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Extraterrestrial Stone On Earth

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oldavite is a member of the tektite group, a glassy mixture of silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide and other metal oxides, with a hardness of 5.5 to 6. Its crystal system is amorphous. The color of most specimens is a deep forest green, though some pieces are pale green and others, especially those from Moravia, are greenish brown. A few rare gem grade pieces are almost an emerald green.

Moldavite’s formation coincides with the crash of a large meteorite in what is now the Bohemian plateau of the Czech Republic, approximately 14.8 million years ago. Most specimens are found strewn throughout that area. For many decades, farmers in southern Bohemia have turned up pieces of moldavite when plowing fields, and moldavite miners sift and dig through loose sand and gravel from depths of up to twenty meters. Some of the richest finds have occurred at the towns of Chlum and Slavce. A very delicate, lacy form of moldavite has been found near the village of Besednice, although this location is now exhausted. In recent years the moldavite fields have become depleted, and the stones are becoming increasingly rare.

Moldavite is the stone that initiated me into awareness of the spiritual properties of crystals and minerals, and it has been a catalyst for several of my most important spiritual experiences. It has, over the 33 years I have worked in this field, had similar effects on thousands of other people with whom I have spoken and corresponded. From my perspective, it has a special role to play in the awakening of humanity now underway.

Scientific theorists differ on hypotheses regarding moldavite’s origin. Some contend that moldavite is earthly rock melted by the heat of the meteorite crash, while others suggest that the material is of extraterrestrial origin, possibly a type of obsidian ejected by a lunar volcano.

A third theory holds that moldavite is a fusion product of meteoric material and earthly rock vaporized in the tremendous heat of the impact explosion, with the resultant gas being propelled high into the atmosphere. This gaseous material would have then cooled and condensed into a liquid glass that rained down on the crater and surrounding areas.

Regardless of which, if any, of these ideas is correct, it is known that moldavite indeed fell from the sky, because of the aerodynamic shapes of certain pieces. Most scientists associate it with the meteoric collision that formed the Bohemian plateau and surrounding mountains.

The event that gave birth to moldavite was one of tremendous power. The force of the

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impact explosion has been estimated at six trillion m bombs on Earth. The heat, as mentioned above, was main body of the meteorite is believed to have passed penetrating into the liquid iron at the planet’s core. Th New York Times article as having disturbed the curre cause a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles.

Throughout history, and even into pre-history, mo tual talisman. The Neolithic peoples of Eastern Europ thousand years ago, and the famed Venus of Willend statue — was discovered in a digging site that contain People of that period also used moldavite for arrowh

Feeling The Moldavite Flush

Fall/Winter 2021 • Vol. 35, 145 In modern times,No. moldavite has emerged as one o

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physical purposes. Its effects vary widely, from mild t cal cleansings to spiritual breakthroughs — yet the co revitalization and acceleration of one’s path of evolut People who hold moldavite for the first time most warmth or heat, usually felt first in one’s hand and th body. In some cases, there is an opening of the heart (though not painful) sensations in the chest, an upwe the face. This has happened often enough to have ear Moldavite’s energies can also cause pulsations in the heart chakras, a feeling of light-headedness or dizz of being lifted out of one’s body. Most people feel th and speeds their vibrations, especially for the first d acclimated to it.

Moldavite’s energies can activate any and all of the in areas where one has blockages or wounds, first cle into resonance with one’s entire energetic system. Re many forms — chakras can open; synchronicities can icance; one’s dream life can become dramatically mo

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The Future of Healthcare Is Where mRNA Technology Meets Energy Medicine

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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o vax or not to vax. That is the question of our time.

Despite plenty of evidence cited both in support of and to the contrary, there is no question in my mind that the COVID vaccine has quelled the pandemic to the point we can live somewhat normally again, and will continue to do so as more people are vaccinated. While I found myself resistant at first to getting this new Frankenstein technology injected into my body when I haven’t had a vaccination of any kind since childhood, I soon realized that the mRNA vaccine was the safest, quickest and most effective way to quell a viral global pandemic.

According to genetics and biotech author Caroline Seydel in “The New Corona Vaccine is Changing the Future of Medicine” (www.Forbes.com), “The two new vaccines are the first ever to use mRNA, which stands for ‘messenger RNA.’ The vaccine slips a new strand of mRNA into the cell, like an extra page in the blueprint. This mRNA contains the instructions for making the coronavirus spike protein, and the cell reads it the same way it reads its own mRNAs, using it to build the viral protein. The immune system recognizes that protein as foreign, and starts making antibodies against it. Then, if you’re exposed to the actual virus, those antibodies will be available to stop the infection. Astonishingly, in animal tests, mRNA vaccines appear to induce immunity that lasts much longer than live virus vaccines.”

Decades in the making, this research is already being rapidly deployed not just for COVID vaccines, but in place of gene-editing therapy, which is responsible for such miraculous cures as releasing sickle cell disease patients from their hellish pain. But gene-editing therapy is a costly and invasive procedure for patients, requiring bone

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marrow removal and replacement. Reportedly, mRNA treatment for sickle cell could be accomplished with one single injection.

And why shouldn’t such miracles of medicine exist in this advanced technology age?

The beauty of mRNA science is that it is infinitely customizable. Faced with the extremely contagious and quickly mutating nature of COVID-19, mRNA vaccine technology was already primed to quickly succeed in directly targeting a dangerous foe. While there will always be risk for some percentage of those in any activity, overall deaths and harm sustained from receiving the vaccine are a fraction of the numbers of unvaccinated COVID cases and deaths we now see. The correlation is clear.

Ironically, I am perhaps the most unlikely candidate to sing the praises of western medicine — and vaccines in particular — because of my robust success using only alternative healthcare for 35 years. In addition, over the past several years of aging into my sixties with health projects popping up faster than they used to, I have discovered that extraordinary, potent healing is available for these conditions through energy medicine modalities, particularly remote healing.

All humans are connected to an etheric energy web, and through this web to each other. We access remote healing by tapping into this network through any number of vibrational healing modalities or other activities, and in doing so, affirm our intention to heal a specific dis-ease, or symptom energetically. Once vibrational balance has been re-established, the physical, mental or emotional illness in the body heals as well. We can learn to access this web ourselves, or allow others who are more practiced to facilitate that connection for us. Anyone can learn.

And I believe everyone will, given time. In addition to the mRNA miracles of modern medical research, the future of mainstream healthcare is poised to embrace what is innately coded into our DNA and already used for healing by millions. You can be the driver of your own wellness. Various treatments and protocols in addition to vaccines are able to treat, mitigate or prevent COVID, such as homeopathy, customized supplement/drug compounds, and vibrational medicine, but just like vaccines, none of these protocols are a silver bullet nor 100% effective.

These therapies also require a re-education of both professional and general populations before they can be effective on a large scale, which is all the more reason why government and mainstream media censorship of alternative health information is a direct threat to our health and well-being. Instead of being labeled as dangerous health misinformation, we need deeper and broader discussions about healing options if our healthcare is to evolve to its highest potential. If only the vaccine narrative of COVID treatment is allowed to circulate, what happens to all the other emerging life-changing medicines and protocols that may be even more valuable to humanity than vaccines — less expensive, more accessible, with mild to no side effects?

Media gatekeepers and government censorship have intentionally prevented important health information from reaching the public’s awareness for generations, such as the dangers of tobacco, lead, asbestos and trans fats in our daily lives, resulting in the needless deaths and disabilities of countless people. We are currently facing a similar situation with the ubiquitous and seemingly benign intrusion of 5G wireless technology into every nook and cranny of our lives.

For decades the rumors of cell phones causing cancer have persisted, yet only now the details are emerging of how true those rumors are. In a historic decision on August, 13, 2021, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the FCC to explain why it ignored scientific evidence showing harm from wireless radiation in a lawsuit, discussed in this issue’s interview with EMF expert Cece Doucette. How much scientific data exists showing biological harm from wireless radiation, and why has it been suppressed? Explore the inconvenient truths of 5G wireless technology and what you can do about it now that our world can’t imagine life without wireless.

It's been a really tough year with COVID lockdowns, loss of routines, lack of social contact, mind-bending misinformation overload, and now this about wireless. Take a break; it’s not all bad. In The Book of Forgiving, Desmond Tutu reminds us, “Our nature is goodness…We live lives surrounded by so much love, kindness and trust that we forget it is remarkable.”

Make time for your mental health. If we’ve learned anything over these past eighteen months, it’s that everything is subject to change, schedules can be more flexible than you ever imagined, and it’s possible to set 30 minutes into each day to take care of your own health. Whether it’s yoga, meditation, exercise, journaling, energy healing, walking — those things that have the potential to put you in touch with your body’s own healing intelligence are the activities you want to invest in to build your body’s immunity. The next virus will come, so the time to prepare is now.

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OCTOBER 2021

STARSPEAK

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Astrological Forecast Fall/Winter 2021

“Do not grow old no matter how long you live, never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

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— Albert Einstein

he profound impact of climate change and the pandemic have raised existential stress levels several notches. If life seems stuck in a holding pattern, it may be because five major planets are retrograde as the forecast period begins. Faced with ongoing political divides, policy controversies and political uncertainties, many folks are understandably confused and many feel alienated. At the heart of the persistent unrest is the ongoing unstable square between Saturn and Uranus. The stoic Ringed Planet fosters order and stability while maverick Uranus supports the irrepressible forces of progress.

Questioning authority is very much in fashion. Almost every day new facts come to light. Plans change. To keep confusion to a minimum, simplify. Mindful living is recommended. Use every tool you have to keep your body safe, your mind right and spirits up. There are astrological bright spots but certain days can seem to be an endless string of delays and senseless complications. Patience, perseverance, flexibility, an open mind and a good sense of humor are the best tools for not just coping but flourishing in this environment.

We each have to face the many issues of our times. Uranus is also the planet of community and friendship. “Let us put our heads together and see what life we will make for our children.” Sitting Bull said that. The great Lakota chief was right. We all need to pressure elected representatives to fulfill their solemn oath to protect the Constitution and stand up for the needs of voters who elected them. When it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, a functional democracy, clean air and clean water are high atop the list.

The retrogrades will gradually end with the onset of cooler weather. A renewed sense of forward movement will grow over the course of the forecast period. If we remember our sense of wonder and honor the privilege of being alive, great things can and will emerge from these challenging days.

SEPTEMBER 2021

A waning Moon heralds a gradual slowing as the month begins. On Thursday, the 2nd Mars’ opposition to Neptune brings some dreams to fruition but carries risks as well. Keep an eye on the sky as dangerous weather-related events are known to accompany such alignments. Slow down for added safety. We move steadily ahead as the long holiday weekend

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nears. Travel is facilitated but backyard gatherings and local events can also be fun. The Labor Day skies feature happy omens. The Virgo Moon is new as the Sun and Moon trine Uranus. Whatever is your pleasure or desire, pursue it with gusto! Resourceful inventiveness and joyful cooperation lead to many successes in the coming weeks.

Don’t expect instantaneous results. The mid-month stars are comparatively quiet. The Virgo Sun forms a tricky, early morning opposition to Neptune on Tuesday, the 14th. That evening fiery Mars enters Libra. Partnerships require skillful handling. Be proactive and head off a misunderstanding.

Mixed trends later in the same week demand patience and poise. Thursday’s challenges can be successfully negotiated but not without give and take compromises.

On Monday, the 20th the full Harvest Moon in Pisces lights up the evening sky. There’s much to be thankful for at this, the time of gathering in. Hearts and minds both benefit from the astrological influences. The Moon’s proximity to Neptune evokes tender feelings while a trine between Mercury and Jupiter instills faith and optimism.

The autumnal equinox, a time of balance between darkness and light, occurs on Wednesday, the 22nd. The Sun is in diplomatic Libra but with Mercury testing Pluto and Venus at loggerheads with Uranus, some folks are inclined to argue.

Remaining tactful and constructive can be challenging.

On Saturday, the 25th a stabilizing trine between Mars and Saturn puts friendships on solid footing. For the most part, relationships remain cordial through the end of the month.

However, when mental Mercury turns retrograde in Libra on Monday, the 27th a review of shared resources and commitments may be desirable. Wait a few days before making final decisions. Wednesday, the 30th has excellent creative potential.

Friday, the 1st could be a good time to clear up misunderstandings. Keep the focus on mutual interests and experiences. The communication auspices remain good throughout the weekend. The new Moon in Libra launches Wednesday, the 6th in understated fashion. Moods are reflective. It’s an appropriate time to check in with friends and partners. Pluto turns direct that afternoon. Investors are advised to keep an eye on upcoming market trends.

Be on good behavior over the next few days. The Libra Sun, Mars and Mercury form a volatile stellium. Enthusiasm is sparked but patience and sensitivity can be missing. Momentum grows with the waxing of the Moon. Thursday, the 14th is an upbeat day but a late afternoon complication could require a change in plans. Don’t fret as things will soon work out well. As the weekend begins many people feel a sense of anticipation. On Sunday, the 17th the Sun tests Pluto, revealing new obstacles.

Monday, the 18th sees first Jupiter and then Mercury turn direct. Mars is trine Jupiter that same night. The forward motion of both communications and travel planets facilitates many lively debates and discussions. The waxing Hunter’s Moon is full in Aries late Wednesday morning, the 20th.

Powerful women make their presence felt. Patriarchal men may feel threatened. Hopefully both sexes make accommodations and peace prevails.

The Sun settles into the depths of Scorpio just after midnight on Saturday, the 23rd. Emotional strength and stability is notable the night of Monday, the 25th. Pay attention to calories and food quality Tuesday evening. Work and other business matters proceed gloriously on Thursday, the 28th.

It’s best to wrap up important matters before late afternoon when a less congenial atmosphere takes hold. A time of karmic reckoning approaches with the Sun’s square to Saturn on Saturday, the 30th. Kids enjoy Sunday afternoon Halloween festivities on the 31st. More seasoned revelers may easily party into the wee hours of the morning.

NOVEMBER 2021

As Monday, November 1st begins dreams may include spiritual instruction as well as visitations from saints and concerned ancestors. By morning the mystical vibes have diminished and it is back to business as usual. Energy levels diminish with the waning Moon. The cycle reverses with the Scorpio new Moon on Thursday, the 4th. The combined Sun and Moon are at odds with Uranus, the planet of unexpected events. Be ready to adjust your thinking and schedule. Friday, the 5th’s three planetary sign changes add to the sensation of things being up in the air. Weekend social events contain plenty of charming moments.

On Monday, the 8th diligence marks the beginning of the working week. Buckle up, settle down and get productive.

The Wednesday hump day is particularly challenging as Mercury and Mars test Saturn. Bide your time if you’re facing interminable delays and obstacles. It isn’t until the afternoon of Thursday, the 11th that momentum is fully restored. Plans are interrupted frequently during the mid-month period. Try to keep distractions to a minimum.

A lunar eclipse is in the making. Things begun the week of an eclipse rarely play out as originally conceived. This is again a time that necessitates inventiveness and flexibility.

The eclipsed full Beaver Moon in Taurus sails high overhead during the early morning hours of Friday, the 19th. The

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“signs of values” are spotlighted. Personal realizations are likely to change outlooks. Resources may soon be redirected for humanitarian purposes. The following weekend brings many stimulating conversations. Be an empathic listener Saturday night.

The Sun arrives in Sagittarius at night on Sunday, the 21st. Sagittarius is one of the major travel signs. It’s no mere coincidence that the coming week is usually one of the busiest travel periods of the year. Even with a waning Moon there is a notable buzz leading up to Thanksgiving Day. If you plan to travel, the earlier in the week the better off you are. Stay local and enjoy feasting on Thursday, the 25th. After a hectic few days, Sunday, the 28th is favorable for traveling. Workplace demands are strenuous but fruitful the last two days of the month.

DECEMBER 2021

Feelings run deep to start the new month. On the morning of the 1st, Neptune resumes forward motion in sensitive Pisces, and the Moon enters Scorpio. The emotional content of Thursday, the 2nd is notably rich. Kindness, affection, passion and compassion permeate many hearts. Gratitude is expressed and shared. Artists and creative types feel inspired. If it is possible, slow down and catch your breath on Friday, the 3rd. This final day of the lunar cycle is best suited for completing projects.

Saturday’s Sagittarius new Moon is also a solar eclipse. Expect new revelations to alter your world view. The political arena is sure to be a hotbed of rumors. Outsized egos may whither under public scrutiny. The weekend is relatively low key, a good opportunity to restore physical and emotional strength.

The week of Monday, the 6th gets off to a swift and powerful start. Make sure communications are clear on Tuesday, the 7th. Pace yourself on Wednesday and good progress can be made. Stay alert to underlying feelings on Thursday and Friday, the 10th. A hunch or second thought can be clues that something is amiss or a coworker is feeling upset. De-stress on Friday night and make Saturday, the 11th a time for recreational activities. It’s a fine day to go shopping and make holiday preparations. Be alert to tricky travel conditions Saturday night. Mars enters Sagittarius on Monday, the 13th, giving many souls an “off to the races” push. Mercury in Capricorn helps keep things in needed perspective.

The full Cold Moon in Gemini is exact the night of Saturday, the 18th. Travel plans and long distance connections occupy many minds. Close to Pluto, Venus turns retrograde in Capricorn early the next morning. Loved ones are embraced while others are sorely missed. Fortunately, the Sun’s uplifting Sunday evening sextile to Jupiter, and Mercury’s Monday trine to Uranus direct attention to the future. Confidence grows. Hopes are undeniable.

The winter solstice follows. On Tuesday, the 21st the Sun enters Capricorn and winter officially begins. The turning of the cosmic wheel means that from now until the summer solstice, the hours of daylight will gradually increase. This is the time to conserve energy and prepare for the new cycle.

Early on Friday morning of the 24th, Saturn and Uranus form a third and final-in-a-series square. The aspect has dominated 2021, bringing endless uncertainties, controversies and confusion. One thing is clear; in the coming months the unstable energies are going to subside.

Meanwhile, expect the continued stripping away of false narratives and failing institutions.

Make way for the new! Venus’ Christmas Day conjunction with Pluto may yield clever ideas for building more resilient and sustainable relationships. A more equitable redistribution of wealth and power could be on the way.

Holiday gatherings benefit from a socially lively and spiritually adept waning Virgo Moon.

Lunar alignments with Mercury, Neptune and Venus bode well for friendly atmospherics and tasty fixings. If you plan to travel on Sunday, an early start is recommended. Try to reach your destination before nightfall.

Jupiter re-enters Pisces the night of Tuesday, the 28th. Certain causes and projects that have been on the back burner since last summer may soon be resurrected. After a bright start there are hoops and hurdles to jump through or over much of Wednesday, the 29th. Those who persevere reach their goals. New Year’s revelers get an early boost from a Sagittarius Moon/ Mars conjunction. The post-midnight hours are tricky, so use good judgment when it comes to where you go, who you party with and what you imbibe. Stay safe!

JANUARY 2022

Happy New Year! Moods are reflective on New Year’s Day. It’s natural to think about what has been learned and lost but thoughts of the future are also captivating. The year’s first major alignment is the Sun’s trine to visionary Uranus, heralding technological innovations and evolutionary awareness. The aspect can be a rallying cry for unity and teamwork. If nothing else, the Covid-19 pandemic has made many of us aware of just how interconnected we all are. The month is exceptionally busy.

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The Capricorn new Moon on Sunday, the 2nd marks the launch of a new activity cycle.

The impact we each have on the world is highlighted. Mercury’s arrival in forward-thinking Aquarius directs eyes towards the future. Loving vibes are powerful on Wednesday, the 5th.

Retrograding Venus is in harmony with Neptune, softening hearts and stirring imaginations.

The waxing crescent Pisces Moon and Jupiter adorn the evening sky, instilling optimism and bringing success to some souls.

On Sunday, the 9th the first quarter Aries Moon could precipitate a course correction.

The pace of life is again picking up as the Moon waxes. New wrinkles appear at mid-month.

Mercury in Aquarius and Saturn are at odds with unpredictable Uranus on Thursday, the 13th.

Surprise events can be vexing. Nerves grow edgy. Complicating matters, Mercury turns retrograde the morning of Friday, the 14th. A second Mercury/Uranus square occurs on Saturday, the 15th. Breathe. We all know the drill. Be ready to adapt and improvise. Stay humble. If all else fails laugh at life’s absurdities. The Winged Messenger follows a backwards track until the first week in February.

The Cancer full Moon is exact the evening of Monday, January 17th. The Sun’s proximity to Pluto emphasizes the use of money and power to reach goals. Those who keep the interests of others at heart thrive. There’s not much chance to catch our collective breath this week. Uranus turns direct on Tuesday, the 18th. The direction shift is sure to send shockwaves through financial markets. Plans can also go amiss. The same day the lunar North Node slips into Taurus, ushering in a new focus on security and resource management.

During the night of Wednesday, the 19th the Sun enters Aquarius. Thinking about future projects is one way of coping with cold winter days. Put some energy into your social life the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd. Roll up your shirtsleeves and get to work as Mars enters ambitious Capricorn the morning of Monday, the 24th. A last quarter Scorpio Moon and Mercury retrograding back into Capricorn make for difficult going on Tuesday, the 25th. Tread softly and be kind to yourself and others.

Venus resumes forward motion on Saturday, the 29th. That night is a fine one for a gathering. Conversations are heartfelt and meaningful. Pay close attention. The last few January days are comparatively mellow under a waning Moon. Take your time.

FEBRUARY 2022

Just after midnight on Tuesday, the 1st the Moon is new in Aquarius. Seed thoughts and vision boards are contemplated, but the Moon/Sun/Saturn stellium is tested by Uranus.

Planners, inventors and architects, as well as gardeners dreaming of future harvests are likely to find surprises are in store. Still, we must resolutely carry on as the fresh activity cycle begins.

Venus’ February 2nd trine to Uranus makes playful and romantic inclinations come alive.

Even groundhogs smile.

Mercury turns direct the night of Thursday, the 3rd. Minds are apt to be fickle. Pressing realities soon require decisive action. The Sun passes by Saturn on Saturday, the 4th. This is an appropriate time to set boundaries or put an end to an unacceptable situation. Mars in Capricorn harmonizes with Jupiter and Uranus from Sunday, the 5th until Wednesday, the 9th. This is an excellent period to go on an adventure or try new things. However, it’s best to be tactful on Thursday, the 10th.

It may be the waxing Moon, a hint of spring or other good news that brightens the 13th.

Valentine’s Day sees Mercury enter Aquarius. The near conjunction of Venus and Mars fuels passions while the Leo Moon enhances celebratory moods. Whatever your relationship status may be, have fun!

The full Snow Moon in Leo is exact minutes before noon on Wednesday, the 16th. Creative powers are impressive but enduring contributions must provide practical benefits. Use your personal powers wisely. Jupiter makes an exact sextile to Uranus on Thursday the 17th. This is a topnotch day to hold strategy sessions, meet new people or embark on a spur of the moment adventure.

The Sun enters mutable Pisces around midday on Friday, the 18th. Springtime will soon be on the way. Lengthening daylight hours are noticeable. Mars and Venus continue to travel in tandem through late Capricorn. Their approach to Pluto gradually intensifies certain partnerships.

Don’t underestimate the potential advantages of teamwork or the transforming power of love.

Two other planetary power trios grace the heavens at the end of February, the Pisces Sun, Jupiter and Neptune and the Aquarius Moon, Mercury and Saturn. This is an impactful time. Powerful souls are being born. Important transitions are under way as many recent obstacles phase out.

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SWISS CHARD AND SUNFLOWER SEED PESTO

HEALTHY EATING

GARLIC TRANSCENDENCE:

CRUSHING NUTRITIONAL RACISM

BY KEVIN WILLIAMS

13 (lucky) Swiss chard leaves 2 tablespoons toasted sunflower seeds 3 garlic cloves 1/4 cup vegan (or dairy) Parmesan cheese 1 1/2 cups slow-cooked garlic oil (recipe above) 1 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper Salt to taste (I use pink Himalayan for its amazing taste and nutritional benefits)

1. Blend all ingredients in your food processor or Vitamix.

2. Store in the fridge for up to a month. Use in any recipe in place of or in addition to traditional pesto.

When I first began working in a kitchen as a chef over 20 years ago, Black and Brown bodies were usually in the dish pit. Whenever I was in a new kitchen, it was usually assumed I was there for the clean-up end of food prep, not on the line, and definitely not in the driver’s seat of head chef.

As Black and Brown bodies step away from bondage and begin to speak our truth we must be fueled by the economic privilege of access to nutrient-dense foods. It is no coincidence that BLM (Black Lives Matter) emerges at a time when African Americans are more invested in the food community than ever before, with greatly increased visibility of Black vegans, food bloggers and head chefs, as well as the emergence of the first celebrity chefs in Brown bodies.

ZUCCHINI SOUP

Chef Kevin Williams of Roots Natural Foods in Leominster, MA, reflects on nutritional racism and how to summon up your own inner spice wizard as you cook.

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wareness.

Fire brought awareness. It allowed us to cook food, which gave our brains the nutrients needed to evolve.

Without proper nutrition our brains cannot function at their highest capacity.

SLOW-COOKED GARLIC

This simple recipe is a pantry staple in any kitchen. Use with any dish that calls for garlic to add flavor intensity and a delicious immune boost. Add a drop to high heat oil when sautéing for a nice garlic flavor in foods. Puree garlic cloves and use on crostini or add to any soup or sauce. Add whole cloves to grilled veggies. Super versatile!

20 garlic cloves 2 cups olive oil 1. Place garlic cloves in small saucepan. Cover with olive oil.

Cook on medium heat until edges of garlic begin to brown 7-12 minutes.

2. Turn off heat to let cool. At this point, add herbs, spices, or citrus peel for added flavor.

3. Store at room temperature for a day or in the refrigerator indefinitely.

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As we begin to acknowledge and dismantle institutional racism, we discover the root issue of nutrition, and how institutional racism has negatively affected the nutritional needs of non-whites in America. To what extent has this limited availability to healthy food hampered the development of the non-white brain? By climbing out of white supremacy, we can begin to view all bodies as equal, but it is necessary to examine how we got here in the first place.

Government programs aimed at helping the disenfranchised are full of items like cheese and sugary peanut butter, two common allergens. Imagine the difference whole food nutrition and education would make to the brain development of those receiving assistance. We know that improved diet gave more free time and higher cognition levels to our ancestors living in caves, which in turn allowed them to begin building the fabric of society. Higher levels of nutrition result in higher levels of brain function, so if only one group of the population is getting all their omegas, live enzymes, and gut flora, we cannot have a level playing field for brain development. The brain needs exceptional fuel to reach its highest potential. Good food and good nutritional education must be the mainstays in this development.

They say you can’t get enough of a good thing, but zucchini might be the exception. The flip between waiting for those first zucchini flowers to bud and running out of family and friends who want zucchini happens fast. Anyone who has grown this summer squash can attest to the fact. Zucchini is the thug in the garden that takes a mile when given an inch.

Good news, this is one thug you don’t have to back down from. Stand your ground against this aggressive yet courageous courgette (the word for zucchini in many parts of the world). Having too much zucchini, if you are ready to explore this nutritious and low-calorie food, is a good problem!

This soup is one solution to that abundance. The coconut curried version is my personal fave, but this versatile vegetable can flip through flavors like a radio dial switching stations. Future versions you make could omit the curry and coconut milk. Rice milk or whole milk both work, and the Indian spices can be swapped out for garden fresh herbs. A little basil, thyme, rosemary and oregano work great fresh or dried.

If you are a cheese head like me, a dried aged cheese like parmesan goes great, as well as a fresher, creamy cheese like a ricotta. Vegan cheeses have come a long way both with parmesan and ricotta. When using cheese go light on the salt and always save a little to use as a garnish. A good rule of thumb is “you can always add more, but you can’t take out,” so go slowly, tasting as you go.

Slow-cooked garlic works in every version, both as a starting and a finishing oil.

As a starting oil, it can be fortified by adding in equal parts high heat oil such as rice

bran, sunflower, or grapeseed. This helps raise the smoke point, and allows you to cook the veggies at a high heat without burning. As a finishing oil, blend it into the soup to help give a nice silky texture, while reserving a quarter cup for a very tiny drop or two on top with fresh herbs for a yummy garnish.

Creating the spice blend also follows this same basic rule of going slow. Some spices have been sitting on a shelf for years slowly losing their flavor. Toasting spices before using is a sure way to get the most out of your spice. Take it a step further by purchasing a spice grinder and toasting spices whole. Ground spices toast up very quickly, but a whole spice is guaranteed to be fresher, since it hasn’t been ground yet. Both need a super-hot sauté pan; smaller ones are easier to manage.

Heat a sauté pan for 3-4 minutes to get it nice and hot.

Have a bowl ready nearby that you are going to pour spices into since there’s no time to grab one once you start. If you’re using whole spices, have the grinder open nearby. For ground spices, remove the hot pan from the heat, pour spices into the pan, swirl for 7 seconds, place back on the burner for 2 seconds, and then pour the spices right out into your bowl. 9 seconds in total. This should be fun and exciting.

For whole spices, toast until fragrant. Get them nice and hot, until you can smell their fragrance and they start to smoke. Just a little smoke — then boom! — right into the spice grinder. Grind away! At this point you will be holding a smoking spice grinder and should feel like a spice wizard.

If you want to whisper “I’m a spice wizard” it will actually make the food taste better. Send love to the food as you telepathically communicate with it. Love — the most important garnish. A little love goes a long way, so save a little for the soil it grew in and the water that helped it grow. Pour your ground spices into the bowl and set aside. This recipe should give you extra for your next curried dish.

2 cans coconut milk 6 cups veggie stock (recipe below) 2 cups vegan butter (or conventional) 1/4 cup agave 1/4 cup basil 1/4 cup cilantro 1/4 cup mint 4 Tbls salt 2 Tbls pepper 8 Tbls curry spice mixture (recipe above) 1/2 cup garlic oil 1/2 cup sunflower oil Cut up all the veggies, mince the garlic, ginger and lemongrass. Pull basil, mint, and set the stalks aside. Save all vegetable scraps for your stock recipe below.

VEGETABLE STOCK 8 cups water All the scraps from the veggies you cut up Reserved herb stalks Pinch of salt Teaspoon apple cider vinegar Bring everything to a boil except herb stalks. Right before straining throw in herb stalks. Smell. Strain. Set aside.

To make soup: 1. Sauté onion, celery and leeks in oil mixture on medium setting until soft and translucent, about 20 minutes.

2. Turn on high for 2 minutes, add garlic, ginger and lemongrass, cook for 1 more minute and turn down to low.

3. Add zucchini and stir. Add veggie stock and turn up to medium high. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.

4. After 10 minutes, remove lid and add coconut milk. Cook on low for 10 more minutes.

5. Blend with either with an immersion blender or a stand up blender, then add the remaining ingredients. Season to taste with spice mixture. Garnish with fresh herbs, shredded coconut, lime juice and garlic oil, separately or together. Nice job!

SPICE BLEND For this particular blend, toast the coriander, cumin and fenugreek separately. Have a bowl ready with the curry powder and asafetida. Once ground, pour the three warm spices on top of the curry mixture, which will bring out the aroma, so stir in well once added. If this seems like too much work for simple spices, remember friend, you are a spice wizard now and that title means this kind of work. For those of you thinking, maybe I’m not ready to be a spice wizard yet, ground spices will work just fine. Regardless of your spice mastery, have this curry mixture ready before you start. Curry, coriander, and cumin are the most important. Fenugreek and asafetida are harder to find so don’t stress if you can’t find them.

1/4 cup curry powder 4 Tbls coriander 4 Tbls cumin 1 Tbls asafetida 1 Tbls fenugreek

As equality truly begins to blossom in America, we must continue to level the developmental playing field in every way. It is a challenge to flourish when people are living in fear, constant stress and deprivation, as so many are. Yes, a dandelion can grow through a crack in the sidewalk, but there’s a whole field of flowers under that sidewalk. Those who break free first hold the light for others. If we remove that barrier, all the flowers can come through, not just the toughest and strongest, for the beauty of one flower cannot compare to a full field in full bloom. The smallest and weakest must be given a chance to grow, for sometimes the stunted seed begets the biggest fruit.

CURRIED COCONUT ZUCCHINI SOUP (Use and grow organic when possible!)

2 cups onion, roughly chopped 2 cups celery, roughly chopped 2 cups leeks, roughly chopped 10 cups zucchini, roughly chopped, bruised skins peeled 1/4 cup ginger, minced 2 Tbls lemongrass

Kevin Williams is the chef at Roots Natural Foods, Kitchen and Juice Bar in Leominster, MA. Kevin spent the past ten years as a chef in California, traveling and exploring the world to expand his cooking knowledge. He loves art, is an avid biker, and a board member of the Twin Cities Rail Trail between Fitchburg and Leominster, which is slated to open by the end of 2021. Email him at rootschef978@gmail. com. Visit www.rootsnaturalfoods.com.

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By Sheila Rajan

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ne day, I began sneezing repeatedly, followed by an unusually heavy runny nose and watery eyes. I didn’t think much of it until it started happening more frequently. Eventually, I noticed it always happened a few hours after eating yogurt.

I’ve studied Ayurveda extensively and described my symptoms to my teacher, whom I regard as extremely knowledgeable, and she gave me a simple explanation: I had a dairy allergy. This made a lot of sense to me since I knew that my symptoms were all allergic reactions, dairy allergies are quite common, and people can develop allergies to anything at any time.

Over the course of a few months, I began having allergic reactions to several other foods such as nuts, dates, tahini, even mustard! I also noticed that after eating even naturally sweetened foods, I would break out in pimples a few days later. I stopped consuming these trigger items, but I began to wonder if these new food sensitivities were a symptom of a deeper issue. I’ve always had a strong digestive system and have never had allergies, so my intuition was telling me that something else was interfering with my body’s normal functioning.

I began my search with one big clue: I had already determined a few years ago that I was sensitive to gluten.

After drastically decreasing my gluten intake, I was able to lose 20 pounds and significantly reduce acne breakouts. I asked my Ayurveda teacher how gluten could be related to pimples. She told me my gut could be “leaky,” causing undigested food particles to leak out of my intestines and into my blood. These food particles could then be making their way out of my system through my skin.

I did some online research on the relationship between gluten, acne, leaky gut and food sensitivities and found some remarkable information. One set of leaky gut symptoms is skin conditions such as pimples and rashes.

Another symptom of leaky gut is, in fact, food allergies.

Leaked, undigested food particles detected in the bloodstream could be falsely identified by one’s immune system as invaders, causing it to launch an allergic reaction.

The wall of the small intestine is lined by a single layer of cells. This lining allows certain substances, such as water, to enter directly into the bloodstream. When the

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spaces between the cells in the lining increase, enabling larger particles of undigested food to escape instead of continuing through the digestive path, a condition called leaky gut occurs. This is a logical explanation for my food allergies since they were happening about 5-8 hours after consuming trigger foods (enough time for the food to travel to my intestines).

During my research, I found several articles citing new scientific studies that found a direct relationship between gluten and leaky gut. One article explained how gluten caused some people to secrete an enzyme called zonulin, which increases the spacing between cells in the intestinal lining.

Since I’m passionate about Ayurveda, I decided to work with a trusted Ayurvedic doctor, whom I had worked with on other issues. I explained my symptoms to her and my theory about leaky gut. Having had much experience treating others, she knew how to treat it Ayurvedically.

This included removing all traces of gluten from my diet immediately. (Since discovering my gluten sensitivity, I had reduced my gluten intake, but hadn’t completely eliminated it.) She also recommended that I change my meal timings to later in the day, in accordance with Ayurvedic principles. Finally, she recommended some herbs, remedies and yoga practices to strengthen my overall digestive fire.

After about six months of strictly following my Ayurvedic doctor’s treatment plan and not eating any trigger foods, I decided to slowly reintroduce them into my diet. I was excited to see that none of them caused any allergic symptoms! I continued to observe for another few months, just to make sure, and saw continued results with no allergic reactions. Since I now have a thorough understanding of how my symptoms, the root cause and treatment are logically connected, I am confident I can successfully monitor my diet and health for a lifetime.

Sheila Rajan is an electrical engineer living in Reading, MA, who has studied Ayurveda extensively. She currently serves as a student liaison at the SAMA school for Ayurveda & Metaphysics. She can be reached at sheila.rajan81@gmail.com.

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Yoga Poses For Sciatica

here is a good chance that if you know someone who suffers from sciatica, or perhaps you have sciatica yourself, then you know that it is a real pain in the buttocks, both literally and figuratively.

One reason for the intense discomfort sciatica generates is irritation of the longest nerve fibers in your body, the sciatic nerve, which runs bilaterally from the base of the spine, through the buttocks and down the back of each leg. The affected areas can include your buttocks, legs and back, and your symptoms may be mild or extreme including pain, weakness, numbness, tingling, and burning. Typically, sciatica is felt on only one side of the body.

Sciatica can result from a herniated or bulging disk in the lower back, and most commonly from damage to a small muscle in the buttocks called the piriformis. Consistent pressure from sitting long hours results in tightness and shortening of this muscle, called piriformis syndrome, which can cause irritation of the sciatic nerve that passes right through this muscle. Severe sciatica can adversely affect your quality of life, making it uncomfortable to even walk or sit. Since there are many causes of leg pain, it could be helpful to get an accurate diagnosis from a spinal health professional, as this will help you be able to create a more individualized therapeutic treatment for yourself.

There are several yoga poses and variations that can be used to relieve the pain of sciatica by stretching the muscles surrounding the nerve. If you find relief from particular stretches, be sure to do them regularly to help prevent a recurrence of your sciatica.​If a particular stretch seems to aggravate the pain, avoid that pose; no single remedy fits all.

You may prefer the poses on your belly or a pose on your back. Try them all out.

A yoga practice that progresses from gentle to moderate stretches slowly over time will help you align, lengthen, and strengthen your lower back. It is a good idea to hold each pose for only 2-5 breaths initially and slowly increase the time to 10-15 breaths. Pushing into more challenging poses too fast may lead to spasms or deep buttock pain. Be very aware of how you feel as you begin the practice and slowly work through it, listening to any pain. Pain is a strong teacher that demands respect; stay within your comfortable range, especially if you are new to yoga.

Since sciatica usually affects only one leg, you may find that you are able to do certain poses on only one side of your body. This is fine. Feel free to bend your knees in any pose.

Place cushions, pillows or blankets under your knees or buttocks in any pose that causes discomfort, and modify the poses so they feel good and do not hurt in any way. Notice if you feel pain or increased restriction during and after practicing a pose, and modify it if needed. Consider expanding your practice under the guidance of a yoga teacher so you can slowly add new poses to your practice and address additional areas of your health.

1. RECLINED PIGEON POSE OR SUPTA KAPOTASANA Lie down on your yoga mat or a carpeted space on your back. You can put a thin blanket under the head to support the head and neck. Keep your knees bent and feet flat on the ground. Take a few deep breaths. Then pick up your right foot and place it on top of the left knee. Feel your lower back supported against the ground.

Feel your neck comfortable and relaxed.

Close your eyes and take 5-10 deep breaths.

Repeat with your feet on the other side.

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2. LEGS UP THE COUCH, AN EASY INVERSION AND A VARIATION OF VIPAREETA KARANI This is a simple, gentle and a very effective way to relax the back, hips and legs. There is much importance given to inversions in yoga and this pose can be done by anyone who is able to lie down on the ground.

Do this on a carpeted space. Keep a thin blanket under your head to support the head and neck. Rest your feet on top of a couch. Close your eyes and take 10-20 deep breaths. You can slowly increase your time in this pose if you are enjoying this position. It is a good pose to meditate in. You can meditate on your breath or visualize that you are by the ocean, listening to the gentle waves rolling in and out.

Watch the waves of your breath without feeling the need to control them or judge them.

3. CHILD'S POSE OR BALASANA As the name suggests, this pose can make you feel like a little child. Start in a kneeling position with your knees wide apart.

Place a blanket under your knees for padding. Slowly lower your hips towards your ankles, bringing your torso and head down to the ground. Let the forehead rest on the ground or on top of a folded blanket. The arms can be stretched out in front or resting at your sides towards the hips. For a wonderfully restorative variation, insert a bolster beneath your torso and rest one cheek, then turn and rest the other. Close your eyes in your favorite version of child's pose and simply listen to the beautiful rhythm of your breath.

4. CROCODILE POSE OR MAKARASANA Start in a prone position on your mat lying face down on your belly, and resting your head on top of your hands. Feel your legs right next to each other, then feel your buttocks engage by squeezing them together. Move your forearms to place your face in your palms. Imagine your legs reaching towards the bottom of your

mat and your spine and neck gently lengthening forwards. Allow your neck to feel comfortable and relaxed. You can close your eyes and take 5-10 deep breaths here; feel the chest expanding gently with each breath. When you are done, bring both hands on top of each other and allow your forehead to rest back on top of your hands.

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5. PIGEON POSE OR RAJ KAPOTASANA This is a wonderful pose to stretch the lower back, achieve some hip opening, and release any pressure in the piriformis muscle. It is a slightly more advanced pose. If you have undergone total hip replacement, this pose is not for you. If you have any major limitations in hip movements due to arthritis or any injury, talk to a yoga teacher who can offer some preliminary poses to slowly prepare you for the pigeon pose.

Begin in downward dog pose on your mat, with your buttocks elevated and weight spread evenly across both palms and soles of the feet. If you cannot maintain flat feet, raise up onto your toes. Shift your weight onto the left leg and bring the right knee in toward the belly and down to the mat. Let your right ankle fall somewhere in front of your left hip as your left leg slides back comfortably without any discomfort of hips or knees. Untuck your left toes. Add cushioning or support under your right hip if needed to keep hips level. Inhale as you rise up and lengthen your spine, using yoga blocks or supports under your hands for comfort. Stay in this pose for 5-10 breaths with a focus on expanding your chest.

For a deeper stretch after lengthening your spine, come down to the mat with your chest and forehead. You can place your arms back by your side or rest your forehand on both hands in front of you and exhale tension from your right hip for 5-10 breaths. Repeat on the other side.

As you stretch the piriformis muscle you will feel a nice release, allowing more space for the sciatic nerve and releasing excessive pressure on it. If the cause of your sciatica is nerve impingement related to piriformis tightness, you will feel immediate relief using pigeon pose. Take time to come out of the pigeon pose slowly and mindfully. You can rest in child’s pose after or allow yourself to go into shavasana (corpse pose), lying on your back on the ground with your eyes closed.

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The Magic of

Fragrance & Natural Perfume

BY SUSAN MEEKER-LOWRY

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ragrance is one of the languages of Earth. To open to it is to open all the cells of our body to the unique chemistry of its language. Fragrance bypasses the intellect (even as we are aware of it), finding its way directly to our emotions, touching memories, and activating spirit. It nurtures our soul while grounding us in our Earth body. Some fragrances — the deeper, heavier, resins, spices, unguents and pastes — return us to mystery and offer hints of our ancient past and also, I sense, of what is “yet to be.”

Fragrance has long been associated with the divine, and used very consciously by priests and priestess through the ages right up the present to aid in shifting consciousness and awareness of other realms besides the material world in which we spend most of our time. Babies have a highly developed sense of smell — it is how they recognize their mothers — long before their eyes can focus on her face. In her book, Essence and Alchemy, natural perfumer Mandy Aftel writes, “Fragrance has the instantaneous and invisible power to penetrate consciousness with pure pleasure.”

One whiff of a fragrance has the power to immediately transport us to a memory, a loved one, or different time and place, and the experience is so much more profound than a memory using just the mind to take us there.

Up through (and even beyond) the 17th century, perfume was intimately connected to alchemy. Aftel writes, “Perfume as we know it could not have taken shape without alchemy.” After science and reason predominated, Aftel continues, “the practical legacy of the alchemists 20 Spirit of Change | FALL/WINTER 2021

passed to the chemists...the spiritual legacy…to the psychologists....Only the perfumers inherited both strands of the alchemical tradition.” The modern perfume business has its roots, strangely enough, in the making of perfumed gloves in France in the 1500s. The history of perfume

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”

— Hellen Keller

and fragrance is fascinating; it will take you on a journey through the Orient and the spice trades, through times when fragrances combined with herbs and talismans could protect, attract and hold a lover, ensure fertility, even cause the death of an enemy, or enable far-seeing.

In many ways, it still does all these things (except, I hope, cause death).

There are many ways we can bring fragrance into our lives. We can burn resins, woods, herbs, pastilles and incense wands, gently releasing their scents/healing energies into our homes; we can revel in the beauty of perfumes; call on aromatherapy to heal, soothe, awaken; we can walk in a pine forest after a rain and drown in the sweet powdery scent of new mown hay carried on the wind.

For me, making natural perfumes started with a dream.

I have always loved perfume, and gravitated to the older, classical scents — the formulas of which today vary as regulations prevent some ingredients from being used, and as aroma chemicals have taken the place of natural essences.

When I started making herbal skin care products, I used essential oils for specific healing/skin-loving qualities, and also so they would smell beautiful. My collection of essential oils grew, along with my curiosity. The heavy base note fragrances that don’t find their way into skin care, captivated me: oakmoss, cedar moss, labdanum, ambers, dark, aged patchouli, beautiful sultry attars. I was not impressed by the first natural perfumes in the early 2000s.

They had very little subtlety or nuance and didn’t smell like “real” perfumes at all.

Then in 2012, I had a dream that was sensuous, dark, erotic. I was in an open market (much like one I experienced in Athens) when, in the way of dreams, I found myself in a small room that called to mind a Parisian opium den. The space was close, the air slightly smoky, reddish, and dense. I could smell the odors of sex and roses and narcotic florals, and mosses and musk and woods. It was intoxicatingly beautiful and almost unbearably erotic. My whole body absorbed it, vibrated with it, and exuded it like all the others in the room with me: sweat, sex, heady perfume, smoke. I touched and was touched, dancing and loving and just feeling with every cell of my body. And when I woke up, still drunk with the experience, I knew that I had to create a perfume of that dream. It was the first perfume I made, called Dreamscape, and I still make it today.

Days later, like magic, a magician appeared (J.K. DeLapp, now an award-winning perfumer, among other things) offering a perfumery course through one of my essential oil suppliers. I was one of the first students to take it. As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. JK compared perfumery to cooking with herbs, something that resonated with me, as I grow and use herbs in my products and pretty much every aspect of my life. Chemistry was not my strong subject but I trusted I had found the right teacher and dove in. I’m still happily swimming in those fragrant waters!

What Is a Natural Perfume?

Most perfumes on the market today, even the classics, are formulated using aroma chemicals created in the lab.

Virtually all the fragrance in products on supermarket and drug store shelves contain these chemicals. They are so prolific in our environment that many people have developed sensitivities to them. People can also be allergic or sensitive to natural ingredients of course, but it is less likely. Many natural perfumers use natural isolates, which are chemical components isolated from the whole. I have purchased some but have never used them in a perfume.

To me they are too linear; they don’t take you anywhere.

Natural perfumes shift and change depending on your

body chemistry and even the weather; I like to say that your body is another ingredient in the formula. There are both oil-based and alcohol-based perfumes. Alcohol perfumes are more diffusive and they tend to last longer. Oil-based are more personal; they wear closer to the skin, almost more for you than anyone else, until you get close.

Most perfumes are made up of several accords — top/head, heart, and base notes.

Accords are to perfume what spice blends are to cooking — a single ingredient made of many different components like curry powder. Accords are created separately, then aged, before being blended into the final perfume. Aging is key in perfuming, and patience is a quality that must be cultivated. Accords should age a couple of weeks minimum, but a couple of months is even better.

Top notes are light, diffusive, and come and go quickly; most citrus fall into this category. The heart of the perfume is the story, and the base adds depth and tenacity. A well-crafted perfume brings you in, seduces you, and keeps you coming back for more.

Intuition, sense memory, and playfulness have key roles in blending everything to get a sense of how the different ingredients play together.

Every perfume has a story to tell. Creating a perfume is like painting a picture with scent, or sharing the beauty and spirit of a special place. Like old growth forest translated into the scent Ancient Forest; or a memory scent, like my beautiful garden in Fryeburg, ME, Memory of Bees. My dream opened a magical world up to me.

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It’s important to mention that not all perfume ingredients are equal. Sustainability is a key concern, especially for the rarer woods and resins. There are still trustworthy, smallscale distillers and fair trade suppliers, who make every effort to ensure their products are pure, benefit local people (often indigenous communities), and are harvested sustainably — or not at all. Because of this, high quality, natural perfumes are not cheap. If you find some that are, beware; the ingredients are likely substandard, especially if they claim sandalwood, rose, oud, or attars, to name a few.

Aromatherapy oils are not actually perfumes; rather they’re created for a specific purpose — to relax, to empower, to support the heart during hard times, to aid sleep or stimulate dreams, and so on. They’re lighter and don’t last as long after applied, and they’re gentle and safe for most people. That said, they still smell wonderful. For many, a beautiful aromatherapy blend is the perfect perfume!

Why not take your curiosity and create something deliciously fragrant for yourself?

Perhaps a unique incense using dried herbs like lavender, rosemary, and sage, or gathered twigs and tips from fragrant pine, spruce, or cedar, crushed with a bit of pine resin or frankincense, burned on charcoal or an electric incense burner, (which are wonderful and release very little smoke). There are many recipes available in books and on the Internet for homemade incense of all types, from the simplest blend to complicated, sacred blends like Kyphi.

Perhaps you will decide to start your olfactory journey using a few, pure essential oils that resonate with you, blending them together drop by drop until you love it. Or discover your personalized natural perfume scent by trying samples until you find a favorite. Keep in mind, though, that each batch of a perfume may be a bit different even using the same formula. Natural ingredients come and go, and each distillation, even of the same ingredient, will vary. If you find a perfume you love, consider purchasing a larger bottle.

The magic of fragrance is that it’s everywhere. With every breath, we breathe in the aromas of our environment. We don’t have to do anything except pay attention. The energy of a storm blowing in, the scents carried on the wind as the storm gets closer, soft, musky, powdery dust, the slight metallic tang of lightning, the scent of apple blossoms and pine, and then the rain comes and releases the earthy fragrance of petrichor as the moisture hits the dry soil. The scent of snow melt in the spring. The sweet balsam of a fir/pine/ spruce forest. The pungent earthy musk of foraged fungi snapped in two under your nose.

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Essence & Alchemy, A Natural History of Perfume by Mandy Aftel. 2008, Gibbs Smith Publisher.

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. 1991, Vintage.

Listening to Scent by Jennifer Peace Rhind. 2014, Singing Dragon.

Susan Meeker-Lowry is an herb and fragrance lover, and owner of Gaia’s Garden Herbals, a home-based business offering mostly organic herbal skin care products, creams, salves, serums, aromatherapy blends, and natural botanical perfumes, all hand-crafted in small batches. She can be reached at smeekerlowry@gmail.com. Check out her products at www.etsy.com/shop/ GaiasGardenHerbals. www.spiritofchange.org

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These messages do not dictate who we are — we do.

How to Recognize Cultural Messages and Take Care of Ourselves

By Dulce Orozco, LMHC

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ave you ever considered that not everything you think is true? Many people treat every thought they have as the ultimate truth; however, this is not the case. We are constantly being bombarded with cultural messages through social media, through conversations with friends, family, coworkers, and pretty much anywhere we look.

Cultural messages don’t belong to us, but we take them in as if they are our own thoughts.

But what are cultural messages? They are all the implicit and explicit expressions from society that tell us how we should look, behave and feel. One example is that only people who look a certain way can live in a particular area. If we keep getting that message, eventually this will turn into something we think about, telling ourselves that we can’t live in that area because we don’t look like the rest of the people who live there. Since repetitive thoughts can turn into a belief, the cycle keeps growing, and a belief is born 22 Spirit of Change | FALL/WINTER 2021

that people live in different areas depending on how they look. Our beliefs impact our decisions and the way we see the world.

It is important to remember that we can choose which cultural messages we welcome into our lives and which ones we say “no, thank you” to. No matter how old we are, we have already taken in many different cultural messages from those around us. Those messages created thoughts and beliefs that can impact our mental health and limit us from reaching our full potential. This happens to all of us, but there is also something we can do about it.

Whenever you are having limiting thoughts, and you are putting yourself down, or the next time that you think something like: • I am too old or too young • I am too Latina for that job • People with an accent like mine would never do something like that • I am too black or too white, and that is why I can’t do this, whatever “this” may be for you Pause for a second and ask yourself: Is this true? Is this thought mine or is it the result of all the cultural messages I have received?

We have a choice and can pick which thoughts to keep and which thoughts to put away during our life journey. Knowing that we have a choice can be liberating. Knowing that we can always pause to explore with curiosity whatever we are thinking is empowering.

Nevertheless, it is not easy. We may not know how to do it, and like everything, it requires practice. The more we pause to examine our thoughts, the easier it will become. Engaging in this exploration of our thoughts is always better when we use gentle curiosity and ask judgment to please step aside from the equation. However, self-doubt can easily arise if we discover that something we believed is not necessarily true for us anymore. Looking at things in a new way is scary.

When this happens, we can feel the temptation to go back to our old habits and limiting thoughts, which feels more comfortable. This is why having a trusted friend or community of like-minded people with similar values is crucial during this process. Having support from people we trust and feel understood by may be what we need most when we are doubting ourselves and don’t trust the part of us that is saying: There might not be people that look like me that live in that area, but that does not mean I can’t look for houses there.

Do you have a community of like-minded people you can reach out to? If you don’t, that’s perfectly fine because you can find one today, or it may find you. This community can come from the most unexpected places, so try to be open to the hidden windows of opportunity life offers you. It may come from a book club, an exercise class, a master-mind group, or from a conversation that you finally have with the lady that walks her dog at the same time you do.

So, let’s recap what we’ve discussed so far: • We know that cultural messages about how we “should” live our lives can eventually transform into limiting beliefs.

• We know that not all thoughts are accurate and that we have the choice to pause and explore which ones we welcome into our lives, and which ones we let go of.

• We know that doubting ourselves along this process is normal.

• We know that having a community of like-minded people to support us is essential.

Finally, we must start taking steps to do whatever we want to do. If we think about it too much, this may lead to analysis paralysis, so it is better to ask ourselves: What is the smallest step that I can take right now? Then, if you need to, break it down even further.

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Things I Have Learned from the Loss of My Child

By Judy Giovangelo

he loss of a child, at its core, is every mother and father’s greatest fear. It is unspeakable, unimaginable, and something I would not wish on any human soul.

Since the loss of my own boy Benjamin to suicide in 2009 at the tender age of 18, after a lifelong battle I have become unfathomably aware of how many parents lose their children.

We have a saying in our world, one of the many myths I have discovered since the loss of Ben through my own healing journey and work as a grief recovery specialist. “It is unnatural for a parent to outlive their children.” And yet, since the beginning of time, for far too many today, it is a reality. When it happens to you, you become indoctrinated into a club that you never asked for. I will never forget another mom and dad arriving at my home just hours after Ben’s suicide who had lost their daughter at 15 a few years before. They said, “Welcome to the club no one wants to belong to.”

Our children leave us in a myriad of ways. Some young, some older, some to cancer, accidents, self-harm, and war. Children die! And you will never stop grieving them. I have come to know that grief is the natural response to loss. And whether we have lost a child, a pet, a parent, a grandparent or any other of the numerous losses that happen throughout our lives, loss is part of the journey here.

Loss of one of our precious babies is like the loss of no other. If you know a parent who is bereaved, please know that advice is not helpful. Love, compassion, and an open heart with ears is the best medicine you can bring. Give them permission to share about their child for as long as it takes, which is likely a lifetime. If you ever lost your child, would you want others to tell you to forget about them? Move on? It is not natural or even possible.

Just be there.

Not a day goes by that I do not think about my boy. After 11 years and until my dying day I will be forever grieving him. The loss of his presence, the birthdays, special moments he will never have, and we will never have with him, the children and grandchildren that will never be born, the missing of his presence at his sibling’s special times.

His loss is not just a moment in time, an event that happened and is now done, over.

Generations have been altered with his parting. There will forever be a missing link in the fabric of our family, an empty chair at our table and a hole in our hearts.

As hard as losing Ben has been, I am not banished to a life of misery. It took time to heal and climb out of the devastation of his loss, which was followed by the loss of my two sisters Lynn and Candace and my mom. But it has taught me…

MANY WONDERFUL LESSONS • Don’t sweat the small stuff.

• Be eternally grateful for every moment I have on this gracious planet with my other two children, Michael and Jenna.

• Be fully open to, feel and embrace the immense beauty and joy of this life to the core of my being.

• Don’t take anything or anyone for granted.

• Love big, even if it hurts.

• Love more.

• Give back.

• Make every moment count.

• A deep knowing and profound evidence that spirit lives on and can communicate to me long after the physical loss of those I love.

• My life is blessed beyond measure.

• Being a hand in the dark for others to move forward is an honor and a gift.

• Some of the boldest and brightest souls I have ever met are bereaved parents who go on to help others by creating change.

• Life continues and is enriched by every soul I meet.

• Grief is a part of life.

• Death is a profound teacher.

• I would rather to have loved and lost, then to never have loved at all.

• I miss my boy. I will love him forever. I will never, ever forget him.

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I asked everyone, “How do you do it? Are you overwhelmed?” No one seemed to find life as difficult and exhausting as I did. A friend suggested we attend an Abraham Hicks workshop for inspiration. While we waited in line to see Esther, my friend mentioned, “Why don’t you practice gratitude?” I didn’t answer as I stared blankly at nothing in particular. At that moment, I didn’t feel grateful for anything.

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NOW I SEE GRATITUDE EVERYWHERE continued from page 25 But the concept must have been permeating my being because I woke up one morning soon after and gazed into my closet. The doors happened to be open, and I realized in that moment, “Wow. I have a lot of clothing.” Then I looked at the closet floor and acknowledged the abundance of shoes. Then almost like Helen Keller discovering the association of words with the water flowing over her hands, my soul awakened. I made the connection of thinking about gratitude and understanding the gifts of my life. I felt this outpouring of love and appreciation for my family, my warm home, hot showers, hazelnut coffee, and my dog. I was overcome with emotion as I realized how much I love opening my front door and hearing birds chirp and feeling the heat of the sun on my face. I felt like the luckiest person alive.

I grabbed an old journal and filled a couple of pages with my grateful thoughts. This was no longer a whiny journal; that was the old Georgette I left behind. My new journals are filled with all the wonders of my life. I look forward to this ritual every morning and wake up while the house is still dark to have quiet time to savor my thoughts. Sometimes I write the same things over and over. Sometimes I include affirmations. Recently, I added goals. This routine has lifted my sadness and filled me with excitement and hope for all the possibilities that life has. Sometimes I spread my journals across my bed and reread them to acknowledge how far I have come.

Today, it is amazing how much time I can carve out to appreciate, enjoy, reflect, and smile. I am in touch with my intuition, my connection to source, and God. When I forget to take the time to nurture my mental health, my crankiness quickly seeps in and reminds me to create a space that fills my soul and sets a brilliant mood for my day.

Georgette Van Vliet writes self-help books. She is a certified life coach and expert mindset strategist who specializes in helping people overcome life’s daily challenges.

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Walking as Transformation

By Christian Reifsteck

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alking is well known for its physical, emotional, and mental benefits, but it provides important transformational and spiritual benefits, as well. For thousands of years, walking — most often done outdoors (and not by coincidence) — has served as a well-worn path to spiritual awakening through rituals, labyrinths, shamanic practices, spiritual journeying, and pilgrimages. You might say walking is embedded in our bones as a way to deepen our connection to the divine within. Here are five tips for walking your way to deeper peace and transformation.

1. GO ALONE. When done in solitude and silence, walking provides time for self-reflection and contemplation. It’s an opportunity to listen to the world around us and the voice within you, and to heighten awareness of each. When walking with another person, it’s much more challenging to be focused and aware. Walking partners will chat, have a different pace, want to take a different route, or want to stop or keep going when you might not want to. In short, walking with others doesn’t allow for the individualistic, self-directed, inner experience that can allow for the greatest transformational benefits.

2. WALK WITH AWARENESS. Walking alone allows you to bring more awareness to the walk itself, and to have a greater sensory awareness of the moment. This is the most important aspect of walking as a transformational practice. We want to bring our awareness to the walk, to the feel of our feet on the ground, the smells, temperature, wind, and sounds that surround us. In this way, walking becomes a meditative practice.

It’s okay if your mind wanders away from the sights, sounds, and smells of your

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walk. You may start to think about problems you’re facing, challenging experiences, or uncertainties. The back and forth motion of walking, called bilateral movement, actually helps facilitate deep thinking and problem solving, so your mind very well may wander, and the chances are good that you’ll gain new perspectives and come up with solutions to challenges you’re facing. Breathe, take in your surroundings, and notice your feelings.

Become aware of all aspects of the walk, including any walking that might be occurring in your mind.

The mindset you bring to your walk is much more important than where you walk.

It does not matter if you walk in the city or the country, down alleyways, on a forest trail, or through a shopping district. Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that “Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.” Anywhere you walk can lead you to deeper connection within.

Nor is the destination important because the goal is not to get somewhere. Rather, the objective is to be present in the moment and the experience. You can walk around your neighborhood, along city streets, through fields, or up a mountain. The location is not as important as your mindset.

3. WALK IN NATURE IF YOU CAN. Although you can walk anywhere to deepen your connection within, walking in nature often creates a more satisfying experience.

Nature is a spiritual booster, and walking in a natural area, preferably quiet and somewhat removed from the bustle of life, will help you to derive even more benefit from your walk. Nature calms and focuses us. It is quiet, unhurried, and operates on its own time, and when we walk in nature, its rhythms can slow us down, quiet us, and help us to turn inward. Walking in nature means that we can experience all of the benefits of being in nature as well as those of walking at the same time.

4. LEAVE ELECTRONICS BEHIND. As long as you are outside, it does not matter where you go, but rather how you go. Turn off your phone, leave behind the music, and be absorbed in the walk itself. Talking on your phone, listening to music, or playing games while walking don’t count because they distract from your surroundings and the act of the walk. It’s difficult to be alone with your thoughts while playing Pokemon Go, and it’s impossible to be connected to your surroundings when your attention is split.

Because phones, music, games, and any other form of distraction will distract from the experience, definitely leave them behind or silence them.

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5. WALK FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES. In addition to walking outside, alone, and without distraction, try to walk at least twenty minutes, because it’s a good amount of time to be engaged in an activity and derive benefit from it. Twenty minutes is enough to feel results, change your mindset or mood, and be absorbed in what you’re doing, but not so much that it feels like wasted time where you are distracted because you feel you should be doing “productive” things. However, watching the clock to make sure that you hit your twenty minutes defeats one of the main purposes for the walk, which is to disconnect from our time-obsessed, busy lives. And if you feel that you want to keep walking after 20 minutes, by all means, please do. No matter where you start from or how long you go, walking can help you access your inner connection and peace.

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any years ago, I received notice about an exhibition of Japanese pottery in the Kintsugi tradition that was held at the Smithsonian Museum. Kintsugi means “golden joinery.” The Japanese believe that a piece of pottery that’s been handed down through the generations within a family is part of the family’s story, that the piece has a history all its own. If it needs mending, the cracks or missing pieces are patched with a specially formulated lacquer filled with gold, silver or platinum, and the repairs are visible to the eye. In this way, the pottery becomes aggrandized: it grows more beautiful and more valuable, it increases in status in the family, and the story of its restoration becomes a part of the family’s history.

Though its origin is still debated, Kintsugi is an art form in keeping with the Zen tenets of non-attachment and the mindful awareness of the beauty in all things — even objects that are flawed or imperfect or worn thin by time. Imperfections are highlighted or emphasized — even venerated — rather than disdained, in much the same way that Japanese elders are revered.

The name of the Smithsonian exhibit was “Kintsugi: Granting New Life to Broken Dreams.” Though many years have passed since I first read these words, they have stayed with me, and remind me that Kintsugi is a thoughtful and spiritually rich metaphor for how we in the West — as individuals, families, healthcare providers, and healthcare systems — might approach caring for bodies that break and bend and rupture and age.

As we seemingly prepare to return to a world that has kept us scrambling for some semblance of normalcy and balance, Kintsugi may well be a way to make sense of — or, at least, find some spark of meaning and purpose from the wounding and loss of this global exile.

Kintsugi is an apt metaphor and a doorway in to conversations that help us make peace with the demon COVID, and the losses every one of us have incurred and continue to live with.

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puts us on the defensive. And shrinks our possibilities.

We suspect the worst and medicate our anomalies because we fear change and disability, and we do not know how to honor the passage of time. We are loath to admit we need help. We do not know how to grow new beauty from the challenges we face, or repurpose the cardinal aspects of the lives we’ve lived in new ways, that will inspire our sense of purpose and bring comfort and joy to others. As our imperfections become harder to hide, we simply feel “less than,” and ashamed.

Things fall apart. Accidents happen. Bodies wear out over time. Change is inevitable, and challenge is the mother of simplicity and authenticity, as well as invention. But what if being vulnerable, if reaching out for help, if telling our story to others, if finding value in imperfections became part of our mindset about what

constitutes health care? What if our lives were Kintsugi-driven, and we learned to aggrandize the cards we were dealt, and lived our lives — every last juicy part of them — as a sacred encounter? How beautiful.

Every human being, whether we realize it or not, is waiting for the moment when we can finally say a resounding, “Yes!” to the beauty inside us — to the joy, the peace, the truth of who we really are. Psychotherapist Carl Jung called this part of us “the Hidden Immortal.” We’ve always known there was something special about us.

You don’t have to be Japanese to live Kintsugi, you just have to be willing and sincere and true to yourself. And perhaps “a shade braver,” as poet David Whyte is fond of saying. It’s a soul thing, an inner awakening and commitment to a mindset that has nothing to do with religion, race, economics, social prominence, age, gender, or even health. All that outer stuff is a wall, not a window.

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I am submerged in eternal light. It permeates every particle of my being. I am living in that light.

The divine spirit fills me within and without.

Ask yourself what is sacred to you — what attributes, values, feelings and ideas inspire and energize you. Make a list.

Make these things your friends. Keep their company.

If this is not clear, explore what is not sacred to you, what your God, the God of your heart, is not. This often calls up images of a didactic, distant, authoritarian arbitrator of right and wrong, of heaven and hell. Obviously not someone you want to have any relationship with at all! Find your “yes!” opposite your “no!”

Start an internal dialog with that sacredness you are courting. Frequent, honest, warm-hearted conversations are integral to every good partnership.

Ask for help when you need it. Or ask the universe to show you what’s next or to lead you to someone who knows what you need to know or who will witness your story or who needs a witness to their story.

Do the legwork. Start an exploratory conversation. Read spiritual books, such as Autobiography of a Yogi. Be in nature. Practice stillness. Mine the silence. Listen to your inner voice. Ask “What if I …? instead of “Why can’t I …”

Push the edge of your habitual envelope. The sacredness you are courting is also courting you. Open your eyes, your mind, your heart. “If you build it, he/she/it will come.”

Learn to meditate. The Sanskrit word yoga means “union.” Meditation opens your heart and your mind to the truth, goodness and beauty of all life. It facilitates a gradual reparation and restoration of your relationship with the healthiest part of yourself, your soul, your wholeness. It helps you make peace with your past, live in the holiness of the present moment and, thus, alter the course of your future. Meditation is the adventure of a lifetime.

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Nancy's Nutrition Inc.

www.NancysNutritionInc.com Heal gut/digestion, liver detox, heavy metals, health coach, radio host, speaker.

Lisa Dahl Wellness

www.LisaDahlWellness.com Lisa Dahl wellness intuitive eating and body image health coach.

The Multifaceted Shaman

www.darlenedoughtydesigns.com Andara crystals, drums, smudge fans, soaps, plant cds, spirit creations.

Angelscapes

www.angelscapes.net SEE AD PAGE 46, 77 Akashic medium, Akashic practitioner, sprit artist, medium, author and teacher.

Science of Spirituality

www.sos.org SEE AD PAGE 29 Learn to meditate! Transform your life through benefits of meditation.

OCI Healing Research Foundation Tong Ren

www.ocihrf.org Tong Ren healing demonstrations, information and free educational booklets available.

Ray Veilleux, The Health Medium

www.TheHealthMedium.com Intuitive health readings from a deeply experienced medium.

Marshall Mindset Coaching

www.marshallmindset.com Brain-based tools for simple powerful change.

Hps Ellen Townsend & Kelly Lavish

www.psychicellen.com Readings/mediumship. Hps Ellen: medium, psychic, tarot. Kelly: runes.

Michael Lydon, Realization Process Practitioner

www.realizationconsulting.com SEE AD PAGE 46 Guided body-focused meditation for rapid resolution of emotional triggers.

Earthy Krunchy Snacks

www.earthykrunchy.com Vegan, gluten-free, all-natural kale chips.

Amare Global

www.amare.com/11008 Amare provides holistic solutions for wellness focusing on gutbrain-heart axis.

Gabriele Publishing House — The Word

www.gabriele-publishing-house.com SEE AD PAGE 72 Spiritual books for learning and attaining high ethical moral values.

October's Angel

www.octobersspirit.com Gentle, healing readings. Hand-painted silk items: scarves, pillows, ceremonial cloths.

202 Main St. Animal Services Hopkinton

www.mashvet.com SEE AD PAGE 17, 47 MASH is a small animal holistic and integrative veterinary practice.

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204 Moonlight and Mindfulness

401 GEMFormulas LLC

214 Optimism Plus Center for Wellness/Healing

402 Juuva

216 Village Silversmith 218 www.villagesilversmith.net 220 Best selection of minerals and crystals!

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403 Ms. Fresh Organics

www.moonlightmindfulness.com Candles, crystals, tea, and jewelry. Positive vibes and healing energy. www.optimismplus.com SEE AD PAGE 28 Akashic records, Reiki, shamanic journeys, crystal/sound healing, hypnotherapy, spiritual coaching.

www.gemformulas.com SEE AD PAGE 43 Diamond and gemstone therapy education, tools and aura sprays. www.energizeyourday.juuva.biz Natural healing products Include alkaline water, negative ions, colloidal silver. www.msfreshorganics.com Organic home and body care: accessible and affordable for all.

404 Synergy Wellness Center

301 Hug Patrol

www.hugpatrol.net/ Hug Patrol has carefully researched and intentionally designed weighted wraps/blankets.

302 A Lebro Center

www.alebrocenter.com Inutitive readings through nutritional response testing by Dr. Tony Lebro.

304 Green Compass CBD Certified Organic https://bostoncbd.greencompassglobal.com US grown and farmed certified organic CBD.

www.synergy-wellness-center.com SEE AD THIS PAGE 37 Holistic services including yoga, meditation, acupuncture, counseling, coaching, and workshops.

405 The Dr. Wanda Pratnicka Center

www.wandapratnicka.com Spirit aka entity attachment removal since 1968.

408 Dimensional Transitions

www.Dimensional-Transitions.com Quantum frequency healing using sweep scans and phase offsets.

410 The Purple Door

305 Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center 307 www.bknewengland.org

Learn meditation to live a contented and happy life. Meditation techniques will be taught at the expo.

306 Quantum Health & Wellness

www.qauntumhw.com Artwork, crystals, oracle cards, journals, incense, candles, wire wrapped jewelry.

308 Sat Healing

www.sathealing.org Nepalese singing bowls, sound therapy, Kundalini healing through tantra.

www.PurpleDoorSoulSource.com Connections! Psychic-medium "double-double" readings, how-to books, and fun tee's. www.Etsy.com/shop/HeavenlyLightCrystal Give the gift of rainbows with crystal suncatchers. www.YourVedicBotanicals.com Vedic Botanicals herbal body care products.

417 Center for Iridology

www.centerforiridology.com Become certified in iridology; a science-based assessment tool.

313 Body Logic

420 Alternative Wellness Centers

314 Aquidneck Honey

422 Black Hawk Tribal Company

www.aquidneckhoney.com Raw honey, herbal infused honey, honeycomb, ghost chili hot honey.

Learn to tap into your inner “knowing” thru Dowsing. Visit the booth to try dowsing at the expo.

318 Metamorphosis Creating the Change

www.yvonneandrewscoaching.com Health and wellness programs for you, your staff or community.

319 LaMens

www.LaMens.co Holistic healing through astrology, crystal jewelry, crystals and chakra balancing.

320 Sunshine Apothecary®

www.sunshineapothecary.com Wild crafted, all-natural healing creams, salves, teas, tinctures, oils.

321 New Earth Healings, Joanna Spano

www.JoannaSpano.com Divine touch healing, past lives, information on your angelic self. www.MayaMidwifery.org Learn about Guatemalan midwives providing health services in their local communities. Shop handmade arts from Guatemala.

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Offering quality crystals, Baltic amber jewelry, indie oracle & tarot decks, books, bath & body, teas and more.

info@mountainhollowcrystals.com www.mountainhollowcrystals.com

www.volcanicorigins.com Detox, slimming wellness and acne.

www.altwellnesscenters.com CBD massage therapy. Medical cannabis education & certification. www.BlackHawkTribalCompany.com Black Hawk Tribal Company black Indian rasta spirituality.

500 Dentistry by Dr. David

www.BoltonDental.com A dental office where we consider your overall health.

315 The American Society of Dowsers 317 www.Dowsers.org SEE AD PAGE 45

400 Maya Midwifery International

BOOTH #1204

414 Vedic Botanicals

419 Volcanic Origins Slimming Products

www.vtbodylogic.com All-natural and organic soaps and body products from Vermont.

Inspired by Metaphysical and Bohemian Lifestyles.

413 Heavenly Light Crystal Creations

310 Smart Ash Holders 409 www.smartashholder.com

Crystal grid plates, divination tools, incense holders, herbs & more.

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501 Neiman Art

www.NeimanArt.com Spirit, color and whimsy in original paintings, prints and scarves.

502 EveryBody in Mind Wellness Center 504 www.everybodymind.com

Crystal bed chakra alignment and experience the magical Ajna Light.

503 Wellness Within

www.WellnessWithin.net Where energy & medicine meet: a new pathway to healing.

506 Touch N Heal

www.touchnheal.com The therapies are designed to manage pain and illness in a natural approach.

509 Pleiadean Cosmic Healing Discs

www.cosmichealingdiscs.com This progressive technology assists you achieve deep meditation & healing.

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510 Regina's Connection

www.reginasconnection.com Everything you need to connect to your inner witch.

513 Norwex — Clean with Water!

www.lovemycloths.com Clean better with water and Norwex cloths!

514 Natural Health Pathways

www.naturalhealthpathways.net Find the root cause of dis-ease and heal naturally.

515 C.Clinton: Artist-Teacher-Healer

www.artwinewellness.com Reiki infused artwork to aid healing and creative empowerment.

516 Shaman Sisters

www.etsy.com/shop/ShamanSistersSpace Books, Oracle cards, accessories.

519 California Gold Dust

www.californiagolddust.com California Gold Dust golden mylk superfood latte & smoothie blend.

521 WonderTrack 3D Posture Measurement System www.thewondertrack.com WonderTrack 3D posture measuring system.

522 Pure Haven | Jody Chase

www.PureJody.com A full line of products, 100% free of toxins, guaranteed.

601 OM Botanical Beyond Organic Beauty

www.ombotanical.com Best in clean label beauty product. Look amazing feel great.

602 The Sanctuary Healing Therapies & Gifts

www.thesanctuarycapecod.com Gifts, aura photos, readings, reiki, classes, yoga & soul spa.

603 Metamorphysis Crystal Art

www.metamorphysis.us Beautiful, vibrant, utterly unique crystal art supports meditation, self-discovery, life!

605 Conscious Technologies LLC 607 www.conscioustechnologiesllc.com

Technologies designed to raise consciousness and promote wellbeing.

606 Brenda Edwards

www.brendaedwards.com Spiritual life coach & medium, sage, candles and spiritual tools.

608 The Healing Rose

www.thehealingroseco.com Locally made, small batch CBD products in Newburyport, MA.

611 Beverly Bees

www.beverlybees.com Local raw honey, beeswax candles, propolis, pollen, lip balm, salves.

612 Birch Maine.com

www.birchmaine.com Jewelry, spell bags, sage/smudge sticks, faerie dishes, pendulums, dragon eggs.

613 Manraaj, A Liquid Yoga Co.

www.liquidyoga.company Cherish your well-being and taste buds with Liquid Yoga, cold pressed herb juices.

618 "It's Magickal!" & Moonchild! Incredible!

717 www.itsmagickal.com SEE AD PAGE 33

Copious amounts of stunning crystals, psychic rune readings, bodywork, Reiki, Chi balancing.

700 Dancing Jaguar Inspirations

www.dancingjaguarinspirations.com SEE AD PAGE 21 Spirituality products and programs for children and their caregivers.

702 Rhys Thomas Institute — Energy Healing

www.4Dhealing.com Premier energy healing immersion training, free healings & readings, crystal bowl experience.

703 Vesta: New Vision for Divorce

www.VestaDivorce.com SEE AD PAGE 23 Navigate life before, during, and after divorce with confidence.

704 Dinno Health 706 www.DinnoHealth.com SEE AD PAGE 33

Our services include prescriptions, compounded medications, medical supplies, vitamins, supplements.

705 Jodi Dee Publishing

www.jodidee.com Books for education, social emotional development, selfimprovement & empowerment.

707 Jo Jayson Artist Teacher Author

www.JoJayson.com SEE AD PAGE 21 Intuitive artist, teacher author. Paintings, prints, readings, books, Oracle deck.

813 The Deep End

www.FindYourDeepEnd.com SEE AD PAGE 39 Astrology readings, botanicals, witchy things, classes & more.

814 Bhavna's Wellness Group

www.bhwellnessgroup.com SEE AD PAGE 11, 75 Come to receive clearings for abundance, blockages & love!

815 Relax Saunas

www.relaxsaunas.com An easy, affordable way to maintain your health.

818 Women of Wisdom 917 www.womenofwisdominc.com SEE AD PAGE 27, 71

Jewelry, natural gift items, psychic/medium readings, group healings & more!

902 Johnson Compounding & Wellness

www.naturalcompounder.com Family-owned pharmacy that believes in treating the whole you.

903 Inner Traditions, Bear and Co. 905 www.innertraditions.com SEE AD PAGE 41 907 Books for the body, mind and spirit.

906 Golden Ratio Products

712 Tibet Arts & Healing

908 Stardust Blessings Metaphysical

www.tigerlilyboutiquebotanica.com The most unique handcrafted jewelry, leathercraft, herbal medicinals, crystals & gifts! www.tibetartsandhealing.com Meditational practice materials, healing bowls, fine jewelries and meaningful gifts.

713 D Johnson Custom Drums, Instruments & Functional Art

www.djohnson-customdrums.com Handcrafted traditional instruments: drums, native style flutes, didgeridoos & custom woodcraft.

714 Heaven & Earth, LLC 716 www.HeavenAndEarthStudio.com

Wellness & metaphysical tools, Oracle cards, crystals, books, readings & more.

802 WorldTrendz LLC

www.worldtrendz.com Goddess clothing, metaphysical & spiritual artifacts, Turkish lamps.

803 Four Winds One Breath

www.4winds1breath.com Channeled holistic branding, co-creation sessions, crystal sculptures, clothing, and more.

805 InSpiral Iridology by Sunshine Beeson www.whatisiridology.com Iris analysis for physical and emotional health.

807 Organic Hemp Botanicals CBD

617 Christine Alexandria's Angel Chatter

808 Alternative Health, Inc.

www.visionoftibet.com Handmade, fairly-traded, affordable artisan crafts from the Himalayas.

www.my.doterra.com/aliciacottam doTERRA Essential Oils. Holistic options, support overall health and wellbeing. www.goldenratioproducts.com Golden Ratio glassware & ceramics which revitalize water and food. www.stardustblessingsmetaphysical.com Orgone energy technology, t-shirts and metaphysical tools.

911 Buddha Maitreya Shambhala Healing Tools 913 www.shambhalahealingtools.com

Sacred geometric meditation healing tools for personal and planetary healing.

912 Black Star Jewelry

www.blackstarjewelry.com Symbolic Himalayan healing gemstone jewelry, meditation implements and eclectic essentials.

914 Warner's Best CBD

www.warnersbest.com/shop-2/ Premium CBD at great prices, something for everyone.

918 Prism Wheel

www.prismwheeldesigns.com Patented, wearable crystal wheels, clothing and accessories.

1000 Young Living Essential Oils

www.tinyurl.com/veronicabarone Young Living essential oils and more for health and wellness.

1002 Circles of Wisdom

www.circlesofwisdom.com SEE AD PAGE 11 Books, decks, inspirational gifts & more. Learn about our classes.

1004 Beecher’s Botanicals Organic Handmade Skincare www.BeechersBotanicals.com Fresh, organic, handcrafted soaps & skincare. Voted best of Rhode Island.

1005 HBLU, Inc.

www.cbdnaturesrx.com Highest quality CBD products.

www.hblu.org SEE AD PAGE 80 HBLU is a unique, powerful mind/body/spirit healing methodology.

www.repairmyhealth.com SEE AD PAGE 49 All-natural plant based immune system rejuvenation with ZYTO scanning.

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www.millennium-products.com Ultimate in 5G protection.

711 Tigerlily Boutique & Botanica

616 WBWC, LLC/Personal Infrared Sauna

www.angelchatter.com Angelically-inspired readings and products to promote empowerment and wellbeing.

812 Millennium Products

904 doTERRA Essential Oils

www.smartazminerals.com All liquid ionic mineral dietary supplements to increase bioavailability.

806 Vision of Tibet

www.pisauna.com Forever young with the ultimate personal infrared sauna.

www.BCVibrantHealth.com Whole body vibration: exercise and therapy for body & mind.

708 Smart A-Z Minerals

614 Intentions Jewelry

www.intentionsjewelry.com Swarovski crystal & natural gemstone bracelets infused with energy.

811 Vibrant Health with Becky Chambers

1006 Akashaman — Akashic Record Readings

www.akashaman.com Akashic records reader, teacher & speaker, Jason Antalek – Akashaman.

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1007 Wire Wrapping Creations

1122 Rootology

1008 Hawaiian Moon

1200 B3 Balm

1011 Designs by Frederique

1202 Seacret Lifestyle

1012 Taoist Institute of TCM, Inc 1111 www.wuhealing.com SEE AD PAGE 35

1203 Jahmu Organic Turmeric-Ginger Chai Mixes

Facebook.com/wirewrappingcreations Wire wrapping jewelry made with healing crystals. www.aloecream.biz Say good-bye to dry skin with Hawaiian Moon organic aloe! www.DesignsbyFrederique.com Hand painted gifts.

1014 Ascension Institute Mystery School, Inc.

www.MaureenStGermain.com SEE AD PAGE 33 Akashic records guide & author. Learn healing tools, free CD.

1016 Alimtox Full Body Detox 1018 www.alimtox.com

Alimtox ion generator offers a detox at the cellular level.

1017 Scalar Light Healing

www.scalarlight.com The miracle of Scalar Light healing.

www.jahmu.com Get turmeric and ginger into your daily routine!

1204 Mountain Hollow Crystals®

www.mountainhollowcrystals.com SEE AD PAGE 37 Crystals and other goods inspired by metaphysical and bohemian lifestyles.

1205 Just Bee & Me

www.justbeeandme.com Eco-friendly bee inspired cards, journals, mugs, coasters, tea towels & onesies.

1207 Total Life Energy Plan

1100 Spirit of Change Magazine

www.SpiritofChange.org New England’s largest holistic publication. Pick up a free copy; current and achieve editions will be available.

1102 Diamonds And Dinosaurs 1201 www.DiamondsAndDinosaurs.com

Crystals, tumbled stones, hearts, spheres, sterling gemstone jewelry, unique gifts.

1103 CBD Please — Clean & Potent Products

www.CBDplease.com Hemp buds, CBD, CBN, DELTA 8, CBG tested clean and potent.

1104 Whole Harmony Tonics | Teas 1106 www.wholeharmony.com

www.TotalLifeEnergyPlan.com A must-have selfcare/self-healing system for fatigue (ME/CFS), pain, overweight, optimal health.

1213 Beeline Skin Care 1215 www.beelineskincare.com

Handcrafted natural skin care made with honey from local beekeepers.

1217 Renewal By Andersen

www.renewalbyandersen.com Custom, energy-efficient replacement windows and doors.

1219 Energy Almanac

www.TheEnergyAlmanac.com Astrology insights and tarot readings and tons of free smiles.

Plant medicine tonics and teas.

1300 Rebels and Outlaws

1105 Release Well-Being Center, Inc

www.ReleaseWellBeingCenter.com Holistic approaches to practice self-care for sustainable and optimal well-being!

1107 Metrowest Thermal Imaging

www.mythermography.com Medical thermal imaging of body and breast addressing health proactively.

1110 Windsoul Wellness Center 1209 www.windsoulwellnesscenter.com

www.rebelsandoutlawsnyc.com Fragrance formulations or help you focus or an unguided recharge.

1400 Peaceful Creations

www.facebook.com/peacefulcreations333 Holistic energy and wellness group providing integrative essential therapies.

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Crystals, singing-bowls, jewelry, malas, tongue-drums, Reiki and holistic health services.

1113 Sacred Haven Living & Angel Dawning

www.CarolynMcGee.com SEE ADS PAGES 15, 39,72 Intuitive, angel and animal guidance for sacred connection and living.

1114 Crystal Concentrics — Portal Gallery 1116 www.CrystalConcentrics.com SEE AD PAGE 15, 74

Specializing in fine crystals, jewelry for both novice and connoisseur.

1115 HealthyLine 1117 www.healthyline.com

Seating is available inside to dine, however we recommend planning your lunch before or after the traditional midday lunch-rush.

FOOD VENDORS INSIDE 613 Manrajj, A Liquid Yoga Company

Cold pressed herb juices using Ayurvedic ingredients.

1301 LalaJava

Hot and Iced beverages, breakfast pastry, soups & salads

1302 Fired Up!

Crispy wood fired pizza with a gluten free crust option.

Far infrared heating mats with gemstones and PEMF.

1303 Rice Violet Thai Cuisine

A unique, modern Thai kitchen and vegetarian bistro.

1118 Rebecca Austill-Clausen, After-Death Communication

www.RebeccaAustillClausen.com SEE AD PAGE 49 After-death communication online classes, Reiki training, author of Change Maker. www.aislingorganics.com Revolutionary line of high-performance and organic makeup. Local company.

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www.b3balm.com All natural, clean, hand-curated skincare. www.seacretdirect.com/kassipitassi Molecular hydrogen wellness and dead sea mud and minerals anti-aging.

Wu Healing Center.

1120 Aisling Organics *Local Company*

www.rootologyhealth.com Fast acting, natural sinus, nasal & allergy relief.

1304 TC Scoops Ice Cream 1305 Timi’s Greek Foods

Handmade Greek and Middle Eastern foods made from fresh, quality ingredients.

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u 8:00am

Create Your Own Sacred Haven SALON E

Ticket Sales Begin

Carolyn McGee Sacred Haven is where myth, reality and imagination come together to allow our visions to become reality. Learn to create a world filled with magic, mystery and awe that supports your inner wisdom to make empowered decisions and take inspired action. Allow the wisdom of your soul to guide you confidently and gracefully to your heart’s desire.

REGISTRATION BOOTH IN THE EXHIBIT HALL Pick up tickets ordered in advance with Natural Living Expo tote or purchase $25 weekend pass tickets at the door. .........................................................................

Live Music TRADE CENTER ENTRANCE

Creatrix Carolyn McGee is the architect of the Sacred Haven Community & Offerings, which includes North Carolina retreats, virtual gatherings, empowering workshops, private coaching, and soul-nurturing VIP weekends for women ready to connect with their inner wisdom, discover the power of nature’s cycles, and create a life that lights them up. As a master intuitive teacher and coach, Carolyn is the creator of the Soul Clarity System, specializing in amplifying your intuitive superpower. Visit Healing Through the Heart booth #1113.

u 9:00am Exhibit Hall Opens

u 10:00am Spiritual Wisdom on Conquering Fear SALON C

Ellie Malick and Mark Lopatosky How do we keep a calm heart in a chaotic world? How do we realize and demonstrate our inner strengths, courage and love in today’s changing times? This workshop will share spiritual techniques and exercises that can help us experience an inner peace and know more about ourselves as spiritual beings. We will talk about how soul travel, dreams and past lives influence who we are now.

Ellie Malick and Mark Lopatosky have extensive experience giving workshops on techniques to help people become more aware of spirituality in daily life. Both are long time members of the Eckankar clergy. Visit Eckankar booth #30. .........................................................................

Worry No More: Shifting Your Story From Worry To Calm DUCHESS

Carrie Vinson We are flooded with daily thoughts, many of which tend to be negative.

Once we have greater awareness that our thoughts are influenced by our beliefs and experiences, we have more influence over shifting our thoughts, and therefore our experience. This presentation explains this concept in greater detail and offers three strategies in which you can immediately shift your experience away from worry and toward a greater sense of calm. You will leave feeling more grounded and empowered in your thoughts and emotions.

Carrie Vinson is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and professionally trained life coach who has practiced for nearly 20 years. She treats individual adult clients specializing in mood, anxiety and adjustment disorders. Carrie is the creator of Shifting Stories: Worry, a deck of cards that offers strategies in managing one’s worry. Visit The Worry Deck by Carrie Vinson, LICSW booth #1.

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u 10:30am Banish Phobias, Fears and Traumas SALON A

Judith A. Swack, Ph.D Do you have a fear of flying, heights, public speaking or other phobias that get in your way of success? The good news is you can heal phobias in minutes and not have to avoid what you are afraid of ever again! In this class you’ll learn the Natural Bio-Destressing technique, the amazingly effective and natural way to quickly and reliably activate the body’s natural calming reflex, thus quickly and permanently eliminating phobic and traumatic reactions.

Judith A. Swack, PhD, originator of Healing From the Body Level Up™ (HBLU) methodology is a biochemist/immunologist, Master NLP practitioner, certified hypnotherapist, mind/body healer, visionary and leader in the field of energy psychology. Dr. Swack has presented her dramatic results live on national television and at international conferences. She is a best-selling author and has a private practice in Needham, MA offering individual sessions in person,

by Skype or telephone. Visit Healing From the Body Level Up booth #1005. .........................................................................

Change Your Energy, Change Your Life with EFT PRINCESS

Tina Marian Thoughts become things. If you want to attract better things in life, it is necessary to release negative thoughts and limiting beliefs that stand in the way. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is the fastest way to release this subconscious resistance. Join in for a discussion and demonstration.

Tina Maria has been a nurse since 1974 and has studied numerous techniques of energy medicine beginning in 2006. She is an expert in the art and application of EFT, provides workshops teaching EFT and has helped hundreds of people along the way.

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Introduction to Jin Shin Jyutsu SALON D

Karen McCarthy Jin Shin Jyutsu is a gentle, non-invasive form of energy medicine that utilizes major energy channels within the body to restore balance. You can use Jin Shin Jyutsu to alleviate fevers, pain, or headaches, or dis-eases like epilepsy, or cancer. It is as simple as taking a breath or holding a finger.

Karen McCarthy is a naturopathic doctor, manual therapist and owner of Balance Point located in Franklin, MA. Over the past 25 years, Karen has helped her clients bring the mind and body back to awareness, action, empowerment, rejuvenation — and harmony. Her practice is focused on identifying the underlying root cause of disharmonies while simultaneously empowering and educating clients with hands-on healing tools. .........................................................................

Astrology Insights for the Year Ahead DUCHESS

Tam Veilleux Find out how astrology has affected 2020, 2021, and what it will do in the year ahead. Discover the meaning behind the numerology of the year, which planets will influence us and what the three main tools are that can help you keep your cool. Enjoy Tam’s live sketching as she helps you connect the dots between the Age of Aquarius and your part in the plan.

Tam Veilleux is a quantum lifestyle coach, and publisher of The Energy Almanac, a holistic guide that offers weekly astrological insights. Her passion is for helping people who are struggling with stagnation to and evolve to their greatest version of themselves with the aid of applied astrology. Visit Astrology & Tarot Insights #1219.

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u 12:00pm Inflammation: Why You Have It and What You Can Do About It Naturally SALON C

Gary Kracoff Inflammation is the underlying cause of most of our chronic health conditions and is preventable and reversible in most cases. Learn about the many things you can do to become aware of inflammation in your body, and how to support your body in decreasing it.

Gary Kracoff is a registered pharmacist with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine, and a board member for the National Center for Homeopathy. A pharmacist and manager at Johnson Compounding & Wellness in Waltham, MA, his philosophy is to treat the person as a whole, not chase symptoms. Visit Johnson Compounding and Wellness #902. .........................................................................

The 3Panel Guide: We Are What We Think SALON E

Stephen Reinhart The 3Panel Guide is a customized tool for daily use to help you manifest your goals by connecting your past, present and future to your intuition.

Identify your strengths to help focus on your goals with confidence with the personalized 3Panel Guide you will receive in this workshop.

Stephen Reinhart is an Akashic Records consultant, shamanic Reiki Master Teacher, sound and crystal healer, hypnotherapist, motivational speaker and a spiritual and executive coach. He has been involved with energy healing since 1979, influenced by his extensive travels in the Far East. Stephen’s interactive workshops incorporate positive-thinking imagery, creative visualization and pure optimism. Visit Optimism Plus, LLC booth #214. .........................................................................

Discover How to Find Your Food Freedom!

SEMINAR

Lisa Dahl Have you spent a lifetime dieting, believing your self-worth and health were tied to a number on the scale? Come learn how to remove the diet mentality, and understand how Intuitive Eating, body neutrality and mindfulness can reduce emotional eating and break the diet cycle. This change in mindset is a sustainable way to feel happy, healthy and confident at any size. Ditch the diet and focus on progress, not perfection.

Lisa Dahl is a certified Intuitive Eating and body image health coach, who helps women make peace with their food and body. Lisa teaches women to trust, listen and respect their bodies to be happy, healthy and confident at any size. Lisa has certifications in Intuitive Eating, wellness coaching, personal training and group facilitation. Visit Lisa Dahl Wellness booth #34.

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u 12:30pm

u 2:00pm

Crystal Bowl Chakra Healing to Attune Your Intuitive Channels

The Intimate Skin-Gut Connection: The Path to Perfect Skin and a Beautiful Gut

SALON A

Rhys Thomas Join master healer Rhys Thomas for an eye opening demonstration to experience for yourself how energy flows through your body to guide and heal you. Learn how to tune into your spiritual energy to transform any aspect of your life using four different energy healing techniques you can use daily. Liberate your inner healing gifts, clairvoyance, clairsentience, and claircognizance so you can heal faster, love deeper, and align your life with your soul’s purpose.

Rhys Thomas is a visionary author, speaker, trainer and coach in the personal growth and energy medicine field. He has impacted the lives of thousands of people through his videos, speaking events and programs. He is the founder of the Rhys Thomas Institute of Energy Medicine and the author of the international best-selling book Discover Your Purpose: How to Use the 5 Life Purpose Profiles to Unlock Your Hidden Potential and Live the Life You Were Meant to Live. Visit Rhys Thomas Institute booth #702. .........................................................................

Learn the Diamond Blueprint Method SALON D

Isabelle Morton Explore an effective way to call forth your inner blueprints of optimal health and function using principles of healing diamonds, and enjoy powerful self-protection whenever you need it. We'll practice this technique in the workshop. You'll also get an overview of the unique effects of healing diamonds and how they support in-person and remote healing sessions, as well as self-therapy.

Isabelle Morton is an author, instructor, inventor, intuitive and entrepreneur. She has taken crystal healing into the 21st century by developing innovations that include symbiotic gemstones, advanced cleansing methods, and sophisticated applications that are worlds beyond crystal layouts. As the founder of the Gemstone Therapy Institute, she teaches classes for beginners and also provides five years of college-level diamond and gemstone training for those on the certification track. Visit GEMFormulas, LLC booth #401. .........................................................................

Top Strategies For Finding Love PRINCESS

Susan Trotter Learn the secrets to finding and sustaining love, and having more fun in the process. You can become more confident in your search for love and healthier relationships by shifting your mindset about dating, learning how to navigate the dating world, and understanding how to develop a happy, healthy relationship. Achieve greater joy, satisfaction and success in your life.

Susan Trotter, Ph.D., is a relationship coach who is passionate about helping people to feel more confident and empowered in their relationships and all areas of their lives. Her specialties include dating, relationships, divorce, mindset and communication.

Susan has her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and was a therapist for over 20 years. Her extensive background in psychology, therapy and coaching gives her a unique perspective in helping people. Visit Vesta: A New Vision For Divorce booth #703. .........................................................................

The World Is Ready and the Children Are Waiting DUCHESS

Eva Goulette When children become aware of their internal energy system, they are able to understand on a deeper level what is meant by the expression “the web of life.” We can empower them with knowledge and wisdom that has typically only been shared with adults for millennia. As these children grow up into adults who comprehend a balance of mind, body and spirit, we can begin to imagine a different kind of world, a compassionate one in which we can all thrive.

Eva Goulette is the founder of Dancing Jaguar’s Spirit Camp, a program designed for to teach children how to balance mind, body and spirit. Eva shares her Spirit Camp curriculum with adults through her Spirit Camp Teacher Training Program. Her mission is to empower and inspire the children of today so they can create the world of tomorrow. Visit Dancing Jaguar Inspirations booth #502.

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Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren These two important body organs are surprisingly more entangled than one would think! Learn how you can support the integrity of your skin and gut at the same time, while eliminating the risks and fears of both skin and gut cancer. Discover simple lab tests that will guide your selfcare and measure your success. Restore your vitality and stop chronic disease by utilizing individualized nutritional and lifestyle choices to slow down your body’s degenerative processes.

Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren, MD, DC, (aka “Dr. T”) is a board-certified licensed nutritionist, who lectures internationally to doctors about medical innovations, cancer, digestive disorders and skin health. His non-invasive, esthetic method to eliminate skin/mucous lesions is highly effective, with the proceeds supporting orphanages to prevent child trafficking in Nepal. Visit Ecopolitan booth #23. .........................................................................

Welcome to Centering Meditation and Empathic Defense PRINCESS

Jeff Nelson If you have trouble coping with crowds, don’t have the ability to block out others’ emotions, or experience stress when faced with choices, learn how to create an inner sanctum within your psyche that will afford you protection and peace during these troubled times. This is a guided meditation with handouts provided so you can continue your work at home.

Jeff Nelson is an ordained psychic Reiki Master. He reads and teaches the Elder Futhark runes, using them for amazing distance healing of physical, emotional and spiritual natures through the use of his own style of Rune Reiki. Jeff teaches Modern Rune Basics, Rune Reiki, Channeling for Beginners, and more. Visit “It’s Magickal!” booths #618 & 717. .........................................................................

The Mysteries of Water — and You! SEMINAR

Halsey Snow You are a water being, and water is not understood by science, even to this day. Raise your water consciousness through understanding how structured water (water in its natural state) is essential to your health and how this is different from all other water. Learn how sacred geometry — the golden ratio — as found throughout nature affects the energetic vitality of food and water. View stunning images of the pioneering work of Dr. Masaru Emoto on the crystalline structure of water, and water’s ability to respond to human intention.

Halsey Snow is a golden ratio educator, a transformational channel, and a student of water.

He has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and is certified in MariEl energy healing and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). His company, Golden Ratio Products, brings innovative new technologies in harmony with nature into everyday life, including glassware created by Nature’s Design Products of Switzerland. Visit booth #906.

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Katie Malloy Ramaci Discover the benefits from knowing where you’ve been, how you lived and what you are here to learn by experiencing a past life regression.

Utilizing hypnosis, we will take a guided journey to reconnect to latent talents, uncover patterns, heal issues, gain perspective about relationships, and find insights into your present life’s path. Explore your past to better understand your present.

Katie Malloy Ramaci, CHT, is an advanced hypnotherapist and certified master instructor with the IACT. She is a powerful healing professional with 25 years of experience in many healing modalities including Usui, Holy Fire and Karuna Reikis, IET, Magnified Healing, shamanism and more. Katie is the owner of Women of Wisdom Store and Holistic Center in Easton, MA. Visit Women of Wisdom booths #818 & 917.

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Instant Pain Elimination SALON D

Ming Wu Experience how tui na and qigong healing are effective for headaches, neck pain, bursitis, fibromyalgia, back pain, herniated disk, knee problems, bone spurs and more.

Dr. Ming Wu, Ph.D., is a doctor of Chinese Medicine and a 20th generation practitioner of Fengyang Taoist Chinese Medicine — the only one teaching in the United States. He is also a Master practitioner of tai chi and qigong, having studied in China and the US for over 40 years. Dr. Wu has studied Fengyang Chinese Medicine his whole life, beginning training with his father Mu Qing Wu (19th generation Fengyang Medicine practitioner) when he was 7 years old. He is the director of Wu Healing Centers in W. Hartford, CT and Maynard, MA. Visit Wu Healing Center booth #1012 & 1011. .........................................................................

Inner Strength In Times of Conflict and Challenges PRINCESS

Rita Cleary In times of conflict and challenges the most important thing needed is to keep our minds in a state of calm and clarity. In order to do this, there needs to be inner preparation so that we don't react from a space of anger, fear or resentment. In this talk you will learn methods to keep the mind calm, cool, and clear in all situations.

Rita Cleary has served as the founder of The Learning Circle and The Visions of A Better World Foundation. She is also a founding partner of The Society for Organizational Learning, and Images and Voices of Hope Media Project.Rita now serves as the Co-Coordinator of Brahma Kumaris New England. She has been a meditator and a spiritual teacher for more than 30 years. Visit Brahma Kumaris Learning Center for Peace booth #305-307. .........................................................................

The Sacred Feminine Is Gifting Us A New Dawn of Hope DUCHESS

Jo Jayson We are entering into a new portal of frequency — one of hope, compassion and co-operation. With over a decade of working with the feminine aspect of the divine through channeling this energy through art and other mediums, Jo Jayson has witnessed the rise of the sacred feminine as part of the universal plan. In this discussion, explore what is changing around us and why, and how this affects your own life, mass consciousness, and the specifics of what is being asked of us all.

Born in the UK, Jo Jayson is a self-taught intuitive painter. She completed her much-loved “Goddess Chakra” and “Sacred Feminine” series of paintings, as well as her award-winning book Self-Love Through the Sacred Feminine, and bestselling Sacred Feminine Oracle deck. Jo has worked as a professional intuitive artist and teacher for 12 years, and continues to heal, inspire and empower women all over the world. Visit Jo Jayson booth #707.

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Maureen St. Germain The Akashic Records hold energies and information from the past, present and possible futures. Working through this field that resides outside of 3D experience, explore how the tools of manifestation, sacred geometry and the Akashic Records can lead you to achieve your heart’s desire for a happy, healthy, wealthy and wise new you.

Maureen St. Germain is a mystic, channel of the ascended masters, and founder of Akashic Records Guides International. Since 1994, she has taught about ascension mysteries, sacred geometry, meditation, manifestation and other awareness tools worldwide, resulting in empowerment and transformation. Her numerous published works have been translated into seven languages. Visit Maureen St. Germain booth #1014.

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Build Strong Immunity To Heal Your Body, Mind And Spirit With Golden Light SALON E

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Bhavna Srivastava Experience a 30-minute immunity booster healing with Golden Light.

Begin with clearing and understanding your sickness, then allow Bhavna to channel a love vibration through your body that will energetically raise your vibration, leaving you happier, healthier and more harmonious.

Bhavna Srivastava, creator of Golden Light Healing, is a transformational coach, speaker, spiritual trainer and Mastermind facilitator. She works with individuals and groups to awaken the light in each person to support the release of trauma and shift into the higher vibration of love. Her mission is to create a ripple effect of love in the hearts of millions around the world. Visit Bhavna’s Wellness Group booth #814. .........................................................................

The Anti-Diet Body-Peace Path SEMINAR

Healing Messages From Above

Nina Manolson If you’ve tried every diet, nothing’s worked long term, and you still don’t feel good in your body, it’s time for a new path. This highly interactive workshop is for savvy women who want to stop the constant refrain of “I shouldn’t have eaten that” and “I just need to lose those last pounds.”

Learn how to create a sustainable, positive and nourishing relationship with your body — for real.

Nina Manolson, MA, NBC-HWC, founder of Nourished Woman Nation, helps women end their war with food and make peace with their body as a relationship counselor, holistic health coach and body-trust provider. She’s the creator of the Body-Peace Map, which helps women shift from body hate and self-criticism into body-ease, body-trust and body-peace. See Portal Crystal Gallery booth #1114-1116.

Bonnie Page Come with an open heart and watch the miracle of life and love as Bonnie, known as the Demonstrating Medium, delivers messages from Heaven to audience members with compassion and sensitivity. Bonnie’s readings offer evidential proof that life goes on, and your loved ones are never far away, safe and happy on the other side. The session will end with a brief meditation, where each person has a chance to meet their loved one.

Bonnie Page is an internationally trained psychic medium and healer. She is a fourth generation natural born medium on her mother’s side of the family. Bonnie is the author of Ask the Medium Next Door and columnist of “Ask the Psychic,” as well as the owner of Mystical Magical Marketplace in Winchendon, MA. She also teaches at the prestigious Lily Dale Assembly, as well as giving talks and classes throughout New England. Visit Medium Bonnie Page booth #28. .........................................................................

Energize and Release From Your Seat Up (Chair Yoga) SALON D

Sherri Snyder Yoga can be still and it can be dynamic. This workshop combines dynamic and energizing movement to release tension in the body, and breathwork to create a sense of stillness, all from your chair. Much of life’s ailments are due to the tension and toxins we hold in our body. Today’s workshop will lead you through specific poses and movement to assist in releasing so that you may also receive and sit in stillness.

Sherri Snyder is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, artist, and certified yoga instructor, how has an amazing talent of combining these elements in her workshops. Sherri is also a National Crisis Responder, has developed an Anxiety Reduction Program, and provides trainings and workshops nationally. She is an energetic and playful workshop presenter. .........................................................................

Discover How Your Health And Emotions Are Revealed in Your Eyes PRINCESS

Sunshine Beeson Viewing live iris slides, attendees will gain an understanding of the vast amount of pertinent information that the iris of the eye holds. Every physiological system as well as emotional patterns and imprints are linked from the limbic system in the brain onto the iris. Iridology can detect inflammation, stress, anxiety, allergies, low self-esteem, skin problems and more. Would you like to uncover your own personal story in your eyes?

Sunshine Beeson is an iridologist and holistic health coach in Carlisle, MA, who has studied many healing modalities including nutrition, herbs, aromatherapy, alchemical hypnotherapy, emotional release work and counseling, just to name a few. She also leads spiritual retreats for women. Visit InSpiral Iridology booth #805. .........................................................................

Create a Screen-free Home of Learning DUCHESS

Jodi Dee Create your own screen free home of learning! Follow best practices of accredited centers right at home in setting up small learning spaces for years of fun and discovery. Author and mother of three Jodi Dee will share the learning domains of a child, how to target these each day, and 12 learning spaces you can set up at home with recommended toys, equipment, books, materials and resources.

Author Jodi Dee is a multi-award-winning author, regular columnist for Bay State Parent Magazine, and an avid blogger. She is the mother of three, with more than twenty years of experience in early childhood and education. Jodi has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & History, and a Master’s in Education from Clark University. She is a passionate advocate and teacher of self-love, emotional maturity, early childhood education, and empowering children to learn through creativity, independence, self-exploration and discovery. Visit Jodi Dee Publishing booth #705.

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SUNDAY EVENTS Saturday Expo Hours: 9:30am-5:30pm

All workshops are held in the hotel and are 60 minutes unless noted otherwise.

Workshop seating is limited to 50% of room capacity and is available on a first come basis.

Please respect the instructions of the expo staff regarding full capacity.

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u 10:00am The Sacred Medicine Wheel: A New Perspective SALON C

Rosanne Romiglio-Ashley Would you like to create your own sacred space to support faith and healing in your life? Walk around the medicine wheel and share the teachings from both a Native and Christian perspective. Come and learn to weave this sacred connection and integrate these teachings into your daily life to heal yourself and our world. We live life on a spiral path; the Wheel of Life has much to teach you.

Rosanne Romiglio-Ashley’s ancestral heritage is a melding of Mik’maq, Maliseet (Algonquin) and Blackfoot descent, as well as French Canadian and Italian. A versatile artist and ordained minister, she is the owner of Four Winds One Breath, and creates paintings, sculptures, jewelry and clothing designs. The messages from her ancestors speak through her and her work, and are meant to open hearts to reconnect us to Mother Earth. Visit Four Winds One Breath #803. .........................................................................

Science and Dowsing — Who Answers When I Dowse?

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Marty Lucas We don't need magic or mysticism to understand dowsing. History shows us people have dowsed for thousands of years. Only recently has science advanced enough to start explaining how. Discover a scientific basis for dowsing, muscle testing and applied kinesiology in this short presentation.

The American Society of Dowsers has been the premier dowsing organization in North America for over 60 years.Marty Lucas is a past president and trustee of ASD, and the United States Psychotronics Association. He is a full time radionic practitioner, teacher and consultant, with one of the largest radionic laboratories in the Midwest. He uses dowsing in his work, his life and on his small organic farm, and is known for conveying complex information in an interesting and easy to understand manner. Visit American Society of Dowsers booth #315-317.

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Nutrition Response Testing: Healing with Whole Food Nutrition

Meditations to Activate Your Personal Merkaba SEMINAR

William Gee The Personal Merkaba Meditation combines the research of Drunvalo Melchizedek and Robert Detzler, which raises the vibrational energy of the mind body connection that helps expand your awareness from third dimensional to fourth dimensional thinking and beyond. Explore how to combine ancient energetic technology with the channeled messages from our own soul records for a truly unique meditative experience.

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Charlene McCullough Nutrition Response Testing is a non-invasive system of analyzing the body, using the body’s reflexes to determine the underlying causes of ill or non-optimum health. The body can heal itself if we remove the toxins and give the right amount of nutrients the body needs to bring about healing and health changes naturally, exactly as nature intended. Learn how Nutrition Response Testing can help you identify which foods and body products will affect your health in positive and negative ways, and what you can do to stay healthy!

Bill Gee has nearly 20 years of experience working with soul energy, is the author of three books and is co-creator of the Time Temple Charts. He is co-owner of Vital Bioenergetics, located in Rutland, VT, where he works one-on-one with clients from all over the world to help them clear their blocking soul programs so they can live their very best lives. Visit Vital Bioenergetics booth #20.

Charlene McCullough is the owner and practitioner of Natural Health Pathways in Sudbury, MA. She is Certified and Advanced Clinically Trained, and a teacher of Nutrition Response Testing. She has a Masters in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, and brings the most advanced training in natural healing. Visit Natural Health Pathways booth #514. .........................................................................

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Chi Reactivation Power Up Meditation PRINCESS

Drawing in Spirit SALON A

Nancy Smith In this demonstration of mediumship, Rev. Nancy Smith will bring through loved ones in spirit as she describes them and draws their likeness. This popular demonstration uses channeled images of your loved one’s face to prove the continuity of life.

Reverend Nancy Smith is a practicing spiritual medium and energy worker in the New England area. She is a spiritualist minister with the Spiritualists’ National Union Church and lectures, teaches and demonstrates mediumship at Spiritualist churches throughout New England. Nancy is the author and illustrator of the Nautilus award winner Divine Love Affair: An Akashic Journey, and Make a Magic Wish, an illustrated award winning children’s book. Visit Angelscapes booth #36.

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Holly Morrow Are you ready for a life lift? Through this simple guided meditation, Holly will reactivate your dormant chi to open you up to amplified frequencies.

She will take you into a deeper, higher, and more relaxed state where profound, spontaneous healings can occur. She will also share her technique for accessing your soul's intention to create more abundance and fulfillment to manifest your best life.

Holly Eden Morrow is a soul guide, author, channel, medical intuitive, and energetic artist, who has traveled the world doing intuitive workshops and soul sessions. She recently published “The Bridge: Your 30-Day Guided Journey of Self-Discovery & Fulfillment,” complete with 24 original voiceover recorded meditations. It is her joy to teach people how to access their gifts to create more passion and potential. Visit Blu-Eden booth #3.

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Nurture Your Emotional Wellness

Health Benefits of Honey, Beeswax and Products From the Hive

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Harmeet Kaur Are you at a point in your life where you feel stuck in your personal and/ or professional life, and it is negatively affecting your emotional well-being? Join in an interactive conversation where I share my manifestation of emotional freedom through divine guidance and show you how to tap into yours. Because you are a miracle waiting to happen!

Harmeet Kaur is a lighthearted wellness advocate, who has transformed many lives through her metaphysical business of over 17 years. Guided by the Universe to see life from a kinder, more sensitive perspective, and raised by her parents with a keen sense of duty and responsibility, part of her gift is sensing when people are in distress, and counseling them with reasons to believe in miracles. The more you get to know Harmeet Kaur, the more you will like her. Visit WorldTrenz, LLC booth #802.

u 12:00pm How Ozone and Ultraviolet Blood Therapy Can Help Your Immunity SALON C

Margo Roman, DVM Medical ozone and ultraviolet blood therapy treatments have been in use for over 100 years treating cancers, allergies, kidney, liver and autoimmune issues, as well as to reduce infection and biofilm in dentistry. Find out how these valuable treatments can help your pets and your own health.

A pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine since 1978, Margo Roman, DVM, operates M.A.S.H animal clinic in Hopkinton, MA, including ozone therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, MBRT, acupuncture, surgery, conventional veterinary medicine and more. Visit Main Street Animal Services of Hopkinton booth #202. .........................................................................

Reboot, Rebalance and Revision Your Life SALON E

Dianne Bischoff James Power-up your life for 2022! It’s time to release the old, stale energies of the past year and refresh your energy systems. Learn three dynamic, experiential practices to upgrade your personal operating system. Discover critical tools like tapping and daily rituals that will allow you to receive healing energies so you can find bliss, even through challenging times.

Dianne Bischoff James, MS, is a transformational life coach, author of The Real Brass Ring, tapping healer and Akashic reader, who helps others reconstruct their future for greater success and bliss. Having found herself completely off track at 40, she lost 60 pounds, left an exhausting executive career, conquered depression, navigated a healthy divorce and is now a leading authority on empowered life transformation. Visit Dianne Bischoff James booth #22.

Integrative Veterinary Care Center for Companion Animals “ You’re using integrative health for yourself and your family…your pets are family too…they deserve the best in comprehensive care.” — Dr Margo Roman DVM

Main St. Animal Services • Margo Roman, DMV 72 W. Main St, Hopkinton, MA

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Anita Deeley Honey and other bee products have been used since ancient times for a variety of ailments. Beeswax's unique properties make it perfect for skin care products and cause it to purify the air when burned. Learn about the health benefits of honey, beeswax, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and, yes, even the sting of bee venom.

Anita Deeley is the owner of Beverly Bees, a sustainable beekeeping and bee removal company in Beverly, MA. She is a biologist by training and worked as a state bee inspector for six years where she became an expert in honey bee health. Anita loves to share her enthusiasm about bees and runs educational programs. She sells her raw honey and other products. Visit Beverly Bees booth #611.

u 12:30pm Manifesting Protection And Immunity With Crystals SALON A

Kyle Russell Should crystals be cleared to avoid illness? Is it stones or people who need programming? Learn how to flourish with flu season approaching and create protection in the current COVID-19 climate. Enjoy experiential visualizations while learning about which of these remarkable tools are best suited to enhance your health and transformation.

Kyle Russell has been working with crystals since the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and classifies all stones according to his unique 10 Energy Zone system. He showcases his international CrystalConcentrics.com brand at the largest gem shows in the East and West, as well as at the Portal Crystal Gallery in Arlington, MA, and online. Kyle is the author of the 2021 hardcover volume Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Crystals for Clarity and Flow. Visit Portal Crystal Gallery booths #1114 & 1116. .........................................................................

Tips from the Angels in the Art of Being SALON D

Christine Alexandria Angels are true messengers of love and empowering energies. They offer us signs daily, but are we too busy to embrace, let alone notice them?

Oftentimes we are. When we enter the essence of BEing, magic happens.

Join Christine in the fun, informative, and empowering seminar as they remind you that BEing is the only way to walk through life.

Christine Alexandria, founder of Angel Chatter, is a sought-after angel intuitive, coach, and author. Through her channeled messages from the angelic realm and Mary Magdalene, she continues to empower women throughout the world and remind them of their goddess self.

Her exclusive product line includes crystals, books, oracle cards, sacred aromatherapy, tools and more. Visit Angel Chatter booth #617.

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Listen, Feel, Embody and Embrace Your Heart and Body’s Wisdom PRINCESS

Linda Tumbarello Experience how your heart can support you to have a more nourishing and caring relationship with yourself. Enjoy a guided relaxation time including imagery, nurturing self-touch, breathing and small movements.

Have fun learning 5-minute self-care tools to manage stress, rejuvenate and shift your moods and thinking. Bring home some simple and powerful practices to listen to your heart and body’s guidance, and build your capacity for self-love, joy and well-being.

Linda Tumbarello, LMHC, is a highly experienced psychotherapist, bodywork practitioner and trainer, Body-Mind Centering® teacher, workshop leader and author of The Heart of Self-Care: A Woman’s Guide to Joyful Living and Well-Being. She has helped many to heal from physical and emotional issues, trauma, and to find comfort and safety in their bodies. Visit Linda Tumbarello Heart of Self-Care booth #6. .........................................................................

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Philip A. Wilson has an advanced degree in mathematics and decades of experience selling health and wellness products to health-aware consumers around the world. He started selling massage tools and nutritional products at his store on High Street in Columbus, OH in 1980. See Relax Saunas booth #815.

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Pathway to Healing the Heart Through Divine Touch Healing DUCHESS

Joanna Spano When it comes to helping others who seek peace from emotional and physical pain, the most powerful tool is healing touch that comes from the heart. By working with ancient beliefs and experiences that span lifetimes, Joanna will demonstrate that sustainable relief can be gained by healing the origins of pain, sometimes with instant results through emotional release.

Joanna Spano, founder of Divine Touch Healing, is a spiritual teacher, counselor and healer, who discovered the key to all healing is through love of self. She has experience and certifications with Advanced DNA Theta Healing, Third Level Arcturian Healing Light, Pathway Process into the Heart of the Akashic Records, and Awakening the Christ Consciousness intensive training, and through divine guidance co-created Divine Touch Healing with the goal of helping others achieve higher levels of consciousness. Visit Divine Touch Healing booth #321.

u 2:00pm How Does Scalar Energy Disassemble Pathogens and Parasites?

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Tom Paladino Participants will gain an understanding of the omnipresence of scalar energy in the universe, how it is different from electromagnetic energy, and how it can be harnessed to break apart germs and chronic pathogenic diseases and increase cellular nutrition. Learn how remote scalar light treatments can improve health.

Tom Paladino is a scalar energy researcher who studied physics at San Diego State. He was inspired by the work of various scientists, especially Nikola Tesla, to develop a healing technique using scalar energy to transmute pathogens, a field in which he has independently studied for over 30 years. See Scalar Light Healing booth #1017. .........................................................................

What Are The Akashic Records & Why Do They Matter?

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Jason Antalek Your personal Akashic Record is the journey of your soul from the beginning. Learn what's available, how that can help you in your daily life, and how to get to that information about your super powers and gifts as you take a journey to your Akashic Record. Discover how you are already accessing your record, as Jason shares his experience and story with lighthearted humor and passionate enthusiasm.

Over 20 years as a DJ and another decade in the corporate world prepared Jason for a life of expression, compassion and leadership. After a motor vehicle collision in 2015 when medical science did not provide the answers he was looking for, his exploration in the Akashic Records led him to deep spiritual growth, personal understanding and a passion for helping others achieve similar fulfillment in their lives. Visit Akashaman Jason Antalek booth #1006.

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Phillip Wilson Far infrared is a special kind of healing energy emitted through saunas that can eliminate pain and inflammation. Learn how the sauna can be used to generate strong doses of resonating far infrared energy that is immediately experienced as penetrating warmth, leading to detoxing, increasing circulation and boosting alkalinity while decreasing acidity.

Rebecca Austill-Clausen Learn Rebecca’s 7-step plan to assist communication with your deceased loved ones. Listen to empowering examples of after-death communication experiences that are received in a multitude of ways. Learn about multiple resources enabling you to embark on this enlightening journey of love and connection.

Rebecca Austill-Clausen is an occupational therapist, Reiki Master teacher, inspirational speaker and author. She presents after-death communication classes online and nationwide, including presentations at Lily Dale Spiritualist Assembly and the International Association of Near Death Studies. She had no psychic experience prior to her brother’s passage, when she discovered the ability to communicate with him. Rebecca describes these inspiring events in her award-winning book: Change Maker, How My Brother’s Death Woke Up My Life. Visit After-Death Communication with Rebecca Austill-Clausen booth # 1118. .........................................................................

How To Use Essential Oils For A Pandemic SALON D

Linda Patterson Explore which essential oils and diffusers will help to kill air borne microbes and protect against infectious outbreaks such as the flu and coronavirus, as well as the importance of quality and safety precautions that will allow you to work with oils in ways that are both safe and effective. Learn about respiratory infections and how essential oils can treat irritation, kill infection and reduce the likelihood of contracting viruses through the use of steams and diffusion. All participants will experience a myriad of oils that will promote health.

Linda Patterson, MA, founder and director of the Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies, has over 30 years of experience with herbs and essential oils. Linda teaches internationally, as well as throughout New England, encompassing knowledge on a wide variety of holistic well-being and healing modalities. .........................................................................

Meditation, Death and the Beyond: Medical and Mystical Perspectives PRINCESS

Matthew Raider, MD How are near death experiences related to meditation and mysticism?

Why do NDEs resonate so powerfully within us? Hear the latest medical research and discover a simple natural method of connecting to the inner light. Experience a Jyoti meditation during this presentation.

Dr. Matthew Raider is a national speaker and a contributing author to the book Meditation as Medication for the Soul by Rajinder Singh. A clinical physician, he is currently coordinating director for the Geriatric Teaching Program in Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut. Visit Science of Spirituality booth #37.

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Using Multiple Frequency Tones for Genetic Repair DUCHESS

David Goulet Experience using an online tone sweep generator along with muscle testing to identify the best frequencies for manifesting your intention.

After identifying and saving these results, you can play them back at any time. This demonstration will be followed by a discussion about the role of frequencies in genetic repair.

David Goulet is the founder of Dimensional Transitions and has been researching energetic healing for the past six years. His unique healing modality combines muscle testing and tonal sweeps to help identify a client’s best interests. David has a MS in microbiology, AS in computer programming, and receives insight from a variety of spiritual guides from multiple galaxies. Visit Dimensional Transitions booth #408.

u 4:00pm Cannabis Unleashed: How Nature’s Valuable Herb Can Help You SALON C

Bill Downing If discovered today, cannabis would be hailed as a medical miracle.

Change is coming quickly to laws allowing the use of this most valuable medicinal herb to treat illness and injury, and as a safer way to recreate.

Explore research showing how cannabis can treat both physical and psychological issues.

Bill Downing owns CBD Please in Woburn, MA, and serves over 2000 patients. Bill has 30 years of experience as a medical cannabis patient, researcher and activist, and six years as a cannabis business owner. He was president of MassCann/NORML for 14 years and the organizer of the Boston Freedom Rally for 25 years. Currently he publishes a monthly email compendium of medical cannabis research. Visit CBD Please booth #1103. ........................................................................

Enjoy A Vibrant Life Until The Last Moment SALON E

Julia Sun Learn how to eliminate Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS), pain, and many other health problems naturally in your daily activities without any commercial products. Explore how famous centenarians in history enjoyed a vibrant and illness-free life until their last moment. Discover how common solutions for fatigue may have failed you, and damaged your body leading to long-term exhaustion and illnesses. Learn how to eliminate the risk of damage.

Juila Sun, an energy (qigong) master, researcher, author and health coach specializes in helping people suffering from fatigue (ME/CFS). Julia is the founder of the Total Life Energy Plan, a five-star “must have for all household” self care healing system that helps people energize their bodies and overcome illnesses through everyday activities. Her research enabled her to recover from many illnesses and return to the vibrant health that had eluded her for 20 years.

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MOLDAVITE PHOTO: RAPHAEL BRICKMAN

Extraterrestrial Stone On Earth

By Robert Simmons

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oldavite is a member of the tektite group, a glassy mixture of silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide and other metal oxides, with a hardness of 5.5 to 6. Its crystal system is amorphous. The color of most specimens is a deep forest green, though some pieces are pale green and others, especially those from Moravia, are greenish brown. A few rare gem grade pieces are almost an emerald green.

Moldavite’s formation coincides with the crash of a large meteorite in what is now the Bohemian plateau of the Czech Republic, approximately 14.8 million years ago. Most specimens are found strewn throughout that area. For many decades, farmers in southern Bohemia have turned up pieces of moldavite when plowing fields, and moldavite miners sift and dig through loose sand and gravel from depths of up to twenty meters. Some of the richest finds have occurred at the towns of Chlum and Slavce. A very delicate, lacy form of moldavite has been found near the village of Besednice, although this location is now exhausted. In recent years the moldavite fields have become depleted, and the stones are becoming increasingly rare.

Moldavite is the stone that initiated me into awareness of the spiritual properties of crystals and minerals, and it has been a catalyst for several of my most important spiritual experiences. It has, over the 33 years I have worked in this field, had similar effects on thousands of other people with whom I have spoken and corresponded. From my perspective, it has a special role to play in the awakening of humanity now underway.

Scientific theorists differ on hypotheses regarding moldavite’s origin. Some contend that moldavite is earthly rock melted by the heat of the meteorite crash, while others suggest that the material is of extraterrestrial origin, possibly a type of obsidian ejected by a lunar volcano.

A third theory holds that moldavite is a fusion product of meteoric material and earthly rock vaporized in the tremendous heat of the impact explosion, with the resultant gas being propelled high into the atmosphere. This gaseous material would have then cooled and condensed into a liquid glass that rained down on the crater and surrounding areas.

Regardless of which, if any, of these ideas is correct, it is known that moldavite indeed fell from the sky, because of the aerodynamic shapes of certain pieces. Most scientists associate it with the meteoric collision that formed the Bohemian plateau and surrounding mountains.

The event that gave birth to moldavite was one of tremendous power. The force of the 50 Spirit of Change | FALL/WINTER 2021

impact explosion has been estimated at six trillion megatons, far more than all the atom bombs on Earth. The heat, as mentioned above, was hot enough to vaporize rock, and the main body of the meteorite is believed to have passed completely through Earth’s crust, penetrating into the liquid iron at the planet’s core. This deep impact was described in a New York Times article as having disturbed the currents of rotating liquid iron enough to cause a reversal of Earth’s magnetic poles.

Throughout history, and even into pre-history, moldavite has been regarded as a spiritual talisman. The Neolithic peoples of Eastern Europe wore moldavite at least twenty-five thousand years ago, and the famed Venus of Willendorf — the earliest known goddess statue — was discovered in a digging site that contained a number of moldavite amulets.

People of that period also used moldavite for arrowheads and cutting tools.

Feeling The Moldavite Flush

In modern times, moldavite has emerged as one of the stones most prized for metaphysical purposes. Its effects vary widely, from mild to almost overwhelming, from physical cleansings to spiritual breakthroughs — yet the common denominator seems to be the revitalization and acceleration of one’s path of evolution.

People who hold moldavite for the first time most often experience its energy as warmth or heat, usually felt first in one’s hand and then progressively throughout the body. In some cases, there is an opening of the heart chakra, characterized by strange (though not painful) sensations in the chest, an upwelling of emotion and a flushing of the face. This has happened often enough to have earned a name — the “moldavite flush.”

Moldavite’s energies can also cause pulsations in the hand, tingling in the third eye and heart chakras, a feeling of light-headedness or dizziness, and occasionally the sense of being lifted out of one’s body. Most people feel that moldavite excites their energies and speeds their vibrations, especially for the first days or weeks, until they become acclimated to it.

Moldavite’s energies can activate any and all of the chakras. Its vibrations tend to focus in areas where one has blockages or wounds, first clearing these areas and then moving into resonance with one’s entire energetic system. Resonance with moldavite can take many forms — chakras can open; synchronicities can increase in frequency and significance; one’s dream life can become dramatically more vivid and meaningful; one can

connect with spirit guides; physical, emotional or spiritual healings can happen; jobs and relationships can change; meditations can become deeper and more powerful — yet all these can be viewed as symptoms of a shift in one’s own energies. This shift is what moldavite can catalyze. With its high and intense vibrations, it can resonate with one’s energy pattern in a way that creates an intensification of spiritual vitality and an acceleration of progress on the path of one’s highest destiny.

Moldavite is a powerful aid for meditation and dreamwork. In both cases, taping a piece of moldavite to the forehead can have the effect of creating a much more vivid and visionary inner experience. Moldavite increases one’s sensitivity to guidance, and one’s ability to discern the messages sent from the higher realms.

Used As A Spiritual Talisman

Moldavite can be a powerful catalyst for self-healing, clearing blockages and opening the meridians, as well as energizing the interconnections among all aspects of the subtle body. It is a talisman of spiritual awakening, transformation and evolutionary growth.

In addition to use in meditation and dreamwork, moldavite can be worn as jewelry.

This conveys the advantage of being able to keep its energies in one’s vibrational field throughout the day, for further strengthening of its effects. Doing this also draws an increased incidence of beneficial synchronicities into one’s daily life. Some people will have to accustom themselves gradually to wearing moldavite because of its energetic intensity, but most will make the adjustment in a few days.

Moldavite also offers an energy of spiritual protection. When one is in resonance with its high-frequency vibrations, negative energies and entities cannot connect with or hang onto one’s field. In alignment with its transformational properties, moldavite tends to disconnect one from unhealthy attachments and to magnetize the persons and situations most needed for evolutionary progress.

Moldavite tends to quickly attract whatever one’s spiritual metamorphosis requires.

It also seems to cause whatever parts of our lives no longer serve our highest good to be discharged, whether we realize the need for that or not. This reminds us of Hermes, especially in regard to the speed of the changes that occur. Hermes was a being of great speed.

He had wings on his feet, and was the messenger of the gods.

One phenomenon that displays a Trickster quality of moldavite is its apparent ability to disappear and reappear. I have experienced this many times. In a typical instance, I put my moldavite away on a dresser or in a box, only to find it gone the next day. Then, sooner or later, the moldavite will reappear, usually in a ridiculously unlikely spot. In one instance, I left my moldavite on top of my dresser in the bedroom, discovered the next day that it was gone, and found it again weeks later — in the container of one of our house plants in the living room! In the longest of these disappearances, my most treasured moldavite disappeared for fourteen years, only to be found eventually in the pocket of a pair of pants that I had never worn! For a long time, I doubted my memory, but this occurred over and over. And through the years, many people have told me their own very similar stories. There are numerous disappearing moldavite stories online.

What is the reason that moldavite performs these disappearing acts? I have thought at times that the intention behind moldavite’s disappearances may be to show us that the physical world is not necessarily as solid as we think it is. If that were proven to us, and if we accepted the evidence, the knowledge could be very liberating.

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Moldavite Is A Stone Of The Heart And Dreams

When a person first holds a piece of moldavite, he or she often feels heat, especially around the heart. As this experience unfolds, the person frequently flushes red in the cheeks. This can be accompanied by tears, signifying an emotional release. I have witnessed people holding a moldavite and being surprised by the fact that their hearts began to beat in a different way. It is not a painful event; I compare the heart’s behavior to a dog wagging its tail when it is happy. I believe the heart responds to moldavite in this way, communicating its recognition and pleasure in the presence of this stone. And of course, noldavite is green — the color of the heart chakra.

In my first powerful moldavite experience, the sensation of energy began in my right hand where I was holding the stone. Then the current went straight up my arm and into my heart. At that point, my heart chakra opened, like a blooming flower of light. And in the next moment, the light surged both downwards and upwards from my heart, opening all of my chakras.

As an incubator of dreams, this is true of moldavite more than any other stone I have worked with. If you tape a small piece of moldavite to your forehead at the location of the third eye chakra before going to bed, I guarantee that you will dream! A lot! I have tried Continued on page 53 www.spiritofchange.org

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oldavite is a mythical tektite, the official name for material made up of fused extraterrestrial and earthly ingredients. It is the result of an inter-galactic collision of meteoric materials crashing in through Earth's atmosphere and exploding onto its surface, blending with its raw materials, and then creating a tremendous amount of volcanic liquid glass that blows high up into the air. Most of it hardens before ever reaching the ground, but the extreme heat and journey through the air shapes the droplets into small planets of their own, complete with craters, nooks, crannies and folds.

For me, moldavite is a dramatic and extraordinary topic because it led me into the entire experience of working with crystals and teaching people about them.

Back in 1987, I was invited by a friend to go visit the legendary Heaven and Earth crystal shop, which was run by Robert Simmons and his wife Kathy in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

When we arrived at the shop I looked around, but nothing really caught my eye.

I wasn't even really interested in crystals yet. Robert and Kathy were both there, and as my friend milled about the tumbled stones, Robert regaled me with the tale of moldavite and how it had fallen to Earth 15 million years ago. He talked about the history, and how unique it is because it's a green color, unlike all other tektites in the rest of the world, and can be faceted (which is very cool). But what's most amazing about moldavite is when you shine a light through it, you get an incredible other worldly green color that ranges from a dull, almost brown to a rich green to a vivid, bright neon green.

After my friend made her modest purchase and we went to leave, Robert gifted me with a small piece of moldavite, which had to be worth $50 or more. I was surprised but grateful. My friend and I left, and as we were driving home on the highway, suddenly I felt an enormous vortex of energy coming from above and the universe sucking the life out of me, right though my body and into my pocket where the stone was. It felt horribly wrong so I took the stone out of my pocket and put it on the floor of the vehicle for the rest of the ride home.

That night when I went to bed, I placed the moldavite up on the mantlepiece, not far from where I was sleeping. I began to dream. In the dream, I was at the food store where I was a produce clerk, arranging vegetables at the front window. A middle-aged woman barely five feet tall with short, curly blonde hair came up outside the window and looked at me. She opened her mouth and let out a sound, the likes of which I’d never heard before. It was harrowing! I looked around to see if anyone else had heard it, but nobody did. It was unlike anything I had ever heard. And then after a pause, and to my utter amazement, I responded using the same language.

I’ve since come to recognize that sound as harmonic singing, a wordless vocalization in which a chord is created with two or more simultaneous overtones.

The Tuvan throat singers from the Himalayas do it. Back during the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, practitioners attempted harmonic singing for healing purposes through what they called “toning.”

Between what she said and what I replied, the intensity of the experience so rocked my world that I woke up and sat bolt upright and looked directly at the piece of moldavite on the mantelpiece. It was clear the stone had brought about this entire interaction. I immediately became aware of what our two-phrase conversation included. She had said, "The mother ship is over us; now would be a good time to come home.” I responded to her. "No, I'm not going. I refuse. I've been here too long."

Within days, I had more visions in my sleep, during which this drama played out further. I was asked by a strange (unknown to me) and well-dressed man to show

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up for a job interview somewhere, but I was instructed not to tell anyone where I was going. I took this to mean I was being set up for an abduction. Needless to say, I didn’t comply.

Then I had a dream where a different woman and I were in a great, big cathedral.

Although she was unknown to me, I knew she was a friend. All the organs began to play in concert, delivering a cacophonous, deafening version of the type of expression I’d heard first from the woman outside my store window. I grabbed her hand because I knew we had to get out of the building immediately. I assured her — not knowing specifically what was being said by those great organs, but comprehending the import of their sounds — that if we didn’t get out of there quickly, the entire building was going to dematerialize with us in it.

This was all very traumatic at the time and it took 30 years for me to retell these experiences without getting goosebumps. I eschewed moldavite for 20 of those years because it felt anathema to my existence here on Earth. As someone who’d chosen a terrestrial life, it felt unnatural to connect with something so otherworldly.

I’d had cancer twice, when I was 12 and 18, so I knew what it felt like to be pushed up against the veil, near death and expulsion from this mortal coil. It took some doing, but I had decided — and acted accordingly — not to cross over to the other side, and to instead stay here. Even after I was almost killed in a robbery and when one of my children was almost carried away by a rushing river — both worst-case scenarios — I managed to hold onto life with a steady stream of good luck and perseverance.

But that is not the end of my moldavite story. Within two weeks of my various transformative waking and sleeping experiences, I discovered that I suddenly knew all kinds of things about crystals! I had miraculously become what I call geo-sentient.

By that, I mean I had become sensitive to the energies of stones in a very specific way. I suddenly knew intuitively how to feel and focus crystal energies. I had gone from considering rocks inanimate and irrelevant to a deep knowledge that they can be quite impactful. They are rife with positive energies, capable of imparting benefits to our lives that are far beyond our expectations, or even comprehension.

I once named moldavite the alien messenger because it brought me key information from extraterrestrial civilizations. While that might sound completely out of this world, I'm a very grounded and logical person. Apart from that experience, I've had a pretty down-to-Earth existence here on the planet. Moldavite is here to let you know about specific high level information. However, I will caution you that a tray of moldavite is like a tray of cell phones. One might connect you to the leader of a galaxy or planet far, far away, but another might take you to the local pizzeria. It's not guaranteed that every moldavite stone you pick up is going to connect you to extraordinary sources of information. I'm very selective about the moldavites that I pick. I prefer ones that have a harmonious and balanced physical appearance, and I do like large pieces of moldavite, but each moldavite is different from every other one. There is really nothing else like it.

Excerpted from Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow by Kyle Russell. @ 2021 Kyle Russell. Reprinted with permission of the author.

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I believe that this happens because of moldavite’s affinity with the deep self, the part of us that creates our dreams.

When moldavite lends its power to one’s deep self, a flurry of inner communication comes to us through a cornucopia of dreams. Another rather surprising symptom of moldavite’s effect on our dreaming is that most of us have to remove the moldavite during the night, because we are dreaming so much that we need to take a rest from it and sleep more deeply!

For virtually all of us, the path of spiritual evolution involves healing. In alchemical terms, we need to cook ourselves so that the impurities in our energies — the disharmonious patterns in our subtle bodies — are burned away. And moldavite just loves to do that! Moldavite resonates with the pattern of our highest good — our full spiritual awakening and development. Thus, its influence moves us toward dispelling all patterns that are not in alignment with our wholeness, clearing the way for profound good health. However, the ride may sometimes be uncomfortable, just as it can be on the psychological level.

Something I experienced several times during my first years with moldavite was the onset of physical problems that turned out to be rooted in past lives. As people who work with past life therapy often observe, my physical ailments expressed similarities (at least symbolically) to traumatic past life events. Hypnotic regressions were helpful in completing my review of these patterns and letting them go, but I am convinced that the presence of moldavite is www.spiritofchange.org

what brought them to the forefront.

Sometimes, especially when one is already in the throes of an apparent illness that stems from long-held unhealthy patterns in the subtle body, the introduction of moldavite can trigger a direct and rapid healing effect. It can seem as if the stone has cured a physical illness, but in my view, the presence of moldavite has simply dislodged the stuck pattern, allowing the subtle body to clear itself and bring the physical body back to health.

If one wishes to work with moldavite as a healing stone, it is often a good idea to bring another beneficial stone (or stones) into the mix. Heartenite, seraphinite, healerite and healers’ gold are good, overall healing stones that can stabilize one’s subtle body and work to soften the intensity of moldavite. In my own past, during a time when my healing was focused on the emotional body, I found that charoite and moldavite felt best to me. I urge you to work intuitively in these types of situations, and let the stone beings tell you which ones are most appropriate.

Excerpted from The Alchemy of Stones by Robert Simmons. © 2020 Destiny Books. Reprinted with permission from the publisher Inner Traditions International.www.InnerTraditions.com.

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ho are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? Not everyone asks such questions, but some of us are driven to find the answers.

We are adept at living life in this time-space universe, but comprehending that which is one or more steps removed from this reality is not one of our specialties. We can get a sense of what lies beyond, but doing that takes as much intuition and feeling as it does intellect.

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Our universe is structured by the rules of time and space. Time-space is the nature of the reality we live in: objects appear separate and distinct — this is not that.

There is a sequence to events: past, present, and future — this happened before that. Currently, we are rooted in this reality, but there is infinitely more.

Time-space is not an illusion. It is very real on its own level. It is not bad, but our beliefs about it can color how

we perceive it to be. Can we expand our understanding and perception to more directly sense that which is beyond time-space? Yes, but our intellect will only take us so far in that pursuit. With patience and practice, and using our intuition and feelings, we can gain a deeper experience of what is normally unknown.

For centuries people have reported experiences of self-awareness detached from their physical bodies such as

experiences of near death or expanded consciousness. There have been different ways of explaining these experiences, but the underlying conclusions are the same: who we are is more than, and independent of, the collection of chemicals and electrical impulses we call our bodies. We have an unseen side. In fact, this unseen side is who we really are. We are that and we use a physical body, as opposed to, we are this physical body and thereby we have that. What is that? Probably every language in history has had at least one name for it. The most common words in English are soul and spirit.

Our understanding of the out-of-body experience, as it is often called, is far from complete. This is difficult territory for our current intellectual nature. We are steeped in the scientific method. We use instruments to collect data. We insist on repeatability.

Fortunately, scientists will continue to refine their abilities to investigate and understand extremely subtle phenomena. But some physicists readily acknowledge that there may come a time when the traditional tools of science will reach their limit of perception and become inadequate. It might not be possible to use time-space instruments to study nontime-space reality.

As long as we are attached to Earth, our ability to fully understand non-time-space will be a bit limited. Our fascination with experiencing time-space completely on its own level requires the blocking of our true unlimitedness from our human perception. Of course, we choose to do this with absolute free will. There is no coercion. If we are here, we want to be here simply because it is an incredible experience. Living a life in which the subjective experience is one of complete individuality, without the perception of the underlying oneness of all things, is extremely fascinating. In one sense, perceiving our eternal nature is not the amazing thing. The amazing thing is not perceiving it.

Finding Purpose

Living a life on Earth is all-consuming. Our lives are extremely important to us. This is by design. How should we spend our time here? Be gentle with yourself and kind to others, then do whatever you want to do. Of course, there will always be the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter, although we are free to ignore those things if we are willing to face the consequences. We are free to do or not do anything, and, when the results of our choices arrive, we will make more choices. Earth life is not about finding our one perfect activity, as if not finding it would make our life a mistake. If we are honest and caring to the best of our ability, that is a great achievement. Let your interests and talents be your guide. Clarify what you desire, then create a step-by-step plan to achieve it.

Engage each day with enthusiasm. Recognize the value in everything you do. Care, and do things well.

The challenge is that things do not always go smoothly. Sometimes, outside circumstances can make things difficult, and sometimes our own internal worries and fears can be strong. Recognizing and healing our fears is an important part of life. Do not be afraid to listen to the voice of your heart and mind. Your fears cannot harm you, and, with gentle attention, you can heal them.

Fear is whatever interferes with our internal balance. In obvious and subtle ways fear can affect how we feel and behave. Outer circumstances might be challenging, but if we pay attention to our reactions to them, we will learn much about ourselves.

Whenever we are unduly critical or harsh toward others, it is due to an underlying fear of some kind. If we see someone who looks or acts in a way that makes us overly judgmental of them, notice that reaction. Practice being accepting. Oftentimes, people are the way they are partly because of how they were raised or how they have been treated.

Certainly, we all make our own choices in every moment, but we haven't all been given the same positive influences and advantages. We don't know the internal and external struggles that others face.

It takes courage to face our challenges. When you are feeling judgmental of, or irritated with, someone take a step back and muster patience and understanding. Direct compassion toward them and say to yourself, "I love you. I support you. I bless you." Feel this softening of your heart. It will benefit both of you, especially you.

Relax

Most of us can benefit from taking more time to relax, to tune into what's going on inside. Relax one or more times a day. It can be done in minutes throughout the day.

There are fine relaxation and meditation techniques available, or, simply sit down, close your eyes, relax all your muscles, and feel what's going on in your chest area. Release the tension in your heart and lungs. With a little practice you will be able to lower your stress level within seconds. It is not difficult.

If you have fifteen or twenty minutes available, sit in a comfortable chair, or lie down if possible, close your eyes, and let go of pressing thoughts. With a few exhales of your breath, feel all the muscles in your body relax. When you exhale, let your lungs stay

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empty for several extra seconds. Do this only a few times, then breathe normally. Feel your heart rate slow down. You will feel the tension in your body melt away. If you buy a simple blood pressure monitor from a pharmacy, you will be able to measure this directly.

Relax your thinking. Be an indifferent witness to stray thoughts. They don't matter.

Notice yourself expanding, but not in a physical sense. It is not a feeling of getting larger in the room or floating upward in the room, sky, or outer space. Those are time-space concepts. Your expansion is interdimensional. Just relax and feel limitations slip away.

Relaxation is a time for simple openness. Repeat to yourself, "I am now and always open to the love and support of my whole self." Let yourself feel a sense of wholeness. Let whatever happens, happen. Even if you seem to sleep briefly, that's okay; it may not be normal sleep.

If you wish, during periods of deep relaxation, you can create quiet feelings of contentment or joyfulness. Simply think a word such as gentleness, kindness, clarity, or patience; think the word easily and then for several seconds let the underlying feeling happen without effort. This will be subtle yet potent. Try different words a few times each. Try thinking me as soul, and let soft feelings of expansion and love filter in. If you wake up in the morning a few minutes early, you can do this while you're still in bed and very relaxed. Deeper feelings will come more automatically with practice over time. Regular periods of such gently guided relaxation will benefit your daily life.

You can relax anytime, anywhere, even for just thirty seconds. When you get in your car, sit for a minute before driving. Don't turn on the radio. When you arrive at your destination, sit for a minute. You can sense calmness even while focusing on something else.

It can help to leave the television, telephone, and other devices off a little longer. Listen to yourself a little more. Keep your entertainment content kind and uplifting, not uncaring or violent. Recognize and appreciate the goodness in the people and the world around you. Keep your physical, mental, and emotional energies well balanced.

Love and Relationships

Creating loving friendships is among the most wonderful of things we can do as human beings. We are each born with a strong desire to give and receive love. This motivates us to interact and share with others. If we are careful not to dampen this impulse with intolerance or the fear of pain, it will lead us to many fulfilling experiences.

Treat those around you with respect. Be supportive and encouraging. We are all learning, so be patient and understanding whenever you are disappointed or frustrated by the actions of another. Be a calm teacher when you have the opportunity. Savor the time you spend with those close to you, and aim for unconditional love in every relationship.

Be the best that you can be, then engage with the world and let your intentions be known. Be friendly, be open, and you will create many opportunities for sharing love.

Health and Death

We are not our bodies, but our bodies are the vehicles through which we engage life in this time-space reality. Illness cannot harm who you are. It is not badness. Aging is not badness, but our attitudes about aging can color our experience of it. Death is not badness. Death is simply leaving the body and not coming back to it. When you take off a heavy coat, you are still you. We do not truly lose our loved ones through death.

Fear of aging is not helpful. What is helpful is realizing that living more years creates more opportunities to learn and teach, both with our words and as an example. Many have come to believe that aging means becoming unhappy and burdensome to our families and society. It would be more appropriate to recognize that there is much to be gained by those who help someone in need, and to appreciate the contributions that the older generation can make to our communities. Wisdom comes from years of living. Balance, empathy, and an understanding of the nature and purpose of life come from paying attention over time. When older truly is wiser, everyone benefits.

If we have strong beliefs about what happens at and after death, those beliefs can color our initial experience for better or worse. It is best to be open to letting the experience unfold without fear. Reading descriptions of near-death experiences can be helpful, but they describe just the beginning of the transition. Our brains are not designed to fully comprehend our non-time-space nature. Just let the transition happen easily.

When we decide to leave Earth, we will have developed ourselves to a very high degree.

A graduate of time-space is a highly regarded, wondrous being. Consider Earth life in the context of an infinite number of other possibilities. Contemplate this occasionally, not as an escape from the challenges of life, but as a way to more fully appreciate your timespace existence. Relax and enjoy.

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The Inconvenient Truths About Wireless Technology STEPS FOR TRANSITIONING TO SAFE TECHNOLOGY Interview with Cece Doucette

by Carol Bedrosian

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hile I’ve shared articles and reports for several years in Spirit of Change about the dangers of 5G technology, smart meters, and cell phones, I have to admit I’ve also harbored my share of tinfoil hat uneasiness. How can cell phones and wireless mobility be a bad thing? However, I feel a deep compassion for those clearly suffering from an invisible and inescapable attacker in the form of electromagnetic radiation sensitivity — the canaries in the coal mine — as the source of their illness is still a mystery to the general public.

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surgery to remove a brain tumor from behind her right eye/ear, that at least a dozen of these benign meningiomas (the majority from young adults) were removed weekly in just that one hospital! Didn’t brain tumor used to be a rare diagnosis?

Reports that cell phones cause brain cancer have circulated since cell phones first appeared, and along with them the denials. Wireless technology has brought unparalleled convenience, communication, and mobility into our lives. No one wants to give those things up.

At the same time, its domineering presence has blunted our

CAROL BEDROSIAN: What kind of science are you referring to? awareness to people, places and things outside the device box. And, now, as we are discovering, the EMF radiation emitted by wireless technology is CECE DOUCETTE: Well, we wouldn't know it, but there are literally thousands blunting our mental and physical health as well. 24/7 connectivity might not of peer-reviewed, published, scientific studies that show great biological harm. I be so healthy for humans after all, even though the much-hyped 5G rollout think the reason we don't hear about it is because we used to have maybe 50 or in our lives is touted as the fastest, the clearest, the best super highway of more mainstream media outlets in the U.S. Over recent years, we've seen that communications ever, which is supposed to be a good thing, right? many sources for investigative journalists have been bought up by the very comNo one could imagine in the 40s, 50s, or 60s that cigarettes could be bad panies that are promoting these toxic wireless products and infrastructures. So, for your health. Doctors smoked, dentists smoked, everyone smoked! Or in we don't actually get true investigative journalism on this issue anymore because the 70s that lead in water pipes, paint and gasoline could be that much of a our journalists and their network executives can't afford to bite the hand that feeds problem. But they were. First people had to become educated about these them. But when you do a little bit of investigation — I know when I did — I was problems, and then choose new behaviors. just completely astounded to find literally thousands of peer-reviewed studies that We are faced with exactly this type of watershed moment right now relink the constant pulsing of this radiation to long-term effects such as cancers garding the use of wireless technology in our lives. Should we go all in for the and DNA damage, and DNA is the roadmap to grow anything from humans to convenience a fully wired future can provide or are there some inconvenient plants, to animals. This affects not just us, but every living cell in our world. truths about 5G and wireless technology we need to know about first?

Dr. Martha Herbert, who founded the autism program at Massachusetts GenCecelia (Cece) Doucette spent eight years fundraising to bring wireless eral Hospital, has identified huge correlations between what we know scientifitechnology into her schools. Then she learned it was harmful, investigated cally happens with this microwave radiation exposure and what she sees among the non-industry funded science, and helped her children’s schools in the the children and the families for whom she cares. ADHD is linked into that, and Ashland, Massachusetts School District bewe know scientifically that electromagnetic come the first in the nation to take precauradiation is both neurotoxic and an immune There are thousands of peer-reviewed tionary measures with wireless technology suppressant. As we live here now in this era of in 2015. the COVID-19 pandemic, it's not just about studies that link the constant pulsing Since then, Cece has educated, legislated that virus. It's about doing everything we can of this radiation to long-term effects and tirelessly advocated to bring to light the as individuals to strengthen our own immune dangers of wireless technology to light by system and remove the wireless radiation. such as cancers and DNA damage. exposing the thousands of suppressed studOne of the long-term impacts that really got This affects not just us, but every ies, expert testimonies, and voices of those my attention when I started investigating this living cell in our world. suffering from EMF sickness. She established around 2012/2013, was when I started reading Massachusetts for Safe Technology to bring the reproductive science studies. They've taken communities together on this vital issue, and male human sperm and exposed it to a laptop works with schools, communities, municipalities and legislatures to address with the antennas turned on, and it changed the DNA. It slowed the motility, and wireless radiation and public health. it caused far fewer sperm to be viable with just four hours of wireless exposure.

She is also the Education Services Director with the international non-prof- And we had just given our daughter a laptop to go into high school with. Of it Wireless Education, which offers the affordable online training programs course, where was she using it, but right on top of her reproductive organs.

Schools & Families and Corporate Safety Induction. She has been featured on That was the day that I found my voice and started speaking up to my schools.

Genius of Wellness, Boston25 News, PBS, O’Dwyer’s, EMF Warriors, and in the Long-term effects aside, what the science also shows is that a lot of people are films “Generation Zapped” and “Wi-Fi Refugees.” currently suffering from microwave sickness symptoms, but they would never Blending her expert skills in technical writing with a passionate dedication think to consider whether it's connected to the exposure from their wireless to motivating others, Cece has successfully mobilized an EMF awareness technology. Microwave sicknesses can also be called electromagnetic sensitivities. movement in both public discourse and New England state legislatures. Like For those who think this may all be psychological, our own government already lead and asbestos and cigarettes and trans fats before it, we still have time to recognizes electrical sensitivities through the Americans With Disabilities Act, protect public health, but only if we identify wireless technology as a probalthough it provides little protection. lem now and take steps to remediate it.

Of the symptoms that people are experiencing right now, one of the biggest is sleep issues. The insomnia, the nightmares, night terrors — again, this is a neurotoxin. The science indicates this affects our sleep in the wee hours of darkness.

CAROL BEDROSIAN: What is EMF? What is 5G? The pineal gland in the brain is meant to release melatonin, which regulates our CECE DOUCETTE: To put it in simple terms, EMF stands for the electromagnetic sleep. It also helps to escort the toxins of the day out of our body, through the fields of radio frequency, the radiation that comes out of everything wireless. bloodstream. What the science is showing us is that this light energy form of miSome find it easier to talk about this in terms of it being microwave radiation, crowave radiation — it's invisible — but it's still pulsing all night, and our brain which it is. While I know that can be startling to those who are first learning perceives that. The brain thinks that the lights are on and it never gets to the wee about this, when we look at something called the electromagnetic spectrum, hours of darkness. And the brain doesn't release the melatonin from the pineal which shows us the waves and the wavelengths that are carrying our data back gland. Then we have this whole downstream effect that starts happening when and forth, all of this wireless technology does fall into the microwave segment we don't get good sleep. of the electromagnetic spectrum. That's probably as technical as we need to get, One of the other things that the science has indicated as a mechanism of harm but it just shows how fast these waves are coming at us and how long they are.

As we move up the range into 5G, which simply means fifth generation technol- is something called the Rouleaux effect. The way I remember it is when I was a ogy, those wavelengths are getting shorter and shorter, so they're coming at us as kid, I used to love eating the candies called Rolos — those little caramel chocolates that come in a sleeve that are all stacked up together. Well, that's kind of faster and faster pulses. It's that pulsing that the science shows is really biologiwhat's happening with our blood. For some people, when they're exposed to this cally destructive.

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radio frequency radiation, and then you look at their blood under a microscope, those red blood cells that are meant to be free-floating and oxygenating all of our biological systems are starting to magnetize and clump together like a row of these Rolos. Once you've got this whole glomming chain going on, the red blood cells can't get to where they need to be oxygenating properly. It's no wonder that so many people get headaches and nosebleeds and nausea and dizziness and anxiety.

Another effect we see is in a controlled medical setting. We know that we can use this radiofrequency radiation technology in a really positive way to stimulate stem cells, to stimulate bone cell growth. But in this now ubiquitous way that we have immersed our society in electrosmog, we have no control, we have no break unless we know how to mindfully assess what the exposures are in our environment and remove or reduce the exposures. This gives our bodies a break, which is especially during the sleeping hours; otherwise, we never get a chance to recover and repair from some of those symptoms — the headaches, the insomnia, the nosebleeds, the nausea, the dizziness.

Dr. Pal Pacher and some of his colleagues have done studies that show we have membranes in our body, including our brain, that are meant to protect sensitive areas from toxins getting in as they're being escorted out of the body through the blood. What the science shows is that our blood brain barrier is meant to protect our brain from toxins, but when we're exposed to this radio frequency microwave radiation, it can permeate that blood-brain barrier. As toxins are traveling through our blood on their way out of the body, they can take a turn and go into these sensitive tissues in our brain.

Even before the pandemic, we were literally at epidemic proportions of anxiety and depression in our country, and especially among children, no less. And what did we do during the pandemic? We gave every student, every child, a wireless device with absolutely no safe technology training. If we're seeing those numbers escalate, if we're seeing more and more children develop anxiety and depression and panic attacks and suicidal ideation, we really need to take a hard look environmentally at what we're doing to our children.

As we age our own cognitive abilities begin to decline a little bit. The science also shows that this constant pulsing of microwave radiation causes cognitive impairments. So, for all ages, we need to be very careful and choose to have safe technology. Safe technology is not rocket science. We had it about 10 years ago when we used to run all of our data signals through wires and cables.

In my house, for example, when I fell down the rabbit hole with this issue, I didn't have anybody I could talk to. And I certainly didn't want to believe that

there was anything wrong with wireless, so I kind of circled my tail for a few months as I investigated the science. But once I really looked at what this radiation is doing to us, I plucked up enough courage to say, not in my house. I have a family and it's my job to protect them. One of the first things I did was I looked at all those cordless phones — and I had probably five of them all over my house — because I had learned that is like your own private little cell tower sitting there pulsing 24/7 all day, all night. How many of us have those on our nightstands with the base station pulsing all night long? I eventually replaced those with ones that plug right into the phone and a jack in the wall, and then you have a safe landline.

The next thing that I did was I started looking at our computing technology at home. I'm a technical writer, and my tool is my PC. Fortunately, it was already hardwired, running through an Ethernet cable and plugged into the Ethernet jack in the wall. And my printer was already hooked up to my computer using another cable, so I just had to go into the printer settings and turn off all the wireless antennas. Then I went down to a box I had in the basement where my old keyboard and mouse were, and I just plugged in my old wired keyboard and mouse, and then I had perfectly safe technology.

At some point my computer must have been through a software update and there was a little WiFi signal that popped up on my computer screen. So, I just went into the settings on my computer, found where that wireless symbol was coming from, and I turned it off. It's a two-step process. You have to plug everything back in to hardwire it, and then you have to go into your device and turn off those wireless antennas.

For people who are starting fresh, the first thing they might want to do is go to wherever their router is and look at the back of the router. You'll see that there are jacks there for Ethernet cables; that's how you get started. You buy Ethernet cables. You might need to buy one big, long one. My router is down in the basement. So, you would run the cables up the walls with an electrician into whatever rooms you use technology, and then put a jack in the wall. Look for a shielded Ethernet cable, for as long as whatever length you need to reach your devices. I say shielded because another form of electromagnetic field is dirty electricity. In our building codes here in the U.S., when you do a commercial build, they have to use shielded Ethernet cable, but in residential areas they don't have to use shielded cables, which is unfortunate.

Shielding means there's a foil liner inside that Ethernet cable; what the foil liner does is prevent the electric field and the magnetic field from your electricity and your technology from bleeding out into the room. For people who become electrically sensitive, oftentimes they can feel that electromagnetic field coming off the wires in their homes. If you're going to buy any internet cable, get a

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When my daughter got to the age where she was going off to college, in her second year she got an apartment and I sent her a kit that would allow her to hardwire in her apartment. I sent her a 50 foot Ethernet cable and Ethernet switch box. She plugged in the long Ethernet cable to the switch box, and then two short cables, both of them shielded — one for her cell phone and one for her laptop. You can buy these little adapters for $20 or $30 that allow you to hardwire your cell phone, your laptop, your tablet or whatever it is that you use. I know it's not your typical care package you'd send to your college student, but I threw some chocolate in there, too.

I said, “Take a picture and let me know you've got it done.” She did me one better and videotaped from her living room where the router was. She showed me how she had taped down the long Ethernet cable from the living room through the kitchen, her hallway and into the bedroom. Then she showed me how she had plugged in the other end of the long Ethernet cable to the switch box and then plugged in the two short cables for her devices. Then she hooked those up using those little adapters. Once her devices were hard-wired, she went into her cell phone and her MacBook and she turned off all the antennas.

When I was first teaching her about this, she was in high school and, you know, she wasn't crazy to hear about it. When you're 15, you want to be just like every other kid, and you certainly don't want to be the kid of the mom who’s figuring out that wireless is harmful. She was a little reluctant to follow along with me as I was figuring this out. But here we Spirit of Change | FALL/WINTER 2021

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were, hardwiring her new apartment. After she went into her settings and turned everything off, I said, “Okay, do something and see if it's working.” And she goes, “Oh my gosh, Mom, it's so much faster!”

CAROL BEDROSIAN: How do you hardwire a cell

phone? Doesn’t this mean you cannot move away from the plug-in?

CECE DOUCETTE: That's a great question, Carol, because one of the things we need to adjust in our minds is the convenience factor. Right now, I'm talking to you on a land line. I can't get up and walk all over the house with that, so I've adjusted my behavior. With a cell phone you get to make the choice: Do I want to expose myself to radio frequency radiation for the convenience of walking around with it, or do I want to set up new behavior patterns where, maybe in my living room, I have an Ethernet cable hooked up with the adapter that goes to my cell phone?

Most of what kids do today on their phones is not making phone calls. Mostly what kids are doing is connecting with their friends and their social media outlet through the internet. And anything that you can do on the internet, you can do through a hardwired connection. What you can also do with your cell phone is forward your calls to a land line, or you can plug your phone right in and use the internet through a cable.

It's freeing not to be tethered to your cell phone all the time. It's so unhealthy for our central nervous system to be constantly at the beck and call of that

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founder, Dr. Devra Davis, is a Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate on climate change. She’s been on this issue for years and has figured out what this wireless little ping that's coming in, somebody is looking for you. They want something from you and they want it issue is. She and her executive director, Theodora now. It's just not a healthy way to live our lives. We've Scarato, sued the FCC. And at the same time, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Children's Health Defense also sued been on this all-WiFi-all-the-time honeymoon that the FCC for neglecting the science. Those two law the industry has perpetuated. And now with a little suits were combined in the federal court and they bit of education, we can say, “Hmm, there are some choices to be made here. Is it really good for me to be printed out all of this scientific evidence that was givon a device in front of a screen all the time, or know- en to the FCC. There were 11,000 pages of testimony that were given to three federal judges in 27 volumes ing what I know now, do I want to start taking my of binders. life back and taking control over what is important They had oral arguments this past January [2021] to me in my life, instead of just being at the beck and in front of these judges. After the folks suing the incall of that device all the time?”

I realize that wireless radiation harm comes out dustry had their oral arguments, then the FCC gave of left field for most people, especially when you are their oral arguments. One of the judges indicated he talking with professionals like engineers and physi- was inclined to rule against the FCC. A judge almost cists, even doctors, nurses, technologists. Most have never says that during oral arguments. He asked the FCC attorneys what only been taught due diligence they that you have to did to come to the have heat from a Do I want to start taking my life conclusion that we device before there back and taking control over what don't need to update can be any biological the public radiation is important to me in my life, risk. That's because exposure limits. The when our Federal instead of just being at the beck FCC said the Food C ommunications and call of that device all the time? and Drug AdminCommission set the istration said those public radiation exlimits are fine. So, posure limits, they set them based on this thermal factor of heat. What the judge asked what due diligence the FDA did to the science is showing is you don't have to have heat come to that conclusion.

I think they're going to be hard pressed to come in order to have harm. So, we have these radiation up with anything there because two decades ago the exposure safety limits that are really high, and the industry can keep pumping out all these infrastruc- FDA commissioned the U.S. National Toxicology ture solutions and personal devices that are throwing Program, which is part of the National Institutes off an incredible amount of these microwave pulses. of Health, to do a study to see if cell phones were Yet the science is showing that the harm is happening harmful. Twenty years ago, cell phones were using biologically at hundreds of thousands of times below 2G and 3G, which is second and third generation technology. For two decades they conducted this what the FCC is allowing as safe. study on rodents, and then they had an unprecedentThere was a federal docket opened up in 2012 or ed three-day peer-review at the National Institutes of 2013, where the Government Accountability Office Health with world-leading experts whose life's work indicated to the FCC that we need to reassess what is to investigate microwave radiation. our exposure limits are. So, the FCC opened up a At the end of that three-day peer review, the Nadocket and scientists and doctors and the public who tional Toxicology Program wrote their final report, have become ill from this, or who have lost loved ones from the glioblastoma brain tumors or acoustic and in it they concluded clear evidence of cancerous tumors and DNA damage. Clear evidence is the neuromas or thyroid cancers, or who are just simply highest of five categories that they can assign to an suffering day by day from microwave sicknesses, investigation; so, one might ask if the NTP is telling they all put their testimony into this docket, literally hundreds upon hundreds. They left that docket open us, there's clear evidence of cancerous tumors and for six years while the public got more and more sat- DNA damage, why didn't they take that and translate it into public policy to protect the public? urated in this microwave radiation. And then at the Well, there's somebody new heading up that end of the day, they closed their docket in 2019, and portion of the FDA, and it's a Dr. Jeffrey Shuren. summarized that we don't really need to change any When you dig around a little bit, you discover that of these radiation exposure limits. Once that ruling was put into something called the Federal Register, it Dr. Shuren is married to a woman who is a partner in a law firm that represents the wireless industry. was officially filed, and then the lawsuits began.

There's a huge conflict of interest with Dr. Jeffrey There's an incredible group of doctors and sciShuren. Then, when you look to see who's running entists at the Environmental Health Trust. Their

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the FCC these days, we see additional conflicts of interest; Ajit Pai, who was the FCC chairman at the time that this NTP study came out, used to be a senior lawyer for Verizon.

And his predecessor was Tom Wheeler. Tom Wheeler used to be the head of the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, which rebranded to call itself CTIA — the Wireless Association. And before that, he was the head of the cable association.

Way back in the nineties, a woman died of brain tumors, and her husband or oncologist got on “Larry King Live” to describe her unique case because her tumors were on the side of her brain where they lined up with the antennas in her cell phone instead of developing somewhere in the middle of the brain.

When this came out on “Larry King Live,” it became a public relations nightmare for the wireless industry.

So, the industry leaders stepped up and said, “This is horrible. We've got the funding. Let us do a study and see what this is all about.” They partnered with our government and they hired Dr. George Carlo, who put a team of about 200 scientists in place. They investigated for a couple of years, and at the end of their investigation, they reported back to the head of the wireless industry that the cell phone likely did kill that woman, and children are especially vulnerable because their systems are still under development.

And at that point in time back in the 90’s, rather than invoking the precautionary principle, which would lead us to get to as low as reasonably achievable with any kind of radiation, they buried Dr. Carlo’s findings. The gentleman who commissioned that study was none other than Tom Wheeler, who years later became the chairman of the FCC. So, we have huge conflict of interest with our federal agencies in the industry. And now that the industry and their parent companies have bought up all of our mainstream media, we don't hear about wireless radiation risks. But it doesn't take long to identify the science; it is readily available once you know how to look for it.

On this journey here in Massachusetts, I've had the privilege of connecting with others across the state who were also figuring this out, and may have a loved one who became ill or somebody in their family who died of the brain tumors or other cancers that develop over time. So, we have formed an organization under the umbrella of a nonprofit called Massachusetts for Safe Technology. Anybody is welcome to go www.ma4safetech.org and poke around there.

If you sign up on the website, you’ll receive notices when there are actions you can take to help transition our communities to safe technology What we're doing at the state level is having meetings with the legislature. We have 11 bills that are directly sponsored by legislators this session, and there's a handful of others that were introduced by constituents. We have bills to form a commission Spirit of Change | FALL/WINTER 2021

to get the right minds at the state level to the table and investigate this issue. We have a bill that would require every energy company to give rate payers the right to refuse the utility smart meters, because those meters that they're swapping out on our homes for water, gas, electric, and now, solar, pulse this radiation into our homes 24/7. Anybody who's on the other side of that wall — a pregnant woman, a baby or a child, an elderly person, or anybody with any kind of a health compromise, is especially vulnerable.

All the rest of us are vulnerable to this radio frequency as well. But with no informed consent, they’re swapping out these meters on our homes that used to have working, safe analog meters that the meter readers came to read every month, and then do our billing. We don't need to have these new devices pulsing at us thousands of times a day; let them pulse once a month for the reading.

Instead, what the industry is doing is data harvesting. They're harvesting our patterns, and now they're pushing 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) so that every product that we bring home will have a radio frequency transmitter in it. They're harvesting our data to capture our usage patterns on our personal private devices, which for those who care about privacy raises a huge red flag. But for those who care about our health, as well, every time you buy a new television set or a new appliance, it may have a wireless antenna in it. Or goodness, the potty seat to potty train your child, they're now encouraging you to hook up an iPad to it, so your kid can sit there and potty train and play on a computer that's radiating them. If we want technology, we can have all the technology we want, but it should be hardwired and skip the wireless.

We have a bill that's been around for several sessions to get our Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to start protecting the kids in school. We have testified before the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on a number of occasions, too. I sat with the interim commissioner one day and said, “Are you guys doing anything to protect our kids?” And he said, “We're waiting for higher authorities.” And I said, “I actually wrote EMF fact sheets with our Department of Public Health at the state level back in 2016, and I was told that they would be released to the public in three months.”

Here we are in 2021, five years later, and they have never seen the light of day.

Dr. Joel Moskowitz is the director of the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley, and he tried to get that fact sheet released too. The Department of Public Health would not release it to him, so He went to the Boston Globe editor and they reported on it. Then, instead of issuing the fact-based EMF guidance, the DPH put up an EMF page on the state’s Radiation Control Continued on page 63

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EMFs: Field Updates The Electrical Sensitivity Phenomenon

Although all humans are affected by their electrical surroundings — we are electrical beings, after all — most cannot perceive it unless the intensity is too strong. A small percentage of the population might become electrically sensitive after some overexposure and then may experience a wide range of conditions, such as racing heart, ringing in the ears, tingling or intense heat sensations in the limbs, chest constriction and dozens of others. Somewhat less than one percent of the population may become acutely and immediately affected by EMFs -- whether from the household wiring or broadcasting devices -- and may have intense discomfort or pain. These electrically hypsersensitive (EHS) folks find it very difficult to participate in society or even to have their basic needs met, especially due to the pervasive nature of cell towers and public WIFI deployment and some have had to flee their own homes.

Although we cannot yet predict who is likely to become electrically sensitive, there are five main observed precursors that lead to EHS: high electrical exposure, high chemical exposure, biological trauma (mold, Lyme, parasites), physical trauma (whiplash), a compromised immune system. It is frequently the case that a person who is chemically sensitive will also be electrically sensitive, and vice-versa. The EHS condition is legally considered a disability in some countries, thus accorded various rights for accommodation. Microwave illness was the original name given to the same condition seventy years ago when researchers started reporting military injuries with similar frequencies and power levels that we now integrate into our personal devices.

Building Biologists Make House Calls

Building Biology is a compassionate discipline that works to ensure that people live in the most healthful environments possible. Modern living involves many hazards, some obvious and some subtle. A Building Biologist is often requested to visit a home due to a resident's health challenge and then it is their mission to help identify and perhaps lessen such hazards in that home, based on decades of accumulated expertise. One of the central tenets of Building Biology is called The Precautionary Principle, in this context to err on the side of caution instead of waiting decades for full scientific confirmation of negative health effects. Building Biologists often quantify hazards using measuring instruments and then compare those values with known healthful levels, but the goal is always to holistically examine the situation and provide the necessary support to provide the best opportunity for an improved health outcome. Building Biologists also are engaged during home design, renovation planning or the construction phase to better serve the future occupants. To ensure the highest standards are met, a Building Biologist should be certified by an accredited institution. To learn more about the Building Biology discipline in the US, or to find a local expert, visit https://buildingbiologyinstitute.org/

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By Ken Gartner

The FDA/FCC Regulator Gap

One would hope that human health always remains a high priority as new technologies are deployed. Unfortunately, this is not the case and nowhere is that more evident than at the FCC and FDA agencies, which are charged with regulating devices such as cell phones, WIFI routers and such technology spinoffs as might appear in homes, cars and schools. These agencies have continually shrugged apologetically that they have insufficient authority, even as many thousands of scientific reports have shown that these technologies pose grave risks to some, if not all, of the human population. What has always been needed is both an ethically independent council to act exclusively for human health, and an ombudsman to process public complaints effectively and to hold the regulated industries and agencies accountable.

How can it be that a heart monitor employing a Bluetooth antenna is now provided by a cardiologist, when it is known that pulsed RF microwave radiation is harmful to the heart? How can it be that the audiologist provides hearing aids with both WiFi and Bluetooth antennas so close to the head when it is known that pulsed RF microwave radiation can lead to brain cancer and open the blood-brain barrier? Many will dispute, citing a lack of evidence of harm specifically for Bluetooth devices, while the request should actually be reversed to demand the evidence that such devices are perfectly safe for all humans on the planet. The cognitive dissonance is deafening. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29573716/ "Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health"

Passenger Vehicles Once Again Unsafe At Any Speed

Most folks enjoy their modern cars and trucks since they sport features and conveniences such as Bluetooth integration, a touch screen display, rear-facing camera, vehicle avoidance radar and even a 120V accessory outlet.

However, these seemingly benign aspects make it so that electrically sensitive folks cannot even be a passenger in a modern car, nor hail a taxi (or eventually, even ride in an ambulance). That Bluetooth system will emanate microwaves that bounce around in the car; that 120V outlet emanates a large AC electric field throughout the car. Ever more folks, hitherto not known to be electrically sensitive, report shooting pains, headaches, ringing in their ears and other common electromagnetic symptoms after a few weeks of driving their new 2021 vehicles.

Car manufacturers follow the lead of other industries and assume all these features are healthful for the full population but they do not conduct health testing to ensure it. The 2021 models now sport V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communication so that even driving past another car on the highway will be injurious to those who are electrically sensitive. By 2025, more than a dozen car companies have vowed to add 60 GHz radar to the interior cabin of the car (not unlike the

body scanners at the airport), ostensibly to address the problem of children being locked in hot cars. Carmakers see the positive perceived benefits, without understanding the negative health consequences on millions of people routinely overexposed to such electrosmog. These “safety” features often have no way for the consumer to disable them. https://www.electricalpollution.com/RFinCars.html

Helping Health Professionals Become Informed

The reality is that most physicians were never trained about environmental illnesses at medical school. When a patient, who has actually been poisoned by some environmental factor, encounters a physician who has not been properly informed about environmental intolerances (such as multiple chemical sensitivity or electrical sensitivity), then the patient's needs are rarely met. Often, the well-meaning physician may be skeptical or suggest a psychological medication. That same physician would not doubt the patient if they had been exposed to asbestos or lead or some better recognized toxin.

Physicians are presented with conflicting information; some studies say there are problems and other studies say there are no problems. Some studies come to conclusions that favor the sponsor, and a physician needs to do the extra legwork to note that the anecdotal information provided by one's patients may well be ahead of the curve of the mainstream. Ignoring facts does not make them untrue.

Today's heresy is tomorrow's orthodoxy.

Health professionals can now learn about electrical sensitivity (and receive continuing education credit) via the online 2021 EMF Medical Conference, now available as recorded presentations. This conference answers key questions that physicians have, such as taking an exposure history, symptom analysis, lab testing, insurance billing codes, research papers, plus they will hear the powerful stories of folks suddenly struck by EHS. By informing everyone properly, patient outcomes will be vastly improved.

In fact, recovery from many chronic conditions may be helped if the home is cleared of biological hazards, and so physicians will also learn the positive role that Building Biolgists can play and might choose to integrate them into their wellness plans for their most delicate patients. https://emfconference2021.com/online-cme-ce-courses/

Ken Gartner lives with his electrically sensitive partner among the hills of Warren, in the Quaboag Valley of central Massachusetts. Every day is spent in study of such topics as relate to helping sensitive folks navigate a world that is perilous to them. He can be reached at ken@qbb.solutions.

So, she took all the remediation measures and got wireless out of her living and work space. Then she began to re-inoculate her system and build up all the website pointing to false information posted by our captured federal agencies. healthy things that had been depleted. When her State Representative came Earlier, Dr. Moskowitz got some lawyers at Berkeley to do pro bono work for knocking on her door asking to be re-elected, she invited him into her home him, and he had to sue the California Department of Public Health in order for and shared what she had been through. Representative Patrick Abrami in New them to release a similar public health fact sheet written in 2009. That lawsuit Hampshire is an engineer, and engineers are one of those groups who have been was in December of 2017. It should have been front page news all over our world taught you have to have a lot of heat from a device before there can be any harm.

— that cell phones bring risks — and while some of the local outlets in California She shared with him the non-thermal science evidence that shows harm, and covered it, generally it was suppressed by mainstream corporate media.

Representative Patrick Abrami went back and actually did the deep dive. He started reading the peer-reviewed scientific literature, instead of just defaulting to CAROL BEDROSIAN: It's more than just a health risk. It's a huge behavior change. whatever messaging the industry had been giving him.

Think about when people had to give up smoking. Smoking was a huge part of our Eventually he had this major wow moment, like, “Wow, what are we doing social culture. It took a long time when it was introduced as a health hazard before here?” Then he wrote a bill to start addressing this. After we spent an afternoon at it was finally recognized as such and banned in places. my kitchen table, I helped him to connect the dots further, and he went back and CECE DOUCETTE: That's a great example because we did know for decades that beefed up the language in his bill with very pointed questions. Like, why does the smoking was hazardous, and it wasn't until 1964, I think, when our Surgeon Gen- legal fine print of our devices tell us to keep them off of our bodies? Why have eral finally held a press conference indicating that we need to take precautions Lloyd's of London and Swiss RE and other major insurers already recognized this around tobacco products. It's anothas a leading risk and put exclusions er right to choose issue, but because in their policies that they will not 5G wavelengths are getting we're not giving the facts to the pubcover damages from radio frequenlic, the public has no idea. cy or EMF? And then, why does shorter and shorter, so they're the FCC ignore the science at the coming at us as faster and non-thermal level? And why do CAROL BEDROSIAN: Right. If peofaster pulses. It's that pulsing they allow more radiation, a hunple have this information, perhaps dred times more radiation to our they would be more motivated to that is biologically destructive. public, than some other countries change, because many people do not are doing? And why is nobody like being slaves to their wireless delooking at the cumulative effect of vices, and would like to take control of their lives back again. There would be this? What is happening to our kids when we put them in a classroom with 30 more incentive.

CECE DOUCETTE: I think a lot of people sense that something is not right here, but devices, beaming this radiation all over every child in that room, in addition to because we only hear the industry messaging — more and better and faster — we their personal devices, in addition to their wearables, in addition to the wireless just go with the flow on that. But once we get the opportunity to become educated, access points in the ceiling? Nobody is looking at the cumulative effect.

Representative Abrami introduced that bill, and he asked me up to come up then we can take charge of our own usage.

I've had the privilege of connecting with many of the world's leading scientists and testify along with a number of residents in New Hampshire, who understood and doctors on this journey. There was a couple in Europe I was introduced to, this issue. A biologist testified to speak about the environmental impact it's havBrett and Lynn West, who started doing some work on this issue, and recognized ing on our birds and bees and plants. Dr. Paul Heroux drove down from Canada; that we can't fix it because people don't know about it. You have to get the educa- he teaches electromagnetism in the medical school at McGill University.

And then there’s Frank Clegg. He’s the retired president of Microsoft Canation out in front of people, so we formed a little nonprofit called wirelesseducation.org with one of the world's leading bioelectromagnetic scientists, Dr. Mikko da. He flew in on his own time and dime, and he testified. When he retired, he Ahonen of Finland. We’ve distilled this massive volume of science, the risks, what had heard enough being in the industry that he knew not to have wireless in his other countries are doing, and the medical best practices into courses that can be home, but he didn't really understand what it meant. So, he started meeting with world-leading scientists and doctors globally, and when he returned, he said, completed in about half an hour online.

“Our radiation limits in Canada and the U.S. here in North America are not safe.”

We have a Schools and Families Course, and then we have a Corporate Safety Frank Clegg formed Canadians For Safe Technology, and he's been up in ParliaInduction Course for the workplace. After you take this little course and answer ment trying to do what we're doing here in the U.S., and that's to get public polsome questions along the way to help reinforce important concepts, it will allow you to print out a certificate of completion. It also allows you to print out a handy icy that puts corporate profit behind public health. Because right now, corporate profits rule; what happens in public health is not even being addressed. tip sheet at the end with reminders of what the steps are you need to take to create a sleep sanctuary at home and other common sense reminders for transitioning to safe technology.

CAROL BEDROSIAN: You mentioned that 5G has a shorter wavelength. What The one really bright shining light we have here in the U.S. came through a we’re seeing with 5G installation is that the towers are located in residential constituent, Deb Hodgdon, up in New Hampshire. She joined us for a screening neighborhoods and there are more of them. Why do they need to be so close? in Massachusetts of an award winning film called “Generation Zapped,” where Does that have something to do with the short wavelengths? we hear from leading scientists and doctors, as well as people who have become CECE DOUCETTE: The way the industry is spinning up 5G, which by the way, ill from EMFs. Deb was just so grateful to be with others talking about EMFs technically hasn't even been defined yet — every wireless provider is coming up because she had gotten to the point where she was nearly on her death bed. She with their own ways of doing this — we don't have any standardization yet. They had gone to her doctors and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. She paid are just putting it out there and selling the heck out of it to get everybody's mind— as most people wind up doing — thousands of dollars out of pocket to go to set pre-conditioned that 5G is a great thing. specialists who can't figure out where all these crazy symptoms are coming from, 5G simply means fifth generation, but it's not just a follow on to 3G and 4G. In until somebody finally recognized that she had microwave sickness symptoms.

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Symptoms of microwave sickness or EMF sensitivity include Headaches Memory lapses Insomnia Balance problems Nightmares Concentration problems Nosebleeds Learning problems Dizziness Eye irritation Anxiety Nausea Depression Shooting Pains Ringing in the ears Excessive fatigue Altered heart rate

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fact, we still need 4G because it has the long wavelengths that can go through a building and connect with your devices indoors. All this cell infrastructure that we've already got with these big antennas on the cell towers called macro cell antennas that started in industrial parks 300 feet in the air, over the years we've seen them encroach closer and closer to where we live and work and play and go to school. (And if you can paint it the same color of a building, they'll give the building owner a kickback to put up an antenna right on a building where people are on the other side of the wall or below rooftop antennas are getting sick.)

So, all that infrastructure stays. That's the backbone for wireless, for 5G. With fifth generation, all that's left of the wave are these crummy little millimeter waves, and they're tiny. The industry is spinning it up that with all these new millimeter waves, we'll be able to give you faster downloads and faster streaming and smart and super highways. But in order for 5G to fly, these little waves can't go very far and they get disrupted by anything in their path. Their solution is to put new antennas, additional antennas, every two to 12 houses inside our neighborhoods at the curb in our public accessways. You see these things popping up on poles, literally right outside people's bedrooms. And we see people getting sick from that. We see children getting sick from that, and they sit there pulsing 24/7.

What the industry did with the FCC, as they told our towns through some new rulings that they made, is that you can't say anything, you can't do anything, it's coming and you have no legal recourse — which actually isn't true, but our towns just roll over. Town lawyers are not experts in telecom law. But when you get a lawyer who is a telecom expert, they will tell you 20 different ways that your town can strengthen your town bylaws and codify it so that you do not have to roll over when the industry comes in with these applications.

I'll give you an example right here in Burlington, Massachusetts. About three years ago, Verizon came in with an application for seven small cell antennas.

The town had more questions than Verizon could answer, so they formed a Small Cell Committee, and for a year or so, they investigated. In addition to their town lawyer, they hired special counsel who had telecom expertise, so that they could be advised on what they could do to protect their community within the constraints of the current law.

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industry puts in has to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Because they call these things “small cells,” the industry will spin it that, “It's just the size of a backpack up on a pole.” But what they're not telling you is it comes with a refrigerator-sized box or two that has cooling fans, backup batteries and more in it on the ground. So, Burlington said industry can’t put that equipment where it's going to block somebody in a wheelchair from passing by a sidewalk. And then they said aesthetically, anything you put in has to blend in with the environment.

But then Burlington established that industry cannot just come into the community with this wireless equipment and drop and run. If they approve a small cell application, the wireless provider has to agree to come back every single year and pay to have a recertification done by an independent party that the equipment is still within the FCC limits for public radiation exposure. Verizon did not want to set precedent for coming back and doing an annual recertification, so they actually withdrew their seven small cell applications. We have seen a pattern that if citizens speak up to their towns and work with them and point them in the right direction, and a town starts strengthening their bylaws or puts a policy in place, the industry oftentimes will just move along because they don't want to spend the money and the time to have to fight what the town is doing to protect itself.

Every one of us in our towns should be speaking up in our towns. We know that's a tall ask because most of us are not experts on this, but if you go to www.

AmericansForResponsibleTechnology.org, they have gathered all of the best practices from around the country. They have a sample bylaw that you can take to your town lawyer and say, “Look, we have a big issue here. And here's how we can learn about it. And here's what our bylaws need to be changed to include.”

We need to have setbacks so that they cannot put these things right in front of our homes. The science indicates in epidemiological studies that look at what's actually happening in society, that they find increases in cancers and sleep issues and neurological problems with anxiety and depression and so forth within 500 meters or 1,640 feet of a cell tower. Some towns will specify in their bylaws the setback of 1500 feet from anywhere that we're living and hospitals and places where children play. Here in Shelburne, Massachusetts, I think they got a 1500foot setback for residential, and then a 3000-foot setback from schools.

But we shouldn't feel like we're defeated because wireless is everywhere. We are just at one point in time and we need to get ourselves educated and then look to see what others have done. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, but we've all got to take action on this, because with this lawsuit in play with the FCC, the indus-

try is moving even faster to get their wireless infrastructure in for 5G before they get told that they have to fix it.

Plus, the industry did another really slick move at the end of March. It used to be that if you wanted to have a satellite dish, that's just a one-way signal between you and the satellite, and you can put it on your balcony or your rooftop. That was governed by something called the OTARD rule, the over-the-air-receptiondevice rule that controlled that one way signal to give you signal from a satellite.

Now, the industry and the FCC have changed that rule, such that you can now put in a two-way transmitter or a cell antenna on your own property. Now we see out in Arizona and Nevada, they already have companies knocking on your door and saying, “Hey, we'll give you the best cutting-edge technology if you'll just let us put a cell antenna on your property.” That antenna is going to beam out and saturate you and your loved ones and your pets and your pollinators and every one of your neighbors 24/7.

And it doesn't even have to go through the town. They're stripping local control. The industry is moving fast and furious before they get caught, so it's imperative that we all start learning about this and then come out of our comfort zone and speak up. Because even if you choose to hardwire everything in your house, when your next door neighbor puts that cell antenna up on their roof, you are going to be exposed at close range, 24/7.

There are growing voices all over the country. There may be groups already formed where you are. If you go to AmericansForResponsibleTech.org you might be able to just simply join a group that's already in motion. Or if there is nobody near you, they have a whole toolkit for how to help you get started, so don't feel like you have to do it on your own.

One of the biggest lessons I learned is not to go it alone. Get everyone around you informed first. Use the film “Generation Zapped” to have a screening in your living room. If your library subscribes to Kanopy or Hoopla, and you can watch it for free through your local library. Maybe ask your library to do a screening and get people in the community educated at the same time.

Once you have a group of people who are going to want to ensure safe technology, then go to your town boards of zoning and planning, and select boards, city councils, and your local lawyer, but do not go it alone because one voice can be very easily dismissed. Once you have a group of people who have done their homework and really understand that this needs to be addressed, talk to your schools. Start protecting the schools by going to TechSafeSchools.org and use their tool kit and get this conversation started because our schools have been told by industry that our kids have to have this technology to succeed in life.

That is absolutely not true. The New York Times did an expose1 on Silicon Valley executives and revealed that they are sending their children to schools with no technology. In fact, they're having their nannies sign contracts that there will be no technology and no screens around their children because they know the harm that it causes. Kids certainly can use technology, but it should not be the core of how we're teaching our children. They learn best from their teachers through human interpersonal interactions, from their natural environment, and from their peers, not from a screen.

CAROL BEDROSIAN: What is the status of the legislation in New Hampshire?

CECE DOUCETTE: We got that bill in New Hampshire through the House

Committee on Science, Technology and Energy, and then through the Senate side with the Health and Human Services Committee, which was chaired by a medical doctor, who actually co-sponsored that bill. I think he's a Democrat and Representative Patrick Abrami, who introduced the bill, is a Republican, so it was a beautiful example of bipartisan cooperation. The bill passed the House, we got it to pass the Senate, and then Governor Sununu signed it into law, all in seven months time in New Hampshire. And we've had similar bills languishing in Massachusetts, some of them for 10 years now.

So, we all need to really take notice of this and use the New Hampshire law.

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ments the corruption and the conflicts of interest within our government at the federal level and with the industry. I love that New Hampshire report; they were very courageous to stand up to industry. Then it makes 15 recommendations to start educating the public, to hardwire technology, to start transitioning our communities and schools to fiber optics to the premises. Because, right now the industry will run high-speed fiber optics down the road, which is great, and then instead of bringing it right to the building and hardwiring it, they stop at the curb and throw up all these cheap, quick-to-install wireless small cell antennas that are very, very harmful to every living cell out there.

CAROL BEDROSIAN: What are the symptoms of microwave sickness?

CECE DOUCETTE: Early onset symptoms often start presenting as irregular sleep

insomnia, for some people it's nightmares or night terrors. Another big one is stabbing, searing headaches, oftentimes migraines that people can't seem to figure out. Nosebleeds are common, sometimes ear bleeds, and then there is pain throughout the body from unidentified sources. Nausea is a big one. There’s also dizziness, anxiety and depression. A couple in New York contacted me. They had both gotten jobs in New York City, and had a friend who lived on the top floor of a building, and offered to give them a bedroom to sleep in until they got established. Once there, they started getting really sick and feeling very anxious and depressed. It turns out there were cell tower antennas right on the roof.

The public has to stand up and speak up and force a change, because if nothing changes in our behavior, nothing changes at the policy level. So yeah, those are very common symptoms that people are experiencing today. And the good news is, is that for many people, just by reading this interview, they might decide to take a chance and turn everything off at night. People say to me, “I didn't want to believe this. I didn't want to hear about it or know about it, but I recognized some of those symptoms.” And they'll come back and say, “Wow, that headache that I've had is gone,” or, “Oh my gosh, I started sleeping through the night again,” or “My kid's behavior issues are calming way down.”

Doctors tell us that with a two-week digital detox, even just by starting at night, some children with autism who are experiencing de novo mutations —which means it did not come through mom or dad's genetics, but somehow through the environment — that even children who had been non-verbal, after a couple of weeks of cleaning out the constant bombardment of radio frequency, could connect.

Dr. Toril Jelter gives an example of a family in her care who did the digital detox. After a couple of weeks, this little boy looks at his mom and says, “Mom, will you hand me that…?” She had never heard his voice before, and neither had he, and here he comes out speaking full sentences. They were just all just blown out of the water that by simply removing the radiation exposure, it gives our bodies a chance to repair, and the children's DNA to repair and regenerate, and actually do what our bodies are meant to do. Some people are fortunate to see a remediation of symptoms alongside the remediation of the radiation.

There's lots of hope. As dismal as this sounds, I always tell people you’re certainly entitled to that freak out for 10 minutes as you begin to notice where all the exposures are in our lives. Then circle back and learn how to remediate the ones over which you have control. For the bigger ones in the environment like smart meters, and the small cells and the big cells, let's start using our voices together.

There's so much already in motion that you don't have to start at square one, but you do have to find the courage to speak up because nobody else is going to fix it in your town, except for you. Please join us at Massachusetts for Safe Technology and we’ll help you get started.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-siliconvalley-technology-can-wait.html Cece Doucette can be contacted through Massachusetts for Safe Technology, www.ma4safetech.org.

Carol Bedrosian is the publisher of Spirit of Change Magazine.

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Electromagnetism to Rewire and Recharge Your Health Excerpt from the new book ELECTRIC BODY, ELECTRIC HEALTH

by Eileen Day McKusick

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he prevailing paradigm in Western science says that we are chemical, mechanical beings. But a new paradigm is beginning to emerge that suggests we are fundamentally electromagnetic and vibrational. It suggests that we — and the cosmos that is our home — are made up of light and sound and waveforms across an unimaginably vast array of frequencies.

Like fish in water, we are swimming at all times in an ocean of energy. Look around you: Everything is energy! Everything you see is part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Not only light bulbs and computers and iPhones but planets, animals, stars, and entire galaxies — it’s all electrical. The page you’re reading, the chair you’re sitting in, the ground beneath your feet, the planet you live on, the sun that heats that planet are ultimately just electromagnetic energy vibrating at different frequencies — in other words, electricity.

It’s all energy, frequency, and vibration. Every single thing in our observable universe is in constant motion on an atomic or subatomic level — even things like rocks that appear motionless. As the great physicist Richard Freyman says, “Everything jiggles,” or as I like to put it, “Everything jitterbugs,” thanks to the exchange of positive and negative forces that gives rise to this dance of energy.

There’s no such thing as a “noun” when we get right down to it, because everything is actually a process. (Interestingly, the Hopi language doesn’t contain any nouns, and it better reflects the essential fluidity of the world around us.) When vibrations come together, they start to sync up and resonate at the same frequency in a kind of spontaneous self-organization, which is described in physics as sympathetic resonance. This resonance many also form the basis of what we consciousness, or intelligence, which science is increasingly revealing to be a fundamental property of energy and, therefore, all matter.

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ever-curious mind quickly led me to a deep and long-running investigation of what the heck I was actually working with. What was clear was that when we refer to this invisible substance called energy in the context of energy medicine, we are speaking of electromagnetic energy as opposed to other kinds of energy (kinetic, thermal, chemical, and so on). So, what is electromagnetism? Simply put, it's the movement of charged electric particles and the magnetic fields that are generated from that electric charge. In other words, it’s the spectrum of visible and invisible light (or put another way, sound).

What we call voltage is the force that makes electric currents move, also called the electromotive force. The higher the voltage, the stronger the current. In your body, stronger voltage means more energy running through your wires and a brighter inner light. When the amount of voltage flowing through your system drops, we have less energy available to power all the processes in our body. Disease and loss of vitality are the eventual results of a low-voltage state.

Electric Body, Electric Health While scientists have been studying human bioelectricity for over one hundred years, the new technologies and discoveries of the past decade have brought a much fuller picture of our electric bodies to light. What I have discovered is that taking care of your electric health is a much easier, more efficient, and even more fun way of approaching health than the standard chemical-mechanical approach. It is more efficient because our electric body is primary and causal, so working on this level allows us to get right to the root of things. It is the blueprint for our physiology and the template that gives rise to what is occurring in the body. When we get issues sorted out of our electrical systems — primarily resistance and distortion manifesting as pain, uncomfortable emotions, and bad habits — the issues in the physical body take care of themselves. It’s an elegant, backdoor

kind of solution to what ails us.

We can improve our electric health by raising our voltage. When our voltage is high, we have sufficient juice across our cell membranes to keep operations running smoothly and conduct greater amounts of electrical charge. In a battery, voltage refers to the difference in electric potential (in other words, the difference in electric charge) between the positive and negative terminals. Raising voltage means increasing the electric charge between the positive and negative battery terminals, which makes the battery more powerful. Think about it: a light bulb with a higher voltage shines a brighter light because it has greater electric potential.

This is essentially what’s going on inside your own electrical system. Your body is literally a battery. You are full of salt water, which conducts electricity. All your cell membranes carry a charge. Every organ and system in your body has its own electromagnetic field. Diseases are characterized by low voltage and are the result of insufficient battery power. It’s a lack of energy, of juice. You’ve discharged and given away more than you have received and recharged. Your cells need a certain amount of electrical charge across their membranes to regenerate themselves. When our bodies have sufficient energy running through them, they fix themselves. When the flow of energy is blocked, our bodies don’t have the resources necessary to repair themselves and return to a natural energy-conserving state of homeostasis. When we return to a state of higher charge, the body’s natural healing intelligence directs that energy to where it’s needed.

Voltage as pH I had been studying electricity and the biofield for many years when I discovered the work of Dr. Jerry Tennant. In Tennant’s work, I first encountered the idea that low pH is the same as low voltage. The “pH as voltage” equation was the keystone that really clicked everything into place for me. When you’re looking at health from a chemical perspective, there’s only so much you can do to change your pH: you can eat green vegetables, you can detox and cleanse, you can take supplements. But when you look at it from an electromagnetic perspective, there are so many things you can do to raise your voltage.

Dr. Tennant, an ophthalmologist who is also a board-certified practitioner of homeopathic and alternative medicine, and author of the book Healing is Voltage, argues that the most critical aspect of healing is the body’s ability to make new cells that are able to

do their job properly. When our cells go to reproduce themselves, we want the vibrational blueprint to be clear so that they know what they’re supposed to be doing and how to do it.

Tennant explains that pH, or voltage, plays a key role in cell regeneration. Over the course of our lives, we’re constantly putting wear and tear on our systems, and the way we regenerate ourselves is by making new cells. We’re doing this all the time. The lining of your gut is only three weeks old, your skin is six weeks old, and your nervous system is eight months old. We keep ourselves healthy and heal wounds and diseases, first and foremost by making new cells — and it’s when we lose this ability that disease and premature aging occur. If our bodies don’t have the energy to make new cells, diseased organs won’t be able to heal and regenerate themselves. When voltage drops, entropy begins to take place in our bodies due to insufficient juice available to keep everything functioning properly.

Tennant, like myself, has observed that the majority of disease begins as an emotional event. Emotions are stored in and around the body as magnetic fields and also as corresponding molecules that have hidden themselves in various places in the body. If you have a bunch of old suppressed emotions that are stored in one of your organs and in some part of your biofield, that’s going to create resistance and tension and make it more difficult for electrical flow to pass through. If we want to get healthy, from an electrical perspective, the first order of business is to open an inquiry into the vibrational backlog of emotions that is clogging up our circuits and blocking the natural flow of energy that keep us healthy and vital.

One way to think about it is that our emotions are magnetic and our thoughts are electric. Magnetic fields guide currents: our feelings are primary, and our thoughts follow.

When we work with our emotions, we’re shifting the magnetic field, which is then shifting the way the electric current is running through the body — and ultimately showing up in certain mental and physical patterns. Physical pain is often the final manifestation of an emotional pattern in the magnetic field. Whenever there is stuck energy in the field, there is corresponding tension in the body. When we release the resistance in the magnetic field, the electric resistance and corresponding tension in the body also lets go.

Solar Plexus: Your Radiant Inner Sun We have been conditioned to feel powerless and disconnected, to suppress our anger, to hide our light. Deeply ingrained patterns throughout millennia and maybe even lifetimes Continued on page 68

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even move into the kidney, adrenals, and stomach. Creating strong boundaries, but not walls, is a key part of the work of cultivating a healthy solar plexus. have dimmed us out, and we are afraid, many for very good reasons, to shine! Not being The back of the solar plexus relates to receiving support. Did you receive support from fully present and engaged in this center can deprive us of the full extent of our power your parents? Are you supporting yourself? Are you paying your bills and getting enough and potential. sleep? Being open in the solar plexus is about getting the resources we need from other The solar plexus, located just above the navel, is our radiant inner sun. It resonates with people, ourselves, the universe, and the flow of nature. We’re getting all the things we the frequency of the color yellow, the vowel sound “oh,” and the seed syllable “RAM.” It need to move forward with the flow of our intentions. That can be very simple. When a is a vital and information-filled energy center, with a whole council of intelligent orstranger holds a door open for you, you can receive and have gratitude for that support. gans working together. On the right side, you’ve got gall bladder, liver, right kidney, and When the universe provides the perfect parking spot for you, you’re being supported. right adrenal, and on the left you have the spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney and left You can change the script, open the portal, and let that support come in. We get all shut adrenal. In the years I spent exploring and mapping the body and the biofield anatomy, down here when we’re walking around with a story that we never get the support we need.

I came to have a great appreciation for the solar plexus — and a singular respect for the Then you’re not even going to notice when support is trying to come in, because you’re liver. In Chinese medicine, the liver is seen as the general of the army that is the body. It too wrapped up in your story. We want to open that up and really let this support into our oversees all operations. People debate about whether the heart or the brain is the seat of bodies. The mantra here is: I am open to receiving support. The more support I receive, the consciousness, but I’ve come to see it as the liver, as the ancient Greeks did. Your liver is more support I can give. I am supported. paying attention to everything! It attends to your respiration, circulation, digestion, and When people start exploring the world of energy, they tend to get stars in their eyes elimination with exquisite attention and care. around the heart chakra. A lot of New Age practices have this idea of operating from your Emotionally, we store anger and powerlessness in this center, as well as self-esteem, heart chakra, which can be useful but also limiting. Here’s why I say that. When we get personal power, and the energies of our mothers and fathers. into the heart, there are so many layers of other things going This area contains so much information that it seems to me on. There’s hate. There’s despair. There’s depression. There’s that there may be another kind of electromagnetic axis here. sadness. There’s resentment. There’s grief. We want to get to It took me many years to be able to differentiate the different the love that’s there, but it’s like there are all these overlays on tones and frequencies I was finding in this region. top of it. I find that anchoring your awareness in your heart The gut is often called the second brain, but from what I’ve can also have a rather top-heavy quality to it. It’s not fully seen, it could almost be the primary brain (I mean, the small your center. intestine looks like the brain!). When we strengthen this enThe more I work with energy, the more I become identiergy center and learn to operate from our cores, we unlock a fied with my solar plexus. As a place to rest our awareness, huge amount of discipline, focus, determination, clarity, and I personally find the solar plexus to be much more peaceful personal power. We’re able to set goals and achieve them. We and radiant than the heart. My experience is that when I’m can move forward with projects all the way to the end. We’re anchored in my core, there’s this easy suspension, just like the able to assert ourselves in a way that’s healthy and effective. sun is suspended in the sky, and it spins around and spreads We interface with other people’s energies in a way that’s dipits light. The more you associate with your own inner sun, the lomatic, and we set strong boundaries. We also enjoy a strong more you end up in the flow of your natural orbit. Your digesWhen the energy of the solar digestive fire. So much of what I see in people who struggle tive fire is stronger. Your mind is clear, and your intention is plexus is gathered, it’s miraculous. with food allergies, gas, bloating, and acid reflux is an excess of strong. That power, then, supports and lifts the heart. Trying It’s phenomenal what we can do with it. to live from the heart when you’re not supported from below personal power that’s locked up and stuck out on the sides of the solar plexus. The digestive fire, which should be strong and But when the energy here is scattered, just isn’t as energy efficient. I think we want to occupy this hearty, gets weakened and diffused. golden ball of light in the very center of our beings and to alour wills and personal power When the energy of the solar plexus is gathered, it’s miraclow that to flow up the central channel and energize the heart. are weakened. ulous. It’s phenomenal what we can do with it. But when the We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For energy here is scattered, our wills and personal power are weakened. The left side holds the yin imbalance of powerlessness. Here, I find a person’s relationWe are experiencing a turning of the ages in which the old patterns are breaking down ship with their mother — connected to the spleen and pancreas — as well as the nurturance and a new pattern is being birthed. Everywhere in our culture, the old stories are unravelthey received in childhood and their ability to properly nourish and care for themselves. The ing and new ones are being written. This can be a scary and chaotic process, and many of right-side, yang imbalance is related to anger (towards ourselves and others) and our rela- us feel deeply the suffering that is occurring at this moment in history. But as the study of tionships with our fathers. In line with many holistic traditions, including Chinese medicine cymatics (study of visible sound and vibration) shows, when then frequency changes, the and Ayurveda, I’ve found anger to be processed and stored in the liver. old pattern falls apart and a new and completely different pattern spontaneously emerges.

Who we are is unimaginably powerful. That’s our nature. But our wills and personEven if all we can see if apparent chaos and destruction, when we attune ourselves to the al power become weakened because so much of our solar plexus energy gets stuck on new frequency, we start to see the new pattern that is arising. either side of the center: in anger, powerlessness, unresolved issues with our mothers and In our individual lives, it is much the same. When our frequency changes, there is fathers, unhealthy eating habits, and adrenal glands that are running like a toilet with a a period of chaos as our old, familiar patterning gives way to a new and more aligned broken handle. The energy gets siphoned off by difficult characters around us because we expression. Chaos precedes a new order. This is healing, growth, and evolution. Gradualdon’t have strong boundaries. Fundamentally, anger and powerlessness are both unsucly, we let go of the noise of the pain body and tune ourselves more and more to our own cessful expressions of power. But when we get into the center of the solar plexus, there’s a fundamental frequency. smooth functionality to how we exert our energies and take action in the world.

Everyone has in themselves the programming to rise to the occasion of what seems to Around ten inches off the solar plexus in either direction are two energetic structures be an emergency situation on Spaceship Earth. In this new paradigm, we have the tools to about the size of a hockey puck that I call the mother and father zones. We are all strongly solve our problems individually and also collectively. What if everyone tapped into their informed by the energy of our parents. It lives on either side of our solar plexus and is own greatness and didn’t feel unworthy of stepping into the role that they were meant to always affecting our fields. Even if the parents are long dead, the history of that relationplay at this time? What if everyone was empowered to shine their light to make a differship is alive. I can stick a tuning fork in the father zone and tell you all about the personence? The solutions to all our problems are inside us — we just need to activate our ability ality of your dad. It’s all encoded there. Often, I come into contact with structures that feel to engage those solutions. like energetic walls, which happens when people shut out their parents. Those structures can really decrease the functioning of the liver and gallbladder on the right/dad side, and Reprinted with permission of the publisher from Electric Body, Electric Health by Eileen spleen and pancreas on the left/mother side by blocking the flow of energy, and it can Day McKusick (2021, St. Martin’s Publishing Group).

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Consciousness Transformation THE SPEAKING ALL-UNITY The Word of the Universal Creator-Spirit A Cosmic Work from the School of Divine Wisdom To experience the unity of creation and comprehend that all life originates from a cosmic order is the basis for a peaceful development in the whole family of humankind: among people, animals, plants, all of nature and Mother Earth.

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I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist, Owner

Coach, Advanced Certified Tantric Educator, Planned Parenthood Certified Sex Educator, and has certifications in over 20 types of Energy & Bodywork.

Ed helps heart centered entrepreneurs shift their mindset, create their vision, and manifest more clients, more revenue and more success using universal laws. Ed also teaches workshops. See website for details.

When you live in your own Sacred Haven, you discover the power of nature’s cycles and create an authentic life that lights you up.

Experience colon hydrotherapy in a safe, relaxed environment using state-of-the-art FDA registered equipment.

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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 theshift into the higher levels of consciousness.

Readings with Vywamus cover your life work, relationships, past lives, and other

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: Enjoy discussion evenings with Vywamus, contact Andrea for next dates.

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

Counseling and Therapy Holistic Counseling Concepts Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed. Doctor of CORE Education Author of “Why Me? Why Now? WHY NOT? Finding opportunity in your obstacles.”

Dr. Trish Whynot’s approach is a blending of personal growth and spiritual wisdom incorporating ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling, meditative techniques, and wise guidance that comes through the Mineral Kingdom.

Holistic Counseling Services, LLC Kerri Morrison integrates mental health supports, holistic healing tools, and intuitive education for both private clients and the community into her practice. She has helped hundreds of individuals improve the quality of their life, self-confidence, and their relationships.

Kerri believes healing and growth are always possible, and when people are ready, they can “awaken” to their true potential.

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Get to the root of physical, social and financial problems.

G Learn approaches to living and loving that expect opportunities even during challenging times.

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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.”

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• Licensed Mental Health Counselor Holistic Coach • Community Educator • Certified Reiki Practitioner • Trauma-Informed EFT “Tapping” Practitioner • MA State Rep and Director at Large with the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP)

Additional Non-Therapy Offerings • $25–“Journey to Awakening” E-Course • Community education workshops and trainings • Deliberate Dating education programs • Holistic Life-Alignment Coaching Specialty in working with Highly Sensitive People (HSP)/Empaths Non-medication-based approaches centered in mind-body-spirit alignment & energy psychology Services are for individuals, couples, and families.

In-person OR virtual Free 15-minute phone consultations.

Counseling and Therapy Holistic Psychotherapy Lori Miller-Freitas, LICSW Get to the core — Transform your life!

You are on this earth to be happy and realize your true potential.

Brainspotting A neurobiological tool for releasing traumatic/emotionally-charged issues within the brain.

Holistic Psychotherapy Clinical Consultation Using extensive professional experience to resolve issues related to: Trauma, Grief, PTSD, Anxiety and Phobias.

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I use a combination of traditional, body centered and energy therapies to increase the speed and deepen the level of holistic healing.

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Barbara Madden Johnson

“Barbara has a unique gift. She really helped me find the person I was meant to be buried under the layers of what people wanted me to be.”

Certified Master Hypnotist NLP Practitioner Energy Medicine Practitioner

You can do this. You can find peace of mind. You can make positive changes permanent. You can heal your body, mind, and soul. You may not know how to connect to the part of you that knows the way, but that part of you is still in you.

Barbara will help you reconnect and guide you on your unique healing path.

– Sheryl C., Boston, MA

Barbara brings a rich blend of deep experience as a clinician, clinical supervisor, college administrator, and professor. She helps individuals resolve health issues, including learning disabilities, dyslexia, immune and auto-immune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and depression, as well as issues relating to career, identity, relationships, and more recently, gender identification.

Diane Spindler, LMHC, LMFT Healing and teaching for over 25 years

h Elimination of phobias h Reduction of anxiety, panic attacks,

unexplained body pain, nightmares, flashbacks, and dissociation

Barbara Madden Johnson, MA, CAGS, LPC 617-484-1716 u UcanEmerge@aol.com

Psychotherapy clients have reached a point where they know why they feel badly, but don’t know how to release these bad feelings that keep them attached to their old stories and in the past. Using Gentle Reprocessing and other leading edge therapies, I help clients let go of these old stories so they can move on to a happier future.

PATH TO THE PRESENT h Relief of PTSD and depression

Be at your creative potential now.

If you’re a veteran, a first responder, a victim of physical, mental, or sexual abuse, a victim of a disaster, a person with a traumatic background, a person who has anger issues, or a person who is afraid of public speaking, this process could be for you. h 508-886-0007 h

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I don't have time to worry who doesn't like me...I'm too busy loving the people who love me. — Charles Schulz

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Counseling and Therapy

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.

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.” 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 508-828-0820

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Feng shui is known as the “art of placement” and is often equated with acupuncture for space. It is the act of consciously cultivating a space which is aligned with our highest intentions. Although there are many useful general feng shui guidelines, feng shui is most

Eunice is a certified Akashic reader, intuitive Reiki Master, and shaman.

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Her readings can help you reconnect to your deeper self and enable you to move on with a clearer sense of purpose.

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Crystals & Wellness Space

489 Mass. Ave., Arlington, MA 12 – 4 pm daily Kyle@CrystalConcentrics.com

Kyle Russell, Founder

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Reiki Healer & Akashic Practitioner All people have the power to improve their lives, all they need to do is harness the proper energy.

Distance Healing ANN’S ENERGY HEALING

Ann is also a Karuna Reiki master teacher, a Lightarian master teacher who works with archangels and a Pranic crystal healer. Lastly she does Pranic psychic self defense, which is for spirits that may attach themselves or cords that are sent out from people you may or may not know.

Ann Valiante has been doing energy healing for over 20 years. She is certified as a Pranic Arhatic healer which is much more in depth than regular Reiki. It consists of balancing, cleansing and energizing the chakras also cutting cords, releasing attachments etc.

Ann’s Energy Healing is currently specializing in DISTANCE HEALING and offers affordable rates.

Please call Ann at 774-259-7392 or email her at amv60854@aol.com.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics. — Albert Einstein

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beneficial when highly personalized, through individual assessment. Embodied Interiors emphasizes the needs, concerns and goals of each individual. Very often, we see the patterns playing out in one’s life equally reflected in one’s environments. We are often living in environments which mimic and reinforce blocks or old patterning. By repatterning the feng shui of one’s immediate surroundings, we are able to shift the energy of the space and create an environment which supports our highest potential.

Akashic readings can be set up via zoom or phone. Email or call to find out more.

Akashic Counsel Readings with Eunice Marchman 847-920-8120 | www.akashiccounsel.org akashiccounsel@gmail.com

Deborah is dedicated to the whole health and well-being of her clients. She brings a wealth of training, experience and practical, compassionate wisdom to every person, appointment, and class.

WHAT HER CLIENTS SAY

DEBORAH STRAFUSS Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Spiritual Life Coach, SCR, CDP Healing Yourself Naturally with Reiki Crystal Reiki offers Reiki sessions, Reiki Training, and transformative Spiritual Coaching to support you in living your best life, Birth Healing and Land and Space clearing to provide healthy beginnings and environments for life.

“Your access to Spirit is divine, healing and magical.”

– Sarah “Deborah … gently offered her insight and provided tools to help me turn my mindset from frustration to acceptance.”

– Jeni ONLINE AND COVID-SAFE IN-PERSON SESSIONS AVAILABLE

Find Crystal Reiki at The Gentle Place Wellness Center in Framingham, MA R 508-353-5136 R www.CrystalReikiEnergy.com

Do not regret growing older.

It is a privilege denied to many. — Unknown

Healing and Bodywork

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Libby Barnett, MSW, RMT Awaken Your Healing Touch Libby is a gifted, knowledgeable Reiki Master with 41 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 75,000 copies in five languages.

Use Reiki to create more joy, ease, and happiness. Let Libby’s warm, heartcentered 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 15 years. She has taught medical and nursing students at Harvard, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 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.”

All 2021 classes are offered virtually via Zoom: Reiki I: September 25th, October 16 or November 13 Reiki II Class on day following Reiki I Class; Taking Reiki I and Reiki II back to back is encouraged.

SACRED RESONANCE HEALING Bena Phillipo EM Level 4 Practitioner CST Practitioner Holy Fire III Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher SESSIONS AND CLASSES • In House Sessions using Reiki, CST and EM Email or call for a session • Distance Healing Sessions using EM and Reiki Flexible times offered • Geobiology Land Clearing for home and property.

ON SITE CLASSES • Holy Fire III, Reiki I & II Class March 5th & 6th, 2022 • Holy Fire III, Master/Teacher Class April 8th - 10th, 2022 • Holy Fire III, Karuna Master Class May 6th – 8th, 2022 Exploring the healing arts in the San Francisco bay area, I came upon many practitioners who used a variety of modalities.

Some combined different techniques in a single session, which worked well for me.

Knowing this, I went on to learn many different healing modalities: Chi Nei Tsang, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Craniosacral Therapy,

Bhavna Srivastava, The Golden Light

To register or for more information: reikienergy.com reiki@reikienergy.com • 603-654-2787

Philanthropist, Transformational Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, Trainer, Mentor & International Speaker, NLP Practitioner

Acupuncture o Reflexology o Cupping

18 North Meadows Rd, Unit 12B, Medfield, MA

Gua Sha o TuiNa o Therapeutic Ultrasound

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Holistic Health Coaching and more!

Reiki o IET o Polarity

…and if that isn’t enough, crystals & gifts too!

Sacred Resonance Healing 43 Highland St. Southborough, MA 01772 SacredResonanceHealing.com • 508-303-0366 Bena@SacredResonanceHealing.com

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS Shine Your Light Mastermind Program September 6, 2021 Golden Light Modality - October 7, 2021

All credit cards accepted.

Social Work, Nursing and Massage contact hours/CEU’s available. Reiki Master Teacher Training info available on request.

Massage (over 10 types, including prenatal!)

My journey continues. Perhaps yours will begin, or continue; join me.

COACHING Relationship Issues, Releasing Anger and Anxiety

Graduates of other Reiki teachers welcome.

Additional Reiki training dates can be found at: www.reikienergy.com

We are a dedicated and professional group of practitioners providing compassionate care to assist our clients on their journey to wellness.

Reiki and my latest healing modality is EM. I have had great success combining these in various ways.

HOLY FIRE REIKI is a new form of Reiki, the energy comes directly from source and most who experience it find it to be stronger than other forms of Reiki. Attunements are replaced

by Ignitions and the energy flows directly from Source, as we relinquish control over Reiki energy, we also gain free will to use it.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY using the light touch of CST one uses their hands to diagnose and treat distortions and dysfunctions along the spinal cord. Using soft touch techniques, we release the restrictions in the tissues around the craniosacral system.

EM is a type of healing energy medicine that combines ancient Chinese systems, including acupuncture, feng shui, with modern knowledge of physics and anatomy. EM allows practitioners to diagnose and treat people over long distances. Tapping into Universal QI for both diagnosing and treating both western diseases and balancing eastern flows.

Healing: Combined Modalities

Reiki Master Class: October 9 or December 4

Bringing complimentary and alternative care to our community...

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Healing and Bodywork

“My calling in life is to provide transformations for 4 different types of pain people go through in their life. For those who are suffering from an illness or looking for a way to move forward because they feel “stuck” or unsatisfied with the direction their life is heading.

I am here to create the “Golden Age” to create ripples of unconditional love and peace within all. My vision is to create a holistic centers with the collaboration of like-minded beings all over the world to create balance in mind, body, heart, and soul — providing help to women, children and seniors to have basic life necessities along with education and medical treatments and helping other nonprofits offering these services.”

Coaching/Meditation/Sessions are done by Zoom or by Phone.

RETREATS The New Beginning Spiritual Retreat at Sedona, Arizona - October 8-13, 2021 MEDITATIONS Golden Light Healing Meditation Tuesday at 6:00-7:00 pm Initiate yourself into abundance and harmonize your body, mind, and soul with the many benefits of this wonder. Reconnect with your true self and feel your heart fill up with divine love and peace. During the session, Bhavna will serve as a conduit of Golden Light and walk you through a deeply relaxed state to prepare you for the healing energy. Register today to begin on the road to healing and spiritual transformation.

This is a call to shine your light! bhwellnessgroup.com bhavnasrivastava@bhwellnessgroup.com facebook.com/BHWellnessGroup 508-970-5620 (Office) • 774-242-2112(Cell)

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Healing: Combined Modalities

Branches of Vibrational Healing was born out of the hearts of two nurses, Samantha & Maria who have a GENUINE healing vision for humanity. They are Shamanic Light Worker Practitioners whose calling is to work with the energy of the Universe using the elements, their souls and spirit guides to be of service to others. They offer a holistic and evidence-based perspective of health and wellness and invite others to step “outside of the box” of the mainstream healthcare system and utilize both modern day Nursing & ancient energy healing practices.

OSYL is a collaborative of Soulful Practitioners who meld Spirit, the Divine, the Mystical, and Metaphysical with Intuitive Inspiration, Insight, and Messaging to Support & Guide Seekers on the Path of Ascension, Enlightenment, Personal Healing, and the Quest for Self Knowledge and Growth.

We offer energy healing, intuitive guidance, and mystical insight through various modalities, including, but not limited to:

intuitive HEALING

Wendy Marks

M.Ed, C.A.S., FAPA R Medical intuitive sessions, energy heal-

ing and integrative therapy R 30 years of experience in traditional and

complementary healthcare

“We have many branches within our tree. We offer a large variety of readings, energy work/ trance healing, regression hypnotherapy, past life work, soul retrieval, intuitive life mentoring, nurse life coaching, ancestral clearing, educational classes & so much more.

Our mission is to empower and bring peace to the lives of others- mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. We believe in order to truly ‘heal’ we need to look within and we need to bring our body to a state of balance. We want to help you become aware of all the light, love, wisdom, and tools within & around you, as well as guide you on how to use them so that you too can live a life that fulfills your whole being- mind, body & soul. We want to inspire others not by showing them our super powers, but by showing them theirs....”

We love you. You are Magic. www.branchesofvibrationalhealing.com Samantha@branchesofvibrationalhealing.com 781-316-4415

Spiritual Coaching, Energy Healing & Reiki, Intuitive Guidance, Astrology, Angel & Oracle Readings, Feng Shui, Mediumship, Hypnotherapy, Past-Life Regression, EFT, Crystal Healing, Embodiment & Womb Healing, Voice Analysis & Healing, Pendulum Healing, Relationship Alchemy & Shadow Work, and more!

Subscribe to our weekly mystical newsletter: oursightyourlight.com/wisdom-n-woo Download Amazing Free Gifts: Astrology Guide • Feng Shui Bagua • Full Moon Audio oursightyourlight.com/freegifts If you’d like to join our collaborative or register for a service, email Laurie Elle McSwiggin laurie@oursightyourlight.com oursightyourlight.com

R Improve your physical, mental, and

spiritual health R Works with individuals to develop their

own intuitive skills “By healing ourselves we create changes that have a ripple effect on the world around us.”

Looking for practical guidance to create your own spiritual path? You’ll find it in Wendy’s book Your Soul’s Companion, available on her website and at amazon.com. www.wendymarks.com R 781-449-5368 wlm922@wendymarks.com

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

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Homeopathy Experience the Healing Energy of

Homeopathy ABBY BEALE, CCH RSHom(NA) Are you looking for a smarter way to heal your body from nagging chronic issues?

Homeopathic care is holistic and individualized, taking into account all of who you are and how you experience life – mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Whether it’s depression, anxiety, women’s issues, digestive troubles, child behavior problems, or more, know that homeopathy works with your body to relieve symptoms, restore vitality, and improve your overall health.

Ask about Tea with a Homeopath events or beginner study groups.

All appointments currently online only.

ABBY BEALE, CCH RSHOM(NA) homeopathyhealings@gmail.com HomeopathyHealings.com k 413-426-1024

Hypnosis

Peyton Pugmire, MA, CHt Past life regression hypnotherapist & spiritual intuitive

Clear the past and heal the present!

Under hypnosis, you can easily recall forgotten memories and helpful information embedded deep within your unconscious. Accessing your soul’s data through PAST LIFE or LIFE BETWEEN LIFE regression can be extremely healing, and the many benefits include:

• Understanding your life purpose • Energizing your talents, passions, and strengths • De-energizing unhelpful patterns that hold you back • Clearing trauma and trapped emotions • Gaining clarity around current issues, including relationships • Receiving guidance from your Higher Self and spirit guides “Do yourself the favor, make a few hours in your schedule, and dive into an unforgettable and life-altering experience with Peyton. I can’t recommend it enough.” - Andy C. Sessions take place in-person or by Zoom www.creativespiritma.com ppugmire@creativespiritma.com 40 South Street, Marblehead, MA

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Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. — Alan Cohen

Nutrition I CAN HELP YOU:

BETH COLON, M.S., BCHN Nutrition Counselor Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition

Come on a journey with me to improve your health with holistic nutrition.

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Readings Angels of Light Sharon White

SERVICES Channeling Psychic Guidance Astrology Readings Spiritual Counseling Phone readings

Readings ACCREDITED MEDIUM GRETCHEN MEISNER Gretchen has received twenty-five years of world class training and professional practice.

She is certified or accredited in all reading styles. She teaches many of these techniques.

A dedicated medium who is honored to offer genuine and respectful readings.

She specializes in private or public mediumship demonstrations of any size.

Connecting to Spirit for inspiration, sustenance and support for your life’s journey Nancy guides you into a connection with spirit and your soul for guidance, healing and direction. Connect with a loved one who has passed or receive Soul messages in a session with Nancy. Ask about package discounts and mentoring relationships.

• Psychic Mediumship Readings • Oracle Tarot Card Readings • Akashic Record Readings • Trance Reading With Healing • Intuitive Mediumship Teacher • Usui Reiki Healing Master Teacher • Demonstrating Medium • Spiritualist Speaker • Crystal Light Healing Bed • Chakra Chi Machine Treatment • Infrared Healing Domes Readings online, over-the-phone, or in person. www.GretchenMeisner.com • 603-234-5402 202 Main Street, Salem, NH 03079 USA

SOUL ART Nancy offers sessions in the Akashic Records to open to your Soul. She will sketch while she reads. You will receive your art a couple weeks later.

SOUL ART MENTORING Nancy Also offers Soul Art Mentoring over a period of time. This mentoring includes Akashic healing work, sketches to help you on your way, and a final piece of art that commemorates your Journey and gives you a vision of you on your Soul’s path.

READINGS AND SESSIONS IN

Spiritual mediumship F Spirit portraits of loved ones in Spirit F Akashic record life readings F Group sessions and classes F Akashic Training F Soul Art F

Interested in finding out more about training or mentorship? Contact Nancy for a FREE discovery session 978-835-0005 F nancy@angelscapes.net Haverhill, MA F angelscapes.net

An obstacle in life is often a stepping stone.

— William Prescott www.spiritofchange.org

My readings offer clarity and understanding of one’s essence. I give insight and purpose

Nancy Johansen RN, CCH, RMT

to patterns that we hold but too often cannot see. Like a mirror held up to the self, the view of the heart and its path is visualized.

With uncanny accuracy my messages weave threads of potential, inspiration and trust into a new fabric of the self. Through loving guidance I illuminate the way for the next step of the soul’s journey.

Education: BA, U. Mass. Amherst; Family Intervention, Astrologer with 36 yrs experience, Psychic, Channeler, Spiritual Counselor, Author.

ANGELS OF LIGHT SHARON WHITE lightcentered@hotmail.com 781-351-1908

Connecting you with your Angelic Dream Team, creating your Happily Ever After Angel Readings S Past Life Regression Angel Therapy® S Reiki S Hypnotherapy

at Angeltouche

Soulful Life Coaching Psychic Intuitive S Angel Therapy Practitioner ®

Private sessions in person or distance by phone and e-mail.

Classes and workshops ~ Franklin, MA Nancy@Angeltouche.com www.Angeltouche.com S 508-577-4552

Retreats

Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary is a nonprofit conservation retreat center located in Central Vermont, just south of Groton State Forest and 20 minutes east of Montpelier. Our 600 acre wilderness preserve features rustic lodging and

opportunities for day visits, private overnight retreats, and group bookings. We also offer online courses in herbalism for grief and trauma, holistic tools for end-oflife care, and flower essences. Learn more at our website and submit your request for a reservation at www.sagemountain.com.

Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary www.sagemountain.com 802-479-9825

Spiritual Practices The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism ARLINGTON MASONIC TEMPLE 19 Academy St., Arlington, MA (off Mass Ave., easy access by T via Harvard Sq.) The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism embraces a religious and spiritual belief blending ancient wisdom with contemporary thought. Services are held at 10:30 am every Sunday, with mediumship, live music, inspirational talks, and healing by laying on of hands.

As an evolving spiritual community, The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism offers weekday evening classes in mediumship, healing, and meditation; mediums days are the last Sunday of the month; and seminars and workshops through the year.

For a brochure with upcoming events, or to speak with the Pastor, call us. Visit our website for current events or more information.

An affiliate of the Spiritualists United Network (SUN) and the International Spiritualist Federation

Our mailing address: 40-44 Spring St., Watertown, MA 02472 617-923-4334 GreaterBostonChurchofSpiritualism.com

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NPMDT...................................................24 O Olson Media Group........................... 3,23 Optimism Plus........................................28 Our Sight Your Light.......................... 9,76

Index of Advertisers Fall/Winter 2021

B Balance Within.......................................61 Libby Barnett...........................................75 Beadniks..................................................61 Abby Beale...............................................76 The Bhakta School of Transformation........................................51 Bhavna's Wellness Group................ 11,75 Dianne Bischoff James...........................47 Boston School of Herbal Studies, The.............................................71 Branches of Vibrational Healing..........76 C Cambridge Health Alliance.....................4 Central Mass Lyme Foundation...........16 Circles of Wisdom..................................11 Clairvoyant Sun......................................13 Creative Spirit.........................................76 Crystal Concentrics.......................... 15,74 Crystal Reiki............................................74 D Dancing Jaguar Inspiration...................21 The Deep End.........................................39 Dinno Health Acton Pharmacy............33 E Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies, The.........................72 Eidon Ionic Minerals.............................13 Embodied Interiors................................74 Enchanted Fox........................................24 F Marilyn Fleetwood.................................21 FrogPond Yoga Centre...........................19 G Gabrielle Publishing House..................72

P Bonnie Page.............................................44 Path to the Present.................................73 Pets and Spirits........................................51 Portal Crystal Gallery............................74 Deborah Price.........................................28 Psychotherapy Healing Services...........13 Pyramid Books.......................................17 R Relaxation Creation................................61 Realization Coaching.............................46 Maryann Roefaro.....................................4 Roots Natural Foods................................9 S

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Gaia’s Garden Herbals............................50 Gemstone Therapy Institute............ 53,71 Judy Giovangelo......................................30 Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism.............................................77 Groton Wellness Center..........................4

Light Unlimited.................................. 5,60 Eric Linter................................................71 Lotus Flower Living...............................60 LoveLight Illuminations........................23

H HandTales................................................24 Harmony Integrative Bodywork...........19 Healing from the Body Level U............80 Healthy Spirit..........................................72 Helfand Retreats.....................................59 Holistic Nutrition Services....................77 Holistic Wellness Center................. 51,75 Joan Holzman.........................................74 I Illuminating Light Healing Center........................................71 Inner Traditions......................................41 It’s Magickal!............................................33 J Jo Jayson...................................................37 Barbara Johnson.....................................73 L Ed Langan................................................72 Pat LeBau........................................... 17,19 Life in Time-Space...................................3

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M Made Simple Skin Care..........................21 Nicole Molloy............................................9 Eunice Marchman..................................74 M.A.S.H............................................. 17,47 Maha Yoga Center..................................19 Kristen Mara...........................................11 Tina Marian.............................................27 Wendy Marks..........................................76 Massachusetts Satsang Society.................................... 7,27 Massage Envy............................................2 Karen McCarthy.....................................60 Carolyn McGee............................ 15,39,72 Lori Miller-Freitas..................................73 Modern Dreamwork..............................53 MonShui..................................................61 Mountainbrook Yoga.............................19 Mountain Hollow Crystals....................37 Jacalyn Mulligan.....................................53 N Kathleen Nagy.........................................16 Natural Living Expo...............................31 Nature’s Mysteries...................................45 NE Institute of Reflexology...................72 New England Spas..................................25

Sacred Resonance............................. 67,75 Sacred Temple Arts................................72 Sage Mountain........................................77 Science of Spirituality............................29 Sea Glass Yoga & Wellness.............. 28,19 Andrea Seiver..........................................73 Sheepskin Mama....................................76 Sister Sage.......................................... 16,59 Sohum Yoga.............................................19 Spirit Hollow...........................................11 Maureen St. Germain.............................33 Sturbridge Herbfest..................................7 Synergy Wellness Center.......................37 T Touchstone Community School...........71 Truth Organic Spa..................................79 V Vesta.........................................................23 W Florence Whipple...................................30 Maureen Whitehouse.............................29 Trish Whynot..........................................73 Margaret Wolff........................................30 Women of Wisdom.......................... 27,71 Worcester Yoga.......................................19 Wu Healing Center.................................35 Y Yoga Anita...............................................19 Your Health Matters...............................41

Directory of

Holistic Specialties ANIMAL SERVICES

MASH Integrative Veterinary Care, since 1982. Dr. Margo Roman & Associates.

508-435-4077. Hopkinton, MA. MashVet.com

ASTROLOGY

Eric Linter, over 35 years experience.

Readings, classes, daily forecast. stars@ericlinter.com.

508-541-4115.

CRYSTALS

Portal Crystal Gallery, 489 Mass. Ave, Arlington Center, MA. Open 7 days 1-4pm. 617-771-5119.

Kyle@PortalCrystalGallery.com.

EMF PROTECTION

The Rejuvenizer®, protection from

MEDICAL INTUITIVE Intuitive Healing with Wendy Marks

Over 25 years, with long-term chronic problems a specialty. Very effective with finding root issues. Compassionate and committed. 781-449-5368. www.wendymarks.com.

PAIN RELIEF

Pat Lebau, MA, ERYT-500, Kripalu

Yoga teacher, offers Integrated Positional Therapy sessions.

PatLebauyoga.com

READINGS

Nancy Smith, spiritual medium and

Akashic life readings. 978-835-0005. www.angelscapes.net

REIKI

EMFs and other damaging frequencies.

Strengthens the immune system. www.lighthealing.com.

512-301-2999

Holy Fire III Training. Women of

EM Healing

Libby Barnett, MSW, MSW, Reiki Master Teacher and author. 41 years Reiki experience. 603-654-2787 www.reikienergy.com. CEU’s.

Sacred Resonance Healing. Bena

Phillipo, EM Level 4 practitioner.

Holy Fire III Karuna Reiki Master/ Teacher. Southborough, MA. and remote. 508-303-0366. www.SacredResonanceHealing.com.

HOMEOPATHY

Abby Beale, CCH. Certified in classical

homeopathy. Online and in person.

Homeopathy relieves symptoms and restores vitality naturally.

HomeopathyHealings.com

HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY

Hyperbaric Vermont Oxygen Therapy

offers treatment and chamber sales for home use. 802-472-8900. www.communityhyperbaric.com.

Wisdom. Katie Malloy Ramaci. Holy Fire III Advanced/RMT. 508-230-3680.

Womenofwisdominc.com

ASTROLOGY

SPIRITUAL SINGLES

Perfumery with garden scents and colors. Recipe booklet. Suitable for beginners. 508-799-0235 or gardenscentsandcolors@gmail.com.

Ready for a conscious, evolved relationship?

Our amazing members value spiritual growth, yoga, meditation and sustainable living. 21 years online! Join now — Meet your soulmate. www.SpiritualSingles.com.

COUNSELING

VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS

Dulce Orozco, Latina Immigrant Therapist I help women of color and from immigrant families, like myself, feel comfortable putting themselves first. You deserve to take care of yourself. www.dulceorozco.com

DOWSING All About Dowsing. Discover the science of dowsing. Self-instructional DVD's, books, home of the original Cameron Aurameter. www.dowsing.com. (805) 649-5721. Write to: information@dowsing.com.

One Body Nutrition Specializing in all vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, proteins, sports nutrition, weight management, and lifeextension formulas. Get 20% off with coupon code “spiritofchange”. www.OneBodyNutrition.net You Only Get One!

VOLUNTEER

HELP WANTED

Make a Difference and Become an Ascend Hospice Volunteer in Massachusetts

RETREAT CENTERS

Brahma Kumaris Peace Village Retreat Center. Haines Falls, NY.

518-589-5000. www.peacevillageretreat.org Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary.

600-acre wilderness preserve in Central, VT offers day visits, private overnight retreats, and group bookings. sagemountain.com.

YOGA

Worcester Yoga Center.

Ann Bissanti, CYT. Over 30 years experience Iyengar yoga.

508-829-6300. worcesteryogacenter.com

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Classifieds

WE’RE HIRING

Contact one of our Volunteer Supervisors for more information Jennifer.Fenuccio@ascendhealth.com Kelly.Bollman@ascend.com 508-229-8390

Holistic Counselor, Energy Healing Practitioner or Certified Hypnotherapist Part Time Hours Applicants please send resume and cover letter to suzanne@truthorganicspa.com

Visit our website to learn more about our specialized hospice care and services AscendHospice.com

55 N Main Street N Grafton, MA 01536

WORKSHOPS

SPIRITUAL GOODS

Restore For Life, Light Touch Therapy.

Restore is an original light touch therapy that reconnects, regenerates and restores better brain and body functioning through your neurological system, allowing you to have more abilities, health and a better quality of life on all levels. When you are seeking a healthy lifestyle or facing health challenges creating, better body function is important. We offer 2 online workshops at RestoreforLife.com

Mystical Banners. Hand painted wall hangings and altar cloths. Sacred symbols, angels, mantras and mandalas.

Divine designs with a magickal twist!

Please visit https://www.etsy.com/shop/MysticalBanners.

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