Healing Your Body's Energy: Medical Intuitive Insights on Adrenal Fatigue

Many of my clients speak of having fatigue, sleeping problems,
weight gain, and depression. They say that their mind feels 100
years ahead of their body. Sound familiar?

Many of these clients have what is known as Adrenal Fatigue or in
extreme cases, Adrenal Exhaustion.

Your adrenals are small Brazil nut size glands which are on top
of your kidneys. They are, in reality, two very different glands packed into one.
The center of the adrenal gland makes adrenaline (epinephrine) and it is governed by the autonomic nervous system.

The outer part of your adrenal gland, which is called the cortex, makes many additional important hormones for your body.

Some of the most important are:

Cortisol: When you are under stress your adrenal glands will increase
the making of cortisol to help your body respond to stress. Cortisol does raise your
blood sugar, and blood pressure, as well as reducing your immune response. When your
cortisol becomes low; you may have low blood pressure, fatigue, immune deficiency,
and a high degree of allergies and sensitivities.

Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S): DHEA is the most plentiful hormone produced by the brain. How DHEA works in our body is not understood fully. When your DHEA levels are low, you will feel dragged out, and feel you have very low energy.
DHEA-S does decline with age, and does drop more rapidly with chronic fatigue patients.
Often bringing your DHEA level to a middle range for a 29 year old will help considerably.

Aldosterone: This is the hormone that governs the balance of salt and water in your body.

Estrogen and testosterone: These two hormones are manufactured in significant amounts by your adrenals. About half the testosterone in a woman’s body is made by her adrenals.

Your adrenal gland’s job is to quickly transport all of your body’s resources into the
“fight or flight” mode. They do this by rapidly increasing the making of adrenaline and other hormones. When healthy, your adrenals can rapidly increase your heart rate and blood pressure, and open your body’s energy stores for immediate use. Your senses will sharpen, and your body becomes very alert.
A healthy stress response will have a priority over all of your metabolic functions. A healthy stress response will not last very long. However, in the modern world, we have lives of constant stress. Over work, toxins in our air, water and homes, poor nutrition, all of these create great stress in your body/mind. With all these challenges, the body will create a demand on your adrenal glands.
The Damage of Cortisol

When cortisol production in your body is functioning normally, it will enable your body to meet the challenge of stress by converting protein into energy, and helping to release glycogen. It also will help to reduce inflammation. This process will work fine for a short time, however if it continues, cortisol will begin to wear your body down.

A high level of cortisol in your body will wear down muscle and bone. Your body’s ability to heal itself will slow down, as well as the replacement of cells. Cortisol will take over the other biochemicals your body uses to make its other hormones.

Adrenal fatigue may also be a factor in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, early menopause and other conditions.

In my medical intuitive work, the energy pattern that I see with
a person who has adrenal fatigue is that of survival, one who is
not truly connected with their physical life on the Earth. The
person is reacting as if they are under attack and are leaving
their physical body behind. With intention and focused effort,
their adrenals can be restored to health.

Your first step is to have a complete physical from your doctor. This will rule out any disease or other factors. My adrenal fatigue clients have seen great improvement by following these steps:

Decrease carbohydrates and stimulants in your diet. Add a minimum of 800mg of EPA, and 600 mg per day DHA, which are essential fatty acids. They are most easily found in fish oil capsules

Work on reducing your stress. Walking and being in nature is always healing. A focused energy practice such as Hatha Yoga, Tai Chi, or Qigong is very helpful.

Persons with more severe symptoms, such as
adrenal exhaustion, usually need a more intensive program. These may
include phosphorylated serines, low-dose DHEA, ginseng
and other supplements.

Each person is unique, and therefore has unique needs. Self diagnosing is not recommended as it may have adverse side effects. Speak to your physician, or seek out the services of a medical intuitive.

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Christopher Stewart
Medical Intuitive
http://www.clairvoyantguide.com

A Beloved Teacher...

The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller
1904 - 1992


Joe Miller is one of the great "homemade" American Mystics of this century. He was recognized as an enlightened being by many spiritual authorities and revered as a mentor by many young seekers. He and his wife Guin, best known for taking hundreds of people on their weekly walks through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, were true torch-bearers of Love. They were hard to miss on the walk, two white-haired elders wearing T-shirts that read: "No Religion higher than Truth, no Power greater than Love"


"Don't bother just listening to the words, but try to get the feel of what I'm putting out! Realization can't be taught, it can only be caught". He would roar at his audience: "There are three things one needs for the spiritual path -- common sense, a sense of humor, and more common sense!"

In the words of Richard Power, who wrote the book, Great Song: The Life and Teaching of Joe Miller, "Joe was an authentic American revolutionary of the spirit. He challenged his young friends to issue their own declarations of independence from the empire of fear and wanting. Joe wanted people to seek the truth for themselves within themselves. He felt that each person had an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Life - as in 'the resurrection and the life'; liberty - as in spiritual liberty from the tyranny of opposites; and the pursuit of happiness - as in the inner contentment that flows unceasingly from the depth of the heart if you 'let go and let God'".

When giving a rap, Joe often introduced himself as "a graduate from the School of Hard Knocks." In his autobiography, Joe offers insights into both his worldly life and his inner development. Born to poor parents in the frigid north of Minnesota, with an eighth grade education and beautiful tenor voice, Joe became a vaudeville entertainer by night and a Wonder Bread truck driver by day. He recounts how several episodes of pre-cognition and sudden spiritual ecstasy, together with a misplaced book on a library shelf, led him to join the Theosophical Society in his early twenties.

His T.S. membership was just the beginning of a life-long inner quest. Joe experimented with many other groups, taking correspondence courses from the Rosicrucians, dabbling in Aleister Crowley's "sex magic", learning the sales pitch for the I AM movement with its "Ascended Masters" and purple Cadillacs.

Searching to unlock the healing powers of color and music, Joe encountered charlatans and bold innovators. Along the way, Joe read voraciously, and used himself as his own laboratory for the various techniques that attracted him. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that most of the groups he had investigated and much of the popular literature he had studied boiled down to "astral real estate, just pretty pictures in your imagination."

While Joe pursued his interest in the mystical and occult, his personal life provided him with plenty of what he would call "the manure that makes the flowers grow." His early life was a painful American patchwork, moving from town to town for work, staggering through three marriages and raising two sets of children.

After moving to northern California, Joe began to find books and people with the answers he was looking for. In the works of Ramana Maharshi, the Sutra of the Sixth Zen Patriarch, and Dr. Evans-Wentz's translations of sacred Tibetan texts, Joe found practices that made sense to him and he began to dig deeper into the inner mysteries.

Dr. Evans-Wentz, the original translator of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and other sacred Mahayana texts, considered Joe Miller "the only man he had met in the West who understood the Doctrine of the Clear Light."

Near retirement, Joe's quest received a great forward impetus when he met his fourth wife, Guin, a woman of his own age (for a change), an accomplished pianist and a fellow Theosophist. Together, they vowed to "grow geometrically" toward "falling awake" (a term they coined to express Enlightenment).

His marriage to Guin provided Joe with the emotional equilibrium and spiritual camaraderie he needed to unlock that inner door. The key was love, unconditional love. After decades of inner searching and outer turmoil, Joe was able to turn the spiritual ecstasy that he had first touched as a young man on and off at will.

The inner and outer worlds began to mirror one another. Joe called his friend and mentor, Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz on the phone and sang him a verse from one of the sacred scriptures that Evans-Wentz had translated. Guin had set it to music. Although ill and very old, the good Doctor shouted into the phone: "You're there now, stay there!" As Joe told it later: "When he said that, it didn't do anything to my 'kundalini,' it did something to my heart."

From then on, in their late fifties, when others of their age had settled down to mah-jong, Joe began to walk in the Golden Gate Park, singing and expounding to the many young people who came along. Always, balancing him beautifully, was his opposite and "better half," his beloved Guin.

Without taking any titles, Joe was known among the Sufis as Murshid (Master) or Madzub (one crazy for God), among the Buddhists as Roshi or the "Sufi Lama", and among the Vedantists as "Swami Joe". Virtually every high Lama, Swami or Murshid visiting San Francisco would make their way to his door to pay their respects. The Ven. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called the musical meditations that Joe sang to his wife's piano accompaniment "the first American mantras". On his deathbed, the American Sufi Master Samuel L Lewis (a.k.a. Sufi Sam), entreated Joe to: "Take care of my disciples", and for more than twenty years, Joe lovingly fulfilled his friend's request. But as Power writes: "Joe didn't take any money for public speaking or private consoling. He absolutely refused the role of Guru or spiritual teacher. He referred to himself as 'just a friend' ".

In Joe’s voice,"This isn't something you can go to India and get, or the moon, or South America to get! It's inside you. Just be still and find it and start living from there”. “The truth IS, nobody can say it. You've got to BE it!" Joe used his vaudeville flair: "You can get more stinkin' from thinkin' than you can from drinkin', but to feel is for real! AND I MEAN REALLY FEEL!" His advice on meditation was disarmingly simple: "Just take a gentle in-drawn breath into the heart and feel unselfish love flowing out. If you can do that you're cooking on the big burner."

Joe's message was simple but powerful, direct but subtle: "Just be. But just be who and what you really are, in depth. Not what someone else tells you to be, or what you think you should be. Be. When you first wake-up in the morning, who are you then? When you say "I", you put your hand to your heart, don't you? Well, that's headquarters, not in your head. Your head is just an outpost. You've got to get out of your cotton-picking mind! Go deeper." Joe was always trying to break-up people's fixed ideas and biases about how to get to the goal: "You've got to do it for you. No one can carry you piggy-back to the Reality. You've all got your own do-it-yourself kits. You don't have to go to anybody else, pay out a lot of loot, do a hundred thousand gyashos, and contemplate your navel till it gets as big as a wash-tub. Just be still, be very still."

"I know I'm NOTHING, no-thing, no-thing, not me, not me. I'm just a wild assed spark of the Infinite functioning in the Finite! This is the magic that each of us has within us."
Joe Miller left his body Aug 19, 1992, but his presence and message live on.

Shabda Kahn

http://www.ruhaniat.org/lineage/JoeBio.php

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Come Back soon Joe, the planet needs you.

Christopher Stewart
Medical Intutive
http://www.clairvoyantguide.com

Science of Emotions

Dalai Lama's theme: `science of emotions'
By Jeff Diamant and Maura McDermottReligion News Service


PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Sharing the spiritual lessons that have become his calling card, the Dalai Lama drew the largest crowd for a non-athletic event in Rutgers University history last month with a wide-ranging speech on what he called the ``science of emotions.''

From a massive stage in the Rutgers Stadium, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism -- who speaks Friday at Stanford Memorial Church during a two-day visit to the university -- focused on inner peace and world peace and the connection between them.

With occasional help from a translator, the man regarded as the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion joked with the crowd of nearly 36,000 and answered questions on morality submitted earlier via e-mail.

The Rutgers turnout -- people began arriving hours before the speech -- exemplified the popularity of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner among Christians, Hindus, Muslims and Jews. Little in the speech was specific to Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama urged listeners to think of his message not as religious but rather as ``a science of emotions, the science of mind.''


The chief themes in the talk, titled ``Peace, War and Reconciliation,'' were the importance of being compassionate and of controlling negative emotions, because doing so helps improve the world. Compassion, he said, drives peace, and true compassion ``is not just a mere feeling'' of pity but a sense of concern for others that stems from feelings of equality with them. That feeling, he said, contributes to an ``inner disarmament'' that can help people get along and eventually lead to world peace. Negative emotions such as anger and hatred, he said, can cloud one's vision and judgment.

The Dalai Lama, known as ``His Holiness'' to followers, made his points with stories of two Tibetan Buddhist monks. The first monk, he said, had spent nearly 20 years in a Chinese prison and when released to speak with the Dalai Lama in the 1980s, told the spiritual leader he had been in danger on a ``few occasions.'' Asked to elaborate, the monk responded that he had been in danger of losing compassion for the Chinese: ``He considered forgetting compassion as very serious and dangerous,'' the Dalai Lama said.

The second monk, by contrast, was so angry at Chinese rulers for their actions in Tibet that ``his face became red'' when talking about them. ``This kind of hatred brings more suffering to yourself,'' the Dalai Lama said.

It was a message that held special significance for people in the crowd such as Lara Brewche, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident at age 16. ``I knew enough to let the anger go, and I made a wonderful life for myself,'' said Brewche, 34, who grew up Roman Catholic and embraced Buddhism a year ago.

Urging Americans to help narrow the worldwide gap between rich and poor, the Dalai Lama asked his young listeners to grow into adults willing to help people outside U.S. borders. ``You must look from wider perspective, not just talk America, America, America, like that.''
He also made the crowd laugh repeatedly. Overall, the Dalai Lama was a hit.

``You felt you were talking to a friend and listening to a friend,'' said Rajul Shah, 58. ``What he preached here wasn't religion; it was very spiritual.''

Article Source: Mercury News


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Christopher Stewart
Medical Intuitive
http://www.clairvoyantguide.com/

Preparation... For Work. For Living

"We must always be in a state of Preparation. Preparation is the art of staying awake. If you are awake, then one day you may see into the real world.You cannot expect to come into that world if you walk around like a sleepwalker in a dream. You cannot wake up by reading books that tell you: you are asleep. You may not even wake up just because a teacher tells you that you are asleep.You can only wake up if you want to, and so begin to work on yourself to cut away all the rubbish in order to come upon the nature of who and what you are."

Reshad Feild


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Carnival of Healing #14 online

The 14th edition of the Carnival of Healing , "Share & Scare!" is online at Jodie Foster's blog Intuitive Innovations. She's included some Halloween tips and scary horror classics.

"Having fun & laughing can be very healing and the Carnival of Healing #14 will bring you some of both, along with the classics of horror, Halloween costumes and trick or treating tips", says Jodie.

Check out the records on the The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf....

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New Moon on November 1

The next New Moon forms on Tuesday, November 1st at 5:25 PM PST, at 10º Scorpio. All New Moons are optimal times for reflection and setting new intentions; a New Moon in Scorpio invites us to check our motivations and how we are dealing with intimacy, shared resources, and power. The 8th sign involves the journey into the dark, into the unconscious--the repressed, the feared, and the simply unknown. Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio and the mythic Lord of the Underworld, semi-squares this New Moon, intensifying the need for truthfulness and transformation.

November 1st is also Samhain, the first day of the year in the Celtic calendar, a time of purification and communion with the Underworld. The Christian celebration of All Saints Day was created to coincide with earlier traditions of honoring ancestors and the occasion when the veils between the living and dead are the thinnest. The ancient ritual of Dumb Supper, where one dines with a departed loved one by setting a plate of their favorite foods and conversing as if they were present, is a ceremony that can offer great wisdom and healing in modern times as well.

This New Moon forms part of a very potent Grand Cross (or Grand Square), composed of the Sun and Moon in Scorpio, Mars in Taurus, Saturn in Leo, and Neptune in Aquarius. Consisting of the fixed signs which consolidate energy and maintain continuity, a fixed Grand Cross symbolizes an imperative to confront long-standing issues and imbalances. This energy configuration exerts a strong influence for the first week of November and beyond as Mars, Saturn, and Neptune travel slowly this Fall due to their retrograde phases, thus extending the time they are in relationship to each other. As Jupiter moves further into Scorpio, a fixed Grand Cross continues through mid-January, increasing the opportunities see new truths and move into new realities.

"Here we are at the junction of love and fear, and if we stay on the all-too-familiar path of ScareCity -- we¹re totally forked. Yes, in a shrinking world that could definitely use a good shrink, we can do the same old same old and get the same old results, or ... we can try something different for a change. Instead of ScareCity, we can go for ABunDance.
That is when we get up off of our assets, move our buns, and dance together in rhythm and flow. Can it work? Well, consider what hasn't worked".-- Swami Beyondananda



Namaste,
Stephanie Austin
http://Ecoastrology.com

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Darkening of the Moon

Things are certainly getting scary out there, and Halloween is still several days away! The season of Scorpio is fast upon us, marking the final harvest as Nature goes into full retreat in the Northern Hemisphere along with the light. Those of you observing Daylight Savings will be in for a minor shock when you see how early darkness falls Sunday evening.


It appears as though the world is moving into deeper levels of chaos, fear and confusion. Natural disasters are hitting us up the side of the head with each passing day while we come to realize that history hasn't taught us anything about being prepared for such disasters. For many readers, this shouldn't come as any surprise as we've been warned of this period of accelerated "Earth Changes" for several decades now, via prophecies and scientific studies on global warming.

It's important to remember that this is all part of the impending global transformation, as things that have always worked in the past seem to fail us now. In many ways, the next few years will be like a slow-motion Dark-of-the-Moon phase - a period of endings and completions before a new cycle is born out of the remains of the past. If this "Great Unraveling" unnerves you, just remember that we've all been living in a dream that all too often resembles a nightmare, and this dream is about to change into something better.


Speaking of bad dreams, things certainly aren't going very well around the White House these days. Bush's embattled Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers just withdrew her bid, handing W yet another defeat. The Grand Jury investigating the outing of a CIA operative concludes its two-year investigation and prepares to serve indictments on the upper echelons of power just after Jupiter (justice) entered Scorpio (hidden motives). There are other dark and creepy secrets hiding under this rock as well, but it remains to be seen what Special Counsel Patrick J.
Fitzgerald has found or will make available at this time.

Neptune's current station has also contributed to a fear of the unknown as Washington holds its collective breath on the outcome. In addition to the fear factor, Neptune is closely related to perjury, deceptive actions and cover-ups; it's timing couldn't be more perfect.

Saturn has been crossing President Bush's Pluto this past week, suggesting the need to acknowledge the limits of power and privilege. In addition, Saturn is also moving directly opposite Dick Cheney's Sun placement in Aquarius - this is about being held accountable for one's actions and (ab)uses of power. Saturn will return to these sensitive points in Bush and Cheney's charts twice more before next June, so we can assume that any developments this week will mark the beginning of a more prolonged period of accountability.

Grand Crossed Moon
The Scorpio New Moon takes place on Tuesday, November 1 at 8:25 p.m.
(09Sco43); from there, it waxes toward the Taurus Full Moon on November
15 - the day after Mercury stations retrograde and Uranus stations direct. By itself, the Scorpio New Moon marks a time when hidden emotional depths are stirred and we're forced to confront our fears and desires. Scorpio is the sign most closely related to death and rebirth, so the New Moon taking place on The Day of the Dead is really quite fitting.

What makes this particular New Moon in Scorpio so potentially earthshaking is the fact that it will form hard alignments to Saturn, Neptune and Mars - all evenly spaced around the zodiac; each located near the midpoints of the "fixed signs" (Scorpio, Taurus, Aquarius, Leo). If we draw a line connecting the New Moon and these three planets to one another, a configuration emerges known to astrologers as the "Grand Cross." Here, a total of five planetary bodies are in opposition or square aspect to one another (it looks like a square with a cross connecting the corners) as they inhabit the most potent degrees contained within the zodiac (the four "fixed powergates"). This in turn, suggests concentrated levels of fixed or dense energy seeking release.


The Scorpio New Moon acts as a symbolic trigger by forming hard angles to three of the more challenging planets in astrology, increasing the potential for major fireworks over the course of the next two weeks.

Mercury Retrograde Alert
The third and final Mercury retrograde of the year rapidly approaches as the planet of communication and transportation turns stationary retrograde in Sagittarius on November 14 (10Sag55). After it turns retrograde, Mercury will appear to move in reverse (beep, beep, beep), backing-up over the cusp into Scorpio (where it's been these past three
weeks) before stationing direct on December 3 (24Sco45).


Those of you familiar with Mercury retrograde also know that it marks a time when Murphy's Law Rules - particularly with anything that concerns media, words, speeches, information, documents, contracts, written decisions, purchase orders, shipping and mail delivery, telephones, cell phones, computers, roads, routes, planes, trains and automobiles - you get the gist. During a three-week Mercury retrograde period, the above items can often take unexpected turns, encouraging us to avoid making assumptions about anything.

Ordinarily, this is no big deal as Mercury retrogrades tend to affect us in ways that usually only add up to minor annoyances or time-consuming backtracks. It's when we place Mercury's three-week retrograde within the context of the approaching Holidays, that we can foresee a greater potential for things going wrong as travel, mailing and shopping - all Mercury-related themes - reach their peak this time of the year.

It would be wise to consider using the waxing Moon phase (Nov. 3 - Nov.
14)) to book travel arrangements, place orders over the phone or Internet, and mail overseas packages. Either that, or wait until after Mercury turns direct on Dec. 3 - an appealing choice among those of us more accustomed to celebrating a Last Minute Christmas.



Gary Paul Glynn


His bimonthly astrology forecast can be found in the November-December edition of Branches Magazine or at http://www.branches.com.

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Bird Flu: Learning Preparing & Protecting Your Family

by Christopher Stewart

The Virus

The H5N1 strain of avian influenza (Flu) is considered by the World Health Organization and other health experts to be the biggest single disease threat to the world. Since starting in Hong Kong in 1997, it has spread in flocks of poultry across Asia and is now in Turkey Romania, Greece, and the United Kingdom.

This virus does not move easily from birds to humans. World Health Organization data shows that is has infected 117 in Asia, and killed 60. WHO has stated the H5N1 strain will in time have the ability to move with ease from human to human. When this occurs this will be a pandemic that will travel the world infects and kills millions of people.

Recent research studies published in the journal Nature have shown that the first line of defense against the H5N1 bird flu strain, a drug known as tamiflu is not as effective as originally thought. First line treatments will need a combination of drugs such as tamiflu zanamivir and other anti-virals.

Ultimately until the bird flu H5N1 strain does pass easily to humans it will not be possible to develop a vaccine against it. Any vaccine would need to have the identical strain of virus that is circulating.

How to protect yourself and others:

The human immune system is your primary defense against the H5N1 bird flu. Your immune system is compromised daily by chemical exposure due to air, water, and ground pollution, and by stress. Additionally the overuse of immunosuppressive drugs such as steroid creams reduces your body’s ability to defend itself against a viral inflection. The bird flu is a virus and antibiotics would not have any effect against it.

To help to protect yourself and others from the Bird Flu, your immune system response can be raised to a significantly higher level by the use of the following over the counter immune enhancing substances:

Beta 1,3-D Glucan 1000 mg per day 30 minutes before a meal

Beta 1,3-D Glucan is a highly purified and patented carbohydrate extracted from the cell walls of Baker’s yeast. Numerous scientific studies have shown that it dramatically increases phagocytic capacity—the ability of your innate immune cells to eat and destroy foreign intruders.

Thymic Protein A 4mcg per day

Protects against immune system suppression. This polypeptide produced by the thymus gland is composed of a chain of 500 amino acids. Administered sublingually, the standard dose is 2 to 4 mcg per day.

Immune Advantage (Formerly ImmunoLin) 2 tablets per day

According to the manufacturer Now Foods, “Immune Advantage is a new Immunoglobulin supplement derived from bovine serum. It contains high levels of a mixture of Immunoglobulin classes, including IgG1, IgG2, IgM and IgA factors shown to support healthy immune functions.” I have had many good reports from clients using this product.

Additionally taking vitamin C 1-3 grams per day and a bioflavonoid mixture containing Rutin, Hesperidin, and Quercetin, will also help to build your immune system.

Nanomask

Having a biofilter mask that will block the H5N1 bird flu virus and kill it would be handy to have in your home in case of a real outbreak. The best one that I have seen is called the Nanomask and they are available online for about $10 per mask. The mask has a shelf life of 1 year and comes with 10 filters.

This is not a time to panic, however it is a time to take stock of your own immune system’s strength, and how that strength may be increased. You will reap many other benefits from this, fewer colds and other illnesses, and a general increase in your well being. So what do you really have to lose?

copyright 2005 - Christopher Stewart Medical Intuitive

www.ClairvoyantGuide.com

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Qigong - Energy Medicine for the New Millennium

Qigong (“chee gung”) is an ancient Chinese health modality that has been proven effective for a range of diseases and conditions, and it is used extensively by tens of millions of people daily for preventative medicine
and self-healing. Although the Qigong and Energy Medicine Database™ contains over 3500 medical and scientific references for Energy Medicine healing, Qigong and other energy-based therapies have not received widespread acceptance by Western medical practitioners. There are many reasons for the reluctance to adopt these therapies, including a lack of understanding of their benefits and how they work, a scarcity of clinical trial results, and an undefined scientific foundation. However, exciting new discoveries are being made in Energy Medicine research and practice that help to explain Qigong’s amazing self-healing, health maintenance, disease
prevention, and chronic disease management benefits.

This paper characterizes Qigong as Energy Medicine by
examining the scientific basis, the medical need for, and the scientific research supporting the benefits of EnergyMedicine. It also proposes a Human Energy Project to fully research and map the human bio-energy field.

Tom Rogers

http://www.qigonginstitute.org/html/papers/QigongEMedicine.pdf

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Jupiter Enters Scorpio

The big news this week surrounds Jupiter's entrance into secretive Scorpio for the first time in twelve years. Laws and foreign policy, religion and politics, resources and finances will all find greater intensity in the year to come. Dirty secrets that have been swept under the rug are being exposed and ready to be brought to the attention of the folks who still don't get it. It seems probable that a larger conspiracy involving major players will be in our line of sight over the year to come.

Jupiter's association with economics as well as foreign policy will undoubtedly magnify the extreme economic imbalances created by the credit explosion. Scorpio has a close relationship with debt and the problems attendant to indebtedness, whether we're talking about personal debt or the trade deficit. The recent squeeze on Chapter 7 bankruptcy laws could have a larger impact on the U.S. economy than anyone anticipated while the cost of natural disasters adding to the federal deficit could show serious strains. We're already experiencing fall-out from the effects of global trade and its impact on American jobs. It should come as no surprise that NAFTA went into effect the last time Jupiter entered Scorpio, back in 1994. I anticipate the coming year to be a time of sharp adjustments in the face of global competition that could lead to a change in our current standard of living.


Stationary Neptune
Neptune, the planet symbolically associated with non-linear realities undergoes one of its twice-yearly stations as it prepares to turn direct this coming Wednesday (14Aqu48). This means that Neptune symbolism is especially strong right now through the first week of November. Due to the fact that Neptune is stationing at 15-degrees of Aquarius, one of the four fixed "powergates" of the zodiac, a location of concentrated "air" energy (think: wind), we can expect to see important developments over the next two weeks.


It might be helpful to know that Neptune's basic astrological symbolism doesn't acknowledge boundaries or limitations, draw lines or distinctions - Everything is One Thing. This lack of boundaries finds positive expression through our night dreams and day dreams, visions, psychic abilities, spiritual awareness, creative imagination, empathy, sympathy, compassion and a deep sense of connection to Everything. With Neptune stationary direct this week and next, the above channels are more open than they are at other times; favoring meditation, contemplation, prayer, chanting, creative activities as well as selfless acts of kindness and unconditional love.
When manifesting through the more egocentric and boundary-obsessed aspects of daily life, we often experience the darker side of stationary Neptune.

This can manifest as lies, deceptions, boundary issues, blind faith, disillusionment, psychic displacement, substance abuse, addictions, fatigue, depression, paranoia, psychosis, feelings of vulnerability, imaginary fears, victimization, panic and confusion - to name a few. While Neptune remains virtually motionless, these things will tend to become more noticeable on personal and collective levels of expression..


The mundane and somewhat neutral expressions of Neptune are also likely to grow more amplified with regard to oceans, hurricanes, floods, gases, oil, gasoline, movies, poetry, music, drugs (legal and illegal), viruses, evacuations, toxins, fog, sleep, dreams, disappearances, idealism, heroes, victims, martyrs and saints.


The key to navigating the next two weeks lies in your ability to talk with angels while keeping your feet firmly planted on the ground. Don't forget to breathe!



Gary Paul Glynn -professional astrologer His bimonthly astrology forecast can be found in the September-October edition of Branches Magazine or at http://www.branches.com/. mailto:gpg@bluemarble.ne

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Quieting the Mind Opening the Heart

To put it simply, the act of meditation involves quieting the mind so you can open the heart. That's it in a nutshell.

We often believe our hearts are open and we can feel much of what is going on in our lives. Yet to truly open the heart means we have to stop the thinking, the judging, the opinions, the analyzing, the questioning, the doubting, and just love. It's all that unconditional stuff. The act of doing this, takes practice and patience. Learning to meditate means learning to love. To love our self. To love all others. To love the oneness of all. To love more.

The connection you feel when you ‘plug in' to this oneness is the most irresistible state of love you will ever feel. Makes it sound like it's worth the effort doesn't it? Maybe you've had glimpses of this - moments when you felt it, and your heart expanded. The beauty of nature in a spectacular sunset or a magnificent rushing waterfall, a child's innocent embrace, a long awaited accomplishment, an exhilarating sport or excursion, being with the one you love.

These can make you 'feel' in the biggest sense of the word. And the feeling can be described as wonderfully peaceful, coupled with a glorious uplifting, a lightening up of the heart. What these experiences all have in common is an external factor. Something had to be there, something had to be seen, in order to involve our senses. These 'things' serve to trigger this feeling.

Meditation serves the same purpose. It teaches you to connect with this feeling all on your own, without any outside stimuli. The source of that loving feeling is always within you. But what happens most often is that you don't know how to access it on our own. You wait for the triggers, look for the triggers, and in fact even seek out the triggers, because you believe they are the source.

When you quiet your mind, you are closing down the outside stimuli. You are holding the mirror up to yourself, deep within yourself, and waiting to see/feel the love. It's there, but the practice is necessary to learn to wait quietly, build patience, and stroke and nurture your loving heart.

Most of us have shy hearts and loud minds, and meditation serves to reverse this so we can truly feel the bliss and the joy and the 'highs 'we so crave in our lives. Now, meditation can be made to be much more complicated than what I have described. There are countless books, tapes, courses and workshops that deal with the core principles of meditation, and then expand upon them. They go into many, many aspects, avenues, theories, understandings, types, etc. It can be quite overwhelming for the beginner. But it's perfect for the intermediate student of meditation.

When you are beginning, the less said the better. Keeping it simple is very important, because the process of meditation is so simple. If it's not working, or if you want to know more about it, or you are ready to know more about it, then by all means read, study, learn. It's like taking the same route to the supermarket every day and then finding out there are other ways of getting there, other roads that lead there, other journeys you can take.

Study and practice of meditation has the potential to open up many layers of your heart. Everything in your life therefore opens up with it. Relationships bloom, work purpose is found, vibrant health is allowed, because love affects your belief system, your attitudes, your choices. Anger dissolves before it ever manifests, frustration mellows out, the pit of sadness and depression are filled up like never before. These are the promises of meditation. These are the long-term rewards. But in the beginning, meditation is simply quieting your mind so you can open your heart.

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The Moon is traveling through the Sacred Hoop until sometime on Sunday

The Moon is traveling through the Sacred Hoop until sometime on Sunday.

The Sacred Hoop is formed by a circle of stars including Pollux, Castor, Capella, the Pleiades, the Hyades, Rigel, Sirius, and Procyon. These are all prominent stars forming what astronomers refer to as the Winter Hexagon. The indigenous have named it the Sacred Hoop as the circle of stars is intersected by the Ecliptic (the plane of the solar system) and the Milky Way (the plane of the galaxy) creating a crossing of these two planes through the middle of the Hoop or circle of starts, resembling the Medicine Wheel.

The Moon will cross her intersection point early Saturday morning illuminating the June Solstice marker of 0 Cancer. The June Solstice is located in this area for only one time period in an entire 26,000 year cycle. It is happening now and is located near galactic anti-center (the opposite point of Galactic Center) looking out into deep space.

Whenever a planet or the Moon passes through the Sacred Hoop we have an opportunity to remember our interconnectedness with all life while mending our personal and collective place within the Sacred Hoop.' One definition of the Sacred Hoop is… The four directions, the four quarters of elements of earth, air, water and fire with the full power of the all related life…

Mending the and our Sacred Hoop is possible when we are willing to release and forgive all the hurts and wrongs of the past. We cannot undo the wrongs of the past but we can have compassion for ourselves and a willingness to heal and move constructively forward as a global family. No one race, culture or person has escaped being a victim or a perpetrator on some level whether knowingly or unknowingly. So it is time to take responsibility for our 'own' experiences and 'our' own actions; moving out of blame and moving forward, transforming all of our wounds into the medicine we carry.

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Living in Sadness? Heal Your Way to Happiness

An insightful article on healing depression, during these difficult times.


Sometimes we are happy, sometimes we are sad, or lonely, or joyous. There are a range of emotions we feel every day. It's part of the human experience. It can make life exciting and worth living, it can also cause stagnation and depression.

In all my years as an Intuitive Counselor, I have witnessed too many clients who believed in suffering with their sadness, not feeling that there is more to life. When sadness works its way into your every day experience and becomes an overriding factor in your life, then its time to face it rather than suffer with it.

In our body’s energy system, joy and grief both reside in the heart chakra. They are like two sides of the same coin. In order to allow the joy to rise within you, you need to heal the sadness. How? By becoming aware of the sadness, hearing what it has to say, allowing it to speak or weep, and validating its purpose for having been there all this time. Then, give yourself permission to let go --which is easier said than done sometimes.

It’s important to reach out for help. Ask others to assist you. Seek traditional counseling or intuitive counseling or even grief therapy. Another person can give you a perspective outside of yourself. It never ceases to amaze me how much we can't see the forest for the trees when we're the ones in it. Everyone benefits from outside observation at times.

Why do people seek out my services? Mostly for this same reason: to get a fresh perspective. Many of them are looking for something. They don't always know what... they just know there is something more for them in this life beyond the stuckness they feel, or the ordinariness of their daily life. One client said to me recently, "I feel like I'm living the ‘Groundhog Day’ movie, where everyday is the same, nothing ever changes. I want to get on with my life..."

It's funny how often I hear something similar from a new client. Many will add that they know there is something missing in their life, or they are searching for a sense of purpose and clarity. Others are so tired from holding onto all the sadness and years of emotional baggage that they just want help. They want to know the steps to take in order to make changes. Others want help with their relationship issues and dramas.

Regardless of the particulars, the desire is the same: They want to be happy.
Happiness is born from the healing process. Allowing sadness to be released and transformed into joy, we achieve freedom... freedom to express our happiness, our desires, our wants and needs, and freedom to expand within our own energy body and finally being able to relax into simply being one with our self.

We all have this need to be free...
How do you begin your journey to happiness? Start by asking yourself these questions:

When was the last time I experienced happiness?

What do I feel when I'm quiet and simply listening to myself?

What within me needs to be expressed?

What do I truly desire?

Am I holding onto emotions from the past?

Am I willing to move on?

Am I willing to ask for help?

What steps do I need to take?

Am I willing?

Am I suffering in sadness?

Do I want to be happy?

Is it time?

Think about your answers. What are they telling you? If you need help... ask. If you need time… then give yourself time. If you need answers... then start asking the right questions.


© 2005 Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is an Intuitive Counselor who assists clients to create extraordinary transformations in their daily lives. Her work is uplifting, empowering and success-oriented. You can visit Jodie’s website at http://www.illuminationsnetwork.com/ for further information and to schedule a private intuitive session. You can also look for daily updates to her blog at: http://intuitiveinnovations.blogspot.com/ .


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Fusing Spirit with Daily Life...

Carnival of Healing week #12 is online and is hosted by a new member of the Carnival team, Evelyn Rodriguez at Crossroad Dispatches. Her theme for this week's edition is Fusing the Eternal With Daily Existence:"...not just the balancing act where one does yoga in the a.m. class and - then fast forward a few hours - one spews forth venom at your cubicle cellmate. Rather a living meditation, or in the workplace what Zen calls a working meditation, or samu."Next week the Carnival will be hosted at Spiral Visions.

Lunar Eclipse

We're approaching a Lunar Eclipse, an extra powerful Full Moon, which forms on Monday, October 17th at 5:14 AM PDT. During a Lunar Eclipse the Earth is poised between the yang radiation of the Sun on one side and the yin magnetic force of the Moon on the other. As the Moon slivers into the shadow of the Earth, darkens, and re-ignites, habitual perceptions and patterns are altered.

Like the Solar Eclipse of two weeks earlier, this Lunar Eclipse traces back nineteen years; associations begun then are ready to complete or go to the next level.

With the Sun at 24º Libra and the Moon at 24º Aries, the Scales of Justice and equality are sharply illuminated. In partnerships of all kinds‹personal, professional, political‹opportunities for compromise, collaboration, and reconciliation come to light. Ruled by Venus, this eclipse helps open and heal our hearts.

Jupiter at 28º Libra is close to his yearly conjunction with the Sun (exact on October 22nd), encouraging optimism, generosity, and tolerance, and reminding us that there are as many ways of looking at life as there are people. Jupiter is approaching the end of his passage through Libra; his time in Scorpio (October 25, 2005 to Nov 25, 2006) will bring a mutual reception with Pluto in Sagittarius, catalyzing an even greater awareness of the power of belief, the power of the shadow, and the power of truth.

Neptune, which helps us to see our similarities and interconnectedness, turns direct on 10/26 at 15º Aquarius. While his station signals a eagerness to move forward for everyone, those born during between 1946-1952, who have Pluto in the mid degrees of Leo in their natal charts, are feeling the celestial push to shift their identity from ego to essence most strongly.

Pluto was in Leo from 1939 to 1956; as Neptune makes his passage through Aquarius from 1998 to 2012, the generation born known as the Baby Boomers become more aware of their unique role to play and their interconnection with all of creation.

Use the light of this extra potent Full Moon to reflect on what is no longer true, what was never true, and what is important now. ³There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn¹t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Soren Kierkegaard.


Namaste,

Stephanie Austin
Stephanie@EcoAstrology.com
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Intuitive Healing & Psychic Readings

Intuitive healing and psychic readings arise from the same source. This source is the human soul. We have all seen the image of the psychic reader, looking into a crystal ball and saying “cross my palms with silver, and your future you shall see”. It is truly sad that this ability which arises from and is named after the soul carries such a poor image.

Living on Earth is a school for the soul. Each person makes a contract with spirit to learn and experience certain facets of life. We all live out the lessons our higher self has planned for us so that we may evolve to a higher state of being.

At times you may wonder, “what was I thinking when I chose this way” or “why does it have to be so hard?” It is through this training that our being grows. Even though you have chosen the life path for yourself, you do have free will. It is like having a room full of furniture, how you arrange it and use it is completely up to you.

So why would you want to have a psychic reading?

· To see whether you are “on track” in your life plan
· Seeing what actions that others in your life may take
· Selecting the best way forward among many choices
· Scanning your body for health and wellness
· Questions of romance, career, family and relationships for yourself, loved ones and family.


During a psychic reading, providing a clear timeline can be difficult at times. The timelines are the most accurate when the events are under your control. When others are involved, their actions contribute to changing the timeline.

A psychic reading is like being given a map for the journey ahead. You will need to make the journey yourself, and will experience all of it; however, you will have a map. This map will provide the sense of direction for you and help heal any of the problems along the way. Remember that there are many ways to journey from one place to another in your life.


How would Intuitive healing work for you?

Intuitive healing is the ability to use the information from the soul level in order to heal the various energy bodies of the person. It does not matter if the problem lies within the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual bodies. Intuitive healing will be able to sense the imbalances of the body and to help release the storehouse of pain, tension and energy patterns that causes so much suffering.

Since the earliest times, traditional medicine from the east or west, has known that we are spiritual beings who are made up of both physical and energetic elements. We are the embodiment of our belief systems and environment.

Intuitive healing carries the psychic reading one step further. Intuitive healing is a process that expands upon the information provided in a reading to include the experience to shift what is causing energy blockages within the body. Some may be directly connected to an event or trauma. These energy blockages create a restriction or break in the energetic pathways in the body.

Intuitive healing focuses on balancing the human body’s energy system on emotional and physical layers. It is the combination of the psychic reading or intuitive consultation along with emotional release, physical realignment and energetic restructuring that creates the wholistic health of the person. The intention of intuitive healing is to awaken your own intuitive awareness to heal your body, heart, mind and spirit. It is truly the heart of healing.

© 2005 Christopher Stewart

Christopher Stewart
Medical Intuitive
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Carnival of Healing #10: Healing the Person, Place and Planet

Welcome to the Carnival of Healing.

For this carnival, I have chosen the theme of healing the person, place, and planet. This is the idea of powers of ten, expanding healing from the person to the place, and from the place to the planet. Individual healing affects the place and the planet. If you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the ripples go outward in all directions. Healing is much more than just the absence of illness or disease. Healing is one face of the power to love.


For a great example of the Powers of ten, take a look at the Secret Worlds: The Universe Within:

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

Healing the Person:

A Buddhist priest in North England posted these thoughts from the Dali Lama recently in his blog “Lotus in the Mud”

"Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, "Today I am happy because this morning I was very angry." On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, "Today I am not happy because I lost my temper this morning." Through kindness, whether at our own level or at the national and international level, through mutual understanding and through mutual respect, we will get peace, we will get happiness, and we will get genuine satisfaction."

Thoughts on the compassionate heart from the blog- Lucid Moment

"Without justifying or condemning ourselves, we do the courageous work of opening to suffering. this can be the pain that comes when we put up barriers or the pain of opening our heart to our own sorrow or that of another being. We learn as much about doing this from our failures as we do from our successes. In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience--our suffering, our empathy, as well as our cruelty and terror. It has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
~Pema Chodron, The Places that Scare You

From Donna D’Ingillo, who writes the blog “ Heart of Healing” comes a wonderful article on the practice of a powerful form of spiritual healing entitled: Soul Healing: Journey to the Heart of Healing

Healing the Place:

Most of us have heard about Feng Shui, the Chinese art of placement. Having traveled extensively in Asia I’ve seen many buildings with their Feng Shui adjustments. Feng Shui awakens a clear view of what is needed and what is appropriate to correct and balance disharmony in our environment and in ourselves.

Feng Shui can teach people how to heal themselves and empower them to create their dreams. What we think about we create, and what we surround ourselves with also affects what we create in our lives. If we change our environment using Feng Shui to bring about balance, we can change our lives dramatically.

In the blog “Fast Feng Shui” Stephanie Roberts gives us an insightful article on creating harmony in the heart of our home: Feng Shui for the Heart of Your Home

"The kitchen is sometimes called "the heart of the home," and with good reason; in ancient cultures the hearth was a sacred place representing the life-giving sustenance of Earth's bounty. Feng shui recognizes the kitchen as one of the most important rooms in the house because it is where we connect with the energies that nourish us physically (food), financially (money), and emotionally (family). It reminds us to see the kitchen not just as where we put the groceries away and dish up dinner, but also as a place where we receive blessings and express gratitude for the gifts of life, health, and prosperity..."

Healing the Planet:

In the blog “Moving the Consciousness: Projecting the Mind” the author SpiritWind, writes on many topics concerning healing the planet. Reading his words is like hearing a song you once knew so well. I have chosen one article entitled :Creating sacred space within

"The tree of life is also represented in ones body, and in order to find ones stargate within, the keys to the gate must be unlocked, physically, and spiritually from the chopping of wood and carrying of water through ones life. Simple talk won’t do it, neither will the study of books, as this is completely an experiential journey. One either has done the homework necessary or not. For me, it was a long hard road, one where I probably kicked and screamed a lot going down it (still). The whole body is a memory bank for the experiences it has had in life. One only has to view the scars gained through mishap in ones life to recognize this. However, this does create individual defenses throughout the body that beg to be released for any type of healing or progression to take place. One never learns to walk with a broken leg, without first healing the problem. And so it is with the tree of life that the body represents. There are many paths that teach these things, and am just going a little deeper to give a glimpse of the work involved."

The idea of Planetary Healing brings me to the thought of harmonia. Harmonia is a word used by ancient Greek and Latin writers to describe the interplay of melody, rhythm and harmony--what they called the "music of the spheres”. It is pronounced "har-mo-NEE-ah," which according to scholarly sources is the ancient Greek pronunciation (as opposed to the Latin har-MOH-nia). The ancient Greeks had Apollo as the god of music and medicine. Their traditions believed that music could move streams, tame animals and go to the depths of our souls to heal us.

Pythagoras, a mathematician/philosopher/healer said that certain musical chords and melodies produced certain responses in people, and that the right sequences of sounds would change a person’s energetic patterns and speed up their healing.

Music bypasses the logical mind, and goes directly to the emotional body. Is it any wonder why music is often times heavily controlled or even banned in repressive governments?

A Love Supreme
Sept 23 2005, would have been the 79th birthday of John Coltrane.

His masterwork “A Love Supreme” recorded in 1964 is one of the most profoundly moving and powerful performances ever recorded. It touches us as human beings as all great works of music or art touch us.

This music is Coltrane's expression of spirituality that he found after sinking into the depths of addiction. Coltrane's triumph over heroin and his thanks to God are what informs every note that is played. It is instrumental music that speaks to all people, cultures and spiritual traditions.

John Coltrane and his quartet (McCoy Tyner- Piano, Jimmy Garrison-Bass, and Elvin Jones- Drums), give us a masterpiece of spiritual music, that will speak to us as long as there is healing and love in this world. NPR has produced a wonderful program on this music.

Harmonic Chant:

David Hykes is the founder, with his colleagues of the Harmonic Choir, of Harmonic Chant, a unique and evolutionary fusion of sacred chant with the knowledge of the harmonic series as found through the human voice. The Harmonic Chant is an inspired and original body of musical knowledge and practices which, like Gregorian chant and Tuvan throat-singing, transmits timeless and traditional musical knowledge in timely new ways. It is both contemplative and dynamic.

“Harmonic Chant is a universal music of spiritual resonance based on the omnipresence in all musical sound of the harmonic series, the equivalent in musical sound to the pure color spectrum of light. All instruments and voices of music are composed of the pure sounds of the harmonic series, and it is also the source of melody, harmony and rhythm. In short, it is the DNA of all music”… ~ David Hykes

WNYC’s radio blog has an hour long program on Hykes and Harmonic Chant


Mirrorroom- Reflections off a babbling brook” also has some sound samples and descriptions of harmonic chant.

Wondrous Strange:

The supremely gifted and wildly eccentric pianist Glenn Gould died 20 years ago this October 4. Glenn Gould's ear opening version of the Bach Goldberg Variations, first released in the mid-1950's, brought worldwide attention to both the pianist and the composition. More recordings and performances of Bach followed, in a style so unique as to have all but eclipsed other Bach players of his generation.

Gould famously chose the recording studio over the concert stage early in his career, declaring, 'the concert is dead.' Known for his peculiar work habits (most notably his obsession with temperature in the studios) and a contrarian's approach to music in general (he dismissed many of Beethoven's greatest works while becoming fascinated by Petula Clark) Gould was one of the rare classical musicians to cross over into popular consciousness. But before the world knew about the oddities of his behavior, they knew about his Bach playing.

The blog “The Hive” has an article entitled “Bookends” which explores the inward qualities of both recordings that Glenn Gould made of the J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

The Great Work:

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the historyof the world, man will have discovered fire.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thank you for joining me for this week's Carnival of Healing. Next week the Carnival is returning home to Healing.About.com.

Last week's edition of the Carnival was hosted by : Intuitive Innovations.

If you would like to submit your blog for consideration for an upcoming edition of the Carnival please submit here.

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Christopher Stewart

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