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Inside Austin All Natural THE MONEY MIRROR – Dr. Joe Vitale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FORWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 GIFTS OF THE EARTH Hemp, Health, and Happiness – Michael Abedin BLESSINGS OF THE SUN Barakah Sahaeil FLUFF YOUR STUFF! – Leslie Anne IN THE WEEDS – Dr. Ryan Osborne, DC THE OTHER SIDE – Matt Debow THE HOLY DARK – John Connor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 TIMELINES AND DESTINIES Choosing a Brave New World – Christina Allen . . . . . . . . 16 NON-GMO What’s the real reason it’s better for you? – Katie Tatterfield, MS. . . . . . . . . . 18 HYDRATION AND WEIGHT LOSS – Marge Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CAN YOUR TEETH KILL YOU? – Michael Abedin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 SPRING RESOURCE GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 UPCOMING EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 ENERGETIC RESIDUES Tell them goodbye – Sharabella Fini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SLEEP ON IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 DEAR ASHTARA – Ashtara Sasha White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 publisher/ editor Michael Abedin (512) 879-7299 michaelabedin@yahoo.com www.AustinAllNatural.com LIKE US ON FACEBOOK
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A Letter to Our Readers You got three problems you can encounter when you’re faced with choices – no choice, no good choices, and too many choices. You’d think that last one would be easiest, but when it comes to picking a March cover for a fine natural magazine, boy would you be wrong. Austin-based visionary artist Michael Garfield’s End of the World Party, with a big ol’ T-Rex in a post-apocalyptic landscape, complete with hovering UFO’s, seemed like a slam-dunk – spring cleaning, a tongue-in-cheek nod to the annual SXSoWhat invasion, that sort of thing.
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Flashbacks. Suddenly, though, the image of a beady-eyed monster with tiny hands and a tiny brain, lumbering through the remnants of society and fleeing from alien invaders, seemed a little too scary, maybe even a little too risky at a time when even perceived satire can be a dangerous thing. Bad craziness, as Dr. Gonzo used to say, or maybe just a flashback from a time not all that long ago, when paranoia was a sign of mental health. Nothing to worry about now, though, because – Wait… is that a helicopter on the lawn? –Michael Abedin
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The Secret of Money, Spirituality, and The Great Something
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Money. We use it, abuse it, distort and confuse it. Yet money’s just paper and ink, or metal and imprint. It’s nothing until someone says it’s something. By the time we’re conscious enough to know it’s meaningful to survival, we’re programmed to believe it’s more than what objective reality knows. It ends up controlling us – or, more specifically, we’re controlled by our perceptions of it. What gives? Money’s a symbol of spiritual energy, revealing who you are without changing itself. It’s the perfect mirror. In the hands of a person run by their lower thoughts, it’s a tool for destruction. In the hands of a highly spiritual person, it’s a tool to make their life mission come true.
It’s not the money. It’s the person handling it. Money simply reflects their beliefs. The irony is we all have programming about money, whether we’re spiritual or not. The pseudo-spiritual person thinks money is bad and tries to live without it. Yet thinking it’s bad is a judgment that a truly spiritual person wouldn’t have. Thinking money is bad is proof of a lack of spirituality, not of spirituality. In other words, since money is really neutral energy, someone judging it as bad is revealing their limited view of objective reality, and denying themselves their own good. On the opposite side of the coin, so to speak, we have wealthy people with no spirituality. They think money is the be-all and end-all of life. In their pursuit of more money, they sell their soul and lose their connection to the essence of life. They believe money has power, or can give it. They’ve given away their own ability to choose balance and wholeness in life, in pursuit of the dollar. They think money is scarce and they fight, deceive, and compete to have it. Both, of course, are coming from belief systems controlling them, rather than awakening them. The spiritual person who renounces money has beliefs that money is evil, or corrupts. The wealthy person has beliefs, too. Money is power, spirituality is weak, greed is good. Obviously, beliefs around money control whether you have it or not. Think it’s bad, you’ll push it away. Think it’s good, you’ll attract it. Money has no beliefs about you. But you have plenty about money. Change the beliefs, and you can welcome money. But we have to go deeper than that observation. We have to have a knowing about the spirituality of money. We need to be free of beliefs that blind us or limit us. We need to make peace with money and know it can be a source of light, too. How do you do that?
Follow your passion. That doesn’t guarantee immediate success, since most successes, including great wealth, have to be grown into. People who win the lotto and aren’t prepared to handle a sudden flush of cash, lose it. They unconsciously sabotage their own success with counter-intentions. But all perceived failures in life are just incoming feedback about counter-intentions, to help you correct your course.
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An inside job. The meaning you give an event is the belief that attracted it. I’ll repeat that. The meaning you give an event is the belief that attracted it. What’s your current situation? How do you tell your story about it? What you say reflects the beliefs causing it. Change the beliefs, clear your counter-intentions, and you’ll change the reality. As all spirituality teaches, change is an inside job. What can you do right now, today, to move toward creating something that will attract more money? Whatever it is, do it. When you doubt and second-guess yourself instead of taking action, you’re demonstrating you aren’t yet clear about your intentions, or clear of counter-intentions. Act now. Follow inspiration, align with spirit. As you do so, and drop limiting beliefs about life, you’re free to use everything life offers to complete your mission, including cash. Money isn’t bad. It’s a symbol, an energy, a neutral and handy tool to accomplish dreams and goals. It’s a mirror. The
truly spiritual person knows spirit is unlimited, and whatever can assist you in manifesting your life’s calling is of the light – and that includes money.
The Great Something. I recently recorded my sixth singer-songwriter album, The Great Something. The songs, singing, and music are better than ever, going from swing to ballad to rock. Why is this album so much better than the others? I used everything I teach about self-help, goal setting, and manifestation to create it, setting a clear intention, gathering my band of legends, and taking action on ideas and opportunities as I moved toward the recording date. While these elements are part of what make The Law of Attraction work in your favor, the biggest turning point was my private two-hour lesson with rock icon Melissa Etheridge.
Let me explain. First, I used some of her music dynamics to create songs. Melissa Said is, as my producer called it, “The greatest thank you card of all time,� an original song I wrote for Melissa using some of the things she shared with me about making music. Second, the title track song was directly influenced by my time with Melissa. While she was too wise to tell me what to do, her feedback helped me learn lessons for myself. It was like the Socratic method. Socrates didn’t give answers – he helped you think of them on your own. Being with Melissa helped me realize the song (and the album) needed to be called The Great Something, my phrase for God or the Divine. Third, and more importantly, Melissa urged me to write from the first person. The Great Something is raw. It’s from my view of life, my hard times, and my discovery of The Great Something. Fourth, when I was with Melissa, I shared the opening lines of a song that came to me in my sleep. Because she liked what she heard, I felt encouraged to complete the song. It’s the most hauntingly beautiful thing I’ve ever penned. Fifth, Melissa taught me to feel my message when I sang. As a result, my singing on a love song called Hey You, was, as my producer called it, “Sinatra-esque,� probably the highest compliment he could give me.
I’m sharing this to demonstrate how the Law of Attraction, magic, and miracles work. I’m sure you can do this, too. You have a dream, don’t you? You could set an intention for it, gather allies, and start to move toward it, right? Are there any real excuses or limitations for not doing what you really want to do? Isn’t today a good day to begin? The Great Something says yes. The Great Something is at www.TheGreatSomethingAlbum.com
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In natural healing, there’s a syndrome known as the healing crisis. To understand it, you have to look at the full implication of what a crisis actually is. Crisis comes from the same roots as cross, a place where paths intersect, where you have the choice to move one way or the other – up, down, sideways. Movement, though, is the key. Staying in the same place isn’t necessarily your best option when things hit the fan – and what hits the fan isn’t always pleasant. Holistic healers know when old stuff works its way through your system you sometimes have to go through it all over again before you let it go, once and for all. What doesn’t kill you, it’s said, makes you stronger. It can also make you crazy as a rabid bat at midnight, though, and the choice is yours. How much time do you want to spend going through your stuff – and when it’s time to move, which way should you go?
In like a lion. The cool thing about a crisis is you usually have a moment or two to make up your mind and decide when to move forward – when to wait, and when to spring like a cat, instead of letting the primitive reptilian fight or flight reaction take over and have its way with you. (Oh, speaking of reptiles. If you want a peek at T. Rex in the End of the World Party, this month’s other cover option, you might find him lurking in the Spring Resource Guide.) Cats, for the most part, are solitary and stealthy critters, roaming quietly through wide stretches of territory, but there’s one species of feline whose family group is called, rightfully, a pride, staking out its turf and waiting patiently for dinner to come to the watering hole. Lions are the king of beasts, knowing when it’s time to wait and when it’s time to move forward. When things hit the fan, look up there on the hill. Chances are, if you look with the right kind of eyes, ol’ Aslan will be waiting to tell you what your next move should be.
Forward, March.
Be careful, though.
No time like springtime to move, even if you live in the bottom half of Texas and have been working on your tan since back in early February. If you really want to wallow in your stuff, learning the same lessons over and over, you can go backwards or sideways. In March, though, nature shows you which way to go, if you pay even the slightest bit of attention. There’s a story, trotted out here before, of a disciple whose teacher leads him to the path to enlightenment, but warns him he’ll have to walk down a corridor where all the demons of his past will rise up to taunt him and tear at him before he reaches the final doorway. If it becomes too much to bear, his teacher tells him, you can always turn back. What if I’ve gone too far to turn back, the student asks? Then, his teacher says, run like hell for the other side.
Artist, musician, writer, and psychedelic shaman Michael Garfield’s cover piece, Good Kitten, was painted live at events all over Texas in the spring of 2015. He describes it as a meeting of opposites – aquatic and celestial, organic and mechanical, masculine and feminine, soft and serrated, still and fluid – a new age male, both powerful and gentle. Hip and benevolent as he is, though, a lion is still a lion. He may have a feminine side, but don’t let it fool you – you don’t want to trifle with either side. A male lion’s job is to look cool and regal and roar ferociously, but it’s the job of the lioness to be fierce and merciless when the time comes. This is, in other words, a pussycat you may want to think at least twice about grabbing.
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Michael Garfield’s artwork and related products are at www.MichaelGarfieldArt.com
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Gifts of the Earth Hemp, Health, and Happiness
Blessings of the Sun Barakah Sahaeill
by Michael Abedin There’s an old Native American tale that says Great Spirit, in its benevolence and wisdom, had the Earth create a plant for every illness known to humankind. Begging the question as to why a truly great Spirit would create illness to begin with, that’s indeed a wise and benevolent thing to do. Unfortunately, there are always elements of humankind that don’t respond to wisdom or benevolence, and do something like take a plant that’s easy to grow and has almost unlimited applications and make it illegal. Hemp’s been cultivated and used for health purposes for over three thousand years, until it got lumped in with its THC-bearing psychoactive cannabis cousin. There are a number of differences between cannabis that’ll get you high (marijuana) and cannabis that won’t (hemp, or industrial hemp). The main one is – well, one gets you high, the other doesn’t. Industrial hemp, by definition, has so little THC you’d have to smoke enough to asphyxiate yourself long before you got a buzz. In the 1970’s, however, Richard Nixon’s Controlled Substance Act lumped hemp in with pot – but as states enacted their own decriminalization measures, legality became a hot-button topic. Hemp is perfectly legal to sell and use in every state, but farmers’ right to grow it is hampered by ongoing battles between states and the feds, making the booming hemp industry dependent on imports – and, of course, possible tariffs and trade disputes.
That’s a shame. All cannabis strains have potential health benefits, and non-psychoactive hemp is reported to have the potential for so many potential medical applications, it’s surprising every plant doesn’t pop up gift wrapped, with a nice bow. Skin problems, inflammatory diseases, strengthened immune systems – even emotional and behavioral disorders like depression, anxiety, autism, and ADHD are being researched for hemp results. Like any plant-based substance, high-quality oil is a good, efficient delivery system, and some hemp oils (or CBD oils, for cannabinoids, the non-psychoactive, potentially beneficial ingredient in hemp) are pioneering liposomal encapsulation that can deliver nutrients straight to your cells, almost instantaneously. (Requisite disclaimer: Statements not evaluated by FDA, not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or treat any disease, blah, blah, blah…) Information about Nanoenhanced 100% Hemp CBD Oil in a liposomal delivery system, including distributorships and direct purchase, is available from Ashlee and Wyatt Duffin, (512) 902-8083 or DuffinLovinWellness@gmail.com www.DuffinLovinWellness.primemybody.com
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The sun is the bringer of light, the fire that ignites the blessings of life and growth. Stored in every cell of every plant and animal, its power is the animating force of life – the perfect metaphor for Spirit. Ever spent about a week or so with a grey, depressing Austin sky hovering about a foot or two above your head? If so, you know the sun becomes more than just a metaphor when you’re searching the clouds for its light, wishing for something else essential for life and growth.
Hope. You can maybe exist without it, but not live. As any good holistic teacher or practitioner will tell you, hope is the essence of healing. Aramaic is the language spoken a couple of millennia ago by a teacher from Nazareth who knew a thing or two about healing, blessings, and hope. In one Aramaic dialect, the word for sun is sahaeil. In Arabic, Aramaic’s neighboring tongue, the word for blessing is barakah – a blessing flowing directly from spirit into beings, objects, and places, embracing everything in its path. Barakah Sahaeil was born in Trinidad, an island where the sun shines on a melting pot of races and spiritual practices. When she decided to create an online resource for holistic health, organic food, and a natural, healthy lifestyle, there was no better choice than to make it her namesake – Barakah Sahaeil, Blessings of the Sun. Based in Austin, the database of SunsBlessings.com includes Houston and Dallas, eventually expanding to other markets. The model is subscription-based, free to visit and offering affordable options for businesses and clients to subscribe and connect through a range of content. Subscribing practitioners have their own page to post daily announcements, contact potential clients, follow client health log updates, and offer discounts for everything from organic produce to classes and sessions. High-quality articles and video services will also be offered, and a YouTube channel. Client subscribers can have a personal health log tracking, diet, exercise, and spirituality on a daily basis, following the phases of the moon, and give access to selected practitioners.
Here comes the sun. And as a band from Liverpool once said – it’s all right. Official launch of www.SunsBlessings.com is Earth Day, April 22. Watch for the free April pre-launch party. For pre-launch subscription discounts, contact Barakah Sahaeil at (469) 671-9797 or barakahsahaeilives@gmail.com
Fluff Your Stuff by Leslie Anne Welcome to new growth, new beginnings, shedding the old and embracing the new. Welcome to spring cleaning. Let’s take a walk through your physical and spiritual houses, removing what no longer serves you and making room for what does, emerging refreshed – and fluffed, like a new pillow.
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Forward, fluff. It’s up to you to take that first step off this newly created platform. March forward, toward new beginnings. Fluff your living room, representing gathering, family, relations, tribe. Fluff your kitchen, representing heart, creativity, soul. Fluff your bedroom – resting, dreams, replenishment, reproduction, and your bathroom – shedding, detoxification, purification, cleansing. Fluff your front porch, your voice and your ability to allow things in, and your back porch, your personal space. While you’re at it, don’t forget to change the batteries in your smoke alarm. Leslie Anne is an intuitive practitioner, psychic, medium, healer and channeler, relaying messages from those who have crossed over and identifying sources of blocked energy using Angelic Reiki, chakra readings, and psychometrics (handling of objects). (737) 704-9303, scatenal5775@gmail.com www.facebook.com/leslieanne - medium
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Spring in Central Texas – it’s time to weed the garden, revive the soil, and plant new seeds. Get inspired by the magnificence of nature, and then get ready to think about the hefty workload ahead, since gardens can take weeks of preparation to get back in shape for growing season. If you’ve been working weekly tending to the soil, however, pulling every new weed and keeping a watchful eye on maintaining your garden in anticipation of the growing season, the ongoing maintenance will typically be a light effort, and often more therapeutic than laborious.
Gardening is a great metaphor for health. Young weeds take much less time and energy to pull than tall, well-established weeds, just as new injuries and subtle performance tweaks typically take less time and money to resolve than chronic ailments. The sooner any living organism returns to homeostasis, or peak performance, the longer the organism tends to be able to sustain peak performance. Regular maintenance and preventive medicine can help keep humans at peak performance. Just as it’s important in successful gardening to use quality resources and ingredients – seeds, soil, and water – it’s essential to seek quality advice and effective therapy and make wise lifestyle choices in diet, rest, exercise, and prayer for sustained peak athletic and life performance.
Setting a template. Through at least the first three decades of life, humans have a nearly unlimited capacity to keep pushing their peak performance further. Establishing those habits early on makes it much easier to maintain peak performance your whole life – but it’s never too late, and there are never too many weeds, to start. Take a comprehensive approach in selecting a healthcare team, and choose therapists and health professionals that treat cause rather than effects. Don’t settle for managing chronic poor health, and don’t rely on one source or voice when setting your health plan and goals. Utilize preventive and restorative therapies to enhance your life performance. Now get out there and start pulling a few weeds. Dr. Ryan Osborne, DC, of Enhance Performance Center, is a certified practitioner of Advanced Muscle Integration Technique, used for pain, inflammation, and injury to muscles and joints, and studied with its founder. He incorporates AMIT with gentle chiropractic adjustments, Nasal Specific technique, and other cutting-edge methods in a natural therapeutic approach to health and performance. (512) 255-9711, www.GetHealthyRoundRock.com
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THE OTHER SIDE Beyond the Near Death Experience by Matthew DeBow Describing spiritual experiences is anything but simple. Soul, spirit, God, heaven, love, eternity – spiritual terms brought forth by philosophers and religion, without their dogmatic association, might be the best description of our dimensional existence.
Forgetting heaven. People happily going along in life, expecting it least, can suddenly find themselves thrown into an unfamiliar state of consciousness. Is this eternal place your true home, something you’ve temporarily forgotten – a part of there, the other side? Is there part of our spiritual existence, on another plane or multiverse? If so, it seems our existence is part of a dimension we don’t fully understand. If science could address this, maybe reverse engineer the soul’s metaphysics, it would have a definite effect on mankind and spiritual evolution. For now, in most cases, a loving understanding is the underlying, unifying message of a journey to the other side through an NDE – a Near Death Experience.
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Measuring spiritual existence. There are some aspects claimed by NDErs that can be put into quantative values, making measurement possible. Research at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF.com), has established a large data bank of information, so researchers can hypothesize and create data formulas based on NDE reports. This statistical data is the first step in solving mankind’s biggest questions – finding out about the eternal, infinite nature of our existence, and gaining a better understanding of ourselves and the cosmic, interconnected nature of being alive on Earth. Tapping into the true spiritual existence that interfaces with the human body might be the ghost in the machine – a technical viewpoint of the soul, interpreted with a new spiritual language.
Peeking into the other side. An area of research that could help crack the code is a therapeutic system known as LBL (Life Between Life) Regression, said to help people get to the place prior to conception, existing as consciousness in an eternal and loving dimension. Another is IADC (Induced After Death Communication). If these unconventional therapies are accurate, they might become a barometer to begin to measure and analyze what is happening over there. Ki Browning and Gregg Unterberger discuss leading edge therapeutic approaches April 7-9 at the NDE Symposium in Wimberley, at the Wimberley Community Center, along with presentations by people that have had NDE’s and spiritual transformative experiences. Friday night is free. (888) 444-8169, www. EnlighteningArts.com
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by John Connor In Unity, and much of progressive Christianity, we focus on the light, understandably so. You are the light of the world… Let your light so shine before men, that they might see your good works… I am the light of the world. Yet I had a new awareness that sprang from a misheard lyric in a song. Ever happened to you – for years, you think a song says a certain thing, and find out the lyric was something else? That happened with me. There’s a part in the song by Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah, that says, the holy dove was moving too. But I thought it said, the holy dark was moving too. That wasn’t a new idea to me – that there’s sacredness in the dark – but those words encapsulated something hard to express for someone on the spiritual path.
This approach hasn’t served me well in every case. If I stand up and say, “I would like to lead a church,” that can be seen as ego, can’t it? So – be a comedian, be a businessman, be anything other than what you are, because people might not approve of this wanting to be a minister thing. Or wanting to write a book thing, or whatever your heart is longing to express into your life. But who’s served by this repression? No one. Tonight, while lying in bed, fill in this blank. “I am _____.” Try out some negative qualities. If you don’t feel an emotional reaction, move to another one. When you get to one that makes you angry or embarrassed, one you don’t want to think about, that’s a good one.
Isn’t it all about the light?
You have unconcealed a shadow.
Well, not all. A pioneer of psychology with spiritual perspectives, Carl Jung, describes the shadow – darkness that’s not synonymous with evil. Jung describes it as the “refused” parts of ourselves, parts that aren’t inherently bad, but we wish weren’t there. In Debbie Ford’s book The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (how great is that title?) is the idea, “What you don’t own, owns you.” When something in your spiritual journey is a refused part, a judged part, it’s in shadow. When you awaken to these unwelcome qualities, they come to consciousness. You can use them, or notice them and not be ruled – or owned – by them. Jung suggests whatever is in shadow will be revealed, as does Luke 8:17. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. When refused parts begin to be accepted, they no longer pop up unannounced. They’re simply there to be used.
I have a shadowy attitude toward what I see as arrogance or conceit. To me, that’s the most repellent quality a person can have. Because that quality has unconsciously been in me, and because I completely reject it as being antithetical to the spiritual life, I do everything I can not to be seen as arrogant or conceited.
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Can you remember when you first made a negative assumption about that trait? Where did it come from? Can you see how that trait can be useful? The dark is holy, too. Think of what can happen in your mind and heart at night, under the stars, or with eyes closed in meditation or prayer. Think of how even a melancholy song can be exactly what you long to hear. I love the sun, I love bright overhead lights, I love buoyant, uplifting music. I love to laugh. And I love the night, the exploration of refused parts that happens in shadow, the creativity that comes out of the dark and seemingly empty places. Even in the creation story in the Bible, the dark comes first. Darkness was on the face of the deep…, and in each day of creation, the order is, and the evening and the morning were the first day. Like the womb, it’s from the fertile dark of potential that creativity and newness springs. Let there be dark – and then there will be light. John Connor is pastor of Unity Church of Lake Travis, 13333 Hwy. 71 in Bee Cave, (near 71 and 620). Follow John Connor on Twitter: www.twitter.com/connor_rev Unity of Lake Travis meets Sunday mornings at 10:30. (512) 762-3631, www.UnityofLakeTravis.org
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ES AND DESTINIE N I L E M I T S Choosing A Brave
New World by Christina Allen Here we are, at a crossroads in history. How did we get here, and where do we go from here? These are the questions many of us are asking ourselves these days. To begin with, we’re each on a timeline, heading out toward a future outcome. These individual timelines are directed by our personal choices – but as a whole, they create a collective timeline as well.
There’s a difference between fate and destiny, however. Fate is the default destination of our lives. It’s the result of the tangle of unconscious choices we’ve already made, and many of these choices are even the legacies of our ancestors before us. Like a bowling ball barreling down the lane, our lives have momentum in a certain direction, based on every decision we’ve ever made. When those choices are fueled by fears, or past trauma, they funnel us into a fate defined by those parameters. If I make a choice to keep you happy because, like my mother before me, I fear being alone, I’ve chosen a world where my happiness is now contingent upon yours. From this place I’ll only attract people into my life who are never satisfied, and believe it’s my duty to keep them happy – and I’ll continue to act out this drama. This is the “world” I’ve chosen to live in. As long as I have this fear, this is my fate.
Destinies, on the other hand, are chosen consciously. They require addressing the fears and imprints that keep us in these redundant default pathways, and require making conscious choices to step free of them. Quantum theory tells us that at the energetic level, the world is suspended in a probability state where many things are possible, yet nothing is certain, until a measurement is made. Paul Davies’ Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum theory postulates that other worlds, defined by different parameters, exist as well – we just don’t inhabit them until we make different choices.
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This parallels shamanic principles that state Creation is an ongoing process we’re each involved in. We’re all co-creating our worlds, through conscious dreaming. All of us are looking down the fan of possible outcomes in this time of upheaval, not only for the best possible outcomes for our personal lives, but for those of our culture, the species, and even the planet. Each choice we make (or, by default do not make) creates the world we will live in next. We do have free will, however, and we can choose the world we want to live in next – but free will is free only when we choose from the heart, not from our fears. There are a great many things to be afraid of these days, and they’re all up for examination. This is a time to ask yourself what it will take for you to choose something different.
What anchors you into this world, at this time? It’s a time for the visionaries among us to step up and dream a new world into being. What world do we want to create instead? Our collective fate is standing on our doorstep. History has a tendency to repeat itself because the fears at the core of humanity have not been addressed, locking us forever into repeating dramas based on power and greed. What hard choices do we need to make to align with a brave new world? Change is scary for everyone, but these are conversations that need to be had. What fears must you dismantle to step into your own brave new world? It’s time to look up from our fates, individually and collectively, and reach for our destinies instead. Christina Allen’s work as an intuitive, healer, teacher, and founder and director of the Austin Shamanic Center combines a strong science background (BA Physics, MS Neuroscience) with decades of applied ancient spiritual wisdom (Master Yogi, Reiki Master, and profound Shamanic Healing based on Q’ero Indian traditions of Peru). For private appointments and upcoming classes, call (512) 391-9829, or visit www.AustinShamanicCenter.com
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Weeds are rapidly becoming resistant to Roundup, resulting in more spraying. Increased spraying means increased glyphosate on crops – and it’s being found in samples of urine, blood, water, rain, and air, including in the blood of pregnant women and unborn fetuses. Manufacturers of Roundup claim glyphosate is safe for human consumption because we don’t utilize the same metabolic pathway as plants and bacteria do, the Shikimate Pathway. While this may be true for most human cells, research shows our gut bacteria cells do follow this pathway, one that’s important for gut bacteria to survive and benefit your digestive, immune, and nervous systems. In the presence of glyphosate, this pathway is disabled, resulting in harm to your microbiota. Many of us are not only consuming plants (and products from animals consuming genetically modified feed) that have absorbed this toxic chemical, we’re also exposed during daily activities, since Roundup is sprayed in yards where kids and pets play. Two easy steps to take to reduce your exposure to glyphosate and other toxins are purchasing foods that are non-GMO verified or USDA Certified Organic, as well as using alternative ways to fertilize and control weeds. Katie Tatterfiled, MS, is a Certified Nutrition Consultant at Inspire Wellness Center, 13740 Research Blvd, Ste. L-4, offering natural, non-invasive wellness programs through lifestyle enrichment rather than disease management. Inspire offers free weekly seminars and dinners each month, explaining different options for wellness and quality of life. RSVP and info: (512) 800-2026, www.InspireAustin.com
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HYDRATION and WEIGHT LOSS by Marge Captain Billions of dollars are spent each year on weight loss solutions. The root cause, though, isn’t too many calories, the wrong fats or carbohydrates, or not exercising enough. It’s chronic mild acidosis. How did we get to this point? The standard modern diet is high in protein, sugars, and unhealthy fats, which results in a lot of metabolic acid residue that the body must get rid of. Green leafy vegetables contain minerals and chlorophyll needed to buffer these acids, but we don’t eat enough to balance our otherwise acidic diet.
What you drink may be even worse than what you eat. Coffee, tea, and regular or diet soda are all extremely acidic. Bottled water, fruit smoothies, sports drinks, and milk also add to the acid load the body has to eliminate. Lifestyle – smoking, air pollution, stress, negative thoughts – can also contribute to increased chronic acidity. To protect itself from potentially serious damage, the body creates fat cells to store harmful acids.
Many people think they’re hungry, when they’re actually thirsty. Some studies have shown hunger pangs can be relieved by drinking one glass of water. When your kidneys are waterdeprived, the liver has to do their work, along with its own. This extra work means it can’t metabolize fat as well, which sets you up to store fat. The secret to weight loss is to decrease the body’s acidity by increasing the intake of alkaline foods, and hydrate properly with alkaline water. This balances the body’s pH, and provides the buffers needed to get rid of acid waste. Because ionization restructures the water, it can deeply hydrate cells. Toxins stored in fat cells, tissues, organs, and lymph fluids are released, resulting in fat loss. Alkaline water is an antioxidant, many times stronger than most foods or supplements. It neutralizes the body’s free radicals with its abundance of free electrons. It’s rich in ionic minerals like calcium. It’s able to neutralize and balance a chronic over-acidic state, the underlying cause of many diseases, including pain and inflammation – and systemic inflammation can prevent the body from burning stored fat. It helps the body preserve and maintain calcium, magnesium, and potassium reserves by providing ionic minerals and hydroxyl ions to buffer excess acids. Marge Captain is a hydration specialist in alkaline antioxidant water. For more information (and free water) call (512) 627-3585 or (512) 415-7669.
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Can Your Teeth Kill You? by Michael Abedin Well… can they? If you’re a zombie and stuck for a snack, maybe so, but then you’d technically already be dead, so that probably doesn’t count. On a serious note, an article in January reported that a twenty-six year old truck driver from California, a diabetic, complained of a toothache while on the road. A quick visit to an Oklahoma dentist got an infection cleaned, and some antibiotics. Two weeks later, after having breathing problems and going to a hospital, he was dead. Bacteria from the infected tooth spread to his lungs, doctors said. Several dentists pointed out that lungs are a sterile cavity, but the mouth isn’t, and it’s possible to breathe in pathogens that can cause serious infections – particularly if your immune system is already weakened or compromised. It’s already well documented that bacteria from periodontal infections can enter the bloodstream and go directly to the heart, causing serious cardiac infections, and can also go straight to the brain, causing abscesses there as well.
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Scary stuff. Good news is, your immune system can usually rally the troops before tooth or gum infections become life-threatening. Bad news? Those troops are then neglecting duties elsewhere, and sending them running all over the place, instead of simply maintaining a healthy mouth, is a drain on your vitality. Dr. Matthew Carpenter of Austin’s Transcend Dental Health makes sure new patients get a microscopic peek at what’s wiggling around in plaque during a cleaning, and then recommends natural protocols for dealing with each pathogen. Carpenter uses non-antibiotic ozone therapy (including injectable ozone) and intravenous Vitamin C for dealing with most infections, and as a routine preventive measure if a tooth or old filling has to be removed – and points out mercuryladen amalgam isn’t doing your immune system any favors.
A good rule of thumb? If you take your thumb and poke on your teeth or gums and something hurts, you’re already way behind in the game. Don’t think taking care of it now isn’t a matter of life or death? Don’t risk finding out. Dr. Matthew Carpenter of Transcend Dental Health uses drill-free air abrasion, ozone therapy, natural alternatives to antibiotics, non-surgical treatment of gum disease, safe mercury removal, and natural liposomal heavy metal elimination. (512) 255-3618, www.tdhtx.com
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UPCOMING UPCOMING EVENTS EVENTS ADVANCED HO’OPONOPONO Training and Certification, Dr. Joe Vitale March 10- 12, Red Corral Ranch, Wimberley. Join Joe and friends to train in the Hawaiian healing system. Advanced techniques, guest speakers teaching the Four Phrases in music, meditation, hypnosis, Reiki, singing bowls, essential oils, Bach remedies. Emerge as a Ho’oponopono Master. Seating limited. Information: (512) 847-3414, or visit www.AdvancedHooponoponoLive.com
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Tell them goodbye by Sharabella Fini You can’t see energy with the naked eye, but you can feel it in everything. It’s universal, in and around you, in flowing rivers, mountains, cities, and homes, influencing your prosperity, health, love, and happiness. Ever gone into a house or building and not felt comfortable? Some environments lift your spirits, others drain you. This may be caused by Earth energies, positive or negative vibrations that can influence wealth, health, relationships, and every single aspect of your life. They can harm the quality of your life if not tended to, or make you healthy and happy when they are.
Getting the Qi right in an environment is powerful protection for the soul. Energetically, everything that ever happens in a building goes out in ripples, like a stone being dropped in a pond. It’s recorded in walls, floors, and ceilings, astrally imprinted into the very fabric of a structure. Repetitive actions, behaviors, and strong emotions are the most imprinted of all. Everyone creates some etheric debris daily, leaving a stagnant residue – the same way everyday living creates physical messes that need cleaning and tidying. Think of Qi as life force that moves like wind through your environment, or like water, absorbing and releasing vibrations given out by whatever it comes into contact with.
Unless it’s blocked. Fortunately, you need not be at the mercy of blocked Qi. You can improve your life by influencing energy so it continually works in your favor. The art of spatial energy clearing, a beautifully organized system of knowledge, can create energies that continually increase and support your sense of wellbeing, protecting you and your environment. It’s based on an understanding of the essential qualities of Qi, and how to keep it fresh and flowing, balancing interior and exterior elements in your environment. Take a moment to think about your home or business. How does the energy feel? How do you feel inside the space? How are different areas of your life flowing? Maybe it’s time for stabilizing and infusing some good Qi into your environment. Sharabella Fini is a spatial energy clearing practitioner, energy medicine practitioner, Reiki Master, certified Sheng Zhen Gong qigong teacher, and an artist whose paintings and photography reflect her energy work. She teaches classes at AOMA and other holistic centers. For class schedules or appointments, email shz25@sbcglobal.net or call (512) 825-7799. www.sharabella.com
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That’s the idea, at least. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), thirty-five percent of American adults fail to achieve the recommended seven hours of sleep a night, thirty-five percent reported sleep quality of “fair” or “poor,” and twenty percent reported they didn’t wake up refreshed.
Didn’t get enough sleep? Your skin tells all. Sleep isn’t just something the body does to restore energy for tomorrow. The purpose of sleep is complex, with the body completing many tasks to keep itself in shape. Aside from replenishing energy, it enables the body to properly re-grow tissue and repair tissue damage. This can be seen by the appearance of your skin, which produces more collagen while you’re asleep – helping to prevent sagging, increased wrinkles and eye puffiness, and a dull complexion.
It affects your insides, too. Effects of long-term sleep deprivation go well beyond your skin’s appearance, and can have serious implications for physical and mental health. Sleep is just as much a necessary as food and water. Studies done by Harvard Medical School indicate lack of sleep can be a risk factor for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. A study released by the journal Hypertension revealed that quality of sleep, not just amount, could have effects on blood pressure. Researchers found men who achieved less deep sleep were more likely to have sleep apnea, sleep less overall, and be at greater risk for high blood pressure. Lack of sleep causes more cortisol production, a hormone released when the body’s under stress. Excess cortisol is believed to have negative effects on how the body uses nutrients, and contributes to belly fat.
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Your immune system is also vulnerable to sleep deprivation. Studies have consistently shown those who don’t get enough good quality sleep are more prone to get sick from exposure to illnesses, like common colds. Sleep helps the immune system release proteins needed when infection or inflammation occurs. Sleep deprivation may reduce their production, and production of antibodies. Habits can be adjusted and tools utilized to get quality sleep. Develop healthy habits before bed, turn off your electronics – and get a good night’s rest. Technical information provided by Elizabeth Gueldner, Certified Pilates Practitioner, and Rick Thompson, working together to assist with pain management and health issues using the Amethyst BioMat, offering sessions and rentals. Contact Elizabeth, (512) 560-5230, Rick, (512) 423-2972, or email biomatandhealth@gmail.com www.bio-mats.com/elizabeth-gueldner
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Dear Ashtara: Messages from Your Angels and Master Teachers Dear Ashtara, Is my sister’s baby going to be a boy or girl? Amy, 44, Austin, TX Dear Amy, I believe the baby is a girl. She should be an Excalibur because she is supposed to be a little guru or minister. She will also have abilities to become a pianist, soloist, guitarist or strings artist, but, it looks like she may become a doctor. She is born to be artistic and celebrate life every day. Her name is love personified. And, she is the best new age person on the planet. Her highest teachers will be Sandalfon and Michael.
Dear Ashtara, What does humanity need to know to help birth the Earth into the next dimension? Brunella, 23 Dear Brunella, It seems to us that the New Humanity has already taken place. We are now embarking on becoming the New Human. The New Humanity started about nineteen years ago. Today, we are shifting into becoming a new human, or not. Those that are shifting are becoming a wellspring of knowledge. Those that are not shifting remain status quo. Shifting means to open your vortex via your crown chakra and note that there are Arc of the Covenant Archangels and Ascended Masters who are giving messages to you. Your Angels are God, Gabriel, and your Master Teacher is Ashtar.
Dear Ashtara, What do the Masters see for me to be able to achieve or reach a higher level and adapt to this shifting or challenging nature that we may be going through? Guy, Austin, TX Dear Guy, When you were four years old, you almost had the same question. You have been an adept from Gabriel’s Grid. You have always been the wise one, sayeth the Lord God. You are here to create either a spiritual center or a domain of some sort where
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people come, rejoice and get happy. You are here to realize that there is a precious heart in every human. You are also here to realize that there is a great soothsayer within yourself. And when you are able to recognize that in others and that in yourself, you will then be ready for mastery on planet earth. That’s all you have to do, those two things, which you do every day of your life and always have. Your mission is to become an entrepreneur genius. You could get a financial group together and find a place where people can study and learn. Your highest teacher is Sandalfon and your great angel is Gabriel. You are the light and you are the love of God Himself.
Dear Ashtara, Should I take my staff and plant it somewhere besides Austin? Michael, Born Yesterday, Austin, TX Dear Michael, Not yet, however, within four to five years you will go to another city. You will be going to Santa Barbara to teach, speak, and heal because you have been invited. Your crown will be a wellspring by that time. Your life will change so radically that you will not believe it. I want to say amen for your work on Earth and everything that you have done. You are loved, respected and treasured. You are going to be a little guru and master teacher for the rest of your incarnation as it was reported from Hilarion, Sandalfon and the High Master Zeus.
Profound Psychic Readings & Healings can be scheduled (in person or phone). Questions answered and more. Ashtara Sasha White is a gifted Psychic, profound Healer, minister, Master Teacher, speaker, and channel from the Ascended Masters and Archangels. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, Seichim Reiki Master Teacher, Sound Current Healing Master Teacher, Embodiment Master Teacher and Teacher of the Light. Join her group on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 6:30PM. See her events at www.AshtaraSashaWhite.com
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THE WORLD IS A WOMB The Heartwakers Club, with Zaeli Pop quiz: Where do you come from? If your answer is “a long line of human ancestors,” you’ve only got half the story. Genes are important, but in the womb your body was built by the food your mother ate. Even now, you rebuild yourself every day with whatever you put in your body. You get energy by ingesting microorganisms, plants and creatures that eat them – in other words, your life source comes from the ground. There’s something magical about the Earth’s fertility. It’s awakened by Sun, moved by Water, expressed by Air. The world itself is a womb, conceiving elements into various combinations of form and spirit, giving birth to an infinitude of anecdotes, nested within epics. Our individual stories join with the collective one at the point of our own fertility. This is the wisdom is taught by the Chakra system, which cites the Root or Base Chakra (Muladhara) as our energetic focal point to the supreme womb of our environment.
So what does this have to do with relationships? There’s a lot of hostility in the air these days. Friction between races, sexes, classes, nationalities, faiths. The assumption is these are interpersonal conflicts, and if we talk long enough, we’ll be able to dictate some type of peace through intellectual means. Not a bad idea, but intellect has limits. It can only be informed by what you’re exposed to – and when you have seven billion people trying to get along, that’s quite a diversity of perspectives. Some will never align. Hence the trouble with our justice system – it can’t actually create justice, it only reacts to injustice. To have justice, in a society or a marriage, we must cultivate a sense of it within ourselves. To understand the position of another, we need more than a sharp mind – we need a visceral appreciation for what we have in common. Societies that sever the cord between body and environment soon encounter confusion, both within and among individuals. They become deaf to the rhythm that ought to coordinate Self and Other, and instead of listening closer for it, trade blame for the resulting cacophony. Most relationship issues can be traced to individuals failing to truly know themselves. They don’t connect mind to heart, heart to root, and root to Earth. Given such disorientation, emotional chaos naturally ensues.
Be at home. The first step to take when dealing with interpersonal conflict is to check whether you feel at home wherever you are. Look around whatever room you’re in, really try to notice it. Notice where light comes in, what the air tastes like, how colors and textures make your body feel. Even if it’s your own home, or a path you walk every day, meet it with your bodily senses while remaining receptive to emotional impressions. This isn’t only a gesture of respect to the many details that make up the present moment, it’s a meditation that can recondition you away from projection, toward perception. Let the weaving of sensory and energetic data be a daily yoga, marrying body and mind, Self and Other, time and place. Let it keep your whole self awake and aware, so you may be thoroughly honest in what you transmit, truly receptive to new truths. This is the real definition of being open, the spine of healthy relationships, both monogamous and non. Capital S Self-care improves quality of life, not just for the practitioner, but for all who share their space. When you tune into your body, and tune it into the Earth-body, you’re free to discern which agitations are inspired by other people, and which are the stress of unconsciously feeling our planet’s suffering. This frees you from blaming others for your irritability. You can recognize when anger is rising from the grief of our womb space, which hears the whispers of its habitat saying it’s poisoned, no longer a good place to reproduce. Avoiding the pain of the Earth is a major reason we armor our hearts. The good news is, once we decide to reconnect with our planet, we can share in our sorrow for its suffering. This can lift away the delusions of the drama that divides us, and refocus our joint attention on the great healing that wants to take place. Zaeli is a love coach helping you bring consciousness and intention to your emotional life. www.ZAELI.net
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