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Five Essential Elements to Growing a Successful Holistic Healing Practice
Gathering the seeds: the evolution of consciousness By Peter Canova Stop Being a Prisoner of Your Belielfs By Richard Moss, M.D.
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Thinking About Giving Up Your Dream?
11 Laws to Help You Reach the Higher Levels of yourself By Guy Finley
By Rev. Basia Christ, Ph.D. Solomon Speaks About Reconnecting Your Life
Relaxing into wholeness
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Encountering Gurdjieff By John Anthony West
7 Steps to healing the Broken heart of an addict By Ester Nicholson
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5 Essential Elements to Growing a Successful Holistic Healing Practice
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11 Laws to Help You Reach the Higher Levels of Yourself
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A message from Rev. Danielle Marie Hewitt, Publisher
By Guy Finley
On-Site Practitioners
Relaxing into Wholeness By Susan McNeal Velasquez
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7 Steps to Healing the Broken Heart of an Addict
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Opening to the Supermind through Lucid Dreaming and Lucid Meditation
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By Ester Nicholson
By Dr. Maurie D. Pressman
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By Peter Canova
Stop Being a Prisoner to Your Beliefs By Richard Moss. M.D.
Thinking About Giving Up Your Dream? By Rev. Basia Christ, Ph.D.
Solomon Speaks About Reconnecting Your Life By Dr. Eric Pearl and Frederick Ponzlov
Workshops and Classes
Encountering Gurdjieff By John Anthony West
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ould you like a full book of clients with appointments scheduled a week or two in advance? Would you like to be making $10,000 a month or more?
The cold hard fact is that currently 80% to 90% of Holistic or Healing Arts Practitioners are not completely and abundantly financially self-sustaining. The good news is there are five basic principles you can learn and follow that will help you to break out of the statistic! If you follow these five steps and play at level 10 on all of them you are destined for success. Here is how to make that success easy and fast rather than difficult and slow. The biggest mistake most practitioners in the healing arts and holistic health make is to begin a practice without first aligning the supporting tools that work. All the tools have to be in place otherwise you will be spending energy trying to build your practice with reduced return on your investment. Do you currently feel like you are getting in a car, turning on the ignition, putting it in gear, releasing the parking brake but it’s just not moving ahead? You are likely missing one or more of the five following essential elements. ESSENTIAL ELEMENT #1
When you answer the “What do you do?” question in a manner that describes the work you do and at the
Elements to Growing A Successful Holistic Healing Practice by Rev. Danielle Marie Hewitt,
Founder of Temple of Light Spiritual Community, Director of the Academy of Light School for Healing Arts Practitioners, Publisher of Radiance magazine, Mentor to Holistic and Healing Arts Practitioners same time defines your ideal client you can immediately establish if someone you just met is a potential client. Attracting the clients most willing to do work with you is a numbers game and a process of simply finding them. If there are 100 people out there who can work with you it’s possible you may have to talk to 400 people in order to filter through those who are not potential clients. It is ineffective and inefficient to spend a lot of time and energy engaging in the cultivation and consultation process if they are in the 300 who are not a potential client. Having an effective method of quickly determining if someone is a client is imperative. When you have your “What do you do?” question polished and powerfully delivered, you will know when to continue a conversation with someone about how you may be able to serve them or be clued into changing the topic to the weather or the latest episode of a hot television program. By having this ability to filter who is and who is not a potential client, you will save time and energy, not to mention the added benefit of avoiding continued on page 6 >> Radiance
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Establish your niche and be able to answer the question “What do you do?” clearly and succinctly in a way that establishes you as an expert meeting an urgent need.
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<< continued from page 5 sharing what you do in detail only to be turned down. Example: I received a call from a home repair service company. The moment the sales person learned I lived in an apartment he said “Thank you, have a wonderful day” and hung up. I was not his client and he swiftly moved on to the next call. The “What do you do?” question is determined by establishing a niche (an area where you specialize, particularly excel in or have great passion for) with the most compelling urgent need being met by what you do. The more urgent the problem you describe, the more you are going to get someone’s attention. You are creating a compelling “store front” to get them to walk in the front door of your shop by showing them you have what they need. Describe who your ideal client is, then describe how you help them. To clarify here are two examples of answers to the question of what do you do. • Bad Example: I am a CPA • Good Example: You know how some people are not maximizing investments and tax saving strategies and as a result are experiencing reduced earnings and paying too much income tax? I help people find the most beneficial retirement plans for their life style and keep their income taxes to a minimum. In this second example the ideal client was clearly described and an urgent need was addressed and solved. There was no mention of the process, being a CPA, only the problem and the solution. You can also skip the first part and start with the “I help people…..” part. This is the first step and everything you do afterward is built on it. Your polished statement will immediately determine if someone needs what you do with urgency thereby maximizing their interest in you. If they do not lean in, make eye contact, or show some sign you have their attention when you make your statement, they don’t have a need for what you do. They are not your client. Redirect the conversation to something else or move on to next person to talk to with a gracious exit. 6 Radiance
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENT #2 Learn how to powerfully connect so potential clients become clients. After mastering the “What do you do?” question and you have someone in front of you interested in what you say, the following five steps will determine if they convert to a client. As I learned these five parts of how to connect with a client from my mentors Jesse Koren and Sharla Jacobs of Thrive Academy, it occurred to me that these five steps are precisely the same steps taken inside a client session. In a client session there is the greeting and connection and the ceremony and ritual of the beginning of our work together. The client tells me what they are struggling with and I listen and take it all in. I give them some encouragement and then start providing ways in which we can approach the situation. When they see feasibility, I invite them to make the change. When connecting with a potential client the same protocol applies in a micro version. If you apply this model in the same way, you will have a much better way of knowing if someone is your client. • First make a solid connection with them with by a touch of the hand, eye contact, a smile. Let them know they have your undivided attention. Ignore your cell phone or any other potential interruptions. Whether or not they continue to talk to you will be based on this initial impression. Are you professionally dressed? Do you appear happy to meet them?
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Do you appear rushed or do you give the impression that you have the time to talk to them?
• Then, be of service by asking them questions about what is happening to them in their life as a result of their circumstances. This is where the real problem is defined and will establish whether or not you are the right practitioner for them. They should be doing most of the talking. Curtail your song and dance about who you are and what you do. If they don’t feel like you are listening to them or care about their feelings you have lost them. • After they have shared their problem, validate and acknowledge them. Let them know you heard them and you understand their experience. This is the beginning of establishing their trust that you “get them.” • If they are still engaged and connected with you, ask questions about where they want to go and how they see themselves changing their situation. This is the final qualification process whether or not you are the right practitioner for them. Start offering them an image of how to get from “A,” the problem, to “B,” the solution. Find out how committed they are to improving their situation in getting to “B.” By describing “B” you are establishing that you are qualified to get them there.
• Finally, if you feel it’s a match and only if you feel its match and not because you need the money, and if they are truly committed, make them an offer of your services. If you have done the above steps very well, chances are you will get a yes. ESSENTIAL ELEMENT #3 Branding, Branding and more Branding Once you have established your niche and learned how to fully connect to potential clients, it’s important to ensure that your business cards, website, flyers, and any other copy you use fully, completely, and congruently communicate your niche and how you serve people. Create branding and copy so that when potential clients read your materials it clearly aligns with your “What do you do” statement and has a consistency that shows you are committed, organized, professional, and can be trusted to help them. Just like the heightened level of energy you feel when you tell people what you do, your business cards, flyers, website, and other copy you create should be consistent or you will confuse your potential clients of who you are and what you do or worse, you will not look like an expert or serious contender for the solving their problem. Follow these steps: • Determine your business name. Use your own or a fictitious name. If your business name does not describe your urgent problem solved, adopt a tag line that does. • Design a logo that is a visual representation of all of the above. It’s tempting to grab images from the internet but you will not own the rights to use it. Hire a good graphic designer who will make everything look professional and give you a unique logo that you own.
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• Get the URL that matches your name, the business name or the tag line. If you can’t get one of the three, consider alternative names. The website does not have to be fancy, but it does need to be clean, easy to navigate and should have the following pages: Home, About, Services/Prod-
<< continued from page 7 ucts, Events/Calendar, Contact us and/or a Blog. Go to other websites of social media and colleagues and reference your website there to increase your “search engine optimization.” The website needs to have fresh content every week so the google robots keep searching it for new information. • Use social media and post helpful tips, information, and relevant shares. Ensure your branding comes through consistently. Post to Facebook, Twitter, etc. at least twice a month. • Send out a weekly or semi-monthly newsletter with relevant, real, and helpful information and include social media share buttons. On the home page of the website put a place for visitors to sign up for your newsletter.
• Write a book – This gives people a lower price point to access your expertise and provides you with more credibility to do speaking engagements. • Create workshops - You can make a month’s income in a weekend. • Create a home study course – A higher price point than the book but less than attendance at a workshop. • Create a CD, DVD, or product that is relevant to your work. • Book speaking engagements and get paid to do them or do them free so you can sell your book, home study course, workshop, CD, product, and your personal sessions. The speaking engagements should be created to address various time slots, i.e. 2 hour, 1 hour, 30 minutes and 15 minutes.
• EVERYTHING above should have consistency and flow to it. ESSENTIAL ELEMENT #4 Expand, Leverage, & Create Access Having a full book of clients is the fastest and most direct way to build a sustainable income. There are a few disadvantages though. You only get paid when you are actually engaged in a session which does not permit you to easily take a vacation or plan for time off. Leverage your talent so it works for you because even if you have a successful practice unless you have other forms of income related to your work, you only get paid when you are physically working one on one. Some potential clients cannot see their way to your hourly rate and are left with no other way to access you. Creating alternative ways to serve and bring your skills and solutions to those who have your urgent solution resolves both issues. It is important to give people a way to get to know you so they can establish you as an expert and it also provides them with different price levels of access to your expertise. Ways to leverage your talents are: 8 Radiance
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENT #5 Master the Law of Attraction Everyone here is familiar with the movie “The Secret” that taught us how to use the Law of Attraction. This law determines the complete order of the universe and of our personal lives through the process of “like attracts like.” By order I mean how and when things materialize. You all know to think positive thoughts to attract the things you want to you, right?
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The problem is we don’t always pay attention to each and every conscious or unconscious thought. Therefore, we can be manifesting with the Laws of Attraction unwittingly, insufficiently, inconsistently, and even carelessly. We need to remember the Law of Attraction eavesdrops on EVERY single thought and feeling. What thoughts have you had about your business today? Have you thought already today something along the lines of “I don’t make enough money,” “It’s too hard to start a business,” or “I’ll never be successful.” More importantly, some of our limiting or negative thoughts are unconscious. If you have done Steps 1-4
above completely and are playing at level 10 on all of them and you are still not filling up your calendar and bank account, consider that you have some unconscious thoughts and feelings redirecting your success elsewhere.
on top of a geyser and feeling the gush of energy or standing one foot to the side of it. You are either in the ride or not, and you know the difference. Make a commitment to play at level 10 with all five elements and you will have a thriving practice in no time. With anything you set out to accomplish, it is working, growing, and thriving or it is difficult, a struggle, and dying. If you are having trouble with any of these areas, consider getting a business coach to assist you. We all need help from time to time and there is no reason to struggle alone. I work in many different capacities as the founder of the Temple of Light, but my world came together and I was able to play at level 10 when I got my personal “What do you do?” statement down. Things began to change and shift in ways I could not have imagined possible and everything about what I did from that point on took on a new meaning. “I help holistic and healing arts practitioners play at level 10 in all aspects of their work so they can create a thriving business and show up to do the work they were destined to.” Call me at the Temple of Light if this is your urgent problem. With love and light, Namaste. Rev. Danielle Marie
One way to tell is how powerful you feel your desire to be of service in this way. Do you notice any subtle changes in your energy when you think of your business? I call this the “The Power of the Want.” That might sound obvious, but you would be surprised how many of you may not be manifesting with this tool kicked into high gear. The want must be strong, it must be true, and, most importantly, it has to come from the heart without anything negative blocking it.
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One way to know for sure if you are not using the power of the want to its full capacity is when you close your eyes and imagine your business. Does ANY part of it at all feel even a little bit hard? If it does, then you are not in the full power of the want. Showing up for work every day and seeing your business thrive should feel easy no matter what stage it’s in.
Rev. Danielle Marie is a Master ThetaHealer® who practices a healing art based primarily on ThetaHealing®, but with several personal additions and modifications. Rev. Danielle Marie's sessions are life-changing, creating shifts in her clients' perceptions resulting in the most positive changes imaginable. Rev. Danielle Marie has been a student of metaphysics since 2000 and studied under several mentors, including Vianna Stibal and Dr. Doreen Virtue. As a metaphysical minister, she believes in the innate intuitive ability gifted to each of us. Teaching this and witnessing healings has become her life's work and passion. She believes we can live free from pain and suffering and be in a constant state of peace and joy.
11 Laws to Help You Reach the Higher Levels of Yourself By Guy Finley
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f we really want to grow inwardly, we must choose to go inward; only in the true Presence Moment can we realize the truth of ourselves that does, indeed, set us free. Such higher discoveries that set the stage for reclaiming your True Self call for higher learning. Think of each of the following eleven laws as individual magic strands of a flying carpet. Make it your aim to weave them together in your mind. Then watch how these lessons combine to effortlessly lift you into higher and higher levels of yourself. The First Law: Nothing can stop you from starting over The greatest power you possess for succeeding in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose to start fresh. Nothing that stood in your way even a heartbeat before stands there now in the same way. It’s all new, even if you can’t as yet see it that way. You’ve only to test 10 Radiance
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the truth of this fact about the newness of life to discover the incredible freedom that waits for you just behind it. And then nothing can stop you. You’ll know the real secret and the perfect power of starting over. The Second Law: Don’t be afraid to see when something doesn’t work Learn to be sensitive and listen to the inner signals that try and tell you when something isn’t working. You know what they are. Frustration and resentment to name just a few. The presence of these emotional troubles isn’t trying to tell you that you can’t succeed, only that the road you’ve insisted upon taking so far doesn’t lead to where you want. Learning to admit when something isn’t working is the same as teaching yourself what will. The Third Law: If it doesn’t flow, there’s more to know Learn to recognize all forms of strain, whether at work, in your
creative efforts, or in your relationships, as being unnecessary. The friction you feel mounting when busy at some labor is never caused by the task at hand, but by what you don’t yet know about it. This means the only real reason for your strain is that you’ve got hold of a wrong idea you don’t yet see as wrong. This new insight allows you to release yourself by showing you what you need to know. Flowing follows your new knowing. The Fourth Law: Don’t take the easy way There’s no getting away from what you don’t know, which is why any time you feel compelled to go around a problem by taking the easy way, that problem always comes round again. And isn’t that what makes life seem so hard? Learn to see the easy way as a lying thought that keeps you tied up and doing hard time. Getting something over is not the same as having it completed. And as this insight grows, so will your understanding that the
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whole idea of the hard way has always been just a lying thought as well. Now you know: the complete way is the easy way. So volunteer to make the hard way your way and learn the real easy way. The Fifth Law: On the other side of the resistance is the flow
There are often times when it feels as though you can’t go any farther in your work or studies. But you can learn to go beyond any blockage. Make the following clear to yourself. Those moments when it feels as though you’re least able to get beyond yourself are not telling you that you’ve gone as far as you can go, but only reveal that you’ve reached as far as you know for now. This higher self-knowledge about your true inner position allows you to see the resistance you’re feeling for what it really is: a threshold, and not a closed door. Walk through it. Nothing can stop you. On the other side of the resistance is the flow. Learning to go beyond you is the same as entering into the new. The Sixth Law: Watch for opportunity to learn something new
The Seventh Law: Learn to see conclusions as limitations If you approach the possibilities of learning about your life as being limitless, which they are, then it follows that any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation. Why? Because there’s always more to see. For instance, let yourself see that all conclusions are illusions when it comes to the security they promise. There may be security in a prison, but there are also no choices behind its confining walls. Learn to see all conclusions about yourself as invisible cells. For that’s what they are. The seeming security these conclusions offer are a poor substitute for the real security of knowing that who your really are is always free to be something higher. The Eighth Law: Have no fear about being afraid Fear can’t learn which is why you must learn about fear if you ever
wish to be a fearless learner. The first thing to learn is how to get past your fear of being afraid. Here’s how. The next time fear fills a moment, see the difference between the fact of your situation and your feelings about it. This it the right use of your mind. For instance, it’s a fact interest rates change. It’s not a fact you have to be afraid when they do. That fear is not a fact of life, but only becomes one as long as you insist that life perform according to what you think are your best interests. As you learn to see these fearful feelings don’t belong to you, but only to your wrong thinking, you cease to be afraid.
The Ninth Law: Never accept defeat As long as it’s possible to learn, you need never feel tied down by any past defeat in your life. Here’s the real fact: nothing can prevent the inwardly self-educating man or woman from succeeding in life. And here’s why: wisdom always triumphs over adversity. But to win, real wisdom calls you to join in a continued on page 13 >> Radiance
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Everything is changing all the time. That means life is an endless occasion for learning something new. But this means more than meets the eye. Just as you’re a part of everything, everything is a part of you. The whole of life is connected. And your ability to learn is part of the wonder of this complete, but ever-changing, whole. Learning serves as a window, not only into the complex world you see around you, but also through it you may also look into the “you” that’s busy looking into the world. And when you’ve learned there’s
no end to what you can see about the amazing worlds spinning both around and within you, you’ll also know there’s no end to you. So stay awake. Learn something new every day. You’ll love how that makes you feel about yourself.
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<< continued from page 11 special kind of struggle. And if this battle had a banner under which to rally, here’s what would be written upon that higher call to arm: “But I can find out!” Yes, you can learn the facts. You may not understand how you could have been blind to that evil person’s real intentions, but you can find out. Take these four words that are freedoms battle cry. Use them to defeat what’s defeating you. The Tenth Law: Learn to let go of painful pretense
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Most people approach their troubles with one of these two nonsolutions: they either pretend their problem isn’t a problem, or they pretend they’ve solved their troubles with temporary cover-ups. But their pain remains. It doesn’t have to be this way for you. You can learn to let go of painful pretense. Here’s how. When facing an old problem, what you don’t want is another “new way” to deal with it. What you really want is to learn something new about the true nature of what has a hold on you. To go far, start near. When faced with any pain, let go of what you think you know. Act towards your trouble as if you don’t know anything about it. This new solution is the only true one because the truth is you don’t know what the real problem is. Otherwise you wouldn’t still have it. Letting go of what you think you know puts you in the right place for learning what you need to know.
wish for higher learning, you can’t help but succeed. Persistence always prevails because part of its power is to hold you in place until either the world lines up with your wish, or you see that your wish is out of line. But, for whichever way it turns in that moment, you’ve won something that only persistence can pay. See the following: if you get what you think you have to have to be happy and you’re still not satisfied, then you’ve learned what you don’t want. Now you can go on to higher things. And should you learn you’ve been wearing yourself out with useless wishes, then this discovery allows you to turn your energies in a new direction: self liberation.
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The Eleventh Law: Persistence always prevails If you’ll persist with your sincere Radiance
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magine we could be reborn and this time we would show up fully formed with all the learnings from our life experiences and none of the unfinished business and unclaimed heart hurts we’ve suffered while growing up. Imagine further that as a result, we would find ourselves connected and solidly grounded in our core, personal power. We would fully own and have command of our talents, would clearly know our preferences, and be able to access our inner wisdom and intuitive guidance as we choose what we say “yes” to and what requires a “no.” We would be genuine, authentic, all of one fabric and fully ready, willing, and able to confidently access our storehouse of knowledge, wisdom, and creative energy that would generate our full, rich participation in the creation of our lives. We would be visible and vulnerable, unarmored and curious, open and receptive rather than defensive, hyper-vigilant, and self-critical. We would be able to connect with others in the spirit of communion, creating understanding by seeking out ways in which we are similar, and allowing our differences to be put on the back burner. We would also be able to interact with people who hold a different set of values and realities and be willing to use those differences to expand our knowledge base. We would have no need to feel threatened by differ14 Radiance
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ences or driven to invalidate and make another wrong because they disagree with our point of view. We would have enough inner solidity to agree to disagree. We wouldn’t be threatened, jealous, envious, or resentful of anyone. We would be aware we are walking on our own life path and are happy and fulfilled because we are clear we are not in competition with anyone. I ask you to entertain this imagining because it is impossible to unleash the power of our intuition until we established a core connection with our essence. Underneath who we pretend to be sits a layer of thoughts, feelings, misconceptions, abandonments, embarrassments, shame, rage, anger, guilt, and resentments I categorize under the title “Who We are Afraid We Are.” Imagine a circle with three inner bands. The outer layer is who we pretend to be formed by our attempts to appear better than we feel by bolstering ourselves up with a false, idealized, manufactured self-image. Sitting underneath that layer sits who we are afraid we are, the inner core circle that houses who we are, our essence qualities. Life is about growth and progression. We are born. Our physical bodies grow. We sustain physical injuries, some slight and some significant. We grow mentally. We sustain injuries through misconceptions, lack of stimulation, and habits of negativity, or laziness of thought, some slight and some significant.
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We grow emotionally. We mature to express and release stored up emotional energy and integrate painful experiences that gives us the capacity to empathize and show compassion to ourselves and others by understanding of our emotions. When we block and abandon painful emotions, they don’t mature. We remain emotionally injured, some slight and some significant. These orphaned emotions remain out of sight, but not out of mind. They color our self-perceptions and our relationships with a dull coat of low to high-level emotional repression that keeps us stuck in the muck and mire of anxiety and fear. When we are willing to let go of the pretense of being better than or less than, we can courageously facing our fears. As we learn to welcome our rejected emotions home so that the heart wounds of our past can finally begin to heal, we will be rewarded with a growing connection to the essence of who we are. We will experience our fears and apprehensions maturing into a healthy connection with that inner core solidity that gives rise to genuine, creative self-expression and peace of mind. Before we can fully access our intuitive knowing, we first must awaken to the information available through our five senses. When our senses are dulled by rigid opinions, old grudges, worn out habits, and stagnant, lifeless ways of seeing, we overburden our nervous systems with static. Nothing emanates from deadened circuits. To activate our intuitive vision, we must learn to see our world with new eyes and hear past the mundane into the heart of issues. We must be willing to taste life fully and be touched by our experiences. I can hear you now: “Isn’t there the no-cost, no frills, basic icing on the cake, all benefits and no prices plan? Can’t I get intuitive powers and secret, special information that I can add to everything else I already know, so I can be safe, right and perfect?”
It is like having the cable disconnected on your TV. The information is there, but you’ve lost access to it. So, what to do? Step 1: Approach the issues in your life in a new way.
Step 2: Check your attitude. Can you give yourself permission to trust yourself to do what is life-giving and enhancing rather than looking outside yourself for answers? Step 3: Allow yourself to elevate not knowing to a sacred place until you can see with a clearer vision and take the actions that spring from your inner storehouse of untapped wisdom and guidance. Step 4: Mentally and emotionally let go of approaching your life as a problem to be solved. Shift your vision to seeing your life as a reality to be experienced for a while and be patient. Still your mind. Open your heart to allow your intuition to be activated. Step 5: Allow a full partnership with your Higher Self to begin to emerge. This is where trust comes into play. Trust that clarity and direction will come to you in its own time and in exactly the correct way. Don’t take my word for it. Simply try the exercise for yourself. Intuitive knowledge comes as a result of taking your life more seriously. Not the serious that means consistent, predictable, rigid, cold, numb, and hard. I mean the serious that is willing to make the necessary adjustments to actualize new visions. The serious that is willing to let go of outmoded ways of being to muster up the courage to stand up, fully participate, and respond to life with all systems on go. Decide to resurrect the serious that allows you to begin to take the steps necessary to activate true joy and pleasure as you master the art of living fully engaged. Susan McNeal Velasquez is one of the founders and first woman facilitators in two of the most imitated and widely validated state-of-the-art personal development training programs. Susan served as Executive Director of Women's Leadership Dynamics Inc. and was instrumental in the start-up of Lifespring Inc., as a Basic and Advanced Trainer. For the past 20 years, she has focused exclusively on teaching individuals how to Unleash the Power of their Intuition through small group trainings and 1:1 phone and face-to-face coaching. She is a columnist for the Laguna Beach Independent News and is the author of the acclaimed emotional reference book: Beyond Intellect: Journey Into the Wisdom of Your Intuitive Mind. Reach her at: susanvelasquez.com or susanvelas@aol.com. Radiance
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In a word, no. Intuition synthesizes all the information gleaned from our five senses. If our basic instincts are shut down, rigidly calcified and numb, then we have no open channel to access our intuitive knowing. We are stuck with poor reception.
Rather than over-thinking, over-analyzing, and overdramatizing your life challenges, ask, instead: “How many ways can I view this situation to be open to new information?”
7 Steps to
Healing the Broken Heart of an Addict No Matter What Your Addiction By Esther Nicholson
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e each have experienced deep disappointments. Some people use them as excuses to keep themselves down, hanging onto the belief that things never work out. Many hold onto their stories of abandonment, rejection, betrayal, and abuse, blaming others for their pain. Some people unconsciously use these stories to stay small, constricted, and determined to never trust or open their hearts again. While this is acceptable and even encouraged in the beginning stages of shock and disappointment, it is toxic, counter-productive and a spiritual dead end to park there, especially for those with addictive/ dependent tendencies. It never serves us to do a bypass and pretend we’re so spiritual that we don’t experience resent16 Radiance
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ment, fear, and hurt. It’s healthy and absolutely necessary to be in the moment and acknowledge every feeling that arises when you’ve experienced disappointment and loss, no matter how it occurred or who’s at fault. Allowing yourself to feel the pain, rage, fear, and sorrow, is, in fact, a very important part of your healing journey. If you skip this important step, true healing is impossible. However, it’s just as important to work through the pain and heal any unforgiveness or resentment operating in your awareness. It has been proven over and over again, that resentment - which is the remembering, reliving and retelling of painful events - is deadly for those with addictive or dependent tendencies. You simply cannot afford it. Resentment and blame blocks you from a connection with Spirit, your spirit. When you are
blocked from your spirit, you are blocked from emotional balance and well-being. In this state, life becomes very hard and every moment is like trying to operate through a foggy mind of scatteredness, anger, and pain. And from that place, you will act on your addictions and dependencies again because they are the only things that seem to give you the illusion of temporary relief. The Sufi poet Rumi reminds us that the way through the pain is to feel the pain. However, I have found that even in the midst of that pain, you can catch a glimmer of the fact that healing is possible, and that a blessing is right in the midst of your deepest despair. Just this awareness shows that you have made the first step in climbing your way out of what felt like your longest and darkest night.
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How do I know this? Been there done that - and so grateful that the Universe has never failed me. Even in your darkest hour, it will not fail you if you’re willing to go to whatever lengths to find the “value in the valley, the message in the mess, and the testimony in the test.”
did to you over, and over, and over again. 3. Forgive, forgive, and forgive
Following are the steps I practice daily, especially when I’m experiencing the fire of divine refinement. 1. Feel the pain Allow yourself to feel angry, resentful, fearful and hurt. Yell, scream and cry if that’s what’s coming through. It’s your inner child needing a voice for his/ her frustration and disappointment. If you don’t give children an opportunity to express their feelings - they find another way to act out, right? Your inner child will find a way to act out, as well, if not given a loving space to feel its feelings. 2. Tell your story Talk to people on a spiritual path who can be compassionate with your pain, but have the ability to take you past the story to your healing. No more Starbucks dates with your best friend to talk about what others
If you have to do a forgiveness process 50 times a day, do it. It doesn’t condone inappropriate behavior on the part of others; it heals your core wounds, allows you to release others from blame and transforms your story from victim to victory. Forgiveness sets you free.
4. Make amends to the best of your ability for any part you’ve played in the situation.
Yes, you can stop screaming - I know, I know. This is one of the most challenging steps there is, but it will take you where you want to go, my friend.
5. Meditate
Sit in the silence, not to get your problems solved, but from a realization that in the mind of God, there are no problems and that the good you are seeking is already complete. Meditation isn’t about making anything happen; it’s about coming into alignment with the good that is already happening. 6. Pray
7. Surround yourself with love and support from family and friends. Exercise, eat healthy (Krispy Creams might not be the best thing for you right now, so treat yourself in a healthy way), and have as much fun as possible. Soon you’ll be on the other side, and the door that was shut will be replaced with something better than you have ever imagined.
Ester Nicholson, renowned vocalist for Bette Midler and Rod Stewart, former addict, teacher, speaker and author uses her own astonishing story as the core of her powerful book: Soul Recovery - 12 Keys to Healing Addiction.... and 12 Steps for the Rest of Us-A Path to Wholeness, Serenity and Success (Hay House/Agape Media). Soul Recovery, the process that Nicholson developed to heal herself of cocaine addiction - unifying the12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous with spiritual principles and practices has guided thousands to their recovery and highest potential. The book includes a forward by Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith. For more information, please visit: www.soulrecovery.org
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Get clear about the reality and nature of God, and pray from that recognition of your oneness with God. Affirming your freedom, peace of mind, divine, perfect order, harmony and inexhaustible love. Speak the word of truth for yourself, and have
others support you in this way as well.
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Opening to
the Supermind through Lucid Dreaming and Lucid Meditation By Dr. Maurie D. Pressman
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f we enter the quiet mind, we enter a borderland between waking consciousness and dream consciousness. It is the zone of Lucid Meditation. In this margin, we have right of entry to many things: worries and fears, suppressed emotions, all of which can now rise to the surface to be relieved or made productive. Our dearest aspirations and longings may come up. Our minds carry a magical power that we can mobilize when we become lucid. It is rewarding to develop this capacity, and to visualize what we dearly want to achieve. Though it may sound mysterious, it is not. Achieving what we visualize is fully possible if we make this way-- the way of lucid meditation-- a way of life and practice. Lucid dreaming is a special kind of dreaming; the dreamer is awake and yet dreaming. He/she can direct the dream. At such a time, waking consciousness meets dream consciousness. When the waking mind and sleeping mind join, we have special access to high expanses of the mind. 18 Radiance
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In the lucid dream, we bring waking consciousness into the dream world; in lucid meditation, we bring the dream consciousness into the waking world. In both cases, there is a joining. It is this joined consciousness that we cultivate in lucid dreaming and lucid meditation. But all this is of little benefit if we do not bring the lessons learned from such dreams and meditation into waking life. Lucid meditation helps us to achieve a cool, detached mind with which we can survey our emotions, make important observations about ourselves and others, and better decisions. We become more able to control passion and operate with wisdom. Practicing introspection, and keeping open to inner subtle cues, we contact the higher subtle realms. We broaden inner vision; we surrender, all the while looking inside with a surrendered expectation. We become progressively open to the higher realms and to messages that come from a higher place.
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For instance, while watching a wildlife program, I was drawn in to the inner state of a puma hunting its prey. I felt the puma’s hunger, its graceful and powerful burst of speed, and its satisfaction as it filled an empty stomach. This experience let me know that when we identify with either person or animal, we do so by entering the other on the subtle plane. “Avesa” is the Sanskrit term for moving into the subtle body of another entity. Our ability to experience avesa is the basis of sympathy, empathy, and identification with another. When we are disturbed by another person’s problems, feeling their pain or their fear, we are uniting astral bodies on the subtle plane, creating avesa, and identification. Lucid meditation is the mirror of lucid dreaming. In lucid dreaming, our goal is to be awake in the dream. In lucid meditation, we are already awake, yet we try to connect with the power of the dream realm. Translated into waking life, this ability, cultivated during meditation, develops the power of our subtle senses. This capacity affirms our essential unity with all of life. It cultivates compassion, awareness, and a sense of our being in the flow of things. Using examples from meditations, I will share my experiences with lucid meditation, to show how it has helped me to be a better teacher, therapist, father, husband, and friend, and improved my sensitivity and compassion.
the infinite realms of the dream. Finally, we visit the domain of All Love. Dreams have an important relationship to the Superworld. The Supermind can be entered in a dream. There, we can understand more deeply. Our dreams help us to evaluate progress or lack of progress in our evolution, and through them, we can prognosticate and help to find our future path. However, in order to see into the future and into the way things are in the higher realm, we must drop the shackles of doubt and the inhibition we have been taught. It is absolutely necessary to take the visions we see literally. In this way, we get a feel of the power that resides within, as we inhabit the Superworld: the facility to move, create, understand and change. I have always relied on dreams to understand my patients more deeply. Now I can use them to see into the higher world, which they and we can, and do, inhabit. Dreams are thought journeys into the future. When we take our dreams seriously, even literally, we can use them to move upward, and create.
The Superworld and the Dream The Supermind dwells in the Superworld. The Superworld extends across the universes; in it we are everywhere in a moment. It is the world of thought and at the same time a world beyond thought, reaching ever higher into a sphere of undiscovered power.
We experience the Superworld in our dreams, in which movement is easy, where all things are possible and reality is ever created anew. In our astral bodies, we visit
How Do We Move Through The Mirror to the Dream World? How do we move through the mirror to the dream world and access the Supermind? To enter this world continued on page 18 >> Radiance
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A world of consciousness, it embraces all things, for all things have consciousness. It is ever present, yet hidden by the veil of cynicism and doubt. The Superworld can be reached through the silent mind, but at the same time, by elevation of the self, the personality, into that spiritual High Essence called Self. This is achieved by raising our thoughts and aspiration to high realms of beauty, love, and service.
<< continued from page 17 that can bring us greater love, unity, knowledge, power, confidence, and beneficence, and integrate it into the plane of existence with which we are so commonly familiar? Settle into a half-dream place, a state of lucid meditation remaining awake, and yet settling into the dream world. (A caution, remove doubt about what is seen until it can become understood and integrated with this world. Doubt is a barrier which can inhibit your movement between states.) Begin your lucid meditation in this half-asleep state. Travel into a quiet receptive mood, ready for the unexpected. Set the ego aside, no longer clinging to our sometimes self-centered and already established assumptions.
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Once we have done this we have opened the gate called intuition and are ready to receive downloads from the Cosmic Mind, the Supermind that both surrounds us and is within us. Dr. Maurie D. Pressman is the author of Living in the SuperMind -From Personal Mind to Spiritual Mind. A conventionally-trained psychiatrist, he has combined that work with studies in the high reaches of the mind. His practice focuses on spiritual psychotherapy and the exploration of the human soul. He is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple Medical School and Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, Dr. Pressman was an early pioneer in visualization, creating a highly-successful innovative program in 1972 for Olympic ice-skaters using hypnosis and visualization. For more information, visit www.mauriepressman.com.
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Reiki Level 4 (Master) with Tony Giuffreda, ICRT Reiki Master Two-day Course offered on August 17th & 18, or December 14th & 15th. Meets from 10am to 6pm. Pre-requisite: Reiki Level 1, 2 & Advanced Reiki Training (from any instructor) Donation of $600 for class & certification with $200 preregistration required This Master/Teacher Level workshop includes two Tibetan symbols, the Usui/Tibetan Master attunement, The Healing Attunement process, instruction on how to give attunements for ALL levels of Reiki, self-attunement, and time to practice. You will receive a Master/Teacher Manual. ICRT Reiki Master Certificate awarded. Radiance
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Gathering
the Seeds: The Evolution of Consciousness By Peter Canova
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s I sat down to write this article on April 15, 2013, news came that my hometown of Boston suffered a lethal terrorist attack. We could say this runs counter to the theme of this article; that is, that consciousness is evolving. The Boston attack was clearly not an evolved act. If anything, this demonstrates the complexity of the subject, because evolving consciousness is a process and is not uniform. Consciousness at a basic level involves two things: awareness and the ability to process and use information. Awareness has several levels. Animals are aware of their environment, but they lack selfawareness in the sense of being able to think about themselves in relation to their place in the larger universe. They act rather than reflect. But even the reflective human mind is fragmented. We have subconscious and unconscious levels of the mind as well as a polarized perceptual mechanism called the left and right brain. 24 Radiance
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Why all the compartmentalization? Very simple. If our consciousness was a single unity, we would be God, or at least we would perceive at a godlike level, and we would not at all perceive ourselves to be the individuals we think we are. God, or Consciousness with a capital C, broke Itself up so It could become us. Creation was not a singular act by the wave of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand. It was a flinging of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arm spreading seeds of the One Consciousness throughout creation. These seeds would grow in different levels of awareness depending upon how far they landed from the source of the nourishing light that had born them, and this physical dimension is said to be the farthest of all. But like every seed sown, a time comes to gather and reap the harvest. This ingathering of the conscious seeds back to the source is what we call spiritual evolution. A polarity runs throughout the universe. It is a form of energy you might be familiar with as yin and
yang, or female and male. This polarity is reflected in humans as the left and right brain hemispheres. The left brain is the domain of the male force: logic, intellect, analytic thought, science, and math. As the source of intuition, feeling, holistic thought, art, and abstract creativity, the right brain is more femininely-oriented. Ancient spiritual texts identify the yin, or female force, the feminine face of God, if you will, as that which led the fall or dispersal of consciousness into creation. When consciousness first fell into material form, this feminine force would have dominated the minds of our early ancestors. History does tell us that most societies prior to 3,000 BC were feminine-oriented and worshiped some form of the goddess in their mysteries. The world would have seemed magical to the early humans as they intuited their way through life in pulsations with the rhythms of nature. But now consciousness found itself embodied in physical form subject
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to all the laws and perils of physical existence. Wild beasts preyed on our ancestors. They needed to gather food and seek shelter. They had to organize and analyze in an effort to understand and control their environment.
The left brain, or male way of thinking, eventually came to dominate the human thought process so successfully that today we are practically destroying ourselves for the sake of dominance and power as we find ourselves living in the vestiges of modern patriarchal societies today. However, I believe we are on the verge of a shift, because I believe consciousness is an evolutionary spiral. I believe the feminine, intuitive energy is recycling into our lives to balance the dominant maleoriented thought forms that have set the tenor for modern societies. The attack in Boston exemplifies exactly what we must evolve away from. Such aggression is the age old impulse to dominate and control through fear. If the original information of creation is a unity, then evolution in consciousness means personally intuiting that unity. When one person harms another, it ultimately comes from ignorance of that fact. It is the current resurgence of the intuitive feminine energy that takes our minds off the material world of separation and opens them to the spiritual.
I’ve been attending holistic conferences for five decades now. Until perhaps ten years ago, if I was in a lecture with 200 present, there would have been 199 women and me. Guys just didn’t attend way out, touchy-feely events. Now I speak at large forums with thousands attending, and the audiences are almost equally divided. Something radical clicked within the minds of these men, because the feminine flavored content of these gatherings has not changed much. The number of people identifying themselves as religious is declining, while those who identify themselves as spiritual is rising.
However, in 2012, out of nowhere, actors and producers in Hollywood got hold of it, loved the content, and I signed a movie deal. A new consciousness has made Hollywood ready for the book. The gateway to higher consciousness is balancing our male/female energies to make intuition and intellect work in harmony. A tipping point will occur when enough people awaken by personal experience to the true nature of our reality. We are the seeds of consciousness. One day, all those seeds will be gathered into the one basket from which we came. Then, as one great figure said, we shall be near the Kingdom of Heaven. For the past 30 years, Peter Canova has traveled the world researching mainstream and alternative religious/spiritual studies, along with quantum physics. He is considered one of America's foremost authorities on the secret teachings of the Gnostic Gospels and the Sacred Feminine, and is the acclaimed author of the newly released spiritual thriller, Pope Annalisa, the winner of nine national book awards, including the Nautilus Gold Award for visionary fiction formerly bestowed on such authors as Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and the Dalai Lama. The executive producers of the Academy Award winning movie, Black Swan, have signed a deal with Peter to produce a film adaptation of Pope Annalisa. www.PopeAnnalisa.com PROSPERITY
Great advances nearly always begin among smaller numbers on the periphery of a society. They work their way inward slowly, just as forging a new nation in the old West happened on the frontier, while it took time for the events to be absorbed in the settled areas back East.
This growing consciousness fueled by the feminine energy is in full swing among the group that has come to be known as the Cultural Creatives. These are people from all walks of life “whose values embrace a curiosity and concern for the world, an openness to self-actualization through spirituality, psychotherapy, and holistic practices.”
My book, Pope Annalisa, is a spiritual thriller I self-published because it was too unusual for mainstream publishing. Radiance
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ll of us have thousands of thoughts every day. Observe these thoughts and you will see that most of them are judgments of yourself, a situation, or others. The problem is that if you believe they are true, each one arouses a stressful sensation or emotion in you. For example, the thought, “My partner doesn’t love me,” may instantly make you angry or sad. If you think, “I won’t have enough money for my old age,” immediately your brain tells your body you are unsafe. Becoming the prisoner of your beliefs about yourself, others, or the situation is the source of all emotional suffering. The hardest beliefs of all to free ourselves from are those that we have internalized as children. Maybe you interpreted your parent’s behaviors to mean that you weren’t lovable, or that you were too much, or not enough. For the rest of your life, subconsciously, you will anticipate that if you are truly authentic, you will be rejected.
The reason we become emotionally stuck is that when-
Being a Prisoner of Your Beliefs By Richard Moss, M.D. ever we feel threatening feelings such as loneliness or powerlessness, rather than facing them consciously, we flee them as we did as children. Where, specifically, do we go? Into thinking! It is the stories we tell ourselves as we flee our fears which generate stressful emotions such as anger or self-pity. These emotions, as miserable as they are, are easier for most people to be with than the deeper fears. Habitually running from threatening feelings into reactive thinking generates a self-limiting emotional cycle that is a form of addiction as powerful as that which is caused by any drug. Indeed, mind-made suffering is what causes people to turn to alcohol and drugs in the first place. The good news is that we have a profound power in us that we can use to set ourselves free; it is the power of present-moment awareness which allows us to recognize our beliefs instead of identifying with them. It gives us the ability to feel our feelings, but not react to them as before. continued on page 29 >> Radiance
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As a child we learned to protect ourselves from the fear of abandonment or judgment by becoming a pleaser, withdrawing into ourselves, or rebelling. These childhood defense mechanisms protected us then, but if we still employ them as adults they cut us off from intimacy in our lives. They doom us to the very suffering they were originally meant to prevent.
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The first step to using the power of awareness is experiencing what it feels like to be in your body in the present moment free from the troubling emotions aroused by your thoughts. This is a highly alive state. Athletes, poets, dancers, know this as the state of flow. We have all touched the fullness of flow, perhaps in love-making, or swooping down a ski slope. It is the state that arises in meditation when instead of holding onto thoughts or being captured by feelings, you let them pass though like clouds in the sky. In all contemplative and spiritual traditions, the basic practice is to directly experience the contrast between how you feel when you are captured by your thinking and how you feel when you are simply present. For example, right now take five slow breaths. As you inhale focus precisely on the sensation of the air flowing through your nostrils and imagine that every cell in your body is filling with new aliveness. Then, as you exhale, imagine your whole being expanding outward as if your body were as large as the universe – a limitless vastness. Immediately, thinking will momentarily recede and you become a little calmer. Repeating these five conscious breaths 50 times a day takes only a few minutes, but over time this simple practice can transform your life. You will have the choice whether to be captured by your thinking and collapse into the emotions those thoughts arouse in you or instead let yourself begin anew in that moment. You stop being the victim of what you are telling yourself and learn to flow with life. The most important moment in your life is right Now. Don’t stay in the habit of believing your thoughts. Use the power of your awareness to step back from negative thoughts, inhabit your body, and rest into the present moment. With consistent practice you can recognize the instant your thinking leads you out of the Now because emotional turmoil instantly starts.
Richard Moss is the Maestro of “Deep Work.” He teaches people how to delve deeply into their inner core so they can achieve a life of “Radical Aliveness,” Unconditional Love, and Real Inner Peace. For 37 years, this globally renowned physician-turned-master healer, international bestselling Hay House author, and workshop leader has been guiding people on profound journeys of self-inquiry and self-discovery that have transformed their relationship with themselves, with their loved ones and with the world. Moss’ work, outlined in two of his bestselling books Inside-Out Healing and the Mandala of Being, is centered in helping people achieve present moment awareness—and to clear away the beliefs, habits and thinking patterns that prevent them from living in a hyper-alive, joyful and loving state of being nearly all of the time. For more information and to learn about Richard’s October and November retreats, go to: www.richardmoss.com
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Enduring change does not happen without deep work. Through this work, I have seen men and women become willing to be vulnerable instead of disguising their fears, thereby gaining the respect and trust of their spouses, friends, and co-workers. I have seen marriages healed and stalled careers flourish. Women who have never felt safe to express themselves fully, end abusive relationships and build dynamic lives. You stop
being hijacked by financial worries and no longer need to fill yourself from the outside through compulsive consumerism. Life becomes much simpler and happier. Nothing restores a sense of gratitude more than learning to free yourself from your own mind-made misery.
Thinking About Giving Up Your Dream?
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By Rev. Basia Christ, Ph.D.
e each have faced setbacks, challenges, and failures while pursuing our dreams. We think we’re on the right path, but then an obstacle appears and we wonder if it’s worth the blood, sweat, and tears. We may reach a tipping point and have to decide, “Do I quit or continue my pursuit of my dream?” I recently faced this decision.
didn’t think I had - courage! I wondered how they could be so brave as I wallowed in self-pity because I was an abused child.
My dream is to become a successful, published author.
I had prayed for a great publisher; however, after eight years of having my book rejected, I was tired and felt beat. This past spring I realized I was the one I was waiting for!
In 2005, a voice challenged me to write a book about four women I heard speak at the Women’s Conference hosted by First Lady Maria Shriver. The women were Trisha Meili (the Central Park Jogger), Marilyn van Derbur (1959 Miss America who was a victim of incest), Erin Runnion (whose 6-year-old daughter was kidnapped and murdered), and Mariane Pearl (whose husband, Danny, was beheaded by al-Qaeda terrorists). For the next five years I interviewed women globally who, like these courageous women, rose from horrific circumstances to help others. I was in awe (and jealous) of the women. They had something I 30 Radiance
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Little did I know then I would transform from self-hatred to becoming an altruistic kidney donor. It was a spiritual journey that could be measured in inches…16 to be exact… from my head to my heart. I continually wondered if I had the skills to adequately tell their stories.
The day before I was to upload my book on Create Space (Amazon’s publishing house), I attended a More Power to Publish seminar hosted by Bob Bare. I learned about the changes in the world of book publishing, how self-publishing was gaining more acceptance, and how even successful authors previously represented by large New York publishers were self-publishing to reap bigger residuals. I also learned there is choice besides traditional ing and self-publishing. I about a publishing house
another publishlearned that of-
fers marketing, speaking, and coaching services to help you selfpublish your book more cost-effectively, efficiently, and with less stress. So, “Am I going to give up?” The short answer is “No!” I’m now working with Bob and Lee Pound, a book coach and received great feedback on how to make my book more publishable. My hope is to self-publish From Ash to Flame: 27 Women Who Saved My Life before the end of this year. Speaking to those who are at a tipping point of whether to continue your dream, I say, “If you really want your dream to happen deep in your soul, even if their are obstacles and people tell you you’re crazy, “Don’t give up. Allow the Universe to bring the people, resources, and opportunities to you!” Basia received her Ph.D. in Spiritual Counseling from the University of Metaphysical Sciences. She is rewriting her book using resources from at the More Power to Publish Conference. She is available for presentations on gender equality and living organ donations. www. basiachrist.com
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Speaks on Reconnecting Your Life By Dr. Eric Pearl and Frederick Ponzlov
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r. Eric Pearl, founder of Reconnective Healing had a successful chiropractic practice in Los Angeles when a series of bizarre occurrences led him to realize that his gift lay far beyond the realm of spinal adjustment. One patient after another reported healings from cancers, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and other severe health conditions, simply when Dr. Pearl held his hands near them. This coincided with an astonishing series of occurrences when patient Frederick Ponzlov and others began delivering coherent messages about the healings that were occurring, seemingly coming from a source beyond our fourdimensional existence here on Earth. But there was much more...profound and life-altering information, illumination and wisdom on how we can improve our lives. Those insights came courtesy of Solomon, an extra-dimensional 32 Radiance
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intelligence that speaks through Frederick. Later, under specific questioning from Dr. Pearl, the vital content in the new book, Solomon Speaks on Reconnecting Your Life, came to light. This book offers a new perspective on how to reconnect with, tap into, create, utilize, monitor, manage, and flow forward with the unlimited, expansive power of the Universal energy that enables us to heal, thrive and live our most vital, purposeful, productive, balanced and exuberantly happy life. The following excerpt from the book is a glimpse into the storehouse of knowledge that Solomon offers. There is No Progress to be Made by Celebrating Our Differences This penchant for human beings to discover how unalike they are, how distinct they are, it all has to do with ego. We have now managed to create how different we all are. And in
that difference comes disharmony. Where we need to put the energy now is in how similar we are, how much we all have that is similar that can be shared. How alike we all are, in terms of joy and pain and suffering and elation. And we need to share that information now. There is no progress to be made by celebrating our differences. We’ve done that. We are now in a state of critical mass. We are so isolated, with our various distinct individualities, that we can wreak havoc on someone else and hope or think that we gain from it. I’m talking about terrorism; I’m talking about hate crimes… anything of that ilk. That somehow if we are able to eliminate a reflection of ourselves, we are going to become more whole. It’s a very twisted viewpoint. So that’s what we need to recognize, that we are all, in an umbilical sense, connected to the same
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force. Like reconnecting strings. Because we’ve lost that connection, that understanding that each individual’s greatness is relied upon by the other person’s greatness, by recognizing their greatness, not their inability. What this simply comes down to is to recognize that every creature has greatness inherent in them. And the suffering of one is the suffering of all mankind.
There is a way for everyone to be joyful and not to be dependent upon what I refer to as relative happiness. That happiness has to do with whether or not you have more or less than another individual in terms of material goods, attractiveness, or all those strata that have been created. It’s a very destructive energy, relative happiness. The absolute happiness that comes from within, that’s eternal. It isn’t at the expense of everyone else. When people allow themselves to re-experience that, they recognize the joy that’s in all. In many people’s illusion, prosperity is what’s going to allow them to finance happiness somewhere. That’s what prosperity means to them. “Now I can be happy, because now I can buy the house that’s going to bring me happiness.” I know many lonely people with very big houses.
concepts in which we think joy is experienced. Or we distrust the joy we’re experiencing as not being valid and not being of social worth. So the bottom line here is: joy is something that exists, can happen within you, and can be a part of the light in every second of your being if you choose to live that way. And when you experience it, everything else will be taken care of. You do not have to worry. You must allow yourself to trust your life force and not secondguess it. Trust your instinct. It is a sum total of your entire existence. It is a vast library of information. We blind ourselves to it when we shut down our access to our library. It’s incorporating all of that existence, all that work, into this single moment in time. And breathing through it and allowing that funnel through to create the kind of force that will alter existence... that will change lives. This is an excerpt from Solomon Speaks on Reconnecting Your Life by Dr. Eric Pearl and Frederick Ponzlov. It is published by Hay House and is available at bookstores or online at hayhouse.com
Frederick Ponzlov (l.) and Dr. Eric Pearl
Dr. Eric Pearl has become the preeminent authority and acknowledged visionary on a new level of healing and life evolution on this planet, and has committed himself to sharing the light and information of the Reconnective Healing process through extensive lectures and seminars about The Reconnection (www.TheReconnection.com.) Dr. Pearl has appeared on countless television programs in the U.S. and around the world including The Dr. Oz Show and CNN. He has spoken by invitation at the United Nations and presented to a full house at Madison Square Garden. Frederick Ponzlov (Fredponzlov.com) is a screenwriter, acting teacher for the past 30 years, and award-winning actor. His first screenplay, Undertaking Betty, starring Naomi Watts, Christopher Walken, Brenda Blethyn, and Alfred Molina, won a BAFTA Award. Solomon has been with him for many years, and after years of silence, Solomon Speaks on Reconnecting Your Life marks his public debut. For more information: www.solomonspeaks.com
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Let’s instead talk about experiencing joy. We were put on this planet to experience joy. To understand the beauty, the depth, the excitement of the life experience. To thoroughly embody it, to become joyful in it, and by doing so, become compassionate with other people. Bottom line. The trouble is we’re looking in the wrong places for what we think is joy, and we’ve bought into other Radiance
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Workshops & Classes Intuition, Healing & Consciousness Skill Building Classes EVENT
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Essential Oil Class
Learn how to take control of your family's health with doTERRA's naturally safe, purely effective essential oils.
Alyssa Fitzpatrick
Mondays (2nd & 4th) July 8th and 22nd; Aug 12th and 26th
7:30-8:30
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The Great Awakening
Learn how to or just observe Channeling in a semi-trance state
Steve Lesko, PhD
Tuesdays (1st & 3rd) July 2nd and 16th; Aug 6th and 20th
7pm - 8:30pm
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Shamanic/Reiki Circle
Reiki Attunements, Drumming, Meditation, Chanting, Singing Bowls
Tony Giuffreda
Wednesdays (All)
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Ananda Meditation
Experience the joy of meditation in a relaxed and supportive setting with sincere like-minded souls interested in meditating, learning, sharing, and connecting.
Laura Cohen
Thursdays (no class July 4th)
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Exploring the work of Eckhart Tolle
Meditation, discussion, Q&A, idea sharing and relaxation. Children welcome!
Jason Clark
Saturdays (1st) July 6th & Aug 3rd
5pm - 7pm
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Holistic Healing Fair
Healers, vendors, vegan food, live music and/or DJ. Come stay all day!
Temple of Light Spiritual Community
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Naam Yoga Evenings
Naam Yoga combines the ancient and Lemia powerful sciences of yoga with Universal Astarabadi & Kabbalah. Senior Discount available! Joshua Bowser
Mondays & Wednesdays (no classes July 11 August 7)
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Naam Yoga combines the ancient and Lemia powerful sciences of yoga with Universal Astarabadi & Kabbalah. Senior Discount available! Joshua Bowser
Tuesdays and Thursdays (no class July 4th or July 11 through August 7)
9:30am 11am
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Karen Youssefzadeh
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Spiritual Yoga for Healing
This restorative Yoga incorporates movement, sound, essential oils and crystals.
Beyond the Lotus Yoga Enjoy a beautiful Yoga experience for all levels. Honor yourself with a calm and healing hour of Yoga. 36 Radiance
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Workshops & Classes Music, Sound, Dance & Movement for Your Emotional & Physical Health EVENT Integrative Dance
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A movement journey of emotions,
John Salat
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1pm - 3pm
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feeling and exploration for unlocking
July 7th &
the soul. (No experience necessary
Aug 4th
other than willing to let go and relax with ease) Dance Artistry & Self
Inducing an altered state through
Renee
Sundays (3rd)
Expression
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Devereaux, MS
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Aug 18th
graceful dance movements. Belly Dance with Sarah!
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Sarah al Nour
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Ancient sacred instrument didgeridoo
Seth Pincus
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Fridays (3rd) July 19th & Aug 16th
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This is a deeply transformational experience that is unique to each participant's personal journey. QiGong Healing and Meditation
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and spirit. Helps to relieve many
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Ilumina Sound Healing Journey; dress in white
Rev Ayanna Mojica
Monday, July 8th & Tuesday, August 6th
7pm - 9 pm
$22
Bands & Bellies PEACE Concert
Celebrating local musicians and bellydancers of all styles- and making the world a little better! Where ART & ACTIVISM co-create a powerful community!
"HyRev" Alec Marken & Sarah al Nour
Saturday, July 20th
6pm - 10pm
$12 general; $10 children
Temple of the Void Ceremony
Ancient Egyptian Initiation of death and resurrection. Opening of the Alta Major chakra. Limited to 25 people; reservation required. Amoraea @divine-blueprint.com (831)345-2430
Amoraea
Saturday, July 20th
7:30pm 10pm
$44
Shifting the BS (Belief Systems) about MS & Other Autoimmune Diseases
Learn to stop the progression and start reversing the effects of MS. You, too, can heal, stop and possibly reverse chronic illness. Discover the 5 powerful steps towards healing!
Sonia Trejo
Saturday, July 20th
10:30am 2:30pm
$25 by 7/15 or $35 at the door
Feast Day of Mary Magdalen Celebration
Love Feast in honor of Mary Magdalene. Celebrate the Divine Feminine with an inspirational afternoon filled with invocation, beauty, music, dance, anointing oils, and the actual words once spoken by Mary Magdalene. We will feast on delicious vegetarian meal and libations.
Rev Ayanna Mojica
Sunday, July 21st
12:30pm 2:30pm
$22
Lemurian Soul Alignments
3 hour group sessions are an interdimensional journey to your Lemurian lifetimes to heal and reclaim your soul.
El Herington
Satuday, July 27th & Sunday, July 28th
9:30am 12:30pm or 2-5pm / Sunday 2:30pm 5:30pm
$111
New Moon in White Ceremony
Crystal Gridding Workshop
Crystals can be used to filter, amplify, and Deborah Shea Sunday, Aug. 18th 1pm - 5 pm transform energies in multiple dimensions. In this workshop we will explore various information, visit us at For more methods for creating and working www.LiveYourRadiance.org or call (949) 333-1641 with the crystal grids.
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Encountering Gurdjieff By John Anthony West Via my extensive prior reading I was already predisposed to the cosmology, philosophy, psychology, the scrambled and revised history and much of the rest. I was unprepared for the sweep of his humor, and the carefully convoluted style that obliged my brain to sweat in entirely new ways.
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y first (alas! posthumous) encounter with the remarkable Mr. Gurdjieff took place on the Balearic Island of Ibiza in the early 1960’s. A casual artist friend, responding to my newfound enthusiasm for astrology, gave me Rodney Collin’s Theory of Celestial Influence to read. Despite certain misgivings about the incessant harping about schools I was eager to hear more, and my shrewd and tactful friend thereafter carefully spoon-fed me selected titles --Ouspensky, Nicoll, Bennett, Kenneth Walker-- until he deemed me ready for the man himself. For a moment, it was touch and go.
With a big inner smile, and nod of admiration, I read on ...and on ... and on...
Even so, it took a few more years of inner wrestling to get convinced that this knowledge could not be acquired on my own (I was accustomed to doing things on my own, hated groups, refused to ask for help from anyone, even when I needed help). And so I left my sunny, but now tourist-and-hippie infested island and off I went to London to join the Foundation, then under the leadership of Mme. Lannes. Voracious reading and research along with intensive inner work now prepared me for the symbolist interpretation of ancient Egypt developed by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz in his massive, three volume work Le Temple de’ l’Homme (The Temple of Man) then only in French. This set the stage for the next thirty years of writing. I was already convinced that Gurdjieff had somewhere accessed otherwise hidden sources of an almost forgotten doctrine, and presented it --on a take it or leave continued on page 40 >> Radiance
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Reading, in the first few introductory sentences to Beelzebub, that I was about to be obliged to disavow everything I had ever thought, believed, admired, valued and even wrote, I was about to hurl this arrogant book against the wall ... when I realized that this was precisely Gurdjieff’s intention. Knowing, as an already substantially published writer, how difficult it is to elicit a specific, intended response from readers in twenty pages of prose, or 200 pages for that matter, I was caught up in admiration for a man who could get me that angry in just two sentences.
But what attracted me most was that Gurdjieff was the first human being I had ever encountered (albeit posthumously) as utterly contemptuous of Western Civilization as I was. What I called The Lunatic Asylum he called The Pain Factory. We were talking the same language. The big difference, the huge difference between us, from my thirty-year-old point of view, (apart from his obvious comprehensive knowledge and understanding) was that he knew how to live successfully within the asylum, and I did not. And it was this I had to learn -- or else!
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imposed task now became making Schwaller’s difficult
ficult, sometimes near-impenetrable work accessible to a wider audience. But after seven years in the Foundation, it was time, with no little regret, to leave it. The experience had been invaluable, but it now seemed to me that what was called The Foundation for the Study of the Harmonious Development of Man was some 90% Foundation and just 10% Harmonious Development. The old Bohemian anarchist within me reasserted himself. Even so, I left with no little regret.
it basis--in a form compatible to contemporary understanding. Schwaller proved in magisterial fashion that it had once existed in coherent and recoverable form in ancient Egypt (and by extension, in other ancient, but presently vitiated or degenerate doctrines as well). Initially, I thought there had to be some formal connection between Gurdjieff and Schwaller. Both were living in France around the same time; Gurdjieff, of course, was well known, indeed notorious, in the Paris of the 20’s. I thought that Gurdjieff had perhaps given Schwaller the task of actually documenting the great doctrine. But, no; working closely with Schwaller’s stepdaughter, Lucie Lamy, convinced me that there was no formal connection. Schwaller had come to his almost identical interpretation entirely on his own. My self40 Radiance
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I had learned what I had learned. It was not what I’d hoped to learn. I was not enlightened. I had not met God, though it seemed to me sometimes that some of His minions were guiding me in some way. I had not found a way to immunize myself against negative emotions, or to stop doting on my suffering (hard to acknowledge that I or anyone else should engage in so fruitless an exercise, but so it was, and is...). I was still much too recognizable to people who knew me before -- I was supposed to be walking around rayed in light, an obvious beacon to attract others. It was nothing like that. The changes, unapparent to others, but not so to me, were internal, minuscule. An incredible amount of work had gone into them, yet there was little to show. On the other hand, however minuscule, that difference was all the difference in the world. I was not even very ‘conscious’, but I was in some sense difficult to define, responsible. It was no longer that easy to press my buttons --and when they did get pressed, it was my responsibility, not ‘theirs’. For reasons of brevity, I paraphrase Gurdjieff’s teaching on “buttons”: “Whoever and whatever presses your buttons is your master.” Simple as that! It didn’t matter if I was wrong or right, if my buttons are pressed I lose; I am a slave. I saw that if I could learn that lesson (not so easy!) I could function within the asylum! Still, it was time to leave the formal Foundation and carry on as best as I could on my own. Now, thirtyeight years later (and back in a less Foundation-orient-
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ed group, it is still the work that sustains, informs, and makes it possible for me to not just cope but move on. The lessons learned and other reflections will eventually find their way into a book I’m currently working on, but one reflection seems worth passing on now. While in the Foundation, one of its most irritating characteristics was the incessant gossip within the school, and the internal friction between the various schools all claiming to be the inheritors of the true Work. The Foundationiks disparaged the J.G. Bennett people, and vice-versa while the various offshoot groups in America, England, and Paris were all increasingly at odds with each other. Thirty-eight years later, that situation has become worse, rather than better, as the offshoot groups themselves split into toothpicks and then into splinters. To me, it seemed so unnecessary and I, like so many, wondered why it had to be like this. I had long since given up as futile trying to pass judgment on Gurdjieff himself. I did not care if he was Man 4, 5, 6 or 7 (Gurdjieff terminology for levels of inner development). No one, it seemed to me, had a monopoly or lock on what this extraordinary man intended. My own understanding of the hierarchical principle convinced me that the lower is in no position to pass judgment on the higher. However, the more I read (and keep on reading) of the experiences of those who had close contact with him, the more I began to think that, just perhaps, the friction itself was a part of the grand plan. And it is this that I offer up for what it may be worth. The doctrine and even more important, the practice, has been given out to the world. There can be no doubt that Gurdjieff had gone to almost superhuman lengths to avoid personal gurufication or canonization by his followers. It’s hard to imagine this was anything but intentional.
groups ensure --until or unless someone of Gurdjieffian stature appears to pull it all together, (which may not be a good thing anyhow)-- that unorthodoxy will prevail. Since, from long study and much experience, it still seems that The Work is, if not the only, then at least the most effective way to learn to live with some degree of confidence within the degenerate, chaotic but yet wildly proliferating forces of The Church of Progress (whose Jesuits are Science, Education and the Media). Our job is to get on with that Work as best we can. I have my ideas as to what constitutes the real work and what is misguided, even perverted. But it seems to me that (my friend, fellow Gurdjieffian and fine poet, David Kherdian and I have discussed this at length) if the Terror of the Situation is more-or-less accurately perceived, and the personal intention is more-or-less pure and focused, the Work, in that special Gurdjieffian sense, will produce real results, regardless. Not much else will.
Author, lecturer and guide, John Anthony West delivered a seismic shock to archaeology in the early 1990's when he and Boston University geologist Robert Schoch revealed that the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, showed evidence of rainfall erosion. Such erosion could only mean that the Sphinx was carved during or before the rains that marked the transition of northern Africa from the last Ice Age to the present interglacial epoch, a transition that occurred in the millennia from 10,000 to 5000 BC. John Anthony West can be contacted via e-mail at JAWSPHINX@ jawest.net. He is available for Seminars and lectures by arrangement. Please send all requests to JAWSPHINX@jawest.net. For more information, visit www.jawest.net.
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So, it seems to me just possible, that along analogous lines, he took similar pains to ensure that no one person, no single group, could successfully turn The Work (it’s appropriately called, since it’s not exactly fun) into an orthodoxy, which by definition means stasis, or Death. G’s (alleged) famous last words, “I’ve left you all in a fine pickle” perhaps refers to that or something like that. We were on our own. And so we are today -- intentional or not. The fractious, competing and contentious Radiance
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