William Henry on 9/11

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

William Henry has been talking about the symbolism of the World Trade Center Memorial architecture for some time. Above, in the player, is a video blog he did in 2011 which lays the groundwork for his new interview with Mark Gray; also in the player. In it they discuss, among other things, the startling connection between the new architectural vision for Ground Zero and it's relationship Mecca. And, no, it has nothing to do with the radical Islamists who apparently leveled the original towers.

Meanwhile, coincidence?

Koenig Sphere ~ Battery Park




Sphere in Pine Cone Court ~ The Vatican

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James Ray: Felon

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

James Ray Sports Guru-do Upon Release

James Arthur Ray will remain a convicted felon. Arizona's Court of Appeals has granted Ray's request of last week to drop his appeal. It appears that he weighed an attempt at clearing the conviction from his record against the very real possibility of being convicted again in any potential retrial and facing more than the paltry sentence he's already served. He's opted not to risk his recently gained freedom from incarceration.

In documents filed with the Arizona Court of Appeals Thursday, Ray, 55, signed an affidavit stating that he wishes to "avoid any possibility of a retrial and a resentencing."

Had he not dropped the appeal, oral arguments would have begun today. He would have also faced a cross-appeal from the State claiming, among other things, that the jury should have been informed of Ray's duty to act when participants were in distress.

Tom Kelly is unhappy with Ray's decision to let the matter drop.

His local attorney during the trial, Tom Kelly, said he was less than pleased with his former client's decision to abort the appeal. He said he met with Ray, who has remained in the Phoenix area pending the end of his parole, earlier this week.

"I was disappointed with his decision and I believe justice requires a resolution of the points raised on appeal," Kelly said.

But since it appears that Kelly's passion for "justice" seems not to include his continued representation of the harmonically destitute Ray, who cares.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

What is the Axis Mundi?

The axis mundi is an existential place or point wherein creation and entropy, the essential generative and destructive forces of the universe, exist as one within the Great Mystery. The axis mundi is an important concept in many philosophies and religions and it has a unique relationship to shamanism. Join us this week as host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores the axis mundi and why contemporary practitioners often stay on the surface of their practice because they avoid deep relationship with the axis mundi and it's energy. We can use ancient sexual practices to cultivate our relationship with the energy of the axis mundi which is essential to a strong and deep shamanic practice. The axis mundi is not just a mental concept for the shaman; it is both a practical tool and a spiritual awareness. It is the place through which the shaman travels when journeying in an altered and often ecstatic state. Ecstasy is not the purpose of the shaman's journey, however it is often a valuable by-product.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

White Ops: Free Energy, Healing Technology, and Cosmic Awareness

Fernando Vossa has been designing technology experiences for over 18 years. Mr. Vossa's approach is to reach the psyche and heart of his audience using multidisciplinary techniques from Industrial Design, Cognitive Psychology, Virtual Reality, Cinematography, Architecture, Graphic Design, and Fine Art.

Mr. Vossa's accomplishments include being part of leading edge design teams for major brands such as Microsoft, Sony, US-WEST, GE-Aerospace, and most recently unfolding innovative installation concepts at The Center of Mass Creation.

This media pioneer holds degrees in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Technology Design from the University of Washington. His passion for Divine technology has let him to discover evolutionary transformations of our energetic body. His journey is to explore the integration of Free Energy Research, Healing Technologies, and a Cosmic Awareness of our Extra Terrestrial neighbors.

Vossa is a co-organizer of the Global Breakthrough Energy Movement also a member of the Exopolitics movement.

Current projects www.globalbem.com and www.prepareforchange.net
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Tue, September 10, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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The Kensington Runestone
& Other Out Of Place Artifacts In America

Scott Wolter
The Kensington Runestone
& Other Out Of Place Artifacts In America
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter is the host of History’s H2 channel’s hit show America Unearthed . Scott is also the author of several books including The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History ofNorth America, which covers the story of his continued research and resulting discoveries made over the last 12 years, including his ongoing quest to uncover the mysteries of the controversial Kensington Rune Stone. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 09/12/13

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The Holy War Against Pop Culture Pagans

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

A trio of pretty, karate trained teens are battling demons around the world. Charmed? No. Worse. Brynne Larson, Tess Scherkenback, and Savannah Scherkenback are evangelical Christian exorcists who have been touring impoverished mining towns in Ukraine armed with nothing but crosses, holy water... and Larson's preacher father. Their efforts at saving these lost souls from the tortures of hell have received mixed reviews... from the director of their documentary.

[Charlet] Duboc said: ‘The way they come across on camera is just the way they were when we turned off the camera, they never stopped the vacant smiling,’ the British film-maker said.

They weren’t horrid, they weren’t unpleasant, they were just a bit creepy. It was a bit like talking to the Stepford Wives, I was like “where are the humans behind this?”’

The girls will be taking their glazed expressions and vapid smiles to the heart of the dragon, which is to say Potterworld, which is to say London. Someone has to protect unwitting entertainment seekers from demonic possession!

The threesome, from Arizona, believe the spells in J.K. Rowling's best-selling fantasy series are real, and dangerous.

In fact, they see Britain as a hotbed of occult activity whose origins go back to pagan times.

Savannah explains: 'It has been centuries in the making, but I believe it came to a pinnacle with the Harry Potter books.'

'The spells you are reading about are not made up,' adds Tess. 'They are real and come from witchcraft.'

Well, no. The Potter series is actually based on Western Alchemy, but why quibble.

Meanwhile, Methodist minister Keith Cressman is keeping his battle against idolatry closer to home -- Oklahoma, to be precise. It would appear that the state has graced its official license plate with the image of a the "Sacred Rain Arrow." The sculpture on which it is based depicts an Chiricahua warrior shooting an arrow into the sky to make it rain.

Said Cressman, through an attorney, putting such a plate on his car makes him a "mobile billboard" for a pagan religion. Despite his insistence to the contrary, it seems pretty clear that he holds Native American "religion, culture, or belief" in a fair bit of contempt. That, however, is his right, so I'm not really sure which side of this debate bothers me more -- Cressman's fear of the unholy savages who lived in Oklahoma first or the State's trivialization and cooptation of Native practices by reducing them to a logo.

Oklahoma no doubt meant this to be a way of honoring its large -- and largely discriminated against -- Native American population. But by putting an image of an Apache ritual on a state issued plate, they're effectively saying that those beliefs are not a religion. Would they put a an image of the Eucharist on a license plate? I'm betting not -- not even those Oklahomans who don't believe in separation of church and state.

“(T)he case presents legal issues of freedom of speech and religion that I feel are important for all Americans of all religious, non-religious and ethnic backgrounds,” Cressman wrote.

“The case may help define personal liberties and freedoms protected by the Constitution of the United States.”

. . .

Hemant Mehta, author and board member for the humanist-based Foundation Beyond Belief, wrote of the ruling:

“If this image goes too far, then surely a cross or other religious symbol can’t be allowed on a license plate, either. A devout Christian may have done a huge favor to all of us who support church/state separation.”

Okay, I've picked a side.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

How to Begin Shamanic Journeying

Shamanic Journeying is not an "out of body experience." When this particular alternate state is achieved the journeyer has "a foot in both worlds." The senses in the physical body and the dreaming body are fully engaged and drawing in the multi-dimensional communication from the invisible world. Join us this week as host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores this common misunderstanding along with other misconceptions and expectations that inhibit beginning journeyers. Shamanic journeying is not a mental construct to be understood by the rational mind. Journeying is an embodied practice that requires surrender to the basic discipline. The discipline then frees the mind from ordinary thought allowing the senses, ordinary and extraordinary, to engage with the formless powers and heart felt meaning of the invisible world. The world of the shamanic journey is not here on the surface with the safe and familiar, but requires diving deeper into the realms of dreams, hearts, and the Unknown.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

Universal & Individual Akashic Records

Andrew Bartzis has been an active healer and psychic reader for nearly 20 years. He is an active medical intuitive and Shaman with many talents in the spirit world. Andrew began his journey into spirituality at a very young age. His early childhood life shaped the future person and beyond. It is through the exploration of childlike innocence that we learn to reclaim the fully power of our purpose on this world. Andrew Bartzis is also known as the Galactic Historian. He has the unique ability to read the Akashic records live, without using the method of a trance. This ability provides direct answers toe questions of about the foundations of reality, our planetary and galactic heritage. The akashic record is read from a completely sacred neutral point of view. Andrew is linked to the Akashic records of 20,000 other worlds. His unique ability provides details about lost Earth History and beyond. He has read the history of Earth going back 54 million years, when all of this began. He has the ability to shed light on and provide truth to once alluding mysteries.

Find Andrew at www.andrewbartzis.com

Tue, September3, 2013 at 9:00pm Eastern

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The Nummo & The Mythology Of The Dogon

Shannon Dorey
The Nummo & The Mythology Of The Dogon
Shannon Dorey is a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough Ontario, where she first became immersed in the study of history and mythology. She began her writing career as a journalist and first began research on the Dogon in 1999. Realizing the importance of the symbolism in the Dogon religion, Dorey has devoted most of her time to researching and writing about this subject. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 09/05/13

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...Sound&Silence {Clear}

Join 'She' for a 15 minute Guided Meditation. Sound and Silence Meditation...Open the Crown. Connecting with your highest self.

During this segment: Guided meditation to connect you to the your 'Breath, your CENTER' , and inner peace...Sound, Breath and Silence! Align with Heart.

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Mon, September 9, 2013 at 12:00am Eastern

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Bertone Out

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

Pope Francis is continuing to remake the Church in his image, replacing the divisive Tarcisio Bertone with more of a people person who reportedly shares his preference for frugality.

Pope Francis on Saturday appointed a senior Vatican diplomat as his new Secretary of State, ousting divisive cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as he looks to overhaul the Church's scandal-ridden administration.

His replacement for the "number two" position at the Vatican, Italian cleric Pietro Parolin, is currently the Catholic Church's envoy to Venezuela and has worked on improving ties with communist China.

"The Holy Father has accepted... the resignation of His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone," the Vatican said in a widely-expected announcement, adding that the changeover would formally take place on October 15.

There have been rumblings about Bertone for a while. He's been badly tainted by the sheer volume of scandal that has consumed the Vatican.

One of the most damaging scandals to hit the Vatican under Bertone was "Vatileaks", when Benedict's butler stole documents alleging corruption from the pope's desk and leaked them to the media.

That coincided with tumult at the Vatican bank, which Italian magistrates are investigating on suspicion of money laundering.

The former president of the bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was close to Bertone. The board of the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), ousted Gotti Tedeschi last year, saying he was incompetent. He says he was pushed out because he wanted the bank to be more transparent.

Fairly, or unfairly, Bertone has been widely blamed for the failings of Pope Benedict's reign. It doesn't help that he has a penchant for saying and doing really idiotic things. Let us reflect on some of Bertone's greatest hits as they've been recorded on this blog.

Letting prolific pedophiles like Wisconsin's Lawrence Murphy off the hook:

In 1996, Cardinal Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case from Rembert G. Weakland, Milwaukee’s archbishop at the time. After eight months, the second in command at the doctrinal office, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, now the Vatican’s secretary of state, instructed the Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial that could lead to Father Murphy’s dismissal.

But Cardinal Bertone halted the process after Father Murphy personally wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger protesting that he should not be put on trial because he had already repented and was in poor health and that the case was beyond the church’s own statute of limitations.

Blaming the Church's pedophilia problem on gay priests.

The Vatican's second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, made the comments during a news conference Monday in Chile, where one of the church's highest-profile pedophile cases involves a priest having sex with young girls.

"Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true," said Bertone. "That is the problem."

Blaming Dan Brown, the media, and, of course, the devil, for the Church's problems:

The Vatican's No. 2 official on Monday blamed the media – and the devil – for fueling the scandal over leaked Vatican documents.

Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone told an Italian Catholic weekly that journalists reporting on the leaks scandal are "pretending to be Dan Brown ... inventing stories and replaying legends." The reference to Brown is particularly acute; Brown wrote "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" the best-selling fictional accounts of power struggles and scandals inside the Catholic Church.

. . .

"The truth is that there's a will to create division that comes from the devil," he said. The interview is due on newsstands Thursday but was made available to journalists Monday.

As much I love unintentional humor, I wouldn't mind seeing the last of Cardinal Bertone.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

The Shaman's Power

Where does the shaman's power come from? In cultures all over the world shamans heal what our medical system can't heal and transform decades of dysfunction through a ritual and ceremony. What is this power and how does the shaman access it? In part this comes from the shaman's cultivation of a strong working relationship with spirit help, explains host and shaman, Christina Pratt. This is common knowledge in our contemporary understanding. But the piece we disregard is the internal action of initiation. The initiated shaman's access to power is not moderated by an immature ego's struggle between a crippling scarcity of self worth and an excess of externally defined self-esteem. Join us this week as we explore how we can change the old ways we understand power and learn to discern our own abuse and misuse of power from right action. We are here now in the transition time from old world into a new world. If we are to pick up the responsibility to make the new world better than before, then we must change.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...LoveSelf {Finding HUMor}

Join 'She' for 54 minutes to work on the inner self.

During this segment:
Finding your sense of HUMor. Discover how laughter, lightening up on your world view and how your percieve your self in DIVINE comedic LIGHT.

Explore and Align with 'Self', Gaia, and Community. How to reconnect to Self, Soil and your Tribe?

Parables shared...Walk through a guided release experience/meditation. This will assist you in BEing...YOU!
Opening your heart center...the gateway to the universe.

Please send in your questions to s@suzannetoro.com.

Sat, August 31, 2013 at 12:30 am Eastern

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Myth, Symbol, Reality & The Mystery Of The Great Serpent Mound

Laird Scranton
Myth, Symbol, Reality
Laird Scranton is an independent software designer from Albany, New York.  His degree is in English from Vassar College. He has lectured at Colgate University on two occasions to classes studying his books. He was invited to write three articles for Temple University's upcoming Encyclopedia of African Religion, and has a published article on Dogon cosmology in the April 2007 edition of Anthropology News, an academic journal produced by the University of Chicago. More ...
The Velikovsky Heresies
The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol

Ross Hamilton
The Mystery Of The Great Serpent Mound
Beginning in the year 2000, author and investigator Ross Hamilton with a staff of eight researchers commenced the Tradition of Giants Project, uncovering over time many hundreds of accounts suggesting that a race of highly intelligent, physically robust people once lived throughout the eastern woodlands of the United States. The following year, Ross published the culmination of a 14-year study, The Mystery of the Serpent Mound, an illustrated guide to the Serpent Mound of Adams County, including its geometries, astronomies, and many similar mysteries from myth to measure, suggesting the effigy to be a site worthy of world-class recognition in spite of its being overlooked by researchers around the world. More ...
Star Mounds
Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 08/29/13

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...Sound&Silence {Ease}

Join 'She' for a 15 minute Guided Meditation. Sound and Silence Meditation...Reconnect to EASE. Connecting to the element of water and fire.

During this segment: Guided meditation to connect you to the your 'Breath, your CENTER' , and inner peace...Sound, Breath and Silence! Align with Heart

Please send in your questions to s@suzannetoro.com

Mon, September 2, 2013 at 12:00 am Eastern

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

Encountering Evil with Betsy Bergstrom

How can we acknowledge the existence of evil, work effectively with it and still live our lives from a deep experiential knowing that we are One with All Things? To write a new Story for the People of the New World we must explore new ways and deeper ways to understand evil that leave behind antagonistic dualism. Can we find an understanding that allows us to come from a place of Oneness and work effectively with evil as it presents in our lives and our shamanic healing work. This week shamanic healer, Betsy Bergstrom, joins host, Christina Pratt, to discuss her experiences encountering evil, how she works with it, how she understands it, and how her understanding has changed over the years. Betsy is our next guest for the Society of Shamanic Practitioners sponsored interview series. In this series we explore how contemporary shamans are meeting the challenge of their world where the relations of things are profoundly out of balance. It is the ancient role of the shaman in all cultures to tend the balance of things. How are we meeting this extraordinary need today?

This week's guest:
Betsy Bergstrom

Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time Shamanic Practitioner who has studied with shamans and healers from many cultures. She is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-Year Program. She has been trained by a number of indigenous shamans and healers who have encouraged her and shared with her their wonderful teachings. She has worked in various fields of Alternative Healing for nearly 20 years. Her calling is to work in partnership with the Helping Spirits, to help the living and with the dead. She says, "...the feedback from my classes has been that the teaching (of Heart Centered Shamanic Depossession) defused much of the fear that some people felt in approaching the work of clearing and depossession."


Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

2013; The State of Consciousness, Metaphysics, & Mysticism

Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM are pleased to bring YOU; Awake in the DREAM Radio, our next guest is Neil Kramer.

Step outside the conventional and entertain the extraordinary. Join Neil Kramer in an exploration of hidden mindscapes and illuminating wisdom, as you engage in the radical philosophy of authentic living. Inoculate against unreality. Change the signal. And Love it.

Neil Kramer is a British philosopher and teacher specializing in the fields of consciousness, metaphysics, and mysticism.

Kramer has made a lifelong independent study of philosophy, mystical traditions, religion, and esoteric world history. He shares his path of transformation and empowerment in writings, recordings, interviews, and lectures, as well as giving personal consultations and group workshops.

He is a frequent guest on leading alternative radio and internet shows, enjoying international audiences and enthusiastic support. His work regularly appears on cutting-edge media portals and has featured on television networks in the US, UK, Canada and Europe.

Kramer has spoken at numerous international conferences and events, including The Beyond Knowledge Conference 2009, The Alternative Research Community Convention 2010, The Transitional Alchemy Tour 2009/10, The Awakening & Transformation Conference 2011, The New Living Expo 2012, and The 2012 Global Transformation Conference.

Kramer speaks on many fascinating subjects and is renowned for his unique blend of lucidity, empowerment, and authenticity. He divides his time between Oregon, Washington, and New York.

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Tue, August 20, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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Updates From The Giza Plateau

Brien Foerster
Updates From The Giza Plateau
Brien was born in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A. but grew up on the west coast of Canada. The study of the Inca culture led to his writing a book, A Brief History Of The Incas which is available on this site, and is now the assistant director of the Paracas History Museum in Paracas, south of Lima. He is also assisting the municipality of Paracas to improve the number of foreign tourists that visit, as well as is fundamental in expanding tourism in general, especially as regards showing all visitors the 10,000 years of human occupation of this area, through tours of major and minor archaeological sites. More ...
www.hiddenincatours.com
brienfoerster.com

Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 08/22/13

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Art and Living Shamanism with Mark Wagner

"Creativity is a magical and sacred process. The process transforms the artist and the product transforms the world," explains artist Mark Wagner of Hearts and Bones. Mark is an internationally known digital and traditional artist, teacher, and street painter whose work moves so deeply in shamanic realms that it has empowered the covers works like Michael Harner's classic, The Way of the Shaman, and countless Shaman's Drum magazine issues. This week Mark joins host and shaman, Christina Pratt, in this final episode of the WSN series, Art and Shamanism. There isn't a reason in the world to stop making art because it grounds our creativity in our bodies where it can then change the world. It feeds our souls, takes us on a journey, and connects us to the sacred. Join us as we explore the job and the power of art to move the people and in that act to shape a new story for the new world.

This week's guest:
Mark Wagner

Mark Wagner is a digital and traditional artist and teacher. He has worked as a Concept Artist in the film and game industry, creating art through Pixar for the Disney feature film - John Carter, and for fantasy and sci-fi films including Terminator 3 and Hallmark Entertainment's DreamKeeper. He has also worked as Art Director, Production Designer, Creativity Consultant, and Matte Painter.

With a Masters Degree in "Arts and Consciousness," Wagner specializes in visionary art, and has an in-depth understanding in the psychology of visual arts, symbolism, mythology, shamanism, and storytelling. Recent clients include the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.

Wagner is an internationally known street painter / chalk drawing artist. He created the nonprofit Drawing on Earth, which inspires art and creativity in youth and communities around the world. Their first event set a Guinness World Record for the largest pavement art in the world. Recent clients include Genentech, SpaceX, and CBS Interactive. He lectures at the University of San Francisco (LAZER) and Stanford University. More recently Wagner has worked as a scenic painter and designer at DaVinci Fusion, an events production company in Northern CA.


Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM Radio with Ethann Fox

Ethann Fox is a spiritual teacher and leader of the Flower of Life Center for Human Evolution and the founder and visionary behind the Awake And Empowered Expo. He has spent the past 19 years as a practicing astrologer and numerologist as well as in the business and financial arena. In late 2010, he experienced a spiritual awakening that changed the course of his life and Flower of Life was established soon after.

Ethann has been gifted with the ability to accept the karma and negative emotional energy from others without any adverse effects to himself. He is able to do this while raising the consciousness of entire groups of individuals at once. Now he uses this divine gift to help others to live happier more fulfilling lives and to aid in the transition to a new world consciousness.

To find out more or to attend a group consciousness event in person or remotely, visit the Energy Transfer and Discourse Facebook page. facebook.com/ethannfoxenergytransfer

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Find out more about Flower of Life and it's national conference, Awake and Empowered Expo at:

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Tue, August 13, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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The Origin Of Mythology & Decoding The Mudras of India

Dr. Michael Witzel
The Origin Of Mythology
Dr. Michael Witzel is noted for his studies of the dialects of Vedic Sanskrit, old Indian history, the development of Vedic religion, and the linguistic prehistory of South Asia. He is editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies (EJVS) and the Harvard Oriental Series. He has been president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP) since 1999, as well as of the new International Association for Comparative Mythology. He was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, and was elected as an honorary member of the German Oriental Society. More ...
Dr. Michael Witzel

Cain Carroll
Decoding The Mudras of India
Cain Carroll is a pioneering teacher, speaker and author in the field of self-healing and embodied spirituality. He is founder of the Taoflow Yoga system, co-author of Partner Yoga: Making Contact for Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Growth, Mudras of India, Mudras of Yoga Card Deck (Fall 2013), and creator of three instructional DVDs: Pain-Free Joints, Heal Neck & Shoulder Pain, and Digestive Power. He teaches classes and workshops worldwide. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 08/15/13

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Awake: Now What?

Don Milton, Growth by Design, EFT, Freedom Coaching, Matrix

Don Milton’s Growth By Design™ delivers Life and Freedom Coaching, Matrix Reimprinting, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and a host of other extraordinary processes and resources to empower you. Whether you are struggling with depression, addictions, anxieties, weight challenges, allergies, headaches, PTSD , professional or sports performance issues Growth By Design™ delivers powerful and profound results. Growth By Design™’s coaching has transformed the lives and relationships of hundreds of people just like you. Discover the possibilities. Imagine your life successful, joy filled.

As far as eucatastrophic events go, Don Milton has had more than his fair share. Eucatastrophic is a word coined by J.R.R. Tolkien, refers to “good” catastrophes. These catastrophes or calamities have the power to transform our lives in very positive and powerful ways. Don Milton’s life has been shaped and reshaped by these events. His passion is teaching and coaching others to experience the wisdom and opportunity within each of these challenges. His life long commitment is to empower his clients. He encourages them to live at their highest and best, to open the doors and embrace the unlimited possibilities.

Don’s hallmark is his ability to cut through the emotional clutter to “the heart of the matter,” the core. Using a methodical and deliberate style Don utilizes an extraordinary toolbox of skills, techniques and experience. Don’s clients accelerate through this process moving quickly and efficiently through pain, anxiety, depression, addictions, PTSD and other emotional issues that have stagnated for years. These simple yet profound concepts have changed the lives of hundreds of people and those that love them.

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Sun, August 18, 2013 at 6:00 pm Eastern

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Yoga's Terribly, Horribly, Awfully Negative Year

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

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All I could think when I read this was "here we go again." Yet another man in a position of spiritual leadership turns out to have been abusing his power by exploiting women and just generally being a dick.

The guru behind a popular style of yoga currently facing allegations of rape and sexual assault inspired fear in his employees and runs his company "like a cult," a lawyer for a former employee told The Huffington Post Monday.

Carla Minnard, a civil rights attorney, says her client was one of the few to stand up to Bikram Choudhury, the man at the center of the Bikram yoga empire. In return, she says, the company threatened to have her client and her 8-year-old daughter deported.

“There’s a great desire to keep Bikram’s conduct in the dark,” Minnard said. “It shows an inability by anyone to restrain an individual who is a dangerous person.”

Minakshi Jaffa-Bodden, Minnard's client, is a former legal advisor at Bikram’s Yoga College of India, a Los Angeles-based yoga school. Jaffa-Bodden is the sole plaintiff named in an explosive but little-reported June 13 lawsuit against Choudhury, which accuses him of rape and sexual assault of employees and students. The suit additionally claims the yogi promoted a work environment inside his school that was rife with misogyny, homophobia, racism, sexual harassment and threats of violence.

Whether all the allegations prove true or not, much of Choudhury's behavior has been well-documented and he appears to be an equal opportunity hater. Gay people caused AIDS and "these blacks just don't get my yoga" are just some of the sentiments ascribed to the guru. The substance of the suit is worse. It alleges that when Minakshi Jaffa-Bodden got wind of his abuses she was threatened with deportation and worse.

The most recent charges come from Minakshi Jaffa-Bodden, Choudhury's former legal advisor. Jaffa-Bodden claims that she became aware of allegations of sexual assault and harassment during a multi-day training conference; when she approached Choudhury about them, she was told that it would be "best" to "not look into it any further." When she attempted to stand up to the yoga guru, his company threatened to have her and her 8-year-old daughter deported. In March 2013, Jaffa-Bodden says that she was forced to resign by Choudhury himself. He apparently made her sign a resignation letter by threatening her physically.

In addition to black people and gays, Choudhury has such a history of slurring entire groups of people that a former student listed and categorized the hate. Objects of his ire included the Chinese, the tattooed, Mormans, dog owners, sluts, and women of every body type and hair style: "Chubbies, too skinny, small-breasted, without make-up, with short hair, with long hair, but worn up."

Sydney Towne said she kept a list of Bikram's behavior when she trained with him full-time from April to June 2012 because "he dislikes so many types of people" that "a list seemed like the only way to keep track of it all." She loved Bikram Yoga, but hated the way Bikram himself "completely takes advantage of people and their desire for wellness."

"I think he preys on people and there's such a cult of personality around him that people don't question his clearly inappropriate behavior," she said. "I completely believe all accusations against him."

Choudhury seems to have something ghastly to say about just about everyone. He is fond of his own penis, though. Quite, quite fond.

Meanwhile, if you want to buy your yoga pants at Lululemon, be prepared for similar judgmentalism and cultishness. Much like Abercrombie & Fitch, Lululemon recently took a publicity hit for its tendency to sideline women over a size 8. Those clothes, if they're stocked at all, can be found in an unsorted heap in the back of the store... under a table.

Far from an accident, the exiling of larger clothing by Lululemon is a central piece of the company's strategy to market its brand as the look of choice for the stylishly fitness-conscious, according to former employees and consumer advocates. They say this treatment of larger clothes and customers reflects the culture that Lululemon represents -- one that falsely suggests skinniness is the paramount feature of health. Lululemon declined to comment.

The judgment and in-group, out-group dynamics reportedly permeate the company culture of Lululemon. Former employee Elizabeth Licorish describes a sorority girl type of hierarchy in which employees scrutinize and evaluate each other constantly and it takes little to be found deeply wanting.

I hoped to exercise my love of running, earn an employee discount, and take free fitness classes. But, soon after enduring Lululemon's intensive training program, I realized I'd been indoctrinated into a bottomless pit of groupthink I'd never be able to survive.

The Lululemon culture consists, on the surface, of catchy manifestos. Lululemon wants you to know it's "elevating the world from mediocrity to greatness" and "creating components for people to live long, healthy and fun lives." But, dig deeper, and you'll learn about Landmark Forum, the ultra-secretive, eerily cultish educational series, which Lululemon employees are "strongly encouraged" to attend. Before you're in line for Landmark, you're bombarded with Brian Tracy motivational CDs and a book club that culminates with Atlas Shrugged. Successful Lululemon employees can recite Brian Tracy better than the Pledge of Allegiance. Mention Chip Wilson, Lululemon's founder and former CEO, and their eyes will light up and quickly glaze over. They'll tell you, quite seriously, that he saved their lives by elevating them to greatness.

All this sort of made walking into work feel like time traveling to Salem. Because, with the Lululemon creed and catechism comes a collective mentality that thrives on scapegoats and leaves you feeling worthless if you subsist on anything but spring water and kale. Once, another employee sneered at me from across the floor and said the soda I happened to be enjoying would "rot me from the inside out." Eventually we were all issued reusable acrylic cups and forbidden to drink anything but H2O. We'd be encouraged to give "feedback," a terrible, calculated misnomer for ruthless criticism that could veer from professional to personal in 60 seconds flat. If a customer dismissed your sales pitch because, let's say, he was in a bad mood, one of your fellow team members would pull you aside and say your conversational style lacked genuine authenticity. She'd insinuate that you lack authenticity. That you aren't equipped enough as a human being to sell yoga pants.

And, unsurprisingly, at the heart of this world of LGATs, motivational speakers, and measuring everyone's spiritual worth by their material success, is a corporate leadership that knows The Secret.

A cult following is the most coveted accessory in retail, and Lululemon's is even more lustworthy than its Velocity Gym Bag. It wasn't built on the work of some Jobs-ian swami, however, but on the sources of Lulu founder and chairman Chip Wilson's own spiritual awakening. Wilson has mixed a heady self-actualizing cocktail from equal parts Landmark Forum (seminars based on the philosophy of Werner Erhard), the books of motivational business guru Brian Tracy, and Oprah-endorsed best seller The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne. He is now hard at work formalizing them in a Lululemon "internal constitution."

"It's the first time I've heard of anyone almost directly using the techniques of cults and applying them to their business," says Douglas Atkin, author of The Culting of Brands. Drawing on those techniques, and with virtually zero advertising, Lululemon has converted the most popular yoga teachers from Beverly Hills to Boston (and their students) into a devoted -- and self-propagating -- clientele. In a little more than 10 years, Lululemon has grown from a single storefront on the surf side of Vancouver, British Columbia, to a public company with more than 100 outlets and $340 million in annual revenue. "I have not been able to find any company that compares with what they do," says Suzanne Price, a retail analyst with ThinkEquity, who points to Lululemon stores ringing up $1,800 in sales per square foot, compared with only $600 for retailers such as J.Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch.

Wilson claims he didn't start Lululemon merely to sell $90 leggings, but also to help his customers limber up for their journey to self-esteem and empowerment. As he writes in the "Chip's Musings" section of the company Web site, "The law of attraction" -- the central tenet of The Secret, that visualizing goals is the key to attaining them -- "is the fundamental law that Lululemon was built on from its 1998 inception." He goes on to explain the company's meta-mission: "Our vision is 'to elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness,' and we are growing so we can train more people and spread the word of The Secret -- which to us at Lululemon is not so secret."

Lululemon talks a good game about authenticity but it quickly learned that being too authentically yogic was a bad business model. "Yogis" turned out to be "too slow" on the sales floor so they dumped them for runners who also like yoga. This brought them the driven, "type A" personalities needed to create a yoga themed business empire.

Other challenges to Lululemon's "authenticity" branding have included exposed hypocrisy and outright fraud: the use of child labor in China, the manufacture and sale of expensive seaweed bags bragging a litany of seaweed related health benefits that turned out not to contain a whit of seaweed, and a name that reportedly owes to the company founder's delight in mocking the Japanese. 

For all its adherence to The Secret, Lululemon somehow law of attracted a grisly homicide as one sales girl brutally stabbed and bludgeoned another to death, purportedly over a stolen pair of yoga pants. CEO Linda Day made a grand public statement about how convicted murderer Brittany Norwood's actions were "the antithesis of the values of our company." Well, one would think that murder is contrary to the values of most companies. One would even think that it goes without saying which renders it an odd statement indeed. But it also conspicuously avoids addressing how it fits with their like attracts like philosophy. But then, we all know that among law of attraction adherents we're all responsible for everything we attract until it's so horrible that we're somehow not anymore.

None of this bears much resemblance to what I learned when I first started studying yoga. For my teachers, it wasn't about having a perfect, beach body, but about listening to your body's unique wisdom and moving in tune with it. It was about health and spiritual alignment -- not "fitness." I've long been aware that the growing popularity of yoga was a double-edge sword. A beautiful, traditional practice proliferated in the West but it also succumbed to faddishness, vanity, and pecuniary exploitation.

My first teacher was based largely in Kripalu yoga. I also spent time at Kripalu. Amrit Desai created a beautiful, patient yoga style that people of every age, condition, and body type could benefit from. He also turned out to be an inveterate womanizer, manipulator, and hypocrite. Oh well. The more things change...

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The Flipping Sun

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

The sun is getting ready to reverse its polarity, which will put us at the midway point of solar maximum. It has been an unusually quiescent solar maximum, which has gone some way to calming concerns about a potential Carrington Event. Of course it only takes one. A report that we just barely avoided one a couple of weeks ago has been the subject of some dispute. (If this link redirects you, find August 2, 2013)

A little before the one minute mark, there's an image of the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford. I can't help noticing that it strongly resembles a pyramid with a sun at the apex.

DJI Phantom - Wilcox Solar Observatory, Stanford University from Rd on Vimeo.

This classic image is one that weaves itself through symbolic art:

And currency:

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Sacred Dance: Art and Shamanism

True power can be accessed through the spirit of dance in a freeform atmosphere. Anyone can access his or her power anytime. You don't need to know how to dance to touch the sacred through dance. When we dance we can access the power to reconcile our inner conflicts, transform toxic stress into energy, and reshape the story that defines our path in the world. So why don't we dance? Or why don't we dance with the focus and intention required to enter sacred space and embody the Spirit of Dance? This week host and shaman, Christina Pratt, continues in this third episode of the new Why Shamanism Now series, Art and Shamanism. She explores the many ways sacred dance is used in her shamanic teachings to create personal sovereignty and allow the True Self to manifest your life from the inside out. In the wise words of Gabriel Roth, "Only when you truly inhabit your body can you begin the healing journey... (and) dance from the inside out, not the outside in."

Tuesday, August 6 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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PROOF: Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

Pam Grout is the author of 16 books, two I-Phone apps and more travel articles than she can count. Her most recent book, E-Squared: 9 Do-it-yourself Energy Experiments that Prove your Thoughts Create your Reality, just made the New York Times bestseller list, an intention she made when she began writing books. Next up? Appearing with Oprah on Super Soul Sunday. She also writes for People magazine, CNN Travel, Men's Journal and her own blogs: http://www.pamgrout.com and http://www.georgeclooneyslepthere.com.

Tue, August 6, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...LoveSelf {Communication}

Join 'She' for 54 minutes to work on the inner self.

During this segment:
Communication. Find your voice. Take responsibility for your emtions. Release old patterns of communication. Remember how to align speech with the world you want to live in.

Explore and Align with 'Self', Gaia, and Community. How to reconnect to Self, Soil and your Tribe?

Parables shared...Walk through a guided release experience/meditation. This will assist you in BEing...YOU!
Opening your heart center...the gateway to the universe.

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Fri, August 9, 2013 at 12:30 am Eastern

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Monster Files: A Look At Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals

Nick Redfern
Monster Files: A Look At Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals
Nick Redfern is the author of many books on UFOs, aliens, Bigfoot, werewolves, the Loch Ness Monster, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, psychic powers, and Hollywood scandal. His titles include the following: Contactees; Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; A Covert Agenda; Strange Secrets; Three Men Seeking Monsters; The FBI Files; Celebrity Secrets; Cosmic Crashes; There's Something in the Woods ; Science Fiction Secrets; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; Body Snatchers in the Desert; and Man-Monkey. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 08/08/13

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Awake: Now What?

Elaine Lockard, Healer, Author, Coach, Mentor

Elaine is and always has been a healer. She heals:
• intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually
• through the acquisition and transfer of knowledge, information, and energy
• through providing YOU the tools and processes to heal yourself and your business

She firmly believes that all healing, change, success and occurrences in your life and business begin with YOU! And by having the courage to know, understand and develop those parts of yourself and your business as necessary, you can achieve whatever you desire.

Through her work as an Executive, Business, and Spiritual Coach, Assessment Specialist, Career Strategist, Intuitive Business Mentor, Professional Intuitive, Numerologist, Energy Healer and Author, it is her passion to help you do just this!

She is a practical person and her working style reflects this through the main use of assessments and structure while deftly incorporating more esoteric aspects of spirituality. She has the unique gift to walk the line between both, touching each clearly and simultaneously, acting as a “bridge” between both planes, to give you a deeper, more overall vision and understanding of you, your process and path.
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Sun, August 11, 2013 at 6:00 pm Eastern

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...Sound&Silence {heART Center}

Join 'She' for a 15 minute Guided Meditation. Sound and Silence Meditation...Open the Voice...AHHH!

During this segment: Guided meditation to connect you to the your 'Breath, your CENTER' , and inner peace...Sound, Breath and Silence! Align with Heart

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Mon, August 12, 2013 at 12:00 am Eastern

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Pat Robertson Takes an Odd Break from The Crazy

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

Is this whole Christian leaders not judging people becoming a trend? I don't know. Maybe.

The 83-year-old televangelist [Pat Robertson] sat down on Sunday for the "Bring It Online" advice portion of his Christian Broadcasting Network show, "The 700 Club." A viewer named David wrote in asking how he should refer to two transgender females who work in his office and have legally changed their genders. Instead of criticizing the trans individuals, Robertson approached the situation in a seemingly level-headed manner.

"I think there are men who are in a woman's body," he said. "It's very rare. But it's true -- or women that are in men's bodies -- and that they want a sex change. That is a very permanent thing, believe me, when you have certain body parts amputated and when you have shot up with various kinds of hormones. It's a radical procedure. I don't think there's any sin associated with that. I don't condemn somebody for doing that."

. . .

When his co-host said the viewer doesn't know the intentions or medical history of his co-workers, Robertson rebutted, "It's not for you to decide or to judge."

It seems a strange exception to his usual judge, condemn, and blame everybody rule.

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Sacred Song: Art and Shamanism with Lauri Shainsky

Sacred sounds resonate with the original blueprint for life and for your life. Sacred song can be a direct path by which the shaman restores your resonance with your original self in your body in the moment, regardless of the stories your mind spins or the fears you believe in. Shamanic sound healing can be offered to others or practiced with the intention of self-healing, but either way you do not need to know how to sing. Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, in this second episode of the new WSN series, Art and Shamanism, when our guest is shamanic sound healer and teacher, Lauri Shainsky, PhD. Lauri currently has a thriving practice in shamanic sound healing at Hidden Lake Retreat, outside of Portland Oregon. There she works with individuals and groups to rediscover sacred sound and how we can sing with the song the universe is singing of all life.

This week's guest:
Lauri Shainsky

Lauri currently has a thriving practice in shamanic sound healing at Hidden Lake Retreat, outside of Portland Oregon, which she co-owns and runs with her partner. Lauri has been practicing shamanism since 1998, and shamanic sound healing since 2005. Her primary teachers Jan Engels-Smith, Michael and Sandra Harner, Tom Kenyon, Tom Cowan and Betsy Bergstrom.

Before studying shamanism and sound healing, she was a faculty member in the Center for Science Education and the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University. She founded and was Executive Director of Wolftree, a nonprofit dedicated to science education in the outdoors for young people and she wrote grants and served as a consultant for environmental education non-profit organizations.

She teaches shamanic sound healing for Lightsong School of Shamanic Studies and is on the council for the School, serving as mentor, Associate Teacher and Healer. She is a ceremonial singer and sweat lodge water pourer. She is deeply committed to the Earth and the Earth's animals. Her mission is to serve others and earth through transformative experience with Spirit and Nature.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

Star Beings, Prophecies & the Role of a Zuni Elder

Clifford Mahooty is a Zuni Elder and member of the New Mexico tribe's Kachina Society. The Kachina Society jealously guards centuries of knowledge of contact between the Zunis with "star beings." Mahooty spent many successful years as a civil engineer, consistently advocating for the Zuni and all Pueblo nations, while dedicating decades of his life to his tribe's spiritual system. "A Call To Zuni Youth" is meant to engage the Pueblo nations, and especially the generations born from 1960 and later, as Mahooty frankly discusses Zuni prophecies, petroglyphs, kachinas, UFOs, aliens, and the passing down of this sacred knowledge and spiritual system to the Zuni youth. Clifford shares that Native American elders have a lot of knowledge about "Star Beings" that they choose to keep to themselves. He feels that it is now time that the knowledge be shared with the public. Clifford has been featured on cable documentaries including the History channel's Ancient Aliens.

Tue, July 30, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...LoveSelf {Quiet Mind Clear Heart}

Join 'She' for 54 minutes to work on the inner self.

During this segment:

Creating a fluid movement to actualize the next. Quiet the mind and clear the mind. Connect to the heart center to restore balance and flow to your life.

Explore and Align with 'Self', Gaia, and Community. How to reconnect to Self, Soil and your Tribe?

Parables shared...Walk through a guided release experience/meditation. This will assist you in BEing...YOU!

Opening your heart center...the gateway to the universe.

Please send in your questions to s@suzannetoro.com or call in during the episode.

Fri, August 2, 2013 at 12:30 am Eastern

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Searching For God In Ancient Man

Heather Lynn, PhD
Searching For God In Ancient Man
Heather Lynn is a writer, researcher, speaker, and archaeologist with a Ph.D. in comparative religion. She is also president and founder of the Society for Truth in Archaeological Research, a member of the World Ar­chaeological Congress, and radio host on the Other World Radio Network. Her research topics include hidden history, mythology, esotericism, meta­physics, and the origin of consciousness. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 08/01/13

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Awake: Now What?

Lisa Renee, Spiritual Mentor, Author, Quantum Therapist and

Join us to talk about life, the universe and everything.

Lisa Renee's mission is to support humanity through its evolution with education, awareness and by discussing the impact of the energy shifts upon the planet, human beings and human consciousness. She is an Intuitive, Spiritual mentor, Writer, Quantum Therapist and Etheric surgeon. She writes a monthly column called Lifting Your Veil, which you can find here, http://www.energeticsynthesis.com, in the Resources section, and also at Planetlightworker.com.

Her understanding of Spirit Technologies was experienced by her own personal conscious evolution and began her transition into a Spiritual Guide and Multidimensional Energetic Healer during this Planet’s Ascension Cycle. She is a Galactic Emissary for the Guardians and a spokesperson for the shift of humanity to "Ascension".

She lives and has a practice in Santa Monica, California.

For appointment or class information please contact her staff using the Contact form at www.energeticsynthesis.com

Sun, August 4, 2013 at 6:00 pm Eastern

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Pope Francis Won't Judge Gay People

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

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"Judge not, that ye be not judged." ~ Matthew 7:1

Pope Francis has once again shocked the world with a message of tolerance.

Pope Francis opened the door on Sunday to greater acceptance of gay priests inside the ranks of Roman Catholicism as he returned to the Vatican from his maiden trip overseas.

Fielding questions from reporters during the first news conference of his young papacy, the pontiff broached the delicate question of how he would respond to learning that a cleric in his ranks was gay, though not sexually active. For decades, the Vatican has regarded homosexuality as a "disorder," and Pope Francis' predecessor Pope Benedict XVI formally barred men with what the Vatican deemed "deep-seated" homosexuality from entering the priesthood.

"Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?" the pontiff said, speaking in Italian. "You can't marginalize these people."

Am I the only one who finds it a little alarming that when the leader of the Catholic Church says he won't judge people, it's front page news? Or aren't popes supposed to at least give a little lip service to that whole judge not thing.



It does imply a real departure, though, from Pope Benedict's crackdown on gay clergy and from the Church's history of diverting blame for their sex abuse crisis onto gay people.

Pope Francis's comments pertained to the "gay lobby" scandal that erupted into headlines in the waning days of Pope Benedict's reign. When pressed, he handled the issue with all the deftness and grace that so completely eluded his predecessor.

The pope addressed the issue of an alleged "gay lobby" within the church. Hints that the Holy See contained a network of gay clergy surfaced last year in reports about a series of embarrassing leaks to Italian journalists.

The "Vatileaks" scandal factored in Benedict's shocking decision to resign this year, according to some church experts, as it impressed upon the 86-year-old pontiff that the modern papacy requires a vigorous and watchful presence.

"There's a lot of talk about the gay lobby, but I've never seen it on the Vatican ID card!" Francis said.

"When I meet a gay person, I have to distinguish between their being gay and being part of a lobby. If they accept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to judge them? They shouldn't be marginalized. The tendency (to homosexuality) is not the problem ... they're our brothers."

It remains to be seen whether the Vatican will walk these comments back as it has with previous eruptions of compassion and dignity from the new pontiff.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

Sacred Art: Art and Shamanism

"Making sacred images co-creates reality and feeds into the soul and web of life..." explains visual artist, author, and shamanic practitioner, Faith Nolton. "Making paintings with sacred intention one has a foot in both everyday reality [the act of painting or drawing] and the spirit worlds [trance state]. Keeping a balance between the two is where the point of creation lies." This is what makes sacred art sacred. The act of creating sacred art is an ancient and honored shamanic practice. Join us this week as Faith, shares her forthcoming book "Gardens of the Soul: Making Sacred and Shamanic Art" and the whys and hows of making sacred art whether you can draw or not. Pictures and symbols speak to our consciousness beyond the busy mind allowing sacred art to function as healings, blessings, or connection to the spirit world. Join host and shaman, Christina Pratt, in this first episode of the new WSN series, Art and Shamanism.

This week's guest:
Faith Nolton

Faith Nolton was born in London, and trained in Fine Art and Sculpture at Liverpool College of Art and in art teaching at Liverpool John Moores University. Since then she has made a lifelong exploration of spiritual creativity, perception, healing, sacred and tribal art and shamanism. Personally Faith found a path with the Medicine Wheel traditions, with Leo Rutherford of Eagle's Wing in the UK, and in shamanism with Jonathan Horwitz of the Scandinavian Centre of Shamanic Studies, in Sweden.

Faith lives in West Wales, painting her soul travels and sharing shamanic/creative ways of living with individuals and small groups. She has been a shamanic healer, soul counselor and 'gardener', mother, illustrator, art teacher, editor and writer. She was illustrator for Link Up magazine and author/illustrator of 'Easy-to-Use Shamanism'. She founded and for many years was editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine.

Faith has now come full circle to return to her painting and gives creative/spiritual guidance sessions and workshops using imagery and sacred art. Every so often she has a 'giveaway' of her work via her website, letting the paintings find the homes they wish to go to rather than taking the gallery sales path.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM Radio with Celeste Yarnall

CELESTE YARNALL, PH.D. has lived a multifaceted life. Like a handful of other celebrities from the entertainment world, Dr. Yarnall comes to her holistic health expertise, because it is her passion. As an actress Celeste Yarnall was the product that she marketed and therefore being fit and healthy was of paramount importance. You may remember her from 100’s of television commercials, print ads and point of purchase campaigns, or perhaps as an actress, guest-starring on the classic Star Trek episode entitled “The Apple", or perhaps her appearances on "Bonanza" or "Man from Uncle."

Celests's lifetime love of nature and all living things which of course includes cats and dogs, caused yet another turning point in her life when she became after devoting over 20 years to this passion, one of the countries leading experts in the world of holistic health care for cats and dogs. Celeste has written 4 books to date on holistic health care for pets with a 5th on its way.

Celeste's expertise includes diet and whole food supplementation for both people and pets. She is a Reiki Master as well as a non verbal communication expert and EFT (emotional freedom Technique) practitioner.

Celeste is the founder of Celestial Pets Products nutritional supplements which are used in her nutritional protocols designed exclusively for her recipes for dogs and cats and are based on her research and experience raising eleven generations of her own championship, show cats which were all raised on the holistic principles outlined in her books.

Contact Celeste@ArtofWellnesscollection.com

Tue, July 23, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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Soul Mapping & Connecting To Your Inner Intellegence With Hypnotheray

Cash Peters
Soul Mapping
Cash Peters is an award-winning author and journalist. He is also a naturally gifted handwriting analyst who, almost twenty years ago, discovered that he had an amazing and significant talent for perceiving other people's energy through their writing and then channeling an interpretation of that energy. Since then, he has written three books on the subject, including Instant Insight, published by Warner Books, and The Telltale Alphabet, with Loveday Miller, published by Corgi. More ...
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Jack Elias
Connecting To Your Inner Intellegence With Hypnotheray
Jack Elias, a Clinical Hypnotherapist in private practice since 1988, is founder and director of The Institute for Therapeutic Learning, a licensed Vocational School in Seattle training and certifying Transpersonal Clinical Hypnotherapists since 1988. Jack presents a unique synthesis of Eastern and Western perspectives on the nature of consciousness and communication, teaching simple yet powerful techniques for achieving one’s highest personal and professional goals. For 46 years Jack has studied Eastern meditation, philosophy and psychology with masters such as Shunryo Suzuki Roshi and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 07/25/13

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Announcing: The James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

As you know, James Arthur Ray was released from prison last Friday. In honor of this inauspicious occasion, I'm unveiling The James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial page. I've been slowly organizing all the material from the Sweat Lodge Trial into a more easily navigable index, with a table of contents and a glossary of terms.

I started this project a little while after James Arthur Ray went to jail. It proved more challenging than I'd expected. It's not the busy work of it. I find that it forces me to relive the trial which, as it turns out, was even more emotionally grueling than I'd remembered. But think of it as a work in progress as I keep chipping away at it.

I welcome feedback and suggestions.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

Soul Retrieval Training with Sandra Ingerman

"There is a lot to understand about the results of bridging the powerful and ancient method of Soul Retrieval into a modern day psychologically sophisticated culture," says author, therapist, and internationally recognized teacher, Sandra Ingerman. "In Western cultures we are not always supported to live a life filled with meaning. We often cannot connect the dots to how our lifestyle has created emotional and physical illnesses we are dealing with today." This is why the quality of training people receive to perform soul retrieval healings is critically important. This week Sandra Ingerman joins host, Christina Pratt, to discuss what to look for in soul retrieval trainings and why. Sandra is our next guest for the Society of Shamanic Practitioners sponsored interview series. In this series we explore how contemporary shamans are meeting the challenge of their world where the relations of things are profoundly out of balance. It is the ancient role of the shaman in all cultures to tend the balance of things. How are we meeting this extraordinary need today?

This week's guest:
Sandra Ingerman

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is a licensed therapist and the author of numerous books including How to Heal Toxic Thoughts, Soul Retrieval, and Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins. She is also the author of several lecture programs produced by Sounds True. Sandra lives in New Mexico and can be found online at www.sandraingerman.com.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

Geo-Engineering; Why You Should Care

Dane has a background in solar energy. He is a former employee of Bechtel Power Corp. and was a licensed contractor in California and Arizona. He has been engaged in constant climate/geoengineering research for over a decade.

His personal residence was feature in a cover article on the world’s largest renewable energy magazine, Home Power. He owns a 1,600-acre “wildlife preserve” next to Lake Shasta in N. California.

He began to focus all his efforts and energy on the geoengineering issue when he began to lose very significant amounts of solar uptake due to what ever-increasing “solar obscuration” caused from the aircraft spraying. Dane also noted significant decline in forest health. Extensive testing and research into the geoengineering issue was commenced and has continued since 2002.

He is the lead researcher for www.geoengineeringwatch.org and has investigated all levels of geo engineering from stratospheric aerosol geoengineering (SAG) to HAARP. He has appeared numerous film and radio interviews to explain the environmental and health dangers we face on a global level from geoengineering.

Dane lives in Shasta County, California.

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Tue, July 16, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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Ancient Mysteries From Exotic Lands & The Lost Secrets of Ancient America

Andy McFareast
Ancient Mysteries From Exotic Lands
Andy McFareast is an Australian-based author who was born in Indonesia, where he spent his childhood and early adulthood. He has an eclectic background ranging from a biblical scholar to working in the finance and legal sectors. He speaks fluent English, Indonesian, some Chinese and a few other Indonesian dialects. Nowadays, he is comfortable with non-categorized spiritual knowledge and practice, with no affiliation to any particular organised religions. More ...
www.fareastralia.com
www.exoticfiles.net

Josh Reeves
The Lost Secrets of Ancient America
Josh Reeves is a Dallas, Texas-based researcher, filmmaker, and radio talk show host who first learned of government crimes in the 1990′s by reading Jim Marrs, “Crossfire,” which lead him to start investigating black operations and secret societies. Through radio, videos, films, and even music, Josh Reeves presents his restless effort of research into matters concerning government/corporate corruptions, occult/esoteric philosophies, social engineering, hidden technologies, ancient mysteries and more. More ...
www.theglobalreality.com

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