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icture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, a girl with colitis goes by.” Wait. What! Colitis? As I listened to The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1976, marmalade skies or not I was convinced that poor girl had colitis. When my best friend brought it to my attention that I had butchered, quite badly, those lyrics to “Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds” - I was sure he was wrong. I’d listen, over and over. Nope, I was hearing it correctly. Colitis. It was only upon his observation that perhaps I was aurally blinded, did the scales fall from my eyes (ears) and my ability to listen, truly hear become evident. Finally, I heard it. Colitis. Colitiscope. Ah, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Turns out, nobody had colitis after all. All that was needed to perceive things differently was a fine movement of the mirrored cylinder. That refined movement became a blessing for me in 2009 when my mother was diagnosed with Stage 3B metastatic adenocarcinoma. We looked at many cancer models. A common thread connecting them all was that cancer, that all so called disease was something to fight; that the body’s intelligence had become fallible and susceptible to malfunction and breakdown. It was around this time we were introduced to a paradigm that was to forever change our perspective. It would make sense of illness, perhaps for the very first time and authenticate that disease was not a mistake of nature but rather an intrinsic part of it; that nature was not faulty and never goes a wry, ever. That was an eye-opener and what a relief as there was nothing to rally against. As an overwhelming calm came over me I knew I could never look back. I had to continue in this direction. I had to know more. I needed to know everything. With a new found liberation from fear and panic {my hopeful face here} that can only come from an understanding of the biological purpose of disease, we could now move forward. To elicit a cure we didn’t have to manipulate genomes, reduce inflammation, find the next miracle drug, alkalize the water or war against anything whatso-ever. The answer was revealed by understanding what exclusive life event unleashed the physical response on the organ level. This new thought model critically challenged some very contemporary beliefs. No more of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Formally anchored in embryology and verified by European Universities and Institutions - German New Medicine (GNM), the inspiration of Dr. med. Ryke Geerd Hamer is a natural science based on universal biological principles that views disease through the eyes of Mother Nature. Founded on natural laws rather than hypotheses and postulates, GNM reveals that all so called disease comes from an isolating, unanticipated biological conflict-shock; a highly acute, distressing life incident - so stunning that it registers simultaneously on three levels; Psyche. Brain. Body. An everyday trauma or challenge will not register on all three levels - this, along with the purposeful interplay of this mind-brain-organ trinity is the distinctive feature of the GNM conflict-shock with the brain serving as the mediator within this trinity. So, let’s dispense with the qualifiers. Despite the name, German New Medicine is not based in Germany and it isn’t really medicine at all - well, at least not in the flat-earth sense. What flat-earth medicine calls disease, is, upon a slight movement of the kaleidoscope a meaningful survival program created to assist us in resolving a biological shock. Through the kaleidoscope of GNM, life events or conflict-shocks that are too overwhelming to digest are translated into compensatory biological programs
that the body is able to process over time. This translation from the psyche to body buys time for the possibility of a conflict resolution. The biological shock initially impacts the psyche on the emotional level, then alights a predetermined relay in the brain - as an energetic short-circuit or imprint (visible on a CAT scan) exclusively based upon the conflict’s unique nature. A natural survival program, with the accompanying organic and functional change is set into motion in the corresponding body system. The very program is what flat-earth medicine calls disease. Dr. Wayne Dyer. Dr. John Sarno. Dr. Deepak Chopra have all illuminated the mind-body link. Louise Hay, best known for her 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life, gave us the rough guide - however, until the advent of the CAT scanner in the 1980’s, there was no scientific proof. Today, every connection can be documented with a perfect predictability. GNM explains these connections and how we might unplug or disconnect them, while providing us a blueprint for the accurate cause, exact course and predicted amelioration of nearly all disease, including it’s biological (significant) purpose. No longer is illness something that just happens to us by chance, the disease randomly striking it’s victim(s) - we now have an understanding of the why’s and the wherefore’s as well as the ability to reframe it’s ominousness. Of the vast majority of mind-body medicine(s) available today, most do not grasp how or why to approach the shock. Only a few manage to tangentially downgrade it. Since the identification and the psyche’s release of the conflict-shock is essential to recovery, during a consultation we direct our focus to the specific moment in time that the biological program was set into motion. Most recognize exactly when their biological shock occurred as it was invariably an acutely distressing moment. Dr. Hamer provides us with the exact conflict-shock wired to any biological program (disease) - it is so highly accurate that we know exactly in what direction to guide the discussion. Protocol in GNM involves a form of an “investigative” dialogue or emotional “detective work” specifically directed to search the psyche and unearth the conflict-shock. We focus on its identification and resolution only and leave the doctoring to the flat-earth experts. Looking at an adenocarcinoma of the lung gives us a breathtaking roundearth perspective of the meaningful interplay of psyche, brain and organ. We find the conflict-shock centers around a “death fright”, e.g. a cancer diagnosis that is perceived as a “death sentence”, i.e. one has been told they have six months to live. From a biological perspective, a death fright is equated with being unable to breathe, GASP. Anyone who has ever received such news will recognize the GASP reflex. As the psyche interprets the biological theme of the event, simultaneously the shock impacts a very specific relay switch within the brain, in this case, the brainstem. The moment the brain receives that impact, the information is immediately communicated to the corresponding target organ, in this example - the lung, which is placed on emergency stand-by; a total preoccupation with the shock is reflected with the cold hands, insomnia and loss of appetite of the stress response - all mirroring the individuals attempt at resolving the news. Immediately, the alveolar cells of the lung (air sacs) which regulate breathing, begin to proliferate forming what flat-earth medicine calls a tumor. Yet, upon a slight movement of the kaleidoscope, an intelligent survival program emerges - the significance of the additional cells (tumor) serves to increase the available alveolar surface area, lung capacity in order to extract more oxygen to assist the individual through the death fright conflict-shock, thereby optimiz-
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ing the individuals chance of survival. You see, nature is not in fact flawed, fallible and diseased. Contrary to the flat-earth view, this multiplication of lung cells is not a pointless process but rather serves a very definite biological purpose. The tumor growth will be in direct correlation to the intensity and duration of the shock. The cellular mitosis will continue until the conflict-shock is resolved, at that moment the psyche releases the special program, as it is no longer needed - and the cells, as if on cue, stop replicating. But we’re not done - now the repair crews come in for clean-up detail. The overgrowth of cells will be decomposed via mycobacteria and eliminated. If the microbes are absent, the nodules will be encased off as a harmless remnant of a biological program that has run its course. Dr. Hamer does not dispute the existence of secondary and tertiary cancers - but the notion of metastasis from a primary site becomes questionable in light of the third biological law of GNM. More accurate is that metastases are the result of multiple conflict-shocks, related to one life event, resolving in symphony. The biological explanation of each and every disease, brilliantly illuminated above, evolved over millions of years to improve the function of the conflictrelated organ, so that the individual is in a better position to manage the shock. Through directed dialogue, thought and reflection we resolve the conflictshock. The psyche is able to connect-all-the-dots and the program (disease) is now no longer needed as it has served it’s biological purpose. The program in a sense reverses course coming full circle as health is restored. We can now reframe our thinking to see disease for what it is…an essential “biological survival” program, not to be feared and dreaded but rather, understood and navigated in a new light. Each and every disease holds a purposeful biological meaning. This is revelatory. Once we grasp this - the mystery, enigma and darkness softens. At the very moment of conflict-shock, our subconscious makes a connection between the unique theme of the emotionally distressing event and the biological program to be switched on. A territorial loss or sexual conflict (angina, heart attack), a separation (eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, herpes), a brutal separation (vitiligo), a selfdevaluation (fibromyalgia, arthritis), hearing (tinnitus, ear infection), identity (hemorrhoids), motor, muscle conflict (multiple sclerosis, lou gehrig’s, parkinson’s), an insult attack (acne), stink conflict (common cold), profound loss (testicular cancer, ovarian cancer), complete overwhelm (myocardial infarct), morsel conflict (constipation), betrayal with sexual connotations (prostatitis), boundary demarcation (urinary tract infection, bladder), resistance, revulsion (diabetes, hypoglycemia), starvation (liver disease), water, fluid conflict (high blood pressure), a territorial aggression (bronchitis), a territorial anger (GERD) ... and on and on. Mental disorders such as anxiety, p.t.s.d, ocd, depression, bi-polar, autism involve multiple conflict-shocks in opposing halves of the brain, referred to as a constellation. Additional constellations and multiple conflicts are represented by programs such as AIDS, Lyme disease, migraine headaches, cutting, gout, anorexia and bulemia. These represent but a whisper of the breadth, scope and precedence of Dr. Hamer’s 40,000 cases which help us to understand the inherent essence of disease. Although not detailed here, each and every program (disease) possesses a purpose for it’s very existence, an explanation for it’s presentation and a meaning for it’s expression. The list is endless; for the first time in history nearly all so called disease (sans trauma, malnutrition and poisoning) can now be appreciated with a fresh
perspective. Having the proper medical system in place to navigate through the programs unfoldment is of fundamental importance, but with a true understanding of GNM the majority of diseases need not reach the extremes we observe under a flat-earth watch. In that standard, panic and fear inherent within the paradigm set into motion additional conflict-shocks (secondary and tertiary programs) that critically muddle the outcome, crippling the prospect of a recovery. The paradigm and protocol create a slippery slope from the get go; the very model is a strong causal determinant. On the surface the principles may appear, perhaps simplistic … I’m afraid they’re not. Upon deeper investigation we find a many and deep nuance to GNM that can be only appreciated within the framework of practical application. Bringing to light how your psyche has perceived the tonality, flavor of a conflict-shock and the manner to best unravel it - takes perceptual artistry. The art of navigating through the healing phase is the greatest challenge in GNM. At times, the shock is below our conscious awareness. The ability to percolate it up from the subconscious while maintaining the safety and security of the client is paramount. Cases that may appear black and white, more often present as a complex tapestry consisting of hundreds of colored threads. It is in the isolation and contextual understanding of that one subtle hue where the alchemy happens. When you find exactly the right hue or ‘shade’ of the conflict, perhaps for the first time - as if by magic, it is released by the psyche enabling the program to runs it’s due course. A GNM consultation generally requires one to several sessions with results often coming in the first session. Only the more complex scenarios require additional dialogue. For those that are ready to allow the scales to fall; Welcome to seeing through Kaleidoscope Eyes. Welcome to The Vision of The New Medicine. Oh, and by the way, The Beatles Lucy - finally resolved her indigestible anger conflict-shock. She’s doing just fine.
Dr. Neal Robert Smookler, New England’s first GNM consultant and therapist, resides in Hopkinton, Massachusetts where he consults, in person and via phone both professional and lay persons locally as well as nationally. Dr. Smookler graduated from Boston College with a Bachelors of Science in Biology in June 1985, received his Doctorate in Chiropractic from the prestigious Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in December 1988 and began his German New Medicine studies in 2009. He pioneered the introduction of Developmental Alphabiotics in New England. For the last quarter-century Dr. Smookler has maintained a successful, full time wellness care practice in Boston, Wellesley and Hopkinton Massachusetts. For an exclusive video presentation on GNM - email us at fgnm@earthlink.net | 508-625-1170.
In GNM consultations we focus on the identification and resolution only of the conflict-shock and leave the doctoring to the medical experts. Those seeking treatment for a specific disease should consult their doctor.
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MUSINGS By Carol Bedrosian
It’s Time For a Return to Plant Wisdom
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couple of years ago I attended a workshop on invasive plants at the Women’s Herbal Conference in New Hampshire and discovered, much to my surprise, that rototilling my garden was an invasive act! Soil hosts an entire world of microbes and networks of mycorrhizal fungal filaments that have intentionally layered the dirt in your garden “just so” for optimal soil health and plant growth. Tilling up the rich earth to give your seedlings a starting advantage actually destroys the intricate information and nutrient networks already established there, based on hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary wisdom. Who knew plants, roots, fungi — even dirt — were so anciently intelligent? According to Dr. T. Herman Sissons in The Big Bang to Now: All of Time in Six Chunks, plants are the original source of bio-intelligence on Earth. It is they who initiated species diversification, moving from water to land close to two billion years ago in an organized — and Sissions insists, intelligent — process of adaptation, survival and reproduction that transformed Earth’s biosphere for the millennia of all future populations. Does this make plants the origin of our species? Herbalist Pam Montgomery thinks so. This issue in “Cared For and Loved By Green Beings,” she writes, “All our tissue comes from plants because we don’t make our tissue from sunlight — plants do. All our food comes from plants either directly or from an animal that ate a plant, and all our oxygen comes from plants. We are completely dependent upon plants for our daily existence.” Yet plants receive perhaps the least of our respect and consideration in the natural world. We pull weeds and chop wilderness at our whims, and even pacifists, who refuse to kill animals for food, think nothing of chowing down a big plate of greens. We view plants like the background and scenery in our lives, rather than the substance of our very existence. Because we buy our food at the grocery store and prescriptions in pill form, we forget how essential plants are in producing our food and medicines. As people gradually stopped growing their own food on small farms or in backyard gardens, industrial agriculture and processed food companies happily stepped in to fill the void. But as corporations, their goal is to be the biggest and most profitable businesses they can be, not to produce the healthiest food for people to eat. Decades later, we are eating genetically modified fruits, vegetables and grains because GMO foods are cheaper to produce and provide bigger profits. Twenty years after the first genetically modified food, the FlavrSavr tomato, arrived on the market, 90% of the corn and soy in our diets is genetically engineered and we don’t even know it. This is why GMO companies are determined to keep their products unlabeled; an uninformed public is much easier to sell their products to. According to a Wall Street Journal blog on August 7, 2014, “There have been no human studies on the long-term health impact of consuming GMOs, just animal studies, as is typical in determining the safety of food…[yet] published studies
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say there are signs of toxic effects in animals that ate genetically modified crops…” Despite this lack of testing, and the growing list of countries around the world who are banning GMOs from their food supplies as unsafe, GMO companies are scooping up legal victories in seed patent protection, buying out their seed company competition, and little by little, owning the rights to control the world’s food and seed supply. This sounds like an absolutely awful idea to me. From the plant’s perspective, all is not well, either. Genetically engineered by nature for hundreds of millions of years to nourish the biosphere, propagate and diversify, plants now find themselves being cloned and re-engineered into a predator species. Manmade genetically engineered plants, such as Bt corn, potatoes and cotton, sprout insecticides from within to make them naturally pest resistant (it splits open the stomachs of invading insects), but which also proves to be toxic to other species in that plant’s food chain including some bees, butterflies, birds and beneficial insects (humans unknown). Unfortunately, pests adapt quickly to survival challenges and within less than seven years superbugs developed resistance to the Bt toxin, so a new insecticide was added to the genetic code. Now it delivers a double whammy of toxins to pests (and possibly anyone else consuming the product). GE crops are also designed to tolerate large doses of glyphosate, an herbicide most popularly sold as Roundup, which is now suspected to be linked to the massive die-offs and population disruptions in bees, butterflies and other related species, as well as in fish and amphibian populations, where agricultural run-off water collects. As with the superbugs, superweeds have cultivated resistance to glyphosate, resulting in even heavier applications of the pesticide. While GE crops are resistant to its poisoning, the soil and surrounding non-GE plants are not, greatly compromising soil fertility and predisposing plants, and those that feed on them, to disease and toxins. Ironically, as we experiment with genetics gone wild on some plants, we still live in an age of marijuana prohibition. Especially in light of its medicinal and healing properties, criminalizing cannabis is as harmful to society today as was the prohibition of alcohol that empowered organized crime in the 1930s, notes cannabis reform activist Steve DeAngelo in his interview this issue. 658,000 arrests for marijuana possession in 2012 ruined twice as many lives, was enormously expensive to process, provided no financial return, and was entirely unnecessary in the first place. Legalize and regulate illegal drugs to disempower drug cartels and put an end to the violence sending drugs and people to our borders. It’s time for a return to plant wisdom! May every family grow some food and medicine! Carol Bedrosian is the publisher of Spirit of Change holistic magazine. Visit www.spiritofchange.org.
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The World Is Getting Healthier According to key findings of the World Health Organization, May 2014, much progress has been made towards reaching the UN’s 8 Millennium Development
Key findings of the report showed that: • Globally, the number of deaths of children under 5 years of age fell from 12.6 million in 1990 to 6.6 million in 2012. • In developing countries, the percentage of underweight children under 5 years old dropped from 25% in 1990 to 15% in 2012. • Globally, new HIV infections declined by 33% between 2001 and 2012. • Existing cases of tuberculosis are declining, along with deaths among HIV-negative tuberculosis cases. All UN groups are currently evaluating and rewriting the MDG goals. For example, a briefing strongly recommended that safety for media persons should be included as a new goal. The goals will be introduced at the General Assembly meeting in 2015 as the Post 2105 goals. Read more at www.un.org/millenniumgoals/. Source: Curriculum of Hope for a Peaceful World, Summer, 2104.
The Healing Chant According to sound healing pioneer Jill Purce, there is a profound sense of disenchantment in Western society. “I think this is because,” she says, “quite literally, there is no chant in our lives anymore. All the situations in which members of traditional cultures came together to chant have gradually been eroded away, so we feel disempowered and helpless in a desacralized world.” One of the effects of chanting is the dissolution of boundaries. When this happens something new can take place in the psyche and body of a person. Chanting seems directly to stimulate the emission of certain chemicals in the brain, such as endorphins, which give rise to states of enhanced awareness, blissful calm, and other deep meditative states. A specific chanting skill Purce teaches is Mongolian overtone chanting. This involves sounding a single note only, but by modulating all the resonant cavities, including the shape of the mouth, the chanter makes audible, high, bell-like sounds that float above the continuous bass note in a way, reminiscent of the music of the spheres and producing a state of extreme calm and clarity. The voice is the key to spiritual transformation, she believes. “Because the sound of the voice is directly linked through the breath to the activities of the mind, through working with the voice we can learn to enter the state the Tibetans know as ‘rigpa’, the awareness that combines emptiness with clarity. This leads ultimately to illumination.” Jill is conducting two Healing Voice events in October, her first appearances in New England since 2010. Visit www.healingvoice.com for details.
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ardently. Romance is in the air this weekend as well. Stay alert and informed of your local weather around Sunday the 21st. Mars tests Neptune that day, increasing the risk of an accident or dangerous weather conditions. You cannot be too careful! Pluto is also making waves. The diminutive but powerful planet of transformation turns direct Monday evening. At 10:29PM on Monday the 22nd the Sun enters Libra and fall officially begins. This is the Autumnal Equinox, the moment of balance between the forces of darkness and light. A political or business scandal may be a major story this week. A fresh activity cycle arrives with the Libra new Moon of the 24th. Many new relationships will begin during the next two weeks. Evolutionary voices speak up when Jupiter forms a fabulous trine aspect to Uranus on the 25th. This aspect confers rare talents and genius. Unexpected travel is another good possibility. Broaden your horizons. Go ahead, try new things! Mercury splashes down into stubborn Scorpio on the 27th and Venus alights in her own sign of Libra on Monday the 29th. These two shifts are late September’s most notable astrological events. Most of us will enjoy a quiet few days.
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Astrology Forecast for Fall 2014 “The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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he trees tell autumn’s tale. From the lush greens of early September to the first flaming leaves, and then finally November’s bare branches, the changes are stupendous. Seaside tourist towns and forest campgrounds seem suddenly deserted, abandoned to hardy locals and the ghosts of summers past. For millions of folks it’s time to stow away summer toys and get back to school or work schedules. Fewer hours of daylight and the Sun’s passage through Virgo announce that the harvest season has arrived. A mouthwatering cornucopia of apples, pumpkins, corn, squash and other victuals can be seen piled high at an ever increasing number of regional farm stands and markets. New England’s September and October skies are some of the year’s most perfectly clear and blue. Perhaps it is the Sun’s mid-September arrival in Libra, the sign of beauty and harmony, that stirs my reverence for Mother Nature’s artful handiwork. Who can resist stopping to admire a stately maple adorned in yellow and red? As the Sun orbits lower in the sky, shadows seem to caress treetops, buildings’ faces and other objects of interest. Get out, enjoy the season and celebrate this glorious world we live in. 12 Spirit of Change | FALL 2014
September The unofficial end of summer is early this year. Monday, September 1st is Labor Day. It’s mostly a quiet affair. On the 2nd, after some early morning stresses, agreeable aspects help people ease back into the flow. Life seems a splendid adventure. The Virgo Sun is moving into a beneficial sextile with Pluto during this period. Exact on the 3rd, the aspect may be profitable for some and occasion profound learning experiences for others. It generally supports teamwork. Life’s pace accelerates as the Moon is waxing. The full “Harvest” Moon in Pisces is exact on Monday the 8th at 9:37PM EDT. Expect the usual histrionics as well as notes of sublime tenderness. A trio of oppositions underlines the rules, or lack of rules, in various engagements. Protect assets. Take time to ponder important decisions. I generally advise against making major changes in the heat of full Moon madness. It will be several days before things quiet down. Even then, mixed trends persist through the middle of September. Mental Mercury in Libra is activating the dangerous Uranus/Pluto square. Decision-making is easier after Mercury opposes Uranus the morning of Saturday the 13th. Later that same day Mars enters Sagittarius, stirring hearts and impassioning minds. Learning is encouraged and views are voiced
A stressful first quarter Moon in Capricorn is conjunct Pluto on the 1st. There are likely to be reports of bad behavior by all the usual celebrity suspects during the next week. The Libra Sun is also moving into a sensitive position, square to Pluto on the 4th and opposite Uranus on the 7th. Extremists thrive on this type of chaotic energy. It may seem as though the world has again gone bonkers. Mental Mercury turns retrograde on the 4th, as well. Making sense of insanity seems to be a full time job these days. But with Mercury in Scorpio, the sign of other people’s resources, following the money trail will clear up many mysteries. Mars in Sagittarius makes fine aspects to Uranus and Jupiter during this first part of October. Truth will come out and with it, some things will be set right. The full “Hunter’s” Moon in Aries is exact on Wednesday the 8th at 6:51AM. This is also a lunar eclipse, with the Moon close to Uranus and her own south node. Karma is sure to catch up with many religious and political figures around this time. Our home planet is in a delicate state. Earthquakes and other global changes may be disruptive but good motivation for enacting new, environmentally responsible and socially just laws. Travelers off on an adventure and lovers alike will benefit from the sextile aspects formed by the Libra Sun and Venus to Jupiter in Leo. These angles are about having fun. They hold sway from Friday the 10th through Tuesday the 14th. A string of upbeat alignments carry us through the middle of the month. Old friends are likely to reappear around the 17th, when Venus passes by retrograding Mercury. The Sun enters Scorpio the morning of Thursday the 23rd. Venus follows suit during the early evening. At 5:57PM, the Sun is eclipsed by the new Moon. What a neat package. The Sun is tightly aligned with the Moon and Earth, and Venus in the mix, too! Tune in. Meditate. World financial markets are likely to shudder. As with every eclipse, it’s best to wait a few days for the dust to settle and circumstances to be clarified. The edification
process begins in earnest on Saturday the 25th when Mercury resumes forward motion. Mars begins an important transit through Capricorn, the sign of big business and big government, on Sunday the 26th. Reformers get a boost from trine aspects between Venus and the Sun to Neptune on the 27th and 28th. Artists and romantics can well appreciate the loving vibes. Halloween promises to be a festive one, but overindulging one’s sweet tooth presents definite risks. Be kind to your teeth and your waistline.
Let Me Read You,Then Heal You Ross J. Miller has been giving psychic and past-life readings and healing sessions worldwide for over 25 years. During a reading he communicates telepathically with his numerous angels and spirit guides who read and interpret the client’s aura (the spiritual light surrounding one’s physical body). Ross also communicates with the client’s own angels and spirit guides (most people have several of each).
November As the new month arrives we are once again energized by a waxing Moon. Saturday the 1st features a relaxing morning and superb social indicators for the evening. A night on the town with a special someone or with close friends is a time to remember. We change the clocks back to Standard Time at 2:00AM Sunday. A solar sextile to Pluto on Monday the 3rd, the day before Election Day (Tuesday the 4th) suggests that incomprehensible amounts of cash will be invested in partisan politics. It’s time we pass laws that remove secret money from our nation’s elections! The full “Beaver” Moon of Thursday the 6th is exact at 5:23PM. This is another powerful full Moon. The Scorpio Sun is conjunct Venus and Saturn while all three stars oppose the Moon in Taurus. Broken promises and unmet expectations weigh on many minds. Equitably sharing responsibilities as well as resources appears to be the solution to many problems. Fiery Mars then takes center stage. On Monday the 10th the red planet overtakes Pluto. The conjunction can set off fierce struggles to determine who is in control. On the 12th Mars squares Uranus, triggering a new round of global instability. Other more promising aspects shore up fragile partnerships, but Venus’ conjunction with Saturn, also on the 12th, can signal a heart-breaking end for some relationships. Neptune turns direct on Sunday the 16th. Pay attention to dreams and subliminal messaging. The Sun passes through its annual conjunction with Saturn during the wee hours of the 18th. Decisions carry the element of finality. While second-guessing will be tough to avoid, the odds are your choice is realistic. The Sun steps into Sagittarius and finds the Moon waiting the morning of Saturday the 22nd. This Sagittarius new Moon always kicks off the holiday season. Travel could be complicated this weekend as Mercury tests Jupiter. The 25th brings more snafus. Avoid journeying on that day if possible. Friendships are warm but expectations are likely to be overblown the night of the 26th. Our national day of Thanksgiving sees fantastic influences. The Aquarius Moon is a plus for camaraderie and friendship. Helpful aspects to Uranus and Venus help spread joy around the dinner table and beyond into the community. Be ready for travel delays over the weekend. Missed messages and bad weather may again be critical factors as fleet Mercury tangles with Neptune. Err on the side of caution, and keep looking up!
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oconut oil has hit the big time as a popular food item. Books, studies and anecdotal stories describe how coconut oil can cure Alzheimer’s, boost immune system function, clean your teeth and gums, help with weight loss and regulate the thyroid, to name a few. While the scientific jury is still out on these miraculous health claims, coconut oil does taste great and is a good choice in moderation for vegans and others not wanting to use butter or lard (beef fat). Coconut oil is made by pressing and extracting the fat out of the meat of mature coconuts. Like peanut butter, coconut butter is made by taking the meat and turning it into a buttery spread. There is oil and meat (fiber) present in the coconut butter, whereas there is just oil present in the pressed and extracted coconut oil. It is a super densely saturated fat, and at 92% one of the highest available, higher than lard or butter. All saturated fats will raise your “bad” LDL as well as the “good” HDL cholesterol. (LDL is the cholesterol associated with various heart diseases.) Coconut oil is a medium chain triglyceride fat, however, which makes it unique to other saturated fats. Fats that contain long chain triglyceride fats tend to take longer to digest and get stored in the body as fat, whereas medium chain triglycerides get digested quickly, moving to the liver for faster use as fuel. Coconut oil melts at 76 degrees, but will be solid at 75, making it easy to measure and store. It does not require refrigeration. Because of the high saturation, coconut oil remains stable longer and turns rancid much more slowly than less saturated fats. Coconut oil is also more stable in medium to high cooking temperatures, as well, so you are less likely to get to the smoking point of the oil (which means that the oil has 14 Spirit of Change | FALL 2014
become potentially carcinogenic) if you use coconut oil in your sautéing. Refined coconut oil has a higher smoke point (400º F) than unrefined, virgin coconut oil (350º F), which is said to be more healthful, but it’s best to read up on the smoke point of the oil that you prefer to cook with to learn how stable it is in medium to high heat. Be sure to read ingredient labels as many conventional coconut oils are derived from dried coconut that is highly bleached, deodorized and refined. This oil can be found in many candies, coffee creamers and things like popcorn found in movie theaters. If you are looking for the best health benefits, choose organic, virgin coconut oil. Just a little note to be ever mindful of the food you are putting into your body.
Creamy Mint Chip Vegan Cheeze Cake This delicious recipe was one that I made for many customers in my café. Its creamy texture makes you think you are eating a dairy-rich cheesecake. Equipment High-powered blender Food processor Thin rubber scraper 9” spring form pan Crust ingredients 2 cups walnuts 3 tbsp cacao powder ¼ cup maple syrup ½ tsp vanilla powder or 1 tsp vanilla extract Pinch of Celtic sea salt Crust procedure Put all ingredients into food processor and process until it forms a ball of fudge. Take out and press into the bottom of a spring form pan. (Hint: you can slightly oil the pan with coconut oil if you’d like, although it isn’t necessary.) Cheeze cake filling ingredients 3 cups raw cashew pieces 2 ¼ cup hemp milk 1 cup maple syrup ¼ cup lemon juice 2 tsp peppermint extract ½ tsp vanilla powder or 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 tsp green powder, like Vitamineral Green Pinch of Celtic sea salt 3 tbsp non-gmo lecithin (optional) 1 cup coconut oil Cheeze cake filling procedure Add all ingredients in a high-speed blender like the Vitamix and blend on high for 30-40 seconds. You might need to use the tamper tool to push down the ingredients to the blade. This makes an extremely creamy mixture. (Note: If you don’t have a high-powered blender, you might want to put half the ingredients in your blender in smaller quantities and blend until very creamy. Then repeat until all the ingredients are blended until creamy.) Pour into the spring form pan and set in freezer for 3-4 hours to firm up. When ready to eat, let stand for www.spiritofchange.org
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Coconutty Pancakes Coconutty Pancakes are for coconut lovers! This is a great gluten-free pancake, but substitutions are included if you don’t have all the ingredients. 2 eggs 2 tbsp coconut oil ¼ cup maple syrup 1 tsp vanilla extract Pinch of salt 2 tbsp coconut (or wheat) flour ½ tsp nutmeg 1 tsp cinnamon 1/3 cup coconut milk (or milk of your choice) 1 cup fresh berries of your choice (can combine with chopped walnuts) In a large bowl, add the first five ingredients and beat together with a fork or wire whisk. Be sure not to over whisk. Then add the rest of the ingredients except for the berries. Set aside. Using a little bit of oil (coconut oil or butter), heat a large iron skillet and then dollop a small amount in three or four areas of the pan to create small pancakes. Slightly brown on one side and sprinkle some of the fresh berries (and/or chopped walnuts) and then flip to brown the other side. Serve hot with maple syrup, or even better, take another cup of the berries and blend with ¼ cup of maple syrup to make a fruity syrup.
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Dear Karen, A family friend was recently sent home to “be made comfortable” after her fight with brain cancer. Her living area surrounds her with white walls, white blinds and nothing to stimulate her or make her feel calm and comfortable. Could you offer some suggestions? Thank you. — Jessica
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ncreasing the presence of the wood element in your friend’s surroundings would be beneficial in this situation. The wood element, native to health and family issues, is enhanced by hues of green and blue, anything made of wood, columnar and upright tree shapes, and all wallpapers and fabrics that are plant-based. Consider adding some beautiful, low maintenance plants such as orchids and jade plants that will bring healing energy into the space as well as purify the air. A miniature, potted tree placed in an auspicious sight line in the room would also be an excellent choice. Too little wood energy can create a feeling of hopelessness and overwhelm, definitely not helpful attributes for the body to heal. If possible, put some positive imagery on the walls to encourage your friend to heal. If she is able, have her make a collage of her healing journey, ending up with a complete healing. Consciously infusing her environment with positive healing images sends messages to the subconscious to act accordingly and provides a positive focus on days when healing challenges abound. Add some colorful pillows, sheets and blankets to detract from the sterile hospital bed feeling and create a more homey, nurturing space in which to recuperate. Anything in the blue-green range would support the healing energy of wood. Consider enhancing the bed with a luxurious quilt and hanging some fabric tapestries to make the space more cheerful. Softening the harsh feeling of the room with comforting textures will go a long way to help your friend to feel more comfortable. Finally, it may seem obvious, but check to be sure there is some access to direct sunlight in the space. Optimal health conditions are created when our bodies are able to maintain their natural, circadian cycles guided by the rising and setting of the sun. Consciously bringing the metal element into your friend’s surroundings may also aid in her recovery, helping to stimulate joy and creativity, and possibly attract supportive guides and mentors. Metal’s color is white — already in plenty of abundance here — but
Front Entrance Trash and Recycle Bins Solutions Dear Karen, What are some ways to improve the feng shui of a mudroom? In our house the mudroom is off the kitchen and we use the mudroom entrance as the home’s main entrance. I keep our mudroom swept and clutter-free, however, for convenience, we keep our main household trashcan and recycling bin in the mudroom (both emptied weekly), and you pass by these daily, coming and going from the house. Both bins have lids and are in good condition. It would be impractical keeping these bins anywhere else. The walls of the mudroom are painted a dark red, the floor is slate, and the mudroom is at the southeast corner of the house in our wealth quadrant. Any thoughts for working with what we have? Thank you. — Rose
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rom your helpful description I understand your mudroom is your main entrance, which is also the most convenient place for your trash bins, unfortunately. Because you are coming and going through this area on a daily basis, it has an effect on your chi and your perceptions as you begin and end your day. Our subconscious minds actively respond to cues in our spaces. Redirect your eye away from the bins with a few simple adjustments. Try placing artwork on the walls and if you have a window(s), add a pretty window treatment in a charming fabric to bring your eye away from the bins. Distraction is a powerful decorating tool. Energy flows to where we focus and you do not want to be focusing on the trash to start and end your day. Your walls are right in tune to add some wealthoriented colors in blue, purple, and red. Think about what represents wealth for you — perhaps a few beautiful, meaningful objects on a pretty shelf would work. A wind chime placed in this room would be auspicious in activating the positive chi associated with the comings and goings of vehicles and the opening and closing of the garage and mudroom doors. Certainly enough breeze would be created to coax a few lovely sounds from the wind chime, as well as alert others in the house about activity going on here. Lastly, consider having inexpensive cabinets built for the bins with a lid and sliding door for easy access. You can paint it the same color as the wall so it will disappear into the walls and not stand out, allowing the space to be more intentionally devoted to triggers cueing wealth for you, rather than trash. This is a great question, as many homeowners today tend to enter their home through a practical mudroom, rather than the home’s front door. Pay attention to using your front door as often as possible, even if it’s just to open the door and step outside. This will encourage as much nourishing energy as possible into your home; the house’s primary entrance is considered the mouth of chi.
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lightning, as thunderstorms become more severe, only exacerbates the situation. Not everyone agrees that global warming is causing the increase in wildfires. Professor David B. South of Auburn University points the finger at forest management and fire suppression practices over the last century that have allowed “fuels” to build up on forest floors, making the fires that do get started that much harder to quell or contain. “Policymakers who halt active forest management and kill ‘green’ harvesting jobs in favor of a ‘hands-off ’ approach contribute to the buildup of fuels in the forest,” South told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in May 2014. “This eventually increases the risk of catastrophic wildfires,” he said, adding that blaming carbon dioxide emissions for increased fire risk would be “simply unscientific.” Regardless of who is right, we can all help reduce or prevent wildfires. According to Smokey Bear, the federal government’s mascot for wildfire prevention since the 1940s, those of us living in or visiting fire-prone areas should take extra precautions when burning anything outdoors. The campfire safety page of Smokey Bear’s website outlines how to build and extinguish campfires properly to minimize wildfire risks, and provides lots of other relevant tips on how to stay vigilant. You can also help reduce the risk of wildfire by reducing your carbon footprint (drive and fly less, plant trees) and speaking up for legislation and other actions that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. CONTACTS: NWF, www.nwf.org; Climate Central, www. climatecentral.org; Smokey Bear, www.smokeybear.com
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Sufi Element Breaths
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reathing in through the nose, out through the nose….Thus begins the ancient Sufi elemental healing breath for Earth. In through the nose, out through the nose. The Earth breath connects us to the denseness of Earth, the minerals, the hard, strong fibers, the metals and lush deep soil, cleaving together, standing upright and reaching downward into the earth, gathering nutrients and holding firm. This is the Earth breath. For more than two thousand years, seekers of the mystical Sufi traditions have been practicing these purification breaths every morning. Early in the 1900’s, professor Hazrat Inayat-Khan arrived in New York from India and began teaching these Element Breaths to eager students in the West. Students of these ancient Sufi teachings now span the globe and gather frequently in centers around the world for meditation and retreats, for renewal, awakening and discovering hidden wisdom. In through the nose, out through the mouth. This is the Water breath. Visualize ancient streambeds, deep pools of water and micro-droplets of water being drawn up by the roots of plants. Imagine a soft rain shower spreading pollen or dancing drips on leaves and petals. In through the nose, out through the mouth, slow and steady, soaking, gentle and wet, purifying and washing clean. Next comes Fire, sipping the air in through the mouth, out through the nose. On this planet, our existence depends upon the great fire, our Sun. Everything we do needs this heat; the intense activity of Fire draws the plants up from the earth and within our bodies enables us to metabolize food. Fire lights our way and our ideas are transformed with light. Fire is brilliant, super-charged, penetrating warmth. In through the mouth, out through the mouth. This is Air. Hear the winds in the trees fanning through pine needles, whispering secrets, moving unseen from far away. Feel the breeze on your skin, watch it bend the corn and ripple through grain. Air moves in mysterious ways. Lastly, the Ether breath is very subtle, very refined. In through the nose, out through the nose, although you can barely feel it moving through your body. This is Ether. Instead of you doing the breathing, the divine breath is breathing for you. This breath connects you with all living things, all breathing, all appreciating Earth, Water, Fire and Air. It all comes together in the Ether, the unseen, the ethereal knowing.
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Cultivating The Scented Garden Within By Guido Masé
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t is legend that some twenty-five hundred years ago, a ruler of Babylon (or was it Nineveh?) commissioned a wondrous garden, terraced up from the flat plains between the rivers of the Fertile Crescent. Its levels were built of huge slabs of stone, elaborately carved and supported by high vaulted colonnades. Huge amounts of soil were transported to create hills and fields in this garden many, many feet above street level. Sundry species of trees, shrubs, flowers and herbs were brought in to plant its winding paths. Using giant corkscrew pumps, thousands of gallons of water were moved against gravity on a daily basis to keep the garden lush and green. The ancient historians named it one of the Seven Wonders of the World and marveled at this oasis, high above the incessant bustle of the city, smoothed with endless marble and steeped in a deep, seductive fragrance from the constant bloom of aromatic plants. It is also said that it was the queen, who longing for her homeland in the rich, flowering hills of the north, had pleaded with her husband for a retreat that could remind her of her younger days, of her family and of what brought her joy. Watching her languish in the hot, humid, noisy city at the heart of his kingdom, he met her request in grand style, and her Hanging Gardens have been the stuff of myth ever since. But while some may wonder at the choice of such a garden to appease the restless spirit, it makes perfect sense: a retreat of roses and jasmine, lavender and linden is the perfect prescription not only for bringing a quiet respite in the middle of a hectic life, but also for re-inspiring and re-awakening the joy and creativity of childhood. The fact that this garden was literally floating above the day-to-day activity of the city serves as a fitting metaphor for the scented garden itself — a time apart, uplifted, serene. Think of the last time you received a bouquet of flowers or brushed past a patch of mint in a field, or simply stood in the deep part of a forest and smelled — just smelled — the earth, the spruce, the moss. Chances are you experienced a moment where you lost track of your responsibilities, your desires, your plans and just existed in the fragrance. If even for just a second, you tapped into a very primeval state of being — childlike, flowing, and free. In such a state, it is difficult to be judgmental, anxious, rigid, sad, or angry, and this may be why we so often give gifts of scented flowers when we want to nurture an atmosphere of love, understanding, and joy.
Ritual Scents
This fact may also underlie the nearly universal practice of burning scented plants, resins, and oils to alter the energy of a room or space; it clears the mind, sets the stage for creative, spiritual work, and attunes us to the present moment. Cultural rituals have harnessed the power aromatic plants hold over us and have embedded their use into the peak times of our lives, such as at birth and death, during marriage celebrations, as a cornerstone of purification ceremonies, during the dark, wintry months when the light is low, and as part of meditative practices. Perfumery and aromatherapy have long recognized the power scent has on the human spirit — even real estate marketing suggests that a home, when appropriately scented, may put prospective buyers in a relaxed, comfortable mindset. In the ancient world, a thousand years before the Hanging Gardens were built, priests in the old stone temples along the Nile were mixing kyphi, the sweet and spicy incense sacred to the pharaohs. But the Egyptian ceremonies didn’t only involve smoke and scent. Often, the priests leading the rituals would also ingest a good amount of kyphi, powdered and dissolved in wine, as a sort of primitive herbal extract. Here the truest power of scented herbs is revealed; when they are ingested, their action is magnified and lasts much longer. The smell may awaken us, bring us into the present moment, and help us flow through change more gracefully, but once the aromatic plants enter the body, their volatile constituents first relax the belly, then dissolve into the bloodstream and reach all the internal organs. If there is underactivity in an organ or tissue, fragrant plants can “wake it up” (think of ginger or peppermint). Conversely, if a tissue is overly tense, aromatic herbs “loosen the knot” (like fennel seeds after a huge meal, or lavender oil during a massage). The net result is a more balanced state of internal tension. Since forever, herbalists have called many of these plants “nervines,” loved the scented brews they yield, and prized them as stress-tamers and tonics for the nerves.
How Aromatics Heal
More modern research gives us two interesting pieces of information to help understand how this works. First, the chemicals in highly scented plants (specifically, their volatile oils) have the ability to alter the way smooth muscle contracts depending on its current state of tension. Smooth muscle is found in the lining of all our hollow organs — lungs, gut, bladder and uterus — as well as in the heart and blood vessels. Plants that affect smooth muscle can thereby affect how we perceive our internal state, and anyone who has experienced a spasmic, crampy belly knows what a dramatic impact this can have. It is fascinating to note, however, that the place in the brain tasked with assessing this internal state is exactly the same place most affected by the perception of smell itself! The limbic system, a complex of brain structures known for the processing of emotion and its ability to guide executive function (our ability to flow through tasks efficiently and productively), is where all of this information is integrated. Aromatic plants thus have a dual effect: their smell immediately awakens and engages the limbic system, and if consumed, their chemistry helps adjust internal tension, removing the distractions that keep us from the present moment. When they are ingested, clinical research always shows the same results of more balanced mood, more restorative sleep, better attention, and an ability to move through challenging tasks more smoothly and joyfully. If you are seeking respite from the demands of the modern world and the bustle of the city, the scented garden and incense-filled temple may well be the answer for you. But fragrant herbs are the way to take your garden with you, to refresh your own internal temple. Aromatic herbs are not strongly mind-altering, are safe and non-habitforming, and quite easy to grow and use. They are part of a very old toolkit available to humans, and many animals before us, to enter more fully into the flow of life. When led by scent, we follow a path through a garden where intuition and emotion, more than analysis and control, dominate the landscape.
Guido Masé is a clinical herbalist, author, herbal educator, and garden steward specializing in holistic Western herbalism. He is a founding co-director of the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, a non-profit herbal medicine clinic and school that provides comprehensive services focused on whole plants and whole foods. Guido is the author of The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter and Tonic Plants (Healing Arts Press, 2013) and teaches as a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. Visit www.vtherbcenter.org. Guido is presenting “The Wild Medicine Solution” workshop at the Natural Living Expo, November 15, in Marlboro, MA. See page 3. www.spiritofchange.org
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s it possible that we evolved from plants? Could we have cognitive functioning because of plants or need a love relationship with nature? Is our raising of consciousness dependent on our relationship with plants? The answer is “yes.” Read on and see how and why.
History of Plant Emergence Fossil records indicate that plants moved onto land from the sea 450-475 million years ago. These first land plants were seedless vascular plants like horsetail and ferns. Another million years later reptilian plants had emerged with external reproduction such as the pinecones of conifers. One hundred more million years went by before angiosperms or flowering plants with internal reproduction became dominant. It was not until flowering plants were well established that humans arrived on the scene. But this is the recent history of plants. The origins go back much further into the dawn of life on planet Earth. According to Dr. T. Herman Sissons in The Big Bang to Now: All of Time in Six Chunks, approximately 3-4 billion years ago bacteria (nonchlorophyll micro-organisms without a cellular nucleus) began to multiply within the primordial soup of the oceans. These bacteria initiated a radical transformation by using the sun’s energy to metabolize water and carbon dioxide to generate oxygen and carbohydrates. By 2.3 billion years ago the photosynthetic process was completely established and these bacteria had transformed Earth’s atmosphere to the oxygen-rich, life-giving biosphere we now experience. The same basic proportions of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide that were established then still exist today. It wasn’t until 1.8 billion years ago that our ancient ancestors emerged. A single algal population began to thrive and it was from these algae that humans eventually arose, Sissons establishes. These early organisms were very intelligent and were able to adjust carbon dioxide uptake and oxygen release for millennia to ensure a vibrant biosphere teaming with life. Their bio-intelligence ensured not only survival, but also a thriving population that communicated and organized themselves enough to encode the ability to grow, reproduce, inherit and mutate. They initiated the process of diversification. The new field of science knows as plant neurobiology (the study of plant intelligence) suggests this was a conscious decision on their part so that several million years later, plants moved to land and became dominant, making up 99% of all living organisms on the planet. This success has continued over the millennia as plants adapt to their chang-
ing environment, always moving toward homeostasis. Once humans emerged some 500,000 years ago, plants already had the “long view” and were well established as the stabilizing, life-giving beings on this lovely planet we call Gaia.
Symbiotic Relations Between People and Plants Physical symbiosis: Because plants are uniquely photosynthetic they provide us with all of our basic physical needs. Through the photosynthetic process they capture sunlight and use this energy to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then combine it with water to form sugars that make up their roots, stalks, leaves, flowers and seeds that contain starch, fat and protein. The by-product of this process is oxygen. Plants, trees and sea vegetables produce all of the oxygen on the planet, thus being the only source of oxygen. All of our tissue comes from plants because we don’t make our tissue from sunlight — plants do. All of our food comes from plants either directly or from an animal that ate a plant, and all of our oxygen comes from plants. We are completely dependent upon plants for our daily existence. What happens when we bring the automatic ability of breathing into conscious awareness — that the source of our breath is from plants? We realize we are already in relationship with plants because of the mere fact that we breathe. When we become conscious of the source of this breath our relationship deepens. When we pay attention to the fact that we are exhaling carbon dioxide that the plants are breathing in, we then shift into the symbiotic reality of exchange of breath with all the green beings. We are constantly in a cycle of breath, a relationship where we are dependent on each other for our lives. Cognitive symbiosis: Edmund Sinnott in his book Cell and Psyche postulates that “the rise in higher types of psychological behavior culminating in mind” is a result of plants initiating self-awareness 1.8 billion years ago. Because these ancient plant ancestors were able to communicate with each other and organize themselves to grow, reproduce, inherit and adapt, they developed self-awareness, which, by many in the biological world, is seen as the origins of consciousness. During this birthing of consciousness, plants developed very sophisticated and complex communication abilities amongst themselves and eventually with other species, including animals and finally, humans. Plants are able to compute and make decisions about complex aspects of their environment, intricate signaling systems to alert neighbors, foraging and competing for resources. They have large protein molecules that have the ability to store large amounts of information, thus creating an enormous capacity for complex communication and retention of data. Amazingly, they can remember all of this to set future intentions of intelligent choice, and as Jeremy Narby says in his book, The Intelligence of Nature: “Plants learn, remember, and decide without brains.” All of this was occurring millions of years prior to human emergence. Emotional symbiosis: “Biophillia” is a term coined by etymologist Edmund Wilson, in his book of the same www.spiritofchange.org
name, to describe our love for nature, plants and trees. Because of our long-time association with plants and our symbiotic relationship, we have an inherent (and possibly inherited) need to be in close proximity to nature, plants and trees. Because of this need to be near what gives us life, a type of bond occurs that is necessary for healthy gaiacology (relationship with a living Earth). Being in close relationship with the source of our sustenance can initiate the release of oxytocin, a hormone produced by our heart and hypothalamus — called the bonding hormone — which initiates the restorative response. Through this bonding, emotional ties result, opening our hearts to the reality of the love nature and plants have for us and that we have for them. This is similar to the deep bond between a mother and child. Once the heart is in coherence, oxytocin is released, restoration begins and our inner environment comes into balance, affecting our outer environment. Not only are we restored to a loving balance, but so is all that we come in contact with. In this deep place of nurturance our emotional connection is undeniable as we become aware that we are loved and cared for by another being — a green being. Spiritual symbiosis: Spirit can be defined as the vital principle held to give life or that which animates. Nature is the ultimate in vital force, with plants being the most prolific aspect of nature and whom we are most closely related to. We have easy access to spirit via the plants. The very origins of our conscious awareness came from plants and they have been guiding us throughout our earth walk. Each time the plants and trees reach another level in their evolution, humans are in their wake. What has become evident in the past few decades is people are profoundly inspired and touched by plants and their psyche-altering capabilities that provide humans with experiences of alternate dimensional realities. Psychotropic plants, flower essences, and plant spirits, to mention a few, have become increasing prominent in the world of herbalism and beyond. Initiations are no longer a part of modern society, so we have become a culture of uninitiated humans lacking maturity and knowing of our place within the whole. The elders are gone who remember how to initiate us. Ingestion of ceremonially prepared plants — both psychoactive and non-psychoactive — is a form of initiation that plants are offering us. This tells me that the plants, one more time, are preceding us in our evolution, only this time our evolution is of a spiritual nature. Plants are stepping up to the plate and serving as our elders to initiate us so that we can take up our rightful place within the circle of life, being co-creative partners with the plants, trees, elements and great Lady Gaia.
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ith its bright yellow, five-petaled flowers a familiar roadside sight in early summer, St. John’s wort is said to be named because it flowers on June 24th — St. John’s Day — observing the birth of St. John the Baptist. It is a well-known and sometimes controversial herb whose properties were first recorded by Hippocrates in ancient Greece. In his chapter on the herb in the 2010 edition of the Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements, FDA psychopharmacologist Jerry Cott, PhD, wrote that St. John’s wort is “one of the best known and well researched of the western herbals.” The botanical name, Hypericum perforatum, reflects the traditional story of the plant’s common name. Hypericum is derived from the Greek words hyper (above) and eikon (picture), in reference to the plant’s traditional use in warding off evil by hanging plants over a religious icon in the house during St. John’s day. Perforatum refers to the presence of small oil glands in the leaves that look like small pinpricks, giving them a perforated look when the leaf is held up against the light. St. John’s wort is often considered a weed, a hardy perennial that can be found growing wild on roadsides, fields and hillsides. In fact, it is considered a noxious weed in nine states in the West! It is indigenous to all of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. The flowers are the main part of the plant that is used, and they are best picked just as the buds begin to open.
The telltale sign that the buds are ready to pick is the red stain that will be on your fingers. St. John’s wort propagates itself by casting its seeds, so make sure to leave some flowers to go to seed to ensure continued availability.
A Medicinal Powerhouse St. John’s wort has a number of medicinal uses. As a nervine, it is helpful for anxiety, stress, mild depression, nerve damage and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). St. John’s wort also has anti-bacterial, antiviral and antiinflammatory properties, and when used internally can be helpful with infections. It also has sedative and painrelieving effects. Used externally, St. John’s wort soothes and heals bruises, sprains, burns and promotes tissue repair and speeds recovery. Sixteenth century herbalist Nicholas Culpepper recommended an oil-based St. John’s wort ointment for swellings and burns. Europeans prepared a tincture of flowers and leaves as an antibiotic and to relieve inflammation. Cherokee Indians used the mucilage from the leaves as an ointment for bruises and burns and introduced the plant to early colonists. Every household should have a bottle of St. John’s wort oil in their medicine cabinet; making St. John’s wort oil is a summer ritual for the herbalist. My favorite method is:
Pick buds of St. John’s wort when the flower is just ready to open. Place buds in a clean glass jar and cover with olive oil, leaving an inch of oil at the top. I do this over several weeks, each day picking the new buds on the plants, placing them in the jar and adding more olive oil when needed. Place in direct sunlight and let infuse for 2-3 weeks. The oil will become a deep, rich, clear red. Strain and bottle. To use: Spread oil over burn, bruises or cuts, add to skin and burn balms as the oil component. Some herbalists also use the plant leaf and open flowers, and some chop the buds and flowers before infusing. I find the buds give the most oil content. St. John’s wort is more commonly known, however, for its use with mild depression. St. John’s wort extracts were more effective than a placebo in the treatment of mild to moderate depression in multiple controlled trials, although no more effective than a placebo for major depression. In countries such as Germany, St. John’s wort is commonly prescribed for mild to moderate depression, especially in children and adolescents. In Germany, St. John’s wort is the leading antidepressant prescribed by doctors. Even with all the studies done, nobody knows for certain exactly how St. John’s wort works in regards to depression but there are several antidepressant agents in the plant, the prime phytochemicals being hypericin and hyperforin. Hypericin increases the metabolism of serotonin and melatonin. Hyperforin alters brain chemistry and slows the uptake of three important neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline. These neurotransmitters are what regulate mood and emotions. Dopamine is a “feel good” brain chemical, serotonin is mood enhancing, and noradrenalin is responsible for feelings of alertness and energy. By allowing these neurotransmitters to circulate longer in the body the good feeling resulting from them is enhanced. St. John’s wort also improves the signal produced by serotonin after it binds to its receptor site on brain cells and the feeling of enhanced mood and wellbeing is transferred more effectively from one brain cell to the next. This mechanism of action on all three main neurotransmitters is unique, and most researchers believe that the effects of St. John’s Wort are due to a synergistic interaction between several of its many compounds, as is the case with many herbs.
Comparing Side Effects There have been many studies done comparing St. John’s wort with antidepressant drugs and also with their respective side effects. SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) such as fluoxetine and sertraline are successful in improving the symptoms of depression in nearly 60% of depression sufferers. They, together with the older tricyclic antidepressants, however, have many side effects, including nausea, headaches, anxiety and nervousness, insomnia, drowsiness, diarrhea, dry mouth, loss of appetite, sweating, tremors and sexual dysfunction. The sexual problems are the main reasons why people stop taking these drugs. The most common adverse effects from St. John’s wort reported are gastrointestinal symptoms, dizziness, confusion, tiredness and sedation. St. Johns wort can cause photosensitivity in some people. A thorough read of the package insert if using prewww.spiritofchange.org
scription antidepressants is helpful so one can know the side effects and then make an informed decision as to whether they want to use it or discuss with their primary health care provider trying a natural alternative, such as St. John’s wort. Using St. John’s wort for depression does take time, and it is recommended that 4-8 weeks of use be allowed for results to show. There has also been controversy and conflicting research on the use of St. John’s wort with other prescription medications. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) asserts that “St. John’s wort and many commonly prescribed drugs simply don’t mix,” but some experts on St. John’s wort herb-drug interactions say the group’s science is inadequate and inaccurate. Some of the common precautions given with St. John’s wort include: ❧❧don’t take it with a prescription antidepressant ❧❧ it can also adversely affect hormonal contraceptives (especially those containing acitretin) ❧❧ St. Johns wort use should be stopped five days before surgery using anesthetics as it has been associated with complications such as hypotension and delayed emergence from anesthesia ❧❧ St. Johns wort should not be used with anticoagulants, antidiabetic agents, or barbiturates Digging deeper, it appears the amount of hyperforin consumed makes a difference in any interactions. St. John’s wort products with low or no hyperforin seem to have no contraindications with prescription drugs. Herbalgram, the publication of the American Botanical Council, has an excellent article on this topic titled “Herbal Experts Say CSPI Petition for St. John’s Wort Warning Inaccurate” (Volume 8, Number 12, December 2011) for further reading. Include St. John’s wort in your herbal medicine cabinet and enjoy the many uses of this incredible herb. SOURCES • Medicinal Herbs, A Beginners Guide, Rosemary Gladstar. Storey Publishing, 2012 • The Herb Companion Special Reference Issue, Guide to Healing Herbs, Anita B. Stone, Ogden Publications • The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook, A Home Journal, James Green, Crossing Press, 2000 • PDR for Herbal Medicines, Third Edition, Thompson PDR, 2004 • “Herbal Experts Say CSPI Petition for St. John’s Wort Warning Inaccurate,” HerbalEGram: Volume 8, Number 12, December 2011
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he American adventurer Peter Gorman is walking down a trail in the Amazon jungle. He is on his way back to the village after watching his Matsés Indian friend set a trap for wild boar. The Indian takes advantage of the walk to show Peter some medicinal plants growing along the trail. Within a few minutes, he has pointed out several dozen species and pantomimed their healing virtues. Arriving at the village, Peter summons his interpreter and returns to the hunter’s hut. He didn’t have his notebook with him on the walk, he explains, and he couldn’t possibly remember all he had been shown. Would the hunter be kind enough to say once again how the herbs were prepared and used? The hunter-shaman smiles at Peter and then begins to laugh. He invites all his wives and children over to have a good laugh, too. When they have all laughed themselves out, he explains, “That was just to introduce you to some of the plants. If you want to actually use a plant yourself, the spirit of the plant must come to you in your dreams. If the spirit of the plant tells you how to prepare it and what it will cure, you can use it. Otherwise, it won’t work for you. That was a good one! I’ve got to remember what you just said!” He laughs again. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, a major pharmaceutical firm approaches a shamanic studies institute. The firm wants to contact shamans of the Amazon in order to get information on medicinal plants. The company plans to take samples of the herbs, isolate active molecules, and manufacture them in the laboratory. I can imagine the scene when the pharmaceutical firm makes it to the Amazon: The shamans laughing uproariously as they collect their meager fees. The field workers rushing specimens back to the laboratory. Skilled technicians spending millions of company dollars researching new compounds, only to come up with one disappointment after another. The shamans will be discredited, but they won’t care. They will still be in the jungle, working cures with the plants they have used for centuries. The American firm, infatuated with its “superior” technology, will go to the jungle dreaming of profits from a patentable new drug. No one will think of asking the
shamans what the active ingredients are. If they do ask, they won’t like the answer. There is only one active ingredient in plant medicines: friendship. A plant spirit heals a patient as a favor to its friend-in-dreaming, the doctor. To the people of the Amazon this truth is basic. Any four-year-old understands it. That is why the Matsés hunter-shaman called his children over to have a good laugh at Peter. They couldn’t believe a grown man could be so silly! The Matsés and many other non-European peoples understand that both nature and humankind are endowed with awareness and spirit. Therefore, humans and nature are of the same family. In all cultures there exist individuals who have especially vivid experiences with the spirits of nature. When properly trained and initiated, these people become shamans. Shamans make friends of the spirits of nature and call upon them for help with everyday affairs. Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul. There is nothing exotic about all this. Don’t be misled by talk about the Amazon. If you want to meet the most powerful healing plants in the world, just open your door and step outside. They are growing all around you. If you don’t believe me, or if you have a taste for romantic locations, you can try going elsewhere. But if you stay there long enough, it comes down to the same thing: dealing with the local weeds.
Two Types of Power I went to visit a Huichol Indian named José Benítez Sánchez. In certain circles José was famous as a visionary artist. Among his own people he was known as a shaman. José lived part time in a village near Tepic, Mexico. The rest of the time he lived in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. It was there I went to find him. As I approached his home in one of the humblest districts in town, I recalled the first time I’d met José, the year before. This was a man who earned a huge income by Indian standards. Yet as he welcomed me into his
house, it was apparent that he had but one material possession of any consequence — an electric fan. Our visit was brief, for he was due to leave in a few hours to meet with the president of Mexico. José cheerfully admitted that he did not have money for bus fare. Looking down at his ragged cutoffs, he allowed that he also did not own a pair of pants to wear to greet the president. Evidently he sensed I was confused about why a successful man should be so destitute, for he told me the following story: “When I was a boy, I admired my grandfather. He was a powerful shaman. One day when he felt I was old enough to understand, he told me, ‘José, there are two types of power that one can acquire. One type is used for your own personal reasons. The other is used for the benefit of your people. You can walk the road to the first type of power or to the second. But let me tell you this: the second road is the road to happiness.’ Because my grandfather was a very wise man, I took his advice, and I have stayed on the second road. Whenever the gods give me something, I immediately pass it on for the use of my people.” José’s presence radiated contentment. Obviously his grandfather had known what he was talking about. I dug into my suitcase and came up with a pair of pants, which I presented to him, together with his bus fare. He accepted my gifts with sincere thanks and not a trace of surprise. Then he took off on his voyage to see the president, leaving me one small step farther down the road to happiness. As I was reminiscing about that first meeting, I looked up to see José walking toward me. José was a good-looking, compact man of middle years. That day he was wearing long pants, a short-sleeved shirt, and a cowboy hat. The only sign of his background was his intensely colorful Huichol shoulder bag. He invited me into his house, and we sat down at a table with two of his paintings-in-progress. Eventually I got around to the purpose of my visit: I had begun to visit [the nearby peak] El Picacho in my dreams and I wanted his advice.
Dream Learning More than once during my school years, I awoke in the middle of the night with the solution to a mathematical equation that had completely stumped me during the day. I never told anyone that I had done my algebra homework in my sleep. I was afraid that people would think I was weird. Eventually I stopped having these dreams. Much later in life I discovered that it is not at all unusual for people to learn from dreams. Nowadays I enjoy asking people if they have ever dreamed something that later came to pass. About 75 percent say they have indeed had a dream of this type. And everyone has dreams that take place somewhere other than the bedroom where their sleeping body lies. When we dream, we can easily travel to distant places. We can know the future. We are given special understanding that enables us to solve life’s problems. For the most part, these wonderful dream powers lie dormant in our society, but the Huichols and the Matsés of the Amazon consider dream learning to be true learning. Indeed, nearly every culture on earth, except our own, respects dream learning as true learning. We revere the rational, analytical method of learning that has been honed and polished since the days of the ancient Greeks. We do not realize that the shamans of our species have honed and polished another method. This dreaming method is neither rational nor analytical, but it works extremely well. The key to this method is to get into the dream state of consciousness, keeping in mind what it is that you wish to learn or accomplish. The way you get into the dream state is incidental. Some shamans learn to go to sleep and dream about what they wish to dream about. Others use psychotropic plants. Many simply listen to monotonous drumming to induce the dream state. My conversation with José confirmed that my dream corresponded with an ancient tradition. As a Huichol and a shaman, he had no trouble accepting that I had met a tree spirit who could help me heal people, so it seems that plant spirit medicine keeps practicing me and I’m still learning medicine from plants. Adapted from Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants (Sounds True, 2014) © 2014 Eliot Cowan. Reprinted with permission of the author.
In 1986 American healer, Eliot Cowan, discovered the power of plant spirits to heal the human spirit and has been practicing and teaching plant spirit medicine ever since. Plant Spirit Medicine was first published in 1995, with the current edition enriched with perspectives gained as an initiated elder shaman in the indigenous Huichol tradition of Mexico. Eliot is the founder of the Blue Deer Center for ancient wisdom teachings in the Catskill Mountains of New York. www.bluedeer.org. www.spiritofchange.org
Plant Spirit Medicine is the ancient shamanic practice of partnering with plant spirits to bring healing. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Plant Spirit Medicine brings deep healing to the spirit, promotes balance and harmony, and can lead you to a life filled with joy and purpose.
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By Sue Burns Illustration by SeRaiel Grace Mantle
“Begin!” © SeRaiel Grace Mantle 2002
A Walk On The Wild Side
I
see my grandmother and her neighbors bent over at the waist, leaning, digging, gathering dandelion leaf, flower, seed and root — all in season, for food, medicine and fun — all as a matter of course. More often now, we go to the grocery store, or the farmer’s market, the co-op, maybe even the farm. Everything packaged and marked up: coffee for our bitter, wine to relax, flowers for the table and salve for what ails. Grandmother gathered it all from her back yard. Wildcrafting is as old as the hills you pick those berries from, and a joy to partake in. How can we do it responsibly, with respect and reverence for our grandmother’s grandmothers and the hills on which they walked? Take a walk with me now, through your own neighborhood. Rosehips, mint, lemon balm, Echinacea, chicory, berries. You may find them growing wild next door. Bring a hat, some clippers, maybe a small shovel, a basket, and some eagerness to talk to your neighbors over the fence. Ask permission, always and first — from the plant, and from your neighbor (I bet she’d love for you to prune her crop and return with some delicious concoctions of tea, salve, baked goods). That dandelion my grandmother picked, it’s still there: Roasted fall roots for “coffee,” spring leaves are bitters for your salad, and summer flower petals garnish your soup and bejewel your muffin batter. Did you know that fir, spruce, and pine tips are not only edible, but also nutritious? Boasting high vitamin-C and anti-microbial properties, those bright green, new spring growths make a great tea or, steeped in honey on a sunny windowsill for a few weeks, a magickal medicine. We can cultivate what we want in pots on the windowsill or in what grandmother called a kitchen garden — a small plot just off the back stoop. We can share what we grow with neighbors and friends. I make an all-purpose salve with herbs grown only in my back yard. It took many years to establish, and I have the privilege of having my own back yard, but, now, like my grandmother before me, I bend over at the waist and pick straight from the earth that which heals us.
❦ Sue Burns is on staff at Mother Tongue Ink, publishers of creative work by women, celebrating earth-based spirituality and visions for a changing world. Reprinted with permission from We’Moon 2015: Wild Card Astrological Datebook. © We’Moon 2014. Visit www.wemoon.ws.
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The Fire Cider Trademark Debate T
he buzz spread quickly in the spring of 2014 concerning an apple cider vinegar and herbal tonic called Fire Cider. This delicious, easy-tomake health product had recently been featured on the Dr. Oz Show by Amy Heubner of Shire City Herbals in Pittsfield, MA, a company
that also recently trademarked the product name.
Because Fire Cider is a popular home remedy produced and sold by other small herbalists in stores and online, word of the new trademark
restriction quickly landed two reader-submitted blog posts on the Spirit of Change website asking readers to respond and take action to “Keep Fire Cider Free.” It was not long before Shire City contacted Spirit of Change to ask why we were posting misleading information.
In response, Spirit of Change invited Dana St.Pierre of Shire City Herbals and Rosemary Gladstar of Sage Mountain in E. Barre, VT, to
give us their facts and let the readers give us their feedback. Respond to editor@spiritofchange.org or comment on the article online at www.spiritofchange.org.
Shire City Herbals • JUNE 24, 2014 By Dana St.Pierre Hi There, I’m Dana St.Pierre, co-owner of Shire City Herbals, with my lovely wife, Amy, and brother-in-law, Brian. We make and sell a tonic named Fire Cider, which can be found in many stores and at our website, FireCider.com. We trademarked the term Fire Cider for our tonic over two years ago, something that recently has stirred up some controversy in the herbalist world. If you are interested in hearing more of the back story, we have described how we started our business and how we came to trademark the name at greater length here. [http://goo.gl/qm9hzy] I recently became aware of two editorials published in Spirit of Change [readersubmitted blog posts at spiritofchange.org] and I’m compelled to address the baseless, specious claims made in these editorials and some of the websites they link to. The fundamental thing that jumps out at me when reading the previous editorials is the overall narrative being used to describe the situation. These editorials and all of the linked materials seem to proceed from the basic understanding that this trademark issue is a conflict with two main characters: the herbal community on one side, and Shire City Herbals on the other. Us vs. them, good vs. bad. This dualistic thinking is right there in the name they chose for their organization: Tradition not Trademark. From this flows the solution they have been pursuing, that of threatening our business in order to “get Fire Cider back for the herbal community.” This effort has been ineffective as a way to reach that goal and the oppositional mindset is obscuring the true nature of the issue. Something about this issue seems to be allowing otherwise rational and ethical people to take liberties with the facts to advance their argument, and in the process do little to clearly explain or resolve a moderately complex legal situation. The people behind freefirecider.com have falsely and maliciously claimed that we are suing, or threatening to sue, other herbalists, that we have put herbalists out of business, and a variety of other nonsense. To directly address all of the inaccurate and misleading claims made in the previous editorials and on freefirecider.com would take up too much space here, so for those interested in more details I have collected them here. [http://goo.gl/TguFsr] In addition to spreading this unbalanced version of things, they have also been actively encouraging their followers to harass us and the stores that carry our product. We removed the reviews section of our Facebook page because we
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received hundreds of spurious negative reviews, many of which were profane, abusive, and shocking. People wished for us to fail and be rendered homeless, called us “worse than Monsanto” and used a grab bag of zesty slurs. Our retailers have been verbally abused and had their time wasted with coordinated phone calls from around the country. After a local co-op decided to keep our product on the shelf despite demands from a few upset individuals that it be removed, someone started stealing bottles of Fire Cider as some sort of bizarre protest act. This is what happens when you whip up emotion and downplay factual deliberation of a complicated issue. The freefirecider.com people claim that they have been urging the public to call our retailers in order to “get Fire Cider back for the herbal community, not hurt anyone’s business.” Sadly, they are misleading people on both points: there is no way that these activities could meet that goal, and they have been directly hurting the business we rely on for our livelihood. My opinion or your opinion or Rosemary Gladstar’s opinion on what is generic are all irrelevant. It is the US government who decides, and that’s that. continues on page 34
Fire Cider — A Tradition, Not A Trademark • JULY 3, 2014 By Rosemary Gladstar “Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead What’s all the fuss about Fire Cider? A spicy hot, deliciously sweet vinegar tonic, Fire Cider was first concocted in the kitchen at the California School of Herbal Studies in the early 1980’s. Intent on teaching my students how to make herbal preparations that were as much food as they were medicines, I was constantly experimenting and concocting all manner of medicinal herbs into a variety of recipes. Those that turned out well were shared freely with my students and our community. The idea was to bring medicinal herbalism back into people’s kitchens as part of their food and as a way of being, not just for medicinal purposes. Fire Cider was among those early cross-over recipes—part medicine, part food—that was made and shared freely. I taught hundreds of people how to make it at the California School of Herbal Studies, which I directed and taught at from 1978 thru 1987, and also as I traveled about the country teaching about medicinal plants in conferences, schools and various events. With its well balanced blend of hot, spicy, and pungent flavors steeped in apple cider vinegar and finished with the rich sweetness of honey, Fire Cider is pleasantly delicious, and also a wonderful blend of medicinal herbs. The original formula contained garlic, onions, horseradish root, ginger root, hot peppers, sometimes turmeric, and often Echinacea — all powerful immune enhancers that help ward off infections, colds, flus, and bronchial congestion. We found we could use Fire Cider during the winter, a tablespoon or two a day, to help keep the immune system healthy and to ward off infections. All this, and it tasted good too! At the time (early 1980’s), there weren’t any other Fire Cider recipes available and no products specifically named Fire Cider. There were some great old apple cider vinegar recipes that circulated, such as the popular apple cider vinegar, maple syrup (or honey) and cayenne tonic that Dr. Jarvis, an old Vermont doctor advocated for and made famous in the 1950’s. Another excellent product out at the time, similar to Fire Cider, was Cyclone Cider, which contained a blend of hot spicy herbs, apple cider vinegar and honey. A popular product, Cyclone Cider was sold in natural food stores during the 1980’s and for all I know, may still be available. It was great to see Fire Cider, as well as many of my other favorite recipes, get “out there in the world” and gain in popularity. That was the whole idea: to transform America — and our health care system — one kitchen at a time through herbalism! Lots of people started making these recipes, adapting them, changing an ingredient and making it “theirs.” Several small herbal companies started up during this time and began packaging and selling Fire Cider in their local stores and farmers markets. I was also making it and selling it at my herb shop in the small town I grew up in northern California. It was wonderful to see the way people were so eagerly responding to herbal medicine. It was almost as if they were hungry for it, and were ready to embrace herbal medicine. Fire Cider was part of that herbal revolution; it was a medicine we could make in our kitchens, share with others, and bottle, label, sell if we chose to, and empower others to use. So, what is all this fuss about Fire Cider? In April of this year (2014), I received an email from a gentleman stating that he had a small herbal business and had been selling Fire Cider on Etsy, an online retail outlet for home crafted products. He was writing to tell me that he had just received a cease and desist
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order, which basically stated he had to stop selling Fire Cider as it had been recently trademarked. [Rosemary Gladstar has since learned the letter was a personal communication from Shire City asking the herbalist to cease sales of Fire Cider, not a cease and desist order.] I assured him that there was some mistake and asked him to forward me the name of the company that had enforced the cease and desist order. Thinking that this was nothing more than a mistake, I wrote a note to the owners of Shire City Herbals, the company that the cease and desist order had come from, explaining to them how and when Fire Cider had been created, that it was, in fact, made by thousands of other people, and also made and sold by at least several other companies. And that was that. I clearly thought that once being made aware of the situation, they would withdraw their trademark, or at least change the trademark to reflect their name (Shire City) so that others could continue to market the product as well. When I heard back from Brian Huebner, the senior owner of Shire City Herbals (SCH), he explained that it wouldn’t be possible to drop the trademark. He explained that they had already invested so much money and time in their business and if they dropped the trademark other large businesses would just swoop up the name. SCH felt they had to defend the name Fire Cider by sending out cease and desist orders to other companies using the name and selling the product. Brian also shared that Fire Cider was a family recipe and that Dana’s (a younger partner of SCH) grandmother had taught him how to make it when he was a small child. I must admit, I was a bit flabbergasted when I read this, but quickly realized that it was possible that his grandmother (who was probably around my age) could have easily learned how to make the recipe by reading any one of my books that it was copyrighted in or in my home study course where its been featured since 1981 in the chapter on Herbs for Winter Health, or in several educational videos that have been circulating since the 1980’s. Dana, the partner who claims this is his family recipe, was also a student at a wholistic school of healing that had an herbal component where Fire Cider could easily have been included in the curriculum. In any case, the Shire City Herbal owners made it quite clear that they were unwilling to drop the trademark on Fire Cider. Unbeknownst to me, word had gotten out through several of the business that had received orders to stop selling Fire Cider and there was a virtual outcry on the Internet. Even though I run an herbal business
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THE FIRE CIDER TRADEMARK DEBATE continued from page 32 The only way to make a term legally generic is to take the issue up directly with the USTPO [United States Patent and Trademark Office]. These folks have not done so until last week, instead focusing their ire on us, and doing nothing to change the underlying legal grounds of the issue. That is why I call this whole campaign harassment. They have created a campaign to impugn our good name, spread rumors instead of facts, and attempted to drive a wedge between us, our stores, and our customers. Their activities amount to business torts against us. There is a clear path to getting what they say they want, but they have not taken it for many months now. Ignoring a legal and ethical means of achieving your goals and instead relying on libel and spreading rumors is harassment. Now that they have finally chosen to focus some of their efforts on getting what they want through the appropriate legal channels, hopefully things will settle down. This is a legal issue and will only be fully resolved one way or the other through the system that exists to make exactly this kind of decision. Now would be an appropriate time for the folks behind freefirecider.com to publicly acknowledge that they have been spreading libel and rumor, instead of fact, tell their following to stop disseminating this incorrect information, stop encouraging the harassment of our small business partners, and remove all of this harmful material from their website. One thing everyone involved seems to agree on is that herbal medicine is the medicine of the people, and that this is a very good thing. What I mean by that title is that herbal medicine is generally simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone. That’s why almost everyone’s grandma had a collection of teas, tonics or other preparations up her sleeve. Also a key part of “medicine of the people” is that there is no central authority or source of information. It’s a tradition that in my experience is passed on person-to-person through families and communities as a part of everyday life. Everyone in my family just knew that mint tea is for upset stomachs, chamomile is for cranky kids, and garlic is for colds. This type of herbal lore is transmitted through a vast interconnected network of knowledge, with centers of collected wisdom in teachers such as Ms. Gladstar, but which is mostly diffused throughout the people. This diffuse nature is another important part of what I mean when I say “medicine of the people,” and that nature is why I don’t understand the feeling that our trademark is somehow threatening the herbal tradition. How can a trademarked name threaten an ancient body of knowledge like the worldwide tradition of herbal medicine? Can this situation really be summarized in a dualistic formulation like tradition vs. trademark, or is there a larger holistic point of view that shows this to be a minor disagreement of commerce that will have next to no effect on the greater tradition? Can a trademark and herbal tradition coexist without worry? I think so. Everyone out there will continue to make their own tonics and call them whatever they want. Our trademark will have no impact on people writing books, teaching classes, talking, sharing and blogging about their tonic recipes. Nobody is going to forget how to make their own remedies just because we have trademarked a name. In fact. I think the opposite will happen, and is already happening in a small way; we are taking the name and idea of spicy vinegar tonics out into the larger world of commerce and turning people on. Amy was invited to share her favorite home remedy on the Dr. Oz Show and told a national TV audience to make their own. She had access to a national platform to advocate for DIY herbal medicine because of Fire Cider’s high profile in the marketplace, which we reached because we have the security of a trademark to protect the investment needed to get there. Best, Dana St.Pierre
THE FIRE CIDER TRADEMARK DEBATE continued from page 33 and use social networking through my business account, I’ve never been on Facebook and seldom even use the Internet. My son and a few close friends help me out in this department by posting updates on my website and Facebook page. They began reporting there was a virtual firestorm going on the Internet over Fire Cider, and, unfortunately, some pretty nasty remarks were flying back and forth from both fronts. Though Shire City claim that there was a nasty outpouring and a huge amount of negativity being generated towards them, they fail to mention that there were far more thoughtful and insightful dialogues directed towards them in an attempt to help them understand the enormity of what they had done by claiming a product that clearly had been around long before their company existed, and then demanding that other companies stop producing it. Though I’m insanely busy and the last thing in the world I wanted to do was get pulled into an argument over who has the rights to Fire Cider, I felt it was important to step in and try to reclaim Fire Cider as a legacy herbal product and a people’s medicine. Though I fully believe in trademarks and recognize the need for businesses to lay claim to products and titles they’ve created and invested small fortunes in, I find it unjust that someone can lay claim to a name/product that without question has been circulating in the world, in the marketplace, in books, and articles long before the company SCH was even started (the company is four years old) and quite possibly before, at least, some of the owners were born. Quite clearly, the trademark lawyers didn’t do a good job in their investigations and made an error in granting a trademark to a name/product that was in such free circulation. I sent the owners of Shire City Herbals a second letter explaining that we weren’t asking them to stop selling Fire Cider, as we could all appreciate their investment of money and time in their product. We were suggesting instead that they change the name to something that would be more reflective of their formula, such as Shire City Fire Cider, enabling other companies who had also made similar investments to continue to sell Fire Cider. The Shire City owners always wrote back respectfully, stating that they were unable to drop the trademark because if they did a large company would swoop in and buy up the name. It seemed a ludicrous response since they were the large company swooping in and putting other herb companies out of business, or at least, demanding that they stop selling Fire Cider. Another claim that Shire City made was that they were doing “good work” spreading Fire Cider to thousands of people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it. This statement, too, sounded very naïve and self serving to me, as it failed to take into account that hundreds of small businesses were already doing this and had been doing it far longer than SCH had been in existence. Furthermore, we don’t need one big business to make Fire Cider for everyone in the country; a much more sustainable model is for many small businesses to supply their local stores, farmers markets and communities. Fire Cider is an emblem, a trademark, for that model of doing business. Within a few hours of notice of the Fire Cider trademark, comments began pouring in on the Shire City Facebook page, but because most of the comments were being erased a Free Fire Cider Facebook page was set-up so that people could voice their opinions. Shire City Herbals reported the page and had it removed from Facebook. A petition for Shire City Herbals to drop the trademark — not to stop selling the product — was started and within 24 hours there were over 1,000 signatures; a few days later there were over 6,000 signatures. I believe the petition at last count had over 9,000 names on it. Though the Shire City Herb owners have accused me of igniting this firestorm, I, in fact, had little to do with it. It was the people’s reaction and protest to something that felt wrong to them. This was the first time in the
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THE FIRE CIDER TRADEMARK DEBATE continued from page 35 herbal community that a popular herbal product that has been made for decades was usurped and trademarked. And, rightly so, people were angry about it. After the Free Fire Cider Facebook page was removed, making it virtually impossible for people to voice their opinions, I decided to step in and began working with a small nucleus of people so that we could effectively organize ourselves, keep people informed, and decide on the most effective plan of action. Our intention was to be a voice of reason, to attempt to get Fire Cider back, but not to vilify Shire City Herbals. I think most of us are sympathetic to the fact that SCH is a small business (though much larger than many of the businesses that they sent cease and desist orders to) and we don’t want to see them fail. The letters I sent to the owners of SHC, and others posted on the Free Fire Cider website are reflective of this attitude, and are neither demanding nor unfair, but are thoughtful and genuinely written. (All of my letters and postings are available for review at our website www.freefirecider.com.) When there was no response to our requests, we began a national boycott in hopes that this might get their attention. Again, no one wants to see SCH go out of business nor to even stop selling their product, but to remove the trademark so that other companies can continue to make Fire Cider as well. I should mention also that we’ve had apple farmers write who were astounded that the name was trademarked because, apparently, there is an old fashion apple cider product, similar to iced cider, called Fire Cider. If this were about just one herbal product and/or a name, would it be worth the time and effort? Those of us who are advocating to free Fire Cider are busy with our own vibrant lives; we have students, classes, events, and our own small businesses to run. Who has the time to fight this thankless battle? However, if Shire City Herbals is allowed to “own” a product that they neither created nor named, it sets a precedent in the herbal community. What happens to all our other popular legacy herbal recipes? Zoom Balls, Kava Chai, Chaga Chai, Pesto, Nesto (nettle pesto), Kloss’s Liniment, Miracle Grains, or even Elderberry Syrup. What will prevent other Shire City Herbals from trademarking these popular herbal products, which prevents others from making and selling them? We’ve been told legally there’s nothing that can be done to protect the legacy of herbal products; one has to be Coca Cola or Camel cigarettes to have that liberty. However, as an herbal community we can create a special category, a safe haven for “Herbally Owned” legacy products — popular herbal products that have been made, used, and sold for decades. We can protect our traditions and we can start by freeing Fire Cider from its trademark. Fire Cider is a tradition, not a trademark. Though we’re told legally there’s nothing that can be done, we feel there is something and we’re willing to do it. I believe firmly in those famed words of Margaret Meade that clearly proclaim that as committed individuals, we can, indeed, change the world and make a difference. We are asking people who believe in our collective herbal heritage and knowledge and who wish to help preserve our herbal traditions, to make a difference by helping to lift the trademark from Fire Cider by: 1. Make your own Fire Cider. It is simple, fun and easy to make. Recipes are numerous and can be found on blogs, in books, online, on videos. 2. Sign the Free Fire Cider Petition. The petition will be used to present to the trademark lawyers. 3. Join the Fire Cider boycott by asking your local natural food and herb stores to discontinue selling SCH Fire Cider until the trademark is removed. 4. Become involved by visiting www.freefirecider.com.
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It’s fun, simple, and easy to make. There are hundreds of variations on this recipe. Here’s the original. ½ cup grated fresh horseradish root ½ cup or more fresh chopped onions ¼ cup or more chopped garlic ¼ cup or more grated ginger
Chopped fresh or dried cayenne pepper, whole or powdered, to taste.* Optional ingredients: turmeric, echinacea, cinnamon, etc.
* To taste means should be hot, but not so hot you can’t tolerate it. Better to make it a little milder than too hot; you can always add more pepper later if necessary. Place herbs in a half-gallon canning jar and cover with enough raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar to cover the herbs by at least three to four inches. Cover with a tight fitting lid. Place jar in a warm place and let set for three to four weeks. Best to shake every day to help in the maceration process. After three to four weeks, strain out the herbs and reserve the liquid. Add honey to taste. Warm the honey first so it mixes in well. “A little bit of honey helps the medicine go down…” Your Fire Cider should taste hot, spicy, and sweet. Rebottle and enjoy! Fire Cider will keep for several months unrefrigerated if stored in a cool pantry, but it’s better to store in the refrigerator if you’ve room. A small shot glass daily serves as an excellent tonic or take teaspoons if you feel a cold coming on. Take it more frequently if necessary to help your immune system do battle. Thank you sincerely, Rosemary Gladstar
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Bringing Cannabis Out of the Shadows and Into the Light An interview with cannabis reform leader Steve DeAngelo By Carol Bedrosian
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n 7th grade he organized the takeover of his school’s gymnasium in support of an antiwar demonstration. In 1998 he played a key role in the passage of Washington DC’s famous medical cannabis initiative, which won with 69% of the vote, but was then shamelessly vetoed by the US Congress. And in 2006 he secured licensing to open Harborside Health Center in Oakland, CA, a model state-compliant medical cannabis dispensary, and the pinnacle of lifelong cannabis activist Steve DeAngelo’s vision to “distribute cannabis in a manner worthy of the amazing plant that it is.” A widely recognized leader in the cannabis reform movement, DeAngelo has spent close to four decades dispelling myths, presenting the science, and courageously standing up to social prejudice and aggressive challenges from the federal government. Since 2011, he has battled a multi-agency crackdown on state-compliant medical cannabis providers involving the DOJ, IRS, Treasury and BATF, in which the DOJ’s use of civil forfeiture laws to force landlords to evict dispensary tenants has resulted in over 600 shut downs. (All this, despite the Obama administration’s pledge not to federally prosecute in states with legal use laws.) Undeterred, perhaps even emboldened, by these obstacles and riding the recent wave in public opinion shift favoring the legalization of marijuana, including the July 27, 2014, New York Times editorial “Repeal Prohibition, Again,” DeAngelo’s consistent message that cannabis is a health and wellness product and not an intoxicant is finally reverberating. More states, more legislators and more middle Americans have dismissed the old reefer madness and dopehead stereotypes that previously stigmatized marijuana use, and recognize, instead, that cannabis not only provides unique, life-saving medicine to many patients, but also the same casual relaxation benefits to millions that alcohol or prescription pills provide, without any of the dangerous side effects. For Steve DeAngelo, Harborside Health Center — with its state compliance, wellness focus, free holistic health therapies clinic for patients, laboratory-tested medicine, low-income programs, and community outreach and support — is the new model of dispensary professionalism that could help put American healthcare, as well as the economy, on a healthier track.
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Carol Bedrosian: As the founder and owner of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California, one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in the country, you’ve established a unique business model in the industry. Can you tell us about that? Steve DeAngelo: The most important thing about Harborside is that we were established to set a gold standard for the distribution of medical cannabis, to demonstrate that cannabis can be distributed in a way that brings benefits and not harm to communities. So we’ve always had a real dedication to 100% compliance with the law, to very high quality patient service, the safest and widest selection of products and, in just about every way you can imagine, we have successfully set the standard for the rest of the industry. For example, we were the first dispensary anywhere to laboratory test our medical cannabis. In fact, before we opened I called every commercial laboratory in the Bay area and asked them to do the testing for us and they refused because they were afraid of the federal government. So it took more than a year — a couple of years — but we found some other activists, scraped together some money, got some investment together and opened our own analytical laboratory. After we launched that program we became the first entity anywhere to provide cannabis that was both safety-tested, so patients knew that it was safe, and transparent, so they knew exactly the cannabinoid profile of what was in that particular batch of cannabis. That testing program also revealed to us some disturbing issues about the biochemistry of cannabis. Does CBD mean anything to you? Carol Bedrosian: Yes, but can you give a little explanation of that? Steve DeAngelo: What we discovered when we examined the first 2,000 test results was that only 10 of the samples that we had tested had appreciable quantities of CBD. CBD, like THC, is one of 65 different unique chemical compounds that are found in the cannabis plant. Each one of these compounds has a slightly different, sometimes a very different effect, one from the other. So, THC, for example, is the compound that’s most responsible for what people typically describe as the high or the psychoactivity of cannabis. It does many other things but that’s how people typically distinguish it. CBD on the other hand has no psychoactivity whatsoever. In fact it can suppress, or I would say better stated, balance psychoactivity of THC. Even though it is not psychoactive — and many people when they take CBD can’t even feel it — it’s a very, very powerful antispasmodic and a very, very powerful anti-inflammatory and very, very powerful antitumorigenic. What we’ve found — and there’s an abundance of evidence to support this — is that a CBD-rich type of cannabis is the best type of cannabis to give somebody, for example, who has epilepsy or who has irritable bowel syndrome, where they are dealing with a great deal of inflammation or other inflammation-related diseases, or people who are dealing with cancer tumors. When we found out that such a small number of the samples we’d tested had appreciable quantities of CBD in them, it was very disturbing to us. So we began our program where we collected the genetic material from those ten strains of cannabis. We provided them to our most trusted growers and had them grow those strains out. And then we made a very fateful decision. What we decided to do was — even though the CBD-rich strains were something only we had at that point and only we had the ability to even determine that they were present because we had the only laboratory — we made a decision not to monopolize those strains. We recognized that no one organization, even one as large as Harborside, would be able to produce enough CBD-rich cannabis for all of the patients out there who need it. So we sold not only finished cannabis medicine, but we sold seeds and cuttings for CBDrich cannabis strains. And we sold tens of thousands of them. We sold them for the same price — twelve bucks apiece — as we sold every other cannabis cutting that we sell. And the result is that we now have today an abundance of CBD-rich medicines. Carol Bedrosian: Is this where your motto of “Compassionate and responsible use” comes from? Steve DeAngelo: Compassionate and responsible use is one of the things we talk about. I would say if we have a motto it is “Out of the shadows and into the light.” In terms of compassion, we are a non-profit community service organization. What that means is that everybody at Harborside, including me, only makes a salary and nothing but our salaries. Those salaries are set by an outside, independent, compensation expert in the low to medium ranges for the appropriate jobs. Any earnings that we have above and beyond covering our basic expenses are returned back to our patients in the form of free patient services, and returned back to the community in the form of charitable donations. Some of the patient services include a care package program for low income patients that provides about 250 patients a week with a package of cannabis worth about $20 on the retail
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BRINGING CANNABIS OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND INTO THE LIGHT continued from page 39 market. They can pay whatever they feel they can afford for it, all the way down to a penny. We have a volunteer activist program for patients who, for whatever reasons, if they’re not low income and just may be a little bit tight on money and would rather do some volunteer work, they can come in and spend an hour. We will teach them how to do activist work. They spend an hour doing activist work and we reward them with a gram of cannabis. We also have a holistic care clinic that is completely free of charge. Nobody ever has to buy anything at Harborside in order to access the clinic that offers chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathy, nutritional counseling, therapeutic yoga, reiki, Alexander Technique, hypnotherapy and others. Carol Bedrosian: Are you devoted exclusively to the medical marijuana model or are you also looking towards a larger goal of legalizing marijuana overall?
“The truth about this plant is so powerful. The benefits that it can provide to people are so important that the people who are aware of these truths are not going to allow anything to stop us.”
Steve DeAngelo: My belief is that when we are talking about medical cannabis, this is not a new drug. This is something that has been used safely by human beings for thousands and thousands of years. There has never been a reported death from cannabis use, ever. At the same time, Americans are allowed to walk into a drugstore and buy a wide variety of substances that kill many people every year. One of them that many people don’t realize is aspirin. About 3,000 people a year die from the improper use of aspirin but nobody is suggesting that an adult American should have to go to a doctor to get a prescription for aspirin. Since cannabis has a better safety profile, I think that it would be appropriate to do the same thing. Let’s judge all of these substances by the same scientific standard. The Harborside model is dedicated to providing access to cannabis with full compliance with current law, whatever that current law happens to be. As society changes and evolves regarding cannabis, we plan on changing and evolving with it.
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Carol Bedrosian: California state law allows medical cannabis but federal law still treats cannabis as an illegal substance. You’ve been raided numerous times, have been harassed and had tremendous banking obstacles put in front of you, along with other dispensaries and growers in California. How do you make sense of that? How close are we to the federal government just legalizing the whole thing? Steve DeAngelo: Well, just a point of clarification, Harborside has never been raided. Many other dispensaries have, but we’ve never been raided by any law enforcement agency. The government has tried to use a variety of civil tactics to try and close us down, including taxing us out of existence and seizing the property we are located in. We have prevailed in every single court case that the federal government has filed against us, thus far, and we expect to continue to prevail. We plan on being here long after the people who are trying to close us down are gone. As to the imminence of federal change, we are now, depending on how you count it, just about at half of the states in the United States of America with some type of legal cannabis. This ranges from states like Colorado and Washington, where adult use is now the law of the land and where any adult can use cannabis for any reason, to the many medical cannabis states where patients are allowed to use cannabis if they have a recommendation from their doctor, all the way down to states like Georgia and Florida that just recently passed laws allowing the cultivation of very low THC, high CBD strains of cannabis. But those strains of cannabis are still illegal under federal law. So, when you see the legislatures of deeply red states like Florida and Georgia passing legislation that’s in direct conflict with federal law, when you see people like Bobby Jindal and
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“It’s no longer a question of whether or when cannabis is going to be legalized because we are doing it right now. The question is how it’s going to be legalized, who’s going to control it, who’s going to grow it, who’s going to distribute it, who’s going to make the profit and how will we teach our children about it. And those questions are being decided right now.” Rick Perry talking positively about cannabis reform, when you see Dr. Sanjay Gupta, possibly the most trusted person in America, doubling down on his support for medical cannabis, and when you have half, or very close to half the states with some type of cannabis reform, I think that we are getting closer and closer every day. That being said, I have seen a really disappointing lack of awareness at the highest levels of the Democratic and Republican parties. Just in the course of the last week, I saw Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton, both centrist politicians, trot out the most tired and ridiculous lines about cannabis that you can imagine. Chris Christie had the audacity to claim that medical cannabis was a fraud because so few people had signed up for the New Jersey medical cannabis program. But it was Governor Christie who had made the program so restrictive that so few people could participate in it. And then Ms. Clinton at first tried to laugh off a question at her town hall about cannabis, and when it became apparent that she wasn’t going to get away with making jokes, she then trotted out the line that more research is still needed about medical cannabis. Well, I have sitting on my desk a book the size and thickness of a phone book that is packed with thousands of studies documenting the medical efficacy of cannabis and the safety of cannabis. It’s simply not true and Ms. Clinton knows that it’s not true that more research is needed. The research has been done; it’s here, it’s obvious. Carol Bedrosian: Why the feet dragging? Steve DeAngelo: It’s political maneuvering. Unfortunately, politicians like Christie and Clinton, on their attempt to stake out a centrist position have failed to understand that cannabis is no longer an issue they should run away from. It’s an issue they should embrace. The vast majority of Americans in poll after poll have expressed their support of medical cannabis. All you need to do is take a look at the results in the last general election in this country, where in the states of Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington, pro-cannabis initiatives out-polled president Obama. You would hope that that would send a powerful message to the Democratic party. There’s a very interesting situation in Florida also, where a medical cannabis initiative is on the ballot. It’s polling at 86% support right now. Democratic candidate Charlie Crist is in a neck and neck race with current governor Rick Scott. Scott is an outspoken opponent of the initiative; Crist is an outspoken supporter of it. That initiative has the potential to bring in a sufficient number of new Democratic voters to put Christ over the top and put a Democratic governor in place in Florida on the eve on the next general election. So, I think that the main obstacle right now is the tone deafness of our national leaders at the very top. I think they need to wake up and smell the cannabis. My hope is that the election in Florida is going to demonstrate to them that they ignore cannabis voters at their own peril. Carol Bedrosian: You have been at the forefront of this issue for many decades and seen it all. How can the cannabis industry stay in the hands of independent growers and not be consumed by big business? Steve DeAngelo: As with all businesses in America now, there is a threat of takeover and consolidation by huge corporate forces. The only way that we are going to see an industry that remains open to ordinary Americans is if the regulations that are put in place in the various states allow for that to happen; there’s a number of different ways that regulations can be written. I encourage all that are interested in participating in the industry to actively learn about the regulations in their state and do everything they can to push them in the direction of an open market. My belief is that it’s not the role of the government to choose winners and losers in the marketplace. The role of the government is to create an even playing field for all of us to participate in. And that means that regulations should do things like have specific categories for small growers. Maybe those small growers should be given tax benefits to equalize the competitive disadvantages that they might be facing from much higher and better-capitalized companies. The way that licenses are allocated is also important. For example, in some states licenses for cannabis dispensaries have been allocated by a process of lottery. In those states, most 42 Spirit of Change | FALL 2014
often what we’ve seen is that many of the lottery winners simply don’t have the money or the resources to open the dispensaries and they end up selling them to much better financed corporations. In other states, like Massachusetts, there has been a merit-based process that carefully evaluates the experience, the qualifications, the integrity of all the various applicants and chooses the ones that are going to serve the community best. If that process of merit selection included things like community ties and community support, then we’re more likely to see a broad based industry, but none of that is going to happen unless individual Americans wake up, rise up and engage with the regulatory process because that process is underway right now. It’s no longer a question of whether or when cannabis is going to be legalized because we are doing it right now. The question is how it’s going to be legalized, who’s going to control it, who’s going to grow it, who’s going to distribute it, who’s going to make the profit and how will we teach our children about it. And those questions are being decided right now. Carol Bedrosian: However, business can’t go forward because the federal boom is always hanging over people’s heads. For instance, it’s completely a cash business at this point, there’s no credit card processing, and that presents a danger for people in the industry having to constantly transport large amounts of cash. The industry can’t move forward as a legitimate business being illegal on a federal level. Steve DeAngelo: The federal government has done everything they can, ever since the passage of the first medical cannabis law in California in 1996 to put the wine back in the bottle, to put the toothpaste back in the tube and nothing that they’ve done, from arresting people, from imprisoning people, from seizing property, from levying fines, from refusing us bank accounts, from cutting off credit card access, none of that has stopped us. Today, the legal cannabis industry is the fastest growing industry in the United States of America. In the current year we are anticipating $2.3 billion legal cannabis sales nationwide. That’s going to rise to $10.2 billion within five years at a minimum and it will probably rise much more rapidly than that. There’s no other industry in America growing that fast. So, I think that many obstacles have been placed in our way but the truth about this plant is so powerful. The benefits that it can provide to people are so important that the people who are aware of these truths are not going to allow anything to stop us. There’s no question that this plant is going to be used by many more people around the world in the near future. It’s already happening. I used to worry about the three or four federal death sentences that I qualify for because of the amount of cannabis I have sold. That’s not what I worry about anymore. Now, what I worry about, especially since learning about the curative properties of cannabis, is the millions of people around the world who are suffering, and in some cases dying, because they don’t have access to this medicine. And that has lit an urgency under thousands of people and we will not stop. Nothing will stop us. Carol Bedrosian: Can you talk a little bit about hemp? Steve DeAngelo: I could talk all day about hemp. I talk about the benefits of the cannabis plant, and certainly the benefits of medical cannabis are huge; in fact I think looking backwards twenty or thirty years from now, the rediscovery of medical cannabis is going to be looked upon as one of the most important developments since the discovery of germ theory. But that’s just the beginning of what cannabis can and has done for us. Few Americans know about the very important role that cannabis has played in the history of our country. The sails, the ropes and the sealing of the Mayflower that brought the Pilgrims over to the United States were all made out of 100% cannabis hemp. In fact, the sails of just about every single sailing ship that came to the Unites States were made out of hemp, as were the miles of rope they needed to run their rigging, as was all of the oakum used to seal the planks of the ship and keep the water from seeping in. Hemp was so important to the economies of the maritime imperial powers that the
English required the American colonists to pay their taxes in hemp. The Crimean War was fought between the English and the French empires for control of Russian hemp fields because they needed those hemp fields in order to supply their navies. The original draft of the Constitution of the United States of America was written on hemp paper, as were most other documents of that time. If you go to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, to the Museum of American History, you’ll see all sorts of early American settlers and pioneers dressed in what the Smithsonian euphemistically calls “homespun.” Well, that homespun wasn’t cotton; that homespun was hemp. Hemp has played a very important role in our history. Around the turn of the century, some of Henry Ford’s earliest automobiles were made using hemp plastics and hemp polymers. Original diesel engines ran on hemp seed oil. So, there’s a long history of hemp in the United States. In fact, what we’ve learned is that you can make about 25,000 different products out of industrial hemp ranging from oils to paints to varnishes to plastics to paper to textiles. Hemp is the longest, strongest natural fiber on the planet. It has a higher cellulosic content than almost any other plant, and hemp seed oil contains more essential fatty acids than any other substance known to mankind. Right now, there are a couple million GM cars rolling down our highways that have hemp fiberboard in the door panels. Why hemp? Well, it doesn’t give off toxic fumes when it burns like fiberglass does, and it’s lighter and stronger than fiberglass. In France, they are making homes out of hempcrete, which is a mixture of 50% of the interior of the cannabis plant and 50% limestone. Again, stronger, lighter and it has more insulative effect than concrete does. One of the wonderful things about hemp is that instead of depleting soil, it restores soil. It has the longest taproot of any plant known and it has the unique quality of fixing the nitrogen in the soil that it’s grown in. So hemp is an excellent rotation crop to be grown after other crops that typically pull nitrogen out of the soil. Hemp’s a great crop for erosion control as well. It can be used to restore land; it was planted around Chernobyl in Russia after the nuclear explosion there to remediate the land that had been poisoned with radioactivity. The real promise of hemp is that anything that can be produced from cotton, from petroleum or from trees can probably be produced from cannabis more cheaply, and certainly in a more environmentally friendly way, because hemp can be grown without the use of pesticides or fertilizers and it can be grown on a wide variety of marginal lands that are currently being unused or underused.
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Carol Bedrosian: Yet hemp growing is illegal in the United States? Steve DeAngelo: Until very recently, under federal law the cultivation of hemp was completely prohibited in the United States of America. With the recent passage of the American Jobs Act, states that have passed their own laws legalizing industrial hemp are now allowed to undertake state sponsored and controlled research studies to develop hemp varietals. At one time in the United States, hemp was one of our largest crops, especially in Kentucky and in Illinois. Thousands of tons were produced every year, tens of thousands of people were employed and we had a wide genetic variety of hemp strains that were adapted to different microclimates across the country. Unfortunately when cannabis was made federally illegal in 1937, the hemp industry was suppressed and closed down and all of those genetic varietals were lost; so now before hemp can really be grown successfully on a large scale basis in the United States, it’s going to take a research program of some two to three years. Hopefully, by the time those programs start showing results we will have seen more movement at the federal level and we’ll be able to grow this very important crop on a commercial basis. Carol Bedrosian: Can you give us a little bit of your activist background? What happened in 1998 with the law that passed to legalize medical marijuana in Washington DC, but was then vetoed by Congress? Steve DeAngelo: This was really one of the most crushing experiences of my life. It’s experiences like this that actually drive my determination to keep moving forward because what I’ve found is that the cannabis issue impacts almost everything else that I care about in my life. What happened in 1998 is a great example. I had been active in the passage of prop 215 in California two years earlier in 1996, so I attempted to do the same thing in my home town of Washington DC, in 1998. I was the lead organizer and fundraiser for initiative 59, DC’s version of a medical cannabis law that would have established non-profit dispensaries in the nation’s capitol way back then. We won with 69% of the vote and we carried every single precinct in Washington DC, a racially divided city, where I don’t think that had ever happened before or since, but very rare, in any case.
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BRINGING CANNABIS OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND INTO THE LIGHT continued from page 43 Despite that overwhelming mandate from the voters, the US Congress stepped in, and using their control of the DC budget, prohibited implementation of that law. I was just shocked, and after I got done being shocked, I got disgusted and really angry as an American, as someone who had been raised to believe that majority rule was an inviolate principle, that it was something we have fought wars for and was a principle worth dying over. To see our own Congress stepping in and vetoing a law passed with 69% of the people’s support, just turned my stomach and enraged me. And it made me realize that the stakes are even higher; we’re not just talking about a plant. We are not just talking about the benefits that cannabis can bring that are being denied to people. We’re talking about a real threat to essential American principles, to our democracy, to the people’s control of our government. When one government body can step in and invalidate the election results of 69% of the people, there is something profoundly wrong going on. Carol Bedrosian: As well as the stats for marijuana arrests disproportionately affecting people of color, who are jailed for ten years, sometimes for a lifetime, for minor drug offenses. What does that accomplish for anybody? Steve DeAngelo: If you study the origins of prohibition you find out that it’s always been this way. The laws against cannabis were never enacted because of the inherent qualities of cannabis; they were enacted because of the people who were using cannabis and the desire to control those people. The very first law in the United States to prohibit cannabis was passed in the state of California in 1913, followed shortly thereafter by similar laws in Arizona and Texas, border states. The reason for those laws was one of the first waves of Mexican immigration that had been kicked off by the Mexican Revolution in 1910. In Mexico at that time, many of the curanderos, the folk medicine healers, used cannabis widely. Mexican immigrants brought their healers and folk medicine with them. Unfortunately, the upper classes of Mexico had long looked upon cannabis with suspicion, largely because it was used as a medicine by Indians, by curanderos, by alternative healers. The American elite along the border picked up this stereotype from the Mexican elite. They passed these laws quickly and found that they were a very convenient way of controlling a whole bunch of new dark skinned immigrants. Now what you see is that pattern of focusing on Mexican immigrants being applied to African Americans. Some of the first people arrested under cannabis laws were African American musicians, like Louie Armstrong, who was arrested for cannabis possession in 1931 before it was even federally illegal. When the beatniks picked up cannabis from jazz musicians and they passed it on to the hippies, cops everywhere had an excuse to search anybody who was wearing the wrong kind of clothes or had the wrong kind of haircut. So it has always been about the people who are using cannabis, not so much the inherent qualities of it. Now that we see this huge embracing of cannabis by the mainstream of American society, I am very optimistic about change because the Americans that are using cannabis now are not going to stand for this stuff and they’ve got the power to do something about it.
turned hemp into an economically viable crop. As a result, between the mid 20s and early 30s, the cultivation of hemp in the United States increased twentyfold. In 1929, Popular Mechanics had a cover article touting hemp as the new billion-dollar crop. Well this terrified Hearst because his empire was very shaky at the time, his stock price was going down, and he was barely holding onto control of his company. Just the threat of hemp was enough to destroy investor confidence in his timber empire, so Hearst went on the offensive and launched this campaign of propaganda stories focused on African Americans and Mexicans who supposedly went crazy and fell into murderous rages and became ax murderers and rapists and wreaked all sorts of havoc after consuming cannabis. Carol Bedrosian: And that’s been the boogieman ever since. Steve DeAngelo: Yes. So, is there a smoking gun for that history? A lot of people have looked for the smoking gun and nobody’s really found a smoking gun yet. The evidence for this interpretation is admittedly circumstantial. But it’s very interesting, if you go and read the transcripts of the hearing, that none of the congressmen seemed to know the slightest thing about cannabis or really have the slightest interest in it. In fact, one of the few witnesses that displayed any knowledge of cannabis at the hearings was Dr. William Woodward, who was sent by the American Medical Association. Dr. Woodward stood up and pleaded with Congress not to make this valuable medicine illegal. He explained that doctors in the AMA hadn’t even realized that the marijuana Congress was talking about was the same medicine that they understood as cannabis. The descriptions of what the congressmen were talking about were so far off the mark, the doctors couldn’t even recognize it. But then, as now, private interests often trump science in the U.S. Congress and they did that time with tragic consequences.
“The laws against cannabis were never enacted because of the inherent qualities of cannabis; they were enacted because of the people who were using cannabis and the desire to control those people.”
Carol Bedrosian: I’ve often heard that the backlash against cannabis was originally due to the paper and timber industries not wanting to have the hemp plant replace products that the paper and wood industries supply. Is that still true? Steve DeAngelo: It certainly was true back in the 1930s. Many of us believe that one of the main reasons cannabis was made illegal was a propaganda campaign that was orchestrated by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was the owner of hundreds of newspapers across the United States of America and owned forestland the size of the state of Rhode Island. His entire empire at that time was being propped up with timber sales. This was during the Depression. At the same time, an invention called the decorticator was introduced in the 1920s that did for hemp what the cotton gin did for cotton; essentially it mechanized processing and 44 Spirit of Change | FALL 2014
Carol Bedrosian: But the research is so clear now. How can rational people still be against it?
Steve DeAngelo: One of the reasons this travesty has persisted so long is that the authorities the American people trust the most have been deliberately lying to them. In his TV special, Sanjay Gupta indicted the federal government for a seventy-year deliberate campaign of misinformation about cannabis. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a great example of this. NIDA is in charge of administering all research money for cannabis for the federal government. Until very recently, now that they’ve caved into some political pressure, NIDA refused to fund any studies that might be designed to show the medical benefits of cannabis as opposed to the harms. Why? They claimed that their charter limited them to investigating drug abuse, therefore they could not investigate any of the benefits of cannabis. Meanwhile they churned out study after study after study, most of them based on ridiculously bad science, demonizing cannabis. It was really the equivalent of somebody going into a pharmacy, pulling a bottle of medicine off of the wall, reading the side effects to a patient and telling them that’s what the medicine was going to do to them, without telling what the primary effect and purpose of the medicine was. So of course Americans are confused. Of course they have a great deal of ignorance about cannabis. The people they trust the most have been lying to them for seventy years. Carol Bedrosian: It’s astounding that alcohol, which causes billions of dollars of damage and ruined lives, is legal, while marijuana, which has none of those effects, is illegal. Steve DeAngelo: There’s no question that a neutral and reasonable observer, looking backwards from say a hundred years from now when cannabis is recognized as a healthy, normal wellness product, they’re going to look back at the way we treated cannabis and the way we treated alcohol and just really not be able to understand what was going on in our heads because there is no logical and rational explanation for it. What I’ve often found, though, is that when there is not a logical and rational explanation, there’s often a money explanation. And the fact of the matter is that cannabis prohibition puts a lot of money and a lot of power into the hands of a lot of people who want to hang on to it. And it’s really those people who are the main people who are blocking changing the laws right now.
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BRINGING CANNABIS OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND INTO THE LIGHT continued from page 44 Carol Bedrosian: Who are they?
“What I’ve often found is that when there is not a logical and rational explanation, there’s often a money explanation. And the fact of the matter is that cannabis prohibition puts a lot of money and power into the hands of a lot of people who want to hang on to it.”
Steve DeAngelo: Prosecutors, for example. We’ve seen a huge transfer in power from judges to prosecutors with the passages of minimum mandatory sentences. In most states and under all federal cannabis offences, there are certain mandatory minimums specified that judges are obligated to impose once a defendant is found guilty of a particular crime. The judge has no discretion, doesn’t matter the background of the defendant, their criminal history, anything. They must receive this sentence. In the case of cannabis, it can range from anywhere at the federal level from five years — and you have to serve every day — to forty years in prison. So what happens is when somebody is charged with this crime that carries a mandatory minimum sentence, they’re absolutely terrified to go to trial. Who wants to go to trial? If you’re found guilty and you go in front of a judge, you know that you are going to get this extremely long and extremely harsh sentence. So the prosecutors threaten them with these mandatory sentences and they say, “This office wins 98% of its trials and that means you’re going to be found guilty and when you’re found guilty, you’re going to be looking at a ten year mandatory minimum sentence and you’re going to serve every day. The judge has to sentence you to that. It doesn’t matter if you’re his nephew or Mother Teresa. That’s how long you’re going to prison for. Now, think about your kids, think about your wife, think about what’s going to happen to you in prison when those guys get a hold of you. Is that the way you want to spend the next ten years? No? Okay. Then start giving me names. I need to know every single person that you’ve ever had anything to do with that had anything to do with cannabis. They’re your brother? I don’t care. They’re your father? I don’t care. Here, take a wire and go into the family home. Get your uncle on tape. He’ll go to jail for twenty years instead of you.” This is what happens, and so, using these mandatory minimums, they are turning the land of the free and the home of the brave into a nation of snitches and squealers. Carol Bedrosian: I have one last question. Your wonderful braids — are they just a style preference or do they have some cultural or spiritual significance?
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Book Reviews By Gail Lord
nourishment, and also to the nourishment of our families and our communities. Local food advocate Jennifer McGruther understands this connection and in The Nourished Kitchen she celebrates back-to-basics cooking that forgoes packaged foods and restrictive diets. Instead, she embraces the foods and cooking methods of our grandparents and great grandparents, the foods of local farms and backyard gardens. Based on the Traditional Foods Movement that grew out of research by Weston A Price, this focus on real ingredients includes learning to prepare raw cultured dairy such as kefir and yogurt, probiotic-dense fermented foods such as sauerkraut and kombucha, and vitamin and mineral rich organ meats. With 160 inviting recipes there is something for everyone: Maple Glazed Root Vegetables with Orange and Thyme, Roasted Lamb with Leeks and Potatoes, and a tempting Portugal Cake that includes a pound each of butter, almonds and sugar, so don’t eat the whole cake!
Diana Prichard, illustrated by Heather Delvin Knopf The Cow in Patrick O’Shanahan’s Kitchen Little Pickle Press, San Francisco, CA 2013
What if making your favorite French toast required you to have a dairy cow roaming through your kitchen, a squawking egg-laying chicken roosting in your refrigerator and a full grown maple tree inside your house? This is the situation little Patrick discovers in The Cow in Patrick O’Shanahan’s Kitchen when he wakes one morning to find his dad making him breakfast. This easy-to-read picture book’s great kid appeal is its silly story and zany illustrations, but its real strength is informing children where food actually comes from — eggs aren’t grown in cartons at the grocery store and milk doesn’t start in a bottle. Author Diana Prichard is also a hog farmer. She understands the need for practical food awareness in our national discourse on food: “It’s clear we need a more balanced dialogue, and, as our future decision makers, children need to understand the importance of supporting agriculture as much as adults.”
Jennifer McGruther The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-To-Table Recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA 2014
Which sounds healthier and more enjoyable: a meal of restricted carbohydrates and fats, or a meal made from fresh seasonal ingredients harvested locally? The way our food is produced and prepared contributes to our body’s
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Eliot Cowan Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants Sounds True, Boulder, CO 2014
Healing with plants is a universal medical tradition. According to renowned teacher acupuncturist J.R. Worsley, “Anything that can be done with needles can also be done with herbs. But,” he emphasizes, “if you use herbs, for God’s sake, use local ones because they are one thousand times stronger than plants that grow someplace else!” Heeding his teacher’s advice, Eliot Cowan pledged to make his life’s work the revival of using local plants to heal the spirit. Plant Spirit Medicine: A Journey into the Healing Wisdom of Plants highlights Cowan’s intriguing travels into the numinous green world. Regardless of where we live, the gifts of the plant spirits are available to us. Our most potent plant healers are right outside our door. Dirt, air, sunshine, rain and other elements root plants to their location. This ideal relatedness with nature creates growth, and plant spirits share this restorative process when healing guidance is requested of them. Plant spirit medicine unifies and balances. It doesn’t diagnose and it’s not an herbal treatment. Rather than distill plants into biological properties and chemical makeup, plant spirit medicine relies on soulful communication with individual plants and plant species. The power and energy of the sacred plants require special attention. Today, the sacred plants of tobacco, peyote, certain mushrooms and marijuana are popular. Like all sacred plants, these plant teachers become destructive when not treated with respect. Indigenous healers study and commune with them for many years to learn their medicine, and engaging with these strong plant spirits outside their
Leena Kiviluoma Vital Face: Facial Exercises and Massage for Health and Beauty Singing Dragon, Philadelphia, PA 2013
You need exercise to keep your body healthy, but how often do you exercise the fifty muscles in your face and neck? Facial muscles hold tension and become flabby just like any other muscle in the body. Vital Face: Facial Exercises and Massage for Health and Beauty fully illustrates easy-to-follow practices to care for your facial muscles. Stretching techniques and movement exercises help pinpoint target areas, improving the appearance and wellbeing of the face and neck. The guidebook shows ways to relax the jaw where tension is often held, and addresses health issues including teeth clenching and grinding, and also the effects of Bell’s palsy. These stretches and exercises will not only help you feel better, but will also lift facial features, reduce facial lines and give you healthy glowing skin. Not bad for a few minutes of making faces in the mirror, and all without breaking a sweat.
Gail Lord is a freelance writer living in Massachusetts. Please send book review copies to 51 North Street, Grafton, MA 01519 or email socbookreviewer@gmail.com.
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9/13 — SPA DAY FOR YOUR SOUL. Nourish your body, mind and soul—a day of rejuvenation and healing with Aaron/Sue Singleton, filled with chakra balancing, yoga, guided imagery, aromatherapy, chi kung, exercises to help embrace your emotions as allies, Tibetan bowl sound bath, etc. Bring blanket/pillow. TheWayToBalance.com; 978-834-0341. 9/13 — SHAMANIC LIGHT HEALER APPRENTICESHIP, meets once/month for 10 months. Andover, MA. Learn advanced shamanic healing and practice methods. Taught by Leontine Hartzell, www.eyeofeagle.org. 9/14 — CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND COMMUNITIES. Introductory afternoon with presentation, dialogue, prayer time, and resources for further exploration. Additional information from Allen Bourque: allen.bourque@gmail.com. 2-4pm. Roots & Wings, 317 N. Main Street, Natick. www.rootsandwingshealingarts.com 9/14 — PSYCHIC AND HOLISTIC FAIRE. Women of Wisdom. North Easton, MA. Psychics, angel readings, mediums, crystal healings, Gaiadon Heart, chair massage, Reiki and more! Sign yourself up for a few appointments and bring your friends! www.womenofwisdominc.com. (508) 230-3680.
SEPTEMBER 9/2 — OPEN HOUSE FOR SCHOOLS OF WISDOM. Meet instructors, learn about these unique intensive programs. September 2014 Programs: Holistic Professional, Mediumship, Akashic Soul Mastery, Angel Alignment. January 2015 Programs: Hypnotherapy, Earth Medicine, Holistic Practitioner, Animal Communication. Repeated 11/20 and 1/2/15. www.womenofwisdominc.com, (508) 230-3680. 9/6 — INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTIST’S WAY: A SPIRITUAL PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY. Certified Coach Kim Childs helps you reclaim your creative dreams and desires; 2:30-4pm at The Arlington Center, $18. Learn more at www.KimChilds.com. 9/6-7 — FIRST ANNUAL MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT EXPO at the Coco Key Water Resort Hotel Convention Center in Waterbury, CT. Saturday, 10am-5pm and Sunday 10am4pm. Just to name a few, psychic readers, spiritual healers, Reiki, Bars Access Consciousness, authors and books. We will also have speakers and raffles. Admission is $5.00. Hosted by Robin Distiso, author and spirit medium. Looking forward to seeing you there! www.robindistiso.com. 9/7 — THE ART OF MAKING GOAT MILK SOAP. Come learn the ancient art of soap making this fall. Watch the demonstration of kitchen chemistry reveal techniques for creating beautiful and successful goat milk soap. The workshop will cover the benefits of different ingredients, molds, recipes and tools. All participants will leave with a sample of soap made that day. Boston School of Herbal Studies. (781) 646-6319 or bostonherbalstudies.com. 9/8 — GETTING GROUNDED FOR KIDS. For kids ages 7-11, this group is designed to help kids chill out, relax, play and have fun through Kundalini Yoga, creative arts, and
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relaxation. Starting Monday 9/8 for a 7-week group. Fee: $140. Facilitator: Sherri Snyder-Roche, MA, LMHC. Register online at www.IntegratedPsychotherapy.com. 9/8 — MOTHER/DAUGHTER YOGA AND CREATIVITY. Deepen connections, take challenges together, play and laugh, and explore creativity! Through yoga and the creative arts, moms and daughters will get to know each other from a playful perspective and even have fun! Mondays, 6-7:30 pm, 7 weeks, Fee: $350 (for both mom and daughter; $280 if paid in full) Facilitator: Sherri Snyder-Roche, MA, LMHC. Register online at www.IntegratedPsychotherapy.com. 9/10 — PROFILING YOUR PURPOSE. Free teleclass with Rhys Thomas helps you clarify your purpose and direction, increase your vital energy and passion and develop courage in all areas of your life! 7pm. Sign up for free at www.ProfilingYourPurpose.com/yes 9/10 — FEEDING OUR SOULS: EMBRACING SELF-CARE FOR WOMEN. Are you so busy taking take of others that you forget about yourself? This group will explore the creative arts, Kundalini Yoga and deep relaxation as pathways to self-care. No previous experience necessary. 7 weeks, Wednesdays, starting 9/10. Fee: $210. Facilitator: Sherri Snyder-Roche, MA, LMHC. Register online at www.IntegratedPsychotherapy.com. 9/12–14 — LUCID DREAMING AND SHAMANIC AWAKENING. Robert Waggoner and Sandy Corcoran. Pumpkin Hollow Center, Craryville, NY, includes meals, double occupancy, teachings. Robert is an international speaker on lucid dreaming, author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. Sandy is an international facilitator on indigenous teachings, author of Shamanic Awakening: My Journey Between the Dark and the Daylight. Any level dreamer welcome. www.starwalkervisions.com Sandy (508) 435-2681.
9/14 — VIBRATIONAL LIGHT HEALING TRAINING. 4 Sundays, beginning 9/14, 10/19, 11/16, 12/14. 10 am-5 pm, Andover, MA. $575. Learn advanced methods of using sound, light, color and vibration to heal. Learn to connect to the heart to work with the 7 rainbow rays of light and the Universal Light Matrix. A life-changing course with unique wisdom teachings channeled by shamanic visionary Leontine Hartzell. www.eyeofeagle.org 9/17-21 — FOOD AS MEDICINE. Kripalu, Stockbridge, MA. This course combines cutting-edge research and culinary wisdom to inspire and prepare you to guide your household and clients toward practical life-giving nutrition. Continuing education available. The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. fam@cmbm.org or www.cmbm.org. 9/19-21 — GREEN NATIONS GATHERING at Frost Valley YMCA in Catskill Mountains. Special guest, Ecuadorian shaman and ethnobotanist, Dr. Rocio Alarcon. Over 25 workshops and intensives, emporium, equinox fire ceremony, dancing, music and more. www.greennations.org. 9/20-21 — LEARN HOMEOPATHY by working with real cases in dynamic engaging classroom settings! Anyone can learn homeopathy; use it to enrich your life or healing work. Great for self-care, parents and healthcare professionals. Also 10/11-12, 11/8-9, 12/6-7. (617) 564-0321 or www.homeocollaborative.org. 9/20 — CHANGE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, CHANGE YOUR LIFE. 2014 NH Eckankar seminar, 10am-8:30pm at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, NH. Free morning workshop: “Inner Guidance” A Tool for Spiritual Growth” with Ann Archer Butcher. For info: www.eckankar-nh.org or (800) 713-8944. 9/20 — SNATAM KAUR AT THE FALL YOGA FESTIVAL. Vibrate the Naad: Spirit Voyage Artist Snatam Kaur and New England’s premier Kundalini studios join the Mother Ashram in spirit and sound! KidFest, gong, Sat Nam Rasayan, martial arts, large bazaar, food vendors. Baba Siri Chand Yoga and Retreat Center, 368 Village Street, Millis, MA 02054. www.YogaAtTheAshram.org. (508) 376-4525
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CALENDAR continued from page 49 9/20 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Newton, MA. Libby Barnett, MSW. 33 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 9/21 9/20 — MABON OPEN RITUAL, Saturday 4pm. Séance, 10/18 and 10/25, 8pm. Psychic fairs, 10/18 and 10/25. Samhain Open Ritual, 10/31, 10pm. Tintagels Gate, 505 Main Street, Athol, MA. Hours: Sun 12-6, Thurs-Sat 10-6. (978) 830-4611. www.tintagelsgate.com. 9/21 — AN AROMATHERAPY CERTIFICATION COURSE taught by Linda Patterson. Learn how essential oils work to heal body, mind and spirit. This comprehensive course addresses the body systems, their common ailments and the essential oils most helpful for each condition. Boston School of Herbal Studies. bostonherbalstudies.com or (781) 646-6319. 9/24 — INTRODUCTION TO SHAMANIC JOURNEYING: THE LOWER WORLD. With Brad Hudson. 7-9pm. Class held at the Roudenbush Center at 65 Main Street, Westford. MA. Register at www.roudenbush.org. 9/27 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 33 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 9/28 9/27-9/28 — HEALTH AND WELLNESS FALL SHOW. Health and Wellness Fall Show 2014. Holiday Inn, Boxborough, MA. Saturday 10-4; Sunday 10-3. Meet and talk with over 50 vendors. healthandwellnessshow.net. 9/27 — FALL FAIR. Saturday, 11am – 4 pm. Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism. 32 Church Street, Watertown, MA. Mediumship readings, animal communication, angel card readings, aura photography, vendor ZuZu’s Healing Arts, John of God crystal healing bed. www.greaterbostonchurchofspiritualism.com. 9/30, 10/2, 10/3 — SACRED SPACE YOGA SCHOOL. Yoga teacher training your next step? Traditional group training isn’t for you, consider private coaching. YA RYS. Your schedule, your needs, your individuality, your vision, your yoga! www.sacredspaceyogaschool.com
OCTOBER 10/3 — CRYSTAL BOWL CONCERT WITH ASHANA. Weaving together exquisite renditions of sacred chant, song and poetry from the world’s traditions with passionate soaring vocals and the luminous sound of crystal singing bowls, Ashana’s live events are a heart-opening journey where you will feel inspired, uplifted and bathed in love. Held at the Unitarian Church in Andover, MA. (978) 474-8010. www.circlesofwisdom.com. 10/3-10/5 — TRUE NORTH HOLISTIC CENTER: “THERE IS A BRIDGE.” An Evoking Alchemy program supporting the cancer community (those in treatment, post treatment, caregivers, family, friends) through transformative story and
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9/20 — Join spirit voyage artist Snatam Kaur at the Fall Yoga Festival at Baba Siri Chand Yoga and Retreat Center in Millis, MA. See September listing or www.YogaAtTheAshram.org.
Calming Hands™ energetics. www.evokingalchemy.com. www.truenorthholisticcenter.org. (978) 820-1139 10/4 — CHRISTIAN CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND COMMUNITIES. Introductory afternoon with presentation, dialogue, prayer time, and resources for further exploration. Additional info.: Allen Bourque: allen.bourque@gmail.com. 2-4PM. The Arlington Center, 369 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington. www.arlingtoncenter.org 10/4-5 — REIKI 1. Repeated 11/1-2. Reiki I Refresher, 11/16. Reiki II, 12/13-14. Reiki III Shamanic Master Practitioner, 1/24-25. Misty Meadows Herbal Center, Lee, NH. www.mistymeadows.org. (603) 659-7211. Now accepting registrations for 2015 Advanced Herbal Studies weekends. 10/4 — THE 2ND ANNUAL SARATOGA SPRINGS HOLISTIC HEALING AND SPIRITUAL ARTS EXPO will be held on Saturday from 9am-5pm at the Saratoga Springs City Center, 522 Broadway. Admission is $7; children under 12 free. For more information visit our website at www.holisticspiritualexpo.com. Interested in participating as an exhibitor, email vendor@holististicspiritualexpo.com. 10/5-10/10 — THE SOUTH: ILLUMINATION. First course in The Light Body School with Alberto Villoldo of the Four Winds. During the South, you will learn how to create sacred space wherever you are, to empower yourself and bring healing to those around you. The South course offers emotional healing where you can engage your personal histories and release their grip all at once — not one by one, but like a serpent shedding its entire skin all at once. Held in Omega, NY. Registration and info at www.thefourwinds.com.
10/9, 16, 23 — SHAMANIC JOURNEYING: COME EXPLORE WHO YOU ARE BECOMING. Join us for three evenings of discovery and personal exploration. All welcome. 7-9 pm. (617) 965-6440. www.bluelotushealingarts.com. 10/9 — ALL ABOUT HONEY with Stephanie Elson. Not only is honey delicious, but it can boost energy, enhance immune function, soothe coughs and help heal wounds. Students will have an opportunity to taste local and varietal honeys and make a medicinal honey syrup. Boston School of Herbal Studies. bostonherbalstudies.com or (781) 646-6319. 10/11-13 — JILL PURCE “THE HEALING VOICE” WORKSHOP Liberation through the ecstasy of chant. Cost for three days: $425. http://tinyurl.com/Jill-Purce. mandala.world@yahoo.com. (508) 429-9716 10/11-13 — TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA PROFESSIONAL TRAINING. Wellfleet, MA. 12 CEUs for mental health professionals, nurses, yoga instructors. With Joann Lutz, LICSW, E-RYT. www.yogainpsychotherapy.com. 10/12 — JOURNEY OF THE SOUL. Join past life regression expert Dr. Brian Weiss and medium John Holland for an evening of healing and enlightenment for your body, mind and soul. Back Bay Events Center, Boston. 10am-5pm. Register early and save www.hayhouse.com/events or (800) 654-5126. 10/15 — FREE LECTURE: READ AND PLAY MUSIC. World famous seminars (www.understandingofmusic.com) turns beginners into musicians, revitalizes and inspires even pro musicians. 7:30 pm, 169 Mass Ave., Boston. (781) 599-1476. signup.understandingofmusic.com or sallee@dlorien.com.
10/18: REIKI CERTIFICATION. Concord, MA. Libby Barnett, MSW. 33 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEUs/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 10/19. 10/18 — GROTON WELLNESS OPEN HOUSE. 11am3pm, fun for all ages! Educational seminars, special offers and raffles, mini spa and medical treatments, bounce house, farm petting zoo, live music and more. 493 Main Street, Groton, MA 01450. www.GrotonWellness.com. (978) 449-9919. 10/18 — ASTROLOGY WORKSHOP. World famous astrologer Robert Hand, author of best-selling Planets in Transit, Horoscope Symbols. Rare New England visit. Topic: Jupiter and Saturn. Sponsored by the Boston Chapter of the National Council for Geocosmic Research. Location IN Belmont. 12:15 to 4:30pm. For information, see www.ncgrbostonastrology.org or contact Joyce Levine at joycel@joycelevine.com or call (617) 354-7075. 10/18-19 — AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ALTERNATIVE THERAPISTS six-day counselor certification begins. Continues 11/15-16 and 12/13-14. In-depth training in conducting a successful and personally enriching profession. Held in Rockport, MA. Visit www.asat.org 10/19 — SOUL LIGHT EXPO. 70+ vendors and readers, 20 workshops, and a tea cup raffle at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 Berlin Road, Cromwell, CT. 10 am to 5 pm. More info at www.dooropenermagazine.com. 10/25 — PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT, PAST LIVES AND ANGEL COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP with Ross J. Miller, psychic healer, medium, regression therapist. In this unique, experiential workshop you’ll learn how to identify your guardian angels and spirit guides by name and receive their guidance, healing and inspiration; discover your soul’s life purpose; experience two of your past lives and heal the residual karma from them; give psychic readings to others in class and more. Saturday, 10:00AM - 5:00PM, Newton, MA. To register for the workshop or to schedule a psychic or past-life reading or healing session in person or over the phone, visit our website: www.TheMysticWay.com or call Ross J. Miller (617) 527-3583. 10/25 — HEALING ARTS FESTIVAL. Saturday, 11am–4pm. Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism. 32 Church Street, Watertown, MA. Mediumship and angel card readings, many modalities of healing including Reiki, massage and more. Affordable mini-sessions available. www.greaterbostonchurchofspiritualism.com. 10/26 — THE ECLECTIC INSTITUTE OF AROMATHERAPY AND HERBAL STUDIES offers Level II Aromatherapy Certification Course in Boylston, MA. www.aromatherapyandherbalstudies.com.
NOVEMBER 11/6-9 — HBLU TRAINING: HEALING TRAUMA AND INSTALLING BOUNDARIES with Judith Swack, Ph.D. Healing From The Body Level Up 1 training shows you how to rapidly transform and heal your clients and yourself. www.hblu.org. (800) 310-6549. info@hblu.org.
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11/8 — THE CONSTELLATION APPROACH. Jamy and Peter Faust introduce the concepts and teachings of Family Lineage Healing. The seminar is experiential with opportunities to participate in various ways throughout the day. Anyone can benefit, regardless of your relationship with family members or knowledge of family history. The Fausts have been leading seminars and trainings in Family Constellations since 2002 and incorporate their knowledge of 20 years in private practice as professional healers. Saturday: 9:30–6, Waltham, MA. Information and registration: ConstellationApproach.com/seminars. 11/8/14: RINGS OF ODEN, MODULE 3: THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY CONNECTING TO SOURCE! Instructors and founders Aaron and Sue Singleton in CT. Most extensive supplement/collection of Sacred Geometry Configurations ever, over 190 new formations: 35 facilitate improved physical healing; 33 assist light-body transformation; 29 enhance meditation; 27 optimize release of illness residues; 20 journeys to sacred sites/temples, etc. Learn ancient healing technologies from Egypt, Atlantis, Lemuria. Powerful configurations for groups, meditation circles, and more! Prerequisite Modules 1-2. TheWayToBalance.com. (978) 834-0341. 11/8-9 — MYSTICAL AWAKENING SEMINAR WITH PIR ZIA INAYAT-KHAN. Join Pir Zia and the Sufi Order of Greater Boston this weekend exploring the hidden wisdom of body, heart and soul. 10am-5pm, Newton Centre, MA. www.gardenlight.org. (617) 522-0800.
live, mind-blowing demonstration. 6:30-8:30pm. higherbrainlivingevents.com/ma. 11/20 — OPEN HOUSE FOR SCHOOLS OF WISDOM. Meet instructors, learn about these unique intensive programs. September 2014 Programs: Holistic Professional, Mediumship, Akashic Soul Mastery, Angel Alignment. January 2015 Programs: Hypnotherapy, Earth Medicine, Holistic Practitioner, Animal Communication. Repeated 1/2/15. www.womenofwisdominc.com, (508) 230-3680. 11/22 — ASTROLOGY WORKSHOP ECLIPSES IN MUNDANE ASTROLOGY with world-renown astrologer Bill Meridian. This is a rare New England visit. Bill resides in Austria and consults worldwide. He writes the mundane astrology and stock market columns for Dell Horoscope. Sponsored by the Boston Chapter of the National Council for Geocosmic Research. Location: Belmont. 12:15-4:30pm. For information, see www.ncgrbostonastrology.org, or contact Joyce Levine at joycel@joycelevine.com or call (617) 354-7075. 11/25 — MUNAY-KI RITES: ANCIENT SACRED RITES OF HEALING. Join us for nine Tuesdays beginning Nov. 25, 7:30-9pm, and be immersed in this ancient Incan tradition to become a person of wisdom and power. To register: (617) 965-6440, contact@bluelotushealingarts.com.
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11/15-16 — 8TH ANNUAL SPIRIT OF CHANGE MAGAZINE’S NATURAL LIVING EXPO. Royal Plaza Trade Center, 181 Boston Post Road West, Marlboro, MA. Saturday 9-7; Sunday 10-5. Featuring 225 exhibits, 90 workshops, free natural product sample bar, cooking and herbal demos, personal wellness shopping, holiday shopping, jewelry, crystals, clothing, mini healing sessions, readings, healthy food and fun. Don’t miss New England’s largest holistic health event! Keynote tickets on sale now at www.NaturalExpo.org for Gabrielle Bernstein, Eric Pearl, Colette Baron-Reid, Bernie Siegel, Dr. Brian Clement and Guido Masé. See the full expo program guide in this issue to plan your weekend. 11/15-16 — THE ILLUMINATED BODY FOR PROFESSIONAL HEALERS. This 2-day program held in Andover, MA, dramatically shifts, deepens, and up-levels your work as a healing professional. You will discover a cornerstone practice to interact with energy more hygienically while accessing greater precision, discernment and effectiveness. www.infinityhealinggroup.com. 11/16 — LOVEMAKING 101. Have you ever said, “that doesn’t bother me” when it does, had sex to avoid conflict, withheld truth to spare feelings? Trade intimacy busters for lovemaking boosters with Trish Whynot. 2pm, Natural Living Expo, Marlborough, MA. www.TrishWhynot.com. 11/16 — CONNECTING TWO WORLDS. Learn about the art of mediumship with pointers on how to tap into these gifts yourself, plus a group mediumship demonstration with psychic medium Rachel Perry. Native drumming and singing with the Wampanoag tribal drummers will bring in the spiritual energies. 4:00-4:50pm at the Natural Living Expo, Marlboro, MA. www.RachelPerryMedium.com. 11/17 — HIGHER BRAIN LIVING® creates an energy surge to the higher brain, opening a gateway to expansive higher living like no other! Learn to activate this by attending a
9/17-21 — Experience food as medicine at a Center for Mind-Body Medicine sponsored culinary retreat at Kripalu in Stockbridge, MA. See September listing or www.cmbm.org.
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turns beginners into musicians, revitalizes and inspires even pro musicians. 169 Mass Ave., Boston. (781) 599-1476. signup.understandingofmusic.com or sallee@dlorien.com. 12/13 — THE CONSTELLATION APPROACH. Jamy and Peter Faust introduce the concepts and teachings of Family Lineage Healing. The seminar is experiential with opportunities to participate in various ways throughout the day. Anyone can benefit, regardless of your relationship with family members or knowledge of family history. The Fausts have been leading seminars and trainings in Family Constellations since 2002 and incorporate their knowledge of 20 years in private practice as professional healers. Saturday: 9:30–6, Waltham, MA. Information and registration: ConstellationApproach.com/seminars. 1/2/15 — OPEN HOUSE FOR SCHOOLS OF WISDOM. Meet instructors, learn about these unique intensive programs. September 2014 Programs: Holistic Professional, Mediumship, Akashic Soul Mastery, Angel Alignment. January 2015 Programs: Hypnotherapy, Earth Medicine, Holistic Practitioner, Animal Communication. (508) 230-3680, www.womenofwisdominc.com. STUDY HERBAL MEDICINE. with Holly Bellebuono in a friendly and rewarding program. Now enrolling for our 3-week Herbal Intensive June 2015 on Martha’s Vineyard. Earn Community Herbalist certificate! Distance program also available. Details at www.VineyardHerbs.com.
ONGOING 11/8-9 — Experience a Mystical Awakening Seminar with Pir Zia Inayat-Khan and the Sufi Order of Greater Boston exploring the hidden wisdom of body, heart and soul. See November listing or www.gardenlight.org.
11/29 — HOLIDAY FAIR. Saturday, 11am – 4pm. Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism, 32 Church Street, Watertown, MA. Mediumship and angel card readings, spiritual healings, vendors, raffles, gift certificates. Get a jump on holiday shopping. www.greaterbostonchurchofspiritualism.com. 11/29 — PSYCHIC AND HOLISTIC FAIRE. Women of Wisdom. North Easton, MA. Psychics, angel readings, mediums, crystal healings, Gaiadon Heart, chair massage, Reiki and more! Sign yourself up for a few appointments and bring your friends! www.womenofwisdominc.com. (508) 230-3680.
UPCOMING 12/6 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 33 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU's/contact hours. www.reikienergy.com. Call (603) 6542787. Reiki II: 12/7 12/12-14 — READ AND PLAY MUSIC IN A WEEKEND! World famous seminars (www.understandingofmusic.com)
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ASTROLOGY WORKSHOPS. Boston Chapter of National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR) sponsors workshops from the most prestigious astrologers worldwide. For information, see www.ncgrbostonastrology.org or email or call chapter president Joyce Levine at (617) 354-7075 or joycel@joycelevine.com. LUNCH TIME MEDITATION. Wednesdays, 12-1 pm, beginning Sept. 9. Learn Metta, a profound and beautiful Buddhist practice. Led by experienced Buddhist practitioner. 945 Great Plain Ave., Needham, MA. (617) 965-6440. www.bluelotushealingarts.com. THE ECLECTIC INSTITUTE OF AROMATHERAPY AND HERBAL STUDIES offers: 9/7 Goat’s milk soap making workshop in Arlington; 9/20 Aromatherapy workshop in Cambridge; 9/21 European-based Aromatherapy Certification Course in Arlington; 10/26 Level II Aromatherapy Certification Course in Boylston. www.aromatherapyandherbalstudies.com SHAMANIC DRUMMING CIRCLE founded 1993. Usually second and fourth Fridays of every month. 7pm. Quaker Meetinghouse, Cambridge, MA. Open to all, instruction available on website: http://www.friendsjourneycircle.org/. Terrence (978) 952-2704 or Emily (781) 641-3980. MONTHLY CLASSES WITH BRAD HUDSON: Introduction to Shamanic Journeying: The Lower World 9/24, 7-9pm, and Introduction to Shamanic Healing 10/2, 7-9pm. Both classes held at the Roudenbush Center at 65 Main Street, Westford. MA. Register at www.roudenbush.org WELLNESS ROUNDTABLE HOLISTIC PRACTITIONERS NETWORKING GROUP. Please join us at our monthly meetings, second Wednesday each month in Northboro,
MA. Stay inspired and create collaborative professional relationships. A welcoming community working for the greater health and wellbeing of all. Contact marilyn@confident-directions.com. PRANIC HEALING. Private sessions and Level 1 workshops: September 13/14 and November 8/9. Tuesday night meditations. North Andover, MA. Miriam Smith, certified healer and teacher. mgsenergy@comcast.net. (978) 8071634. www.PranicHealingNE.com. OPEN MEDITATION, Advaita Meditation Center, every Wednesday, 7 to 8:30 PM. Please join us for meditation, discussion, and refreshments. Newcomers and experienced meditators both welcome. Instruction provided. 28 Worcester Lane, Waltham. Go to www.advaitameditation.org for more details. LEARN HOMEOPATHY by working with real cases in dynamic engaging classroom settings. Sept 20-21, Oct 11-12, Nov 8-9, Dec 6-7. Use it to enrich your life or healing work! Great for self-care, parents, healthcare professionals. (617) 564-0321 www.homeocollaborative.org. FREE LECTURE SERIES, fourth Tuesday of every month from 6:00- 7:00. Health 101 presented by community herbalist Deb Fate-Mental at Palmer Family Chiropractic,114 Water Street, Bldg #3, Milford, MA. To register visit www.heartfeltherbals.com. ASTROLOGY CLASSES IN CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday evenings, 7-9 pm with Joyce Levine, president of the Boston Chapter of the National Council for Geocosmic Research, who has over 30 years of experience as a full-time professional astrologer. Visit www.joycelevine.com or call (617) 354-7075. CLASSES IN CHANNELING AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION with Vywamus, a teacher of higher consciousness, channeled by Andrea Seiver. Have a personal reading, join Learn to Channel, other classes, enjoy Evenings with Vywamus September 11, October 2, November 6, December 4. (617) 332-1541. www.andreaseiver.com. TAI CHI CHUAN. Classes in Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, both group and private, held at Gin Soon Tai Chi Club, the oldest school teaching Tai Chi Chuan in the greater Boston area. Classes held Monday-Thursday 11-1. Evenings from 4-8. Saturdays 1-4. 33 Harrison Ave, 2nd floor, Boston, MA. (617) 542-4442. www.gstaichi.org. BOSTON SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES. Arlington and Lincoln, MA. Affordable, evening and weekend classes, aromatherapy certification course, Lyme disease practitioner training, herbal apprenticeship programs and advanced training. (781) 646-06319 or bostonherbalstudies.com. GOT SELF? Join us for a brief and lively introduction to psychosynthesis coaching, a spiritually oriented, positive psychology that creates an inspiring coaching milieu. Free informational teleconference will provide details of our Board Certified Psychosynthesis Transformational Life Coach Teleconference Training Program. If you are thinking of becoming a business or life coach, this is the opportunity to find a coaching format based deeply in spiritual principles and the process of conscious evolution! Email program director Didi Firman at admin@synthesiscenter.org for more details. Visit www.synthesiscenter.org.
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Acupuncture & Asian Medicine Acupuncture of Worcester Holistic Health since 1974
Dr. Yvonne Chen, Lic. Acupuncturist One of the first practicing acupuncturists in the United States, Dr. Yvonne Chen began her acupuncture practice in Washington, D.C. in 1973, moving to Worcester one year later. Trained in China as a medical doctor, Dr. Chen’s years of study and research included in-depth work with both traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Her approach to health incorporates keen knowledge on the nature of disease, use of
Acupuncture Plus Yoga
energy balancing, nutritional counseling and the promotion of spiritual well-being. Acupuncture is especially effective in the treatment of: • Pain: migraine headaches, stress relief, tendonitis, arthritis, lower back pain, neuralgia, whiplash, accident and trauma injuries and TMJ syndrome • Improving bodily functions: respiratory ailments, insomnia and impotency • Nervous system disorders: Bell’s Palsy, paralysis, multiple sclerosis and stroke recovery • Behavioral changes: weight control and smoking cessation. Located at 110 June Street, Worcester, MA 01602. For an appointment or for more information, please contact Dr. Yvonne Chen at 508-755-5557.
Treatments and classes for healing all stress-related ailments, sports injuries, women’s health issues and more Specialties include: anxiety, mild to moderate depression, back pain, migraines, and infertility, as well as other health issues. We also specialize in facial rejuvenation (micro-current facial) and offer non-needle options. Bryn has over 22 years experience. Available weekdays and weekends by appointment. 481 Great Road #6, Acton, MA 01720 info@acupunctureplusyoga.com www.acupunctureplusyoga.com S 978-266-9889 S
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Astrological Consulting
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Questions? Astrologer Eric Linter has answers. Changes in relationships, career, health, finances or spiritual practice are inevitable. Eric’s clarity will help you stay on the right path. His insights help you better understand and appreciate life’s challenges. His clients say Eric Linter is “profound and enlightening” and “one of the best astrologers on the East Coast.”
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Esoteric Psychology Monique Pommier, M.A., Ph.DE
Astrology illuminates one’s psychological landscape and journey. It times life developments and reveals their designs for the soul. I offer astrological services and ongoing psychospiritual counseling with astrology, Jungian and esoteric psychology as a comprehensive ground of exploration and guidance
Eric, a professional astrologer for 25 years, works with individuals, couples and businesses. Specialties include career moves, personal creativity and karmic relationships. Consultations are available in person, by telephone, or on cassette. Eric also offers classes, lectures and appearances at parties and special events. For more information and to schedule a private session, contact Eric by email or call: stars@ericlinter.com X 508-541-4115 X
“I learned more from one session than I did from 5 years of analysis.” - J.G., Cambridge, MA
on current issues and lifelong questionings. By accessing the deeper order of your life, you gain transformative insights into the evolutionary meaning of particular challenges and new perspectives to direct your choices. My background includes an MS and PhD in Esoteric Psychology and Philosophy. Jungian psychology, Eastern and Western Traditions are key foundations in my approach. I have been in practice for 25 years. U Astrological Consultations U U Psychospiritual Counseling U www.astrologicalpsychology.com 617-524-7072
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Bookstores and Gift Shops
Services
Center for Complementary Medicine and Holistic Therapies
Witch Owned and Operated Ritual Supplies G Crystals G Gemstones Jewelry G Incense G Candles G Gifts Mediums and Spiritual Counselors on staff Various classes and workshops!
Full-time, part-time and hourly space available for rent.
78 N. Washington St, N. Attleborough, MA
Ample parking and wheelchair accessibility.
WHAT INTEGRATED REALLY MEANS
Wednesday Evening Open Meditation Introductory Classes Reading Groups and other Activities
Wish your health care providers would work together to better understand the whole YOU? That’s what we do. All of our practitioners meet in a weekly Round Table to do just that. The result? More comprehensive treatment for you.
HOLISTIC SERVICES
Acupuncture Therapeutic Massage Nutrition Counseling Chiropractic Custom Orthotics
SCHOOLS OF WISDOM
Insurance Accepted! Most insurance plans accepted for acupuncture, chiropractic & nutrition counseling. We accept all health flex spending cards for ALL of our services.
gift shop
102 Shore Drive, Worcester, MA 508.853.7500 www.body-therapeutics.com
OPEN DOORS
Largest New Age Store in New England
YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
Private Readings Tarot, Psychic or Mediumship Telephone Readings or Walk-Ins
200 & 500 Hours u 14 Yoga Studio Locations
Huge selection of health-related products, jewelry and metaphysical needs
Dorchester, Roslindale, Easton, Westwood, Canton, Braintree, No. Attleboro, No.Scituate, Plymouth, Duxbury, Hingham, Weymouth, Hanover, E. Bridgewater
395 Washington Street, Braintree, MA Store open daily, 9 am - 9 pm, 7 days a week
Usui and Karuna Reiki G Hypnotherapy BARS G Massage G Crystal Healing Integrated Energy Therapy G Ear Coning Inner Child Healing G Akisni
For appointments and information, please call:
YOGA MASSAGE ACUPUNCTURE SHAMANIC HEALING Natural Healing for Body, Mind & Spirit
617-965-6440 945 Great Plain Avenue, Needham, MA www.bluelotushealingarts.com
Hours: M-F 10 am-8 pm, S/S 10 am-6 pm 118 Washington Street, N. Easton, MA www.womenofwisdominc.com 508-230-3680
Offering S Healing with Reiki sessions
Learn to Love your Life
Our new Healing Center features a spacious 1000 sq. ft., sun-filled yoga studio, private and peaceful massage and acupuncture treatment rooms, and a serene meditation space that also hosts workshops.
Unique Jewelry G Healing Tools G Statues Crystal Bowls G Ritual Items G Angels Mediums or Psychic Readings
connection with the Universe, let them help you achieve your goals in life — for love, relationships and finances.
www.OpenDoors7.com u 781-843-8224
CHECK OUT OUR NEW WEBSITE!
28 Worcester Lane, Waltham, MA 02451 info@advaitameditation.org www.advaitameditation.org G 781-647-0020
Holistic Practitioner and Professional, Earth Medicine, Mediumship, Angel Alignment, Akashic Soul Mastery, Hypnotherapy, Animal Communication; Training for Reiki, IET, Gaiadon Heart, etc., plus workshops daily
HOLISTIC HEALing Center
Hot Power Yoga and Gentle Yoga Classes
214 Market Street, Brighton, MA 02135 www.marketstreethealth.com 617-787-3511
We are a nonprofit Center devoted to teaching meditation and exploring Advaita, the spiritual tradition of self-realization. To learn more about us, go to our website or visit us at our lovely, historic house in Waltham.
508-643-3400 G 877-33-WITCH info@andromedasalley.com www.andromedasalley.com
Centers
Acupuncture Chiropractic Colon Hydrotherapy Massage Couples Counseling Hypnotherapy Reiki EMDR Psychotherapy Reflexology
At Bhavna’s Wellness Group, we help you to connect with yourself at different levels. We believe in realeasing and taking care of all of your stresses in every aspect of your life. We help you to rediscover who you really are, to help you to grow and to be happy and loving in life. S Have a thirst for more spirituality? S Do you feel you are an older soul? S Do you feel you deserve happiness now but
are stuck and don’t know what to do next? Join our Advanced Spirituality and Goal Achievement Course. Clear your negative karmas from all your past lives and receive
S Spiritual sessions with angels and your
guides/a loved one S Clearings, food detox programs S Licensed mental health counselor support S Make more money, save more money
with a financial professional S Learn Reiki 1 and Reiki 2
Join the weekly unique divine/chakra/angel meditation every Tue. eve. from 6-8 pm. Free monthly support group for cancer and heart patients ~ Free 20 min. Reiki sessions Always welcoming new members! Contact Bhavna at: bhavnasrivastava@bhwellnessgroup.com www.bhwellnessgroup.com S 774-242-2112 Centers continued
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~ Multiple Synergistic Therapies ~
Discover Our Natural Approach To Wellness Check for upcoming events, classes and promotions www.BodyMindandSpine.com Learn how to regain and maintain a happier and healthier life in an atmosphere of abundant support
Chiropractic BioPhysics Nutrition & Health Coaching S RE-SIZE-ME Whole Body Vibration S Postural Fitness Infrared Sauna S Thermography Massage S Mineral Clay Therapy Integrative Energy S Kundalini Yoga Svaroopa Yoga S Meditation Classes Reiki S Emotional Freedom Technique Energy Medicine Free Green/Health Workshops 201 Boston Post Rd. West, Marlborough, MA 508-460-0091
Classes, Certifications & Schools Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies Instructor Linda Patterson offers over 20 years of experience in the science, art and principles of herbalism and aromatherapy.
Offering a wide selection of Crystals, Gems and Minerals G Jewelry Candles G Oils and Mists G Sage G Incense Fairy, Goddess and Angel Gifts, and More! Psychic and Mediumship Readings Classes, Workshop and Events
Metaphysical healing center
122 West Emerson St., Melrose, MA www.zuzushealingarts.com G 781-665-8844
Children's Health Services Touchstone offers:
Touchstone Community School offers a progressive, child-centered approach to education. For more than 30 years, we have nurtured and inspired children to be creative, independent partners in their learning.
Small, mixed-age classes Thematic studies that integrate subjects Dedicated, expert teachers A diverse community and highly positive culture Parent-teacher-child partnership in educational development To learn more about our holistic approach to education for children ages 4 to 14: www.touchstoneschool.com 508-839-0038
self-esteem, guide them in learning to relate effectively with others and foster their natural enthusiasm for learning. S Child-centered preschool program S Nurturing, small group setting
limited openings available At Small Miracles Preschool the unique spirit of each child is acknowledged and cherished. Our mission is to provide a loving, supportive environment where children thrive in an atmosphere of security and mutual respect. We strive to nurture children’s
S Developmentally appropriate, standards-
based curriculum S Ages 2.9 to 5 S Two or three days, 9 option available)
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Massage | Aesthetics Polarity | RYSE Ipswich • Plymouth • Westboro You deserve an education that honors who you are and who you are becoming. A great education is spiritually transforming: You overcome your limitations and realize your highest potential, at the same time you learn the foundation and skills to succeed. Excellent education is not by chance; it comes from years of listening to employers, graduates and students to find the best way to teach the most valuable information to make you successful. As a leader in energy medicine and
Ongoing certification courses offered throughout the northeast including: ✴ 7-Month Herbal Certification ✴ 4-Month European-Based Aromatherapy Introduction ✴ 4-Month Advanced Aromatherapy Course ✴ 3-Month Conscious Nutrition Course ✴ Palmistry a tool of diagnoses www.aromatherapyandherbalstudies.com 978-297-4502
energy based education since 1980, Nancy Risley recognizes that your education is a transformational healing process. As a successful therapist, author and teacher, her vision is to help you realize your dream of work that is creative and supports all aspects of who you are. Whether you work in a spa, clinic, or have your own business, you gain the required skills to create satisfaction as well as increased flexibility, control and income. The next step to fulfilling your future is to call for a no obligation, information interview with our Career Advisor. We look forward to meeting you and learning about your future. Programs take from 4 to 12 months, depending on your schedule: Full-time, mother’s hours or part-time evenings. Accredited. Licensed. Financial Aid available for qualified students. 800-262-8530 v www.spatech.edu
exclusively or incorporated into your healing practice. Two-year certification program. To learn more, or for free home study course and more information including course descriptions, certification requirements, and links to online videos and teleseminars, please visit: Energy workers : Learn advanced protocols for applying therapeutic gems
New England Institute of Reflexology & Universal Studies v Professional Reflexology Certification and Approved Continuing Education in Reflexology, Massage, and Reiki v Integrative techniques give students a strong foundation and create a balanced treatment style v Students qualify as professional therapists upon completion
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v Courses meet state and national standards; CE’s approved from ARCB and NCBTMB. School is licensed by Commonwealth of MA, Dept. of Education Our goal is to act as a bridge between complimentary and conventional medicine through the training of qualified holistic practitioners. Join us! ~ Now teaching Reflexology at ~ Hyannis, MA Cortiva Massage School in Watertown, MA www.walkinbalance.com v 508-317-3044 v Classes, Certifications and Schools continued
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Classes, Certifications and Schools continued
• 200 and 500 Hour Classical Yoga Teacher Training • Meditation Training • Yoga classes offered daily
Join our yoga community as we study, practice and share the transformative benefits of Yoga. All levels of ability and experience are welcome to an environment that is safe and open to diversity in body, mind and spirit. Therapeutic, scientific and heartcentered in our approach, we unite in our desire to understand and live Yoga’s five branches.
• Monthly Workshops
Julie Rost, Director
• Weekend Intensives
8 Clifford Street, Exeter, NH www.yogalifenh.com v 603-479-3865
• Yoga Therapy Training
Affordable Herbal Education Throughout the Year ❖ Intensive 7 Month Herbal Apprenticeships
Advanced Training with Facial, Tongue, and Pulse Diagnosis ❖ Aromatherapy Certification ❖ Weekend Intensives and Evening Classes ❖
upcoming Herbal Classes
For more information on all of our classes, see www.bostonherbalstudies.com Arlington, MA ❖ 781.646.6319
The (W)hole Point Institute The heart of The Wisdom WAY™ is the point at which our psychology intersects with our spirituality. This point is the space in which we awaken — for real. Alaya Chadwick has drawn on her 28+ years of experience to develop The Wisdom WAY™, a personal, practical, self-sustainable map and method for personal and spiritual growth. Found in The Wisdom WAY™ are the tools you can use to Walk Awake saying Yes to life. Oftentimes we feel like we are simply sleepwalking through life. We find ourselves responding to people and experiences as if we are on “auto pilot.” We can feel like we have little energy or joy in our lives. We may wonder, “How do we wake up?” The Wisdom WAY™ is the skeleton found inside most healing modalities, including conventional therapy and alternative practices. What makes this WAY different is that you are the expert. By following the map using your own life experiences, you unravel the mysteries of yourself and reveal the wonder you truly are on all levels — emotional, physical, and spiritual.
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The (W)hole Point Institute offers a wide range of self-development experiences, healing opportunities, and empowerment trainings for individuals and couples or partners. These workshops are both experiential and educational and are offered in group and/or one-on-one settings. Additionally, there are intensive apprenticeship programs which offer personal in-depth study. 2-Day Intensive (W)hole Workshops Learn practical tools to reveal your own unique pathway to (W)holeness. 2-Day PAIRing™ Workshops (People Activating Intimate Relating™) Open to couples and singles, this workshop is for those who wish to bring their relationships to a deeper level of self-appreciation and intimate union. One-on-One (W)hole Life Coaching Relationship Intensives for Couples Awakening Divinity Apprenticeship Reiki Level I and II classes Learn this ancient healing art to support yourself and those around you. …and much, much more! NASW-approved CEU’s available “Alaya Chadwick is able to put ‘hands and feet’on extremely complex concepts in a way which connects them to the living reality of everyday life.” — Martha Harrell, MSN, Ph.D. Elizabeth “Alaya” Chadwick M.Div., MSW., L.I.C.S.W., Reiki Master,
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tice. To see more about our training and our trained psychosynthesis coaches visit www.psychosynthesiscoach.org.
The Synthesis Center Professional Training in Psychosynthesis Psychosynthesis is a holistic, transpersonal model of human development integrating psychology and spirit in the healing arts. The Center offers two professional training programs in psychosynthesis for all helping professionals and students. The Will to Grow: Transformational Life Coaching is a nationally certified, coach training program, with a start date in Fall 2014. This program trains people in psychosynthesis coaching and leads to a Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC) certification through the Center and to the prestigious and nationally certified Board Certified Coach (BCC). The program is offered via teleconference, live sessions or independent study formats and prepares people to work in the expanding field of life and business coaching and its many variations. The training process is deep and rich, supporting the coach trainee in stepping fully into the field, through personal and shared processes, didactic training and on-going co-coaching prac-
Training Programs to complement all medical and holistic modalities Aaron & Sue Singleton, Founders
Internationally renowned Medical Intuitives, Authors, Visionaries, Inventors and Founders of The Energy of Life® (EOL) Integrative and Intuitive Healing Process, Sue and Aaron Singleton offer a diverse variety of Training Programs to complement all medical and holistic modalities, and to empower practitioners and laypersons. EOL I.D.E.A.L. Process for Creating a Life You Love! Workshop Series A totally unique intuitive development and healing process that transforms lives for healers, doctors, executives, and fulltime parents. Apply the EOL Process alone, or to enhance Reiki, Pranic Healing, etc. The EOL Process for Discernment is prerequisite for medical intuitive training with Sue Singleton. EOL Visionary Acupressure System
Workshop Series This fusion of ancient and modern techniques makes a quantum leap to address
The Psychosynthesis Professional Training Program teaches psychosynthesis theory, the principles of holistic psychology and the process of psychological and spiritual development. It provides in-depth theoretical and practical training as well as intensive personal, professional and spiritual growth in a face-to-face setting. This training is open to those actively engaged in or studying the helping professions. This is a comprehensive three-year program that leads to certification as a Certified Psychosynthesis Practitioner (CPP) as well as Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC). CEU’s for social work and mental health counseling are available. The next Level I training starts in Fall 2015, and our teleconference and independent study options have rolling admissions. Full program information is available on our web site. Free introductory teleconference sessions will be offered in Fall 2014. Synthesis center teaching staff are available to talk in person or by phone as well. Free Self-Coaching Exercises. For a copy “Got Self? 4 Great Self-Coaching Exercises,” send us your email! The Synthesis Center e Amherst, MA admin@synthesiscenter.org www.synthesiscenter.org e 413-256-0772
trauma and illness, without relying solely on linear meridian techniques. Learn powerful protocols for deeper, more rapid release of the Root Cause. Our easy to learn 60-point number system includes detailed diagrams; no prior acupressure experience or knowledge required. EOL Rings of Oden™ Net-Neutral Ionic
Technology for Quantum Healing: Revolutionary technology imbedded in The Rings of Oden accelerates light resonance and provides modulating energy frequencies for healing. Users resport rapid resolution of chronic pain, injuries, glaucoma, chronic emotional patterns and illnesses. The Rings combine Crop Circles, and DNA Holographic Re-Patterning to create specific vortices and frequencies for various conditions and spiritual transformation. Powerful for self-healing, as well as helping others. Other Workshops and Programs EOL Radical Hands-On Healing™ F Introduction to Medical Intuition F BioMorphic Geometry™ F Stone Play™ Crystal Matrix Technology F
Classes as online webinars, DVDs/CDs, home-study manuals, and in-person in MA/CT. 21 Water Street, Amesbury, MA 01913 www.TheWayToBalance.com 978-834-0341 Follow us on Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. Classes, Certifications and Schools continued
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their Family Lineage. Each weekend is a complete immersion into the major themes that are universal to all human beings: Father’s Lineage, Mother’s Lineage, Sibling Relationships, Effects of Illness, Disease and Death, Effects of Migration and Immigration, Conflict, War and Religion, Romantic Relationships (previous and current). Supporting World Peace, One Family at a Time The Constellation Approach™ is a healing modality that evolves consciousness in relation to your Family Lineage. The process combines Energy Medicine, Family Constellation methodology and Spiritual Awareness. The Approach opens the heart, shifts your perception, and brings about inner peace regardless of your current relationship with family members or knowledge of your family history.
“My constellation changed everything with me and my mother!” ~ Kathren Saturday Public Seminars are open to participation in The Constellation Approach™ and learning about Family Lineage Healing. You will have the opportunity to observe Constellations, be a representative within the Family Energy Field of a Constellation and possibly set up your own Constellation. Space is limited to assure an intimate and sacred experience. See Calendar listings for upcoming Saturday Seminars.
“I feel peace in my heart for the first time in months.” ~ Barbara
“I had no idea of the love that I could feel in relation to my family.” ~ William
The Immersion Program is offered over seven weekends held between Oct. 2014 and May 2015. Appropriate for those with a serious interest in embarking on a personal journey of transformation in relation to
Private Constellations Sessions available with Peter or Jamy in person, by phone or Skype.
Holistic Counseling Concepts
Learn perspectives for living and loving that expect opportunities even during challenging times. You can’t thrive on problems but you can thrive on the wisdom, understanding and compassion gained from them.
Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed.
Dr. Trish Whynot is a holistic counselor, speaker and author of “Why Me? Why Now? WHY NOT? Finding Opportunity in Your Obstacles.” Visit www.TrishWhynot.com for ordering information.
Doctor of C.O.R.E. Education Dr. Trish Whynot’s way incorporates ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling, meditative
techniques and wise guidance that comes through the Mineral Kingdom. Eliminate the root of physical, social, and financial problems: Discover, address, and release issues blocking health and wealth. G View relationship discord and illness as opportunities for growth and change. G Open to an array of extraordinary futures. G
Holistic Psychotherapy Dedicated to the freedom to explore and express the authentic self.
Jonathan Chisholm, MA with Come Back to Love Coach™
Robyn Vogel Private Coaching, Intimate Puja Circles, Workshops
Rediscover the true connection that ignited your passion for each other when you met. Tantric intimacy coaching and psychotherapy tools will help you find the “us” again in your relationship.
www.RobynVogel.com phone/text: 508-380-9254
Present moment awareness is the technique and goal of this psychotherapeutic process. Healing begins as you learn to be fully aware of and respectful to your own inner state while being present with another person. In this way, you can learn to let go of old relational habits and the self-limiting beliefs that lead to them. You can genuinely address various addictions and learn to release the traumas and hurts that underlie them. Emotions that were once overwhelming become
Consciousness Transformation Andrea Seiver, Ph.D. Channeled Readings Classes Have you spoken with an ascended master recently? Vywamus, channeled by Andrea Seiver, is a master and teacher who is working to help all humans make the shift into the higher levels of consciousness. Readings with Vywamus cover your life work, relationships, past lives, and other
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“What impressed me about Dr. Trish Whynot was her ability to see through the chaos of life’s web and identify the root cause of any problem.” — Bob Olson, Editor, OfSpirit.com
issues with his characteristic warmth, humor, and practical advice. Channeled Classes and Spiritual Tutoring help you personally evolve and begin to live in a state of higher consciousness. Evenings with Vywamus: Vywamus shares his energy and discusses your questions on topics of general interest. Donation $10. Other Classes: Learn to Channel • Advanced Channeling For information, contact Andrea at 617-332-1541 • www.andreaseiver.com Available Now! The Next Big Bang: The Explosion of Human Consciousness A Vywamus Book Read more at www.andreaseiver.com
Body-Centered Psychotherapy Listen to your body…follow your heart. The heart is the first organ to form in the body, and is the organizing factor for physical formation, including brain formation. Trauma, deprivation or neglect creates heart wounds, which keep us from accessing our deepest selves. Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP) facilitates an emotional, energetic rewiring, helping us activate and express the power of the heart. Emotional safety,
a guide to who you are and what you need from life. As you begin to respect your feelings and perceptions as valid, you realize you are free to live your life in a way that naturally flows from who you are. You become yourself. This work must be done gently. You will need the guidance of someone who will keep you on task but at the same time allow you to go at a pace that feels safe. You need someone you can learn to trust. We enter into a collaboration that is itself a form of meditation. By learning to be present to each other in the therapeutic setting, a new possibility for being in the world emerges. 100 Lafayette St, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Jonathan@HolisticPsychotherapy.com www.HolisticPsychotherapy.com 401-952-0142
words, touch, meditation, movement, presence and silence facilitate verbal and non-verbal expression. Meaningful work, fulfilling relationships, self-esteem, purpose and passion, love, intimacy and sexuality follow. Straight, GLBT and poly-friendly. Coaching for soul-centered living. Body psychotherapy groups Sunday nights in Newton. Apprenticeship training. Books: Living with Vision, and Healing the War Between the Genders Blog: www.heartspacecafe.com/blog Mediation for couples and families. Coaching for soul-centered living. Body psychotherapy groups. Apprenticeship training. Newton, MA www.healingheartpower.com LSMHEART@aol.com 617-965-7846 Counseling and Therapy continued
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Improve motivation, accomplish tasks & more
Holistic Psychotherapy & Life Coaching Lori Miller-Freitas, LICSW
Holistic Psychotherapy/Clinical Consultation
Using extensive professional experience to resolve issues related to: Trauma, Grief, PTSD, Anxiety and Phobias, ADD.
Get to the core — Transform your life! You are on this earth to be happy and realize your true potential.
Certifications: LICSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists. Visa/MC acccepted.
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Center of the Heart Whole Health Integration
Joan Holzman, Psy. D. Lic. Psychologist, Lic. Marriage and Family Therapist Dance/Movement Therapist From the time we are very young we take life’s experiences to heart. Over time we may forget our core, hurts and feelings, but they remain with us. Our heartfelt experiences help shape our sense of self and our interactions with others.
www.eaglespirittherapies.com 781-297-2003
Aimee Falchuk, M.Ed.
Aimee Falchuk, MPH, M.Ed, RYT is the co-founder of Core Boston and has a private practice in Boston. Aimee’s approach is a dynamic one and grounded in the theory
Currently seeing clients in the Back Bay on Friday evenings and weekends. Areas of focus include personal transformation, relationships, sexuality, anxiety and depression. info@core-boston.com V 917-207-2074
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I offer a variety of modalities such as: EMDR, Sandtray Therapy, Relaxation Techniques, Therapeutic Movement & Psychotherapy to help heal our core issues and attain a more integrated sense of health and well being. I look forward to meeting you. Client Comments: s Sandtray – “Sand tray therapy helped me see my life more clearly.”
and practice of Core Energetics, developed by John Pierrakos, MD, which views health as the integration of mind, body, spirit, will and emotions in their true free flowing form. Aimee utilizes cognitive-based approaches, body-centered techniques and spiritual concepts as an instrument for healing.
Experience colon hydrotherapy in a safe, relaxed environment using state-of-the-art FDA registered equipment. Stephanie Dumas I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist, Owner
Lexington Medical Building 16 Clarke Street, Lexington, MA healthyspirit@verizon.net 781-860-5116
Cleansing for the body, the mind, the spirit
s EMDR – “I had insights I never had before.” s Therapeutic Movement – “It was great to feel the freedom in my body after working with you.” 42 Thoreau Street, Concord, MA 01742 978-369-6138
Patricia Warren Reiki Jin Kei Do
Union, returning 13 times, as well as to thousands of people in medical, religious and educational settings throughout the Caribbean, Europe and Middle East since 1989. ✦
Weekly Group and Various Workshops Offered
Glenn utilizes heart-centered therapeutic techniques, and at times powerfully combines hypnosis and psychotherapy. This method is safe, effective and faster than using only talk therapy. The results will amaze you! You’ll notice a huge change in your life as he works with you to make your goals a reality. Don’t wait! Call now to set up your FREE initial consultation. It’s time to create the change you desire.
Conveniently located near the commuter rail in Needham. Just a short drive from Rte. 128/I-95
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Helping People Live Better Lives Glenn Bigonet, M.A. Mental Health Counselor Clinical Hypnotherapist
Barbara Madden Johnson M.A., C.A.G.S., L.R.C., L.P.C. Do you have a belief that, inside of you, you have the potential that yearns to be released? For most, a fleeting glimpse is all they’ll ever have. For others, there is a way. Just imagine…releasing your true potential. Working together, one-on-one, you can over-
come problems that have kept you from achieving your goals and desires. Unlock your potential! Restore inner balance! Come alive! Barbara Madden Johnson, M.A., C.A.G.S., L.R.C., L.P.C., a certified master practitioner and licensed trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming, has over 25 years experience helping individuals with: u Career and identity issues u Immune and autoimmune illnesses u Chronic fatigue syndrome u Depression u Learning disabilities and ADD u Relationships u NLP Certification Training Program u Belmont, MA. Some insurance accepted. For an appointment, call 617-484-1716.
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Also, bring forth your greatest talents and abilities, clear many karmic and genetic patterns, hold greater amounts of light in your physical body, and much more. Great for those who feel ready to shift out of those “stuck” areas into tremendous empowerment, improved health on all levels, and living your higher destiny agreements and highest potentials. Rev. Claire Luft Master Teacher/Master Healer Ancient Mystery School Guide & Ritual Master Heart's Singing Healing Center, Woburn, MA 781-281-2888 v www.heartssinging.com
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Healing and Bodywork continued Experience reiki healing and crystal therapy in the comfort of your own home. Serving Northeast Massachusetts from Boston to Ipswich and Rockport
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Libby Barnett, MSW, RMT Awaken Your Healing Touch Libby is a gifted, knowledgeable Reiki Master with 33 years experience. Libby learned Reiki from John Harvey Gray in 1979, and is the longest practicing Reiki Master Teacher on the East Coast. Her book, Reiki Energy Medicine, Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice has sold over 70,000 copies in five languages. Use Reiki to create more joy, ease, and happiness. Let Libby’s warm, heart-centered approach help you take your next step toward self-love and inner peace. Reiki brings balance and harmony, supporting you doing the work you were born to do. Reiki facilitates transitions, promotes creativity and wisdom, and accelerates spiritual growth, helping you manifest your magnificence. Libby has been teaching Reiki at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health for 14 years. She has taught medical and nursing students at Harvard, Brown, Tufts, and Yale, as well as staff at Mass General, Brigham and Women’s, Beth Israel, Mt. Auburn, Emerson, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Southern New Hampshire, New York Columbia Presbyterian hospitals, and social workers at the University of Maryland. Libby was featured in a Reiki segment for the PBS nationally televised series, Body and Soul. “Libby has a beautiful way of teaching and creates a perfect atmosphere for healing and learning.”
One of Libby’s passions is teaching hospice staff and volunteers. Fueled by Reiki energy, their healing touch is enhanced, creating greater effectiveness in calming agitation, soothing pain and providing comfort. In class, a powerful slide presentation captures the essence of Reiki and highlights the latest research. Reiki stories from Libby’s extensive experience will uplift and inspire you, showing how anyone can learn Reiki. You receive attunements and practice giving and receiving Reiki. You leave class with an illustrated notebook, certificate, and Reiki pin, fully trained and certified to do Reiki on yourself, family, friends, and animals. “Hands on, Reiki’s on.” "My commitment to teach the Usui System of Reiki Healing in the authentic, traditional manner inspired me to visit Japan to retrace the roots of Reiki. I am dedicated to teaching this sacred healing art to promote health and conscious living on the planet. I invite you to give yourself the gift of Reiki. It is an easy, effective self-care tool to love, heal, and empower yourself. I look forward to meeting you and sharing Reiki.” Reiki I, Boston Area Classes: Newton, MA: Sept. 20 or Nov. 8 Concord, MA: Oct. 18 Reiki I, Wilton, NH Classes: Sept. 27 or Dec. 6 Reiki II Class on day following Reiki I Class Reiki Master, Wilton, NH Class: Oct. 11 Graduates of other Reiki teachers welcome.
Spontaneous Remission Advanced Energetic Hands on Healing from the Mayan Lineage. Miraculous Healing for all issues that require attention.
Awaken your healing skills immediately and be a powerful channel for Reiki energy! The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing was established by John Harvey Gray and Dr. Lourdes Gray in 1996 to empower and develop a student’s capacity for healing. The Center offers the most thorough Reiki healing training available, ‘with no cut corners’, as it was taught by Mrs. Hawayo Takata. John Harvey Gray received his entire Reiki training from Hawayo Takata. He was one of the original 22 Reiki Master Teachers trained by her. He was also the longest-practicing Reiki Master Teacher in the Western Hemisphere until his passing into spirit on January 12, 2011.
✴ Quickly and easily develop your natural,
intuitive powers. Within minutes, be able to scan and feel a person’s aura and chakras for analysis. ✴ Effectively treat any condition with Reiki energy— physical, emotional or spiritual, chronic or acute. ✴ Immediately be an effective Reiki healer, confidently bringing comfort and calm to family, friends, clients and pets ✴ Receive a training manual & certificate. The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing P.O. Box 696, Rindge, NH 03461 Visa/MC Accepted See Full Class Schedule: www.learnreiki.org ✴ 603-899-3288
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Divine Intervention is “Where the Impossible Becomes Possible.”
Divine Intervention
Lourdes Gray, Ph.D.
Lourdes was initiated by John Harvey Gray as a Reiki Master Teacher in 1996 after intensive one-on-one training by John Harvey Gray. As a Reiki Master Teacher, Lourdes has taught over 700 Reiki workshops and trained more than 8,000 Reiki students to date and serves as the director of the John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing. Each workshop consists of two full days of learning and hands-on practice. You will immediately be able to effectively channel Reiki healing energy for yourself, others and pets. In Reiki First Degree you will:
Rev. Claire Luft is a Master Healer and Master Teacher of Divine Intervention Healing. This healing technique is sacred, powerful, and produces Physical Plane Results.
ORION’S GATEWAY to Healing & Greater Consciousness
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Past Life Regression and Healing Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy Consult your Higher Self/Spirit Guides/Angels Discover your Purpose and Lessons in Life Soul Healing and Releasing Release issues of Mind, Body, and Soul Call us or visit our website for more information. www.orionsgateway.com R 508-740-9745
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Light & Love Sessions available in West Boylston MA, and by phone and Skype Access the Power of Your Subconscious Mind with Hypnosis Change harmful habits & negative patterns Lose weight Overcome fears and anxiety Increase confidence and more...
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Colon Hydrotherapy and Massage Therapy in a relaxing, professional atmosphere. Lila Reader, RN, LMT, I-ACT Certified 43 Hatherly Road, Rockland, MA 02370 Conveniently located 2 miles from Exit 14 off of Route 3.
Eye of the Eagle Center for Spiritual light
Leontine Hartzell is a trained shamanic practitioner and counselor, Usui and Karuna Reiki Master, certified therapeutic energy healer, crystal and sound therapist, plant spirit medicine practitioner, psychic channeler, and legally ordained minister. With the help of her spirit guides,
Vibrational Transformation Cheryl Wright
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The Reconnection® is the activation of a human being’s innate ability to serve as an instrument of healing, to access a shift in consciousness that allows us to recognize, feel, absorb and transmit an expanded level of the universal healing intelligence. www.lightandlovehealing.com RUSSELL RICCIO r 603-935-9106
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The objective of The Reconnection® is to return the body to balance, while tapping into the universal healing intelligence.
As an herbalist and shamanic practitioner, my goal is to help my clients regain their health and bring joy into their lives. I treat each client individually, with specific herbs, nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. A shamanic healing session can help heal trauma, emotional issues and karmic issues, and remove blockages to health and wholeness. D eb Fate - M ental
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“As a healer, I work with individuals in a way that consciously promotes a peaceful and healthy planet. Our healing work takes place despite the conflicts that wash over us in our daily lives. By healing ourselves we create changes that have a ripple effect on the world around us.” www.wendymarks.com R 781-449-5368 wlm922@wendymarks.com
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Leontine uses soul retrieval, removal and healing of energy blocks, chakra balancing, intuitive counseling, guided imagery, and energy healing methods to heal posttraumatic stress and related disorders, depression, chronic pain and illness, anxiety, grief, and addictive behaviors. Past life issues and current life traumas that affect the client’s physical, emotional, and spiritual health are healed to allow the client to move into a life of joy and fulfillment. Private Sessions Long-distance Healing r Phone Readings Workshops and Classes Andover, MA r info@eyeofeagle.org www.eyeofeagle.org r 978-475-1268
Dr. Jody E. Noé, MS, ND is a Licensed, Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor, fulltime, academic and clinical faculty at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine, and is a published natural medicine researcher. Dr. Noé has been in practice for over 15 years and is a specialist in Integrative Medicine, and Naturopathic Oncology.
Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) are trained at accredited naturopathic medical schools, which are 4-year post graduate medical schools accredited by the US Dept. of Education. These medically-trained Naturopathic Doctors are trained as primary care doctors where they can order labs, diagnostics and diagnostic imaging, perform physical examinations, and refer to specialists when indicated. A naturopathic doctor uses natural complementary and alternative therapies, in conjunction with, or in place of, conventional medicine, based on the individual. 101 West Broad Street, Pawcatuck, CT www.drjodyenoe.com v 860-495-5688
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Safe, effective, non-toxic, no side effects Does not interact with other medicines Brings rapid, gentle balance of the immune system Holistic approach to healing and wellness
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Available on Skype, phone or at my home in MetroWest. Private sessions or group parties. Includes mp3 ($70 1/2 hr or $120/hr) ~ Accurate and Informative Readings ~
Homeovitality is an entirely new concept in health promotion. For the first time ever, Homeovitality helps everyone to benefit from new cutting-edge discoveries right now using a safe, drug free delivery system. DNA Targeted Homeopathy - microDNA therapy for optimal health! info@homeovitality.us www.homeovitality.us S 617-990-6979
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Private sessions in person or distance by phone and e-mail. Classes and workshops ~ North Attleboro, MA Nancy@Angeltouche.com www.Angeltouche.com S 508-577-4552
Kelle’s new book Listen Up! The Other Side Is Talking is available! Get your signed copy through her website (also available on every book source in the Universe!): psychicmediumkelle.com “Kelle is a wonderful evidential medium and radio personality. Her new book is enlightening and entertaining and will open you up to the reality of spirit contact.” – Mark Anthony, the Psychic Lawyer Have you had your Psychic Cup of Coffee today? Join Kelle on Tuesdays at 4 pm EST online at TransformationTalkRadio.com and get your psychic pick me up!
If you are ready to take a journey into yourself and hear your story with fresh ears, you will come out with options, tools, and choices you may not have seen on your own. All sessions are recorded on audio cassette. ~ $25 off your first session. ~ For more information, call or email Jocelyn, Intuitive Consultant jocelynintuitive@hotmail.com 978-694-8946
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Connecting to Spirit is your inspiration, sustenance and support for your life’s journey. Nancy gently guides you into a connection with spirit and your soul for guidance, healing and direction. Whether you want to connect with a loved one who has passed, or you have questions and challenges you want to work with, allow spirit to inspire you in a reading session with Nancy. Free inspirational “Wing Tips” on our website. Nancy Smith, Angelscapes
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Psychic Reading Energetic Healing
What is a Psychic Reading or Energetic Healing? A psychic reading (or intuitive reading) is an energetic reading performed by a person trained in clear seeing. The reader sees energy systems and pictures in your energtic space, which consists of aura, body and spirit. The reader will look at the energy and pictures around the issues or questions that you bring to the reading. They’ll tell you what they see, how it is affecting you and help you move beyond the things in your life that are holding you back. What do I need to do to prepare for my reading? To get the most benefit from your reading, prepare up to three questions or issues you’d like to focus on.
What are the benefits? People who experience psychic readings are often able to finally see the things in their lives that are holding them back. With this seeing comes a shift in energy. They can move beyond the limitations of their present and engage in a more present, intentional and happier life. What happens during my reading? The reading is very much like a one-onone meeting with a counselor or friend. If the reading is in person, you will sit facing the reader. The reader will be in a meditative space with eyes closed. During your reading, the reader will look at the energy (seen in pictures) around the issues or questions you have presented. The reader will tell you what they see, and how these pictures are affecting you. They will look at the origin of these pictures and why you are choosing to continue to react to them. They will help you move these issues out of your life. “What brings the human experience home to me is that we are more alike than we are different. The fact that we all share the same human experience is a beautiful thing.” — Daniel Geist www.EngelGeist.com T 508-413-9333
Retreats and Retreat Centers Treat yourself to a delicious cleansing diet and activities designed to relax, nourish, and heal the body and mind.
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Our 9-day detox retreat includes daily yoga, qigong, beach trips, hikes, saunas, swimming and more. Massage, colon cleansing, and other healing modalities are also offered.
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A CENTER FOR DEEP TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK Visit our welcoming, tranquil space in the Central Massachusetts countryside for holistic, restorative, transformative retreats, programs and training sessions. Personalized attention T Labyrinth Nourishing meals T Meditation garden
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Day-long or overnight accommodations for individuals and small groups Formerly known as The Gathering Inn 82 Healdville Road, Hubbardston, MA www.truenorthholisticcenter.org 978-820-1139
Skin care and hair care products for all skin types and hair care needs. Our whole team continues to keep up with the latest trends and state of the art techniques. 3 Boston Road, Sutton, MA www.creativestrandsllc.com i 508-865-1141
Spiritual Practices The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism embraces a religious and spiritual belief blending ancient wisdom with contemporary thought. Conveniently located off Watertown Square at the Masonic Center, 32 Church St, services are held at 10:30 am every Sunday, with mediumship, live music, inspirational talks, and healing by the laying on of hands.
As an evolving spiritual community, The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism offers weekday evening classes in mediumship, healing and meditation; Medium’s Day the last Saturday of every month; plus seminars and workshops throughout the year. For a detailed brochure, a listing of upcoming events, or to speak with the Pastor call 617-923-4334, or visit our website at: www.GreaterBostonChurchofSpiritualism. com. An affiliate of the Spiritualists United Network (S.U.N.) and the International Spiritualist Federation.
Yoga, Tai Chi and Fitness founder, received a deep and well-rounded training from Master Lai Hok Soon in Hong Kong and then as a disciple of Yang Sau Chung, first-born and heir of the legendary Yang Cheng Fu.
Also offering: T Integrated Reiki™ training T Energetics Training T Private Integrated Healing Sessions T Monthly public Integrated Reiki™ clinics in partnership with Evoking Alchemy (www.evokingalchemy.com)
Enjoy a Thai Yoga Massage or enjoy a softer touch with a Swedish Massage. We also have Deep Tissue Massages and many more. Facials to fit every season.
Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan Federation The oldest Tai Chi school in New England, the Gin Soon Tai Chi Club was founded in 1969, authorized by Grandmaster Yang Sau Chung to propagate Classical Yang Family Style Tai Chi Chuan in North America. Grandmaster Gin Soon Chu,
The school has attracted many students from around the world with its traditional approach to training: individual attention, emphasis on correct forms, personal development, repetition, mutual respect, hard work, and integration of body, mind, and qi. All instruction is by Grandmaster Chu and his sons Master Vincent Chu and Gordon Chu. Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan Federation 33 Harrison Ave., 2nd fl, Boston, MA 02111 617-542-4442 • www.gstaichi.org
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CLASSES Zentangle Classes and Retreats. Relax, have fun and create beautiful designs through mindful drawing. Anyone can do it. Looks complicated, but it’s so easy. More info: www.jackirose.com or meetup.com/rejuventangle Do you feel like you want more out of life than what you’re getting? Teleclasses and online courses by WELnow Coaching and Reiki. Helping women expand the life they lead into the life they want. See schedule at www.lifesatisfaction.guru Email charlene@lifesatisfaction.guru. Call (978) 375-1718. www.spiritofchange.org
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Newton Center Office Space For Rent. Full-time/part-time availability. Inviting, furnished psychotherapy suite includes private office, waiting room, clerical space and bathroom. Contact Chris Gruener (617) 965-6552, crossroads-counseling-services.com, chris.gruener@comcast.net.
Volunteers Needed:
DATING/SINGLES
Trauma-Informed Yoga Professional Training. October 11-13. Wellfleet, MA. 12 CEUs for mental health professionals, nurses, yoga instructors. With Joann Lutz, LICSW, E-RYT. www.yogainpsychotherapy.com.
Spiritual Singles. Meet your soul mate, twin flame, poly-partners, friends on the largest, exclusively spiritual dating site on the Internet. Multi-thousands of conscious singles in New England. Join free. www.SpiritualSingles.com
DOWSING All About Dowsing. Through dowsing discover more about yourself and your health. Self-instructional DVD’s, books, instruments. www.dowsing.com. (805) 649-5721. Catalog: PO Box 30305, Santa Barbara, CA 93130.
Change Your Consciousness,
Change Your Life
2014 NH ECKANKAR Seminar
Saturday, September 20
10:00 a.m.- 8:30 p.m.
Arts/ Humanities Center Pinkerton Academy, 44 N. Main, Derry
FENG SHUI Boston Feng Shui with Lynn Taylor. After decades of studying many different feng shui traditions, as well as teaching and consulting both nationally and internationally, I have blended what I believe to be the best of many approaches. For more information or to arrange a consultation please contact me at 617-924-4205, or e-mail lynntaylor@bostonfengshui.com. www.BostonFengShui.com. Residential, business and staging services.
HEALING Intuitive Guidance. Indala technique. Awareness training. Marriages-performed. Call Linda at (781) 599-8275.
PYRAMIDS All About Pyramids. Wellness, meditation/experimental tabletop models. Worldwide research. (805) 649-5721. www.dowsing.com. Catalog: P.O. Box 30305, Santa Barbara, CA 93130.
Reiki, Massage, Reflexology, Music, Pet Therapy & More
Care Alternative is recruiting volunteers to work with terminally ill patients and their families throughout Massachusetts. Volunteers receive training and continuing education related to hospice and the support of the Hospice staff.
TRAININGS
Free Morning Workshop
“Inner Guidance: A Tool for Spiritual Growth”
with Anne Archer Butcher author of Inner Guidance: Our Divine Birthright
Information:
www.eckankar-nh.org or 800-713-8944
VOLUNTEER Join the Natural Living Expo team! Nov. 15 & 16 in Marlborough, MA. Volunteer work shifts in exchange for free expo admission and t-shirt. Please email michella@naturalexpo.org.
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For information about classes and volunteer opportunities, please call 508-229-8390.
WILD DOLPHIN SWIMS Swimming with Wild Dolphins. The ultimate human-dolphin connection. Meditative, healing Caribbean Island retreats. Yoga, healthy food, Atlantean legends. www.wildquest.com. (800) 326-1618.
WRITING SUBMISSIONS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Are you a senior keeping yourself healthy? Tell us how you do it! Or a caregiver of a senior? Tell us what you’ve discovered on how to keep yourself and your senior well, even in the face of Alzheimer’s, extended care or dwindling resources. We know there’s hope and successes along with the many challenges posed to healthy aging, so celebrate your successes and share your stories in the Spirit of Change Spring 2015 “Healthy Aging” issue now. Email carol@spiritofchange.org. Deadline is November 24, 2014. All ads and listings must be prepaid. Check, MC, VISA and Discover accepted. Credit card payments may be processed online at www.spiritofchange.org/payments. Send payment and listings to Spirit of Change, PO Box 405, Uxbridge, MA 01569. Fax: 508278-9641. Email advertise@spiritofchange.org Questions? Call (508) 278-9640. WINTER ISSUE DEADLINE IS OCT. 15, 2014. FALL 2014 | Spirit of Change 63
ACUPUNCTURE
JoyCommunityAcupuncture.com. Newton, MA. 617-510-0559. Sliding fee $2040, $10 initial.
DIRECTORY OF
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ANGELS
Ross J. Miller, psychic. Meet your angels and spirit guides. 617-527-3583. Visit www.The MysticWay.com ANIMAL SERVICES
Sharon R. Doolittle, DVM, Inc. Holistic. Smithfield, RI. 401-349-2668. www.holisticanimalvet.com MASH Integrative Veterinary Care, est 1982. Margo Roman, DVM. 508-435-4077. www.mashvet.com
INTUITIVE ENERGY HEALING
www.IntuitiveHealingResonance.com. Move beyond pain/trauma/anger/regret. 401-466-4901 MASSAGE THERAPY
Amanda Bourbeau, LMT. Worcester, MA 508-246-6223. www.massage-worcester.com MEDICAL INTUITIVE Gillian Drake. Diet-related health scans. Candida, toxicity and more. GillianDrake.com
BODYWORK
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Elizabeth Thorson RN, Certified by C. Myss and Norman Shealy, MD. 207-712-9495. elizabeththorson.com
Hypnotherapy, NLP, Reiki, IET and Crystal Healing. 508-539-2885. Clinics and fairs. www.capecodcenterforwholehealth.com COLON HYDROTHERAPY
Intuitive Healing with Wendy Marks. Over 25 years of experience. 781-449-5368. www.wendymarks.com
Genesis Alternative Health. 30 years of experience. I-ACT certified instructor. NBCHT certified. 603-347-1861.
MEDICAL TOURISM
Bio-Detox Center. I-ACT and NBCHT certified. Westminster, MA. 978-874-6200. drdeb@bio-detoxcenter.com
NUMEROLOGY
Body Balancing Center. I-ACT and National Board certified. 508-868-3624. www.bodybalancingcenter.com
PAST LIFE THERAPY
Healthy Spirit. Stephanie Dumas. I-ACT certified. 781-860-5116. healthyspirit@verizon.net Sage Guided Colon Therapy. I-ACT and NBCHT certified. Cambridge. 617-710-1337. LifetimeHealth@ColonLove.com The Natural Path. Annette Cormier. Hudson, MA. Text: (978) 855-3056. ancormier01@aol.com COUNSELING AND THERAPY
Joel Perlmutter, Ph.D. Licensed 35 yrs. Stress, anxiety, relationships. Stow & Shrewsbury, MA. Putnam, CT. 978-897-9797. CRYSTAL ENERGY WORK
Dental and surgery in beautiful Costa Rica. www.PearlMedcr.com Kathy Bernstein. 35 years of experience. 401-338-1317. www.numerologypro.com Ross J. Miller. Relive past lives and release blocked energy. 617-527-3583. www.The MysticWay.com READINGS
Beth Ann Fisher. Spirit energy consultant. 25 years experience. www.bethannfisher.com REIKI
Amanda de Rezendes, RM/T. MA and RI 508-612-7083. www.onevoicespiritualcenter.com Hands of Light Reiki. Michelle Plume, Reiki Master. Southbridge, MA. 508-764-5390. Libby Barnett, MSW, Reiki Master Teacher. 603-654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. CEU’s. Florence Whipple & Kristin Webb. Reiki Masters. CEU’s. Reiki classes. 978-777-5732. www.reikiprofessors.net
CrystalConcentrics.com. Workshops, meditations, one-on-one, distance work. 617-771-5119.
The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing. 603-899-3288. www.learnreiki.org
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY TREATMENT
Mystical conversations between body and spirit. Correspondence courses. www.heartofthemystic.com
Healed in 2 Hours. Ross J. Miller, psychic healer. 617-527-3583. www.TheMysticWay.com FENG SHUI
Urban Eden. Transform and empower your home/work spaces. 401-351-5632. karenfeldmanurbaneden.com GHOSTS REMOVED
From Your Home/Aura. Ross J. Miller, psychic medium, healer. Call 617-527-3583. www. The MysticWay.com
Forest Circles, retreats, programs in a magical Maine forest. www.forestcircles.com
Sue Singleton. 20+ years accurately finding Root Cause. 978-834-0341. TheWayToBalance.com
Anna Smith, energy healing and bodywork for health and well being. 508-735-3838.
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HEALING CENTERS
SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
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Coleman Natural Vision. Boston/Plymouth, MA. Shavasana your eyes. www.eyesonyoga.com Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, MA. Cambridge, MA and Portsmouth, NH. www.visioneducators.com Next deadline: Oct 15. Email Bryan@spiritofchange.org
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS IN THIS ISSUE A Abra Therapeutics........................................... 22 Acupuncture of Worcester.............................. 53 Acupuncture Plus Yoga................................... 53 Advaita Meditation Center............................. 54 Albatross Wellness...................................... 59,61 Alternatives for Health.................................... 24 American Society of Alternative Health....... 11 Amethyst Point................................................ 45 Andromeda’s Alley........................................... 54 Angelscapes...................................................... 61 Angeltouche..................................................... 61 Arvigo Massage................................................ 14 Avena Botanicals............................................. 65 Ayurvedic Rehabilitation Center................... 45 B Susan Barbera.................................................. 39 Libby Barnett.................................................... 59 Beadniks........................................................... 65 Bhavna’s Wellness Group................................ 54 Glenn Bigonet.................................................. 58 Blue Lotus Healing Arts.................................. 54 Body Balancing Center................................... 46 Body, Mind & Spine........................................ 55 Body Therapeutics........................................... 54 Kristi Borst....................................................... 65 Boston School of Herbal Studies, The........... 56 Allen Bourque.................................................. 25 C Nancy Canning................................................ 22 Care Alternatives Hospice.............................. 63 Kim Childs....................................................... 46 Jonathan Chisholm..................................... 39,57 Circles of Wisdom..............................................7 Commonwealth Ctr. for Herbal Medicine..... 26 Constellation Approach, The.......................... 57 Cornerstone Therapeutics.............................. 60 Costa Rica Jungle Retreats.............................. 62 Creative Strands Hair & Bodyworks............. 62 Crystal Vibrations Jewelry.............................. 10 D Janet Darling.................................................... 43 Developmental Alphabiotics......................... 4,5 doTerra Essential Oils..................................... 23 Sharon Doolittle............................................... 26 Door Opener Magazine.................................. 15 E Eckankar of NH............................................... 63 Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies, The.................................................... 55
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Enchanted Fox................................................. 34 Engel Geist................................................... 23,62 Evoking Alchemy............................................. 27
Living Earth, The............................................. 14 Lotus Flower Living......................................... 15 Claire Luft.................................................... 58,59
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Aimee Falchuk................................................. 58 Flowforms Yoga............................................... 45 The FourWinds Society.................................. 29 FrogPond Yoga Center.................................... 45
Judith Mabel..................................................... 16 Maha Yoga Center........................................... 45 Tina Marian.........................................................9 Market Street Health....................................... 54 Linda Marks..................................................... 57 Wendy Marks................................................... 60 MASH..................................................................9 Message from Spirit......................................... 65 Metrowest Thermal Imaging.......................... 18 Ross Miller.............................................. 13,20,46 Lori Miller-Freitas........................................... 58 Misty Meadows Herbal Center...................... 36 Holly Eden Morrow........................................ 61
G Gemstone Infusions........................................ 20 Gemstone Therapy Institute........................... 55 Arthur Gertler.................................................. 37 Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan Federation............ 62 Golden Ray Home Energy Clearing.............. 60 Jesse Goldman.................................................. 43 Grateful Heart, The.......................................... 10 Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism........ 62 Green Nation Gathering................................. 24 Green Path Garden Supply............................. 26 Groton Wellness Center.....................................2 H Leontine Hartzell........................................ 20,60 Hay House...........................................................9 Healing from the Body Level Up, Inc............ 31 Heath & Wellness Show.................................. 36 Healthy Spirit................................................... 58 HeartFelt Herbals............................................ 60 Higher Brain Living........................................ 19 Joan Hill............................................................ 11 Joan Holzman.................................................. 58 Homeovitality.................................................. 61 Hope Ethereal.................................................. 40 I Infinity Healing Group......................................2 Inner Traditions..................................................2 Internal Wellness Center................................ 39 J Jocelyn............................................................... 61 John Harvey Gray Ctr. for Reiki Healing...... 59 Barbara Madden Johnson............................... 58
N Natural Living Expo...........................................3 Nature’s Rite...................................................... 11 New England Inst. of Reflexology................. 55 Dr. Jody Noe................................................ 15,60 O Oasis Healing................................................... 60 October’s Angel................................................ 65 One Voice Spiritual Center........................ 59,63 Open Doors Yoga........................................ 45,54 Opening Lotus Yoga........................................ 45 Orion’s Gateway............................................... 59 P Pacifica Graduate Institute............................. 67 Pauline Pearson................................................ 40 Peace of Tranquility......................................... 65 Rachel Perry........................................................7 Pipal Leaf Yoga Studio.................................... 45 Plant Spirit Medicine...................................... 29 Monique Pommier.......................................... 53 Pyramid Books................................................ 19 Q Larry Quemere................................................. 28
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Raffa Yoga and Urban Sweat..................... 41,45 Raising Grace Coaching................................. 10 Real Life Yoga Studio....................................... 45 Regina Russell’s Tea Room............................. 67 Rhys Thomas Inst. of Energy Medicine........ 68
L Light Unlimited............................................... 21 Light & Love Healing...................................... 60 Eric Linter......................................................... 53 Little Frog Healing........................................... 16
S Sacred Song Reiki...............................................7 Sacred Space Yoga School............................... 28 Sacred Temple Arts.......................................... 65 Salve Regina..................................................... 13 Science of Spirituality..................................... 24 Sea Change Energy Healing........................... 18 Andrea Seiver................................................... 57 Serenity Yoga Center....................................... 45 Small Miracles Preschool................................ 55 Miriam Smith................................................... 46 Some Enchanted Evening............................... 65 Spa Tech............................................................ 55 State of Grace Yoga and Wellness Center..... 45 Kelle Sutliff....................................................... 61 Synthesis Center.............................................. 56 T Teleosis Homeopathic..................................... 25 Tintagels Gate.................................................. 19 Touchstone Community School.................... 55 Trope................................................................. 65 True North Center........................................... 62 U-V-W Vineyard Herbs Teas & Apothecary.............. 35 Robyn Vogel..................................................... 57 Vera Volfson..................................................... 61 Gordon Waite.............................................. 22,39 Pat Warren........................................................ 58 Way to Balance, The..................................... 9,56 Wellness Roundtable, The............................... 34 Westborough Yoga........................................... 45 (W)hole Point Institute, The...................... 16,56 Trish Whynot.............................................. 35,57 Wisdom of the Ages........................................ 37 Woman of Wisdom.................................... 17,54 Worcester Yoga Center.................................... 45 Cheryl Wright.................................................. 60 X-Y-Z Yoga at the Ashram..................................... 45,65 The Yoga Studio............................................... 45 Yoga Healing Trauma...................................... 45 YogaLife Institute................................... 17,45,56 Zuzu’s Healing Arts......................................... 55
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