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8-9 The Heart of the Shaman: Stories & Practices of the Luminous Warrior By Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
10-13 The Mystic Chaplain: From Cancer Survivor to Becoming a Chaplain By Rev. Kathy Collins
14-17 Frequency-Infused Audios: A New Technology to Shift Reality By Ellen McDonough
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The Heart of the Shaman:
Stories & Practices of the Luminous Warrior By Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D
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THE SHAMANS OF the Andes know and serve a sacred dream, one that guides planets across the heavens and our human destiny here on earth. These wisdom keepers believe that each of us is given a fragment of the sacred dream to hold and express in our own way. When we forget that we carry an essential and necessary part of the sacred dream, we begin to spiral into disarray, our personal dreams become nightmares, and our lives collapse into chaos. In his new book, The Heart of the Shaman: Stories & Practices of the Luminous Warrior, medical anthropologist, shaman, and bestselling author Dr. Alberto Villoldo describes how we can get back in touch with the sacred dream, focus on what is real— and important—in our world, and become fully aware of the possibilities available to us for a better future.
that is unconditional are fallacies, and the sooner we accept that life is ever changing, that our mortality is a given, and that no one can liberate us from a life of fear and insecurity except ourselves, the sooner the chaos in our life turns to order, and beauty prevails. Discovering the sacred dream requires courage, and it won’t come knocking at our door. It entails leaving the familiar to embark on a quest, refusing to compromise our integrity, and never allowing ourselves to be seduced by the “easy path.” It calls on us to fight the lie that our daydream is adequate and will continue to keep us comfortable. “This,” notes Villoldo, “is why it is called the way of the luminous warrior.”
When we find our sacred dream—our mission in life and place in the cosmos—the creative power of the Universe becomes available to us to generate beauty in “Many people have replaced the sacred dream with a the world, and to heal ourselves and others. We become dream of fame, fortune, power, and Facebook likes,” a luminous warrior. Instead of battling to defeat people writes Villoldo. “Meanwhile we are facing global or situations, we battle our own tendency to forget the crises—from climate change to species extinction, sacred dream and get lost in a daydream doomed to war, famine, and disease—all of which are calling us become a nightmare in time. to dream a new dream for ourselves and the world. We find that whatever the challenge, spiritual resources To discover our sacred dream, Villoldo says we must first are available, allowing us to find our courage and step recognize that some of our most cherished daydreams forth into our destiny, allied with Spirit in the work of are actually delusions. Security, permanence, and love dreaming a new world into being. 8 www.esswellness.com
“You dare to speak the inconvenient truths, uphold universal values that honor all life, and perform daily acts of courage. These practices are essential in a time when dreaming happens only when we sleep, where cowardice is honorable, where hindsight seems wise, and where spirituality is spineless,� Villoldo writes.
The founder of the Four Winds Society and Light Body School, Villoldo has trained thousands of energy medicine practitioners and health coaches, and written 17 books, including Shaman, Healer, Sage and the Top-Ten Wall Street Journal bestseller, One Spirit Medicine. The Heart of the Shaman: Stories & Practices of the Luminous Warrior is published by The Heart of the Shaman takes readers on an enriching, Hay House. www.theheartoftheshaman.com soulful experience, through stories, dreams, and ancient rites and ceremonies. Villoldo shares timehonored wisdom to explain how to find our sacred Click here to visit www.theheartoftheshaman.com dream, embark on a journey of transformation and healing, and discover the light within and around us. summer 2018
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The Mystic Chaplain, My Story
From Cancer Survivor to Becoming a Chaplain By Rev. Kathy Collins
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IN HER RIVETING new memoir, The Mystic Chaplain – My Story, Wisconsin author and hospital chaplain at Meriter Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, writes about being bedridden with cancer for six months and how it changed her life forever. This whirlwind journey is an awakening of the metaphysical world, messages, visions, self-healing and synchronized events of people put on her path to understanding our oneness. It is a journey of healing through one’s own heart. This compelling memoir is worth taking the time to read in this fast-paced world we live in. It is a journey of reaching back and connecting with ancient ways and also combining with the New Age ways we are being introduced to, by opening doors to a world that is so
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close to us, most cannot see it, but many can feel. It’s like the wind, we can’t see it, but we can feel it. It is our soul’s awareness that we are hungry to learn more and want to be able to fill our hearts with a “New Fire of Love.” We are capable of healing ourselves, and when we are ready to let go of our individual pain story, our heart has the power to heal us and the world. It is a story of bringing Heaven and Earth together through oneness. Chaplain Kathy shares her pain story of not being valued and how she grew from it and answered the call as she was nudged along the way through her “Doubting Thomas” years to becoming a hospital chaplain.
CHAPTER EXCERPT FROM THE MYSTIC CHAPLAIN By the end of the first week of treatment, my stamina was diminishing fast. Mom and Dad drove me to the emergency room of our nearby medical center. The on-call emergency room doctor was a young man who was smart enough to know he was in over his head when he assessed my medical situation. As my weakened body slid down sideways on the two-seater bench I had come to rest on, he told me he wanted to call in doctors from the medical center that would be better suited to handle my situation. I agreed. As he made his calls, I was quickly placed in an available emergency room down the hall.
a vein on either of her arms that will work.” Another doctor replied, “Check her legs for something that will work.” While I lay there between life and death, Mom sat silently on a chair in the room with her head down. I asked the medical team to have her wait in the waiting room with my dad. I didn’t want her to see another one of her children pass away. Without her uttering a word, I saw Mom look up and shake her head defiantly from left to right with a look on her face I often saw as a young child and knew instantly should not be questioned, and the doctors sensed it too – she was not leaving me alone.
My situation was threatening, yet my demeanor was As the medical center doctors worked frantically on peaceful and not the least bit anxious or fearful. My me, I believed I wasn’t going to make it. I heard one heart, mind, and soul were in complete surrender of the three physicians in the room say, “I can’t find mode. I was in one realm, and everyone else in the room CONTINUED PAGE 12...
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and saw the young emergency room doctor pass by the door of my room. We made eye contact. A few was in another, yet we were all there simultaneously. A minutes later the young doctor came to the door, and protective barrier, like a clear bubble, surrounded me we again made eye contact and this time he came into and emitted a gentle vibration with a low humming the room and came directly up to me. He said nothing tone like the sound of a hummingbird’s wings when it to the other doctors in the room, but he asked me, “Is is suspended in flight. there anything I can do for you?” I replied, “My head is cold.” He immediately pulled over a goose-necked I was able to watch and listen to everything that was going lamp and adjusted it over my head, so I could feel the on in the room, but the quick movements and verbal warmth. He then left the room. sounds of the medical staff no longer meant anything to me. It was as if they were all in an entirely different Eventually stabilized and sent to a nearby hospital, I bubble, just outside of my own, and dealing with a mentioned to Mom how sorry I was I never got the young emergency room doctor’s name to thank him for what different situation, which was of no concern to me. he had done. For the next six months, I was bedridden While the medical staff worked feverishly to find a vein because of the reaction to the chemotherapy treatments, somewhere on my body, I happened to look to my left and I had many more trips to the emergency room after CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11...
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each treatment, but I never saw the young emergency room doctor. I thought about him and talked about him often with Mom. It was as if both our souls were connected by an invisible thread. He was continually in my thoughts during the difficult months of treatment and healing, and I always regretted not having been able to thank him for his gesture of kindness. Chaplain Kathy works through the heart when working with her hospital patients. Many individuals struggle with their faith and don’t know how to rekindle the connection with their faith community or to be able to connect one-on-one. Their hearts are aching for something more.
Chaplain Kathy Collins, ASC, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised along the Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Michigan in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Her insatiable love for history was fulfilled by taking as many University of Wisconsin Extension courses she could find through the years. Her life experiences of working in the business world, being a volunteer hospice caregiver, and surviving her own personal fight with cancer, gave Kathy the tools to fulfill her spiritual journey of transformation to becoming a hospital chaplain. She now resides in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. kathycollinswriter@gmail.com
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Frequency-Infused Audios: A New Technology to Shift Reality By Ellen McDonough
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MANY HAVE HEARD of Reikiinfused music for relaxation and meditation but can audios also be infused with frequencies to create abundance, revitalize the body, attract a soulmate, release limiting beliefs, clear dark energy, and so much more? I know they can, as these audios have definitely worked for me!
Fortunately, synchronicity led me to discover audio tracks infused with powerful high-frequency energies along with specific, pure intentions. I was already familiar with energy work so I decided to give them a try.
Honestly when I first started listening, I felt like my energy field was being blasted with white light, then in the following days I’d undergo a detox, both physical and emotional, as if anything that didn’t match the high-frequency energies came up to be released. It MY OWN STORY wasn’t always easy, but I just went with it and after Frequency-infused audios have helped me in so many a short time I’d feel much better with my symptoms ways, but primarily with health and healing. eased. Other audios I’d play on a loop while I slept and when I awoke I’d feel much lighter, as if some old A few years ago I suffered with pain and extreme energy that had been weighing me down had magically fatigue, as well as a series of bizarre symptoms that no lifted. Still others simply put me in a more heightened one could explain. Dietary changes and supplements state of awareness whereas my guidance was clearer helped, but they didn’t cure. I saw countless health and life became more synchronistic. practitioners, both allopathic and holistic, but despite their best intentions, nothing changed. Suffice it to In short, by listening to frequency-infused audios say, I felt miserable, depressed and hopeless. from a number of different healers—and thereby
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immersing myself in high pure frequencies—one by one my symptoms gradually vanished, and my energy returned. While this wasn’t the only factor in my recovery, these audios, produced by gifted healers around the world, beyond a doubt played a key role.
virtually anything in life such as prosperity, success, spiritual awakening, emotional healing and so much more. “The Universe doesn’t speak English, it speaks frequency.”
Since then I’ve used frequency-infused audios to also create abundance miracles, clear my energy field, WHAT ARE THE AUDIOS LIKE? The audios are all different, as each healer has his/her increase intuition, and so much more. own unique style. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” –Nikola Tesla
For example, some audios contain talking, similar to a guided meditation but the healer is actually transmitting energies to the listener. Other audios FREQUENCIES CAN SHIFT contain music, and some have Light Language. Some PHYSICAL REALITY audios have voice toning, where instead of a musical There is a new technology available called “frequency- instrument, the healer uses their voice to transmit infused audios” (also called “energy transmissions” or frequencies; still others are completely silent. “energetically-encoded audios”) in which top energy healers are infusing and encoding audios with very CONTINUED PAGE 16... high frequencies and pure intentions to shift or create
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belief, situation, etc also has its own unique frequency, or as Dr. Richard Bartlett puts it, “patterns of light and information.”
Also different are the ways the audios can be used: some require active listening, but many may be played on a loop during the day or while you sleep and you Taking this a step further, science has also now proven can bask in the high energies non-stop. A few require that through quantum entanglement, “patterns of headphones or earbuds, but the vast majority do not. light and information” of any thought, emotion or intention can be imprinted on a physical object, and What’s important to know about playing these audios in turn, affect the world around us. is that anyone and anything near you will also get the benefit of these frequencies, so you can broadcast Scientists like Dr. William Tiller and Dr. Masaru healing frequencies to help other people, pets, plants, Emoto have proven this: Dr Tiller successfully altered etc., even to raise the vibration of an object or room. the ph of water by imprinting an electrical circuit It’s a great way to help make a positive difference in the with this specific intention, and Dr. Emoto proved emotions alter the crystalline structure of water. world around you! HOW DO THEY WORK? Science has agreed that the world around us is comprised of vibration, energy and frequency—not just the physical world but every thought, emotion,
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The healers who create frequency-infused audios have the ability to first channel high, pure Source energies, then with focused intent, encode an mp3 with these specific frequencies.
When these audios are played, their high frequencies are transmitted and new “information” is introduced into your field and into your consciousness; on the quantum level, you actually receive new Light codes and data. As your consciousness and energy field entrain to new frequencies, your physical reality begins to shift and your awareness opens to new possibilities.
play a money miracles audio and this will entrain you to success and prosperity; if you are suffering from grief, play an emotional healing audio and you’ll find yourself entraining to higher states of peace and joy.
Ellen McDonough is the founder of PureLight Audio (http://www.PureLightAudio.com), a mobile app that serves as a marketplace for frequency-infused audios. Ellen is also a visionary artist who channels “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match images of Atlantis, high spiritual realms and other the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot star systems, then imbues her images with light and help but get that reality. It can be no other way. high frequencies. Ellen’s art may be viewed at http:// This is not philosophy. This is physics.” —Bashar www.PlacesofLight.com. This is how vision boards and affirmations work: they help entrain you to the frequency of what you want to create so frequency-infused audios can be used as an effective manifestation tool.
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