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July 02, 2008

A Soothing, Summer Voyage into the Fantastic: a Must See

Summer is here! In past times, the car was loaded for a Summer vacation. Maybe not this year. We are watching that gas tank. Here is a proposal:

* secure a comfortable position in front of your screen

* rest your mind in knowing this trip will not add to pollution, road rage or stressors

* take a deep breath of anticipation

*  click Download FantasticTrip.pps, wait a couple of seconds,  enjoy!

(... and maybe you just get a still screen after clicking "open" in the dialog box; breath in; go to your taskbar, all the way down of your screen, to the right side and surf over the icons; click on the one that says: slideshow)

It's awsome!

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June 18, 2008

New ITP Group Forming

New Group Forming …

 

"Whatever your age, your upbringing, your education; what you are made of is mostly unused potential."

- G. Leonard

 

A new, local group interested in personal development, community involvement and establishing a long-term practice will be accepting new members for a minimum six month commitment at High Mesa Healing Center (HMHC). We are looking for interested participants eager to commit to a fun, working group that will start on July 14th, 2008 and grow into a close knit community. As of June 16th, you may drop- in to our current group and learn more about our ITP practice and how it will benefit your life.

The practice is based upon Michael Murphy's (Esalen Institute cofounder) and George Leonard's (human potential explorer and author) development of an Integral Transformative Practice (ITP).

 

What is Integral Transformative Practice (ITP)? 

 

ITP is a long-term program initiated at Esalen Institute for realizing greater success, health, and fulfillment in our lives and for realizing the full potential of body, mind, heart and soul in the life we are given.

The practice is INTEGRAL in that it deals with the body (through exercise and eating habits), the mind (by reading and discussing books and articles concerning human potential), the heart (through group process and community activities, and the soul (via meditation and imaging).

The practice is TRANSFORMATIVE in that it is aimed at measurable, positive individual change in body and being.

It is a PRACTICE in that it involves long-term, regular, disciplined actions which are of value to the individual irrespective of any specific short-term external rewards. In other words, these actions and activities are of intrinsic value and demonstrate improved quality of life and nurture tangible human growth.

 

What we need from you:

 

Early participation! If you are looking to make a desired change, enrich your personal life or become more community oriented, pick up a copy of THE LIFE WE ARE GIVEN by M. Murphy and G. Leonard (ISBN# 0-87477-792-5) and join our discussion now. We are meeting every week on Monday evenings from 6-8PM. You can get more details by contacting VILLAGE WELLNESS at 258-2258.

 

 

"Body and mind reflect and influence each other with amazing fidelity." - G. Leonard

 

 

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A cairn or (Irish carn) is an artificial pile of stones, often in a conical form. They are usually found in  uplands, on moorlands,  on mountaintops or near waterways. (Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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June 17, 2008

A Global Wave: One World, One Circle, One Cause

We all live on the same planet. We all are connected the same. We all long for the same.

Thank you Ginny and Kate for sharing this opportunity. Please watch the video below, then let's do it, on June the 18th at 7:00pm !

 "Such an easy thing to do. Send love and joy and healing to the earth and all living things at 7:00pm in whatever time zone you're in."

Posted by NWH

June 10, 2008

On Peace

Jane B-Y sent us words on Peace by Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, known as Monsenor Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador. Witnessing ongoing violations of human rights in his country, he started a group speaking on behalf of the poor and victims during the civil war in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1980 during a sermon, by a death squad. The movie Salvador by Oliver Stone renders the political stage around the life of Monsenor Romero and on the Civil War of El Salvador. Calipaint


"Peace  is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism,
Peace is generosity,
It is right and it is duty."

Among others, Jane has included this photo (Bakersfield, CA,) titled "The Day when God dropped the Paintbox".

Sometimes, looking at beautiful colors of nature helps me to gratefully be still.

NWH 

May 17, 2008

Amazing Striped Icebergs

I like Nature. I spent most of my 3 first years of my life outside, almost all day long and well into a night a lot of times. Don't ask, it's my story.  After these former years, it often has been a challenge to be drawn into cultures where nature seems to have become a stage backdrop or a prey to satisfy personal needs. I can't do it. I have to live with Nature: feel, see, touch, smell, nurture with it. Doing so allows me to practice awe,  respect and gratitude in my life. I like that.

Thank you Jane B-Y for sharing the below wonder of Nature.

Amazing striped icebergs

Iceberg1 Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melted water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.
Iceberg3_2 To see more colored and shaped icebergs, go to
Enjoy.
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May 12, 2008

Light up a Life; polish the glow on your own.

Save the Starship!

This is to supplement the info in the Call for Help that Nadette posted  for us in the May 15th newsletter.
It's about my friend, Michael Schwass, a really cool man. He's a quadraplegic: yeah, all four limbs.

If you don't need the whole story to open your heart, here's the Donate Now link.  I'm hoping for LOTS of money, though, so read on, please.

I want to begin this post with an excerpt from Laura's post of April 26th:

I have come to appreciate something that we don't always acknowledge:

It's easier to raise money for children who so easily capture our hearts and the newly injured when life is much more dramatic and emotions are high for everyone. But, truly, after 33 years, people kind of forget that the needs of the disabled never ever diminish, but, in fact, increase.  In fact, with someone disabled as long as Michael it's almost easy to forget, in a strange way, just how much work his life takes because it's just so normal.  His hands are all contracted and you just get used to it. You don't think about things like how he can't wear gloves in the winter, no matter how cold, because he can't put them on. It just doesn't occur to us and he doesn't point it out. In general, we don't think about 49 year olds needing help and honestly, if you were to meet Michael he is so positive and upbeat that it would be very easy to look at him as someone who has everything entirely under control.  Makes him a joy to be around, a heck of a teacher in dignity, grace and fortitude but yowsa what the man behind the curtain goes through...

So please, if you can, help spread the word to your own networks, or maybe at your own blogs.  This literally is about keeping Michael alive, out of the hospital and as independent as possible. If anyone has any additional ideas for us on ways to get support, I'm all ears.  ...

Thanks everyone!

 

Here's an excerpt from a story about Michael getting trapped in his van recently:

 

Michael's van, affectionately known as "The Starship" has a few "issues" beyond what one would normally expect in a 103,000 mile mini-van. When I met him on Friday with plans to help him get to the Sprint store to replace his failing phone he pulled into the parking lot, rolled down the window and said,

"It took me a few seconds to realize the implications, but look..."

He hit the switch to open the door and extend his ramp only to reveal the door jammed midway open, barring the ramp from extending. He was trapped, quite literally, in his van.

The good news: It was nice weather and the mechanic had agreed to come to meet us in a Quizno's parking lot to free him. Being able bodied, I was able to get in and keep him company for the hour and a half wait.

The bad news: The door jammed again as he was getting ready to head home at 8 pm preventing him from getting into the van.

The good news: The mechanic's home number was listed and he was willing and able to come back out, the thunderstorms had waned to a light drizzle allowing him to work and an hour later we were able to get Michael home. He is now sporting a duct taped running board (which was the culprit jamming the door) to match the bungee cord holding on his front bumper. He has to get into the body shop soon or he really is risking getting trapped again in a much less congenial situation.

And yes, I'm pulling on your heartstrings, I hope. I'm shameless, don't you know. I also believe in seva - in service to others. This job is just bigger than I can handle on my own. So I need you and Michael REALLY needs you. And The Starship needs you.

Here are some links to help you find the rest of the story, and lots of stuff about Michael; how he's one of the good guys, what he's done with his life from the wheelchair, other ways to help - stuff like that.

Thanks so much for taking your time to read this. And thanks for all that open-heart giving that's happening now. You're the best.

ABOUT Michael - bio-type stuff:
http://laurayoung.typepad.com/rollingrishi/about-michael-schwass.html

Mike's own request.
http://laurayoung.typepad.com/rollingrishi/contributions.html

a post about Michael's book
http://laurayoung.typepad.com/rollingrishi/about-dont-blame-the-game.html

Mike's blog – pages of great info, and insight into the man.
http://laurayoung.typepad.com/rollingrishi/

Laura's 1st req.
http://laurayoung.typepad.com/dragonslaying/2008/04/scenes-from-a-f.html

Laura's update & 2nd  request
http://laurayoung.typepad.com/dragonslaying/2008/04/were-on-our-way.html

the donate now link.
http://www.typepad.com/t/app/public/tj?__mode=tip_confirm&id=192136&user_id=469601


 

 

April 14, 2008

New Cycle, New Earth

Several friends of HMHC and Barbara sent this article. Thank you, all.

The article came with a picture. If you'd like to see the picture, look  for:

Jewel in the Heart by Julie Umpleby, at Diamondlightworld

WALKING THE GENTLE PATH OF ENLIGHTENED AWARENESS AND CHOOSING FOR LIFE AND ABUNDANCE

THE ENERGIES FOR APRIL 2008

Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn

Beloved Lightworkers, the energies of this New Cycle and this New Earth are indeed intense and powerful. In this past month, many of you felt the deep changes within your Being as the Grail Codes were activated and you accepted the gift of Cosmic Consciousness into your Lightbodies. And now, in this coming month of April, you will have the opportunity to find some Inner Balance and as you continue to choose for Life and Abundance on this New Earth.

The energy of April will continue to be powerful and creative, with the New Moon in Aries on the 6th providing a time to go within and connect with your Inner Spiritual Warrior so that you may find the strength and power to exercise your creative gifts and talents in the New Earth. The Full Moon on the 20th of April will be the Wesak Full Moon, or the Buddha Moon, when the Earth feels the Loving and Unconditional presence of the Divine Masculine, as embodied by the Buddha.

Indeed, this energy will be necessary as a support and a balance for the intensely creative energy of the Fire Goddess that will continue to be felt in April. For the first part of the month, both the Sun and Venus will be in Aries, providing an intense Solar partnership between the Divine Feminine, as the Fire Goddess, and the Divine Masculine, as a Solar Fire presence. But, Mars will be in Cancer, bringing in the gentle, loving and wise energy of the Divine Masculine as an enlightened and supportive presence, personified by the Moon and Water. This will culminate on the 20th when the Sun moves into Taurus with the Buddha Moon.

The Buddha Moon in Scorpio illuminates the world of Soul and Spirit in physical form. Scorpio is the 8th house, a water sign that represents Psychic Power and Wisdom. The symbol sometimes used is the Eagle, a way of expressing the Inner Male Power of the Soul and Spirit that "flies" above all and sees all and holds all within the "eye" of Source.

At this time, allow yourselves to embrace and be embraced by the gentle and loving support of the Enlightened Masculine within. For, the energy of the Buddha is an aspect of your own Higher Being that you may claim for yourself. Beloved Ones, awaken to the enlightened Love that is here to support your New Earth. Awaken to this deep Compassion and Wisdom that was the gift of the Buddha to the Planet. Be open to receiving this Love and allowing it to flow to you and to be embraced by you at this beautiful Wesak Full Moon. But, remember also Kwan Yin, who is the Feminine Embodiment of Divine Compassion on the Planet. So that there may be balance at this time, you may invite Her Presence and Her Grace, as you see her seated within the Lotus of Creation as she spins the New World energies from the Divine Compassion that was embodied in the Buddha.

In your daily lives, Beloved Ones, you will find that Relationships will continue to be in the Crucible of Transformation. You will continue to be led to release all attachments and co-dependencies until you reach a point of complete Inner Power and Strength. Many of you are finding this process difficult, as you release all external support systems in the Outer World to allow yourself to align fully with your Soul and Spirit, and to be guided by your I AM presence to a full understanding that you are healing and releasing all forms of separation consciousness so that you may return to Oneness with the Source and so receive the Love and Abundance that is your right on this Earth. But, this comes only from your Relationship with your I AM and Source. When you are ready to release the Ego need to have control over your life, and to release the need to organize and fix your life yourself, then you will learn how to accept the guidance of your Spirit as it manifesting synchronicities and miracles in your life.

Beloved Ones, you are Cosmic Beings, you are the Divine Source in Human Form. If you can hear and feel the Divine Spark within as It creates and manifests you will be led to Abundance and Love, for the Divine Spark is Abundance and Love and creates only from and for Abundance and Love. Beloved Ones, these new Cosmic Codes for Love and Abundance are being activated now in 2008. When you allow these changes and transformations, you will see clearly how Divine Love is now creating Abundance through you. It is only Resistance and Fear that will make you feel as though you are in a chaotic void, for the chaos is none other than Divine Creativity in Motion, and when you are centered in Trust and Acceptance, then you know that you’re safe path through the apparent chaos is assured. You are always safe and protected.

Beloved Ones, we will offer one suggestion that will assist you to navigate this new path - choose for Life! Whenever you have to make a decision or a choice, then choose for Life! And Dearest Ones, you do make choices every day, and so we say again, choose for life and choose for joy. Do not choose from habit or because you are supposed to or because others expect it of you. Choose what makes your heart sing with love and joy, and do not settle for less. For it is only in Joy and Love that you experience your Divinity beyond the illusion of separation. Know that "rules" are made for those who have forgotten who they are, for when you align with your Higher Self, you will always choose for Love and the Highest Good. Your Indigo and Crystal children have shown you clearly how your old energy choices based on rules and expectations have strangled your spirit, and they are assisting you to make new choices that allow the Soul and Spirit to live in harmony with the Physical Body and its Joy. This will be the New Earth, this will be Heaven on Earth.

The Spirals of Manifestation in the New Earth

Beloved Lightworkers, we have spoken of this topic before, but we will elaborate again, since many of you are feeling shock and displacement at the way in which events suddenly occur or unfold in your lives.

Beloved ones, this is a New Earth...a higher level of Consciousness. It is not the world that you were born into. It is no longer the Third Dimensional Reality that you knew. It is a Fifth Dimensional World that functions on Quantum or Holographic principles. The most important change is that linear time and experience have been replaced by Spirals of Manifestation. This means that life no longer unfolds in a neat and logical way that your rational mind can control and direct. Your I AM is now creating with you, and Spirit and Soul work together on the Spirals of Energy.

So, the Mind often feels startled and ill at ease as events occur which seem beyond its control. You may be literally knocked sideways by sudden events that occur in your life. Indeed, although these seem to come out of nowhere, events are unfolding on a Spiral of Creation and Manifestation in your life.

Now, if you visualize a Spiral, you will see that it moves in expanding circles at ever higher levels. So, it may seem as if what you want it actually moving away from you as it spirals out into a circle. If you become desperate and chase after it, you will lose your center and become unbalanced and ungrounded, and the Spiral may collapse. Remember, that the Spiral of Creation originates in your High Heart, where Soul and Spirit join with the Physical, and it must be held there. So, if you hold that Spiral with Intention, it may spiral out and away and then behind you, and you may think it has vanished. But then, one day, as if by miracle, it spirals back, and if you are not prepared it may take you completely by surprise.

Now, when you are still learning these new Fifth Dimensional skills, you may have several spirals going at once, and then for a while it seems as if your life is a complete void, and then suddenly everything may manifest at once and you are swamped with opportunities and creations, and you do not know where to turn in the apparent chaos. And so, you are exhausted as you try to sort it all out.

Beloved Lightworkers, you will become more skilled in the Art of Creating your Reality. You will learn to manage the energies and to trust when there is nothing, because you know for sure that what you have created is coming into manifestation. And when it comes, you will be prepared because you will recognize your own creations for what they are.

And then, you will express the deep gratitude and joy that will re-energize the Creative Spirals to a higher level of Experience and Love.

So, Beloved Ones, we ask that you consider how you may be losing energy through your expectations and through trying to create from your will and your mental or rational being. Your Heart is the center of your Creative Intelligence in the Fifth Dimension, and only the desires of the Heart will motivate the Spirals of Creation into dynamic process. When the mind can accept that process, it will learn to support your creativity instead of blocking it with needs and fears. For, if you are trapped in the fears of the mind, then you will not be at a high enough level to receive the manifestations of your creative desires. It is only when you lift into the Heart and Higher Consciousness, that you will perceive and receive the flow of Abundant Love through Creativity.

The Energies in April

The New Moon will be on the 6th of April in Aries. Aries is a Fire sign, representing the Child and the Warrior. It is the First House of the astrological wheel. It signifies also new beginnings and new seeds planted, an ideal time to set the intention for a new spiral of creation.

Fire Moons are generally volatile, so you may need to focus on holding your balance in your Heart.

The Full Moon on the 20th is the Buddha or Wesak Moon. It is a time to celebrate the power of the Enlightened Masculine, or the New Divine Masculine energy of Earth. Remember also Kwan Yin as the archetype of the Divine Feminine energy of Enlightened Compassion.

The Moon is in Scorpio, a Water sign, and this is an ideal time for a Water Ceremony to assist in activating the Codes of Divine Abundance within the waters of the Planet.

© 2007-8 Celia Fenn and Starchild Global

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March 21, 2008

Cell Phones For Soldiers - The American Spirit Of Our Youth

Cell Phones For Soldiers is a website and program created and managed by 2 extraordinary young people in April 2004, Brittany and Robbie Bergquist of Norwell, MA.  Their goal has been to provide our troops overseas with as many prepaid phone cards as possible to help them stay in touch with their loved ones at home.  With the help of donations of used cell phones, to date they have provided thousands of prepaid phone cards to our troups around the world. 

Through the help of donations of used cell phones, which they recycle for cash, they have been able to provide over a million phone minutes to the troops overseas.  If you would like further information or be interested in donating, go to Cellphonesforsoldiers.com

Their website provides local drop points as there are many major companies, such as AT&T, Beals, Elk Lodges and VFWs often participating in the collection of donations for this worthy cause.

For more information on this program of true American Spirit and these marvelous teens click here.

February 22, 2008

New Age growing in El Paso

Check out Featured Stories in the February Issue of El Paso Scene.  This issue has a feature story on the New Age in El Paso and several of the opportunities to explore that world there.   The article features  different businesses offering health and wellness, Spirituality, growth and support.  In the beginning of the feature Wendy Holmberg, owner of Butterflies of Wisdom, talks about her store and is a reader and healer herself, along with Jenny, Tarot and Psychometry and Dawn Cheney, Intuitive Reader and Spiritual Counselor. 

The articles talks about the Feng Shui Institute and Center For Internal Arts, plus available churches and psychic fairs in the El Paso Area.  If you are not familiar with the El Paso area, perhaps this will help give you an introduction. 

Many blessings to all of you and enjoy.

February 17, 2008

Soul Songs By Boyd

Discover Your Sacred Sound

Greetings friends and new friends in Ruidoso

This past week I had the privilege of channeling and recording a very
special SOUL SONG for a very special Soul.

In the late 1960’s I was playing music with four other incredibly intuitive musicians and I discovered that, while closing my eyes and placing my hands on the keyboard, I was able to sense exactly where the music was going. It was as if the Music was taking all of us
together on an awesome journey deep within our own spirit.  That group became known as HOPE and for three years we shared our gift of intuitive music with the world.

The evolution of my gift took me on a journey of self discovery to the point where in 1999, after investing my resources in a recording studio, I began recording the sounds that I “heard” coming from the person seated in the studio with me. It was the beginning to what has grown into an eight hundred member Soul Song Family worldwide.

So last week as the door bell rang and the smiling face stood outside, I answered the door and received my honored guest.  Barbara Mader had arrived to experience her Soul Song at our new HOPE Universal Recording Studio in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

I asked Barbara if she would share something from her experience with you.

(Barbara’s story) "My experience to the Soul Song was most pleasurable and I would recommend it to anyone. The whole process was most comforting and nurturing to the core of my being. In fact my soul felt totally supported and nourished. With my soul song CD I now play it every evening and morning during my meditaion.  An excellent background to enhance my meditation time."

HOPE Universal Recording Studio is also a healing arts project studio where you, as a Light Worker, solo artist, musician, hynotherapist or other modality, may come and record your project.  Your finished project results in a “mastered” CD ready for duplication to share with the world.  We have recorded music and voice with channeled music for: Guided Meditation, Deek Sha, Hypnotherapy, Goddess empowerment, Crystal Bowls, Native American Flutes, Acoustic Guitars and many others.

If you have a “gift” inside of you waiting to be expressed, I will help you bring your creative ideas to reality at HOPE Universal Recording Studio.

Call me for a free consultation or Soul Song appointment at:
505-258-7342

For more information regarding your Soul Song I invite you
to visit our web site at:

www.sedonasoulsongs.com
email: inthenameofhope@msn.com

Blessings to you with peace
~Boyd~

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   HOPE Universal Recording Studio

Boyd Sibley is the owner of HOPE Universal Recording Studio,
International Recording Artist with eleven CD releases,
Musician of over 40 years, Recording Engineer for over 30 years,
Reiki Master, Hypnotherapist, Founder of The Healer Method,
Ordained Minister with BA and Masters Training,
President of the HOPE for World Peace Foundation,
Co-founder of The 7 Rays Ranch Project, a new Equine therapy project
for rescued horses and children
www.7raysranch.com

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