In October 1997, we witnessed the passing of two profound women who lived their lives as a testament to caring for and comforting others. Both Princess Diana and Mother Teresa were monumentally compassionate and courageous and, as Jean Houston so poignantly put it, “willing to shine light in places many of us are afraid to go.“ I personally thought, “what better time for the most compassionate Mother on Earth to leave than when an entire nation was mourning the passing of such a beloved sister and princess.” I truly feel that we affect others more profoundly from the non-physical than we can from the physical. I truly believe that yes, while Mother Teresa was in her body, she helped and comforted many, yet she held many more in her heart than she could in her arms. I believe those who gazed upon her radiance from afar were just as comforted as those within hand’s reach, for even we who saw her only on tv were moved by her, even if for a brief moment to consider someone in our lifetime who was so openly compassionate and displayed such enormous faith. Continue reading →

Remember, your personal success, and your prosperity are not in the hands of some “fickle finger of fate”—nor are they determined by sudden changes in the economy. The answer is in your conditioned ability to form and shape the ever-present substance of the Universe. There is just no way around it: your fortune (good or bad) begins with you. Financial crises, even recessions or depressions, so far as they affect your pocketbook or bank account or job stability, begin with your reactions of faith or fear. You do not cause economic conditions, though we all share in the cumulative consciousness that is the cause; but if you give them reality by your negative thoughts or conversations about them, you become synchronized with an energy flow which has as swift an influence on your life as the light that bathes the room when you throw the switch.  From Eric Butterworth, in Spiritual Economics.

IT HAPPENS EVERY HURRICANE SEASON
That has been my experience, not just with money, but with everything.  If I get a fear or anxiety about something, I start a chain reaction of a downward spiral which affects the other areas of my life.  The domino effect, plain and simple.  It happens every hurricane season, too. The weather guys try to freak us out when there are storms brewing in the Atlantic.  Remember, getting riled up over that is a waste of time.  We know by this year’s weather pattern that like 90% of the tropical depressions will dissipate before hitting Florida.  Get off the Watch And Worry Bandwagon and don’t talk about the storms. Don’t make folks think about them because they will then only attract something else they don’t want. So it’s in your hands... and on your lips. Last year I even  emailed the local news and weather stations. Continue reading →

I got an email yesterday that read:  I was just reading the latest Horizons and I see that you recommend the original Secret with Abraham-Hicks. That is the version that I first saw and was surprised that they edited Abraham-Hicks out of future versions. With Abraham explaining our Emotional Guidance System, THAT is the key to working the Law of Attraction! Without that segment in there, there IS no secret. But I never did hear WHY she/they were edited out–did you? (see end of this article for their statement in their own words.)

I wrote him back that I had a blog post waiting to go in about it and this is it:  I just saw the revised/edited (they call it EXTENDED) version of The Secret for the first time.  I had seen the original one with Abraham-Hicks, whose material was the inspiration for The (original) Secret movie, several times and it was an excellent work.  The revision is a very diluted version that paradoxically leaves out “the secret” itself.  No wonder everyone is so confused despite the new legion of Secret Teachers out there. For WHY Abraham-Hicks bowed out of the original project, read at https://www.meetup.com/Washington-Abraham-Hicks/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2283719

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Two weeks ago Brothermine Has Hip Replacement Surgery and he’s been keeping me posted with his progress.  One thing we have in common is we both heal quickly from whatever nicks and scrapes we go through.   Jerry wrote to me: “I’m getting over the Oxycontin (they gave him in the hospital) withdrawal now.   It’s just amazing that I’ve had no more pain than I’ve had.  I mean good grief they dislocated my hip, sawed the end off the bone and hammered a metal shaft into the bone.  No to mention all that cutting through muscles and tissue.  My thigh was black and blue from the rough handling. I think it’s all a matter of perception.  Any surgery I’ve had, I’ve always felt like I’m healing rather than hurting.  While they call an incision a wound, I call it a repair.  All the wounding happened while I was asleep so I didn’t experience that. Anyway, I think that healing never hurts.  It’s the hanging on to the wound that is painful, be it physical, emotional or spiritual.”

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I listened to the latest Abraham-Hicks cd on my drive to Ocala Monday.  As usual, there was a lot of helpful information and reminders.  One favorite line was “The only way unhappy people can stay in your life is if you focus on their unhappiness.” I thought how true that was.  We all have friends that go through rough times now and again and then there are those that have one string of problems after another.  Despite being adults, they just can’t seem to get their sh*t together, and they want to tell you all about it on a regular basis.  You know, of course, that listening to them tell their story over and over again is not doing either of you any good. But they don’t know that.  All they know is they think they feel better when they drag someone else into their chain of pain to commiserate with.  “But I’m just letting you know,” they will say, or “I’m just telling you the facts.” They really don’t get it that whether their story is true or not, telling it over and over is not helping them. Continue reading →

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With the most recent Horizons Magazine having gone to press, I go into my next stage of the process: bookkeeping and billing.  I like every part of my job to be fun and meaningful, and the mundane jobs are no different.  in fact, I know that no job is mundane unless I make it so.  I don’t like to just send out a boring black and white bill with meter stamped postage.  If my mission in life is to lighten things up, I think: what kind of invoice might be fun to open? So I selected as a mascot for the bills, a small fairy on a flower.  I print them in color.   I always enclose a self addressed return envelope, then those envelopes go on the altar before they go into the mail.  When I pick up my mail from the post office, the envelopes go onto the altar before they come in to the office.  Blessings for everyone. Continue reading →

Yesterday was an interesting day. I didn’t go into the office all day.  That rarely happens.  I took the August Horizons Magazine to Speedy Pac and visited with Gerald and Janet Finnegan for awhile.  Then I went to the farmer’s market and got some klondike potatoes, plum tomatoes, broccoli and mushrooms.  I came home and made my vegetarian version of Sweet Tomatoes broccoli bacon raisin salad and put it in the refrigerator to blend for a few hours.  I was excited that my avocado was ripe, however it was a day too ripe so I made guacamole with it.  Earlier I’d been outside pruning my eleagnus bushes and now was sniffling, so I took a Benadryl.  I mostly took the Benadryl not to stop the sniffles, but because I knew it would knock me out for a few hours.  And boy did it. Continue reading →

Ah, online dating.  The drama continues! I wrote earlier at Online dating scams; hot singles are waiting for you that several friends are dating online and report to me all their adventures.  A lot of the women get the same emails and instant messages from the same men, like a mass form letter I guess, hoping for a 1% return or something.  They also get a lot of the same “canned” information during instant messages, which simply shows that the guy is copying and pasting from another message.  My friend Sofie shared a typical instant message from her SeniorPeopleMeet site.  She is a cute gal and also a no-nonsense person, also a Buddhist.  She flat out doesn’t talk to guys who have no profile and no picture.  She gets a dozen instant messages every time she signs on to the site, guys she has nothing in common with and who just see that she’s cute and online.  Here is this morning’s conversation:

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A couple of years ago, I wanted a tent and had just finished my internet research to decide what kind and size I wanted.  I woke up one morning and knew that someone would call me that day and they would have a tent for me like the one I was looking for.  I went into the office and began taking the day’s calls, yet each time when I wondered if I should ask about the tent, it felt stupid and I didn’t do it. Then Jane Warner from Heaven Sent Wellness Center called and it was the first time we’d spoken.  I immediately knew she had the tent for me.  We spoke first about an ad, the purpose of her call, then I told her I’d been looking for a tent and that Spirit just told me she had one for me.  There was a short pause, then she told me that she and Angie just returned from a gathering where they took their tent.  They had, however, forgotten the top fly to the tent and so went to the nearest Sears and bought a duplicate tent so they had a fly that fit.  Which left them with an extra tent.  For me.

I just watched a segment of a rerun from Fox TV’s Powers of the Paranormal reality show with self proclaimed Hollywood psychic Bill Burns.  One online review said “In May of 2000, the American Fox TV network broadcast a two-hour special, “Powers Of The Paranormal: Live On Stage,” which included the “séance of the century”. The medium, Bill Burns, settled down, and after some standard spirit-possession twitches went into trance and summoned the spirits of Marilyn Monroe and Andy Kaufman. The spirits rambled on about how “I remember this and that.” but when the séance was over, Burns explained that the spirits are always confused when they’re contacted because “memory is the first thing to leave the spirit when you die.”    A better class of dead people are contacted regularly by John Edward, whose “Crossing Over” TV show regularly features quite intelligible spirits. Continue reading →