Spaceship In My Soup March edition 2019 Number 3 by spaceshipinmysoup

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SONGBIRD I am here to bring people together, I am a connector, and I am a bridge to the Spiritual world. I am speaking with a modern day medicine woman, who is known as Songbird. Songbird is a Spiritual counselor, writer, artist and is the voice of Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times. Songbird studied Humanities at the University of Colorado in Denver Colorado. She also studied at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. She calls Sedona, Arizona her home.

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So much of what you do has a Native American feeling to it. Tell me more about you. I am part Native American and part Korean. I have traveled the world doing healing work. Most people know me as a Seer, I see things. I help people with transformation and healing. At this time one of the ceremonies I perform is called the Fire and Water ceremony. It purifies and helps to go deeper, burning out the things that no longer serve us, and to get people ready for 2020. What is going to happen in 2020? The way that I see it is 2020 is the time of day and wakening. We get to see why we really came here. The time of coming together is the reason why I am doing the ceremony, we need to come together. It is time. What tribe are you part of? Well my great grandfather was full blooded (Dineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) Navajo. His dad was Apache, and my grandmother was Cherokee. My mother is Korean. In my work, I do a lot bridging between East and West and the cultural divide, and ancestral healing. It is really deep work with patterns, and all of the things that we inherit, including the good and bad from our genes. Do people who know you call you Songbird? Everyone calls me Songbird. The bank and my parents are the only ones who use my birth name.

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Do you live in Sedona? I do. I have quite a Sedona story. A lot of have us have a “Sedona story”, and how we were called here. It is one of those places you are called to when it is your time. A lot of people come back and forth. I came here for a week and was only going to be here a week and have been here for five years. It has been incredible! It’s a place you can really go deeper on your journey and everything comes up. All your stuff comes up in your face. And if you keep moving with it you get many kinds of blessings, more than you can imagine. It is really a great place to grow. Do you feel that you will ever leave Sedona? No, I am grounded here. I have a house. This is my home for as long as I can be on the Earth, this is where I will be. I do travel a bit for my work. I am traveling to Las Vegas next week to do four ceremonies, and they are big work. I avoided Vegas for a while now but she keeps calling and calling me. What is your driving passion? What do you want to accomplish next? When did you really commit to this lifestyle,

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and where is it going for you? Well, you know I was born with this gift. From the time I could talk, I randomly talked to adults who would say things like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow, where did that come from?â&#x20AC;? Ever since I can remember people have been coming to me for advice and help. I am really committed to this path. It was in 2009 that I had my big awakening, and that is what pushed me into this work. I also had a wellness center and made jewelry. Nothing really stuck though until I did the spiritual work. I feel my work is going is to a lifetime of bringing people together. I am a connector or a bridge. For me, this bridge is here to the spirit world and to also connect people together. It is really time for us to get together.

Ayahuasca is a brew that was brought in from the Mayan culture. It was brought through the Amazon and is still used by the tribes of the Amazon. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a twelve-hour ceremony. You go through total death and rebirth. It is a really intense ceremony. You get to see your whole life before your eyes. When you come out of the ceremony you really are never the same. So a lot of my medicine training was with that work and a lot of my initiations are through medicine work. When you go into that space you connect with the Mother,

that is the Grandmother. She shows you things and teaches you things. What I feel right now is a feminine time. It is the time where the women are waking up. I work with grandmothers, the Divine Mother, and the Holy Mother.

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You do events in Las Vegas? Remind me again the name of the events. Well, I do fire and water ceremonies and they are all different. The ones I am doing in Vegas are in honor of the ancestors. I am calling them the

There are a lot of healers here in Sedona and we all have our cliques so we are trying to get everyone together. This must also include how we treat the planet by how we treat each other, and how we are going to work in harmony. You speak of a brew that has magical properties. What is it and how is it used?

Skull carriers. They are people who are drawn to or have crystal skills. The crystal skull energy is a different energy. It is ancient energy from people who are drawn to the skulls and are carriers of ancient wisdom. We get together and bring our skulls, which are really just our heads which we activate. We restructure the mind with the energy and go into telepathy. The goal of the skull carriers is to remember your connection to the ancient self. Where do you hold your ceremonies? Most of my events are hosted by clients or people who find me, or my old clients, that I have previously worked with. The ceremonies are very powerful events. I love that the fire ceremonies are events that all ages can participate in. The fire ceremony brings us back to a primitive part of us. A space where our ancestors are sitting around the fire with us. It brings people back to the basic elements of fire and water. It is also about the intention you put forward. I have been waiting for people to come forward and the floodgates are really opening right now. Social media has helped as a tool to bring people together.

When do you do the events? I do them every new moon and full moon. You have a beautiful energy and I hope to get to know you a little better. Let me ask you one more question. If you were to pass away today where would you be? What is it going to be like? It is going to be another journey. When we pass from this world to the next world I feel like, it is not going to be like the Christian way where you are sent to Heaven. I see it as you cross a bridge and see the people that you have known and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t known in this lifetime. You go through a life review to see what you have learned. I see the afterlife as levels, in different dimensions. It will be based on however pure your heart was in this life, and that will determine where you go in your next life. Your heart has to be light as a feather, and the goal of this lifetime is to get through to the graduation. We are in school here, and when we graduate we transition and go through the next level. We just keep evolving until we reach perfection. We still continue to do our work but might not have as many challenges, Earth school is the most challenging.

Thank you Songbird

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for your beautiful insigh We appreciate the wor you do and look forwar to speaking again whe our paths cross in the future.

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Jane Goddard

Ghost Rider Tours

My family settled in Camp Verde, Arizona in 1894, so I grew up with a passion for Verde Valley history. I consider myself a magnet for spiritual energy, with a collection of over 10,000 orb photos and hundreds of hours of video. I have worked in the Arizona tourist industry for over 20 years with the commitment to creating memorable experiences.

Brenda: Can you let us know how you got started? Jane: Well, after working seven years doing historic tours and haunted tours in Jerome, Arizona, which has a big reputation for being haunted, I wanted to move down and do tours in Camp Verde where my family set up in 1894. Also, the town of Clarkdale, which is the smeltertown for Jerome, is located just down the hill. Both of these towns were about a half hour from Sedona. Camp Verde is the total center of the

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state. I believe the fact that I have so much ancestral roots there is why I draw mostly protective spirits from the area. Brenda: How are you going to accomplish these tours? Jane: Well, right now it will just be walking tours because both towns are easy to walk. I really believe you get more spiritual activity on the streets and around the old buildings, where people once gathered. Eventually, I will be doing archaeology tours, when the national parks open up. No telling when that will happen. I will be basically doing historic tours that are walking. These would include the Fort Verde state park, a cool little museum in Clarkdale, and there is also the Arizona Copper and Art Museum in Clarkdale. Brenda: The energetic part, the ghosts, are a big part of your tours? And you are also doing the historic part, which makes it doubly interesting. Jane: I do have a website up but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still under construction, it can still be accessed however. It is https://ghostriderstours.com/ Browse and create a wishlist! Historic, Archaeology, and Ghost Tours.

Brenda: Jane, tell me a little bit about yourself. You were talking about your ancestors and how they are from that area? Jane: Yeah, my family settled in Camp Verde in 1894. My dad had me really late in life, so he was born in the territory of Arizona in 1904. I had a near death experience in 1999 and I spent a couple of weeks on life support and during the time I was in the coma. It was during that time that I was in the coma that I feel like more channels to the spirit world opened up for me. My deceased father came to visit, as well as different family members visited and talked to me. I also had an out of body experience during that time. The doctors wanted to do a procedure to aspirate fluid out of my lungs and severed my intercostal artery. That was when I had a total out of body experience. I floated towards the top of the ceiling, and I was tethered by a silver umbilical cord. I watched them saying code blue as they tried to resuscitate me. I had pulled out of the body and floated towards the ceiling. It was then that I realized that if I didn’t come back now, that there would be no coming back. I had a newborn baby, with that thought I came back literally slamming into my body. It was at that time the machines came back on.

Brenda: I too have had a silver cord experience. As a child, floating around in the Universe. Tell me what your background is with growing up in that area and your school years? Jane: Well actually when my dad sold his cattle ranch he bought a motel in Huachuca City which is in the Sierra Vista area. I remember being a little kid when I went to Tombstone and there would be times that I would see spirits. But it wasn’t until my near death experience in 1999 that is when I had a more serious awakening. When I first started working in Jerome I had been working as a guide for less than a year and one day a medium had come into the office and asked how long I had known about my gift. I acted like I didn’t know what he was talking about and he said “No, you have a real powerful gift and you can go as deep as you can.” I told him that I would have to do it in stages and I don’t want to be an open channel you know since I work as a guide three or four times a week, I don’t want to see them or audibly hear them. He said, “yes, fair enough, but just know you can go as deep as you want to.” So, progressive from that time. I started doing the tours. I don’t like to use the word haunted, instead I prefer to think of it as being spiritually

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occupied. I have hundreds of hours of orbs floating around my house, sometimes they dance and all different colors. Last time I went through and had over 10,000 photos in my collection. (Orbs are as some believed to be spirits taking the shape of round, often colorful balls of translucent light.) Brenda: In this magazine there is a gentleman named Todd Bonner. Todd does the Detroit Paranormal Expeditions. Some of the things you say tie into what he says. What I am trying to accomplish is to get like spirits together so others can learn as they wish, and I think this is so appropriate that you are here. What area do you live in now? Jane: Oh, well I actually live in the middle of nowhere. I am halfway between Camp Verde and Prescott Valley. I am in a small community. I’m kind of at the edge of nowhere. I think that this area is very spiritual and I get more photos of orbs in my neighborhood than I have in Sedona. I have more opportunity to shoot pictures here.Sedona is about an hour away, and the lights from there don’t interfere. Brenda: I love Sedona, The Airport Vortex really draws me in. It is a magical place..

Jane: I believe that Camp Verde is also because of the limestone that is around the area and that is a magnetic draw also. I am not super knowledgeable about geology but I make my own jewelry and study up on the metaphysical properties of stone to an extent. I bless my pieces under the full moon and try to energize and protect. The limestone is supposed to be a natural conductor and I also believe that the Clarkdale area with its rich deposit of copper draws a certain amount of magnetic energy as well. My family moved to Camp Verde in 1971, so I remember Sedona long before it was known as the vortexes and new age gap holes. Brenda: I studied with Dr. Eric Pearl who does Reconnection Healing. I will never forget the first thing he said in the first class was, “I want you new age crystal swingers to put the crystals away and listen.” Jane: For years I would always laugh about the crystal crunchers and then when I started doing tours, my best friend gave me a necklace out of Moonstone. She told me, you need to promise me that you’re going to wear this doing your work. Initially I used to get more photos and apparitions and

more creepier stuff. Then after that I started getting more orbs and beautiful photos. I feel like that Moonstone helped me. Brenda: What are your hopes and what are you thinking about next ? Writing a book? Jane: Yes I am. I was going to do a basic coffee table book. My big vision is very time consuming and it would be something that I would welcome help. A lot of research would be involved. I have almost eight years of photos that I am trying to put together such as charts and graphs about times when there is more activity. There seems to be somewhat of a pattern. In July, there has been several different times where I have gotten photos that look like what would be a UFO, like a cigar shaped object that was rainbow colored. It looks like a projectile point and then several years ago it was more cigar shaped but had orbs trailing out from it. In Jerome they’re what I called “Big Blue”. It literally would take up the whole cell phone screen. It was a huge, massive orb. I am trying to figure out charts and patterns and times when they might come, when energy may be stronger, and different seasons that they might communicate more. That is my big goal. In the

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meantime I am just trying to get Ghost Riders Tours out of the stalls and my business going. I also have certain times, quite a bit actually, where the orbs tend to form distinct patterns. One time there was a big heart shape over my house, times they would look like certain planets. At some point I would like to know what the meaning of all of this is. There has to be some reason why they are appearing to me? Brenda: I would love to see a book like that! With all the photos and information, I think it would be more than a coffee table book. Jane: This would be more detailed. I was going to do certain places like Jerome because they get a lot of traffic and tourists. The park there is the most active place. I think spirits are most drawn to places that were important to them in life, not necessarily tragic scenes but the park and basketball court where people enjoyed visiting at night when they were alive. Brenda: I need to go back here a little bit. When you had your out of body experience. I take it you had given birth and had some complications?

Jane: Yes, actually I had a Cesarean and my colon was perforated during the Cesarean. I ended up with peritonitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome. I had a 10% chance of surviving, So, it’s really a miracle that I am here. Brenda: Did the child that you had have any gifts? Jane: Nate was fine. He is open to it. The first time I had ever gotten orbs in my house he had written this song, and I was recording him. That is when I saw the first orb go by and it was when he would start playing, the orbs would start shooting around him. That first night we stayed up till like one in the morning, videotaping. They are drawn to him. This will sound unusual, but I get more activity when I get the dog excited. Brenda: I rescue senior dogs and have five of them now. I also do animal communication. So your dog likes to get involved with the activities? Jane: Oh yes! My chocolate lab will be 14 years old next month. I can still get her excited. She is my ghost dog. When she wants out or is getting excited, I start filming. I do have videotapes where it does look like it’s

snowing on the dog. Their tails spirit. We are going to look for will be wagging and they don’t him since it’s not on a regular seem to notice or care about the tour with just some friends. orbs around them. Brenda: So what are you looking forward to besides the book and when are the tours going to be starting do you think? I am definitely going to have to do one when I am in the area. Jane: That would be wonderful. The tours are available anytime. Actually I am doing a trial run tonight, because there have been cases of an apparition spotted in Camp Verde. I am thinking that because it’s the time of the Super Moon and the Blood Moon that it should be an active night. It is kind of interesting because it is someone who wears military clothing. Camp Verde was founded in 1865 and I have this good friend who had worked for the Fort Verde Museum. He told me how he was he was holding the flag and someone came up dressed in military clothing and was helping him how to fold a flag. There are certain protocols for holding the flag. He didn’t really think that much about it because a lot of people there dress up that work at the Fort. Afterward he asked who the new hire was. He was told there was no new hires. My friend said at the least he is a helpful

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Thank you so much Jane Goddard! We wish you much success with your new tour business and we will be there for a tour the next time we are in Arizona. We look forward to sharing our experience with our readers. To contact Jane with questions, or to schedule a tour, call or text 928-308-3975 or by fax at 928-999-3975.

Davie & JoySee Pfaffle

Pre-paving with A The Long-Lasting Saturn Neptune Aspect for 2019 How are you doing on your New Year’s resolutions – or as we call it, “pre-paving what you want”? Pre-paving is, according to Davie, a magic trick to make things easier for us by rehearsing beforehand just how it would feel to experience something that we want in the future... According to JoySee, it is basically imagining a certainty and fulfillment that will come when what is wanted manifests in form. Either way, the sensation we get from this process is what helps to bring about the “form” we desire. Some of us “feel” our way to manifestation through our emotions and others “know” our way there through our intellect. Either way is fine, and we’ll get to that later. Pre-paving may seem like a strange term. Is it like the preliminaries to paving a road? In a sense, that’s what this is. First we must have the inspiration of what to do, then we have to design it, and then plan how to do it and then construct it. Pre-paving is the inspiration and energy towards manifestation What’s important though is what it is NOT. It’s not putting a lot of effort forth in the form of thought or action, money or time. Pre-paving is rather easy. In fact, that’s the whole reason for it: to make activities easier. The Nov-Dec issue of this magazine gave the steps to pre-paving, but here they are again: 1. We can decide what our clear intention is. It can be something we really desire in the future, something near and dear to our hearts. 2. We can then meditate on how we feel as we envision our intention manifested. Then we can envision or sense what emotion the success of this desire gives us. 3. Once we expect our desire to happen, we can still meditate daily on this but we can change this to gratitude and being thankful for its happening.

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Astrology So what does pre-paving have to do with astrology? Good question. This year in astrology, Saturn, the physical planet of form and regulation, but also of restriction, AND Neptune, the most mystical and sacred planet, but also rather airy fairy, are making a very lively and interesting aspect. They are most powerful at three different times this year, but the union actually lasts all of 2019!! This is an amazing astrological event, which may not happen again for decades. For the rest of this year, Saturn and Neptune are in perfect harmony with each other—sort of in love— where they can’t see anything wrong with the other and so find total agreement with what the other wants. Does that have implications for us? Well let’s take a look. Neptune energy is totally inspiring, very dreamy and idealistic; and some would say, spiritual or sacred. Saturn energy responds by constraining Neptune’s energy to that which is useful, workable, and success-oriented. It’s like setting an agenda or goal rather than entertaining every random fantastic idea that Neptune tosses out there. Saturn doesn’t mess around but sets about aligning Neptune with what is necessary to succeed in careers, and the material and business world. Saturn is really the boss when it comes to nailing down Neptune’s dreamy and nebulous energy. But it gets things done while Neptune daydreams! Neptune gets the calling and then Saturn takes on the mission. A bit like herding cats, but hey when it works --what a team! This reminds us of stories about some Native American tribes where the wise, old women sat in council with one another and spun and wove together ideas and suggestions for betterment and expansion of the tribe’s well-being. Very Neptunian. They then presented them to the wise old men sitting there smoking their pipes whose focus was more practical and action oriented—very Saturnine. For example, perhaps the women of the tribe had a need for a community cooking source to feed the tribe more efficiently. The men would mull over the various

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options, (the women’s seed ideas), and would come up with a workable solution—perhaps building a big clay oven or kiln. Wow—that’s Saturn-Neptune – a consensus and cooperation between the world of imagination and seed ideas and the resulting world of form and action! Aho! Here are a few examples of some powerful people who were born with this aspect active in their charts and who made use of the aspect in different, but effective, ways of achieving consensus and blending the two energies: Marilyn Monroe had a square rather than a trine of the aspect in her natal chart. But she made good use of it in her professional goals. Aside from being the men’s dream girl of the 1950’s, the actress used her Neptunian dreamy, sexual come-hither guise along with an opposite façade of innocence to develop a solid career on the silver screen, including an Academy Award nomination. Marilyn perfectly blended the ambition and professional goals of Saturn with the dreamy, idealistic and dramatic quality of Neptune Well – okay – so Marilyn played the dumb blonde in public and on the screen, she was an actress after all! But behind that façade was a smart, creative businesswoman who used her fame and ingenuity to get what she wanted. We can argue the level of success or ethics she had in those endeavors, but not her focus. It was spot on! If truth be told, this SaturnNeptune gift can be a mixed

blessing. Neptune wants to dream and climb into the realm of lofty thought and unlimited imagination and make a home there. Saturn wants to chain Neptune down with the constraints of the structured physical world of form and its material pursuits. On the one hand, we may want to forget those New Year’s resolutions or a more focused mission for our career and just figure we can imagine our way to manifesting through our daydreams and idealized thoughts. On the other hand, we may want to put aside our more spiritual focus and dreams and instead become a shrewd, calculating business person intent on making money to the detriment of the common good. Or we can blend and balance the two in an ethical and responsible manner. That’s uniting the calling and the mission, or the desire and the action, needed to say: “Mission accomplished” at least for the moment since

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Neptune keeps inspiring us, egging us on with more fuel for action! A few high profile men that have this gift aspect in their chart are Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Donald Trump. How well do you think each of them balanced Saturn and Neptune? Anytime Saturn is involved, there is a danger of too much emphasis on the material world, of unethical and predatory behavior, of using statistics to manipulate, and abusing power. Neptune is no angel either. It also has its problems when its energy is focused on too intently. That includes strangeness of personality and over-the-top fantasy or drama and reactions unrelated to reality. Moodiness, depression and bipolar type illnesses could also be involved. Drugs are also a big problem with an unbalanced Neptune type. Deepak Chopra is a SaturnNeptune gift holder. He has spent much time and effort

denouncing prescription drug dependencies in his work. He is known by millions because of his extensive television and public appearances as well as many books and DVDs. Besides Primordial Sound meditation, which he created, he writes and teaches about Ayurvedic and alternative medicine, spirituality, and mind-body practices. All are positive and uplifting activities which arose from his Neptunian energy of inspiration. With his Saturn side, Chopra developed the discipline and focus to build a prospering business and become the eminent expert that he is today. Pre-paving starts from within and above—in the timeless, vertical realm of Neptune and Spirit as opposed to Saturn’s horizontal world of time and space, of form, and finiteness. Pre-paving taps us into the power of this higher realm. Whatever we call that Power, we are part of It. And so it is ours to use! And there are two distinct ways to tap into this Power. Some sense the Power as the One Love or as unity and they pre-pave by focusing on the emotions this manifestation will bring about and may even pre-pave with bodily sensations such as tingles, chills, or a heart

bursting with love. Others see It as the One Mind, so they prepave by imagining beforehand a strong knowingness and certainty to the fulfillment they’ll experience with getting what they want. Either way, One Love or One Mind, with pre-paving we establish a pipeline into Its power. That, in a nutshell, is prepaving. It is focus, meditation, concentration on what you desire, imagining the experience through emotions or certainty—through emotions or mind. Does that mean you ask for a million dollars? We would suggest that perhaps Saturn’s business-like sense could bring some practical constriction and constructive plans to Neptune’s dreams in this regard! On the other hand, we also might be limiting ourselves when we think only of money as prosperity. Instead of pre-paving a desire to receive money, we could bring this up the vertical level as a desire for abundance which can be revealed to us in many ways—including money and enriching relationships as well as other blessings that we wouldn’t have thought of without Neptune’s help. Saturn can help us jell those ideas into actionable forms. Finally, we can get off dead

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center with our life’s purpose and discover a calling by prepaving what that would look like. Simple and easy. No effort; just allow the imagination of Neptune to conjure up many things and let them marinate there until at last a plan develops. Imagine what that would feel/be like when this plan comes to fruition. It’s then ready for Saturn to step in and build it into a mission! Deepak Chopra and his SaturnNeptune gift uplift humanity as each of us could in our own special way. Let us know how you do! And hopefully, you’ll find the process of pre-paving lots of fun! Make it so. Namaste! davie@luckyastrology.com joysee@luckyastrology.com Davie & JoySee are a couple of kids who also are co-authors of “GodBumps: Connecting to the Spiritual World through the Five Senses” as well as the e-book, “Nine Pluto Gifts on the Path of Awakening.” Davie also wrote: “Your Lucky Jupiter & Astrology” and JoySee authored a free e-book called “The ABCs of Ascension.” They are all available on www.flowlifeflow.com.

A Ride Alon Detroit Paranormal Exhibitions DPX Photographs courtesy of DPX

Where do I begin? Let’s go back to the beginning of my paranormal journey. I was always the kid who would climb into abandoned buildings; I loved that rush of exploring something left for nature to take back. I was always adventurous and even more so as I got older. I’ve always loved hearing a good ghost story, or watching a scary movie. I had a couple near death experiences before the age of 10, and now that I look back, those experiences helped push me in the direction I’m going now. 18

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ng with Todd Bonner My first real paranormal experience happened as a teen. I heard a disembodied voice while urban exploring. I was scared in that moment, but deep down I had the desire to find out who, what and why that happened. After that moment, I started to notice other things that I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen or paid attention to in the past. Instead of rationalizing something out of the corner of my eye, or

an unexplained loud noise, I tarted to question it. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start paranormal exploring professionally until 2011. I joined a team in Michigan and ended up meeting Jeff Adkins. We immediately bonded and became best friends. We were

on that team for about four years. In November of 2016, Jeff and I talked about starting our own group. We wanted to travel and investigate as much as we possibly could.

On Dec. 8, 2016, we official launched Detroit Paranormal Expeditions.

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We had no equipment and no team, but we had an idea of what we wanted our group to evolve into. I remember our first official team investigation at the Randolph county infirmary, feeling the pride of getting a group together that has grown since then to be like a family. Since then, we have been to twelve states, investigated hundreds of locations and made lifelong friends along the way. I love what we do - searching and exploring the unknown... investigating places that no one else has before. 2017 was a learning experience for us, with a lot of ups and downs. The following year was a big year for DPX. We were able to investigate Eloise Asylum for the first time ever, and were even granted permission to allow public tours, which allowed more more than 3,500 people to experience a piece of Michigan history that had previously been off limits. A few members of our team have filmed for national paranormal TV shows, which we’ve enjoyed because they’ve provided opportunities to share stories of the amazing places we’ve been, and the incredible people we were able to help.

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Some of us have podcasts like, The Para EXchange, and Hashtag Scared. We launched DPX Live with most of the content consisting of live-streamed interviews and investigations. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a ride that I never could have imagined or dreamed of. For more about DPX - https://www.detroitparanormalexpeditions.com/

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May I ask you why you ended up with all this international travel as a child? What did your dad do?

jeep, and the drove up to the Khyber Pass area. It was there that they were almost killed by bandits. They made it to Kabul, where they lived and built a school. They dug their own well and buried their food in the living room floor so that they could survive during the winter. They built the Afghan Institute of Technology. We left when I was a small child. The Afghans loved my parents so much that they took our old Chevy station wagon and put it on concrete blocks on the campus.They made a plaque as a monument to my dad. My brother Paul went back in 1972 to help with famine relief right before the Russian

invasion, as a Colonel in the Afghan army, and confirmed that the monument was still there! You came to the United States after high school? Did you do your college at that time? Yes. I lasted almost one year at Western Washington University after going through a pretty big culture shock. I dropped out of college and ended up in Berkley, California, living under a house I was trying to paint on while living on the streets, and to be an artist in the middle of all the riots. Almost died a few times. After that I decided to

My dad was a real overachiever with extensive international experience. He was a civil engineer out of CalTech, UCLA where he was class president. In the Navy he was on a ship that traveled all the way up to the source of the Yangtze River. In the 1940s, the king of Afghanistan tried to bring his country out of the dark ages and he commissioned my dad personally to build and operate the first engineering school in the country. After the end of World War II (back stateside), my mom and dad left Pasadena with my oldest brother (who was a newborn), and theyraveled across the Philippines by train. They made a trip to Pakistan, hooking up with a guy with a www.Spaceshipinmysoup.com

join the Marine Corps to get out of Berkley, where I thought I would be safer. That says quite a lot. How did you find yourself in Sedona? I have been here for about 36 years now. My last duty station was sent to Yuma Arizona. When I got out, I went to Tempe. I got a job as a tool machinist. I learned how to weld steel and I started making jewelry. I ended up making a bracelet for Elvis Presley. I had two babies in diapers and I was making bolo ties, belt buckles and anything that I could make to sell. My jewelry got so big that eventually no one wanted to wear it, so I evolved into a sculptor. Do you work exclusively with sculpting or do you paintings as well? How did you pick sculpting? No. I started painting when I was four with my dad’s paints. He was a hobbyist. I played with clay when I was a little boy and studied pigment carving with the leading master in Thailand who was a Buddhist monk, until I was twelve years old. When I moved to Flagstaff Arizona in the 70’s, I got a job working at a foundry for a dollar an hour. I learned the craft of making bronze by day and taught myself to sculpt at night. I never

had any talent, and my first bronze that I had was so bad that it was used for a doorstop at the foundry. My second got a little better and it actually sold. The guy who bought it used it as a boat anchor at Lake Havasu. With every piece that I did, I got a little better. So you didn’t have talent in your opinion, but you did have a feel for it? I had the heart and desire for it and I have been teaching sculpture all over America at different academies for almost 40 years. I have taught thousands of people, most of whom had no talent and were brainwashed that way. Many of those are now accomplished professional sculptors. I love the amazing ten foot tall bronze of Merlin that we are using on our cover! I read about Merlin as a child. When the spiritual part of me started taking off I loved Deepak Chopra and coincidentally he had published a CD about Merlin. I listened to it over and over again. I want to hear about how your Merlin evolved. The school system in India and Thailand was loosely molded after the British schools system. Throughout my childhood our family traveled the world, visiting between 80-90 countries

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in all. We spent a lot of time in England and Wales. I heard all the stories about Merlin and I loved them. I had always wanted to paint him, before I got into sculpting. After I started selling sculptures and became successful, I owned an art gallery in Sedona. Some people from New York came in and after that they started collecting my art. I was having lunch one day with the lady who was a PhD from Albert Einstein Institute in New York. Ever since she was a child she had loved Merlin. We started talking about him and I told her I had always wanted to sculpt him. So, they commissioned me basically. I spent six months researching the real historical figures around 540 A.D. shortly after Roman Pulitz Legions out of Britain. At that time there was a spiritual and power vacuum. Viking, Egyptian, Jewish, and Christian influences were coming in. There was a lot of little kings jockeying for positions of power and Merlin was a unifying factor. He used lime wash in his hair to get it to stand up as though it had in it static, that is why his hair looked like it did. The foot gear he is wearing is classic from the period of King Arthur. Merlin the bronze has Egyptian symbols and bracelets, and Viking symbols. He was one of the seventeen most powerful Shamans in history, and was also a Christian. It is written

John M. Soderberg, Ph.D., Sculptor “To me, art is not a luxury, but is a basic human necessity. Art can, and should, remind us of our humanity, and that of others, and enhance the quality of our lives. From the earliest artists, Stone Age storytellers around a fire in a cave, to the painters and sculptors and architects of today, art has pervaded and shaped our societies. To me, an artist is not primarily a creator, but is rather a conduit - absorbing, translating, and conveying messages of value to others, living or centuries yet to be born.” John Soderberg circled the world eight times and visited more than 40 countries before graduating high school in Bangkok, Thailand. His father Richard had been commissioned in 1947 by the King of Afghanistan to build the first engineering school in that country. Born in 1950, John spent his first four years there, after which the family moved to India for five years, and then Thailand for eight years. The Soderberg family was required to circle the world every two years. Loving art, they spent much time in Europe and Asia, visiting the world’s great art in museums, galleries, cathedrals and temples. In Rome, when John was five, his mother Betty held him up so he could touch the foot of Michelangelo’s Moses. He experienced his first epiphany, and was amazed at the ability of sculpture to move people, centuries after the artist was gone. He dedicated himself to art, started painting in oils at age five, and studied teakwood carving with Thailand’s leading master, a Buddhist monk, from age 12. After high school in Thailand, John came to America for college, in Washington State. Due to extreme culture shock, he dropped out and painted on the street in Berkeley, California, in the middle of the riots of the late 60s. In 1970, for a life-change, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years. After receiving his Honorable Discharge, he worked as a machinist during days and painted and made jewelry during nights. Among others works, he completed a commission for a bracelet for Elvis Presley, then moved his family to Flagstaff, Arizona, to work in a bronze foundry to learn the art and craft of sculpture. After numerous and interesting starving artist years, John began selling his art professionally, and served as Artist in Residence at Northern Arizona University. He later received his Ph.D. in Humane Letters from that institution. He has since completed monumental bronze commissions for private parties, corporations, churches, and organizations across the country, including Amnesty International, the Crystal Cathedral, the Sedona Synagogue, Rancho Feliz Charitable Group, Free The Slaves organization, Pepsico Corporation, Texas Winery Products, Jacmar Foods, the Honeywell Foundation, Wilden Pump and Engineering, and others. Along with his other works, he has sculpted numerous influential figures including Christ, Steve Biko, Al Stein, Moses, Merlin, Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, Sacajawea, Mark Honeywell, Bill and Vieve Gore, Robert Schuller, Jim Wilden, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, St. Catherine of Siena, Gil Gillenwater, and others. John became involved with service-work in the military, and has since donated a large portion of his time and work to others, focusing on children and women in need. He has worked with domestic abuse shelters, Amnesty International, Free The Slaves, Rancho Feliz, Big brothers, Big Sisters, and many other groups and causes. In the late 90s, John was knighted by Ulf Hamilton, a Swedish Count, for his service. John lives and works in the Sedona, Arizona area. His daughters, Heather and Misty, both noted professional sculptors, work with him on all of his monuments. They each began spontaneously sculpting at age one, turned professional at age two, (at their own choice,) and were featured on Paul Harvey News, People Magazine, National Geographic World, That’s Incredible T.V., and other media, and showed their work in galleries in Scottsdale and Houston, all before eight years of age, and all before their father achieved any professional success, whatsoever.

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that played a major part in reintroducing areas of Great Britain to Christianity. You had been commissioned to do that piece but you ended up keeping it? Well no, bronzers are produced unlimited. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do a one of a kind and survive so a certain number of them are made from a mold and then the mold is destroyed.

to go again so, I walked outside and the sun was up. I had lost about five hours. When I came back inside, I saw that I had done stuff on his face (and other areas) that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember doing. I had gone into a total zen state. When you came back in and you had realized what you had taken place, did you see it as a connection with another source?

I want to ask you a rather personal question, do you consider yourself to have any psychic gifts or intuitive abilities? Yes, but I will say that after living all over the world with different cultures and teachings from thousands of people, I have come to believe that we are all born with unlimited potential and gifts. It is the extent to which we become aware of them that we tap into what is available. I have intuition when I sculpt. I was working on Merlin about 11:00 at night and my studio at the time was a horse barn on a ranch. I raised my daughters there, we had 140 animals, mostly exotic rescue animals. I had to go to the bathroom so, I go outside to the bush and come back in and go back to work. About an hour later (or so I thought) I needed

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Yes. Was that your first experience in that realm? No, I had been there before. I grew up without television so I was constantly reading. I was also very involved in martial arts and was learning meditation. I would ask for astral projection. I saw my body laying down there as I projected. I was

interested in the metaphysical things, so, that state of zen was not new to me. Also, about 10-15 years ago I hosted a fire walk on my ranch for Deepak Chopra. He and his group were traveling and doing seminars, and one stop was the Sedona Arts Center. That is where I was asked if they could use my ranch as the venue for a firewalk. And the preparations began! Deepak lit almost a whole cord of juniper hardwood on fire, allowing it to burn down to the coals about a size of 25 ft by 10ft. I took the opportunity to participate in this profound cultural experience. I walked nine times and one time I stood in the middle of it with flames curling around my toes. I could not feel any heat. It felt like I was standing on soft cotton. I didn’t walk fast, but shuffled fast with the coals curling over my toes, like in the sand. I reached down and picked up a burning coal with flames coming out, holding it in my hand, looking at it, and I couldn’t feel any heat. There were about forty of us who walked that night and nobody got a blister. So Deepak Chopra was actually there? Yes, he comes to lecture. I met him briefly in the lobby of the little hotel resort that they were staying. I didn’t get a chance to

talk much but he seemed like a nice man. I loved what you posted on Facebook about the student who had sculpted her mother’s face.

biggest sculpture supply house in America, back than it was in Los Angeles. I got them using it. Now, it is used worldwide and in Disney sculpture studios. The nice thing is that it never dries, cracks or shrinks.

She is a new student and is thirteen years old.

Were you compensated for that or was a it a contribution?

I also saw another picture of one of your sculptures that is a head supported by a hand and an arm. I have never seen anything like it! Tell me a little about that one.

No, I had a friend that did me some favors. He was going through some hard times so, I gave him the trademark. He supported his family for twenty years. He died and the owner of the place died, so, I lost the trademark. It did a lot of good for the art world. I sculpted Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale monuments that were eight feet high, about twenty years ago and made the molds cast of bronzes. Norman is on 5th avenue in New York City. Then I cut their heads off and re-melted the bodies to re-use the clay, since the clay is reusable. I have had Billy Graham’s head and Norman’s head in my studio for 25 years, looking at me.The clay has not changed, I can take it down and keep working on it. What that does is give the artist total freedom from time. One of the best pieces I have ever done which took me from starving artist to selling professional to the best gallery in Arizona, was in 1980. It was a piece I

Oh, you are talking about the bronze I did of my daughter. It is at the Sedona Creative Life Center. She is three times life size! That is a lot of clay! How do you get that much clay to do a project? Do you have to keep redoing and replacing it when you are working on a project? I invented plastic clay in 1979 because I couldn’t afford store bought oil clay. The good italian oil based clay was over $2.00 a pound and I was a starving artist so I made it for $0.17 a pound. I used motor oil, used wax and clay powder from Tennessee. It was great because it worked great, but it smelled like Hell. I refined the recipe over the next couple years. I then went to the

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had spent three years on/off teaching myself how to sculpt. I ended up cutting his face off nine different times and re-doing it. I am not a logical thinker or artist. I am more intuitive. I will do something and if I don’t feel good about it I’ll try to make it feel better keeping on until it’s done. What was that piece?

It was a Native American Paiute, Shaman. It was life sized. In the 1830’s, he invented the ghost dance as a way of connecting with ancestors to make the tribe healthier. He successfully predicted a Solar Eclipse, People from all over went to hear him speak. My bronze started out as a young warrior and ended up as an old Shaman elder, thinking back on his life. If I hadn’t had the time

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or the freedom to take as much time as I had wanted, then I never would’ve done it as great as I did. It truly works like it is supposed to. I want to ask you, if you have anything left on your bucket list. What would you like to do next? I have sixty pieces in my head, many of them have been in there for twenty years and they

are all developed and ready to come out. It is one hell of a long gestation. I would like to get as many of them out as I can before I cross the bridge. Also, besides art, my most important thing is my service work. I started doing service work in the Marine Corp helping friends who were pretty messed up from Vietnam. I ended up working with Amnesty International against apartheid in South Africa in the early 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. We forged a lot of things against international slavery and trafficking. I was chosen to sculpt a freedom award against slavery. The biggest group in the world back then fighting slavery, which includes trafficking. They had me cast five bronzes a year, which were 18 inch female figures. They chose five people in the interim world who fought the most against slavery, and those celebrities would present my bronze to these true heroes. They were always working in the threat of death in slavery. I got to spend time with all of these amazing people. I will be doing service work until I die. I also was one of the co-founders of Rancho Feliz, which is a charitable foundation started 31 years ago. We started building orphanages and helping this one school teacher who had been rescuing kids living in

rusted cars in the snow. She had no running water, no electricity and no money. I said letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s do a raffle. So, we bought a brand new Harley Davidson, I donated a bronze. We raised $87,000 and built her a dormitory in Mexico, up in the mountains. We got her electricity and running water. Since then, we have provided a lot of famine relief, and food distribution. We have also provided educational support, trying to break the poverty cycle with scholarships and knowledge. Is that all over the world or just in Mexico? Mexico, the Navajo Reservation and places where we can know and see exactly what we are doing with the money. All of our money goes to the elders and the kids. Nobody gets a salary, and our CEO drives a Ford and not a Rolls Royce like some other charities.

John we appreciate you taking your time to share your amazing story and talent with us, We will be watching for the auto-biography and your stories. You are a talented artist and a humanitarian and we are proud to have you in our magazine, thank you! John can be found at http://www.sculpturedavidsoderberg.us/

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J.A.Gorman Fine Art “My friends call me Jerry, and I like to say they paid me for having fun!”

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J.A. Gorman was born in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1951. Receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New Mexico University, a Masters of Arts from West Virginia University and he also holds a Master of Fine Arts from Clemson. Gorman pursued studies in painting and drawing in several European capitals. He is a member of La Societa di San Giorgio in Genoa, Italy and was bestowed the Cross of San Giorgio-Porta Soprana Badge for his artistic achievement in 1994. His paintings and prints have been shown in major international exhibitions in France, Mexico, and throughout the United States. Recipient of several awards in national and international shows, Gorman is represented in the permanent art collection of the International Space Hall of Fame, the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada and The Museum of Nuclear History and Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gorman was also nominated for the Governor’s Award of Achievement and Excellence in Fine Art for the State of New Mexico. Two Gorman murals are in the collection of the United States Government and he is also represented in private collections throughout the United States, Central America, Asia, and Europe. Formerly an artist-in-resident on the Navajo Reservation for the State of New Mexico, Gorman retired from Sandia National Laboratories as an Principal Member of the Laboratory staff where he served as a senior illustrator and animator. Gorman now resides and produces his artwork at his studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Do you go by J? Or how would you like to be called? All my friends call me Jerry, so that is fine. There are some really fascinating things about you and tell me a little more about how you worked with the government and how that was? I was at Clemson University working on my MFA and I got a call from Sandia National Lab saying, “We have a copy of your resume and we would like to

talk to you”. My parents were still alive at that time and it was close to where they lived (where I grew up in New Mexico), so I made the trip.

was just getting started, it would be six years before I even saw a computer at Sandia.

How I got started as they offered me a position and I was started off as a color illustrator. Sandia is a very technical, The customers were scientists and scientific engineering kind and engineers. The subject of an environment. I went to matter that they would bring me an interview in the morning. They showed me a part of a was classified and they would mechanical system and asked if bring me “systems”, “what if” I could draw it. I said yes. At this things, or “things” on napkins and have me draw it, so they particular time, the computer was not as popular as it is now. could explain it to other people I drew for them what a computer (President, Congress, etc.) I did that for a long time and I would do now. The computer

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got involved with Corporate exhibits. They got to the point where they said, “We needed to act like regular industries” so, we would show what we could to the public and show them what we are doing. I actually did that for quite a while. At the end of my career at Sandia, I was doing animation and creating music and putting it all together for all systems. For example, they have a rocket sled and a rocket sled is exactly what you think it is. The rocket is on rails and the target would be at the end of a big concrete slab. The problem was that the animals could not hear the rocket coming and it was coming fast. So, animals would throw things off track or cause inaccurate readings. They asked me to create an animation of an underground rocket sled in order to control the weather and conditions. That’s what I did for about the last year and a half. Things were always very challenging. Very interesting! You had a degree in Fine Arts and were designing rocket sleds, animations, and musical arrangement. Is this what you envisioned that you would do with that degree?

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To tell you the truth, I really got into animation when I was going to college. I was working at White Sands Missile Range in the summer in the animation department. At that particular time animation was done one cell at a time, so to get something to move was a major deal. I have always had that interest and at the end of my career I started playing around with it a little more and things started getting a whole lot better. I just started having fun working with all of it, even though it was quite challenging. I remember walking into my office many days and saying to myself, “How am I going to do this and how did they think this up?” I always like to say that they paid me to have fun. Is there anything you can say, or what are your views on spaceships. Are you allowed to say anything?

and that makes complete sense. So, who knows what is really out there. I know I could talk about this forever but I want to touch on your art. You have a picture on Facebook and it is the exact house that I want to live in. Is it a real house? It is a church actually. It is in a little town between Santé Fe and Albuquerque on a back road in a place called Golden New Mexico. It is a very small place. I know you do murals and the murals just fascinate me. How in the world do you plan something like that? Again, that goes back to the ones that I have done, when I was at White Sands. It was

also when I was a resident of the state of New Mexico. Once I have chosen the subject matter, I do the drawings and then start painting on them. These took a while to do; they weren’t short projects. I always get a lot of comments on my clouds, my clouds come out of Sandia. I was given a project to show a missile leaving the ocean and I needed to have a background that would enhance the illustration. What do you like to do best? I started showing my paintings before I left Sandia. I showed for about 18 years in Santé Fe in about three or four different galleries. Over the last 10 years, I have been showing my art in Sedona Arizona at the Goldenstein Gallery. The

Yes, I can say that. I know a little bit of physics and I know there is a lot of stuff out there and I think it would be pretty stupid to say that someone doesn’t have more knowledge out there than we do. We have spaceships further out in our solar system and there is a magnetic pulse. How did that happen way out there? I was told how they think it happened,

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I do not have a gallery in Albuquerque. I decided to take a break from there. I did have another gallery in a resort town in Southern New Mexico, called Reynoso, and they have a gallery down there. They sold everything in Santé Fe, and all their clients are in Texas. I had a gallery in California and am looking for a new one. We have many talented landscape and scenery artists here in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of trees, bushes and mountains for inspiration. What is your inspiration in New Mexico? One of the reasons that I live here, the light is so bright. When I lived in South Carolina it was like a 60-watt bulb in the sky; dull. The atmosphere is so much clearer here in New Mexico.

Gallery owner, Linda, and my wife were friends before I got married. Linda and my wife have also made a deal with L’Auberge de Sedona (which is a high-end resort) for me to go out there and paint. I have met a completely different crowd than in Sandia (I spent so much time dealing with engineers and scientists) and it is really

fun. I am always amazed at the people I get to see. There was even a couple from Wyoming that came one year and wanted to meet me and see my paintings. You are in Albuquerque; do you have a gallery there that you exhibit your art?

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When I drove through New Mexico I had a heavy feeling of depression but, also an excellent sense of freedom and light. It was a very conflicted feeling and I had never felt that kind of feeling before. I have friends in New Mexico and I will probably end up there. Let’s talk about what you want to do, where are you going, what is happening and what more is there for you? I really enjoyed painting and there are a couple of things I

really love about it. First of all, it takes me to a place that is so different so far away from here. The paintings get to a point, I am not painting but the painting is telling me the direction of where we are going next. Sometimes it’s like, “Hey, you need green here, orange here” or you think you are done but you really aren’t. I still really enjoy that part of it and to bring you to a different level of it, I really enjoy the element of the color and shape and I am always surprised like hey I didn’t know that would work.

me, which is good. Thank you, Jerry! In closing, Jerry’s work is absolutely captivating and I hope you will check it and him out on his website. There are those who have energy that

just draws you to them and they don’t ask why. Those are the most exciting people to me. We will definitely be checking back to learn more about his Italian series of works.

Q: That is channeling Jerry, you are channeling. That connection that you have with the Universe is great! I have a series of paintings on my website is called the Italian Series. The Italian Series came out when I went to school in Italy. I came back to America and I had all these drawings in my sketchbook I realized they were just segments or capsules. I started playing around with the one that is on my website. There are planes that are coming through time zones, and the clouds are going through the time zones. I don’t think people are ready for those yet, although I have sold a couple. People they look at them and they’re not really sure what they mean, but they still think that the images are cool. They are a completely different direction for

Contact Jerry at info@goldensteinart.com www.Goldensteinart.com

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Serge Kahili King, PhD Serge was fourteen when he was initiated into the path of Hawaiian shamanism by his father. When he was eighteen he was adopted as the grandson of Joseph Kahili of Kauai, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;kupuaâ&#x20AC;? or shaman of the Hawaiian tradition. He spent seven years in West Africa being trained in West African shamanic traditions. Serge has studied worldwide as well as in his beloved Hawaiian Islands. He is a student, a lecturer, a teacher, a writer, and a humanitarian. A scholar of the ancient wisdom of Hawaii.

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Greetings Serge, and thank you for so graciously joining us! I’m going to bring our audience up to speed on how I made my connection to you. I met Serge at his home in 2007. You would think that I might be a stalker because of my persistence in meeting you in person. I was on the big Island and I picked up your book at a little book store. I couldn’t put it down! The owner of the store told me that you lived on the Hilo side. I pleaded with her to give me your phone number. Eventually she took my drivers license and copied down my information and agreed to call you and get your permission for me to talk to you. Long story shortened... my cousin tracked you down and we had the most amazing visit. The rest is history. With your permission Serge, I am going to ask you a little bit about your book, Huna and one of the topics on concentration. Will you explain why formula of concentration is important to manifestation? Well the formula that I was talking about, concentration, is the important part about being able to manifest something.

When we talk about people with strong willpower or little willpower it is really just that some people continually make the same choices and some people continually make different choices one after another that keeps them scattered. Once you wander from that point, it is very hard to accomplish anything healing or prosperous with any significance.

That would be a good description of me, most my life. I get very discouraged and have a physic meltdown, and blame the Universe, when it is my fault. You say that you can choose to change, can’t blame your parents, and it is your choice to be who you are? Any magic formula for that? Yes there actually is. I can’t remember if I put this in the book or not but, the magic formula is, if you want to change your life you have to change your life. You can’t keep doing the same things and expect a different result. Yes, you did put it in the book. Are you still teaching workshops? I am. I am teaching smaller workshops. Mostly a three hour workshop, I do a lot of posting and teaching on Facebook. As far as actual workshops, I have really cut back on those. I went to a Neale Donald Walsch event and met a lady

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from Germany. She had done a workshop of yours in Germany. We were talking about something and I asked her if she had read your writings too and her response was, “Oh, my gosh yes!” Are you still teaching there? No, I am not doing anymore workshops outside of Hawaii. I am not doing anymore long ones. I am moving into a

different phase and focusing a lot more on writing.

your workshops entail? What do you teach?

Judging from something I read about you, I figured we are somewhere around the same age.

It really just depends. I am teaching about the topics that I like to do now. I have one coming up that is for the Magic Formula in February. I have a workshop on Shamanic Denomination. I have one on Grokking, the art of the Grok. Just different things related to Kahlua.

I just celebrated my 80th birthday recently. You are a little bit older but I won’t reveal my age! What do

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I am not sure I know what Grok or Grokking is. Can you please explain that a little? This is actually a technique for connecting people with a pattern. It could be someone else’s pattern that you are trying to learn something from them. It could be a pattern of a plant so that you can learn from it, help it grow or heal itself. So it is a way to connect with patterns of any kind. That sounds like a great workshop. I think what intrigued me the most about your writing is that it is so easy to read and understand. There is a special way that you say and write that people connect with. What is your next book about? I am working on several things. I have a whole lot of material from different sources that I am

putting together. I am doing a book of essays, and one on Hawaiian culture, that I am planning. I have quite a bit I want to put out . I do want to ask you something crazy since the title of my magazine is Spaceship in My Soup. Do you feel there are extraterrestrials? Well it evokes an image by itself, but by itself I don’t know what you are talking about. Do you believe in spaceships and the possibility of beings from another space? I think that is entirely possible, I mean why not? I have not met one personally that I know of, but I don’t see why it isn’t possible.

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You live in the volcano area. Did it affect you? Yes it did. We lost our home, and it was very sudden. It took our home along with hundreds of others. We thought we had a lot of time, but in 24hrs the entire community was overrun with about 50 ft of lava. Was that the beautiful place that I got to see when I was there? Yes, it was. So that whole life is gone. But we still have a place in volcano. At that time there was a bunch of earthquakes as well. We have a new place now. We are right near the cliffs. We live on the side of a mountain and have had Phase

4 alerts for forest fires many times, and have almost lost our house multiple times. It is a feeling about what is most important to you, and it is just stuff. We lost a lot of valuable things, but it is gone and we have to focus on the present now. I taught a class based on your book Huna, I didn’t really teach it but instead we read the book and discussed it. There was a woman in your book that you discussed ideas of designing yourself. You asked her if she was happy with her life and did she wish she could be someone else? She said yes. Your answer was, “don’t worry, you will be.” I think we spent

two classes on this one section because it was so big. Don’t worry life changes and you will be someone else. Was this an inspired thought or an accumulation of what you learned? I would call it an accumulation of what I have learned. I would not want to misquote you? I get off on the wrong track sometimes. Well I understand. When I am writing, I am writing on what I believe. I write what I believe will help others improve their life. When I write, it is based on my experiences and what I believe works. Giving yourself permission, that if something doesn’t work, you just change directions? I have had a lot of people help

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me. I just have a passion to help people and share so many things that are exciting. How do we go about developing selfconfidence? Okay. Well there are several ways of doing that. One of them is an old ancient tried and true method of affirming your confidence all the time. Usually this takes a while, but if you will keep your concentration permanent, gradually the inner self will begin to accept that it is the way you are. You must keep at it. Keep doing it, do not allow yourself to think any differently. So that is one, that usually takes a long time. The other one is shorter, where you are practicing a constant posture. Where you are either sitting or standing up. That takes some practice but it speeds up the process. Your body begins to associate the feeling of confidence with your

posture. It is really effective, because in a confident posture you cannot feel anger and you cannot feel fear. Fear and anger don’t come up. It takes a particular posture for you to feel those things. So, when you become aware and modify your posture consciously, you can instantly change your emotional state. It does take a lot of practice to be real good at it, but even if you start it your emotional state will change. This is the fastest one, but the most difficult one and don’t doubt. Don’t doubt yourself whatsoever. There you are, if you have no doubts then you have confidence. Have you had periods of time where you have doubted yourself? Of course, especially when I was young I would go through periods of depression. Now people say, “ Wow, you must never get depressed anymore?” No, that’s not true because I am a human being, but not it only lasts about 15 seconds. So you are recognizing it then? Yes, I am recognizing it and doing something to change it. That is almost too simple isn’t it? I think a whole article could be written on that. I do a lot of readings where, people say how they are always anxious, etc.

So if you say it then you are going to be? Yes, if you identify with it, than you make it real difficult to change. I love the simplicity of the way you say things and the information that you get across. The answers are just there. You have a thing on focus and imagine that air around you is filled with energy. So how does one put this practice into action? There is a routine in the book. It is called Haipule. The Hawaiian word Haipule, has to do with a prayer, a blessing or spell. But it really is a way of manifesting a direction that you want to turn into action. It is all at the roots of the word, literally. “Ha” is life, breath, spirit and energy. The letter I is pronounced “E” and means to speak or say the words for what you want. “Pu” has to do with what would appear as smoke. A poetic description of imagination. And then you have “Le” which is a word having to do with activity or envokement. So, what you do, is the process, using these as a guideline, you

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energize, however you want deep breathing, exercising, etc., or tuning into the energy around you. You verbalize and say what you want, then you imagine. Imagination is not just visual, you can use all your senses in your imagination. Then you take action of some kind. It can be symbolic action in the beginning but at some point it is going to be action that is moving you towards what you want. You just need to do those four things, and it is a process. I think I am going to have to re-read that book and especially that part of it. Thank you Serge Kahili King for allowing us to get to know you! We will all be watching you on YouTube and awaiting the release of your future books. www.youtube.com/user/kanaloa7 Serge Kahili King can be reached at: serge@huna.org His book HUNA (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunaâ&#x20AC;? is Hawaiian for secret), is a blueprint for living. I highly recommend going to his website to learn more. www.sergeking.com

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“My mother had polio,” she said, her voice rueful and resigned. A slow exhale revealed that her experience had been long and suffering. “It was her karma,” she continued. Followed by the question that always hovers around the topic of karma, “I wonder what she did in her previous life to warrant such a painful experience in this life?”

KARMA + “The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast.” Bob Dylan

Her mother, who had passed on, appeared as an image in my mind. This commonly happens to me with people who have passed over. Their soul appears, identified by their recent physical attributes. A stream of consciousness appears as well. The consciousness that presents has broken free of the dualistic paradigms of the physical world. The consciousness is always etheric, heavenly, loving and all-knowing, communicative, non judgmental. I was struck by the sadness this ‘vision’ of her mother carried. It was not sadness due to her life with polio and the effect it had on her family and her daughter. It was sadness due to her daughter’s misunderstanding about karma and her daughter’s misinterpretation that a life with polio was a life of punishment; correlated to some past misdeed. Karma, as a word and concept, has become ubiquitous in the

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American society. The idiom ‘you reap what you sow’ is seen from pop psychology to venerable yogis. When something bad happens to us, we wonder what we did wrong, in this life or another, to deserve such a fate. When life experiences are overwhelming or devastating we ponder what horrible seeds we must have previously planted that now makes us reap such a bitter harvest. When hurt by another we commonly use ‘karma’ to justify our thoughts of revenge. We hope, or say, “With ‘karma’ they will, at some point, get their just rewards”. Yet Karma is significantly more than something that we did bad or wrong, in this life or another. It is more than believing in “you reap what you sow”, it is more than the lessons we think we need to learn. And it is certainly more than figuring out what we need to do in order to prevent/ release/ or relinquish the pain in our life. Karma is about the evolution of our soul. It is about evolving through the Wheel of 84. The Wheel of 84 refers to the number of created beings or species (84 lakhs or 8.4 million) on this planet. The species are plants, aquatic creatures, reptiles, birds, animals, human beings, divas. Humans are the

pinnacle of the evolutionary procession. By traveling the wheel of 84 we will eventually become human, where we will spend any number of lifetimes until we attain spiritual enlightenment. A human birth is the most sacred of all the 84 lakhs. Karma is about an incarnating soul making a choice to have particular experiences in this physical world, experiences that we dualistically judge as good or bad; experiences that we categorize as either punishment or rewards. In our quest for a mindful life, we strive to strip away the judgment of good or bad, punishment or reward and begin to look at life experiences as opportunities for the advancement of our soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development. Consider Karma as synonymous with habit. Over lifetimes we have created habitual patterns, which show up in how we think, how we feel, and how we act. Everything from the way we walk to our dynamics in relationships carries the stamp and flavor of habitual patterns. In our present life, all of our habits garnered from this and previous lives, aka our karma, are in play. Karma is about the choice for particular life experiences that our soul makes prior to

incarnation. It is about the brightest of souls diving deeply into the unknown dark duality of life in the physical world. Karma is the habits and repetitive patterns carried from lifetime to lifetime. We carry these habits and patterns from one life to the next because we have yet to evolve beyond the lesson that these patterns keep presenting to us. Once we grok that lesson we no longer have the repetitive experience as we have dissolved that aspect of our karma. At that point a piece of the puzzle falls into place and the Wheel of 84 turns a cog and the pattern shifts. A consciously engaged mindful life is one of witnessing ourselves in our patterns. A mindful life does not use karma as an excuse for retribution. Karma is not about the past, it is about the present moment and this current life. This is the life we are in. This is the life we can engage with. If it is karmic, and it happened in a past life, it is also happening in this life. If you experienced betrayal in a past life and it has not been resolved, you will experience betrayal in this life. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about a past life; there are ample lessons to work on in this life. That is why we have this life. Dissolving the bonds of karma is about making choices, in this life, choices that move us beyond our habits.

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Karma is about lessons, but it is not what you need to learn. The lessons to learn have to do with the big picture of our life. Karma is about the evolution of the soul. The details of our life are only agreed upon experiences that, if witnessed with mindfulness, present us with a way to turn the wheel of 84 to shift our patterns. These details are usually simple and mundane aspects of our daily life. These details continually offer us practical keys to shift our patterns. Are you habitually impatient while standing in line at the bank? This experience will continue to happen until the lesson of patience is learned. Once you learn patience, you will no longer find yourself standing impatiently in line at the bank. That is the big picture: patience. That is the piece of the puzzle that, when it falls into place, shifts our karma. The line at the bank is a detail and only a lesson presented and an opportunity experienced, endlessly, until we no longer need it. Once we have achieved patience, we no longer have experiences in which we are impatient. If we want to dissolve Karma, we need to make new choices. Dissolving Karma is about the most mundane aspects of our present life that always,

always, center on being kind to ourselves and to others. That always centers on opening our heart to ourselves and to others. Fail to be kind, and to open your heart, and nothing else you strive to learn or figure about karma will carry weight. Instead of seeing our life experiences, painful or pleasurable, as payback for some good or bad deed, look at karma from the soul’s point of view. We incarnate into a world of duality that has the highest human attributes –love and pleasure and the lowest human attributes, hate and pain. Imagine your soul, prior to incarnation, standing on the precipice of infinite choice, looking into the vast ocean of incarnational options: rich, poor, fat, skinny, petty or graciousAny of 10,000 options for a single life in this particular incarnation. And then, via free will, our soul signs up for the very life we, in this very moment, are having. It takes a great deal of courage to dive into that ocean. To choose a life that encompasses harshness, pain, strife or struggle is not a life that reflects punishment, it is a life that reflects courage. Incarnation is done for a

purpose, not for punishment. The idea of punishment is a dualistic concept. Karma is our soul making clear, courageous and conscious decisions to have life experiences that give us the maximum opportunities to evolve. Look at those among us who carry the most earthly burdens and you will see the most courageous soul; one that has surrendered into the crucible of life in duality in order to temper their soul. Look into the eyes of someone who habitually struggles (and who among us has not?) and you will see the bravest of souls. The downtrodden, the neglected; those that live with strife and famine – pity not their soul but honor their courage. I was consulting with a patient and we were discussing ‘spiritual life tasks’, commonly known as ‘the reason we are incarnated.’ “To love myself” was his assessment of his greatest life task. Our greatest life task is reflected in our greatest longings. Our deepest longings reflect an aspect of our life that we have yet to manifest. This un-manifest aspect reflects the places in our life where we struggle the most. Suffice to say, we do not long for something we

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have already created. For this patient, to “love myself” remained an eternal mystery, his elusive white whale. It was also his greatest struggle; a fifty four year struggle through the success and failure that every life holds. His present life placed him financially strapped, working part time in a hardware store. It was a decent opportunity, but not his deepest longing for a career path. He felt a failure, how could he love himself when his life “sucked.” He judged his abilities, his station and skills. Yet from a soul point of view, his current position was the most perfect of all experiences to be had, and not an unfamiliar one. Perhaps the details of working in the hardware store environment were new, but the big picture and the big picture lesson were a repetitive theme. If you want to learn to love yourself and that is one of your karmic lessons, then create a life situation where that would be a very difficult thing to do. If it were easy, you would have already done it and moved onto another lesson. To love oneself when we judge our life a failure is a grand evolutionary task. It is an evolutionary task on the soul level; would a soul strive for anything less? Here is this experience, can you love

yourself? Here is a situation where the habit of judgment and self disdain grows deep. Can you love yourself now? Here you see yourself as a failure. Ok can you love yourself now? It is in such an environment that learning to love oneself and not have judgments, takes the greatest courage. Should, in this most challenging dynamic, a glimmer of self love and kindness arise from the longing of the soul, then Karma begins to dissolve, a piece of the puzzle falls into place, the wheel of 84 turns a cog, and a life pattern shifts. I shared with my patient, the one whose mother had polio, the image and stream of consciousness I had experienced. As I did so a karmic pattern shifted. Mother and daughter had shared a life of sadness and misunderstanding; perhaps several lifetimes. And yet their relationship changed that day. From one of sadness, sorrow and pain to one of respect, honor, and gratitude for the life chosen and the profound courage it took to do so. ------------------------------------------I was at a workshop in San Francisco. My hotel was 3-4 blocks from the convention center where the seminar was being held. After a long day of

classes I was hungry and ready to head to my room. I ordered take-out at the corner café and headed down the street. This particular part of San Francisco had its fair share of panhandlers and I spent my walk head down, bag of food clenched to my side, moving briskly to side step the ‘vagrants’. I was still hungry when I arrived at my hotel, but now I was feeling rushed, tense, and irritated. Though embarrassed to admit it, this was not an isolated pattern of behavior. Looking back on this and other similar circumstances I can say that this behavior was not a new choice. It did not fall into the category of kindness and certainly my tense body and chest reflected a closed heart, not an open heart. I was in Florida teaching and was out for a walk meandering through the downtown streets on a balmy spring day. I was approached by a mid 50’s man with unkempt hair, disheveled clothes, sockless feet in worn out shoes. He stopped, I stopped. I reached into my pocket and, gathering all the change I had, handed him 73 cents. I am certain that had I handed him the keys to a new car, his reaction could not have been more grateful, gracious, and bless laden. That, for me, was a new choice. It revolved

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around kindness. My heart felt open. On this long and winding journey home, I am learning. Awareness is a stepping stone on the path, not an endpoint. Mindfulness is but a practice of patience for ourselves and a practice of kindness for others.

Transformational Breathing and Matrix Energetics. Dr. Stroud is a graduate and former instructor of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Feel free to contact Dr. Stoud sstroud@nwi.net

Question: Why do I always choose the same type of friends? They are rarely loyal and don’t remain friends for very long? I continue to repeat this pattern over and over again. Answer: The great news is that you recognize you are making choices that don’t serve you! You are being called to break old patterns and become the person you came here to be. Friends are mirrors of how you feel about yourself. Value yourself above all. Now is an opportunity for you to know yourself and to see the value the Universe sees in you. You have gifts waiting to be experienced and developed. When you are ready, the soul inside you will blossom and become the divine creation that you are. Question: I have anxiety when I least expect it. On the surface it is unfounded but inside it can be almost debilitating at times. When this happens I am unable to function beyond hiding and

checking out of wherever I am at the time. I have fear of many things, mostly based on what could happen to me or my family. Do you have any ideas or answers for me? I am desperate to get past this time in my life. Answer: Anxiety is very real when it is happening. It is an emotion. It is a wave of energy that sweeps in when it decides to. This has been an evolving part of your life since childhood. You were told to not do things because the consequences would be harmful to you. Parents passed down a set of fears they had carried from their childhoods. This was not done to be spiteful or mean but was their truth at the time. As a child, you were eager to please and be the peacemaker in the family. You took abuse from your siblings that they did not intend, but was perceived as abuse by you. Your silent power is stronger than any anxious emotion.

Reach in and gently ask it to be there for you. Evoke the strength of Archangel Michael and rest in his power and protection. You are safe and loved. Question: Is the world going to implode soon? I am terrified of what could happen. Answer: Since the beginning of the world there have been threats and real dangers to the Earth and its inhabitants. It is still placed in the same space in the Universe. The sun and the moon are still doing their jobs. To live in fear of what might be is giving your guides, angels, and creator no credit. To tell yourself to, “get over it” doesn’t solve the problem at the core of your fears. I give you my word as your conduit to the Universe, that your world will remain intact for your lifetime and beyond. We have your back and give you the freedom to live as you were created to be; free, happy and joyful.

Rodney the Magnificent Rooster. Thank you for being here! We have a reader’s question for you to answer. Question: Why do people think they are smarter than I am? Answer: Could be that they are? How would I know? Who has the chicken brain here? *Please note that the views of Rodney do not reflect those held here at SpaceShip in my Soup. There is also no current law stating Roosters must be politically correct.

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