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The Power of Relationships Facing the Truth About Difficult Family Members Everything You Wanted to Know About The Greys and Was Afraid to Ask The Gift of Remote Viewing Our Moon - Your Creative Companion in Life Are Our Answers Really in the Stars ? 10 Powerful Questions to Help You Defeat Defeat The Vision Quest of Our Consciousness Using Expectation Wisely 5 Innovative Projects from Around the World that Reduce Loneliness
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Mother Earth Speaks By PATRICK PITTMAN
andana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alterglobalization author. Vandana Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, that draws upon India's Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an honor known as an "Alternative Nobel Prize".
PATRICK PITTMAN: You talk of Climate change, food security, oil supply, the politics of water, biotech—when considered separately, these issues seem too vast to tackle in a single life or body of work, but is there something unifying that defines a mission for you across all of it? VANDANA SHIVA: Well, I see a deep connection between climate change and agriculture. At least forty percent of greenhouse gas emissions are coming from agriculture, and agriculture is most vulnerable to the impact of climate instability. We are witnessing it in India right now and in the United States.
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Ro-Hun
The Healing Process of Miracles by David Robertson
What is Ro-Hun? Ro-Hun is about miracles. Miracles are rapidly occurring events based on natural principals. In Ro-Hun, the miracles encompass the whole of the human being: physically, mentally/emotionally and spiritually. All miracles already exist, waiting to be expressed when the mental/emotional level releases the painful thoughts and feelings (energy) that block them. Ro-Hun is a healing process that enables us to uncover and rectify beliefs and ideas that confine us to patterns of repetitious, painful behaviors. The basis of Ro-Hun therapy is the discovery of the destructive partnerships of faulty thoughts and negative feelings that we hold within us. Faulty thoughts and negative feelings are dictating human life with or without our knowledge of them.
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By accessing The Higher Self and Universal Mind, Ro-Hun utilizes the client’s spiritual strength to gain profound understanding and forgiveness for Self, and others in the past, effectively and lovingly releasing the blocked energy and hidden shadows that prevent a joyful and productive life. The transformational structure is unique in that the client becomes enlightened and empowered by facilitating their healing. In Ro-Hun, clients attain such a depth of understanding and forgiveness that they forever alter the ways in which they develop and behave in relationships. Those who need to break free from toxic relationships do so. Families release the need for dysfunctional patterns. Others are able to forgive their abusers and walk away from years of painful, buried memories. Without exception, they accomplish these relationship miracles with love and understanding, ending forever the blame, shame, and pain. Physical miracles are a common experience in Ro-Hun therapy. Chronic migraines end, eating disorders stop, deformed limbs straighten, blocked menstrual cycles begin flowing and perfect vision has been restored. There are many layers to self-awareness. These layers are, in effect, points of view through which we experience ourselves, our environments, our pasts and our presents. Each layer discovered brings deeper and deeper healing. For every thought, there is a feeling; for every feeling there is a thought. A faulty thought and a negative feeling combined and used repeatedly creates a Negative Reactive Self. This consistent use of hurtful patterns creates an actual rut, or ditch, in your energy field, making the pattern easier and easier to fall into until you don’t even realize you are living a pattern. omtimes.com
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LIVING INTUITIVELY: Do Our Animals Reincarnate? Animal Reincarnation and Families By Robyn M Fritz MA MBA CHt
These days people consider their animals to be family members, which deepens the human-animal bond and raises mind, body, spirit issues in their multi-species families, including what happens to animals when they die. Do animals have souls? Do they reincarnate? Part 1 of a two-part series explores the concept of soul groups, animal souls, and the afterlife.
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Part 2 explores animal reincarnation and what that means for our families. At some point during the loss of their beloved animals, many people wonder if they’ll reincarnate. As anecdotal evidence confirms, our animals are often reincarnating with us in different animal bodies throughout our lives. Luckily for us, it doesn’t seem to hinder (or annoy) them that we are seldom smart (or aware) enough to notice. In this two-part series on animal reincarnation, we’ve explored how souls work in Part 1, and we’ll now look at animal reincarnation and families. Souls and the Afterlife Souls are busy wherever they are, in bodies or the afterlife. They’re always working to grow in self-love, which includes achieving whatever soul purpose they settled on for a particular incarnation (or afterlife experience). Sometimes souls that were in animal bodies choose to take another animal body and to reincarnate with their multi-
species families. For example, my animals have been reincarnating with me my entire life, but I only became aware of it in mid-life. Do we need to know if our animals will reincarnate with us—or already have? Yes, no, and maybe. All animals have afterlives because they all have souls, and my personal and professional experience reveals they come back more often than we know. I believe we’re now re-discovering this because we’re more spiritually connected to ourselves and our animals than we’ve been in centuries. We learn about our animals’ reincarnations if we need to: if it’s necessary for their soul purpose and ours. In my family’s case, my dogs and cat and I had work to do together that required me to know they were coming back. Before that, I didn’t know they were back, or that it was even possible. The good news is that animals often want their families to know why they’re back—or why they’ve chosen another path—because it helps both Omtimes.com
Yoga: The Meeting Point of Science and Spirituality
How yoga brings a convergence between science and spirituality, how mysticism meets the rationale and the reasoning, how intellect meets the contemplator. They are not in conflict with one another rather in harmony with each other.
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The point where science meets spirituality, where one shakes hands with the other to bring harmony, between the body, mind, and soul. The yoga awakens us, so there is a recognition of oneness between human being and the humankind. In the farextending impact of yoga, there is an enlightening convergence between science and spirituality. The word yoga can be traced back to the Rig Veda, originating in India. The philosophy and the science sprang from Patanjali, through the famous text, Patanjali yoga-sutra. The yoga teachings were to be practiced as a health regime, which would lead to physical fitness. But its benefits go beyond physical health. The human persona is not just reflected through a physical body but a harmony through body, mind, and soul. And this is where yoga comes in to attempt a balance between all of them. It harmonizes the physical body, the reasoning
intellect, and the eternal soul. The mind always runs in diverse directions. But through the harmonized approach of yoga, it becomes unflickering, unwavering and we get a mastery of our warbling minds. What previously seemed uncontrollable, now seems to be in control through the balance attained by yoga. So, we realize the unity between personal consciousness and universal consciousness. In this sense, the individual consciousness and the universal consciousness do not have any standing differences. Yoga teaches to see the unity, to recognize it between us and the environment and ultimately, the bond of interconnectedness between everything in this universe. The essence of such a realization is to sense the oneness, to feel it deep down in our hearts, and to bow down to such a truth that resides in the heart of this universe. So, we can experience the oneness
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Facing the Truth About Difficult Family Members By Marcia Sirota, MD.
Most of us come from a family. Many of us have perfectly lovely families, but for those who don’t, our family can be a source of great unhappiness. If you come from a challenging or dysfunctional family, you might be wondering if there’s anything that you can
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do to improve your situation. Sometimes we grow up with siblings who are loving and supportive, but sometimes our siblings are jealous, competitive; even hostile. Sometimes a sister or brother can be our best friend, but sometimes they can behave really badly and feel like our nemesis. If you grew up with one or more troublesome siblings and still have to spend time with them at family gatherings, you might be wondering how best to handle these difficult interactions. It gets even harder if you’re being pressured by certain family members to turn the other cheek with your hurtful sibling(s). Sometimes our parents are our greatest source of support. They’re there for us when we need them and give us unconditional love. Sometimes, though, our parents have their own psychological issues. They might be neglectful, hypercritical, exploitative; even abusive toward us. If you grew
up with parents like this, you might be wondering how to deal with them now that you’re an adult. Sometimes our extended family is great. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins make us feel like we’re part of a large, interconnected community. Sometimes, though, these people are disinterested, competitive, jealous, or even hostile toward us. If you find yourself in such a situation, you might be wondering how to deal with the difficult members of your extended family. One major problem in coping with difficult family members is that there are too many voices in our society telling us how we’re “supposed” to behave toward them. These individuals and institutions have only good things to say about the notion of “family.” They’re in a sort of denial over the fact that some families might contain difficult or even hurtful people. Our society seems to have a
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Everything you wanted to know about The Greys and was afraid to Ask Greys & Myth Busting by Judy Carroll
I’m well aware of the massive amount of negative information put out on the Greys, and also that some people have had unpleasant experiences in connection with them. The fact that two very different groups are involved needs clarification.
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One group are highly evolved insectoid humans from off-planet and the other are cloned insectoid/ reptoid hybrids resident here on Earth and on the moon. There are similarities in appearance between them, and this has been done on purpose to cause confusion. In her books, Sanni Ceto speaks of interplanetary wars that occurred eons ago involving one of the Zeta Reticulan planets that was attacked by Reptilians and their “Blond” allies, which are Reptoid/Pleiadian hybrids. The planet’s inhabitants were abducted and forced to crossbreed with reptoids, who fitted them with implants to control them and used them as slaves. A similar event occurred on Earth involving the Reptoids and Ant People. The Ant People were on Earth billions of years ago. They’re very distant relatives of the off-planet Greys in the same way that Cro-Magnons
and Neanderthals are distant ancestors of modern-day humans. Having evolved from ants, they operated as a hive consciousness, and as an early humanoid species they had their wars along with a rather polarized outlook as do many of today’s Earth people. As with present-day humans some were more highly evolved than were others. The Repterrans were also present on Earth as “Controllers,” just as they are now, so even back then Earth was a war zone. A faction occurred when some of the Ant People were captured by the Repterrans. They, like the captured Zetas, were crossbred with reptoids, fitted with implants, cloned and enslaved, stopping them from evolving as have the genuine Greys. This is still being done by the Controllers. These cloned insectoid/ reptoid hybrids are the PLFs (programmed Life Forms) referred to by Steven Greer. They are not Greys, but they do slightly resemble Greys. More positive Ant People are
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OUR MOON
Your Creative Companion in Life By Shanta Gabriel
Want to be more creative, productive, and feeling in the Flow of Life? The Moon offers us natural gifts of consciousness that can be very helpful if we pay attention and use the Moon energy to plan our activities
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every month. All over the world, the Moon changes the tides of the oceans. Since the average adult body is made up of more than 60% water, it’s important to remember that we are also affected by the amazing energetic activity of the Moon. It is helpful to understand that the Moon is changing the tides on our inner level at the same time as it changes the outer world. The gift of the New Moon every month is an opportunity to open the doors to New Beginnings in your life. It’s a powerful creative week! New Moon can help you chart your course. It is like a RESET button every month. No matter what has been happening, you get to set new intentions and create your life anew for the month ahead. Whatever you set into motion in the first week of the waxing phase of the New
Moon, will continue for the rest of the month. Within the first week leading up to the Full Moon, the Waxing Moon energy supports us to begin new projects, make major decisions from a clearer place, and create empowered intentions to guide us throughout the month. The energy is not always helpful for completion of projects, but we are in alignment with receiving new guidance, ideas, and creative solutions for problems that did not seem to have answers before. If we can plan our projects around the first week of the New Moon waxing energy, your productivity can be more like stepping into the River of All Creation. Life becomes much more graceful. The second week leading up to the Full Moon still has tremendous creative energy, but the first week is the time for New Beginnings. After
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Are Our Answers Really in the Stars? By Liesha Petrovich
Who hasn’t read a daily horoscope? We even expect enlightenment in our fortune cookies. Culturally, these are not seen as anything of substance and are regarded as entertainment, not enlightenment.
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If we are already open to alternative and traditional practices, we may have overlooked astrology simply because it’s become so mainstream. It’s listed in newspapers, apps, and we even choose jewelry depending on our birthstones. Perhaps in our quests for enlightenment, we’ve overlooked what was right in front of us. If we’re open to traveling an alternative spiritual path, here are a few reasons why the stars may have the answers we’ve been seeking all along.
Rethinking Our Sign Each sign has significance, characteristics, and a certain reputation. But aren’t we all more than one personality trait? Virgo is an excellent example of an astrological sign that is much more than its purity symbol. With a symbol of a virgin, it would seem that Virgo characteristics would include cleanliness, unsociable behavior, or maybe inflexibility. However, in Virgo and the Constant Pursuit for Perfection and Acceptance, the author explains
how the Virgo’s brain works: “There is so much information and thoughts running through their heads, that the only way they will not be completely scatterbrained and all over the place (like Gemini) is through logically processing each and every thought that pops into their mind.” The connection between purity and logical thought processing is not easy to connect. Instead, we have to dig a little deeper to find true meaning. Don’t just look at the symbol or one characteristic, but how these could be applied in our daily life. Since we are all on a journey of self-discovery, we may find answers that help us to see how the stars have been influencing our personality since the day we were born.
Uncovering Our True Nature As we each walk our own path of spiritual and alternative practices, most have heard about Ayurveda, an ancient Indian system of medicine. Ayurveda practitioners believe that we are all born with a certain constitution. In Omtimes.com
10 Powerful Questions to Help You Defeat Defeat! By Guy Finley
You possess a potential power that is superior to any difficulty that life may ever present. This immense inner capability enables anyone who will claim it to rise above his challenger instantly. It
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makes no difference what form the challenge may assume or how huge it looms. This latent power of yours can render it harmless and ultimately make it disappear. This friendly force that can turn your life into a series of victories is the power to question defeat. Now, before you start insisting that you already question your stresses and strains, allow me to show you the difference between right intention and right direction. A little story will help illustrate this higher idea. A happy traveler noticed a tired-looking man seated off to the side of a small but pleasant country road. It appeared that even the cool shade of the tree seemed to weigh upon him. The traveler asked if he might sit for a while and refresh himself. It wasn’t long after they had shared some bread, an apple, and sparse, polite conversation that the unhappy man spoke up. He begged his new companion’s forgiveness and went on to ask if the traveler could help him.
It seemed he had been wandering for weeks, going through all kinds of difficulties; but for all his intense effort, he could tell he wasn’t getting any closer to his destination. He wanted to return to the home of his childhood. The traveler understood his plight and asked where was this home. The man, showing his first smile, called out the name of the small town where he had been born. The traveler looked at him gently and then spoke. “I know how it feels to want to go home; but along with your right intention, you’ve got to have the right direction. You’ve been headed the wrong way, friend.” The kind traveler then pointed him in the right direction, and the wandering man soon made it back to the home of his youth. Let’s look at this story through the eyes of a new understanding. In that way, we too can make it back to our authentic inner home, our True Self. First, we must realize that our stressful,
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THE “VISION QUEST” OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND OUR SELFHEALING PROCESS By Johanna Kern
As we are living in times when much that we have built our world on begins to quickly fall apart – it will be necessary for us to adapt to the inevitable change and find out who we truly are. It is high time for all of us to understand what does and what doesn’t work on our planet. Why life in our town, village, or country – is the way it is. Why
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there is so much suffering in the world, and why it is that while some people bloom, others keep struggling in life. As the consciousness that we are, we are always evolving and looking for more opportunities to expand our vision of ourselves. It manifests in our life through our pursuit of happiness, seeking our life purpose, seeking to improve our situation, looking for fulfillment or a happy relationship, reaching for our dreams, feeling the need for self-improvement, etc. Whether we wish for a peaceful and happy life, or we want the whole world to come together in peace – we need to start from the bottom and turn off our own internal “war.”
seeing our body in the mirror or feeling the rain on our skin). 2. By perceiving ourselves through experiencing (our emotions, mental processes, desires, memories, likes, and dislikes). We can perceive ourselves because of our consciousness. Our consciousness can also be defined in two ways: 1. Consciousness, as described by old-school medicine or oldschool psychology: as long as we can operate via our senses, we are considered “conscious.”
We usually define ourselves in two ways:
2. The consciousness that operates beyond the senses, beyond body/brain capacity, beyond time and space. It does not stop when our brain goes into a coma, or when we are “out of it” and experiences itself in all states of our physical and mental capacity. In health, or in physical or mental illness, consciousness continues to gather the experiences for the purpose of its progression.
1. By perceiving ourselves through our senses/brain (like
The innate nature of consciousness is to grow, to
Because of our perception, who we are is often misunderstood as merely what we call our identity, a sense of being, with a set of specific characteristics.
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Using Expectation Wisely by Crystal Presence
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Defining expectation and how to use it wisely. Addressing the possibility of disappointment, anger, shame or guilt when our expectations fail to come in conforming with times or places we were expecting. Understanding the nature of desires being realized and the things to remember as we embrace the process.
“There is a season for sowing and a season for reaping and they never happen at the same time” Bob Proctor The word expectation originates from the Latin word expectation, an awaiting. In modern times we think of expectation as a strong belief that something will happen, a belief that someone will achieve or experience something. We understand that expectation is part of the invocation process for manifesting our dreams. Many fear that their expectations will leave them disappointed. Some feel anger, shame, and guilt that their expectations are coming in forms, times or places they were not expecting. What if we use expectation wisely and let go of thinking that our dreams must manifest in a certain form, time and place? A great example is a young woman and learning what she is passionate about. She
cultivates new perspectives and gets excited about exploring new possibilities. She notices that if she practices staying connected with herself and Source her life keeps revealing the new experiences that ignite and support the next steps in her journey. Questions we can ask; “Are we allowing the fun and enjoyment of receiving each step in manifesting our full vision?” “Are we bypassing our ability to embrace the multi-levels of our consciousness?” “Are we cultivating our wisdom in how we think, feel and take action?” Bob Proctor, well-known author, and speaker reminds us that we can lessen any disappointment if we understand that “There is a season for sowing and a season for reaping and they never happen at the same time.” Our desires are much the same as the seeds we
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5 Innovative Projects from Around the world that Reduce Loneliness Syndicated by Shareable
Our April 10th event at SFSU, Community Solutions to the Loneliness Epidemic, coincides with the one year publishing anniversary of our latest book, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.� The book, which you can download for free here, includes numerous case studies of projects from around the world that help Omtimes.com
people share in everyday life. Sharing is a great remedy for social isolation, naturally. The case studies from “Sharing Cities” show how people are coming together while meeting other vital needs. Below are our favorite loneliness reducing case studies with the author of each included. 1. Nippon Active Life Club: Time Banking for Affordable Elderly Care In a country like Japan, where people over the age of 65 make up more than a quarter of the population, a pressing question is how the elderly can be provided with quality care without it becoming a major strain on the rest of the taxpaying population. Since the 1970s, time banking approaches have been developed there to address this problem. In Japanese, these practices are collectively called “fureai kippu.” People who help the elderly earn time credits, which they can redeem themselves when they grow old, or gift to older family members living in other cities. Such credits can be supplemented with cash payments. Those who commit their time are generally
not professional caregivers. Therefore, most of the care work includes basic services such as cleaning, yard work, and general companionship. Some of the time banks are run by local governments or quasigovernmental organizations. The largest number of them belong to a nonprofit network called Nippon Active Life Club. The club operates a time bank supported by member dues, and members pay for care work in both time credits and cash. As of early 2016, it had nearly 18,000 members and 124 offices across the country. Learn more at Sawayaka Welfare Foundation (Japanese). — Ryan T. Conway 2. Humanitas: Senior Care Meets Student Dorm in Shared Intergenerational Living Residents in intergenerational Dutch retirement home, by Lisa Goldapple/Atlas of the Future Humanitas Retirement Village, a long-term care facility in the city Deventer in the Netherlands, offers free accommodation to students in exchange for 30 hours of their time per month to help the older residents. Omtimes.com
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