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No Need to Clutch, It’s an Automatic Shift

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I have spent hours starting this article over several times. Sheets of legal paper surround me with dozens of outrageously brilliant thoughts that I was so cleverly going to weave together into a poignant, yet gracefully written piece of art. However, it's just not happening that way. My energy is requiring something more like a blurt-it-right-out-there approach. Here goes. It's kind of nice writing for the readers of this publication. I can skip so many preliminaries about shifts, changes, … [Read more...]

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Do Beliefs Determine UFO Existence?

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Unidentified flying objects, alien abductions, crop circles, all sorts of encounters with alien beings - this is the stuff of the extraordinary, far outside our, ordinary, consensual reality. But these events do happen, they often have multiple witnesses, and they leave "nuts and bolts" evidence behind. For the most part, science, as we know it, has neither the paradigm nor the knowledge to explain these events. Therefore, mainstream science chooses to ignore these phenomena, these untidy … [Read more...]

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An interview with Michael Ventura

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“An Artist Without Obsession Isn’t Worth a Damn!” According to author John Updike: "The ditch digger, the dentist, and the artist go about their work in much the same way Any activity becomes creativity when the doer cares about doing it right or better. The artistic impulse is a mix, in varying proportions, of childhood fantasizing brought on by not necessarily unhappy periods of solitude; a certain hard wish to perpetuate and propagate the self; a craftsmanly affection for the materials … [Read more...]

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Ancient Prophecies: Another Vision

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"Did you see that show 'Ancient Prophecies'? It was scary!" So proclaimed my 13-year-old son after viewing the recently televised network TV program dramatizing many of the major predictions and prophecies about the end of this century. Then I overheard people talking about the show in grocery stores and restaurants, all echoing versions of my son's reaction. Finally, borrowing a copy of the video, I watched it for myself, and could immediately see why it had such an effect on those who may be … [Read more...]

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An interview with James Redfield

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Celestine Prophecy articulates awakening spirituality now happening James Redfield self-published The Celestine Prophecy in 1992 under the Satori Publishing label. New Leaf, its distributor, said that over 100,000 copies sold by word-of-mouth alone. Warner Books bought rights to the book in 1993 and Publishers Weekly said in its December 6, 1993 issue that $800,000 advances to unknown authors don't happen every day. In the Spring of 1994 Warner Books released the book in hardcover concurrent … [Read more...]

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Jon Kabat-Zinn – On Meditation

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Several years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., created the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where severely ill patients are treated, patients with. AIDS, cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, etc., all referred by mainstream physicians. The clinic's cornerstone healing technique is mindfulness meditation, and the results of its healing power are laid out in Dr. Kabat-Zinn's first book, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face … [Read more...]

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Sensing the Spatial

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When I was a small child I had two favorite places in our house. One was the cupboard under the stairs, a small, dark place filled with junk, cardboard boxes, and the vacuum cleaner. The other was a place I had made myself by pushing a big old arm chair against some shelves, thus making a little nook for myself between the end of the shelves and the adjacent wall. By climbing over the back of the chair I was hidden to the world, and in my very own, very special place. Like most children I had … [Read more...]

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Goddess Consciousness

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When it’s cold I put on a long, wool cape and take my drum to my deck where I dance, my head sandwiched by headphones blaring Celtic songs. I hope my neighbors hear me drumming and dancing, twirling the hem of my cape up to the crisp night and the moon's edge, out of focus in my crone's eye. I pant hard, and hear the breath expelling itself into the darkness, or onto the moonbeam. Something in me wants them to see and hear this spectacle, to shock them, to declare the "good news," a fresh, … [Read more...]

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Overcoming Shame – A Big Step on a Man’s Journey

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I moved to Minnesota in February 1989 for all of the wrong reasons. I thought it was for a woman. I was wrong. I thought it was to complete a CD counselor training program at Hazelden. Wrong again. With the grace of hindsight, it is easy for me to see why I moved to Minnesota. The move was simply the next step in my journey of healing, perhaps the first in my awakening as a man. But let me back up a few steps to give you a broader perspective. I officially began this journey of … [Read more...]

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Ariel Spilsbury: Herald of the “new Myth”

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A "new myth" for mankind is evolving and The Mayan Oracle, Return Path to the Stars, by Ariel Spilsbury and Michael Bryner, illuminates its constructs. The new myth is about discovering who we really are. The Mayan Oracle states, "Up to now, most of our familiar myths have been centered around separation and duality: light and dark, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, King Arthur and the Black Knight, Beauty and the Beast. In this new myth, we have access to a … [Read more...]

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