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11/22/09 Dance for the Worlds ~ A Thanksgiving Revelation
If there were one small dance you could do to bring healing to the larger dance of life, would you do it? Would you spin like a Sufi or fancy dance like a Native American? Would you lift your arms to distill your own vibration and stretch your soul into oneness with the source of the rain and the secrets of matter? Would you be willing to dance that dance this Thanksgiving, no matter where
11/08/09 The Poetry of Money and the Cat's Pajamas
A lot of people will say money is a stepping stone, a crazy wisdom Zen master, a form of energy, or simply a way to get by in life. Money is all of that, and money is also the cat’s pajamas. Silky as a kitten when you have it, as sadistic as the worst Halloween monster when you lack it, money is mostly a mirror for the creative imagination. It reflects all our relationships, how
10/24/09 Great Cleansing Joy ~ Rock the Mantra with Deval Premal, Miten, & Manose
KONA, HI ~ Deva Premal and her partner, Miten, with special guest floutist Manose, will offer Devotional Singing and Ecstatic Voice Celebration on Sunday in Kona from 10 am – 5pm. More intimate, deep, rich, and interactive than their enchanting concert, the day will be a spiritual tonic that includes dancing, singing, meditation, and Satsang. “Love makes you real; otherwise you remain just a fantasy, a dream with no substance in it,” said Osho, the
10/19/09 Arvol Looking Horse, Sweat Lodges, & the Power of Knowing Yourself
KONA, HI ~ When I was invited to do a sweat lodge with Lakota friends 20 years ago in Colorado, hefty black rocks were heated for several hours before the ceremony began. The steaming rocks were placed inside the lodge before participants entered in a clockwise direction, the lodge flap was closed, and the leader began praying and singing ancient songs while splashing water, cedar, and other herbs on the glowing rocks. As the temperature
10/05/09 Obama, Tall Poppies, & Mutually Assured Success
KONA, HAWAII ~ Think of Obama as the poet in us all, the one who hears the chant of the muse and is guided by a divine thrumming in his blood to use himself, his hands, and his nature as instruments to reflect the effortless flow of nature. This poet that lives in us all led Obama’s Chicago Olympics bid, “The Copenhagen Coping Mechanism,” wherein he flew to Denmark for a five-hour stay with Lady
09/10/09 What's So Funny ~ The Power of Humor
KONA, HAWAII ~ Did you know that right at this moment, your thoughts and feelings, whether you are aware of them or not, whether you have created them or not, generate your actions and responses to life? Even the way we frame our questions, asking what’s right, rather than what’s wrong, helps to frame positive health, mood, and prosperity. What’s left after what’s right is named, then, can be grist for a mill-ion-dollar
09/04/09 Good Things Happening in the World
KONA, HI ~ TODAY is my mother’s birthday. Remembering how she always liked to look on the bright side, I wanted to honor her by writing about good things happening in the world. I typed “Good Things Happening in the World” into Google. What came up was…nothing! So I decided to write a Mother’s List of “Good Things Happening in the World.” With much to heal, fix, work out, create, grow toward, and resolve in
08/26/09 Future Generations Are Counting On Us
KONA, HI ~ To: Our Noble Friends at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Re: DU at Pohakuloa Training Area and Beyond Date: August 26, 2009 Aloha and Mahalo for coming to hear from concerned citizens. They say it’s not the snake bite that kills; it’s the venom. The act of dumping radioactive toxins in Hawaii was not malicious; it was an unconscious act, like a snake bite. When the beast strikes out, aware only of its
08/22/09 Beyond Survival: Thrival
Just because difficulties and trauma have happened in the past doesn’t mean they will happen in the future. All of us are survivors of something – a bully on the block, an accident, a marriage that didn’t work out, loss and hurt — but people who go beyond simply surviving to thriving is that they look for the promise and goodness in life, learn to let go of the past, and seize opportunities as they
08/11/09 Abraham, Cortisol, & Crazy Wisdom ~ Quantum Health Care Solution
The truth is, the longer we think certain thoughts, the stronger they become. If stressful thoughts continue past the time of a crisis, they put the body’s natural flowing rivers and mechanisms into confusion. The mind becomes like the L. A. freeway instead of a perfect expression of truth, clarity, and beauty. Cortisol is the speedster on the traffic-ridden loops of mental, emotional, and physical stress. A lusty fellow, cortisol is a hormone very much
