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EDEN MAGAZINE
June 2012 Volume 2 Issue 6
spreading compassion to all sentient beings and Living in healing and peaceful world Editor
Maryam Morrison
Eden Magazine credits photos published in May’s Issue: Anahid Bermudez Photographs: Anemyah Arts , David Alfaro , Mara Hernández Stylst: Felicia’s Shop; El Costurero Real , Elena Pérez MakeUp: Sarai Alvarez; Eva Vegas ;Aïda Fernández
Front Cover painting by Nanne Nyander Eden Magazine is an independent monthly online magazine. Our aim is to create a better environment where we live among other living being in peace and harmony. We support artists that their work match our criteria. If you would like to submit your artwork, article or/and your Photography For our future issues please contact Maryam Morrison at; edenmagazine@hotmail.com or www.theedenmagazine.com 2 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
Nanne Nyander
4 Chakra Journey
By; Michele Rabbitt Billman
8 Katerina Kostaki
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Falling Apart Falling Together By; Ellen Heller
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C O N T E N T S
Extra things to help with emotions By; Owneb Fox
20 The Flow of Life By; Elliot Eli Jackson
22 The four spiritual elements
By; Sally Morningstar
24 Worthless woman Worthless dog By; Debra J. White
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Nanne Nyander www.nannenyander.se
Nanne Nyander was born in Sweden. Painting and drawing was part of Nanne’s life from early childhood. Her talent followed her through the years in her life, as she says “The path of Painting has no end”. Nanne studied at Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy and spent several years painting in the studio of Odd Nerdrum in Norway. The Renaissance and the Dutch masters inspired her painting in oil; her amazing style of painting gives a deep and powerful message. This attracted the attention of many private collectors around the world as well as notable institutions including the National Portrait Gallery in London, England and Jonkopings Lans Museum in her native Sweden. “A great Painting is compressed of several elements”, says Nanne “There is a technical aspect which one learns from a teacher or in the Academy, but just as important is the painters ability to see“.
Angels with a message. The message of love and happiness, in her paintings she creates harmony and increase the meaning for our existence, this make a difference in each individual’s life. “I paint Angels with a message of Awakening and Healing. My goal is to inspire people, to make them feel peaceful and happy.” Nanne’s vision of the concept behind each painting is to transmit each one of us to the circle of the complete positive energy that surrounded us. So much more can be said about Nanne’s painting, but one important point is that through her painting she shows what inspire us to create a better world for ourselves, to finding tranquility and stillness, and this all follows in Nanne’s painting. In each painting you find not just an Angelical image, is the communication between you and her painting.
She is working on a series of Angel paintings called “Angels of Virtues”. Her painting is an inspirational sig- Nanne currently lives in Sweden where nificance of how she feels. She paints she operates her own studio. 5 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
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When I grew up in the 70’s, chakra’s were a popular subject to discuss in books and on TV programs. They would show beautiful colored charts with detailed information that explained the chakras and their positions on our bodies. All of the information was fascinating but I could never keep all that “New Age” stuff straight in my head. Even after I was trained in Reiki energy healing, I felt the idea of the seven main chakras points on our bodies was just an ancient fairy tale. A trip to the doctor’s office one day changed my whole perspective on this fairy tale to a scientific fact. My mom and I were waiting for her internist doctor’s office for over an hour with nothing to look at except an anatomical medical chart hanging on the wall. I got so bored while waiting for the doctor, I actually started studying the chart showing all the glands in our body. I giggled to myself about how this chart of the “Endocrine System” brought back memories of my old high school biology class. The chart showed the pineal, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, adrenals, pancreas, and reproductive glands. Suddenly I realized that the glands were
in the same positions where I memorized to place my hands during energy healing sessions. I counted the glands shown all down the body, there were seven main areas on the medical chart just like there are seven main chakras on our body. Before my eyes was scientific proof of the chakra positions and why it’s important they need to be kept energetically balanced. The endocrine system is the glands in our bodies that controls our hormones. We all know how important it is to keep our hormones balanced thanks to advances in modern medicine. The hormones affect our emotions which controls how we view ourselves, how we connect with the outside world, and how we connect to our inner world within ourselves. The information about the chakras has been around for thousands of years. I was astounded that ancient cultures knew about such a sophisticated system in our bodies and how important it was to keep the gland areas balanced and healthy. I was under the impression the chakras and their positions on our bodies was based on myth or legend.
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Cha Jour
By; Michele R
akra rney
Rabbitt Billman
This time the information handed down over the centuries wasn’t lost in translation or even embellished. Now that I realized their actual existence, I could easily visualize the chakra areas in my mind, thanks to my new found knowledge from an old doctor’s medical chart. In fact, it made sense to what I felt for years during Reiki healing sessions. Most of the energy I felt flowing out of my hands during healing sessions were when I placed my hands at from the top of the head down to the groin area. Unless they had injured legs or feet, I usually didn’t feel much of my energy being pulled out of me in the lower areas of their body. I was intrigued to learn more about our chakras since it really did correspond to energy healing. I knew the next thing I felt compelled to learn about the chakras were all the different colors that corresponded to each of the chakra’s positions. At the time, books were inconsistent with the color information, different authors had their own opinions. The internet network was incredibly slow and
such a chore to do research with the world wide web. I was totally in the dark and frustrated not knowing the proper colors to each chakra. I knew this information could really enhance my meditative healing sessions. I put my research on hold since I wasn’t getting very far. In the meantime, I concentrated on conducting as many energy healing sessions as I could for people of all ages, shapes and sizes. We are all unique individuals so every energy session feels different. Stress and trauma can make a person’s energy field around their body to become scattered or bunched in areas. As a Reiki healer, I use the energy flowing through me from my Higher Power Source to help smooth out the person’s energy to evenly flow around their body. Now, being able to visualize the chakra energy portals on the their body, I used these portals like safety values to help re-balance their areas. I would add or release their energy through these natural port holes. The one thing that all the healing sessions had in common was the fact that I could feel their energy emitting from the top their head and shoulders the easiest.
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The wave of energy from the top area of their body would pulsate at rapid rate compared to the torso and the legs. The lower areas of the body had a slower pulsating wave of energy emitting from them. Memories of my middle school science class experience flashed before my eyes during a healing session. I saw charts of wave pulses being compared to the frequency of the energy. A quicker pulse of energy meant a higher frequency and a slower pulse of energy meant a lower frequency. I knew colors pulsated at different light frequencies and that’s how our eyes detected different color distinctions, but could never remember which colors emitted a higher or lower frequency.
learn how to draw rainbows. I thought it was fitting that the rainbow-man’s green color which was in the heart of his name was in the same position of the heart chakra. Line up the green color on the heart and all the rest of the colors just fall into place and into the correct positions. Crown, Third Eye, Throat, Heart, Solar Plexus, Sacral, Root. I could finally easily visualize the chakra positions and their colors, I wanted to verifythe pulsating energy compared to the color frequency. I was hoping that what I was feeling during the Reiki healingsessions wasn’t just my imagination. The library had an old science school book showing all the colors that create white light which was the same colors of the chakras, ROY G B I V. The violet color, which is located at the top of the head, was shown in the book to have the highest frequency and the quickest pulse rate. The red color, which is located at the groin area, was shown in the book to have the lowest frequency and the slowest pulse rate. Scientific proof of what I was experiencing was an accurate account of the energy emitting from the person receiving my Reiki energy!
Later I came upon a chakra book that showed the colors in a simple way. They showed bands of colors across an outline of a person’s body. I was always so over whelmed with this foreign concept of chakras and the colors associated with them, that I never paid attention to the pattern of the colors. I knew if I wanted to remember the bands of color I would have to write the colors down in a notebook. I drew each band with a colored marker over a rough outline of a person. I put the first letter of each band of color to help me figure out a All this information coming together memorable acronym, so I wrote down made me a true believer in the exisR O Y G B I V. tence of the seven main chakras on our bodies. I know sometimes you have to I couldn’t believe I didn’t realize the step out in faith and accept information colors of the chakras were all the main that has been written, but I also think colors of the rainbow! We used to it’s important to be a student of life and call ROY G. BIV the rainbow-man in engage in your own research before elementary school, it was a fun way to receiving information as a fact. 10 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
The main concept, I couldn’t ever keep it straight in my mind was, if the chakras were spinning to the left on one color frequency or spinning to the right on another, and how the colors interacted with each other when the chakras are spinning independently parallel to the ground? In one of my meditations, I saw a rainbow-man receiving the white light from his Higher Power Source. The white light entered through the top of his head and exited out from his lowest chakra, the exited light expanded and penetrated the Earth. The energy of light narrowed down to enter the rainbow-man’s head, the white energy started to spin like a vortex all the way through him. Inside the man was a rainbow colored tornado of energy running all the way through him. All the colors were spinning in the same direction but the chakras kept their individual light frequencies to create the rainbow effect. He looked just like a cool tornado science project, as long as the white light was channeled through him all the colors spun in unison in the same direction vertically connecting to the earth. The rainbow-man became a worm hole for the light energy to tap into the Earth. He literally became a vessel that channeled the energy connection between Heaven and Earth. The rainbow-man’s colors grew brighter and brighter which also made the earth grow brighter. I felt that this was a verification that prayer and meditation is a way to raise the vibrational level to our third dimensional world. Perhaps if we all do our part to raise the vibrational levels of ourselves then the fourth dimension could
become reality here on Earth. Every time I think of the chakras I visualize a pulsating rainbow-man. I thought it was fascinating that we are made up of all the colors that create white light. When all the colors of light are perfectly blended together they are all seen as one beam of white light. Perhaps when we learn to perfectly balance our chakras to work in unison we become what the ancient cultures called “enlightened”. To glow from within the white light of our Higher Power Source would be awesome! At the very least, in our current imperfect state of being, we refract the perfect white light into the colors of the rainbow. Rainbows made of light frequencies nestled together is still an awesome display of how the Universe works. In the beginning of the Universe all that existed was expanding white light. At end of our Universe all there will be left is white light, but we will all be brought back to our original Source of Light, making the rainbows of light blossom into pure white energy once more. Expanding my mind with old school lessons to gain valuable knowledge was purely accidental. Sometimes you have to go back to the basics in order to move forward with new ideas. seekscapes@hotmail.com
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Katerina Kostaki
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Katerina Kostaki is a visionary artist, spiritual author, poetess, freelance article writer, mentor and video creator.
She was born in 1966 in Athens, Greece. with spiritual attainments and goals in life, a place to share visions and dreams for a She was awarded as Mentor for partici- spiritualistic world for a mankind united unpating to the European Union Program der Love and Light. Co-editor on the CONentitled “Implement” (May-October 2006) TEMPORARY LITERARY HORIZON in contribution with two International MAGAZINE (Bucharest ) since 2009. Universities: Institut Technik Undbildung and Deis-Cork Institute of Technology. Speaker on various spiritual events and She attended lessons on Counselling book presentations .Radio producer on on 2007. RADIO PLEADES STATION, an internet radio station with her radio program enShe took a distant learning course on titled “The Light of the Dawn” (narration “ALCHEMY OF TRANSFORMATION” only on Greek language). by Classic Insight Org. (former Online Humanities Org.) on 2010. Her fantasy adventure novel, “Life journey that carries hopes” (Original Greek Her work related to spirituality, spiri- title: “Το ταξίδι της ζωής φέρνει ελπίδες”, tual coaching/ counselling, mythology, was published in Greece (written and esoteric research, self esteem, rela- published in Greek language) by the midtionships, self improvement, historical dle of December 2007. reviews, Nature protection, New Age, mystery and metaphysics has appeared Her second book is a spiritual poetry book in several publications (trade –union, entitled “Sympantiko Fos”. (Original title local and cultural) both in print and online in Greek language is: “Συμπαντικό Φως”/ . Sympantiko Fos ). It was also written and published in Greek language (Self – She writes and translates her books/ publishing : October 2008). Both Greek articles /poems/newsletters from Greek books were re-published by the author on to English language herself. 2012 and could be purchased on her official webpage . Member of the Greek Literary Union. Owner of ACADEMY OF INNER LIGHT– Sympantiko Fos was translated in English NETWORK, an international portal for all language by the author and published as writers, poets, artists, healers, dreamers, “Cosmic Light” by Xlibris Publications on truth-seekers, fellows of Love and Light December 2010.
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Katerina’s Kostaki inspiration derives from Classic Hellenism as well as mythology,history, spirituality, traditions, values inherited by Wisdom distilled from centuries and need for social and self improvement. What the author states is that her basic motive for starting writing of her books, articles, newsletters and poems is her willing to assist each human embarking a life journey through the unique realm of words and pictures, a mysterious journey through infinite timelines that allow fantasy prevail and provide people with precious values and models that strength mind, soul and body.
scribed but only an intellectual, Divine River of Dreams, Light and Unconditional Love”. To order copies of this book, contact: Xlibris Corporation 0-800-644-6988 Also can be purchased http://www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk http://www.barnesandnoble.com http://www.amazon.com
To contact Katerina visit; ACADEMY OF INNER LIGHT NETWORK http://www.academyofinnerlight.net/ http://endlesslifejourney.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/authorkaterinakostaki
Her latest book “Cosmic Light” is a spiritual book of poetry, written and pub- http://www.youtube.com/katerinakostaki1966 lished primarily in Greek language in http://www.twitter.com/katerinakostaki Athens ~ Greece (October 2008). Its http://www.facebook.com/groups/academyofinnerlight original title is “Sympantiko Fos” . It’s a hymn to Unconditional Love and Com- http://www.facebook.com/groups/endlesslifejourney passion, a legend for Eros and Soulmates, a new perspective of our astral origin and evolutionary path to Light that underlines humans’ willing to reconnect with Cosmic Consciousness, a commitment with Destiny and Higher Good according to a Divine Plan. “Poetry is a vivid spiritual gate. However the magical sense that a reader derives from the poetic travelogue could be de-
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Poems By Katerina’s Kostaki
Homeland
Only Love can...
May the fullness of time take me back pure and chaste to the place whence I set out thousands of miles distant light years away in other galaxies.
Let Love dry your tears... not a trace, not a sign. only you and your Love.
I would stalk in the crystalline caves of Astynoë I would catch the scent of the blooms on the island of Alkamene. I would come to know the multidimensional parks of Kalliste derive brilliant ideas from poetry and art. I would dance on the glittering coasts of Helikona Beneath the Full Moon of Alkyone would drunken be and in the crystal towers of Iridion sense a love unique from an astral world!
What if time has not touched you what if Night has not kissed you the Light in your heart is the song of sweet sleep. Let Love cover your body with the veil of Forgetfulness only Love can do this. If life led you this far then loneliness has followed you like an odd friend . The Shadow in your own true Light. Let Love sing its own dream maybe it may forget what holds you back...
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FALLING APART FALLING TOGETHER By Ellen Heller
I remember somewhere I had heard the expression, “....When things are falling apart, they are really falling together.” That was a wonderful statement to hear, as long as nothing was falling apart. But (and this is crucial) WHEN things feel or seem to, or ARE falling apart, how many of us can pull ourselves away, even for a moment, and think this way? Not many. And the question is.....WHY? Why do we let ourselves get wrapped up in the drama? Why do we let ourselves get caught up in emotional trauma that is not our ‘doing’? Answer: it IS our doing. We create all of it, with our thoughts, and everything on the outside of you, is a reflection of what is TRULY going on within. 16 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
Hard to accept at times, isn’t it? Well unless we take responsibility for all of it, we cannot change ANY of it. We are pure reflections of God; we are Spirit, not matter. We are an Intelligent Idea in the Sacred Design of the Universe/One Mind/God/ All that Is. We come here for a purpose and everything that comes into our reality is because on some level, we desire to experience it.. When someone is in trouble, it is our natural state to wish to help. For the Truth is, what blesses one, blesses all. What you do for someone else, you do for you, for we are all connected....We are All One.
way’ really leads to. We sometimes marry the wrong person, and live in quiet desperation, waiting to die, but afraid to. We choose a job we do not like because we went to school for it, and feel we cannot change at this late stage of our lifetime. We also close off those around us, thinking that we can just numb ourselves by using either legal or illegal substances. And we will do this until we do not.
But the Truth of who we Really Are is Pure Perfection; There is nothing we have to do, and no where we have to go; we create every rule and regulation that we live by. We so often do this to stop ‘Things This is not to say that we choose ‘con- from Falling Apart....’ sciously’ to suffer or to be victimized. It is rather a decision, a Soul decision, in Only problem is that it doesn’t prevent that order to decide what we wish to be in rela- at all. tion to it all...that is why all holy collaborations are called “relationships.” (This is LISTENING with your heart; FEELING all explained in depth in a wonderful book, with your Soul; DECIDING what you wish called Conversations With God, Book 1, to be in your GREATEST and GRANDEST by Neale Donald Walsch). version and vision of yourself, of Who You Really Are (which is Spirit)...that is why we If we look around us, many of us see that are here….and that is what causes it all to things are not the way we wish; we some- finally “fall together.” times wonder how others even handle their lives, if it appears more challenging And, if you cannot do this for yourself, do than our own; we often day dream about for another, and it will be done onto you as a better life than what we have, no matter well, for we truly are all One Mind/Spirit. what we own or whom we have to share our moments with. Remember, ...’Everything’s ok in the end; if it’s not ok, then it’s not the end. In truth, usually things appear as if they are falling apart because we have been Blessed Be. trying to manipulate the Universe. We, within the confines of our physical structures, do all we can to ‘get our way.’ Oftentimes, we really don’t know what ‘our 17 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
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Spirit-Minded (Advice Column)
Kind Guidance for Creating and Accepting Spiritual Health
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Question: Dear Spirit-Minded: I have been reading some terrible things about 2012. I also read that we should renounce everything we can to ‘prepare!’ I like my life and what I have; I also would like to keep it that way. What do I do about this? I don’t know how to think about it all. Some are calling it “judgment day,’ with the world ending, and I am so scared! Could you help me with this? From Scared
quires nothing else. Pray (be in Gratitude, which is the True Prayer), for an uplifting of the Consciousness for All, including Self, for an awakening into the New Age,/the New Earth is what and why we have chosen to incarnate at this most Sacred time in our history. All are Blessed..
All are part of this re-birthing....Welcome to this most Wonderful Year...2012! Blessings for a most joyful year, for Answer: Dear Scared: There is only this IS the year that is truly The New Love. There is nothing therefore to Age in full Glory. renounce. Any renouncing of anything is an untruth, for there is nothing but Question: Dear Spirit-Minded: I try so Love. We make up rules and regulations hard to let everyone know that they are in order to feel we are doing ‘good’ and safe, that everything is really ‘all good,’ then punish ourselves if we don’t live but they won’t listen to me. They call up to these rules and regulations. me a crazy ‘new ager,’ old hippie, etc., and the more I try, the more they turn There is only God/Love. To renounce away...what am I doing wrong? From means you are doing your best to ‘not Tired of Trying need’ something anymore, and in truth, you are without need anyway. A state- Answer: Dear Tired: Why didn’t Jesus ment of saying we must ‘not need’ is heal the whole world? You know, as a actually saying that we ‘do need,’ but Master, he could have, but did not. Reado not ‘want to.” son? They didn’t ask! Yes, in the wisdom of Jesus, The Christ, He knew and Being in gratitude for all we have and understood that some Souls wished all we are is enough...enough to keep to go through what they were going everything we have and to need noth- through, and would only assist those ing (no thing). whom asked. This path is one of not intruding. Even writing this “Spiritual There is no need for God in that need- Guidance Column,” is something that ing implies we do not have God, and is written as I am asked for help. IntruGod is all we do have; all we truly Are. sion only leads to resentment, anger Therefore, WE DO NOT ‘NEED’ SOME- and fear. Practice on only giving ‘inTHING WE ALREADY HAVE! There formation’ when someone asked, and is only one Being here, and that is your reality will change into a most lovLove....and....recognizing We Are That; ing and fulfilling experience. we are Love, is a completeness that re- Blessings! 19 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
EXTRA THINGS TO HE
By Ow
Its truly soothing and enlivening and wonderful to get out and about and get sunshine, fresh air and contact with people. Dont watch or listen to too much stuff that brings you down like certain TV programs or music thats angry or depressing, dis-empowering etc. this is very important! Listen to and let into your consciousness positive, healthy, empowering, uplifting things, and people and events. seek them out if you dont already have them set into your lifestyle!
of green smoothies, where the ingredients are water, some fruits, and some green leafy vegetables.
Its a full meal or snack in itself, a few glasses in the morning and you’ll be flying, it will not only give you physical energy, but you’ll feel fantastic mentally and emotionally, clear and positive! You’ll feel amazing taking these energy boosters and whole body and mind and organ healers, regenerators and you thening real foods, you will also LOOK younger, and have more beautiful skin and look Eat plenty of fresh, raw, living food more radiant. like fruits and green Vegetables, and juices and blended smooth- Get plenty and enough sleep ies of fruit and green leaves like and rest, if you don’t get enough spinach, dandeloins, celery, cu- sleep, try prioritize catching up or cumber, kale, lettuce etc. drink resting as much as you can during plenty of water. cant emphasize the day. or take a day time nap or enough the power and impor- even a short lie down, your body tance of water!! heals and gets stronger during rest and especially sleep, thank Start your day with 4-5 glasses goodness for beds, and our warm of water a short while before you homes and clothes. eat anything, even if its watermelon or anything juicy or juice itself. I recommend taking plenty 20 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
ELP WITH EMOTIONS
wen Fox
Celebrating having a body thru enjoyable body movement is essential too, you can call it exercise or not I call it celebration and thanksgiving for having a body as well as exercise, love it, enjoy it, let loose with it, play like a child with it! Move your circulatory system thru and exercise you like, and do plenty of it outdoors as much as you can. NATURE is incredibly healing and soothing and relaxing, so get outdoors anywhere you can and breathe the fresh air and move your body and you can also move in your house. Include shaking, bouncing on the spot or rebounding, stretching.....
be mindful or anything. try enjoy everything in life, as best u can. you could learn a new thing and gain enjoyment and satisfaction that way, things like yoga, dance, walking group, hill walking or running club, qi-gong etc.... You could get a book and read or go to a class or outdoor group. these have extra advantages as their can be social and more fun. Give yourself best chances to SHINE thru choosing healthy things for yourself.
If you want and enjoy this will get not only your blood circulation go- To contact with Owen visit: ing but also your lymphatic sys- http://www.facebook.com/messages/?action tem moving too, where toxins can =read&tid=id.306562766047646#!/profile. php?id=752376297&sk=info be transported to the organs of elimination, and nutrients and ox- http://www.youtube.com/user/0wenfox#grid/ user/8F65C88D09374617 ygen can be transported to all the lovely, living, happy cells of your body. Enjoy your body you can also be mindful and aware moving the body, but very importantly, also have fun! Dont try too hard to 21 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
Monthly Message from Source
The Flow of Life
By: Elliott Eli Jackson
WE speak to you now about the flow of life. It is important for you to understand this undeniable process. Fore, once you understand the flow of life, acceptance comes. And then you will do what is necessary to remain and stay with the natural flow of things. When this is accomplished dreams come true, and your heart’s and soul’s desires become obtainable. 22 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June
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The laws of the universe dictate what the flow of life is. Almost all processes on your planet, your home, your earth, flow and work in conjunction with gravity. There is reason and purpose that rivers flow a certain way. And it has to do with gravity.
ing this and starting to use this knowledge can and will allow you to prosper in life because you will know that success is your right. You will intuitively feel that you were born to succeed, that failure should not be an option. You will know that in the case of failure you are supposed to feel Even the thought process follows grav- bad and be depressed. Realizing this and ity. Why? Surprisingly, to many, the most accepting this will set you on a course tomass in the body is oxygen or air, which wards success. is, as WE tell you now, spirit. And, in gravity, everything moves towards the most Fore, at this point, the spiritual portion mass or in correlation to it. This means of your being, if at or guided towards a that the spiritual portion of you is primary higher vibration, will push to the forefront and should be treated as such. Thoughts of the being and will bring about the soluare not concrete but are spirit. It is, there- tion. This is why, after failure, one natufore, the spirit or thought whose move- rally seeks inside self to figure out what ment must flow down into and through the went wrong, wrong being a relevant term. body for the actual physical action to oc- Therefore, if a thought or idea is of a high cur. Now, with only a few exceptions, do vibration it will produce like results. The things not flow down? Salmon are one of results will be a successful outcome. If these exceptions. Salmon swim upstream the thought or idea is of a low vibration it to reproduce in the same spot or place will produce a like result. The results will where they were laid and hatched. Water be mediocre or less than the successin plants and trees is another exception. ful outcome wished for. The issue with And, to be sure, there are other examples human beings on planet earth is that that WE ask you to look into and inves- many are settling for the mediocre or less tigate for yourself. Fore, remember, WE than successful outcome. This is because promote self-instruction in many areas. they fear stepping out and changing their And, in fact, when you research things for personal vibration that brought the origiyourself you are participating in the pro- nal thought which produced the action or cess of self-realization, which, of course, actions. You do not have to be one of is spiritual also. REMEMBER, you are them. everything and everything is you. WE tell you it is possible for you to change Many people on planet earth do not have the vibration within self and get back that which they desire because they are into the natural flow of life that is Sucfighting the flow of things. What is the flow cess. Continue, therefore, to read this of things, you may ask. Well, the flow of magazine and others like it that lift the things is that all thoughts and ideas start spirit of man and woman, and guide you as a vibration. All things are of a vibration- towards the heavens or US – God. al nature, and thus spiritual. Understand23 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
THE FOUR SPIRIT
By; Sa
The four physical elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water are manifested rivers and lakes. These are the manifested aspects of each Element.Th be used to develop a deeper personal understanding of our true natu THE most incredible journey we can take in a lifetime - a journey I hop
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TUAL ELEMENTS
ally Morningstar
d in our reality by solidity, fresh air, winds, warmth, light, rain, oceans, he four Elements also have qualities in the spiritual dimensions that can ure. Going deeper into self and developing self awareness is probably pe more and more people will come to value and appreciate.
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AIR
The physical Air Element is closest to Spirit (or ether) that is the space that contains all of the spiritual and physical Elements. When Spirit descends into the physical Elements it travels from Spirit into Air, Air into Fire, Fire into Water and Water into Earth, travelling from the most refined down to the densest. Thus to bring Spirit down to Earth, we begin with the Air Element and the qualities of Spiritual Air. Within the air we breathe we can also find the qualities of Spiritual Air, those finer virtues so lacking in the human spirit these days – honesty, integrity, honour and truth. NEGATIVE SPIRITUAL AIR The unrefined manifestations of Spiritual Air would include negative thinking, poor communication, gossip, inability to learn and grow, tyranny, fear and anxiety, dishonesty, mental chaos, psychic confusion. POSITIVE SPIRITUAL AIR The pure qualities of Spiritual Air are honesty, the ability to learn and understand, integrity, clear communication, constructive thinking, honour, mental harmony, clairaudience, and intellectual brightness. Air – Purity of Mind Our thoughts must become spiritually pure so that they do not hinder evolution from the lower to higher mind. The lower or limbic mind – is our place of survival and primal instincts. The Limbic must evolve into the neo-cortex (the frontal lobes of the brain). 26 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
FIRE
The physical aspects of the Fire Element are warmth and light. The fire of the Sun is central to Creation for without it there would be no life. The spiritual essence of the Fire Element does not consist of the physical flames that we see with the naked eye. It is a vital energetic and vibrant force that brings courage, strength and nobility. Spiritual Fire is transformative – moving the seeker to greater consciousness by ‘burning away’ those things that no longer serve us well. Spiritual Fire, like when making a real fire, requires a sacrifice of some kind; the tree; its branches, the candle flame; its waxen body. With humans – for example - cowardice must be sacrificed in order for bravery to emerge. NEGATIVE SPIRITUAL FIRE When being met by lower frequencies in the soul, Spiritual Fire can produce aggression, domination, cowardice, temper, erratic behaviour, unpredictability and egotism. POSITIVE SPIRITUAL FIRE The purest qualities of Spiritual Fire are courage, nobility, inner conviction, strength, humility, compassion, passion, and transformation. Fire - Light of the Divine Love is light and heat and life itself. Spiritual Fire reveals to the soul how to fight cold reason and logic with simple love. Love awakens Divine consciousness and devotion.
WATER
The physical Water Element flows across most of the Earth and our bodies contain over 75% of it. We birth in physical form from the waters of a womb. The Spiritual Water Element presides over the emotions, the feelings and perceptions. It is flowing by nature and teaches us how to be flexible and adaptable. Just as physical water cleanses, quenches and cultivates the land so Spiritual Water brings us opportunities to cleanse emotions, quench our spiritual thirst, and cultivate our inner being. The spiritual Water Element also governs sleep, dreams, psychism and relationships of all kinds.
what the outer circumstances in life. We find a state of tranquility and calmness that is based upon strength - not upon lethargy and indifference.
EARTH
The Earth Element in its physical manifestation provides us with the material world, with all matter, food, vegetation, and species. These are the physical aspects of the Earth Element. Spiritual Earth invites us to wisdom and understanding, to making connections and realizing our reliance upon Creation; and thus to honouring and respecting the Earth. We learn to become reliable, to embodying all the best attributes of a Mother full of unconditional NEGATIVE SPIRITUAL WATER Spiritual Water when hindered by blocks love. As with all things we have the choice in the soul will induce over-emotionalism, whether we move in negative or positive reactionary behaviour, stagnation, inse- ways with Earth’s spiritual potential. curity, doubt, inflexibility, depression, and NEGATIVE SPIRITUAL EARTH mood swings. The baser, more negative translation of Spiritual Earth energy within our characters POSITIVE SPIRITUAL WATER The purest expressions of Spiritual Water would include obstinacy, stubbornness, are love, flexibility, devotion, co-operation, sexual dysfunction, poverty consciousclarity, developed intuition, serenity and ness, inflexibility, unreliability, meanness, grace. The Spiritual Water Element helps laziness, and sloth. us to develop clear boundaries, clarity of purpose and direction, and deepen under- POSITIVE SPIRITUAL EARTH standing of our inner feelings and senses. The highest qualities of Spiritual Earth would include wisdom, stability, reliability, protection and strength in adversity, enWater - Baptism of the Soul Responsibilities are opportunities. Learn durance, clairsentience, nourishment and to discriminate between unnecessary bur- abundance. We can work with the Spiritual dens and spiritual opportunities. Water is Earth element when needing to psychicalsymbolic of the emotional nature. We learn ly protect someone, because of its abilities to become still, so that the tranquil waters to earth and stabilize unwanted or overwithin us may reflect the Divine, no matter charged energy. 27 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
Earth – All Substance is Formed from the Formless All solid matter is charged with formless Divine energy. The spiritual Earth element teaches the soul how to free itself. Releasing self from the bondage of matter can be likened to crucifixion and death, but only of that which is not the true self. Earth knows that we cannot die, that we still live on. The candidate for Earth must realise that life can never die. The dead body is simply the shedding of a skin. The soul returns to its true home – which is in the timeless, formless space. How to evolve the four Spiritual Elements forms part of my online magical appren- Sally M is a Photographer, Life & Soul ticeship scheme, details of which can be Coach and Natural Living Skills teacher, based in the UK. She runs an internafound on my website. tional, online distance learning course for For more details please go to anyone interested in coming home to their www.sallymorningstar.com true nature. She also runs magical and www.wix.com/magicalnature/natural-living natural living workshops and offers www.wix.com/magicalnature/sallymphoaffordable healings and consultations. tography
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Worthless
Woman, Worthless
Dog
By Debra J. White
For $2.00 I got Maxine. The drug dealer didn’t want the scabby dog but snatched my lunch money instead. That was back in 1988 when I was a social worker in a decaying Bronx neighborhood overrun with crack cocaine, heavily armed thugs, and packs of hungry stray dogs. By 1999, my beloved Maxine faded from age and diabetes complications. I feared the end was near. Judy, my other adopted dog, was never alone. So I asked my friend Theresa to join me at the county shelter to adopt a dog. Hundreds of cast off mixed breeds and purebreds yapped for my attention as we strolled down the aisles. Their eyes melted my heart, pleading for love. I could only take one. Who would it be? Luke wasn’t on my list of potential candidates. Other dogs had more spunk. A plump black mutt with a cute wiggle 30 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
caught my attention. Theresa steered me to a big red terrier mix with sad eyes. Reluctantly, I caved in and took a look. Originally brought in as a stray, Luke was adopted then returned a month later. The new owner said Luke would be an inconvenience during his impending move. Once outside the noisy shelter, Luke brightened up. He smothered my face with slobber. From side to side his tail flapped. Tipping his head back he howled, as if belting out a top ten hit. My motorized scooter was no impediment for him although he tried lifting his leg on the rear wheel. Luke sat like a good boy, handed me his paw and rolled on his back, kicking his legs in the air. There was no way to resist his canine charm so I adopted him that sweltering July afternoon. I thanked Theresa for her persistence in nudging me towards Luke’s cage.
Maxine as it turned out hung on for almost another two years. Luke and Maxine connected even though my older dog wasn’t much of a play partner. Mostly, she slept. Judy and Luke however romped and frolicked in the backyard, playing with toys and chasing each other in and out of the doggie door. The two were inseparable. I loved Judy but she was fickle due to previous maltreatment. I rescued her from a shelter in 1992. Luke, however, loved and adored everyone. He had personality plus. What about pet therapy? A car accident in 1994 left me critically injured. My two dogs, Maxine and Judy, played a major role in my recovery. During their bedside visits, I correctly identified each dog at a time when I didn’t know my own name or where I was. Medical records showed slow steady improvement after they spent time with me. Two months later, the rehab center discharged me to a vastly different world. At the age of 39, I lost my career and part of my mobility. If it wasn’t for two wet noses kissing me every morning, I would’ve lapsed into a deep depression. I felt worthless - disabled, unemployable and uninsurable. Maxine and Judy pushed me off the pity pot. Slowly, I re-invented myself as an animal shelter volunteer, freelance writer, and pet therapist. I shrugged off society’s view that I was a heap of nothing, even though I had plenty of contrary experiences related to using a wheelchair but that’s for another story.
all good nature. I wanted to share his gifts with sick or injured patients, just as Maxine and Judy uplifted me when my life unexpectedly capsized. Luke breezed through a behavior test and passed a medical examination, allowing us to join the Companion Animal Association of Arizona, a non-profit pet therapy group. As a team we would visit sick, elderly, or injured patients at a rehab center every Friday morning. On our first week, Luke endeared himself to the recreation assistant, a gregarious 40 something woman named Kim with a Julia Roberts smile. Luke and Kim developed a comical routine that never wavered for the three years we visited the center. At 9:00 a.m. Luke and I waited in the lobby. As soon as Kim approached, Luke’s tail wiggled in circles. He yipped and yowled. I let go of his leash, cracking up as my dog dashed down hall throwing himself into Kim’s tender, loving arms. Smiling, Kim jostled good-naturedly with Luke and then we made our rounds through the center. My twice abandoned dog was on a roll. He did his job with gusto.
Patients welcomed me and Luke. Reactions to Luke were priceless, such as Maria, the older Latina woman with a brain hobbled by a stroke. Only two words remained in her vocabulary – Maria, Maria. When Luke and I rolled into her room, the tender expression on her face said she was pleased. Grinning, she Luke showed potential for pet therapy, stroked Luke with her good hand and said such as ease around strangers and over- “Maria, Maria.” 31 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
I always said hello and asked how she was. Nodding, she replied, “Maria, Maria.” As Luke brushed against her wheelchair, the gleam in eyes showed appreciation. An older, be-speckled patient named Will saved treats for Luke, such as bacon strips, hard-boiled eggs, and soggy wheat toast, which my dog gobbled up in seconds. Luke’s bad manners tickled Will. Two years later, Will suddenly died. As we bypassed his room, Luke yanked on his leash as if to say, “What about Will?” He missed the old man’s affection and the tasty treats he always saved for him. And then there was Frank. For reasons I never understood, Luke picked Frank as his special friend. A long-term patient, Luz, Frank’s mother, was stricken with terminal lung and heart disease. In his younger years, Frank drank to excess, was chronically unemployed and gambled away his mother’s meager earnings as a janitor. Later in life, Frank spruced up his act. Now his mother needed him and Frank visited her daily. Every time Luke saw Frank he bellowed as if he’d seen his best friend. Then Luke cuddled with Frank, soaking up the affection. Frank piled on generous hugs and kisses. Although Luz was on a ventilator, she was amused by their tender interaction. I asked Frank why he didn’t adopt a dog. “I’m here all day,” he said. “It’s not fair to leave the dog all alone.”
for iced-tea. On the couch there rested a big mixed breed dog. Frank’s mother had passed away and I expressed my condolences. A stray dog had followed Frank in a parking lot. He remembered all the good times he shared with Luke. So he picked up the dog and gave him a fabulous home. Visiting some residents tugged at my heart. Not everyone had family members, friends, or neighbors to assume care for their beloved dogs or cats. One woman cried when she first met Luke. “I had to surrender my cat Wheezy to a shelter when I came here. I felt,” she said with weepy eyes. Nearly every week she asked me to find out what happened to Wheezy. I said the shelter did their best to find her a good home. As a shelter volunteer, I knew that old cats faced great odds. They were rarely adopted but I kept that harsh reality to myself. The old woman was overwhelmed enough. Luke’s presence swept a small smile across her face, even though she preferred cats.
Not everyone at the rehab center withered away. Some patients like Irma and Dottie recovered and moved into assisted living facilities where pet ownership was often permitted, sometimes even encouraged, so seniors stayed active. Irma, Dottie and other patients asked me for shelter or rescue contacts to adopt older cats or dogs for company. Research shows that elderly people with pets often live longer healthier lives. I was always One scorching summer day, I ran into glad to help. Frank a few years after I stopped volunteering at the center. He invited me in Luke not only brightened up patients’ lives 32 THEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
but he brought relief to over-worked staff bors, and pets. Luke and I would follow too. Nurses, doctors, aides, and thera- Gabriel’s Angels’ philosophy and spread pists benefitted from Luke’s weekly visits. kindness, respect, dignity, and compassion to all living beings. Children who abMary, the physical therapist, often asked sorb humane messages are more likely if Luke could stop in for a few minutes to be free from the shackles of violence. when patient visits were done. Doctors Luke bonded with seven-year-old Kevand nurses welcomed Luke’s canine in. Sandy-haired, blue-eyed and wheelcure. Sometimes, Luke calmed agitated chair bound, Kevin’s bodily movements patients so medical staff could perform an were spastic and his speech profoundly examination or obtain a medical history. slurred. I presumed cerebral palsy. Luke Everyone at the center loved Luke. sidled next to Kevin, making the little boy giggle. Despite staff worker’s assurances On a chance encounter at a local dog that Kevin couldn’t speak, I heard him bakery, I met Pam Gaber in the sum- say, “The dog” several times. One week, mer of 2001. Founder and president Kevin wasn’t around so I asked about the of Gabriel’s Angels, it is a non-profit boy with CP. organization that tries to break the cycle of violence in bruised, battered, and “CP?” The staff worker shrugged. “His at-risk children through healing pet thera- mother’s boyfriend beat the crap out of py. As a former social worker, I was well him.” As a toddler, Kevin fussed a lot. One acquainted with the familial patterns in day, Joe flew into a rage and pummeled domestic violence and child abuse. I liked Kevin with his fists. Joe went to prison but Gabriel’s Angels philosophy and signed Kevin’s sentence was a lifetime of proup as a volunteer. Luke’s membership in found disability. Luke brought him brief Companion Animal Association of Arizo- moments of solace. na made him eligible for Gabriel’s Angels. When I met ten-year-old Linda her mothInitially, I retained dual memberships. As er served time for abusing her. Although a disabled person, I no longer worked so Linda escaped severe physical damage I had enough free time for two pet therapy like Kevin, she was emotionally shredvisits. Luke had plenty of love and com- ded. Her mother also killed her dog. Her passion to share as well. father, who assumed her care, recently lost his job then became homeless. Linda Gabriel’s Angels assigned us to an after- adored animals and talked to Luke as if school program at a homeless shelter. he was her personal confidant. From her Homeless children had their lives torn vacant stare, I often wondered how much apart by poverty, parental unemployment, we reached her. She was deeply troubled. domestic violence, or divorce. Left behind were their friends, community connec- In our July issue read more about Luke tions, classmates, extended family, neigh- and Debra story. 33 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM • June 2012
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