September A 2017
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Metaphysics
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Sally Quinn - Finding Magic
Health & Wellness
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Subtle Self Healing: Measuring Your Progress Is Ketogenic Eating Just A Fad Diet?
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How to Rise Above the Tension of Money The Art of Practicing Tolerance's Touch Three Ways to Train Your Brain: Make the Good Stuff Stick
Relationships 68 72
3 Keys to Mend a Broken Heart How Do You "Love?" Ways to Share Our Human Experience
The ABCs of Spiritual SelfAwareness Illumination: An Afterlife Reading Communicating with Our Animal Families
How to “Tune In” to Our Power of Intuition How to Withdraw from an Old Continuity
World Vision 104 Humanity 2.0: The Unstoppability of Singularity
Sally Quinn: Finding Magic
The word Israel for most reflects the name of a nation or people. It derives from the Biblical patriarch Jacob, who after wrestling with an angel is given the name Israel, meaning he who struggles with God. Every sentient human being, whether a believer, agnostic or atheist, can share the name Israel because of we all struggle with God.
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Today we talk with the famed journalist, commentator and author Sally Quinn shares her journey of discovery. Sally is a long time Washington Post journalist, columnist, television commentator, renowned Washington DC social hostess and founder of the Washington Post Website on Faith. She is the author of several books and joins us to discuss her captivating new book Finding Magic: A Personal Memoir. Victor Fuhrman: Let’s begin with your childhood in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia and the fundamental experiences that began shaping your understanding of the mysteries of life. Sally Quinn: I grew up as an Army brat, but my mother was from Savannah, Georgia, and she grew up part of her life in Statesboro, which is a tiny town right outside of Savannah. My mother’s family were all Scots, McDougal’s, who had come over from Scotland to North Carolina and then followed the turpentine trade down to Statesboro where they
built a huge plantation house right out of Gone with the Wind. My Aunt Ruth, my mother’s aunt, lived in this big beautiful house where we stayed in the summers. It had white columns and a great long, wide hallway that ran the length of the house. My Aunt Ruth was a Scottish Presbyterian lady, who wore little lace collars and played the organ in church, but she also had another spiritual life, which was the life of the Scottish mysteries. She believed in the stones, psychic phenomenon, time travel and all kinds of spiritual things, the occults, the tarot cards, palmistry, astrology, and ghosts. And so, we were brought up with sort of these two conflicting views of religion. There was this sort of institutional religion in the Presbyterian church, and then there was all this other stuff, although we didn’t think of that as a religion. The other thing was that we had staff who were all Black, some of them descendants of slaves who had worked for the McDougal family, and they would go to their Baptist church on their side of town on Sundays. But, Omtimes.com
Subtle Self-Healing: Measuring Your Progress by Lisa Shaw
Getting in Touch with Our Healing Process People seek healers in doctors, metaphysicians and psychics thinking that healing is a product they can purchase when in fact it is a
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process, an ongoing process that doesn’t end. Our bodies, minds, and hearts are a road map to document where we have been and how far we have distanced ourselves from our place of original hurt. Even the subtlest distancing is an integral part of the healing process. If we look at our arms, legs, hands, faces, we see that everything is not smooth or monotone. We are no longer pristine and perfect as we were when we entered this life…in fact, our journey has continued to brand us with physical imperfections from which we recover. We accumulate age spots, rough spots, calluses. If we find a scar and recall how we acquired it, we slide back in time and then return to the present almost effortlessly without re-experiencing the original event. That ability to move from the original
pain and recognize it objectively as just another notch on the headboard means we have healed. Appreciating Scars from Our Often-Hazardous Life Path Our scars are not flaws but physical testaments to our recovery. The process itself is subtle and natural. If it works for small splinters and scraped knees, then it is possible for the larger, life-altering dramas we experience. Wounds heal, and scars fade. That occurs internally as well. We don’t credit ourselves for our successes though the healing journey often enough. More likely, we berate ourselves for not healing quickly enough and continue to seek out others to validate that we are pain or “heal” us within a one-hour appointment. By using our own ability, even subconsciously, to get through (as opposed to getting over) a situation, we have indeed healed.
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How to rise above the tension of money? by Yael Elohim Our relation with money is intense. Many of us feel tension around money in some way since we depend on money for our lives. It is a necessity to survive and make a living. This need for money often prevents us from truly
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following our heart in our (work) life. The question is: how can we rise above this tension around money or the lack of it? By empowering ourselves and living in abundance. Contemplation for change Each of us has a different relationship with money. Some have plenty, others struggle, others find it hard to receive, have a hard time giving or live in fear there is not enough. Money, however, is just energy. One of its important aptitudes is that it flows freely. Our existence adversely depends on a financial system that makes a profit by controlling the free movement of money. It functions on shortcoming and gains from the flow of money via debts, interest, and investments. Managed by controllability and regulation, it is taken by rational and conditional thinking in which numbers and profitability set the benchmark. It is unlikely for such a system to back up anything else. It goes against its nature.
Imagine how this system feels Let us put ourselves in the shoes of the system as if it were a human being. Imagine how control and regulation determine its existence and performance. How it truly believes in this design. In its desire to do a good job, money is programmed to live up to defined standards and fixed parameters. At the same time, it feels a kind of interdependency with this context, which also limits its free movement. As if it’s trapped and identifies with its limitations, unaware of this - harsh - reality. With this, it develops a survival mode and firmly holds on to its pattern of (self-)protecting and selfpreservation. It may feel lost. But as it runs into the standards and its limited developed convictions, it also runs into its identification with these and all tension and stress that go along with this. It resigns itself in the situation. We come to realize that, in its will to survive it can never imagine
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3 Keys to Mend a Broken Heart by Julie Geigle
Is It Possible to Mend a Broken Heart? We’ve all been there. The relationship ends and you can’t help wondering, “Was it my fault?” “Did I do something wrong?” “What if this was my one chance and I just blew it?”
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I am here to tell you today that it was no one’s fault. No one did anything wrong, as a matter of fact, everyone did everything right. And most importantly, all of us will have many opportunities to love again. Yes, we will! Mend a Broken Heart with Affirmations The first key to mending a broken heart is to be armed and ready with affirmations to break the cycle of obsessive thinking. Here are a few affirmations to not only heal that heart but help bring harmony back into your life: I am perfect love. I am whole and holy. All is forgiven and released now, past and future generations to come. Out of this experience only good will come. (This one is my favorite from Louise Hay.) I am open and willing to begin again. Mend a Broken Heart from Past Pain The second key to recovering
from a broken heart is to realize that our heart holds all the memories from all the lifetimes that we have ever lived here on this planet. So oftentimes when we are in a relationship and it ends or there is disharmony these emotions trigger programs from past lives and all the pain bubbles up to the surface. So, the pain from this breakup, this disharmony may be triggering a painful breakup from our past. It may be coming around again so that we can heal it once and for all and break through our fear of being alone and starting over. The truth is that we are perfect love. There is nothing broken. There is nothing that needs mending. It is awesome to think that we are eternal beings constantly moving through these experiences again and again with different perspectives and different ways of thinking and being. Eventually we will figure it out and get it right.
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The ABCs of Spiritual Self-Awareness by Marc Lainhart
Self-Awareness by Definition and Understanding In the Cambridge Dictionary, “Awareness is knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at the present time based on information
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or experience.” It is also the Universe’s way of saying “wake up, it is time to get up now!” It is important to recognize that both external awareness and self-awareness are not only about what we notice about ourselves but also how we notice and monitor our inner world and the world around us. As we start to notice what’s happening inside of us, we acknowledge and accept the inevitable part of being human and the human experience. Furthermore, our selfawareness goes beyond merely accumulating knowledge about ourselves, but how we interact with those around us and our perception of our world. It is also how the world interacts back with our lives and us. Awareness is about paying attention to our inner state physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually with a beginner’s mind and an open heart (even when we get to an
older state of mind). Our mind is extremely powerful and skillful at storing information about how we react to a certain event to form a blueprint if you will of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life. “Awakening through the power of awareness is a process towards self-discovery that we are so much more than we perceive to be.” The Intuitive Prospector: Self-Awareness Awareness and self-awareness is having a clear perception of our personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self-Awareness allows us to understand other people, how they perceive us, our attitude and our responses to them in the moment and along our spiritual paths. Having awareness creates the opportunity to make changes in our behaviors, habits, and belief systems. Gathering and processing information.
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How to “Tune In” to Our Power of Intuition by Kara Johnstad
We Can “Tune In” to Intuition Anytime Intuition: We already own it, and carry it with us everyday. We have intuition our possession 24/7. It is one of the most powerful tools we could
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ever wish for, and it comes free of charge. It is here for the taking. If we are clever, we will listen to it before making a move. It is like our very own, built-in “intuitive positioning system.” So, what do we need to do to understand it and use it to guide us in our business and our lives? It is this simple: Tune into your intuition! Various Methods to “Tune In” to Intuition “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.” –Albert Einstein In this ever-so-busy, multitasking, modern-day world, we may find our intuition to be one of our strongest allies. There are a few simple methods that help us to start tuning in:
First, intuition has nothing to do with supernatural powers. Intuition is simply an extension of our natural self. Just Relax, Be Open, and Listen to Our Inner Voice. With some focus and practice, our intuition will become clearer and stronger. Whenever we learn something new, it is helpful to practice it every day to become skilled and confident. Simply start by paying more attention to that quiet whisper in the back of the mind that nudges us in a direction. Next, we might start honoring that quiet voice deep within by voicing it, writing it down in a journal, or speaking and recording it with any audio program. Most smart phones today have an app we can use. If we receive a great idea in the middle of the day, we can simply use the audio memo to sing in the melody or record the message we hear. Then, when we get home those important notes can go into a journal, for example.
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Humanity 2.0: The Unstoppability of Singularity by Christine Horner
Would it shock you to know that by reading this article, you are presently interfacing with artificial intelligence to enhance personal cognitive brain function? Technology is a form of external artificial intelligence
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or AI. As science pushes forward in its quest to upgrade the human experience, what will it mean for human consciousness— and for you? Self-Actualization, the pinnacle of Maslow’s five-level human needs pyramid is close at hand for a larger segment of the population than ever before. DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN Let’s first look at how technology has played a part in advancing the evolution of human consciousness. Try to imagine going back to a world without a www in front of it. Even if you’re old enough, it’s difficult. It was a small, small, world after all—but only in the last half-century. Prior, it was much smaller. Access to external stimuli i.e. education, ideas, and information was a lot more precarious. You were highly likely to be born, live, and die nearly similarly to the way your parents did. Hence, except for a handful of time-honored geniuses ahead of the curve, the
collective evolution of human consciousness was tedious, cumbersome, and SLOW. Then came August 6th, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee’s, world wide web became publicly available without fanfare by global media ushering in the Information Age. WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? Before we fast forward to today, let’s establish a simplified definition of consciousness as selfawareness. Scientists are still attempting to quantify the unquantifiable to move beyond theory to answer rudimentary questions such as whether consciousness originates within the brain, or if the brain acts like a receiver that processes non-physical signals. Information is a form or byproduct of consciousness; consciousness is information as an inseparable feedback loop. That all life is inseparable and interdependent will be one of the most important revelations in modern physics.
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