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Mystic Blog Tuesday, May 31, 2005
I'm a Guest Writer at AngelicAbundance.com!
Check out my new article about communicating with the angels! Gifted intuitive Catherine Kasper, author of Angelic Abundance Treasure Maps: Discover the Wealth Within You, kindly invited me to be a guest writer for her monthly newsletter. You can read her newsletter and learn all about Catherine's work at her website: http://www.angelicabundance.com
The direct link to my article, called Wings of Light, can be found here: http://www.angelicabundance.com/guest.htm.
Learn how to understand when your angels are trying to communicate with you and discover the particular energies and talents of each of the main archangels. Check it out now!
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Mystic Blog Friday, May 27, 2005
The Mystic Blog is back online! I'm excited to bring you my first free trial issue of my new astrology newsletter, Lipstick Mystic™ Spirit of the Stars. This will be a free feature for the next two weeks, and it will be posted each Friday. After the two week period, it will be available by subscription only. Ordering info to be posted soon.
This issue of Lipstick Mystic™ Spirit of the Stars highlights the dynamic energy of Gemini, showing how the power of this Air sign is creating an adventurous mood in all of us. You'll also find practical guidance about mood management, relationship navigation, and business issues for each sign. And look for my special "Do" and "Don't" recommendations for each sign. Healing affirmations are also included so that you can surf the cosmic waves and experience greater flow.
If you're ready for a weekly astro-update with depth and humor, click here now to read the update for May 27 - June 2nd. |
Mystic Blog Monday, May 23, 2005
Connecting with the Garden Devas
This weekend I finally had the chance to tend to my garden. With this colder spring, I've been hesitant to plant anything out there. It's getting warmer now and this weekend some lovely-looking tomato plants were calling to me at the store. They were saying, "Take me home! Take me home!" So I did!
People who have a natural "green thumb" seem to be attuned to the plant kingdom and its messages. I can't say that my thumb is always green, but it's chartreuse most of the time (close to green.) As I sat outside on the ground making homes in the dirt for my new tomato plants, I realized I hadn't tuned into the devic kingdom for a while.
Devas are essentially the "guardian angels" of the plant kingdom. Each plant has a devic energy attached to it. The devas are the beings to chat with when you want to know the healing properties of a particular herb and whether it's right for you to be taking it. Whenever I'm in a health store looking at herbal teas and supplements, I always try to tune in and ask the deva associated with that herb a series of questions. "Is this herb right for my particular condition?" (Whatever thing I'm trying to heal.) "Will this herb generate any unpleasant side effects or energy discharge?" and finally "Will this herb harmonize well with my body?" All of these questions are important.
Some days I'm not able to tune in so well, but most of the time, if I take a moment to express respect for the plant kingdom and the devas, I receive the answers that I need. Many times I've read in a book or an article how a particular herb is good for this condition or that condition, and I'll head for the store, ready to try that herb. But if I remember to tune in before I make a purchase, I'll often get a clear "No!" coming in about that herb. This is the deva's subtle message that this herb is not right for me to take at that time.
This guidance has NEVER been wrong; and on the few occasions when I've ignored these messages, the herb didn't help me or I didn't feel well after I took it. So I believe it's really important to develop a relationship with the devic kingdom if you want to learn about the healing properties of herbs.
I take natural supplements whenever I feel like I'm about to come down with a cold or flu, and I haven't been sick in something like three years. That's pretty amazing, given that I was Bronchitis Girl for most of my teens and early twenties (It's a cough, it's some phlegm - it's Bronchitis Girl!) Even in my late twenties and early thirties my immune system wasn't so great. Now I'm in my mid-thirties, and I'm pretty amazed to be sickness-free.
Just two weeks ago, my husband-unit came down with a nasty flu bug. I happily played nursemaid and did healing work on him, and we were able to bring his fever down and clear him out much more rapidly than expected. And all along, I knew I wasn't going to get sick. And I didn't.
This is coming from a woman who used to get sick at the very THOUGHT of being around a person with a cold. If someone sniffed within a mile's radius, I'd take on their illness.
So it's nice to know we can switch these core patterns around!
I also believe that physical immunity and psychic or spiritual immunity go hand-in-had. My spiritual immunity has improved rapidly over the years, and that's why I'm going to share some of what I've learned in my new ebook, The High Spirits Handbook: How to Banish Bad Vibes for Good. I'm hoping to have it out by the end of June. My wonderful web designer and graphic artist, Denise Biondo (see her work at http://www.denisebiondo.com) is putting the final touches on a gorgeous cover. I can't wait to share her art and my book with you!
Meanwhile, here's a fun site that will tell you more about the devic kingdom. Learn about gnomes, wood nymphs, ondines (water nymphs) and other earth guardians. These are amazing beings who have much to teach us about material creation and honoring the healing messages of the plant kingdom.
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Mystic Blog Friday, May 20, 2005
Lipstick Mystic's Posts on RumorMillNews.com
Shared Here
Yesterday, an interesting
dialogue got stirred up on an alternative news forum
I sometimes post on, RumorMillNews.com. I realized that
some of my website readers might be interested in what
was going on in case they missed it.
It all started when
I posted my blog entry from Wednesday there, the one
that talked about how transplanted organs seem to transfer
data about the donor after the organs have been placed
in the recipient's body, transmitting info in an amazing
holographic way.
After I posted that,
a writer who goes by the nickname Monk posted a little
bit about how the blood also contains personal energy.
He went on to talk about how black magicians have long
used blood in dark ceremonies for this very reason.
He's right about that. Even our blood cells contain
energy information about us.
He
also talked about having been taught psychometry,
the ability to "read" the
energy of people from touching their clothes or possessions.
Energy data is also readable in this way, and I agree
with him about this because I experience it all the
time myself.
He also briefly mentioned
having at one time studied with some dark magical practitioners,
but he fortunately turned away from that path and is
very grateful not to be involved with that stuff anymore.
After he posted that,
I posted this:
PSYCHOMETRY AT COCKTAIL
PARTIES
LipstickMystic -- Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 5:10 p.m.
Thanks for providing
more great info and some wonderful personal perspective
on this topic.
I'm
a direct energy sensitive myself and, really, everyone
is, in my humble
opinion. It's an ability that is innate to all of us.
I just happen to have heavily focused on developing
this talent or sharpening it throughout my life, so
this means when people see what I can do they use words
like "psychic" or "intuitive" or,
well, "freak/demonspawn/sorceress" if they
happen to be of that frame of mind. 
As
a teenager when I had my interactive awakening experience
with the being
I believe to be Jesus, my sensitivity went up exponentially.
That's when I starting trying to really figure out how
I could use my abilities to help people. All I've ever
wanted to do is to spread love, healing, and helpful
information about spiritual energy to people. The angels
don't tell you what a challenge it's going to be when
you "sign up!"
Whenever
the word psychic starts to follow you around, aggressive
strangers come
out of the woodwork to "test" you. I'm sure
you dealt with this a lot through your own training
and years of metaphysical discovery.
People like to exploit
sensitivites and turn them into performing monkeys at
parties. And they capitalize on the psychic's generous
nature, because most of us genuinely want to help people,
to utilize our abilities, and to show others that they,
too, are energy beings with the same talents which will
start to flower the more they embrace an all-encompassing
vibration of divine love.
So for about ten years
after my awakening experience, I was the performing
monkey who always felt obligated to proselytize about
spiritual energy and psychic gifts, showing people how
these moments can be integrated into whatever religion,
spiritual discipline, or personal philosophy they practice......because
it's an ABILITY not a belief system.
Access
the immensely wise electromagnetic field of the heart,
and no man
or woman or animal or plant is a stranger to you. We
all have this ability to connect or to "download" energy
data from our environment. The challenge is to learn
how to flip on the "switch" so you can go
into that state of "oneness" instantaneously.
I believe the difference between the average Joe or
Jill and someone whom others call "psychic" is
simply the ability to flip that switch on in a conscious,
demonstrable way. That doesn't mean that "regular" folk
aren't doing this all the time. Because they are! We
are all interacting with the energy of objects, places,
and people around us. We just don't always know how
to interpret or isolate the data stream that is coming
in.
That's what psychometry
is for me, the ability to hone in on the information
pertaining to a particular object. For many years, people
would give me an object or a photograph of someone and
I'd tell them all about the previous owners of the object
or the personal info about the person in the photo.
After
maintaining a full-time psychic counselling practice
for ten years,
I became a full-time writer and teacher and "under
the radar" healer.
Displaying those abilities
publicly set me up for major burnout and health problems,
not to mention constant death threats and all that other
good stuff which I still experience today. Plus the
intriguing episodes where the CIA tries to recruit you
and then, when you don't want to join, well, you suddenly
and completely coincidentally almost die -- many times.
But this is just coincidental, you understand.
Now I attempt to be
a metaphysical guide, a spiritually-oriented Big Sister.
People like to project all manner of stuff onto me.
I'm a witch. I'm a demon. I'm a fraud. I'm a whatever.
Actually,
I've been actively involved with spiritual depossession
work and
soul retrieval for a long time and was even privileged
to engage in highly-specific healing and prayer work
one time which brought a lifelong schizophrenic out
of a coma and made his schizophrenia abate for a good
long time. All of that stuff was caused by entity attachments.
Still is. Unfortunately, the fellow became "lonely" because
those voices had always been with him and he missed
them. This was enough to invite them back in again.
Soul retrieval work
pulled the guy out of a coma. He had experienced a negative
drug interaction from incompatible psychiatric medication
and was expected to die within 24 hours. Instead, he
received healing, and on Easter morning he literally
rose from the dead. Pretty cool stuff. Very humbling
to have had the privilege to invoke the angels and Higher
Power on this gentleman's behalf and engage in that
level of work.
I
mention this because the "power prayer" that
I talk about is real stuff that creates real results
here on the Earth plane,
and I worry that sometimes people read my wild posts
and think I'm a theorist who is regurgitating material
others have taught her.
The only teacher I've
ever had is the energy/being/power/Force I believe to
be the Creator. Once you learn to access this, you receive
all the guidance you need, in exactly the right measure,
at exactly the right time.
That's
why my work is now devoted to helping people to learn
how to access
this "Cosmic Internet" on their own, without
an intermediary. Jesus has always been my master teacher
about this energy - no guru, no priestess, no New Age
seminar leader. You can learn everything you need from
Him, in my humble opinion. And for me, interacting with
Him ensures that when I pray or meditate I'm connecting
with The Good Side of the Force.
But
just because I haven't personally experienced that
same intimate relationship
with Buddha, Mohammed, or a Goddess figure doesn't mean
that I assume those teachers aren't as wonderful. So
I don't sit comfortably on the "Christian" or
the "pagan" side. I'm kind of a Christo-pagan,
I guess, who honors the legimate ways of experiencing
spiritual energy that were passed down through many
ancient sacred traditions while also honoring the energy
of Jesus as my "reality check" for experiencing
the RIGHT energy. The right energy for me, I would clarify
- I can't and will not speak for anybody else.
I
firmly believe that everyone is a spiritually sovereign
being with innate,
inborn abilities to access the Creator in exactly the
right way for that person. You need only listen to the
promptings of the heart. Then you can never go wrong.
And nowhere, in any of my deeply moving interactions
with Jesus, has Jesus told me to pray to Him. He has
always been crystal clear. The Creator is the true source
of divine understanding. Jesus says He is a gateway
or a teacher, but not the end point. Again, this is
just my personal understanding as it has been revealed
to me, and I don't claim that it is right. Just that
this is the highest "truth" as it has been
shown to me thus far.
Anyway, thanks again
for this info, Monk.
And readers, I know
that I have covered some deeply personal spiritual subjects
here - keep in mind this is just one woman's view, and
I honor everyone's individual path to creative power
and spiritual fulfillment. . . because, wherever LOVE
is, the Creator is. And that's all that matters.
---LipstickMystic
After
I posted that, Monk offered an apology in case any
of his words had
offended (where he talked about certain segments of
the pagan and/or Wiccan community being involved with
the dark arts.) Many people with questionable energy
have co-opted the words "Wiccan" or "magic" for
what they do, but this in no way has anything to do
with the pracitioners of "white" or loving,
faith-based magic. But I'm not a Wiccan, and I certainly
didn't take offense at anything Monk wrote. In fact,
I'm quite happy that he moved away from dark teachers
and was able to embrace the light in his own life.
Also, a writer named
Ghostwolfemoon wrote about some of his own moments when
he seemed to tune into energy in a psychic way, namely,
his experiences in combat in Vietnam when he just KNEW
something was going to happen and his instincts kicked
in to preserve his life.
Here's what I wrote
in response to both of them:
CLEVE BACKSTER'S RESEARCH
AND PRIMARY PERCEPTION
Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 9:59 p.m.
First off,
Monk, I didn't take
offense at anything you wrote - so no worries! In fact,
I quite appreciated everything you shared. And I picked
up right away on how you were talking about a whole
larger tapestry of events and experiences which caused
you to turn away from a path which was dark for you.
Bravo to you!
Ghostwolfe, that primal,
total nervous system response you described surrounding
your Vietnam experiences makes TOTAL sense. We all have
this inborn awareness of energy. Sometimes it manifests
in the fight or flight survival instinct. Other times,
it's someone just KNOWING how to calm a nervous or feral
animal. It's also the instinct that adults have when
they soothe a cranky baby or hug a loved one who is
ill. This energy awareness is something we're still
clumsily developing words for.
I think I posted in
September about the work of a fascinating researcher
named Cleve Backster. He came out with a new book last
fall called Primary Perception. He's
the famous fellow who attached a polygraph to plants
and found that the plants reacted when people in the
room said negative words or projected negative thoughts
at them. His work was mentioned in famous book The
Secret Life of Plants.
There is a FABULOUS interview
with him archived at Nexus Magazine's site.
I think Backster's work really goes along with the vibrational
resonance work of Dr. Masaru Emoto and all of the stuff
that mystics, energy sensitives, healers, and psychics
have been talking about for millennia. The problem is
that we all use different vocabulary to talk about this
energy, and we start getting bound up in religion, ego,
or whatever - the stuff that separates us instead of
unifies us.
There is not ONE person
on this planet whose thoughts and emotions don't have
a very real impact on the energy in their environment.
The very chair that you sit in can be affected by your
thoughts, words and emotions.
I once sat down in
a restaurant and within two minutes, before I'd eaten
or drunk anything, I came down with horrific stomach
pains so bad that I excused myself to go out to the
car. I later returned to the restaurant and found out
that a woman had had an attack of appendicitis just
an hour or so before and SHE HAD SAT IN THAT
SAME CHAIR. The pains I had were behaving exactly
like appendix problems, very scary. This is what life
as an energy sensitive is like! We pick up this stuff
to an astonishing degree.....and even people who aren't
aware that they are sensitive in this way are constantly
picking up on energy that is saturating and vibrating
through their environment. They may interpret this data
differently, misidentifying something as a mere bad
mood, a random thought, or a weird bodily sensation,
and they may not trace the event to the original source
of that energy. But if you get in the habit of playing
detective, you'll be amazed to find how responsive your
nervous system is.
It's wild stuff!
Primary perception
is the term that Cleve Backster has coined to describe
the non-verbal acuity that all beings have to pick up
on negative (or positive) intentions (perhaps it's better
to call them wavelengths?) from others.
His interview lays
out some astonishing research.....do you know that it's
not just humans, animals, and plants who have been found
to have primary perception.....but YOGURT CULTURES do.
Ova and sperm do. Just about any kind of living thing
you can think of Backster has found to be completely
responsive to the energy of its environment. This goes
along with some of what Monk said before about how the
energy of blood cells can be holographic, containing
and transmitting energy about the person the cells came
from. This is why people who perform black magic like
to have fingernails or hair from the person they intend
to put a curse on - they use the hologram of the person's
fingernail or hair cells to transmit those negative
vibrations to the entire body (or "master copy")
of the person.
In a similar way, healing
energies can also be transferred. Check out the Institute
of Heart Math's website, they have a lot of intriguing
studies of the results of sending loving vibrations
to DNA and how the DNA strands unfurled. Then, when
hatred or anger was sent, the DNA strands curled up
and shut down. So remote prayer DOES work - and it's
all vibrational energy.
Now,
we can call this energy spirit, we can call these
abilities spiritual,
but you can also simply call them perceptive abilities
that are part of the innate equipment or "tech" that
we come in with as beings in physical form.
The
only role of someone like me who sometimes goes by
the word "psychic" is
to say -- "Notice this stuff, people! Pay attention!
The implications quite literally could save the world,
save your health, save your marriage, save your mind." But
we too often get marginalized and put in the "freaky
hippie chick" zone. MENSA candidate or not.
If we all learn to
assume responsibility for the energy environment that
we are creating, heaven on Earth will no longer be a
concept in the abstract.
And THAT'S something
I think we can all get behind, no matter what traditions
we come from or language we use.
Thanks so much, all
contributors to this thread and readers who have been
offering comments and feedback. You rock!
---LipstickMystic
Nexus
Interview with Cleve Backster
And if you're interested
in ordering Backster's groundbreaking work, click through
at the Amazon link below. Again, your purchase goes
to help support this site and make more groovy articles
available!
Primary
Perception: Biocommunication With Plants, Living Foods
and Human Cells
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Mystic Blog Thursday, May 19, 2005
New Mystic Mail: Meet Max and Info
About Healing Rescue Dogs
In
her spare time (which is becoming more and more of
a precious commodity these days!) the Lipstick Mystic
is a bit of an animal psychic. Read her latest Mystic
Mail article about Max the Wonder Dog and healing
rescued animals by clicking here.
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Mystic Blog Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Do Organ Transplants Transport Cellular
Memories from the Donor?
Last night I was watching NBC's
Law and Order spinoff, Law
and Order SVU: Special Victims Unit. It
was a double episode that ran two hours, and it
was one of their better ones. It featured Marlee
Matlin, who I always love, in the role of a woman
who at first assists others in commiting suicide
but later helps people to embrace life as she experiences
her own agonizing wait for a new kidney. The first
part of the show raised the issue of "Is it
morally and legally right to assist someone with
their own suicide?" The second part of the
show highlighted the equally complex question of "When
a donor organ isn't available and a patient is going
to die, is it ever appropriate for that person to
buy an organ (in this case, it was a kidney) on
the black market?"
I thought the show
was really well done, and I loved that they gave comedian
and actor Richard Belzer some emotionally-charged scenes.
I enjoy him as a performer, but his talents are too
often underutilized on the show. In this two-part episode,
his character bonded with Marlee Matlin's and underwent
a certain amount of agony as he became aware of all
the complexities surrounding her situation.
The show built to a
climax in which a young boy who had been on a waiting
list for a kidney is about to receive one, thanks to
his dad purchasing one for him on the black market.
The police intercede at the last minute and arrest the
dad, much as they empathize with his agony about his
sick son. Later on, Marlee Matlin's character gives
up her own place at the top of the list of people who
are waiting to receive a new kidney so the boy can take
her spot, even though she is in the advanced stages
of kidney disease at this point and may well die before
a donor for her can ever be found.
The organ donor aspects
of this story were what really jumped out at me. You've
probably heard some of the tales of people who receive
a heart transplant and find that their taste in food
or music suddenly goes through bizarre shifts. Often,
these shifts seem to be directly related to the personal
tastes of the person who donated the heart. Just this
April 4th in People Magazine there
was an article called Can a New Heart Change
Your Life - and Your Taste in Music? Here's
an excerpt from the article:
"Bill Wohl was
a hard-driving self-described Type A executive until
cardiac disease nearly killed him in 2000. A heart transplant
at the University of Arizona Medical Center saved his
life -- and transformed it in ways he could never have
imagined. Weeks after his operation, Wohl, now 58, heard
a song on the radio by the British vocalist Sade. "I
just started crying and rocking," he recalls. Odd,
since before the surgery, Wohl hadn't heard of Sade
and was not the type to mist up over a torch song. Later
he contacted the family of organ donor Michael Brady,
the 36-year-old Hollywood stuntman whose heart he had
received, and made an intriguing discovery. Sade was
one of Brady's favorite singers. "It was," says
Wohl, "really, really, freaky." (end excerpt)
I
met a man about ten years ago who described very similar
things happening
to him. He had received a heart transplant, and to hear
both him and his wife tell it, he became a different
person overnight. He began to embrace certain authors,
styles of music, and genres of movies that he had never
been interested in before. He also expressed instantaneous
wisdom about these things. So, for instance, he not
only suddenly displayed a strong interest in the music
of jazz great Thelonious Monk, but he was going into
detail about all of Monk's albums and his body of work
- data that this man didn't know before his heart transplant.
The man was absolutely convinced that this data had
been transferred through the heart, because there was
no way he could have known these things before. And
his wife confirmed how her hubby just suddenly became
a Monk expert overnight after his heart operation. At
first, she thought he'd just heard some of his music
during his stay at the hospital. Then, after he began
talking excitedly about various recordings Monk made
and provided intimate details about the world of jazz,
she said to herself, "This is not my husband. This
is a new and improved husband who is suddenly a jazz
expert!"
There was an excellent
memoir that came out in 1997 by a woman named Claire
Sylvia called A Change of Heart.
In it, she describes her own experiences of having her
tastes in food and music suddenly change after her heart
transplant. She had received the heart of an 18-year-old
boy. After the operation, she found herself suddenly
craving McDonald's chicken McNuggets, a food she'd never
gravitated to before. And there were many other remarkable
and specific impulses that seemed foreign, as if they
were being transferred to her through the boy's heart.
Besides anecdotal evidence,
there's been a lot of scientific research that would
seem to prove that the heart transmits information through
some form of cellular memory. Check out this archived
article from a wonderful Australian magazine called Nexus.
It gives a great summary of some of the research that
has been done about the transference of memory through
organ transplants.
Nexus
Magazine on Cellular Memories
And if you'd like to
order Claire Sylvia's moving memoir, click through at
the link below. Your Amazon purchase goes to support
this site and will provide you with instant good karma!
A
Change of Heart : A Memoir
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Mystic Blog Tuesday May 17, 2005
Cynthia Larson:
Top 5 Ways Reality Shifts
Cynthia Larson, author
of Aura Advantage and a gifted energy
sensitive and consciousness researcher, maintains a
fabulous website called http://realityshifters.com. She's
posted a great collection of articles which map out
how we can all increase our energy levels and learn
to experience reality shifts.
Some
people think of reality shifts as moments of "synchronicity" or
spiritually-orchestrated "coincidence." Other
people call them time shifts or probability shifts.
And some folks like to call them "glitches in the
Matrix." They are referring to the Matrix movies.
If you're unfamiliar with them, they were set in a world
where a nefarious supercomputer generated a holographic
reality that humans were inhabiting. A glitch in the
Matrix is a "burp" in the ongoing program
of our lives that allows us to glimpse some of the mechanisms
underlying reality. And what mysterious mechanisms they
can be!
Have you ever stopped or sped up time? Have you ever
had an object mysteriously appear or disappear? Have
you ever manifested a "miracle" of
some sort, an event that would seem to be highly improbable?
All of these fall into the category of reality shifts.
Cynthia
Larson publishes a free monthly newsletter in which
she provides articles
and first person accounts of reality shifts. And she
has a bunch of them archived on her website, too. I
contributed one story some months back about a weird "replay" I
witnessed. I was watching a man come out of a bike shop
and open his car door. I looked away for a few seconds
and saw the same event replay itself in exact detail,
like someone had pressed a "rewind" button.
The details of his head movement and the things he was
doing were all exactly repeated in this bizarre way,
like I was truly watching an "action replay." If
any single event I've observed makes me suspect that
we are living in a Matrix, that one did. It simply wasn't
possible according to conventional notions of how reality
operates.
Here is a short and
insightful article Cynthia has posted on her website
called The
Top 5 Ways Reality Shifts.
Check it out
and learn more about how reality shifts may be happening
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Mystic Blog Monday, May 16, 2005
Dr. Masaru Emoto's
Fabulous Sunday Presentation
Oh
my God (Goddess/Big Cheese/etc!) I attended Dr. Masaru
Emoto's presentation
at Thomas Jefferson University yesterday, and it was
fabulous. The event was cosponsored by the Myrna Brind
Center of Integrative Medicine and the Yoga Research
Society. They've teamed up to bring some interesting
programs focused on synthesizing allopathic ("mainstream")
medicine and alternative techniques. I jotted down a
ton of notes.
Later
in the week as I get time I'll write up an article
about some of
what Dr. Emoto shared. Basically, his work with water
is all based on vibrational resonance, creating a wavelength
or "hado" that can be measured in the reactions
of water molecules. His groundbreaking work raises tremendous
possibilities in learning how our thoughts, our words,
and our interactions with each other are either generating
harmonious "hado" or irregular, malformed "hado." Harmonious "hado" may
well be a major key to experiencing greater health and
quality of life.
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Mystic Blog Friday, May 13, 2005
New Article: The Dark Side of Sex and
Relationships
I sat down to write
a simple blog entry and - what do you know? It became
an article. I present you with The
Dark Side of Sex and Relationships. (Click
on the link to read the full article.)
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Mystic Blog Thursday, May 12, 2005
Odd Yet Endearing Creatures. . . Dimensonal
Portals and Strange Animals
I've
written before about how this planet is experiencing
more and more
changes in its magnetic field and that this is causing
various dimensional doorways to open up. This isn't
some hallucination only happening in the minds of New
Agers. ("Beam me up, Scotty!") These are physically
real doorways. As you might imagine, when doors open
up, things can pass through them.
We're
seeing evidence of this now with reports of various
unidentifiable species
of animal showing up. And we're also hearing about many
cases where species formerly thought to be "lost" are
turning out not to be extinct at all. Perhaps those
animals slipped through a probability vortex, where
the "impossible" suddenly became "possible."
There was a lot of
excitement recently when an ivory-billed
woodpecker was found in Arkansas. Why all the excitement?
Well, technically, the pretty fella was supposed to
be extinct. Guess he missed the memo on that one.
Then there was the
discovery of a previously
unidentified species of rodent in Laos. Nobody is
quite sure when he turned up, because nobody has noticed
him before.
There have also been
numerous reports of a wild dog-like creature who doesn't
quite fit any known species. The media has mostly reported
sightings in Texas, but they're happening all over.
I know several residents in my area of central New Jersey
who have seen this same odd creature. I've seen him
on two or three occasions myself wandering through farm
fields, one time on the property where I live.
When
you see him, your brain doesn't know which "file" to
put him under. He has a long, cat-like tail, which
makes you
think you're seeing a mountain lion. But the head, the
ears, and the ultra-thin body are jackal-like. So he's
some weird dog/cat thing. You can see photos at this
website (Warning: Sound will be engaged, so may not
be suitable for viewing at work.) Read
About the Chupa-Kitty.
Then there was a major
sighting of a classic Bigfoot in Manitoba. You may have
heard of that one. Bigfoot hunter Bobby Clarke's footage
was shown on the TV show A Current Affair. Here's
more info about his sighting plus an exclusive interview
with Bobby.
Of course, that sighting
raises a few questions. Was it just some advance publicity
for the new Star Wars movie, since
the critter could be Chewbacca's cousin? Bigfoot looks
awfully like a Wookie.
My favorite odd and
endearing creature that has appeared in the media over
the past few weeks is this little prickly cuss. He (or
she) is a baby porcupine who was born in captivity on
April 28th at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Apparently,
determining the sex of a baby porcupine in a delicate
matter. Zookeepers won't know its sex for another six
months.
In the meantime, have
a look. Too cute!
And
you can read more about her (him?) here.
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Mystic Blog Wednesday, May 11, 2005
If I Only Had a Brain. . . Is Your
Brain Really Necessary?
Over
the years there’s
been a lot of debate about the brain’s importance.
Is our mind something that is contained within our physical
body, or does it live outside of it? Personally, I believe
the brain functions as the software that runs the “hardware”of
the higher mind, the higher self. The brain is an organic
machine that allows us to “download”wisdom,
intelligence, and consciousness from the cosmic supercomputer
known as God/Goddess/The Big Cheese. So the brain’s
a handy thing, but it doesn't contain our full essence.
Our consciousness is an eternal energy that exists beyond
the physical body.
Here’s an article
that takes this idea one step further. Apparently, there’s
been some surprising research over the years with people
who were functioning normally in their day-to-day lives
who were later found to have little to no physical brain!
The author at a fascinating
website called http://www.alternativescience.com quotes
scientific examinations that were conducted at the University
of Sheffield by the late neurology professor Dr. John
Lorber. He worked with an academically gifted student
who, it was discovered, had very little physical brain
matter at all. Yet he was doing just fine! The article
goes on to highlight another situation with a well-loved
New York man who lived a normal life as a janitor who
was later found to have almost no brain.
How can this be? Did
the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz have
it right all along? Our craniums can be stuffed with
straw, and yet we can still have higher reasoning and
be fully functional? Hmm.
Have a look at this
short article. It will leave you wondering whether that
stuff you have between your ears even matters!
http://www.alternativescience.com/no_brainer.htm
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Mystic Blog Tuesday, May 10, 2005
I'm So Psyched! I'm Going to Hear Dr.
Masaru Emoto Lecture on Sunday
I am so psyched! Dr.
Masaru Emoto, Japanese scientist and cutting edge consciousness
researcher, will be giving a two hour lecture about
his work with water this Sunday at Thomas Jefferson
University in Philadelphia, PA. I'll be attending his
presentation and can't wait to hear more about his work.
Dr. Emoto's work, you
may already know, was featured in the movie What
the Bleep Do We Know? This film starred Marlee
Matlin and blended the tale of one woman's personal
journey with amazing material about quantum physics
and how the latest discoveries support the mystical
point of view - namely, that consciousness affects reality
and that matter is much more malleable than we might
expect.
Dr.
Emoto is the author of three books: Messages From
Water; The Hidden Messages
of Water; and his latest, The True Power of Water. His
research as he outlines it in these books has involved
freezing water molecules and examining the crystals
that form. When Mozart's Symphony No. 40 was played,
the molecules assumed gorgeous geometrical forms. When
heavy metal music was played, the molecules lost all
recognizable shape and assumed an ugly form. Various
words such as "Thank you," or "You fool!" or "Hitler" created
real reactions in the molecules. As you might guess,
positive phrases and words create crystalline structures
of great beauty. Negatively-charged words emitted a
harmonic that generated dark shapes that lacked cohesion.
Dr.
Emoto has become a pioneer in taking this groundbreaking
work and going
to the "next level" with it. He ties all of
this in with how our bodies are 70% water and how, logically,
if the cohesion of water molecules is so affected by
words, then the very language and intention we bring
to our daily interactions is directly affecting the
water in our bodies. . . and the state of our physical
health.
I'm sure Dr. Emoto
will express this more eloquently in his lecture. I
can't wait to hear it! And I promise to report back
on some of what he shares with the audience.
If you can arrange
to be in Philadelphia this Sunday afternoon the 15th,
there are still some tickets available. Dr. Vijayendra
Pratap is doing a classical yoga workshop and discussion
in the morning from 10am to 1pm. There's a light buffet
mid-day. Then Dr. Emoto lectures from 2pm to 4pm. You
can choose to just attend Dr. Emoto's workshop if you
wish. His program alone, without buffet, costs $25 per
person. The full program with light buffet included
costs $65 per person.
This event is sponsored
by the Yoga Research Society and Jefferson-Myrna Brind
Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital. To register by phone call: (215) 592-9642
or go online at YogaResearchSociety.com. The event is
being held at the Bluemle Building of Thomas Jefferson
University, 233 South 10th Street, Philadelphia.
Also, you can access
the English language version of Dr. Emoto's personal
website here and read more about his work:
Dr.
Emoto's Website
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Mystic Blog for Weekend May 6 -
8, 2005
New Moon On Sunday Brings Fresh Energy
As I wrote in this
week's astro-update, there's a new moon happening this
Sunday the 8th at 4:45 am. The moon will be in the practical
sign of Taurus, and this should bring us all a feeling
of stability and a desire to get hard work done. If
you're a Taurus or one of the other two Earth signs
-- Virgo or Capricorn -- you'll feel great on Sunday
and will find it easy to make grand plans for your future.
If you're expanding a business, searching for a new
job, or trying to figure out what you really want to
be when you grow up, you Earth signs will find clarity
breaking through the clouds.
Things
might not be quite so clear for Scorpios, since the
new moon will
be happening in Taurus, which is your opposite sign.
For you, issues that have been percolating beneath the
surface could boil to a frenzy, and you might find yourself
seeking a confrontation. Instead of behaving aggressively
toward others, turn within. What emotions do you need
to be more aware of? What is it you've been afraid to
acknowledge within yourself? Find a way to honor whatever
intense emotions are surfacing and make a truce with
the shadow elements of your personality. You can do
it! "Use the Force, Luke!" (The Good Side
of the Force, that is.)
Each
month's new moon time is a powerful monthly "new year," a
time to usher in positive and constructive energies.
It's
also a great period to focus on increasing your ability
to receive abundance in whatever area of your life needs
the most expansion. Experiment with writing yourself
a new moon check. This is a fun meditation or ritual
that can help you to connect with the energy of financial
well-being. Check out my series of articles on this
subject - you'll find them listed on my home page.
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Mystic Blog Entry for Thursday,
May 5, 2005
Dreams of the Dead
The subject matter
of this blog entry is a little gruesome, and I apologize
in advance for getting into some morbid territory. The
Lipstick Mystic is a fluffy bunny woman at heart, and
she doesn't like to dwell on dark things. But sometimes
a news event will surface and she'll be prompted to
share info that might enlighten readers or give them
some fresh points to ponder. So if news about dead babies
tends to upset you, you may want to give this blog entry
a miss. Tune in tomorrow for some lighter fare.
But if you're feeling
more adventurous and you'd like to read about my own Medium-style
psychic dream that I had this morning - one which unfortunately
proved accurate - read on.
Since
the Beltane/May Day holiday on Sunday, I've been having
some extremely
vivid dreams. This is common around the times of the
equinox, solstice, and mini-equinoxes, otherwise known
at the ancient pagan holidays of Beltane, Lammas, Imbolc,
and Halloween. The pagans didn't invent the energy of
these special days - they were just the first ones to
take note of them. I've written about these days before,
but in case you've missed my articles, there are eight
days throughout the year when the "veil" or
energy barrier between dimensions is at its thinnest.
At these times, spiritual work of any kind is easier
and more fun to do. Prayers tend to carry more "magic," meditations
can have a unique power to them, and our journeys in
the dream planes at night can provide us with some amazing
glimpses into other realities.
I've always been a
big dreamer - meaning, I have tons of vivid dreams.
And as I've mentioned here before, I sometimes have
dreams with an unusual texture to them. Over twenty
years of keeping dream journals and monitoring the information
that comes to me in dreams, I've learned to spot psychic
dreams. This morning, I had such a dream. Unfortunately,
it wasn't on a pleasant subject at all.
In the dream, I was
running around doing lots of things, and I was aware
of traveling in a foreign country. The setting seemed
vaguely British or like somewhere in the UK. At one
point in the dream, I found myself looking down at this
old plastic bag, and I was compelled to look inside.
In it, I saw the skeletal remains of what appeared to
be a dead baby. The baby was not a fetus; it appeared
to be of a newborn or recently born baby. But the remains
were skeletal. I was especially aware of looking into
the empty eye sockets of the skull. My heart started
to race, and I felt a profound sense of horror.
And
then a soul of a young boy was suddenly standing near
me. He was blond
with blue eyes, a very handsome looking boy, of about
six to eight years old. He said, "I'm dead, I'm
dead, see?" in an excited voice. In fact, he specifically
said, "I am SO dead!" drawing
my attention to the idea that his spirit was connected
to the body of this dead body. I was given the understanding
that this baby's body belonged to him, that his spirit
was connected to it.
I was aware of needing
to do some spirit release work so the boy wouldn't be
hovering around his body anymore. I went into a heightened
telepathic communication with the boy, who was very
lonely and asked if he could come and be with me. I've
done a lot of work with discarnate spirits, and I've
learned that there are way too many discarnates who
become attached to the bodies of the living in an inappropriate
way (spirit attachments can cause all manner of trouble
for the person in physical body.) So I knew that this
wasn't the solution for this boy. But I was aware of
doing some prayers to him and his angels so that he
would be gently led off to the Light.
I'm often called to
do such metaphysical work in my dreams, and I try to
remain conscious in my dreams as best I can. I'm not
always fully aware and able to do healing work, but
sometimes I am. And I felt tremendous compassion and
empathy for this lonely boy. I wanted nothing more than
to send him on to be with the loving companions of his
own relatives who had passed over, his spiritual guides,
and his angelic helpers. Hopefully, I was able to affect
that. He really was a sweet and dynamic spirit.
When
I woke up this morning, I reviewed the dream in my
mind. I wondered
why on earth I'd seen this baby's skeleton in a bag,
which wasn't the type of thing I'd normally be dreaming
about. I don't watch violent movies or TV shows very
often, so it's not like scenes from a violent movie
had leaked into my subconscious mind. Unfortunately,
this seemed like a psychic dream telling me about something
very real. I did some more prayers and healing invocations
for the boy's spirit, and then I went about my day.
(It's always interesting, life as a psychic! You never
know what "homework" you'll be given.)
Quite by accident -
or maybe by divine synchronicity - I came across a news
article today about some bizarre discoveries in South
Wales. This news excerpt was taken from www.thisislondon.com
(see link below excerpt:)
Woman arrested over
dead babies in attics
By Sarah Getty, Metro
4 May 2005
A former nurse was
arrested last night after police discovered the bodies
of three newborn babies in two attics.
Anne Mahoney, 64, was
first questioned six weeks ago after a baby's corpse
was found wrapped in bags in a loft.
When police searched
the attic of her own home yesterday, they found the
remains of two more infants. They had been 'bagged up'
in a similar way, said an officer.
Detectives sealed off
the two-bedroomed council house in a cul-de-sac on the
Gurnos estate in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Other
properties are to be searched.
One officer said: 'This
has come as quite a shock and we are not sure what we
are dealing with at the moment.'
The first baby was
found on March 20 by a family moving into their new
home.
The father was putting
empty packing cases into the attic when he found the
remains in a plastic bag.
He thought the bones
were a rabbit's before realising in horror it was a
baby.
Pathologists said the
body - that of a fullterm child - was hidden years ago
but failed to establish a cause of death.
Residents said Mrs
Mahoney worked as a nurse at the Prince Charles Hospital
in Merthyr Tydfil, then became a carer for the elderly
until her retirement. (End news blurb)
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/18349660?source=Metro#
After
I saw this news piece, I knew without a doubt that
the "baby in
a bag" whose body I had seen in the dream was a
psychic flash about this developing situation in Wales.
The details about how the body had been there for years,
how it was a newborn, and how it was wrapped in a bag,
seemed exactly as they had shown themselves in my dream.
However, my dream had
given me a glimpse into the spiritual aspects of the
situation - namely, that there was a spirit of a little
boy still hanging out with his body. He was excited
that his remains had been found so that people would
understand what had happened to him. This may provide
some closure for this spirit, closure that wasn't possible
until his remains were discovered.
The piece I still need
to focus on is how there were apparently two more bodies
of newborns discovered - I need to make sure that those
spirits are off in the Light, too. They hadn't appeared
in my dream, but that doesn't mean that they weren't
similarly attached to their remains and in need of the
same type of release work.
I invite you to join
with me in setting intentions that the spirits of all
the babies be at rest - along with the entire constellation
of energy in those babies' families, including the mothers
and fathers and family members of these babies. There
may be many levels of healing that need to happen for
all of the people concerned.
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Mystic Blog for Wednesday, May 4,
2005
Kelsey Grammer of Frasier Says
He Gets Advice From Spiritual Forces
You know actor Kelsey
Grammer. He played Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier.
He's such a talented guy, and he's been a part of the
TV world for so long that you almost forget that he
has a life outside those shows. For instance, I hadn't
realized this, but he's one of the producers of the
new TV show Medium starring
Patricia Arquette. If you're unfamiliar with the show, Medium is
loosely-based on the experiences of a real life psychic
who has done a lot of crime investigation work. Patricia
Arquette plays her as a down-to-earth yet intense soccer
mom who just happens to be psychic.
Grammer experienced
twin tragedies in his youth, losing both his father
and his sister to brutal murders. This must have made
a huge impact on this sensitive guy as he was growing
up. It seems to have turned him toward the world of
spirituality and inspired him to seek more direct contact
with the realm of the dead. No wonder. He must have
been in agony from losing two family members, wondering
why this had to happen and where his loved ones had
ended up.
Recently,
Grammer publicly stated that he constantly has supernatural
experiences
of his own. He said, "There is another side, a
different place, several different planes, and I know
that their energies conspire to inform my choices in
this life at times. I'm pleased to say I'm in touch
with it."
Bravo to him for being
open about his familiarity with the spiritual realms.
These days, the media will too often label people as
freaky or out of touch if they dare to talk about psychic
abilities. And God forbid that you claim to have direct
communication with guardian angels or with some manifestation
of God/Goddess/The Big Cheese. And yet this communciation
is going on with all of us constantly. It's just a matter
of learning to pay attention and silence the chatter
of your inner mind so you can receive the messages that
are being conveyed.
I'm glad that someone
with as much fame and influence as Kelsey Grammer has
lent his support to a project like Medium,
which attempts to present communication with the dead
as a normal event, not some terrifying scene out of
a Steven King novel. The dead aren't ghouls; they are
our family members, our elders, our wise ones, and we
should respect and honor them, not fear them.
The spirits of our
ancestors and the souls of loved ones who have passed
on are merely a breath away. We can always reach them
if we keep our hearts and our minds completely open.
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Mystic Blog for Tuesday, May 3,
2005
Dr. Kenneth Clark, Humanist and Educator,
Dies at 90
Dr. Kenneth Clark was
a brilliant Harlem-raised educator who was the first
black to earn a doctorate in psychology from Columbia.
He died Sunday at the age of 90. He is probably most
known for a famous sociological study he did with his
psychologist wife, Mamie Phipps Clark. They were researching
self-esteem and self-image in young black children.
Their findings sent a shock wave through the country
and laid the groundwork for the eventual desegregation
of education which became official with the Brown v.
Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954.
Dr.
Clark studied a group of 200 children, presenting
them with white and
brown dolls. They were allowed to choose which doll
to play with. Two out of three children preferred the
white doll instead of the brown, and this happened in
children as young as three years old. By three years
old, most of these kids had already identified the brown
doll, i.e., the one which looked like them, as being "bad" in
some way. Meanwhile, the response to the white dolls
was that they were "nice." This rejection
of the brown dolls and the children's comments as to
why they preferred the white ones were heart-breaking
for the Clarks to observe. Already, at such a young
age, these kids had internalized self-judgment about
their color and were focused on white being a "superior" shade.
Dr. Clark was a great
humanist who believed that our laws, our churches, and
our school systems were failing us. He felt that all
children must be educated to act in a humane manner
but that schools weren't set up to teach children to
respect others. Clark said that both white and African
American children needed help in developing positive
self-images in today's society. Some of the African
American children in his doll study had good role models,
and those children didn't reject the brown dolls. Clark
felt very passionately that all children can be taught
to respect themselves and others, but our current systems
fall short of this goal.
He was right. Unfortunately,
in spite of the tremendous work that civil rights leaders
did throughout the Sixties and the rest of the twentieth
century, we have a long way to go before we heal the
wounds of racism.
Racism is one of those
insidious things that can really devastate a person's
ability to succeed. Whenever self-sabotage and self-judgment
pollute your thinking, you become cut off from a sense
of personal power. And you fail to access the greatness
that lives within you.
How many times have
we all used words meant to cut another person down instead
of lifting them up? Racism is still a huge problem,
but so are religious intolerance, political divisiveness,
and other cultural divides. It's all the same energy.
We have a lot of healing
to do as a nation and as a species. And humanists like
Dr. Clark, who honored the sovereignty and beauty of
all beings, black and white alike, are the shining lights
who point us in the right direction.
This is the piece The
New York Times did on Dr. Clark (you'll have to register
at the Times site to access:)
New
York Times Piece On Dr. Clark
And here is a transcript
of interesting interview Dr. Clark did for PBS. He was
speaking with the eloquent black author of such groundbreaking
works as Go Tell It On The Mountain, Notes of a Native
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