns - now pumpkin
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lanterns - are called Jack-o-lanterns, and that is why
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 Movies that
Inspire
The Winged Migration
Le Peuple Migrateur, also known as The Travelling
Birds in some UK releases, or The Travelling Birds:
An adventure in flight in Australia), is a 2001
documentary film directed by Jacques Cluzaud,
Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin (who was also
one of the writers and narrators) showcasing the
immense journeys routinely made by birds during
their migrations.
The movie was shot over the course of four
years on all seven continents. Shot using in-
flight cameras, most of the footage is aerial, and
the viewer appears to be flying alongside birds
of successive species, especially Canada geese.
They traverse every kind of weather and
landscape, covering vast distances in a flight for
survival.
Much of the aerial footage was taken of "tame"
birds. The filmmakers raised birds of several
species, including storks and pelicans, from
birth. The newborn birds imprinted on staff
members, and were trained to fly along with the
film crews. Film was shot from ultralights,
paragliders, and hot air balloons, as well as
trucks, motorcycles, motorboats, remote-
controlled robots, and a French Navy warship.
Many critics question if "Winged Migration" is
really a documentary at all since there is so
much manipulation of the birds and the footage
that made it into the final film.
The film states that no special effects were used.
On the contrary, while no computer-generated
imagery (CGI) was used in the filming of the
birds; several entirely-CGI segments augment
the real-life footage.
The musical score by Bruno Coulais, "Tambour
Battant” was recorded by several Bulgarian vocal
groups in Bulgarian, as well as Nick Cave in
English and Robert Wyatt. The vocal effects
include sequences in which panting is
superimposed on wingbeats to give the effect
that the viewer is a bird.
The film is dedicated to the French ornithologist Jean
Dorst. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Documentary Feature.
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 The Emotional Vampire
Emotional Freedom in Action
To be emotionally free you can’t remain
naïve about relationships. Some people are
positive and mood elevating. Others can
suck optimism and serenity right out of you.
Vampires do more than drain your physical
energy. The super-malignant ones can make
you believe you’re an unworthy, unlovable
wretch who doesn’t deserve better. The
subtler species inflict damage by making
smaller digs which can make you feel bad
about yourself—for instance, “Dear, I see
you’ve put on a few pounds” or “You’re
overly sensitive!” Suddenly they’ve thrown
you emotionally off-center you by prodding
areas of shaky self-worth. To protect your
sensitivity, it’s important to name and
combat these vampires. The concept struck
such a collective chord in my book Positive
Energy that in Emotional Freedom I
illustrate how it applies to protecting your
emotions and not absorbing other people’s
Survival Guide:
By
Judith Orloff, MD
negativity. In the book I discuss these
vampires to watch for and ways to deal
with them.
SIGNS THAT YOU’VE ENCOUNTERD AN
EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE
(from “Emotional Freedom” by Judith Orloff
MD)
• Your eyelids are heavy—you’re ready for a
nap
• Your mood takes a nosedive
• You want to binge on carbs or comfort
foods
• You feel anxious, depressed, or negative
• You feel put down, sniped at, or slimed
TYPES OF EMOTIONAL VAMPIRES
Vampire #1: The Narcissist
Their motto is “Me first.” Everything is all
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about them. They have a grandiose sense of
self-importance and entitlement, hog
attention, and crave admiration. They’re
dangerous because they lack empathy and
have a limited capacity for unconditional
love. If you don’t do things their way, they
become punishing, withholding, or cold.
How to Protect Your Emotions: Keep your
expectations realistic. These are
emotionally limited people. Try not to fall in
love with one or expect them to be selfless
or love without strings attached. Never
make your self-worth
dependent on them or
confide your deepest
feelings to someone
who won’t cherish
them. To successfully
communicate, the hard
truth is that you must
show how something
will be to their benefit.
Though it’s better not
to have to contend
with this tedious ego
stroking, if the relationship is unavoidable
use the above strategies to achieved
desired results.
Vampire #2: The Victim
These vampires grate on you with their
“poor-me’ attitude and are allergic to taking
responsibility for their actions. The world is
always against them, the reason for their
unhappiness. When you offer a solution to
their problems they always say, “Yes, but.”
You might end up screening your calls or
purposely avoid them. As a friend, you may
want to help but their tales of woe
overwhelm you.
How to Protect Your Emotions: Set kind but
firm limits. Listen briefly and tell a friend or
relative, “I love you but I can only listen for
a few minutes unless you want to discuss
solutions. Then I’d be thrilled to brainstorm
with you.” With a coworker, listen briefly,
sympathize by saying, “I’ll keep good
thought for things to work out. Then say, I
hope you understand, but I’m on deadline
and must go back to
work. Then use “this
isn’t a good time” body
language such as
crossing your arms and
breaking eye contact to
help set these healthy
limits.
Vampire #3: The
Controller
These people
obsessively try to
control you and dictate what you’re
supposed to be and feel. They have an
opinion about everything. They’ll control
you by invalidating your emotions if they
don’t fit into their rulebook. They often
start sentences with “You know what you
need?” and then proceed to tell you. You
end up feeling dominated, demeaned, or
put down.
How to Protect Your Emotions: The secret
to success is never try and control a
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controller. Be
healthily assertive,
but don’t tell them
what to do. You can
say, “I value your
advice but really
need to work
through this
myself.” Be
confident but don’t
play the victim or
sweat the small
stuff. Focus on high
priority issues rather than on putting the
cap on the toothpaste.
Vampire #4: The Splitter or Borderline
Personality
Splitters see things as either good or bad
and have love/hate relationships. One
minute they idealize you, the next you’re
the enemy if you upset them. They have a
sixth sense for knowing how to pit people
against each another and will retaliate if
they feel you have wronged them. They are
people who are fundamentally damaged—
inwardly they feel as if they don’t exist and
become alive when they get angry. They’ll
keep you on an emotional rollercoaster and
you may walk on eggshells to avoid their
anger.
How to Protect Your Emotions: Stay calm.
Don’t react when your buttons get pushed.
Splitters feed off of anger. They respond
best to structure and limit setting. If one
goes into a rage, tell the person, “I’m
leaving until you get calmer. Then we can
talk.” Refuse to take
sides when he or
she tries to turn you
against someone
else. With family
members, it’s best
to show a united
front and not let a
splitter’s venomous
opinions poison
your relationships.
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Judith Orloff MD is author of the new New
York Times bestseller Emotional Freedom:
Liberate Yourself From Negative
Emotions and Transform Your Life
(Harmony Books, 2009) upon which this
article is based. Dr. Orloff synthesizes the
pearls of traditional medicine with cutting
edge knowledge of intuition and energy
medicine. An Assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at UCLA, she passionately
believes that the future of medicine involves
integrating all this wisdom to achieve
emotional freedom and total wellness.
www.drjudithorloff.com
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7 Steps to Successful
Attraction You Want to Attract
Be the Person
My true passion and emphasis for the future is
about helping heal the rifts in love
relationships. We are here to create union in
love with another, it’s our Divine calling.
Masculine and Feminine are opposite polarities
that make a true whole and yet so much
struggle and pain occurs in the world of love,
ultimately I believe through lack of self
awareness and education, truth, responsibility
and authenticity. So many people have created
their lives to try and get love and approval from
others and have given up all rights to being who
they really are in the process. The results can
be hugely painful and difficult relationship
patterns repeat over and again.
When we fall in love, the feelings generated are
among the strongest we will ever experience.
The greatest elixir of life is love, without
question. It’s a feeling from the heart that’s
almost inexplicable to the mind. You have
probably said more than once "I feel like I have
known this person all my life".
Then some months or years
down the line when the power
struggle starts, many of us end
the relationship, believing that
our once so perfect partner is
now not meant for us at all.
But what if these conflicts
were essential for your healing
and growth ? What if this
person who appears to have
grown horns over night, is in
fact your perfect match ?
What if you just needed to
become aware of exactly what
is going on in you and in your
partner? Most of the time
conflict is about projection of
things that are not healed
within you. Judgement is one of the most
By
Gina Hardy
painful and damaging “miasms” of the human
mind, but when we judge we judge ourselves
first. Our love relationship is absolutely our
truest mirror, but our struggles are ultimately
with ourselves and not our partners.
The “power struggle” is an essential and
biological part of every relationship and we
must recognise it, stop and gather the tools to
manage it. Beyond this phase is the wonderful
place of intimate communion and true love.
Successful relationships function on fully
conscious behaviour, based on complete truth,
authenticity of the self and a desire to give love
unconditionally. If humanity were filled with
such an attitude, there would be no pain and
suffering on this treasured Earth of ours.
Gina Hardy is a relationship
educator, yoga teacher and therapist
and will be speaking on the subject
of love at the Starting Over Show,
Hilton Metropole Hotel, in Brighton
on 28th March.
She runs workshops for singles and
couples in the art of conscious
behaviour and uses the very
powerful work of partner yoga for
people to learn how to re-connect
through non-verbal dialogue.
Gina Hardy
Tel : 07771 977090
www.consciousunion.co.uk
www.ginahardy.blogspot.com
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 7 Steps to Successful Attraction:
1) Self awareness - do you REALLY know
what you give off to your partner ? Educate
yourself. What if I asked you “Would you be
in a relationship with you ?”.
2) Truth – It’s about inner truth. Look in the
mirror and admit and accept where you are
now. You are beautiful as the song says but
you must believe it.
3) Forgiveness - The power of your intention
to forgive is about making peace with
yourself and releasing you and your partner
from the emotional chains of the past.
4) Acceptance - Make peace and say yeah " I
am who I am and that's OK!"
Daniel Kobialka, The Water is Wide
Purchase the Going Home Again CD
5) Growth / Release - start clearing out those
mental, emotional, spiritual closets and see
how the power of personal change will de-
clutter your life from all the people and things
that don't serve you.
6) Becoming You - this will be the result, a
happier healthier and authentic you, with a
deeper sense of peace and love.
7) Attract - Which partner do you want in your
life ? Whatever you want, BE it first. You want
trust, be trust worthy. You want honesty, be
honest. Its simple.....like attracts like it’s called
The Law of Attraction.
“Become loving. When you are in the
embrace, become the embrace. Become
the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that
you can say, "I am no more. Only love
exists." Then the heart is not beating, but
love is beating. Then the blood is not
circulating, but love is circulating. Then
eyes are not seeing, love is seeing. Then
hands are not moving to touch, love is
moving to touch. Become love and enter
everlasting life. Love suddenly changes
your dimension. You are thrown out of
time and you are facing eternity. Love can
become a deep meditation, the deepest
possible. Lovers have known sometimes
what saints have
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~Osho
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 Is Your Intuition
Real Gold
by
Ronald
Alexander

or
Fool’s Gold?
Intuition can be a powerful tool for making 4. List three reasons why might feel angry,
decisions, but how do you know that your scared, insecure, etc. Then ask yourself
gut feeling is coming from inner awareness what you’re feeling right now.
and not inner resistance? Hidden fears can
cloud your insights and steer you wrong. As you allow your hidden emotions to rise
Your instincts may be like fool’s gold instead up into your awareness, know that any
of the genuine article. To discover if you’ve suffering they cause you will soon disappear
mined true inner wisdom, use the following and you’ll have cleared the way for your
steps for mindful exploration. genuine intuition, the real gold of your
inner wisdom, to reveal itself.
1. Think about your current situation and
note the quality of the emotions and
thoughts you’re experiencing. If what
you’re feeling doesn’t support a sense of
well-being, what seems to be intuition may
actually be a reaction to your hidden
emotions.

2. As you think about the decision you’re

making and your instincts, notice any
feelings of urgency and anxiousness and
any rigid, heavy, contracted sensations in
your body. Ask yourself, “Where is this
feeling or sensation coming from?” Be still
and listen to the answer. Be open to what
you may discover.
Ronald Alexander, Ph.D. is the author of the just
released book, Wise Mind, Open Mind: Finding
3. Ask yourself, “If I were acting out of
Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss, and
disempowering feelings and thoughts, such
Change. He is the director of the OpenMind
as fear, jealousy, unworthiness, or
Training® Institute, practices mindfulness-based
vindictiveness, what would I say and do? Is
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that how I’m behaving now? And how
Santa Monica, CA, for individuals and corporate
would I react if someone confronted me
clients. He has taught personal and clinical training
about my behavior?
groups for professionals in Integral Psychotherapy,
Ericksonian mind-body healing therapies,
mindfulness meditation, and Buddhist psychology
nationally and internationally since 1970.
www.openmindtraining.com
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Relationships
in Sickness
and Health
By Mary Cook, M.A., R.A.S.
Our adult relationships contain
energies of unhealed wounds from
childhood. Sometimes we lack safe,
trustworthy caretakers to adequately meet
our physical and psychological needs in
infancy and early childhood. These
unhealed experiences make us vulnerable
to express infantile needs, and chronic fear
and anger in our adult intimate
relationships. Furthermore in early
childhood, our experiences with others are
absorbed into our beginning concept of self.
And our early caretakers represent a God-
like force that influences our later
relationship with a Higher Power. Thus as
adults with this history, we are likely to feel
imprisoned in painful experiences with
ourselves, our partner and our Higher
Power. We do not experience ourselves as
separate, whole, unique beings, and we do
not consciously experience genuine
closeness and connection with others or
God, and yet we have desperate feelings of
neediness. Domestic violence relationships
typically reflect these dynamics.
When middle to late childhood is fraught
with difficulties in establishing a sense of
autonomy and creativity, we can have adult
relationships that are enmeshed, distant
and superficial, or ones in which there is
chronic conflict between one partner asking
for greater closeness and the other wanting
more distance. The latter can be expressed
in hurtful actions toward the partner, which
result in distance, rather than honest
dialog. These relationships lack
spontaneous joy, playfulness, humor and
imagination. There is concern about losing a
part of oneself in the relationship, because
autonomy is not stable. This means that our
sense of self is fragmented or weak, and we
are attempting to artificially strengthen it
through defense mechanisms, or by aligning
with someone who seems to be a stronger
partner. Spiritual beliefs are also immature
and characterized by ambiguity, or are
superficially determined through affiliation
with a person or group that has dogmatic
beliefs.
If we had significant problems in our
teenage years, then we did not likely pursue
an honest, soul-searching relationship with
ourselves. Healthy adolescents undertake a
deep, thorough self-examination process,
and try out different beliefs and behaviors
to determine what feels most right, healthy
and comfortable to them. Values, priorities,
goals, and core beliefs about philosophy,
psychology, politics and spirituality ideally
form in this period. If we are sufficiently
healthy teens, we perceive our strengths,
weaknesses, and talents, and begin to have
a deeper understanding of emotions
and their healthy expression. We
learn to take responsibility for
ourselves and our well-being, which
prepares us for self-sufficiency and
interdependence. We set internal and
external boundaries between our own
impulses and what we know is right for us,
and between others who attempt to
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pressure us to agree or act on what feels
uncomfortable and unhealthy to us.
If this period of development is disrupted,
our immature teenage energies affect our
adult relationships. This results in chronic
power struggles with our partners, internal
conflicts, and attempts to manipulate the
God of our understanding. We want
significant others to conform to our ideas of
how they should be, and/or we allow
friends to over-control us. Teenage
rebellion, arrogance, willfulness, and
vulnerability to peer pressure are
precursors to the deep work of reflection.
When this work is completed, the
aforementioned character defects dissipate.
Without this thorough period of reflection,
identification and integration, spiritual
principles are not generally well understood
nor practiced with any consistency.
What is required for healthy adult
relationships begins with the ability to
provide for our physical and psychological
well-being, and personal growth. We must
be honest, trustworthy and have good
discernment regarding the trustworthiness
of others. We need to know and deeply
understand ourselves as whole, unique
beings. We must accept responsibility to
create health, happiness and fulfillment in
our lives, meet challenges and resolve
problems as they occur. Once we have
these components, we can work
productively and proactively on internal and
relationship conflicts that interfere with
personal growth and intimate relatedness.
In relationships we make and follow
through with commitments with integrity.
We choose partners with whom we have
sufficient mental, emotional, physical,
spiritual and functional compatibility,
especially regarding important values,
morals and priorities. We place our
relationship with our Higher Power, our
soul, and any dependent children above our
relationship with an adult partner.
We typically vacillate between human and
divine will, as we develop our spiritual
practice. Our abilities to demonstrate
honesty, open-mindedness, respect,
consideration, cooperation, humility,
compassion, patience, forgiveness,
gratitude, joy and laughter increase the
depth of our love. Adult relationships
reflect where we need healing. Allowing
ourselves to therapeutically discuss and
release past painful and negative energies
and experience emotionally corrective
experiences, paves the way to a healthy
relationship with our Higher Power and
principled living. This then means that all of
our relationships will be healthy.
WWW.MARYCOOKMA.COM
Mary Cook has an M.A. degree in
psychology, and is a registered addiction
specialist with 33 years of clinical practice
and 29 years of University teaching
experience. She has a private practice in
San Pedro, CA and is available for phone
and office counseling, consulting, guided
meditation, speaking engagements and in-
service training. She is a national speaker
and a writer. Her first book “Grace Lost and
Found” will be published early spring 2010.
She is currently writing another book
which is a parable for
enlightenment. Visit her website
for articles, free audio clips, a flash
movie and additional information.
Contact her at 310-517-0825.
OM-Times October 2009 Edition
 Being
By EtherEagle

We know we are here but for a blink of an eye,
and yet sometimes it seems to be an eternity. So
goes the perception of time. Why is it I am always
in hurry up and wait mode? Time seems to fly by
and yet it seems lifetimes ago when I was a child.
Yesterday feels like ten years ago, and yesterday
is when I was born.
go of many situations and relationships that I
chose to remain stuck in, that were preventing
me from being me.
We all are forced to make decisions in life.
Some are easier then others. I suddenly woke up
one day, and did not recognize my life, or many
of the people in it. It was odd to say the least.

Back and forth, hurry up and wait. Time speeds

up only to stand still, then wooosh, another
decade goes by. So strange!!
Most of the people in my life did not understand
my situation. Most decided to leave my life as I
Sometimes I truly think the very foundation of
was no longer interested in being who they
time is changing. The faster it moves, the slower
thought I was. Within one year, I completely
I feel like going. I do not rush to do anything
changed who I was being. As I stripped off the
today. I have made a conscious effort to slow
outer ego selves, many things happened. The
down. I am focusing on the moment. The more I
most profound changes happened at a very deep,
do that the more I become
spiritual level. This had
aware of being. Being is an
dramatic results as most of
obvious state. Yet how many
my family and friends just
appreciate the finer side of
seemed very mad at me. They
being? I have found it to be a
could not accept me for who I
great comfort in the fact that,
really was. All but a few are
as I melt into my state of
no longer in my life.
being, I release a lot of
misconceptions about my
self. This has only been
possible as a result of letting

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As a result I learned that the quality of
relationships is so much more important then the
quantity. I am now with someone who truly
understands how to let me be me. And I am
more than happy to return the gift, as love really
is about an effortless allowing, rather then a
need to control each other. I am very at ease
with who I am, and I have never been more
relaxed and open. It is a joy. I am truly blessed
to share time and space with such a strong,
creative, spiritual individual who sees me as her
equal in life.

So on it travels. Life. Making leaps of faith

whenever called upon. Sometimes right off the
cliff. For how can one learn to fly unless we
jump? So if you find yourself not knowing who
you are or what to do maybe consider taking off
a few of the hats you’re wearing. Simplify
things. Perhaps just being is all you really need
to do for awhile. You might be surprised at the
results. Be well, and here's to being!

About the Author: I am an independent researcher of 25 yrs.

My spiritual disciplines include 5 yrs. of study in Naive
American spirituality, focusing on the healing Bear lodge. I am
also an artist, poet, and writer of the blog, down in a Hole.
Studies include, ancient civilizations, esoteric spiritual
teachings, with a particular interest in uncovering the hidden
agenda of the ruling elite.

Om Times Magazine October 2009

 The Path of Service
The ascension of humanity to a higher level starts in the
hearts of each of us.
When we raise another, we raise ourselves.

There is just One Planet. There is only One Humanity. We all bear the Earthmark.

We recognize that there are many Paths to Heal the Heart of Humanity and you will find the one that calls to
you. Volunteer your time with a Charity. Accept a Good Deed and Pay It Forward. Practice Random Acts of
Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty.

Most importantly, give the very best of yourself. Participate! That is the real key to making the world a better
place.

This section of OM-Times is dedicated to highlighting organizations who are making a difference.

You have our profound respect and deep Gratitude.

 The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-political effort to declare that global warming is here
now and it’s time to act. This is a movement about change, as individuals, as a country, and as a global
community. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution.

www.stopglobalwarming.org

Because we can't blow people's minds with our show if all of the seats in our
theatres are under water! Global Warming is a topic that crosses all
boundaries: no matter where you live in the world, or what your political
affiliation, global warming is a phenomenon that will affect you, your family,
and your community. We are already bearing witness to its effects with
things like extreme weather and ice cap reduction. We need to band
together to try to do something about it!

Blue Man Group We invite and encourage you to learn more about global warming and to
Marching Since: join the march.
January 5, 2006
Sincerely,
www.blueman.com Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink
Founders
GlobalGiving is a unique online marketplace that connects donors
to high-impact projects all over the world, with a proven track
record helping social entrepreneurs and grassroots organizations
access new sources of funds. To date, GlobalGiving has raised
over $22 million for 1,300 projects around the world.

The Vision to be powered instead by individuals; Mari

Unleash the potential of people around the and Dennis left their high-powered
world to make positive change happen. executive positions at the World Bank to
launch GlobalGiving, an easy-to-use online
The Mission marketplace that connects people to the
Build an efficient, open, thriving causes they care most about.
marketplace that connects people who
have community and world-changing ideas The beauty of peer-to-peer philanthropy is
with people who can support them. that it’s based on a simple guiding principle:
people have a tremendous capacity to help
While working at the World Bank, Mari if they feel connected to the cause. Beyond
Kuraishi and Dennis Whittle, cofounders of a simple transaction between donors and
GlobalGiving, saw many obstacles
to getting development aid where
it was needed most: red tape and
endless bureaucracy made it seem
like a miracle to solve one problem
let alone have an impact that could
change many people’s lives. What
also surprised and concerned them
was how small a say regular people
had in bringing about change in
their own communities and around
the world.

In 1997, frustrated by the slow

pace of a large institution and
convinced that real change needed

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 causes, donors are able make a direct
connection to the efforts on the ground and
the projects they support.
Dennis and Mari believe that if donors
know what their money is being used for
and are informed every step of the way of
its impact; they will be willing to support
them in spite of economic uncertainty.
For example, donors want to know up front
how and where their money is being spent.
GlobalGiving makes it clear: in their
literature and on their website, they walk
people through the donating
process and guarantee that 85% of
their donation will be on-the-
ground within 60 days.
“Many non-profits are helping communities
weather the economic storm but are in
desperate need of funding. We created
GlobalGiving to be a marketplace for good,
and to make sure that the million little earth
changing ideas that are swirling all around
us have the opportunity to succeed. The
success of GlobalGiving has showed us the
great power that can come from connecting
individuals to the causes they care most
about; and we want to give every nonprofit
in America this same chance.”
~ Mari Kuraishi, President and Co-Founder

Once the donation is made,

GlobalGiving takes transparency to
the next level, providing donors
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pictures from the project to their
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the opportunity to communicate
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hear exactly how their money is
being put to use.

It's the next best thing to actually

visiting the project site in person. www.globalgiving.org

Publishers Note:

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charities for inclusion in their community of individual and corporate
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and successfully completed the Challenge through our sponsor’s
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We would like to offer our sincere respect to the team at GlobalGiving

for their significant contribution to Humanity and our deep Gratitude
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The Shift
For those traveling
the winding roads of
Self-Knowledge, it is
necessary to be aware
of energy shifts and
their consequences
while not losing
perspective. Without
the explicit intention
to be iconoclastic, we
offer you actual
examinations of the
cosmic reality from
different outlooks, the
flow of energy and its
influence in individual
life journeys. The
multiplicity of the
phenomena of the
Shift cannot be
translated based
solely from one’s own
point of view.

We invite you to
experience others’
and share yours.

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 The Voice of the
Matrix
By Beverly Stewart

What is the voice of the Matrix? It is the voice

that says, “You still need me”. We have become
so dependent on the Matrix control system that
we have forgotten that we are majestic and
beautiful creatures.

The Matrix tells us that we have to keep that job

that barely pays us enough to survive on, keeps
us away from our family for 50 or 60 hours a
week or more, and steals our energy so that we
are unable to ascend up and out of the
nightmare. It tells us that we don’t have the time
to write that book or that we don’t have the
money to start the business that we have wanted
to start for years. It tells us that we can’t survive
outside of it…and it’s all lies. The voice of the
Matrix is simply our false self/ego. Ego is
simply the original sin that caused our
separation from God when man fell from grace.

We have to defeat our false self/ego…unplug

from the Matrix and plug back into “The
Creator”. We unplugged from “The Creator”
(healthy consciousness) at the original fall of
man and plugged into the Matrix (false
self/ego/unconsciousness). We fell into a deep
slumber and forgot that we have everything we
need inside of us. That spark of “The Creator”
(the magic) is still inside just waiting for you to
awaken so that it can be rekindled. It’s time to
awaken, return to God and remember who we
are.

About The author:

I am simply a small town girl whose martial arts training were

instrumental in my awakening. Through my amazing journey to the truth
I have learned much and now hope that by sharing my story many more
lives may be changed for the better.

http://www.theserpentrevealed.com
Toxic Programming

by Beverly Stewart

During my Kundalini experiences I began to see
things clearly. I could see how the foundation of
my ego/false self had been projected onto me as
a child. The reality that I had been living in for
40+ years was based on a foundation of lies. For
40+ years I had been unconsciously building on
this toxic foundation. It was being created from
the toxic programming that I had received as a
child.
them, they controlled me with guilt, manipulated
me with money and nothing I did was ever good
enough. For more information on toxic
relationships please refer to Dr. Susan Forward’s
book on toxic parenting “Toxic Parents”. If you
are in a toxic relationship get out, get away! You
do not have to be around those people and

For example, I was told things like you’re

stupid, you're ugly, no one wants you, you’ll
never amount to anything, etc. These lies were
internalized, became truth to me and I began to
build MY reality based on this toxic foundation
that had been projected onto me. This became
the foundation upon which I would build on for
the next 40 years. These lies were of a low
vibration and were constantly attracting more of
the same via the “Law of Attraction”. This is
precisely why I was caught up in a vicious cycle
of bad decisions, along with destructive and
abusive relationships. I always expected the
worst from people and believed that if I got too absorb their toxins any more. God will take care
close to someone they would abandon me. And of you; He loves you and wants you to trust
guess what, I always got exactly what I expected Him.
via the “Law of Attraction”.
I forced the toxic people out of my life and it
As an adult I was still treated like a child by the was literal hell for awhile. They tried to have me
toxic people in my life. I had intense emotional committed and take my son away from me. I
and physical reactions after spending time with was arrested in front of my son, taken to a
hospital for 10 hours of testing and observation.
Was found to be completely sane and everyone
advised me to take my son and get as far away
As I could. For these 10 hours my son was left
with them to endure their attacks of lies and
toxins to convince him that I was crazy and that
he needed to come live with them. My son, for
the first time in his life, stood up for himself and
set them straight on the truth. It was hell, but at
least I got them out of my life and I have never
been happier. God is taking care of me and my
son in miraculous ways and we are very happy.
He will do it for you too. Get out!
God will take care of you. He needs you to bring
about the evolution of humanity. He is
desperately searching for men and women to
reconnect to him. He needs us to unplug from
Ego/Carnal Mind Energy and plug into Higher
Mind/Spiritual Energy. When you do this, you
will be taken care of. It's promised:
Matthew 6:33 (New International Version)
33But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given
to you as well.
(Money, food, clothing)
Matthew 6:34 (New International Version)
34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
enough trouble of its own.
(Live in present time)
 World Vision
New
Energy for
a Nuclear-
weapon-
free World
Rene Wadlow*
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
- Albert Camus
Almost from the moment that the first atomic
bomb was detonated in New Mexico in July
1945, the menace of the nuclear age inspired
visions of a world free of nuclear weapons.
However, the efforts of Governments and
popular anti-nuclear weapon movements have
gone in cycles with some milestones such as the
Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955, the 1970
ratification of the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the 1982
2nd UN General Assembly Special Session on
Disarmament.
There have also been long periods when
attention focused only on USA-USSR nuclear
issues, with short periods of attention given to
India-Pakistan nuclear tensions or more recently
the nuclear potential of North Korea and the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Even in non-nuclear
arms control, there have been long barren
periods. The Vienna conventional-forces-
reduction talks continued for 16 years from 1973
without results until an improvement
in relations between the Soviet Union and the
United States led to the conclusion of the
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
in late 1990.
For over a decade, the UN disarmament
body, the Conference on Disarmament, has been
inactive, starved of resources, attention and
serious human capital. Since the end of the Cold
War in 1990 and thus the end of the danger of a
Soviet-American nuclear conflict, the arms
control emphasis of Governments have been on
non-proliferation and on the danger of nuclear
arms in the hands of non-State enemies such as
terrorists. However, on 29 May 2009, the
Conference on Disarmament was able to adopt
at least a programme of work for negotiations to
ban fissile material production for nuclear
weapons, security assurances for non-nuclear-
weapon States, and the prevention of an arms
race in outer space. While negotiations will be
difficult and easily blocked by using the “rule of
consensus”, the programme is an important step
forward. The programme shows a certain shift
in the attitudes of Governments. This shift is
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 mandates. Many NGOs would meet at an
annual world conference in August in
also seen in the relatively favourable atmosphere Hiroshima, and many have participated in the
in the most recent preparatory meeting for the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conferences
2010 Review Conference on the Non- starting in 1975.
Proliferation Treaty and the joint disarmament
statements made by Russia and the Nevertheless, there has been
USA in July 2009. Taken together, For over a decade, the relatively little impact of NGOs on
these measures suggest that UN disarmament body, the over-all strategic doctrines of
Governments are slowly building the Conference on Governments. The NGO impact
momentum toward real progress in a Disarmament, has been has been most felt in the lead up to
multi-State framework. inactive, starved of the Treaty banning anti-personnel
resources, attention and mines and the convention on cluster
serious human capital. munitions. In both these efforts,
humanitarian and human rights
organizations, largely absent from
earlier arms control efforts, played important
roles. The same holds true for efforts to control
the “small arms” conventional arms trade as
conventional arms often assist in the
perpetration of serious violations of human
rights such as torture, the excessive use of force
by security personnel, extrajudicial executions,
and disappearances.

Now, it is an appropriate time to build a

With these steps on the part of Governments,
it is crucial that the broader civil society, as
structured through non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), devote new energies to
the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free world.
There have always been NGOs which have had
nuclear disarmament or general and complete
disarmament as an important part of their
broad coalition of people and organizations to
develop a world security framework and to
review the strategic and arms policy of each
State in the light of a world security framework.
The renewed efforts of the Conference on
Disarmament and the 2010 NPT Review can
provide a focus for new civil society energies for
a nuclear-weapon-free world.
* Rene Wadlow, Representative to the
UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens

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Through Self Realization the world can become
a better place. Awareness of our own personal
individual weakness is essential, because only
then may we grow to love ourselves and become
stronger.
cultures and faiths can live in peace. Human
spirit should be transformed and trained to a
culture of non-violence. The inner change, the
human revolution is the key to stimulate
contributory action and compassion of people
within their communities, workplaces and
family. That's the way we can build peace, and
the way is long maybe, but the unity of
intentions and spirit and the common respect of
everyone's life, non matter about any sort of
difference, may be the big basic step to
universal harmony.
I believe that peace must first start within each
of us. To love and accept yourself compared to

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teaches that for world peace we must first be greatest war of all ...the war we create within
able to see our own truth in order to appreciate ourselves. When we find our peace it overflows
and love others. Blind cannot lead the blind. To to our families, our friends, our community, our
truly make this world a better place for us all to country and ultimately the world.
not only get along, but truly live out our
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Gaza
the face.” Just as the first steps of the
European Common Market had to
overcome the deep wounds of the

Development Second World War, so in the situation of

Gaza, there is a need to break strong
psychological barriers with cooperative
Authority: economic measures.

A New Deal Model for One possibility for socio-

economic recovery of Gaza would be a
the Middle East trans-national economic effort that
would bring together energy,
By Rene Wadlow knowledge, and money from Gaza,
Israel, the West Bank and Egypt,
It is difficult to predict the
creating conditions which would
political future of Gaza both in terms of
facilitate the entry of other investors.
relations between Hamas and Fatah as
well as the future relations with Israel
A possible model is the trans-
and Egypt. What is certain is the Israel-
state efforts of the Tennessee Valley
Gaza conflict and the long embargos
Authority (TVA) of the US New Deal.
have crippled and in some cases
The TVA was a path-making measure to
destroyed the manufacturing and
overcome the deep economic
agricultural sectors of the Gaza Strip
depression of the 1930s in the USA. In
where some one and a half million
May 1933, the Roosevelt administration
people depend on imports for most
and the Congress created the TVA. In
basic goods and on exports for
his message to Congress, Roosevelt
livelihood. The economic and social
suggested that the Authority should be a
situation in Gaza distorts the lives of
“corporation clothed with the power of
many with high unemployment, poor
Government but possessed of the
health facilities, and a lack of basic
flexibility and initiative of a private
supplies.
enterprise. It should be charged with
the broadest duty of planning for the
As the political situation is so
proper use, conservation and
uncertain, it is important not to rule out
development of the natural resources of
in advance political and economic
the Tennessee River drainage basin and
proposals even if, at first sight, such
its adjoining territory for the general
proposals seem unlikely to be able to be
social and economic welfare of the
put into practice. As Jean Monnet, one
Nation…This in a true sense is a return
of the fathers of the European Common
to the spirit and vision of the pioneer. If
Market had said “Men take great
we are successful here, we can march
decisions only when crisis stares them in

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on, step by step, in the development of
other great natural territorial units.”
The central idea back of the TVA
was that it should do many things, all
connected with each other by the
concrete realities of a damaged river full
of damaged people. To do all these
activities well, it had to be a public
corporation: public, because it served
the public interest and a corporation
rather than a government department,
so that it could initiate the flexible
responsible management of a well-run
private corporation. As Stringfellow Barr
wrote in Citizens of the World “The great
triumph of the TVA was not the building
of the great dams. Great dams had
been built before. Its greatest triumph
was that it not only taught the Valley
people but insisted on learning from
them too. It placed its vast technical
knowledge in the pot with the human
wisdom, the local experience, the
courage, and the hopes of the Valley
people, and sought solutions which
neither the Valley folk nor the TVA
technicians could ever have found
alone. It respected persons.”
The Gaza strip is not one of the
great natural territorial units of the
world, and respect for persons has been
in short supply. However, only a New
Deal is likely to break the cycle of
violence and counter-violence. A Gaza
Development Authority, an independent
socio-economic corporation devoted to
multi-sector and trans-national planning
and administration would be an
important start in a new deal of the
cards. Such a Gaza Development
Authority would obviously have Hamas
members but also persons chosen for
their expertise as well as persons from
community organizations.
Strong socio-economic structures
are needed which can hold during
periods of inevitable future tensions. A
Gaza Development Authority can be a
framework for such strong measures of
cooperative effort.
Author’s Note
This text was prepared for the
conference on The Palestinian Future
organized by the Center for
Democracy and Community
Development and Al-Quds University
(Jerusalem) 30 September – 2
October, 2009.
About the Author
Rene Wadlow, Representative to the
United Nations, Geneva, Association of
World Citizens and editor of the online
journal of world politics:
www.transnational-perspectives.org
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Spiritual
Destinations
The Holy Land
Let us say that you are a world traveler and you
love ethnic cultures and that you are headed to
explore the Middle East to include Israel.
The following information is a compilation of
what you must know while planning your trip to
the Holy Lands.
Dome of the Rock and Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Israel
[Photo: Annie Griffiths Belt, National Geographic]
If you have an Israeli stamp on your passport,
you might be denied entry into Arab countries,
and vice-versa. So, during your travel planning,
it truly is in your best interest to be aware of
the political issues between Israel and its
neighbors. Exception to this are travels to Egypt
and Jordan.
According to Israeli law, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi
Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and Iran are considered
"Enemy countries" and an Israeli citizen may
not visit them without a special permit issued
by the Israeli minister of the interior. As of
March 2009, there is still no conclusion made by
the Israeli government whether or not
Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, and the
Gaza Strip will be approved to be added to the
'Enemy countries' list although a move was
initiated on April 1, 2008.
If you are of dual nationality having both US
citizenship and Israeli citizenship, Israeli law
applies to you.
The following countries do not accept Israeli
passports: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei,
Djibouti, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,
Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia,
Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and
Yemen.
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These Arab countries do allow entry for Israeli
citizens: Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan,
Qatar, Oman, Morocco and Mauritania.
These countries might not accept passports
which contain Israeli stamps or visas: Iran,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
These countries allow for a passport holder to
have two valid passports to circumvent the
restrictions concerning Israel if the applicant
can satisfactorily explain why a second passport
is needed when applying. Australia, Austria,
Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, United
Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, Canada and
United States.
Recently, Israel began the practice of issuing
Palestinian Authority Areas-Only Stamp which
denies the affected passport holder access to
Israel.
Palestinian Authority Areas - Only Stamp [Source: Toufic Haddad, The
Faster Times]
To avoid expensive re-routing of travel plans to
include changes in air itinerary, no-refund
cancellations of lodging accommodations, and
missed planned events, check with the US State
Department in the early part of your planning
stages for the latest details on the region and
request instructions on how to best
accommodate your plans. You would not want
to arrive in the region only to be asked to take
the next flight back home. Moreover, consider
purchasing travel insurance that would cover
anything that could go wrong with your travel
plans.
Denied entry into Israel: The impact of
Palestinian Authority (PA) areas-only stamp on
Americans
U.S. passport holders are occasionally denied
entry into Israel or the West Bank at one of the
border crossings. Entry into Israel and the West
Bank is subject to the authority of the relevant
border officials.
The impact of Palestinian Authority (PA) Areas-
Only Stamp has been felt by numerous travelers
who have filed complaints of the practice to the
US Consulate General of Jerusalem. The
magnitude of the complaints and the ensuing
international news written on the issue caught
US journalists' attention and put US
Department of State on the spot during the
Daily Briefings conducted by Spokesperson Ian
Kelly on 18-19 August 2009.
What are the Entry/Exit issues related to
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza?
The Government of Israel considers American
citizens who also hold Israeli citizenship or have
a claim to such dual nationality to be Israeli
citizens for immigration and other legal
purposes. American citizens whom Israeli
authorities suspect of being of Arab or Muslim
origin are likely to face additional, often time-
consuming, and probing questioning by
immigration and border authorities, or may
even be denied entry into Israel. If they are
determined by Israeli authorities to have a
claim to residency status in the West Bank or
Gaza, or to have a claim to a Palestinian
identification number, such American citizens
may be required by the Government of Israel to
use a Palestinian Authority travel document to
transit Israel to enter the West Bank or Gaza.
The US Consulate General of Jerusalem strongly
encourages anyone denied entry into Israel or
the West Bank to complete the Denial of Entry
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form and submit it via e-mail
to JerusalemACS@state.gov.
Please note that Ben Gurion International
Airport, the Jordan River-Sheikh Hussein border
crossing in the north, and the Rabin-Arava
border crossing in the south, fall under the
jurisdiction of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and
specific issues involving these crossings should
be addressed there.
What is the Palestinian Authority (PA) Areas-
Only Stamp?
Since the spring of 2009, Israeli border officials
at the Allenby border crossing have begun using
a new entry visa stamp that permits travel only
in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas.
Anyone indicating that they either have
connections to the West Bank, or are planning
to travel to the West Bank, may get this stamp,
which does not permit them to enter
into green-line Israel. Please note that only
Israeli liaison offices in the West Bank can assist
-- but they rarely will. Travelers should be alert,
and pay attention to which stamp they receive
upon entry.
What does having the PA stamp on your
passport mean?
American citizens who hold a Palestinian
Authority ID, as well as persons judged by the
Israeli authorities to have claim to a Palestinian
Authority ID, will be considered subject to
Israeli law and to regulations that Israel applies
to residents of the West Bank and Gaza,
regardless of the fact that they hold U.S.
citizenship. Upon arrival, such persons may wish
to consider asking Israeli immigration
authorities from where they will be required to
depart. American citizens who have (or who
are eligible to receive) a Palestinian Authority
Identification Number are likely to be refused
entry to Israel via Ben Gurion Airport and be
told that they must enter Israel from Jordan via
the Allenby (also known as King Hussein) Bridge.
In June 2009, the Israeli government began
selectively limiting certain travelers to either
the occupied territories of the West Bank and
Gaza, or to Israel and Jerusalem. To date, the
Israeli government has not provided
information about which categories of travelers
can expect to be subject to these restrictions.
Nonetheless, Israeli border officials at Ben
Gurion Airport began requiring certain travelers
to sign a form that states s/he is not allowed to
enter territories controlled by the Palestinian
Authority unless s/he obtains advance
authorization from the Israeli "Territory Actions
Coordinator," and that violating this restriction
may result in the traveler being deported from
Israel and barred from entry for up to 10 years.
At the Allenby Bridge crossing, as well as at Ben
Gurion Airport, Israeli border officials also
began using a new entry stamp for certain
travelers that states "Palestinian Authority
Only." Since travelers entering via the Allenby
crossing must transit Israeli checkpoints and
Israeli-controlled territory to reach Jerusalem or
Gaza, this restriction effectively limits travelers
who receive this stamp at Allenby to
destinations in the West Bank only. This stamp
has been known to be used even with travelers
who have no Palestinian or other Arab ancestry,
and who would not seem to have any claim to a
Palestinian Authority ID.
What is the US doing about the issue brought
upon by the Palestinian Authority areas-only
stamp affecting Palestinian Americans and
other American citizens who are faced with
having the stamp on their passport?
The United States Government seeks equal
treatment for all American citizens regardless of
national origin or ethnicity. Americans in Israel,
the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip are strongly
encouraged to register with the Consular
Sections of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv or the
U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem through
the State Department's travel registration
website, https://travelregistration.state.gov.
U.S. citizens who require emergency services
may telephone the Consulate General in
Jerusalem at (972) (2) 628-7137, after hours (for
emergencies): (972) (2) 622-7250, or the
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Embassy in Tel Aviv at (972) (3) 519-7575, after
hours (for emergencies): (972) (3) 519-7551.
The United States protests the implementation
of the new Palestinian Authority (PA) Areas-
Only Stamp and marks it unacceptable due to
its unequal treatment of Americans traveling to
Israel, West Bank or Gaza, to include journalists
and humanitarian workers even if they are not
of Palestinian or Arab descent. The United
States further seeks to ensure Palestinian-
Americans are allowed access to Israel. Having
the PA stamp on US passports prohibits the
passport holder from entering Israel. The US
State Department advises all who are traveling
to Israel to research updated information on
their website to ensure they are well-informed
of the current events regarding entry and exit
issues.
Gaza Strip map (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Travel Warning: Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza
As of August 14, 2009, the US State Department
issued a warning for all U.S. citizens on the risks
of traveling to Israel, the West Bank, and the
Gaza Strip, and about threats to themselves and
to U.S. interests in those locations. This
warning replaces the one issued on January 15,
2009.
The Gaza Strip and Southern Israel
The US State Department urges US citizens to
avoid all travel to the Gaza Strip as the timely
assistance of US consular staff to US citizens is
extremely limited. The Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) has sealed the border between Israel and
the Gaza Strip. The security environment is
unpredictable and dangerous. The IDF has also
declared an exclusion zone along the border
with Israel and has taken lethal measures
against individuals who enter it. U.S.
Government personnel travelling near the
border, to include the city of Sderot, require
approval from the Embassy's Regional Security
Office.
The West Bank
The US State Department urges Americans to
be alert of security measures and to exercise
caution as vehicles are targets of rocks, Molotov
cocktails and gunfire on West Bank roads. IDF
operations can occur anytime to include raids to
arrest terrorist suspects and Americans can get
caught in dangerous situations. The
Department of State also recommends that
Americans not participate in demonstrations as
such have involved confrontations with the IDF.
Travelers should be aware that they might
encounter delays and difficulties, might be
denied passage through Israeli checkpoints, US
consular staff has limited ability to offer timely
assistance to U.S. citizens in the West Bank.
US Consular Assistance
Current information on travel and security in
Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip may
be obtained from the Department of State by
calling 1-888-407-4747 within the United States
and Canada, or, from overseas, 1-202-501-
4444. For additional and more in-depth
information about specific aspects of travel to
these areas, U.S. citizens should consult: the
Country Specific Information for Israel, the
West Bank and Gaza; and the Worldwide
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Caution. These along with other Travel
Warnings, Travel Alerts and Country Specific
Information are available on the Department's
Internet website at http://travel.state.gov. Up-
to-date information on security conditions can
also be accessed at
http://usembassy-israel.org.il or
http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov. Americans
are also encouraged to sign up to receive
security-related information from the U.S.
Embassy in Tel Aviv via email at the following
link:
http://telaviv.usembassy.gov/consular/acs/inde
x.aspx.
Related Resources:
US Consulate General in Jerusalem: Procedures
for entering Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
Article by Gina Alzate
Author Biography
I'm a Travel Consultant and Cruise Planner with
World Tours and Cruises. I love helping people
plan their romance at sea, destination weddings,
reunions, corporate events, conferences and
workshops at sea. I'm an Online Radio Talk Show
Host on TalkShoe and the Broadcaster for World
Radio 365. As the Metaphysical Therapy
Educator and Holistic Health Practitioner with
Holistic Life Designs, I lead workshops on land
and at sea. To round up my 9th House fun times,
I am the National Holistic Travel Examiner and
the Philadelphia Romance Examiner for
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 Hosted by
Brenda
Braden
on the World Puja Network
October 1, 2009
What would your world be like if you never
experience fear or restriction and just
followed your inner calling?
Take A Suitcase Full of Faith in hand and join
me as I speak with Saskia Roëll about her life.
She shares with me how following the pull of an
indwelling voice has lead her to many different
countries, warned her when she went into an
undiscovered Egyptian tomb, pulled at her
heartstrings until she listened and followed the
path to her soul-mate and now husband, and
called at her across the ocean until she and her
family (including 5 children) left behind their well
established and very serene life to discover a land
they had never lived in before.
This journey will inspire you to put your faith into
action, give you the courage to take chances and
achieve a remarkable life. It sounds so very
simple and Saskia Roëll will take you on a
breathtaking adventure!
Saskia Roëll www.asuitcasefulloffaith.com
email divinethread@verizon.net
Coming 7 October 2009!
Listen to Brenda Braden live on OM-Times Radio
For more information, visit www.om-times.ning.com
www.worldpuja.org
October 15, 2009
How many lifetimes have you shared with
your family members or friends?
Join Sherri Defesche and I as we talk about her
newly released book Reunion on the Rainbow
Bridge My parents past lives and the one
they shared with me.
Sherri speaks about how unconditional love and
support can get you through anything. She shares
with me how healing was created with the
discovery of her mother and father not only being
soul mates in just this one lifetime; rather, they
had shared lifetimes in over 200 incarnations.
From Lemurians living in paradise to ancient
Anasazi living in the Desert Southwest and from
Greek servants studying philosophy to Celtic
children dying under Hadrian’s rule, hearing about
many of her parents’ past lives was like taking a
magic carpet ride through history.
Interestingly enough my authors from last month
Linda Drake and Julia Hanson were catalysts in
bringing healing and light to Sherri in her
exploration of her parents deep commitment and
connection for 46 years.
Sherri Defesche www.rainbowjourneybooks.com
email Sherri@rainbowjourneybooks.com
Book Review
By Chris Anderson
Who Told You That You Were Naked?
By John Jacob Raub
I have been thinking about diving into A Course
in Miracles, but can’t bring yourself to make the
commitment? Well, here’s a great way to get to
the core concepts of the Course in a highly
accessible, beautifully written book that you
can pick up and read cover to cover in one
afternoon.
First printed in 1992 and now in its sixth
printing, this book by Trappist monk John Jacob
Raub serves as a lucid and healing
interpretation of both the old and new
testaments as well as the “Bible for the New
Age,” A Course in Miracles. Raub brings the
message of the Christ consciousness into
glowing life, guiding the reader to insights
about the nature of guilt and shame, the truth
about original sin, and the inescapable destiny
we share as we move toward the next level of
evolution In quoting from the book; “The
kingdom of God can always be found in what is
in front of our eyes, whether that situation is
fraught with evil or not. And in this kingdom,
God does not ask why things are as they are,
but ‘What is your response to the way things
are?’ We can make a response to the way
things are if we are continually thinking, ‘Why
should this be?’
“Since the why of life is not central in the
kingdom, the Buddhist saying of having a ‘don’t-
know mind’ has sense to it — we are to respond
with discernment that includes seeing God’s
presence in every situation, and not to freeze
ourselves in railing against reality.”
Raub's book assists the reader to recognize that
we have an unbreakable bond with God, that
we can never fall outside the kingdom of
Heaven, and urges and empowers us to move
beyond guilt, fear, and confusion... to fully
embrace our real nature — the complete and
whole creation of
an infinite, loving
God.
Om Times Magazine October 2009
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is just a piece of the pie! Through the book "From Om to Orgasm: The Tantra Primer for
Living in Bliss", Chandi transforms the popular notion that tantra is only about lust and
pedestrian sex, to tantra as a sacred gateway to love and enlightenment.

www.theworldoftantra.com

Voices of Survivors Anthology

compiled by Vanilla Heart Publishing

In this book you will find stories from men, women, mothers, fathers, children, brothers,
sisters, someone you may even know. Rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse touches
more lives than we even realize. In this book, you will find people of both genders, of all
races and nationalities, and from all walks of life. Rape survivors come in all shapes and
colors. Rape does not discriminate by race, gender, income, or any other factor. Rape
affects PEOPLE. ALL people. You will find hope, strength, and inspiration in the amazing
lives these survivors live!
www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com

Tales of a Zany Mystic

by L.B. White

Talk Show Radio Host, healer, writer and mystic L.B. White is the Zany Mystic. This book is
a wild roller coaster ride of substance abuse, jail, angelic encounters and decades of triumph
over AIDS. With wit and humor, this spiritual journey entertains and inspires.

www.zanymystic.blogspot.com

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A Suitcase Full of Faith

by Saskia Roell

Inside A Suitcase Full of Faith, you'll meet Saskia, a modern-day, spiritual adventurer who -
along with her husband and five young children - sold her home in Holland, gave up a
thriving career and took a daring leap of faith to explore the possibility of a brand new life in
the United States. Saskia takes you around the world to learn how trust and faith will carry
you through the best and the worst of times and lead you to live the extraordinary life!

http://www.suitcasefulloffaith.com

Surviving Cancer and Other Tough Stuff: An Illustrated Journal for a Healthy and
Abundant Life
by Kanta Bosniak

Hypnotherapist and cancer survivor Kanta Bosniak shares her inspiring story and offers
readers facing any life challenge a gentle process for transformation with excercises in the
included workbook. It will help anyone who wants to emerge from a difficult experience
better than before...happier, healthier and living a more abundant life.

http://www.kantabosniak.com

Reiki Jin Kei Do: The Way of Compassion and Wisdom

by Steve Gooch

Reiki Jin Kei Do broadens the way we can view Reiki, seeing it, more than simply a healing
system, as a way of living and a means to enlightenment. It is a path to self-perfection and
liberation. It did not suddenly appear in the 19th century, but has an older lineage that runs
back through Tibetan Buddhist monks. Reiki Jin Kei Do is set to reshape the way we think
about Reiki.

http://www.omahhum.org

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power of spiritual symbols and sacred geometry from around the world to bring those wearing my
sacred jewelry happiness, vitality, excitement, and love. My jewels are painstakingly crafted to work
on conscious and subconscious levels to inspire people’s lives.

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