Miracle Making in Vancouver & Beyond...

Photography by Karl Herrmann

The purpose of joining in Making Miracles is to demonstrate the quantum

accomplishments achieved when people come together in noble service intent. Making

Miracles is a positive, creative, empowering way to respond to the needs we see around

us. In participating with others for others less fortunate, we discover the power of

community to magnify the benefits to all. We discover through our own experience

that to give is to receive.

Constance Kellough, Founder and Publisher of Namaste

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" The perfect state for calling

forth miracles is likened to

the moment a butterfly gently

lands on your hands:

your body is still, your heart

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wonder prevails."

Lynn Woodland, author of

MAKING MIRACLES

Featured Authors

Constance KelloughLynn WoodlandMichael Brown

Marianne WilliamsonDavid Hickey

Joyce HawkesDr. Joe DispenzaMiceal Ledwith

Featured ArtistsDr. Larry Louie David Hickey

Karl Herrmann

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Apr/May - 2012 Beyond the Darkness

A photography Exhibition by Dr. Larry LouieHSBC Pendulum Gallery, 885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC

May 12 - Journey the Cosmos with David Hickey

Benefit for SEVA

May 20 - Friends for Life features Constance Kellough

The Miracle in the Mustard Seed

May 25 - Miracle-Making, Experience - Lynn Woodland

author of Making Miracles, Constance Kellough Namaste

Publishing, Theda Phoenix, Intuitive Singer

May 26 - Miracle-Making Workshop with Lynn Woodland,

author of Making Miracles

E v e n t s

Miracle Making Evening

Weekend Workshop

Celestial Concert

SEVA Gallery

Whats a MiracleAnyway?

A newborn utters its first cry, the miniscule seed becomes a fruit

tree, a man lame for 30 years suddenly gets up and walks, a

woman plagued all her life with anxiety wakes up one morning to a

deep inner peace which thereafter never leaves her.

What we have come to call miracles

are real, to be sure. But what is a

miracle? Can one make oneself miracle

prone? If so, pray tell how!

A Course in Miracles tells us that miracles should be ordinary

occurrences in our lives because they are simply the outcomes of

expressed love.

But what does it mean to be loving? Arent I loving when I

compassionately give to the homeless man on the street, drive my

children to hockey practice three times a week, and cook healthy

meals for my family every night? Where are my miracles?

Bottom Lining It

Miracles dont have to big and obvious. In fact, most are everyday occurrences and go unnoticed because we dont see just how many things play out in life over the longer term. You may never know that the homeless person shared his meager collection from that day with his equally hungry friend, the children driven to hockey practice grew up to be good people of fair mind and fair play, and the healthy meals cooked every day with heart led to healthy adults who, in turn, because of example, cooked healthy meals for their children.

The degree to which we express love in its many forms is the degree to which we will experience miracles in our lives some big, but most

small.

Having said this, in truth there is no such thing as a small miracle. All miracles, being a response to love expressed, are of equal value. Is there big love and small love? No, just love. And love is sufficient unto itself.

We often hear or mouth that we are love because we are made in the image and likeness of God. Shouldnt we all then be living miraculous lives?

Love isnt love when you give in order to receive, or when you give to be seen giving or to see yourself as the good giver. Love isnt love when you give to manipulate an outcome, whether it be acquiring a new friend or getting an opportunity to be published.

The egoic little me with its fears and needs cannot love.

The egoic self is driven by fear. It sees itself as separate from

others and therefore needing to defend itself against others and compete with others. To the ego, your gain is its loss. It cant truly give of itself because in its giving it would feel it is actually losing

part of itself. At best, the ego only gives to get.

Based on separation thinking, the egoic self also sees itself as separate from God and in its desperation tries to use God as its servant. Please, God, protect me, heal me, bring harmony into my life, and while you are at it, that perfect mate and more abundance, please.

We cannot use God, but we can yield our little egoic self to God and let God let Love have free expression through us.

We cannot love if we come from a place of fear, lack, imperfection. Love emanates from wholeness, harmony, fullness of being. That is why you cannot authentically love until you first know who you truly are--an individual infinite expression of divine Source--and live your life from this awareness.

God manifests Itself through Its creations, which are individual expressions, individual extensions, of Its One Self that includes you! There is no duality: you and God. And since God is your very being, harmony, health, abundance and so forth are already yours.

We can mouth the words, God and I are one, and therefore all that God has is mine and grasp them at the mental level. But are we able to live this truth in our lives so we actually experience its reality?

It is as God expresses Itself through us that we come to realize by direct experience that we are one with God. God and I are one becomes a demonstrable relationship visible in its fruits. You will know them by their fruits.

In order to live from our God self, we need to deny our little egoic self and allow the divine love which we are to flow freely through us. As we become empty vessels for divine love to pour into this world, we experience miracles born of this love.

The joy we experience is the divine in usso too is the peace, creative

intelligence, abundance and perfect health. Earth becomes heaven to the degree we let God fulfill Itself in our individual experience.

This is why there can be no pride, no ownership in the experience of miracles. Jesus said, Why call ye me good? There is none good but God. He went on to explain that it was God within him who did the work.

Yes, it is wonderful to experience miracles. But it is even more precious that through these experiences we come to know that we truly are one with divine Source: that everything Source has is ours and that everything Source is I AM.

So be it.

Written by Constance Kellough

Founder and Publisher of Namaste Publishing

The bud becomes a glorious rose, the acorn a majestic tree; the wild flower seeds a luminous field of color.

The stars and planets multiply into galaxies, and galaxies into super galaxies.

The embryo grows into a fetus, the fetus into a baby, the baby into a child, and the child to adulthood.

The broken-hearted become lighthearted, and the emotionally wounded experience healing and peace.

There is a universal impulse to grow, to change, to become more of who we truly are.

Built into the fabric of all existence is the element of growth, of progression. Everything is in a state of evolving to a higher, more complex order.

We can call this universal element of creation The Grower. All existence is propelled by the creative energy of this force.

When it comes to our personal growth, our evolution to a higher state of consciousness, we can appropriately say it is our Inner Grower at work.

Our Inner Grower has our highest and best interests at heart at all times. But what do we really know about our Inner Grower? How can we become aware of it, aligned with it, say "yes" to it?

For most of us, our Inner Grower is an unacknowledged part of our being. No wonder humanity as a whole and most humans have been stuck in repetitive negative cycles.

We cry out in pain: Why arent we learning to live more sanely, more lovingly as a species? Why do I feel so stuck in my life? And why do I make the same mistakes over and over again?

Meet your Inner Grower.Written by Constance Kellough & David Robert

Your Personal GPS for Conscious Living

NEW Available for immediate download for all platforms

www.namastepublishing.com$9.95

Miracle

T h i s i s a co l laborat ive experience in consciousness, intention and love that's sure to touch your heart, boggle your mind, and open doors to u n d r e a m e d possibilities.

Lynn Woodland - Miracle-MakingAuthor of Making MiraclesConstance Kellough - Magical JourneyFounder of Namaste Publishing, Author of The LeapTheda Phoenix - Intuitive Singer, Songwriter

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ordinary to extraordinary

where miracles become, not just possible, but natural.

Miracle Consciousness

suspend disbelief

Let the Experiment Begin

This is an invitation to suspend disbelief, let your mind be boggled, and have an experience of reality beyond what you think you know for certain. Miracles are more readily found in the slightly unsettling territory of paradox than on familiar ground so, if youre game, let the experiment begin right now by imagining that the earth is shifting just a bit underfoot and that nothing you see is what it appears to be.

Article Excerpt from Making MiraclesCreate New Realities for Your Life and Our World.

Modern science is showing that we cant change our minds without affecting the world around us. If its your choice, you will become a miracle-maker. And if youre feeling excited, its already begun.

Proceed a little further into the experiment by imagining that youre not alone as you read. Change your mind about the normally solitary experience of reading so that you are now, simply through your intention to do so, linking with every other mind who is reading these words. As well explore in greater depth, all consciousness is connected. To quote one of the pioneers of modern physics, Erwin Schrdinger, on the nature of consciousness, The overall number of minds is just one.

To wade a little more deeply into the fuzzy edges of reality, let go of what you think you know about time. Einstein proved in his theory of relativity that time and space arent a fixed, neutral container for matter and can be altered by what they contain. Time is a more fluid thing than we realize, as Helmut Schmidt, one of the early researchers of mind over matter, discovered in his extensive work with random event generators. He not only found statistically significant evidence suggesting that consciousness alone can indeed affect matter, but also that consciousness can affect matter in the past. More on this later.

For now, without quite understanding how, imagine that your mind is transcending the fluid boundaries of time and space to connect with every mind that has in the past and will in the future read these words. This is happening automatically simply because youre thinking it. (You dont even need to believe it; just imagine what it would feel like if you did.)

Picture this joined consciousness as clear, beautiful, and only positive. As we join minds, we leave behind the clutter of small, weak thoughts that so often cloud our attention and we rise into a Higher Mind that is wise and wonderful. In this Higher Mind, we amplify each others power for good and automatically repel harm. You may already feel a difference. Your senses may be a little sharper; you might feel warmth or tingling or gooseflesh. Perhaps youre a little more awake. You may notice that your body is relaxing and youre breathing more deeply. You may feel nothing at all, the real magic happening outside of your conscious awareness. It doesnt matter what you perceive. Just imagine what it would be like if you felt certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that miracles are normal and starting to unfold in your life.

Now, for a moment, hold the deepest, most heartfelt intention that every reader of these words, past, present, and future, receive something wonderful, and imagine that just by reading this page, you will too. Hold this thought lightly and with wonder, like you would a butterfly that just alit in your hand.

Hold it gentlyno need to strainand let it go. Just as anonymous prayer has been shown to have a definite healing effect, even when the recipients are

unaware that prayer is being offered on their behalf, just this easily, a powerful prayer has now been set in motion on your behalf.

After you have done this, if you notice a waft of rose scent that has no discernible source or you see butterflies, feathers, or some cherished symbol wherever you go, just say thank you. As youve opened yourself to God, God is showing Itself to you.

And now youve become more than a passive readeryouve become part of this experiment, reshaping matter and calling forth miracles for yourself and countless others whom you will never know.By permission of Namaste Publishing.

The more of this book you read, the more deeply you will enter into a miracle-making experiment.

Lynn Woodland is an international teacher and human potential expert who has worked at the experimental edges of the Mind/Body/Spirit, Transpersonal Psychology, and New Thought

movements since 1972. Her particular expertise is in what gives rise to miracles and in teaching ordinary people to live extraordinary lives so that miracles become, not just possible, but natural.

Her background includes twelve years as a chemical dependency and mental health counselor and decades of work with energetic and spiritual healing. In 1983 she founded and directed the Baltimore Center for Attitudinal Healing, a free health crisis resource center for people dealing with life-challenging illnesses. She is the creator of The Miracles Course, a year-long program of online spiritual education leading to ordination, and author of Making MiraclesCreate New Realities for Your Life and Our World. For more on her work, see www.lynnwoodland.com.

Link to the Miracle Experiment video, The Experiment Begins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDd4n9ZNrIA

Experience

E x p e r i m e n t W o r k s h o p

with Lynn Woodland

May 2610-5pmMasonic Hall1495 W. 8th Ave, Vancouver$125.Tickets @ Banyen Bookssciencetosage.com

Miracle

The Miracle Experiment will boggle your mind, touch your heart, and change reality as you have known it. Have you been noticing more frequent serendipities? Do you feel on the verge of something? You may have already sent these experiences through time to yourself in Lynn Woodland's Miracle Experiment. Join us and see what else can happen. It may just change your life! This lively, interactive event is about consciousness, time, quantum science and God, all woven into an exciting, collaborative experiment in seeing just how far a group can push the old-paradigm reality envelope to create our highest good right now!

Making Miracles -

Come Join the Experiment

The exper iment involves focusing and directing our collective energy of love to see what miracles we can create for ourselves, each other, and the world beyond.

Consciousness, t ime, quantum science and God all woven together in an amazing, collaborative experiment that pushes the boundaries of human

potential. Curious?

C o m m u n i t y

Miracle

Since 1987 Lynn Woodland has been hosting

webinars miracle-making communities. They

are designed for individual or group

participation, because there is such a value in

doing this work in community.

More than a typical online class, this one is

interactive and results-oriented. It draws on

the amplifying power of group work and, while

there is content every week, the process is

primarily experiential, aimed at facilitating an

immediate experience of miracles.

Participates say they dont feel so alone

anymore. They have a sense of countless

loving souls with them as helpers. They share

imagined visions of reaching out to a

frightened mother in an unknown place and

time and giving her comfort; or helping to heal

an injury or guide someone through a time of

darkness. Are these experiences real or

imagined? Im not sure that matters nearly so

much as the very real compassion and peace

they leave with us.

Every week is different and each class is a

complete experience, so participants can start

any time. The webinar meets most Tuesdays.

See www.lynnwoodland.com for upcoming topics and dates.

Download the Guide to Create

Your Own Miracles Study Group

http://www.namastepublishing.com/making-miracles-study-guide

Events Listings for Making Miracles

http://www.namastepublishing.com/miracles

Share Your Miracles in your life with the Namaste Community!

http://www.namastepublishing.com/discussion/share-your-miracles-making-miracles-forum

Making Miracles - Come Join the Experiment

Until 1996, my spiritual practice had been a private one. So I was surprised when, early that year, an inner yearning ignited: I felt called to join with others in spiritual practice to be part of what in the East is called a Sangha.

Although this yearning was intense, I did not act on it immediately. Perhaps it was a passing whim and would soon fade away.

But it didnt.

I was a management consultant at that time. One day at work following a meeting in our boardroom, I mentioned it to one of my colleagues.

Thats interesting, John Kutchenthal said, because I just met a fellow who arrived from England a few weeks ago and is said to be a spiritual teacher.

Surprised and delighted, I quickly responded, I would like to meet this fellow.

Then Ill ask if he would be open to leading meditation sessions in the office, John responded.

A week later, at the end of a long workday, a small group of us had gathered in anticipation. We heard a soft knocking on the door; John opened it and in walked a gentle, unassuming man who was introduced to us as Eckhart Tolle.

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Beginning that evening and once a week for almost a year thereafter, Eckhart came to our office at the end of the work day, or we met very early in the morning at Johns home, where we woke ourselves up with coffee and muffins before surrendering to the bliss of stillness. At each of these sacred gatherings, we were fed a measure of pure jana and led into progressively deeper states of stillness and shared Presence. Eckhart was the bonfire of consciousness who drew our small splintery flames into its center.

Life had brought me my Sangha!

As time passed, I learned that Eckhart was writing a book. I thought this was a wonderful idea, but did not give it a further thought.

After a semi-private session with Eckhart that summer, he asked me, Constance, would you consider being my publisher?

I was astonished by Eckharts request but curiously, at another level not at all surprised.

I was happily ensconced in my career as a management consultant. True, for ten years I had been in the college system as both an instructor and Department Chair of English Literature, but I knew absolutely nothing about publishing.

My ego jumped in: Constance, you have never published a book before: what if you fail; what if you let Eckhart down; how are you going to find the time to do this, not to mention the money?

As I drove home from Eckharts that afternoon, I began to sense the possibility that behind the chronology of our meeting was the hand of an invisible weaver. If Life had orchestrated our coming together at just the moment I was seeking a deeper and more communal form of spiritual practice, was it now orchestrating our partnering in this new work?A M

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My drive from West Vancouver to Vancouver Proper that day took me over the Lions Gate Bridge. As I literally crossed this bridge, I also crossed an inner bridge. Yes, I would be Eckharts publisher!

The mustard seed was dropped into the soil.

As Eckhart and I sat together month by month during the writing of his yet-to-be-entitled book, we were in total oneness in feeling compelled to put it out into the world, with no regard as to whether 80, 800, or 800,000 people would read it.

The Power of Now was born into the world in 1997. But many tests of our commitment lay ahead. As first-time author and publisher, how could we defy many of the publishing industry norms and practices and breakthrough with this book?

With no marketing budget to speak of in those days of early germination, Eckhart and I often walked the books into stores ourselves. Sometimes we met with no interest, and other times the store would order a few copies at a time. Then something wonderful happened The Power of Now began to spread effortlessly by word of mouth.

It was evident there was a readership for this book. But to best cultivate and respond to it, we needed a vehicle for distribution.

Photo by Karl Herrmann

After two failed attempts to convince a Canadian national book distributor to carry The Power of Now, the third and final attempt met with success.

Fifteen years after its first printing, The Power of Now has sold almost seven million copies worldwide, is available in 47 languages, and continues to find new readers

and catch the public eye through the vehicles of press and television. The delicious spiritual back-story is that this one book alone has significantly contributed to raising the consciousness of our entire planet.

Would Eckhart write another book? At all times our publishing decisions were dictated by the hand of lifes invisible weaver. The answer came as Eckharts teaching evolved. The Power of Now was followed by Stillness Speaks, then A New Earth.

Led by the hand of life, other authors were published, none of whom, like Eckhart, were sought out. In each instance, Life brought them to Namaste Publishing, along with a perfect mix of gifted service-driven staff.

Just as with The Power of Now, which ignited Namaste Publishing, all subsequent publications were and will continue to emanate from our intent to be of service to humanity by providing content born of the higher consciousness which is pressing to

emerge on the planet at this time. This higher consciousness speaks of our true nature, our divine and inestimable worth captured in the word Namaste.

Namaste Publishing grew over the years through sub-licensing and co-publishing agreements, foreign rights sales, and by finally procuring our own distribution throughout North America and the world.

Any person in business whose primary raison detre is to be of service to their fellow man, needs at all times to have both feet on the ground: one the spiritual, the other the practical. Thats a given. The challenge is to remember which of the two you must always lean on. Then decisions are made quickly and with confidence.

Of course, one will be challenged along the way and usually just before life presents a new service challenge. Has egoic motivation crept in? Is heart energy still the fuel which drives actions? Are you up for the next round?

One can only move with humility because it is evident through experience

that the little me as Eckhart Tolle calls it, does very little of the work. Ones job in this business of service simply involves being a willing vehicle through which love can flow into the world, holding to ones service intent while ensuring it remains pure, listening for directions from your inner knower, then taking the next small step, followed by the next.

From Namaste Publishings experience, all manner of help was given, as needed, from both seen and unseen helpers. We have been carried like the eagle born up by the wind, needing only to make a slight movement of wing to effect flight or change of direction.

Life has generously given back to us, and we continue to experience ongoing wonderful surprises to which we can only respond with profound gratitude.

And the beautiful beat goes on.

Namaste.

Constance KelloughFounder & PublisherNAMASTE PUBLISHINGAuthor, THE LEAP Are You Ready to Live a New Reality?

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For the entire month of May, Namaste Publishing will join forces with Banyen Books & Sound on 4th Avenue in Vancouver to sell Namaste's newest publication, Making Miracles: Creating New Realitlies for Your Life and Our World, by Lynn Woodland. The proceeds from the sale of this book will go directly to providing cataract surgery to to people around the globe who otherwise would never receive this miracle in their lives.

"Making Miracles is something we should be doing all the time," says Constance Kellough, Publisher here at Namaste. "All that is required is to come from love and service intent. And when you join with others in this same intent, you put spiritual rocket fuel underneath it. Then watch the miracles flow inpressed down and overflowing."

Eckhart Tolle comments about this wonderful endeavor: "It is wonderful to see Banyen Books and Namaste Publishing come together in this fundraising event for Seva. This joint project will also enable more people to become aware of Seva and the wonderful work they do

in the world."

To find out more about Seva or to view their most recent newsletter, please go to www.seva.ca. To find out more about Lynn Woodland's book, Making Miracles: Creating New Realities for Your Life and Our World, please click on the book's title.

What is Seva Canada? It is an organization that brings the gift of sight to people around the globe who are needlessy blind or visually impaired, and h e l p s t h o s e w i t h unavoidable vision loss achieve their full potential. It's mission is to restore sight and prevent b l indness throughout the world.

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Seva Canada is an international charity based in Vancouver whose mission is to restore sight and prevent blindness in the developing world.Seva believes that giving the power of sight is the most effective way to relieve suffering, alleviate poverty and transform lives. Since 1982, Seva Canada has been helping communities develop their own capacity to deliver affordable eye care services. To date, Seva has given sight to over 3 million of the worlds poorest people. Seva provides funding and expertise to partners in 9 countries and regions: Nepal, Tibet, India, Tanzania and eastern Africa, Guatemala, Cambodia, Egypt, Malawi and Madagascar.

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A photography exhibition by international award-winning Canadian photographer, Dr. Larry Louie

Please join us at Beyond the Darkness and celebrate the work that Seva, our partners and donors have

accomplished over the last 30 years. Lets acknowledge our successes and look towards the future where no one

is needlessly blind or visually impaired.

Exhibition dates:Monday April 23 to Saturday May 12, 2012

Location: HSBC Pendulum Gallery, 885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC (corner of Georgia and Hornby)

Gallery hours: Mon - Wed 9-5; Thur & Fri 9-9; Sat 9-5; Sunday and holidays: closed

April/May 2012Beyond the Darkness

international award-winning Canadian photographer, Dr. Larry Louie

I developed an insatiable

c u r i o s i t y a b o u t o t h e r

cultures and places while

growing up in Canada. My

f a s c i n a t i o n w i t h

p h o t o g r a p h y a n d t r a v e l

developed at a very young

age, with my first National

Geographic magazine.

My photographs allow me to share with others the variety and beauty of

the world I see. Increasingly, I feel an urgency to document people in

areas of the world threatened by urbanization and globalization places

where t radi t ional ways of l i fe , ancient knowledge and customs,

languages and identit ies are disappearing at an alarming rate. People

often talk about endangered species and the loss of biodiversity in

nature. Some are f inally beginning to notice the threat to the diversity of

cultures. The changes brought by industrial ization and urbanization

affect not only animal and plant species societies that have been

around for thousands of years are also at r isk.

VancouverApril/May 2012

Beyond the Darkness

photographer, Dr. Larry Louie

Through contact and experience, we learn to develop tolerance and

appreciation of others. In my travels, I have come to recognize that al l the

world's peoples, with their different beliefs, customs, and languages, have

important connections. When any

g r o u p d i s a p p e a r s f r o m t h i s

w o r l d , w e l o s e a p a r t o f

ourselves. Cultural loss means

the d isappearance of memory

and history, but i t is also a loss

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future. By documenting remote

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In my photographs, I also explore the challenges that arise where

peoples l ives are caught between the past and present, documenting the

social issues of groups that modern society has touched but left behind.

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Over the last couple of years, I have used my photography as a

platform to highlight the work of Seva Canada and its partners along

with other social issues and challenges people are encountering in a

world facing rapid urbanization and globalization. I want to engage

p e o p l e i n i n s p i r i n g

stor ies of perseverance

and strength, not only of

those who have found

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such a plight, but also

amazing individuals and

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lending a helping hand.

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Beyond the Darkness

photographer, Dr. Larry Louie

From Seva Canadas Vis ion 20/20 Goal to the Uni ted Nat ions

Development Programs Mil lennium Development Goals to End Poverty,

I hope my photographs wil l be able to tel l the stories and make a

difference, to reveal l ight that is found in the darkest of places.

Larry Louie

an In tu i t i ve S ingerTheda Phoenix

Website

May 25 @ Unity of Vancouverin concert with Making Miracles

We breathe the same air, under the same skies

Drink of the same rains, running down the mountain side

Warmed by the same sun, we share the same fears

All bleed red blood and cry salty tears

We are all born, wewill all die,

WE are all sharing in this miracle, this miracle of life

M a k i n g M i r a c l e s i s something we should be doing all the time, says Cons tance . A l l tha t i s required is to come from love and service intent. And when you join with others in this same intent, you put spiritual rocket fuel underneath it. Then watch the miracles flow in -- pressed down and overflowing."

...start by inviting miracles with Constance Kellough,

Founder and Publisher of Namaste Opening for the SEVA, David Hickey, Benefit Concert - May 12

David Hickey

Awaken your consciousness to the

harmonics of the spheres. Journey the

Solar System. Take the cosmic trip with

David Hickey.

Gateway to the Cosmos

Saturday May 12, Vancouver, St. Andrews ChurchSeva Benefit Concert

Planet GongsPlanet Gongs are tuned to the natural harmonic series based on the orbital properties of the Earth, Moon, Sun, and Planets. All of these gongs resonate in harmony with the celestial bodies and communicate a distinct aspect of the Music of the Spheres, which was first documented by Pythagoras in the 6th Century BC. Each planet gong contributes a vital pitch to the total harmonic resonance of our solar system.

Named for the Greek Gods, the planets also embody significant archetypal, astrological, and mythological associations. The Planet Gongs provide a gateway back to our natural state of connectedness with the physical, emotional, and spiritual world. When the gong is sounded, we are physically connected to the strength and power of its resonance, sympathy, and correspondences.

The Planet Gongs are used by both individuals and practitioners to uncover feelings, stimulate growth, balance, inner harmony, and evolution of the nervous system. Used on their own or as part of a "Harmonic Attunement," Planet Gongs are integrated into Crystal Journey's performances with the Quartz Crystal Bowls as well as private attunements that are offered for individuals, groups, communities, and organizations.

38" Ohm (Earth Year) Planet Gong

(Gaia) Earth in the solar year, season to season, it is our home tone. Approximate musical note is C#. Rules: Earth's Yearly Seasonal CycleCharacter: Midlife, grounding, balanceKey Words: Nature, sustenance, material gain, food, creativity, concentration, reason for being, remembrance, birth, youth, midlife, wisdom, and experience. Basic Function: Earth represents the ability to be comfortable in our body, and the homework we each must do. It provides the balance needed to complete our destiny successfully.

38" Sun Planet Gong

(Helios) Approximate musical note is B. Rules: Leo Character: Self Key Words: Initiative, vitality, authority, leadership, generosity, individuation, power, confidence, and self-esteem. Basic Function: Helps to define our individuality, integrity, and independence; to overcome limiting environmental conditions, and to be in touch with our Divine seed.

The frequencies used for the Planet Gongs represent the calculations of Hans Cousto.

38" Sedna Planet Gong

(Sedna) Approximate musical note is C. Rules: Harmonics with strong affinity to Pluto and Neptune Character: New Paradigms Key Words: Sound, forgiveness, compassion, creativity, global view, water, purging and purifying toxicity, transformation/transmigrat ion, r ight conduct and responsibility, non-linearity/non-duality. Basic Function: Sedna expands and challenges our ideas and assumptions about the very nature of the cosmos, opening us to new paradigms and non-duality, providing us with access into the deep layers of the personal and collective unconscious, our super conscious, and Universal intelligences.

36" Pluto Planet Gong

(Hades) Approximate musical note is C#. Rules: Scorpio Character: Transformation Key Words: Transmutation, integration, sexuality, illumination, transformation, liberation, potential, shadow, death and resurrection, rebirth, and polarity. Basic Function: Growth and transcendence through conflict. Pluto breaks down the old into its component parts only to reassemble them on a new higher octave. Pluto rules the raising of kundalini, the major driving power of this ongoing process.

32" Mercury Planet Gong (Hermes) Approximate musical note is C#. Rules: Gemini/Virgo Character: Mind Key Words: Communication, concrete knowledge, reason, realism, analysis, intelligence, cunning, alertness, eloquence, discrimination, versatility, dexterity, conceptual ability, and inventiveness. Basic Function: Activates our mind and reasoning faculty to promote knowledge, understanding, communication, freedom of choice, and synthesis.

32" Mars Planet Gong

(Ares) Approximate musical note is D. Rules: Aries/Scorpio Character: Passion Key Words: Self-assertion, survival, decisive, activity, desire, the masculine principle, physical initiative, energy, courage, originality, courage, action, determination power, virility, and resolve. Basic Function: Propels you to take action, provides the courage necessary to remove obstacles in your path, and to find new ways of self-expression. Protects and assures.

32" Chiron Planet Gong

(Chiron) Approximate musical note is D#. Rules: Virgo Character: Initiation Key Words: Non-traditional healing methods, alchemy, vision, destiny, self-sacrifice, animal power, integrity, strength, compassion, wisdom, knowledge, dependability, unconventionality, and craftiness. Basic Function: Chiron is the wounded healer, a catalyst to help us access our deepest wounds so that we may move forward with strength, compassion, and wisdom to achieve our true destiny.

32" Saturn Planet Gong (Kronos) Approximate musical note is D. Rules: Capricorn Character: Discipline Key Words: Stability, patience, structure, self-discipline, law, control, power, limitation, wisdom, perseverance, restriction, protection, caution, achievement, overview, and time. Basic Function: To restrain us; helps us establish healthy boundaries and forges us in the inner fire of discipline, so that we may gain the power and wisdom to actualize our soul's purpose.

32" Nibiru Planet Gong

(Nibiru) Approximate musical note is E. Rules: Libra Character: Evolution Key Words: Evolution, travel, connection, the gods, roots and origins, genetics, change, feelings, emotional longing and resolution, enlightenment, initiator, and restoration. Basic Function: Nibiru crosses our lives and helps us to identify our emotional needs and longing, to achieve resolution and enlightenment, so that we can repair that which is not working and restore ourselves to balance.

24" Venus Planet Gong

(Aphrodite) Approximate musical note is A. Rules: Taurus/Libra Character: Relationships Key Words: Love, passion, desire, artistic sensibility, affection, harmony, beauty, magnetism, the feminine principal, cooperation, sociability, refinement, and responsiveness. Basic Function: Increases our awareness of others, brings beauty, harmony, creativity, and abundance, while opening us up to the power and potential of relationship.

24" Uranus Planet Gong (Uranus) Approximate musical note is G#. Rules: Aquarius Character: Change Key Words: Individualism, originality, rebellion, electricity, genius, creativity, revolution, transmission, innovation, and resourcefulness. Basic Function: Initiates changes wherever necessary in our life and habit patterns. Uranian energy throws us into the unexpected and unknown, forcing us to experience the new and unusual, ever expanding our field of awareness.

24" Neptune Planet Gong

(Poseidon) Approximate musical note is G#. Rules: Pisces Character: Creativity/Bliss Key Words: Mystical, illusive, transcendental, inspiring, visionary, compassionate, sacrificial, esp., psychic and cosmic awareness, and spiritualism. Basic Function: To dissolve out-dated patterns and attachments in order to make room for growth. Neptune points out false projections and illusions, allowing us to reclaim our lost power; helps us access the potential for intuition, inspiration, and artistic creativity.

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Tour & Website

Eckhart Tolle's publisher Constance @ Friends for Life, Non-profit

Sunday, May 20, 2012, 2:00 PM

Constance Kellough, Founder and Publisher of Namaste Publishing, will be sharing the miraculous story of how she met Eckhart Tolle and came to be his publisher. (The Power of Now, Stillness Speaks, A New Earth). This is captured in her story of THE MIRACLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED - The Birth and Growth of Namaste Publishing. In addition, she will be sharing how the way to ensure that your life is full of miracles is to say, "Yes," to serving humanity in the way you are best suited.

Friends for Life partnered with Namaste Publishing to host this special Sunday gathering. Donations from this event will be received by Friends for Life team to further their social mission.

Weather permitting, before/after the gathering we can stay outdoors, in the beautiful green surrounding the Friends for Life building.

If you want to support the tFFL's mission, please consider to

Volunteering or Registering as a member.

Location/TBA

Cash donations (minimum donation $5 to FFL) Namaste Publishing will donate copies of Eckhart Tolles publications to FFL members.

Meet-UP

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The Miracle in the Mustard Seed

NamasteI honor the place in you in which the entire universe dwells.

I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light and of peace.

When you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me,

We are one.

www . n a m a s t e p u b l i s h i n g . c o m

Namaste Global Communitywww.namastepublishing.com

http://www.eckharttolle.com/

Eckhart Tolle writes, "It is wonderful to see Banyen Books and Namaste Publishing come together in this fundraising event for Seva. This joint project will also enable more people to become aware of Seva and the wonderful work they do in the world. "

"The major institution for social change is the human heart... That's what brings together social action and spiritual practice."

Ram Dass, Co-Founder, Seva

The GOODLIFENetworks

Listen to the Launch of

Making Miracles in

Vancouver & Beyond...with Jesse Dylan

& Constance Kellough

Sunday May 1st, 7pm

Synchronicity : Talk Radio for Your Mind, Body and Soul is the #1 spir i tual i ty and wellness radio show airing weekly in Vancouver, BC and heard online in more than 100 countries

around the world on CiTR 101.9 fm at the University of British Columbia.

April 30Namaste Publishing &

SEVA Canada Speak of Making Miracles in May

Constance Kelloughfounder and publisherNancy Mortisee

Chairman of the Board SEVASusan Erdmann, SEVA Board Member

Lynn Woodlandauthor of Making Mircales

Create New Realities for Your Life and Our World published

by Namaste Publishing

May 7Richard Merrick

Temples Sacred Design co-host Karen Elkins

Science to Sage

Host Marie Benard

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Listen to Synchronicity Live Mondays at 12pm Pacific:

CITR.ca - Cosmic Dimensions Radio - Co-Creator Network

or on rebroadcast:Tuesday & Thursday @ 8pm

Pacific on Empower Radio

7 days a week on the

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B r e a t h

Judith has integrated various principles from her doctoral studies in metaphysics, Kundalini Yoga, breath analysis, sound healing, body mapping plus other healing and sp i r i tua l p r inc ip les in to the Transformational Breath trainings.

Intro the Breath

Transformational Breath combines full connected breathing with sound, hands-on work, invocation, and movement to integrate and transform at the deepest levels of our being. Also, offered for the first time in a program format is an introduction of the

highly acclaimed "Presence Process" book by Michael G. Brown.

A basic understanding of the Presence Process journey is given combined with some of the life-changing exercises from the book. The ability to be

more present and share our lives from the space of Presence is just one of the overall effects of these two dynamic tools coming together in this unbeatable weekend.

The "Presence of Breath" Transformational Breath

workshop. Click here for workshops International/Vancouver, BC Michael

Brown & Transformational

Breath

Trans f o rma t i ona l B rea th

A Self Empowering Healing Processwww.transformationalbreathing.com

THIS UNFOLDING MOMENT IN OUR HUMAN EVOLUTION IS NOT

"THE END TIMES" - IT IS THE INVITATION TO "END LIVING IN A

TIME-BASED PARADIGM" SO WE MAY REAL EYES PEACE.

Our task is not to "make peace on earth". Such an intent is

born of perceptual delusion. Our evolutionary task is to

accomplish the capacity "to real eyes peace that is already

given" while we are here. When we develop the capacity to

authentically real

eyes peace - we radiate this resonance throughout

our experience. Authentic peace is felt. We are only

at peace when we truly feel at peace. Peace is only

realized through responsively

awakening to, and hence

fully entering, the felt-

resonance of this unfolding

moment. If we cannot feel the peace that is already given, it is

because our unintegrated fear, anger, and grief is distorting our felt-

perception. Only by consciously integrating our imprinted fear, anger,

and grief do we reawaken our felt-perception and open ourselves to

the naturally peaceful resonance of the heart.

Constance says, "I love you dearly, Michael-- times a trinity."

The Miracle of Transformational

Breath

...in Vancouver

Brea!ing Transformational Breath FacilitatorEmail blissfulbreathing@hotmail.comwww.BlissfulBreathing.comwww. Transformationalbreathing.com

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Where Interior Design and Breath

Intersect

Elas work with Transformational Breath and Interior Design has brought an awareness that we literally design our Home Within with each inhalation and exhalation. How we breathe creates our inner space, which i s r e f l e c t ed back i n to ou r l i v i ng environment.

For consultation about designing your sacred space

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Transformational Breath in Vancouver, BCBlissful Breathing specializes in the Transformational

Breath system which offers the most effective and

joyful means of clearing the subconscious mind.

This dynamically powerful technique uses consciously

directed diaphragmatic breathing which resolves stress,

increases energy, and brings joy and balance to life

and all relationships. Transformational Breathing is a

self-empowering healing process that creates great

transformation in one's life.

Breath-work Coaching by Ela Includes: Breathing analysis

Opening and retraining chronically tight diaphragmatic muscles

Opening and integrating restricted breathing patterns

Practice of consciously directed breathing

Presence Process

Healing Sounds

Integrating fear, anger and grief

Clearing and transforming the subconscious mind from repressed emotions.

Opening to clarity and abundance of life

Reclaiming your own power through breath.

Discovering your peace and bliss through breath.

Ela@ ElaRezmerDesign.comwww.ElaRezmerDesign.com

Ela Rezmer, M.A.

604-780-3400

www.ValentusClinics.com#103-1625 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria BC. 250.590.5090

Valentus is a multi-disciplinary clinic offering services to enhance body,mind and spirit. We specialize in Brainwave Optimization, an advanced form

of Neurofeedback, directed by Dr. Susan Simpson, Psychologist.Our goal is to provide each individual with a personalized transformative experience.

Helping people discover themiracle of their mind & body.

...Miracle Body

The Vancouver BC Institute of Noetic Sciences (VIONS) Community

Group is a group of like-minded individuals, interested in learning

about consciousness and spiritual growth. Our purpose is to improve our knowledge of noetic sciences, and to help each other

along our paths of personal growth. We are flexible in organizing activities that reflect the current interests of our membership.

http://www.soul-centered.com/

Next VIONS meeting, May 19, 2-4:30 featuring a DVD "SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTION" by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., followed by discussion. Location: Firehall Library,1455 W. 10 Ave., Meeting Room 2nd Floor.

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The O WORLD Project is an international multi-media initiative encompassing the arts, sciences and spiritual traditions.

I am really feeling that time is precious, and that NOW is the time to get involved with the world. Most of my experience and interaction has been internal but over the past few years I have felt compelled to add my momentum externally with those who share a desire for a new paradigm in human behavior and consciousness.

I wanted to make a gesture, and engage the world in a fashion that combines all of my passions and interests expansion of awareness, philosophy, music, film, social/environmental/spiritual issues, people. This project explores all of those avenues and every day I am inspired to expand my view of the world and share it.

I am seeking to express a real

appreciation and love for

humanity and all we are

capable of.

Promoting global unity and community by celebrating the diversity of human culture.

With this project, I am seeking to express a real appreciation and love for humanity and all we are capable of. I also aspire to p r o v i d e i n f o r m a t i o n a n d perspectives that may be useful for people on their own journeys of awareness. - Randall

Music is a form of expression that transcends language, culture, political/religious/spiritual beliefs it cuts right to an emotional core all humans seem to possess regardless of where and how they are placed in the world. To me, music provides a direct connection to people and I love connecting. Randall

Versions of O World will be p r e s e n t e d i n a m y r i a d o f languages including: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, and Turkish... and in a variety of genres, including: Rock, Folk, Pop, Choral, a-cappella, Hip Hop, Rap, Classical, Flamenco, Bossa Nova, B l u e s , G o s p e l , a n d J a z z . Instrumental versions of O World feature diverse instruments from around the world, including sitar, Peruvian pan flute, pipe organ, touchstyle guitar, dan bau, erhu, bagpipe, zheng, tar, and pipa.

O World Project website: www.oworldproject.com

O World Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OWorldProject

O World Facebook page: http://www.hs.facebook.com/pages/O-World/

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Karl Herrmann is an internationally recognized cinematographer and photographer living in Vancouver. Hes worked on such Hollywood blockbusters as E.T., The Right Stuff and I, Robot, among many others. His still photographs are represented in museums and galleries and collected internationally. In his recently published coffee table book, Pacific Spirit-Vancouver, he brings his unique vision of BCs stunning natural environment into crystal clear focus for the rest of us to appreciate. The elegantly simple page layout presents each image with an inspirational quote, which causes you to linger a little longer on every page. Karl has been interviewed about his magnificent book on CBC Radio, the Fanny Kiefer Show and Global TV.

Reviewing the book, the North Shore News stated, A fresh view of our beautiful surroundings is presented in th i s s tunn ing co l lec t ion o f photographs the natural beauty of our city is preserved forever in Herrmanns lush images.

Copies of Pacific Spirit-Vancouver are available by contacting Karl via his website www.natureseries.ca. It is also available in most major bookstores in the city. Prints and note cards are also available of all the images in the book. The technique Karl uses to photograph the images allows for prints to be very large with incredible detail.

The Vancouver Board of Trade reviewed Pacific Spirit-Vancouver saying, Every business person in Vancouver should have copies of this book for guests and visitors. They backed up that statement by using the book as a gifting item to prominent speakers they bring to the city, such as former President Bill Clinton.

Photographer Karl Herrmann

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Lynn Woodlandauthor of Making Miracles

Wednesday evening, May 16 6pm - 102.7Fm

Miracle Minded

We decided to do a Spring House concert at our home in 2010 to share some of our original music. A gentleman that attended the concert told us that he had planned to take his life that night, but his sister called him at the last minute and asked him to go with her to our house concert. He decided to have this one last experience with his sister, and he would continue with his plan when he got home that night. He told us that after attending the concert, he felt so inspired and encouraged that he changed his mind about taking his life. He is extremely happy now and has found love in his life. Jonas and Jeanette -Producers of the World Kindness Concert'

Miracles in Concert World Kindness Concert - http://

www.worldkindnessconcert.com/

November 16th, 2012The Centre For Performing Arts in Vancouver

What does all this mean: to embrace the light, walk in the light, and so on? What is all this light, light, light talk? In A Course in Miracles, light is defined as understanding. What a beautiful thought, that to s e e t h e l i g h t i s t o understand.

I BEGAN MY CAREER GIVING TALKS ABOUT A

COURSE IN MIRACLES in 1983. In 1992, I published my first book about it. In 2007, having been reading the book for three

decades and lecturing on it literally thousands of times, I came out of

meditation one day and thought, Ive become an advanced student of

the Course. Not an advanced practitioner, mind you, but an advanced

student. And that took 30 years.

What is it about spiritual knowledge that takes so long to digest?

The trendy nature of much contemporary seeking would lead you to

think that you spend a year or two at the ashram and voil!youre at

the mountaintop. But my experience argues otherwise. It takes a

decade to understand the basic nature of spiritual principles, another

decade while the ego tries to eat you alive, another decade while you

try to wrestle it to the ground, and finally you begin to walk more or less

in light. Anyone who thinks a spiritual path is easy probably hasnt

been walking one.

Marianne Williamson

By midlife, youre probably aware enough to understand which of your issues most need attention. Youve learned where youre strong, but also where youre weak. You know what parts of yourself to be proud of and what parts of yourself should change. You know what your issues are this lifetime. It might not be a time when youre learning new things about yourself so much as understanding more deeply what you already know. And new levels of self-awareness bring new opportunities for breakthrough.

This is not the time to stop working on yourself; its the time when youve finally accumulated enough clues to help crack the case and solve the mystery of why and how youve sabotaged yourself for so long. Its not the time to give up and say, This is just how I am. Its too late to change. Quite the oppositeits time to take a stand, once and for all, against the enemy inside. Dont worry that it took you so long to get to this point. It takes everyone this long. We know nothing until we know all the ways that were not who we should be. Only then do we have a chance at becoming the people weve wanted to be, and God intended us to be, from the day we were born.

For that reason alone, these are sacred years.

When youre young, you cant really imagine the ages of 50, 60, or 70 being cool. Actually, it often takes that long to understand what cool really means. You cant really build a life till youve pulled together all the things youve finally come to understand about yourself. Life would be cruel if at just about the time youve finally figured it out, it reached some sort of predetermined disintegration. Just as adolescents must separate from their parents, you need to separate from the person you were before this point, to whatever extent that that person was not the real you.

Finding out who we actually arent, we begin to learn at last who we actually are.

IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, A BEAUTIFUL PRINCE turns into a horrible beastuntil finally unconditional love turns him back into who he really is. Gee, that sounds like almost everyone I know.

Years ago, after my first book was published, my lawyer recounted to me a conversation hed had with my publisher. The publisher had made a comment about my being a spiritual teacher, to which my lawyer had replied, Shes not! She writes books about spirituality, but shes not a spiritual teacher. I remember wanting to say, Actually, John, I think I am a spiritual teacher, but I M

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By midlife, youre probably aware enough to understand which of your issues most need attention. Youve learned where youre strong, but also where youre weak. You know what parts of yourself to be proud of and what parts of yourself should change. You know what your issues are this lifetime. It might not be a time when youre learning new things about yourself so much as understanding more deeply what you already know. And new levels of self-awareness bring new opportunities for breakthrough.

This is not the time to stop working on yourself; its the time when youve finally accumulated enough clues to help crack the case and solve the mystery of why and how youve sabotaged yourself for so long. Its not the time to give up and say, This is just how I am. Its too late to change. Quite the oppositeits time to take a stand, once and for all, against the enemy inside. Dont worry that it took you so long to get to this point. It takes everyone this long. We know nothing until we know all the ways that were not who we should be. Only then do we have a chance at becoming the people weve wanted to be, and God intended us to be, from the day we were born.

For that reason alone, these are sacred years.

When youre young, you cant really imagine the ages of 50, 60, or 70 being cool. Actually, it often takes that long to understand what cool really means. You cant really build a life till youve pulled together all the things youve finally come to understand about yourself. Life would be cruel if at just about the time youve finally figured it out, it reached some sort of predetermined disintegration. Just as adolescents must separate from their parents, you need to separate from the person you were before this point, to whatever extent that that person was not the real you.

Finding out who we actually arent, we begin to learn at last who we actually are.

IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, A BEAUTIFUL PRINCE turns into a horrible beastuntil finally unconditional love turns him back into who he really is. Gee, that sounds like almost everyone I know.

Years ago, after my first book was published, my lawyer recounted to me a conversation hed had with my publisher. The publisher had made a comment about my being a spiritual teacher, to which my lawyer had replied, Shes not! She writes books about spirituality, but shes not a spiritual teacher. I remember wanting to say, Actually, John, I think I am a spiritual teacher, but I Mar

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didnt, out of fear that it would appear immodest. Who was I to call myself that? Yet as it says in A Course in Miracles, we create what we defend against; in an effort to dissuade people from thinking I thought of myself as any big deal, I acted in a way that ensured they would.

Oh, you think Im so spiritual? Watch this! I can be stupid, too! Thinking it was humble to do so, I dissociated who I was when I wasnt working from the more enlightened persona that came naturally to me when I was. The ego defends the separate self, leading to thoughts that lead to behavior that often reflect our opposite. That is what many of us are doing in this life: living the opposite of our truth, just as the beast was the opposite of the beautiful prince in the fairy tale.

We prance around on a stage of illusion, acting out whatever pathetic bit part the fear-based ego allows us in this tragic play, repeating our lines without realizing this isnt the script with which we came into this life. Our script, in fact, got switched at birthwere playing a part that is not our part and repeating lines that are not our lines.

The ego not only defends against our expressing our true selves, but also against our consciously seeing that this is what were doing. Our opposite becomes the personality that we, and everyone else, think we actually are. Then, since the ego is guiding how were presenting ourselves, the world comes to agree that of course that is who we actually are. Were no longer princes, but beasts. And thus we are double bound: first by appearing as not who we really are, and then by the dark contagion of a world that is judging us for it.

Only when I realized that it wasnt arrogant, but humble, to accept with grace and honor the part I play in the world, was I able to drop the personality self that consistently felt the need to deflect it.

To accept that God has given each of us a magnificent role to play on Earth merely because were human; that we were born with a perfect script etched on our hearts; that its not to our personal credit, but to His greater glory, that each of us is brilliantsuch are the truths that free us from the egos lies. Mystical understanding is a ray of light, the divine kiss that transforms us back to who we truly are. Each of us can put down the burden of our false self and allow our truth to reemerge.

The world in which we live todayreflecting in so many ways the opposite of our sweetness and lovereminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell thats been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self. Our inner sweetnesswhether we call it the Christ, the soul, or whatever word describes the spiritual essence so not at home in our worldly zones of combatis the only place where we will ever, ever be safe. Childrens fairy tales arent fantasy; in a way, our modern worldview is. The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything. And until we retrieve it, our outer kingdom will be a land of suffering for everyone.

My dreamlike and mystical nature as a child could rarely find acceptance within my family system or support at school, a conundrum to which I respondedas most people do to the stress of finding themselves at home where they are not at homeby psychically splitting off from myself. I separated from my authentic spirit, my psyche splitting in two like a broken tooth. My spirit wandered high above me, as though on a shelf where it would remain accessible to me personally but hopefully invulnerable to derision by others. Which means that to the best of my young ability, I put my spirit into the hands of God for safekeeping.

I remember when I was a little girl, one of my close girlfriends lived in a house where there was a mural painted on the wallpaper in the powder room. It showed two little angels lying on clouds holding hand mirrors. And that powder room at Beth Kleins house became like a chapel to me. I would come up with any excuse to enter that room and just stare up at the mural. I felt like that prepainted wallpaper was speaking to me of somewhere I had been and longed to go again. I wondered if others could see what I could see on that wall of my Sistine Chapel on Tartan Lane.

How young we were, so many of us, when we felt psychologically cast out of our homes. Feeling cast out, we collectively manifested a world from which, if we dont change things, we will be cast out. The only way we can fundamentally heal a situation in which the human race teeters on the brink of all manner of catastrophe is to repair the original separation between who we truly are and who we have become.

Every life is a microcosm of the greater global drama. As each of us returns to the truth in our hearts, we will be released to our highest creativity and intelligence. This will open up avenues of repair the mortal mind cant even imagine, leading us to co-create with God a transformed life on earth. Realigned within ourselves, we will realign the world. And heaven and earth shall be as one.

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THOSE OF US WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE MOST OF LIFE with its evil as well as its goodhave greater understanding with which to tame the beast of chaos and unruliness that threatens the earth today. Weve learned the hard way that the darkness of the world is a reflection of the darkness inside us. Well learn to tame the

beast of the world by taming it within ourselves.

When were young, were powerful in a physical sense. The strength of youth is not earned so much as given to us as a gift from nature. It serves a role that belongs specifically to the young: to procreate and build external structures that support material life.

As our physical strength begins to wane, it can be augmented by spiritual strength. Yet unlike our youthful brawn, spiritual power isnt just given to us; it must be earned. And it is often earned through suffering. This isnt a deficiency in natures plan but an economy in natures plan. Your physical muscles cannot help you carry the weight of the worlds emotional painonly spiritual musculature, built through accumulated repetitions of heartache, can do that.

As mature people, we carry a unique spiritual elixir. Having seen the darkness in ourselves and others, weve become more humble before the light. Having been brought out of darkness, weve developed a devotion to the God Who delivered us. Having made real mistakes, we know how much it means to feel forgiven. Having suffered, we feel more compassion for human suffering. Those things arent just abstractions to us anymore; they are principles that have infused our flesh. We are strong now in ways we could not have been before. And our strength is needed. We are entering a time when our internal strengths, more than our external ones, will be humanitys most important sources of renewal and repair.

In the words of poet T. S. Eliot:

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

The following excerpt is taken from the book The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife by Marianne Williamson. It is published by Hay House (January 2008) and available at all bookstores or online at: www.hayhouse.com

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The Miracle of Sensitivity

An excerpt from Resonance: Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality by Joyce

Whiteley Hawkes, PhD

How did the ultra sensitive label get started? What would it take to drop the belief that sensitivity is wrong? The more aware we are, the more intensely those incoming sensations impact us. Soon the label of overly sensitive becomes an established identity. Those closest to us may attach that label when exasperated at how long we take to make a decision or how we jump at loud sounds. We make our associates uncomfortable.

As we grow spiritually, we naturally become more sensitive. Meditation changes not only brain function toward enhanced awareness but it increases the urge to assist those who are suffering. Using fMRI scans that response can be seen in specific areas of the brain that are activated by someone elses pain. If we were not already ultra sensitive, wed grow closer to that state as we meditated. Compassion arises and our emotional responses become stronger.

Excerpt fromResonance: Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality 2012 by Joyce Hawkes. Published by Hay House; available atwww.hayhouse.com.

She became far more emotionally responsive. The challenge for her in her new state of being included many physical issues and symptoms. Her body had one ache, pain, or problem after the other. She tried many intuitive readers and read books but had no relief for her symptoms. When she was in the presence of spiritual people, individually or at a conference, she might shake, twitch, or shudder at inopportune times and without conscious control. This was more than disconcerting to Sandra. How could she navigate her life without full control? In particular, what was the tremor in her legs and feet all about? Her doctor could not find evidence of Parkinsons disease; although, the trembling certainly looked suspicious. This shaking was much more pronounced in situations where she was in touch with her spirituality. I met her at my office for a session; she had flown to Seattle from Philadelphia to attend a conference. Comfortably seated on the gray leather couch, she showed no signs of tremors anywhere in her body. Her hands, feet, and legs were perfectly still as she told me her history and her amazement at how her life had changed. She also spoke about her frustration with her symptoms and that she had no convincing answers from all the sources she had consulted. When it was time for healing work, she kicked off her shoes and climbed onto my treatment table. The minute her body relaxed and settled into the cushioned surface, her legs started unmistakably shaking. She moved a lot, sometimes rolling from side to side. At one point she turned over and assumed the yoga position known as prayer pose.

Sandra was a highly educated woman with a doctorate in engineering. She relied on her ever-so-rational mind, tight logic, and unemotional response to all the complicated tasks that were part of her career. That style of thinking and living had become her way of being in all aspects of life. It worked well for her until she had an encounter with spirituality. Her life changed as a spontaneous awakening brought visions, sensations, and insights she never dreamed possible.

consulted. When it was time for healing work, she kicked off her shoes and climbed onto my treatment table. The minute her body relaxed and settled into the cushioned surface, her legs started unmistakably shaking. She moved a lot, sometimes rolling from side to side. At one point she turned over and assumed the yoga position known as prayer pose. Eventually she returned to lying on her back as we had started and her body grew quiet, peaceful, and still. As with all my clients, near the end of the session, I left the room and gave her time to rest before getting up. When I returned we had a lot to talk about. Sandra felt that she had had an excellent experience and felt good physically. We talked for some time about the various sensations that inundated her body. While the shaking was strongest, she also had a display of bright and beautiful colors that filled her inner vision. By the time we were finished, her body was calm and still. Her face was glowing and radiant. She wrote to me about a week after the session: It was so life affirming to walk out of a healing session feeling good and seeing a way forward. That has not happened for me for a long time.

Her story reminded me of some of the early parts of my own spiritual journey. Early in my transition from scientist to healing facilitator, I met

Fred Pankratz, one of those people who seems to show up at exactly the right time and place. Fred had been a contractor in Alaska and a frequent traveler to the Philippines where he was considered a holy man by locals in the countryside near Mount Banhao, a half-days drive from Manila. Fred also spent time in Seattle where I met him through a mutual friend. When Fred did healing sessions for me in those early days I would start shaking uncontrollably. I could not predict when the phenomenon would start nor could I turn it off at will. Fred patiently coached me to relax into the movement and instructed me to increase my meditation practice in the days that followed the session. His explanation was that my body needed to adapt to the increase in energy that now coursed through it. It is important to know that we can work with the energy of resonant union so that the body is not subject to shaking, twitching, shouting, or weeping at inopportune moments. The practice at the conclusion of this article gives some suggestions for how to engage this energy and not have it overpower the body.

What is that energy? The closest Ive come to an answer that is the

theme of my book, Resonanace. Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality. There is a resonance that the physical body is able to make with something so far beyond our most able science that we can only call it the Mystery. When the body and Mystery unite directly, the body reacts. Religious traditions have named the resonant connection in various ways: Kundalini (Hindu); unexpected blessing (Catholic); Satori, Samadhi, Shakti, Chi, Mahamudra, Dzogchen (various types of Buddhism and Hinduism); fana (Sufism); mukti (Sikhism); and mystical union (Christian mysticism) to name a few. Whatever name is given for this state of consciousness, the descriptions of ecstasy, bliss, and overwhelming compassion are similar regardless of culture or religion. Isnt it astounding that we can resonate with a power greater than ourselves and that the result of that resonance is able to ignite the mind and the soul? Undeniably, the resonance of union produces profound joy. Our inborn sensitive nature can lead us there, as can our expanded sensitivity when we engage spiritual practice. Here is where we find a type of joy that bubbles up from inside and is not dependent on outer circumstances. The only way Ive found to tap that wellspring is through spiritual practice. There has not been one and only one all-inclusive practice for me. Each sunrise brings a new opportunity and challenge to balance, to harmonize, to appreciate, to find clarity, to meet the unique day by adapting known resources and discovering new ones. Not that long ago I woke without my usual sense of great joy. Day after day this heavyheartedness persisted and I could not shake the heaviness of suffering I had absorbed. The solution was not to dismiss the suffering or to sit through five comedies. The solution was to increase my connection of union with the Mystery. To do that I extended my meditation time and shifted my practice to allow for more silence and thereby, I could show up for the blessing of mystical union. I was not disappointed.

Sensitivity is a gift, not a curse. Joy is the cue that you have allowed your sensitive nature to resonate with the Mystery and that you have found an authentic spiritual connection.

A Practice: Sensitivity and Joy

You can become a human rheostat for healing energy and spiritual energy that enters your body. The essence of a physical rheostat is a switch within a circuit that allows variations in how much current comes through without losing contact with the source.

Maybe it is one of those particular days when you feel sensitive to every nuance and therefore emotionally vulnerable. You feel as if you are on overloador a fraction away from overload. Stop for a few minutes and find your breath. Slow down a bit. Follow your slower breath. Ask your spiritual guides (assume that you have one or more whether you know them or not) to gently turn down the energy flow at the intersection of your body and spirit. Imagine that you can touch a dimmer switch and adjust the intensity of spiritual energy running through your body. Find a setting that is most comfortable for this instant in time. You can change the setting, up or down, whenever you choose. If you are meditating and start to have some physical symptom such as shaking that is uncomfortable, use your rheostat to adjust the energy. If you are a healing facilitator for someone else, pay close attention to what is the right amount of energy for them. Adjust the current so that it feels compatible with what they need and does not overload them. A blast of maximum output is not necessarily healing. A flow of optimum energy is much better.

Lastly, send a burst of appreciation for your innate sensitivity and for the expansion of your awareness through spiritual practice. Relax into the joy that is deeply native to your soul.

Joyce Hawkes, PhD, is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with a long-standing career as a research cell biologist and biophysicist. After a near-death experience she embarked on an exploration of indigenous healing traditions and now teaches energy healing at the interface of science and spirit. Hawkes teaches nationally and internationally, and is the author of Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell, and Resonance: Nine Practices for Harmonious Health and Vitality.

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