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CONSCIOUS LIVING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

THE DOLPHIN

STORY OF A DREAMER

THE SHORT WALK TO FREEDOM

HOW DREAMS INFLUENCE GENES ARNOLD MINDELL, PH.D..

R&R YOGA POSE

RODNEY YEE

JOHN HOGUE PRESIDENTIAL

PREDICTIONS

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ON THE COVER 16 The Short Walk to Freedom by Rev. Evrol Officer, LUT

18 Genetic Backaction How Dreams Influence Genes by Arnold Mindell, Ph.D.

26 Discover This R & R Yoga Pose by Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman

36 Of Demagogues, Obamagogues and

the Perils of Presidential Prediction by John Hogue

42 The Dolphin: Story of A Dreamer by Sergio Bambaren

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FEATURES 12 Down To Earth Astrology by Tim Gunns

22 Random Acts of Kindness by Animals by Stephanie LaLand

28 Everyday Ayurveda by Josh Liteky

32 Whole Earth Landscaping by Jeff Barone

44 The Movie Mystic by Stephen Simon

48 Vision Tips by Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, D.B.O., M.A.

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66 Mystical Stones Iolite by Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian

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Earth Star Up Front New Process for Storing Solar Energy ntil now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy. Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun. “This is the nirvana of what we’ve been talking about for years,” said MIT’s Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the work in the July 31 issue of Science. “Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon.” Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants, Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera’s lab, have developed

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an unprecedented process that will allow the sun’s energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night. The key component in Nocera and Kanan’s new process is a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water; another catalyst produces valuable hydrogen gas. The new catalyst consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode, placed in water. When electricity— whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine or any other source— runs through the electrode, the cobalt and phosphate form a thin film on the electrode, and oxygen gas is produced. Combined with another catalyst, such as platinum, that can produce hydrogen gas from water, the system

can duplicate the water splitting reaction that occurs during photosynthesis. The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH water, and it’s easy to set up, Nocera said. “That’s why I know this is going to work. It’s so easy to implement,” he said. —MIT News

GOOD NEWS!!! A HOME THAT HEATS AND COOLS ITSELF ow wonderful would it be to have no ties to the utility companies for heating or cooling? Michael Sykes, a builder from North Carolina, has created a home that can heat and cool itself using only solar energy. The principle at work is “phase

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change.” Sykes has engineered the rosin in the wood he builds with to change phase at 70° F. The rosin goes from liquid to solid and back to liquid again at room temperature. The phase change allows the walls to soak up and trap vast amounts of heat during the day—

cooling the room. At night, the wood releases the heat and warms the home. The following link will take you to a short video clip in which Sykes explains how it works. [http://www.sciencefriday.com/vid eos/watch/10007]. —ScienceFriday.com

NEW TEST FOR LIVER CANCER simple blood test can detect early-stage liver cancer and more accurately diagnose the disease, researchers said recently. In the study, published in the journal Hepatology, the researchers developed a blood test to detect changes in sugars attached to proteins that occur in

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liver cancer. The researchers—led by Chitty Chen of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology in Belgium—also showed they could determine the size of the tumor based on the amount of two par-ticular sugar groups that ap-peared in the proteins. Used with the so-called AFP

test—in which doctors can de-tect malignant tumors based on the concentration of particular substances in the blood—Chen said the new method was more accurate and can better detect liver cancer and save lives by getting 'patients earlier treatment. —Reuters

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Earth Star Up Front Incense Found To Be PSYCHOACTIVE

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iologists from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have discovered that burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain that alleviate anxiety and depression, suggesting that an entirely new class of medicinal drugs might be right under our noses. Reporting their findings in The FASEB Journal, the researchers said that the active compound—incensole acetate—significantly affected areas in the brain known to be involved in emotions as well as in nerve circuits that are affected by currently prescribed anxiety and depression drugs. “In spite of information stemming from ancient texts, constituents of Boswellia had not been investigated for psychoactivity,” said researcher Raphael Mechoulam.

“We found that incensole acetate, a Boswellia resin constituent, when tested in mice lowers anxiety and causes antidepressive-like behavior. Apparently, most present day worshipers assume that incense burning has only a symbolic meaning.”

To make their discovery, the researchers istered incensole acetate to mice and found that the compound activated a protein called TRPV3, which is present in mammalian brains and also known to

play a role in the perception of warmth of the skin. When mice bred without this protein were exposed to incensole acetate, the compound had no effect on their brains. “Perhaps Marx wasn’t too wrong when he called religion the opium of the people: morphine comes from poppies, cannabinoids from marijuana, and LSD from mushrooms; each of these has been used in one or another religious ceremony,” said Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. “The discovery of how incensole acetate, purified from frankincense, works on specific targets in the brain should also help us understand diseases of the nervous system. This study also provides a biological explanation for millennia-old spiritual practices that have persisted across time, distance, culture, language, and religion - burning incense really does make you feel warm and tingly all over!” —Scienceagogo

Gasoline Prices Send Up Sales of ELECTRIC BICYCLES

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he surging cost of gasoline is turning more people to electric bikes as their preferred form of transportation. Electric bikes function like a

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typical two-wheeler but with a battery-powered assist. US bike dealers claim the new machines are surging in popularity, and say electric bikes will be the next big thing; just as they are in Europe. In the Netherlands for instance, sales of electric-powered bikes increased from 45,000 in 2006 to 89,000 last year. Paris and Barcelona have launched the first high-tech public

bike-sharing program In the United States, a couple of cities have experimented with more low-tech versions, in which "beater bikes" were painted one color and made available for use. Most were vandalized or stolen after a short time. —Austin News.Net

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Earth Star Up Front Eco-Friendly Dubai Pyramid Concept Could House 1.1 Million

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s we learned from [the movie] Wall-E, people with half a mind for themselves probably won’t be kosher with living with 1.1 million or so other inhabitants within a pyramid. That being said, there’s always the brainwash approach to getting ‘em in there, and if hordes of people were ever filed into the conceptual Ziggurat, Mother Earth would surely appreciate it. The 2.3-square kilometer building would be able to house over a million people and be “almost totally selfsufficient energy-wise.” By tapping into the planet’s renewable resources, designers assert that it could practically be carbon-neutral,

and given that transport within the machine would be connected by an “integrated 360-degree network,” fuel-burning cars would be pointless. As with most things in Dubai,

this one seems larger than life, but if the Burj Al Arab is any indication, there’s at least a minuscule chance this thing comes to fruition. —Switched.com

C A R D S NOT SO SMART FOR HOSPITALS

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mart cards widely used as access tags or to carry a patient’s medical information, can switch off critical care equipment. The cards use a radio frequency identification (RFID) system which, when triggered, emits a signal that identifies its . Now a study has shown this signal may interfere with medical devices causing some machines, including mechanical ventilators, to switch off. A number of healthcare facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) utilise smart cards. The Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, a Mubadala project, issues cards to patients, while the Health Authority Abu Dhabi and the Dubai Health Authority are both rumoured to be trialling the cards for use in health insurance schemes. Remko van der Togt, from Vrije

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University in Amsterdam, and colleagues tested the cards in an intensive care unit room, with no patients present. Devices included external pacemakers, mechanical ventilators, infusion pumps, dialysis devices, defibrillators, monitors and anaesthesia devices. In a quarter of 123 tests, the signal from the smart cards interfered with equipment. In one in six cases the interference was classed as “hazardous” and included causing ventilators, syringe pumps and external pacemakers to malfunction. The cards also tampered with the atrial and ventricular electrogram curve read by the pacemaker programmer. Yet, the tags had to be held close to the equipment to trigger a reaction, show the findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Typically a smart card had to be placed around twelve inches from a machine to cause interference and around ten inches to trigger a “hazardous” incident. Dr Donald M. Berwick of the US Institute for Healthcare Improvement said the study highlighted the need for close examination of technology used in the medical field. —ArabianBusiness.com

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Earth Star Up Front A Spoonful Of Baking Soda Speeds You Up, Say Scientists

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aking soda can cut seconds off speed.

Scientists have proven what athletes have been claiming for years— that Granny’s old cure-all, bicarbonate of soda, can enhance performance. ‘Soda-doping’, as it is known amongst professional sportsmen, can have a significant effect on endurance and speed. Baking soda appears to work best to enhance speed. A study at Loughborough University in the UK found that of nine swimmers who took baking soda before an event, eight reduced their times, the Times reports. Jonathan Folland, who led the study, said: ‘Essentially, sodium bicarbonate is an alkali substance that increases the pH of the blood. ‘This seems to reduce and offset the acidity produced in the muscles during intense, anaerobic exercise that produces lactic acid most quickly,

such as fast running or swimming.’ Sodium bicarbonate, as anyone whose taken it for indigestion knows, reduces acids—helping the body to deal with the acidic waste products produced during exercise, that tire us more quickly. But the substance isn’t a miracle-worker—shaving seconds, not minutes, off performance time—so

that only the most proficient athletes will notice a difference. The swimmers in the Loughborough study cut 1.5 seconds from their 200m time. Which is hardly significant for most of us who take a leisurely few laps up and down the pool. A study at the American College of Sports Medicine found that runners could also improve performance with baking soda. But the substance—used before modern times as a household cleaning agent— can cause upset stomachs, and tastes foul. ‘It is not dangerous, but it tastes appalling,’ warns Dr Folland. He says that only those who are very serious about sport should try the white powder, which may cause diarrhoea. The traditional cleaning agent reduces acids—so the body tires more slowly. —Daily Mail, London

LINE-OF-SIGHT SETI REVAMP PROPOSED Earth-based astronomers can detect extrasolar planets as they transit across the face of distant stars, so alien astronomers should be able to detect the Earth as it moves across the face of our sun. That’s the logic behind a novel proposal to search for extraterrestrial radio signals in a tiny segment of the sky called the ecliptic band. The people behind the proposal, Richard Conn Henry, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins, along with Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute and Steven Kilston of the Henry Foundation Inc., intend to use the new Allen 10

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Telescope Array to conduct their highly targeted search. According to Henry, who is

presenting the proposal at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) annual meeting in St. Louis, the ecliptic band—a great circle

around the sky that represents the plane of Earth’s orbit—is the critical place to search. The sun, as viewed from Earth, appears annually to along this circle. Any civilization that lies within a fraction of a degree of the ecliptic could annually detect Earth ing in front of the sun. Encouragingly, the ecliptic band comprises only about three percent of the sky, which would dramatically reduce the amount of radio telescope time needed to conduct the search. — Scienceagogo www.earthstarmag.com

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HANGING BY A THREAD

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pider’s silk is thinner than a human hair, but more tear-resistant that steel.

No scientist had succeeded in reproducing these protein chains until recently, when biotechnologists at TU Munich managed this difficult feat. AMSilk, a spin-off from the university, will begin production of the laboratory spider’s silk in June. In addition to highperformance fibers for industry, it will primarily produce microcapsules made of silk for use as protective coverings for drugs. This robust material makes it possible to transport effective ingredients to specific regions of the body in a targeted way for the first time. — Deutschland Magazine

SPRINKLE OFF THE EXTRA POUNDS

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eople who are overweight may be able to shed pounds by sprinkling special seasonings and sweeteners on the food they eat. These "tastant crystals" stimulate smell and taste, making people feel fuller and helping them eat less, according to a study by a Chicago research foundation. —Reuters.

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OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2008 ars lives up to its role of master motivator in October by book-ending the month with potent aspects that inspire action and resourcefulness. The red planet’s first is a ive sextile (60° aspect) to Pluto, fostering cooperation amongst allies, though it can also elicit aggressive and controlling tendencies. Less than an hour later, Mars leaves the airy confines of tropical Libra and crosses the threshold of Scorpio, a sign it co-rules with distant Pluto, where it will remain for the next six weeks. ‘Let’s get physical’ is the cosmic anthem now, so consider implementing a new, more energetic physical regimen. You may be inspired to take positive, creative action for something that you strongly believe in.

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The sun and Mercury have a busy day in the heavens on the 6th, with both planets forming aspects to Jupiter, while aligning in conjunction in between. There’ll likely be a great deal of communication going on, though not all of it may be accurate, or truthful, with the cosmic messenger in retrograde till the 15th. Avoid impulsive behavior or squandering hardearned resources. Act only after careful deliberation around this juncture. Attend to back-logged paperwork and correspondence; return phone calls and email. Venus trines Uranus, planet of surprises, on the 9th, infusing the ethers with an impulse to do ‘something different’ today. Artistic inspiration abounds, so seek creative outlets for your novel notions. An unexpected social, business or financial opportunity could occur for those dialed in to this aspect’s adventurous influence.

haps even karmic—associations to evolve also exists. Interpersonal relations come sharply into focus, and with the dispositors (planetary rulers) of both the sun and moon’s signs in Scorpio, there’s an accent on transforming conflict into cooperation. Resolve to remain positive, and be of brave heart! After three-weeks of breakdowns, malfunctions, and mishaps, cosmic trickster, Mercury, stations direct on the 15th in 08°Libra, accelerating thought and mental processes, while improving the reliability of communications channels, and media. Move ahead with plans now, cautiously at first; avoid making snap decisions, as there’s an air of impetuosity and impatience abroad for a few days around Mercury’s station. Social calendars may tend to fill rather quickly once Venus enters Sagittarius on the 18th for a four-week sojourn. Feelings are more readily expressed, often with a dramatic flair, while the ‘great outdoors’ can beckon. The sun, while ing through the last degree of Libra, harmoniously aligns with Pluto on the 21st, shortly before its ingress into tropical Scorpio on the 22nd—the sign Pluto rules—for the next month. As a result, feelings and emotions become highly energized, and ions run deep. Use this period to regenerate and recharge yourself, in preparation for expansive trends inspired by the solar orb’s forthcoming transit of Sagittarius.

A second, stronger wave of inspiration crests as the sun trines Neptune, lord of the oceans, just hours before the Aries full moon culminates on October 14th. Intuition is greatly enhanced, while imagination can be divinely inspired. A boon for photographers, videographers, and all who work with visual media. Experiment with a camera. Creative visualization techniques can also be particularly effective now.

October’s new moon occurs on the 28th, in 06°Scorpio, inspiring us to act and speak with power in the weeks ahead, and to transform that which is no longer working for us, or is not serving our highest good. As Scorpio is the sign of regeneration, where this lunation falls in one’s horoscope can indicate the life area that is ripe for release and rebirth. Utilize the transformative potential inherent in this potent lunation to help you replace diminishing revenue sources, overhaul outworn financial practices and strategies, or to resolve sensitive issues around intimacy during the next four weeks. The changes you make now will stimulate new growth and creative enterprise in the months ahead.

The full Moon occurs mid-afternoon on the 14th, in 21°Aries, and may augur the culmination of a professional partnership or alliance. And yet, the potential for new, more progressive—per-

October winds down with a flurry of positive aspect patterns, beginning with Mercury’s trine to Neptune on the 29th, when a moment of awareness could provide the solution to an old problem. Be open

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Down To Earth Astrology to new ideas or experiences that may come your way now. Spiritual or metaphysical study could prove to be particularly enlightening.

this transit, or a previous source could dry up. Emotional insecurities can manifest as a desire to go out and shop!

Next, Mars adds impetus to the cosmic energy flow with a ive sextile to Saturn on the 30th, when hard work and purposeful action win the day. Ambition is powerfully stimulated now. You may also notice an increase in stamina; put it to good, positive use. Take the initiative. Act now, on business or career options.

A serendipitous sextile between Jupiter and Uranus perfects on November 12th, which could be the harbinger of a sudden fortunate opportunity. At the very least, prospects should, in some way, look brighter. Fresh input stimulates change, and future plans may require some adjustment. An innovative solution to a quandary may be found.

Mars concludes the major planetary aspect roster for October with a free-flowing trine to Uranus on Halloween (31st). Connect with friends or groups with whom you resonate to discuss co-creative ventures. Put your original ideas into action.

November’s full moon culminates on the 13th in 22°Taurus, at 1:17am, EST (10:17pm, on the 12th, PST), a juncture at which finances could be brought into sharp focus. This would be an excellent time to reaffirm faith in yourself, and to discard debilitating or expensive habits, or to finally come to with deep-rooted, self-sabotaging fears or phobias—particularly in regard to money. An additional measure of emotional control may be required for a day or two.

After five months in retrograde, Neptune, planet of mystery and illusion, stations direct at 2:40am, EST on November 2nd (11:40pm PDT on the 1st), a time around which confusion can reign. It doesn't help that Daylight Savings Time ends at 2am and we put the clocks back an hour. Neptune’s directional shifts often coincide with strange or unexpected events, peculiar behavior, and anomalous weather or geophysical activities for several days either side of its station. Don’t believe all that you see or hear around this period, as all may not be as it seems! Remain alert, be observant, and avoid jumping to conclusions or going to extremes. As Neptune is the planet of illusion—which is why it rules the movie industry—its influence can be most beguiling, therefore its directional phase shift may signal a reality check! Adding to the distortion of reality these days—we may witness events that may beggar belief!—is Mars’ square to Neptune on Election Day (4th). Deception is rife, and the truth behind actions or events may be intentionally obscured. Indeed, clarity will almost certainly be lacking. Be alert to self-destructive impulses, or giving vent to suppressed anger, as that’s a distinct possibility now. Avoid seeking solace in artificial stimulants, as one’s physical tolerance may be at a low ebb, and escapist tendencies prevail. Know where you’re going, for whom you’re voting, and why. If necessary, seek guidance from within. As if there was not enough instability in the air already on November 4th, an unsettling Saturn-Uranus opposition perfects early in the morning, an augury that old routines or strategies that clearly are not working must now change. Perhaps this revolutionary trend will be reflected in the voting today. In any case, circumstances have a way of conspiring to help clarify where change may be needed. Difficulties with friends, groups or official organizations is a distinct possibility. Somehow, circumstances beyond your control could impede your progress around this juncture. Venus enters the serious, business-like realm of Capricorn on the 12th (after a powerful conjunction with Pluto late on the 11th) for a four-week sojourn. Its presence here demands that relationships be taken more seriously. Business interests may actually have greater appeal than pleasure pursuits now. A new source of investment or working capital could appear during www.earthstarmag.com

Once Mars enters Sagittarius on the 16th, be prepared to back up your beliefs with action. Crusades and quests are in vogue now, and religious, cultural, or political fervor may emerge, perhaps dramatically, in the weeks ahead. However, the wise will not foist their beliefs on others. Even so, the pioneering spirit abounds. The search is on for truth, understanding, and wisdom. A modest expansion of current business activities is ed by a fine earthy trine between Jupiter and Saturn on the 21st. Indeed, economic and business enterprise on all levels can flourish now. Make important financial or legal decisions. Research business or educational opportunities. When the sun begins its month-long transit of tropical Sagittarius on the 21st, a more optimistic, uplifting influence is infused into the ethers. Give some serious thought to your dreams and visions for the future. Do you have the confidence, or indeed the resources, necessary to pursue them? If not, resolve to make it so. A review of one’s values, philosophies, and ideals might prove helpful during the next month— are they “up to speed” with today’s rapidly changing world? Mercury s the red planet in the expansive realm of Sagittarius early on the 23rd (late evening 22nd, PST), fostering an increased desire to learn and to expand one's mind. Communication channels are now wide open, and long-distance travel is favored. The exploration of foreign cultures and philosophies can be both satisfying and educational. Review your long-term goals. The biggest shift in the force occurs as tiny, distant Pluto enters tropical Capricorn at 9:05pm, EST on November 26th, for a protracted transit lasting nearly sixteen years—until March 23rd, 2023, in fact. In order to convey some idea of the time scale involved in Pluto transits, during Pluto’s previous transit through Capricorn the American Declaration of Independence was made manifest! Our old, crystallized concepts, and life structures of the past, are about to be shattered. The ‘right use of will’ and power is one of this transit’s most OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2008

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Down To Earth Astrology important lessons. A powerful drive to be successful grows steadily with Pluto in Capricorn, a slow burn transit that heralds a time to establish our inspirations, then work to make them a reality. A powerhouse of planetary portents prevail on Thanksgiving Day (27th), when, first, Uranus stations direct in 19°Pisces, within an hour of November’s expansive Sagittarius new moon. Once revolutionary Uranus begins moving forward again, the higher principles that Aquarius (the sign it rules) represents come into play more prominently in our lives. Goal setting is strongly favored now, as ambition is kindled, and the revolutionary spirit abounds. The arrival of the new moon, shortly before noon, in 06°Sagittarius, sounds a clarion call to review or upgrade your

educational objectives, or to expand your occupational horizons. In the spirit of openness bestowed by this lunation, acknowledge and release any deep-rooted fears of failure that may have been holding you back from realizing your full potential. Sweeping changes are in the wind! Seek new avenues of self-expression. Mercury aligns in conjunction with Mars in 10°Sagittarius on November 28th, inspiring action for what is right and in of one’s beliefs. Freedom of speech will seem imperative. Anticipate important announcements. There’s no beating around the bush, here, communications are direct and to the point. Thus, anticipate encountering argumentative and contentious individuals. Be enterprising—seize the initiative. Make connections.

Following is a general overview of how the planetary trends for October/November, 2008 apply to each sun sign. If you know your rising sign (Ascendant), read that, too, for additional insights.

Aries

(March 20—April 19)

Mates and money go hand in pocket early in this forecast period, when you may be at odds with a partner, friend, or employer regarding a financial situation. However, you have it in your power to completely transform your financial fortunes. Take the initiative and forge new alliances that your endeavors. Incorporate the best elements from the past into your plans for the future and release that which, or whomever, no longer resonates with your values or objectives. You’re keen to blaze new trails and explore pastures new as the holiday season draws near. A measure of success and acclaim may come your way, inspiring you to greater accomplishments.

Taurus

(April 19—May 20)

Life in general looks pretty good for Bull-clan in October. While you may not always get your way at work, and there may be one or two concerns over money, as the month progresses, a key element necessary to your success and satisfaction will fall into place, and you will feel more in control of your destiny—particularly where finances are concerned. Resolve to overcome any bad habits or unhelpful behavior patterns around money; this will help to increase your sense of security. Later in this forecast period, you feel inspired to broaden your horizons. You may consider higher education, and enroll in a course or workshop that would a career objective. Or, you may ponder the concept of sharing your wisdom with others in a teaching or consulting capacity.

Gemini

(May 20—June 21)

A creative project may need retooling or modifying in some way to give it more of an edge. Once your sign’s ruler, Mercury, stations direct on October 15th, you’ll have a clearer sense of what changes may be necessary. There’s potential for a new job or work assignment during this forecast period, which would provide a considerable boost to your sense 14

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of security. Family or domestic obligations may vie for time you’d rather devote to professional or educational pursuits. Likewise, a partner might also make demands on your time and talents, so keep your schedule flexible. A financial windfall of sorts is possible, as the holiday season draws near, or funding for a project could be yours for the asking.

Cancer

(June 21—July22)

You may be feeling more at ease these days and happy with life, in general, and yet, periods of inner restlessness may be a sign that the ‘big picture’needs to change. Some may consider a relocation, perhaps for work, and to improve your financial and career prospects. Others might be seeking a more appropriate environment in which to grow and thrive. Your thoughts, these days, often turn to more practical, serious matters, rather than mere frivolities, and, likely, issues that have an impact on your sense of security. Your creative enterprise is your strong suit now, and it could quickly lead you to both professional and financial gains. Your closest relationships are a source of great joy and now. Consider a new, more vigorous, health and fitness regimen; get in shape for the holidays.

Leo

(July 22—August 23)

You may need to keep your schedule flexible early in this forecast period, to accommodate any sudden changes in plans or to your schedule. Communications can be both stimulating and perplexing, with food for thought aplenty. Some deft financial management or a reprioritizing of funds may become necessary in order to continue with a project or pastime close to your heart. And you’re equal to the task! Activities around the home increase, taking up a great deal of your time and energy through mid-November, culminating with the stimulating, expansive Sagittarius new moon (27th). An increase in salary, or of your ‘stock in trade’, is quite possible now. Your services appear to be much in demand.

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Virgo

(August 23—September 23)

A major theme early in this forecast period is wealth production, and how best to go about it. A partner or close associate could along some information that you are able to convert to money in the bank. Key challenges come from partners, significant others, and work associates, who may not see things your way. Nonetheless, there can also be periods of easy-going cooperation, during which much can be accomplished. Use your creative ingenuity to guide your activities. Indeed, bright ideas are your strong suit now, and could win you kudos with those who matter.

Libra

(September 23—October 23)

The early weeks of fall are ‘prime time’ for Scales-clan , while the sun glides easily through your solar first house, emboldening, encouraging and energizing you to move forward decisively with personal projects and plans. Your creative energies may be directed towards wealth production now. When coupled with your ingenuity you could quickly manifest a way to dramatically increase your cash flow. Home and hearth are comforting to you these days, and you may decide to redecorate. Anticipate periodic emotional upheavals once distant Pluto enters Capricorn and your solar fourth house on November 26th for a protracted stay. Its presence here is also a great boost to your intestinal fortitude!

Scorpio

(October 23—November 22)

Pace yourself early in this forecast period, put your energies only into essential tasks. Focus on your priorities, one of which may be generating a sustainable, more enduring cash flow. Prepare to move forward with personal projects, as once the sun enters your sign on October 22nd you’ll have ample energy and determination to accomplish your goals. Later in this period you’ll be more inclined to marshal and direct these forces towards opening up new avenues of income. Some of your ideas or novel notions could be pure gold, so be sure to treat them as a valued resource, and capitalize on them whenever possible.

Sagittarius

(November 22—December 21)

Upheavals on the home front may be linked somehow with work. While your professional activities are very definitely directed towards generating maximum income, there may also be domestic issues to resolve. A romance may bloom, for those available, or an existing relationship could provide a few sparks of excitement. Consider your hopes and wishes for the future, but hold off on making major changes till the latter part of this forecast period. Reflect upon your experiences this past year, and resolve to take what you learn to the bank. The new moon in your sign on November 27th is your signal to go for the gold!

Capricorn

(December 21—January 19)

Your wisdom and experience could make professional gains possible during this two-month forecast period. But after distant Pluto enters your sign on November 26th your manifestation powers begin to stir anew, powerfully stimulating your ambitions. Meanwhile, consider your plans for the future, and what financing will be required to implement them. “If you build it, they will come”; all it takes is belief. As the holiday season draws near, you could have good reason to feel yourself to be the luckiest person in town with, it seems, the Midas touch. Wield wealth wisely when it appears.

Aquarius

(January 19—February 18)

Developments at work could have you reassessing your future and considering your options. Any uncertainty around income may be relieved by a new professional opportunity, that might arise as a result of past good work, or your experience in a particular field. Keep your hopes and dreams alive by decisively taking advantage of breaks that may come your way. Indeed, your dreams and meditations can be a rich source of inspiration, providing insights into ways you could add to your income. Attend to any domestic issues that may crop up without delay, so that you can devote your energies to more productive career related activities.

Pisces

(February 18—March 20)

A yen to travel could have some Fish-clan heading for distant climes, while others may seek to expand their sphere of activities closer to home. Your sense of purpose, or mission in life, may have undergone some changes in recent years, and you’re keen to make any necessary adjustments, and to strike out in a new direction, with a renewed sense of purpose. Your imagination is powerfully rekindled by fresh information, galvanizing some, more adventurous, Pisceans to embark on a personal quest. Seldom have you felt so outgoing, and open to new experiences. Indeed, it may be this very energy about you that attracts a new professional opportunity as the holiday season draws near.

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The Short

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FREEDOM By Reverend Evrol Officer, LUT obel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela once said, “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.” I was first made aware of his statement by one of his grandsons, with whom I developed a very close relationship while he attended college in Boston. We had many great discussions on President Mandela’s powerful statement, and then once, on his return from a summer vacation in South Africa, this young man presented me with one of my most treasured gifts—a large poster of President Mandela with the inscription. The framed poster now hangs in my home as a personal reminder of the thought, the man who uttered it, and of his grandson.

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President Mandela’s decision to claim his freedom from anger, hatred, bitterness, situations, principalities, and personalities has been a tremendous example to me of the ability within each of us to rise beyond our circumstances. I am forever grateful to him for demonstrating our ability to redirect our hurts and anger towards forgiveness. His decision to choose love and forgiveness over revenge and hate spared millions of lives after he was released from 27 years of torturous imprisonment. I firmly believe that the concept of freedom begins in our minds, and in order to experience and enjoy personal freedom we must first emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. Once each of us is able to accept and act as the only person who has dominion of our mind, the walk to freedom becomes a very short one. No one can make you sad, glad, or mad; only you can. You’re probably thinking, “I’m not in bondage,” and I can appreciate your thought. But the truth is that sometime, somewhere in our lives, we have imprisoned our16

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selves by our thoughts and our words. In the beginning of the Gospel of St. John, it says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh.” The power of our thoughts, the power of our words, these create our life, and ensure our bondage or our freedom. Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount gives us the principles for finding inner peace. Some seem quite contrary to popular thinking, but when we consider them, we can recognize that their truth speaks loudly to us. He says, “Bless those who curse you.” At first glance you might say “If a person curses me, I’m going to curse them back. I’m not going to let them get away with stepping all over me. I can stand up for myself.” In fact, we teach our kids to stand up for themselves. Let no one step on you. Let NO ONE hurt you. And yet Jesus appears to be telling us to pray for those who mistreat us, to pray and use the power of our words to spread love wherever we go. We don’t have to let anger build in us because someone is attempting to mistreat us. We can use thoughts of love, and use our words to express love. We can create healing energy wherever we go. We can let our ideas and words be impeccable when it comes to setting out on what can be a short walk to freedom. Sometimes I find it difficult to hear someone from a pulpit trying to inject discord and hate in the politics of our country or the world. I feel that it has no place, coming from those who could be guiding us toward peace and love. I pray that we all can be more aware of what we think and say about others, and act from a place of understanding. When one of us expresses preference for one person over another and loses sight of the truth that God loves all of us as his children, that we are brothers www.earthstarmag.com

and sisters, regardless of color or creed or sex – when one of us speaks of hate or dislike for another, or spreads gossip about another person, I pray that we all can become aware of who we truly are, and move past fear and anger to freedom. When we turn away from the anger, the hurt, the gossip, we can reach out and embrace the world with love. We may have differing opinions in some matters. We may different political viewpoints. But does that mean that we aren’t all children of a divine creator? All of us are made in the image and likeness of God, and we deserve love and caring from one another. We need only to stop, consider, and appreciate differences of opinion, and not use these differences as reasons to hate one another. Give to everyone who asks of you; treat others the same way you want them to treat you. This is the guidance Jesus gives us. It’s the direction, the guidance for the short walk to freedom. Many of us were born and grew up in circumstances where gossip and negative opinion were commonplace ways to attempt to boost self-worth. We witnessed this behavior, we absorbed it, and before long we thought nothing ing our words to spread gossip, to express disrespect or hate about others who weren’t like us, who didn’t look or act or think as we did. We forgot that the words that come forth out of our mouths reflect the meditation of our hearts. Even now without thinking we may laugh, or joke, insult, or disrespect others. We must agree to make our words impeccable. We must make our thoughts and words expressions of love and caring, not weapons of hatred and harm. These positive actions will remove us from the prison of fear and uncertainty and set us on the short www.earthstarmag.com

road to freedom. I encourage all of us to find and take that short road to freedom. Let us all decide to be impeccable with our thoughts and words. Let us encourage and spread that attitude to others. Let’s not succumb to old habits of verbal insult and injury that play out in the words we hear on television or read in newspaper and Internet commentaries. There may come a temptation to spread or share the slurs and abusive ideas. “Here’s a good one; did you hear this?” Can we be strong enough to refuse to pay attention to the thoughts that offend and imprison everyone involved, including ourselves? Can we turn away from the gossip and disrespect for the integrity of our brothers and sisters? Let us treat others the same way that we would want them to treat us. Let’s stop and think: Would I want someone to be saying that about me? We do not need to chain our minds and ourselves to a dungeon of fear-filled, angry, vindictive, and negative thoughts and words. We can act out of love, caring, and respect for others. Like Nelson Mandela, we can set aside the past and set foot on the short road to freedom. It won’t always be easy, but how great the destination! Reverend Officer, LT is the Spiritual Leader at Christ Church Unity, Brookline Massachusetts. Each Sunday we acknowledge and affirm that all the world’s religions contain the seeds of truth. They may include different beliefs, styles and approaches, all seeking to define the Source at the center of all life. We invite you to come and share in the understanding that we are all one in the unity of spirit, and that peace begins with each one of us. Services are at 11:00 AM at Christ’s Church Unity, 70 Colchester Street, at the Longwood T Stop on the Green Line. For more information, call (617) 232-4548 or email: [email protected]. Website: http://www.unityboston.org

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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. —Thich Nhat Hanh To sum up, although each form of thought of the essence is an appearance, it also reflects a reality that is, however, always dependent for its existence as well as for its qualities and properties on broader contexts and deeper levels. —David Bohm

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eal CR (concensus reality) fields such as electromagnetism, gravity, temperature, and air pressure influence the body in measurable ways. However, immeasurable, personal nonconsensual fields, feelings, dreams, and fantasies always accompany those very real forces. The subtlest field is the force of silence. You feel but cannot easily verbalize its intent until it has unfolded in dreaming or appeared approximately as an event in reality. In many ways, we are products of our parents, ancestors, and ghosts of the dead. Here, we will experiment with “backaction”; how awareness affects intentional fields, genetics, and symptoms. What you feel touches not only your momentary body states but also your inherited gene expressions, your present life, and the life you inadvertently along to others. In other words, your feelings influence the future, just as all the generations that preceded you are touching you now. What we call mutations and genetic accidents are a possible connecting point between genes and dreams.

How Psychology May Influence Genetics To consider how psychology might influence our genetics either directly or through apparently accidental mutations, consider the similarities in the structure of fantasies and gene expressions. Psychological patterns that appear to be inherited, or at least ed down, can be found in childhood dreams. These patterns are narrations or recountings, a counting or numerical idea, as are points on a line. In any case, stories and dreams are lines or strings of basic images, portraying shared human phenomenology, which Jung called archetypes or archaic images; they are found in the myths and fairy tales of people from all over the world. According to Jung, the archetypes are inherited characteristics, “seeds,” behind images or clusters of images. These recountings (the German word was 18

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erzählung, which originates from “number”) are a psychological parallel or counterpart to genetic expression, which also is a patterned occurring on a string (chromosomes) of countable inherited units of genes. Based upon the many hundreds or thousands of childhood dreams or recountings I have heard from both children and adults (claiming to their childhood dreams), it seems to me that such dream recountings are assemblages of units predicting our physical and psychological behavior. This predictability makes them roughly analogous to the predictions about our bodies which can be made knowing our biological genetics. Almost a century ago, Jung pointed out that standard collective images, such as those of the great mother, the divine child, the ruler, etc., are found in cultures the world over. He called these images archetypes and implied they were the analogies of biological patterns such as instincts. When a series of these images appears in folk stories, it is called a saga or fairy tale. When such a series appears in a person, it is called a dream. When many people believe in a given tale, it becomes a saga. Over time, sagas lose their personal and local identification and evolve into collective myths. Jung believed that the mythic images seen in dreams are inherited phenomenological blueprints coming from the experiences of our ancestors. Jung’s work evolved from his own studies and from the ideas of Freud, who was more biologically oriented and who thought mainly in of intrapersonal drives such as the sex drive or the death Wish. When I was a psychology student at the Jung Institute in Zurich in the 1960s, one of my teachers gave me a copy of one of Jung’s most interesting (yet, as far as I know, unpublished) works, an unedited manuscript called “Kinderträume” (“Childhood Dreams”). Based on the dreams reported in that manuscript, Jung points out that repetitive childhood dreams predict the future occupation of the individual dreamers. My research generalized this finding. I discovered that those childhood dreams not only predict the future occupation of dreamers but their future body experiences. For example, a woman’s childhood dream about a lion scratching at the curtain of a window not only symbolizes the lion-like power she met as a child and will meet and develop later in life, but also symbolizes the itchy or scratching feeling that did appear in a lifelong chronic skin problem. The lion scratched the window curtain in the same way the adult scratched what turned out to be a chronic skin irritation. That lion is an “inherited” instinctual pattern, a psy-

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Genetic Backaction -

How DREAMS Influence

GENES

By Arnold Mindell, Ph.D.

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chological pattern also associated with the dreamer’s childhood home. In any case, symbols (such as the lion or curtain) in childhood dreams may be thought of as units along a string, a count, or an . The essence, or Jung might say the archetype, behind clusters of such units (such as a lion scratching a curtain) might be thought of as “psychological genes.” Both genes and archetypes appear in dreams and behavior as clusters of symbols and patterns of behavior. Childhood dreams, such as the lion dream, are dreamland expression of personal myths—long-term patterns derived from “psychogenetic” codes. Further, like genes, sections of these patterns are sensitive to the everyday mind, or transformable depending upon the imaginations of the dreamer. Assuming this connection between our genes and dreams, we may suspect that early childhood dreams are expressions of underlying patterns or archetypes, which I shall call “dreamgenes.” In biological reality, our genetic expression appears as units of inheritance; in psychological reality our long-time patterns appear as symbols in childhood dreams.

The Influence of Consciousness on Dreams and Genes Changing people’s relationships to their psychological inheritance, to their dreamgenes, is one of psychology’s main tasks. Whether as a Jungian, Freudian, Gestalt, Adlerian, or process-oriented dream worker, therapists interact with dream figures and childhood memories of patients by using, following, analyzing, and battling them to create coherence between the everyday mind and the totality of the human soul. Bettering your relationship to those early figures changes your experience of life. From a process-oriented perspective, here is where the parallels between psychology and medical biology end: at the point of transforming genes, both biological and psychological. Whereas biology and medicine speak in of advantageous or disadvantageous consensusreality events such as healthy or ill genetic combinations, process-oriented psychologies speak in of consensus-reality events and dreamland processes including the potential meaning and purpose of problems and events. In other words, from the CR viewpoint, a particular arrangement of genes and dreams may be judged as good or bad. But in dreamland, illness or accidents can be seen as highly meaningful events, often pointing to life-enriching experiences. An example is a person who suffered radiation poi-

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soning. Her problem was diagnosed as serious and predicted to be fatal within months. However, she dreamed she had been “freed from the most dreadful prison.” Her dream told her that she was not sick, but being freed. After working on that dream, she decided to free herself from particular life circumstances. Twenty-five years after she was supposed to have died, she told me that she still had many body problems, but felt as free as could be. Was this luck? Anecdotal evidence gives me the impression that the physical future of dreamers actively interacting with the dreamland aspect of body experiences is no longer predictable. Getting in touch with the deepest part of yourself, your pilot wave, makes the path feel certain in dreaming (e.g., freedom). You feel better, more whole, and sometimes even detached from the symptom process in consensus reality. The job of psychology and Rainbow Medicine is to follow the deepest path of an individual: to explore, relate to, co-create, recreate, reconstruct, or adapt to the configurations of their dreams and subatomic body states. Biological medicine working at the CR level alone aims at changing troubled or disturbing genetic combinations as if they were aberrations instead of meaningful occurrences. Nevertheless the following question remains to be answered: If certain medical procedures can repair some genetic problems, can psychology do the same? If so, how might relating to the dreamland context of real events interact with body experience and those rejected genetic expressions? To answer this question, let’s explore these possibilities in of your experiences. To introduce this exploration, I discuss different approaches to working with dreams and body situations, and then I apply these approaches to working with your psychogenetic situation.

Childhood Dreams— Dreamgenes in Conflict As an example, let me speak about my own childhood dream and see how it connects with my physical genetics. The first dream I can occurred when I was four years old. In the dream, I was a little boy polishing my father’s car. As I polished away, a big growling bear came by. “Grrrrrrrrr!” it said. He scared me so much, I ran into my father’s car for protection. Relentlessly, that bear got in the car too and continued to chase me; I was running for my life in ever greater circles around that car until I woke up. The basic units or dreamgenes seen in that dream are my father’s car and the bear chasing me. Both the

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bear and my ‘father’s car are linked to feelings I had about my family. My dad was a hardworking, goodhearted, predictable, quiet guy. His philosophy was “Don’t do much in life, just enjoy the moment, work, pay your bills, and settle down. Polish the car.” But the bear is very different. I associate the bear energy with my mother’s energetic, unpredictable nature. As a child, I wanted to be more like my father, but my mother’s energy has always chased me. She never seemed to know what to do with her energy. (And I never know what to do with mine!) In my dream, the bear seemed to disagree with me; the bear was angry I was polishing the car—that is, angry that I was identifying only with my father. Even as a child I knew the bear was upset with me for having marginalized his seemingly wild energy. In a way, polishing the car is part of the father gene in me, and the bear chasing me is part of the mother gene in me. Though my parents basically got along with each other, their energies conflicted inside me, and this childhood dream shows how my dreamgenes are in conflict with each other. Childhood dreams typically show a combination of genes from both parents, and often a conflict of some sort. By favoring one of these genes (the car), we marginalize the other (the bear). Marginalization comes about spontaneously and unconsciously. By identifying ourselves with only some of our parts, we create an identity based on marginalizing other parts. These marginalized parts almost always turn up as symptoms or as scary dream figures seeking attention. By identifying with my father, who marginalized his own wildness, I was chased about by bear-like energies and pressures. One of my earlier chronic body symptoms that later improved was wild swings in blood pressure. (The men on my father’s side of the family typically suffered from blood pressure problems.) Here is another example of dreamgenes at work. I am reminded of a client who suffered from lung problems. He could not a childhood dream but recalled a first memory of his mother, who was being mean to him. He said his major body symptom was emphysema, probably due to smoking. He worried about this symptom because his father had died of lung cancer. He associated his mother with the mean feeling of cramping in his lungs. She was always bitter and cramped. To work on his memory, he shape-shifted into the figure of his mother and explored her essence. To his surprise, behind her meanness was coldness, a sort of detachment and a “quietness” about relationships. This warmhearted, “motherly” man realized he had spent his life trying to compensate for his mother’s coldness, and

that now, from the world of her essence, he found a sort of cool detachment and freedom from always being nice to people, and he was much happier. Best of all, his new behavior affected his lungs. Being cooler and less attached to others relaxed his lungs immediately and resolved the cramping. After his work with this dreaming process, he got better, and his medical doctor later thought the diagnosis of emphysema had been incorrect.

Exercise: Dreams, Symptoms, Genetics Childhood dreams seem to show psychological as well as biological/genetic components. The next exercise gives you a chance to explore these ideas for yourself, to see how your dreams, genetics, and symptoms are connected. You will need to recall either the first childhood dream you can or, if you can’t one, the very first event you can . Then you will be asked to explore methods of recreating the dream (or dreamgenes) in a theatrical fashion and relate it to your body experiences. Write down the earliest dream you can (or the first childhood or teenage memory). If you can recall several dreams (or memories), choose the most powerful of these. Sketch two simple figures from your dream. If you dreamed (or can ) only one figure—such as a bird flying or falling—consider the second figure as the one implied in what you are doing. For example, if you are flying, consider the sky or the ground as second images. Could these two figures be related to your mother and her family or your father and his (or your imagination of these people, if you never met them)? For example, the car in my dream is related to my father and his father (who gave him that car), and the bear is connected with my mother’s energy. Sketch or draw an outline of your body. Now sense your body and ask yourself with what parts of your body these dream characteristics are associated. First just meditate and sense your body, and then sketch these figures on your body sketch. Do you have symptoms located where you placed your dream figures? For example, I have my dad in my elbows, where I also have dry skin, and I have always had a sense of pressure in my chest. Once your figure is complete, work on your childhood dream. Ask yourself: Which is the most difficult dream figure for me today? For example, that bear’s animal energy is still the most difficult part of Continued on page 24

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RANDOM ACTS of KINDNESS by

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By Stephanie LaLand wo neighbor cats were close companions and were often seen together, scampering along fence tops or blinking sleepily in the sun. Then one cat disappeared. The remaining cat meowed and meowed, insisting on coming along in the car as his friend’s family prepared to search for the missing cat. They tried to throw the distressed cat out of the car several times but he kept hopping right back in. Finally they relented and allowed him to accompany them. He meowed, and with his body and intent gaze, seemed to indicate which direction they should go. Since they had no clear idea of where to look any-

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way, the humans decided to drive in the directions the cat indicated. They wound up driving slowly along the waterfront, but there were no cats in sight. Suddenly the tense cat leapt from the car and rushed over to a burlap bag which he furiously tried to open. When the people got out of the car and opened the bag, there was their lost cat, injured but still alive. Someone had tied him in the sack, beaten him, and left him to die at the waterfront. But his friend had sensed his silent call for help and led his human family to the rescue. The injured cat recovered and the two remained inseparable friends.

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lapse. The hippopotamus then opened its gigantic mouth (so large it could encom the small antelope without actually touching it) and repeatedly breathed life into the animal until it regained its strength and ran off. In an article he wrote for BBC Wildlife magazine, African researcher Harry Erwee described the incident as “awe-inspiring.” I have nothing to add to that.

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ne day, a young impala—a graceful African antelope—was drinking by a river, when he was grabbed by a crocodile lurking beneath the muddy surface. The crocodile started to pull its victim underwater. A nearby hippopotamus witnessed the attack and chose to defend the victim. The furious hippo—capable of biting a crocodile in two—charged; the crocodile released the impala and swam away. Then the hippo gently nudged the impala to the shore with its nose and onto higher ground. Not content to simply rescue it, the hippo stood guard against other predators for fifteen minutes. Then the two-ton animal began sniffing it and gently licking its wounds. Twice the hippo took the impala’s head into its mouth in what seemed to be an attempt to get it to stand. But it was mortally wounded. Since hippopotamuses are strictly vegetarian, its interest in the dying impala was purely altruistic. This story is all the more amazing because it is completely documented. A Life magazine photographer, Dick Reucassel, was present for the incident and recorded it all on film. As I did the research to substantiate this amazing story, which had been told to me by a friend who ed it from childhood, I had to go through many old copies of Life and other resources to find the original article. To my astonishment, in the course of looking I found yet another hippopotamus-saves-impala story. This one was reported by Harry Erwee, a researcher at the Masuma Dam in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, and substantiated by other witnesses. Nine wild African dogs were pursuing an impala. Half the pack, the witnesses could see, was waiting in the bushes on the other side of some water while the first half chased the now tiring impala toward their waiting companions. A hippopotamus swam toward the weakening buck and prevented it from going to the other side where the dogs were laying in wait; instead, it nudged it in the opposite direction. As the exhausted impala lost energy, the hippo would nudge it forward. When the duo finally reached safe ground, the impala was too exhausted to make it onto dry land, so the hippo nudged it with its snout. The impala began shivering violently. Too weak to make it on its own, it was on the verge of col-

“How are we to build a new humanity? Reverence for life. Existence depends more on reverence for life than the law or the prophets.” —Author unknown

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hen Anne Marie Schilling’s children adopted an injured red-breasted robin, she never expected that it would remain with them as their devoted friend. Many times she tried to return the bird to the wild, but it was devoted to the young boy and girl who had saved it. The woman relented to their pleadings to allow the bird to accompany the three on a long car-trailer trip, planning to get rid of the bird when they returned home. But the bird’s heroism changed all that. One night while Anne and her two children were asleep in the bunks of their trailer, the bird suddenly began shrieking. He landed by Anne’s ear, shrilled, then flew furiously to the front of the trailer. When Anne got up, she realized what had alarmed the bird: A large idling tractor-trailer rig had pulled up next to their trailer so that rig’s vertical exhaust pipe was spewing its fumes into an open window—and it was asphyxiating them! The driver was nowhere to be found. She closed the window, aired out her trailer and, with the robin’s help, aroused her children from their potentially deadly sleep. The next day, the family drove along a country road with the bird singing along with the radio, something he loved to do. Suddenly he became perturbed and flew madly around the inside of the car. Anne stopped the car. The robin flew out the car window, around the trailer, and back. The woman started to scold the bird— who chirped sadly at this undeserved punishment—but just then her children called, “Mother, come quick.” She found that the trailer hitch had broken; had they continContinued on Page 34

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Dreams and Genes.... Continued from page 21

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myself to manage. After identifying this energy or figure, act out this figure, ing your playful, childlike nature. Use at least one of your hands. Enjoy yourself. Be a child and act out that figure. While moving and making sounds, feel deeply into the figure and try to get to the essence of that figure and its energy. This exercise has no one correct response. We are looking for a feeling. We are searching for the basic tendency of that energy, before it became an image and became so dramatic. For example, my bear’s energy was essentially the tendency to move freely in a oneness with nature. When you are ready, shapeshift into that figure and live in the time and the space of that essence. Get into this parallel world and just be there. Live there. Try to live in the world of that essence. For example, I imagine living in the world where things just happen in the oneness of nature and there is no second-guessing, no evaluation, no weighing and measuring. Try to experience this world as fully as you can. Do you see images and hear sounds? From the world of the essence that you are now in, look back at your childhood dream or memory and explore how you would recreate all or part of that dream. For example, I would make my father more like the essence of the bear, more fluid in his ways, less mechanical. As this essence, interact with, change, influence, or recreate that dream. Dream the dream on or create a new resolution or story, using the same or different figures. In other words, look back at the dream or memory and think how you would influence it

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as this essence. Take time and actually tell yourself a story. Make it up. Let the essence world create things. Act this new story out and then write it down. Create a theater. Use music or movement, rhythms or songs, poetry or art. Use your imagination, have an open creative mind, something like a child. For example, in my recreation, the bear that was chasing me becomes a dancing teacher who dances with me and my father. Give yourself plenty of time. This is an unpredictable and creative act on your part. Then look at the new story that you created and ask yourself: Why did I not create or dream this story in the first place? What was your original dream working on when you were a child? Was it reacting to your tendency to marginalize one part and favor another? What circumstances did not allow your essence to unfold as it has today? How have you, or could you, change? What basic elements of you are changing? What basic dreamgenes? What attitudes in your conscious mind? Let’s connect these dreams and fantasies with your body. Take a moment and reexperience your resolution and the feeling that came out of that story that you just created. Feel it and express it with your whole body in movement. Dance it with your hands and your arms and your whole body, if you can. Notice how your movements influence your chronic symptom area. Notice what kind of effect occurs in that symptom area. How might this story influence what you are feeling and doing these days? For example, just now I am editing this manuscript, and I can imagine doing it in a more dance-like manner.

Reflecting on the Results In your everyday life you probably see your body symptoms as problems that you want to change. Marginalizing a parallel dreamworld element (such as the bear) in everyday life corresponds to experiencing (or projecting) that bear as an irritating friend in relationships and/or as body symptoms. Not marginalizing that particular parallel world makes you more coherent. Psychologically, your attachment to your everyday CR identity provokes your pilot wave, which is a sum of parallel worlds, to accentuate that parallel dream world element. If you irritate one of your parallel worlds (the bear) in order to maintain your identity, that particular parallel world stands out in your awareness in the form of a symptom. Continued on page 67

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R &R YOGA Pose By Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman f you only learn one yoga posture, Legs-Upthe-Wall Pose gets our vote. This is one of the most therapeutic poses in yoga — allowing you to fully relax and rejuvenate in less time than a nap. Once you try it, you’ll understand why our students even practice this pose at work!

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Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose encourages smooth, easy breathing that soothes the nervous system helping to relieve headaches, insomnia and anxiety. It relaxes the digestive organs, helping to alleviate indigestion and nausea. This inverted posture helps reduce varicose veins and swollen feet, and also gently stretches the back of the legs waking up tired, sore legs and feet. With the return of blood from the legs to the heart, the circulatory system functions with ease and helps the lymphatic system in removing waste and toxins. You’ll need a clear wall and one thick, firm blanket. Practice for three to ten minutes. We’ve included three versions for you to try. If you have tight hamstrings, you’ll find Version 1 the most relaxing because your legs will not be stretched against the wall. For Version 3, you’ll need one yoga bolster (or two thick blankets). Caution: Do not do Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose if you have serious back, neck or eye problems.

Version 1: Crossed Legs 1 Sit with your right shoulder, right hip and right legs against the wall. 2 Exhale as you lower your back while swinging your legs onto the wall. (Everyone feels awkward doing this 26

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the first few times!) 3 Bend your legs into a crossed-legs position with your bottom leg resting against the wall. Your butt also will be against the wall. 4 Relax your back flat on the floor. 5 Rest your arms on the floor with the palms of your hands facing up. 6 If your forehead is lower than your chin, place a folded blanket under your head. 7 Relax your head and throat. 8 Enjoy the easy, gentle opening of your hips as the thighs rest into the hip sockets. 9 Listen to the smooth rhythm of your breath. 10 After a few minutes, uncross your legs and cross them with the other leg on top. 11 When you’re ready to come out of the pose, uncross your legs and hug your knees `into your chest, and then roll over to your right side for 20 seconds or more. 12 Use your arms to bring yourself to a seated position. 13 Sit with crossed legs and take a few minutes to feel the results.

Version 2: Legs straight up the wall 1 Sit with your right shoulder, right hip and right legs against the wall. 2 Exhale as you lower your back while swinging your legs onto the wall. 3 Straighten your legs. 4 Experiment with the distance of your legs and butt from the wall until you feel comfortable without any pulling or strain in your back. (You may need to bend your knees slightly.) Press the tops of your thighs (clos-

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est to your pelvis) toward the wall. 5 Relax your hips on the floor. 6 Rest your arms on the floor with the palm of your hands facing up. 7 If your forehead is lower than your chin, place a folded blanket under your head. 8 Soften the skin of your forehead and feel the softness all around the eyes. 9 Listen to your breath. 10 When you’re ready to come out of the pose, cross your legs and rest them against the wall. 11 Hug your knees into your chest and roll over to your right side for 20 seconds or more. 12 Use your arms to bring yourself to a seated position. 13 Sit quietly for a few minutes. Version 3: Legs straight up the wall with hips lifted up by yoga bolster or blankets folded in a rectangle. 1 Place the long edge of the yoga bolster (or one or two thick blankets folded into a rectangle) a couple of inches from the wall. 2 Sit close to the wall with your right shoulder, right hip and right legs against the wall. 3 Exhale as you lower your back while swinging your legs onto the wall. Straighten your legs. 4 The edge of the bolster or blanket closest to the wall should be ing your upper pelvis and the far edge should be under the bottom tips of the shoulder blades. Your shoulders are on the floor. Experiment with the distance of your pelvis from the wall and the position of your yoga bolster (or blankets) until you feel comfortable without any pulling or strain in your back. You may need to bend your knees slightly. 5 Rest your arms on the floor with the palm of your hands facing up. 6 If your forehead is lower than your chin, place a folded blanket under your head. 7 Relax your head, throat and belly. 8 Release the curves of your spine into the of the bolster or blanket. 9 Listen to the rhythm of your breath. 10 When you’re ready to come out of the pose, cross your legs and rest them against the wall for a few seconds or longer. 11 Gently scoot back moving your pelvis off the bolster and then take the soles of the feet together on the bolster and let the knees drop open to the bolster (or blankets) in a modified version of Reclined Cobbler’s Pose. Rest for 20 seconds or

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more. 12 Hug your knees into your chest; roll over to your right side for 20 seconds or more. 13 Use your arms to bring yourself to a seated position. 14 Sit quietly. Play with the basic principles of this pose while listening to your body and asking what it needs. To see our video clip demonstrating Legs-Up-the-Wall Pose, visit http://www.gaiamyogaclub.com/bonus.

Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman are world-renowned yoga instructors who have been featured in numerous best-selling yoga DVDs. Recently they launched the Gaiam Yoga Club (http://www.gaiamyogaclub.com), an online 12-week yoga program for all levels.

This easy therapeutic yoga posture, Legs-Up-Wall Pose, is as relaxing as a nap. Version 3 uses a yoga bolster (or two thick blankets); however, the other two versions don’t need unless you want a blanket to cushion your head.

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AYURVEDA EVERYDAY By Josh Liteky

n today’s world it is increasingly important that we learn to take care of our own health, in a very natural way that is in tune with nature. Ayurveda is the oldest form of medicine in the world and there are simple techniques that everyone can do every day to create a good state of health and maintain it over the long term.

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The word “ayurveda” is composed of 2 parts: ayur and veda. “Ayur” means life or life span and “veda” means knowledge. So taken together ayurveda means knowledge of lifespan. If a person knows how to take care of their own health in a natural way, they will gain knowledge that will help them live a healthy life. We have all heard the expression that ‘knowledge is power.’ If you have the basic knowledge of how to be proactive and actually create a good state of health for yourself over your life, you will feel great and empowered. Ayurveda looks at the body as one whole entity. It is based on a very holistic viewpoint rather than focusing on the specific parts like we do in western medicine. In ayurvedic , we look at the body in of doshas – which are like the important energetic aspects of the body. These doshas are called Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Vata is the leading dosha of the body, and it is responsible for all the movement systems in the body (circulatory, etc) It is always moving everything around the body. Pitta is mainly metabolism and digestion (think fire!) and Kapha is structure (bones, etc). So in looking at the body ayurvedically, it is all about the balance of the doshas. Excellent health is achieved when Vata, Pitta, and Kapha are all in balance. In our 28

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day and age, this is nearly impossible with all the hustle and bustle of life. Vata is the primary dosha and when it goes out of balance, in time the other doshas go out of balance as well…and this is what causes disease. It takes time to get out of balanced to the state of disease and if we are in tune with our own doshic balance, then we can catch potential problems early, long before they progress to the state of disease. In a nutshell, ayurveda is all about creating balance among the doshas. How is this accomplished? Well, the first step is to have an ayurvedic consultation with someone qualified to assess your doshic balance. This is accomplished through a pulse analysis. An expert trained in reading pulses can detect all of a person’s imbalances in their pulse and then makes recommendations to help bring the body back in balance. The recommendations made by the expert cover a variety of areas. They can be specific herbs, diet recommendations, exercise and meditation recommendations, and specific types of ayurvedic treatments designed to help detoxify the body and bring it back into a balanced state of health. More on these treatments in a minute. So, then the question becomes, what can YOU do everyday to get into and maintain an excellent state of health for yourself? There are some simple yet powerful things you can do each and every day that will just cost you some discipline. Here is some basic knowledge: what we learned about Vata, Pitta, and Kapha in the body? Well, nature itself also has the same

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cycles and energetic doshas! What I mean is that there are specific times of day that correspond to Vata, Pitta, and Kapha…and if you do things during those times that favor balancing the doshas, you will benefit. It is that cut and dry. Here are the doshas and their corresponding times of day: 2:00am – 6:00am Vata time 6:00am – 10:00am Kapha time 10:00am – 2:00pm Pitta time And these cycles repeat themselves every 12 hours….so if you were to do things that were not favored by the doshas during these times, your health will suffer. A classic example is staying up late every night. In ayurvedic it is best to go to bed before 10pm at night and get up early in the morning before 6am. If you do this every day, day in and day out, your health will improve. You will be getting more and more in tune with these rhythms and cycles of nature. Other good things to do are eating according to your dosha type, and always favoring freshly cooked organic food. Food that is processed, genetically-modified, and non-organic will harm you over time. It is all about creating a daliy routine and sticking too it. Your day always begins with the night before based on what time you go to sleep. If you stay up until midnight every night, you are not getting quality sleep that will allow you to be more fresh and alert to tackle the chal-

lenges of the day that lies ahead. If you go to bed by 10pm every night and are up by 6am, you will find that you will be more rested and have more energy and vitality. The longer you to this, the better you will feel. It’s that simple. There is a lot to ayurveda in of all of the different aspects to it, but creating and maintaining long lasting vitality and health the natural way actually isn’t very complicated. In fact, much of it is based on common sense. It stems around eating rightly (organic and fresh), have good habits in exercise and sleep, daily meditation and other self-rejuvenating techniques, and an overall internal view that you have excellent health. Additionally, if you can at least once a year it is recommended that you go through a process called panchakarma (PK), which is a series of ayurvedic treatments that focus on primarily detoxification and rejuvenation. Of course, if you have a specific health concern, PK can really help with that, but that ayurveda works on the entire body/mind at the same time.

Ama Bad, Ojas Good A quick word on stresses and toxins. Over time stresses and toxins accumulate in our bodies and if not addressed can cause problems. According to ayurveda, disease is caused by a build up of ama in the body. Ama is like plaque on your teeth…you know the fuzzy white stuff Continued on Page 35

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Whole Earth Landscaping Tips By Jeff Barone am always encouraging my client, and anyone willing to listen, to build a relationship with their landscape—to actually approach their piece of land with an interest in getting to intimately understand its ‘personality’ or character. As in any relationship, time spent gaining an understanding of the characteristics, quirks and tendencies of the other takes a certain willingness and dedication to the process of building that connection. The same holds true with your landscape. I would venture to say that the single most important action one can take towards developing a fruitful and foundational relationship would be to treat the other with genuine awareness and interest in their character. Same holds true with your landscape! Becoming genuinely “aware” of your landscape could also translate into gaining ‘Earth Consciousness’. It’s a term that is used often in these times and it can easily begin there on your bit of land. So here are a few ways towards gaining a sincere connection to the piece of the planet you inhabit.

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ways and walkway with a heavy stream of water coming from the garden hose. This is not a conscious use of water. There’s a very simple solution—use a broom! Enough said. Spend time in you landscape—concentrate on what areas in the land receive the most direct sunlight. Water these places in the evening and/or in the early morning. Do not over water. The soil’s moisture is best determined by digging 3” into the ground with your hand, if the ground is loose enough, otherwise use a garden tool. If the soil is moist at this depth then you do not need to water. If it feels dry to the touch then water in this location—making sure you do not saturate the area at this 3” depth. Water again only when the area feels dry to your fingertips. If considering irrigation for new garden beds—consider a drip irrigation system as opposed to sprinkle heads. Drip irrigation is the moist efficient use of water because these systems bring the water directly to the plant’s root base. They do not spray the entire plant’s foliage, delivering unusable water to the plant. If you already have a spray head irrigation system, make sure that, (1) it is automatically timed to irrigate in the early morning or in the late evening and, (2) make sure the that spray heads are NOT facing in directions where

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they are over spraying into driveways, roads and sidewalks. Misdirected spray heads are a consistent waste of water! Also, where you can, use rain barrels at down spouts or at open-ended gutters. This form of collecting water is steeped in history and very useful. Suppliers sell barrels that have a spiggot system built into the bottom of the barrel so you can attach a short length garden hose to it. Pressure from the full barrel allows you to water at short distances. These systems are useful for watering plants at close proximity to the barrel as well as for washing outdoor furniture, cars, etc. The follow-up to the watering of garden spaces is Mulching. The primary reason mulch is used in perennial beds and at the base of trees and shrubs is to hold moisture in the soil. Mulch is a light and airy substrate relative to loam. When the sun beats down on loam it hardens and dries the soil. Mulch is the buffer zone layer between this intense summer heat and the soil. When using mulch, use true bark mulch recycled from the de-barking process in lumber milling plants. There are many types of mulch products on the market, including ground rubber tires as well as ground-up wood pallets, tree branches, old wooden fences, etc. These recycled products are then colored with water-based dyes. Pure mulch products end up braking down into the soil, adding organic matter back to the earth. It can be very useful to use a one part compost to two parts natural mulch mix in your garden beds. This has the mutual benefit of holding in moisture as

well as adding further organic matter to your plant material. One big reminder when mulching—keep the mulch 2”-3” away from the trunk-base of trees and shrubs and 1” away from the stalk-base of perennials. This allows the plant to breathe, as well as removing the likelihood of fungi and mold from developing at the base of the plants. So in closing, these are simple tips for developing a mindful approach to interacting with your landscape. Like any developing relationship, awareness of the other (person or place) can bring awareness to one’s self. And , the land you inhabit is a small piece of the earth we all inhabit. Relate to it with kindness and mindfulness.

Jeff Barone can be reached for landscaping questions and consultations on landscaping design and development at (978) 270-6565 or by writing to Essential Space EarthScapes, P.O. Box 683, Newburyport MA 01950.

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Random Acts..., Continued from page 23

ued driving down the road it would have meant disaster. While waiting for repairs, the local mechanic was amazed by the robin’s playfulness, devotion to his humans, and heroic deeds. The mechanic offered to buy the bird. “Not for all the money in the world,” Anne replied.

A Robin red breast in a cage Puts all of heaven in a rage. —William Blake

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o away King,” Pearl Carlson said sleepily as her German shepherd dog pulled at her bedding and attempted to rouse her. “Not now, I’m trying to get some rest.” Pearl vaguely wondered what King was doing in her bedroom at three O’clock in the morning, since he was usually locked in another part of the house at night. It was Christmas night and the sixteen-year-old girl had been looking forward to a good night’s sleep after an exciting day. Pearl sat up in bed to give the barking dog a good push and realized that smoke was filling her room—the house was on fire. Bolting out of bed, she ran in panic to her parents’ bedroom and awoke them both. Her mother, Fern, got up at once and told Pearl to escape through her own bedroom window while she helped her husband, Howard, out of their window. But Howard Carlson had a lung condition and could not move quickly. Pearl headed back to her own bedroom but somehow wound up in the living room where the fire was at its worst. “I’m going after her,” Howard said, but his wife, knowing his lung ailment made this impossible, told him to escape through the window while she went for Pearl, Fern ran blindly toward the smoke-blackened room. Pearl was standing there, frozen in confusion. Fern led her to safety but then realized that neither Howard nor King had gotten out of the house. Fern ran back into their bedroom and found Howard collapsed on the floor with King by his side. Fern and King struggled to lift Howard and finally the two of them managed to get the nearly unconscious man to safety. Fern later said she could not have moved Howard without King’s help. King and his family were saved. King had badly burned paws and a gash on his back, but seemed other-

wise healthy. Yet the day after the fire, King would not eat his dog food. The neighbors had come by with sandwiches and refreshments and were helping to rebuild what they could of the house. Then King did something he had never done before: He stole one of the soft sandwiches. Something was wrong. The Carlsons looked in King’s mouth and saw that his gums were pierced with painful, sharp wooden splinters. That terrible night, King had, with sheer desperate force, chewed and clawed his way through the closed wood door that separated him from his family. A door had been left open for King to the outdoors so he could easily have just save himself. Instead, he chose not to flee but to gnaw and smash through the door to face the blinding fire and choking smoke to rescue his friends. Now the family knew how King had gotten into the house. The splinters were removed and King recovered fully, although his pads had been so burned that even a year later it was painful for him to walk on a hot sidewalk. I asked Fern Carlson later, as she recounted the incredible tale of King’s bravery, if there were any changes in the way King was treated after the fire. “Oh yes,” she said. “The neighbors all fed King steak and roasts until he got really fat!” “Where is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. “ — Chief Seattle

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sparrow crashed into a chimpanzee cage at the Basel Zoo. One of the chimps scooped the bird up in its hand. A zookeeper who was watching this expected to see the animal devour the bird. But instead of eating it, the chimp just held the bird tenderly and contemplated it. Other chimpanzees became curious and came over to see the bird. It was delicately ed from chimp to chimp. Each chimpanzee examined the little creature, holding it gently in its great ape hands, taking obvious care not to hurt it. Finally, realizing that the bird could be better cared for by humans, one chimpanzee brought the bird to the front of the cage and carefully handed it to the startled zookeeper. Continued on page 64

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on your tongue when you wake up in the morning? That’s ama. We want to do whatever we can to minimize or eliminate the ama in our body, because you can imagine the build up of ama causes major problems. Here’s a concrete example…the clogging of arteries that leads to heart disease: this is a major build up of ama in your veins that blocks the proper flood flow to your heart. This ama builds up from years of eating things that are not good for you as well as other destructive habits. Ojas, on the other hand, is the opposite of ama. It’s the good stuff, its what we want the most of in our body. It is the end product of a healthy digestive system and is what we strive for in creating and maintaining excellent and radiant health. When we do things like go to bed early and eat freshly cooked organic food every day we increase our ojas, which is what we really want to do to get that tip top state of health we are wanting.

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So, back to panchakarma (PK) treatment…if we do PK at least one time a year, especially during the changing of the seasons, we will significantly improve our health and overall well being. In the course of a seven-day in-residence treatment program a person will have a profound change in their overall health and well being. We work on very deep levels of the physiology, inside and out, and after a week with us you will leave feeling very rejuvenated, detoxified, and educated on how to prolong these benefits for many years to come! For more information, please visit our website at www.lancasterhealth.com We wish for you a life of wonderful health and inner joy! Josh Liteky is Director of the Maharishi Vedic Health Center. www.earthstarmag.com

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OBAMAGOGUES By John Hogue have made presidential predictions since 1968. So far, I have been 10 and 0, successfully predicting who would be the next president. I “non”-do this feat by using, or better, being “used” by, an inner quietude, a byproduct of being a practitioner of Self-Observation of the BodyMind that I’ll simply call my “oracle.” Life in presidential augury was simple until the elections of 2000 made it unclear to me just what my oracle was predicting. In 2000, it started going all Gandalf on me, speaking in riddles – well, it doesn’t really speak, it impresses wordlessly with silence. Anyway, if Gandalf were a Buddha he would be delivering the “unsaid” in riddles that I must find voice and word to convey. Back in 2000, I predicted that Vice President Al Gore would win by a half million votes. Then I added that this would be the first time I’m going to be absolutely right and absolutely wrong. That’s how I read the prophecy in my mind. I had no answer for the riddle until after the election. How can you “win” the presidency by a half-million votes and be wrong? Simple, the vote of regular American citizens in plain majority has no influence on the outcome. Only the votes cast by those of the Electoral Collage count. If one million people in my state (Washington) or any other state in the Union should vote for candidate “A” and one million and one vote for candidate “B,” the handful of electors chosen to actually pick the next pres-

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ident all go to “B” and a million votes in one’s state for candidate “A” are nullified. Look at what happened in 2000. Gore DID win by a half-million votes and I WAS wrong. We can argue the whys and wherefores of the disputed and bungled Florida ballots all we like. Nevertheless, the Electoral College system gave the presidency to the man who DID NOT win the popular vote. In any other democracy, a simple majority vote would be the only litmus test for victory. Ours, however, being the first and therefore one of the oldest of the modern democracies, is still under the spell of outmoded electoral ideas from the late 18th century. We are a democracy by board of electors, not by the people. America is not a representative democracy. Other, younger democracies are much more fair and progressive then ours because they see our mistakes. We are as blind as an old fuddy-duddy democracy can be about it. Set in our ways. It seems you can’t teach an old democracy new tricks. However, the Myth Buster’s on Discovery Channel proved that you could teach an old dog new tricks so maybe there’s hope for good old-fashioned US democracy. What I have learned from Gore’s lost “victory” is to state, from now on, that I make accurate predictions about who will win the popular vote, not who will win an election. John McCain may win the presidential election. Oops! There I go again. I mean to say, how he could Continued on page 60

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events workshops festivals classes

Top Photo 10/16-10/26: Boston Ballet Company will commence its season program with the return of James Kudelka’s Cinderella. Tickets: 866-348-9738, or www.citicenter.org.

OCTOBER 10/4-10/5: Reiki I Certification with John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray, Ph.D., Jaffrey, NH. Awaken your healing skills studying with the longest-practicing Reiki Master in the West. Two days of learning, hands-on practice and no cut corners certifies you immediately to work on yourself, others and pets. 13.5 CEUs Visa/MC. (603) 899-3288 www.learnreiki.org. 10/11: Spiritual Art and Performance Event, Cambridge, MA. “The Mystical Talent and Art Show” - An evening's presentation of original mystical art, poetry, story, and song by many local spiritual artists. Inspiration not to be missed! ission $5$10 sliding scale. Saturday, 7:00pm9:30pm, Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy St, Harvard Square across from Sanders Theatre. Series info and art online: www.soulstirring.org.

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10/12: Crystal Healing I with Emma Phaneuf (3 weeks), at Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 6:00pm-8:30pm, call (781) 843-8224, or visit www.OpenDoors7.com, $180, prepay by October 7, 2008 $150. Crystals are considered by many to be some of nature’s most powerful healing tools. Used with intention they can be used to open chakras, realign the light body, clear energy and much more. In this introductory workshop you will learn to successfully use crystals to heal yourself or others. This course covers the healing properties of crystals, energy cleansing practices, how to make and use crystal elixirs as well as safe handling of these powerful gems. Upon completion you will receive a formal certificate from Emma. Please bring a notebook and your healing crystals to class. 10/15: Monthly EFT Tapping with Beth O’Connor. All Levels Welcome! At Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 7:00pm-9:00pm, call (781) 843-8224, or visit www.OpenDoors7.com, $25, Prepay

by previous Friday $10. Have you tried to change yourself and nothing works? Are you looking at the Heavens above and praying for help or a shift in your life? Know that you are self-sabotaging again, just as you were about to have success? Then this class is perfect for you! In this group we will address issues, challenges, wants, needs and anything that you choose to bring to the table! We will use EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, a beautiful "tool" that was based on Ancient Chinese Medicine and is often called an emotional version of acupuncture, without needles. Come and see why EFT groups are popping up all around the world! 10/18: Introduction To Wicca with Emma Phaneuf at Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 5:30pm-830pm, (781) 843-8224, www.OpenDoors7.com, Saturday October 18th, 25th and November 1, $130 Pre-Pay by OCT 11th $110. This workshop is designed for pagans and wiccans alike. this introductory class will provide participants with information on candle

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Earth Star Calendar 10/25: Reiki Certification, Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 26 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine co-author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Visa/MC accepted. CEU's. Call 1-888-REIKI-4-U or (603) 654-2787 Reiki II: 10/26.

10/26: Absolutely Live Entertainment presents the 25th Anniversary Concert of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack Dejohnette, Sunday, October 26, 8:00pm, at Boston Symphony Hall, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets at $75.00, $65.00, $55.00 and $35.00 are available from www.bso.org or by calling (888) -266-1200. magic, crystals, and meditations used in the practice of wicca. this class is designed to teach participants tools of wicca; including casting a circle and developing psychic abilities. A list of recommended reference books will be given to each participant to reinforce and elaborate on materials presented in this workshop. 10/24-10/26: Healing the Divorced Heart Retreat for Women. Are you seeking a more positive, growth-oriented perspective? Would you like to connect with others on the journey of divorce? One Journey Consulting and women healers from many disciplines to guide your reflection, expression and self-discovery on a healing journey in NH. Also offered: 4-week Journey of Divorce Base Camp workshop series: daytime in mid-October and Thursday evenings starting November 13 in Wayland, MA. For more information : [email protected] or visit www.one-journey.com. 10/25: Experience your Past Lives with John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray, Ph.D., Jaffrey, NH. The same popular seminar John gave for years at the Maine Healing Arts Festival and Interface. Two regressions are provided. Your subconscious selects the dates and places and protects you from bringing back any uncomfortable emotions. $75.Visa/MC. Call (603) 899-3288 or visit www.learnreiki.org.

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10/25-10/26: EOL Visionary Acupressure System - Level 1, Module 3. Learn highlyeffective point sequences for Chest Release and Abdomen/Diaphragm Release; Locate and use the EOL Acu-Points to Release Anger, Resentment, Frustration, Impatience, Relieve Endocrine Dysfunction, Release Ego, Control, Judgment and more! Learn EOL Enhancement Techniques to Amplify Energy at each point, and further EOL Dialoguing and Releasement techniques. This powerful yet easy-to-learn self-help system encourages self-awareness, bodymind connections, and spiritual and emotional transformation. 9:00am-6:00pm, both days; 36 hours $350; Prerequisite: Module 1. EarlyPay discount available. Details at www.TheWayToBalance.com; (978) 834-0341. 10/26: Learn to See Auras with Lourdes Gray, Ph.D., CCHT, Jaffrey, NH. Auras contain information about physical, mental and emotional states. We will show you what to look for, and how to develop your inner vision to see auras around people, animals and plants anytime you wish. The process is surprisingly easy! $125 tuition includes practice CD, manual and your Kirlian photograph. Visa/MC. For info call (603) 899-3288 or visit www.learnreiki.org.

with relatives , or spirit-guides, in a protected setting. Teaching how to create a sacred space for yourself, and learn. Learn how to communicate with them on your own. Also asking (them) questions on issues that you are having a hard time resolving on your own. Come and see who is waiting for you.

NOVEMBER 11/1: Reiki Certification, Boston area. Libby Barnett, MSW. 26 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine co-author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Visa/MC accepted. CEU's. Call 1-888REIKI-4-U or (603) 654-2787 Reiki II: 11/2 11/2: Crystal Healing II with Emma Phaneuf at Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 5:30pm-8:00pm, (781) 843-8224, www.OpenDoors7.com, $180, prepay by October 27, 2008 $150, (3 Weeks). This comprehensive workshop takes students to the next level of crystal healing and incorporates a more diverse knowledge of this potent healing and modality. You will be introduced to a new array of crystals including wands and laser wands and their role in healing/energy work. Emma shows students how to set up a prop-

10/26: A New Earth Workshop with Mary D’Alba at Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 11:00am-1:30pm, (781) 843-8224,, www.OpenDoors7.com, $37, prepay by 10/21/08 $22. This series is based on the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. These classes will not only be a discussion of the important concepts in the book but will also include a relaxing hypnosis session to solidify the concepts. Please read the pages outlined for each class so you can get the most out of the discussion. Chapter 4 Let’s look at all the ways our ego switches up our roles with different people in our lives. Read pages 85-127 for discussion and the hypnosis session. 10/30: The Other Side of the Circle with Ellen Donovan Townsend, High Priestess at Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 7:00pm-9:00pm, (781) 8438224, www.OpenDoors7.com, $66, prepay by October 25, 2008 $55. Communication

11/23: Boz Scaggs will perform at the Wilbur Theatre on Sunday, November 23. Two Shows, 4:00pm and 7:30pm. Tickets: 617/508-9312000 or at www.ticketmaster.com.

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11/8: Andre Ward, Lalah Hathaway, Monty Alexander and many others will perform at The Twenty-First Edition of Boston’s Legendary Gala Steppin' Out, Saturday, November 8, at The Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston, from 6:00pm to 2:00am. For tickets and information visit www.TicketWeb.com or call (866) 468-7619, or directly from The Dimock Center, located at 55 Dimock Street, Roxbury. er healing space and how to make a crystal layout which will attend to the needs of the healer and the client. Elixirs will be revisited as students realize their importance in the crystal healer’s toolbox. Upon completion, you will receive a personalized formal certificate from Emma. Please bring your notebook and your healing crystals with you.

11/7: Reconnect with Food with Beverly Price, RD, MA, RYT at Open Doors, 395 Washington St., Braintree, MA, 6:30pm9:30pm. For info call (781) 843-8224, www.OpenDoors7.com, $90; prepay by 11/1/08, $60. A candlelight yoga and discussion workshop where you explore your relationship with food, body image and emotions. We invite you to explore the practice of yoga and “mindful awareness” for a deeper understanding of self-acceptance and self-awareness. By participating in this unique yoga and discussion program, you will learn how to: Enjoy your body; Understand how your relationship with food parallels every other relationship in your life; Heal your relationship with food; Integrate techniques into your daily yoga practice. Bring a mat to practice yoga, paper/journal, pen/pencil. 11/8: I.D.E.A.L. Process (3) – Empowered Self-Healing through Dialoguing with Your Body. Discover EOL techniques and tools to: Awaken the 8th Chakra and heighten full cellular memory; Enhance intuitive flow and expand information detail; Discover the role of the limbic system and ways to work with Vibrational Tools, Color, Sound and Aromatherapy Tools for Healing. 9.6 Hours, $175; EarlyPay Discounts. Prerequisite: I.D.E.A.L. (1-2). Visit www.TheWayToBalance.com; or call (978) 834-0341.

11/1: greater Boston’s 18th Annual Barry Price Center Fundraiser and Concert will feature singer Frankie Avalon on Saturday, November 1 at the Holiday Inn, Brookline. For tickets call (781) 239-1480 or (617) 332-7477.

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11/8-11/9: Reiki I Certification with John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray, Ph.D., Jaffrey, NH. Awaken your healing skills studying with the longest-practicing Reiki Master in the West. Two days of learning, hands-on practice and no cut corners certi-

fies you immediately to work on yourself, others and pets. 13.5 CEUs Visa/MC. (603) 899-3288 www.learnreiki.org. 11/22: Psychic Development, Past Lives, & Angel Workshop with Ross Miller, psychic medium, regression therapist, healer. In this unique, experiential workshop you’ll learn how to identify your guardian angels and spirit guides by name and receive their guidance and healing; discover your soul’s life purpose; experience two of your past lives; give psychic readings to others in class and more. Saturday, 10:00am-5:00pm, Newton, MA. To for the workshop or to schedule a psychic or past-life reading or healing in person or over the phone with Ross Miller. (617) 527-3583 or visit www.TheMysticWay.com. 11/22: Rings of Oden Module 1: New Technology for Quantum Healing. The Rings combine Sacred Geometry, DNA RePatterning, Crop Circles, and Cell Microbiology concepts as part of a revolutionary technology, “Net-Neutral Ionic Energy”. Their energy vortex opens stuck areas, increasing light resonance in the body. Unleash the power of this versatile, multi-dimensional new energy source! (Mod 1 is a prerequisite to Mods 2 and 3) 9:00am4:00pm. $75; for information visit www.TheWayToBalance.com; or call (978) 834-0341.

12/6: Reiki Certification. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 26 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine co-author.

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& Reiki. Call the Center for Spiritual Development, Haverhill MA, (978)-372-5173 or online @www.uuhaverhill.org/happenings.

12/6-12/7: Reiki I Certification with John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray, Ph.D., Jaffrey, NH. Awaken your healing skills studying with the longest-practicing Reiki Master in the West. Two days of learning, hands-on practice and no cut corners certifies you immediately to work on yourself, others and pets. 13.5 CEUs Visa/MC. (603) 899-3288 www.learnreiki.org.

Ongoing Classes in Shamballa Multidimensional Healing and Healing Art offered at the Natick Community Organic Farm, by Joyce Cerutti. SMH may be thought of as an expansion of the energies we know as Reiki. No prior attunements necessary. Healing Art classes offered for both individuals and families, combining energy healing and art healing for greater benefit. Call for dates, times, and further information. Intuitive healing paintings also available. (508)-380-8273.

ONGOING Food As Medicine Workshop, Sharon A. Kane, Instructor. Live Superfoods can repair the intestinal damage associated with celiac, gluten intolerance, candida, IBS, leaky gut and food allergies. This 8-session course teaches simple techniques to create low cost live food at home. Kombucha, kefir, gluten free bread, lacto-fermented pickles. For complete info call Sharon A. Kane, (508) 881-5678 or email [email protected]. Reiki Certification, Boston and Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 26 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine co-author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Visa/MC accepted. CEU's. Call 1-888-REIKI-4-U or (603) 654-2787. Exquisite Energysm for Women. Center, ground, and open to the flow. A nourishing, feel-good event. Cerridwen guides easy movements from qigong and hands-on healing. Second Thursdays 7:30pm9:30pm, Aquarius Sanctuary, Littleton, MA. (978) 486-0248. $20. Call ahead.

Workshops for Pain Management and Improved Wellness. Offerings for Bodyworkers, athletes, Personal Trainers, Coaches and general pain-sufferers. Check website: web.maynard.ma.us/biz/bmassage, or call Barry Bailey at (978)-897-0110 for information and brochure of current offerings. The Labyrinth Ladies Spiritual Empowerment Workshops, go to www.thelabyrinthladies.com for our latest programs and walks or call (401)-847-6551 for more information. Facilitator Trainings, site consultations, workshops for schools, hospitals and businesses. Drumming Circle with Kristine Malpica (of Imagine Studios) on third Friday of each month. 7:00pm-8:30pm. Center for Spiritual Development, 15 Kenoza Ave, Haverhill, MA. (978)-372-5173.

Christ Church Unity - Experience the healing power of music, prayer and meditation, every Wednesday at 7:00pm. Daily Word Discusion Sundays at 10:00am. Sunday Service, 11:00am. Corner of Colchester & Chapel Streets, Brookline, MA 02466. Call (617) 232-4548 for more information or visit: www.unityboston.org. Free Energy Healing in Arlington. Johrei healing is available each Wednesday evening from 7:00pm-9:00pm at 81 Cleveland St. in Arlington, MA. Johrei purifies the spirit through the channeling of divine light, restores inner spiritual balance and eases physical, mental, & emotional distress. There is no charge for Johrei. Please call (781) 646-0614 for directions or information on other area locations. Stress Management, Imagery, and a range of Reiki programs, with CEUs for nurses, led by holistic nurse educators. Centered in Amesbury, MA with other locations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Visit www.LymanCenter.com or call: 1-(888)-TLC-8485.

The Deadline for listings in the December ‘08 / January ‘09 issue is November 21st

Shamanic Drumming Circle, founded 1993. Usually Second and Fourth Fridays of every month, 7:00pm. Quaker meetinghouse, Cambridge. Open to all, but please call first for full details and directions. Terrence (978)-952-2704 or Emily (781)-641-3980. Exquisite Energysm for Healers. Relax and get a dose of the good stuff for yourself. Easy movements from qigong and hands-on healing with Cerridwen. Third Saturdays 7:00pm10:00pm. Aquarius Sanctuary, Littleton, MA. (978) 486-0248. $20. Call ahead. Buddhist Meditation Group with Peg Travers, Ordained Priest, Buddha Heart USA, Sunday evenings, Haverhill, MA, 5:00pm6:00pm. Learn and practice the ancient arts of meditation, chanting, QiGong, Buddhist Yoga www.earthstarmag.com

11/22: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is proud to present Loudon Wainwright III with Carsie Blanton, Saturday, November 22, 7:30pm, at the Remis Auditorium. , seniors, students $24; non, general ission $30. For tickets call (617) 369-3306 or for information please call (617) 369-3300. General information is available at www.mfa.org.

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The following excerpt is from the new book The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer (Hay House /September 2008) by Sergio Bambaren. This book has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and was translated into 40 languages. For more information please visit www.hayhouse.com or www.sbambaren.com

he first rays of the morning sun filtered gently through the breaking clouds, unveiling the unspoiled beauty of a remote coral island, set like a jewel in the middle of a deep blue sea. A tropical storm had just hit the area, and a huge swell was pounding the reef. The once-placid ocean had turned into a raging torrent of surf and spray. Suddenly, when a huge wave was about to break, a young dolphin appeared from the deep, and crossing the wave as it hit the reef, he projected a thin trail across the wall of water, fighting hard to maintain an edge between bottom and crest, holding his breath. . . . The lip of the wave slowly wrapped him, deeper and deeper, taking him to a place surfers dream of: the barrel. And then, as he finished cutting the face of the wave, the lone dolphin managed a beautiful cutback and exited the wave with a magnificent pull-out. He decided that this would be the last wave he’d surf this morning, so he swam into the island’s lagoon, exhausted but happy. Daniel Alexander Dolphin and the surf were inseparable. From watching the sun rise every morning and set every afternoon, to all those surfing sessions in which he would forget the meaning of time, Daniel knew that there was nothing more important in his life than the moments he spent riding waves. Indeed, more than anything else, Daniel Dolphin loved to surf. It was in his blood and in his soul, and it made him feel free. Surfing helped him achieve a unique communication with the sea, making him realize that the ocean was not only a mass of moving water, but something alive, full of wisdom and beauty. Daniel Dolphin was a dreamer. He was convinced that there was more to life than fishing and sleeping, so he had decided to devote all his energies to discovering the true purpose of his life through his surfing and the wisdom of the sea. That was his dream.

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From the beginning, this way of thinking brought him problems with the pod. Many of his friends couldn’t understand what he was trying to achieve. Every morning while getting ready to fish, the pod would watch Daniel head toward the reef, ready for another surfing session. How could he waste so much time doing something that wouldn’t help him find the food he needed? It was pure madness. One evening when Daniel was returning from the surf, Michael Benjamin Dolphin, Daniel’s best friend, came to him and asked, “What do you think you’re doing, Daniel? Why are you risking your life in the reef? What are you trying to prove?” “I’m not trying to prove anything,” Daniel replied. “I just want to know what I can learn from the sea and my surfing. That’s all.” “For heaven’s sake, Daniel, a lot of dolphins who care about you think that sooner or later you’ll get killed. Riding waves was fun when we were calves, but now you’re pushing yourself to the limit. Why don’t you spend your time catching more fish instead of wasting it surfing the reef?” Daniel Dolphin stared at his old friend, and after being quiet for a while, he said, “Michael, look around you. Our world is full of dolphins who fish from dawn to dusk, one day after another. They’re always fishing. They don’t have the time to pursue their dreams anymore. Instead of fishing to live, they now live to fish.” Daniel’s voice turned to the past. “I a young and strong Michael Dolphin who could stare at the waves for hours, imagining himself on top of one of those giant walls of water, dreaming. Now I only see a scared dolphin, always fishing, afraid of living his own dreams. What can be more important in life than to follow your dreams, whatever they are?” Daniel stared at his friend and said, “ that you only live once, Michael. Don’t let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.” Michael was confused, knowing that what he’d

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very once in a while, a film comes along with such an intriguing premise that we sit bolt upright in our chairs when we first see a preview for it or read about it. In Hollywood parlance, a “homerun” premise is worth its weight in celluloid. Of course, we are sometimes elated and sometimes disappointed when we see the actual film. As Forrest Gump so eloquently said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” Opening this coming December, a film called The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is about a man who is born old and then gets younger and younger as time goes by, thereby reversing the entire “aging” process. I have no idea about the quality of the film itself but I sure am hooked on the premise and can’t wait to see it. I also having that feeling when I first heard about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (one of my favorite films of the last decade) and its question of “what would it be like if we could erase a painful memory?” After Life, the film I am recommending this month, takes the Sunshine premise and ups the ante: When we die, we go to a way station where we choose one memory in which we will spend eternity. ONE memory and only one. After Life is a Japanese film that was shot about ten years ago. The film made a quick appearance (with very little publicity) on the U.S art house circuit and then quickly disappeared. To reveal too much about the

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plot and the various choices that people make about their one special memory would ruin the surprises of the film; moreover, it’s the premise itself that begs further discussion. Unlike Bill Murray’s plight in Groundhog Day where he ed what each previous day had been like, the memory in After Life would be a new experience every time. The elation, love, joy or whatever the emotions might be, would be as though we had never encountered them before. A peak moment in our life relived throughout eternity.

A memory involves a certain group of people (or maybe just one person or a favorite pet or a favorite nature encounter) at a particular time and place. Choosing one memory might, and almost certainly probably would, exclude some other cherished loved ones. For many, there would be great excitement and comfort in picking that one moment, while for others it could be an excruciatingly difficult decision. (Both experiences are reflected in the film itself.) For example, I know that my one memory would be the New Year’s Eve on which I married my wife Lauren. We got married in our home and the whole day was utterly

By Stephen Simon magical and perfect. Our six children (from previous marriages) were all present and they were all ecstatically happy. My kids were thrilled that I was marrying Lauren, her kids felt the same about me, and all six of them loved each completely. Our one granddaughter was there at her adorable best. The ceremony was exactly as we hoped it would be, the food was wonderful, we all danced and sang and cried and ate, and the world was a magical place. That would absolutely be the memory I would choose. It was, however, a very small wedding. Just our immediate families. The eternal experience of it would then not include any of our close friends or other family who couldn’t make it. My sister, whom I adore, couldn’t be in Oregon that night so my eternal memory would not include her and, as I said, I really love her. That’s what makes the film so fascinating. We sit there and watch the choices that people make on screen and, all the while, we’re processing our own decision. Do I believe that such a choice awaits us after life? No, I don’t, but the film led to amazing reflections and discussions for many, many weeks after I saw it. That is, to me, one the hallmarks of a very special and deeply spiritual film experience. So….which memory would YOU choose? After Life is the feature film in the Vol. 11 collection of films from Spiritual Cinema Circle www.spiritualcinemacircle.com. New subscribers to the Spiritual Cinema Circle can receive a free trial hip (for a nominal shipping fee) by visiting: www.spiritualcinemacircle.com or by calling: (800) 556-0129.

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The Movie Mystic Mamma Mia!, what a movie!. Exhilarating, dazzling, breathtakingly beautiful for your eyes, rockingly wonderful for your ears, and energetically enchanting for your heart, Mamma Mia! is pure, unadulterated fun. Based on the smash Broadway hit, Mamma Mia! revives the old-fashioned movie musical with such a flourish that I kept thinking-where have you BEEN, musicals? Welcome back! The story of the film is simplicity at its best. A young woman (a charming young actress named Amanda Seyfried) is getting married on the idyllic Greek isle where her mother runs a dilapidated Inn. Not knowing who her father is, she sends wedding invitations to the three men with whom her mother had “liaisons” during the summer of her conception. The guys show up. A wedding occurs. End of storyline. To tell the truth, the story doesn’t always make perfect sense, either in its timeline or in its playing out. Mamma Mia is, however, not terribly concerned with its logic or reason (both of which are often overrated) and either was I. Why not? Have I mentioned yet how much fun the film is? The music was written by the legendary, reviled, revered, ABBA. If you were alive during the 1970s, you either loved or ridiculed ABBA. Even if you were born later and have never heard of them, you’ll be dancing in the aisles anyway. I dare you not to rock out to “Dancing Queen”. Double dare you. At the epicenter of all the fun is the inestimable and I DO mean inestimable, Meryl Streep. Meryl plays Donna, the mother in question. No, she doesn’t play the mother. She IS the mother. A wacky, 1970s refugee www.earthstarmag.com

who used to front an all-female trio called Donna and the Dominoes. Meryl sings all her own songs and, as with everything else she tackles, her voice is fantastic, making her completely believable as a singer. Ms. Streep is the engine that propels the entire film and there really are no words that can accurately describe how brilliant, daring, and utterly fearless she is in the role. To go from a cold, calculating diva in The Devil Wears Prada to a singing, utterly uninhibited, former hippie would seem an almost impossible transition for anyone other than Meryl Streep. For over thirty years now, she has created one indelible performance after another and I think it’s time to just tell like it is. There may have been other actresses in other eras who were her equal (Katharine Hepburn perhaps?) but there has been no greater actress in the history of film than Meryl Streep….and I don’t seeing even the great Ms. Hepburn sing and dance. Of the three potential fathers, Pierce Brosnan. who made his fame and fortune as the suave and debonair James Bond, deserves special mention. In Mamma Mia! he plays a forlorn ex-lover who couldn’t even spell the word “cool.” And he sings his own songs, too. Badly. Very badly. And do we ever love him for it. For all of us who can’t carry a tune, Brosnan is the Greek god of dissonance. Singing with gusto, feeling, and enthusiasm, his fearlessness as an actor almost matches Streep’s and that puts him in very rare company indeed. In fact, fearless performances rule the day in the film. Also along for the hilarity are the other potential fathers (Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard) and Christine Baranski

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and Julie Walters, who throw themselves into their roles as Donna’s former backup singers with reckless and openhearted abandon. And, lastly here, let’s also raise a mighty toast to being middle-aged, or maybe even “two-thirds” aged or more. Except for the young lovers in the film, and Mr. Firth at a mere forty-eight, all the other actors are in their fifties and Ms. Streep is actually going to be sixty next year. Take that, young ‘uns! Watching Meryl and her cohorts race around a Greek Island (be prepared to put Greece on the top of your want -to-travel-to list) is an inspiration to us all. And a joyous reminder that much of the so-called “aging process” is rooted only in our attitudes. When we embrace love, fun, and spontaneity, age is truly irrelevant and then, Mamma Mia!, what a party life can be.

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heard was true, but the idea of a life made of dreams was far away from him. He wasn’t a calf anymore, and his dreams had been replaced by duties. Wasn’t that why he fished? Besides, what would the other dolphins think if they saw him riding waves? He ed his days as a surfer as something that belonged to his youth, to the past. He had thought about surfing again, but he was so tired after fishing all day that he could always think of some good reason not to do it. Michael looked at his friend Daniel, and trying to be convincing, said to him, “Someday, Daniel, you’ll grow up and see things the way the rest of the pod sees them. There is no other way.” And then Michael was gone. Daniel’s sadness was evident, and although Michael had changed a lot since the times they’d spent together surfing, discovering some new secret spot, he still loved him as he had years before. He knew that the joy they had shared was still in his heart, but for some reason, Michael had stopped dreaming. Daniel’s heart was aching, but he felt that there was nothing more he could do to help his friend. He knew he would be misunderstood for telling others what he felt inside, for trying to show them the freedom he experienced while surfing. But Daniel Dolphin also knew that he would be hooked forever on the magic he’d discovered, riding waves alone in the vastness of his beloved sea. He had chosen to live his life based on his own principles, and although he was sometimes lonely, he had no regrets.

“If I could only find a way to show them the freedom I feel when surfing,” he said to himself, “maybe they would realize how important it is to follow your dreams. Then again, I don’t have any right to interfere with their lives. Who am I to tell them what’s wrong and what’s right? That’s it. From now on, I’ll just try to be the best I can be. There are still lots of things I have to discover about my surfing, so I won’t bother anyone anymore.” Daniel felt good about his decision. He would follow his dreams as he had always done, for better or worse. He was heading back to the lagoon when, suddenly, he heard a voice. He could barely understand what was being said, but words were being whispered to him. Who could it be? In his confusion, Daniel lost his balance and almost got washed in to shore. Who was calling him? The voice sounded familiar, like someone he’d always known. He looked around, but he was definitely alone. He became afraid. Had the loneliness, the price paid for living his dreams, finally taken its toll? Was he mad? And then he heard the voice once more. But this time, it was clear: There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but to go your own way. A time to follow your dreams. A time to raise the sails of your own beliefs.

Daniel learned fast in the days and weeks that followed. He spent whole days surfing the reef, sometimes even forgetting to take time out to feed himself; and although he was happy with the life he had chosen, he wished he could share with the pod what he felt inside.

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VI S I O N

By Rosemary Gaddum Gordon D.B.O., M.A.

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PINHOLE GLASSES used to need my pinhole glasses to read the newspaper, but now they don’t seem to work anymore. I can actually read much better without them”. This was not the only vision improvement technique this student had been using over the past nine months, but it was part of the strategy.

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Pinhole glasses are black plastic “lenses” with lots of little holes in them. When you put them on it’s like looking through a big screen. If your vision is clearer when you wear regular glasses, you will notice that the little holes help you to see more clearly too. If you have good vision or vision that cannot be improved with glasses, you will see worse. These funny looking spectacles work by eliminating the need to focus the light as it enters the eyes. Imagine for a moment, light travelling in a horizontal column, like an unsharpened pencil. When it reaches the normal eye the light is refracted or focused - it is brought to a point, (like when we sharpen a pencil), so that it lands on the retina. The plastic of these “glasses” blocks all but the very central rays of light, which go through the holes and there is no need for the eye to do any focusing. (Similarly, the very center of the lead of a pencil does not need to be sharpened.) This allows the eye to relax and just receive the image. You can try it for yourself. Punch a hole in a piece of paper with the lead of a sharp pencil and look through it without your glasses. Or, roll up your index finger to 48

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make a little hole and look through that. Does this trick help you to see what you can’t see without lenses? Squinting the eyes does the same trick, but really tires the eyelids, brows and cheek muscles. Pinhole glasses cannot replace regular glasses and s for most activities. They severely restrict our peripheral vision so we must not drive or ride a bicycle while wearing them. However, they can be very therapeutic when worn for reading, TV or the computer because they allow the eyes to relax and to see. Because so much light is blocked by the plastic, we need to make sure there is good illumination while wearing them. When we take them off, we usually see more clearly, unlike when we remove regular glasses, because our eyes have rested. These glasses can take some getting used to. We are asking the mind to perceive in a different way. As we adjust, we see the “mesh” less and less. At first, it is best to wear them for only a few minutes at a time. You can build up to using them for a few hours as long as you are comfortable. You can get them by going to: http://www.visioneducators.com/books_and_resources.phtml . (They are listed after the books.) Rosemary Gaddum-Gordon, D.B.O., M.A., Holistic Vision Improvement, Cambridge, MA: (617) 354-8360, and Eliot, ME: (207) 439-9821, www.visioneducators.com.

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Profiles of businesses, centers and individuals that offer holistic services that nurture and the body, mind and soul.

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ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING Astrology and Esoteric Psychology — Monique Pommier, Astrology illuminates one’s psychological landscape and journey. It times life developments and reveals their designs for the soul. I offer astrological services and ongoing psychospiritual counseling with astrology, Jungian and esoteric psychology as a comprehensive ground of exploration and guidance on current issues and lifelong questionings.

M.A., Ph.DE

By accessing the deeper order of your life, you gain transformative insights into the evolutionary significance of particular challenges and new perspectives to direct your choices, clearing pathways for heightened vitality and fulfillment. I bring to this work 25 years of experience and lifelong education in Esoteric Psychology (MS) and Philosophy (PhD), Western and Eastern spiritual tradi-

Astrologer and Clairvoyant – Serena Wright-Taylor Serena gives readings that touch your soul. She blends the ancient wisdom of Vedic astrology with her remarkable intuition to help you use perfect timing to bring joy and fruition to all areas of your life. She is highly sought after by celebrities, business executives, speakers, and authors. She has made numerous appearances on TV and

tions and Jungian depth psychology. Services include: * Astrological Consultations for Individuals and Couples * Rayology * Psychospiritual Counseling For information or appointment, please call:

(617) 524-7072

“Serena’s work is extraordinary—a stunning blend of mind, heart, and soul,” says Judith Orloff, M.D., author and clairvoyant psychiatrist. Serena gives readings by telephone all over the country.

radio and you may have recently heard her name on Coast to Coast AM. Serena has been gifted since childhood with the ability to see many dimensions of life. She has spent many years in spiritual practice and enjoys working on her own healing and evolvement so that her service to others is of the highest quality.

Serena Wright-Taylor

310.335.5617 Website: www.vimana.org

BOOKSTORES & AWARENESS CENTERS

Enchantments 10 Boothbay House Hill Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538

207-633-4992 Largest New Age Store in New England! We’ve knocked through a wall and doubled our space! New coffee, tea and dessert bar with eye-of-newt scones. enlarged clothing section featuring Geetah & Sacred Threads; Celtic & Renaissance-style clothing, including

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reversible floor-length capes in velvet and satin; Dirks, knives & swords; Crystal balls and bowls; Scrying mirrors & wiccan supplies; Magic wands; Magic spells; Harry Potter; Candles, candles & more candles. Eastern incense & Native American sage, cedar & juniper; Drums & rainsticks; Large variety of pipes & Grateful Dead memorabilia; Extensive New Age/metaphysical book section; 300+ tarot decks; runes; Egyptian canopic jars & statuary; Eastern religious items & statuary–Buddha, Ganesh, Quan

Yin; Fabulous fountains & fantasy statuary of all kinds; angels & fairies, puppets & dolls, dragons, frogs, & gargoyles; Meyda Tiffany lamps; Hundreds of chimes; Cards & calendars; Crystals, jewelry, gems & minerals; Massage & essential oils; Henna; Body jewelry; Tapes & CDs; Psychic readings. Don’t miss our second store “Enchantment Too” right across the street!!!

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CENTERS Kriya Yoga is a complete holistic health management system

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Private Residential Retreat & Personalized Programs Weekends and longer plans available as low as $44 a night

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CLASSES “Reiki speaks to our heart and deepens our connection to self and others.” Libby is a gifted, knowledgeable Reiki Master with 26 years experience. She is coauthor of Reiki Energy Medicine, Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice - over 55,000 copies sold in seven languages.

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Use Reiki to create more joy and ease in your life. Let Libby’s warm, heart-centered approach help you to take your next step toward self-love and inner peace. Reiki brings balance and harmony, ing you doing the work you were born to do. Reiki facilitates transitions, promotes creativity and wisdom, and accelerates spiritual growth, helping you manifest your magnificance.

Libby Barnett, MSW

Libby has taught medical and nursing students at Harvard, Brown, Tufts, and Yale as well as staff at Massachusetts General, Beth Israel, Mt Auburn, Emerson, Dartmouth-Hitchcock,

Reiki Master “Love is the healer and Reiki is love.”

Southern New Hampshire, New York Foundling, and New York Columbia Presbyterian. Libby was featured in a Reiki segment for the PBS nationally televised series, Body and Soul. For the past seven years, Libby has conducted Reiki classes at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. One of Libby’s current ions is teaching hospice staff and volunteers. Fueled by Reiki energy, their healing touch is enhanced, affording greater effectiveness in calming agitation, soothing pain and providing comfort. In class, a powerful slide presentation captures the essence of Reiki. You hear the Reiki story, receive attunements and practice giving and receiving Reiki. You leave class with an illustrated notebook, certificate, and pin, fully trained and certified to do Reiki on yourself, family, friends, and pets.

“My commitment to teach the Usui System of Reiki Healing in the authentic, traditional manner inspired me to visit Japan to retrace the roots of Reiki. I am dedicated to teaching this sacred healing art to promote health and conscious living on the planet. I invite you to give yourself the gift of Reiki. It is an easy, effective way to love, heal, and empower yourself. I look forward to meeting you and sharing Reiki.” Boston area classes November 1 Wilton, NH classes Oct 25 or Dec 6 To , call the Reiki Healing Connection: 1-888-REIKI-4-U (1-888-734-5448) or (603) 654-2787. Visa/MC accepted. Social Work and Nursing CEU’s available. Reiki Master Training information avaliable on request.

Reiki Healing Connection • phone (603) 654-2787 • fax (603) 654-2771 • email [email protected] • www.reikienergy.com

HEALING & BODYWORK

Rolfing

Rolfing© is a deep bodywork method developed by Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D., in the 1940's, which frees, releases and reshapes the body to bring it towards greater balance and verticality. Through Rolfing©, body structure is restored and improved, stress is reduced, and movement becomes more fluid, efficient, and graceful. Freedom and range of movement are enhanced, and breathing becomes fuller and easier. As out of balance parts of the body are brought into alignment, chronic aches and pains often disappear. Gravity becomes an ally, rather than an enemy; it is no longer an effort to hold oneself up.

In addition to the physical results, Dennis Bailey, Marshfield (South Shore): (617) 472-2699 clients often experience the release of old emotional traumas, an enhanced self Garret Whitney, Brighton, Concord, image, increased spontaneity of expres(978) 371-2188 sion and increased agility to be assertive Eric Jacobson, Arlington: and nurturing in relationships. (781) 643-6874 For information about Rolfing Beate Gottschlich, Cambridge: these certified practitioners: (617) 661-9291

Boston Area Rolfer Group:

Out of State:

Aline Newton, Cambridge: Kevin Frank, Holderness, Concord, NH; (617) 661-6409 Norwich, VT: (603) 968-9585 William Redpath, Bedford, Cambridge: (781) 861-0184

Holistic Vision Improvement

Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, DBO, MA

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How we see can be affected by our frame of mind, state of health, and environment. In response to Life we may begin to overfocus at one distance and lose clarity at another, or exhaust our eyes so they can't focus comfortably anywhere, or even let one eye drift in and out. These adaptations may become chronic. We use muscles to focus our eyes. You can learn techniques to relax and coordinate them so that you

can see comfortably and clearly again. Your dependence on glasses or s can be prevented, eliminated, or reduced. Rosemary draws on her twenty years experience and training in orthoptics, the Bates' Method, Gestalt Psychotherapy, and EducationalKinesthetics to form a comprehensive approach to vision improvement. She offers individual and group sessions for adults and children.

ROSEMARY GADDUM GORDON, D.B.O., M.A.

CAMBRIDGE, MA

(617) 354-8360 and

ELIOT, ME NEAR PORTSMOUTH, NH

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HEALING & BODYWORK continued Betty Solbjor has been practicing and teaching Reiki since 1996, and in 2002 became a Karuna Reiki® Master, a Bach Foundation ed Practitioner, and was ordained as an interfaith minister. She has extensive experience using Reiki on both people and animals to gently treat many Betty L. Solbjor, BFRP illnesses and emotional problems. Reiki brings about a deep sense of relaxation and Usui Reiki Master inner peace. Combined with Magnified Karuna Reiki® Master Healing, crystal singing bowls, and guided Interfaith Minister meditation, a session can help to restore balance and harmony to body, mind and soul.

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Reiki treatment sessions and training for all levels of Reiki and Karuna Reiki

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Weddings and other ceremonies

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Call or e-mail to schedule an appointment or inquire about classes.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Genesis Alternative Health

Genesis Alternative Health Center is committed to restore and maintain the “inner ecology” of your body, conquering food cravings and controlling symptoms Genesis Alternative Health that keep you from experiencing optimal 172 State Street health and the joy of living, through the Newburyport, MA 01950 cleansing method of Colon Hydrotherapy and simple step-by-step guidance to eat your way to better health. Owner Ezhra Tel. (978) 463-8800 Martin, C.B.C., is a certified Body •Headaches •Bloating •t & Muscle Pain Ecology Counselor and certified Colon Hydrotherapist of 25 years through I- see: www.bodyecologydiet.com •Depression •Gas •Menstrual irregularities •Skin rashes •Diarrhea •Digestive problems ACT and the National Board for Colon Body Ecology Counseling in MA Hydrotherapy, using only FDA ed •Sensitivity to tobacco, chemicals and odors •Cancer •AIDS and other immune-related disorders equipment Footbath detox and cultured foods available.

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A Traveling Colon Hydrotherapist Colon Hydrotherapy (Colonic Irrigation) in the comfortable surroundings of the Lydian Center for Innovative Medicine.

The Key to Living

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The Center is located inside the Professional Arts Building of Sancta Maria Hospital.

Services Offered: • Colon Hydrotherapy • I-ACT Certified Practitioners • FDA ed Instruments • Slow and Continuous Fill (simulates gravity flow) systems available • Over 20 years of colon hydrotherapy experience • Iridology is the science and practice of analyzing the Iris, pupil and sclera of the eye to determine inherited and accumulated health patterns.

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Joya Z. Baynes • I-ACT Certified • Over 6 years Experience • FDA Approved PPC-101 “The Traveler” Instrument • Closed System

• Herbal/Nutritional Consultation in which an herbalist/pharmacist with over 10 years of experience creates individualized cleansing, fasting, and wellness programs using herbs specified for the client. • 3 and 7 day cleanses • Kidney cleanses • Liver & Gall Bladder cleanses • Weight Loss cleanses • Lymphatic Therapy is a therapy used to help move the lymphatic system, an integral part of our immune system. High-Frequency

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and Manual Therapy available. • 10-Day Cleanse Program • 30-Day Detox/Rejuvenation Program

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America’s Most Experienced Reiki Teachers John Harvey Gray has been a Reiki Master instructor since 1976, actively teaching and practicing Reiki longer than any other living teacher in the West. He took his entire Reiki training with Hawayo Takata, who brought Reiki to the West from Japan. John has conducted over 850 Reiki workshops, teaching more than 15,000 students, and was named the 1994 Interface Presenter of the Year. Lourdes Gray, Ph.D., his wife, is a Reiki Master instructor certified by John. John Harvey Gray She brings years of extensive experience & Lourdes Gray, Ph.D. using Reiki to treat degenerative diseases such as arthritis, cancer, HIV/AIDS, as well as emotional problems.

Questions? Call or write for information about workshops or private Reiki sessions. Third Degree/Master Instructor training available.

Basic Classes (1st Degree) (13.5 CEU credits available.) • Oct 4-5 Jaffrey, NH • Nov 8-9 Jaffrey, NH • Dec 6-7 Jaffrey, NH Reiki 2nd Degree Advance Workshops • Oct 11-12 Jaffrey, NH • Nov 15-16 Jaffrey, NH

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Ayurvedic Wellness Evaluations for Mind-Body Balance Are you feeling out of balance? Ayurveda offers time tested ways to restore balance to your mind, body, and emotions. An Ayurvedic Wellness Evaluation with our Maharishi Ayurveda expert (Vaidya) from India helps to identify imbalances at the root of your current or potential

health problems. The Vaidya will examine your health history and assess your current state of mind-body balance using the traditional Ayurvedic pulse reading method. You will receive personalized program including diet, lifestyle recommendations, and herbal supplements.

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Maharishi Vedic Health Center 679 George Hill Road, Lancaster, MA, 01523 www.lancasterhealth.org

Cleansing for the body, the mind, the spirit Experience colon hydrotherapy in a safe, relaxed environment using state-of-the-art FDA ed equipment.

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Nancy Ames, a graduate of the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy, has been a massage therapist for over 16 years. She is also a member of the American Massage Therapy Association. Nancy offers many different styles of massage modalities including: relaxing Swedish massage, therapeutic deep tissue, trigger point therapy, myofascial release and Reiki.

Stephanie Dumas, I-ACT certified Colon Hydrotherapist, Owner

Lexington Medical Building 16 Clarke Street Lexington, MA

[email protected]

(781) 860-5116

Her treatments include luxurious hot towels placed on tight and sore muscles that help to relieve tension and stress. Nancy tailors her massage sessions to meet her clients’ needs. Visit her on the web at:

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Nancy Ames Massage Therapy

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HEALING & BODYWORK continued Stop Smoking in One Session & Lose Weight Naturally

George W. Mephis, Ph.D.

George W. Mephis, Ph.D., worldrenowned Russian healer and spiritual teacher with 25 years of experience in helping people stop smoking, lose weight and achieve freedom from addiction slavery. He has been called The Miraclemaker for his phenomenal ability to cure incurable diseases. He is the founder of the HypnoEnergetic Movement. This powerful

technique stimulates the brain to produce more pleasure hormones, naturally creating a positive state of consciousness and at the same time erasing the negative memories related to addictive behavior. Mr. Mephis helps people quit smoking in one session, lose weight and control their appetite, eliminate pain, stress, anxiety,

Rolfing® produces lasting improvements in posture, breathing, movement, and overall relaxation. The Rolfer uses manual pressure to help you feel into and let go of rigidities in the connective tissue that wraps every muscle and bone. As you let go the tissue changes state, becoming more elastic and conductive of energy. This enhances freedom of movement, sensation, and circulation. Rolfing is done in specific patterns throughout the body to allow a more erect posture, easier breathing, improved balance, and more graceful movement. These changes lead to a more positive self-image and increased confidence. Once elasticity has been restored it will remain unless the Eric Jacobson, Ph.D. is re-injured subjected to emotional Rolfing® * Craniosacral Therapy area trauma or very long-term tension, so the Psychotherapy benefits are relatively permanent.

Mark Levin

George W. Mephis, Ph.D.

Market Street Health 214 Market Street Brighton, MA 02135

617-507-1991 1-888-464-3363 www.hypnoenergetic.com

Other Benefits: Increases ability to sense emotions and other energetic states. Releases negative emotional memories. Accelerates progress in psychotherapy or spiritual practice. Restores flexibility and circulation to scar tissue and ts, both post-injury and post-surgical.

Craniosacral Therapy gently increases the mobility of the bones in the head, spine and pelvis. This is especially effective in relieving cranial compression from head injuries. Patterns of distress and dysfunction going back as far as birth and childhood can be treayed. Benefits include relief from chronic pain and tension in then head, neck, or lower back, and the release of negative emotional memories.

My Background includes training in Rolfing with Ida Rolf, and in Craniosacral Therapy with John Upledger. I am a graduate of the Gestalt Training Center of San Diego and the Cambridge Family Institute and have a private practice in psychotherapy. I am certified as an Advanced Rolfer by the Rolf Institute, and have practiced in the Boston area for the past 35 years. For free literature or an appointment:

781-643-6874 10 Ramsdell Court, Arlington, MA 02476

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Mark Levin was able to create very powerful For an office appointment or to place healing processes for hundreds of satisfied a remote healing request please call clients both within physical realm of his office and remotely throughout entire world. 617-779-8765

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depression, addictive behavior and various other physical disorders in a unique and miraculous way.

Specializes in: Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Polarity There are many clinically documented cases of Therapy, white light healing, remote healing. spontaneous healing performed by him. By combining traditional healing methods 121 B. Tremont Street, Suite #19 such as Reiki, hypnosis, polarity therapy with Brighton, MA his original white light healing therapy,

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INTERNAL MEDICINE

Hsing M. Wu, M.D. Internal Medicine

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Hsing M. Wu, M.D. is a visiting professor of medicine from the Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China. He is a Research Fellow in pulmonary medicine at the V.A. Medical Center in Boston.

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We integrate the Western and the Oriental Medicine with their cultures to help people to get better health rewards and a happy, long life.

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MEDICAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES continued Holistic Dental Practice grows to Biologic and Physiologic Dentistry

Herbert S. Yolin, D.D.S. “I am committed to helping people keep all their teeth all their lives.” Dentistry for the 21st Century — Today! Gum surgery is history, say goodbye to the drill, the pain, the noise and the needle.

Miracle Bite Tabs™ (MBT) & Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT), are used to treat Dental Distress Syndrome (DDS) as written about by Dr. Hans Selye MD, Dr. Fonder, a dentist, & others.

Your teeth and jaws are an extension of your brain and spinal cord. Any imbalances caused by improper alignment of the jaw (commonly referred to as dental proprioception) can play a major role in all disease and pain. Faulty dental proprioception can cause improper neurological to the brain affecting most, if not all body functions. Temporary relief is easy and inexpensive, and can enhance your present treatment whether it is Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Massage, Physical or Neural Therapy, Pain Management, and TMD/TMJ. There are over 230 positive studies from 81 universities in 37 countries involving 24 different dental procedures with an astounding 94% success rate. This included procedures as sensitive teeth, pain control, speed of healing, periodontal disease, and others. Carisolv™ a 5 yr. old gel from Sweden, approved by the FDA(2001) that softens

decay so it can be scraped out without drilling, causing less pain and discomfort. Add this to Micro-dentistry and Air Abrasion and it becomes true needle free, mercury free filling procedure. Dr. Yolin has offered an alternative to traditional periodontal surgery for more then 15 years and now adds a Soft Tissue Laser for enhancing the sterilizing of the diseased gum pockets. He is a certified member of the Academy of Laser Dentistry (exam based). Phase contrast microscopy, bacterial cultures and anti-microbial natural oils are used in the never ending commitment to avoiding unnecessary gum surgery. Mercury (Hg) in your saliva from chewing? Take the chewing test and have your saliva analyzed for Hg at a very reasonable cost. You may not need them removed. Defective amalgams are removed following IAOMT protocol.

Dr. Yolin has been trained in the specialty of Prosthetic Dentistry but does not limit his practice. He utilizes hypnotherapy for dental phobic, cosmetic dentistry, oral devices for snoring and sleep apnea, 28 years experience in treating head/neck facial pain syndrome, metal free crowns wherever possible, and extensive training in dental implantology. His treatment philosophy is based on the fact that at the end of every tooth is a human being and although he fixes teeth, he treats human beings. And that will never change. Call now for a consultation and share the excitement at:

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Margo Roman D.V.M. is a 1978 graduate of Tuskegee Veterinary School. She interned at Angell Memorial and was on the teaching staff Main Street Animal at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. She Services of Hopkinton studied homeopathy with Luc DeShepper of the Renaissance Institute of Classical www.mashvet.com Homeopathy. Dr. Roman is a member of the Homeopathic, Holistic & American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Traditional Veterinary Medicine Association as well as International Veterinary Acupuncture Society and Massachusetts Margo Roman, D.V.M. We are truly a whole health center, Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. Roman has also offering surgery, diagnostics, completed Tufts Veterinary advanced Herbal (508) 435-4077 or (508) 435-MASH and Chiropractic courses. vaccination/titering, and x-Rays. 72W. Main St. - Hopkinton, MA

At M.A.S.H. we feel that complementary Main St. Animal Services of Hopkinton medicine is state of the art health care for your pet. We offer homeopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, chiropractic care, body work, physical therapy, and Reiki as part of your pet’s whole health program. Our caring staff is dedicated to guiding you toward total health for your pet. Now offerinig ozone therapy.

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PSYCHICS PSYCHIC READINGS AND INTUITIVE LIFE COACHING New Zealand Native, Shannar, has traveled extensively throughout the world sharing her gifts of the Sacred Language of Light. From a very early age Shannar was aware that the other realms were ing and working with her, this began her own spiritual journey into the other worlds through Clairvoyance/Clairaudience and Mediumship for Grief Therapy. Her psychic ability has touched the hearts of all her clients both in the USA and Overseas and her varied live experiences have greatly assisted those that have sought her Life Coaching methods.

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The Sacred Language of Light is a very special tool for resolving our patterns by connecting with the cellular memory and healing the agreements that we made in this and past lives. The Sacred Language of Light comes through in the special pieces of symbolic art form known as the pictographs. Each pictograph is a Star Gate Map into our cellular encodings and contains Sacred Geometry, Symbols, Musical Harmonics, Ancient and Star Languages. Shannar is able to speak the Sacred Language, hears the stories in poetry form and performs the pictograph symbols with her hands.

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PSYCHICS continued Astrologer and Clairvoyant – Serena Wright-Taylor Serena gives readings that touch your soul. She blends the ancient wisdom of Vedic astrology with her remarkable intuition to help you use perfect timing to bring joy and fruition to all areas of your life. She is highly sought after by celebrities, business executives, speakers, and authors. She has made numerous appearances on TV and radio and you may have recently

heard her name on Coast to Coast AM. Serena has been gifted since childhood with the ability to see many dimensions of life. She has spent many years in spiritual practice and enjoys working on her own healing and evolvement so that her service to others is of the highest quality.

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What is Regression Therapy? To go back in time (without the use of hypnosis) to the origin or root cause of a problem and release or heal it. This might entail going back to past lives or earlier parts of your current life. For the past 25 years Ross Miller has been offering the benefits of regression therapy worldwide, helping his clients quickly and easily release their fears, anxiety attacks, depression, anger, physical pain, grief, abuse trauma, addictions, blocked potential, fibromyalgia, stress, chronic fatigue, eating disorders, health problems and phobias. Ross is available for individual or couples regression therapy sessions, psychic and past life readings and/or healing by telephone or in person. (See Directory ad under "Psychics".) For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call:

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DEEPEN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY Sonny is available for ongoing client-centered therapy in a comionate setting where you can feel safe without fear that you will be judged. Being asked the right questions in a confidential environment can further enhance your self-knowing and assist you in moving into a state of joy. The sessions are available to help you process and integrate the beauty of your wholeness with respect and honor.

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aware of self-defeating patterns, then your awareness can greatly motivate you to deepen the process of self-discovery. Working in collaboration with Sonny will heighten your experience of healing and transformation.

vative mind/body/spiritual techniques which have profound effects in the process of transformation. Individual and group work available. for people living with cancer.

call for more information. Sonny Rose holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and has worked with many diverse groups around the world. She has worked as an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University and has worked in Rehabilitative Medicine at Boston University Medical School. Sonny’s work incorporates many inno-

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PSYCHOLOGY & TRANSFORMATION continued Barbara is a licensed mental health counselor who is certified in EMDR.

Comionate Psychotherapy and EMDR We are each endowed with an enormous capacity for self-healing and often simply need a guide to show us the way. Barbara’s style of comionate psychotherapy combined with the rapid and profound healing effects of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can lead to new levels of emotional and physical health and well being.

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brain through a disruption in normal information processing. Past events seem “frozen in time” and talking about them does not relieve the distress they contain.

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READINGS Angelica offers a wide variety of both Metaphysical and New Age gifts. Browse around, enjoy the softness of the Angelic energy. Feel the magic that Angelica of the Angels brings to you. We have a knowledgable staff to answer any and all questions and direct you in anyway they can to help guide you in life. READINGS ARE OUR SPECIALTY Spiritual Counseling Mediumship Trance Channelling Tarot Readings Psychic Readings Telephone Readings

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CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR MASSAGE THERAPY Since 1980, CCMT has been providing comprehensive, holistic massage therapy training.

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The Massage Institute of New England (MINE) has, as our main objective, the education and training of the highest quality professional Massage Therapists. Our program focuses on the Integration of Body, Mind, and Spirit; accomplished by balancing the scientific study of anatomy and physiology with holistic therapeutic massage technique. Each student's process of growth during the course of our program is a mirror of the process of the change and evolution which they, as Massage Therapists, will facilitate in their clients.

Because Dovestar believes integration to be an efficient way to facilitate growth, we offer the Holistic Practitioner title. This allows a personally designed study of many chosen modalities to qualify for a title recognized as a viable profession. Certification requires completion of one certification from each of the following groups representing four forces that regulate our life at the cellular level. Alchemia Inner Cleanse (Centripetal) This program consists of many options to regain access to your personal power through the release of toxic beliefs stored in the energetic systems and affecting our quality of life. Alchemia Teacher (Centrifugal) To be able to share who we are comes from our

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win the popular vote, that is. Imagine if you will the return of Florida-like disputed ballots in 2008. It could very well be that Obama will win the presidency like he won the primaries against Hillary Clinton by winning the delegates but losing the popular vote to Clinton by 174,000 votes cast across all fifty states and territories. Oh, I hear the Mass of you Obama folks saying, “Oh contraire!” Yes, yes, I know Obama wasn’t on the Michigan ballot. I know. Votes “intended” are not what my oracle seems to read. It reads votes “cast.” I publicly declared that Clinton would win the primaries and if my oracle is only a popular vote getter, it was correct. Anyway, most of you know the story of how Obama Michigan votes were cast because it had broken the Democratic Party rules by pushing its primary out of the herd of state primaries held on Super Tuesday. Obama took himself off the ballot. Clinton kept herself on the ballot, even though the black sheeple election didn’t count. Her decision was at the very least a Nixonian calculation to stay on, just in case she could wheel (or, behind closed doors “weal” resistors) and deal a reinstatement of the Michigan delegation, a thing she later tried. (Very tricky-dicky of her). I’ve predicted for years now that if she became president she’d be the “Nixonian” Democrat—a karmic echo

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to the past. More on that in a moment. The Michigan Mishenanigans caught Senator Obama exposed in his political immaturity. He learned his lesson soon enough to keep his name on the ballot for the second disputed state primary held in Florida. Now he could “tricky-his-dicky” the Clintons, if need aroused. Fortunately for his campaign, he won the delegate counts if not the popular vote. I’m well aware that many people would have voted for Obama if he had been on the Michigan ballot. It was not fair. It was another example of how screwed up our democracy is; however, that’s not at issue here. It is what my oracle reads for forty years in counting. I’m beginning to trip over my brass tripod over this. Starting last year, I began seeing “two” presidents running for office in 2008. Up to that time, starting in 1998, my oracle had only seen Hillary Clinton become the next president after Bush. Then came the mysterious riddle lost in the augured translation. I’m “Gored” again and I’m “Bushed” about it. How can two presidents run in the same campaign? My oracle needs prophetic “riddle”-in to calm it down but there is none to have. In my digital book “Predictions for 2008” in a chapter entitled The Mother of All Presidencies or an Obama Nation? I wrote the following age about a riddled future election timeline ending with an Obama presidency. What you are reading was documented before the New Hampshire Primaries in early January 2008 so it bears some interesting prophetic hits, misses and trends to consider: My oracle sees two future presidents running in 2008. This vision has never happened before. One of these people got the prescient nod almost ten years ago [when] I declared… that New York would have a new Senator

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Clinton in November 1998 as well as a President Hillary Clinton in 2008. The second time my oracle lowered its invisible hand upon the shoulder of a future president was upon a charismatic black senator from Illinois I saw affectionately greeting a crowd in Kenya, the birthplace of his father, in August 2006. I had a vision of the Black Kennedy! He is a reverberation of collective karma from America’s past going back to the future in 2008. He is the end result of what started under the istration of the White John F. Kennedy. I saw the fruits of the civil rights movement—I saw Barack Obama, a future president of the United States. Now I am in a unique dilemma of augury. Can both the first woman and the first black man—indeed the first multi-racial American (Obama’s mother is Caucasian)— both become presidents in 2008? Not only a woman and a black man running for president, but the first term Senator from Illinois belongs to the next significant future social-ethnic group, the mixed-racial, emerging in America’s melting pot. He is a member of what prophecy calls the next majority world demographic in the Age of Aquarius, the Race of Tan. The oracular presence that delivers this dual-presidential message into my bloodshot Third Eye has never seen wrongly since 1968. What am I to do on this fortieth anniversary of my presidential prediction run with this fourth-dimensional paradox?

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I guess I’ll have to come back to earth, to threedimensional perspective and risk documenting an explanation, rife with my own egoistic projections and biases. One of these people will be president in 2008. The other will be a president later, but who and when? With that asked, if Obama should win the Democratic nomination and be elected president of the United States in 2008, his unripened entry into the White House will be too soon, and soon tragic. If you thought the Bush years were a disaster…you do not want to initiate this Obama Nation timeline with your vote. His time is not now. He will be a great president, later. I then spoke of a scenario of the dream team, months before it was a mainstream issue, that an Obama-Clinton ticket would be unstoppable with at least a 15 percent popular vote victory in November 2008. To which I added this dire warning that as of yet I feel uninclined to modify, even though I sincerely hope it doesn’t turn out this way: OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2008 EARTH STAR

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What I said in my HogueProphecy Bulletin, The Obama Nation, posted in early 2007 still stands. Obama has “president” in his destiny, but not in 2008. If he takes the offer [or becomes Clinton’s VP on her ticket], he will become president of the United States in four to eight years. Hillary Clinton would be presciently wise to give her Vice President chances to season and mature. Perhaps my oracle sees “two” presidents in 2008 because they are on the same winning ticket. I don’t like to think about the other reason. My darkest concern is that one of these future presidents will come to office at the wrong time. The Black Kennedy who may be president in 2008 reminds me of the inexperienced White Kennedy (JFK) who in 1956, tried and failed in a bid to become Adlai Stevenson’s Vice Presidential nominee at the Democratic Convention. A much more confident and experienced JFK successfully ran four years later in 1960 and launched his New Frontier. I fear that destiny could have Senator Obama peak too soon. Even JFK’s first term suffered a number of crises related to his youth and lack of political seasoning. He had natural leadership qualities though. Leadership qualities tested by command of a PT boat in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. Kennedy distinguished himself heroically as a natural born leader. What seasoning does the new Black Kennedy bring to the oval office in 2008? Personally, I like this man. Prophetically speaking, I fear for his future. National disasters and death in office will mark his presidency if he is elected in 2008. Yet, greatness awaits his presidency in 2012 or 2016. I would add a few brush strokes to this politically Boschian vision. Or perhaps these are more my hopes than a prophetic addendum. If Obama can survive the very steep and dangerous learning curve of his first three years in office “then” perhaps the greatness potentially in him will come forth, once the hubris and iveaggressive narcissism has been sorely though compas-

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sionately slammed by the burdensome reality of being president of a nation in peril. He will have to pull deep into his soul-sources for this strength. His manhood tempering, PT 109 event, will be at the nation’s expense and hopefully, to the nation’s profit. Obama likes to play with his name in jokes, but the one name his hubris avoids is a play on demagogue (Obamagogue). He may have the power of oratory to seduce just enough people to win the presidency if they can believe in the “Idea” as Obama the man, but once in office he will have to painfully be born again as Obama, a man of “Ideas.” Though confident that Clinton would reach her destiny in 2008, I did sense one danger and wrote about it over a year and six months ago, in a HogueProphecy Bulletin entitled “Hillary Clinton’s Albatross.” In brief, I said her vote to side with a majority of senators to give President Bush war powers in October 2002 was like a political albatross around her neck that Obama would tug on, hard, in the coming primaries. Indeed he did pull hard, using it as evidence that she had experience but not the insight and wisdom to make the right decision, whereas, he was an early critique against the war powers vote, thus, he was a fresh leader with the raw intelligence, if not the decades of experience, to get it right. In a tight race where only a few hundred thousand votes in the right spots wins or loses one the delegates needed to be nominated, Clinton lost the anti-war block of liberal democrats across the country to Obama and that, I believe, lost her her destiny to be president in 2008. That doesn’t mean she’ll not try another run in 2012. As my oracle foresaw for years, a destined H. Clinton presidency would karmically echo a Nixon presidency. Tragedy ended the “White” Kennedy, his void filled later by Nixon. Tragedy may end the “Black” Kennedy who’s void could be filled by the Nixonian Democrat, Hillary Clinton, in 2012. Barack Obama by not choosing Clinton as his running mate listened to ego and inexperience over political strategic thinking – the kind of Machiavellian thinking

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that even our greatest and noblest presidents, like Obama’s favorite, Abraham Lincoln, possessed. Obama should have taken Hillary Clinton as his Vice President on the ticket. He would have won by 15 percent of the popular vote without electoral disputes. Now he will run the danger of even losing to John McCain, and making Sarah Palin fill the void left in destiny for a woman being president of the United States in 2008, for if McCain is elected she will be president – thus a new variation on the riddle has arisen. Two presidents running in the same election won by the GOP. Obama’s egoistic tendency is that of a bargaining seducer. He must “win” people over himself and not with the help of another’s charisma. To it consciously to himself that he needed Hillary’s power to seduce her middle, slightly center-right followers was too hard for seducer-hubris to bear. He listened to his darker tendency and would rather risk losing the election trying to seduce, to win over the center-right voters himself. His most important decision before becoming president—his VP choice—has set a course for a historically close election in 2008 to rival that waged in 1960 by his karmic echo—J. F. K. against Richard Nixon. The popular vote will be tighter than 1960 and it’s possible John McCain will win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote to Obama or vice versa. Whoever wins, will be afflicted by political illegitimacy. Even as I say this, I see the next presidency through a mirror darkly obscured and unclear. As if there is no president. A ship of state without a captain. Or, is it a captain guiding a ship who cannot command? I see chaos and even though my oracle nudges towards an Obama victory, at the moment of this writing (26 September 2008), it is not clear to me why alarm and disorder swirls in the magic mirror of tomorrow. I can’t shake the possibility that somehow, neither man running for president will be sworn into office. My oracle has never been so occulted in the forty years I’ve been making predictions. Perhaps it is because we are living in the days of Nostradamus’ Third Antichrist? I have a new digital book posted at my home page at www.hogueprophecy.com that examines the 16th Century French seer’s unique take on prophecies of the Antichrist. There are not one but THREE. Their names are written in code. The first was Napaulon Roy (Napoleon King); the second Hister (Hitler) and the third he code-named Mabus. Not only do recently dead dictators such as Saddam Hussein decode their names easily into the anagram

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code “Mabus” as well as terrorist leaders such as Usama bin Laden, but also two men who currently are and may be our next president also easily fit the code. For instance, using the laws of anagram Nostradamus followed see how easy it is to decode “G.W. Bush” into Mabus: First put the letters in lower case: g.w. bush Turn the letters g w over: a.m. bush Reverse a.m. to m.a.: m.a. bush Drop the periods: mabush Drop the one irrelevant letter h: mabus I [think] that should assuage prophetic biases of the left against their Republican boogeyman president of nearly eight years. Pause and reflect how it is even easier to make Obama the “Mabus” by code. There’s just one small hurdle. The o in Obama can become a u, especially when you consider the Kenyan phonetic pronunciation of “Obama” curls the o with a more u sounding vowel, like “oobama”—thus: oobama = ubama Arrange the letters: ubama = maabu Cut the redundant a: mabu Replace it with the missing s: mabu(s) = Mabus Are we electing an Antichrist in November? I hardly believe it. As the book Nostradamus and the Antichrist, Code Named MABUS will reveal, many a man was to good a prophetic fit to fulfill Nostradamus’ prophecy. Indeed there is another definition for the Antichrist that will take this “sleuth”-saying mystery away from personalities as candidates to help the reader confront an essential “Antichrist” that is so immediate and intimate that it is also most easy to overthrow in our daily lives. As easy as taking off a mask to let our original spirit shine and light the world. I invite Earth Star readers to visit hogueprophecy.com, me and my free newsletter comparing current events to prophecies of the world in The HogueProphecy Bulletin.

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Random Acts.... Continued from page 34

“You miss who we are, thinking the way that you do.” – The reply of an ex-convict who works with elephants, when asked what he thought was the one statement these animals would communicate to man if they could.

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completely crazy. The next day, to my astonishment (I hadn’t much faith in Boone’s theories either) the cockroaches were gone and never returned, although 1 lived there for two more years.

“The original instructions of the Creator are universal and valid for all time. The essence of these instructions is comion for all life and love for all creation. We must realize that we do not live in a world of dead matter, but in a universe of living spirit. Let us open our eyes to the sacredness of Mother Earth, or our eyes will be opened for us. “ —Native American elder David Monongye

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dropped drastically. Prisoners made fewer suicide attempts and their medication requirements decreased. The prisoners’ interaction and communication with their doctors was significantly improved. However, acts of violence in other wards increased—because prisoners in those wards wanted pets as well. Finally, the prisoners with pets shared the offspring of their animals with the other wards.

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hey say that what goes around comes around, and that saying is certainly proven true in this story. Michael Zezima sometimes fed a stray dog who lived in his neighborhood. This simple act of kindness was later to save his life. During the blizzard of 1978, the New York area was pummeled by a severe snow storm. Michael was walking home and came upon a woman who couldn’t make it to her own house because of the waist-high drifts. He helped her to the home of one of her friends and then took off towards his own home which was only two blocks away. But the snow and his exhaustion from helping the woman proved too much for him. Michael collapsed in the street. Cold and alone, his body stiff and numb, Michael thought he would die. Then the dog that Michael had been feeding chanced upon him. Seeing his friend’s desperate condition, the dog lay down on top of Michael and kept him warm. As he cuddled Michael he barked loudly for help. For three hours the two lay locked in embrace, their bodies creating the only warmth they had to keep them alive. Finally someone heard the dog’s persistent barking. Michael was rescued and taken to the hospital. The dog refused to leave Michael’s side and the doctors decided to allow him to stay at the hospital that day. Michael recovered and adopted the dog.

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he small orange kitten kept watch over a dying child. So steadfast was her vigil that the kitten refused to leave, even to eat. The child had cancer and was wasting away. Even after the adults had gotten too sleepy to stay up any longer and had gone to bed, the little cat sat like a soft sentry near the child’s head, calmly watching. Whenever the child awoke, she never felt alone in the darkness for she saw her kitten’s beautiful gold eyes upon her. The child knew she never had to be alone or afraid. Sometimes the kitten was sent outside by misunderstanding humans. She would then leap to the child’s window and scratch on the glass, trying to get back to be at the child’s bedside. The child died. A little later, the kitten died of a similar type of cancer. Like a tiny angelic being, the kitten had helped her child move gently from this world to the next. But the people who had witnessed all this saw only a tiny orange kitten lying on a child’s bed. In ancient Japan, cats were held in such high regard that they were often kept on leashes; they were considered too precious to roam free. During the seventeenth century, when vermin overran the country and threatened the silk industry, the government declared all cats must be free and able to hunt. The country’s economy was saved.

Reprinted with permission by Conari Press, Random Acts of Kindness by Animals by Stephanie LaLand is available wherever books are sold or directly from the publisher at 1-800-423-7087.

In a children’s hospital, as part of a program to bring animals into hospitals, a little deaf girl was shown a two-year-old chimpanzee. The child was so sick she had to be wheeled in on a gurney. Suddenly the girl started to cry. As it happened, the chimpanzee had been trained in a sign language. To everyone’s astonishment, he began g to her. The little girl forgot her sadness and the two became friends.

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MYSTICAL STONES

Excerpted from The Book of Stones, Stones by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian

IOLITE Keyword: Inner vision, shamanic journeying, healing of old wounds, soul retrieval Element: Wind Chakras: Third Eye (6th)

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olite is a magnesium aluminum silicate mineral with a hardness of 7 to 7.5. It forms in short prismatic crystals that have an orthorhombic structure. The name Iolite comes from the stone’s violet color. Iolite is also known as Cordierite, Dichroite and/or Water Sapphire. The most important Iolite deposits are in Brazil, Madagascar, Burma, India and Sri Lanka. lolite offers to take one on the inner path to the deep self. It is an excellent stone to use in shamanic journeying. It assists by increasing the vividness and detail of inner visions and by calling up symbols from deep in the psyche that will clearly illuminate the issues one must face for continued growth. It helps one let go of the belief that one needs to control inner experiences, and it dissolves the fear of the unknown or suppressed parts of the psyche. It increases one’s capacity to move forward into areas of old fear, teaching one that the

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exploration of one’s wounds is the most direct path to healing. Iolite is also a stone of inner treasures. It helps one to move to the depths of one’s unconscious and to uncover the lost parts of oneself. When this is done, one finds what one most needs to be at peace and in joy-the most important of all treasures. Iolite assists in blending normal conscious thinking with intuitive knowing. It aids in strengthening the

energetic links between the brain and the heart, and it helps the mind to understand and have reverence for the heart’s urgings. Wearing Iolite can help awaken and sustain one’s psychic gifts. It is an excellent stone for astrologers, tarot readers, mediums and other intuitive channels of inner information. Iolite can be an aid for those attempting to access information from past lives. It seems to have a

special attunement to the periods of history associated with the Cathars, the Knights Templar and the Arthurian legends. There are many individuals incarnated now and working to live more spiritually oriented lives who have also lived, with a similar focus, in those periods. Iolite can be an aid to opening the portals of memory so one can learn and integrate the appropriate pastlife lessons to assist in one’s current incarnation. Iolite harmonizes with Lapis, A m e t h y s t , Tanzanite, Lazulite, Azurite and other stones of the Indigo/Violet Ray. Scolecite spiritualizes its energies to a higher level. Hematite and other grounding stones will aid in grounding and integrating the lessons Iolite brings forward. Iolite carries a beautiful violet-blue energy that activates and clears the third eye and opens one to visions, awareness and communication from higher vibratory realms. It is a stone of visionary art and the creative expression of spiritual ideas and ideals

Additional information on stones and their metaphysical properties can also be found at www.heavenandearthjewelry.com, www.thebookofstones.com, or by calling 1-800-942-9423.

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For example, the more I marginalized my bear’s parallel world, the wilder my blood pressure fluctuations became. With increased awareness and coherence, you are less likely to view your genetics as either good or bad, but as signposts showing you the way to your whole self. This dreamland viewpoint is different from Darwin’s CR principle of survival of the fittest. In dreamland, all energies and essences are held in equal value. The point of this exercise is to discover various perspectives and to see the value in each. You interacted with your dreamgenes, your psychogenetic map, and perhaps you got to its essence, the force trying to cocreate your universe. In a way, the marginalization1and irritations of your childhood dream also are linked to your cultural history and your family, and the energies (values, characteristics, attributes) they have accepted or marginalized. Your symptoms express how the force of your dreaming re/acts to the boundary conditions you needed in order to maintain your particular identity. Coherence changes these conditions. From the dreamland viewpoint, CR genetic expression linked with illness offers potential opportunities and gifts.

interacts with radio waves informing the ship where to go, we can understand better how awareness might affect the body. Without awareness, your body problems are local CR symptoms with possible genetic causes. Awareness, sensitivity to the dreamland and essence levels of symptoms, changes everything. Awareness allows you to discover and surf your pilot wave, so that your whole body feels better. Through feeling more in touch with your whole self, your life reorganizes. Not only do your dreamland parts interact differently, but all your body parts interact in new ways. Either directly, or indirectly through other body parts, dreamland and essence surfing experiences unpredictably influence the genetic problem localized in the space and time of your cells. That’s how dreams influence genes. The original somatic genetic disturbance is either relieved or becomes less significant as new multidimensional life experiences emerge. Mindell, Arnold. 2004. The Quantum Mind and Healing (Chapter 14 Genetic Backaction—How Dreams Influence Genes pages 147-158) Charlottesville, VA. Hampton Roads Publishing Company. Used with permission.

Backaction and the Path with Heart From the essence viewpoint, from the force of silence, your personal myth is partially represented in dreamland as clusters of dream figures, and in biology as genes. All these figures are superimposed, like the various colors of the rainbow, creating a diversity of possibilities in life. They all sum up to an overall glow, your personal myth whose essence is the force of silence. Your timeless self, like the pilot wave, is nonlocal. Marginalizing one of its overtones stresses that tone (that dream figure) and makes that parallel world a troublesome and symptomatic one for you in everyday reality—as a source of body symptoms. In effect, by accepting your various tones, you create a sense of harmony and a new theater we might call the path with heart. If David Bohm and Richard Feynman were alive today, I can imagine their comments. Feynman is saying, “Yes, the path with heart: that is the sum of all possible histories, all those virtual realities, all the possible paths you have taken in parallel worlds.” And I hear Bohm saying, “Of course, and once you use your awareness on your ship, you create a backaction with your pilot wave. That’s what I meant when I said that a particle can influence its quantum wave functions. It directs you, and you direct it.” Using Bohm’s image of backaction in which a ship

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Fall Reading The Secret Destiny of America By Manly P. Hall Drawing upon often neglected fragments of history, The Secret Destiny of America presents evidence for a mysterious Great Plan at the core of the nation’s founding. Preeminent occult scholar Manly P. Hall argues that humanistic, esoteric, and mystical orders collaborated in setting aside the American continent for a worldchanging experiment in enlightened self-government and religious liberty. Tarcher/Penguin. Paper, $16.95.

2013: The End of Days or A New Beginning? Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012 By Marie D. Jones The 5,125-yearlong Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, which many claim portends a massive global transformation. Some dread its arrival, believing it will be the beginning of the end. Others await it with delicious anticipation, expecting it to be the catalyst for a quantum leap of consciousness, the dawning of a true New Age. 2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning? examines all of the popular myths, prophecies, and predictions circulating about 2012, including the Mayan teachings of time acceleration and global awakening on a consciousness level. Furthermore it takes an indepth look at lesser-known predictions and prophecies, and at the more scientific and reality-based challenges we will face.

The Earthwise Herbal A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants By Matthew Wood Noted herbalist Matthew Wood brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this comprehensive book on medicinal plants. The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants and, organized alphabetically, encomes all of the major herbs of traditional and modern Western herbalism. Author Wood describes characteristic symptoms and conditions in which each plant has proved useful in the clinic, often illustrated with appropriate case histories. This book is also useful for homeopaths and flower essence practitioners as it bridges these fields in its treatment of herbal medicines. North Atlantic Books. Paper, $32.95.

Footprints in the Snow The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk By Master Chan Sheng Yen In this landmark memoir, a renowned Buddhist master traces his spiritual journey against the panoramic story of China from the pre-Communist era to the present. Master Sheng Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism throughout the world. Sheng Yen’s story is of a life lived in the last years of the Republic of China, the Sino-Japanese War, and the founding of the People’s Republic of China. An eye-opening slice of modern history as well as an authoritative introduction to an ancient religious tradition, Footprints in the Snow will appeal to spiritual seekers, travelers who want to understand more about China, or anyone looking for a fascinating story. DoubleDay. Hardcover, $24.95.

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The Biogenealogy Sourcebook Healing the Body by Resolving Traumas of the Past By Christian Flèche Biogenealogy is a comprehensive new vision of health that takes the mind-body connection one step further by identifying and consciously addressing the emotional shocks that create physical disorders. Each symptom of an illness precisely indicates its emotional origin. Thus, far from being an enemy, the physical symptom is actually a valuable ally that provides the key to the cure of the physical disease as well as resolution of the emotional imbalance that created it. .In The Biogenealogy Sourcebook, Flèche systematically chronicles all the major organs of the body and specifies the types of emotional conflicts that lead to illness in those areas. Healing Arts Press. Paper, $19.95. 68

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Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology By Paul A. LaViolette, Ph.D. In Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, physicist Paul LaViolette reveals the secret history of antigravity experimentation--from Nikola Tesla and T. Townsend Brown to the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber. He discloses the existence of advanced gravity-control technologies, under secret military development for decades, that could revolutionize air travel and energy production. Included among the secret projects he reveals is the research of Project Skyvault to develop an aerospace propulsion system using intense beams of microwave energy similar to that used by the strange craft seen flying over Area 51. Bear & Company. Paper, $24.00.

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Fall Reading Asthma-Free Naturally Everything You Need to Know to Take Control of Your Asthma By Patrick McKeown This revolutionary book teaches readers how to take control of their asthma safely and effectively without any side effects. The approach encomes the Buteyko Breathing Method, considered by many to be the single most effective self-help treatment for asthma, as well as guidance on diet, sleep, physical activity, and other lifestyle changes that can provide a natural alternative to Asthma medications. Conari Press. Paper, $14.95.

The Kingdom of Agarttha A Journey into the Hollow Earth By Marquis Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre Introduction by Joscelyn Godwin The underground realm of Agarttha was first introduced to the Western world in 1886 by the French esoteric philosopher Alexandre SaintYves d’Alveydre with his book Mission de l’Inde, translated here for the first time into English. Saint-Yves’s book maintains that deep below the Himalayas were enormous underground cities, which were under the rule of a sovereign pontiff known as the Brahâtma. Ruled in accordance with the highest principles, the kingdom of Agarttha, sometimes known as Shambhala, represents a world that is far advanced beyond our modern culture, both technologically and spiritually. Saint-Yves explains that the secret world of Agarttha, and all its wisdom and wealth, would be made available for humanity when Christianity and all other known religions of the world b egan truly honoring t1heir own sacred teachings.

Prosperity Discover the Spiritual Secrets to a Life of Abundance By Charles Fillmore Do you know how love can help pay your debts? How trust can be a building block to riches? How generosity can bring magical rewards to you? These are just a few of the ideas in Charles Fillmore’s Prosperity, an extraordinary blueprint to realizing the wealth-building power that exists, and is always available, within your mind. Originally published in 1936, the twelve lessons in Prosperity are a master class from a venerated instructor on how you can attain your true destiny as a conduit of the Divine Mind, and how that realization can bring abundance and plenty into your life. TarcherPenguin. Paper, $10.00. .

Random Acts of Kindness by Animals By Stephanie LaLand If you have ever loved an animal, you know that there is something special about them. Random Acts of Kindness by Animals proves it, through amazing and heartwarming true tales of animal comion, devotion, and bravery. In the pages of this book readers will meet remarkable dogs and cats, as well as gorillas, dolphins, bears, seagulls, rats, birds, and one heroic pig! Even ants are caught practicing comion, as they're observed pulling a thorn from an injured comrade. . This heartwarming little book also reflects human acts of kindness to animals. Conari Press. Paper, $12.95.

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Original Christianity A New Key to Understanding the Gospel of Thomas and other Lost Scriptures

Witness to Roswell Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up By Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt

By Peter Novak

The work of scholars such as Elaine Pagels and Marvin Meyer have captured the imagination of the public by setting forth the Gospel of Thomas and other lost teachings of Jesus. Now Peter Novak, in Original Christianity, brings forth a critical element essential for fully understanding these scriptures. Novak argues that the authors of these early texts subscribed to the Binary Soul Doctrine—an ancient belief system that allows for both reincarnation and an eternal afterlife. Novak’s interdisciplinary approach offers fresh insights on the beliefs and politics of the early church founders. He points out that reincarnation was a commonly held Christian belief until it was voted out of “official” Christianity and the record expunged. This newfound key reveals the true identities of many mysterious Biblical figures, such as Lazarus, Barabbas, Judas, and especially the Apostle Thomas, who may not only have been Jesus’ identical twin brother, but indeed a second Christ in his own right, who lived to produce a genetically identical bloodline.

Witness to Roswell will hold readers spellbound as you read the actual eyewitness testimony to an amazing event; the recovery of a UFO in 1947 just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. Witnesses will not only reveal that the alien crew were placed in body bags and packed in dry ice, but most astonishing of all, that one of them survived the crash. Witness to Roswell exhaustively presents s of witnesses to the crash, the military containment and recovery, the high level of security surrounding all phases of the cleanup operation, deathbed testimonies, sealed posthumous statements, and the extreme measures the U.S. government has taken to prevent people from telling the truth. New Page Books. Paper, $14.99.

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The Inner Smile Increasing Chi through the Cultivation of Joy By Mantak Chia The Inner Smile is a practice that focuses gratitude and joy on the internal organs to resolve the physical and mental tensions that can lead to illness. In Taoism negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, depression, fear, and worry, are seen as low-grade energy that causes chronic disease and steals our major life force by creating energy blockages. In The Inner Smile, Master Mantak Chia shows that the internal awareness produced by the simple yet powerful Inner Smile meditation practice flushes the organs of poisonous negative energy that may be blocking chi energy flow in order to nourish the entire body. Destiny Books. Paper, $12.95

Wright’s Complete Disaster Survival Manual By Ted Wright Are you prepared for a hurricane that turns your home into rubble? An earthquake that leaves you and your family without shelter, food, or water? A flood that makes your home unlivable? Most people don’t want to think about those things until it’s too late. Ted Wright, who came of age in London during the Blitz of World War II, has extensive experience dealing with natural and man made disasters. He knows most problems occur after the disaster, not during it, and tells how to plan beforehand to enhance the chances of surviving the aftermath. This book covers a variety of possible disasters and considers almost any place one might happen to be when it strikes. In all cases, advance planning combined with relatively inexpensive preparations will greatly enhance your chances of survival. Hampton Roads Publishing. Paper, $14.95.

Tapping The Power Within A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women By Iyanla Vanzant The revised and expanded 20th-anniversary edition of Iyanla Vanzant’s first published work offers a powerful path to self-empowerment through the revitalization of one’s spiritual and ancestral roots. Written with Iyanla’s signature healing stories, this classic guide to uniting the will with the spirit teaches that only you have the power to make a change for the better. With chapters on basic breathing and meditation techniques, setting up a home altar, connecting with ancestors and guardian spirits, and the extraordinary power of forgiveness, this book is a perfect companion on the way toward the real you. Smiley Books. Hardcover, $24.95. 70

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The Silent Questions: A Spritual Odyssey By Doug Marman This book is not about answers. Rather, it is about the power hidden behind questions that have haunted people since the beginning of time. The Silent Questions begins with a lifealtering dream experience, followed by a series of unexplainable events that propel the author into a quest for truth. Drawn on by the need to know, author Doug Marman sets out on an adventure that carries him into personal experiences with death, out-of-body travels into other dimensions of consciousness and meetings with spiritual masters. This personal, first-hand spans more than forty years, showing how every aspect of life is changed for those who cannot resist the call of the silent questions. Spiritual Dialogues Project. Paper, $18.95.

The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries By Z Budapest The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries is a seminal text that contains invaluable information on Dianic witchcraft and spells, including everyday magick, sabbat rituals, and divination methods; a section on how vegetarian theories and politics relate to witchcraft and the feminine aspect; and a good deal of information on goddesses and how the patriarchal religions distorted old myths to serve their own needs. There are several unique and beautiful Rites of age for women and men that you don't often find, and Budapest’s personal life stories are an equally valuable read. This reprint edition features a new introduction by Z. Budapest, in addition to essays by luminaries such as Starhawk and Merlin Stone. Weiser Books. Paper, $19.95.

The Way Beyond the Shaman Birthing A New Earth Consciousness By Barry Cottrell There was once a time, before the last ice age, when people lived with a profound sense of belonging to the natural world. Then something happened that forced upon the human mind an evolutionary contraction of consciousness and dislocation from Earth’s embrace. In The Way Beyond the Shaman, British author Barry Cottrell reveals a process of transformation within the human psyche which is giving birth to a new Earth consciousness and the restoration of our lost sense of home. In this pioneering book, Cottrell guides the reader through the history of shamanism, pointing the way to a new sense of freedom that also aligns us to the rhythms of the Earth. O Books. Paper, $24.95.

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How People Heal Exploring the Scientific Basis of Subtle Energy in Healing By Diane Goldner For Diane Goldner, what began as an investigative story for The New York Times, became a four-year pilgrimage into the thriving yet controversial world of energy healing in America. Her report, How People Heal, serves as both an introduction to this world, and an engrossing narrative featuring in-depth portraits of healers Barbara Brennan and Rosalyn Bruyere. Goldner spent hours alongside these spiritual and savvy women witnessing their healing work, while casting a critical eye at the business side of their organizations. Hampton Roads Publishing. Paper, $14.95.

Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places A Field Guide to Stone Circles, Crop Circles, Ancient Tombs, and Supernatural Landscapes By Brian Haughton Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the archaeology, legends, and modern mysteries of 32 ancient places throughout the world—from the mysterious megaliths of Britain and Ireland to the ancient Native American city of Cahokia, and the sacred Aboriginal rock formation of Uluru. Why are strange phenomena so often connected with these ancient sites? Are certain sacred places somehow able to generate or attract paranormal phenomena? Or can such events be explained in of modern myth and contemporary folklore? These are just some of the questions answered in Brian Haughton’s enthralling new book. New Page Books. Paper, $15.99.

Soul to Soul Communications from the Heart By Gary Zukav In Soul to Soul, Gary Zukav, author of the monumental bestseller The Seat of the Soul, addresses some of the most significant questions about the human experience—from “Why is life so difficult?” to “How can I learn to trust?”—with profound answers that are of truly universal value. Combining profound spiritual and psychological insights, Zukav answers nearly one hundred important questions about life. Each chapter ends with a challenge to readers to experiment with the insight that has been given and make it their own. Soul to Soul is profoundly simple, wise, and poetic, a book to treasure and return to again and again for guidance and inspiration. Free Press. Paper, $15.00. www.earthstarmag.com

2012 and the Galactic Center The Return of the Great Mother By Christine R. Page, M.D. This is an extraordinary time in the planet’s history. In 2012, for the first time in almost 26,000 years, our sun will be most closely aligned to the Galactic Center. This Galactic Alignment, which began with the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and will conclude in 2023, presents a thirty-six-year window of opportunity for humanity to participate in the creation of a new era of expanded consciousness. Christine Page explains that, as the source of all creation, our galaxy is the Great Mother and its center, her heart. Auspiciously aligning Earth with the heart of the Great Mother, the Galactic Alignment heralds a rebirth of the divine feminine qualities of the Triple Goddess-intuition, emotional creativity, and renewal. Drawing on alchemy and mythology, Page details how to connect with and use the sacred spiritual tools unlocked during the alignment to merge with the Great Mother, a spiritual transformation that allows us to expand our awareness and experience ourselves as eternal beings. Bear & Company. Paper, $16.00.

The Manifestation Wheel A Practical Process for Creating Miracles By Alan Seale In The Manifestation Wheel, leadership coach Alan Seale has drawn on his deep and profound knowledge of metaphysical laws including the Law of Attraction and the Law of Gestation, quantum physics, and our increasing understanding of energy fields, not to mention his work with thousands of people who want to bring change into their lives and the planet, and has written a book that could possibly change the world. Seale teaches a process that allows readers to tap into their own intuition and the collective consciousness. The more our thoughts, beliefs, decisions and actions are in alignment, says Seale, the clearer our physical manifestation will be. Weiser Books. Paper, $14.95.

A Druid's Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine By Ellen Evert Hopman Combining her extensive herbal knowledge and keen poetic insight, Ellen Evert Hopman delves deeply into the historic allusions and associations of each of the twenty letters of the Ogham Tree Alphabet. She also examines Native American healing methods for possible clues to the way ancient Europeans may have used these trees as healing agents. Druidic spiritual practices, herbal healing remedies, and plant lore are included for each tree in the alphabet as well as how each is used in traditional rituals. Hopman also includes a pronunciation guide for the oghams and information on the divinatory meanings associated with each tree. Destiny Books. Paper, $14.95.

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INSTRUCTION Tai Chi, Chi Gung (Qigong) is taught in 7-week sessions at Brookline Tai Chi. Call for our course brochure and information. Free sample class. (617) 277-2975.

HEALTH Himalayan Goji Berries. If you have not yet heard of goji juice, you are not alone. While it has occupied an important place in traditional Asian medicine for countless generations, the secrets of its nutritional benefits have remained a mystery to most of the world. In fact, the world's most powerful anti-aging food is the Himalayan goji berry. If you would like more comprehensive information about goji berry juice, or to order visit: www.dramy.freelife.com or via email [email protected].

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WATERTOWN SQUARE. The Bodymind Integration Center has quiet, sunny offices for a full or part-time practitioner. $300 - $575. Also large attractive carpeted workshop and part-time office space rentals, weekend, or weekdays. Call Michael Jaro @ (617) 926-9171.

Quest for an Angel — a guided inner journey written & narrated by Suzannah Galland

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Harvard Street Brookline between Coolidge Corner and Brookline Village. Free parking spot. Warm holistic office in Victorian building. Perfect for acupuncture, massage, counseling. Available 5-6 days a week, $350 inclusive. Call Karen (617) 566-8070. Harvard Square / Cambridge: New School of Music has a large classroom for rent - Yoga Classes, Book Clubs, Meetings, Workshops, Seminars! Outside Harvard Sq. near Mt. Auburn Hospital, FREE parking lot, rug, A/C. Call 617-4928105 or email [email protected] for rates. Visit http://www.newschoolofmusic.org.

SPIRITUAL A Spiritual Counselor & Medium, Past Life readings. Available for private and telephone readings, Linda Stanton of Newburyport, (978)255-2536.

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