Author Archives: Andrea

My 1970 “My Sweet Lord” Experience

A story, circa 1970, listening to George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord at a friend’s home while tripping on orange sunshine acid.  Looking for the bathroom, I went into the master bedroom where a small Hindu (I learned later) altar was.  Baby Krshna began dancing on the altar and the mantra from the song, hare krishna, resonated in my head for days before I caught up with the friend whose house it was and asked her who the blue baby on the altar was.  She was glad to tell me and I went with her the next Sunday to the dinner given by the local ISKCON, who are the Hare Krsna. I spent the next two decades in and out of what some would call the cult experience.  I was glad to be in the experience as it taught me a lot about myself and about life and it opened a new, meaningful world around me.   Every time I hear George Harrison’s song, it takes me back to baby Krisna dancing for my delight as I tripped on orange sunshine.   Continue reading

Another great tuna salad recipe

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I drove the mags to Cassadaga first thing, and had a Durango chicken caesar salad for lunch on the way home. This week I made an awesome tuna salad. I added chopped onions, radishes, celery, carrot sticks. I first put in a glass bowl 2 tsp wine vinegar and threw in some raisins and craisins to hydrate in it. Then the veggies, then some albacore tuna and then 2-3 giant tablespoons of Veganaisse, some pepper, garlic powder and tarragon.

Transmuting karma; a breath meditation technique

A friend asked:  “Can you suggest a good book  on resolving or transmuting Karma?”  I replied:  “Hi, a quick answer, other than actively asking forgiveness, no I don’t.” When I think about it, I am surprised I don’t.  I briefly Googled “transmute karma” and came up with all sorts of astral info by different channellers spouting rhetoric by “spiritual masters” and offering violet flame meditations and the like.  I didn’t find their info useful.  Yes, I think meditating on the violet flame can be helpful because the message spirit is receiving when you do that is, “I am sitting here with the intention to transmute karma, so please help me get clear and empty enough as I do this exercise, to receive true guidance on how I may begin to clear my personal karma.” Continue reading

I buy a Toyota Prius Hybrid

May 10, 2008    Just two weeks ago I decided it was time to get another car.  I loved my Hyundai Santa Fe, but I no longer needed the cargo space and I wanted to drive a car like a regular person again.  For the past 15 years I’d driven a van or SUV.  I wanted something that got good gas mileage.  My last foray into an auto dealership had left me not wanting to repeat the experience – do you know the feeling?  Then I was reminded that doesn’t have to be my experience this time.  I was reminded that I can prepave what I want my future experience to be.  I can envision it and replay it in my head and feel as though I was in the situation already, and “practice” it into being. Continue reading

Building business and scheduling specials for your customers

A psychic friend is very old school and just now learning to email. His first one was to me asking how to increase his business using email.  He wants to keep it simple.  I am a firm believer that you can make a good living with only a handful of existing customers, that you can just develop a variety of skills that are what they are looking for, and love what you do. Then everything else falls into place. I replied: “Send an email after every class or workshop they attend; maybe something like: “It was a pleasure meeting you at Saturday night’s class.   It seemed everyone had an enjoyable time.  Let me know if I can do anything for you, I’m glad to help.  Thank you and keep in touch.” And then 2 weeks later you might email them the next month’s calendar and do it in the form of a short newsletter, and say something like, “I wanted to give you a coupon for $5 off your next reading during the month of May.  It’s my Mother’s Day special!” The “newsletter” can be just the month’s calendar along with a short informative article or two, maybe a cartoon and all your contact info.  I know you want to keep it very simple.

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When does it all end? When you take your attention off it

A friend sent out an email about the economy and what “the tricksters” are trying to do to us. He writes: “When does it all end?” I replied, “It ends when you take your attention off what the media is telling you and when you put your attention on what you prefer instead, and keep it there. It ends when you stop thinking that you are at the mercy of anything but your own vibrational stance in every moment. It ends when you use your own creative imagination to play with the ideas of what you’d like to experience instead, and spent most of your thought time in that space.  That’s when it ends.

I don’t get caught up in this type of info because I don’t want to vibrate there for a moment.  I know how powerful we can be as visionaries who hold to our vision of a joyful, abundant future, despite appearances, despite media input.  I know the longer I can hold the highest vision, the more of a contribution I make to the collective consciousness, since that is what attracts our collective experience to us.  I can either spend my thought time completely on the bright future and what is bright about right now, what is good that is going on right now, or I can add energy to the decline by vibrating in that place when I read news like that.

It’s just a choice of where do I want to spend my energy.
What vision do I want to feed?
What tomorrow do I want to live?”

Remembering Daddy

I’ve been emailing with my girl cousin Deborraha Burnett whom I hadn’t spoken with since 1996. We’re about the same age, and it’s fun to catch up. We both had very controlling fathers, but our family at least had fun together. Mom and Dad were also good role models for relationship because even though it was just as dysfunctional as any, mom and dad had an obviously genuine playful chemistry together and we could have fun even though we were technically all in trouble and on restriction. When Daddy was happy, everyone was happy.   We did lots of vacations, even just weekends to Fish Eating Creek. We went in this old Fageol twin coach buss my dad had converted into a camper, we spent every single weekend at some campground with him working on the engine. Fun, fun, fun.   Continue reading

A Non Disclosure Agreement means you do not disclose

A friend tells a story about a conflict he had with someone he ghost writes for. Although they had a Non-Disclosure Agreement, he freely emailed private material to a 3rd party (who is also in the same business as the one he was writing for). The names have changed but I wrote: “I’ve been reading about the incident with Luke.  It’s not my place to get into your stuff, but non-disclosure means you do not disclose about that person or that topic, period.  If you’re ghost writing, you’re a ghost, you’re invisible, you don’t publicly exist in the world of that person or that topic, despite personal privilege.  If anyone knows you’re ghosting, then you’re no longer ghostwriting, you’re now editing.  Karmically, you’ve shared words of Luke with another writer, and those words have sparked connection within her and so basically now everything in her world is colored by that filter, which you provided. For better or worse.  Legally, any future product she produces if ever anyhow derivative of his inspired idea, would entitle him to legal compensation.  Especially since the info was transmitted by a party to a Non-Disclosure Agreement.  Which opens possible criminal charges since it was sent via email.   Continue reading

Recognize what is news and what is a press release

I received a “news” release that said  “Whatever you may believe, I know we are not alone in the Universe, and our space brothers and sisters who see us as their ancestors will be making ever increasing contact from now until 2012. I highly encourage you to view additional information about this on my website.  Folks, that’s more important than anything you will hear on the news.  It is the REAL news behind the news, especially if you resonate.”  I had so many emails about this that I put a notice in the upcoming October Horizons: OCT 14th UFO Encounter – Are They Coming? For everyone who’s written asking if I know about this, Yes, it’s a bookseller’s press release/marketing story for their latest product.   However, I do know that the ufo coverup is coming to an end, and it’s happening already as documents have been recently unclassified.  The Oct 14 date in the press release is to get mass consciousness asking for it on that date, to invite an event to fulfill the prophecy.  The story, while a good one, is part of the latest clever marketing formula in the world of booksellers.  But it’s also a great Intention Experiment for the author and publicist. For those of you who do NOT get dozens of press releases every day about new books as I do, I’m just saying: recognize what is a press release, recognize what is promoting a seller’s products, and know yourself well enough to discern whether the info is relevant and helpful before just passing it along as if it’s the truth.  I agree it’s not easy to break away from the other lemmings, and easier to just do what the media wants you to do.  It’s your choice.