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Namaste’ Soul Family, your life, someone

Speaking of change, as it else WILL!

applies to health & well being I
believe the saying goes, the only
(author unknown)
thing constant in the universe is
– “CHANGE!” Our view on
what it means to fully embrace The end results
from years of
the human experience is ever
physical, mental or
evolving. Many are questioning spiritual neglect of
the current state of food affairs ones self almost
and looking for real solutions. always results in
Why? Because the cat’s out of adverse & often
the bag and we are aware to the irreversible damage
possibility that “unnatural” to the body. The
chemicals are being put into the key to living a
food / water / air supply and that healthy, well
balanced,
it is not having a positive impact
purposeful life is to
on the environment or the be “aware!” Just
people. In the beginning, “was it aware of what is
ignorance or accident” and what can be done to going on in your local and global world is a
protect individuals and communities, since there good place to begin. For example, at the local
is no current utopia. level, examine your cancer rates and compare to
state, national, international numbers. Does
The process of CHANGE has already begun. science yet confirm that a correlation with what
Unlocking the mysteries to enjoying a balanced, goes in / on / around our body as to the health
joyful, creative, playful and healthy life! We are and well being of our body?
living longer and beginning to grasp the results
A definitive YES! In the coming months a
of “self abuse & neglect” and the impact they
comprehensive query into how an average
have on our quality of life. We have a person, on an average budget can make
responsibility to our local & global communities decisions that will positively impact their health
to live a peaceful, healthy, rewarding, peaceful, and wellbeing. It may take a little effort, but
healthy, rewarding life, but there is no getting together we can learn how to truly LIVE once
around it - we must be actively involved in it. again. To BE all you can BE : Be the light you
want the world to SEE : BE happy to just BE!

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Editorial
. Debbie Lawlor Camarda
OM-Times Editorial
"Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see Team
more clearly the ongoing processes of growth,
renewal and transformation in our lives." -
Mary Ann Brussat

One of the more difficult things about living

in the Pacific Northwest in the winter stems
from a simple geographical concept called
latitude. Even in more temperate climates
Just as nature engages
such as ours, higher
us in its process of
latitudes translate to
rebirth and renewal, it
shorter days this time
also serves as a mirror
of year. Like an
to what is occurring
unwelcome guest,
inside us.
Winter arrives too
early and stays far too
late. This creates a As we clear out the
long string of short, weeds in our gardens,
darkened days, which we also clear our
we simply have to minds of that which
endure as we no longer serves. We
constantly pray for an find we then have
occasional "sun room for new
break". thoughts, new action in our lives. This
season of transformation inspires us to
transform ourselves as well. Spring is also
But there is also a gift in the darkness of our
the perfect time to renew ourselves, to
winters. For from the day that Winter
"freshen" our thoughts as well as our
Solstice arrives, the days gradually grow
dreams. Also, as we tend to our personal
longer as they reach for the beautiful season
gardens, we encourage new growth in others
we call Spring.
as well. Energy ~ rebirth ~ renewal ~
transformation ~ it's all pretty wonderful
Spring is a time when we finally emerge; we
stuff. So indeed, let's celebrate! And while
are literally reborn with new light, energy
we do, let's also stop and enjoy the fragrance
and focus. With this new season, it is
of the abundant blossoms before us, each
almost impossible not to be distracted by
representing a new potential and possibility
sunshine, blue skies and warmer
in this wonderful season of rebirth!
temperatures, all of which conspire to bring
us outdoors.
Namaste.

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Toronto
Pictures
The Present and Future of Socially Conscious Filmmaking
Maestro Bruno Pischiutta is the Founder, President and
C.E.O. of Independent Film Studio Toronto Pictures. His
vision is the use of nonviolent mainstream filmmaking to
address issues facing our world and bring them forth to
the general public. Daria Trifu is the Vice President and
C.O.O. of Toronto Pictures.
Based out of Toronto, Canada, Toronto Pictures is an
independent film studio, which develops, produces and
distributes films around the world. Toronto Pictures
produces nonviolent and socially conscious feature films.
Their commitment to social responsibility has been a key
factor and the reason for choosing to produce each and
every one of the company's films.
Toronto Pictures does more than just highlight issues –
they do something to solve them. The company is
donating 10% of the Net Profit of the first three years of
their latest feature film PUNCTURED HOPE to the African
village where most of the film was shot. Toronto Pictures'
goals include the construction of a school staffed with a
full-time teacher, the construction of a small hospital
with a full-time doctor and nurses and the development
of a utilities infrastructure enabling residents to access
power and clean, safe water.
In keeping with their social commitment, Toronto
Pictures will also be donating 10% of the first three years’
Net Profit of their next film A PARTY GIRL FOR THE RAT
PACK to the Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services - a
center for the rehabilitation of young offenders in
Pasadena, California.
OM-Times: Toronto Pictures is doing movies that have a
strong social message. Daria, please tell us more about
Director Bruno Pischiutta and his social commitment.
Article and
Interview
compiled by
Liane Legey
Daria Trifu: Bruno Pischiutta is known for his lifelong
commitment to fostering the art of filmmaking. He
established his career in his native Italy when, in 1975, he
founded and directed Rome's Centro Iniziative Di Azione
Culturale, the nation's only alternative school for theater
and film. He is known for his high quality film production
skills and he’s specifically noted for his politically and
socially oriented feature films.
Bruno has been awarded the Critics Award at Venice Film
Festival (1970), the Premio Simpatia (1976), the Belle Arti
Di Roma (1976) and at the New York Film Festival (1981 &
1986) and at the Bahamas One World Film Festival
(2003). This past December, he has been nominated by
The Political Film Society - Hollywood for the film
PUNCTURED HOPE.
He is also a published writer of two books (‘The
Comoedia’ 1980 and ‘E va bene parliamo di cinema’
1982) and of recognized courses for filmmakers
(directing, writing, editing and acting) in Italy. He made
his directorial debut in 1975 with COMPAGNE NUDE, and
he moved to Canada in 1983. His other films include
ULTIMO INCONTRO A VENEZIA (1977), ISOLA MECCANICA
(1978), THE COMOEDIA (1981), BOUNTY HUNTERS
(1985), LIFE’S CHARADE (1987), MAYBE (2003) and
PUNCTURED HOPE (2009).
In addition, he wrote, directed, produced, executive
produced and edited other feature films, TV shows and
documentaries widely screened in cinemas and broadcast
throughout Italy and other European countries to date.
Bruno is also the Founder and Chairman of the Toronto
Pictures Film Academy of Ghana.
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OM-Times: Bruno, please share with us more about Daria
Trifu and how she became involved with your Company.
Bruno Pischiutta: Daria was born in Brasov, Romania in
1981 and she began her film career in the year 2000, few
months after moving to Canada. She is a graduate of my
exclusive Film Acting Course in Toronto.
Daria has studied Fine Arts since grade 5 in Europe and
she graduated in 2000 with honors from the Central
Technical School - Fine Arts Program in Canada. In
Romania, she held private exhibitions of her paintings
ever since the early age of 15 and her artwork was
commissioned by prestige hotels in the mountain resort
of Poiana Brasov. In her youth, Daria, a prodigy child,
excelled in sports such as tennis and ski when she won
numerous competitions; she traveled the world both with
her family and on her own with a National Choir
attending International
Festivals.
Today, she oversees the
organization of Toronto
Pictures’ attendance to
all major film markets
such as The American
Film Market, Cannes,
Montreal, etc. and in
2003 she was a speaker
on the “Peacefulfish &
Variety Presents Global
Film Finance” panel in
Cannes.
Daria is the Assistant
Director of the feature
film MAYBE (2003); Producer & Executive Producer of the
documentary BRUNO PISCHIUTTA: FILM DIRECTOR (2009)
and Producer & Executive Producer of the feature films
PUNCTURED HOPE and A PARTY GIRL FOR THE RAT PACK
(2010).
She will make her acting debut in the leading female role
in the feature film WISTERIA that will be shot in Romania
this year. Daria Trifu is the Founder, President and C.E.O.
of Adhara Properties and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of
“Daria!” Magazine. She is also a Founding Member and
President of the Toronto Pictures Film Academy of
Ghana.
I believe that Daria is an excellent role model for the
current generation of Romanian girls. She is one of the
youngest and most powerful film executives in the world.
OM-Times: A film is always the result of team work. The
‘team’, however, may be assembled for various purposes.
Can you tell us more about the moviemaking process?
Bruno Pischiutta: Most movie ideas originate from a best
seller, a particular historical character or event. They are
green-lighted in the boardrooms of studios or in the
offices of executive producers. The executive producer is
the uncontested administrative ‘leader’ of the project. He
or she is the one who chooses the producer, the director,
the stars, the casting agency and all the other important
team members. Over the course of the filmmaking
process, sometimes the film benefits from the input
contributed by everyone involved, however, it sometimes
also faces the consequences resulting from the team
members’ different dispositions and egos. In certain cases
the “leader” of the filmmaking process is also the film
star, the director and also the producer.
OM-Times: Film
authors’ movies present
many differences from
other film productions.
What are some of those
differences?
Daria Trifu: Authors’
movies stem from an
author’s need to tell the
viewers a story. The end
product consists of
images that reach the
brain of the viewers in
such a way, that they
reflect the direct
representations of the
images originally formed in the brain of the author.
Therefore the author is the uncontested “leader” of the
filmmaking process because he or she is the only one
who has already seen the film (in his or her own
brain). This is the reason for which the author is the one
who can cast the actors, make all the choices, compose
the team and, consequently, it is understood that he or
she should have complete control of the filmmaking
process.
The author’s films, such as those of Bruno Pischiutta, are
more intimate and may be considered to be ‘hand-
crafted’ products, artisan work, rather than products of
an assembly line.
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OM-Times: PUNCTURED HOPE has enjoyed a lot of
recent success. Please share a synopsis of the movie and
its success.
Daria Trifu: PUNCTURED HOPE: A STORY ABOUT TROKOSI
AND YOUNG GIRLS’ SLAVERY IN TODAY’S WEST AFRICA is
the first mainstream feature film which is based on an
African story interpreted by an all African cast of
professional actors and shot in Africa. PUNCTURED HOPE
is inspired by the true life story of an African Trokosi
slave. Trokosi is one of the most widespread forms of
women’s slavery that exists in the world today. In fact,
today, there are 25,000 Trokosi slaves and 2,000,000
women who are genitally mutilated every year.
PUNCTURED HOPE was an official Selection at the
Montreal World Film Festival (2009).
OM-Times: Tonye and Ruffy, you are two of the lead
actors in PUNCTURED HOPE. What was your personal
and professional life like before you participated in the
film and what is your life like since you've finished
filming?
Tonye Akagbo: My goal has always been to become the
best actress in Ghana. I never find the time to have a
boyfriend, but I am the outgoing type of lady. My
professional life before PUNCTURED HOPE was
challenging because I had just gained admission at the
Ghana Institute of Journalism to pursue a BA in
Communication Studies. When the filming started I was a
student pursuing an acting career. Now I am a major in
Public Relations. Professionally, this film has opened
avenues for me both in Ghana and internationally.
Ruffy Quansah: I had just started in the business and I
was trying to make it. Now I am a professional actor and
an emerging producer. I was recently nominated for an
‘African Academy Award’ as one of the four best
emerging African actors.
OM-Times: Were you familiar with the practice of Trokosi
before this film? How did your family members feel about
you being part of the movie and were they supportive?
Tonye Akagbo: I come from a town called Atiavi in the
Volta Region of Ghana where Trokosi is practiced.
PUNCTURED HOPE has personally enlightened me about
how our women are brutally treated after being sent to
the shrine to serve the fetish priests.
Nobody in my family has ever experience Trokosi. I was
very happy about starring in a movie that reveals the evil
deeds of our people who practiced it. My family was
initially non-supportive, but after I explained the
importance of the movie and its benefits to our country,
they understood and gave me all of their support.
Ruffy Quansah: Yes, I was familiar with the practice of
Trokosi but, thankfully, my family was never directly
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affected. Participating to this groundbreaking production
has been an experience of a lifetime!
OM-Times: What was your experience working with
Director Bruno Pischiutta and Producer Daria Trifu?
Tonye Akagbo: My experience working with Bruno and
Daria was and continues to be wonderful, amazing and
challenging.
Ruffy Quansah: Bruno is one of the greatest directors of
our time and definitely the best director I have ever
worked with!
OM-Times: What character did you play in PUNCTURED
HOPE and how did you prepare for your role?
Tonye Akagbo: I played the character of Tonye. Tonye is a
young woman who was born in the shrine and was
sexually abused by the fetish priest and his guards. As a
result, she grew-up very timid and afraid. One day, as she
goes to the river to fetch some water, she meets two of
the girls who are running away from the shrine. She
believes that the one way to help those girls is to report
them to the priest because, to her, they - the Trokosi
slaves - have no home apart from the shrine. I prepared
for my role through the rehearsals conducted by Bruno.
Ruffy Quansah: My character’s name is Amegatse. The
role is a very important one because my character argues
against everything that Trokosi stands for. The practice of
Trokosi is forcing young girls to pay for crimes that they
have never committed and, as part of the atonement,
they are forced to sleep with old men. Trokosi is practiced
in the name of tradition.
OM-Times: Were there moments during the filming when
you became emotionally overwhelmed?
Tonye Akagbo: Yes. Often.
Ruffy Quansah: I was overwhelmed when they had
to shave the lead actress’ hair in preparation for
her induction into the shrine.
OM-Times: What effect and message do you hope
viewers take with them after they watch
PUNCTURED HOPE?
Tonye Akagbo: First, I would like to say that
Trokosi is very real, a bad tradition practiced in
Ghana and in other countries of West Africa. The
viewers of this film should try their best to
influence the decisions of our leaders and to
change such acts. This practice is preventing thousands of
women, in many villages, from accessing an education.
Ruffy Quansah: I know that some of the viewers will cry
and that they will be emotionally impacted but, above all,
what I would like them to do is to come to the aid of
these girls by pushing on international organizations to
implement change for the better. I also want them to
encourage all their friends to watch it as Bruno and Daria
are giving back 10% of the profit to help the village where
we made the picture.
OM-Times: Have you noticed any changes in the public
perception or in the way the Government addresses the
practice of Trokosi since the filming of PUNCTURED HOPE
ended?
Tonye Akagbo: One common thing we have in Ghana is
that most people are cautious about contradicting the
tradition. Therefore, the public perception has not
changed. However, the Government took some action
and they have closed about 29 of the shrines that
practice Trokosi.
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Ruffy Quansah: I have seen some change in terms of
women rights. As a matter of fact we now have a woman
as Chief Justice here in Ghana.
OM-Times: Tonye, do you think that Trokosi will ever be
eradicated? If so, what steps or actions do you think will
be necessary for this to happen?
many years, Jane was very close to Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
The film will deal with the relation between child abuse
and prostitution. It will be non-graphic and it will
constitute a new genre due to the fact that the structure
of this new feature will be something that has never been
seen before. It will be filmed in Brazil and in the USA.

Tonye Akagbo: Yes, Trokosi can be abolished. I believe it Daria Trifu: Also this year, we are producing the feature
can be done through education. The Government must film WISTERIA that will be filmed in Romania. The
also ensure that existing laws are enforced. characters’ stories develop during the season of Wisteria.
In the course of three months, many lives will have a
OM-Times: What are the other African issues that you dramatic turn. The story evolves around an elite, all-
would like to raise awareness about? female college with girls of every age, where a
prostitution ring is established. The film represents
Tonye Akagbo: Female certain effects of the
Genital Mutilation and sexual trafficking of
Corruption. children in Eastern
Europe. The main
Ruffy Quansah: Africa protagonists are two
has one problem and it young college girlfriends
is called ‘corruption’! who come from two
That is what I would like completely different
the world leaders to worlds - one poor and
take a good look at. one rich. The rich girl's
father is a US Embassy
OM-Times: Daria, what diplomat in Bucharest
is the casting method (Romania). He and his
that Bruno Pischiutta wife go through marital
uses for his films? turmoil fueled by the
tragedy of their sons’
Daria Trifu: Bruno casts sickness.
both professional actors
and common people “WISTERIA also shows
from all walks of life to the effect caused by
portray his films’ having someone very
characters. As far as we sick in the family on the
know, he is the first life of the other close
director to principally family members. The
cast through the internet talent from around the world. different themes of rich and poor, honest and dishonest,
The majority of the roles in both of our upcoming films, A pure and corrupt develop in this film in a way that the
PARTY GIRL FOR THE RAT PACK and WISTERIA are being viewers will not forget.
selected through our Community Website.
OM-Times: Bruno, you are very passionate about film
I am convinced that as we publicize our type of casting being a vehicle for social change.
and its success, there will be others who will try to use
the same system. Bruno Pischiutta: Education is a big component of our
films and most of our films’ topics consist of a social
OM-Times: What other projects are you working on? nature.

Bruno Pischiutta: This year, we are producing the film A The ‘new morality’ that our CAUSE is aiming to achieve,
PARTY GIRL FOR THE RAT PACK, which originates from the means not only exposing problems to our films’ viewers
novel “Breaking My Silence” by Jane McCormick. For but also doing something about them. This is why we

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donate back a percentage of the profits our films make. I
should note that this percentage comes from our
Producers’ share and does not affect the profit shares of
the film’s investors.
We want for the rights of women and children to be
respected. We want to fight intellectual pollution,
stupidity, racism and discrimination. We want to show
that nonviolent films can be commercially viable and can
contribute to achieving a better world. We want to win
the fight against ignorance and bigotry. We want to use
the art of film as a weapon in order to improve the
viewers’ lifestyle and to advance their mentality thereby
enhancing their life experience and introducing the
reflection about major social problems that anguish our
world today through positive thinking.
Our CAUSE is driven by high ideals and it is more
important than anyone of us.
It is a new world; it is time for a new morality! It is time to
put the important things first. We are working for our
CAUSE through the medium of film because we are
filmmakers. Film is our way of expressing ourselves and
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 Quiz Time

Ever wonder which movie star you are most like?

Well, a team of researchers got together and analyzed the
personalities of movie stars.
The gathered info has been incorporated into this quiz.
There are only 10 questions so it doesn't take long.

Which Movie Star Are

You?
3. What is your favorite type of movie?
1. Which describes your perfect date? A) Comedy
B) Horror
A) Candlelight dinner for two
C) Musical
B) Amusement Park
C) Roller blading in the park D) Romance
D) Rock Concert E) Documentary
E) Have dinner & see a movie F) Mystery
F) Dinner at home with a loved one

4. Which of the following jobs would you

2. What is your favorite type of music? choose if you were given only these choices?
A) Rock and Roll A) Waiter/Waitress
B) Alternative B) Sports Player
C) Soft Rock
C) Teacher
D) Classical
E) Christian D) Policeman
F) Jazz E) Bartender
F) Business person

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 5 Which would you rather do if you had an
hour to waste? 10. Of the following, who would you,
A) Work out rather spend time with?
B) Make out
C) Watch TV A) Someone who is smart
D) Listen to the radio B) someone with good looks
E) Sleep C) Someone who is a party animal
F) Read D) Someone who has fun all the
time
6 Of the following colors, which do you like E) someone who is very emotional
F) someone who is fun to be with
best?
A) Yellow
B) White
C) Sky blue
D) Teal
E) Gold
F) Red

7 Which one of the following would you like to eat right now?
A) Ice cream
B) Pizza
C) Sushi
D) Pasta
E) Salad
F) Lobster Tail

8. Which is your favorite holiday?

A) Halloween
B) Christmas
C) New Year's
D) Valentine's Day
E) Thanksgiving
F) Fourth of July

9 if you could go to any of the following places, which would it, be?
A) Reno
B) Spain
C) Las Vegas
D) Hawaii
E) Hollywood
F) British Columbia

Answers
Are in the last Page

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Health &
Healing
Innovative new
approaches to
Healing as well as
holistic methods
for dealing with
health issues and
personal growth
The Insightful

Dr. Judith Orloff

OM-Times Magazine March 2010 Edition
 Welcome Judith! Congratulations on your book,
Second Sight! I would like to begin by thanking you for
all your wonderful contributions to OM-Times
OM-Times Magazine Exclusive Interview conducted by Christopher Buck
Magazine and by expressing our Gratitude to you for
being a regular contributing columnist here. And, of
course, for this exclusive interview.
Let’s talk about your book.
Christopher: Why did you write Second Sight? Is there
a particular area you hope to help, or inspire, your
readers with?
Judith Orloff: Second Sight was very cathartic for me
as it recounts my "journey to become whole" by first
accepting and then embracing my intuitive abilities. As
a child, my vivid dreams and intuitions were whispered
about behind closed doors. As a medical student, I
denied the "shameful secret" by immersing myself in
the absolutes of science. Then as a psychiatrist, I
received proof of the value of my gift when an intuition
foretold a patient's suicide attempt. It is my hope that
through my story others will learn how to awaken their
own intuition and recognize how it can help them with
everyday life. One thing I’m certain of: if you follow
your intuitive voice, you can’t go wrong. Stay true to it.
Intuition is about empowerment, not having to
conform to someone else’s notion of who you should
be. It’s about being true to yourself, and all the
goodness that comes from that.
Christopher: In first part of your book, you talk about
your early life and discuss your struggles as a child to
embrace your intuitive side. As an engineer, I have had
a hard time learning to trust my feelings over my
“knowledge”. What is your advise based on your
experiences? How do I learn to balance my intuitive
and rational sides?
Judith Orloff: Realize that to be whole you must
balance both sides. The intellect is fantastic for
analyzing facts, but it is limited. It can’t understand
love, death or travel in the unseen realms as intuition
can. In Second Sight I stress that I always tune into my
intuition first, then see what my analytic mind has to
say about it. I trust my gut and visions above all else.
Christopher: Have you always integrated intuition into
your medical practice, or has it been a gradual process
during your professional life? Will you share an
example of how your intuition led to a more complete
Healing for a patient?
Judith Orloff: As I mentioned in Second Sight during
my medical training I strayed far from the intuitive
world. When I opened my Los Angeles psychiatric
practice in 1983, I had every intention of it being
traditional; I’d use medications, psychotherapy, but I
didn’t intend for intuition to play a role. My practice
was extremely successful. Since I was a workaholic and
also loved helping people, I had twelve hour days,
though very little personal life. But then I had a heart-
wrenching wake-up call that changed everything. It
was an intuition that a patient, on antidepressants,
was going to make a suicide attempt. Because she was
doing so well--nothing supported my hunch--I
dismissed it. Within a week she overdosed on the
antidepressants I’d prescribed and ended up in a coma
for nearly a month. (Had she not survived I would’ve
been devastated.) The hardest part, though, was that I
thought I’d harmed her by not utilizing a vital piece of
intuitive information. This was intolerable for me. From
then on, I knew, as a responsible physician, I had to
integrate my intuitions into my work.
Christopher: In the second half of Second Sight, you
give techniques for the reader to develop their own
intuition. How do dreams figure into this?
Judith Orloff: For me, dreaming is a direct line to a
place where magic abounds and nothing is without
meaning. It is a pristine state of awareness, unpolluted
and clear. Direct guidance for healing lies in our
dreams, the natural territory of intuition. Here, time
and space are non-existent and anything is possible.
Like a blank, white canvas, our dream world is a
spacious medium where intuition can freely express
itself. We have only to listen.
You are in partnership with your dreams. Initiate an
ongoing dialogue with them. It's like consulting the
wisest doctor you can imagine who knows you inside
out. You can ask your dreams anything. No question is
trivial if it is meaningful
Christopher: I used to think my dreams were just the
result of extra toppings on my pizza, but I am trying to
pay more attention to them and not let them slip away
with the dawn. How can I retain more of my dreams
and how do I learn to understand and apply them?
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 Judith Orloff: Here are my four strategies to help you
remember your dreams:
 Keep a journal and pen by your bed.
 Write a question on a piece of paper before
you go to sleep. Formalize your request. Place
it on a table beside your bed or under your
pillow.
 In the morning do not wake up too fast. Stay
under the covers for at least a few minutes
remembering your dream. Luxuriate in a
peaceful feeling between sleep and waking,
what scientists call the hypnagogic state. Those
initial moments provide a doorway.
 Open your eyes. Write down your dream
immediately; otherwise it will evaporate. You
may recall a face, object, color, or scenario, feel
an emotion. It doesn't matter if it makes
perfect sense-or if you retrieve a single image
or many. Record everything you remember.
Reliable intuitive information stands out in very
specific ways. Watch for these clues:
 Statements that simply convey information
 Neutral segments that evoke or convey no
emotion
 A detached feeling, like you're a witness
watching a scene
 A voice or person counseling you, as if you're
taking dictation from an outside source
 Conversations with people you never met
before who give instructions.
I've found that my most dead-on intuitions either come
across as compassionate or have no emotion at all.
Develop a careful eye as you practice separating the
content of your dreams from your reactions to it. Soon
you'll be able to tell the difference between unreliable
guidance and truly reliable guidance.
Christopher: You write about how people can use
intuition to communicate with people who have
transitioned from this life. Will you please elucidate on
this?
Judith Orloff: Yes, if you get very quiet and tune into
your heart you can expand your consciousness to reach
over to the other side. It’s not really that hard. You just
have to believe it’s possible and practice. Focus on the
person you’d like to communicate with who has passed
over, and request inwardly that they come forth. Then
be open to any impressions, visions, knowings or
messages that come through. But do this all from a
heart centered, loving place. That increases the power
of Second Sight.
Christopher: Here is a broad ranging question for
you…are there any other suggestions you have for
developing intuition? Besides “read the book”?
Judith Orloff: I discuss many techniques to develop
your intuition in Second Sight. Some of ways that you
can do this is to be aware of any gut feelings, a hunch,
a physical sensation, a snapshot-like flash, or a dream.
Here are some other tips:
 Practice Anonymous Service. Do something
nice for someone without taking credit for it.
The act of giving--especially when you're most
frazzled--opens your heart, is regenerative.
 Spend Time in Nature. As poet William
Wordsworth put it, civilization can be "too
much with us." People, cars, the news,
telephone cables matting the sky, all can keep
us from our bodies, divorce us from what is
natural. Regularly take at least a few hours out
from your routine. Visit the beach, a forest, a
canyon, a river. Choose a spot that moves you.
 Meditate. Sitting in meditation is a life-line to
your center, to the earth. By calming the mind,
you can re-align with your essence. Close your
eyes. Focus on your breath. Then gently extend
your awareness downward to strata, bedrock,
minerals, and soil. From the base of your spine
begin to feel a continuity with the earth's core.
Picture having a long tail that roots in that
center. Allow the earth's energy to infuse your
body and stabilize you. If you meditate for five
minutes or an hour this is sacred time.
 Listen To Your Dreams. Intuition is the
language of dreams. Every ninety minutes each
night during the REM stage of sleep, we dream.
Dreams provide answers about health,
relationships, career choices, any new
direction.
Christopher: Before I let you go…would it be a
“spoiler” for the book to ask about the family secrets
pertaining to your intuitive past that your mother told
you on her death bed?
Judith Orloff: On my mother’s deathbed, she decided
to tell me our “family secrets.” She told me, “I want to
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pass the power onto you.” I was astounded to learn Christopher: Thank you again, Judith! I know our
that I came from a lineage of intuitive healers on her extended family at OM-Times will enjoy this interview
side of the family--my Jewish grandmother who did as much as I have. I wish you every success with
laying on of hands in a shed behind the pharmacy she Second Sight!
and Grandpop ran in Philadelphia. East coast aunts and
cousins I’d never met since I grew up in California. Also,
my mother, herself, had a strong inner voice which told
her how to treat patients for over forty years. She’d
listened to this voice and secretly used her innate
healing powers to keep her lymphoma in remission for
many years. “Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked her. She
said simply, “I wanted you to lead a normal, happy life,
not to be thought of as weird like your grandmother
was.” I’ll always be grateful for what she shared, but,
still... she’d waited so long. Even so, I believe in the
wisdom of the paths we’ve been given. Mine has been
to fight for what I believed in despite what my parents
or anyone said. An invaluable but rugged lesson in
empowerment.

Publishers Note: As part of the book release of Second Sight, Judith Orloff, M.D. is offering some wonderful
bonus gifts from her friends, including Deepak Chopra, Joan Borysenko, Shirley MacLaine and others. You
can get the book and the 80+ bonus gifts at:

www.drjudithorloff.com/second-sight-promotion or www.drjudithorloff.com

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Boosting Your Teen's EQ
Do you have a bright teen with a poor EQ?
by

Charlotte Reznick PhD

IQ

EQ

Do you have a bright teenage

child who is nevertheless
struggling at school or having
difficulty socially? Your child's
IQ and SAT scores probably
aren't the culprit. Child
education psychologists agree
that EQ—or emotional
intelligence—has much more
influence on your child's success,
now and in the future.

Emotional intelligence, first described

by Peter Salovey and John Mayer, two
Yale University psychologists in 1990,
refers to five main emotional competency areas:
 Emotional self-awareness: recognizing, naming, and
understanding the cause of one's feelings;
 Handling emotions appropriately: demonstrating productive
options for managing stress and upsetting feelings rather than "acting-out"
negatively;
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Self-motivation: thinking, planning, and
solving problems by using impulse control,
frustration tolerance, and delayed
gratification to reach a specific goal;
 Empathy: recognizing and
understanding emotions in others;
and
 Social skills: handling emotions in
relationships and interacting
harmoniously with others.
Charlotte Reznick PhD is a child educational
psychologist, an Associate Clinical Professor of
Psychology at UCLA, and author of the LA Times
bestselling book The Power of Your Child's
Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety
into Joy and Success (Perigee/Penguin, 2009). In
addition to her private practice, she creates
therapeutic relaxation CDs for children, teens, and
parents, and teaches workshops internationally on
the healing power of children's imagination. You can
find out more about her at:
http://www.imageryforkids.com

As a parent, you can help your child

develop her EQ. It's never too late—and
your child is never too old—for you to begin
talking with her, asking her sensitive
questions, listening to her responses, and
offering gentle guidance or advice.
Teenagers often get less physical touch
and less one-on-one intimate conversation
time with their parents than younger kids
and toddlers do. And although they are
good at hiding it, teens crave parenting.

To help a teen boost his EQ, look at each of

the five competencies above, and use them
as a framework to observe your child's
behavior. Perhaps your child cursed up a
blue streak when he didn't get what he
wanted. Or he failed to notice that you
were very tired and stressed out after
dinner when he had all his demands.
Consider such behaviors teaching
moments. Give him a hint about a different
way to handle or look at the situation.
Instead of telling him how to behave,
however, ask him what he noticed, felt, or
wanted. By gently pointing out new ways to
interact with others, you give your teen an
opportunity to learn and practice some new
skills.

To reinforce these behaviors, don't forget

to praise your teen when she is
exceptionally kind, or intuitive about
another's feelings, or is patient, flexible, or
communicative. Little by little, your bright
teen can grow into an emotionally brilliant
adult. OM-Times Magazine March 2010 Edition
Miracles of the
Healing Light
Energy
by Rev. Judi A. Lynch
It was four years ago this Spring that something very
miraculous happened to me. I woke up again! A big
beautiful light came rushing back in and opened up a
flood of spiritual gifts beyond my human
imagination!
All my life I knew things, told people things, gave out
warnings, saw things now and then that I knew were
very much out of the ordinary. I didn't take them for
granted so much as I didn't understand them. From
the time I was a small child I had countless
encounters with the paranormal world. On three
very surreal occasions, I had seen a light so big and so
bright that it couldn't be forgotten.
The first time, I was four years old and it was the day
of my birthday party. I have no memories of my
childhood before that day. The second time I woke
up from a sound sleep and when I looked out the
window, I thought a helicopter was hovering over
my yard. The third time was much the same but at a
different home and someone else was there to note
that I jumped up and was wide awake! "Can't you see
that light?" I asked. "What light?" was the response
and I realized it wasn't visible to everyone. It lasted
for several minutes. I stood there not wanting to
move so it wouldn't disappear. It didn't! I had such a
sense of peace and well-being. It was like a recharge.
A message from the light. Yes, almost like being told
"We're here!" I didn't want to sleep that night hoping
it would come back and flood the room again.
I had yet to read about the energies of the Ascension
and I had not delved deep enough into the study of
Spiritual Consciousness. I had read several books on
psychic phenomena and spirituality, which included
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (which
helped to radically change my thinking about
religion). The insights in The Celestine Prophecy
books all made such complete sense to me and
seemed to resonate such truth in why we were all
here. I had also read several of Sylvia Browne's books
and I was very impressed by a psychic named George
Anderson when I read the book We Don't Die, which
I had found at a local used book store in paperback
shortly after my father's death in the mid 90's. I was
fascinated with George's work in helping people to
heal from their grief by delivering messages to
bereaved family and friends.
In the Spring of 2006, I met a very spiritual and
extremely gifted woman who told me several
amazing things about my own spiritual connections.
She said I would "remember" how to use these "gifts",
that the knowledge was already there. She told me
that in the very near future, I would be more aware of
them and how to describe and use them. The whole
time I was there, I felt energy so strong that I could
swear I was floating above the floor.
This amazing woman had recorded a CD of
meditations for the Ascension. After meeting with
her, I listened to it every night before bed for a couple
of weeks. The energy kept flowing in and was getting
stronger! Very soon I was able to communicate
directly and word for word with my spiritual guides,
and several other souls who were asking for my help.
In my communications, I also discovered a lost friend
who asked for directions. He explained that he had
been "stuck" between this world and the next. I
verified this with my new mentor who confirmed to
me that this does happen when a soul refuses out of
fear to go into the light. After his rescue, I received
messages of congratulations along with the promise
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that I was going to be healed of things in my body
that needed desperately to be healed.
I had suffered for several years with a herniated and
crushed disc in my neck and had even quit my job as
a graphic designer over a year before because of the
pain and the migraine headaches. I had even seen a
neurosurgeon who had recommended extensive
surgery to rebuild the disc and told me I would never
be able to function normally without repairing it. An
orthopedic surgeon had told me the same thing a
couple of years before that. A chiropractor told me it
was the worst neck he had ever seen and that as I got
older, arthritis would set in and the pain would get
worse. Everything changed the day that my healing
guides channeled the energy to fuse the parts of my
neck that were damaged and zapped out the bone
chips and fragments that were pressing on the
nerves. I sat completely still
for several minutes and I
could feel every thing in my
neck changing and moving.
When I put my hand there
later, it felt completely
different and the pain was
gone!
Not long after that I began
receiving and delivering
messages to family and
friends. The energy around
me got stronger. A short time later, I was channeling
energy through my hands. When I started putting
my hands on other people's shoulders, they felt the
vibrational energy coming through. I also started
getting messages about their health, life themes,
choices, options, personalities, favorite colors and
just about anything else. Many times I received
names of loved ones who had crossed over and other
times it was someone's favorite saying or funny way
of talking. Sometimes I was remote viewing and
telling them what was hanging on their living room
walls. Many times I was able to channel the soul the
person wanted to speak to directly and they were
speaking through me. That was truly amazing! Not
only for the person who was getting a reading but for
me as I was not used to the feeling.
I started teaching classes and workshops to help
others channel the energy, listening to my guides on
how to keep the channels clear and open. I've have
written in great detail all the events that transpired
which heightened my psychic and channeling
abilities and shared the story in several lectures. My
book, Alabama Medium, a True Story explains how I
was communicating and integrating with my guides.
I made sure to keep all the emails, cards, and written
notes to compile all the testimonies and healing
stories in another book, which I am still adding to
and documenting. I've worked with people on
depression, slipped discs, bone chips, migraines,
sinuses, neck pain and several other serious ailments.
I ask them to concentrate on this beautiful Healing
Light Energy coming in through their crown chakra
and spreading throughout their body, directing it to
the places which need healing. I've worked with
several people on opening up
their own psychic and
healing channels and it is a
beautiful thing to experience
when someone else discovers
the power of this tremendous
energy.
I have since studied more
about the Spiritual
Consciousness, Ascension, and
Awakening and asked my
guides countless questions
about the future. This Healing
Light Energy is being sent to us in full force from the
source. We are all waking up; we are ascending and
finding our purposes. The Earth is being reborn. How
wonderful it is to be able to experience it and know it is
not just a nice concept on the pages of a book. How
utterly amazing it is to see others waking up around me.
In 2007, I started the Crystal Healing Foundation, Inc.,
a non-profit dedicated to healing mind, body and soul
through psychic communication and energy channeling.
I also published a definition for Healing Light Energy.
Strictly guide driven, I've taken a class or read any
books on any of the well-known and practiced methods
in the metaphysical world. I wanted the influence and
experience to be straight from the source and available
for anyone to learn through our spirit and healing
guides.
To know more a few excerpts from testimonies I've
received in the last four years, please click here
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Rewrite
Your "Action" Script!

Comedy
By Marsha Cook

'When we look at the world from a New Perspective, We from being crinkled in laughter. So, how
discover a world of New Possibilities!' could being the lead in a Comedy Script be
Author Unknown
anything other than good? One must
wonder!
In the December 2009 issue of Om-Times,
Silver Threads talked about the Action
Script; January 2010 brought Drama;
February 2010 delivered Tragedy: And now,
last but not least, Silver Threads presents
Comedy!

When going to the movies to see a comedy

the expectation is usually that one will laugh,
relax, and escape the woes of the day. A great
comedy has the audience holding their sides Cartoon was a kind courtesy of
www.nataliedee.com/
with tears streaming down cheeks that ache

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Go back in time and think about the class role as an adult is as simple as making a life
clown. Everyone knows at least one. Mine choice. How do you want to live your life.
was named Peter Dragon and he was in my
sixth grade class. The ‘clown’ delivered the In the previous 'Script' articles, it has been
best one-liners and drove the teacher crazy, established that you are the executive
which tickled the rest of us. In truth, the producer, director and manager of your life.
class clown was the kid who desperately Would you hire someone who would make
needed attention. Good, bad or otherwise. the same choices as you are currently? If
They were usually the least liked; the worst your day to day motions no longer fit, no
dressed, academically challenged, ignored at longer feel comfortable or satisfying, re-
home or suffering weight or body issues. direct. Find a way to re-write your script.
Being the clown was their way of forcing Look to your Self - have you met yet?
people to notice them. In those moments of Discover your Core. Are you ready to live by
laughter, they were in charge and your beliefs and values; question
all were laughing because they “Ask your Self the the thoughts that make your teeth
made everyone laugh. For a truth question. clench? And when you do ponder,
moment they escaped their lot in Are your dark does that instill you with the
life. Fast forward to college, once incentive to do the work to turn
thoughts true?”
again the fraternity ‘bro’ who your thoughts around? Rather
brought forth the most hilarity than thinking that the unknown is
and wreaked the most havoc was more often a dark, scary place, have you discovered how
than not, the guy who had deemed himself nurturing change can be? Are you paving the
in one way or another, a loser. path you walk with the honor and respect
you deserve? Is that path illuminated by your
Love?
All too often those in possession of a
Comedy Script use their ability to create
laughter as a shield, or, as a way of
controlling those around them. Their
comedy is the mask that hides vulnerability,
loneliness, and insecurity. When was the
need to make others laugh, to deflect ‘Joe
Public’s’ thoughts away from one’s true self
developed? And who teaches that a mask is
needed, or that a role must be played?
Examine the role that you were assigned as a
child. Was it your job to keep the peace?
Was the happiness of others a responsibility
placed upon your young shoulders? Or, were
you so ignored or rejected as to feel
invisible? Did loneliness within your family
unit cause you to develop an insatiable need
to be the only focal point when away from
home? Ask your Self the truth question. Are your
dark thoughts true? Examine that carefully,
Are you still using a Comedy Script? If you there is most likely another way to see things
are, do you know that you can toss it out, or and you already know what that is deep
file it in the paper shredder? Choosing your inside. So, check for veracity! Scripts can and

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do have typo’s. Another good idea is to
question whether the Comedy script is
serving your best interest. As television talk
show host Dr. Phil asks, “How’s that working
for you?” It is a great question! If the script
you have chosen, based on the ever-playing
tape in your mind is not providing the
balance, happiness and harmony that every
individual deserves, then your script is not
working. The good news is – You Can
Change It!

Would you or could you open a business

without a well thought out business plan?
Why live life without one? Please take the
time for reflection. As the manager, it is your
responsibility to have a plan. A life plan is an
Image. Your image begins with you
envisioning your best life. What are your
most delicious desires, wants and needs?
Dare to design, because that is the starting
point. Let your Self dream! Then take pad
and pen and write down seven words that
describe your most ardent beliefs. Leave
space between the words so you can fill them
in with definitions. Not dictionary There is so much joy in life, in big and small
definitions, just yours! Next, read what you things; in places you might never have
have written. Redefine if need be. Once you thought to look. Do yourself a favor and look
are satisfied with your words and meanings, for them! Slip some laughter into each day.
print them on pretty paper. Assign your When you look for the joy and delight in the
image a place of honor, somewhere handy so simplest of things, your whole outlook will
you can look at it whenever a reminder of change. Comedy in the right doses
how special you are and what you want your encourages relaxation and healing. Insert the
life to look like is required. funny into your script; allow yourself to
sparkle with happiness; let the forced,
canned laughter remain in the set of the
Hollywood sitcom. As the wonderful and
witty Erma Bombeck said, “There is a fine
line that separates laughter and pain, comedy
Marsha Cook holds a Bachelor of Science degree in and tragedy, humor and hurt.” You are in-
Holistic Nutrition and a Master of Science degree in
charge - you can choose not to cross any line
Natural Health. Over the past 25 years she has
helped countless men and women create healthy
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personal trainer and life enrichment guide. Marsha
holds a 3rd degree Shotokan Karate Blackbelt; she is
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Creative
Expressions
Art, in all its myriad forms, is a way for the
soul to speak and the process of creation is
a vehicle to link body, mind and soul. The
Healing power of the creative process
benefits both the artist and the audience.
White cloud of mist
above white cherry-blossoms . . .
Dawn-shining mountains
~ Basho
 The you-ness of you

Spring
by One Light
helps shape
the me-ness of me,
And from just being ourselves
comes the we-ness of we.

Like seeds underground,

once asleep and unfound,
Spring pulls us upward
And we find we are found.

The flower that is you

is not the flower that’s me,
For we came from two seeds,
planted separate, unseen.

Yet the soil that nurtured

our roots so to grow,
To meet one another,
see us differently,
you know.

It shows us our origin

is one and the same,
No matter the flower,
No matter its name.

We're like beautiful blossoms

awakened by Spring,
Peeking our heads into sunlight
and soaking up rain.

©Debbie Lawlor Camarda

March 2008
All Rights Reserved.
If we let our lights shine
 The Big Picture
The Collaborative Works of
Zoe Jordon &
Vesna Vukovic-Dzodan

Zoe Jordan is an artist and writer living in

Georgia, where she recently completed her
studies in music, languages and literature.
She is currently working on a novel and
illustrating a children's book. More of her
artwork, as well as the stories behind the
paintings, can be seen at
thrilledproductions.com. You can follow
her articles on art, history, and philosophy
at zoe-in-wonderland.blogspot.com, and she
can be contacted at
zoe.quixote@gmail.com
for commissions or purchases.

All of the photos of the paintings are by

Gabriel Jordan:
http://www.thrilledproductions.com

This painting began as an exploration of a segment from Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings, in which he described a curse
created by "The Yellow Emperor" which kept a whole other world confined inside the reflective surfaces of our own world,
and how one day that curse would be broken. When I was making the drawing for it, I was thinking of humans, of us being
the ones trapped inside the mirrors--trapped by perceptions of the world and its possibilities that we'd developed before we
were even conscious of what we were doing, perceptions handed down to us by our parents, society, ill-managed emotions,
fears, etc. I was thinking about it in the sense of our "true selves" being something completely foreign, even unrecognizable
to this somnolent being that wanders through each day, making often meaningless, rote motions at dictated times (coffee,
job, study, gym, drive, pick up the kids, whatever your life is, etc) in an effort to pass "correctly" or safely through yet
another day. To make it. My thinking was that most of the time, our perception of what is possible is limited to what we've
already seen done; thus, most of the time, we're merely mimicking--mirroring--what is already before us, unable to believe
past what we can see and into the wild, chaotic space beyond it. So this moment of freedom from the curse would be that
moment of passing through the mirror, becoming (once more) real, alive.

Having tried several drawings to express those ideas, I stumbled upon the story of St. Rita, the Patron Saint of
Impossible Dreams, and felt she would be the kind of guide that could lead the rest of us across the great divide the mirror
represented.

The Italian St. Rita wanted to join a convent as a young child, but was prevented. In obedience to her parents, at 12
years old she married, and bore her violent and otherwise criminally-inclined husband two sons. He beat her continually,
but she stayed with him, and towards the end of his life even managed to convert him to Catholicism and a new path.
Shortly after his conversion, her husband was ambushed and killed, and Rita was forced to channel her energies towards
protecting the souls of her sons, who wanted to avenge their father's death. She prayed that God not allow their souls to be
sullied by such an act as murder, and they instead died within the year. At that point, she returned to her attempts to join a
convent, but was refused, several times, because of her status as widow and mother (as opposed to virgin, the requirement
for a bride of Christ).

However, she persevered, and one morning, the good nuns awoke to find that she had been spirited into the locked
convent in the middle of the night by her own patron saints. Feeling they could not ignore such a clear statement from God,
they permitted her to stay. On her death bed in the convent, Rita made another impertinent request. She asked that a visitor
bring her a fig and a rose from a garden she had always loved. The problem, of course, was that it was the dead of winter,
and there would be no figs and no roses. But, when the visitor went to the garden Rita had specified, she found just the fig
and just the rose, and brought them to Rita.
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 So here Rita sits on a fig tree in winter, a fig
tree growing, as they will, out of the ruins of
a lost civilization, an old life, and vivid red
roses spill from the lap of her dress. New,
impossible life comes from dreams, and
feeds the spirit what it needs. And that, to
me, is the act of painting: giving form to
dreams, and opening a doorway into the
impossible.
--Zoe

Te Miro y Se Me Abre la Mente

story here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoeinwonderland/4008
461036/in/set-72157621781985925/

Erzulie

and the

Green Lion

story here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoeinwonderland/4099042650/
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 Why is the Airplane Erasing
the Sky?
"Why is the airplane erasing the
sky?" she said. I had no idea what is
she talking about. It took me a little
while to get in synch with her
thoughts. My thoughts were busy
knocking on the doors of possible
tomorrows, looping through never-
ending list of things that are waiting
to be done during the day. Her
question made me aware. Aware of
her little hand, of her great wisdom,
of beautiful possibilities that are here
and now... if we look carefully.
"What do you mean, airplane is
erasing the sky?" I asked her. I felt
like talking to the Little Prince,
feeling a bit ashamed being in the
role of an adult who doesn't get it!
"Look." She answered simply. Yes,
that's all it takes. Just look. It clicked
in my mind.

A blue, bright blue sky has been clearly erased by the airplane, leaving behind the white trace, as if all we can see now is the
paper on which the drawing has been made. I felt suddenly so much joy.
As if: her question erased that boring never-ending task list;
As if: all the doors of tomorrows are now wide open for us, if we decide to go through them;
As if: nothing else really matters but to look at this drawing around us from different perspectives and hold hands.
Once again I have realized that I have so much to learn from my child. I just simply forgot to look.
--story by Vesna Vukovic-Dzodan

Vesna Vukovic-Dzodan is an electronics

engineer, software developer, and writer
of short fiction and poetry, living in
Oakville, Canada (born in Belgrade,
Serbia). Some of her fiction written in
Serbian is published here :
http://www.alma.rs and the fiction
written in English can be found here :
http://vesnikus.blogspot.com.

Vesna and Zoe have worked together on

several art projects and their latest
inspiration is working together on a
children's book.

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St. Ulrich and St. Afra
 The New Scent
(Vesna)

At first, I saw only the bright light,

I sensed something new.
My mind couldn't immerse itself
in the beautiful details until the
heart sent its approval. Or, was it
the other way around?

Is it all right to enjoy this? May I

go on with this adventure now,
here? How will this change me?
Should I warn somebody that I
may be gone forever? Will I be
recognized when I come back?

"I can't come back", I said to

myself. Time travels only forward,
and life just goes on.

So, I relaxed, and let myself

indulge.

It was a new scent.

Passing Through the Curtain
The scent filled my nostrils and
Inspiration therefore forever changed my
Her hair today again had a new shine. It was more red and made a different kind of breath.
frame around her face. “I’ll never finish this portrait”, he thought. He really needed
the provision from this painting but he didn’t feel angry that the work was prolonging. The scent covered my face and
Little Elizabeth, his daughter, brought light and warmth to the studio with her softened the way I look.
presence. One day her hair would have the color of gold, the other day the color of a
young chestnut, or, like today, the shine of bronze. He looked through the window and The scent gently landed on my
saw his wife planting purple flowers. It seemed to him like the grass around her was eyelids and made me close my
all blue. His heart sent colorful fireworks through his eyes. “Maybe it is time to paint eyes and see more.
what I feel, not what I see,” he thought. Then the inspiration came by itself, he didn’t
have to call it. --Vesna The scent flooded my mind, it
sank old chains and balls and let
new ideas be born.

Arrival of I felt the scent as it traveled down

my spine.
the Birds
It was powerful like an ocean
wave; it was unavoidable like an
Story here: arrow arched from the birth of the
Universe.
http://www.flic
kr.com/photos/ My body became the house to the
zoeinwonderlan fire, like a volcano. My hair turned
d/4328523291/ red like lava.

My lips and my heart became

One: Speaking of nothing but
Love from that moment on.

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 Joseph’s name was passed along to Pharaoh,
ruler of a troubled land.
A hope; whispered dream revealer.
When he appeared, mystic sparkle in one eye
his coat of many colors gleaming in the dusty air.
Motes caught suspended in the August heat
Danced Divine and swirled knowingly in the courtyard.
The King recounted stories of barren cows
and fatted bulls
afraid to ask what it all had meant.

For seven years abundance will be upon this land,

then famine; lean years
eclipsed by seasons ever changing.
Be clever, my liege, and waste nary a
single grain or mite of source.
When shadows fall, have extra oil
thy lamps prepared against a dark September day …

Eleven days elapsed

the towers fell, lightening flashed
a black sky clouded while
blood floated, surfaced upon the Nile.

Later, after it all was writ

diligence and sweaty brow; furtive…
the counselor, alone in his small palace,
in a quiet suburb of Memphis,
where tall and stately ancient date palms
gentle rhythm in October’s evening breeze
did sway
(Not unlike the lusty bellies of his harem).
Understated elegance;
wealth accrued.
The Counselor Wondered to himself
“Did I this tragedy create,
by Chris Anderson then un-create
that I might be seen and heard
as Counselor, Oracle, Man of Wisdom?
Am I guilty of the sins my patrons suffer
that I might make my Fate?
Will I willingly change my mind;
or is this all
dreamed by a dreamer… dreaming me.
Unwinding time and starry sprinkled sky,
Designed to make the dreamer
Music by Peter John Ross courtesy of Sonnyboo.com" wake?”
another spring
by oneat1
another spring
brings forth new life

reminding us 

of the new life

that is being

birthed inside
each of us

now

another spring

bubbling forth

refreshing essence

from the heart
 another spring

of our mother a time for planting


awakening after and preparing the land

the winter 
 
to bring forth the
rest greatest harvest

our planet

has ever

known

another spring

a time of promise

decorated

with wildflowers

a symbol of 

beauty

freedom

and love

another spring

to shake off

the slumber

and realize

the full expression

of who we are and

who we’ve come
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to be

©2010
 by Chris Anderson

~He She~

She has seen into society

knows it for the sham it has forever been.
Drifting apart from her community
Setting on rocks at the edge of the deep,
Gazing off into the haze cloaked sea;
She wonders what life looks like ... afar.

He comes to conclude
Having been a history student these many years,
That Homo sapiens is a failed experiment.
Ascends often to mountain tops; lofty peaks.
Spends days looking up into the sky
Wishing he might simply drift up; away.

When the moon renewed

She felt pulled by gravity. No! Tides …
Stole the pretty blue rowboat;
Untied it from the pier.
Allowed herself to be carried by Moon’s magnetic force
Out across the shining, silver sea.

When the sun at solstice brightly shone

He felt drawn by light.
Slipped unnoticed into the gondola
stoked the fire, releasing thermal waves.
A red balloon in which he floats toward Sol’s blazing orb,
between ductile clouds … into the azure sky.

Somewhere apart from place and time

Where eternal sky meets eternal sea;
A point beyond earth and heaven’s curvature
noticing each other; hiding, smiling.
Shy first caress. A kiss!
Once separate, were united;
Beyond the sky and sea.
(c) 2010 : William S. Peters, Sr.
i conferred with my life’s book of magic
with my heart in my hand
i saw my manifestations
and i began to understand

that i am the sweet butterfly

and i began to grow wings
and within the stillness of silence
i heard the song my soul sings

all about me was beauty

borne from the primal seed
and i am the fruit divine
of the sacred word’s deed

for it has been spoken

let there be light
and that i shall be
as i vanquish the night

for it is of my will
borne out of my love
for the below is my domain
as i bring it to above

yes, we have that magic

it is found in our “BE”ing
that we may transmute all
to beauty worth seeing

it all starts with us

and our purity of intent
and in the end of this journey
we can say “Well Spent”

so . . . i give you my magic

i give you my magic

by Bill
 Wind whipping

And Here We All Are Clouds churning

Leaves flying about
Almost as they have a mind of their own
by Matthias (Rev. Nagi)
Seems a storm is a-brewin’
And here we all are

Birth
Death
Is there a difference?

One seems to be a beginning

The other seemingly an end

What is the difference?

Attachment
Perception
Another level of vibration
That is all

A beginning
From whence do we come?
An ending
To where do we go?

Valid questions
A myriad of responses

To whom do we answer?

Why do we need to know?

All any of us have is this moment

But what was

What could be?
Both pale in comparison
To what is

“No matter where you go and no matter

what you do,
There you are”
When I heard this quote from a friend years
ago
I felt it incomplete
Now I know why

To me it seems more complete as

“No matter where you go
And no matter what you do
Here we all are”

~Nagi
Iris By Debby Rosenberg

you’re the nicest person I’ve ever met

she said..i instantly judged her minimal
perception
for the greater whole was so much more
and someone she didn’t know

she came rocking through

from out of town
high ideals and travel plans
she never stopped to look around

her 20’s youth and sparkle shined

energy high in who she was
gave all she had in souls release
but never once was my heart at ease

in that place of depth that feels of kind

her stories were of a different mind
inside I felt I knew her too

there she was

swiftly delivered in gentle nudge
and kind reminder
the universe is never random
as it constantly distributes
the visual of our shadow self
the gift of who we seem to be
and yet beneath was more to see

onward again to something new

leaving behind all she never knew
she left as quickly as she arrived
like the winds of march
expected, abrupt, and flying

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Which Craft Would You
That’s magic.

Be Taking… Now remember all your fears and anger

That makes you just want to storm and rage

Today? In a way that will in fact

Change everything you are!
By Nichespur But only to a very limited degree
As you watch your whirls
Rearrange your life
And pains.

That’s magic
Albeit it black
And it will consume you
With just more reasons to fear and rage
For it becomes the cage
Your then living in.

And that’s magic too

Helping you see
Yourself
And change.

So you say you don’t really believe in magic

Well consider this
It’s always your own self doubt
That makes you frown
And pulls you down
Till others
Can keep you there
But try a smile
And learn to laugh
A suddenly you will find your true self again
Basking in the radiance of your owned life!

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 Now step back and take a breath
And feel the freshness in your lungs and heart
again
And let all your fears and hatreds go
Till they become nothing more than past tense
thrills
Falling like flower petals
Blowing in the wind
And you will feel the sunshine rise
And skies open up to you with rainbows
Now that your own storms have finally
just past.

And that’s magic

Finally come to be possessed

By this brand new thing
We call Adept
Named You.
Perhaps
Now that you have let the light
And not just the dark
Touch
Your very
Soul.

And that’s magic too

You see.
For even the darkness needs
Its stars.

Music: Shamanic Dream from the album Ancestral Voice

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 In Honor of Pisces

The Fish
by Rupert Brooke
In a cool curving world he lies

And ripples with dark ecstasies.

The kind luxurious lapse and steal

Shapes all his universe to feel There slipping wave and shore are one,

And know and be; the clinging stream And weed and mud. No ray of sun,

Closes his memory, glooms his dream, But glow to glow fades down the deep

Who lips the roots o' the shore, and glides (As dream to unknown dream in sleep);

Superb on unreturning tides. Shaken translucency illumes

Those silent waters weave for him The hyaline of drifting glooms;

A fluctuant mutable world and dim, The strange soft-handed depth subdues

Where wavering masses bulge and gape Drowned colour there, but black to hues,

Mysterious, and shape to shape As death to living, decomposes -- -

Dies momently through whorl and hollow, Red darkness of the heart of roses,

And form and line and solid follow Blue brilliant from dead starless skies,

Solid and line and form to dream And gold that lies behind the eyes,

Fantastic down the eternal stream; The unknown unnameable sightless white

An obscure world, a shifting world, That is the essential flame of night,

Bulbous, or pulled to thin, or curled, Lustreless purple, hooded green,

Or serpentine, or driving arrows, The myriad hues that lie between

Or serene slidings, or March narrows. Darkness and darkness! . . .

 And all's one. The strife of limbs, the sightless clinging,

Gentle, embracing, quiet, dun, The infinite distance, and the singing

The world he rests in, world he knows, Blown by the wind, a flame of sound,

Perpetual curving. Only -- - grows The gleam, the flowers, and vast around

An eddy in that ordered falling, The horizon, and the heights above -- -

A knowledge from the gloom, a calling You know the sigh, the song of love!

Weed in the wave, gleam in the mud -- - But there the night is close, and there

The dark fire leaps along his blood; Darkness is cold and strange and bare;

Dateless and deathless, blind and still, And the secret deeps are whisperless;

The intricate impulse works its will; And rhythm is all deliciousness;

His woven world drops back; and he, And joy is in the throbbing tide,

Sans providence, sans memory, Whose intricate fingers beat and glide

Unconscious and directly driven, In felt bewildering harmonies

Fades to some dank sufficient heaven. Of trembling touch; and music is

O world of lips, O world of laughter, The exquisite knocking of the blood.

Where hope is fleet and thought flies after, Space is no more, under the mud;

Of lights in the clear night, of cries His bliss is older than the sun.

That drift along the wave and rise Silent and straight the waters run.

Thin to the glittering stars above, The lights, the cries, the willows dim,

You know the hands, the eyes of love! And the dark tide are one with him.
Simply
To perceive reality from a
different perspective is to
open oneself to the wonders
and unlimited wealth of
creation. Simply Spiritual

Spiritual offers the opportunity to visit

new places, new methods, and
different ways to perceive the
vast human knowledge of our
Universe.
 The Darkroom
by Menchu

Meditation Directions:
1. Read the Visual Translation first,
understanding it from your heart as
much as you can. Feel it.

2. Watch the video with light eyes and

with no thought. If thought arises,
let it just pass and return to the
moment.
3. Just flow.

Visual Concept:
You are beauty connected to your within.
The darkness is but a space that has to be processed into lightness.
You always change towards the changeless One.
Fear not then for love is your power, your strength and your armor.
Remain devoted in the altar of your heart where love radiates, and in
silence speaks.
Understand the beauty of the moon and the starts that is best appreciated
only in the dark.
Let go of your doubts and fears then. Relax and learn how to see things
from the eyes of the source.
The seasons are there for the evolvement of each soul,
Where all of humanity transforms to the Whole.
Life is abundant, Life is beautiful, meditate on this and be in harmony with
all; allowing others to be who they are, as you allow yourself to be as you
are.
Flow and resist not, but rather, look for the good in all things.
Let your trust only be in Life
for your guide is the I AM.
Therefore, rejoice and express the beauty that you are
and forever remain in love
and in deep gratitude for all.
Like a child, move into the unknown where the only thing that is certain is
the Love that is you.
You are Love.
Believe in your self.
Be at Peace,
All is well.
See, even your animal friends
knows it is so.
Namaste.
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 Mental
Trap

One of the gardening tools used in Tending to

Your Garden Within is mirroring. It is a
mechanism to look at experiences in our daily
lives and investigate their deeper meanings.
Many times, what we feel and experience in
the outside world has meanings for us
inwardly, and can be used to know ourselves
better.

A couple of months ago I meet a very nice

lady who was an associate minister at a local
church. I then attended two programs outside
the church setting which the lady also
attended; but I did not recognize her. At the
last meeting, during an informal conversation,
she described her work as an associate
minister; then I remembered. I was totally
shocked that I was blind-sided by my
expectation that an associate minister would
not attend such a meeting; therefore I ignored
my previous knowledge of knowing her due to
my thought process and expectation.

This experience made me think about an

important issue. What other things do we “not
see” when it does not fit our expectation?
What are our beliefs doing to limit our
“seeing” what is out there? What if our belief
in happiness is limited? What if our belief
about prosperity is limited? What if our beliefs
are limiting our experience of what is really
out there?

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Look in the mirror.
Observe a man
like you and me.
The man is educated and logical.
The man is searching everywhere.
He has a common mental trap.
The mental trap says
prosperity has a golden color and special
sparkles.
To quench his thirst for prosperity
the man only looks for something golden.
The mental trap says
love has a certain logo.
To quench his thirst
the man only looks for a certain logo
he cannot see anything else.
The mental trap says
angels and guides can only have wings.
To get connected
the man only looks for something with a wing.
The mental trap says
God has a white beard and a deep voice.
To quench his thirst for God
the man only looks for someone
with a white beard and a deep voice.
The man may be exhausted.
The man may not be joyful.
The man may be frustrated and disappointed.
The man has eyes but does not fully utilize his
eyes.
The man has ears but does not fully utilize his
hearing.
The man is trapped by his mind and expectation
of his beliefs.
Prosperity was all around him
but he did not see.
Love resided around him in many forms
but he could not recognize love.
Angels and guides followed him like a shadow
but he did not recognize them.
God appeared to him in many forms
but he did not recognize Him.
God whispered in his ears
but he could not hear the faint voice.
Man’s belief and expectation
may act as a veil
blocking his hearing, seeing, and feeling.
Personal journey is not
about new landscapes,
but a new way of seeing, hearing and feeling
free of the shackles of limited beliefs .
Copyright @ 2010 by Shervin Hojat
 Does Your Past
Repeat Itself?
By Maria Khalife

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Does your past really repeat itself or could

something else be going on? If we look
backwards into world history, we might see
certain trends repeating themselves.

If we examine these trends, we would see

many, many individual differences. What makes
differences inside the trends? We human beings
- thinkers all - try to categorize everything
we see, hear, smell, touch and taste. It's
these big buckets called "trends" we create in
our mental databases that many of us share in
common with others.

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 But on an individual basis, our thinking is uniquely and
individually different, and because what we think causes
what we get, the way that we think individually
creates little differences inside the so-called trends.
What this ultimately
means is this:

 Your Past Does Not Equal Your Future.

That's right! You are free to think whatever you'd like to think. This is one
area where no one can interfere with what you choose to
do. You are the captain of your ship; the arbiter of your fate.
The only way you will ever repeat a past experience in the future is if you
are currently thinking the same thing. It would be impossible
for something to happen to you that you did not think because of this
simple Law:

 Life works from inside your mind, out into your experience.

Do you remember learning that folks once thought the world was flat?
Imagine the courage it took sailors to sail "to the edge" in fear they'd
fall off! And imagine how many minds had to be changed to think that the
world was round. Now that we are all thinking that the world is round,
sailors no longer experience fear. This is one great example proving our
past does not equal our future because the thinking got changed.
Our minds have two databases: beliefs and facts. The beliefs and the facts
both have an appearance in our experience but with one enormous
difference:

 The appearance of the beliefs isn't real.

The appearance of the facts is real.

If we see an event repeating itself, we can stop the repeating and change
from something that isn't real to something that is real. Here's an
example: If you are habitually late to work, events, meetings etc., you
would be manifesting something that is not real. You can change your mind
from "I'm always late" to "I'm always on time" and then you will enjoy the
appearance of a bettered reality.

I encourage you to give up on that concept that "History repeats itself."

This can be self-limiting. You can expand your awareness to
discover the ideas that have kept you locked in place, repeating your
mistakes, and feeling dissatisfied. As you discover how you've been
habitually thinking the same old thing, and thus experiencing the same old
thing, you'll put new thoughts into place and prove to yourself that history
does not repeat itself.....unless you do.

If you've had troubled relationships, difficulties with your career, shortages

in your finances - any area of dissatisfaction - look closely at what you've
been subconsciously believed true and real about them, and put into place
some fresh new ideas that will provide a brand new, improved experience. I
celebrate the successes I know you are going to experience.

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a

book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title."
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 ARE WE HAPPY
YET?
Happiness cannot be captured in reaching goals or through
obtaining what we desire. Security is not something we can
possess, give or receive.

By Mary Cook, M.A., R.A.S.

What allows us to continue appreciating the

Freedom cannot be won or awarded. Learning positive aspects of our lives is the
does not occur through written and spoken understanding of their spiritual connection to
words. Peace is not a presence that comes at our soul. This insight includes acceptance of
the end of strife or war. Love does not complete people, things and experiences passing through
us, mend us or save us. For anything to evolve our lives, rather than remaining permanently.
or resolve, we must accept our present
Permanence is only found in our God. When we
condition, empty ourselves of the ideas and
feelings about it, and open to its’ higher seek it on the earthly domain, we will inevitably
spiritual truth. be disappointed and distraught. With this in
mind however, we demonstrate gratitude and
Fulfillment in any area lies in remembering that spiritual love for all the blessings that are given
which we already are. to us. We cease clinging,
exploiting or becoming
Experiences, people, and
things can stimulate “Rather than becoming upset over not apathetic, as we understand
conscious awareness of our knowing or understanding some aspect of life the source of all goodness is
natural state of bliss. Our or facet of an individual, we can ask what we always lovingly with us.
have kept hidden from ourselves, and
mistake is to think that we
need these triggers
continuously, to maintain
endeavor to uncover it. ” Our earthly experiences can
remind us of Heaven or they
happiness. We have only to can remind us of what blocks
examine our relationship to what we previously heavenly feelings and divine love. In either case,
associated with happiness, to see that it we must not mistake the ephemeral for the
changes over time. We typically become bored, eternal. Our evolution includes mindful
jaded, take for granted and find fault with what appreciation of our positive earthly
experiences, as well as learning the lessons that
formerly felt so fulfilling.
darkness, disease and disasters can teach us.
Our common human tendencies with the latter

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 are to attack, defend and despair. And yet it is
these lessons that afford us the greatest
possibility of enlightenment, and thus true
fulfillment. How we learn is through acceptance
and awareness, rather than by struggling and
resisting. We must understand what blocks
illumination, health, peace and abundance.
It is erroneous to imagine that life’s lessons
reflect only what is wrong with society or our
environment. Experiences that trigger negative
mental, emotional, physical or spiritual states
within us, urge us to examine ourselves more
deeply. Whatever the discordant elements are,
we must diligently seek to discover their parallel
existence in us.
Rather than becoming upset over not knowing
or understanding some aspect of life or facet of
an individual, we can ask what we have kept
hidden from ourselves, and endeavor to
uncover it. When we experience disease, it
exacerbates the symptoms if we have angry or
hateful thoughts and feelings about our bodies.
It is more important than ever at these times, to
feel positive, loving energy toward our physical
being, and determine how best to help
ourselves heal. Disasters allow us to fully
experience vulnerable emotions that we
normally repress. This can lead us to a deeper
connection, compassion and understanding of
ourselves and others. Loss of people and things
to which we were attached, can propel us to re-
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evaluate our priorities and values, as well as the
ways in which we demonstrate love and
gratitude.
Emerging through darkness, disease and
disaster allows us to discover elements of
ourselves previously unrecognized because of
personal complacency. Inner strengths, positive
character traits, talents and spiritual principles
can become dominant forces in our lives as a
result of trials and tribulations. Maintaining a
positive spiritual perspective in spite of human
trauma, helps us make decisions and take
actions which will positively serve us and
others. This diminishment of negative energy
and stimulation of positive energy creates
greater receptiveness and awareness of divine
assistance during and following difficult times.
Our oneness with God is the source of true
happiness. Security arises from accepting and
understanding what is temporal and what is
eternal. Freedom lies in surrendering all but our
spiritual principles. Learning occurs as we clear
our minds of preconceived concepts and open
to the mysterious moments that touch our
hearts. Peace is the absence of craving and
coveting what is meant to be impermanent.
Real love is rediscovered when we recall how
we were all created from divine love, and we
are meant to share the happiness of this
recognition.
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 Enlighten Yourself
By Brenda Herzog

When was the last time you said to yourself

“what a coincidence”. Or “WOW I was lucky”
running into an old friend you have been
thinking about? Or change your plans, resulting
in avoiding an accident. Have you ever kept
noticing a stranger, making eye contact, every
time you turned a corner and smiling at that
person? Have you ever felt drawn to a flower
garden or a beautiful park setting full of trees?
Do you feel overwhelmed by the beauty that
surrounds you? Have you ever noticed, that
when you spend a day with someone that
makes you laugh, you come away feeling
energized? Or the reverse, spending time with
someone that is negative, you come away
feeling down and have no energy at all? The
time has come in our lives to make ourselves
aware of all the energy that surrounds us.
When you have the instinct to say hello to a
stranger…do it!! When you see an old friend,
take the time to renew that friendship.

In life, there are no such things as coincidences,

everything happens for a reason. Allow the
energy you experience to come alive inside of
you and enlighten yourself.

Share your energy with others, in a giving and

caring way. Keeping a smile on your face and a
positive attitude will become natural to you, the
feelings of happiness and peace will fill your
spirit. People will be naturally drawn to you,
pass your new found awareness on to them.

Music: Lavender Heart Ashes from the album Rewriting Destiny.

To listen to more from Soulwire or to purchase the CD, visit:
www.soulwire.com

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by
Naomi
McDonald
Spring is just around the corner and people are beginning
to plan their get-away trips. I know this by the requests
many of my clients are making during their animal
communication sessions with me. “Please tell Sam (the
dog, cat, iguana and etc.) that I am going out of town and
I will be back.” Of course I do but I also reassure the
owner that their pet will understand completely if they
give the details of the trip directly to them. When they
look at me with a “You’ve got to be kidding” expression, I
explain one of the many lessons animals have taught me
over the years and is described in my new book, They
Sing to Our Hearts.
Every living being is connected by a divine web or matrix
and it is through this matrix we share information. The
words we say or pictures we form in our minds all begin
as an intention at a preverbal level. At this level all
language is the same and is not confined to space or
time. It also has its own energetic signature just like the
waves of a radio or television station. Once we have a
relationship with one another being the filaments of the
web that joins us is ever so slightly expanded. Also the
more emotion that comes from our heart through our
thoughts and intentions the stronger the connection
becomes. This heart to heart link is one of the most
powerful connections possible.
A human may or may not be consciously aware of
thoughts or emotions being sent by another but animals
are much more receptive and telepathic because their
receivers are always on picking up the waves of our
intentions. Whether we realize it or not, we are always
exchanging information with them. It is not unusual for
an animal to tell me that their person has purchased a
new car, has painted their house or is concerned about
someone. Often it surprises my clients that their pets
Learn How to Send a Pet
“Comfort”
inform me they are going out of town before they do. So
if you are planning a trip or just going to the corner store
explain your plans out loud to your pet. Then sometime
during the day or evening while you are away send your
pet loving comforting thoughts by saying hello to them in
your mind, or showing them a picture of you together
and tell them when you will be home. Of course, the
same is true for all emotions so be aware of any fear or
anxiety you may have about leaving your animal as they
will surely pick up these feelings as well.
Remember our animals live more in the moment; they
don’t worry about the future or regret the past as we too
often do and are always open to the energy of our
intentions. Likewise, we all have the ability to hear our
pet’s thoughts. All we need to do is to switch our
receivers on and BELIEVE! As I teach in my
communication classes, be open to any thoughts,
feelings, pictures or words that come to you when you
talk with your pet.
Naomi McDonald is a professional animal communicator,
certified shamanic practitioner, and educator. She is the
author of the newly released book, They Sing to Our Hearts: A
Communicator Shares Her Stories of Animal Wisdom. Naomi
has studied extensively throughout North and South America
with renowned teachers in the fields of metaphysics,
quantum physics, shamanism and animal communication.
She works with clients locally and long distance, teaches an
innovative animal communication program that incorporates
shamanic healing techniques and personal self development,
gives speaking engagements, and volunteers her talents at
animal rescue organizations’ events across the United States.
For more information go to www.brendamcdonald.org.
OM-Times is excited to announce that starting next month
Naomi McDonald will have a regular column in the magazine to
answer your pet related questions. As a professional animal
communicator, Naomi using her physic abilities to form a bridge
of communication and understanding between humans and a
being of another species. If you have a question or need help
solving a problem with your pet please email it to
bmc@brendamcdonald.org and look for your answer in the
magazine!
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 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.martyswingnuts.com

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A Film by Tim
Burton

Alice
In

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Wonderland
 Movies
That
Inspire
Alice
In

Wonderland
This movie is surreal and Imaginative, “says
JOHNNY DEPP, who stars the Mad Hatter.

"it's incredible cinematic, especially when you

combine these wild characters like Tweedledee
and Tweedledum and the Mad Hatter, and
complement that with TIM BURTON's
Brilliance and Vision. He is really done
something monumental. It doesn’t look like
anything that’ never done before."

Alice is all grown up in 'Walt Disney Pictures'

epic 3D fantasy Adventure when she finds
herself tumbling down the rabbit hole again.

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The Wondrous world she visited as a child filled with some of
the most popular characters in literary history-an off-his rocker
Mad Hater(DEPP), the grinning Cheshire Cat(voiced by
STEPHAN FRY), the White Queen (ANNE HATHAWAY),
the Queen of Hearts(HELENA BONHAM CARTER), the
caterpillar (Voiced by ALAN RICKMAN)and of course,
Tweedledee and Tweedledum (MATT LUCAS).
"I truly believe that Lewis Carroll would be ecstatic because the
movie is done with such respect and it is rooted deeply in the
original material," Depp says. "This story by Carroll, along with
the characters, under Tim Burton's vision is a real treat."
The screenplay was written by Linda woolverton (from "The
LION KING", "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST")
In the sequel to Lewis Carroll's original stories; Alice Kingsleigh,
now 19, attends a party at a Victorian estate shortly after the
death of her beloved father. The party, unbeknownst to Alice, is
an engagement party planned by her mother and sister. Just as
the arrogant and dull lord Hamish Ascot proposes to Alice under
a gazebo and under the eyes of hundreds of snooty society-types,
Alice spots a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch.
In shock and confusion, she runs off into a maze and
follows the White Rabbit through it, only to later tumble
down a rabbit hole into Underland (more commonly
referred to as "Wonderland" by its inhabitants), a place she
visited ten years before, yet doesn't remember.
In Wonderland, she reunites with her childhood friends,
including the Mad Hatter, who explains to Alice that they
need her help in over-throwing the Red Queen; who has
taken control of Wonderland from her sister, the White
Queen. Alice is also told that she is the only one who can
slay the Jabberwock, the dragon who terrorizes the
inhabitants of Wonderland under the rule of the Red Queen.
Alice then embarks — assuming both large and small sizes
— on an adventure of self discovery and to save Wonderland
and her Wonderland friends from both the Jabberwock and
the Red Queen's reign of terror. From WIKIPEDIA
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Digital Media
We Are The Ones
We Have Waited
For
by Humanityhealing

"Change starts when someone sees

the next step.”
~ William Drayton
 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
 GiveForward
President & C0founder
Desiree
Before starting GiveForward, I worked at the Kauffman
Foundation in Kansas City giving grants to colleges and
universities for their entrepreneurship centers. It was an
incredible learning experience in strategic giving, as I got
to see first-hand how much access to information people
and foundations with money have before they give.
I remember being distraught when Hurricane Katrina hit
because I, and so many of my colleagues, wanted to
employ the same practices we used every day with the
few dollars that we personally had to give. But, there
was no easy way to give directly to a family wanting to
rebuild. We talked openly about how much more we
would give if we knew money wasn’t being lost in the
bureaucracy of the whole situation.
I thought to myself that there should be a site where
people can give directly to people and causes they care
about.
But, I didn’t do anything with that idea until my 25th
birthday. On March 1st, 2007, I was sitting in a restaurant
waiting for my friends and family to come help me
celebrate my birthday. Like so many other people my
age, the fear of the unknown path of my life was
weighing me down. I sat there facing the reality of my
quarter-life crisis, wondering what others my age were
doing to cope. Some were going to law school, some to
business school, and still others were living for the
weekends in a dead-end job, too scared to leave their
benefits and steady paycheck for something bigger.
Vargas
I was toying with ideas on how to help people transition
from one career to another when it was like a light went
on in my entire body.
I knew right then that this was THE idea. Create a site
that lets people raise money for anything…charities, new
companies, research projects, volunteer travel, even
medical expenses.
For the next few months, I investigated competitors,
looking to see who was doing what. I was both excited
and surprised to find out that during the moments my
idea was being born, Change.org was debuting online. A
few months later, I met Andrew Mason, who was
founding ThePoint.com, and I began to wonder if I wasn’t
too late to get started.
Having no money and no networks in Chicago, I tabled
the idea for a while. But every so often, ideas would pop
into my head about new ways people could use the site.
In November of 2007, on a long, soul-searching trip to
Costa Rica (where I was born), I started thinking more
and more about this site. Change.org had proven to be a
site for non-profits; ThePoint was more about social
action than philanthropy; and I knew the need for this
service still existed.
Then one night, this little voice in my head woke me up,
and it literally whispered “get started.” I got up, made a
pot of coffee and worked at my laptop from 1am until
7am writing what would be the foundation of my
business plan.
I had been throwing around names for weeks, and the
next day it came to me. GiveForward.org. I wanted the
name to convey what we were asking people to do…give
small amounts of money for people and causes they care
about now. I never was comfortable with the idea of
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waiting until later in life to give back, so this name was
perfect.
What was even more perfect, though, was the fact that
someone had let the domain “GiveForward.org” expire
two months before.
After that first wave of inspiration in Costa Rica, I realized
that I now had to commit to starting GiveForward full-
time, or I would never do it. The first challenge was
convincing my mom that my Ivy League education and
experience at Kauffman had prepared me for this salary-
less voyage.
I told her my plans over the phone as I drove from New
Orleans to visit my grandpa in Austin, who was
unsuccessfully battling non-hodgkin’s lymphoma. I
remember the look on his face when I told him that I was
going to start a business with no money and no
connections, based on a conviction I had in the middle of
the night. He wished me good luck and sent me on my
way back to Kansas City to see my mom. Admittedly, I
had hoped that my passion would compel him to support
my efforts, but I was far more concerned with spending
quality time with him than I was about any money he
might help me with.
A couple of days later, I packed up the car and drove to
Kansas City. On the way, I picked up an audio book of the
The Secret at a Cracker Barrel. I had always been raised
to believe that you get what you put out into the universe
and that positive thinking can change everything. So, I
was open to this trendy book. I listened to the soothing
and sometimes annoying repetition of the power of
positive thought and spent nearly the entire drive to
Kansas City envisioning the successful company that
GiveForward would become.
When I got to Kansas City, I called my grandparents to let
them know I was safe. My step-grandmother got on the
phone and told me to check the mail in the next few
days. Two days later, I received a check from them for
$5,000. When my boyfriend found out, he wrote me
another check for $5,000 as a loan. He said that he had
wanted to support me and that now that I was getting
serious, he felt confident in my success.
From there, the positive connections continued to roll. I
went onto Prosper.com and told complete strangers a
detailed description of what I was trying to do. Within 7
days, I had $10,000 in the bank from people lending me
$50 and $100 at a time. Around the same time, I went to
a Super Bowl party and started telling a friend about my
idea. She mentioned that her friend had a similar idea for
a site and offered to connect us.
For several weeks before, I had been thinking about how I
needed a partner, envisioning what that person would be
like, and how I would find them. Suddenly, within 1
month of deciding whole-heartedly to pursue this dream,
I had money to launch, a partner to join me, an office in
downtown Chicago, and support from friends and family
all over the world.
In many ways, the company we’ve created reflects this
early journey. We help people raise the money they
need to make their dreams come true. Sometimes those
dreams are to volunteer in Africa or help cure a disease
by sending money to research. But more often than not,
the dreams on our site are to help keep someone we love
with us for longer.
Since our site launched in late 2008, we have helped
people raise $1 million dollars for things like
chemotherapy, organ transplants, and transportation and
living expenses. But not only do we provide an easy way
to raise money for people we love, we also make it so
that the people surrounding a person battling an illness
can contribute in a way that makes them feel less
helpless. By leaving words of support and donating a
small amount of money to someone you care about, you
directly contribute to their recovery and you help relieve
the financial burden that illness can cause.
Because, the most important thing a person who is sick
should focus on is getting well.
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Fundraising Made Simple
With GiveForward, you can create a personal fundraising
page for ANY person, cause or non-profit you care about and
then easily collect donations from friends and family all over
the world.
Sign-up for a FREE GiveForward account and
select the "Start a Fundraiser" button to create a
personal or group fundraiser.
Fill out the quick and easy fundraising template
and personalize your page by adding your
photos, videos and events.
Then, share the link with friends and family all
over the world!
Success Stories
“Thanks to Giveforward.org we were
able to surpass our goal and raise over
$3,000 that Liana’s family can use
towards her chemotherapy
treatments. Thank you so much for
providing this tremendous service! It
made it so easy to raise money for a
great cause.”
~Katherine Deurloo raised $3,300 for
Liana last month.
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Personal
Growth &
Development
An Introduction to Intuition by Judith Orloff
I’m defining Intuition as a potent form of inner
wisdom, not mediated by the rational mind. Accessible
to us all, it’s a still, small voice inside. It’s an
unflinching truth teller committed to our well-being.
You may experience intuition as a gut feeling, hunch, a
physical sensation, a snapshot-like flash, or a dream.
Always a friend, it keeps a vigilant eye on our bodies,
letting us know if something is out of synch. We each
possess an intuitive healing code within us that
contains the blueprints for our health, happiness and
survival of everything that is good here on earth. This
code is written in a language of silence, metaphor,
imagery, energy, and knowings that may seem alien until
we are taught to decipher it. I want to share what I know
of this code with you, although I'm always learning more.
As you begin to understand its nuances, its secrets, the
code will seem like the most familiar language of all, one
you uttered before you ever had a memory of anything
material, one that doesn't require a spoken voice to
comprehend.
Reach back in your experience. See if you can't remember
a special time when you listened, really listened, to what
seemed invisible, yet felt so true. Maybe it was an inner
call to enter a career, a sudden inexplicable attraction to
the person you were destined to marry, or simply a
strong impulse to contact a good friend you haven't seen
for years. That indisputable sense of rightness is an echo
of the code I'm speaking of. You deserve such certainty
about all decisions. Even if you feel out of touch with it
now, all my books, including Second Sight can help you
find it again. This is the kind of intuition I've built my
psychiatric career and personal life around. Without it, I
don't feel complete. Without it, my patients only get a
fraction of who I am as a healer, and suffer as a result.
Without it, I miss the joy, clarity, and vision to positively
catalyze changes in my patient's lives and my own.
This is not a fringe phenomenon. It has gone mainstream.
So many of us are tired of staying numb and asleep and
long for the kind of exhilaration only intuitive and
spiritual awakening can bring. Come wake up with me.
Begin to lift the veils before your eyes. Heaven is not
some far away place, separated from life. Intuition will
enable you to see the beauty, passion, and exquisite light
that have always been there.
I’d like you to think of healing in the broadest terms. It
may involve a complete resolution of symptoms, a “cure,”
or it may not. On a profound intuitive level, it also
pertains to the self-knowledge and soul growth
achievable during illness, or as death approaches. Our
perception of these passages is key. In good health or ill,
if we aim for self-compassion and a deepening link with
the divine, we’re engaging in an act of love, one that is
inevitably transformative.
There comes a time when we must decide if we are
committed to a life based on heart. If so, then with regard
to healing this means coming to compassionate terms
with the light and dark forces that shape us. Nothing is
excluded. Remember this when you greet all the angels
and beasts on your path. As your heart opens, so does
your intuition. Your intuition will teach you how to see
and how to love. It instills in you a renewed faith to face
anything.
Judith Orloff, M.D is author of the new updated bestseller
SECOND SIGHT, an inspiring and controversial memoir
about coming to terms with her intuitive gifts, upon which
this article is based. Her other books are Emotional Freedom,
Guide to Intuitive Healing, and Positive Energy. She is
assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and an
international workshop leader. For more information about
new updated edition of Second Sight and Dr. Orloff’s books
and workshops visit www.drjudithorloff.com
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How to Make REAL
Change in Your Life
by Ronald Alexander
Want to make a change in your life?
Whether it’s losing weight, a career
change, or remaking a relationship if you
want to make any real and lasting
changes then you can’t do it alone. I work
with hundreds of patients and workshop
attendees who desire to transform their
lives and one of the first points I tell them
is that for real success they initially need
to build a Wisdom Council of Support.
Like an owner assembling a start-up
baseball team you begin with those
players who are already available to you,
being mindful of the strengths and
weaknesses of each.
In the council of support you bring people
you respect around you, and who are not
afraid to exercise what I call a strong
dialogue with you in a way that a guru or
teacher is not afraid to crush your ego. It
is like creating a family of supporters who
are willing to bring you along on your
path, whether it’s an idea or a project you
are developing, and are willing to confront
you when you’re in your ego or your
nonsensical stuff. They will also help you
move through any resistances that arise
and over come your procrastination or
hindrances to the changes you want to
make.
The core players to consider for your
team are a peer, an educator, an
entrepreneur or someone who can
inspire you, some type of leader such as a
minister or a role model, a coach who can
help you clarify your goals and get
organized. If you are looking for work you
may also want to include a headhunter,
employment agency or an out placement
source. I would also suggest someone
who has more experience than you and a
therapist who can honestly confront you
and wisely guide you. If you are on a
limited budget you could ask someone at
your church or synagogue, look into
Toastmasters International or check out
SCORE.org, a national association of
retired business people dedicated to
mentoring anyone who is sincere about
developing a project.
Selecting wisdom council members
requires that you be sensitive to others’
needs, boundaries, and time. You want
them to be available to you, but some
members of your council won’t be able to
be on call, or respond quickly or at length
to your requests for guidance, insight,
and help in working through problems
and some may require payment for their
services. The key is not to become needy
but to stay needful. Needy is not honoring
people’s limitations or respecting their
time. A needful person is someone who is
aware of their needs but simultaneously
is considerate and sensitive to other
people’s situations.
The key to success is to be alive, open
and present in order to receive what is
unfolding. Check your ego at the door and
listen to the possibilities not the
limitations. Every change is possible if you
are truly sincere, committed and willing
to persevere.
Watch Ronald Alexander’s YouTube Video on How to Build A Council of Support
Ronald Alexander, Ph.D. is the author of the
widely acclaimed book, Wise Mind, Open
Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times
of Crisis, Loss, and Change. He is the
Executive Director of the OpenMind
Training® Institute, practices mindfulness-
based mind-body psychotherapy and leadership
coaching in Santa Monica, CA, for individuals
and corporate clients. He has taught personal
and clinical training groups for professionals in
Integral Psychotherapy, Ericksonian mind-
body healing therapies, mindfulness
meditation, and Buddhist psychology
nationally and internationally since 1970.
(www.openmindtraining.com)
Why can’t I
The root of ALL your
problems by Wellington Rodrigues

I still remember, as if it months. Nowadays, I’m

were today, that beautiful not even surprised
summer evening when anymore by these types
Robin came into my of testimonials.
studio for a private
coaching session, However, I also receive
radiating an unusual level reports of people who
of excitement. Her energy haven’t attracted a single
was vibrating so high that dime by using my
it could power a nuclear formula, no matter how
plant. I could feel that much they have “tried”,
according to their own
from a mile away.
definition of trying. And,
When asked the reason believe it or not, some
for all that excitement, people even get mad at
she replied: “We can’t me, call me names, and
hide anything from you, say that all I teach is a
right? Well, I put the bunch of crap. Well, I am
Mental Alchemy Formula not even selling this
to use and I got it!” valuable report. I am
giving it away! And if one
That statement was not person can produce a
surprising to me, I’ve result, anybody else
heard that many times should be able to
before. And, since I reproduce it, right? After all, I’m not teaching brain
suggest my students to “attract” a certain amount, I surgery nor asking anyone to do the “impossible”. The
naturally asked her: “So, have you attracted the Mental Alchemy Formula is actually a very simple process
$100.00?” To my surprise she said: “No, I’ve attracted
that even a 7 years old child can do.
$50.000.00!”
These experiences make me think. And one of these days,
WOW! That was my first reaction – “You broke the record while pondering on that subject, that is, why some
sister!” Yeah, she has broken the record. Others have people are able to attract it so easily while others sink
reported attracting anywhere from $500.00 to deeper into disappointment, one common thread in all
$20.000.00 in a matter of weeks, or at most a couple of “poor me” complaints called my attention.
This common thread is the classic question: “why can’t
I?”
We have been taught by many teachers that powerful
questions invite powerful answers. The opposite is also
true; negative questions invite negative answers. And,
besides that, by asking “why can’t I?” you’re actually
lowering your vibration and sinking deeper into the
problem frame of mind.
It seems that every single body out there is enjoying life
and having a blast with the Law of Attraction, while
you’re living in an endless loop of trials and frustrations,
an unending episode of the Twilight Zone, right?
WRONG! You are still using the LOA silly! However, you
are using what I call the LORA (Law of Reverse
Attraction).
Yep! It surely works both ways – you either get that
which you want or that which you do NOT want, it all
depends on your vibrational levels. AND, while you keep
on asking “why can’t I?” you’re focusing on, actually
affirming: “I CAN’T”. Is that clear enough?
Probably, as you “try” to use my formula, you remember
all your past unsuccessful trials, all your previous
frustrations. Maybe you approach this teaching with the
fear of being disappointed one more time. You may feel
that you’re not as good or as “spiritual” as those who get
it. I don’t know your specific drama, but one thing I know;
you MUST get rid of this limiting attitude.
“Whether you think you can or can't, you are usually
right”. ~Henry Ford
And why can’t you? Give me a good reason for that.
When I ask this question to my students, they may, at
first, come up with a few excuses, but eventually they
reach a point where they realize that all these excuses
are illusory, especially when it comes to applying the
Mental Alchemy Formula. What is keeping you from
actually DOING IT?
Get rid of the idea that YOU may have a problem or a
blockage; that YOU are unable to use this teaching, that
YOU are cursed or whatever.
I tell you what your first “problem” is; it is BELIEVING that
you have the problem in the first place. This tip alone will
save you thousands of dollars on therapy or expensive
live seminars. Your BELIEFS, turned into convictions, filter
your reality and create your experience, whether good or
bad. And believing that you have a problem keeps you
trapped in that ugly reality.
“But, don’t we have to be realistic? I DO have a financial
problem...duh.” For most people the concept of being
realistic really means to be a pessimist. You can choose to
perceive reality in a myriad of different ways; you can
perceive yourself as a poor thing that never gets a break
in life, or you can (and I strongly advise you to) choose to
perceive yourself as someone who is facing a temporary
challenge that needs to be resolved. The first choice puts
you in the position of a victim, the second puts you in the
position of a participator. And when you adopt the
second attitude, guess what? You will ask powerful
questions. Instead of asking: “Why can’t I?” you will ask:
“HOW can I?” That is the beginning of true and lasting
change.
So, the bottom line is, the major reason why people do
not experience results with the Mental Alchemy Formula,
or any self-help teachings for that matter, is because they
are focusing on the “I can’t” conviction and asking the
wrong question over and over.
As I always say: STOP being a victim and become a
participator. You will have much more fun in life.
You can download the FREE Mental Alchemy Formula,
along with over one hour of audio and several PDF files
from my Mastering your Prosperity Codes Program at:
www.alchemybootcamp.com
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 Short
Stories
GHOSTRIDER
by
The Psychic Twins,
Terry and Linda Jamison
“When the power of love overcomes the
love of power, the world will know
peace.”
~ Jimi Hendrix
(This is an excerpt from our book Separated at
Earth: The Story of The Psychic Twins, available
on Amazon.com)
Sergeant Artie Collins,* age 40, called us from
Tennessee for a reading. He told us he had been
praying to the Holy Mother Mary for some kind of
guidance, and within five minutes of arriving home
we had returned his call. “I guess my prayer was
heard,” said Artie, “and you and your sister are the
ones who were sent to answer it.” We had never
heard of Artie, and he gave us no information prior to
our conversation. What follows is an abbreviated
version of our session by phone.
Linda: Artie, have you ever flown in a combat
mission?
A: Yes, I have.
L: Were you in Operation Desert Storm, The Gulf
War? The guides are telling me you were there.
A: Yes, that is where I was last stationed.
L: Your guides are saying you lost fourteen friends in
an attack when your squadron was shot down. Is this
true?
A: Yes, that is exactly right. My nickname as a pilot
was “Ghostrider”, because the missions were always
flown during the night.
L: So many names are coming in. I’m getting a
Butch, Carl… Tommy, Mitch, Phil, Danny… there’s
a George, Leroy, Freddy, Ryan, Michael, Glen and
Jason…
A: That’s amazing! Those were my buddies who
were killed in that mission.
Terry: They say they’re ordering a round of beers for
you on the other side!
A: We had a round of beers the night they went up on
that assignment. I never saw them again.
L: There is a message coming through from them,
Artie. They are saying, “Yes, we are with you Artie,
and we love you, buddy. It happened so fast, we felt
no pain. Don’t blame yourself because you survived.”
A: Yes, I did…I did blame myself. I felt a lot of guilt
that I survived and they did not.
T: Release the guilt. Let it go. You see, guilt does
not serve us, and it is a way of holding us in the past.
It may be holding you back from really creating some
of your dreams.
A: That is so true.
L: I’m getting a vision of a gold cross or crucifix, and
it has meaning for you connected to these guys who
passed.
A: Yes, the cross was given to me in the Gulf by a
friend to help me process the trauma of the loss of my
comrades. (Artie started to cry quietly). It was on a
gold chain and I still wear it around my neck.
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L: Your friends are thanking you for being so helpful.
Were you helping to organize a memorial of some
kind?
A: I organized the soldiers’ memorial after they
passed.
T: You were a soldier in the Civil War on the side of
Lee, and you died as a hero in that war. You have a
powerful mission to teach courage and love in this
life.
A: I know that is true. I have always been fascinated
by the Civil War. You have really affirmed many of Image ©2009 The Psychic Twins. Used with Permission.

my feelings today. I’m so grateful.

L: We are so honored to have been able to read for Terry and Linda Jamison, known as “The Psychic
you, Artie Twins,” are world-class psychic mediums and
intuitive counselors.
*The names have been changed to protect the
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 Saint Patrick’s Day

St Patrick is known as the patron saint of

Ireland. True, he was not a born Irish. But he
has become an integral part of the Irish
heritage, mostly through his service across
Ireland of the 5th century.

Patrick was born in the later half of the 4th

century AD. There are differing views about the
exact year and place of his birth. According to
one school of opinion, he was born about 390
A.D., while the other school says it is about 373
AD. Again, his birth place is said to be in either
Scotland or Roman England.

His real name was probably Maewyn Succat.

Though Patricius was his Romanicized name,
he was later come to be familiar as Patrick.

The Catholic feast day for this most loved of

Irish saints has become a holiday in celebration
of the Irish and Irish culture. The leprechaun, a
Celtic fairy, has become entrenched as a chief
symbol for this holiday, as is the shamrock, an
ancient symbol for the triple goddess Brigit

From http://www.theholidayspot.com

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 Cooking OM-Times

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important stage of the meal,
Healthy Meals
since it will be the last thing
your guests remember before
they pass out all over the & Healthy Life
table.”
The Anarchist Cookbook Welcome to our new food and cooking
section.

We are so amazed by the success of this

column and the interest that has been
awakening in the hearts (and stomachs)
of people worldwide. As we grow to be
more attentive of what feeds our
bodies, we realize that balance and
harmony can be achieved with the
pleasure in the simple things of life.

In this new approach, we are proud to

bring more information, discussion,
history and culture behind different
foods without forgetting their
nutritious aspects.

We hope that you enjoy our new

directions, because we are all geared
up to help you to get the most of
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 Probiotics
By Dezengo
Useless
by fun
deKombucha
facts Drink 4 LIFE
about

Food Healthy
History
Kombucha, which is considered by some - even I, a wonder drink, has been around for
thousands of years. It is a gift from the gods and a tool for healthy living. When you

Tips
 In France, choose to walk on this path, you are making a commitment to yourself that begins
people eat looking inward for the answers as well as seeking truth in all matters - especially how
approximately you treat your own body: the temple of god! Imagine that, our bodies are a temple, and
500,000,000 we should treat them with care and love.
snails per year By Ranger Mike
Just a Thought
Adams
Taking responsibility for what we put in on our bodies and in our thoughts. The first
recorded use of Kargosok (we call Kombucha) Tea was during the Chinese empire of the
 Instant coffee
Tsin Dynasty in 221 B.C. At that time, it was referred to as The Remedy for
has been in
Immortality or The Divine Tsche. In 414 B.C., Dr. Kombu, from Korea, brought it to
existence since Japan during the reign of Emperor Inkyo. Afterward, this tea was used throughout
the middle of China, Japan and Korea, and was later introduced into Russia and India. Another
the eighteenth report says, “It comes from the area of East Asia and came into Germany via Russia
century around the turn of the century.” Still another tells us it comes from Japan. And yet
another says it comes from Manchuria . . . and so it goes.

We recommend finding a local brewer to ensure the product is alive versus a pasteurized
 The onion is "dead" kombucha. Additionally, your local brewer blesses the tea and speaks specific
named after a Mantras throughout the process, depending on the client/customers ailment or need.
Latin word Even such small details as to what words are being spoken while have been thought to
meaning large change the molecular structure of the drink. See Dr. M. Emoto's research on water.
pearl
Uses & Diversity
digestion, skin disorders, thrush, yeast infections, diabetes, mental boost, and generally
after drinking it an overall sense of well being is felt. Additionally it can be used to
 Half of the marinate meat or vegetables. A Yogi friend in Seattle said he had used it to run his
world's lawnmower. This little drink is pretty down dog versatile and it tastes great!
population lives
For more information on deKombucha,
on a staple diet
Feel free to ask here or email me directly at deZengo @ gmail.com
of rice.
2 Great Tastes….

1 Interesting
Recipe….

Lobster Mac-n-Cheese
Ingredients Preparation
 1/2 lb twist pasta Prepare pasta according to package directions.
 1 tsp olive oil
 leek, cut into half moons Heat oil in a medium skillet. Add leeks and sautee until they
 1 Tbs flour begin to soften. Add flour and cook for 1 minute. Deglaze
 1/2 cup dry white wine the pan with the wine. Add milk, and cook until it begins to
 1 cup milk thicken – about 5 minutes. Add the nutmeg and cayenne and
 1/4 tsp nutmeg cook another minute or two. Stir in fontina and allow to
 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper melt. Set aside.
 1 cup fontina, shredded
 black pepper to taste Remove lobster meat from the shell. Set aside a few nice
looking pieces to use as garnish, and roughly chop the rest.
 1 medium lobster, steamed (~1.5 pounds)
Stir chopped lobster into the cheese sauce. Fold pasta into
 1 large piece white bread, torn into large pieces
the sauce. Season to taste with black pepper.
 1 Tbs butter, melted
Toss bread crumbs with melted butter.

Spray the insides of 4-6 rammekins or crocks with cooking

spray. Fill with lobster and pasta mixture and top with bread.
Bake at 350 for 10 minutes, or until bread begins to brown
and crisp up.

Serves 4-6.

Originally shared by LK at:

www.healthy-delicious.com/2009/08/lobster-mac-and-
cheese

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 by MayLin
Vegetarian
Lasagna

Ingredients

12 whole wheat lasagna noodles

2 - 454g pkgs water packed tofu
1 tsp onion powder
2 to 3 Tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
1/2 cup olives, optional
1/4 to 1/2 cup Zesty Sprinkles, optional
3 cups tomato sauce
1 cup White Vegan Cheeze

Directions
Boil lasagna noodles for 10 minutes. Spoon 3/4 cup tomato sauce on the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan. Add 3 lasagna
noodles. Next spoon on 3/4 cup tomato sauce with Dinner Crumbles and layer on 3 more noodles. Combine Tofu,
onion powder, yeast flakes, olives, and Zesty Sprinkles. Spoon mixture on top of last noodle layer and cover with 3
more noodles. Spread on 3/4 cup tomato sauce and top with 3 more noodles. Spoon on 3/4 cup tomato sauce and top
with cheeze. Bake at 350°F for 35 to 45 minutes or until hot and bubbling. Let cool 15 minutes before slicing and
serving. Garnish with tomato slices and serve.
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The Real
Irish Cream

Ingredients

 1 cup heavy cream

 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed
milk
 1 2/3 cups Irish whiskey
 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
 1 teaspoon almond extract

Directions

1. In a blender,
combine heavy
cream, sweetened
condensed milk,
Irish whiskey,
instant coffee,
chocolate syrup,
vanilla extract, and
almond extract.
Blend on high for
20 to 30 seconds. Irish Toasts
Store in a tightly Health and a long life to you.
sealed container in
Land without rent to you.
the refrigerator.
Shake well before A child every year to you.
serving. And if you can't go to heaven, May you at least
die in Ireland

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 Are You or Someone You Know Going Through a Challenging Time?
The state of economy, our environment and world politics are touching many of us on different levels. Some are dealing with the loss
of a job, their home or a loved one. For others today’s stress is affecting their relationships, emotional and physical health and
lifestyle.

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 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.

 There comes a time when we heed a certain call,
When the world must come together as one.
“We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup
USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-
produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. In
the years that have followed, USA for Africa has raised and distributed more than $63
million in revenue. Just over half the total was spent on emergency relief (food,
medicine, and refugee services) and the balance was used to support more than 500
different relief, rehabilitation and development projects in 18 different countries in sub-
Saharan Africa.

The call has sounded for Haiti…

Will you come together with us?
 Nothing speaks more love
than Flowers

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Relationships

The interconnectiveness
among all human beings
and, consequently, the
relationship among all
beings is the focus of this
section. The dynamics of
the web of connections we
make is one of the most
prominent aspects of
human existence: how we
interlace with each other’s
existence in a meaningful
way.
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Ask the Tantra
Master
with

Chandi Devi
Do you have a question for Chandi?
Email to: Chandi@humanityhealing.net
The Dear Abby of Tantra™

OMG !!!
I have never been able to recreate a full body
orgasm during meditation, although I hear this is
possible. I had an experience of a full body orgasm
during meditation once but I saw some “violence”
and wondered if I was being “punished” for wanting
the experience of an orgasm.
~ Anonymous
OM …
You are trying to re-create a full body orgasm, but
it has to happen on its own. You cannot be the
doer while you are in union with a partner or
practicing meditation on your own. Surrender is
the key.
Kundalini experience can be horrific if there has
been no prior preparation. As you know, it can be
wonderful, but it is no frivolous event.

The scriptures say there are 27 ways to receive

shaktipat (and thus awaken Kundalini) depending
on one’s disposition, so it can be either
pleasurable or horrifying. As the unfolding of the
central channel takes place, there is a real danger
of irritating Kundalini. If the nadis (there are
72,000 currents of energy that start at the chakra
Tantra Yoga exercises from centers) are blocked, the energy has nowhere to
the East are the secret to go and diseases and adverse emotions are real
improved health and possibilities. To avoid this you must have total
rejuvenation!
control of the mind and the breath and do
Find them at: practices to control the senses.

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 OM … (cont.)

I have not heard of anyone dying from Kundalini crisis, but then the dead are not around to tell us, are they!
Seriously though, love is the ultimate achievement from Kundalini awakening so when fear is present, it will
interfere with the process. Fear stops love, love stops fear.

I would not dwell on the past, wondering if you screwed up an opportunity, or hoping for a repeat performance. It
won’t happen, but everything you experience is just what you needed. The past cannot be a re-created moment.
You have to live fully in the present and have no expectations while having full faith. That is the best outcome.

You have to trust and surrender. The ego mind left brain wants you to question, have fear and doubt. But Maa
Kundalini wants the best for you, she loves you. And like any loving mother, she wants to give you everything, but
has to be sure that you are prepared and responsible enough to receive all that she has to give before she goes
gives you more. She can only give you what you are capable of receiving. The aspirant must have the attitude of the
vira, the warrior.

The “violence” you saw was not punishment. In the spiritual world there is no duality of good and bad. It is more
likely showing you something about yourself that you have to clear before moving on.

Continue to purify your senses through meditation and breath. With closed eyes focus on the area between the
eyebrows, keep the tongue in khechari mudra (at the roof of the mouth), be aware of the natural sound of breath.
Breathe in “So” slowly, bringing the breath in through the nose to the base of the spine. Lock the anal sphincter
muscle. Release, exhale “Hum” and bring the breath back up the spine.

This is a good practice to do a minimum of 5 minutes a day. You can also purify with mantras, yantras, yoga
exercises such as Rishis, Tibetan Five Rites, Sun Salutations.

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5 Tips
Spiritual Dating Community
www.ascendinghearts.com

Dating Tips for the Consciously Awake

for
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Empathic Dating
Empaths are frequently very sensitive souls. They feel the pains of the world and at the same time, they may easily absorb
the outer influences of their environment, other people, places and even thought forms. It is certainly not easy to be one
and when you try to get out of your shell and start dating, it can be really rough. We can help. Here are some practical tips
to help you cope with the adventure of dating, respecting the sensitivity of your soul, and preserving the integrity of your
Spiritual Energies.

1 As an empath, it is important always to center yourself. Before starting any contact outside of your usual contacts, take
a brief moment to breathe, center yourself. Feed yourself with loving thoughts and try to always talk with someone, with a
smile, it makes your voice more melodious and lovely.

2 Try to keep everything, even when you are already starting a relationship “In the Present Moment”. Try to not bring
old wounds to the table, and avoid (at least initially) making many plans for the future. Try to keep your both feet “on the
ground” (grounding, remember?).

3 It is important to keep an open mind always. Visualize that your soul is working the best ways to give you the
opportunities to be happy, engineering opportunities, and bringing the right person to your path. When going to a date,
know that you are perfect, desirable and totally lovable. You are a perfect image of the divine light, and therefore, there is
no impediment to you to find the complement of your soul, once you are vibrating higher and higher the frequencies of
your Higher Self (your soul).

4 We can’t stress enough how important is to you to practice protection and shielding. For empathic souls, it is very easy
to be object of other’s jealousy and even easier to be envied. Practice the regular clearing of your energy fields, meditate
regularly, and pray often for all the obstacles to be removed from your pathways and harmlessly released to the Universe.

5 As an empath, you probably know enough in how to live your life “going with the flow”. Sometimes as Spiritual
sensitive beings, empaths tend to have a weak willpower and find themselves many times in very intricate situations,
having difficulties on saying “No” and ridding themselves of very needy people. It is important for you to know, that, if you
want to get out there and start, you will need to know your weak points and protect yourself, your energy and your beliefs.

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 Your Relationship
Space

Blissful or
Bombed

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How does your relationship look?
Your relationship consists, you may think, of just
you and your partner, but in therapy terms the
"relationship" is often referred to as the "space"
between you which is filled with all of your
actions and situations, good or bad that either
serve to help or hinder you both. It is here where
your children and pets live and how much love is
in this space, determines the health of your
family and partnership.
To make it a little clearer, visualize for a moment
By Gina Hardy
a space between you like a garden or an oil
painting that is the resulting picture and nature
of how you have treated each other to date. One
of my clients, when asked to look at this space he
and his wife had created said "oh my god, it looks
like a bomb site". They had spent so much time
harming each other, that the space looked
desolate and war torn.
To actually SEE what that space looks like can be
a shock for some. It serves to get people to wake
up to the state of the relationship and what they
have done usually to harm the delicate beauty of
this place where the seed of love was planted at
the beginning but then ended up trodden on.
People, EVERY time you take from this space you
harm your partner and the relationship and you
effectively yank out all the delicate seeds of love
that really need your attention, presence,
nurturing and kindness. As a garden needs to
flower, so does your relationship and it stands to
reason that gardens don't flower if bull dozers
run riot in them. Get the picture?
So take a look. What does your relational space
look like right now? Are there some flowers but
heavy boot marks through some areas? Perhaps
you feel your side of the garden or space is
perfect and your partner’s is like Beirut.
Whatever you see IS telling you what you have
been doing to build this relationship.
If you are looking for examples of what I mean by
harming your relational space, then in simple
terms I will spell it out for you :
• Bad communication - talking over your partner,
arguing, not listening to their point of view.
Obvious really!
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• Needing to be right - yep it's common one, but
why feel good about being right if your partner is
left deflated and the underdog?
• Affairs - sounds an obvious one but it is pretty
much the biggest bomb you could ever throw
into your relational space. In my entire dating
history and listening to hundreds of people talk
about relationships over the years, I only know of
one relationship that lasted after an affair. The
odds are stacked I am sorry to say. We all know
what happens so why do we do it?
• Not SEEing your partner and not being truly
present with them when they speak to you.
• Spending too much time engaged in what you
want to do and not spending quality time with
your partner in the "space". Remember your
garden needs attention from both of you.
• Getting your needs met - this can appear as
bartering for love. Mentally you are giving to your
partner BUT really you want something in return.
Oh this is so common and the TRUTH is we
constantly want to get our needs met, by pulling
on the tug 'o war rope. "You have to love me
otherwise you won't get any love from me".
* Defenses - when we feel hurt we keep our
partner out with defenses to try and get them to
react. This only appears as trench warfare in the
relational space. Not attractive!
The list is endless to be honest but I think you get
the picture. I have no suggestions for you of "how
to" to get it sorted because you are all adult and
very capable of looking at this and knowing what
is right for you and your partner to make your
relational space the garden of Eden you really
desire. You and they are unique in this Universe,
so you KNOW what is good and what isn't. Its'
not difficult.
What drives you to get your needs met comes
from a largely unconscious drive from childhood,
a huge subject for another day, but I can say this
with assurity, that it is what you give to your
relationship that helps you heal in the long term.
As you breathe love into your relational space it
surrounds you and your partner with endless
possibilities for recovering and healing from the
past. Taking will only set up bad energy between
you where if you are strong mirrors for each
other's short comings, your relational space will
ever be ailing and poor quality.
Deep down we are all a huge bundle of love and
can't wait to give it and feel it in return. We are
created that way in a Divine sense, but relational
spaces often reflect the remnants of our battle
field scenes gone by as we grew through
childhood into adulthood and the picture of the
space you create now with your partner is a
reflection of who you have become. And just
maybe as you look into that mirror you can begin
to see it.
If you are stuck and want to want to help each
other create a beautiful healed space where deep
and sacred love is allowed to blossom with purity,
then please get in contact with me. I am currently
developing the "Relationship MOT" which is a
one off session that will help you see your
relational space with clarity and from there we
can work together to help you plant the flowers
of love and remove the weeds that have strangled
your relationship.
Author Bio
Having spent 25 years meandering through her own river
of love, which many times was fraught with twists and
turns, including divorce soon after marrying, Gina has a
wealth of experience to share. Her passion, through her
own transformation and education process, is about
helping couples and particularly singles become conscious
in their behaviour in relationships and her tools include the
work of couples yoga, a powerful way to re-connect
through non-verbal dialogue. Gina is convinced most of us
really don't understand why we do what we do in
relationships and conflict is inner healing trying to take
place. Her aim is to reduce the worrying divorce rates that
exist in the world and help people get out of their heads
and into their hearts.
http://www.consciousunion.co.uk
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Privacy 101
Is Privacy Becoming Extinct?
By Darity Wesley
“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
~ Robert Heinlein
Some people think privacy is dead: a 20th
century dinosaur. Is privacy really becoming
extinct? That seems to be the question in many
peoples’ minds these days with the prevalence of
user-generated content (that’s what we post on
social networking websites and in our blogs). I
am here to tell you that it is not.
Yes, it is true that plenty of data about you is
available to those who would really want to get it
and are willing to pay for it, like a private
investigator or the government. Anytime you
have not used cash to make a purchase or swiped
any card that has an electronic strip on the back
or volunteered any personally identifiable
information, that nugget about you is retrievable
through at least one source. That’s because
thanks to the computing power of the 21st
century, there are scores of private databases
that have accumulated years of publicly available
data about you from your past, both
electronically captured and scanned in from
paper trails.
In addition, anything that you post anywhere on
the Internet may also be integrated into this
collection of facts about you. Remember all of
those photos of your great vacation you posted
for your friends to see on Facebook? Those
volunteered images of you and the people you
associate with are now part of the compilation of
facts about you stored somewhere in someone’s
database.
How do you feel about that?
Those of us under 40 may have entered
adulthood with a different expectation of privacy
than those of us who are more experienced. It is
true that today’s society defines privacy
differently than that of the early 20th century.
Privacy 100 years ago was about the right to be
left alone.
So what is privacy today and why am I so sure it
is alive and kicking?
In some ways, privacy still is about the right to
be left alone. The difference is that we are in
charge in so many ways of our privacy. Nobody
can know what is going on with you on the inside
unless you tell them. In a nutshell that means
that we can still exercise the right to be left alone
and lead a 21st century private life if we choose to
do so. And from what I’ve noticed, many people
who say that privacy is dead seem to have a
financial interest in buying and selling personal
information. That User Generated Content
brings in some big bucks nowadays.
There are plenty of ways to engage in the
business pretty much imperative of social
networking without having to reveal any deep
secrets. No one needs to know about your
personal relationships, your hobbies and your
non-work related activities unless you tell them
about them. You can keep your feelings,
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opinions, and beliefs to yourself. You can make
all of your settings private on many social
networking websites and can keep your
Tweeting to strictly business topics. Check out
my article Your Public and Private Lives for
some tips on how to take charge of your privacy.

In the area of personal privacy, the Privacy

Guru® says “Stay aware and alert.” Don’t let
anyone fool you into believing privacy is dead.
Your privacy is up to you. Exercise your freedom
to have as private a life as you choose!

©2009-2010 Privacy Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

www.PrivacyGurus.com

Darity Wesley is CEO and Legal

Counsel for Privacy Solutions, Inc.
a San Diego based consulting
firm. Her team of Privacy Gurus®
work with you to create policies
and procedures to establish the
expectation of privacy for your
members, clients, customers,
prospects, affiliates, associates,
employees and vendors. You can
reach her at (619) 670-9462 or
Darity@privacygurus.com, Visit
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The
Enlightened
Path
A Collection of Readings and Channeled
Messages to Help Guide Your Steps
ORACLE
March 2010

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Emergence
The energies and directions for the month of March
evolve around emergence, practicing surrender to what
is.
As the planet Mars turns direct, in astrological terms, on
March 10th, it is a time to emerge from the planning,
wondering and processing that has been surrounding you
for the last few months. Have you felt it?
Opening to the directions you intuitively perceive as right
for you is part of emergence and surrender. You are
growing, changing, developing spiritually; you can feel it,
you “know” it. Many do not. Many are in chaos. But
what do you do with all this? Emerge. It is the key, the
energy to focus on this month.
Maybe you have been holding back not knowing what to
do or where to go or what to do with this person or that
situation or even what the heck all this means. This is the
time for touching your inner realms and exploring how to
bring your spirit out into the physical reality. How to BE
it. It is important to understand that the inner universe is
as infinite as the outer universe and as you spiritually
emerge, bringing expression of that inner universe you
will find yourself more open with your feelings, more
open with your thoughts, more open to being your
authentic self…you can feel this!
It is about trusting your Self and allowing your Self
expression. It can make you feel vulnerable, but
emergence is as much about facing your fears and doing
it anyway as it is about stepping into who you really are
and expressing that to the world. There is great power
on the other side of both these experiences. It gives you
the energy to emerge into the light and to be the spiritual
warrior that you are, stepping forward, one step at a
time, on your path.
As you do this, step by step, trusting your inner voice,
trusting your intuition, you will find yourself at “Right
Time-Right Place” as Solara calls it (www.nvisible.com).
by Darity Wesley
This emergence will give you a new level of confidence in
your Self. Take time to meditate, use the tools available
to stop thought and you will feel the energy directing you
along the way.
Part of this process of emergence is what I am referring
to as “Eyes Wide Open.” As Jed McKenna says in his book
“Spiritual Warfare,” most of us are caught up in the
delusion, the illusion that we are the character we are
playing here now, that we are our story, when it is all an
illusion, Maya. So many are in the dreamstate, even
thinking they are awake, while remaining in the
dreamstate.
So, March is about opening those eyes folks. Seeing what
is, not the drama, not the stories, not the pretensions,
not what the ego says it is…emerge from this. In
emerging, remember, life is confusing if you only listen to
your rational thinking mind which only knows rational
solutions. Spiritual emergence, understanding, is usually
arrived at deductively. Your heart, your inner mind or
spirit is what conveys what you most need to emerge this
month and begin a new way of being. Breakthroughs
abound in March, knocking the blocks and obstacles that
prevent you from achieving this release. Discard the old
world and emerge into the new world.
Let your mantra for this month be: I AM relinquishing
the illusion of control and emerging from my cocoon into
the light with eyes wide open…And So It Is!!!
Darity Wesley is the Founder and Chief Spiritual
Revivalist at ReviveYourSpirit™ based in San
Diego, California. You can contact her at
Darity@ReviveYourSpirit.org. If you wish to
subscribe to Darity’s Daily Oracles, just go to
www.ReviveYourSpirit.org and send an email,
simply put “Subscribe” in the subject line
© 2010 Darity Wesley. All Rights Reserved.
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The Astro-Sage
 The
Astro-Sage
By Chris Anderson/Onefeather
Looking at the Climate for March 2010...
“The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still
parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through
our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from
which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that
Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power,
rippling exquisitely through us all the time.”
~D.H. Lawrence~
Greetings Pilgrims and Magi!
The procession of the heavens into March follows the
Fulling of the Moon on February 28th at 9 degrees
Virgo, a challenge to Sol residing in Pisces to create
order within the realm. On the first day of the month
Mercury also enters the Realm of the Fishes while
later in the evening the Moon wains into Libra,
seeking to claim balance once again. The proximity of
the season of fullness to the retreat of Saturn back
toward Virgo might have affected the traveler as the
conjunction squared Pluto... Those who embrace
wisdom realize a need to regroup. A diet of fruits and
coarse grains will cleanse the body and water with
minerals restore vigor with ease.
March 3rd brings potential for unexpected
enrichment as faire Venus graces the Uranian
Court... serendipitous adventure will bring Art to
one's life! On the 7th the Lady departs Pisces and
brings Grace to the postern of the Clan of the Ram.
Tempers might flair in the fiery Hall of the Golden
Fleece as Venus progresses to oppose Saturn on the
8th. Once again the chela will note that a T-Square
has formed in the heavens as the Moon conjunct
Pluto fills out this sword's double edge. Drawing
down strife from the Tribes of Capricorn and Libra
while embracing Aries in the folly as well... wise
seekers stay alert for two days before and after the
cycle completes.
On the 10th of the month Lord Mars turns his
Chariot about and begins to progress forward
through the Clan of the Lion, advancing the interests
of all of the Pride. Those who are in trine to the
Leonine Court will see progress with interests where
stalemate and confusion had prevailed.
Doubly auspicious, the 14th begins the advance of the
hour; Daylight Savings Time comes into place. Sun
conjuncts Mercury and Moon conjuncts Jupiter... all
who attend the Neptunium Court will be favored this
day. Good cheer abounds!
March 15th finds the newing of the Moon as Sol and
the Goddess unite! In the royal dance of the planets
Mercury conjuncts Uranus, then the Moon and
Uranus unite... the dance made complete when
Goddess and the Winged One also embrace.
Auspicious indeed, this is the day for fanciful flight!
The Sage invites friends and shares a cup of good
cheer~
March 17th sees Sol and Uranus embrace opposing
Saturn's feigned insult, tension is high and could
easily ignite... cautious words and mindfulness
rewards one in search of nirvana, as Mercury lends
reinforced union against the Ringed One while
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Pluto's furnaces purify from below. The 18th
continues the plight as haste creates loss... if
unchecked the chela will find his bowl empty of rice.
Even great Masters note pitfalls and wide puddles
have created need for caution on the path toward the
Light.
gratitude as the journey unfolds is wisdom, and the
ego controlled becomes refined and beauteous...
a friend of the Spirit dwelling within. Embrace Life,
give no resistance to Evil and Ascend with Grace this
March, Dear Friends!

Restoration! March 20th is balance, equal day and Blessing Light & Love from the Celestial Ashram...
night. The Vernal Equinox is time for jubilation as
In Humble recognition of our shared Divinity
the Sun enters Aries and spring takes flight. As the
pilgrims leave weary winter behind, the fulling of the The
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close with impunity. The chela is counseled to be on
Onefeather@Charter.net
guard for rapid evolution, while those who are
unfocused will forced to turn back... rapid growth His webpage and the services he offers is located at:
and the quickening will be the test. Offerings of
http://martyswingnuts.com/Page_7.html

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 LIVE
GREEN
Live Balanced

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Blue Ray Reading
for March 2010
By Deb Graves/Araznu, Blue Ray Healing
Connectivness is the message being received
for the month of March, sensing and feeling a
belonging to everything. You will begin to
acknowledge the vibrations of others on an
inner plane. The heart energy will be felt
whether a person is next to you or across the
world. Your intuition will recognize the
patterns of others with an increased sense of
acceptance. Many of like minds will be able to
instantly know those of similar vibration
which will assist in the collective energies
growing stronger.
Connecting and sharing with others will
reinforce confirmations and verifications of
what is happening upon this beautiful planet.
The group consciousness is raising the
frequencies of Mother Earth at an amazing
rate. Gatherings of collective minds in mass
meditations
are flourishing as the results can be noticed
almost instantly.
"Connectivness" channeled activation image
by visionary artist Deb Graves/Araznu.
The image connectivness shows the intricate web of
energy that is available for all to tap into.
Below is a video meditative journey and
healing that will lead you to connect to the
matrix , the mass consciousness, the one. This
journey will also cleanse, detox and activate
your energies along with the cutting of cords,
removal of hooks and attachments. At the end
of the video you will be ready to travel
wherever your intention leads.
The Stairway of Connectivness
The image below began to form as seeing a
single strand of DNA the building blocks of
life. I also recognized that the DNA strand
looked very much like a spiral stairway. As I
felt the image growing I began to notice the
joined hands of wayshower communities
connecting, holding together the stairway for
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others to follow. These crystals are not one of great beauty,
but the energy that eminates from them
makes up for this. They are reported to herald
from Lemuria which was said an ancient
civilization, one that centered more on the
emotional and spiritual world.

"Stairway of Connectivness"
debzartonline.com
Blessings
Deb Graves/Araznu
Crystal Selection for March 2010
*Please note these are intuitions and not
The Lemurian Crystal scientifically proven facts.
The Lemurian crystals have been
programmed with the consciousness of love www.bluerayhealing.com
and connection. Lemurian seeds are www.debzartonline.com
structured to allow one to "climb" up the
etheric levels; in fact they have horizontal
striations which could be described as a
ladder on most faces of the crystal.
For these reasons I feel the Lemurian crystal
holds the energy of connectivness for March.

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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.

Music: Lous Eht Evaew from the album Rewriting Destiny Visual Art by Bruce Morris
To listen to more from Soulwire or to purchase the CD, To see more of Bruce Morris’ Art, visit:
visit: www.soulwire.com www.bruce-morse-gallery-of-dreams.com
Oneness By Rev Menchu

Worlds upon worlds, universes upon universes

your love is expressing, all around,
It speaks of disorder as a form in an order,
All as One.
where octaves and vibes exists in a line.
Who knows of this but a few, all in the game of
And everything is a reality and non can refute,
peek-a –boo,
And light, the Highest concept of all,
that in no time and space,
the ultimate Truth. Oh this wisdom of love that
all is known and One.
I feel, vibrating throughout eternity!
It comes from within as I unfold to the light;
I read of Thoth.
transcending all materiality and all of dualities,
His words and stories truly delight.
expanding, embracing, this life that feels so
It makes me marvel and understand more and
free!
more about life.
The mysteries it seems, are as infinite as the
Thoth's mysteries are just awesome and I’d go
sand,
to those places I know.
where layers of consciousness and galaxies
But first I am here, a student, wanting to know
expand.
the One that I am.
Each moment choosing, to this day whom shall
I serve?
And learn the greatest mystery of all;
that there is no other,
and All things are One.
SPONTANEOUS
EVOLUTION:
By Bruce H. Lipton, PhD and Steve Bhaerman
“The good news is, there will indeed be peace on earth. I
sure hope we humans are around to enjoy it.”
~Swami Beyondananda
We are in a world of crisis. From economic collapse to
environmental decay to climate change to war, hunger
and poverty, our species seems to be headed fool speed
ahead on a fast track to a train wreck.
But what if these crises presented the greatest
opportunity in recorded history – conscious evolution?
Our book, Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future
and a Way to Get There From Here, offers both the hope
and challenge that we can safely navigate this dark
passage, to a healthier future. The good news is that
biology and evolution are on our side.
Contrary to what conventional science and religion have
been telling us, evolution is neither random nor
predetermined, but rather an intelligent dance between
organism and environment. When conditions are ripe—
either through crisis or opportunity—something
unpredictable happens to bring the biosphere into a new
balance at a higher level of coherence.
While we often perceive of examples of spontaneous
remission as miraculous healings that happen by the
grace of God, looking a little deeper we see something
else at work. Quite often these fortunate individuals
actively participate in their own healing by consciously or
unconsciously making a key, significant change in their
beliefs and behaviors.
So here is the bad news and the good news. The story of
human life on Earth is yet to be determined. Spontaneous
evolution will depend on whether we humans are willing
to make changes in our individual and collective beliefs a
Our Positive Future
and a Way to Get
There From Here
and behaviors, and whether we are able to make these
changes in time.
For millennia, our spiritual teachers have been pointing
us in the direction of relatedness and love. Now science
is confirming that ancient wisdom. We are each and all
cells in the body of an evolving giant super-organism we
call humanity. Because humans have free will, we can
choose to either rise to that new level of emergence or,
in the manner of dinosaurs, fall by the wayside.
Like it or not, our future depends on the choices we make
as a species.
All You Need Is Love – Really!
From Jesus to the Beatles, we humans have spent the
past 2,000 years hearing – and resisting -- the message of
love. Perhaps now that science is echoing ancient
wisdom in this regard, we might actually heed the
message.
Thanks to the current paradigm of scientific materialism,
most of us believe (if not consciously, than unconsciously)
that life is a dog-eat-dog rat race, a dire competition
where only the most fit survive. However, science now
tells us that this Darwinian view is distorted. In actuality,
environments survive and evolve as systems. Whatever
helps to balance that system thrives, while that which
doesn’t fit, doesn’t survive. Thus, the real evolutionary
principle is survival of the “fittingest.”
Our planet is facing what scientists are calling the Sixth
Great Mass Extinction. The previous five were apparently
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caused by objects from outer space, such as comets or
asteroids, hitting the Earth. This time, the cause comes
from “inner space” – our own invisible beliefs that have
spun us outside the web of life. Beginning with
monotheistic religion telling us that we humans are
superior and apart from other creatures on the planet,
exacerbated by scientific materialism insisting human
technology has the power to “conquer” nature, we have
focused so heavily on our fitness as individuals, we have
failed to recognize that our fitness as a species is up for
examination.
However, the most transformational tool in our human
toolkit – and the one we’ve largely ignored for the past
two millennia – is love. This love we are talking about is
not some mushy-gushy sentiment, but the glue that holds
our world together. According to Dr. Leonard Laskow, a
surgeon who discovered his own innate ability to heal
with love and wrote a book with the same name, “Love is
a universal pattern of resonant energy.” In this sense,
two or more tuning forks vibrating together are in love
with each other, just as two or more humans can
resonate in a palpable field of connectedness, joy, and
even ecstasy. Love, he said, “is the universal harmonic.”
Love and Evolution
If indeed love is a resonant harmonic, then a case can be
made for evolution being the evolution of love itself.
From the first spark of life ignited by the wave of light
impregnating the particle of matter on Earth, every stage
of evolution has involved two things: greater connection,
and greater awareness.
While we should beware of anthropomorphizing cells –
they hate it when we do that – in a very important sense,
when single cells joined to become multi-cell organisms,
they “surrendered” to a higher level of organization, and
“agreed” to live in harmony. In other words, love.
The same has been true of individuals affiliating in tribes,
and tribes affiliating as nations. At each stage, individuals
(or groups of individuals) have become aware of how
connecting in community would enhance their wellbeing.
Taking a cue from the Iroquois Nation, America’s
founders designed a system where individual states gave
up their right to arm themselves against one another.
Think for a moment what it would have meant for states
to have armed borders, and the inevitability of a border
skirmish. Clearly, America’s prosperity has been due in
part to not having to spend precious resources defending
against other Americans.
On a worldwide scale, imagine what we could do with the
trillions of dollars we spend on weaponry. Certainly, an
argument can be made that while the vast majority of us
may be peace loving, we would still have to defend
ourselves against those who aren’t. This is true.
However, we are all too commonly mobilized by our
“leaders” against a perceived enemy, when in actuality
the true “enemy” is the field of beliefs that reinforce an
absence of love – and the misleaders who manipulate
that field.
A World In Crisis = A World of Opportunities
Meanwhile, in the collective consciousness there has
been a growing awareness that, to quote Dorothy,
“We’re not in Kansas anymore.” Whether it’s the
evangelicals speaking about the Rapture, scientists
warning of the Sixth Great Extinction, or those who see
“2012” as some transformational watershed date, there
is an understanding that we are on the threshold of
profound change.
As we are seeing every day in the news, old structures
and ways of being seem to be crumbling all around us.
Our institutions – from hospitals to schools to banks to
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our own government – are failing, and seem to be
unfixable. What’s going on?
To better understand the opportunity hidden in the crisis,
consider the tale of another world in transition. Imagine
you are a single cell among millions that comprise a
growing caterpillar. The structure around you has been
operating like a well-oiled machine, and the larva world
has been creeping along predictably. Then one day, the
machine begins to shudder and shake. The system begins
to fail. Cells begin to commit suicide. There is a sense of
darkness and impending doom.
From within the dying population, a new breed of cells
begins to emerge, called imaginal cells. Clustering in
community, they devise a plan to create something
entirely new from the wreckage. Out of the decay arises a
great flying machine—a butterfly—that enables the
survivor cells to escape from the ashes and experience a
beautiful world, far beyond imagination. Here is the
amazing thing: the caterpillar and the butterfly have the
exact same DNA. They are the same organism, but are
receiving and responding to different organizing signals.
That is where we are today. When we read the
newspaper and watch the evening news, we see the
media reporting a decaying caterpillar world. And yet
everywhere, human imaginal cells are awakening to a
new possibility. They are clustering, communicating, and
tuning into a new, coherent signal of love.
We are now between “two worlds” – the caterpillar
world where our future is limited by our creepy-crawly
past, and the butterfly world where humanity can soar to
reach its highest potential. Unlike the shift from
caterpillar to butterfly, however, transformation of
humanity is not inevitable. It requires our participation.
We have the choice to live in and reinforce the limitations
imposed by fear and past programming. Or, we can
attune ourselves to the new signal of love, and live that
instead.
A Three-Step Program for “Spontaneous Remissioning”
If we are to survive and thrive as a species, we must
consciously shift our mission from individual survival to
species thrival. While there is currently no 12-Step
Program for a species “recovering” from 5,000 years of
civilization, we are offering a 3-Step plan because frankly,
we don’t have time for all twelve steps. The steps are
Awareness, Intention and Practice.
Since we are on the cusp of conscious evolution, the first
all-important step is to become consciously aware of
what science now tells us about the nature of human
nature. As we point out in our book, the four
fundamental beliefs of scientific materialism have been –
inconveniently – disproved by science! When we
recognize that so much of who we imagine we are is
based on programmed, “invisible” beliefs, we can begin
to recognize that this programming is the one thing we
have in common. The entire notion of “blame” at that
point seems absurd. As the Biblical injunction says,
“Forgive them because they know not what they do.”
In this forgiveness and liberation from blame, we can
accept responsibility. That is, we can choose to respond
differently. Consequently, the next healing step is to
make an intentional choice to release obsolete beliefs
and divest from the “caterpillar” institutions and mindset,
and instead invest in the new butterfly society that is
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emerging locally and globally. The community of
“imaginal cells” that sociologist Paul Ray calls “cultural
creatives” has grown in just over ten years from 50 to 70
million adult Americans. We can choose to combine our
own mission with that of this new organism, to weave a
web of mass construction, so the butterfly can rise as the
caterpillar falls.
That brings us to the final step. Now that we know what
science is telling us about the true nature of human
nature, what do we do about it? How do our lives
become different as we come to recognize ourselves as
cells in a new organism called Humanity? How do we
liberate ourselves from our personal and collective
programming of limitation? What practices do we adopt
on a daily basis that remind us of who we truly are?
Evolution – like heaven – is not a destination, but a
practice.
The Spontaneous Evolution radio interview with Bruce
and Steve on Coast to Coast AM, 15 Spetember 2009.
Listen to the entire show at:
www.youtube.com/SetYouFreee
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept
our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden
rather than fight over the turf. When a critical mass of
people truly own this belief in their hearts and minds and
actually begin living from this truth, our world will
emerge from the darkness in what will amount to a
spontaneous evolution.
Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., is an internationally
recognized authority in bridging science and spirit
and a leading voice in new biology. His website is
www.brucelipton.com
Steve Bhaerman is an author, humorist and political
philosopher, also known as his comic alter ego Swami
Beyondananda. His website is
www.wakeuplaughing.com
To order your copy of Spontaneous Evolution. please
go to www.wakeuplaughing.com/epistore
To order the Spontaneous Evolution 5 CD audio set,
please go to www.wakeuplaughing.com/epistore
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Lightworkers
By oneat1

are a rare breed indeed...

There aren't many crowds we can fit into; but then

again, there aren't many of which we’d even want to
be a part. Many of us have been through awesome
trials and somehow survived; and there are many
more who don’t even know that this is who they are,
as pieces are still falling into place. We come from
every race, creed and tongue, and when we find
others like ourselves, it feels like coming home --
whether it’s a one time meeting for ten minutes on
public transit, or hanging out for the afternoon with
the weird uncle that nobody else seems to understand.
You’re not likely to see us singing and dancing
wildly in the spotlight, but you’ll probably call one of
us when you really need to talk. We are integrated
with the heart of humanity and without us, according
to Plato, humanity would lose it’s way in the dark.

We could also be the outcasts, the ones society has

often pushed aside. We may have been used as a bad
example by others because our values don't
completely align with what everybody else is doing.
We’re the ones whispered about sometimes in a
social setting, or who just naturally seem to be
attacked or put down for no apparent reason. We
could do the work it would take to fit in, because
generally we’re a highly intelligent bunch; and some
of us may even find common ground for a season, but
inevitably realize that we can no longer compromise.
We’re generally not good poker players because we
have a hard time pretending; we feel it all so deeply, to heal the sick, give sight to the blind, or even to
and it shows. We need to walk the talk, and if we’re raise the dead. Some teachings even say that it’s
not, then it can seem like our own conscience is possible for us to do greater things. I can’t seem to
working against us -- because it is. But when we find wrap my brain around what those greater things
the groove and get in tune, none of these outer might be, but I’d sure like to find out! This is our
conditions seem to matter, or else they transform quest for learning, seeking, asking, knocking -- and it
themselves naturally it seems, as we shine and has driven the progress of humanity to it’s current
resonate with the joy, peace, harmony and abundance heights, as evidenced throughout the world's history,
that’s been inside our hearts all along.
We don’t ask anything of you, other than possibly the and is what will continue to drive us to new heights
realization of what we humans truly are in the core of yet to come.
our being. All the great teachings have made
reference to at least one human figure who was able

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 M,
We are the hope. We have come to help sort it all out,
to help you to figure out what’s important for you,
not according to what we may have been told by
others, but according to your own heart. We don’t
place ourselves above others on the path because we
understand that we’re mostly just figuring it out
ourselves. We're still learning, still growing,
remembering who we really are, all of us. At our
best, we’re really just "way show-ers" who are doing
our best to "be the change" we want to see in the
world, yet some have said that we're ahead of our
time.

We are Lightworkers. And the beautiful thing is that

anyone, no matter who you are or where you come
from, is completely welcome to be one too. It can be
as simple as a choice you make. Those who have
already made the choice, or who have just discovered
themselves to be on the path, can be encouraged that
they’re not alone; we know what it’s like, and we're
here. No matter who you are or where you're from, as
part of humanity, I salute you. You’ve come a long
way. I honestly, humbly, salute you.

Namaste’ ~

"The place where God resides in me

honors the place where God resides in you,
and it is there that we are One."

(original poetry and article by John G Edwards (oneat1 ^o^)

editing by Debbie Camarda (One Light)


featuring artwork by Deb Graves

logo: Humanity Healing)

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Article By Steve Gooch
12seconds for Peace
12seconds for Peace is a collaborative video-arts
project that is fast becoming something of a
global phenomenon. Designed to bring together
the creative talents of individuals, artists,
musicians and film-makers wishing to help raise
the energy for the manifestation of peace in our
world; one of its primary missions is to help
raise funds for the work of Humanity Healing.
12seconds for Peace grew out of a desire to do
something creative and meaningful with the raw
material of the micro-social network; 12seconds
TV. 12seconds TV, the video version of Twitter,
boils life down into visual vignettes in the same
way that Twitter serves up 140 character slices.
Whilst Twitter however has rapidly
metamorphosed from being a cyber-junkies play
thing into the
internet’s
circulatory
system – and
thus utterly
indispensable
to the way the
internet
functions,
12seconds TV is still very much lost in the
hinterlands of peripheral semi-geekism.
As its name implies, 12seconds TV allows you
just 12 seconds on camera. Not time enough to
say much and not as easily accessible as Twitter
which with a few deft thumbs of a cell phone
key pad can instantly tell the world what you
are doing, where you are and how you feel about
things. 12seconds TV on the other hand requires
a camera or webcam, the willingness to spend
time filling in fields with a title for your
production, where you happen to be in the
world and some tags. Most people are not going
to bother with this but its creative possibilities
are awesome. It has within it the seed of a life
beyond the tepidity of the dreariness of its
current existence. 12seconds for Peace intends
to exploit this artistic potential which, as with
most other social networking platforms, has
been largely unexplored.
The challenge for all artists is, to a degree, to
take a material – whether it is a lump of stone or
a social networking environment and create
something new in the world that has never
existed before. To see within it a potency that
no one else has seen. Michelangelo was a master
at this, so was Henry Moore and Robert
Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy. Artists who,
when faced with the seduction of creation,
could feel the life-force, the chi of the raw
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materials that they had available.

12seconds TV offers the possibility of making

something meaningful within the constraints of
a 12 second time frame. It is a huge challenge but
not if approached from a collaborative
perspective. By pulling on the artistic
predispositions of an array of contributors,
12seconds TV can be expanded into a
kaleidoscopic video-collage of immense
proportions. More than this however it can
build an incredibly powerful energetic matrix of
focused intent, when the contributions of the
many are singularly framed around one common
theme.

12seconds for Peace was created to give

structural definition to one particular concept
and to integrate the many disparate
contributory elements into one powerful
energetic thought-form. A thought-form for
peace.
Peace is an elusive and fragmentary concept. For
some it is a state of mind and a way of being. For
others, it is the cessation of violence and the
ending of war. Others would add that perhaps
peace is not just the end of violence and warfare
but also the cultivation of positive qualities such
as friendliness, compassion, goodwill and social
justice. However it is defined, we all want it and
we all have our own roads to it.
Whatever peace means to the individual,
12seconds for Peace wants a video about it. It
doesn't matter if the
video is of someone
standing in front of a
camera stating their
desire for peace or a
collage of photographs,
or maybe some footage of
a serene natural
environment. Perhaps some form of abstraction
would also convey the appropriate sense. It
doesn't matter, as long as the video expresses a
personal interpretation of and desire for peace.
As the contributions come in, they are being
collected together to form one powerfully
energetic video-collage to raise the energy of
manifestation around the collective desire for
peace. This in itself is immensely powerful, but
on its own is of no lasting value. We live in a
physical world and action must follow desire.
12seconds for Peace is committed to the twin
strands of human engagement with the world:
creating thought-forms of powerful intention-
driven energy and then
using this to fuel
activities that will create
a lasting peace in the
world.
To this end 12seconds for
Peace has partnered with
Humanity Healing to

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raise money for a number of good causes. It is You can find out more about 12seconds for Peace
early days in the life of 12seconds for Peace and and how you can contribute your own short
the videos that we are collecting are still rolling video statement by going to:
in. However, the longer term aim is to pass these
video-vignettes as raw material on to a www.12seconds4peace.blogspot.com
contemporary artist of international standing to
do with as they will. To make a lasting artistic
statement from the combined efforts of the
many: to create one voice – one message – one
intention for peace. To raise the energy of
manifestation like a tidal wave, and then to
unleash it onto the world.

This video-based artwork will be used as widely

as possible, exhibited as much as possible,
shown wherever there is an opportunity and for
a fee. Perhaps the resultant piece will appear on
stage behind a rock band. Maybe it will be
exhibited around the world in a variety of art
spaces - national and local. Art can motivate. Art
makes a difference.

As a species, our primal desire is to create, to

explore, to understand, and art in its many
forms is the first and last expression of this. It is
the hand of God, the energy of the universe
transmuted into tangible form in the here and
now. There is no better way to bring peace than
through tapping into the life force of all that is
and using it powerfully and creatively for the
betterment of humankind.

Now is your chance to get involved. Be a part of

this global phenomenon. Add your voice. Add
your intention. Become a part of the peace
collective and shout your intention to the world
that you want peace and you want it now! Your
voice, your work, your video will become a part
of a major statement from the world to the
world and shown as widely as possible in the
name of peace and in helping to raise funds for
those sorely in need of it right now. How far
away is peace? Maybe only 12seconds away...

Peace art and pictures are a courtesy of the Peace Artist KellyAnn
http://peaceartsite.com
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WORLD
VISION
When you look at the view of Earth from
space, you are immediately in awe of what
you do see: the incredible beauty of
Creation. It is not until you look closer that
you realize what you do not see.

You do not see lines partitioning countries.

You do not see separation between races.

You do not see division between religions.

You do not see the walls people build to

isolate themselves from each other.

There is just One Planet. There is only One

Humanity.

This section is dedicated to introducing

thoughts and ideas to foster a greater
understanding of Humanity’s
interdependence.
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The first
International
Women’s Day
On March 8, 1911, the world
celebrated the first-ever
International Women's Day.
The day was created in order
to bring attention to the
important impact women
have had in history, and
continue to have today and in
the future. It also served to
help in the women's suffrage
movement, which was in full
swing in European and North
American countries at the
time. Women wanted to vote,
and they wanted to have the
same rights as men. And in
many countries, they were
successful in winning equal
opportunities.
March 8th
International Women’s Day
The first International Women's Day
In 1869 British MP John Stuart Mill was the first person in Parliament to call
for women's right to vote. On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the
first country in the world to give women the right to vote. Women in other
countries did not enjoy this equality and campaigned for justice for many
years.
In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in
Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office'
for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an
International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country
there should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for
their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries,
representing unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs, and including
the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin's
suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day
was the result.
The very first International Women's Day was launched the following year by
Clara Zetkin on 19 March (not 8 March). The date was chosen because on 19
March in the year of the 1848 revolution, the Prussian king recognized for the
first time the strength of the armed people and gave way before the threat of
a proletarian uprising. Among the many promise he made, which he later
failed to keep, was the introduction of votes for women.
Plans for the first International Women's Day demonstration were spread by
word of mouth and in the press. During the week before International
Women's Day two journals appeared: The Vote for Women in Germany and
Women's Day in Austria. Various articles were devoted to International
Women's Day: 'Women and Parliament', 'The Working Women and Municipal
Affairs', 'What Has the Housewife got to do with Politics?', etc. The articles
thoroughly analyzed the question of the equality of women in the government
and in society. All articles emphasized the same point that it was absolutely
necessary to make parliament more democratic by extending the franchise to
women.
Success of the first International Women's Day in 1911 exceeded all
expectation.
Meetings were organized everywhere in small towns and even the villages
halls were packed so full that male workers were asked to give up their places for
women.
Men stayed at home with their children for a change, and their wives, the captive
house
wives, went to meetings.
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During the largest street demonstration of 30,000 women, the
police decided to remove the demonstrators' banners so the
women workers made a stand. In the scuffle that followed,
bloodshed was averted only with the help of the socialist
deputies in Parliament.

In 1913 International Women's Day was transferred to 8 March

and this day has remained the global date for International
Women’s Day ever since.

During International Women's Year in 1975, IWD was given

official recognition by the United Nations and was taken up by
many governments. International Women's Day is marked by a
national holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova,
Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Article from
www.internationalwomensday.com/

Images: Google

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Spiritual
Destinations
Sacred Blue Cenote, Mexico:
Underwater Playground of the Children of the Mayan
Gods
The Sacred Blue Cenote in Mexico is an eco-
archaeological park, Ik Kil, located 82 feet below the
surface which welcomes swimmers and divers in its deep
pool, 196 feet wide by 130 feet deep, a popular
destination surrounded with cascading waterfalls and
lush vegetation. Mayan divers now share the deep pool
with visitors to the area.
Article by Gina Alzate
A grand stone staircase near the entrance to the park
leads visitors down to the cenote. Expect scores of
people to be going up and down this same staircase and
that the floor would often be wet. Since the place is an
underwater cave with only a small opening to the sky,
photographs may be difficult to take unless you have a
way to adjust adequate lighting for your camera.
Entrance to the park is $70 Pesos (with $12 - $14 Pesos to
US dollar comes to $5 - $6 US, depending on the daily
exchange rate). The Blue Cenote is open from 8 am to 6
pm daily, and is located 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from
Chichen Itza on Highway 180.
It is recommended to bring swim wear and a towel when
attending a guided tour of the Chichen Itza if part of the
tour includes a stop at the Blue Cenote. Swim apparel and
change of clothing can stay in the bus during the tour of
the temples. Be aware the time is limited for a stop at the
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Blue Cenote which can be as short as 45 minutes. During
popular times such as the Spring and Fall Equinoxes,
expect Chitzen Itza and the Blue Cenote to be very
crowded that the only thing you might have time to do is
to enjoy a serving of locally made delicious ice cream
made of natural fruits and flavors.
To enjoy the deep pool without time constraints, consider
going to the Blue Cenote as a separate destination from
Chichen Itza and on early mornings when tours are
underway at the temples. For those who are not
confident of their swimming skills, life vests are available
for rent. Visitors are advised that they swim and dive at
their own risk.
However, one important point to remember: Have fun
like a small child would around water and play to your
heart's content as that is what is called for at Sacred Blue
Cenote.
Related articles:
How to maneuver the local markets in Mexico using
bargaining strategies employed by the locals
Spiritual Destination: Chichen Itza, Mexico during
Spring and Fall Equinox
Author Biography
Gina Alzate is a Cruise Planner and Owner of World
Tours and Cruises, specializing in group travel for
destination weddings and honeymoons, family and
school reunions, corporate events, conferences and
workshops at sea. She is an Online Radio Talk Show
Host on TalkShoe.com and BlogTalkRadio.com, and
the Broadcaster of World Radio 365. As the
Metaphysical Therapy Educator with Holistic Life
Designs, she leads and coordinates holistic and
metaphysical workshops on land and at sea. She
writes for Examiner.com as the National Holistic
Travel Examiner and the Philadelphia Romance
Examiner.
http://www.worldtoursandcruises.com
http://www.worldradio365.net
A video clip of Blue Cenote used to mine the limestone
for the construction of Chichén Itzá.
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Book
Reviews
 Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her
Extraordinary Story and Shows You How to Tap
Your Own Inner Wisdom
In Part One, “Initiations,” Dr. Orloff describes
by Judith Orloff MD being an intuitive child who had premonitions
about deaths and illnesses that frightened her
Book review by Joan Borysenko, PhD and her physician-parents—so much so they
forbade her to discuss them at home. Judith
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This pioneering book shares the struggles and wondrous potential.
well-won successes of a courageous physician
who fights against a skeptical medical system to Joan Borysenko, PhD is a pioneer in Mind-Body
validate the power of intuition. This book will Medicine, author of Minding the Body, Mending
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weird or crazy for having intuitive experiences
that they are not. Judith Orloff MD is author of Second Sight and
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Surviving Cancer and Other Tough Stuff:
An Illustrated Journal and Workbook
by Kanta Bosniak
Book review by Carolyn Yohn McManus

A handbook for surviving almost anything...and coming out lighter, stronger and happier!
"Surviving Cancer and Other Tough Stuff" is a comprehensive change guide organized in three
parts: the author's story, helpful information, and a workbook. The first section works as a
metaphor. A spellbinding teaching tale told by a hypnotherapist, which happens to be true, it
dramatically demonstrates how to use change as a spiritual growth catalyst. The second part
offers tools for change. Among these are easy how-to's for staying relaxed, tuning into inner
guidance and accessing information from the body
about what foods are most beneficial.

In the third section you'll find a creative journal

workbook which will help you move through the stages
of change the author calls the "Becoming" process. I
especially liked this section and enjoyed the writing and
drawing exercises and the visualizations. Bosniak's
writing voice is warm, accessible, easy and fun to read. I
was inspired by her story of recovery from childhood
abuse, caregiver burnout and, finding love and surviving
cancer. I liked the way she wove together the candid
compelling narrative with lyrical journal entries. These
entries clearly took a turn after her diagnosis, when she
began writing not only for herself, but for others going
through personal challenges. I enjoyed the way she was
able to model moving through her own journey and
invite me, as a reader, in to move through my own.

I'm an artist myself, so part of the pleasure of reading this book for me was the art. I love the
brightly colored mandala design on the cover. I also love the doodle drawings and cartoons
inside, which enhance the already light-hearted, humorous feeling of the book. I recommend
this book to anyone working through "tough stuff" or who just likes a good story with a happy
ending.

See more reviews and order the book at Amazon.com

Read about Kanta Bosniak at: www.KantaBosniak.com

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 Book Reviews
An analysis of Pitirim Sorokin’s The Ways and Power of Love
(Boston: The Beacon Press, 1954, 552 pp.)
New edition: Templeton Press 2002
F described in his autobiography A Long Journey
I By Rene Wadlow
G
(Boston: The Beacon Press, 1954, 552 pp.)
U
New edition: Templeton Press 2002
.) R carried out important empirical studies on social
E A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor
must we ever do evil that good may come of it…Let us
then try what Love will do…Force may subdue but Love
1 invited to Harvard University where the Department
gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. William
Penn Some Fruits of Solitude
Pitirim Sorokin (1889-1968) was concerned, especially in the period
after the Second World War, with the relation between the values and
attitudes of the individual and their impact on the wider society. His key
study Society, Culture and Personality: Their Structure and Dynamics (1947)
tried to trace the relations between the development of the personality, the
wider cultural values in which the personality was formed, and the structures
of the society. Personality, social institutions and culture were inseparable
aspects — a sociocultural trinity. As he noted “One cannot have an eminently
altruistic population amidst egoist institutions and culture.”
The two World Wars had convinced him that humanity was in a period
of transition that the guidelines of earlier times had broken down and had not
yet been replaced by a new set of values and motivations. To bring about real
change, one had to work at the same time on the individual personality, on
cultural values as created by art, literature, education, and on the social
framework. One had to work on all three at once, not one after the other as
some who hope that inner peace will produce outer peace. “If we want to
raise the moral standards of large populations, we must change
correspondingly the mind and behaviour of the individuals making these
populations, and their social institutions and their cultures” he stressed in his
Reconstruction of Humanity (1948).
Sorokin had been born in a rural area of the north of Russia. Both his
parents died when he was young. He had to work in handicraft trades in order
to go to the University of St. Petersburg where his intelligence was noted, and
he received scholarships to carry out his studies in law and the then new
academic discipline of sociology. After his doctorate, he was asked to create
the first Department of Sociology at the University of St; Petersburg.
However, the study of the nature of society was a dangerous undertaking, and he
was imprisoned three times by the Tsarist regime.
He was among the social reformers that led to the first Russian Revolution of
1917, and he served as private secretary to Alexandre Kerensky, head of the
Provisional Government.
*Rene Wadlow, Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
When Kerensky was overthrown by N. Lenin,
Sorokin became part of a highly vocal anti-Bolshevik
faction, leading to his arrest and condemnation to
death in 1923. At the last moment, after a number of
his cell mates had been executed, Lenin modified the
penalty to exile, and Sorokin left the USSR, never to
return. His revolutionary activities are well-
(1963).
He came to the United States and taught at the
University of Minnesota (1924-1930) where he
mobility, especially rural to urban migration. These
studies came as sociology was increasingly
recognized as a specific discipline, and Sorokin was
of Social Ethics was transformed to the Department
of Sociology with Sorokin as its head. He continued
teaching sociology at Harvard until his retirement in
1955 when a new institute, the Harvard Research
Center in Creative Altruism was created so that he
could continue his research and writing.
Of the three pillars of society — personality,
culture and social structure, personality may be the
easiest to modify. Therefore he turned his attention
to how a loving or altruistic personality could be
formed. He noted that in slightly different terms love,
compassion, sympathy, mercy, benevolence,
reverence, Eros, Agape, mutual aid and cooperation
affirm supreme love as the highest moral value and
its imperatives as the universal and perennial moral
commandments. He stressed than an ego-
transcending altruistic transformation is impossible
without a corresponding change in the structure of
one’s ego, values and norms of conduct and that such
change has to be done by the individual himself, by
his own effortful thinking, meditation, volition and
self-analysis.
However, for Sorokin, love or compassion
must be universal for it to provide a basis for social
reconstruction as partial love can be worse than
indifference. “If unselfish love does not extend over
the whole of mankind, if it is confined within one
group — a given family, tribe, nation, race, religious
denomination, political party, trade union, caste, social
class or any part of humanity — such an in-group
altruism tends to generate an out-group antagonism.
And the more intense and exclusive the in-group
solidarity of its members, the more unavoidable are
the clashes between the group and the rest of
humanity.”
The new edition of The Ways and
Power of Love willOM-Times
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Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You
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by Judith Orloff MD

In her new book Second Sight, this moving personal story Dr. Orloff recounts her "journey
to become whole" by first accepting and then embracing her intuitive abilities. She tells of
her childhood fear of her intuition, of her physician-parents' efforts to ignore and even deny
them, and of her slow awakening to the understanding that her intuition is truly a gift. She
tells of her struggle to incorporate her abilities into her MEDICAL practice and traditional
medicine and of the many successes she's experienced with patients ever since.

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Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here
by Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. & Steve Bhaerman

In the midst of the current worldwide crises comes a hopeful new story of our evolutionary
future, a book Deepak Chopra has called "world changing." Based on the latest discoveries
in "new edge science," resonant with ancient spiritual wisdom, Spontaneous Evolution
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Grace Lost and Found: From Addictions and Compulsions to Satisfaction and Serenity
by Mary Cook

Many recovery books are for the beginner, and that makes sense. But then what? This grace-
filled book is for people at later stages in their recovery who are looking to uncover the
underlying causes for their addiction and heal the psychological and spiritual pain, often
lingering from childhood that many addicts bear.

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You Are Here – Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

by Thich Nhat Hahn

In this book Thich Nhat Hahn, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master,
distills the essence of Buddhist thought and practice, emphasizing the power of mindfulness
to transform our lives. "Mindfulness is not an evasion of an escape," he explains. "It means
being here, present, and totally alive. It is true freedom - and without this freedom, there is
no happiness." Simple, warm, direct, and startlingly potent, this book reveals the heart of
the Buddhist path and helps us to reconnect with the joy and wonder of being alive,
regardless of life's changing circumstances.

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Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
by Pema Chödrön

In this book Pema Chödrön shows us how to break free of destructive patterns in our lives
and experience a new sense of freedom and happiness. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of
shenpa, she helps us to see how certain habits of mind tend to "hook" us and get us stuck in
states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to
see these patterns, we can begin to change our lives for the better.

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For the Benefit of All Beings - A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva
By H. H. the Dalai Lama
Translated by Padmakara Translation Group

The fourteenth Dalai Lama, a living embodiment of the bodhisattva ideal, presents here
detailed practical guidance based on sections of The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva,
the best-known text of Mahayana Buddhism. The Dalai Lama explains this classic and
beloved work, showing how anyone can develop a truly "good heart" and the aspiration for
the enlightenment of all beings. In this book, the Dalai Lama's profound knowledge is
evident—the result of extensive training. Here he shares his extraordinary insight into the
human condition and what it means to be a responsible and caring person.

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

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readers facing any life challenge a gentle process for transformation with excercises in the
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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
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The Awakening: A Conscious Shift to a Higher Realm

By Vicky Anderson

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They Sing to Our Hearts: A Communicator Shares her Stories of Animal Wisdom
by Naomi Brenda McDonald

They Sing to Our Hearts: A Communicator Shares her Stories of Animal Wisdom is a
charming collection of poignant stories from her many years as a professional animal
communicator. In her new book, Naomi shares the lessons that the animals she has had the
privilege to work with and love have taught her. Through her metaphysic and Shamanic
studies, Naomi had learned many of the Universal Truths on an intellectual basis. But it was
her connection with the animals that deeply touched her heart and allowed her to fully
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HEAVEN SPEAKS: Intimate interviews with Illuminated Souls

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When two conscious mediums opened their doors of perception, Heaven came calling. But
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Forgive Myself
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losing a son at 45, this is the story of how my walls shattered, my defenses collapsed and I
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those who wounded me, those I wounded, those who inspired me and those who loved me
and taught me to love.

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Answers
Now total up your points on
each question:
1 a-4; b-2; c-5; d-1; e-3; f-6
2. A-2; b-1; c-4; d-5; e-3; f-6
3. A-2; b-1; c-3; d-4;e-5; f-6
4. A-4; b-5; c-3; d-2; e-1; f-6
5. A-5; b-4; c-2; d-1; e-3; f-6
6. A-1; b-5; c-3; d-2; e-4; f-6
7. A-3; b-2; c-1; d-4; e-5; f-6
8. A-1; b-3; c-2; d-4; e-5; f -6
9. A-4; b-5; c-1; d-4; e-3; f-6
10. A-5; b-2; c-1; d-3; e-4; f-6
NOW. Take your total and
find out which Movie Star
you are:
(10-17 points) You are
MADONNA:
You are wild and crazy and you
know it. You know how to have
fun, but you may take it to
extremes. You know what you
are doing though, and are much
in control of your own life.
People don't always see things
your way, but that doesn't
mean that you should do away
with your beliefs. Try to
remember that your wild spirit
can lead to hurting yourself and
others.
(18-26 points) You are
DORIS DAY:
You are fun, friendly, and
popular! You are a real crowd
pleaser. You have probably
been out on the town your
share of times, yet you come
home with the values that your
mother taught you. Marriage
and children are very important
to you, but only after you have
fun. Don't let the people you
please influence you to stray.
(27-34 points) You are
DEBBIE REYNOLDS:
You are cute, and everyone
loves you. You are a best friend
that no one takes the chance of
losing. You never hurt feelings
and seldom have your own
feelings hurt. Life is a breeze.
You are witty, and calm most of
the time. Just keep clear of back
stabbers, and you are worry-
free.
(35-42 points) You are
GRACE KELLY:
You are a lover. Romance,
flowers, and wine are all you
need to enjoy yourself. You are
serious about all commitments
and are a family person. You call
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your Mom every Sunday, and
never forget a Birthday... Don't
let your passion for romance get
confused with the real thing.
(43-50 points) You are
KATHERINE HEPBURN:
You are smart, a real thinker.
Every situation is approached
with a plan. You are very
healthy in mind and body. You
don't take crap from anyone.
You have only a couple of
individuals that you consider
'real friends'. You teach strong
family values. Keep your feet
planted in them, but don't
overlook a bad situation when it
does happen.
(51-60 points) You are
ELIZABETH TAYLOR:
Everyone is in awe of you. You
know what you want and how
to get it. You have more friends
than you know what to do with.
Your word is your bond.
Everyone knows when you say
something it is money in the
bank. You attract the opposite
sex. Your intelligence
overwhelms most. Your
memory is the next thing to
photographic. Everyone
admires you because you are so
considerate and lovable. You
know how to enjoy life and
treat people right.
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