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A FORMIDABLE PARTNER – Dr. Joe Vitale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 FAIRY GODMOTHERS The lineage of Austin’s Metaphysical Fair THEY WILL, THEY WILL ROCK YOU Digging Nature’s Treasures at 14 25 YEARS OF DREAMS COMING TRUE – David Lauterstein FOOD POWERS Q&A – Nerissa Oden publisher/ editor Michael Abedin (512) 879-7299 michaelabedin@yahoo.com www.AustinAllNatural.com art director Pun Nio

THE WHO’S TOMMY – Michael Abedin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 CANNABIS 101 THD and CDB – Nishi Whitely. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 EPIGENETICS – Christina Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Have you restored your original OS-Human settings yet?

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NATURAL RESOURCE GUIDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 TREATING YOU, NOT A DISEASE – Meridian Grace, ND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Being-centered healthcare vs. symptom-centered treatment THE SPIRITUALITY OF WATER – Joseph Bender. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 DEAR ASHTARA – Ashtara Sasha White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 ASTROLOGY AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION – Anthony Mont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 BACH CHRONICLES: HORNBEAM The Burnout Remedy – Michael Abedin . . . . . . . . . 28

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100. It’s the bill Benjamin Franklin’s on, one-third of the number of badass Spartans it took to hold off the Persians at Thermopylae, one more bottle of beer on the wall than the song you used to sing on the bus to summer camp, the number of kilometers above sea level of the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.

It’s “C” in Roman numerals. Let’s see – anything else?

Oh, yeah. It’s the number of issues of a fine natural magazine cranked out since June 2006.

Foldishness.

Austin All Natural is Austin’s only 100% homegrown natural magazine (another 100), and a big part of its job is preserving some tiny part of the spirit of something that, in a tidal wave of growth and homogenization, is rapidly disappearing.

That, of course, is – Austin.

Since day one, the guiding principles have been twofold. Fold one is to walk the fine line between what’s expected from a natural magazine – and the outrageous.

Fold two? When in doubt, go for outrageous.

It’s worked pretty well, so far.

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A Formidable Partner One of my greatest passions and

ongoing commitments in life is Operation Y.E.S. (Your Economic Solution) – a platform to end homelessness by helping people create their own economic solution.

Fortunately, I don’t do this alone.

In fact, I have some formidable partners as committed as I am.

One of them is the State Homeless Coordinating Committee for Utah.

They’re on it, you might say.

Since 2005, when they enacted their Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, they’ve seen a decline of 74%.

That’s impressive.

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In fact, it’s put Utah “at the forefront of the national effort to end chronic homelessness by 2015.”

Part of their success has come from their early adoption of the Housing First program, which offers housing without bias to the chronically homeless.

This means that instead of placing people into transition housing and requiring their participation in certain programs (such as for substance abuse or mental illness) before they can receive more help, Housing First recognizes housing as a basic right.

The homeless get off the streets first.

The homeless are given a place to live first.

Joe Vitale is a star of the hit movie The Secret and author of The Attractor Factor and dozens of other best-selling books, including At Zero, the sequel to Zero Limits. Hear his new music CD, Reflection, at www.ReflectionCD.com www.JoeVitale.com

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by Dr. Joe Vitale

What Utah discovered is that meeting this need increases stability – which in turn supports real change.

Oh, and it saves money – money the state (as taxpayers) would otherwise spend on emergency services and jail.

It’s a win-win.

But it’s not just the chronically homeless that benefit.

They’ve found that by focusing on this particular group it “improves coordination and planning for housing and services for all of the homeless.”

Call it a “trickle-down” effect.

Since families with children are often the victims of homelessness, I applaud this. Unfortunately, it’s children who suffer exponentially when exposed to this kind of traumatic experience.

According to Utah’s 2013 Comprehensive Report on Homelessness, “Children are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of homelessness.

Homelessness often interrupts schooling and the development of positive peer and mentoring relationships. Homeless children frequently experience dangerous or unhealthy environments, and may be more likely to experience homelessness as an adult.”

I believe education is a key to ending homelessness, both for the ones experiencing it and those who are not.

Having faced it myself, I know that a major stumbling block resides in the many myths surrounding it.

Not surprisingly, Utah’s got that handled, too.

In their report, they identified the top four myths: Myth #1: People who are homeless stay homeless for a long time. False.

Only about 3% are considered chronically homeless.

Myth #2: Most are single men.

False. Only 29% – the largest number are parents and children.

Myth #3: The homeless population is transient, migrating to cities with the best services. False: Nearly 90% were in Utah when they became homeless.

Myth #4: They are to blame for their situation. False: Many come from situations of abuse, illness and trauma.

True.

In my own efforts to end homelessness and help people become self-sufficient and empowered through education, I started “Operation YES.” With the help of Craig Perrine, we did a series of interviews with some amazing people who offered their expertise and know-how towards this mission. This series later became a manual called Operation Y.E.S. – Your Economic Solution Essentially, Operation YES is a three-part formula designed to help people see beyond the limitations and the traditional categories.

It’s all covered in detail in the manual, but the simple version is: • Raise or rebuild your self-esteem • Think like an entrepreneur • Leverage the Internet Oh, and if you’re traveling this summer, I hope you’ll stop in Utah.

Let them know they’re doing great things there.

If you have a desire to be a part of the solution to end homelessness, you can get your own copy of the manual at no charge at www.OperationYes.com If you prefer a printed copy of “Operation YES,” it’s available for a small investment at www.amazon.com

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

– Virginia Woolf, quoted by Dr. Wayne Dyer

In Wayne Dyer’s new book I

Can See Clearly Now, he looks back at key times in his life with the eagle eye of hindsight, seeing how everything fell into place exactly as it was supposed to. Kind of a scary course of action when you’re looking back at 100 monthly issues of a fine natural magazine – sort of like watching yourself dodge the same bullet, Matrix-like, once a month for a hundred months.

Deadlines, submissions, clients, events, late nights that sometimes go on until you suddenly notice there are a lot of birds singing and the sky is getting sort of gray. Lots of moving parts to putting out a monthly mag, enough so that your sweetie starts pointing out that you’re developing a recurring case of mid-month PMS – Pre-Magazine Syndrome.

Beats having a real job, though. How did it start? Glad you asked…

How to start a fine natural magazine.

(A brief history.)

• Teach martial arts for a couple of decades, get burned out and run away from home to Hawaii to start an art gallery selling Native American art.

(Alternately, start a surfboard shop in Tucson.)

• Come limping back to Texas a year or so later, after someone finally explains the secret to leaving Hawaii with a small fortune. (Arrive there with a large one.)

• Get a job selling ads and writing articles at a nationally franchised natural health magazine.

• When the franchise implodes due to bonehead business decisions, get a picture of Willie Nelson in a hotrod biodiesel pickup truck from one of Kinky Friedman’s campaign handlers (whose nickname refers to part of a chicken’s anatomy).

• Slap it on the cover of a new natural magazine.

• Use lots of bullet points.

Probably an easier way to do it, but that’s how this one got done.

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Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel. – Roadhouse Blues

Dyer’s advice is good – look back to see who your teachers were in those magic, synchronistic moments, and be grateful. The Lizard King’s advice about where to keep your eyes and hands ain’t bad, either, and sometimes you can do both of them at once (without even being a lizard).

Best way to look back and forward is to acknowledge the folks who came in early and are still here.

No better place to start than with Joe Vitale, who appeared in a two-page spread the first year and immediately gave us carte blanche to write about him and use any of his articles, blogs, and other resources. Many thanks for your encouragement, my friend and brother.

Other clients and contributors who’ve stayed the course since the early days include Geo Growers, Phyllis Light, Beth Carpenter, Nature’s Treasures, Dani Staite of Austin Pranic Healing, and Ashtara Sasha White. Use their services, and those of all our advertisers, and thank them for supporting this publication – which wouldn’t be on the stands without capable paperboys (and girls) to deliver it: Nora Pirsch, Sherie Johnson, recently-retired Bruce Grether, soon-to-retire Charlie Martin, Thomas Grey Wolf Mika, and part-time paper girl and full-time sweetie Kristin Starr.

One thing that makes Austin All Natural stand out is its rich, full-color glossy presentation, rare for a natural publication. The seamless look is the work of art director Pun Nio, who took over a cool format created by Kevin Leonard and gave it her own signature style. Digital artist Leslie Kell turns cover images into an art form all their own, along with a slew of internationally known artists. ((Read more at AustinAllNatural.com)

Speaking of…

What’s next? Expanded article content and other bells and whistles at AustinAllnatural.com, a real live functioning Facebook page, a YouTube channel and secret video project, and OMM101.com, a new marketing tool.

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FAIRY GODMOTHERS The lineage of Austin’s Metaphysical Fair

What was the first metaphysical expo in Austin? Longtime Austin psychic Elaine Ireland remembers the early Seventies at Aqua Fest, a ten-day August event featuring Town Lake drag boat racing, “Ethnic Nights,” and the crème de la crème of Austin society riding in river parades.

Seems numerologist Rita Brown did a reading for someone on the Board of Directors and got invited to read in the circular hallway around the old Palmer Auditorium, a geodesic dome where the Long Center now stands. Five or six readers came along, including Ireland.

“We started every day at noon and read until 9pm,” she recalls. “There was a line all day, and the reader that was available was who the next person got.”

Fast forward to 1994, two years before the big Whole Life Expo hit town, when Julie Wilson debuted Austin’s Metaphysical Fair. Declining health forced Wilson to step down in 1999, and she bequeathed her beloved event to Latrell Maples, who ran it until 2011 – when life once again intervened, and the Metaphysical Fair once again got bequeathed.

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The bequeathee this time was Marilyn Waggoner, who wasn’t a metaphysical practitioner, but was well versed in the community. With an engineering background (inspecting planes for the Navy, and hospitals for OSHA), she brought a new element to a metaphysical world not always grounded in the everyday world – a left brain, ready to organize, make decisions, and revitalize the event.

“I’m on the floor every hour, talking to exhibitors, listening to feedback. You can’t do an event like this without the utmost integrity.” She screens every applicant, and when a waiting list developed for exhibitors for the renamed Metaphysical Life Fair, she started another quarterly two-day event strictly for holistic practitioners – the Holistic Life Fair, naturally.

Along the way, her Spiritual Life Productions picked up the Spirit of All That Is Holistic Healing Arts Fair held at Nature’s Treasures (a monthly Saturday event with lower booth rentals and free admission), the online Austin Alchemist directory, and an Aura Photography business.

Asked if she’s planning on branching out into, say, metaphysical wedding chapels and dog grooming parlors, she laughs and shrugs. “We could use a lot of people in our corner right now.”

Spirit of All That Is Fair, Aug. 2, Nature’s Treasures.

Holistic Life Fair, Aug. 16-17, Metaphysical Life Fair, Oct. 25-26.

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THEY WILL, THEY WILL ROCK YOU

Digging Nature’s Treasures at 14 If you’re an aficionado of crystals and stones, you know the purple book – Love is in the Earth: The Crystal and Mineral Encyclopedia, by the godmother of crystal energies, Melody.

Pretty much the bible of metaphysical stoners, the Earth energies described in the book were channeled from an amazing collection of over fourteen hundred pieces.

The entire Melody collection is coming to Austin.

After what she describes as a “nail-biting bidding process� against a Canadian group and a Japanese entrepreneur, Nature’s Treasures founder and owner Karen Richards has purchased the entire collection, and plans to set up an exhibit to honor them. An online and onsite auction will eventually distribute each of them to new homes around the world.

(Start warming up your manifesting juju.)

Nature’s Treasures is one of those Austin icons that seems like it’s been here forever, but it actually arrived with the new millennium in 2000, as part of Karen Richards’ TOPS locations – cavernous warehouses of new and recycled office furnishings and supplies, with other strange and wondrous treasures lurking in the aisles. (Enron briefcases, anyone?)

When a 2010 fire damaged the flagship E. 5th St. location, Richards bought up Austin’s original Academy Superstore off I-35 and turned it into a 14,000 square foot stone emporium, with a 3,000 square foot Community Center that’s become a hub for holistic and metaphysical groups and presentations, and a practitioners’ space – both available for outside rentals.

Fourteenth anniversary celebrations include: Citywide Treasure Hunt, August 1-7. Treasures from Nature’s Treasures, hidden in Austin’s treasures – fourteen beautiful stones stashed at city parks and iconic locations.

Clues and photos at NT’s Facebook and Twitter accounts and email list. Anyone who finds one, posts a photo to NT’s social media sites, and contacts them is registered to win prizes on‌ Nature’s Treasures Day, August 8. By city proclamation.

Press conference, reception, and the unveiling of a new five-foot wide, five-foot tall amethyst geode from Uruguay, weighing in at over five thousand pounds, followed by. . .

Nature’s Treasures Rock Fest, August 9, 10am-6pm.

Featuring Don Burrow, owner of the largest privately owned quartz crystal mine in the world, along with members of the Austin Gem and Mineral Society and the new Rock Star Observatory, a fluorescent rock exhibit. Games, prizes, and demos of geode splitting and rock polishing.

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25 YEARS OF DREAMS COMING TRUE The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School

by David Lauterstein Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – C.G. Jung Dreams coming true is perhaps the most beautiful thing in life. For twenty-five years now, Lauterstein-Conway has been the home of dreams coming true for graduates, for our staff, our teachers, and for thousands of people who get the energy to fulfill their dreams by receiving student internship massages.

Lauterstein-Conway Massage School was started here in Austin by John Conway and me in 1989. We had been faculty members at another school and really wanted a place that was run more in a manner that was “as healing as the subjects being taught.” So many schools are not run in a healing manner.

This mission has been our dream (and our challenge) since day one. Our first location was at the Colorado Crossing building at Riverside and Lamar, virtually on the site of Austin’s fabled Split Rail bar. We started with eighteen students and two classes a year, and now have eight professional trainings a year, plus nearly forty workshops and a 250-hour Advanced Training.

In 1997 we moved to our new home at 47th and Burnet, in a building behind the Phoenicia Bakery, in what has become the Lo-Burn IBiz District.

Possibilities and parachutes.

I remember the day I decided to become a massage therapist in 1977. I had been searching desperately inside myself (using the tool What Color is Your Parachute?) for work into which I could put my whole self – body, mind and spirit – and which could make a positive difference in the world.

Having considered all possible options, I concluded, “I guess I’ll be a massage therapist.”

Our students as well have this dream – to make the world a better place, while they make their life and their work as fulfilling as possible. It’s by honoring and sharing their dreams that we’re here twenty-five years later, still doing what we love.

Our gratitude to students, staff, teachers, and community is boundless. Thank you to the Austin community and to everyone who has made this all come true.

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David Lauterstein is an international teacher, author of The Deep Massage Book, and the Co-founder and Co-Director of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School. Enrolling now for fall classes, starting Oct. 16, Nov. 11. www.TLCschool.com

FOOD POWERS: Q&A

by Nerissa Oden Food Powers are commonly known as hidden food allergies, food sensitivities, and food intolerance. Food also refers to food chemicals and food coloring. Powers refers to the symptoms experienced after eating food. (As in “POW!”)

What are food allergies? Traditional food allergies are

physical symptoms caused by your immune system’s reaction to food, food chemicals, or food coloring. Symptoms usually appear immediately, or within the hour, after contact or ingesting. They activate immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies, produce massive amounts of histamine, and can lead to lifethreatening anaphylaxis – or may cause non-life-threatening reactions like hives and rashes.

What is food sensitivity? Sensitivity, also called Type-

2, delayed, or hidden allergy, includes Intolerance. It’s an unwanted immune reaction to food, food chemicals, or colors, activating immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies and causing a variety of symptoms that can appear anytime within three days (most often within hours), and may be internal and not noticeable. The medical community continues to debate terminology for food sensitivity, and even its existence.

What is food intolerance? Food intolerances are associated with the gut, considered to be 80% of the immune system and a natural barrier to allergens and invaders. Offending food may be tolerable until the gut membrane exceeds a certain threshold through quantity or chronic consumption, or is compromised by infections, flora imbalances, antibiotics, cortisone, excessive stress, or hormones.

NOTE: Food allergy tests DO NOT measure delayed reactions, hidden reactions, or sensitivities or intolerance to foods.

What causes food sensitivities & food allergies? The

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(WARNING! The following article contains VIRUS SONG LYRICS that will embed themselves in your brain and stay there – all day. Proceed at your own risk.)

Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve played the silver ball.

From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all.

But I ain’t seen nothing like him In any amusement hall...

Go on, shout it out – you know the rest. Anyone who’s ever listened to rock music knows who plays a mean pinball – that deaf, dumb, and blind kid, Tommy.

The soundtrack album for Tommy was released by the Who in 1969, the year of Woodstock and Altamont, and shifted the band’s reputation from a hard-drinking, guitar-smashing, hotel room-destroying bunch of working class lads to – well, a hard-drinking, guitarsmashing, hotel room-destroying bunch of working class lads who created the first rock opera.

And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall…

A few radio stations, including the BBC, banned it and Tommy was heard initially on underground FM stations until it was broken into singles. Ken Russell made a 1975 film of it (in the way only Ken Russell can) but it wasn’t performed on stage until the 1990s.

Austin’s Zach Theatre is presenting a new take on the production, diving down the rabbit hole and through the psychedelic looking glass into a

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Wonderland that director Dave Steakley based on Lewis Carroll’s trippy novel and Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 hit White Rabbit.

Seems British Army Captain Walker has been missing in action, presumed dead, since before his son Tommy was born. He returns unexpectedly and finds his wife with a new suitor, who attacks him. Walker shoots him in self-defense.

In a panic, he and his wife tell young Tommy he’s seen nothing, heard nothing, will tell – nothing.

Tommy takes them at their word (or lack thereof ) and becomes completely unable to see, hear, or speak, sitting immobile and staring straight ahead while a strange alternate reality unfolds in his mind – a break-dancing White Rabbit, his pedophile Uncle Ernie as the Mad Hatter, his brutal cousin Kevin as the Cheshire Cat (by way of Cirque de Soleil, by way of a bully-boy droog straight out of A Clockwork Orange.)

The Red Queen becomes the Acid Queen, to add some sex and drugs to the rock and roll mix (for therapeutic purposes, of course). The march of the playing cards in one scene is worth the price of admission alone, and the ZACH audience becomes part of a giant pinball machine, bouncing big ol’ silver balls around. Oh, and there’s a live band, some of Austin’s best rock vocalists, and real vintage pinball machines in the Zach lobby, free of charge.

Not your average night at the the-ay-tuh.

Tommy’s not your average bit of rock and roll, however. Pete Townshend, who wrote the piece, was a follower of the

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba (who looked a whole lot like Frank Zappa), and based it on Baba’s spiritual teachings.

Baba died in January of 1969, while Townshend was working on Tommy, and had been (get ready for it) in complete silence since 1925, communicating only with an alphabet board and hand signals.

Baba travelled India for years, working with people so intoxicated with Divine presence they were completely incommunicado, helping them communicate their message to the outside world. Voila, you have Tommy – who, after his mother shatters his mirror and awakens him, becomes a guru himself, a rock star messiah based on his pinball wizardry, He makes the biggest mistake a spiritual leader can make, though, telling his followers they can do everything he does, if they’ll simply take time to look within.

“Culturally,” Steakley says, “it has a lot to say about how we create celebrity, and how disposable fame is once achieved, when pop culture moves on to the next hot thing.”

Spiritually, it’s about something else altogether.

See it, as the song says. Feel it.

Touch it…

Tommy plays at ZACH’s Topfer Theatre through August 24. Tickets start at $25, available at (512) 476-0541 (Ext. 1), at the ZACH Theatre Box Office, corner of Riverside and S. Lamar, or at www.zachtheatre.org

CANNABIS 101 THC and CBD

by Nishi Whiteley Cannabis is a flowering plant. When grown for medicine, the flowers and leaves of the female plant are cured, resulting in what we regard as medicinal cannabis – or, more commonly, medicinal marijuana.

Both medicinal cannabis and hemp are in the genus cannabis. The difference is in breeding and growing methods – hemp is grown for fiber, to make clothing, rope, paper, and other products, and medicinal cannabis is bred to have larger buds and more psychoactive compounds. Highly versatile, the cannabis genus provides relief for so many different ailments and symptoms with a high degree of safety that it can sound like Snake Oil.

It’s not.

The cannabis plant happens to be one of (if not the) most pharmacologically active plants on the planet, containing over four hundred active chemicals called cannabinoids, found alongside terpenoids and flavonoids. These components work together to provide a variety of therapeutic benefits – dilating blood vessels, stimulating bone growth, protecting damaged brain cells, killing certain cancer cells, preventing seizure, controlling muscle spasticity, killing viruses and bacteria. The combination of varying levels seem to make the most effective medicine – isolated components appear to be less effective, but still therapeutic.

While over a hundred different cannabinoids occur in cannabis, the two most well known occur in the largest volume: • Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the primary psychoactive component of medical cannabis, which gives the “high.”

• Cannabidiol, known as CBD, is considered nonpsychoactive. CBD and THC are believed to have a synergistic effect. CBD, when used in conjunction with THC, helps dampen psychoactivity and other side effects some people consider undesirable.

CBD is the cannabinoid most common in hemp.

CBD-rich cannabis (4% or more) provides therapeutic benefits without the euphoria or lethargy of high-THC varieties. While THC is known for its psychoactive properties, CBD may be best known for its ability to counterbalance anxiety, rapid heartbeat, hunger, and sedation caused by THC, and for its ability to control severe epilepsy.

CBD, once considered a minor cannabinoid under the shadow of THC, is as beneficial and versatile as THC, addressing many hard to manage conditions – diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, epilepsy, antibiotic-resistant infections, alcoholism, PTSD, and neurological disorders. CBD has very strong properties as an anxiolytic (reduces anxiousness), anti-convulsant, anti-emetic (reduces nausea), anti-inflammatory, antioxidant (stronger than vitamins C and E), antidepressant, and anti-psychotic.

One of the most exciting aspects of CBD is its strong combination of anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, and neuro-protective properties, which yield great promise for the treatment of Alzhiemer’s, Parkinson’s Disease, and all neurodegenerative-related diseases. CBD also helps regulate blood pressure, and is cytotoxic to breast cancer and other cancer cells, while protecting healthy cells.

Although possession of cannabis is illegal under federal law, twenty-three states have a medical cannabis law, and more are expected by the end of 2014. Isolated THC, the component of cannabis that the federal government claims is the offending compound that makes cannabis illegal, is available with a doctor’s prescription under the brand name Marinol. CDB products isolated from hemp (not the medical cannabis plant) are being sold throughout the U.S. – legally.

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EPIGENETICS Have You Restored Your Original OS-Human Settings Yet?

by Christina Allen It was only ten to twenty years ago that we thought of our genes as being hardwired and absolute. The dye was cast when the DNA of our mother and father merged in the egg and a zygote was formed.

A new field of biology called Epigenetics says otherwise – instead, every significant experience we have in our lives shapes us genetically into who we are. It’s been shown that we’re constantly turning on and off genes with our mere thoughts, and with how we process experiences.

With the old model, the way humans evolved over time was from one generation to the next; after you had passed your genes on to your children you were essentially genetically obsolete. We now know we continue to evolve from within a generation. While our parents give us the basic genetic building blocks, the rest is up to us.

So the real question is – are you all you can be?

Listening to the wind.

Who we are starts, in large part, with our early childhood environments.

In indigenous cultures children are taught that everything is conscious, and therefore has a voice. They hear wisdom in the stones, trees, and wind, and this activates genes that facilitate processing this kind of information.

Because they grow up in dialogue with Nature, they are very sensitive to its nuances. They know they are part of

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a Web of Creation that always supports them, because they hear it all around them. In our culture we are brought up learning how to navigate complex electronics and process intense bursts of audiovisual information. We have put the Creator’s voice in the sky, and find ourselves begging to be heard.

Our human condition is marked by feelings of disconnection, isolation, anger, and loneliness. Depression and anxiety levels are at record highs as we try to find ways to cope. Some of us would like to get back to that mythic Garden, would like to feel connected to Creation and hear its voices again.

It’s not too late.

The good news is you can go back and activate the genes you missed out on by being raised in this culture. One of the gifts of the shaman is her ability to align with Nature and use that energy for healing.

By doing the self-development work of the shaman initiate, you go back to basics and learn to align with the Five Elements. You learn to listen to plants, animals, and stones again. This turns on those dormant genes that facilitate listening to your environment, enabling you to work with Nature, instead of against it.

While not everyone wants to be a Shamanic Healer, walking the path of the shaman initiate restores your indigenous alchemy, allowing you to reclaim the basic genetic makeup that is not activated by the experiences of

our modern culture. Instead of defining yourself by those old tired stories of your childhood, you remember who you are and always have been. You remember your essential self, and even realign with your purpose.

Back to the Garden.

As many of us embrace adulthood and see how out of balance the world is, we look for ways to bring it back into harmony. Choosing to become a shaman initiate, or Mesa Carrier – whether you go on and learn how to be a healer or not – heals you. Because you are part of the Earth and its consciousness, as you increase your vibration and sensitivities, you come back into alignment with your original nature, restoring your connection to the planet. As you heal, the planet heals.

The real question is – why wouldn’t you?

Christina Allen, Healer, Teacher and Founder and Director of the Austin Shamanic Center combines a strong science background (BA Physics, MS Neuroscience) with decades of applied ancient spiritual wisdom (Master Yogi, Reiki Master, and Shamanic Healer based on Q’ero Indian traditions of Peru) to help you step into your highest destiny.

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by Michael Abedin Med students who hack into a cadaver find out what an intricate (and messy) network of interlocking systems the human body really is, but there’s an equally intricate energetic grid keeping the whole thing humming along. The Chinese mapped parts of it out thousands of years ago and developed the art and science of acupuncture to determine how and where to work with it.

Electronic mapping techniques indicate a glitch in an acupuncture meridian can be seen in its corresponding organs, and also in distant focus points – one of the most common being the jaw and teeth. The implications of this are pretty profound – for starters, it emphasizes how much oral health affects the whole body.

It also implies that treating a meridian disturbance could affect the teeth, and vice-versa – get rid of that pesky #5 tooth that’s had three root canals and a low-grade infection, and see if that little colon issue clears up.

Using the chart.

• Each of twelve main acupuncture meridians has an associated organ, paired with another meridian/organ combo in a yin/yang arrangement.

• Teeth are numbered starting with #1 in the upper right (a wisdom tooth, whether it’s still there or not), dropping to #17 in the lower left, and ending with #32 in the lower right.

• Each tooth has a meridian/organ partner, and relates to other anatomical parts. (Full chart at AustinAllNatural.com)

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WHAT IS FLUORIDE? Everything you DIDN’T want to know

by Gary Hanna In case you didn’t know, fluoride is highly toxic. Before being deemed a “cavity fighter,” it was an insecticide and rat poison. Even more surprising – when it comes to dental hygiene, fluoride does more harm than good.

A brief history lesson – switch off the lights, and turn on the projector: • Fluoride is a pollutant, a by-product of copper, iron, and aluminum manufacturing.

• The problem of disposing of fluoride legally was solved in the 1930s, when a study (funded by one of the country’s largest aluminum companies) concluded fluoride prevented tooth decay.

• Successful PR, along with cooperative government cronies, resulted in good news – this miracle chemical, added to water supplies, will give everyone healthy teeth and brighter smiles.

Does fluoride prevent tooth decay?

Not according to the largest study conducted – 39,000 school children around the U.S. Results showed no statistical difference in tooth decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated cities. Trends tracked by the World Health Organization since 1970 show the incidence of decayed, missing, or filled teeth steadily declining in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Iceland, and Greece.

Why? Better oral hygiene and dental practice. Certainly not fluoride, because only one of those countries adds fluoride to public water supplies – the U.S. Some of them used to put fluoride in water, but wised up, many refusing to run fluoride through citizens’ faucets based on the radical idea that health treatments should be personal choices, not mandated by government.

So how is fluoride bad?

The irony is when you consume too much fluoride, your teeth can discolor and crumble. But that’s nothing – in lab animal tests, fluoride enhanced the brain’s absorption of aluminum, found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Three osteoporosis studies associate hip fractures with fluoridation, and excessive fluoride has been shown to damage musculoskeletal and nervous systems, leading to limited joint mobility, ligament calcification, muscular degeneration, and neurological deficits.

Saving the worst till last, a number of studies link fluoride to as many as 10,000 cancer deaths per year. In the meantime, local, state, and federal government across the U.S. dismisses this bad news.

Why? Maybe they’re terrified that if they admit fluoride is poison, the deluge of civil law suits just might wash them away.

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For centuries, people have used steam to purify the skin, soothe sore muscles, stimulate circulation, and simply relax. A steam sauna with ozone not only allows steam to surround the body, it introduces ozone through the skin. (The sauna used for this treatment keeps your head out, so you’re not breathing the steam/ozone combination.)

During a steam sauna, the body perspires profusely. Ozone is easily absorbed into the skin and lymphatic system because of the open pores, giving you the system-wide effects of medical ozone therapy: oxygenation of all tissues, organs, and cells; boosting of the immune system; stimulating the release of anticancer substances from white blood cells; and the enhancement of blood and oxygen delivery throughout the body.

Sauna therapy is also the most efficient way to remove toxins from the body, including pesticides, drugs, and petroleum-based and organic chemicals. Research shows fifteen minutes of sauna, through sweat, eliminates the same amount of heavy metal it takes the kidneys twenty-four hours to excrete – and mercury loss may be even more substantial.

Sweat removes excess water and heat, and contains almost the same elements as as urine. (The skin, in fact, is sometimes called the third kidney.) Perspiration eliminates as much as thirty percent of body wastes – but a sauna’s effects aren’t limited to removing toxins: • If the skin discharges even a small amount of liquid waste through sweating, other bodily systems are spared a considerable amount of work sorting, processing, and eliminating waste.

• Induced hypothermia can mimic the effects of a fever without the discomfort, slowing the growth rate of viruses and bacteria – or destroying them.

• A thirty-minute sauna session can burn more calories than jogging or swimming, vigorous racquetball, marathon running, even peak effort rowing.

Turn up the heat.

For some, saunas are a relaxing pastime. For others, ritual sweating is a way of communing with the Divine. For still others, having the regular use of a sauna is a life-saving necessity. Adding steam and ozone is a relaxing and noninvasive way to clean the skin, pores, and lymphatic system, and take advantage of two therapies at the same time, each with its own benefits – and it leaves you feeling clean, refreshed, and rejuvenated.

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Join us to celebrate our anniversary at one of many August events: August 1-7: Nature’s Treasures City-wide Treasure Hunt. Find beautiful rocks we’ve hidden at Austin’s iconic spots around town and win more treasures! See www.NTRocks.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for clues! #NTrocks August 8: 11:30am. Nature’s Treasures Day Join us for the press conference as the City of Austin proclaims August 8 Nature’s Treasures Day! We’ll also unveil our new Uruguayan Amethyst Geode – 5 feet wide, 5 feet tall and weighs over 5,000 pounds!

August 9: 10am-7pm. Nature’s Treasures Rock Fest – a Rock Fest that’s all about rocks!

“Meet the Miner” Don Burrows, Collier Creek Quartz Crystal Mine, Story, Arkansas.

Lots of fun for rock lovers of all ages. Face painting, balloons, rock toss, gem digs for adults and kids, demos of geode splitting, rock polishing and more! See the new Rock Star Observatory featuring fluorescent rocks that glow in the dark. Pan for treasures in a real gem mining sluice! As an added thank you for 14 great years in Austin, enjoy 20% off all purchases! (*Publications, CDs, DVDs, Services, Lapidary Equipment and Supplies and already discounted merchandise are ineligible for 20% discount.)

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TREATING YOU, NOT THE DISEASE Being-centered health care vs. symptom-centered treatment

by Meridian Grace, ND Most of us have learned to settle for taking something to get rid of an ache, pain, symptom, or diagnosis (the old “Take two pills and call me in the morning”). But how does this address the cause, or the person who has the problem?

Just because sixty percent of people benefit from some pill or treatment doesn’t mean you will. You might actually end up worse.

Today, most medicine, allopathic or alternative, is based on treating a lab result, symptom, or diagnosis – not the person who has these things. You’re a complex, unique being.

Identifying your specific, genetic, DNA-driven nutritional needs, and understanding the foundation of your body’s functions (and things in your lifestyle that inhibits these functions), are important to come up with a truly holistic plan.

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It begins with finding the unique fuel for your body. Put sugar in a gas tank, a car won’t run well – possibly not at all.

Choose the wrong fuel for your genetic needs, and your body won’t function anywhere near capacity. For some, this happens immediately, like an anaphylactic response to peanuts causing closing of the airways and death. For others, continual daily

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consumption of large amounts of GMO’s might lead to severe gut challenges, infertility, even cancer over a prolonged period of time.

Natural selection has led you to dietary needs based on the food of ancestors who lived in the same basic locality for thousands of years. Over time, it was only those who could thrive on what nature provided who could procreate and bring forth healthy offspring. Nature provided unique soil minerals, weather, and sustenance options, like vegetation and animal life. If your ancestors couldn’t do well on these things – you wouldn’t be here. Through your genes, they passed on unique fuel needs.

The spider’s web.

There are many well-meaning books out there, talking about how one person got well doing some special diet. But you are you. The real question is, what do you need? Like a spider’s web, a tiny touch of one delicate filament causes a ripple that’s felt in the entire web. Anything that affects a single aspect of your health has repercussions through your entire body.

For over thirty-three years, Bill Wolcott has fine-tuned the metabolic typing process, beginning with people with cancer. He’s demonstrated that people with life-threatening conditions could muster up the ability to heal and live far healthier lives than they did before their diagnosis by flushing out underlying causes, blocks, and insults, and treating with diet, healthy nature-based lifestyle, detoxification, and the unique food-based nutrients required by their genetics.

Only after all blocking factors have been flushed out can you apply nutrient-based allopathic support.

Every Metabolic Typing Advisor brings a unique background to their work. Meridian Grace is a Metabolic Typing Advisor who applies forty years of training in homeopathy, bio-energetic frequency testing, European screening techniques, blood microscopy, regulation thermometry, Asyra, and muscle testing to create an individualized nutritional approach. Her partner, Dr. Richard Massey, is a highly trained alternative MD who looks deeply into ancestral and emotional DNA aspects of health, and explores the role of unconscious causative factors in disease.

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by Joseph Bender, (Part 4 of a series) What’s the only compound on the planet that exists in all four states of matter – solid, liquid, gas, and plasma? (Hint – it’s also the only substance on the planet that behaves contrary to every other substance, expanding instead of contracting when frozen, and behaving like a solid at high vapor temperatures.)

Correct – water, which, at precise temperatures, has all sorts of anomalous properties that defy the laws of physics.

Beyond the H2O molecule there are thirty-three other forms of pure water.

Every ancient spiritual tradition understood the transformative tool water is to human consciousness: • Ancient Jewish prophets prayed by bodies of water, because access to divine consciousness is always easier through this gateway.

• Tibetan monks chanted nonstop around a vat of water for 24/7, and that water became a healing elixir for villagers.

• In ancient times, community spiritual leaders would be in charge of the village well, because water and the spiritual connection of the people were interchangeable.

Modern times.

Sadly, we’ve not only disconnected from this grand mystery – this portal to other dimensions, this gateway to spiritual experiences – we’ve demystified it as a lifeless chemical compound of oxygen and hydrogen, flushing waste and toxins into it. Cities flocculate our waters with aluminum, bombard them with chlorine and ammonia, and insult our sovereignty by forcing us to take doses of fluoride.

Sick bodies, full of pharmaceutical drugs to keep us droning along, dump new levels of these chemical cocktails into our water system, with higher and higher levels of toxins being reported every year by independent testing agencies.

One of the first steps in returning to being spiritually conscious humans is to reconnect with the mystery and wonder of water. First, understand how to redeem it from the negative place it’s currently in, freeing it from the chemical soup to which it’s in bondage. Then, learn how to revitalize it, understand how it flows, how to feed its life force.

Finally, restore our reverence and awe of its gift of life and its beauty -- understanding it truly is a gateway to other realms.

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Dear Ashtara:

Messages from Your Angels and Master Teachers

Dear Ashtara, I’m not sure how much longer I can do this job I have. My prospects appear slim. Should I continue and just bear it, or is there another opportunity I should pursue that I just don’t see? Katie, 62, Austin, TX Dear Katie, When you were a youngster, it seems like you thought about art and being an artist. Why not take a couple of classes and enjoy growing older instead of being stillborn with your career? You were birthed to become a great lawyer or artist. It’s never too late to do art. Your high teacher is Melchizedek and you helped to birth the Order of Melchizedek. Your guardian is Gabriel. Last lifetime, so don’t hesitate in getting your job fulfilled.

Dear Ashtara, Will I be successful in a way that I am helping people? I’m 47, just moved, and it has been a hard lesson to see if there is light at the end of this wilderness. I have no friends or family. I am spiritual, but I get weak too.

Dray, 47, Austin, TX Dear Dray, Opportunity knocks, and when she does you will be a willing servant. This will not happen for four or so years. At that time you’ll help people on a continual basis. You were born to be a medical doctor, osteopath, dentist, or great healer. Helping people is where it is at with you. Friends will come as soon as you get in the right profession. Thank you for your devout spirituality. We all get weak from time to time. Don’t worry about it. Archangel Michael is your guide. God and Archangel Metatron have been sending you messages for eighteen years. They say, for example, “Get up.” (Like off of the couch) and when you don’t do it, they quit asking. Do what your little voice says and they will help you more and more. You are a giant on the other side with the Galactic Federation, as well as the

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spiritual hierarchy. You are the light and love of the heavenly host. Hilarion is your highest teacher.

Dear Ashtara, Should I reunite with an ex or move forward?

Greg, 43, Austin, TX Dear Greg, Under the circumstances it looks like you should reunite. Your ex-partner seems to have shifted, therefore, it could be better than ever. A lot of times, people try it again and they either win or not. I think yours will be a winner. Melchizedek and Lord Maitreya are at your helm.

Dear Ashtara, Sometimes I feel like I’m not deserving of love. I feel like this is why I haven’t found my soul mate. How can I change my outlook on this? Autumn, 28, Austin, TX Dear Autumn, Everyone deserves love. Even the smallest creatures deserve love. You really do think that you deserve love – you’re just not sure who wants to love you. So begin repeating this positive affirmation: “I am love. Love follows me wherever I go. My new twin flame is sure to find me. I am happy, joyous and free.” Your guardian angels are Sananda, Gabriel and Maitreya.

Private Sessions can be scheduled (in person or phone) that include psychic, medical, profound healings, questions answered and m ore. Ashtara Sasha White is a “gifted” psychic, profound healer and channel from the Ascended Masters/Archangels. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, Sound Current Healing Master Teacher, speaker and teacher of the Light. Join her group on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30PM. See her events at www.

AshtaraSashaWhite.com. Call (512) 278-0559 or email Ashtara@SashaWhite.com to submit your question for ‘Dear Ashtara’ (10 to 20 words) with name, age, city and state.

ASTROLOGY And Spiritual Evolution

by Anthony Mont Living. An enigmatic journey that takes the spirit through a series of experiences with one final objective – union with the Great Source. So, we need to grow in consciousness.

For this, it’s necessary to develop a higher view of life’s transcendental purpose, and to know and understand the role we play in our own lives.

Spiritual astrology can be of great help in this area.

Spiritual astrology is more than simply a reading, providing a transcendental perspective of life experiences – and ultimately, a pathway to evolution. “Know thyself,� said the Buddha.

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Consider for example, the experience of having intense opposition to your point of view or your desires. At work, this translates into opposition to your projects and ideas – not an easy thing. How do you tackle this situation?

Do you push back? Do you let go?

How will you feel if you let go? Sometimes, you go through these experiences unaware of planetary transits that activate conditions in your subconscious, creating these challenging situations. Is it your fault? Are you right? Are you wrong?

Instead, the question is – what’s the higher truth you can embrace?

This is why it’s important to keep in mind that for an astrological consultant, it might be irrelevant if the planet is called Mars or Neptune, or if the natal chart presents oppositions or trines, or if the north node conjuncts Saturn.

Instead, an astrological spiritual consultation should focus on addressing life challenges, difficulties, and opportunities that are being presented in the life of the client.

Depth – and a holistic perspective – is key to opening the consultation to new possibilities in life, recovering old experiences and reframing them within positive meanings.

Remember, you’re perfect – in essence. Your wrappings though, are susceptible to improvement.

The drama of life is necessary to make spiritual evolution possible, and spiritual astrology can be of great help for the consultant. Consequently, far from divining the future and from responding to shallow questions about fortune, love, and fame, spiritual astrology is there for you to illuminate an otherwise encoded message.

Anthony Mont is a Spiritual Astrology consultant, who credits the spiritual concepts presented in this article to the teachings of his spiritual master.

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The Burnout Remedy

Bach Chronicles, Part Thirty

In the 1930’s, English physician Edward Bach created a series of thirty-six flower remedies, prepared from plants found in his native England, to address underlying mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of physical disease.

by Michael Abedin The alarm goes off, and you hit snooze. You hit it again – and again. Just can’t drag yourself out of bed to face another Monday morning.

Thing is, it’s Thursday. Maybe even Saturday.

It doesn’t matter, because every morning feels like Monday, every day feels the same. You’re stuck in a rut, and it’s getting deeper.

A strong cup of coffee gets you going for awhile, and a new project or task gets your interest level piqued – for awhile. Should’ve spiked that cup o’ Joe with a few drops of Hornbeam, Edward Bach’s remedy for the worn-out, exhausted feeling that drops down about two feet over your head like a hot, grey, still Austin day and stays there.

You got – the blahs.

Hornbeam is for when your eyes and head feel like you’ve been stuck all night in an Amtrak station in the middle of nowhere waiting for a 5:00am train and you’ve just watched six consecutive episodes of Law and Order. You’re just this side of burnout – or maybe just the other side.

Magic bullets.

An important note – Bach didn’t create his remedies for physical symptoms. Hornbeam may help with the exhaustion, dull headache, and lethargy that comes with not being in love with the way you’re living your life – but it ain’t a magic bullet that will let you keep doing what you’re doing, only with more energy.

Magic bullets only work for werewolves, and you’re dealing with an energy-sucking vampire, of your own creation.

Turn off that dang phone that sucks in your awareness like a black hole, and quit multi-tasking – an endeavor that keeps you working constantly, shaves points off your IQ, and makes you work harder to fix the mistakes you make.

Knock back some Hornbeam. Read a novel (not a selfhelp book). Work out, even (especially) if you don’t want to.

You’ll thank your Self later.

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