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CONTENTS SURRENDERING OUR SORROW An Excerpt from her new book

by Marianne Williamson

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World Peace is Happening Awakening to Knowing, to Truth, is a choice we can make

by Charlotte Rose

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The Yoga of Max’s Discontent An Interview with Karan Bajaj on his new spiritual novel

featured topic holistic food shopping for the newly converted 21 Choosing Life when deciding what to Eat, by Cynthia G. Piano 22 How to Join the Health Food Revival Spirit Leaves, by Janet Michele Red Feather 22 Shopping for Foods that are Best for You

by Warren King 24 Choose Organic, non-GMO options

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GRIEF AS SOUL MEDICINE

by Pierre MacGillis

6 One Love, One World From the Editor, by Tim Miejan 8 Riverplace Market new on Mpls Riverfront 8 U.S. Health Freedom Congress to convene July 31 in Northfield 9 Compassion: Just one Human witnessing Another, by Tina Kolniak 12 July Horoscope: Refill the Wells Mercurial Messages, by Heather Roan Robbins

A WAY TO GOD: HONORING THOMAS MERTON

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One love, one world from the editor

by Tim Miejan We’ve seen the marches in solidarity with victims of terrorism, from chants of Je suis, Charlie and the ubiquitous red, white and blue Eiffel tower icons to the massive gathering in London (right) and the rainbow lighting on government buildings as far away as Perth, Western Australia, in honor of the fallen in Orlando.

It gives me chills to see such a global reaction to local tragedy.

While it is so incredibly sad that the senseless slaughter of innocents is sparking a unity that’s never been seen before, nonetheless it is a clear demonstration of the growing connection between humans everywhere.

Of course, that is the result of us being able to instantaneously communicate with one another, thanks to technological advancements like real-time social media.

But our ability to chat from Minneapolis to Sydney, from Berlin to Rio, from Tokyo to Reykjavik, in the present moment is just a tool. What we do with it is what matters. And what is truly revolutionary is the love that is spreading like waves around the planet in the wake of these tragedies.

We now have the ability to directly demonstrate our support, and our feelings, with fellow humans living anywhere in their time of need. And conversely, each of us can receive the same love and

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support in return.

Today I find myself wondering if these terror attacks offer a silver lining, only in the sense that they inspire humanity to practice the newly evolved skill of sending love en masse to fellow citizens of the world. Without such motivation, how would we know that so many of us could broadcast such inspiration to a specific part of the world with hardly any advance notice?

Why does this matter?

It matters because it’s too easy to be shaken personally by daily reports of insensitivity, bullying, rudeness, abuse and just plain uncivil behavior between one another. It is easy to convince yourself that things are getting worse, not better. It’s easy to get down in the dumps about our collective future.

Even looking at global events from a big-picture perspective, it’s easy to think that religious-inspired radical extremism — not just Middle

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Easterners perverting Islam, but also cross-burning and abortion-protesting Americans perverting Christianity, just to name two examples — is a setback. Many of us envision a future of peace, love and understanding for all, but there is a perfect timing to everything under God. Not everything that happens can be understood.

Feel with the heart.

Let’s use these examples of global connection as a sign of the times, as a harbinger of greater peace, as a testimonial to the power of love, the energy that binds us all together.

And let’s not wait for mass casualties to share love with each other, in our neighborhoods, in our cities and nationally. Let’s create projects that unite the world in ways we’ve only begun to imagine.

As Nike says: Just do it. a Tim Miejan is editor and co-publisher of The Edge. Contact him at 651.578.8969 or email editor@edgemagazine.net.

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U.S. Health Freedom Congress to convene July 31 in Northfield Riverplace Market new on Mpls riverfront A new community based farmer’s and artisan market, Riverplace Market — operating from 3-7 p.m. on Wednesdays through the end of September, is located on the cobblestone courtyard of Riverplace, on the beautiful historic Mississippi riverfront in Minneapolis. Situated just across the bridge from bustling downtown, Riverplace Market is in a prime location at Hennepin and Main Street.

The market, a rain or shine event, is another integral part of the urban/farm linkage that has continued to rise in popularity, mostly due to the growing consumer interest in obtaining fresh products directly from the farm. Riverplace Market allows consumers to have access to locally grown, farm fresh produce and products made by Minnesota makers.

“We have a nice selection of vendors at the market,” said Mary Waldrop, regional asset manager with Sentinel Property Management Corp. “Customers can expect to find farm fresh produce, baked goods, flowers, sauces and spices, honey, nuts and products from local artisans as well as food trucks each week.”

New artisans and food producers are welcome to apply to participate in the market.

Limited single spaces are still available for select weeks.

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Health freedom is the goal of many organizations and countless individuals, and the U.S. Health Freedom Congress brings many of them together in one place to get to know each other.

Health freedom is “the inalienable right of all people to access the health care products, practitioners, and truthful information that they need for their own health and well-being.” Many wonderful groups are working for exactly that, each having a different focus and expertise.

Groups are working to protect us from mercury in dentistry, electromagnetic radiation, and other toxic exposures. Other groups are working to ensure the right of parents to have vaccine exemptions, or the right to choose alternative therapies for their children. Some organizations, like the Minnesota-based National Health Freedom Action, are working to ensure the right of holistic practitioners to practice. Other organizations, like Minnesota-based Organic Consumers Association, are working to maintain organic standards and ensure labeling of GMOs. All of these organizations have many values in common. The National Health Freedom Coalition (NHFC), also based in Minnesota, felt there could be much potential in their working together for common goals.

That’s why on July 31 through August 2 NHFC is sponsoring its 11th annual U.S. Health Freedom Congress. Like-minded organizations will gather at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., and continue their work on developing ways to collaborate more. As these influential groups build cooperative relationships, the energy of the entire health-freedom movement expands.

The summit is open to the public. People can attend for the entire three-day event, getting a chance to meet and interact with national leaders who are working towards a lasting impact on our health-care choices. Or they can choose to attend just the Health Freedom Awards Banquet and keynote speech.

This year’s keynote speaker, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, is Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA — www.organicconsumers.org) and its Mexico affiliate, Via Organica (www.viaorganica. org). OCA’s primary strategy is to work on national and Ronnie Cummins global campaigns promoting health, justice and sustainability that integrate public education, marketplace pressure, media work, litigation and grassroots lobbying. Over the past two decades, Cummins has served as director of U.S. and international campaigns dealing with sustainable agricultural issues, including food safety, genetic engineering, factory farming and global warming.

The summit’s Meet and Greet on Sunday

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evening will include the showing of the “I Stand for Health Freedom” videos from the 2015 Congress Opener, featuring presentations from two lawyers and their experiences along with a local farmer and the issues he faces. Monday evening, after the Congress activities, Clifford Carnicom will speak on Geoengineering; afterwards, the movie Vaxxed will be shown, followed by a Q & A session with the film’s director, Andrew Wakefield. Vaxxed documents an alleged cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

The National Health Freedom Coalition, along with her sister lobbying organization, the National Health Freedom Action, were born out of the Minnesota movement in the 1990s to ensure consumer access to holistic practitioners.

The successful passage of MN Statute 146A, which gave unlicensed practitioners an exemption from the medical practice act, led people from throughout the country to contact Diane Miller, JD, an attorney and key drafter and lobbyist of that bill, for help in passing similar legislation in their states. NHFC and NHFA were launched in 2001. Today, ten states have a safe harbor or similar bill that protects access to holistic practitioners.

NHFC has a passion to increase solidarity in the broad spectrum of the health freedom movement. “We all want to protect the right of people to have what they need to be well,” Miller says, “and that sometimes means fighting for our right to choose our own healing path, our right to have accurate information, our right to decline treatments, or to avoid toxic substances.”

U.S. Health Freedom Congress summit tickets are: $25 for the Keynote speech only on Tuesday evening (no dinner); $60 for the Keynote speech and Organic Banquet; $200 for entry to all events on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (includes food for all days). For more information, visit www.healthfreedomcongress.org, email judy@ nationalhealthfreedom.org or call 608.295.3827. a

Compassion: Just one human witnessing another

by Tina Kolniak “What is the most important thing you learned from that experience?” That is the question I am asked most often about witnessing the passing of my twin babies in 2013. It sounds crass, but I am glad people ask.

The level of spiritual growth that my daughters’ deaths have brought me is very difficult to explain. But my answer to the question above is undeniably…compassion.

The truth is, I don’t think I ever lived as a fully sentient being before that. I didn’t embrace the true nature of life — one of constant duality rocking between darkness and light – until I looked down the barrel of the figurative gun that took my life away in those precious moments I held my babies while they left this world.

After that traumatic, yet powerful, experience I never looked at humans the same way again.

Though what I had gone through

brought me a whirlwind of physical and emotional pain, enough to last a lifetime, instead of becoming endlessly numb I became keenly aware of the suffering I felt in others. I saw it in their body language, I heard it in their words, I felt it in their energy, but their eyes were always what gave them away. Later, I learned it was just recognition. For some unfathomable reason, and most unwillingly, I had become the newest member in a club I never knew existed. And I was meeting new members.

I’ve always been an empath, but it was different now. I reached a new level of awareness that made me incredibly uncomfortable. I would walk into a store and become struck by an energy that floated around dismally like a heavy fog. As I made my way through the store, I would inevitably find the source lingering down an aisle, and I’d wonder, “What’s your story?”

Though I would’ve much rather run away, and I often did, it became easier

to just witness the other human. And on occasion I’d find someone who was willing to look at me. As our eyes would meet, just for a moment we would recognize our common path of heartache. You see, you can’t hide these things from people who have been touched by deep grief and despair. You can heal your scars, but those scars borne by your heart are part of the person you become. And it’s ok.

My discomfort in these encounters lessened as I realized we are just two pebbles on a beach weathering the same tides and the same storms. I learned that we all have a story. I learned that we all suffer.

Compassion is just one human witnessing another. I see you. a Tina Kolniak holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Juris Doctor. She is a lifelong spirituality enthusiast and has a deep interest in the mind/body/spirit connection.

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original flat line you were just looking at.

From the perspective of knowing, you can see what your true desires are. You can see what things will truly bring you joy.

You can also see the mental blockages that keep you from these things, the thought patterns that hinder your true desires from manifesting in your experience. Just by seeing them, you recognize that they are not needed and immediately let them go. You’ll find that your old way of “working though things”over a period of time to see results and to heal mentally is no longer necessary, because the mental, “clean-up” is done on a level beyond time. It is instantaneous.

World Peace is happening Awakening to knowing, to truth, is a choice each of us can make

by Charlotte Rose A state is available to all of us where there are no questions and no answers — the state of knowing. From this perspective, fear loses its hold on us. Have you ever asked yourself why bad things happen? The reason is quite simple. As humans, we are choosing to take action based on fear-based thoughts. Where do fear-based thoughts come from? They come from other thoughts!

When we generate thoughts from the mental level, they are not original thoughts but ones that stem from existing thoughts and mental patterns that are programed by thinking the same way over a period of time.

By assuming the perspective of knowing, it allows us to uproot the mental pathways that thoughts travel through — and doing this allows us to have inspired thought.

Inspired thoughts come from an expanded perspective. This perspective has been observed by many people over the course of human history and it has gone by many names. I like to call it “the place of knowing.” You may have heard it called transcendence, mindfulness, beyond the ego, a higher frequency or dimension, etc.

When we meditate or do creative things by just “letting things flow,” we are in this place.

We are practicing how to become more comfortable and familiar with it.

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state you are in when you are completely relaxed. From this perspective, it doesn’t matter what is happening outside of your being, because you can see the entire context of your existence and you recognize all things outside of you as being a part of you on a higher level. In the same way that a cell is a part of your body, you are a part of the energetic fabric of the Universe. From this state of knowing, you understand that you are the Universe, you are the whole thing, and you have an influence on each of the moving pieces.

Affecting the pieces

How can you affect the pieces that are outside of yourself? You can affect the way that the world around you interacts with you by changing the way that you interact with the world. You have the power, as a conscious co-creator of this universe, to make choices by setting intentions.

You don’t lose the ability to work from the perspective of “you” when you assume the perspective of knowing. Instead, you are just able to work more effectively because you can actually see what is going on, on the level of “you.”

Try thinking of it like this. You are a 2-D drawing, and from the perspective of the paper you can only see lines as being flat.

When you elevate your perspective to 3-D, you can look at the paper and see the whole design rise up off of the paper from that

Setting an intention

Just as the 2-D perspective can be seen more fully from the 3-D perspective, the 3-D can be seen more fully from the 4-D (time) and the 4-D from the 5-D, etc. The perspective of knowing exists beyond the 4-D perspective of time. This is why I use the words perspective and dimension interchangeably.

This means that your entire life simply exists, but you experience it from a perspective that unfolds over a period of time. The perspective of knowing is a higher dimension, and information can be accessed by your individual self from your Higher Self upon request. Your Higher Self is part of the entire energetic fabric that is the universe.

No information is off limits. In ordinary life, we limit ourselves from having access to it by believing thoughts that are untrue. From the perspective of knowing, truth is felt, so untrue thoughts are exposed and fall away.

Setting an intention is just becoming aware of an existing desire. Setting an intention to experience something is realizing an experience as being true.

Free will

What we’re really talking about here is fate or destiny and free will. How do these concepts work together to create our experience?

Fate is the natural course of events that will take place if they are unopposed — if no resistance is created. Free will is the ability to make choices within fate.

As the person receiving and creating the experience, you have the free will — or choice — to create resistance to your fate or to move within it, in harmony. Balance is our natural state. You have the choice to be in balance or to be out of balance. Our problems in life stem from the fact that many people don’t realize that they have this choice.

I want to help you wake up and live life as if it is a lucid dream. I want you to understand that you have the ability, and the choice, to be in balance with love, peace and joy — and you have the choice to be out of balance, which creates inner and outer turmoil, pain and fear. I want to help you become self-aware.

All negativity comes from being out of balance. Whether or not you realize that you have this choice, you do. You are choosing balance or imbalance in every moment. You also have the ability to make a different choice, to re-set your choice, in every moment.

So, instead of letting one thought lead to another, you can observe the thought, label it as a thought, and choose to let it go because you know that it does not feel balanced. These decisions are made from the place of knowing and are translated to your individual perspective as a feeling of truth.

You can tune into this frequency of truth, love and joy in many ways. You can feel it as a physical sensation in your body, you can feel it as a relaxation of your mind, you can feel it as love, as the absence of fear, as a newness, or as a deep joy. All of us have experience with this feeling of truth. You can come to recognize it, be comfortable with it and never again leave it.

The feeling of truth

So, how can you cultivate this feeling of truth, this expression of knowing? In a way, this is a trick question, because there is nothing that you have to “do” to assume your natural perspective. If you must think of it in terms of action, you can say that it is inaction — total relaxation. It is the letting go of the need to be doing and figuring out and thinking, and it is the allowance of thoughts and actions to be inspired.

Just allow yourself to assume your natural perspective.

Many people call this stage of our life experience “awakening.” Many people have lived and died without ever getting to or through this stage. Some people will die without ever getting to it, not because they are incapable of it, but because they never choose it.

The choice is always ours to make.

This is not a choice that can be forced upon someone. By living your truth, by being in your natural state of knowing,

you will bring others with you by example.

People throughout human history have lived from this state, and they have inspired others to do the same, through their exampl.

As more and more people “awaken” to their true nature, we pick up speed in doing so as a collective human organism.

The current stage of human evolution is one of awakening.

Letting go

I spent a lot of time in this stage. It was very difficult for me not to actively make this happen and, instead, just allow it to happen.

This stage is about trusting your true nature, and it involves the dissolution of many thoughts that make up beliefs that are, in essence, your identity.

This is an identity shift, or rather, the ability to see yourself as being more than just the self you are used to. People have called this stage the dissolution of the ego, awakening and the shift. I call it relaxing.

It’s best not to understand it as a learned skill, but as letting go of everything that is no longer needed in your life.

We create belief structures with the intention of keeping ourselves safe from others — other people, other places, other events and other concepts that we believe to be a danger to our value and well-being. When we realize that separation is just an illusion and that we are all just moving pieces of the infinitely divisible “one energy,” we lose the need to hold onto false beliefs that keep us from being guided by our intuition. We return to our natural state of one-ness and inspiration, where the individual self is in balance with all of the other pieces — and everything that we experience, individually and collectively, moves fluidly in the path of least resistance, love and joy.

Why we exist

If the universe is just one energy and we are all just pieces of it, what is the purpose of our existence? We exist for the soul purpose of experiencing. The universe is  see

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July horoscope: Refill the wells Mercurial Messages through the Zodiac

by Heather Roan Robbins As July begins, our thoughts are called back to our biological and chosen family, home and homeland. We need to work together; our chosen family can help. Let’s engage what nurtures and protects us as Mercury, the Sun and Venus all run together in Cancer, leader of the emotional water signs. Our moods can be oceanic, but like Cancer’s symbol, the crab, we can thrive in these depths. Also like the crab, we may want to guard with shell and claw when we’re feeling vulnerable.

Gardens ripen and sweet intuitive moments flow, but events may challenge us to solve problems in a way that aligns with our spiritual path as Venus opposes Pluto — the planet of death, rebirth, power and transformation — on July 1, and the Sun and Mercury follow on July 7-8. We can appreciate a more celebratory, if melodramatic, mood as Mercury and Venus enter Leo July 12-13, followed by the Sun July 22.

Throughout July, Mars in Scorpio stirs the depths of our psyche, challenging us every day to step away from retribution and aggression, and step towards transformative focus.

Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)…Find a balance between professional concerns and potentially sweet work at home through mid-July. Don’t give into discouragement. If you’ve been unusually private about intimate problems concerning sex, money and resentments, introspectively do your homework and talk it out mid-month. Look for pleasantly rowdy sociability after July 21.

Taurus (Apr. 20-May 20)…Your neighbors, community and siblings need your strength and stability as the month begins. Don’t try to talk people out of their feelings, just be there for them. Look for heart-opening opportunities

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experiencing itself through our individual perspectives. We need the illusion of separation to do this. It’s not a process of getting rid of anything. All we are doing is elevating our perspective so that we can experience ourselves more fully.

Our natural state of being is one of no resistance. Everything moves and flows in balance with everything else. As more of us return to this natural state, we influence those around us to do the same.

Fear stems from feeling that we must have a purpose other than this.

Our individual value comes from being a piece of the whole. We are automatically worthy of having balance, of having joy, of having love, of having peace, because it is natural to us.

When we see ourselves as separate, we begin searching for our value in other things, such as thoughts (beliefs) that hold us in a state of imbalance, or, resistance. For example, you might search for your value in your appearance, thinking, I will be valuable when I look like this, or, I am valuable now because I look like this. You might search for your value in other things, thinking, I will be valuable when I have this much money, or, I will be valuable when I have this 12 www.edgemagazine.net

July 6, 20 and 31. Use your stubbornness to stabilize, not argue, to enrich the home front July 21-31.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)…Your material resources need attention as the month begins. Don’t let financial tension interrupt your primary relationships; worry isn’t needed (particularly July 7), but foresight and organization are needed. Engage a good creative outlet for abundant feelings after July 22.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)…You may be in the spotlight whether you like it or not this busy month. Instead of resisting, find a safe, centered way to lead. Where generosity flows from you, it returns back to you from a different source. Stabilize mood swings July 6-8, after July 15 let others take the stage and feed your introverted side.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)…You may feel unseen as the month begins, but you will be needed; the action is behind the scenes. Be gentle and supportive through July 12. Unexpected challenges can create opportunities mid-month.

You come more into your own, life unfolds with more health and graciousness after July 22.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)…Work the crowd, love your friends, be solid and further your hopes and ambitions as the month begins. Imagination can flow through the first week. Be cautious and exercise great self-care July 7-11.

Take a chance to retreat, introspect and make personal changes July 19-30.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)…Even though it’s summertime, engage opportunities to work effectively and be appreciated as the month begins. Stay centered, rested, and available July 4-8. Make new connections, network, people find it easy to like you mid-month. Work less, rest and renew more after July 20, summer really begins to shine. 

much free time, or, I will be valuable when I create that thing, or, I will be valuable when I have that experience in my life.

These ideas are obviously untrue, because they assume value to be temporary and dependent rather than assumed and inherent. You are valuable simply because you exist. You are valuable because you are the Universe. Without the illusion of separation, there is no one to give value and no one to receive it — it is just the natural state of all things. When you understand this, those false thoughts that you believed you needed to continue to think to protect yourself from things that might steal your value fall away, because they are no longer needed. They never were needed — you just couldn’t see it from that perspective.

Our natural state

So, how can we return to our natural state of being? Allow your thoughts, and your questions, to be inspired. Allow the delightful adventure to unfold. From the level of knowing, where there are no questions and no answers, the fun comes in the inspiration that flows to us effortlessly and brings us beauty and delight time and time again. When you start to shift into this expanded perspective, you will be amazed

at the ways that the Universe plays with you and brings miracle after endless miracle into your experience.

When you hear something that is true, you recognize it on a soul level, although your mind may still reject it. You will create experiences in which truth is presented to you again and again until you accept it.

If I am not the person whose voice brings answers to your questions, if you are not ready or willing to hear me, then truth will present itself to you in another way. If you do hear me, if you do feel the truth in my words, then you will express this truth to others in yours and through you balance will continue to spread throughout our collective human experience.

Trust that those who need to hear you are listening, so speak. Trust that those who hold the answers to your questions are speaking, so listen.

World peace is happening. a Charlotte Rose is a singer, rapper, writer, poet and visual artist from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her contagious creative spirit flows through her artwork which is always bold in concept and honest in delivery. Charlotte Rose is unapologetic in her self-expression and is known for inviting the inner artist of her listeners and viewers to join her in play as she explores the world around her through artistic conversation.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)…People will take you seriously but won’t see you clearly through the summer. Don’t worry about being understood, just do what needs to be done; you will be appreciated afterwards. You love solitude (particularly July 3-9) not loneliness, but you need to speak up to receive. Watch your attitude late July, it reflects back to you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)…Another growth opportunity; small challenges bring a chance to find a balance with both freedom and maturity as the month begins. Don’t try to jolly people out of their rolling emotions until July 16: your enthusiasm is needed and appreciated later in the month. Just be careful with other people’s resources, as carelessness causes tension.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19)…Focus on significant relationships, their presence, lack, or needs (particularly July 6-9). Stand by them, but take as good care of yourself as you do them, and all will be stellar. Utilize an opening to create stable relationships July 18-20, rest rather than get edgy July 29-31.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)…As the month begins, if you feel out of your element, review and adjust your relationship to animals, daily health routines, work systems. Use gentle work to stay grounded through mood swings July 7-11. Opportunities expand after July 12; work your network. Be reliable July 19-27, and doors can open.

Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)…Mediate and help folks understand one another, but remember that although you can help, you can’t fix them. Work towards steadiness as emotions wobble July 7-8; look for an opportunity that begins as a loss. Local travel furthers, distant travel can challenge but is transformative; share opinions diplomatically. a Heather Roan Robbins is a heart-centered and choice-oriented astrologer, palmist and ceremonialist with 30+ years’ experience. Her book, Moon Wisdom: Transform Your Life using the Moon Signs and Cycles, brings real astrology into an accessible format. She’s trained in astro-locality, mythic, multi-generational and traditional astrology and uses it at the core of her spiritual counseling. For a daily view, read Starcodes at www.roanrobbins. com.

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unsubstantiated rumours

by Jesse Castro I want an unusual completeness, completely, if I should find myself walking before angels.

I want to live someone else’s life free of someone else’s guilt.

I don’t want the burden of unnecessary ignorance making me unique.

I want to be the superficial clarity of purposeful intention, briefly.

I don’t want to be found outside of prayer.

I want a natural awakening. a

I want to be the one that rings the bell that brings the world to faith.

Jesse Castro is a poet, outsider artist, community activist, art educator and advocate for the displaced and at-risk children and their parents.

I don’t want to fly without at least the promise of wings.

I want to encounter gravity, gradually, on my own terms.

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Nature supports your transformation A Pleiadian Message

by Christine Day Beloved ones, we greet you. At the end of June an energetic redesign was created on your planet, and through this anchoring a powerful frequency of love was forged.

This pure frequency has been created with the potential to expand the framework of light that has been entering the earth plane through the Sun’s rays. This energetic redesign has been orchestrated through an unlimited timeline that has opened up to effectively support those of you ready to move to another level of awakening.

A pure frequency of love is held and stabilized within the Covenant that has just opened up and anchored on your Earth plane. The Covenant has been predestined to be here to enable you to realign to sacred components of Self now. The frequency of love that is held within the Covenant contains an aspect of the Sacred within you, and it is a part of the One consciousness of which you are a part. This forceful and transformative happening has been preordained for you to receive an anointing through this essence of love, creating the possibility for and accelerated reunion of Self within your heart space.

Another part of the transformative element of the Covenant is what we call the action of “the lifting of veils.” This lifting creates a series of dimensional openings that we liken to “a curtain lifting on a stage,” revealing Truth. At a certain moment, these dimensional openings will move you naturally beyond the 3rd dimensional illusion, revealing to you an understanding and Truth that exists on a higher consciousness level.

Through these revelations, you will naturally open into the Higher Realm initiations of Self. This expanded frequency of consciousness is designed to bring you into a sacred reunion with the energy of Christ and Mother Mary. They will both play an

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essential role within your awakening by bringing the purest teachings of love to you. They hold up for you a mirror of compassion. They have come in this higher profile through a new format of connection, bringing support to each one of you in your ongoing self-resurrection process.

Expanded openings

Within this frequency change of the energetic setting of the planet, a birthing of your electrical systems within your physical body will take place. From these expanded openings within you, you will have the capability of housing your own sacred unlimited light form within your body. This will set off an intense metamorphic process that will begin to activate and transform your physical cells and energetic field. This shifting process will create an enormous change within your perceptions of yourself and the role that you are to play in the world and within the Universe.

This transformational process will release

many of the discrepancies of the 3rd dimensional illusion that you have been holding within your body. As you move through this metamorphosis, many physical changes will take place within your body. Many of these changes will be expressed within your physical and energetic body and they will be seen and misinterpreted as illness or disease. Adjustments will be required by you, as you experience unfamiliar symptoms within your systems. The activation of this metamorphic process will create a rapid, shifting process within as you go through an intense birthing cycle of opening a new electrical system through your physical body.

Within this metamorphic process there will be many indefinable “first time” experiences opening up to you. There will be emotions and feelings that you will not being able to be describe or reference to any previous experience. These dynamics arise from an expanded multi-dimensional timeline that anchors through your newly birthed electrical system. These changes will

be taking place on many multidimensional energetic levels within you at the same time.

There will be multiple shifts taking place in your physical and energetic body as you go through this intense adjustment period.

This natural process

There is a deep need for you to begin to understand that this change in the dynamic within your life will play an important role in your transformation, enabling you to move beyond limitation on this planet. These processes are to be expected now and they are designed for you to “let go” and move naturally beyond the veils. You need to be prepared to experience even deeper states of confusion and “not knowing” than you have previously.

The launching of this new form of Self can be likened to a death — a rebirth process where nothing will seem familiar. This process needs to be understood by you so that you can allow the monumental step of “letting go” within you.

Now is the time to move into your river of light and allow this natural process, this birthing, to take place. Letting go is essential, and then you need to allow the current of your river to take you effortlessly to where you need to be placed in this moment of time. There is no handbook on this part of your journey, however, there are many hands being held out to you, to support, to steady and to guide you forward.

This is an aspect of the Covenant’s role, to hold a steady platform for you to

naturally align to your “river of light.” Remember, you are but a drop of water in a huge ocean of light, and your river leads you into that ocean of light, the Collective God Consciousness, of which you are naturally a part. It is time for your separation to end. This is the time for you to rejoin the collective energy of the One. We are holding each one of you as you take this timely step back to Home!

During this transitional event you can expect the unusual, the unexpected, as you move through this rapid metamorphosis. We need you to take in this information of impending change. Do know that you have set this whole sacred process in motion, and this is the perfect time for this next phase of your birth.

Expect change

The very best way for you to work, to align to these changes, is to first expect them and then to open to them. Secondly, be willing to utilize what you have been given in the form of support. Allow yourself to fully integrate and flow with this very new and different dynamic of transformation that is coming.

The energy of nature is now holding sacred frequencies designed to support you in this transitional phase of your awakening. The inner power and consciousness that is held within the various aspects of the natural forces can support you in your integration.

This can be found within the Sun’s rays of brilliance. You open to the rays of the Sun by  see Pleiadian on p. 18

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The Yoga of Max’s Discontent A Conversation with novelist Karan Bajaj

by Tim Miejan We’ve read the iconic spiritual novels — Siddhartha, The Celestine Prophecy, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull — and have taken the epic pilgrimages through light and darkness, from naiveté to wisdom, and have embedded these stories into our collective consciousness. With his fourth novel, the first to be published outside of his native India, Karan Bajaj’s The Yoga of Max’s Discontent has quietly emerged as another novel to accompany us along our personal journey toward enlightenment.

Bajaj introduces us to Max Pzoras, a child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project and, yet, managed to triumph over his humble upbringing. Now a Wall Street analyst, Max finds himself tormented wth anguish over his mother’s recent passing and questions about suffering and mortality. Synchronistic encounters with a street vendor is all the impetus Max needs to begin a quest to find answers in the farthest reaches of India, where he almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village in South India.

Unlike his protagonist, the author grew up in the Himalayas and found success in the United States. Bajaj, 36, balances a stellar corporate career with a spiritual life that includes meditation, yoga and sacred travel. He once worked as a director for Kraft Foods, a brand manager for Procter & Gamble, and a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in India, the Philippines, Singapore and the United States. He was nominated to be a “Top 40 under 40 Marketer in the U.S.” by Advertising Age in 2007. He was also selected as one of the “Top 35 Under 35 Indian” by India Today.

Bajaj is currently the chief marketing officer of Aden + Anais, a global provider of cotton muslin products for babies.

Bajaj’s new novel, The Yoga of Max’s Discontent (Riverhead Books), is already receiving rave reviews. The book was inspired

by Karan’s one-year spiritual sabbatical, traveling with his wife, Kerry, learning yoga in a South Indian Ashram, meditating in complete silence in the Vedantic tradition in the Indian Himalayas, and living as a Buddhist Monk in a Scottish monastery.

He spoke with The Edge by phone while working in London about his writing and his perspective on meditation, yoga and spirituality.

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to do right now is truly answer my most deepest, most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

Now, I think of my writing as having two foundations: entertainment and meaning.

The meaning portion is really me trying to answer my questions. The entertainment aspect of it is how I make a story that can make people turn the pages.

I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.

Would you say this new novel, The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, really gets to the heart of where you are as a person?

KB: Yes, absolutely. The questions that I

Karan Bajaj Karan, what inspires you to write fiction?

Karan Bajaj: In the first 27 years of my life,

I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form. The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

India went through a dramatic revolution after the ’90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experiencefilled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India, because nobody was writing about that at that point.

How did your ambition as a writer evolve over the years?

KB: That has evolved a lot. What I’m trying

ask in the novel are my questions, but then again, I did want to make sure that I didn’t write it like a Ph.D. piece. I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous.

That was the hardest part to crack for me.

Was it trial and error for you to get that aspect of the book correct, or did it just come to you as you went into it?

KB: It was a lot of trial and error. What

helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from the perspective of an Indian main character, I think I would have assumed a lot of knowledge and I would have resented the presence of the author.

A lot of the book is about karma and rebirth. Things like that are very attuned to my life as an Indian, but when I approach it from a perspective of a Westerner, then I have a skeptical, yet kind of novice view on it. I think that choice really liberated the story to be its own story. A lot of the conclusions that Max reaches on his own are not mine at all. So, I think that allowed the story to take on its own momentum, to have its own propulsive force.

Your blog indicates that you have traveled extensively, climbing Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu, and other peaks. Is that why your novels are always about characters on some sort of a journey?

KB: The journey becomes a very good

metaphor for the hero, either leaving the

ordinary world to go to the extraordinary world, or being forced to leave the ordinary world. What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero’s push, or that push has come to him.

And it allows you to show some evolution in the character’s life, as well.

KB: Exactly. Then the whole hero’s journey

kicks in and the book is not so much a thinking novel. It has a lot of thoughts in it, but it was not about a guy reflecting and sitting and thinking. It was about how, when you get to an extraordinary world, you reveal your entire actions. The story becomes very fast-paced because he has to act, because of all that is so unfamiliar to him. And through his process of action, he is revealing himself as a character.

That is why journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn’t become mainstream enough because the pages don’t turn themselves.

Your new book is fiction, and yet there are aspects of it that reflect your life — your experiences in India with yoga and meditation and your experience in the corporate world — and you’re able to blend those together.

KB: They are, but in a sense the novel is

a reverse of my life. This guy leaves the corporate world behind to go to India and becomes a Yogi in the Himalayas. I have kind of done the opposite, growing up India and coming to the U.S. Even after all my journeys, I’ve always come back to my life in business. A lot of experience I have borrowed from my life, but they are also a little bit opposite from my life. When I started conceptualizing it, I would have probably based it more on my life and had the character come back to the U.S., but the story took on a life of its own.

The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency — the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust.

What I’ve realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.

But the thrust of the character, as I got into the journey, was to be in nature, serving in nature and not serving in the world. As I got deeper into the character, I found he is most alive when he is in physically hard circumstances, when he is using his hands.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I

“What happens when the yogis find the unborn, un-aging…this thing they are looking for?”

“I don’t know sir,” said Viveka. “But I see the faces of those who stop by my cart here. They’re like the faces of the soldiers in the army and the people in my village.

Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogis’ faces were different.”

“Happier?”

“Not exactly, sir, more like…silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain — as though they knew exactly who they were.” think my karma is to be in the world.

A number of people really have a sour taste about the corporate world. How do you embrace the corporate world and see beyond it at the same time?

KB: That is a good question. I think nothing,

at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

For example, if you get into the details of living in an ashram, which I did for six months in India, you find that ashrams have more politics than corporations do. Once you get into the details of the management structure there, people are pulling each other down and everybody wants to be the head honcho. I don’t think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

So I don’t know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life. When I came to the U.S., Kraft sponsored my green card, so I was at Kraft foods and I owed them, I felt. But then as my life purified more and more, I felt that that corporation was not doing the right things for the world. That led me to a company that makes organic baby products. It is very pure in its actions and how it deals with others.

I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad.

Anything external will always live in that polarity — a combination of good and bad.

As I said, I think Kraft doesn’t do the right things for the environment, but on the other hand, I met people there who really improved and enhanced my life and were genuinely very humble, open people.

There are no absolutes.

KB: Yeah, there are no absolutes.

To what degree did you explore yoga and meditation when you lived in India?

KB: I have been meditating for many years

now, but I think for quite a few years my

relationship with meditation was very intellectual. I would do meditation for all the usual things that you would think about, to be more calm, be more productive, relieve stress. But over the last two or three years after my mother died from cancer, I think meditation became truly a means to a deeper connection as I was searching for a deeper truth within myself. Meditation became almost more spiritual than material in nature over the last two or three years and it has deepened a lot as a result of that.

My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

What are your thoughts on how yoga and meditation are practiced in the United States?

KB: I think it is at a very nascent level —

perhaps that’s the best way to put it. There are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

So, these approaches are very different, but I hope what happens is that once you are on the journey, you evolve your own position.

Hopefully along the journey one will realize the true, purest essentials of the practice.

KB: Exactly. That has happened to me.

When I started, these were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose  see

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Enjoy this healthy pasta dish in summer Food First

by Nutrition Julie Want to go dairy-free, but still crave a creamy texture?

Want to go gluten-free, but still crave pasta? I’ve got you covered with this very fresh dish that you can make with a few simple ingredients from the Farmer’s Market! This is an easy dish that takes about 20 minutes to make and pairs well with a green salad. Did I mention that it is also packed with nutrients? Instead of feeling tired after a big pasta meal, try this and see for yourself the energy you will feel!

Zucchini Noodles with Basil Avocado Pesto Noodles: 3 large zucchini Olive oil (optional) Pesto: 1 large bunch of basil (about 2 cups, loose) 2 ripe avocadoes (peeled & pitted) 3 cloves garlic Juice of 1 lemon (about 2 or 3 T) 1/2 cup pine nuts, walnuts or hemp seeds 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil Himalayan Salt and Black Pepper to taste  Pleiadian

Directions: Using a spiralizer, make noodles from the zucchini.

You can use the noodles raw, just as they are, or you can heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a pan and stir-fry the noodles briefly for about 2 minutes until tender. The noodles are great either way!

To make the pesto, separate the basil leaves from the main large stems and put leaves into a food processer with the avocadoes, garlic, lemon and nuts or seeds.

Pulse and blend well in the food processer. Next, keep the food processor running and slowly add in the olive oil until the pesto is creamy and to your desired texture. Add Himalayan salt and pepper to taste.

Toss Noodles and Pesto together and enjoy! Great paired with a green salad or fruit salad. a Nutrition Julie is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and Raw Food Nutrition Educator who is passionate about Nutrition, Health and Wellness. Julie believes that real, whole, nutritious foods are a powerful tool in living a healthy, conscious, disease-free life and works to educate, inspire and empower the people she works with through her step-by-step Food First System. For more information, visit www.NutritionJulie.com.

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bringing them consciously into your body through your awareness and the Conscious breath. Open to the wind’s flow, feel the wind on your body, on your face, close your eyes and open your awareness into the feeling of the wind on your body and let go into the wind. Bathe in the water’s fluidity, open into the sound of the water and let go.

Bring your awareness into the sound of the running water, the waves and the raindrops.

You need to breathe, let go.

Lie on the Earth with your palms downward, connecting to the energy of the Earth.

Bring your awareness to the connection to the Earth through the palms of your hands, then use your conscious breath and let go.

Take in the pure essence from the Earth Mother and feel the natural force of the Earth’s energy begin to flow into your cells.

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 Max’s

Discontent from p. 17

weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

In the new novel, you introduce the yogis who put everything into their spiritual journey — complete devotion to transcending the human body. What were your experiences like in India? Were you able to get to know some of these people?

KB: Oh, yeah. Almost every yogi

that appeared in the book is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation — I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story. For example, the two Babas that I have met personally are the guy who lives only on milk — he has been living on milk for years — and the standing Baba, who’s practicing the austerity of standing. Those are people that I have met myself.

Regarding some of the super powers that I reference, like walking on water, I haven’t seen people do that, but once you get into the science, a lot of it starts to make a lot of sense, for example, like people being able to read your mind. It’s very logical, because words are just a grosser form of thought, and thought is just a grosser form of feeling. Somebody who is purified with life enough would be able to read your feeling before it becomes a word in your mouth. It is not very hard

All of these four natural elements are designed to support your rapid transformation through your powerful integration process.

Know that the mountains, the trees, the flowers and birds and animals all play an extended sacred role for you at this juncture of your unfolding.

Your sacred imprint

The Covenant holds your sacred Imprint, acting as a chalice to hold the Imprint framework of your sacred Form. As you choose to birth the next phase, you begin to draw from your individual Imprint and anchor it through your systems. There is nothing more potent and revitalizing for you at this time as you utilize and align to the Covenant energies that are here for you in your awakening process.

As you become your sacred Form, you

to understand — and you meet people like that. Almost everything is very factual and scientific and not exaggerated.

Some people say that the answer is not going to the Himalayas, but being able to embrace our humanness right where we are by perceiving even negative experiences as gifts and treasures.

What are your thoughts on that?

KB: I very much agree. I think

it is a little bit about karma again. In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It’s growing and flying and it’s experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

In a sense, there is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.

There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore.

All he wants to do is spend all his time in silence and contemplation. And then there are people

are able to carry this frequency of light consciousness that is electrical in nature.

As you draw from your Imprint, a total electrical transformation will open through you as you begin to activate and utilize your new electrical system. This process will enable you to hold the full electrical light frequency of your sacred Higher Self nature within your physical body.

We, the Pleiadians, hold the container of the Covenant in place for all mankind.

You choose when you begin to source through your Imprint framework within the Covenant and access your own Higher Self Imprint.

Your time is now to step forward and begin your own sacred activations — you birthing you. This has always been an aspect of your pre-agreed destiny this lifetime, and only you can choose the moment of realignment.

We are bringing a process for you to

like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that — and that is my journey.

There is no absolute truth that it is better to be in the world or be out of it. I think it is just your own truth and where you are in what feels completely in line with your own formation.

We all have our own journey, don’t we?

KB: Exactly. When I started on the path, too,

I really thought I would become a yogi in a cave, but I didn’t have clarity about my path. When I evolved in the ashram for six months, I learned a lot, but I realized that it was not my natural state of being. So, I came back to the world.

What has been one of the most mystical experiences you have had on a travel journey for yourself?

KB: I remember sitting and talking to a guy up

in the mountains without speaking a word. That didn’t seem as mystical and unusual as it felt later, because he could just answer my questions with just feeling, and I didn’t need to use any words to articulate my thoughts at all. Those kinds of incidents happened a lot in the Himalayas.

Others have been in places like Bhutan, for example. The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you’ve stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more. Other quite mystical experiences were like spending time in the Gobi desert in Mongolia.

Talk to me about the 414 formula you have adopted and what that means.

KB: The formula has evolved a little bit over

the last decade. What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take another year off. It is not

begin to access and activate your Imprint energy that is being held by the Covenant. This is a simple process that begins a new cycle for you as you consciously choose to begin this next level of your path. Know that many of you are already on aspects of this path, are already experiencing some of the strong symptoms of change. These activations will support you in accelerating your process, and support you in being able to navigate more easily through this time.

In this moment, there is an essential need to understand the importance of your process of “letting go” into your river of light. Each one of you has your own unique river of light that holds a frequency that is unlike any other in the Universe. Through your frequency, you are known and received within the Collective One. The Covenant carries the sacred connection to your river of light. As you access your unique Imprint, you open into your “river of light” and it becomes the bridge.

about just working and then writing for a year.

That is not how it is structured. It is about doing very conscious goal-driven activities for four years and then taking a year off in complete surrender to discover facets of myself that I don’t know exist and exploring interests with no commercial value associated with them at all.

The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time.

In the four years that I am actually working in a proper job, I am earning money and I’m also writing with a lot of discipline on the side. Then in the year that I take off, I don’t have any goals.

I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga and meditation or just living in a completely random place like Mongolia or Portugal or Bhutan. Then when I come back, I am much more intuitive, creative, right-brained.

That kind of system has been working very well for me.

But, if I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don’t know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don’t think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

I imagine you have finished writing this novel a while back. Are you working on a new one?

KB: No, not at all. Right now I am just diving into

life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book. I feel like if I were to write something, I would probably repeat the same idea in a different story. What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I’m just experiencing life now, you know? a For more information on Karan Bajaj, visit www. karanbajaj.com.

Tim Miejan is editor and co-publisher of The Edge. Contact him at 651.578.8969 or email editor@edgemagazine.net.

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Alignment process

This is the process to align to the Covenant: 1. Bring the palms of your hands to your heart space. Remember your heart space is contained within the whole chest area. You will connect here by using the Conscious breath, and placing that breath, like a soft wind, into your heart.

2. Bring your sound, EE…, directly into the heart cells, feel an opening up through your heart. Use this sound until the opening feels complete for now.

3. Breathe into the opening and let go, claim your heart space. Use the Conscious breath again, placing the breath into the core of your heart.

4. Bring your sound, EE…, placing it directly where the opening exists, just let go and Be in that space. Use this sound as many times as you need.  see

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built into the human experience as a means for us, as souls, to evaluate how the human part of us chooses to respond to challenges.

Loss or failure can limit us or it can make us stronger and wiser with a richer life experience. However, when we glimpse behind the scenes and view life as a temporary role that we are playing, losses and failure don’t paralyze us as much. In other words, as we become more awake to our permanent identity, we become freer.

Be more fully and consciously present  in each moment of life to experience more joy. It reminds me of Emily’s famous line in the play Our Town: “Is anyone really aware of life while they’re living it?” This is a theme that we all can relate to, for we often go through life in our heads rather than appreciating the underlying love and beauty that is available in each instant, often only noticing it when it’s gone.

Lessons learned from 3,000 past life regressions “Man is a soul, and has a body. When he properly places his sense of identity, he leaves behind all compulsive patterns. So long as he remains confused in his ordinary state of spiritual amnesia, he will know the subtle fetters of environmental law.” — Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda

by Eric J. Christopher After guiding more than 3,000 past life regressions over the past 15 years, I’ve noticed three common themes or soul lessons that often emerge during the latter part of the session when the Earth life is over and is being reviewed from the vantage point of the soul. There is such wisdom in these lessons that I wanted to share them with you:

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5. Now, you are going to begin to align to the Covenant energy. You need to stay in your heart space, and begin to align to the Covenant by using this sound: AE STAE NAH. Take a conscious breathe and let go.

Open your awareness into the space, breathe and let go. Now repeat this process slowly, being aware of a growing presence around you of the Covenant.

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Do not live from fears or guardedness.  You will regret the times that you allowed fears to hold you back or limit your life expression in any way. A common example is withholding your expression of love by guarding your heart from emotional pain.

Other regrets include choosing security over pursuing a passion, love or joy, whether it be marrying for status and money instead of love or holding back on following a dream. As Wayne Dyer once said, “Don’t die with your music still left in you.”

Be more proactive in creating your  life experience rather than simply reacting to what life gives you. I’ve heard many variations of this same missed opportunity.

Unfortunately, we cannot get through life without loss or failure, because they are

consciousness moving around you. Repeat this as many times as you feel is right for you, it is essential to continue letting go as you work within the process.

Do not rush this process!

When you are ready, you are going to begin to align to your Imprint that is being held within the Covenant: 6. Bring your awareness back to where you are holding your heart space. Take a breath right into your heart space.

7. Now bring in the sound:

We can understand these lessons intellectually, but yet not fully feel and experience the truth of this wisdom. The value of past life regression is that it can allow us to integrate deeper soul truths at the level of the body and subconscious mind, thus helping us to more easily live from them in our daily lives. This is because towards the end of the session, the background noise of the thinking mind is silent and you are fully anchored in the here and now, which is actually a higher dimension of your being that is saturated in peace, love and clarity.

You are more deeply connected to the soul part of you that is always “here” and never goes away — not only throughout the years of your life as the body ages, but even long after the body is left behind. a Eric J. Christopher has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and is a Certified Regression Hypnotherapist. Eric’s life passion has been to help clients connect to their inner wisdom that can uncover and heal the roots of limiting fears and beliefs, thereby enabling them to experience the freedom, peace and clarity of their wise soul self. He specializes in past life regression therapy, life-between-lives therapy, and also present life deep emotional healing of the body and subconscious mind. He has a private practice in St. Paul. To learn more, visit www.ericjchristopher.com.

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DAN STAH. Feel a quickening begin within your heart and a connection from the Covenant to your heart open up. Keep using the sound as you begin to source your Imprint energy from the Covenant into your heart.

8. As you build this connection you begin to naturally align to the current of your “river of light.”

Enjoy the collective moments of your journey, being in the moment!

Blessings, The Pleiadians a Christine Day is a leading spiritual teacher, healer, channel and author. Following a traumatic childhood in her native Australia, Christine was diagnosed with advanced Systemic Lupus at the age of 31 and given a short time to live. Shortly afterward, she experienced a profound spiritual awakening with the Pleiadians, the energy of which moved her to a place of complete selfhealing. Since then Christine has been presenting Pleiadian Events, Seminars and Transmissions of Light throughout the United States and internationally. Visit www.

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CHOOSING LIFE WHEN DECIDING WHAT TO EAT

by Cynthia G. Piano It was seven years ago when I returned home to Illinois to rest a bit from a hectic, painful descent into the spiritual underworld of Kaua’i.

That is a story for another day.

Today, I will tell you about the beautiful, magical, miraculous transition of my mother.

She was almost 200 pounds when I arrived, which was a very dangerous condition indeed for an 82-year-old, 5' 2" beauty — the hometown flavor of an Ava Gardner look-alike. We spent a few weeks of trips to our favorite fried chicken restaurant that was blessingly only blocks away, relishing the BBQ and garlic wings, and perfectly dipped chicken legs. The pork roasts, potatoes and carrots were baked to deliciously spiced goodness, and the thought of a salad was a distant memory.

No, I had not given up eating meat, yet.

Then something happened. Like a light switch turned on to bright or fan set on high, I started to read labels and educate myself on healthy food.

Drs. Oz, Hoffman and Mercola fed me with valuable information backed by scientific fact and observation. I also started to read The Health Ranger and other natural food alarm experts to awaken me to my faulty eating ways with “scared straight” tactics. As I sought more information, I found more and more.

I pondered over labels in the grocery stores, so much so that I was asked numerous times if I “needed help.” Yes, in fact, I did. And so did most

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I began to observe the number of unhealthy people in my community who were just counting the minutes before their next appointment at the doctor’s office or their next round of pills. Some were not physically overweight and appeared to be rather healthy, yet their addiction to the medical industry solutions were sending up red flags everywhere. Mom was still on blood pressure medicine, and I knew not what else. My belief and trust of the invasive and controlling, not to mention expensive, American medical traditions had been abandoned years ago, save for a teeth cleaning once every year by a wonderful dentist.

My mom and I discussed what we had heard and read, and we decided to change our eating habits, and her drug habit. Over the next five years we ate almost all organic foods, cut our meat consumption 80-90 percent, drank copious amounts of Fiji and Crystal Geyser water — even  see

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HOW TO JOIN THE HEALTH FOOD REVIVAL Spirit Leaves

by Janet Michele Red Feather Healthy eating is not a new concept: like any major religious movement, it has merely undergone a revival. Inspired by this month’s subtitled reference to the “newly converted,” I’ve exploited religious metaphors to illuminate a path to healthful shopping.

Despite my advanced years, I am yet a callow fledging in the area of healthy eating. I offer the vantage point of a fellow novice — an initiate —in recommending that newcomers observe the following guidelines: Give up the shoulds. Don’t punish your  self by succumbing to the “tyranny of the should.” When I set out to buy all the foods I should be eating, I wind up in more trouble than when I began. Raw kale is highly nutritive, but in salads, it tastes like Christmas trees with ranch dressing. Buy what you love, but strive for additive-free, non-GMO, organic foods.

Think traditionally. Shop at stores that  emphasize healthy fare. Resist the temptation to return to familiar grocery franchises that only “deign” to carry organic foods: they may discount but fail to understand the volatile shelf life of non-chemically preserved foods. You’ll often find a single token aisle replete with dusty lids and browning vegetables. These stores don’t

really hype health food, because to do so threatens the profits garnered by selling cheaper, poisonous food from conglomerate suppliers.

Follow in the footsteps of the devout.  Let’s face it: we newbies need all the instruction we can get. It’s best to follow on the heels of ardent and (forgive the pun) well-seasoned foodies. I tend to stalk (at a respectable distance) the 30-something women at Trader Joe’s who shop together.

They comment incessantly upon their arcane food preferences. On one particularly auspicious visit, I overheard a thin, radiantly healthy blonde say to her equally fit brown-eyed companion, “Oh! Oh! Here it is. This is the best organic butter! This is the only one I buy! No animal fats, lasts forever, and it tastes so good.” Thank them in your hearts for the endorsement and then stealthily swoop in to grab the object of their adulation.

Mimic those of the cloth. All neophytes  need mentoring. Those of us raised in the age of TV dinners and processed foods have learned some rather dastardly eating habits.

To overcome this dilemma, try sampling foods from truly organic chefs in restaurants like The Good Earth in Edina, or Braza Rotisserie in St. Paul. Read menu descriptions, and shop for those ingredients and with those limitations in mind. Emulate the culinary clerics initially, later adding your own flair to the dish.

Become as a child. You’ve heard of this  teaching from various spiritual walks. To enter holistic heaven, one must come as a child. Today’s offspring include Indigoes, Crystals and Earth Angels. The Crystals, especially, have very defined preferences.

Their helicoptering parents are happy, as long as the kids choose healthy items. These

SHOPPING FOR FOODS THAT ARE BEST FOR YOU

by Warren King The book of Matthew in the Bible reads: “Therefore do not worry saying, What shall we eat?

What shall we drink?” So you can see, the question of what to eat has been with us for a long time. I have tried to discern which diet will be the best to optimize health for each one of the nearly 10,000 patients I’ve seen. At first, I put patients on my diet, which at that time was a vegetarian macrobiotic diet, and to my amazement some people 22 www.edgemagazine.net

felt worse and gained unwanted weight. So I started doing a type of pulse testing to see which of the many nutritional regimens were best for that individual.

No one diet works well for everyone, because all bodies are different. But there are foods that are healthy for most people and others that are almost universally stressful on the system.

In general it is best to use the majority of foods found in the perimeter of the store and the

clever young ones know that anything in the health food aisle will instantly have their parents’ stamp of approval, and that frees them to select the most fun and flavorful foods in the lot. I discretely follow parents pushing carts containing 3-5 year olds and watch what the kids reach for. Fruit strips and Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies seem in vogue. By incorporating the child’s eye view, you will ultimately open the door to a heavenly cupboard of healthy snacks.

Treat the body as the Temple. A hot-air  balloon is not a comfortable home for the Soul. Even if one has not lived gluten-free in the past, it’s helpful to try out the products so labeled. Skeptics often discover that a meal without gluten is a meal without after-bloat. It’s truly wonderful to be able to feast without afterward feeling sluggish, puffy and awful. That is the greatest built-in reward for sensible healthy food shopping.

In writing this article, I have taken the first step on a journey of a thousand miles toward sensible food selection. I may have donned only the habit of the novice, but I am bound and determined to walk the talk, or eat the walk, or something more natural and discerning in my relationship with the food that nourishes and sustains me. Amen! a Janet Michele Red Feather, J.D., M.A., has taught literature and composition for 18 years at the university, state, tribal and community college levels. She is currently a tenured English faculty member at Normandale Community College. Janet enjoys her role as Ceremonial Singer for Native American ceremonies, singing traditional songs in Mandan and Lakota. She made a career shift into teaching after serving nearly eight years as a defense litigator in California. Her life changed significantly after she traveled to North Dakota in 1993 to fast and pray for a way of life.

She welcomes correspondence at JanetRedFeather77@ gmail.com.

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bulk section, avoiding most of the processed foods found in the center of the store. Fresh vegetables and fruits can be almost half the diet for many people.

Without being tested, you can experiment on yourself to find out which proteins are best for you. Some people need animal proteins such as wild fish, naturally raised poultry, eggs and red meat eaten more occasionally, such as grass-fed beef or buffalo. From my experience, pork appears to be a problem for almost everyone.

Others thrive on beans, seeds and nuts for protein, and an even smaller percentage can digest soy. You have to see how

your digestion and clarity of mind feels after eating different foods. In general, people with type A blood can consume a more vegetarian diet, while people with type O blood do better with animal protein.

It seems that people cannot handle as much grain as they could in the past. Some people, especially if they are overweight, should avoid grains altogether, while others can have a smaller amount of grains, especially quinoa, buckwheat and millet.

Twenty years ago, people could handle 40 percent of their diet as grains; now it is more like 20 percent. Many are now sensitive to gluten in general, like  see Shopping on p. 24

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in our coffee! No GMO, no CAFO, no HFCS, and no” -ites” or “-ates” on product labels was the rule of law in our house.

Mom courageously and gradually weaned herself from all medications and visits to the doctor, since there was no reason to go if prescriptions were not needed.

We also began to read about the side effects of some of the drugs that mom took throughout the years: cataracts, loss of cartilage, weight gain, and loss of energy. We cannot say that all her “dis-eases” were caused by the drugs, but as we progressed with our healthy food regimen, her energy came back and she dropped over 70 pounds. Her skin began to glow, and she even got some of her dark hair back.

A few years later, she needed a doctor’s signature to renew her automobile handicapped parking card, so off to the office she went. Their jaws hit the floor when she walked in.

They hardly recognized her, and they did not fully know who she was until she spoke.

She told the doctor what she had done, and stunned, he wanted to “do some tests” to assess her “health.” She would not have any of it.

“I feel great,” she said. “All I want is for you to sign my paper here for my new parking card.”

He obliged and she left the office with a big grin!

That was two years ago, and mom has more energy, healthier skin and dark brown hair now than ever. She looks years younger than many others her junior, and exhibits her sharp mind with any political conversation you would want, or not, to have. She takes great pride in her new smaller-sized “Life is good” organic cotton t-shirts, too. Her neighbors still

marvel at her transition, and they come to visit as she weeds and plants her garden, and takes out the garbage. Even with the very proof standing before them, though, they are still captured by the “system,” fearing change. The corporate monetary intake from health “care” in this area is enormous thanks to our aging and drugaddicted population. One can only dream of the heavenly repurposing of that money!

We still get our fried chicken every couple of months or so, and cakes, pies and chocolate candies made with real sugar sprinkle themselves between meals occasionally. We have added a little uncured bacon and grass-fed beef, too, as our local Aldi’s carries some new brands.

As for me, organic whole milk, pure water and a little fine wine are my beverages of choice, and a great New York cheesecake gets my juices going. I extended my natural conversion to the few beauty products I use: goat milk soaps, shampoos, and vinegar and baking soda for laundry detergent. Love and kindness to the environment have become a way of life, too.

Yes, our lives have changed immensely for the better. Now, if I could just get her to quit using that dandelion killing herbicide. There is always next year. a Cynthia G. Piano is a writer, spiritual teacher and mentor. She established Oneness House — A Spiritual Spa (www. onenesshouse.net) — in Kauai in 2002, and now, having moved to the mainland, she continues assisting people, animals and all multidimensional life to experience joy, peace, love and oneness. To contact her for interview, presentation, CreationShops, or remote spiritual work, please write her at onenesshouse@ hawaiilink.net.

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CHOOSE ORGANIC, NON-GMO OPTIONS

by Kristin Johnson What I recommend here are tips for making the best choices possible for you, your family or anyone that you are shopping for. Let’s start with produce. Before going to the store, research to see what produce is in season — you will get the best prices for anything that is in season.

Here are some great examples for summer: Fruit — Strawberries, Blueberries, Watermelon, Grapes, Plums,  Apples Vegetables — Asparagus, Spinach, Broccoli, Cucumbers, Peppers,  Carrots Go to a farmer’s market. Most towns have them, and whatever they are selling is what is in season. You get it straight from the farmer, and usually get the best prices!

You can also join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

Some farmers offer these seasonally, some annually. You pay the farmer directly, and then each week you either pick up or have delivered your box of fresh produce — and some farms have meats, eggs, cheeses, jams, and other delicious options! You get a variety of food, and even get to try new veggies/fruits that you have never had before!

The best option is to go organic and non-GMO — whenever possible. Be sure to ask at your farmer’s market or CSA whether they are organic or non-GMO. When you find a great sale on veggies, fruit or meat, stock up, because most food items can be frozen.

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wheat, spelt, rye, oats and barley, while for others their sensitivity is to wheat or corn exclusively. Unfortunately, much of the rice is contaminated with arsenic and cannot be eaten too often. Rice grown in the Southern U.S. has some of the highest levels of arsenic, while basmati from California, India and Pakistan has the lowest.

Sweeteners also are not well tolerated by most people. Some can handle a small amount of honey, maple or rice syrup, but sugar or “cane juice” should be avoided.

Stevia has no calories and is well tolerated by most people if used in minute doses. But don’t over do it, for you don’t want your tastebuds to expect that everything has to taste so sweet.

The best oils are usually coconut and olive oil. The most harmful oils are canola, corn and soy. If you just totally avoid canola oil and cane sugar and wheat, then the majority of packaged foods in the middle of the store will be eliminated. Although most vegetables are good for you, the commonly used nightshade vegetables — tomato, potato and peppers — should be minimized and not eaten more than 2 times a week for many people. If you have joint inflammation or arthritis, try cutting out the nightshade vegetables completely.

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Read the label. If you aren’t sure, ask your butcher or meat department. More stores now have these options available.

Same goes for eggs, dairy or yogurt. It should state organic. Stay away from grain-fed anything, especially if you have food allergies or sensitivities, for if the chicken ate corn, then you will be ingesting corn.

If you purchase packaged “food” items, read the labels carefully.

Many of my clients have food sensitivities and allergies, and they need to ensure that the ingredients they are eating are not crosscontaminated in the factory where their product or food was made.

If you aren’t sure about the quality of the product, research company websites or call them directly and ask about where their food is sourced and whether there is any cross-contamination. It is better to be safe before you eat it, instead of having a bad reaction later, suffering unnecessarily.

When you are looking for oils, for baking or roasting or to dress up a salad, cook with extra virgin olive oil with a high heat point. Olive oil has minerals, enzymes and other compounds that don’t work well with heat, and they can be susceptible to rancidity. It is better used for dressings and lower temperature cooking.

Consider avocado oil or butter as a better option for baking or pan cooking, as they have a higher heat point.

Finally, in addition to choosing organic and non-GMO foods, remember to choose foods from the colors of the rainbow. If you eat well, you will feel well! a Kristin Johnson is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and owner of Heal Organically. She is passionate about helping people on their healing journey, and guiding them to create their best life ever! She specializes in leaky gut/digestive issues, and also works with clients on low energy and weight loss with whole, real, amazing food! Visit www.healorganically.com and contact her at kristin@healorganically.com.

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intestinal health and can often replace the need for an expensive probiotic pill. The best source is fermented vegetable or sauerkrauts that need refrigeration, as well as miso, kombucha and kimchi. Many people will feel better off dairy products, and the best tolerated dairy products are kefir, especially goat kefir and sometimes yogurt. Goat cheese is more digestible than cow cheese for many people.

Although fruit is often considered healthy, it does have naturally occurring sugars and should not be a large part of the diet. The healthiest for people living in the Northern hemisphere are berries, pears, apples, cherries and plums, and it’s best to minimize tropical fruits that can’t grow in the region, such as banana, mango and pineapple. However, a half lemon in water in the morning is a good way to cleanse the liver, even though it is tropical in origin.

There are a few foods that seem to be beneficial for most people: 2-3 teaspoons of ground flax seeds a day, 2-3 teaspoons of coconut oil a day, and kale, which can also be enjoyed as kale chips, miso soup, and sauerkraut. Fish oil is helpful for most people, but you can get this through eating sardines or herring, as well. Coffee and chocolate can be problematic for many people and if you can’t live without, it does not mean that it is good for you.

If you don’t have an alternative practitioner who can test you for a custom diet, try to eat simply for a few days. Eat mostly vegetables, northern fruits, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, fish, poultry, sauerkraut, lemon water, flax seeds, and drink spring or reverse osmosis filtered water. Avoid soy, tomato, potato, sweeteners, wheat and gluten, corn, dairy, peanuts, and tap water. After two weeks or so, try adding back the foods you were avoiding one at a time and just notice how you feel a few hours after eating them.

Are you tired, bloated, foggy headed, gassy, achy or are you focused, energized, clear headed and have no digestive symptoms or cravings.

Dietary changes can be difficult, but if you are suffering it is one of the most important and less expensive ways to make a major shift in your health and functioning.

After a short time you will see how these homemade natural foods taste delicious and can help you to thrive in your life. a Warren King has used energetic methods of healing for over 24 years and has worked with over 9,000 people to regain their health. He combines Oriental Medicine with homeopathy along with a refined intuition to get to the root causes of issues. His specialty is Auricular Medicine, using the ear as a map of the whole body for great accuracy in the diagnosis and treatment of health issues. He practices in Minnetonka. Call 952.930.3575 or visit warrenking.com.

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Divine REIKI - Dagney Kvamme (Walters) & Tracy Kvamme (Krouse) 612.501.0858, divinefey8@gmail.com, www.divinefey8.com EFT Guaranteed Fast & Easy relief. Change your life NOW. Dr. Kim Eisen is Experienced and Intuitive, Master of EFT. Dr. Kim Eisen, 612.802.HEAL (4325), kim@DoEFT.com, www.DoEFT.com Energy Clearing / Chakra Balancing / Trauma Release: Experience Transformational Intuitive Energy Work. Using Keen wisdom & strength along with tenderness & compassion, Kimberly masterfully orchestrates a safe & loving space for deep healing & Spiritual Awakening.

HOPE Healing, Kimberly, 805.769.4734, HopeHealing.Me ENERGY HEALING Christine, Reiki Master, offers energy healing sessions for pain relief, relaxation, emotional well-being & general health.

It’s wonderful work!

Healing Arts 101, Christine, call/text 651.338.1216, www.healingarts101.com Environmental Testing, Green Consulting, Certified Green Remodels: House making you sick?

Feel better when you’re away? Testing for mold, VOCs, asbestos, EMFs and more. Call now! Discounts for Edge readers!

Eco Shaylee LLC, Shaylee Oleson, 612.522.3082, www.ecoshaylee.com FENG SHUI CONSULTATION Consultations, one-on-one professional mentoring, and workshops.

Barbara Bobrowitz, Energetic Alignments, 763.571.9437, www.energeticalignments.com FLOWER ESSENCES Numerous Flower Essences for spiritual and emotional healing.

Books, Practitioners Available. In business 33 years. Located at 3546 Grand Ave. S. Minneapolis. Contact Martin Bulgerin.

Present Moment Herbs & Books, 612.824.3157, 1.800.378.3245, herbshop@presentmoment.com, www.presentmoment.com GRIEF & TRAUMA RECOVERY: Heal grief and trauma with Induced After-Death Communication. This miraculous therapy rapidly heals grief and trauma resulting from the death of loved ones (including beloved pets). In practice since 1990.

Gary R. Beaver, M.A., Licensed Psychologist, 612.910.1191, garyrexbeaver@gmail.com, www.garyrbeaver.com

HEAL YOUR LIFE TRAINING: Become a licensed Heal Your Life workshop leader in Louise Hay’s philosophy. Receive complete materials to lead up to 14 different workshops. One-week intensive training is approved by Louise. Pre-registration required. See website for details.

Patricia J. Crane, 800.969.4584, patricia@heartinspired.com, www.healyourlifetraining.com

INTUITIVE HEALING Past Life Regression, Reiki, Spiritual Coaching, massage and more. Visit the website for full service offerings and current pricing structure.

Tina McGee, 715.456.0677, mcgee.massage@yahoo.com, www.mcgeemassage.com

HERBS: 600+ medicinal & cooking herbs, tinctures, capsules & oils, new and used books, Natural healing practitioners available. Contact Dr. Andrew Lucking, ND, Duane Givens. In business 33 years at 3546 Grand Ave. S. Present Moment Herbs & Books, 612.824.3157, 1.800.378.3245, herbshop@presentmoment.com, www.presentmoment.com

Intuitive Readings: Kimberly is a Mulit- Sensory Intuitive, a gifted Medium who delivers Readings with Compassion & Care. Your loved ones in Heaven wish to connect with you to give messages of Hope & Healing. They may offer guidance and messages regarding your life. You may also ask other question you may have.

Kimberly, 805.769.4734, InfoKimberly8@gmail.com, HopeHealing.Me

Holistic Health and Wellness Coach Manifest balance in your life — health, nutrition, spiritual, career, energy. Create your healing journey. Customized programs.

Kristin Johnson, CHHC, AADP, 952.200.4804, healorganically@yahoo.com, www.healorganically.com

Massage, Healing and Chakra Balance: $20 off first-time visit. Enjoy a therapeutic massage the way you like it, and for a little bit more a relaxing healing in a professional environment. Schedule now at www.edgardennis.com Edgar Massage & Chakra Balance, 612.384.4572, at Backlund Chiropractic, 7101 York Ave. S., Suite 250, Edina, MN, www.edgardennis.com

HOMEOPATHY: 2000 Homeopathic Remedies, Individual Potencies, Books, Practitioners Available. Contact Dr. Andrew Lucking ND, Martin Bulgerin, We buy and sell new and used books. At 3546 Grand Ave. S., Minneapolis.

Present Moment Herbs & Books, 612.824.3157, 1.800.378.3245, herbshop@presentmoment.com, www.presentmoment.com

MEDIUMSHIP, INTUITIVE CARD READINGS, REIKI HEALING, ANIMAL COMMUNICATION: As the Minnesota Nice Medium, I use my unique talents and gifts to bring oneness and healing to everyone’s life I touch.

The Empathic Connection, 320.226.3127, theempathicconnection@gmail.com, www.theempathicconnection.com

HYPNOTHERAPY Need relief from anxiety, depression, phobias or PTSD? Ready to gain insight into your soul’s purpose through Past Life or Life-Between-Lives regression? 15 Years Experience. Located in St. Paul, MN. Eric Christopher, MSMFT, CHT, 651.649.1952, www.ericjchristopher.com

Psychic Detective Stacey is an experienced psychic detective and psychic medium who gives accurate messages from Spirit, giving law enforcement and clients direction and peace.

Connect With Spirit, Stacey L. Scott, 612.250.5500, staceylscottpsychic@gmail.com, www.staceylscott.net

HYPNOTHERAPY 5-PATH® Are you on the right path? Now is the time to strive for better wellness – physically, mentally & emotionally. You owe it to yourself to Change the Path of Your Life.

Christa Sack, CH, Restore Your Path Hypnosis & Healing, 612.810.6158, christa@restoreyourpath.com, www.restoreyourpath.com

PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT / SOUL READINGS Soul Readings for clarity and guidance. Classes to discover how to heal and consciously create with your own unique body/soul partnership.

Cindy Lehman 612.669.1861, cindy@cindylehman.com, www.cindylehman.com

HYPNOTHERAPY & CONSCIOUSNESS COACHING™: Change your mind. Change your life. Five Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnotherapy™. Transform limiting beliefs, fears, anxiety, habits, 5 Pillars of Balance, Spiritual Direction, Conflict Resolution Skills.

Judith Froemming, BA, CH, CTC, HNLP, Infinite Mind Hypnosis & Coaching, 651.216.0085, www.infinitemindhypnosis.com

PSYCHIC MEDIUM Well-Known Psychic Medium Deborah Lynn11 is gifted with the power to Name, names. She is unlike any other as she is known to go back 2-3 generations or even 10 years into the future.

Deborah Lynn11, 651.439.5337, www.deborahlynn11.com

HYPNOTHERAPY/PSYCHOTHERAPY: Help with emotional overwhelm, healing trauma, sexual abuse & other issues. Access past-lives & between lives. Build skills for relationships across the veil, interactive prayer, Synergy Meditation. Channel for Mother Mary.

Jerry Buchmeier, Ph.D., psychotherapist, 763.546.4133, jerrybuchmeier@comcast.net, www.jerrybuchmeier.com

Psychic Medium & Animal Intuitive, Soul Healer & Spiritual Teacher: Award winning and one of the top Psychic Mediums in the world. Readings by phone & office. Monthly: Psychic Galleries. Intuitive & Drum Circles. Weekly: Development classes. Workshops. At Amanae & Frequencies of Brilliance Center, 2324 37th St.E., Mpls.

Alison James, 612.424.1411 returned via text, info@alisonjames.us, www.alisonjames.us

HYPNOTHERAPY & TRAINING Past Life, Life-Between Lives Regression.

20 years experience.

Madonna Kettler, Ph.D., LBL, 612.709.5578, www.madonnakettler.com

RECONNECTIVE HEALING It all happens at the quantum level. It all begins with love from an open heart. Experience Reconnective Healing session.

Experience the Reconnection.

Bogdan Borkowski, Certified Reconnection Practitioner, 715.262.3342, bogdan54@yahoo.com, bhealed.net

INNER CHILD WORK & EFT Author of the best-selling Inner Child Workbook & EFT (Tapping) Practitioner.

Cathryn Taylor, 612.710.7720, www.EFTforYourInnerChild.com

REIKI HEALING Experience the divine energy of Reiki for balance, relaxation, wellness. Treatment sessions. Student-oriented training for all levels.

Sheryl and Dale Fisher, Reiki Master-Teachers, 763.420.9017, dashf@comcast.net

INTUITIVE CLASSES & READINGS Intuitive Tarot, Psychic & Palm readers available for in-store private readings or events. Classes in Psychic Development, Tarot & Runes. Schedule online.

Eye of Horus Metaphysical 612.872.1292, www.EyeofHorus.biz

REIKI HEALING: Feel Empowered on Every Level! Usui Reiki Training and Sessions, schedule a Reiki I or II class, inquire about Reiki Master apprenticeships and Absentee (Distance) Healing. Learn Reiki yourself, or bring your friends!

Rachel Miejan, Reiki by Miejan, 651.735.2863, rachel.miejan@gmail.com, ReikibyMiejan.com  July 2016 the edge 27

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SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS Do you transform people’s lives, but are struggling to get more clients, money, or grow your business? Check out the “Shortcut to Success – Quick Start Program.”

Kim Eisen, Success Coach, Master of EFT, 612.802.4325, kim@ShortcutToSuccess.com, www.ShortcutToSuccess.com

SPIRITUAL TUTORING Gain everyday skills for transforming your struggles and suffering into deep peace and joy. Customized approach using techniques appropriate to you and your situation.

Mindy Schulke, 651.491.3981, find.deep.joy@gmail.com

SOAP (PREMIUM ARTISAN): Our soap is all-natural, vegan, and handmade locally with organic, sustainable and animal free/ cruelty free oils and butters. Our soaps contain healing oils and butters to produce the highest amount of glycerin for skin health.

Good Intentions Soap Company, Cathy Jacobsen, 763.381.1911, goodintentionssoap@gmail.com, www.goodintentionssoaps.com

SUFI Four Layers of the Heart.

Jess Fauchier, 763.360.9259, fauchier@goldengate.net, www.suficentermn.org

SPIRIT REMOVAL: Spirit removal including, “ghosts” shadow people, and yes even the mean ones, from places, objects and people. Classes too.

Tracy Kvamme (Krouse), White Dragon Force X, 612.501.0858, www.whitedragonforcex.com

THERAPEUTIC COACHING, NLP & HYPNOSIS Coaching for people in the midst of life changes. Assistance in identifying and launching your holistic business. Call for a free 15-minute consultation.

Dr. Nakita Savant, 612.812.4310, www.coachmn.com

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EXHIBIT AT AUGUST EVENT: Enchanted Expo is looking for vendors, readers and lecturers for our New Age fair on August 28.

A full day is in store for you and clients! Runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at White Bear Country Inn in White Bear Lake, MN. Complete details: go to www.enchantedboutiquemn.com/events.html

Coven open to seekers: Whether you are new to the Pagan path or you’ve been on it awhile, we may be your new spiritual home! Our 9-year-old coven has openings for both male and female seekers. Classes start soon – we have only a few spots available, so come and join us! Contact Adariana at silveroakgrove@ outlook.com or 763.307.9621.

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Lake Harriet Spiritual Community: A Center for Conscious Living, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis, 612.922.4272, online at www.lakeharrietspiritualcommunity.org — Raise your consciousness by attending our classes, workshops and Sunday Services led by amazing speakers!

Raise your vibration in our beautiful, historic building (now on the National Historic Register). Give us a try as part of your spiritual journey and feel the love

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your spiritual home. On Sundays: 10:30 a.m. Main service, 10:30 a.m. Kids With Spirit Class.

G AT H E R I N G S ECKANKAR / TEMPLE OF ECK: Religion of the Light and Sound of God, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, 952.380.2200, www.TempleofECK.org — Keys to spiritual experiences: Explore past lives, dreams and Soul Travel. Worship Service: first Sunday of each month, 10-11am Youth programs.

Community HU Song: third Sunday of each month, 10-10:30am. Free workshops: Wednesdays, 7-8:30pm. Temple hours: Noon-9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from Noon to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Tours available.

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of our heart-based community. Visit our community for: great meditations, yoga classes, speakers and programs that include mindfulness, developing your intuition, releasing negative beliefs, allowing greater abundance, and breaking the barriers to deep selfhealing.

SILVER OAK COVEN: Adariana at silveroakgrove@ outlook.com or 763.307.962 – Whether you are new to the Pagan path or you’ve been on it awhile, we may be your new spiritual home! Our 9-year-old coven has openings for both male and female seekers. Classes start soon – we have only a few spots available, so come and join us! Contact Adariana for more details.

SPIRIT UNITED CHURCH: 3204 Como Ave. SE, Minneapolis, 612.378.3602, contact@spiritunited.com, www.spiritunited.com. Worshiping the Wonder, birthing the Emerging Spirituality. Welcoming ~ Supportive ~ Healing ~ Transformational. Discover

UNITY MINNEAPOLIS: 4000 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, 763.521.4793, www.unityminneapolis.org — Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here. Sunday 8:15, 9:45 & 11:30 a.m., nursery & Sunday school at all 3 services. Monthly Healing service 7 p.m. on the 1st Tuesday. Adult education classes throughout the year.

Unity of the Valley Spiritual Center: 4011 W. Hwy 13, Savage, MN 55378, 952.895.0745, www.unityofthevalleymn.org — Discover Unity of the Valley Spiritual Center, a positive path for spiritual living. Practical teachings to help you live a healthy, meaningful life. As we grow in consciousness, we create a loving, peaceful world.

Sunday Service 10 a.m.

UNITY NORTH SPIRITUAL CENTER: 11499 Martin St. NW, Coon Rapids, MN, 763.754.6489, unity@unitynorthmn.org, www.unitynorthmn.org — Committed to offering a space to support community members and youth in fulfilling their potential.

Services and events include healing, prayer, men’s and women’s groups, meditation, sacred text and shamanic studies. UNSC serves the wider community through programs such as Family Promise and Family Table.

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“The Edge of Divinity” with Dr. Julie Buckman Saturday, July 2 at 6 p.m. — Learn the language of the Divine. Learn to trust what you hear, to be guided by what you say, as we explore the multitude of differences we each uniquely possess. Host Dr. Julie Buckman is an ordained Minister who works with God and his Divine guidance while asking for guidance from the other realms, as well.

“Edge Learning Well” with Elise Marquam Jahns – Tuesday, July 5 at 6 p.m. — Elise’s guest is Dr. Karen Wyatt, hospice physician, spiritual teacher, transformational leader and author. Dr. Wyatt is a family physician who has spent her 25 year medical career working with patients in challenging settings, such as hospices, nursing homes and indigent clinics. This show is sponsored by the Integrative Health Education Center of Normandale Community College.

“On the Edge” with Doug Crandall Sunday, July 10 from 6-8 p.m. — Each month, join host Doug Crandall as he views life from On the edge, using his unique perspective to delve into such topics as life, death, this, that and the other!

The host will be joined by notable guests who will share their knowledge with the listening audience.

“Edge Inner View” with Cathryn Taylor Wednesday, July 13 at 3 p.m. — Join host Cathryn Taylor for a conversation with Dr. Feng on Qigong. Following will be an interview with Rebecca Raffi & Carol Dorian about their new Edge Talk Radio Podcast, “Spiritual Diagnostics on the Edge,” which debuts on July 28.

NEW “Spiritual Diagnostics on the Edge” with Rebecca & Carol – Thursday, July 14 at 4 p.m.

— Join Rebecca Raffi & Carol Dorian in discussing a wide range of spiritual readings that assist you in your personal journey, Rebecca & Carol including love, finances, and all matters of the heart and spirit. Learn about your chakras, your spiritual DNA, positive energy vs. unwanted energy, and much more.

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“Edge EFT Happy Half Hour: Rap & Tap” with Cathryn Taylor – Monday, July 18 at 3 p.m.

— Take the edge off your day! Treat yourself to a half hour of relaxation and relief with the new, innovative stressreducing technique of Energy Tapping.

Learn how to use EFT for Body, Mind, Heart & Soul.

“Edge Happenings” with Cathy Jacobsen Wednesday, July 20 at 3 p.m. — Live conversations with those who are bringing special events to the community in the next month. Gather more insight into what to expect at these coming events and why they will be meaningful to you in your everyday life.

NEW “The Edge’s Mystikologist” with Tracy Kvamme (Krouse) – Thursday, July 21 at 8 p.m.

— Understand the meaning of Mystikologist through searching for truth, paranormal experiences, also interviews with people who have experienced a touch of Mystikology, and enjoy the participation from listeners.

“Edge of Wellness” with Tina McGee Monday, July 25 at 7 p.m. — Join host Tina McGee each month and expect to be inspired to think of your health in new and innovative ways that educate, as well as empower! Tina is an LPN currently attending St. Catherine’s Univ ersity earning her masters degree in Holistic Health Studies.

“Edge Wise Woman Wellness” with Terese Guettler, R.N. – Thursday, July 28 at 5 p.m.

— Join host Terese Guettler, R.N. each month for Edge Wise Woman Wellness — Empowering Women through Life Transitions. Whether you are experiencing a divorce, empty nest syndrome, a health challenge, job loss or searching for your life purpose Terese Guettler offers you assistance and support in that transition.

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July 2 & August 6 – Soul Walk: We will engage in a

“soul walk” around the high energy points at Earthway Farm, featuring five stopping places to participate in a brief meditation after hearing a short talk about each of the following Saints and Angels: Mother, Mary, Archangel Michael, Quan Yin, St. Francis, and St. Germain. 10 a.m.-Noon on July 2 & August 6. $25, Earthway Farm, 15832 Co. Rd. 7, South Haven, MN. Register at earthwayfarm@gmail.com or call us at 320.236.7852. More info at www.earthwayfarms.com July 3 – Reincarnation and the Journey of Soul:

Join people from all walks of life for the monthly worship service at the Temple of ECK. Dynamic speakers, original creative arts, and singing HU, a sacred name for God, celebrate a life lived in harmony with Divine Spirit.

Sunday, July 3, and every first Sunday of the month, 10 a.m., Temple of ECK/Eckankar, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, 952.380.2200, www.TempleofECK.org July 6, 13, 20, 27 – Spiritual Wisdom on Karma and Reincarnation: Have you wondered how to take

the next step in your spiritual life? Discover how to resolve karmic patterns and graduate from the wheel of reincarnation to have more love, joy, and spiritual freedom in your life. Free! Come any or all Wednesdays – July 6, 13, 20, 27 – from 7-8:30 p.m. Eckankar, www.TempleofECK.org, 952.380.2200, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, www.facebook.com/Eckankar.

Pre-register; gift booklet, Spiritual Wisdom on Karma and Reincarnation.

July 8 – Intuitive Circle with Alison James: 7-9 p.m.

Begin with a journey to your guide in the safety of your soul sanctuary, whilst surrounded by the frequencies of the master healing crystals & drumming by Alison, a Psychic Medium & Animal Intuitive, Soul Healer & Spiritual Teacher. Loads of practice & personal attention. Open to the public. Limited seating. Teens welcomed w/paid seats for adult & minor: Tickets: advance $35. Walk-in cash, no checks $40. Amanae Center, 2324 37th St. E., Mpls. Details & reservations or drop in: www.alisonjames.us, info@alisonjames.us, text 612.424.1411.

July 9 – Discovery Day: Discover your future career in

natural health care. Learn about Northwestern Health Sciences University’s programs: chiropractic, acupuncture & Oriental medicine, massage therapy, nutrition, post-bac pre-health and B.S. degree completion.

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edge, wisdom, education, benefits and the future for self and others. Sunday classes, $125. Register at www.divinefey8.com or call 651.501.0858, email divinefey7@gmail.com July 14-28 – EFT “Tapping” Free 15-minute “Life Breakthrough” chat: Do you feel stuck? Need

9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9, Northwestern Health Sciences University, 2501 W. 84th St., Bloomington, MN. Info: 952.885.5409, admit@ nwhealth.edu, nwhealth.edu/discover

to get over something or move forward? Schedule your private 15-minute phone “Life Breakthrough” chat to see if Kim can help you. Register at www.

SuccessAndEFT.com. Kim Eisen, Experienced & Intuitive Master of EFT “Tapping,” Life Breakthrough Coach and Energy Healer, www.DoEFT.com, 612.802.

HEAL (4325).

July 9 – Re-Forum Lecture Series: Join us for a

July 16 – Northwoods Health & Wellness Expo:

lecture series on the 2nd Saturday of the month.

Explore a variety of health, wellness and metaphysical topics. This Month’s Topic – Myofacial Release with Chris Ackermann. $10. 10 a.m. Saturday, July 9 at 44 Saint Croix Trail S., Suite 150, Lakeland, MN. For more info, contact Claire Marie Kohout at 651.436.3387 or hotrhc@gmail.com, www.heartoftheriverhealingcenter.com July 9 – Psychic Gallery Event with Alison James:

7-8:30 p.m. Interactive experience with intuitive forum including Q & A, and connections with those in the afterlife, including pets all whilst surrounded by the frequencies of the master healing crystals. With Alison James, Psychic Medium & Animal Intuitive, Soul Healer & Spiritual Teacher. Open to the public. Limited seating. Adults. Tickets: advance $50. Walk-in cash, no checks, $55. Amanae Center, 2324 37th St. E., Mpls. Details & reservations or drop in: www.alisonjames.us, info@alisonjames.us, text 612.424.1411.

July 9-10 – Kundalini Awakening Seminar: Kundalini

Alternative and complementary methods assisting the public with their health and other issues.

Available: Healers, Shamans, Lightworkers, Reiki, Access Consciousness Bars, Intuitive Readers, Aura Photography, Tarot Card Readers, Acupressure, Chair Massage, Jewelry, Healing Tools, Essential Oils, Singing Bowls, Natural Products, Kid Yoga, Artists, plus much more! 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., drumming will follow, Minocqua Park Complex, 10295 Highway 70, Minocqua, WI. Info: www.cjconnections.net or Cindy J. Marten 715.966.9400, weipcj@gmail.com July 23 – The Spirit Wellness Center 6th Annual Holistic Fair: Over 25 Psychics, Healers and

Vendors plus free lectures, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, July 23, Dakota Ridge, Best Western Hotel, 3450 Washington Dr., Eagan MN 55122. Admission $5 - additional services varies between $20 and up.

Info: call Kellie at 612.804.4463 or email Kellie@ TheSpiritWellnessCenter.com

Awakening Systems’ spiritual teacher, Chrism, will present a Kundalini Awakening Seminar at a high energy prairie near Canon Falls, July 9-10. He will be speaking the prior 8 days. Kundalini is a powerful Divine energy, birthright of us all. See articles/information in the May, June issues. Contact Rosemary at rosemaryg@usinternet.com or call 612.452.3161.

July 23-24 – Dancing With Your Shadow — Shamanic Breathwork Workshop: Learn to “stalk”

July 10 – Sedona’s Remarkable Sound Healer Mark Patterson: The God Tone will be at the Lake

July 25-27, July 29-31, November 4-10 – SourcePoint Therapy training: Register for SourcePoint Therapy

Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Mpls, on Sunday, July 10. Mark was given the ability to heal others through sound in a Near Death Experience. At the 10 a.m. service, Mark will share his gift of vocal toning. From 1-3 p.m, he will present “Your Sound Discovery.” Participants will learn how to use sound to transform and empower their own lives. $25. To register: www.lakeharrietspiritualcommunity.org. For info, visit www.mark-patterson.com

July 28 – Spirit Removal Class: Learn to protect your-

July 10 & 24 – Divine REIKI Class: Through research,

our Divine REIKI class (5 hours) is designed to transform the “Specialized Master” armed with knowl-

the hidden parts of yourself to find the true gold hidden in the shadows of your being. Application process required if this is your first SHIP workshop. 10 a.m.7 p.m. $300. Burnsville. Questions & Registration: Deb. irestone@gmail.com, www.shamanshearth.org.

training in the Twin Cities. A modality that supports the full potential of the human being. Module 1 – The Blueprint – on July 25-27. Module 2 – The Inner Temple – July 29-31. Module 3 – Drawing Out, Releasing and Re-Structuring – Nov. 4-10. NCBTMB and NCCAOM continuing education provider. For more info: www. tulayogawellness.com/trainings self, remove attachments, and spirits in a controlled environment. 6-8 p.m. Thursday, July 28 , $35. Listen to my podcast third Thursday of the month at 8 p.m. at www.edgemagazine.net/edge-talk-radio/ Contact

Tracy Kvamme (Krouse), 612.501.0858 or visit www. whitedragonforcex.com/#!workshops/cg5v July 29 – Redbird Drumming Circle with Alison James: 7-8:30 p.m. Open healing drumming circle

with Alison James, Psychic Medium & Animal Intuitive, Soul Healer & Spiritual Teacher. Begin w/facilitated ritual intention exercise. Feel the power-release, restore and heal your mind, body & soul around the fire or inside if raining. Bring drum/rattles. Open to the public.

Limited seating. Teens welcomed w/paid seats for adult & minor. Tickets: advance $30. Amanae Center, 2324 37th St. E., Mpls. Details & reservations or drop in: www.alisonjames.us, info@alisonjames.us, text 612.424.1411.

August 2 - September 20 – Psychic Development Intermediate Series with Alison James: 8-week

course to assist in fine tuning your Known psychic gifts with loads of practice & personal attention with Alison, a Psychic Medium & Animal Intuitive, Soul Healer & Spiritual Teacher. No Mediumship; a separate mediumship series follows this series.

8-week commitment & pre-requisite required. Limited seating. Adults. Reservation by July 29, $250. After July 29, $285. Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m. at Amanae Center, 2324 37th St. E., Mpls. Details & reservations or drop in: www.alisonjames.us, info@alisonjames.us, text 612.424.1411.

August 10 – Eckankar—Ancient Wisdom for Today:

The Voice of God speaks to us today. And you don’t need to be a prophet or saint to hear It. The timeless wisdom of Eckankar can help you understand yourself as a spiritual being and enjoy a richer, happier life.

Free! Wednesday, August 10, 7-8:30 p.m. Eckankar, www.TempleofECK.org, 952.380.2200, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, www.facebook.com/Eckankar.

Pre-register; gift booklet, Eckankar—Ancient Wisdom for Today.

August 17 – Easy Steps to Soul Travel: Imagine being

able to Soul Travel! Learn dynamic exercises to explore your inner worlds to solve problems, expand your consciousness, and move closer to the heart of God. Free workshop. Wednesday, August 17, 7-8:30 p.m.

Eckankar, www.TempleofECK.org, 952.380.2200, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, www.facebook. com/Eckankar. Pre-register; gift booklet, Eckankar’s Spiritual Experiences Guidebook.

August 17 – Third Eye Socialize Riverboat Cruise:

6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17. Gathering together all those who’ve been touched by Angels! Share an

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evening of fun with like-minded individuals and a crew of Card Readers, Intuitives, Psychic Mediums and more as we cruise the scenic St. Croix! $44 per passenger (prepaid reservation required). For more information and to reserve your seat, go to: www.

UnemployedAngelForHigher.com August 20-21 – HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program Level 1: Healing Touch instruction by Barb

Schommer, RN, a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Certified Healing Touch Instructor who has been teaching Healing Touch for 15 years. Earthway Farm, 15832 Co. Rd. 7, South Haven, MN, 320.236.7852, earthwayfarm@gmail.com, www.earthwayfarms.com August 21 – Let Go and Let God—Chant HU! In our

fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Experience the divine love and inner peace of chanting HU, a sacred name for God. All are welcome to this half-hour HU Song at the Temple of ECK. Free!

Sunday, August 21, 10-10:30 a.m., Eckankar, www.

TempleofECK.org, 952.380.2200, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen.

August 24 – How to Understand Your Dreams:

Learn how dreams can help you grow in confidence, heal yourself spiritually, glimpse the future, make decisions about your career and finances, and even meet with departed loved ones. This class will give keys to help you remember, understand, and get answers from your dreams. Free! Wednesday, August 24, 7-8:30 p.m. Eckankar, www.TempleofECK.org, 952.380.2200, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, www.facebook.com/Eckankar. Pre-register; gift booklet, Spiritual Wisdom on Dreams.

August 28 – Enchanted Expo: Come for an amazing

day of reading, healing, lectures and more! Enchanted Expo is a new age fair from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on August 28 at White Bear Country Inn in White Bear Lake, MN. Vendors and readers are coming from around the country, featuring the Guest of Honor, Psychic Tiff! $5 at the door. For more information, go to www. enchantedboutiquemn.com/events.html August 31 – Have I Lived Before? Learn how to under-

stand your past-life connections for more freedom and love today! Free class. Wednesday, August 31, 7-8:30 p.m. Eckankar, www.TempleofECK.org, 952.380.2200, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, www. facebook.com/Eckankar. Pre-register; gift booklet, Spiritual Wisdom on Karma and Reincarnation.

September 20 – Psychic Development Beginning/ Foundation Class: Learn to consciously access

your soul’s guidance, clarity and wisdom. Discover your abilities and purpose working with your body/ soul partnership in this lifetime. Tuesday evenings, September-June. Cindy Lehman, 612.669.1861, cindy@cindylehman.com, www.cindylehman.com October 29-30 – Healthy LIFE EXPO™: Nutrition,

Fitness, and Longevity — It’s all here! Explore up to 200 exhibitors offering everything for maintaining health and success in all areas of life! Featuring 3 Stages of on-going speaker presentations, demonstrations and live entertainment. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday in Hall D at Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd St., Minneapolis. $6 or Free with a donation for the Mom’s & Neighbors Food Shelf. Info: www.MediaMaxEvents.com or 952.238.1700.

February 4-5 – Healthy LIFE EXPO™: Explore up

to 200+ exhibitors offering everything for health, balance and success in all areas of life. 3 Stages of on-going speaker presentations, and demonstrations Seminars, product demonstrations, entertainment, and great shopping all weekend long!

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Hall D at Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd St., Minneapolis. $6 or Free with a donation for the Mom’s & Neighbors Food Shelf. Info: www.

MediaMaxEvents.com or 952.238.1700.

April 8 – Longevity Health EXPO™: The Longevity

EXPO offers attendees options to look their best, feel their best and be their best at all ages. 150 Exhibitors and visit the Main Stage filled with on-going speaker presentations, demonstrations and entertainment all day long. Stay active and visit the Longevity EXPO – your better life awaits.

Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Maple Grove Community Center, 12951 Weaver Lake Road, Maple Grove, MN. $6 or Free with a donation for the Mom’s & Neighbors Food Shelf. Info: www.

MediaMaxEvents.com or 952.238.1700.

Ongoing – Earthway Gifts: We carry gifts including

books emphasizing growth in all areas of life. Also available are crystals & stones, wire gem trees, wire wrapped pendants, Himalayan Salt Lamps, pendulums, jewelry and much more. Open from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on the first Friday and Saturday of each month through December. Earthway Farm, 15832 Co. Rd. 7, South Haven, MN, 320.236.7852, earthwayfarm@gmail.com, www.earthwayfarms.com

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