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IN THIS ISSUE
Live 8 – Making a Positive Difference
Hope to See You This Week
July 5th, 8:00 p.m. wherever you are, join in this global meditation
On a Wing and a Prayer by Takara
While We Are Away (What's on sale?)
HELLO EVERYONE:
May you be blessed in the radiance of the One.
Life continues to unfold in the most magical
of ways.
Does anyone know how to get in touch with Ann
Hughes – the one who embodies St. Francis of Assisi? One
of our readers asked, and I haven’t connected with her
personally for 4 or 5 years. If you know how to reach her, please
let me know. While we are looking for people, here is another
one I would also love to connect with if you know her whereabouts.
Darshini Heendenia – I last saw her in Florida 8 or 9 years
ago.
LIVE 8 – MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE
Did you catch any of the Live 8 concert this
past weekend? Wow, what a powerful experience! I am sometimes
very pleasantly surprised by the people of this world. It is
so easy to look at what isn’t working. But how many times
do we get to see compassion and people committed to change on
the scale we saw it for this event?
I was delighted that Will Smith, the star of
Independence Day, said that on the “Fourth of July we celebrate
Independence, but today we celebrate our Interdependence.”
We are one world. We all matter. What is happening in Africa
is not O.K.
Everyone began snapping their fingers every
3 seconds. Every 3 seconds a child dies in Africa – from
starvation and disease. As we began snapping our fingers, Jes
looked at me with those big inquisitive blue eyes and said,
“Every time we snap our fingers a child dies in Africa?”
And I said, “Yes.” It provided a deep level of understanding
for him.
The concerts held simultaneously on 10 stages
around the globe potentially drew viewers in the billions. The
message was that we want the G8 leaders who begin their work
in Scotland on July 6th to take serious steps to end poverty
on our planet.
You can visit http://www.live8live.com
to sign the petition indicating that you want to see global
change. And the One Campaign website is here: http://www.one.org/About.aspx
HOPE
TO SEE YOU THIS WEEK
As we travel to the Northeastern United States
this week, we hope to see you.
Raven is teaching the 9 Fires of Truth and building
a Medicine Wheel of Peace at Lily Dale in New York on Wednesday,
July 6th. The workshop is a powerful time of energy movement
and upliftment – truly a life changing experience. I just
love synchronicity. How much better could it get than the G8
summit in Scotland beginning on the day that Raven is leading
this medicine wheel workshop and activation? Come to Lily Dale
to add your energy, voice, and intention to literally help shift
the world. It is also a new moon – the perfect time for
setting new intention. Visit http://www.9fires.net
for more information about the 9 Fires Teachings. Visit Lily
Dale Assembly http://www.lilydaleassembly.com
or call 716-595-8721 for details and to register for the workshop.
As soon as he is finished at Lily Dale, we head
north to New Brunswick to visit family and friends. It has been
years since we were there and we are very excited to see everyone.
When we return, Raven is doing an intro evening
followed by a workshop and medicine wheel creation and activation
in Woodstock, Vermont. Jes and I will be there. We would love
to meet everyone from the East Coast. Curtis Hollow Farm, Curtis
Hollow Road, Woostock, Vermont July 16th, 7:00 p.m.,
introduction and ceremony July 17th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
workshop and building medicine wheel Contact Sue Halligan (Sullivan)
- phone in Boston 617-734-1768, in Vermont 617-734-1768, email:
shalligan@aol.com for
details and directions.
July
5th - 7th, 8:00 p.m. wherever you are, join in this global meditation
By Takara (http://www.DolphinEmpowerment.com,
http://www.SpiritofNature.org)
Several years ago I received the following powerful
technology while in meditation. There has never been a better
time to use it.
Please join together individually or in groups
on the Eve of the G8 Summit, and the following evenings while
it is underway, to set the collective intention for this important
gathering. Share this meditation with friends, colleagues, everyone
you can think of who shares concern about global issues and
is interested in peace, plenty, joy, and harmony for this world
that we all share.
True prayer is the feeling or vibration that
you reverberate out when you are thinking a thought. So the
only way to manifest an intention is to be in a glorious mood
when you set the intention. With that in mind:
Close your eyes.
Take a few slow deep breaths.
Focus your attention on your heart.
Think of everything that you can think of that
you are grateful for. And give thanks. Think of several things
you love to do that bring you joy. Feel that joy.
Think of times when you felt glorious and just
sit within that feeling.
Feel the love of the One showering you with
blessings. See or sense this as a beam or column of light coming
down and engulfing you from above.
See this light surrounding you and continuing
down into the heart of Mother Earth. Allow this loving light
to penetrate your every cell. Breathe it in. Feel the luscious
splendor of direct connection with Source.
I now call you to remember the rapture of Source
Love, Divine Perfection, Oneness, the Peace that Passes Understanding.
Bask in the radiance of this love.
Feel it.
Breathe it.
Breathe it in and breathe it out.
Become it.
Feel this love in all that you are.
Call on your spiritual allies – the angels,
your Higher Self and other guides that assist you. You are reminded
at this time that your asking is their invitation to assist.
Imagine yourself now part of a gigantic circle
of people praying this prayer. Imagine, if you can, that every
person who has ever prayed for a positive shift for planet earth
is now standing side by side in this giant circle – women,
men, and children of every race, every religion, every continent,
every country, every economic level, every level of health,
every level of happiness, every level of peace. Each has called
in the light and called in assistance from beyond the veil.
See these people in a giant circle with all
the guides in an even larger circle surrounding them.
Each person is standing in their own pillar
of light completely linked up with their Higher Self and Original
Source Creator. See their radiance.
In the center of the circle, see or sense a
huge golden sphere of light - a giant ball of golden white light
pulsating with the love, the creative energy, the light that
is the One. Place planet earth inside this golden sphere. See
our planet bathed in love, in light, in radiance, in joy.
See each person sending a beam of light and
of love from their heart to this golden sphere. Send such a
beam from your own heart. See the love passing from your heart,
and many other hearts, into the sphere and returning from the
sphere as Source love.
As more love passes, more love is created, so
the love and light continues to grow and expand and become deeper
and more vast.
See the sphere begin to slowly spin. The energy
from the love is raising the vibration of the people, of the
sphere, of mother earth, continuing to increase the vibration.
Feel the pulsing of the love coming off the earth and the sphere
radiating out into the Universe. Let that love envelope you.
In that space, envision a new earth. See people
laughing. See lush gardens and clean water everywhere. See joy
and well being in everyone and everything. Feel how vibrant
and alive you feel by being in this world. And realize that
every person is fundamentally important to the whole. See how
each person, place, and thing is intricately linked to each
other and to you.
Feel what it feels like to be an individual
and to be the One simultaneously.
Hold that feeling and then reverberate out to
the Universe that you wish for that new world to manifest now.
Do it joyfully and from the heart.
Send blessings to all those who are making global
decisions. And know that every decision you make also impacts
the entire world.
See yourself extending a hand of support to
another. Regardless of your circumstances, there is always something
of value you have to offer, even if it is simply your radiant
smile. Feel this feeling of love as long as you would like.
Slowly open your eyes.
Send gigantic roots deep into mother earth and
bring your awareness fully back into your body right here right
now.
You may return at any time to this Divine connection
by simply remembering the feeling of being there.
On
a Wing and a Prayer by Takara
Every now and then a person needs to go on pilgrimage.
Mine tend to be some sort of car excursion. But that certainly
isn’t the only pilgrimage possible. Of course when you
start out on a journey, you don’t necessarily know that
you are going on a pilgrimage. If you are headed for some sacred
site or something, then that is obviously your intention. But
other times, you are on it before you even realize it.
A pilgrimage is a truly empowering and life
defining moment or set of circumstances. It is what the knights
used to go on and they always ended up having to slay dragons
in order to continue. Modern day dragons are always cloaked
in the most unusual outfits. And often your pilgrimage is well
underway before you even realize that is what is happening.
But a pilgrimage is always about the journey
and who you become in the process. And in that regard, all of
life is a pilgrimage of sorts. Heroes are those who face challenges
and look into the depths of their being and find a skill, a
gift, a place of inner peace that they never knew existed. In
the face of adversity, they not only survive, but they actually
thrive. And we are all given numerous opportunities to prove
ourselves that sort of hero.
I ended up on a pilgrimage with a friend a few
years ago. A 10-day journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Mt.
Shasta, California, to Ashland, Oregon, to Gold Beach, Oregon,
through Arizona and finally arriving back in Santa Fe an entirely
transformed individual. It seemed like a million different things
happened. There were enough stories to fill a book and perhaps
one day it will be written. We had to deal with wind and rain
and air mattresses that collapsed. We found out after driving
all day that the road we were on was washed out up ahead and
it would be 5 more hours of driving to arrive at our hotel.
Something seemed majorly wrong with our vehicle and every time
we got it above 45 miles per hour and hit the slightest pump
in the road, the steering wheel began to shake and then the
entire vehicle. And then there were all the esoteric and other
worldly adventures sprinkled in just for fun. It was definitely
an adventure and we were being called upon to overcome obstacles
and reach deep within. While we were in Arizona, a friend channeled
that we were on a pilgrimage. We had gotten on our trusty stead
and headed out into the desert to find ourselves. It helped
us to understand.
This past weekend I undertook another such adventure.
I thought I was going to the International New Age Trade Show
(INATS) in Denver. I thought the purpose was to finally get
to meet my phone and email friend of 10 years, Virginia Brown,
President of the BioElectric Shield Company. And to get a weekend
off from being a wife and mom, hang out with the girls, get
to hear Wayne Dyer, meet Doreen Virtue, Dan Millman, and numerous
other well-known authors and musicians, and have a great time.
I
had no idea I was setting out on a pilgrimage.
On Friday, I was heading north on I-25 and just
as I was coming into Colorado Springs my car just quit. I was
doing over 70 miles an hour and the engine just stopped. It
was brutally hot and a thunder storm was happening up ahead.
Oh no. I could see an exit just ahead and I began packing a
few things to take with me as I hiked to the exit and then I
thought I should at least try the engine again. I was able to
get it going – with very little power. It got me to the
exit and off the ramp and then died again at the bottom. Aah
yeah yeah. When it died the oil light came on, so I thought
it was out of oil – a very bad thing for an engine. Then
I remembered that Raven had checked all the fluids before I
left. I know he would have checked the oil. Oh well, it was
all I had to go on.
I was supposed to be at the airport in Denver
in an hour to pick up Virginia and obviously I wasn’t going
to make it. Now the truly unusual thing is that two of my friends
that were originally going up on Saturday, at the last minute
had to go up on Thursday. So they were already there. I was
able to get one of them by phone and asked if they would rescue
Virginia at the airport since I wasn’t going to make it.
All I could do was follow my intuition. I looked
across the street from where I was parked and saw a store with
driving lawn mowers – little tractors. I thought, wow,
they will have oil. So I walked across the street in the pouring
rain. As I got closer, I realized I was looking at the back
of the store and there was an electrical fence. So I would have
to go down the street, take a left, and turn into whatever this
industrial area was to make my way back to the place I’d
seen from behind. Along this journey I came across an auto repair
place. Even more amazing is that it was a Friday afternoon and
they had time to work on my car. We were able to get the car
up to the shop and then for the next two and a half hours they
ran the engine trying to get it to quit. And it wouldn’t.
I believe every moment of every day has significance.
So I was searching for the meaning behind this series of events.
The mechanic started asking me questions about what I’d
be doing in Denver and I began sharing about helping people
with their personal and spiritual growth. I said that our company
did some shamanic things and he asked me what tribe I affiliated
myself with. I laughed and said The Dolphin Tribe. And then
I explained that my husband is native and does most of the earth
based spirituality stuff and I work in a more esoteric fashion
and receive insight through meditation. It turns out that he
is half Cherokee and has felt disconnected from his heritage.
Was that the reason I was there? I’ll probably never know.
A new car part and $125.00 later I was back
on the road. I missed the opening reception for INATS but met
up with Virginia and my friends later and we shared a meal.
I went on to have a completely grand and wonderful weekend.
We drove all over Denver on various errands. The car ran find.
I returned Virginia to the airport on Sunday
and was heading out of Denver when the car died again. No way!
I was tired. I had a long drive ahead of me. It was really hot.
And now what?
We have friends that live on the south side
of Denver so I called and asked for a rescue. We got the car
to a local service center who said they could run a full diagnostic
in the morning.
As I review the events, I realize that the whole
thing was about surrender, following intuition, letting go of
preconceived plans, expectations, and flowing with the magic
each moment had to bring.
I got to enjoy their hot tub and then had a
life changing conversation. One of the friends I stayed with
channels Simon, the fisherman who walked with Jesus. We were
discussing an issue that has been perplexing Raven and I and
also these friends. As we discussed what had been happening,
laughing at the similarity of events, Simon came through to
talk to us. It has been about two years since I’ve had
a conversation with Simon. It was wonderful. He explained the
dynamics of the issue and what we could do to make it work more
for us.
And then the conversation switched to something
I have been personally working on for the past two years. I
have been struggling with what I’ve come to call the Jesus
Myth. Who was he? What was the truth of him? What is fact and
what is fiction? What is his relationship to me? Was he married?
Did he travel to places throughout the world and go through
countless initiations? Did he have children? Did he continue
on for numerous years? Did the family flea to France? Did he
ascend? Did he even exist at all? The words they claim he spoke
have great meaning for me. But I’ve struggled with why
he had to be tortured and killed. I don’t believe Original
Source Creator to be the vengeful, vindictive, manipulative,
judgmental male deity described in the Old Testament. The need
for human sacrifice and Jesus being “the only begotten
son of God” has never worked for me. The God I know is
loving and even Jesus said something about we are all precious
and no one can harm the hair on the head of something. Yet he
became this sacrificial lamb.
I have talked with Jesus and felt his presence
since I was a small child. I have had visions of walking with
him during his time. I saw myself as a small child and it seemed
that he treated me like an older brother would. Whether he was
actually my older brother, or just spoke to all the children
that way, I have no idea.
My questions lead to more questions which lead
to more confusion to the point that I had no idea who or what
Jesus was and what he represented to me. This left a giant hole
inside. And recently I received an email from someone who read
my cover story in Maine Well Being. I guess I mentioned Jesus
because he asked me why none of the other metaphysical writers
mention Jesus. So I sat with the question and was once again
faced with my own lack of certainty.
And then Simon said something and this spark
ignited within me. And then Simon suggested that I search my
own heart and remember the truth of who Jesus is. I was overcome
with so much love I could hardly contain it. The freedom from
so much confusion was euphoric. The details don't matter. We
will never know exactly what happened 2000 years ago and why.
What matters is that Jesus is love. He is available to us when
we ask. And I am delighted to once again call him a dear friend.
Is that why my car broke down?
Maybe.
The next day I sat at the car repair place for
4 hours as they did every diagnostic in the book and could find
nothing wrong with my car. So I set off on the next leg of my
adventure.
The car died again just before I reached Walsenburg.
I surrendered. I gave up. I turned it all over to the Universe.
I could do nothing to make the car work or not work. It was
out of my hands. And in that moment I understood peace to the
core of me. I actually didn't care whether the car worked or
didn't work. It didn't matter. It wasn't significant. I knew
I would eventually get home, some how, some way. But I had no
idea how and that was alright.
The previous 2 experiences with the car let
me know that if I let it sit, it would start up again. So I
let it sit for a little while and then started it up, drove
it over a hill and stopped under a bridge. So now it could be
in the shade and do whatever it needed to do to prepare for
the rest of the journey. I opened up the trunk and picked out
one of the new books I'd picked up at INATS, sat in the back
seat, and read for 20 minutes.
This car is new to altitude. It had spent its
entire life in Virginia and now it was living with us at 7000
ft. above sea level. The computer on board was supposed to automatically
adjust the timing for the difference in oxygen available. But
my sense is that it didn't do that. So as I started up the car
I envisioned it surrounded by a cloud that contained higher
levels of oxygen.
I thought about what it could use to get us
home and I began envisioning various things coming up under
the car, lifting it up and propelling us forward. I began with
a dragon and saw it fly up under and begin to fly me and the
car home. I sensed the wings and the feeling of flight. I then
switched that image to a manta ray. Wow, what an amazing feeling
that was. It was so fluid and graceful. It felt great. Then
I remembered what Simon had said the previous evening.
At the show there was a woman selling a deck
of cards related to horses and horse energy. I picked a card
and read the insight it offered. I mentioned the card to my
friends. Later, when Simon began to speak, he made a direct
reference to that energy and advised me to add wings to the
horse and offered new information about this horse work I had
begun. So I switched from the manta ray into the winged horse,
Pegasus. I can't even describe how fantastic I began to feel.
I literally felt the head moving back and forth
as the horse ran, the hooves gently caressing the road as they
touched, the wings moving up and down with great power. It was
as if Pegasus, myself, and the car had become one. Every time
I went up a hill I would rock my upper torso back and forth
like the head of the horse moving back and forth with it's stride,
I could feel the legs running beneath me and the wings propelling
us forward. I became euphoric.
There are two sensations I love more than any
other. The first is becoming a dolphin speeding through open
water, gliding, turning, with ease and grace. The other is the
feeling of being a horse running at full speed through an endless
open field. Now I had added wings so I wasn't even confined
by the earth and I felt absolute and total freedom. It was exhilerating.
It took me 11 hours to get home, not including
the extra 4 spent at the car repair place that morning. Under
normal circumstances it would have taken 6 hours. I took it
easy on the car and on the hills. I had no more problems with
the car. I returned home in complete bliss - exhilerated by
the experience.
A lot of people would have had an entirely difference
experience under similar circumstances. They might have become
horribly upset, angry, depressed, or who knows what else. But
I realized I was on a pilgrimage whether I consciously signed
up for it or not. So I made the best of it. I came out feeling
like a hero that had attained an entirely new way of being.
When you are faced with a challenge I encourage
you to look at it as the pilgrimage it could be for you.
I offer you blessings on your journey,
Takara
While We Are Away
You'll be hearing about a great new product
when we return. In the interim, I'm putting a few great things
on sale. They won't ship until we get back on the 18th, but
you can take advantage of the savings right now. To receive
these discounts, orders must be placed by July 18th.
Enjoy!
Freedom Flight - Energy Session with
Takara ($77), the ebook Freeway to Freedom ($27), and a custom
blend ($27). $111 (save $20). Visit http://www.DolphinEmpowerment.com/consulting.htm.
Scroll down for the Freedom Flight package.
9 Fires Crystal Medicine Wheel - in honor
of the work Raven is doing on this trip, the crystal medicine
wheel is now available for $18 (save $4) Visit http://www.9fires.net/participate.htm
The offices will be closed until July 19th.
I will be periodically checking email.
Blessings to your journey,
Takara
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