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The Reiki of the Fire Dragon A new look at the history of Reiki and its founder, Dr. Mikao Usui, with Reiki Master Teacher Michael Abedin

Everything you need to be a Reiki Master

• History and concepts of Reiki.

• How to do treatments on yourself and others, in-person and long-distance.

• What the Reiki symbols are, and how to use them.

• Attunement to First Degree, Second Degree, and Master levels.

• A powerful Journey into Mastery meditation.

• How to attune others.

• Reiki Master certificate, and a chart tracing your lineage from Reiki founder Mikao Usui.

• An opportunity to assist in future classes to receive Reiki Master Teacher certification.

• Tips on setting up a practice, or incorporating Reiki into a current practice • Introductory manual, and illustrated handbook.

Friday April 25 7-10pm

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(512) 879-7299

“An outstanding teacher – clear, articulate, caring,

and careful in how you help people absorb the potent information. I wouldn’t do the class with anyone else.

It’s Reiki on an accelerated level of learning.”

— JOE VITALE

Instructor: Michael Abedin Reiki Master Teacher

michaelabedin@yahoo.com (Please include phone number with email)

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MINDLESS SAX – Dr. Joe Vitale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FANCY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 CAT GOT YOUR ZACH? WHO’S YOUR GURU? The Path of YOU – Timothy Ernster THE AKASHIC RECORDS 10 Things to know – Linda Howe REGULATION THERMOGRAPHY – Meridian Grace, ND Safer than Mammography, much more to tell you than Thermography ARCHETYPES OF A WOMAN – Carolyn Myss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IS YOUR HEALER A HOLLOW BONE? – Christina Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 GLUTEN Is it the new tobacco? – Nerissa Oden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAERIES? – Bruce P. Grether. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 MARCH GUIDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 UPCOMING EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 NATURAL RESOURCE GUIDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 DANCING WITH THE TARAS A journey into the realm of the Divine Feminine. . . . . 24 A RADICAL INVITATION FOR WOMEN – HeatherAsh Amara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 DEAR ASHTARA – Ashtara Sasha White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 publisher/ editor Michael Abedin (512) 382-7354 Office (512) 879-7299 Mobile michaelabedin@yahoo.com art director Pun Nio advertising Don Draper distribution Charles Martin Cover Art Design by Leslie Kell Austin All Natural © 2013.

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BACH CHRONICLES: SCLERANTHUS – Michael Abedin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Maybe, Maybe Not Remedy

A Letter to Our Readers Lots of ways to mark spring’s arrival, March 20. In California, black-winged swallows return to Capistrano March 19, a day honoring St. Joseph (patron saint of baby aspirin). In other places, it’s when the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along, or six weeks after Bill Murray wakes up and sees his shadow.

Ireland celebrates early (constantly, actually) by drunkenly commemorating March 17 as the day St. Patrick drove the snakes (heathens, actually) to America, where they became corporate lobbyists.

Best celebration, though, is Whuppity Scoorie, celebrated March 1 only in one small Scottish town, in which kids run in circles around buildings and money is tossed in the air – not to be confused with Whuppity Stoorie, a tale involving a pig, a baby, and a fairy.

Austin combines these when black-clad young hipsters return each March to drink and walk in circles around town, tossing money into SXSW – the spring rite kicking off Festival Season, which runs March through Forever.

Welcome, SXers. We like you better than swallows, who tend to poop all over everything.

– Michael Abedin

April 5-6

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S S S A E X L D MI N

by Dr. Joe Vitale

D

uring the recent recording of my seventh album, Reflection, I mentioned the term unconscious competence to my band.

It’s a mental state where you can perform without thinking; your body and mind automatically know what to do without concentration.

The four stages of competence is a model of learning created in the 1970s: • Unconscious Incompetence. You can’t do something, and aren’t aware you can’t.

• Conscious Incompetence. You can’t do something, and are aware you can’t.

• Conscious Competence. You can do something, but only with concentration.

• Unconscious Competence. You can do something without thought.

When you first learned to drive a car, you were in the second stage – can’t drive, and know you can’t. As you took lessons, you moved into the third stage.

Today, you probably drive without thinking about it, an Unconscious Competent driver. You can drive and talk, listen to music, even make a phone call. It’s second nature, automatic.

The problem in doing something new is wanting to be a master – Unconsciously Competent – when you don’t yet have the skills.

An example might be tossing you the keys to a huge tractortrailer truck with eighteen gears and telling you to drive it.

Good luck.

Joe Vitale is a star of the hit movie The Secret and author of The Attractor Factor and dozens of other best-selling books, including At Zero, the new sequel to Zero Limits. www.JoeVitale.com

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I’ve driven such rigs, and eighteen gears are confusing.

I could urge you on, inspire you, motivate you, but if you have no practice with shifting eighteen gears, you won’t be able to do it.

No amount of pep talks will get you moving that rig.

No amount of saying “Trust your body,” or “Your mind knows,” or “You can do it!” will get you moving that tractortrailer in a safe, reliable way.

Why? You don’t yet have the skills.

When I’m in the studio recording new music, I can’t jump

to unconsciously competent in some areas because I haven’t learned the skills or put in the hours to make it as easy as breathing.

I have to slow down, focus, stay aware, and consciously become competent.

In time, I’ll move into Unconscious Competence as a performer.

When we were recording, someone mentioned a baritone saxophone.

A what?

We called up the band Morphine, which leans on a bari sax to create its haunting sound, and listened.

Sax maniac.

I was instantly in love with the gutsy, sexy music.

I looked at baritone saxes online.

Talk about intimidating.

Put one in my hands and I wouldn’t know how to hold it, let alone play it.

Of course, given enough time, lessons, and focused practice, I’d learn my way around that instrument.

So here’s how the four stages of learning look in this case: Unconscious Incompetence. (Never even heard of a baritone sax.) Conscious Incompetence. (Know what it is, but know I can’t play it,) Conscious Competence. (If I took lessons and practiced, I could play it with focused awareness.) Unconscious Competence. (Given enough practice, I could pick it up and play without thinking.)

What next?

I found an Austin player and hired him. He came to the studio and added sultry spice to one of my songs. While I had his ear, I asked all kinds of questions about the sax, and how to buy and play one.

I contacted the sax instructor he told me was the best one, and ordered the book The Devil’s Horn.

I then went online and researched vintage baritone saxophones, as I wanted an investment grade instrument.

See how this works?

I went from being oblivious about the bari sax (Unconscious Incompetence) to the second stage (Conscious Incompetence), into stage three (Conscious Competence). As long as I maintain lessons and practice, I can, given enough time, move into the fourth stage, Unconscious Competence – or Mindless Sax. (Couldn’t help myself ).

But I couldn’t just pick up the sax and play!

All of this is a reminder to be easy with yourself.

You can master virtually any skill, but it takes time, awareness, intent and discipline.

Three years ago, I couldn’t sing, play guitar, write songs or music. Today I have seven albums. Seven!

The payoff of patience and practice is great success.

You’re worth it.

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Available from book stores, Amazon, or for details see — www.AtZeroBook.com “Joe’s new book was just as I knew it would be -FABULOUS! The riveting stories and enlightening insights lifted my spirits and filled my soul with love. This is indeed a path to miracles!”

– JANET BRAY ATTWOOD, CO-AUTHOR NY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE PASSION TEST

“This book ought to be a movie. A masterpiece of storytelling and a revelation on how the Hawaiian healing system of Ho’oponopono really works.”

– BARNET BAIN, MOVIE PRODUCER, “WHAT DREAMS MAY COME” AND “THE CELESTINE PROPHECY”

“In ‘At Zero,’ Dr. Joe Vitale shares the catalyst of his own awakening. He is vulnerable, insightful and shares authentic Ho’oponopono secrets that are empowering and inspiring.

If you want to get to the state of zero, where there are no limiting beliefs, I highly suggest you read this book.”

– DR. STEVE G. JONES, CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST

“With ‘Zero Limits,’ Joe Vitale introduced the world to the incredible healing system of Ho’oponopono. Now he’s taking it all to the next level, going deeper and revealing the real essence and magic behind these ancient secrets.

A must read!”

– NICK ORTNER, NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TAPPING SOLUTION

Dr. Joe Vitale is a bestselling author, musician, movie star, marketer, Law of Attraction expert, and more. Creator of Miracles Coaching® and The Secret Mirror™.

Star in the hit movie “The Secret.” See www.JoeVitale.com 7

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Fancy

otta love a word that can be a noun, verb, or adjective. Flight of fancy? It’s a wild, whimsical notion, a fantasy, maybe of romance and love. Fancy can also mean dressy, elaborate, maybe a little over the top – and, of course, in an ever so British sort of way, to fancy something is a fancy way of saying you dream about it, like it, want it – maybe even desire it.

Speaking of Brits…

The Poet Laureate of Great Britain during Victoria’s reign was one Alfred Tennyson – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in his full, fancy entitlement – a wildhaired, bearded guy who gave us the line about how, in the Spring, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love.

(Presumably, the occasional young woman’s did as well, or there wouldn’t have been enough British to colonize half the world during Tennyson’s lifetime.)

Not a bad turn of phrase, but you could do a whole lot more with less when you have a fancy-pants, triple-faceted word like fancy to play around with. Let’s say you have a whimsical yearning for an elaborate fantasy of love and desire – you could say, “I fancy a fancy fancy!” (Fair warning, though, if you’re here from the British Isles for SXSoWhat.

Say something like that in an Austin bar south of the river, and someone might kick your fancy butt.)

Spring.

That’s another word that could do triple duty. You could maybe say, “I think I’ll spring a spring spring,” but unless you’re out in the yard digging a well, it wouldn’t make much sense – blows spell-check’s mind, in fact.

Point is, it’s March, when spring happens. Spring is a sort of rare and fancy bird hereabouts, glimpsed but briefly before the grackle of summer rasps it away in a harsh cacophony of irritating metaphor. Fancy yourself up – fall in love, paint your eyes yellow and green, wear crystals on your face and flowers and bamboo in your hair.

You won’t stand out much around here, but you’ll have fun.

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Issues with women.

Got your attention with that one, huh?

That’s what a subhead is supposed to do.

Natural magazines tend to have a rep for being yin-oriented, although this one’s done its best to yang things up a bit, just to keep a bit of balance. (Works for Gregg Braden and Tony Robbins and them, right?) The March issue, though, is traditionally springoriented, and young men’s fancies aside, spring is pretty yin – lush, juicy, vernal. (Love that word.)

This March issue did seem to attract a bit more women’s content than usual, although calling it “The Women’s Issue” seemed like pandering – Fancy seemed to do nicely. Just to keep that yin/yang balance, though, here’s a little something for those of the yang persuasion. Hmm, let’s see… how ‘bout that Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover, guys? (Was that pandering?)

Fancy this.

In the spirit of recent landmark votes in Washington state and Colorado (cue the Rocky Mountain High jokes) and the news that the feds decided it’s okay for banks to help rake in some of the, umm, pot, Texas fielded a candidate for Agriculture Commissioner for the March 4 primaries who stumped for Texas to get in on the act, sort of.

Richard “Kinky” Friedman, former goobernatorial candidate, country music star, novelist, and tequila maker (agave – a fine sustainable crop) wants Texas to stretch a few state’s rights muscles of its own and start growing a doesn’t-even-get-youhigh crop that can make paper, textiles, oil, edible goodies, and a whole host of other products, and needs no pesticides and little water. Grows like a (wink, nudge) weed, in fact. (Ahemp.)

Political endorsements in these pages wigged everybody out last time they showed up, so nothing specific this time around – primaries are over less than a week after this issue comes out, anyway. Wouldn’t it be cool, though, to see Texas grab an early lead in the U.S. market for industrial (ahemp)?

Crank up Copperhead Road on the music-making device of your choice, close your eyes, and fancy it happening.

CAT GOT YOUR ZACH?

by Michael Abedin Long before Peewee’s Playhouse, Willie Wonka, and Hogwarts, before video games, math camps and play dates, there was Theodore Geisel and a red and white top hat. Geisel was the doctor – Doctor Seuss – and the hat was the hat of The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957.

A Cat? A Hat? Imagine that.

On a rainy day, the Cat comes knocking on the window of Sally and her brother and turns their world – and the world of childhood reading – upside down. Seuss, who probably sprinkled a little mescaline on his cereal every morning, created a delightfully insane world of fantasy and anarchy, killing off the squeaky clean images of Dick, Jane, and Spot – stars of Fifties reading textbooks who never seemed to do anything except see and run.

The Cat unleashes Thing One and Thing Two and tears the house apart, while the goldfish chastises him like a radio evangelist. At the last minute, the Cat produces a magical machine, a literal deus ex machina – a fantastical plot twist that cleans up the whole mess and saves the day, just before Mom gets home.

Complete craziness, something that could only exist in a book, never on a stage. Right?

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Wrong.

Austin’s Zach Theatre re-enacts the mayhem in a kid and adult-friendly forty-minute production, bringing kids in by the busload. Directed by Nat Miller, who left Austin’s Paramount to run Zach’s education program, The Cat in the Hat shows during the week at a reduced rate for students, particularly from lower income schools. “We don’t turn anyone away,” Miller says. “We want kids to see this show, then go back and read the book.”

Some researchers believe the onslaught of video images on kids’ brains overdevelops neural pathways for vision, neglecting hearing and tactile pathways – and imagination.

The physicality of Zach’s Cat is real and immediate, like live Cirque de Soliel for kids – professional theater, fantastic, but not as scary as Cirque or creepy, like the Mike Meyers movie.

And if kids (and their parents) re-read Dr. Seuss – Well, Zach’s Cat in the Hat has been put to good use!

The Cat (not a Bat) in the Hat is at Zach! And on Sun. and Sat. It’s for all – three and up, slim or fat, through May 3. Tickets at: (512) 476-0541 (Ext. 1) or www.zachtheatre.org

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Who’s your guru?

The Path of YOU

by Timothy Ernster How do I know if I’m on a spiritual path? The right spiritual path? I feel I’m opening to new things, new ideas, deeper aspects of myself. I’m changing. I want more than what life is giving me. I want to experience deeper love, greater peace, a stronger sense of myself. Is that a spiritual path? Do I need a teacher, a guru? There seems to be so much information out there, so many approaches, so much to know and do. Where and how do I begin?

Sound familiar? I suspect, for many, it does. Most of us reach a point in life where you’re no longer satisfied with what you’ve experienced, no longer satisfied with what family, churches, society have taught you is true, no longer satisfied with what the material world can provide, with what the world deems to be a successful life.

You begin to search, to question, to seek out other possibilities, ways of thinking, ways of living. You’ve awakened.

So, does this mean you’re on a spiritual path? It does indeed.

You’ve stepped upon a path that is beyond material, into spiritual.

But is it the right spiritual path?

SELF LOVE 101

A Gentle Guide to Loving Your Self Unconditionally and Fulfilling Your Life Purpose A new release

by Timothy Ernster Author of God In A Black Jag • What is my life purpose?

• How can I grow to love myself unconditionally?

• Will I ever know true peace?

If these are questions you’ve been asking, this book was written for you.

Join Timothy for a talk and book signing at Unity Bookstore, April 6, 2pm AVAILABLE AT: Unity Bookstore, 9905 Anderson Mill Rd. Amazon.com • www.TimothyErnster.com

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If you’re on it, it’s the right path.

For certain, there are many teachers, schools of thought, approaches. It can be confusing and overwhelming when you begin. Be not afraid. You are on the right path. For you, there is finally only one true path – the path of YOU. All the teachers, gurus, and approaches, if they’re of any worth at all, will ultimately take you back to you.

All work that needs to be done is with yourself. All realizations and truths to be unveiled live within you. There’s nowhere else to go. Trust your inner voice, your intuition.

If you’re called to read a certain book, read it. If you feel like going and listening to a teacher, go. If a certain group approach resonates with you, explore it. It doesn’t matter. Let you mind and heart be open. Take what feels right for you.

Discard the rest. It’s your path – the path of YOU. The world around you mirrors exactly what you need to know about yourself, what you judge about yourself, what you love about yourself. Look in the mirror that’s your lover, spouse, mother, boss. Know you’re seeing a reflection of some aspect of you. If you love what you see, honor that. If you react in judgment or anger, accept that what you see lives within you, waiting to be loved. Accept. Forgive.

Love where you have not loved before. This is your path.

Your path and all paths lead to love, love that is unconditional, love that is unconditional toward yourself – all that you are, the dark and the light.

Cry out to the Universe that you’re ready – ready to know and love you, wholly and unconditionally. The path will unfold before you, from inside you. The path of enlightenment. The journey home.

The path of YOU. Timothy Ernster, spiritual teacher, channel of higher consciousness, and author of God In A Black Jag, speaks at Unity Bookstore April 6 at 2pm, signing copies of his new book, Self Love 101 – A Gentle Guide to Loving Yourself Unconditionally and Fulfilling Your Life Purpose. Available at Unity Bookstore, 9905 Anderson Mill Rd., Amazon.com and www.TimothyErnster.com

10 things to know about

THE AKASHIC RECORDS

by Linda Howe The Akashic Records are a universal filing system that records every occurring thought, word, and action, a collection of mystical knowledge stored in the etheric levels.

The name comes from the Sanskrit word akasha, meaning primary substance – that out of which all things are formed.

The Records are known in every spiritual tradition, including Judeo-Christian, where they’re called both The Book of Life and The Book of God’s Remembrance. Many find working in the Records amplifies their efforts in other systems and disciplines, including counseling, body work, hands-on energy work, art, even business.

Things to know:

• The Akashic Records contain the vibrational records of each individual soul and its journey.

• Everyone is included the Akashic Records. (Yes, everyone!)

• There are two parts to each person’s Records – the blueprint of your soul is immutable and never changes, and the dynamic story of your journey through time as a human being reflects your conscious evolution.

• Every person is entitled to access his or her own Akashic Records. The Records of another person can be opened only with their permission.

• The Records are available to all who seek them.

Religious affiliation does not affect a person’s right to access the Records, or to have their Records opened.

• The Records are not trance channeling, religion, fortune telling, or a fishpond of fascinating stories about past lives.

• The Records are not a substitute for human relationships or community support, or an opportunity to escape ordinary life and human experience.

• Being in the Records involves the transmission of energy first, followed by information.

• Your soul’s very essence, expression, potential, and purposes can be seen in the Records, a tool to assist you in your own life purpose.

• The Akashic Records are a profound spiritual resource, accessible through a simple sacred prayer that will enable you to develop your own spiritual authority.

Linda Howe is the creator of The Pathway Prayer Process to Access the Heart of the Akashic Records, a simple method that anyone can use to interact with this spiritual resource for themselves and others. Join her April 26-27 at Unity Church of the Hills for Healing through the Akashic Records: Using the Power of Your Sacred Wounds to Discover Your Soul’s Perfection. Discounts for early registration. Information, registration: (512) 383-5991, or www.UnityHills.org www.LindaHowe.com

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Meridian Grace, ND and Richard Massey, MD A new approach to healing, connecting modern technology, holistic modalities, nutrition, and your body’s own love story

Free Saturday Introductory Talks Schedule & location: meridian@AwakeningHealth.com or call (512) 698-7009

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REGULATION THERMOMETRY Safer than Mammography, so much more to tell you than Thermography

by Meridian Grace, ND The idea of regulation in medicine has been a pillar of awareness for alternative doctors for almost a hundred years.

Directly related to the autonomic nervous system function, the regulatory function of your body can also show you your cell renewal capacity.

When the body’s no longer able to cope with dysfunction and stress, chronic illnesses occur, and regulation has to do with the body’s way of handling stressors of all kinds – physical, mental, and emotional. The autonomic nervous system sends information necessary for that regulation to happen, and regulation thermometry equipment is specifically designed to measure your ability to deal with those stessors effectively.

Are you functioning normally? Are you overreacting to stressors, causing inflammation or auto-immunity? Are you so burned out from trying to regulate them that you’re showing signs of cellular exhaustion, or even signs of being completely blocked?

The blocked state is when cancer can most easily show up.

The regulation thermometry scanning device has the potential to help find root causes of illness, including cancer, by showing the state of as many as one hundred twenty-two different tissues in the body.

Thirty years of use in alternative cancer, Lyme disease, and autoimmune clinics in Europe have provided enormous amounts of data, made into algorithms that can give a good idea of what things are contributing to a dysfunction – infection, inflammation, food reactions, connection between dental health and disease, the health of breasts, ovaries, prostate, and cardiovascular and digestive systems – information that may help you avoid unnecessary, expensive lab tests.

How does it work?

• The regulation thermometry test is a challenge test, challenging the autonomic nervous system with its prime culprit since the beginning of human life – temperature fluctuation.

• An extremely sensitive infrared temperature-reading device checks the surface temperature of numerous points coinciding with organs, glands, teeth foci, and dermatomes.

• When certain patterns show up, they may indicate challenges from, for instance, a tooth that might directly relate to tissue that has a malignancy. When that tooth is properly handled by a holistic dentist, there’s greater capacity to use your energy for healing.

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Meridian Grace and Dr. Richard Massey explore Regulation Thermometry and other aspects of the body’s story at free talks, Saturdays at 3PM. Class schedule, location: meridian@awakeninghealth.com, or (512) 698-7009 , www.AwakeningHealth.com

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ARCHETYPES

Of a Woman The ten archetypal patterns that reflect the power trends of our times are:

by Carolyn Myss If I said to you, “See that man over there? He’s my Hero,” or “That woman is the Perfect Mom,” I know without a doubt that you would understand exactly what I was communicating to you about two people you had never met. With just three words – Hero and Perfect Mom – I would have awakened in you two complete archives of myths and symbols that you automatically associate with those terms.

In seconds, these two people would cease to be strangers, as your psyche wrapped them in stories, fairy tales, and your own memories. The man would instantly take on the appearance of a super-strong Hero, able to face any adversary. Despite knowing nothing else about him, you would instantly trust him.

Batman, Wonder Woman, and the perfect brownie.

The words Perfect Mom pack a powerful punch, especially in our society. The instant someone tells you that a woman is a Perfect Mom, you immediately picture a great cook with a charming, well-ordered home, who helps her kids with their homework, attends all their sporting events, listens to their problems, hosts sleepovers with their friends – and bakes brownies.

So how do those words – Hero and Perfect Mom – communicate so much visual, emotional, intellectual, and mythic information to us? They carry the power they do because they are archetypes, psychic power patterns in the unconscious mind. Archetypes are the power images we identify with as children. We’re drawn to movies, books, and video games with characters that represent our power images. Little girls dress up as Princesses and Wonder Woman, little boys as Batman and Warriors. Archetypal identification begins early.

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The Advocate The Artist/Creative The Athlete The Caregiver The Fashionista The Intellectual The Queen/Executive The Rebel The Spiritual Seeker The Visionary

Anything sound familiar?

They all embody the primary power issues that define women today, including their underlying struggles with personal empowerment. In addition to reflecting contemporary power themes, the ten archetypes embody the more pressing personal challenges facing women today.

Women in particular face the challenge of developing an inner sense of power and personal identity. Without that essential core of self-esteem, you will be unable to hear your intuitive guidance.

Archetypal patterns filter into every aspect of your life. Your archetypes influence your spending habits, how you shop, and what you buy (or not). They influence the quality of your relationships, who you’re attracted to, and why. And they influence recurring issues – arguments you seem to have over and over, difficulties at work that keep cropping up, and other patterns that repeat themselves.

The more you know about how archetypes work, the more easily you can observe their influence on your thoughts, your attitudes, your behavior, and your personal myths and symbols.

Carolyn Myss is the author of Archetypes (Hay House 2013).

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HOLLOW

by Christina Allen Open any New Age magazine these days and you find hundreds of different ways to heal spiritually. Most of them are valid. What distinguishes one practice from the other?

The practitioner.

Anyone can take a weekend workshop to receive attunements or initiations, but the difference in their medicine lies in how deeply they are able to hold it. As the ancient shamans knew well, healing others starts with healing yourself.

Has your healer done the deep personal work of clearing their own stories, or are they seeing you through their old wounds? If you’re a healer, have you removed the imprints you carry around – your roles, and the beliefs binding you to ancestral, cultural, and karmic lineages? Have you dug up and owned your shadow pieces? If not, you will forever be derailed into working the unhealed parts of yourself through your clients.

• Are you, for example, seeing your own divorce in your client’s current relationship dilemma?

• Are your scarcity issues driving you to enable your clients, so they keep depending upon you?

• Do you collude with your client’s story because it’s familiar, instead of finding a new map for them?

• Are you still stuck in Victim, finding yourself burdened with picking up heavy energies from your clients regularly, instead of being able to transmute them?

Clear vessels.

While it’s exciting that so many Energy Medicine modalities are finding their way back into the light, it’s

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important that the work is done cleanly. Our best practitioners have worked through their own personal issues, to ensure they’re the clearest vessels possible for your healing.

Healing for the Modern Shaman is a twofold process. First, a practitioner must be able to see your possible future healed states, clearly, without imposing their own past, hopes, dreams, drama, expectations, needs, or limited beliefs on you. They must also be able to align with and transmit the high vibrational healing frequencies of Creation, without diluting that force. When the ego is involved in needing specific outcomes to our work, or when it’s needing healing itself, we redirect that energy to ourselves, impeding the natural flow between client and Spirit.

Further, we cannot hold high visions when we see only ourselves. The shamans of old used the term Hollow Bone to describe themselves as an instrument that holds open space between Spirit and their client. If you’re a hollow bone, you’ve done the hard work of clearing your ego, or personal biases, from your work.

Leaky wires.

Think of the healer as a giant transmission line. If you need your clients to heal so you feel better about yourself, your wires are leaking energy off into your self-worth, and are not able to hold a very high voltage. If you’re bogged down in all the imprints, limited beliefs and dysfunctional behaviors you learned as a child, you will not be a very conductive transmission line.

Further, if your vision is clouded with all the limits of your own childhood drama and the limited cultural perceptions you have inherited unquestioningly, you may be unable to map outcomes for your client outside the box. Until we can transcend our agendas, we cannot hold the higher visions of possibility, or the high vibration frequencies necessary for full healing.

Whether you’re a healer wanting to take your work further or someone wanting to live a more authentic life, know that the thorough training a shaman initiate goes through ensures a healer has addressed their personal agendas. A professional shaman steps out of the way and helps you open that door to fully claim your true, healed, authentic self.

Christina Allen, healer, teacher, Destiny Coach, and founder of the Blue Raven Circle of Light, (soon to launch Austin Shamanic Center) combines a strong science background (BA Physics, MS Neuroscience) with decades of applied ancient spiritual wisdom (Master Yogi, Reiki Master, and Shamanic Healer based on Q’ero Indian traditions of Peru). Available by appointment to help clear imprints and align you with your highest destinies.

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GLUTEN

Is it the new tobacco?

by Nerissa Oden International bestselling author and neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter, M.D., claims that high carb diets and the modern gluten protein both trigger inflammation, which is the cornerstone of all degenerative conditions from heart disease to Alzheimers. In his book Grain Brain, he points to America’s genetically altered gluten protein as a major contributor to declining health, and states his belief that gluten is our generation’s tobacco.

But is he right?

Is gluten really addictive, like tobacco?

You can easily make the argument that it is.

• Gluten contains opioid peptides, which are in the same family as opium.

• When peptides from gluten react with opiate receptors in the brain, they produce effects similar to opiate drugs like heroin and morphine, but on a more subtle level.

• Many people who start a gluten-free diet may experience withdrawal symptoms, such as powerful cravings, and even irritability that can escalate to the extreme of picking fights or throwing tantrums.

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Between 1960 and 1985, industry replaced America’s traditional wheat with a genetically new strain of wheat. This modern wheat contains far more starch, and a new variation of gluten protein.

Because wheat is a huge taxpayer-subsidized crop in this country, it’s an extremely cheap product – one that entices commercial food producers to “improve” the texture of their products by adding gluten, or by replacing traditional ingredients with it.

In addition to widely available foods like bread and cereal that are obviously wheat-based, others frequently contain gluten as well – soups, broths, sauces, gravies, dressings, lunch meats, hot dogs, sausages, chips, candy, ice cream, instant drinks (including coffee), soda, various condiments and syrups, pickles, toothpaste and other body care, and supplements.

“It’s my belief that gluten is a modern poison,” states Dr. Perlmutter, adding that virtually everyone is affected by gluten, including (but not necessarily just limited to) those with gluten sensitivity, gluten intolerance, and those with the extreme manifestation of gluten sensitivity – Celiac Disease.

Inflammation created by gluten can involve any organ in the body, including the brain – the one that decides you’re addicted to something.

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Do you believe in Faeries?

by Bruce P. Grether In the year 2012, at a gathering in the forested mountains of Washington State, I walk across a meadow towards a canvas pavilion. In the shade, a circle of people sits on folding chairs.

I see a genial-looking man with long white hair and a gray beard, who sits beside a lovely dark-haired woman I recognize as his partner.

For the next hour, we are swept up in the quiet and yet enchanting tones of the man’s voice, embraced within his knowledge and wisdom, and given a taste of a life lived in depth, fully examined, and dedicated to the Mystery. He is one of the pre-eminent scholars and seers of what is sometimes called the Faery Tradition of Western Europe.

This experience of meeting R.J. Stewart and Anastacia Nutt for the first time proves to be a key moment. Having absorbed many of R.J.’s books over the years, I’m aware of the immense scope of his interests, and the treasures he shares.

This is not merely information, scholarly and detailed though it is, but also a guiding presence, humble and clear, that beckons you simply to come along with him and share his journey for a while.

Tolkein and Tinker Bell.

I’ve never felt convinced of the existence of a spirit world separate and divided from the material world – my feeling is that, mysteriously, it’s all One. Matter is entirely the expression of what we call spirit. Everything is energy.

Yet consider something I’ve intuitively recognized since a small boy, that perhaps there exists an elder race of spiritual beings related to ourselves in some ancient manner, and from whom we have diverged and grown somewhat alienated – a race perhaps more like Tolkien’s High Elves than they are like Tinker Bell. Consider also that it may be time to reconnect with this Faery race, to reclaim our kinship.

If we explore the lore associated with this kinship, we discover many clues for our reconnection to deeper streams of consciousness, and to greater wholeness.

Bruce P. Grether is a many times published novelist, Wizard, and a regular Austin All Natural contributor, and provides readings and consultations via the Stardust Tarot, which he created. Learn more: www.9realities.com

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DANCING WITH THE TARAS A journey into the realm of the Divine Feminine: Dance in the Mandala of Tara Workshop, March 14-16 Dance is one of the most ancient ways for humans to communicate with the divine.

In the sacred space of the dance circle, people connect deeply with each other, and experience the power of their own potential.

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The melting pot.

Experienced dancers are welcome in her workshops and celebrations of sacred song and dance, but no previous experience is necessary. Both women and men are inspired to reclaim their personal power, in a culture where it’s often still necessary to do so, and they offer people with an interest in spirituality, Eastern traditions, and dance an unusual opportunity to practice together, building about new connections.

The Tara dances are a perfect fit for an eclectic community like Austin. Environmental awareness is part of the practice, through a healing of the elements – and if you need a referral, try the Dalai Lama, who enthusiastically endorses her dancing and teachings, calling them “wonderful.”

The Austin Tara Circle meets on the first Sunday of every month, 3-5 pm at the Zen Shinji Centre, South Austin. Join any time, no dance experience necessary. Next meetings, March 2, April 6. Dance in the Mandala of Tara Workshop, March 14-16. For information and workshop registration, contact Anjali Maazel at (512) 203-2012 or AustinTara21@gmail.com, or visit www.AustinTara.tk

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In the busyness of everyday life, it’s easy to disconnect from source and passion, or get confused on how to create the next step. As women, we’re domesticated to put our energy towards the needs of others, fear our own wildness, dull ourselves energetically to stay safe – and be good girls.

We think about living a spiritual life, in service to the divine, but our innate potential lies dormant and unclaimed.

We want to be fiery, independent women, but instead get caught in roles of caretaker, pleaser – worker bee.

Can you imagine if you consciously gave yourself nine months to fully untie the cords, lies, and limitations wrapped around your soul, and wiggle free of the old, too-tight cocoon?

In the early 1990s, I was blessed to meet and apprentice with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. He asked me to make a commitment to myself, and over the next ten years I completely rewrote everything about my life. This commitment to myself – and a clear, unconditionally loving guide – changed the course of my life, and supported me in not just dreaming about, but actually becoming, the woman I wanted to be.

Turning attention to yourself is not selfish.

It’s self-full. When you create time for your own healing and inner exploration, you can shift the old, below-the-surface patterns and issues that drain your energy and cause you to be off-balance.

With more energy, anything is possible. Instead of just getting by day to day, you suddenly have the resources and vision to make creative changes, and start living the life you were meant to live.

Let go of fears and procrastination. Give a big, fat, yes to yourself. You deserve it, and the world needs you – whole, complete, and vibrant.

HeatherAsh Amara, author of The Toltec Path of Transformation and the upcoming book Warrior Goddess Training: How to Become the Woman You Were Meant to Be, apprenticed with don Miguel starting in 1994, and now teaches with the Ruiz family. Join HeatherAsh and women from all over the world for her upcoming nine-month women’s program, Warrior Goddess Training, and reclaim your power, vibrancy, and joy. www.toci.org/warriorgoddess

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Dear Ashtara:

Messages from Your Angels and Master Teachers

Dear Ashtara, I have heard the concept that angels exist in pairs like a positive and negative. Is this true? And how can love relationships on earth mirror the divine will of God? Lynn, 36, Austin, TX Dear Lynn, Deities, angels, masters and saints on the other side exist in polar opposites, much different on earth.

Earthlings are exact mirrors when they are in a relationship with one of their twin flames. Your partner is an identical twin flame to you because of your lineage in the light together. For example, both of you are from a particular tribe and said that you would find each other. When you find a flame it usually is very comfortable. Your highest teacher is Ashtar.

Dear Ashtara, I recently married and moved to Austin but the job I found isn’t as steady as I need. My boss promises things will pick up. Should I stick it out or start pursuing another job?

Thomas N., 36, Austin, TX Dear Thomas, It looks like your future is what you decide upon. If you pursue another job, it would be good if you had a great reference. Therefore, it looks like you are between a rock and a hard place. You should definitely pursue another job in your spare time. When you find another position, see if they will cover certain expenses and pay more. It looks like you will be at another position in one to five months. Your guardian angel is Gabriel. He is trying to give you messages daily.

Dear Ashtara, I’ve been dating this gentleman and he talks about getting married. He has two children part time. Will I be happy if we get married and all live together? Tracy, 32, Houston, TX

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Dear Tracy, It looks like the two of you have had an unusual friendship in that he can’t keep his eyes off of you and you like that part. However, everything isn’t perfect. So we have to examine who does have a picture perfect relationship? Not many people do. I think yours is about 89% quite perfect. Chances are you are going to keep seeing each other and you probably will not commit entirely. Marriage should be a two-way street of equal value. Be aware of becoming complacent for complacency is not you. Also, remember that he does make you happy. We think he is a winner. The Galactic Federation is at your corner, as well as Ashtar and his Command.

Dear Ashtara, What career can I go into that would fulfill me emotionally, spiritually and monetarily? I want a job that would not feel like work and yet still be lucrative. Laksh, 28, Austin, TX Dear Laksh, The artist in you is clamoring to get out! Your head is full of work that is not fulfilling or desiring. You came here to become a performing artist, guitar, theater, stage, songwriter, playwright, even an actress. Perhaps you could pursue anything that interests you that is creative on the weekends, especially. Your highest master is Sandalfon. Keep up the good work.

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Part Twenty-five

In the 1930’s, English physician Edward Bach created a series of thirty-six flower remedies, prepared from plants found in his native England, to address underlying mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of physical disease.

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