The Edge | November 2020

the Edge

a

NOVEMBER 2020 HOLISTIC LIVING

FREE MONTHLY

Enter the Realms of Pei Antana The Edge Interview with

CHRISTINE DAY

on the 3-Day Pleiadian Seminar

our featured topic: true gratitude november horoscope a pleiadian message holistic resources coming events

exploring the evolution of consciousness

www.edgemagazine.net

LAST ISSUE NEXT MONTH • THE EDGE IS FOR SALE

Seeking New Owner to Lead The Edge into the New Year Do you want to become the voice for the Holistic, Spiritual, Healing and Metaphysical Communities in the Twin Cities & Upper Midwest?

While The Edge’s print edition has been on hiatus since the pandemic lockdown, its distribution and printing are ready to be ramped back up by someone who wants to guide it for another quarter century.

Lead a new generation with an expanded social media plan.

Discover new ways to use The Edge to bring people together.

Do you want to carry the torch for the publication that has been the leading Holistic Voice in this region since 1992?

SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY: 763.433.9291 or 651.578.8969

2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

the Edge

a

CONTACT US Advertising 763.433.9291 Editorial 651.578.8969

HOLISTIC LIVING SINCE 1992

NOVEMBER 2020 NO. 339 EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS READ ADDITIONAL CONTENT AT WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET 16

Enter the Realms of Pei Antana The Edge Interview with Christine Day on the 3-Day Pleiadian Seminar

by Tim Miejan

4 My Gratitude for 25 Years with The Edge From the Editor, by Tim Miejan

featuring this month true gratitude 23 Gratitude for My Daily Life

by Gina M. Gafford 23 Finding Self-acceptance through Gratitude

by Kirstin Barsness 24 Kshama: Patience, Peace and Gratitude in a Time of Pandemic, by Sarah Mane 25 True Gratitude, Spirit Leaves

by Janet Michele Red Feather 26 Gratitude for Gifts Stranger Than Fiction

by Sri Harold Klemp

6 The Death of My Mother

by Eric J. Christopher

26 True Gratitude: Nothing to Hide Behind

by Dr. Glen Hepker

6 A New Roadside Litter

by Carolyn Chilton Casas

27 Gratitude — Path of Grace, by Elisha Gabriell

7 Three Extraordinary Ideas to Help You Realize Lasting Freedom, by Guy Finley 8 An Accelerating Shift Before the New Year A Pleiadian Message, by Christine Day 10 Evolution of Consciousness

by Marie McInally

15 Stone Beings & the Imaginal Realm

by Robert Simmons 21 Touchstones: Safe Haven for Troubled Times, by Anne Reeder Heck 22 An Opening to Reiki

by Carolyn Chilton Casas

10 One Sticky Tic, by Giselle M. Massi 11 November Horoscope: Find Truth Mercurial Messages through the Zodiac

by Heather Roan Robbins 12 Saint Francis, Dogen & Rumi: Three Mystics for Our Time, by Steve Kanji Ruhl 14 Become like the Forest

by Jonathan Hammond

edge listings 28 30 31 31 32 32

Business Network Intuitive Network Sacred Gatherings Classifieds Happenings Events calendar Edge Talk Radio - Free Podcast Schedule

Next month is the last issue of The Edge, unless someone comes forward with a desire to buy our publication. Learn more at www.edgemagazine.net/

new-owner/

For $25, promote the remote services you are providing the community at this time in The Edge’s Thursday email/ Facebook post. Contact us at 763.433.9291 or email cathy@ edgemagazine.net to take part.

Receive our Email Support by joining our email list at www.

edgemagazine.net/ join-our-email-list/

advertise

submit articles

We invite you to place an advertisement in the Final Edition of The Edge next month, reflecting your sentiments toward The Edge.

Call today to learn more about this special opportunity.

Deadline: November 17 Contact: 763.433.9291 or cathy@edgemagazine.net Visit: www.Edgemagazine.net/advertise

We invite you to write 1,200 words or less on our two featured topics next month: Reflections on The Edge magazine’s presence in the Upper Midwest from 1992-2020 or The Energies of 2021: Our Prediction Issue. Or write on any aspect of holistic living, spirituality, or healing.

Deadline: November 10 Email: editor@edgemagazine.net Submit at: www.edgemagazine.net/submit-articles/

Enjoy 28 years of Free Holistic Content Explore Today! Visit www.Edgemagazine.net NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

3

My Gratitude for 25 years with The Edge From the Editor

BY TIM MIEJAN IN THIS, THE SECOND to the last edition of The Edge (unless someone comes forward soon to buy the publication), I would be remiss if I didn’t share with you how my 25 years as editor and co-owner translates as gratitude. So I begin.

I am grateful for the late Gary Beckman and Lynn LaFroth for creating The Edge back in 1992, having the insight that a fledgling community of holistic beings needed a home to call their own before social media was even a thing.

I am grateful that the universe inspired me to jump in my car one early evening, in October 1995, and drive up from the Kansas City area to the Twin Cities — not aware that I was headed for a blizzard and that I would be stopped an hour or so north of Des Moines when the interstate was temporarily closed due to poor road conditions — with an engagement ring in my pocket for Rachel and an editor job interview scheduled the next morning with Gary Beckman (which was delayed because I didn’t reach Woodbury until after 2 a.m.).

I am grateful for my loving wife for always being by my side and supporting my work with The Edge without complaint, even when articles came in from our health editor, the forward-thinking Dr. Jan Thatcher Adams, via fax (before the advent of email) — printing loudly in the middle of the night in my home office, which happened to be on the other side of our bedroom.

I am grateful for Melissa May of Stillwater, who joined The Edge in its infancy to compose pages the old-school way, using X-Acto knives and glue to paste articles and camera-ready ads onto white pages for the printer, and who stayed with the publication to the end, long enough to see it transform into a digital process and to have Photoshop as her new tool of choice.

I am grateful for the late Insiah Vawda Beckman for more than being a business manager for The Edge: her smile, her support when I endorsed then-candidate THE EDGE MAGAZINE 763.433.9291 P.O. Box 664, Anoka, MN 55303 www.edgemagazine.net PUBLISHERS TIM MIEJAN & CATHY JACOBSEN

Barack Obama in print, causing us to lose an important advertiser, and oh how I miss her delicious Indian cooking.

I am grateful for those practitioners and healers and astrologers and homeopaths and others who shared their expertise by writing monthly columns to inform our readers, notably Dr. Jan Thatcher Adams, Suzie Black, Matthew Wood, Doug Munson, Christopher Exner, Jason LaFroth, D. Alexander, Michele Mayama, Chris LaFontaine, Kathryn Harwig, Susan Just, Kate Sciandra, Jinjer Stanton, Susan Shehata, MariAngela Pino Landau, Deanna Reiter, D.K. Brainard, Hanakia Zedek, Briana Crusan, Stephen Simon, Michelle Ploog, Maggie Christopher, Angie Bailey, Nadine Penny, Echo Bodine, Cathy Zornes, Don Strong, Phil Bolsta, Efrén Francisco Solanas P., Kathy Anderson, Alan Cohen, Leonard Jacobson, Lisa Venable, Julie McMahon, Michael Maciel, William Meader, Keri Mangis, Charlotte “Mama” Rose, Christine Day, Heather Roan Robbins and Janet Michele Red Feather (my apologies if I have failed to include you).

I am grateful for all of the energetic and committed business owners who not only made The Edge possible by buying advertisements, but took the time to write informative articles for an awakened read-

ership and meet with me and The Edge staff whenever we dropped by to learn more about their particular niche in the community.

I am grateful for each and every reader of The Edge who chose to respond to our call for articles on given topics, because when I began as editor in 1996 I didn’t know many people in the Twin Cities and wondered where I would find content each month — but alas, pertinent and poignant articles arrived via fax and mail (and later via email) in time to fill every edition and I ended up pondering whether it was me, or The Edge itself, that was manifesting so well throughout its history.

I am grateful for Patricia Singpiel for the hours she spent typing up articles that came in via fax and post, and I am grateful for Sheila Van Houten and Jean Wallis for all the hours they touched their keyboards while transcribing my recorded interviews into Word files.

I am grateful for those women and men who worked tirelessly as independent contractors to sell ads for The Edge during the past 28 years — yes, I’m talking about my business partner Cathy Jacobsen, Della McGee and Doug Crandall, as well as Dee LaFroth, Steve Hokenson, Doug Bronson, Marla Nelson, the late Rita Gallagher

EDITOR TIM MIEJAN 651.578.8969 editor@edgemagazine.net

EDGE TALK RADIO COORDINATOR CATHRYN TAYLOR 612.710.7720

ISSN 1085-0996 Copyright © 2020. All Rights Reserved.

ADVERTISING SALES CATHY JACOBSEN 763.433.9291 cathy@edgemagazine.net

BUSINESS MANAGER CATHY JACOBSEN 763.433.9291 cathy@edgemagazine.net

AD DESIGN & PRODUCTION MELISSA MAY

PROOFREADING RACHEL MIEJAN

WEBSITE TIM MIEJAN

TRANSCRIPTION JEAN WALLIS

The Edge is published by The Edge LLC. Reproduction of articles in print or electronically without permission of the author is prohibited. The Edge does not necessarily agree with the views in articles. It accepts advertising at the discretion of the publisher and assumes no responsibility for any claims or representations

4 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

contained in this publication or in any advertisement. Printed with soy ink.

Please recycle.

facebook.com/edgemagazine.net

twitter.com/TheEdgeMagazine

Rosenberg, William-Thomas Wegner, Leah Hetzel, Pamela Olson, JoMarie Anton, Aerielle Louise, Katja Amyx, Joan Malarkey, Matt Saxe, Lori Newman, Kimberle Ganzer-Wiley, Carol Muller, Tanya Kenney, Bryan Bertsch, Edward Snyder, Tyler Smith, Steve Fillmore, Tina Rodriguez and all those including the late Jeannette Carter who contributed to the special editions we published in Kansas City and Wisconsin.

I am grateful for Steve Hokenson for all of the expertise he shared with The Edge in not only producing The Edge’s website, but also for assisting with Mac applications that made running The Edge easier.

I am grateful for author Michael Newton who shared his book Journey of Souls with me and then agreed to an interview on his deep hypnosis sessions that confirmed that we hang out with familiar souls in groups in the Afterlife and that our essential nature never dies.

I am grateful for so many notable wisdom leaders, authors and artists for taking the time out of their busy schedules to talk with me and share their insights with our readers, including the late author and futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, the late astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the late Horst Rechelbacher, the late Dr. Wayne Dyer, the late Paula Sunray, the late Wallace Black Elk, Thomas Moore, Kent

Nerburn, the late Helen Reddy, Byron Katie, Dr. Norm Shealy, William Bloom, Fred Alan Wolf, Alex Grey, Neale Donald Walsch, James Redfield, Dr. Steven Greer, Drunvalo Melchizedek, Michael Bernard Beckwith, the late Benjamin Creme, the late Dolores Cannon, Dr. Robert Ibrahim Jaffe, Linda Tellington-Jones, Bob Fickes and so many others.

I am grateful that The Edge provided me with opportunities like attending and covering Whole Life Expo during the three years it was presented in the Twin Cities, as well as the Spiritual Cinema Cruise that allowed me to meet innovative filmmakers and hobnob with other editors and publishers of publications like The Edge from across the country.

I am grateful to have met so many supportive readers of this magazine at all of the Edge Life Expos, some of whom still remember when our son Kyle was still a wide-eyed youngster who loved to check out the stones and crystals from such vendors as Sheryl and Dale Fisher of KiStones.

I am grateful for Cathryn Taylor for helping us launch our free podcasts, Edge Talk Radio, and providing another way for Edge followers to learn and be inspired.

I am grateful for my wife Rachel for the endless hours she lovingly spent proofreading every article published in

The Edge, in print as well as online, since my first issue in early 1996 — and I still owe her massage and shiatsu sessions, because she continued proofreading for me even after the magazine could no longer afford to pay her.

I am grateful for Cathy Jacobsen, and her husband Jim, for sharing this Edge experience with me for the past dozen years, doing the hard work of bringing in the income and managing the books so I could get the magazine to the printer and place it online each and every month.

I am grateful to have assisted in some way by providing content that helped enhance the lives of our readers by enriching their bodies, minds and souls.

And lastly, I am grateful for you, dear reader, for your loyalty to our publication, for taking the time to find us at one of the hundreds of places where we used to be distributed, for making the effort to read us online when doing so is not the most desirable way to digest the printed word, for sharing us with friends and family, and for being eternally curious and committed to being the best version of you possible. a TIM MIEJAN is editor & co-publisher of The Edge magazine. Contact him at 651.578.8969 or editor@ edgemagazine.net. Visit The Edge online at www.edgemagazine.net.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

5

The Death of My Mother BY

A New Roadside Litter

BY CAROLYN

CHILTON CASAS

Years ago, I’d leave the house each morning at seven to meet my friends to hike our lovely hills.

On Wednesdays, the day the trash truck came, I would take a plastic bag to pick up any roadside litter along the way.

Those habits are lost to time; this morning I go alone.

At nine, eased by sleep and dreams, I leave to walk our country roads.

Strangely, the edges are nearly devoid of debris: a few wrappers, a water bottle, a can.

What shocks me most — two paper face masks, probably blown from a car’s dashboard, one fading on a barbed wire fence, another on the ground among weeds.

It has been four months of spreading virus.

How innocent we were a year ago, how much we took for granted. a CAROLYN CHILTON CASAS is a Reiki Master Teacher and a student of metaphysics. Her poetry and stories can be found in Energy, Odyssey, Mujer Holística, Reiki New Magazine, Snapdragon, The Art of Healing and in other publications. She lives on the Central Coast of California but spent her childhood in Minnesota. More of Carolyn’s writing can be seen on Instagram at mindfulpoet.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

6 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

ERIC J. CHRISTOPHER

MY MOM DIED TWO weeks ago. It came as a relief as her 20-year struggle with Parkinson’s had taken its toll. By the end she couldn’t speak or move, although we knew she could hear us as her breathing would change and speed up, or she would get teary when we would share memories or speak from our heart.

As the youngest of four kids, we had a special bond. My siblings tease me to this day about being her “favorite.” I will always cherish her love.

I am grateful for an awareness of the after-world, because it helped me encourage mom to let go and be with my dad who passed away nine years ago.

It also helped me to be happy for her when she finally died. I cried a mixture of tears of joy and celebration for her and also sadness for the finality of the physical loss. The best thing anyone can do with a loss is to allow the energy of grief to move through you. Then, couple it with the awareness that you can still communicate with them, you’ll see them again, and that love never dies. My brother made a beautiful, five-minute video called Celebrating Sally Link Christopher. This has helped me and my family through the grieving process.

Given my work, I’ve had the experience of guiding thousands of people to past lives and the after-world. One thing the journeys all have in common is a feeling of “going home,” and of being immersed in a lighter vibration of love and total acceptance as they moved higher and deeper into the spirit world.

Because of my work, I’ve also had the privilege of being introduced to several afterlife researchers. One of them is Victor Zammit who wrote the book, A Lawyer Presents the Evidence of the Afterlife. He and his wife send out a fascinating, free weekly newsletter called the Afterlife Report, something worth checking out if you’re interested in the topic.

A few years ago, I was introduced to a book called Flying High in Spirit,

by Carol and Mikey Morgan (available on Amazon). It’s about a young man named Mikey who went to a Catholic high school about a mile or two from my home office. He was beginning his third year of college in Colorado when he was killed in a car accident. For several months after his death, he sent obvious signs and messages to his family that he was still alive and conscious, just not in a body.

When his mother Carol gradually accepted that he was communicating with her, he guided her to an intuitive

development class so she could communicate with him. He revealed that they had both arranged their situation prior to this life. He was an older soul who had stopped incarnating to Earth, but he had planned with his mother to incarnate into this life to get a taste of human life again, and then die early in order to communicate back to his mother things about the spirit realm and about God that would be helpful for humanity to know. Things such as what the spirit realm was like, what Earth life was about from the spiritual perspective, and what God is and what God is not. Also, how exactly spirits communicate with loved ones left behind on the physical plane.

Flying High in Spirit confirmed much of what I’ve previously studied about the afterlife and taught me even more, making the spirit realm feel so much more “real” and accessible. Now that my mother has died, I have a clearer sense of her experience in the spirit world — what Mikey calls “the Summerlands,” where most souls travel to after their death. I’m comforted by the image of my mom reuniting with my dad and her family in a celebration of her life, something that Mikey says happens in the Summerlands.

Another author who shares about the after-world is Jurgen Ziewe. He meticulously chronicles 40 years of out-ofbody astral travel research in his two books titled, Multi-Dimensional Man: An Authentic Eyewitness Account of the World that Awaits Us After Death, and Vistas of Infinity: How to Enjoy Life When You Are Dead. Ziewe shares how souls can select and change their age and appearance, and how his mother always appeared different during the dozen times he visited her. Since my mom’s death, I often wonder what age she chooses to appear with my dad.

I’m grateful for my understanding of the afterlife, and how it’s supported my grieving process. The more we study and understand about the afterlife, the more comforted we become, and the easier it is to endure the inevitable losses on Earth. a ERIC J. CHRISTOPHER has a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and is a certified hypnotherapist. His life passion has been to spiritually awaken and help clients do the same by guiding them to connect to their inner wisdom and higher self that can uncover and heal the roots of limiting fears and beliefs. 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.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Three Extraordinary Ideas to Help You Realize Lasting Freedom

BY GUY

FINLEY

IN THOSE SILENT, BUT magnificent moments of life — where we are suddenly given a glimpse of something so beautiful that it quiets the mind — we know that we stand in the presence of something that represents a new and higher order of ourselves.

What we’ve yet to understand about these fleeting experiences is that they are an invitation to become fully conscious of these timeless and vital forces as a living part of who and what we are in reality.

In such moments we know, without having to think about it, that as beautiful as the world around us may be, it pales in comparison to the world that awaits us within us.

Let’s illustrate this last idea.

If you’ve ever taken a walk through a deep wood on the sunlit day and stood in the silent shafts of light streaming down and through the trees, then you know, even though these bright beams seem to appear randomly and separately, each ray of light comes from a common source: the sun. The same holds true with these beautiful timeless qualities that sometimes streak into and through our hearts and minds. These celestial characteristics are the too-fleeting expression of our own yet to be realized True Self. But if this is true, which it is, what is it that keeps us from permanently entering into this extraordinary life? As you’ll see, the answer is surprising!

We don’t really know where to look! Or perhaps, more clearly stated, we tend to be looking in the wrong places because, at present, we see our life through a part of us — our senses — that “tell” us that we live apart from all that we see. The sorry result of this incomplete perception is undeniable: instead of an undivided relationship with the extraordinary life within us, we are reduced to a frantic search outside of ourselves, at best finding only temporary fragments of the freedom for which we so long.

How do we regain — realize — our relationship with the innermost truth of ourselves? What must we do to enter into a conscious relationship with the extraordinary life within us? Use the following three simple exercises to do two things at once: first, to reveal what stands between you and the higher freedom you seek, and then to release yourself from the same. There’s an old saying that “rain follows the plow.” It also is true that realizing our true higher possibilities follows the interior work ➤ see LASTING FREEDOM on p. 8 NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

7

LASTING FREEDOM

continued from p. 7

necessary to realize them.

1. Open Up To Real Life: Dare to see and experience yourself as you are without giving names to any of the myriad states of self that present themselves before your inner eyes.

Resist the temptation to interrupt whatever thoughts and feelings are rushing through you by trying to explain to yourself why you’re having the experience that you are.

Why open yourself up to life in this way? Because it’s the only way to see that the true extraordinary you can no more be defined by a single thought or feeling then can the sun be known through a solitary beam of light.

2. Do What You Fear Doing: Every time you take the leap into what you are psychologically afraid of doing, the extraordinary life within you will prove that its unshakable ground is everywhere beneath you at all times.

To know that you can’t fail as long as you’re willing to learn what the moment reveals about yourself is the same as understanding that there’s nowhere for you to go but up!

3. Take Time Once A Day For Your Self: What we must remember is that the extraordinary life is timeless, and if we would share its life, we must enter into its world. Here’s a good place to start: whenever you can remember to do so, choose to consciously step out of that gilded, but self-confining, cage called “thinking about yourself.” At least once a day sit quietly with the intention of observing the movement of your own mind.

Learning to watch your thoughts in this impersonal way gradually teaches you what can be discovered in no other way: just as the hands of a clock can only go around and around, it also holds true for the level of mind always frantically searching for highest possibilities in passing time. Who you really are is timeless, and only this realization can grant you the extraordinary peace of being who you really are. a GUY FINLEY is the best-selling author of The Secret of Letting Go, The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, and more than 40 books and audio albums on self-realization. Guy is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center for self-study located in Merlin, Oregon where he gives talks four times each week. For more information please visit http://www.guyfinley.org/ or call 541.476.1200.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

8 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

An Accelerating Shift Before the New Year A Pleiadian Message

BY CHRISTINE DAY BELOVED ONES, WE GREET YOU. At this divine juncture on your Earth, an energetic diversity is building more than ever before between the playing out of illusion and Truth.

The third dimensional illusional drama is explosive, and simultaneously the essence of the light is expanding, growing daily as it continues to anchor on your planet.

On Earth you are undergoing a rapid rebirth, a complete metamorphic shift within your physical, energetic and emotional bodies. All birth is intense and there are no exceptions within this process.

This heralds in the time you have been waiting for as “the big shift” comes closer.

As you approach the frequency of the New Year, there will be an acceleration into this shift. Waves of light will be set in motion throughout the Earth plane. And within these vast emerging waves of light vibration, new energetic forms will be made manifest on your planet. These higher vibrational forms are being established to support and stabilize the higher order of multidimensional grids. These grids will hold the sacred design for this time, radiating out and anchoring the activation of a higher electrical frequency of light across your Earth plane to form an active network for change.

AN ESSENTIAL ROLE Simultaneously, you are being made energetically ready to play an essential role within your heart in relationship to these grids. Your sacred heart has been designed as part of its destiny to be linked within these higher grid frequencies that are about to be made manifest on your Earth. You, your heart, are actually to play a transformed role by becoming an energetic extension of the multidimensional frequency network.

Your natural heritage is electric in nature.

As you become a link within the network vibration, you are being returned, recalibrated back into your natural state of being multidimensional. You have an unlimited capacity to hold this network light connection by expanding your functioning within the multidimensional realm of your Higher Self.

All of your systems, which include your pineal, brain synapses, spinal fluid, sacrum and physical cells within your body, are being upgraded electrically. Your energetic field is undergoing a magnetic upgrade; you are being made ready for this monumental shift, which is happening towards the end of your calendar year.

Within your daily experience as these changes take place, unexpressed and unresolved emotions are being brought to the surface within you. Your human element is undergoing many challenges within the environment of your day-to-day living.

You are requiring balance within your life to support this rapid change. This stability through balance can only be achieved through a conscious choice process of building a deeper link within your heart. The heart connection brings you peace, understanding, knowledge of your mission and Truth.

Only you can achieve this ongoing building of reconnection within your heart through conscious choice. This is the action of you birthing you every time you realign to your heart. Many incremental multidimensional layers will be re-accessed through your heart. Your conscious action of “choosing” is incredibly powerful, and it is an essential component to your awakening process. Each cell within your physical body goes through a revolutionary transformation each time you build this connection within your heart.

The evolution of your enlightenment is a step-by-step, moment-by-moment process as you navigate your way to reconnection and the reclaiming of your sacred heart.

The heart is your central access point to Universal God consciousness. You hold a unique design sacred imprint within your heart, and you are received and recognized through this imprint. All access to Truth arises from within your heart’s connection. Your heart is a multidimensional tool, waiting to be fully utilized by you.

SHIFTING ROLE The magnetic core within your planet will shift its role in the last few weeks of the calendar year. The magnetic core will act as a centerpiece, transmitting a higher vibrational form of illumination outwards across the planet. This changing process is designed to create an action of great transformation, bringing the “new dawning” order of vibrational light to Earth.

The magnetic core will radiate this higher order of light, which is destined to bathe the Earth and infuse through all life force energy existing on the planet. This sacred light is designed to also interact through your heart, planting a seed within you. The seed births an illumination within the sacred chamber of your heart. This illumination of light activates and aligns you to your individual heart imprint of God light.

The magnetic core can be likened to a

central wheel with spokes. Shards of light will radiate outwards. These spirals of light will be drawn into the individual frequency of the divine presence of your heart. You will be part of the creation energy of Earth through this reconnection. The presence of your higher light will become manifest and active, opening up another aspect of your self-realization process and experience at this juncture.

YOU HAVE SAID YES Only you who inhabit human bodies can fully implement the changes within Earth that are (and have always been) destined to take place on your planet. You have said “Yes” to achieve the goal. You are to play an essential role of this mission, individually and collectively. This is to be your next conscious step in the transitional phase on Earth.

As a collective, you can build and establish communion imprints between yourself and others. They are designed to build reflective mirrors of light throughout your planet. These communion imprints arise through your individual heart, and then they open up through your telepathic communion center. The essence of your heart imprint is then enabled to join with another. Remember, as you are all joined through the collective essence of the One, the God consciousness element lives within each one of your hearts. This allows a communion to become established between any two persons or more.

Part of the process of establishing a multi-communion frequency between groups and communities is the building of a crescendo of light, which anchors love on Earth. This process creates a profound base of love opening up a communication frequency within Earth for the ongoing transmutation of humanity. You create the building blocks of a pure base of love within the planet, which expands this life force frequency of love to all living things.

This is the time, through the multidimensional reconnection of your heart’s sacred chamber, that you become an initiator to establish a telepathic communion between yourself and others forming communities of light to hold this mirror of light steady on Earth.

PROCESS TO PREPARE YOUR HEART TO FORM A COMMUNION (working with the energies after December 24): 1. Place your palms on your full chest area (this is your heart space).

2. Open up your awareness within your heart, feel the warmth or physical pressure of your palms on your heart.

3. Bring in the conscious breath (in the mouth, then exhaling out of the mouth), placing your breath like a soft wind within your heart.

4. Open up your awareness within the space of your heart. Align deeper within the space of your heart that you feel, sense or see by taking a conscious breath, like a soft wind within the opening.

5. Bring your sound, ANTAE EEE, and place this sound within your heart.

6. Feel, see or sense a doorway opening up within your heart from the sound.

7. Open up your awareness within the space and bring your sound, ANTAE EEE, within the opening. Use the conscious breath within the space and let go.

8. Bring in the sound, ANTAE EEE, within the space. Then repeat the sound twice within the space.

9. Open up your awareness within the space and let go. Use the conscious breath and let go within the space of your heart.

10. Then: Bring your awareness to your pineal, which is one inch above the third eye. You can touch this position with your index finger. One hand stays physically connected to the heart.

11. As you bring your awareness from your heart to your pineal, feel sense or see the energy from the heart begin to flow within your pineal space.

12. Open your awareness within the space and take a conscious breath and place it within the pineal that you see, sense or feel. The space may be large or small, it does not matter. Bring your full awareness into the space and let go using the conscious breath again.

13. Bring the sound, ANTAE EEE, within the space. The sound creates an echo within the space, and the sound opens up a deeper access for you to enter.

14. Bring your sound, ANTAE EEE, two more times within the space and use the conscious breath to let go.

15. Open up your awareness to feel the space open more completely. Breathe and let go.

16. Now bring your awareness from the pineal back to your heart, with both palms now holding your heart space. Feel the essence from the pineal flow into the heart. Witness how the heart and pineal are interacting with each other, with an energetic pathway linking the two.

This is the time to develop this link between your heart and pineal, preparing yourself for this expansive next step that is coming.

We witness you as you reach deeper within your heart and choose to let go and allow the unfolding of yourself within this powerful time.

You are not alone. Trust and know all is in hand. Blessings, The Pleiadians. a Christine Day is presenting the 3-Day Pleiadian Seminar “Enter the Realms of Pei Antana” on December 5-7 via Zoom. For more information, contact Joanne Wakefield at 651.452.2895, email wakefieldj@hotmail.com or visit Christinedayonline.com.

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 self-healing. Since then Christine has been presenting Pleiadian Events, Seminars and Transmissions of Light throughout the United States and internationally. Visit www.ChristineDayOnline.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

9

ONE STICKY TIC GISELLE M. MASSI IT IS POSSIBLE I HAVE been infected since birth. I gained a new understanding of this while on a recent trip, even though over the past four decades I have had more than a glimpse of the condition.

Each time the infection becomes visible it is a greater shock to others than to me.

That’s in part because one of the sideeffects of this rare condition is that it takes hours for me to recognize the effects of an outbreak. By then residual damage is permanent.

I tend to spend several days after any episode marveling at another life mystery.

I also try to assess the invisible scars.

I say invisible, though it may be more like semi-invisible, as the damage is unique: No one ever again looks at me or thinks of me in quite the same way as before. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say whenever we’re together, I suspect there is some quaking inside going on, fearful they may be subjected to another outbreak.

What’s especially fascinating to me is that instead of eliciting positive emotions of compassion as many may feel after spending time with a person whose main transport is wheelchair, my chronic condition seems to manifest an opposite reaction: annoyance. Maybe that is because this is unlike an infection brought on by insects, such as ticks that carry Lyme disease. Lingering effects from those types of infections may leave a person diminished in health and vitality. But instead of becoming a lesser version, with each outbreak I feel the expansion of self, a heightened quality of being. Sort of like a built-in yin for the yang, my infection generates a positive consequence despite any agitation it seems to evoke in others.

Similarities with a physical tic are obvious, with one important caveat.

Medically speaking, a tic is a repetitive movement that is difficult, if not impossible to control. Those who have physical tics effort to work with and manage them.

Tic-afflicted people have the advantage of research and therapy helping to improve quality of life, even if the stigma doesn’t go away. But the two biggest differences for me are: there will never be a cure for what I have — and I don’t seek one.

There is no cure for a spiritual tic.

These spontaneous eruptions come as a trifecta: facial surprise, then a verbal jousting with the words spewing out as my arm-and-hand motions increase in intensity. Thoughts continue to quicken, speech fires like a machine gun, so fast that I am unable to pull anything back into submission. All of this is a display of Truth, the result of me being triggered BY

Evolution of Consciousness BY

MARIE McINALLY

Evolutionary Consciousness brings “Shedding of our skins” unearthing

great fear

As we grip onto all that is

Mine

Our mummified states bound and held by endless confirming of

a Me

Our limitless requirement for more brings

great fear

Surfacing exposure to the diminishing of control of this

My world

This shedding is offering

our Freedom a

MARIE McINALLY is a mother of three boys and a graphic designer in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She has written her first children’s book, Being Kind, which has a subtle spiritual message. It describes the necessity to be aware, considerate and kind to each other. She has taught Heart Centered Mindfulness and led groups at her home for nine years. She is an Angelic Reiki Master of 15 years, and she has been teaching groups in public settings on Self Inquiry and Meditation for more than a year now. Contact her at mariemcinally@ btinternet.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

1 0 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

when exposed to extreme and grotesque hypocrisy or damaging lies.

This is how it has been for me since childhood. This Force is a spiritual tic.

This time it was especially easy to identify the trigger. To my surprise, not everyone knows politics and religion are taboo topics at certain gatherings. When this is done intentionally to provoke, well that takes the violation to a whole ‘nuther level of no-no. Yet, I take full responsibility, because I was caught off guard.

Naively, I wasn’t expecting any bizarre political comments and grant that I was even stupid to assume that we would all avoid those minefield topics. But I am like that sometimes. I just don’t see the obvious, so jokes are often lost on only me. Still, in hindsight, I do realize because I was in foreign territory this might have been predictable.

Though there are no prophylactics for being blindsided with a sucker punch like I took, my antidote to verbal toxicity is this Force. A spiritual tic casts out the poison of ignorance.

What enabled me to name my condition was the result of a conversation I had with a friend, just a few hours after the episode occurred. I had been reminded, while chatting with her, of another time when I displayed this exact behavior.

I began describing that scene from years ago to help set up for her the latest example of my infection.

Here’s sort of how the conversation went down: After learning from several relatives of their disdain for a relative’s choice for marriage, I found myself at a large dinner table with the couple. All seated at the table had spoken unfavorably about her to ➤ see ONE STICKY TIC on p. 12

November Horoscope: Find Truth Mercurial Messages through the Zodiac

BY HEATHER ROAN ROBBINS NOVEMBER BEGINS FOGGY and tumultuous with both Mercury and Mars retrograde. It’s hard to see what’s really going on, and people have a strong emotional charge. We need to peer through the fog of potential misunderstandings and misinformation, and look for truth, both in our politics and in our personal life. Mercury turns direct on the morning of November 3, halfway through our national election.

Once Mercury is direct, the communications and technical snafus straighten out, but they could be complicated on voting day, so plan ahead.

Emotions run high through the first week of November as Venus in Libra opposes Mars retrograde in Aries. Mercury enters Scorpio on November 10 and helps us investigate a mystery. We may pick up a project where we left off mid-October. Mars turns direct on November 13, stirring up conflict, but then the confusion clears and momentum resumes.

Thanksgiving requires us to be creative and openhearted, to actively look for blessings to be grateful for. Be prepared to suspend traditions for a year and make the best of what is available as Venus opposes Uranus and requires adjustments. The sun enters truth-seeking Sagittarius November 21, and a full moon/eclipse in Gemini on November 30 initiates a fresh conversation.

Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)…Your challenge is to aid emotional stability rather than deepen the storm as this month begins. After November 14, the emotional waves calm down, and it’s time to launch a new phase of your work. Think through your intent, then make a clear and true statement around November 21.

Taurus (Apr. 20-May 20)…Be stubborn and grounded as the month begins. Then stretch your flexibility around November 9. Hold on with a loose

hand; some people, things and preconceptions need to be released mid-month. Find comfort in the new forms over Thanksgiving. Be truthful with yourself around your resources in late November.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)…Track thoughts and important items carefully through November 4. Be a leader in the conversation mid-month as Mercury opposes Uranus. No need to provoke, life will do that; help people process the changes. Prepare to end a chapter and begin a new one around the eclipse November 3.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)…The emotional swings of early November are not about you; don’t take it personally. When in doubt, rely on good relationship skills and work therapy to stabilize the feelings. People need your sense of coziness over the holidays, even if you have to reinvent the form.

Receive gratitude.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)…The first week of November may be tumultuous, but action towards your vision comes back by November 9 as the sun trines Neptune. A doorway opens as the sun enters Sagittarius. If the late November eclipse triggers some challenge to invest or invent, do so under your own terms.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)…Take good care of yourself through early November’s roller coaster. Spend the second week checking in with beloveds; share personal truths and engage great conversations of the heart. Expect some adjustments around work direction mid-month and then throw yourself into a project dear to your heart.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)…Engage interesting conversations about your role in the world early November. Be your shining tactfully honest self, without enabling, as Venus opposed Mars around November 9, and then weave your social magic mid-month. November 19-22 could bring some tricky karmic tasks, but offer an opportunity to build trust.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)…You’re in the spotlight, often not a place you feel comfortable; choose how you want to be seen. Speak thoughtfully in early November, especially in emotionally charged situations. Appreciate fresh focus when Mercury enters Scorpio November 10. Step back into your privacy as Venus enters Scorpio November 21.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)…Your easy enthusiasm can help others over rocky terrain early in the month. You hit the spotlight after November 21. How do you want to shine? Think about what changes to make on the eclipse November 30: what you’d like to release and what you want to invoke.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19)…Next year will most likely be easier. For now, find constructive ways to deal with problems created by people around you that are irrational and emotional. Don’t be impatient with them when you have a great solution and they don’t want to hear it; they’re just not quite ready.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)…Be willing to be seen. Take any opportunity to step away from responsibility for a few minutes and be playful mid-month. Keep the art supplies handy and express yourself creatively when it’s hard to express yourself interpersonally. Your neighborhood expands and the conversation opens after November 23.

Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)…Practice great self-care so you can be there for others during the early November roller coaster. Step into another layer of your own empowerment mid-month as Jupiter conjuncts Pluto, and just do it with gentleness to your soul. Late November can instigate changes at home, so help make them good changes.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 them at the core of her spiritual counseling. For a daily view, read Starcodes at www.roanrobbins.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

11

ONE STICKY TIC

continued from p. 10

me, yet during dinner they all feigned a mask of cordiality, belying what was distressing their minds and hearts.

Somewhere between the main course and dessert this collective hypocrisy begged to be revealed. Whatever ignorance, misunderstanding or concerns existed needed to be brought to light, dealt with and perhaps even healed, so at the very least this could help make the ceremony a more joyful occasion.

“You realize don’t you,” I said as I looked straight at her with the calmness of compassion that belied the stunning question about to sting like a cymbal crashing, “that no one here at this table likes you?”

That actually might be a direct quote, as I recall the night. Memories, things, well you know how they blur over time and can get embellished. That’s what happened with this snapshot in time, but the underlying truth will remain solidly intact. My spiritual tic had involuntarily surfaced. At just that select moment of opportunity and need, the Truth coming out of my mouth shattered not only the pretenses of the evening but made a crack to let in the light.

Everyone could have chosen to see this as an opportunity for growth, but as you might have already guessed, in that moment they did not. But fortunately, it only took a short time before the table turned, so to speak, and all could see that the spiritual tic had begun its healing. It generated follow-up conversations that revealed disturbing evidence. This was an unhealthy match long before I showed up with my infection.

Fast forward a few years, my relative entered a new relationship that grew into a marriage proposal, a relationship full of love and with the blessings of children.

Truth is like that sometimes. At first it can be especially hard on the ears and heart, but it is essential for life. Spiritual tics, with their blunt, direct forcefulness, can make it seem like you are being rude even though standing against gross hypocrisy and damaging lies is a moral imperative. So even if you don’t have the tic, take to heart that Truth is kindness and then deliver Truth with kindness, as that is what is vitalizing to life. My father taught me this years ago, way before I named my infection. He said, “As long as you live in Truth you can never be the cause of anyone’s hurt or pain.”

May the kindness infection I inherited from him become pandemic. a GISELLE M. MASSI is a former journalist with The Denver Post and author of “We are Here for a Purpose: How to Find Yours” and the novel “Just Dance the Steps.” Giselle’s column series A2W Aging to Wisdom, which includes this article, is is an exploration of joyful ways to go through life. To read more or to contact Giselle, go to www.gisellemassi.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

1 2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

Saint Francis, Dogen & Rumi: Three Mystics for Our Time

BY STEVE KANJI RUHL THREE OF THE WORLD’S most admired spiritual teachers — Francis of Assisi, the Christian saint; Dogen, the great Zen Buddhist teacher; and Rumi, the Islamic Sufi master – lived during the same tumultuous century.

They integrated mystical realizations of the sacred into their lives, and show us how we can do the same.

They weren’t superhuman. Francis began as a wealthy, wine-loving reveler and carouser in northern Italy. Dogen began as a sheltered aristocratic youth in Japan who wandered restlessly through China, seeking spiritual direction. Rumi began as a member of a far-ranging refugee family fleeing invasion and warfare, and became a lawyer and family man in present-day Turkey.

Though they possessed acute spiritual sensitivity, they didn’t show outstanding potential. Yet, their example as mystical teachers inspires millions of people in our own era.

Through perseverance and courage — qualities any of us can emulate — they transformed. They devoted themselves to awakening into fully illumined lives.

They devoted themselves so completely, in fact, that: Francis became a beloved saint, esteemed today by the pope who bears his name; Dogen, who brought Soto Zen Buddhism to Japan, has become one of our world’s most respected Buddhist sages; and Rumi, who founded an order of whirling dervishes and dedicated himself to Sufism’s arcane teachings and practices, has become, in the 21st century, an internationally celebrated poet.

Though they never met, in the 13th century they became enlightened contemporaries.

They also were rebels. They cherished their spiritual traditions and honored them, but they saw that those traditions had become stagnant and, in many cases, corrupted by sloth and avarice: • Francis undertook a revolutionary experiment, choosing to live as Jesus

had, owning nothing, roaming freely, preaching love, extolling God and praising all the creatures of Earth.

• Dogen revolted against the Buddhist establishment in Japan by forsaking the cities and creating his own exemplary spiritual community in a remote mountain wilderness, inviting women and men who wished to seek enlightenment.

• Rumi declared his independence from the staid world of Islamic legalism and exulted in a world of ecstatic spiritual revelry, intoxicated with blissful love of the Divine.

They lived as mystics. They realized fully the gift we all share as our birthright: the ability to directly experience the sacred. They liberated themselves from strictures of the small self, of the ego, learning to let it subside so they could access God, Oneness, Allah.

They accomplished this in a world as turbulent and uncertain as our own.

The 13th century reeled from crises, whether due to rampages of Mongols led by Chinggis (Genghis) Khan, who thundered out of the northern Asian steppes to terrorize civilizations from China to the Mediterranean, or due to the onslaughts of repeated Crusades, waged in the Holy Lands by the Christian church against the Islamic empire, or due to strife and feudal battles throughout Japan. Each of these crises affected Rumi, Francis and Dogen in his own country, dramatically influencing how his spiritual life unfolded.

But it also was an age of startling growth and dynamic innovation. The Chinese, world leaders in trade and technology, maintained vast cities of unparalleled splendor and sophistication, enriched by the Silk Road and the sea lanes plied by their massive triplemasted ships; the black African kingdoms were approaching their zenith; the Muslim caliphate, stretching from Spain to India, set new standards for cultural refinement; while Europe, an upstart emerging from its prolonged Dark Ages, was enjoying a proto-

Renaissance, building universities and Gothic cathedrals, seeing towns of London and Paris expand to cities, nurturing a nascent science and blossoming with arts and poetry.

Francis, Dogen and Rumi — at a time when most people seldom ventured from home — traveled throughout parts of this world in ways that feel cosmopolitan and modern to us, and they lived it fully.

They also retreated from it to find seclusion and silence that would feed their spirits.

They used time for prolonged prayer, meditation or enraptured, soulful contemplation as a path for experiencing directly a numinous reality. Much of this experience was, by nature, ineffable, yet Dogen and Rumi and Francis strove to communicate it in poems that evoked the sacred by employing the mundane — images of boats, or the moon, or of fire or flowers, derived from the commonplaces of daily life and written in vernacular language so that everyone, not merely the aristocratic elite, could understand.

Today, more than 750 years later, we still read those poems with pleasure and illumination.

Despite the vast differences of their religious beliefs and practices in Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, Francis, Dogen and Rumi shared preoccupations and concerns.

All three of these spiritual teachers, for example, intimately appreciated the natural world. Francis roved the countryside, singing to God by praising His creation, the brooks and wild animals and evening stars, blessing the sparrows, expressing a vision of harmony with nature that esteemed all creatures equally. This vision feels vital to us today, as we struggle to evade a looming environmental calamity.

Dogen, too, treasured the natural world, building his Temple of Eternal Peace, Eihei-ji, in the high, distant mountain forests. Dogen insisted that everything we consider insentient — even the water, even the stones — in fact teaches Buddha dharma through its own distinctive language. Each stream, each rock, exists by manifesting from Oneness into existence in being-time, and it does so through full exertion of its unique particularity, its “thusness,” amid perpetual flux and the inherent emptiness of phenomena. Dogen’s assertion implies that all things in the natural world have

value — again, a vision that feels vital today as we confront global climate disasters.

Rumi, too, savored the world of nature, rhapsodizing of gardens and birds, sun and flowering trees, delighting in them not only for their wondrous beauty but because they symbolize the paradisal bliss of union with Allah, the Beloved. Rumi’s vision of the sacredness of nature, like that of Francis and Dogen, can inspire and sustain us as we seek spiritual energy for engaging the 21st century challenges of saving the Earth.

Women in the 13th century faced enormous hardships, but Francis, Dogen and Rumi found pioneering ways to help women who yearned for spiritual wholeness. Francis defied established Church protocols by authorizing a young woman named Clare (later Saint Clare) to establish an order of women who could live communally in a vow of holy poverty, exactly the same as Francis and his friars. This was unprecedented.

Dogen boldly proclaimed, contrary to the sexist attitudes that dominated medieval Japan, that women could achieve enlightenment equally with men, and he welcomed women who wished to train with him. Rumi, despite misogynistic rhetoric in some of the poems within his vast corpus — rhetoric that derives from traditional Sufi symbolism ascribing masculine and feminine labels to positive and negative spiritual traits — also welcomed women and trained several as disciples.

Issues related to spiritual love and the physical body also engaged this trio of spiritual teachers. The path of the mystic is said to be the path of spiritual love, an all-encompassing, spacious opening of the heart that occurs when the small ego-self subsides, allowing loving kindness and compassion to flow unimpeded. Francis demonstrated this love in his embrace of lepers, considered the walking dead; he kissed their wounds and bathed their sores. Dogen evinced love by emphasizing the virtues of kindness to animals and considerate speech, and by inviting men and women of all classes who sincerely quested for spiritual liberation to join him in monastic community. Rumi displayed his spiritual love by conveying it in the swirling language of erotic fervor, describing the longing for union with Allah as a passionate torment and a giddy, drunken, dancing joyfulness of kissing the face of the divine Beloved, unveiled at last.

The intensity of their expressions of spiritual love was matched by the intensity of their attitudes about the physical body, although those attitudes varied widely.

Francis called his body “Brother Donkey” and drove it harshly, in ascetic rigors of deprivation and brutal austerities meant to subjugate it so that the corrupt flesh would bow to the purity of the soul. Accordingly, his body broke down in sickness. These illnesses were so appalling that near the end of his life he nearly went blind and he bore bleeding suppurations that reminded his friars of Christ’s stigmata. In this instance Francis fails to seem modern to us; he seems a medieval fanatic — though, to his credit, approaching death he asked forgiveness of his body. By then, however, it was too late.

Dogen, on the other hand, extolled the physical body as the locus of awakening. He affirmed that Zen meditation happens with the body, and that the act of sitting on the meditation cushion is, in itself, enlightenment. As for Rumi, he viewed the body as a sensuous home of the spirit, which longs for release, much as a nightingale longs to fly from the magnificence of its cage into the open sky. Both body and spirit are the handiwork of God, and while one may be superior, the other is far from evil; it is the means by which the spirit dwells in this earthly realm.

Francis, Dogen and Rumi experienced awakening at profound levels. Francis heard the voice of Christ and saw a six-winged angel; Dogen “dropped body and mind”; Rumi met a saintly vagabond named Shams and woke to the Divine Beloved. Yet, in their awakening they did not transcend this world; they remained very much active within it.

Those actions continue to move us. Had they met, this Christian and Zen Buddhist and Sufi Muslim undoubtedly would have recognized qualities in each other that would have allowed them to communicate wordlessly, as enlightened contemporaries.

They flourished in the same era — and, across the centuries, we can know them as our contemporaries, too. a STEVE KANJI RUHL is the author of Enlightened Contemporaries: Saint Francis, Dogen, and Rumi: Three Great Mystics of the Thirteenth Century and Why They Matter Today, published by Monkfish Book Publishing Company.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Promote Your Remote Services During this Pandemic Be Part of The Edge’s Email Promotion every Thursday.

Call 763.433.9291 or more details at www.edgemagazine.net/advertise/ purchase-remote-services-listing/ NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

13

Become like the Forest

BY JONATHAN

HAMMOND

IF YOU LEAVE ANY FOREST alone to do its thing, that forest will continue an endless process of growth and creation. Now, there might be infighting among species: Animals may eat other animals, diseases might infect some of the plant life, seasons will come and go, and there may be a brush fire or drought. But, left to its own devices, the overall direction of that forest will always be moving toward growth and creation. This is the energy of Nature. That which moves the tides, spins the Earth, grows the trees, shines the sun and beats your heart is made of this same energy, and it pervades everything that exists.

To align with the indigenous wisdom of the shamans is to revere Nature. The reason anyone would revere something is because they are inspired by it and they want to align with it and emulate it, because it has something to teach them. Nature’s immeasurable interconnectivity, holism and its constant expression of growth show us who we are. In Nature, there is no separation; everything is connected and working together, and if it is a cooperative and connected universe, then that means that we are each an inextricable part of that interdependence.

The underlying intention of Nature is love. Why would the forest always move in the direction of growth and creation other than its loving and joyful intention to experience more of itself?

So, in order for us to emulate the forest, we must allow ourselves to want with abandon, to say “yes” to our own growth, and to organize the choices we make and the actions we take in such a way that we always include love’s perspective. After all, the forest always reaches toward the sun, opens to the rain, extends itself downward into the soil, and grasps toward life however it can; it never turns on itself or denies itself what it yearns for or what is good for it, and if we want to be like the forest (as any shaman would), then neither should we.

According to Huna, the spiritual philosophy of the Hawaiian shamans, there are seven principles — seven Hawaiian words — that are the seeds of an ancient philosophy that we can each follow to help us to create lives that are in alignment with the power of Nature.

Bring to mind something that you would like to manifest or create. Then, meditate on the Huna principles. The questions provided will help you use the principles to receive guidance on the subject that you have chosen: • IKE — Your thoughts create your world. This principle is not just saying that the way you think about the world will reflect your personal experience of the world, it is also stating that reality itself will energetically and physically shift, based on how you think about it.

If your thoughts co-create your reality, what are your habitual thoughts and beliefs about what you want to manifest?

• KALA — Limitlessness is the true nature of reality. This prin1 4 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

ciple teaches that you are connecting to everything in existence, and that absolutely anything is possible if you can figure out how to do it.

If there are no limits, then what impedes your freedom to create what you want—fear, doubt, cynicism, stress, financial concerns, rules, or social constructs?

• MAKIA — Our attention and focus attract creative energy. This principle explains that our focus and attention elicit the creative energies that manifest physical reality.

If creative energy responds to what you focus on, are you giving enough of focus and attention to what you want to create?

• MANAWA — The only place to access power is in the Now. This principle reminds us that because the past is gone, and the future is not yet born, we can only actually do anything right now.

If the now is only place to access power, what behaviors, thoughts and habits take you away from the present moment?

• ALOHA — Love is the creation of happiness. This principle tells us that when we include love’s perspective in our choices, the result is always joy.

How can you increase love and happiness in your creative process?

• MANA — Your personal power is divine power. This principle teaches that we exist in an infinitely powerful universe, and that powerful infinitude converges at the point called “yourself.”

If all the power of the universe is within you, do you have the self-esteem, the personal will and the faith that will support what you want to create?

• PONO — If it works, then it’s true. This principle says that effectiveness is the measure of what is considered truth.

If what is true is measured only by results, then do you need to adjust your process or be more creative or flexible in order to create what you want?

When passing on esoteric wisdom, a Hawaiian might say, He mau makana nâu kêia na kô mâkou kûpuna, which means “These are the gifts for you from our elders.” The seven principles are, indeed, a special offering from the ancient ones. With awareness (Ike), freedom (Kala), focus (Makia), presence (Manawa), love (Aloha), confidence (Mana), and flexibility (Pono), there is nothing under the sun that you can’t reach and accomplish, and no height of imagination beyond which you cannot explore.

To be like the forest is to yearn to grow and to claim your deep belongingness on this planet. Give yourself the gift of following your heart’s longings. Tend to your wants and dreams with love and watch them blossom into being. a JONATHAN HAMMOND is a New York-based teacher, counselor and shamanic practitioner. His book, The Shaman’s Mind – Huna Wisdom to Change Your Life, is available wherever books are sold. Visit www.jonathanhammond.com. On Instagram, visit jonathan_hammond_author.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

STONE BEINGS & the Imaginal Realm

BY ROBERT SIMMONS An excerpt from The Alchemy of Stones

STONES, AND ALL THINGS in the world — from atoms to elephants to galaxies — express and embody the fundamental consciousness at the root of everything, and all of them have their own identities.

Whether they have individualistic egos like we do is another question, but we can say that every center of consciousness, expressed as any self-organized object or creature, is a “self.”

From this understanding, we recognize that both we and the stones we work with have selfhood — both human beings and stones are centers of consciousness. This is why I call them Stone Beings.

The underlying selfhood of all things, including us, can be designated by the word “soul.” Although soul pervades our whole being, the Seat of the Soul, as Novalis said, is the space of awareness “where the inner world and the outer world meet.” This is the subtle or imaginal realm, which partakes of the qualities of both matter and spirit. In the human body, this corresponds most directly to the heart. The intelligence expressed through our hearts is the intelligence of the soul. Although we also have a mind and a body, and are connected to the Divine in our spirit, the soul is where the spark of wisdom exists in us. This is where our sincere and “heartfelt” intelligence comes from.

I hold with the insights of the alchemists, the Gnostics, the Sufis and a variety of other spiritual traditions that there is a Soul of the World. In The Alchemy of Stones, we follow the tradition of using the name Sophia to designate the World Soul. We remember that Sophia is the ancient Greek word for wisdom, and we understand that Sophia is the living wisdom who is expressed in what we perceive as the intelligence, beauty and harmony of the world.

Sophia is a vast, yet intimate, intelligence who is embedded within every object and process in the world. Our own souls can also be viewed as emanations of Sophia, even though we are, at the same time, individual selves. We contain a holographic spark of Sophia’s divine wisdom, while still existing as our “separate” human identities. (To me, this is one of life’s greatest and most wonderful mysteries!)

When we work with the Stone Beings, we could say that we are working with Sophia’s “angels.” Angels have been traditionally conceived as being divine messengers, and the stones carry the sincere and benevolent “messages” of Sophia to us when we turn our

attention to them and invite them into us.

These messages are experienced as what we call the energies or metaphysical qualities of the stones. When they reach us, we may sense them as currents of vibration, heat, emotion and feeling, as images, sounds, scents, tastes, words and even as imaginal figures in human forms. Each of these modalities is real, symbolically expressing the “message” of that stone, and can be enhanced through meditative practice.

Because we are operating in the realm of soul, we center ourselves in our hearts when we work with the Stone Beings. The practice of engaging a Stone Being through the heart can easily be synchronized with our breathing. On the exhale, we offer ourselves for relationship with the Stone Being, with a benevolent inner gesture of appreciation and well-wishing. With the inhale, we open our hearts in invitation, holding the intention that we trust the Stone Being, and that we appreciate the opportunity to receive whatever it offers. Setting the stage in this way lays the groundwork for genuine and helpful relationship between ourselves and Sophia, through her angels, the Stone Beings.

We may feel physical bodily sensations from holding a stone, but stone energies are not quite physical. They are patterns originating in the realm of pure Spirit, which we experience in the world of soul — the imaginal/psychoid realm of subtle matter-energy. We must use our own attention, intention and imagination to enter into rapport with the Stone Beings in this realm.

Sometimes our connection can happen as quickly as picking up a stone and holding it. But this establishing of rapport — this attunement — is nonetheless what is going on. We are linking with the Stone Being through our subtle body, within the soul/ imaginal/psychoid realm. And if we are well-enough attuned, we notice the “vibes” or other manifestations of our connection with the stone.

This is why I am sure no mechanical or electronic instrument will ever be able to measure what we experience as stone energies. The realm of soul is much greater than the purely “physical” world, and physical instruments cannot measure something that exists in a higher level of reality. Electromagnetic energies, and all phenomena we designate as “physical,” exist within the much vaster world of the soul — the imaginal domain. They are secondary phenomena within the primary

realm of True Imagination. Our perception of stone energies is a direct experience in the subtle/psychoid/imaginal/soul realm.

That is what makes this work so unique and exciting. Soul-to-soul contact nourishes and enlivens soul.

Why do we find our contact with stone energies so compelling? Why do we bother to meditate with them and try to understand their spiritual qualities? Because we aspire to fulfill our own entelechy — our own encoded intentionality — through receiving what the stones’ energies offer us.

And there is more to this. By engaging with the Stone Beings, we can help them fulfill their purpose — their encoded intentionality. This mutual nourishment is what the activity of blessing looks like in regard to our relationships with stones. It is yet another example of the co-creative feedback loop symbolized by the oroborous.

As we approach the idea of co-creation from this direction, we find ourselves, yet again, facing one of the mysteries of the universe: The more attention we give to beings in the imaginal realm, the more real they become! And this is not simply our “fantasy” becoming more vivid. It actually happens, and manifests in a multitude of ways. a ROBERT SIMMONs has been working with crystals and stones for over 35 years. He is the cofounder of Heaven and Earth (Heavenandearthjewelry.com), a company offering gem and jewelry creations for self-healing and spiritual and emotional development. The author of several books, including The Book of Stones and Stones of the New Consciousness, he lives in New Zealand. Printed with permission from the publisher Inner Traditions International, www.InnerTraditions.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

15

Enter the of

1 6  WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

Realms Pei Antana The Edge Interview with CHRISTINE DAY on the 3-Day Pleiadian Seminar TIM MIEJAN

S BY

piritual teacher, healer, channel and author Christine Day, known as the Pleiadian Ambassador, for years now has called the North Shore of Minnesota home. It is where she receives information and guidance from the galactic realms, and as of late, it is where she both lives and works.

The pandemic may have shut down all of her scheduled in-person seminars here and abroad, but it did not diminish her ability to offer support during what she calls “the new dawning,” a powerful time of transition on our Earth plane.

MARCH 2020 THE EDGE

17

In fact, as a result of Zoom video conferencing, Christine has been presenting small one-day classes and even extensive nine-day seminars — with surprising results.

“The Pleiadians said, ‘You need to go online, because when you are online with your groups everyone’s going to be able to move to a much higher frequency in their telepathic centers. When they’re no longer physically together, we’re going to be able to work much more completely with the group itself, and people are going to go through an advanced awakening they wouldn’t have had if they were all together.’

“And you know what?” she said. “It’s been the most profound experience. The Pleiadians were so right. Everybody who did these are so delighted, because everyone has shifted into incredible experiences.”

For the first time, the annual 3-Day Pleiadian Seminar will be presented virtually, instead of at a Bloomington hotel.

It will take place via Zoom on December 5-7. During this year’s event, “Enter the Realms of Pei Antana,” Christine will introduce participants to the Dreamtime, a higher consciousness realm that until now has only been experienced by sacred Aboriginal elders in Australia. Christine says that as we realign to inner knowledge, it will enable this sacred transforming force to restore us to a higher perspective of Self. For more information on the event, contact Joanne Wakefield at 651.452.2895, email wakefieldj@hotmail.com or visit Christinedayonline.com [https://www. christinedayonline.com/store/seminarsworkshops/3-day-pleiadian-seminar-liveon-zoom].

In a recent interview with The Edge, Christine Day spoke about the sacred Australian site known as Uluru, how her recent visit there for the first time affected her and how experiencing its energy will assist us in our lives.

I understand the 3-Day Pleiadian seminar in December will relate to a visit you and your partner Alisa took in January 2020 to Uluru in Australia, to speak at the Cosmic Consciousness Conference. For those who haven’t been to Uluru, how would you describe that sacred place to them?

Well, I was shocked when I got there, because Uluru is something I would never have been able to imagine unless I went 1 8 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

there. It brings a lot of emotion up for me, because it was like a living, breathing consciousness. It is the most profound space I think I’ve ever been to on the planet, and my life transformed during that time.

Alisa and I both have totally shifted and transformed from our experiences of being in Uluru. What we aligned to there was a sacred gateway that reopened energetically while we were there. We were in a cave at Uluru, and when we entered the cave we both simultaneously remembered that we had lived in this cave with our Pleiadian clan many, many eons ago, bringing the sacred teachings, the openings of the Dreamtime energy, to the Aboriginals.

As we sat there, it’s like a wall in the cave opened up and we were just shot through the opening of that space through the wall. I was reunited with a part of myself within, what’s called Pei Antana. That’s the Pleiadian word for it, not the Aboriginal word. It’s a 10th-16th dimensional multireality state. It’s where the Dreaming and the Dreamtime is for the Aboriginals. That’s how they survive in the desert, through Pei Antana, through this multidimensional dreamtime energy. That is where the sacred knowledge and knowing exists.

The Aboriginal people have held this mantle of connection, and it’s anchored within their DNA and nervous system within the central synapses of their brains.

They carry this sacred alignment within their cells. But now we are given access to the link within the vibrational framework of Pei Antana within the gateway.

As I said, the journey into Uluru was life-changing beyond anything I could have imagined, and it was the most sacred time I think I’ve ever spent anywhere in my life

— in this lifetime anyway. It was a profound time.

As a native Australian, had you ever gone there before?

No, surprisingly enough, I hadn’t. I had worked with the Aboriginal tribes of Western Australia, because I lived in Perth, but I never ever made the trip to Uluru.

I feel this was a destiny call for me, and for Alisa.

We were invited to the conference there and I had said no to it three years in a row.

When they sent the invitation for 2020 I got, “You must go.” I spoke at the conference and transmitted a lot of the energies to the people at the conference, and I was invited back this December to speak again, but I won’t be able to go.

As I said, our experience there was unexpectedly and incredibly amazing. Alisa and I still feel that connection. Nothing was the same once we left there. I was saying to Alisa when we flew back here from Uluru, “I don’t know how I’m going to do this year’s schedule because I feel so changed.”

All I really wanted to do was be there. That was in late January. Then the pandemic happened and it turned out that’s exactly what’s happened.

Alisa and I have both remained incredibly changed. This is what we’re bringing to the 3-Day Pleiadian seminar.

Do the Aboriginals in Australia still go to the Dreamtime?

Those who are awake do, and there are many of them who are not these days.

There’s been a breakdown in the culture like in Native American traditions. There are not many who carry the sacred energies anymore, but for those who do, it’s within them.

What will those who attend the 3-Day Seminar experience?

It will be anchored through the DNA for people who come to the seminar, through the nervous system, the central synapses of the brain. You’ll be carrying sacred alignments within the cells and, of course, you will have work to do after you leave the seminar.

It’s really a beginning. You will work within the sacred design of Pei Antana, and you will be given patternings that carry that frequency so that you can birth yourself into different levels of Pei Antana.

There’s a sacred breath, a new breath different from the conscious breath — and within that sacred breath there is a link into fragments of a light frequency that contains your unique Divine signature. The sacred breath acts as a key to the door and awakens elements within you, reopening centers within your brain, within the brain synapses, and the DNA.

You actually will go through a reorientation of your brain, moving into that multidimensional aspect of yourself, before you enter Pei Antana in the seminar. Everything is set up perfectly, as only the Pleiadians do. We’ll be working with special patternings to reorientate your brain, and you will take those patternings home with you to continue the unfolding of this reorientation of yourself. We’ll also have an amazing seating arrangement within the sacred patterning where you will launch yourself into Pei Antana. Everything’s stabilized and energetically aligned in a very pure state.

Can you put into words what the experience is like when you’re there?

Well, I would say it’s indefinable as far as our language goes. It’s like it enables a transforming force of light to move through you as you initiate within the unique levels of the alternate reality state, as you enter Pei Antana. It’s like you undergo a rapid transmutable frequency shift so that every cell begins to radiate aspects of the Pei Antana field of light, and this field of light is mirrored not only within your energetic aura, but within another aspect of your heart that will be revealed to you as the Pei Antana particles illuminate through you.

You actually find yourself within Pei

Antana and the sacred light that you are.

You start to embody that, and you have another level of fulfillment of self-nurturing, of nutrition. I believe there will be a stabilization of that throughout the 3-Day Seminar. You will build upon this platform more as you go home and continue your journey. It’s like you’re given keys to make your way through the entry points of your sacred self, your sacred journey. It’s almost of unlimited proportions of returning home.

What I feel is important is the energy of the sacred breath. You’ll take your sacred breath back into your life. It’s a frequency that can be utilized consciously in your day-to-day living, unlocking your vast potential. To be with your sacred breath in your day, or to open it up at the beginning of your day, brings you into a whole new appreciation of life from another dimensional perspective, other than the illusion.

It’s like a smooth transition from one experience of illusion of our lives that we’ve been living into another state of being in your life — and you start to channel through the higher light that you are, but in a different way because your brain is reorientated. It reopens a center within your brain and you can begin to navigate or integrate life from that higher perspective

beyond third-dimensional energy.

You’ll be relinking into sacred tools of your own, and like using building blocks, you will keep building and evolving within the Pei Antana patternings.

It’s like you’re birthing yourself back into your physical form, but birthing that sacred component. I think that’s as much as I can say about it.

By opening up to it at the beginning of the day it’s almost like you’re walking a sacred path in your life.

That’s a very good way of putting it. That’s exactly how it is. It’s you choosing your path now in a different way. That sacred breath is interesting, because it evolves through you. It kind of bursts through you.

After a while it’s like, “Oh, wow! I can feel it moving through me.” It’s breathing through you. You’re not doing the breathing, but it’s enabling you to navigate in a different way, in a different frequency. It shifts your frequency.

We all know 2020 has been a most profound time on the planet, but you take it a step further by saying it’s the most glorious time — and a sacred time. Why? Because we have the pandemic. This was a destiny time for this pandemic to come ➤ NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

19

in, allowing a whole shifting profile of consciousness to be birthed through the planet and throughout humanity for those who are open to it. We have a network of God light anchored onto the planet at the same time the pandemic started to anchor in January. It came through Uluru. That’s why I had to be there. I transmitted the gateway opening, not only through Uluru, but it went right across the planet and anchored a network grid of God light across the Earth plane.

It’s coming from Uluru and transmitting. It’s building daily in its light form.

This is the sacred design, the change of the consciousness of humanity, and it’s happening simultaneous to the upheaval of the drama, of the pandemic, of the fires, of the weather, of the election, of the rioting.

It’s all happening simultaneously, and you can’t make one more than another, or less than another. It’s just the action of the birthing of the light.

That’s going to go to another peak by December 22. We’ve got a huge opening taking place then — and that’s when I was scheduled to be back at Uluru, actually. I’m not going to be there, but I am going to do a program, a live streaming on that day, because it has to be done.

I’m linking to Uluru and I have never left Uluru, and so I carry the living alignment of Uluru through me. My intention is to place that out for those who wish to be there. So, I’m committed to that.

You may never leave Uluru.

I don’t think I will, and Alisa and I are just so drawn to it. I was told to bring one stone from the cave, and we’ll be working with that stone. We will have a film of that stone during the 3-Day Seminar. It’s very essential, and it’s in a prominent place on our Galactic Receiving Station.

It’s just profound beyond any words.

When I can go back to Uluru, I will be going because I have to return, and Alisa feels the same way. We have to return when we can, whenever that is. We just don’t know when that will be yet. But, we trust the timing and we trust that where we are right now is in the perfect place doing this work. It’s a great gift and an honor to be part of this whole thing.

One of my experiences during this pandemic has been to get a more constant realization that here on Earth when you peel away the illusion of the ego mind and the drama of society, all you’re left with is natural neverending energy just flowing through us. And there’s nothing else.

That’s true. That’s it. That is all there is.

In truth, that’s who we are and what truly exists within the higher realms. So, when you enter Pei Antana, you start to align naturally back into that in a very different 2 0 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

way. You bring it back into your body to stabilize. That’s what I love about this whole process. It’s just so user-friendly. It’s a simple process.

Share with us the truth about the heart space and the multidimensional value that it offers us.

It’s undeniable that the heart is our way home. It is the pathway back to inner knowledge and knowing. Within Pei Antana, within that entire consciousness shift, that consciousness shift works directly through the sacred heart. So, the heart is going to go through a rapid transmutation. It’s going to create more flow. The heart will be revealing to you the knowledge and the knowing.

That was my experience in Uluru when I went into Pei Antana. Suddenly, my inner knowing opened up in a very different way so that I perceived a truth that I was just totally unaware of. It’s like my whole perspective changed. I had a definite understanding, but I was shown a vastly different understanding than I ever knew up to that point, which allowed me to have a different relationship through my heart, a more complete appreciation of myself, of truth, of my place in the universe, of the Earth, of Earth’s place in the universe, of my mission. It’s hard to put into words, but that relationship to my heart transformed in that moment, and Alisa had the exact same experience.

We were both in the cave, but we were very separate in our experiences. Later when we shared, we learned that our experiences were very similar — and that has never left us. That reorientation of ourselves through our hearts, and the relationship with our hearts, has remained stable through this entire process. When we came home, it was like we had to reorientate ourselves completely to where we were.

It was profound and it was very wholesome, but there were a lot of readjustments to be made at that time.

Not being able to travel to live events due to the pandemic probably has hidden benefits.

I have been taken into a whole new realm of unfolding in myself carrying this frequency.

I just finished 52 levels of the Frequencies of Brilliance, 20 years of work in Brazil and now they’ve given me this whole new work to do with these groups of people that I have been working with for years.

I’ve been launched into a whole new place, except I don’t leave home — and it is delightful! We haven’t gone anywhere all year. We won’t be allowed into Australia until 2023. They’re not letting anyone in for all that time. So, we’re just at home after 26 years of traveling all over the world. There’s nothing except me being home and I’m very grateful for the whole process. I am

very grateful for everything I’ve been shown and given, very unexpectedly.

They say everything happens for a reason, right? So, it all has Divine purpose.

We all need to be stopped in a certain way right now. This pandemic is here to slow us down. At the same time, there’s this huge light that’s birthing on the planet, expanding daily, to enable us to really launch ourselves in a very different way.

It’s really a profound destiny timing, and at the same time it’s creating a tremendous amount of drama that just keeps building.

It’s just a very sacred time if you don’t get into your head and get into the drama of it and the illusion.

The shift has really changed how you work with people.

Oh, totally. My perceptions are very different. It’s really enabled me to work with people in a very different way and work with groups in a very different way.

Now I see much more and understand much more, in the truth that I hold and the love that I hold now, because I’ve accessed another part of my heart, which carries a much higher frequency of the love. It enables me to transmit at a very different space and a different level and bring something even more to the group itself, and so I’m very grateful. I haven’t worked with a physical group since January. It’s all been online, and from that perspective it just allows much, much more to unfold.

There will be a change when you get together with actual human beings.

I don’t even know if I’ll ever do that again.

Maybe I will. It’s seems very limiting now.

And with regard to the Brazilians, I got an email from the manager there. He said he’s talked to all the groups who have done online seminars and no one wants to meet with me in person again, because their experience online was so much more than they’ve ever been able to experience with us all physically together.

So, we’re not going back to Brazil. That’s it, it’s over. I had committed to going back next year because we had missed out on all the final programs this year, but now I’m not going back, and so it makes me very happy.

I see the limitation, and I experienced the limitation when we’re all together, and this change is just a very profound happening. a For more information on Christine Day and the 3-Day Pleiadian Seminar, visit www. christinedayonline.com.

TIM MIEJAN is editor & co-publisher of The Edge magazine. Contact him at 651.578.8969 or editor@edgemagazine.net. Visit The Edge online at www.edgemagazine.net.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Touchstones: Safe Haven for Troubled Times

BY ANNE

REEDER HECK

touchstone noun 1. an excellent quality used to test genuineness.

2. a stone used to identify something precious. 3. a safe haven, grounding spot.

MY PERSONAL DEFINITION OF touchstone as a safe haven extends beyond the traditional definition. I often played neighborhood tag as a child. Our safe zone — a large stone — could be touched by hand or foot, deeming me safe from being tagged.

It was a destination that offered a pause from the running chaos to rest and catch my breath. From this experience, I developed my own definition of touchstone — the third listed above. It’s not much of a stretch; touchstones accentuate what’s precious, they point out what’s genuine; for me, touchstones are spaces, experiences or words that remind me to reset or recenter.

I was fortunate to have a rich and active childhood where I often played outdoors.

Our home had a pair of beautiful sugar maples in the side yard. When I was old enough to climb trees, my father hung a rope ladder from one of the maples, giving me easy access to the interior haven of its branches.

As a young girl, I played here often.

I claimed a special spot — my legs perfectly straddling a hefty limb, my back resting against the trunk. I called this my “comfy seat.” In the spring, I enjoyed the bright greens popping from tips of branches. In summer, I was abundantly camouflaged in a sea of green; in fall, I sat in a swirl of crispy color; and when weather turned cold and branches dropped their leaves, I sat exposed — the rush of cool wind rustling the bare maple limbs around me.

Throughout my childhood, I developed a deep connection with my comfy seat, and when life was difficult, I sought refuge there to reconnect with a pure sense of

self, to be reminded of simplicity and ease.

Eventually, my family moved from that home. In times of need, I would imagine myself climbing the rope ladder, swinging my leg across the rough bark and leaning into the comfort that was always available to me. My maple became a touchstone — a part of my experience I could connect with to center myself, and to remember who I am.

After weeks of quarantine, isolation and separation from loved ones, we’ve lost the sense of comfort that comes with things familiar. We no longer have certainty about our future. Many are living in fear, feeding on mental narratives that lead to a state of paralysis, physical ailments or impulsive actions. Touchstones can quell our fears. They deliver us to a safe zone where we can more easily center our thoughts on narratives that work.

Our nervous system doesn’t know the difference between imagination and reality; we can replace our fearful narrative with one that better serves our nervous system. I’m not advocating that we hide our heads in the clouds as we retreat to our imagined comfy seats. The world needs each of us and our unique gifts right now. I’m also not suggesting we overlook our emotions. Emotions serve as our guiding force. However, if we intend to maintain inner balance and take action to better serve ourselves and others, we must

be present, grounded and attentive to hear our respective calls to inspired action.

I’ve developed numerous touchstones throughout my adult years: my morning meditative stillness, hikes in the forest, writing poetry, creating art, feeling the wind on my face and grass beneath my feet. Each one of us likely has a host of touchstones that can provide ballast during life’s storms. We would all be served by establishing our list and engaging with our touchstones often. This connects us with our genuine nature and our preciousness as humans, and helps us gain clear focus and take prudent action.

One thing is certain: we will always experience difficult times that cause us to seek inner peace and comfort. One of those times is now. So I’m choosing to take a few moments, close my eyes, and climb the rope ladder to my comfy seat. Though the maple branches may be bare and the wind chilly, I snuggle up against that hearty trunk, and know all is well. Then I thank my beloved sugar maple and listen for what calls me forth. a ANNE REEDER HECK is a writer, healer, speaker and artist who lives in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. Her memoir, “A Fierce Belief in Miracles: My Journey from Rape to Healing and Wholeness,” was published in September 2020. Her writing, art and other touchstones can be found at www.anneheck.com.

Contact her at anne@anneheck.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Promote Your Remote Services every Thursday with The Edge.

Every Thursday The Edge lets our Community know about available Remote Services. Call 763.433.9291 Join our Email List and receive regular updates.

WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET/JOIN-OUR-EMAIL-LIST/ NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

21

An Opening to Reiki

BY CAROLYN

CHILTON CASAS

I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES because I have been touched by them. They have been on my mind lately as I contemplate my journey with Reiki, one that took me quite by surprise and compelled me to wake up even more to life. The first instance I felt Reiki energy flow through me was one of the most profound experiences yet in my life.

Over the years I had heard of Reiki. In my mind, it was a gift you were born with; either you had it, or you didn’t. But then, on a trip I took to India, I learned differently.

On a bus from Puttaparthi to Bangalore, a woman who had seen me double over in agony from a jolt to a frozen shoulder when I stumbled, came to sit by me and offered Reiki. It was quick; over my clothes her hands barely touched me, but an intense heat and compassion emanated from them.

Those few minutes sparked a curiosity and once I returned home, I scoured the library for books about Reiki, reading them one after another.

This led me to search for a teacher, a quest that took several months. I showed up for the class never having met the teacher and only having received Reiki one time.

History and knowledge were passed on to us, but what creates a Reiki practitioner are the attunements given by a master that open a channel, allowing healing energy to flow through your body and out your hands to another. For some this might sound hard to believe. But every person I’ve met who 2 2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

practices Reiki has their secret treasure of stories where healings have manifested, large and small. I’m a communicator and a writer, so I want to share what I’ve discovered, and really, we could all use healing in some part of our lives.

I was eager to learn. After my attunement, being taught the hand positions and practicing with my classmates, I was relaxed, and my hands were a little tingly.

It felt good to give and receive Reiki. But much bigger changes were in store. As a coincidence, or maybe not, during the class I found out that our teacher was also a massage therapist. Before I left class, I arranged for a massage with her a few days later.

On the appointed day, before starting my massage, she asked me how I had felt after the Reiki class. I told her honestly.

After a soothing massage, she left the room for me to get dressed. Suddenly, still lying on the massage table, a humming current started in my core and began to travel up my body and surge out of my palms, like a coursing stream. I remained still to observe the feeling; it didn’t occur to me what it might be. After some minutes, which seemed eternally longer, I called out, asking her to come back into the room, hoping she might know what was happening. She told me it appeared that my energy channel was opening. I had tears in my eyes. I felt shaky and dizzy and wasn’t even sure I could drive home, so I sat in my car until the sensations lessened and I felt safe to drive.

From that moment on, whenever I experienced a loving intention to help someone, I would feel a tingling vibration and a pleasant pressure in my hands. The first week I did eight one-hour sessions for friends and family and these felt natural.

While giving Reiki, I receive the same healing energy through my body, so it is a win-win experience, as relaxing for me as meditation. Without realizing it, I had been waiting for a gift like this to offer.

The following year I completed the second-degree Reiki training, where we learned emotional and distance healing, and then this past year I completed the Master Reiki class so now I can teach.

Amazing experiences have come through giving and receiving Reiki — pain disappearing or improving, emotional releases, visions and guidance received and decreasing of stress through a deep sense of well-being and relaxation. My life has shifted in a very beautiful way. It has become a living meditation.

That first day of feeling energy course through my body will never be forgotten. It made me an instant believer; it gave me the confidence to start practicing immediately and to want to share with everyone what I have found. I am so grateful for the miraculous grace that led me to Reiki. a CAROLYN CHILTON CASAS is a Reiki Master Teacher and a student of metaphysics. Her poetry and stories can be found in Energy, Odyssey, Mujer Holística, Reiki New Magazine, Snapdragon, The Art of Healing and in other publications. She lives on the Central Coast of California but spent her childhood in Minnesota. More of Carolyn’s writing can be seen on Instagram at mindfulpoet.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

TRUE GRATITUDE T H I S M O N T H ’ S F E AT U R E D T O P I C

Gratitude for My Daily Life BY

GINA M. GAFFORD

EVERY MORNING, I WAKE UP with gratitude.

Once I open my eyes to the new morning light, I gently rub my palms together and place them over my eyes. I say, “Om Shanti Om.” I learned this daily ritual from Sadhguru, an Indian yogi and author.

Om is a sacred sound of the universe, and Shanti means peace. For me, it is also a ritual of gratitude.

I am so grateful to be alive. It is an honor to have another day to learn and explore. Sadhguru says, “You are the only doorway to the existence for yourself.” Life is a gift, and I am eternally grateful.

Another daily ritual that I do is give thanks for food and water. I remember Dr. Masaru Emoto’s water consciousness experiments, and how intention causes water crystals to change form. Love and gratitude, which both have a high vibration, cause the water crystals to form into spectacular snowflake-like crystals. Water and food give us the energy to live.

A simple “thank you” is all that is needed.

When I am at work, I am grateful. I work with hospice patients as a massage therapist. Many of my patients live in nursing homes, and when I walk out of a nursing home, I feel so free. I’m so grateful that I can walk on my two legs and live independently.

I know too well that someday I might end up in a nursing home. But for now, I’m so thankful for my body and mind. I take nothing for granted.

I’m so thankful to my patients for all the life lessons they’ve taught me and for showing me their true essence. I have a rare opportunity to see people toward the end of their life. I am so grateful to witness my patient’s beauty, the love in their hearts, and the hope in their eyes. The essence of human beings is so beautiful.

After a long day working with patients, in the evening, as I prepare to go to sleep, I am so grateful for my house, my bed, and my soft pillow. I’m thankful for my husband, my adult children, family members, friends, and beloved pets. I am grateful for my health and well-being during this pandemic.

Before I go to sleep, I sometimes chant mantras, pray, or focus on my breathing.

I have gratitude for my daily life. I connect with gratitude by opening my heart to the goodness in life.

I am also grateful for the hardships that have brought me to a deeper understanding of who I am. I thank God every day for my life. a GINA M. GAFFORD is a Certified Massage Therapist (specializing in Hospice Massage), a Registered Yoga Teacher, and an Amateur Photographer. Gina has a master’s degree in Holistic Health Studies.

She loves to travel, and in 2015 she traveled to India to study Ayurveda, meditation and yoga. She lives in Minnesota. Please visit her blog at www.tunnelvision8.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Finding Self-acceptance through Gratitude BY

KIRSTIN BARSNESS

NEVER IN MY LIFE would I ever have thought I’d be grateful for my small, wide, Flintstone feet.

Yep, these little piggies shaped like a rectangle get more compliments, all because I can find great shoes (at steep discounts). Thank God for my size 6, high arch, wide feet.

I didn’t always feel this way.

I used to bemoan the fact that nobody carried my size, plus I had to get “comfort” shoes. In my mind I pictured geriatric, orthopedics in a beguiling shade of beige.

Then a shift happened. I decided to embrace my funky soul (sole) and discovered some great brands, such as L’Artiste. Now my tootsies are shod in bright, expressive, and slightly flamboyant shoes. They’re no longer a body part disappointment, but the rock stars.

What does hip footwear have to do with gratitude and self-acceptance?

Everything.

Gratitude is the practice of focusing on the positive aspects of what’s happening. This is easy when life is filled with rainbows and everything is strumming along easily, but throw in a detour such as a job or relationship loss and it’s

harder to find the good. Our natural inclination is to get sucked into the drama, hurt, anger or frustration.

We become fixated on the “why is this happening to me” refrain.

Shifting our focus in these times of struggle takes strength and fortitude. Gratitude helps us to find the lesson in the changes taking place or reminds us that we’re not alone in our struggles. It reveals resources and opportunities. It highlights our resilience and offers hope.

Being grateful for our family, friends, career or belonging is uncomplicated. We recognize these blessings and can name them with ease. They’re gifts from our external world. The greater challenge is being grateful for our authentic selves, our inner world.

We sit in judgment of ourselves constantly: measuring our achievements against others, criticizing our efforts, and listing our faults.

Nothing is sacred. Our own bodies are targets for self-denigration, our talents found lacking, and compassion for ourselves isn’t always available. We treat ourselves in a way we wouldn’t treat a friend or even a stranger.

Turning gratitude towards ourselves can feel almost debili➤ see GRATITUDE on p. 24 NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

23

GRATITUDE

continued from p. 23

tating. Taking a healthy look at who we truly are, without our armor in place, is scary. Will we like who we are? Yes and no.

We all have parts of ourselves we wished were different, but self-acceptance comes from being grateful for our whole self.

So, how do we shift our gratitude inward?

If you have a gratitude journal, devote one night a week to being grateful for you. If you’re not a writer, use the time for reflection or meditation. Identify three to five things in the past week that you’re grateful for. Ideas include: • What act of kindness did you do this week that made you feel incredible?

• What special skill do you have that brings you joy?

• What part of your body are you in love with? (We all have one. Maybe it’s your ears if you’re a great listener!)

• What achievement made you feel like a superhero?

• Who do you love unconditionally?

• How did you help someone this week?

• How were you a good friend?

• What lesson did you take from a disappointing outcome?

By focusing our gratitude on ourselves, we begin to emerge stronger. Selfacceptance is the foundation for self-confidence. Perceived faults are transformed into strengths that we want to explore and show off — the parts of us we kept hidden want to be in the light and be seen.

That brings me back to my kick-ass shoes. I’m grateful for my feet, even though they are short, wide and require me to buy “comfort” footwear. My feet take me places, helping me explore this wide wonderful world. I can rock out to my favorite ’80s bands and work in my garden.

The biggest bonus is that I can choose each day how I want to express myself, all with the help of a pair of shoes a KIRSTIN BARSNESS is a life coach, writer, speaker, teacher and artist. She works with professional women who want to live a fuller, more purposeful life, believing that each of us holds the power to transform. Kirstin received her certified profession coach designation from the World Coach Institute. She’s been published on numerous times in The Edge, teaches meditation through community education, and is a motivational speaker. Kirstin is a certified aromatherapist and certified crystal healer. In addition to her life coaching, Kirstin has owned and operated a consulting business for over 20 years. Her passions include her two amazing daughters and any creative project, especially watercolor painting, digging in her flower garden, walking her dog, being out in nature, and connecting with friends over a steaming cup of tea. Contact her at kirstin@ kismetcoachingmn.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

2 4 W W W. E D G E M A G A Z I N E . N E T

Kshama: Patience, Peace and Gratitude in a Time of Pandemic BY

SARAH MANE

I AM WRITING THIS AT a time when a viral pandemic has girdled the Earth. There is a palpable sense of fear and anxiety, accompanied by the insecurity that comes from the disruption of established patterns of life. We have all, to some extent, been forced into an examination of our lives and the things we held dear, perhaps without even knowing it: the freedom to shop, to walk with friends, to interact face to face with colleagues, to go to church, to stand next to someone, to shake hands.

The comfort zone is aptly named, because when we are forced out of it the first feeling is one of discomfort. Change will do that; in fact, it is one of the hallmarks of genuine change that it is accompanied by feelings of uneasiness and discomposure.

Lately, there seem to be hopeful signs that the virulence of the virus is easing; we can only hope that this is so. But what is certain is that many have been affected, either in their employment, their family life, their health and, of course, many have died. Each such death is a tragedy to be mourned.

It is in times such as these that the guidance of the wise is especially valuable. By definition, the wise are insightful, knowledgeable, clued into the realities of the situation. That’s why we call them wise.

And that is why it is intelligent to turn to them for answers.

As an aside, it is curious how many of us seek out wisdom when we have space and time and leisure, but fail to do so when the need is urgent, the situation pressing, and the time short. So perhaps we can create some space and take the time to ask what the wise have to say that can be helpful in this time of worldwide fear and disruption?

There are many virtues appropriate to our present circumstances that are extolled in the wisdom of Sanskrit: Abhayam, fearlessness; Balam, strength; Buddhi, reason, Kshama, patience and forbearance, and so on.

When I reflected on these words of wisdom, it was Kshama — patience and forbearance — that “spoke” to me, that I felt would be the most helpful to explore.

This beautiful word is full of deep, practical wisdom. It is derived from a root form that relates to remaining calm and composed and allowing events to take place and not resisting the reality of the moment. It also

carries the sense of having the strength to bear any burden.

In its ordinary meaning, Kshama simply means patience: the ability to wait upon events without judgment, criticism, or requirement that the universe serve us up a different reality. This requires an inner steadiness, an ability to find rest, satisfaction and fullness within ourselves. This is certainly an important part of mastering Conscious Confidence.

One easy way to discover the beauty and power of Kshama is to change your story about the events that come your way, from judgment and requirement, to gratitude and acceptance. This acceptance is not a passive inert condition, but a starting point to see the situation clearly so you can apply intelligence and reason, allowing yourself to respond in a full-hearted, effective and fruitful way.

This feeling of gratitude and acceptance can be cultivated and practiced. Start by realizing the universe is a great giver of gifts, and that anything presented to you is for your benefit, even if it’s in the form of a lesson that you need more patience! In this time of disruption, fear and anxiety, cultivating the feeling of gratitude may require a bit more effort. Affirmations are helpful.

Perhaps you might ask yourself: What can I learn from this situation? What is here that will make me stronger, that will help me grow? What inner resources do I possess, what courage, what strength, what intelligence, that will help me meet this face on? Questions such as these can give us space and strength and, yes, patience and fortitude to meet life and turn whatever it serves up to good effect.

So, in this current climate, let’s work together to meet fear, distress and grief head on, by cultivating Kshama in ourselves, a positive feeling of gratitude, patience, and peace. This will leave us free of some of our own burdens, so we can be ready and willing to give our love, our compassion, and our support to the many friends, family and even strangers who are in need of some strength and comfort. a SARAH MANE is a Sanskrit scholar with a particular interest in the wisdom of Sanskrit as a practical means to life-mastery. Previously a teacher and school executive, today she is a transformational and executive coach.

Sarah lives in Australia. She is the author of Conscious Confidence: Use the Wisdom of Sanskrit to Find Clarity and Success. Visit Consciousconfidence.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

True Gratitude Spirit Leaves

BY JANET MICHELE RED FEATHER IN A DECIDEDLY CRISP and lilting British accent, a man once remarked, “You Americans trivialize everything!” For the life of me, I cannot recall the speaker or the context. Was it a film, perhaps a newscast? Either way, it has held for me a fascination and the ring of truth. As I read this month’s topic in The Edge, I thought to myself, here we go. Either I will slip haplessly into pontifical prose, or worse, start spewing palatial platitudes and appalling aphorisms — little bumper stickers of truth that only serve to validate the distinguished yet unknown British man’s assessment of our citizenry.

Let’s face it: references to gratitude have proliferated everywhere. From wall clings to coffee mugs, we have reduced this very Holy state of being to the status of a sparkly pink greeting card — cheery, yet ultimately unsatisfying. What would happen were we to abandon pop cultural acquisitions and take time to look deeply into the heart of the state we call gratitude?

Cedric Red Feather long ago shared the story of Lone Man, a Mandan prophet.

Cedric told of how the Mandan people were happy and safe within their earthbermed homes they referred to as “earth lodges.” They thrived and lived happily along the riverbanks, secure in the awareness that no one had ever been killed within a Mandan village. The people had everything they needed, and they traded for what they lacked. They rarely ventured

forth out into the world; until, one day, Lone Man came into the village and beckoned the people to follow him onto the open prairie. They were frightened, but sensing the immanence of the Holy Man’s request, many followed.

He paused when they came to an open grassland, an ocean-like expanse of strong, verdant blades of fresh prairie grass, waving in a gentle spring breeze.

Lone Man looked into the alert faces of the villagers and said to them, “Behold the blades of grass upon the prairie — so many of them, and all are equal. They are like the days of your lives. One blade of grass is not more special than another; likewise, one day is not more special than another. For every day is a Holy day.”

I have carried these beautiful and sacred words in my heart a long time. I have spent many years since meeting Cedric listening to his stories and learning the songs of the Lakota and Mandan Nations, including Lone Man’s song. So it came to be that, in reflecting upon the simple yet profound parable of the Mandan prophet, I began to feel a profound sense of true gratitude in my heart. Every day since, when I first awaken, I sit on the edge of my bed for a few moments as my feet touch the floor of a new day. I cannot help but acknowledge aloud before rising, “Thank you, Grandfather, for another Holy Day of life.”

I am not pushing this as a practice or ritual that everyone must do; this is just what I feel in my heart to say to the loving,

benevolent presence that has allowed me to awaken and breathe for one more day.

Thereafter, anytime during the day that I feel negative thoughts or states creeping in, I immediately take a breath, close my eyes, and think of as many things to be grateful for as I can. That connects me back to Source and produces nothing but abundance and sparkling synchronicities.

Again, it’s not a technique or prescription. It is just my way of cultivating the capacity for heartfelt appreciation for all that is already here. It is great to be able to feel gratitude for something, without having to wait for its diminution or disappearance.

If I have only one wish, it is that I may never be half-hearted or trivial in my approach to the big “G.” Instead, I endeavor to embrace the beauty — the largesse of spirit — that is gratitude.

Gratitude is not merely a word: it is a sacred place we inhabit once we realize that there but for the grace of a larger beneficence goes the soul on its continuing journey. a JANET MICHELE RED FEATHER, J.D., M.A., is a ceremonial singer who has learned over 60 traditional songs in Mandan and Lakota and sings in nine different languages. Janet was a full-time defense litigator in California for nearly eight years. Her life changed significantly after she traveled to North Dakota in 1993 to fast and pray for a way of life. A regular columnist for The Edge, she has also appeared in Psychic Guidepost, FATE Magazine and Species Link. Her book, Song of the Wind (2014, Galde Press), dealt with her experiences as an empath, and her journey through Mandan spiritual culture. She is currently a full-time, tenured English faculty member at Normandale Community College, having taught Composition and Literature for a span of 20 years. Printed with permission of Dragonstone Press.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

25

Gratitude for Gifts Stranger Than Fiction SRI HAROLD KLEMP AN ARTICLE IN THE San Jose Mercury News was titled “A Bike Ride Stranger Than Fiction.” It told of two young men, twin brothers, who decided to go to one of the large parks in California, take their mountain bikes, and make a 40-mile loop, going along ridges and up and down trails. After reaching a certain summit, they would head back to the ranger station where they had parked their truck.

So the two brothers, full of adventure, set out on their bike trip — going fast, pedaling up and down hills and ravines.

The park had coyotes, wild boar and all kinds of other creatures. In the dark areas of the forests, there was a considerable amount of danger.

After a while they realized that they had planned poorly, underestimating their trip.

They asked themselves, Will we be able to make the summit and get back to the ranger station before dark? The ride was a lot harder than they’d thought, and there was still a long way to go.

The twins decided to go up a high summit trail, and when they got to the top, they were exhausted. There was a great view. They admired it briefly, then said, “Now we better get out of here.” Off in the distance at the next ridge, they could see a rainstorm coming in. It was hard enough riding their bikes on the trail as it was. All they needed was rain turning the trail to mud.

BY

IT GETS WORSE But the rain hit, and so they began slogging through the mud. The brothers were so exhausted, they began thinking it was the end. But they struggled on a little more.

Then things got worse. They had lost the trail. It was too much. They both fell down

in the mud — flat on their backs, unable to move. “Well, it’s been a good life,” one of them said.

So they lay there as comfortably as possible, exchanging stories of the adventures they’d shared.

Suddenly one of them looked up. An old man was standing in front of them. He had a walking stick in his hand and an old rain cap on his head. But the most striking feature was his long white beard.

The man looked at them and said, “What are you doing?”

The twins answered in unison, as twins often do. They said, “We’re going to die.”

It was said as a joke, but not really. They thought they’d come to the end.

“Where’d you come from?” they asked the man.

The old gentleman didn’t answer them directly. He said, “I am a caretaker.”

“Where’s the trail back to the ranger station?” they asked.

The man’s eyes had a gentle, compassionate look. He pointed. “That’s the way home,” he said.

And just a few yards away was the trail they’d been looking for. They hadn’t seen it.

The old man said, “You guys are not ready to die.”

They all smiled at that.

Finally refreshed, the young men got up, got on their bikes, and headed down to the

trailhead a few yards away. They turned to wave to the old gentleman, but he was already gone.

THE GIFT That night came the gift, stranger than fiction. One of the brothers, the writer of the article, had a dream. In this dream the old man, the caretaker, appeared to him.

The young man said, “What are you doing in my dream?”

The old man said, “I wanted to tell you that you have more adventures ahead of you and to be thankful.”

“Thankful for what?”

The old man said, “You are a wild spirit and have a big heart.” Smiling then, the old man continued, “Be thankful for every minute you are here.”

The young man challenged him. “You mean wander the hills alone like you?”

The old man said, “No. Be the caretaker of your life.”

When the dreamer awoke, he was filled with a contentment and happiness that he’d not felt for a long time.

The conclusion he reached from all this: We are all caretakers for ourselves and each other. Take every step with grace, for life is a precious adventure. “And most of all,” he said, “never give up.”

WHO WAS THAT STRANGER? Although it didn’t say this in the article, the twins in this story had met the ECK Master Fubbi Quantz. He has been a spiritual guide since the time of Buddha, about 500 BC. His portrait is at the top of this article. To learn more about Fubbi Quantz, visit Eckankar.org/explore/ spiritual-teachers. a SRI HAROLD KLEMP is an award-winning author, teacher, and spiritual guide who helps seekers reach their full potential. He is the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master and spiritual leader of Eckankar, the Path of Spiritual Freedom. His body of work includes more than one hundred books, which have been translated into eighteen languages and won multiple awards. Find your own path to true happiness, wisdom, and love in Sri Harold Klemp’s inspired writings. Visit www.TempleofECK.org and www.

Eckankar.org.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

True Gratitude: Nothing to Hide Behind

BY DR. GLEN

HEPKER THE FOLLOWING BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL School of Thought saying shares a very healthful perspective: “If there is a heaven, a ‘key to the universe,’ even a sixth sense, they are rooted in true honesty, true happiness and true freedom, but most importantly, there is nothing to hide behind. It is a glimpse of an existence where there is no time, no space, no distance…all is known, and once again, there is nothing to hide behind.”

What can we do with this bit of knowledge? Is it the right thing for the right selfless sake? How honest do we want to be with 2 6 W W W. E D G E M A G A Z I N E . N E T

ourselves? This can be tough stuff. From this perspective, does much of what we so often think is so important in our daily lives really all that important? Maybe there are lots of things that are so much MORE important.

We can healthfully learn to witness this truth: that the silly things that we often act like, and think are so important, may not hold a candle to the genuinely substantive things that are truly of immeasurable importance. Witnessing the truth as such is a bright beautiful thing: being genuinely in a splendidly healthful spirit of true appreciation — with gratitude for each breath, for each moment and for all of the innumerable blessings and ➤

Gratitude — Path of Grace ELISHA GABRIELL I LOOKED OUT MY window at the tree branches coated in glittering icy crystal from the blizzard that passed through in the dark of the night. How blessed I am to be able to see this beauty! I gazed in awe as my heart opened to the immense radiance of the natural world. A true winter wonderland! I am grateful.

I leaned over to start my car engine, for I spent the past year sleeping in my car. Rents have gone up so much here in Colorado due to the legalization of marijuana and the resulting influx of people from every state. Though I worked 60 hours a week in Alzheimer’s care, I could not afford to rent a home at my low pay rate. Twenty years of experience in the field of service to others has not raised my income much — only a dollar or two in that time.

Fast forward to the present: I now live in my own little warm and cozy home, thanks to my oldest son who helped me with a down payment. A few weeks ago, a new friend asked me if I like living where I do, and I reply YES! I am so grateful to be living in my own little single-wide trailer in a wellkept park. I’ve surrounded myself with flowers, light and beauty on every level.

And sometimes, when the morning sunlight shines through my kitchen windows, my entire space glows with golden light. It feels to me just like I’m living in a golden temple. I am grateful and blessed.

I’m an ex-yoga teacher of 20 years, an elder, wise-woman and healer who creates occasional programs for women to live lives of purpose and passion.

I greet the sun every day with joy that lifts my heart, and I go to bed feeling supported on every level of being by a living universe that loves me. I want others to be able to feel the deep worth and contentment with life that I experience.

When I have an occasional night of insomnia for no apparent reason, I spend those dark hours opening to more love. I chant and sing lovely songs that lift me up into more realms of beauty and of love. I pour blessings for healing and peace upon every aspect of our sacred Earth. I leave for work with zero sleep, but am grateful that I have had this opportunity to move into more love and into more pure joy!

Recently, I gained 10 pounds. Though BY

miracles that we so often blindly take for granted.

These notions are quite congruent with honestly and mindfully seeking to avoid hiding from the truth.

What are the things that each of us tends to hide behind? How honest are we willing to be? How happy do we want to be? How much can we handle? Do we want to acknowledge that we are hiding? Do we want to face the things we hide behind? This outlook is quite consistent with the true and healthful view that we, as human beings, are not as separate/ separated as we commonly think.

During the Covid-19 crisis, we are facing a dilemma that at times forces us to look within ourselves in a fashion that may be quite new to us. How good or uncomfortable does it make each of us feel, to look deeply within, to work toward deep objective insight? Sometimes this is more obvious when we face what most certainly is an existential crisis.

In this turning point, we have two choices: make the world a better place — or tear it down. Historically we have come together and set forth our finest effort when we have faced huge, disconcerting problems. Wouldn’t the world be a much better place the more we work to do the right thing for the right sake, selflessly? Isn’t it a significant aspect of taking true responsibility for our own health and well-being?

Isn’t this in the splendid and honest spirit of living in true appreciation and gratitude?

There likely isn’t anything more important. a DR. GLEN HEPKER is an author (A Glimpse of Heaven: The Philosophy of True Health), and he has doctorate degrees in psychology and traditional Chinese health arts. He is a part-time individual and marital counselor, a wellness and life coach, and a master instructor of tai chi chuan, chi kung, kung fu, refined meditation/guided imagery, and associated health/wellness arts at Mason City Wellness Center/Mason City Tai Chi~Chi Kung~Kung Fu in Mason City, Iowa. Visit AGlimpseofHeaventhePhilosophyofTrueHealth.wordpress.com or Masoncitytaichi.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2019. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

I’ve created a program for women to lose weight through the power of selfworth and the power of love, I’m not embarrassed or disappointed in myself.

I lovingly pat my little bit larger belly and give thanks that, just for these moments, I feel like my belly is that of a cute Teddy Bear, or the soft and rounder belly of a baby, or of a plump little puppy. I know how to lose this extra padding and don’t give it much thought. Just for now, I am grateful to enjoy these soft and slightly rounder sensations of my belly. I laugh with delight!

A couple of years ago, I died in the hospital while having a hysterectomy.

This experience was so lovely that I’ll be forever grateful to have experienced those realms of golden light, filled with beings who were made out of that golden light. I am grateful that I was able to momentarily connect with my spirit family. I experienced so much joy in the touching of my “home base!”

I am more than grateful that I was granted such a wondrous opportunity!

These are but a few of the moments of gratitude that fill my daily life. A sincere and spontaneous overflowing of gratitude lifts our minds and hearts into the realm of Grace. We are transported out of the focus of the ego as it engages with our daily lives and interactions, and into another realm completely!

Gratitude helps to bring you home to your heart, where true essence has its being. Gratitude is one gateway that can take you out of the illusions of separation, of culture and religion, of fixed ideas. Gratitude shifts your perception and focus. Gratitude opens you to the flow of love and delight that the ego tells you there are a million reasons not to feel. Gratitude allows amazement!

Gratitude allows your true essence to shine. Simply open your heart! a ELISHA GABRIELL (Song of the Wind) is an ex-Kundalini Yoga teacher of 20 years, founder of the Crystal Light Spiritual Center in Southern California and author of two books: White Buffalo and the Rainbow Warrior, and Unveil Your Goddess Body.

Elisha now resides in Colorado Springs, Colo. She lives to uplift others, to heal our sacred Earth, to immerse herself in the beauty and power of Nature, and to sing, dance and have a blast just living! Her recent offerings are included at her website, www. laughinggoddess.international. Get your free course on Loving Yourself Thin! Email Elisha at elishag3838@ yahoo.com.

COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

27

THE EDGE

a LISTINGS

Business Network • Intuitive Network Sacred Gatherings • Classifieds Happenings Events • Edge Talk Radio Podcasts

T O B E I N C L U D E D : C A L L 7 6 3 . 4 3 3 . 9 2 9 1 O R E M A I L C AT H Y @ E D G E M A G A Z I N E . N E T

a

BUSINESS NET WORK R E S O U R C E S F O R B O DY, M I N D & S O U L

The Business Network is arranged by Category. $10 monthly.

Deadline: 15th of each month. Major credit cards are accepted.

Provide: Category, brief description (25 words or less), name, phone, email, website, photo/logo.

To be included: 763.433.9291 or cathy@edgemagazine.net or www.edgemagazine.net/advertise BOOKS, HOMEOPATHY, HERBS, FLOWER ESSENCES 2,000 Homeopathic Remedies, 600+ medicinal & cooking herbs, numerous Flower Essences for spiritual & emotional healing. Books, essential oils, incense, vitamins, crystals. Yoga Practitioners available. In business 40 years.

Present Moment Herbs & Books, 3546 Grand Ave S., Minneapolis, 612.824.3157, 1.800.378.3245, www.presentmoment.com

ENERGY HEALING: Accredited and Certified, Mary Jo, RN 42+, has been working in the Energy Healing field since 2003. Reiki, Healing Touch, Crystal, past-life, Hara healing, Channeling, Light Language, Essential Oils, Mentoring. Classes: Virtual and in-person: Usui Reiki, Crystal, Energy Healing. Online School. Crystal Shop.

4th Dimension Healing, Mary Jo Feely, RN, HTCP, RMT, CCH, 651.439.9001, Stillwater, MN, www.4thdimensionhealing.com

BREATH WORK / ENERGY HEALING / SOUL COACHING Heal your Body, Clear your Blocks, Enhance your Soul Connection, Transform your Life. Soul Breathing™ workshops and group sessions ongoing. Individual Breath Sessions / Pranic Healing® / NPMDT® / Bemer® by appointment.

Terri Peterson, SBF, TBF, RPh., 651.442.4623, theconnectingspirit@gmail.com, www.theconnectingspirit.com

HYPNOSIS TRAINING – CERTIFIED – ALL LEVELS Past Life & Between Lives Regression, Private & Group Sessions, Healing, Spiritual Mentoring. In Person & Online Training, Retreats, 25+ years experience.

Madonna Kettler, PhD, LBLt, CHt, 612.709.5578, madonna@madonnakettler.com, www.madonnakettler.com

CONSCIOUS LIVING, CONSCIOUS DYING COACH Compassionate, supportive coaching through changes in life, fears, stumbling blocks and confusion. Individual meetings, workshops.

Heron Diana, 612.205.6080, heron@herondiana.com www.herondiana.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?

20 Years Experience. Located in St. Paul, MN. Eric Christopher, MSMFT, CHT, 651.649.1952, www.ericjchristopher.com

CRYSTALS, STONES, STONE ENERGY Ki Stones features mineral specimens, crystals, tumbled stones (over 150 types), decorator pieces, jewelry.

In-home store open. Call for an appointment.

Sheryl 763.443.3941 and Dale 763.443.4016, kistones@comcast.net, www.kistones.com

HYPNOTHERAPY Client centered hypnotherapy. Why not start today? The rest of your life is waiting for you! Located at 1700 Technology Dr. NE, Suite 201, Willmar MN 56201 Jessica L Hanson, CHt, LLC, Willmar Hypnosis, 320.979.6875, willmarhypnosis@gmail.com, www.willmarhypnosis.com

EDUCATION, FENG SHUI: The Wind & Water Center offers virtual classes and programs that explore Feng Shui and related modalities. Both beginner and advanced classes are offered through our catalog – new classes added regularly. Visit us at www.WindWaterCenter.com.

Wind & Water Center, www.WindWaterCenter.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

EMOTION CODE/ ENERGY HEALING: An energy healing technique that releases trapped emotions, which are harmful energies from negative past events. Clearing trapped emotions helps the body to heal. All sessions are done remotely, meaning you don’t have to leave home or work.

Tree of Life Healing, Colleen Picha, ECCP, CMT, 507.649.0580, cmpicha24@gmail.com, www.treeoflifehealing.net

HYPNOTHERAPY/PSYCHOTHERAPY: Heal overwhelm, trauma, sexual abuse, spiritual/kundalini crisis, across time/ lives. Build two-way communication with God, angels, guides, dead relatives. Exorcisms. Channel for Mother Mary.

Jerry Buchmeier, Ph.D., Psychotherapist, 763.546.4133, jeromebuchmeier@comcast.net, www.spiritmindinstitute.net

HEALING TOUCH, MEDIUMSHIP AND MASSAGE Receive a relaxing meditation, healing chakra balance clearing, intuitive messages and a therapeutic 60 minute massage for $90 (2 hours) in person COVID-19 plan.

Edgar Chakra Balance of South Minneapolis, 612.384.4572, www.edgardennis.com 2 8 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT / SOUL READINGS: Soul Readings for clarity and guidance. Psychic Development classes to heal, reclaim your gifts, and consciously create with your own unique body/soul partnership.

Cindy Lehman 612.669.1861, cindy@cindylehman.com, www.cindylehman.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, Sheryl 763.443.3941 and Dale 763.443.4016

THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE: Holistic Reiki Massage combines the use of aromatherapy, gentle relaxing Swedish Massage and Reiki healing.

Jessica channels healing energy to clear energy blockages and realign the energy flow. You feel as though you’ve drifted off into a cloud of peace.

Sacred Roots Holistic Massage, text 952.594.1408, Sacredrootsholisticmassage@gmail.com, www.sacredrootsholisticmassage.com

SOUND HEALING, SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS & FENG SHUI: Experience Transformational Ceremonies that Awaken Your Higher Consciousness and Expand Your Inner Light. Services: Sound Healing, Spiritual Blessings, Feng Shui and Sound Healing on the Go: Home, Hospital or Hospice.

Carolyn Vinup, 612.325.5162, Carolyn@CarolynVinup.com, www.GatewaysToBrilliance.com

EXPLORE THE EDGE DIRECTORY ONLINE Discover Holistic Resources at the new subscription-based online Directory. Maps, photos, descriptions, and more.

Join the Online Edge Directory for 3, 6 or 12 months.

763.433.9291, cathy@edgemagazine.net www.Edgemagazine.net/category/directory

ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES

As a result of the impact Covid-19 has had on small businesses, The Edge is now available only online, both as a PDF flipbook and a full index of articles on our website at www.edgemagazine.net.

FULL

PAGE

$199 each

HALF PAGE

$150 each

QUARTER

EIGHTH

$99 each

$70 each

PAGE

PAGE

DISPLAY ADS IN THE ONLINE EDGE MAGAZINE will have exposure and visibility in our PDF Flipbook and Meet Our Advertisers webpage. Also: Happenings Event Listings $20 • Business Network $10/month 1. Reach Your Target Audience

More than 13,000 readers read The Edge worldwide each month online.

2. Submit a Business Press Release

3. Free Professional Ad Design

Enhance your name recognition throughout the Twin Cities & Upper Midwest.

Edge ads have a proven history of increasing reader responses & getting results.

4. We Promote Your Ad Online

Your ad appears on our PDF flipbook, and online on the Meet Our Advertisers Page.

RESERVE YOUR AD BY THE 17TH OF THE MONTH! C ALL 763.433.9291 • C ATHY@EDGEMAGAZINE.NET NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

29

a

INTUITIVE NET WORK

CO N N E C T I N G YO U TO I N T U I T I V E S E R V I C E S

Edge Intuitive Network listings are $15 monthly.

Deadline: 15th of each month. Major credit cards are accepted.

Provide: headline (10 words or less); description (80 words or less); name; phone; email; website; photo(s) or logo (2 inches wide x .75 inches high).

To be included: 763.433.9291 or cathy@edgemagazine.net

LOVE CONSCIOUSNESS®

LynMarie8 is an Intuitive, Medical Intuitive and Medium. She is the founder/teacher of Beyond Quantum Consciousness®/ Love Consciousness® and a Certified Teacher of Theta Healing®. She works from outside the matrix, multi-dimensionally, simultaneously with all parts of you and all subject matters of one’s life. Working with LynMarie will create a permanent shift in all areas of your life in your session! She works directly with Source, with your records on and off planet. LynMarie8, www.lynmarie8.com

www.lynmarie8.com

READINGS / COACHING WITH KATHLEEN KALIL

I am a Psychic, Medium, Ghostbuster, Life Coach. I have happily traveled the world doing energy work, readings and ghostbusting. Readings/coaching gives you an opportunity to look within and access your wisdom, receiving knowledge that can assist when dealing with today’s challenges. Energy work and ghostbusting bring healing to you, your space, trapped souls, and the Earth. Kathleen Kalil, kathleenmkalil@comcast.net

ONE OF THE HIGHEST-RATED PSYCHIC MEDIUMS IN THE TWIN CITIES 5-STAR GOOGLE RATING WITH 35+ REVIEWS Allie Maurer is an International Psychic Medium, Healer, Animal Communicator, Spiritual Teacher and Intuitive Life Coach. Allie utilizes her gifts to assist her clients in understanding and learning why things are unfolding as they are, what needs to be healed and how they can empower themselves to create the the future they want.

She also loves connecting people to their deceased loves ones and has a passion for animal communication and healing for humans and pets! Discover how her Life Coaching Clients transform their lives! Allie Maurer, 952.334.6496, www.AllieMaurer.com

BRAZILIAN HEALER AND PSYCHIC JUREMA SILVA

Jurema is much more than a psychic or a medium. She is a true soul healer, who is been transforming the lives of countless people in the U.S. and worldwide. Thirty years ago, she brought to the U.S. a rich and diverse spiritual knowledge, resulting in an original approach to healing and counseling. Jurema is one of the most celebrated and popular professional psychics in the Upper Midwest. Her sessions by phone-video-in person are breathtaking and transformative. Appointments: www.juremasilva.com, jurema@juremasilva.com, 320.260.7305. Visit Facebook.com/juremasilva.brazilianhealer

PATRICE CONNELLY, DIRECTOR OF QUESTFIELDS: INTUITIVE DEVELOPMENT TEACHER, HEALER, STUDENT For 35 years I have taught and continue to teach Intuitive Development classes,

worked with numerous clients in one-on-one sessions in person or by phone bringing Spirituality, creativity and humor together.

I offer practical hands on tools for students and clients to explore and to develop their own unique gifts working with their Spirit through soul, mind and body. It is a never-ending source of delight and pleasure to see students and clients become empowered in their ownership. Patrice Connelly, Questfields, www.questfields.com

SOUL READINGS / BEGINNING & ADVANCED PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT CLASSES

I offer private, respectful Soul Readings to connect with your soul’s wisdom for guidance, clarity and healing. All questions are welcome. Relationships can be looked at from a soul perspective including connecting with those who have passed on. I also offer beginning and advanced Psychic Development classes. My passion is teaching others to more fully access their own intuitive/psychic/soul gifts, while living and creating from heart in a healthy partnership honoring both body and soul. Cindy Lehman, 612.669.1861, cindy@cindylehman.com, www.cindylehman.com

kathleenmkalil@ comcast.net

952.334.6496 www.AllieMaurer.com www.facebook.com/ psychicalliemaurer

www.juremasilva.com jurema@ juremasilva.com 320.260.7305

www. questfields.com

612.669.1861 cindy@cindylehman.com www.cindylehman.com

HOPEHEALING BY KIMBERLY Kimberly is a Spiritual Medium and Energy Healer who is dedicated to share her Wisdom and Divine Gifts to help with Hope & Healing. She has the Ability to Connect to your loved ones who have crossed over with Compassion & Care. During your reading you will feel feel your loved ones surround you and hear direct evidence, which can also release Trauma, Shame, Guilt, Fear to which you will find the Ability to move forward in life with Joy and comfort knowing your loved ones are safe and at peace. I look forward to meeting your family. HopeHealing by Kimberly, HopeHealingme8@gmail.com, HopeHealing.me

Promote Your Remote Services During this Pandemic Be Part of The Edge’s Email Promotion every Thursday.

Call 763.433.9291 or more details at www.edgemagazine.net/advertise/purchase-remote-services-listing/ 3 0 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

a

SACRED GATHERINGS MEETINGS OF THE SOUL

Sacred Gatherings are $15 monthly.

Deadline: 15th of each month. Major credit cards are accepted.

Provide: Name, address, phone, email, website, gathering times & brief description.

To be included: 763.433.9291 or cathy@edgemagazine.net or www.edgemagazine.net/advertise Center for Spiritual Living Minneapolis: Brookview Golf Course, 316 Brookview Parkway S., Golden Valley, 612.759.0870, www.cslminneapolis.org — Center for Spiritual Living Minneapolis is a spiritual community that honors all paths to God. Whether we call it God, Spirit, Energy or Universal Intelligence, we are ever conscious that all people, places and things emanate from this Universal Intelligence that is within us and all around us. Using the principles of Science of Mind and the philosophies of our founder Ernest Holmes, the Center provides spiritual tools to transform our personal lives and make the world a better place. If you are ready to be home and in the flow of Good, come see us every Sunday for Meditation at 9:30 a.m. and our Sacred Service at 10 a.m. Visit our website for upcoming life changing classes and motivating workshops.

Eckankar / Temple of ECK: The Path of Spiritual Freedom, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, 952.380.2200, www.TempleofECK.org —

Keys to spiritual experiences: Explore past lives, dreams and Soul Travel.

Spirit United Church, 612.378.3602, sunited@aol.com, www.spiritunited.com, mailing address: P.O. Box 130811, Roseville, MN 55113 — WWhen Spirit calls you to something more, to go beyond limitations of what has been, to explore possibilities of what can be, we are Spirit United. We are a spiritual community that has undergone a beautiful transformation.

We honor personal and planetary awakening through education, weekly wisdom teachings, and playfulness. Our children are a vital part of our community and we are creating a youth ministry to brighten their light through love and wisdom teachings. Children are welcome during this process! Check out our website to join our Sunday Services via Zoom at 10:30am until we are able to return to our beautiful shared location at Harriet Alexander Nature Center, 2520 Dale St. N., Roseville, MN 55113.

CLASSIFIEDS

a S E E K I N G , S E L L I N G , P R O M OT I N G Classifieds are $1 per word, 20-word minimum.

Deadline: 15th of each month. Major credit cards are accepted.

Provide: Category & text To be included: 763.433.9291 or cathy@edgemagazine.net

Unity In The Heart - St. Paul (UIH). Triune Masonic Temple, 1898 Iglehart St., St. Paul, 651.399.3679 (message only), www.unityintheheart.org — UIH is a small and vibrant spiritual community that meets for worship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. (children’s program is available) in the historic Triune Masonic Temple in St. Paul, MN. Unity is a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer.

Unity honors the universal truths in all religions and respects each individual’s right to choose a spiritual path. Unity teaches that we are each individual expressions of God and that our essential nature is inherently good. The more we awaken to our divine nature, the more fully God expresses in and through our lives. To learn more about UIH, join us on Sunday, check out our Facebook page, or listen to a past message online.

Unity Minneapolis: 4000 Golden Valley Road, Minneapolis. 763.521.4793, www.unityminneapolis.org — We are an all-inclusive community that offers a positive, practical, everyday spiritual message. Our Sunday morning service is live streamed (and ASL interpreted) at 9:30 AM on our website and Facebook Live.

Check out our website for classes, workshops and groups.

COVID-19 UPDATES

ALICE BAILEY

REGULAR EMAILS — The Edge will be sending out emails every Thursday with special remote services available during the COVID-19 pandemic. To receive these email updates, please join The Edge’s email list at: www.edgemagazine.net/ join-our-email-list/

EXPLORE HER WRITING: Are you interested in the writings of Alice A. Bailey?

EsotericMinnesota@gmail.com

EXPLORE 28 YEARS OF THE EDGE

VISIT WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET NOVEMBER 2020 THE EDGE

31

MOON PHASES

NOVEMBER 8

a

NOVEMBER 14

HAPPENINGS EVENTS YO U R C A L E N D A R O F W H AT ’S G O I N G O N

Happenings Events are $20 monthly.

Deadline: 15th of each month. Major credit cards are accepted.

Provide: Date, title and text. Listing must include specific event dates and time, or it will be placed under Ongoing and not be included online.

To be included: 763.433.9291 or cathy@edgemagazine.net or www.edgemagazine.net/advertise October 23 - November 30 – Eckankar Soul Adventure Seminar – “The Power of Gratitude”: Eckankar’s free online Soul Adventure Seminar explores a secret to spiritual living that can help create a rich and fulfilling life. Featuring profound stories on the transforming power of gratitude, including “Embracing Gifts of Change,” “What Just Happened? Opportunities to Live, Learn and Love” and “In God’s Time and In God’s Way.” Enjoy workshops, music from around the world, and a keynote talk by Sri Harold Klemp, the spiritual leader of Eckankar. Recognize the infinite creativity of Soul (one’s true self ) and discover personal gems of spiritual transformation. The miracle of greater awareness awaits! Complimentary registration is available for those new to Eckankar. Visit www.

SpiritualEvent.org November 21-22 – Healthy Life Expo: The

largest Health & Wellness Expo in the Midwest!

We Expanded this show to be our Largest Ever!

Nutrition, Fitness, and Longevity — it’s all here!

Explore 160 exhibitors offering everything for health, balance and success in all areas of life.

Three stages of ongoing speaker presentations, demonstrations and live entertainment. Product sampling, hourly drawings and free health information. The smart place to get the free tips information to start living a healthier life.

Minneapolis Convention Center Ballroom, 1301 2nd St., Minneapolis. Visit www.MediaMaxEvents. com or call 952.238.1700.

December 5-7 – 3 Day Pleiadian Seminar with Christine Day “Live” via Zoom: “Enter the Realms of Pei Antana.” Come meet your destiny. Initiate into the sacred realms of Pei Antana. This 10th16th dimensional pathway is made accessible

FREE NOVEMBER PODCASTS

a

EDGE TALK RADIO PODCASTS E X PA N D I N G T H E H O L I S T I C CO N V E R S AT I O N

November 3 – “Edge Learning Well” with Elise Marquam Jahns: Learning Well — Your partner in integrative health education. You’ll hear from fascinating experts who will share rich information designed to enhance your health, career and relationships. Learning Well…bringing growth, joy and inspiration to your life! This show is sponsored by the Integrative Health Education Center of Normandale Community College. 6pm, call 714.364.4750 at show time or listen anytime after the show at Blogtalkradio.com/ edgemagazine.

November 23 – “Psychic Buffet at the Edge” with Jean Wallis: Join psychic Jean Wallis as she serves up the Psychic Buffet at the Edge 3 2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

Listen anytime for free at Blogtalkradio.com/ edgemagazine or call at show time at 714.364.4750.

Show archives: Explore every show at www.edgemagazine.net/edge-talk-radio

Radio Café! Jean will be presenting an appetizer, entrée, side dish and dessert, all Spiritual food for thought to nourish your soul. Jean will teach an array of topics designed to enhance your spiritual and personal growth, and with a sense of humor, enlighten your day. 7pm, call 714.364.4750 at show time or listen anytime after the show at Blogtalkradio.com/ edgemagazine.

NOVEMBER 21

NOVEMBER 30

DECEMBER 7

through a series of life-changing light initiations from the Pleiadians. Initiate into the Sacred Breath, which acts as a key to your re-entry to the realms of Pei Antana. As you take this higher path, there will be a re-orientation of your brain/ pineal, and a repositioning of your DNA. Sign up at Christinedayonline.com/store or contact Joanne Wakefield at wakefieldj@hotmail.com or 651.452.2895.

December 11-13 – Between Lives Soul Regression Training with Dr. Linda Backman: Register by 11 p.m. Nov. 8, for bonus session! Join expert psychologist & regression therapist Dr. Linda Backman for intensive 3-day video training. View live or later. Featured on Dr. Oz & Coast to Coast AM and the author of Souls on Earth, The Evolving Soul & Bringing Your Soul to Light, Linda has 40+ years private practice experience, including 25+ years guiding Soul Regressions. Linda has conducted Between Lives Soul Regression training since 2002, guiding 1000’s of regressions. Register for Between Lives Soul Regression Training, $1650: https:// ravenheartcenter.com/index.php/soul-regressiontraining-level-two. Register for the pre-requisite Past Life Soul Regression Training on video, $1100: https://www.ravenheartcenter.com/index. php/soul-regression-tele-training. Contact Earl@ RavenHeartCenter.com or call 303.818.0575 for more details.

Ripples Peaceful living is about trusting those on whom we depend and caring for those who depend on us.

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. — Ellen DeGeneres

Our Two Featured Topics Next Month • Reflections on The Edge Magazine’s Presence in the Upper Midwest from 1992-2020 Share your reflections on this publication in its final edition.

• The Energies of 2021: Our Prediction Issue Share your intuitive take on what we all can expect in the coming year.

Or write on any aspect of holistic living, spirituality, or healing.

1,200 words or less by November 10 Submit at www.Edgemagazine.net/submit-articles/ or email editor@edgemagazine.net