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Signs from the Angels BY CORIN GRILLO Second of a three-part series An excerpt from The Angel Experiment

PEOPLE OFTEN GET impatient when they begin consciously working with angels because they want a big, juicy, explosive first encounter with their angels. If you are someone who is waiting for Archangel Michael to make a 3-D appearance in your room, giant wings ablaze and angel choirs singing in the background, then you may be waiting a while. Though I am a huge fan of big and juicy angel encounters, from the years of doing this work for myself and others, I know that the angels don’t always come through that way. Patience is required when working with angels, and so is managing your expectations. Those are two big keys in allowing angel messages to come through.

COINCIDENCES Before I teach you the different ways that angels communicate with you, there is one thought that I want you to delete from your consciousness. This thought will absolutely block you from the reality of angels and miracles, so it’s important that you get rid of it once and for all. The thought is, “That was just a coincidence.” The angels are master manifestors, and when you begin talking to them, they will do everything in their power to let you know they are real and right there with you. Your angels send you signs of love, comfort, and even protection all the time, but one of the main reasons you may not have noticed them is because you may have been telling yourself all along that every cool thing that happens to you is “just a coincidence.” This one thought will suck your angel magic dry fast, so get rid of it from here on out. Let’s reimagine this whole “coincidence” nonsense together. Have you ever turned on the radio and the song that came on had a message in it that was just what you needed to hear? Have you ever had a magical solution to a problem appear out of nowhere just in the nick of time? Have you ever met someone in such a weird way that THE EDGE MAGAZINE 763.433.9291 P.O. Box 664, Anoka, MN 55303 www.edgemagazine.net PUBLISHERS TIM MIEJAN & CATHY JACOBSEN

it just seemed to be kismet? Take a moment now to think of some of the more unexplainable and magical things that have happened to you that you might have written off as coincidences. When you add them all together, they start building a picture that doesn’t seem like coincidence at all. These little things can happen to you daily. They can be large or small, and if you dismiss them, you are missing the golden truth: that you are not alone. Your angels are listening to you, supporting you, and actively helping you whenever and wherever they can. From now on, know that every so-called coincidence is actually help and support from your angels and the Divine. If you master this one mental shift, your life will open up to a magical world that has been hiding from you in plain sight: the world of the miraculous.

SUBTLE ANGEL SIGNS Angel signs won’t always look like what you might expect them to look like. Sometimes they will be big and loud, but other times they will be subtle and soft. The key to being able to recognize those signs, and to receiving the angels’ love and clear guidance as a result, is to tap into your gut instincts and your subtle senses, also known as your intuition. We all have intuition, whether we are aware of it or not. Your intuition is like a muscle, and the more you flex it, the greater it grows. Listening to your intuition and your intuitive senses is the most important skill you can learn in working with angels. Your intuition holds the voice of your soul, your song, and your essence. It’s through your intuition, your thoughts, and your feelings that the angels pass on amazing loving guidance. I don’t want you to miss this guidance, because you could be missing pure gold. Most people in the West haven’t had much practice in flexing the muscle of their subtle senses, because Western culture tends to place a much heavier emphasis on logic and linear thinking than on intuitive, heart-centered consciousness. We in the

West are so used to over-identifying with our loud, tantrum-like logical mind that we often completely overlook the awesomeness that is our intuition. And when I say “awesome,” I mean awesome! It takes some practice, but if all you did was slow down and learn to listen to the still, small voice of your heart, instead of that wild pack of wolves in your head, life would go a lot more smoothly. There is no better time than the present to begin learning to develop and trust your subtler senses. a Next month: How to Talk to Angels CORIN GRILLO is the author of The Angel Experiment and founder of the Angel Alchemy Academy. A trained psychotherapist, angel channel, healer, and teacher, Corin has helped thousands of people all over the world go from angel-curious to angel-powered. She lives in Northern California. Visit her online at www.CorinGrillo. com. Excerpted from the book The Angel Experiment. Printed with permission from New World Library — www. newworldlibrary.com. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Soul Whisperer Classes Explore World of Spirit Annette Rugolo, respected worldwide as a transformational teacher, author, speaker, master dowser and environmental healer, is teaching a new class based on her book, Soul Whisperer: Releasing Lost Souls, in which participants learn about the world of spirits and how unwanted spirits can be helped to move on from this dimension. Rugolo has created both in-person and online classes to help people understand the importance of helping misguided spirits. By creating a safe environment, she helps participants feel safe, allowing them to move from a place of fear to a place of love. She explains why spirits get stuck in this dimension and why they need our help to move on. Topics such as emotional attachments, karma, grief and shock help explain why these energies keep a spirit from moving on to their next level of experience. Learning how to consciously connect and communicate with spirits is an important aspect of this work, Rugolo says. Rugolo is offering a 4-week online course meeting on Mondays at 7 p.m. beginning March 2 and concluding March 23. Each webinar session is 90-minutes and participants can attend live or listen to a saved recording. Recorded sessions can be kept and listened to as often as needed. The cost is $128. For those who prefer an in-person experience, Rugolo will present a one-day class, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel, 7800 Bloomington Ave. S., Bloomington. The cost is $128. For Edge readers, mention this article and save 10 percent by using code 10%OFFCLASS when registering online. Contact her at 612.394.3736 or Annette@AnnetteRugolo. com. For more information and free resources, please visit AnnetteRugolo.com. a 8 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

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Open the Heart Mercurial Messages through the Zodiac BY HEATHER ROAN ROBBINS WHAT DO YOU LOVE? As February begins, affectionate Venus conjuncts intuitive Neptune in sensitive and sentimental Pisces, sextiles profound Pluto, and asks us this question. The Sun and Mercury begin the month in communal Aquarius, Mars in globetrotting Sagittarius, and they ask us to take this question larger: what do we love in the world, and what are we willing to do to support our love? Whether that is koalas or a candidate, a person or country, we’re asked to put our money and time where our sentiment resides. Mercury enters imaginative Pisces on February 3 and tempts us to dream rather than do until February 7 when Venus enters energizing Aries. Mars enters industrious Capricorn February 16, encouraging us to gear up. We need to proceed with attention and care as Mercury also stations to turn retrograde February 16 - March 9. We can feel stress as the stars paradoxically ask us to both hurry up and hold still, but we can direct this tension to make progress on unfinished projects and familiar problems. Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)…Old concerns can bother you as the month begins. Don’t believe these old voices; this just brings up another chance on your evolutionary spiral to heal old doubts. People find you lovable as Venus enters Aries February 7, but as Mercury retrogrades in Pisces February 16, much stirs up behind-the-scenes and within your psyche. Make it a healing moment. Taurus (Apr. 20-May 20)…Pay attention to the sensitive energy fields between you and your beloved friends. Loan your gentle strength, but do not underestimate what your beloveds are experiencing. Validate their feelings. Life grows more active after February 16, as Mars enters Capricorn and trines Uranus. Keep action slow and steady rather than bunny-hopping forward and back. Gemini (May 21-June 20)…Work may be complicated for you this month; nurture it along when the coast is clear, but don’t get caught up in other people’s complications. Hold steady as Mercury retrogrades mid-month; prioritize safety. Renew old contacts and complete unfinished cycles through the end of the month. Cancer (June 21-July 22)…Find safe and productive ways to be sensitive this month. Use your interpersonal awareness for the benefit of all. Other people’s feelings are sensitized and you’ll need to step out of yourself to help. Let it all be a learning experience. Watch your temper mid-month — easy does it. Reconnect with distant work and social contacts after February 23. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)…It’s easy for you to become passive and dreamy this month, because there’s so much going on in your psyche and behind-the-scenes; dream away, but don’t get lost. Help stabilize the

energies mid-month; don’t feed reactivity. Your story becomes important later in the month, so share what you’ve learned. Practice empathetic patience February 28. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)…Give yourself room to have your feelings, but get your work done early this month. Impatience collides with mishaps mid-month, so keep your efforts gentle and steady. Research and be vigilant about misunderstandings towards the end of the month. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)…Appreciate the beauty of gentle hearts and the creative process this first week. Don’t take a certain fierceness in your cohorts personally after February 7. Be patient with other people’s snafus mid-month. Good karma returns to you around February 23 as Venus squares Jupiter. Honor emotional February 28 as Venus squares Pluto. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)…Emotions are cranked up this month, and your romantic, creative and family life may sprout complications. Instead of trying to figure it out or get fierce, just keep everything steady; listen more and say less unless needed to straighten out a misunderstanding. Watch the knots unwind next month. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)…You like your home life simple, but it’s not this month. Feelings get hurt easily, and your usual honesty can ring as tactless. Apply patience and humor, but most of all, listen. Find a project to push forward after February 7; one project under your control will help you be patient elsewhere. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19)…Everyone’s a bit touchy this February, which can slow you down just when you feel the need to progress. Find poetic ways to express: take time to smell the roses as the month begins, work around frustrations mid-month, and lean steadily into work, without pushing, towards the end of the month. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)…With some finesse you can negotiate material goods and finances into a more comfortable position. Pay off old bills, collect money and favors owed to you, give away what you don’t need, and repair what you do. Grow the material security needed to feed your creative spark. Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)…Be clear with your message, and don’t take the emotional static around you personally. Loan your empathy and keep your eyes working on goals and healthy connections. Look for opportunities with old friends or contacts around February 23 as Venus squares Jupiter; react evenly and appropriately to personal challenges. 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.

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Claim Your Light A Pleiadian Message BY CHRISTINE DAY BELOVED ONES, WE GREET YOU. The timelines that have anchored and stabilized within your Earth have set in motion a new era. These timelines have altered the dimensional settings and have begun to dissolve the experience of illusion, bringing to you another perspective of light consciousness, of Truth. This vibrational flow of light unveils Truth from the purity held within the timeline, which holds the powerful aspect of consciousness that exists within your resident Universe. This vibrational flow interacts fully within your heart and aligns through the brain cells, creating a fuller connection for the greater potential of a higher consciousness telepathic communion. A sacred gateway through the timeline has been forged open to allow you to move into another aspect of your self-realization process, so your reconnections to the Higher Realms can be actualized and made manifest. These openings are accessible to all who are actively, consciously engaged on a path of awakening. All communities that are consciously participating together will experience a profound reset of connection and telepathic communion between individuals. Without the ego mind’s separating element, there will be a greater sense of flow between members. Creating an acceptance and a celebration of the unique sacred quality each individual brings to the community as a whole. A remembering process will naturally begin to unfold through your community base. And within this process of unfolding Truth, your community will thrive. Through a dramatic shift of focus from your ego mind to your heart, there will be no influence of separation, and your combined hearts will be enabled to move into a newly found liberation and joy. CONNECTING LINK The intuition of the heart will be the connecting link between your community, and your intuitive guidance from your hearts will radiate outwards with a joint focus of light between you all. Higher consciousness communities will carry a signature rhythm of a higher vibrational light from the Higher Realms. Individuals will carry their unique element of light within and hold the creation of a unique energetic platform to bring to their community, supporting the collective, naturally expanding the whole. This vibrational light signature that 1 0 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

each community creates will be distinctive and sacred. The combined platforms of individual community members will be a natural expression from the heart that interweaves and flows together as one consciousness, allowing each person to thrive and expand because of the connections that are created through the full, collective community energy. This profile is a mirror of how the entire resident Universe has always operated in honoring and acknowledging the importance of the individual sacred imprints held by each signature light. As the platform of combined energies with Earth builds, a deeper and more pronounced alignment will be made possible between the entire resident universe and Earth. Within the sacred collective God consciousness state of your universe, Earth can then be fully and actively embraced. Through this changing energetic landscape of Earth, these shifts of the timelines on the planet are now possible.

SACRED LIGHT Each of you is able to individually re-create a specific light form within your own heart, which up to this point has not been able to be self-realized. Now you are able to naturally interconnect through to the Higher Realms. This makes it possible for you to emerge within your unique energetic configuration pattern of sacred light. This is the moment for you to experience the flow that exists within your own heart to the collective consciousness of the Universe. Your role is to experience and then explore aspects of your full creation light, to claim that which you are, within a single moment of focused awareness as you connect to your heart. We, the Pleiadians, are part of the collective Universal consciousness that is holding a joint frequency between us to ensure the correct vibrational light is being stabilized within your planet as you birth. Many destined moments of multidimensional proportions are to be anchored within this higher vibrational timeline, which has been initiated and set into place. Those of you who are consciously on the path hold an essential aspect of this destiny within your heart, and this frequency is activated as you realign. This process of opening to your heart is as natural as breathing. You have achieved this before and you can open up to a remembering process of this level of reconnection to your heart. The energy is here now. A doorway is being held open in the timeline for you to re-experience this process.

FLUIDITY AND FLOW Your heart has a pulse-like movement, and there is a multidimensional fluidity and flow between your heart cells. This flow engages effortlessly within the heartbeat held within the Universe, and this pulse radiates outwards into the magnetic core of Earth and within your heart cells simultaneously. The Universal light force has begun to arise and flood your planet. As the sun repositioned itself to Earth, the energy of the Sun’s rays transmitted a glowing flow of pure light, bathing everything in its path — the Earth, the natural forces and your own heart cells. The Universal light has created a quickening, a higher vibrational life force to permeate throughout all living things on the planet. The essence of this pure light is designed to infuse deeply within the Earth, the oceans and landforms. There is an urgency for you to let go of your human ego mind, to let go as you reassume your destiny role of your higher consciousness at this juncture within the Universe. The call has been initiated through your heart cells, activating and engaging within the element of your own multidimensional Higher Self. As you choose conscious reconnection within your heart, you begin to naturally answer the call and align to the next step of your mission within Earth. YOUR INTUITION Many of you are questioning yourself — and life — on a daily basis. Know that you can fully trust and depend on your intuition. You are being supported to align to the right path in the perfect moment. There is a divine timing, and everything has been orchestrated and is in place. No matter how things may appear in your life, all is in hand. ➤ see CLAIM YOUR LIGHT on p. 12

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A Woman Who Sees Angels

CAROLYN CHILTON CASAS I read about a woman who sees angels, everywhere: two around an older man walking down the street, offering support on either side; a glowing group on a playground, watching over children sprinting about; a luminous being of light whispering into the ear of a forlorn soul resting on a bus bench.

We all have them near us, she says, but they do not interfere unless we ask. So, the asking is the key, I learn. Since then, more often than not, when I call to my angels, a speedy and clear answer comes. Once we were lost, driving circles in a foreign city, and I remembered to ask. The second I did, the GPS rerouted

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What is essential is to be in the moment. Do not look at anything from the past, or what is coming up, or even try to assess the situation right now through the limitation of the ego mind’s misperceptions. Simply be in the moment and open fully to what is in front of you as you align and are guided by your heart’s intuition. You are being lined up for a perfect flow through a series of energetic events that are about to unfold very shortly on the planet. The energies were set in place in January to reveal another aspect of the energetic timeline. Maintain a focus within your heart, and allow your sacred consciousness within your heart to enter your awareness. You must let go and Trust each step of movement in your life. The call is for you to be willing to claim your light and to begin to actively engage within the vastness of your consciousness from the newly opened platform of your heart.

YOUR HEART’S DESIRE There are no real restrictions in your world. You hold the keys to the unlimited capacity to create your heart’s desire within the vastness of your heart. You are the master of your destiny, and only you can set in motion the changes that you desire. As you consciously claim this Truth by engaging your heart, you activate a wave of light that creates change in the arena of life that you have known previously. The Truth of your multidimensional 1 2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

and we were directed to our destination. One other time, I was led to a gopher hole where a dear friend’s earrings had fallen from her lap. Her mother was dying and I had asked that I could give her this gift, at least. Seeing is believing and these days I believe. a CAROLYN CHILTON CASAS is a Reiki Master, practitioner and teacher. Carolyn’s poetry and stories can be found in Energy, Odyssey, Reiki New Magazine, The Art of Healing and in other publications. She lives on the Central Coast of California but spent her childhood in Minnesota. Carolyn can be contacted at ceccasas@aol.com. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

nature can and will shift your experience of living. As you actively engage within this Truth, your Higher Realm connections through your heart are able to magnify. Your heart is a multidimensional tool — your doorway Home. Through the further unfolding of the timeline on your Earth plane, you are enabled to interact fully within the multidimensional sphere of Self. The timeline holds the gateway, which opens up the access point to your higher consciousness through your heart. Your make-up is unique within the collective Universal consciousness. Like a jigsaw piece you complete the sacred mandala of the collective as you consciously and actively engage within your heart. We, the Universal community, support you energetically to return to your Self through your heart. However, only you can initiate the steps to actively re-engage within the higher nature of your sacred. This process is all about you choosing to align your awareness to Truth. You hold the power to create the changes on your planet. As you individually choose to shift into your unique sacred power, you can come together as a community and collectively create and anchor a higher frequency of light within the multidimensional timeline on Earth on another level.

AN AWAKENING FLOW The call is for you to return to the collective within the Universe and to once again take your full place within the God consciousness state. This action by you to consciously choose realignment opens up an awak-

CHRIS ROE

By your side There is peace, A quiet place Of beauty and realization, Where wisdom Seeks reason and understanding, Where myth is laid to rest By the reality of knowledge. By your side There is hope, That arrogance and greed Will not destroy, That selfless love Will prevail.

By your side Life is sacred, A future For the children To unfold. By your side In your presence There is love a

CHRIS ROE was born and still lives in Norfolk, England. His poems have been published in magazines and on websites around the world. In 2008 he self-published a collection of poems entitled “In Search of Silence,” which is available from his website at www. silentflightpublications. co.uk. COPYRIGHT © 2018. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

ening flow towards your self-realization. The evolution of light on your planet is unfolding, and nothing will stop this movement that has begun from the vibrational light of the timeline. The energy of this frequency is like a wave on an ocean, rippling outwards, opening and expanding, creating illumination. This light is unearthing the density, unveiling all that is not Truth. Witness the unfolding within the world and the seeming chaos as this heaviness and dense third-dimensional drama takes place. Understand that at the same moment, the higher realm light exists and can be channeled through your Heart. Know that your ego mind only perceives the third-dimensional illusion and there is a total misperception by your mind about what is Truth. Let go and allow yourself to be guided by your heart. Be still and witness yourself within your heart. Choose the light of your heart and claim yourself as the light. Change has arrived! Arise beloved and be seen! We are the One. You are the One. We witness you in your unfolding and remind you, “You are who you have been waiting for.” Blessings, The Pleiadians. a CHRISTINE DAY is a leading spiritual teacher, healer, channel and author. Following a traumatic childhood in her native Australia, Christine was diagnosed with advanced Systemic Lupus at the age of 31 and given a short time to live. Shortly afterward, she experienced a profound spiritual awakening with the Pleiadians, the energy of which moved her to a place of complete 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.

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Mangis Book Launches on February 14 Witness deep wisdom about the journeys we all embark on with each human incarnation, and the soul purpose behind all we experience in our “skins,” or bodies, in Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness (Curiosa Publishing), an engaging, insightful novel featuring a woman who finds that self-acceptance is the key to joy. This first book by Keri Mangis, a Minneapolis-based writer and speaker with an extensive understanding of spiritual teachings and healing modalities, will be released on February 14. A determined truth-seeker craving success and belonging unexpectedly meets her journeying soul, which leads to greater self-acceptance, a deeper understanding of the mysteries of life and death, and the realization that every new beginning provides a rich opportunity for healing and personal evolution. Serene Voyager, known as Sëri in the Soul Realm, reassesses her eternal journey before embarking on her next lifetime in the Earth Realm. For aid and companionship, she has: her soul friend, Rasa; her soul animal, a silver-eyed wolf named Endless Curiosity; and distinctive characters that personify her emotions. Meanwhile, in the Earth Realm, twentyyear-old Keri moves away from her birthplace of North Dakota and, heeding the advice of Fear and Guilt, unwittingly surrenders her self-worth for safety, her personal power for approval, and her intuition for false promises. Later, when her chosen roles of businesswoman, wife, mother, and yoga teacher thrust her into an identity crisis rather than imbue her life with meaning, she forges a relationship with her soul, Sëri. Through parallel stories, Sëri helps Keri discover that joy derives not from successful role-playing but from knowing who you really are inside your human skin. “When I realized the immense healing that came through seeing our stories through our soul’s eyes," Keri Mangis says, "I knew that this book was no longer simply a personal memoir, but a collective one. All of us have stories in our lives that we don’t quite understand why they happened, or what we were supposed to ➤ see BOOK RELEASE on p. 16

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Embodying Soul The Edge Interview with Keri Mangis BY TIM

MIEJAN

KERI MANGIS HAS WORN a lot of skins — or roles — as a human in this lifetime. She has studied or taught yoga, Ayurveda, herbal medicine, energy work, aromatherapy and many other healing modalities. She has explored Buddhism, Hinduism, Tantra, Christianity, and other spiritual teachings. She has been a speaker. Her writing has appeared in Elephant Journal, Urban Howl, The Sunlight Press, Grown and Flown, Rebelle Society, The Good Men Project, Stitch, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. And most recently, she has donned the skins of author and self-publisher. Her first book, Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness, the story of a woman who finds that self-acceptance is the key to joy, launches in the Twin Cities on Valentine’s Day. A launch party and book signing will take place from 5:30-8 p.m. (book talk at 6:30 p.m.) on February 14 at France 44, 4351 France Ave. S., Minneapolis. Bring only your curiosity and playful spirit. Signed copies will be available. No RSVP necessary and the event is free to the public. On Sunday, Feb. 16, Keri will speak about her new book at the 10:30 a.m. service at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis. She will sign books and offer a soul care gift set following the service. The Minneapolis-based author spoke with The Edge on what led her to write Embodying Soul, as well as the insights she gleaned during the process. You began your book in a place often referred to as “the dark night of the soul.” What was taking place at this time in your life? At the time several ventures of mine had ended — and they ended unceremoniously. I didn’t really understand why they weren’t working out. I couldn’t quite figure out then what I was supposed to do with what I believed were my skills and talents. There just really wasn’t another direction to go. I exhausted the obvious directions, and the ambitious seeker inside of me really wanted to continue that, finding that next thing, but I had to instead just sit in silence with myself for a period of time. That’s really the place the book was birthed out of, a place

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of silence and solitude and letting go of all of the labels and identities that I had craved and attached to and desired for so long. What eventually sparked the way forward for you? Once I started writing the stories, I realized how much power there was there and how much healing still remained. I thought that I had healed a lot of my life stories. That wasn’t true, and that’s really what this journey was about for me — going back into my stories and writing them again and again and again until I could see them more clearly for their purpose and their view and what I learned. That was the way forward, just valuing my own journey instead of disparaging it because I hadn’t arrived somewhere imaginary. A place that you thought you were going to be at that time in your life. Right! I mean, I was in my early forties. My husband’s career was taking off and my kids were moving out the house and I was nothing — and that was a really frightening place to be at at that time in my life. I was really lucky to have a lot of guidance and support so that instead of continuing to avoid that dark night, which was what I was doing in the beginning, I went directly into it. A lot of things fell away at that time. A lot of friendships fell away, a lot of opportunities ➤ see EMBODYING SOUL on p. 16

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fell away, and it was really hard to not do the things that I loved to do. For five or six years that’s pretty much what I did: rewrite my stories, go back into it, and look at them through all these different perspectives. The healing that happened was absolutely incredible. You began to see your life from a different perspective? I was able to see my life from many different perspectives. First of all, I was better able to see it from other people’s perspectives, those who were involved in the stories, which I hadn’t ever really done before, not to that degree, anyway. I saw how I hurt other people — how I hurt other people sometimes even intentionally — and I was in denial of that part of my own self up until that time. That gave me a great opportunity to do a lot of atonement, a lot of forgiveness work, a lot of compassion work, which led to a greater sense of my own wholeness and our own oneness as human beings. That’s really what the story of the book is: seeing my own life journey, but not from my ego’s eyes, which were so attached to a straight-line path of success and achievement. I was able to see my life through the eyes of my soul, which looks at my life stories with curiosity and adventure and wonder. It looks at this and looks at that, and it sees what you learned here and there, and it gave me such a beautiful way to look at my own life rather than this startto-finish path. I saw how healing it is and how every story really does guide you right into the next one and the next one. My life suddenly was the hero’s journey. In your book you talk about your soul, and you actually give her a name, Serene Voyager — known as Sëri in the soul realm — as well as a personality dialogue and a journey all of her own, which progresses alongside her human ego partner. It’s clear that you consider the soul as more than just an abstract concept. What do you think our souls are and why did you present your soul with such detail? To me, our soul is our purest, deepest and most essential truth. Our soul inhabits our wholeness. Our soul is the sum total of all that makes us human and alive and animated. Our soul encompasses all of this

and, yet, it’s attached to none of it. When we embody the soul, then we are our fullest self. We understand our weaknesses and our shadows just as easily as we understand our gifts and our strengths. We honor our emotions, the messengers that they are, rather than trying to suppress them or belittle them or ignore them. We follow our intuition and our gut instinct and the guidance of our own bodies. When we are in body we are in our fullest, most complete, self acceptance. What is your definition of an embodied soul? Aren’t we all souls living in a human body? The embodied soul is the part of us that is completely inhabiting every single moment of our lives. There is an incarnation that happens at the beginning of our lifetime where the soul moves into the human body. That happens once. That’s an event. Embodiment of our soul is a process and a journey — and many people never truly embody their souls. They live completely through their ego self their entire lives. For those of us who do decide to go on any kind of a path of self-acceptance or self-love, we will automatically be embodying more and more pieces of our soul. As we accept more and more of our wholeness, that is soul embodiment. And that process doesn’t end in terms of bringing in more aspects of our soul? I don’t think it has an end, not as a lifetime. I think it is a journey. For me, every single day is a practice of embodiment. It is an opportunity to continue to express myself from my wholeness. One of the most essential characteristics of myself that I learned through the writing of this book was my own curiosity, a character in the book named Endless Curiosity. When I am in my curiosity, when I am in a place of wonder about the world and my life, I am in my most joyful, whole and healthy state. When I shove aside my curiosity or decide that my voice isn’t necessary or needed or wanted, then that is when I start to get more wrapped up in what my ego is thinking and feeling and wanting. Both of these things, soul embodiment and ego identification, happen side by side and fluctuate throughout every single one of my days. My intention is to continue to live more and more from the place of soul embodiment and less and less from the place of ego identification.

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In our quest for more presence in our lives, there is an emphasis on quieting the mind, on stilling the thoughts. However, your book details a personal inner journey that reveals how emotions often speak the loudest. Why did you give emotions such prominence in your book, and what realization did you have about your emotions and the role they serve in your life? I love this question. When I started studying yoga and I learned what you’re talking about here, that the process of yoga was about stilling my thoughts and quieting my mind, I took a hammer, essentially, into my mind and for every thought that popped up, I was slamming it back down. That’s what I thought I was supposed to do. I didn’t appreciate the actual nuance of that teaching at the time. I do now. I had spent so much of my life trying to control my thoughts and be a good girl or be accepted in this way or don’t think that. I had come from an upbringing where I was already very much in judgment of my own thoughts. The worst thing for me to do was suppress them more at this time in my life. What I needed to do was start observing them from a place of distance and awareness. Once I started actually listening to my own thoughts, I noticed how busy my mind was, and I was able to name some of the different voices inside my head. That was very illuminating for me. I think I’ve always felt sort of an inner battle between do I want to do this or do I want this, and what I did in my book was name that: that was from my anger and that was from my fear, and guilt was over here wanting something completely different. No wonder I felt so confused. Now I have more recognition of those voices, the same way I better recognize my soul. I better recognize my emotions, and our relationship now is a lot more playful and we’re more of a partnership in this life than we are adversarial. They’re actually helpful. Our emotions are important and they come with messages. They’re not always messages that we are supposed to heed or that we want to heed, but we at least should accept the message and not kill the messenger, right? Because when anger comes to us, there is an injustice, there is a sense of unfairness, there is some kind of a betrayal, there is something here. That anger has a purpose. If we just suppress it and push it back down into our body, it will come out in another way. As you see in

the reader with her vulnerability, creativity, and insight, inspiring us to explore the true depth of our souls to better understand ourselves and one another. This book is sure to infuse more purpose and meaning into your life.” Curiosa Publishing encourages you to support independent bookstores and authors. Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness will be available for purchase at www.embodyingsoulbook.com, as well as at Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Eye of Horus Metaphysical Store, and indebound.org.a

my book, a lot of my repressed anger came out in the form of chronic hives, these red rashes all over my entire body. So, I had to learn this process. Now I can go back to some of the other practices of quieting and stilling my mind, because I am in a better relationship with my mind and with those thoughts. There is a time and a place for every practice. The word “authenticity” has become more widely used in recent years and yet sometimes we need authors like you to share what it truly means and how it is revealed in our lives. What connection does authenticity have with the soul and why is living with authenticity more relevant today than ever? I think that when we are embodying our soul, that is our authenticity, that is our essential nature, our original self. I actually like the word “original” more than “authentic” because I think of it as something that was original to us when we were born. When we were children, for most of us, we expressed ourselves pretty freely. We were in our emotions, we were in our body, we were in our questions. We didn’t yet know that we were supposed to suppress things or quiet this down. As original beings, as children, we were just in this place of wholeness. It was original. The reason the subtitle of my book is called “A Return to Wholeness” is because I do believe that we all know what that feels like. Authenticity and originality or soul embodiment, whatever term we put on it, isn’t something we need to reach for; it’s something that we return to. It is our essential nature. We do know it and we do know what it feels like. We’re just afraid of it because we were taught as young children to start putting those things away, to grow up, to not cry, to be a big girl, for boys to man up as we got older. We were taught out of our own originality — and the return is just a reclamation. The Declaration of Independence proclaims the pursuit of happiness as a right for each of us, and yet it seems most of us engage in just that, pursuing happiness. Why do most of us struggle to not only realize it, but to sustain it? Partially because I think there’s a big difference between happiness and joy. I think happiness is transient. It is momentary pleasure versus joy. In my book, joy is the emotion that I identify as that more lasting state, talking about that more sustained ability to be in any kind of a moment, but just know that there is this sense of wholeness and oneness that is within. Happiness comes from outside of ourselves. Joy comes from within. So, as long as we continue to pursue happiness, it’s always going to need to be refilled. We’re always going to have to go out

to the next thing and the next thing, versus joy, which is a well that springs from within us. I see joy as being more connected to our souls, therefore more connected to all other beings and the Earth. That’s eternal. That’s a wellspring that can never run dry. From that place of joy, we can explore happiness, but it’s without attachment and need. Now it is with a very healthy state of mind. We can have two bites of a sundae and put the rest down or we can decide we want the whole sundae, but it’s coming from a choice. It’s coming from knowing that there is something deeper within us, that this happiness is temporary. What was the greatest insight that paved the way to joy in your life? Knowing that my stories had a purpose and meaning. As we discussed at the beginning, when I started this book and when I was in that dark night of the soul, I lost my sense of meaning and purpose. I felt I had wasted time. All of these ventures had ended prematurely. When they ended, the purpose that I had instilled in that particular path was lost, too. But then, as I was writing my stories I saw this through line of purpose that connected all of what I had seen as disconnected, incomplete, castaway times in my life — wasted time. That was the motto that I had in my head when I was in the dark night of the soul: “How much of my life have I wasted? Why did I do that? That was wasted time.” And that was a very dark place to be in, to look at your life and think that any of it was wasted. So, the way to joy for me was to see value and purpose and meaning in every single encounter, and it wasn’t about bringing everything to a natural conclusion. It wasn’t about everything having a bow at the end. I was a runner when I was in high school

and college and I had the mindset that you start at the starting line and you finish at the finish line. That was a metaphor for me in everything that I did in my life. So, when life wasn’t looking like that as an adult and I was coming off the race midway, for instance, I didn’t know how to wrap my head around that. It seemed like I had failed and disappointed myself — or even worse, disappointed my own soul. That was one of the questions I came to the book with: “What did my soul think about all of these incompletes in my life? Was she disappointed?” What I learned was: not at all. This was fun for her. She loved moving through all of these different — what she calls skins — these playful roles. She doesn’t want to just be in one through our entire life. That might not be true for other people. For other people, that may be their path, but for my soul what she really loves is playing in all the different roles and skins. So recently we tried on the skin of self-publisher, and this has been a whole lot of fun. I have a different approach to it now than I’ve had in the past, which is that it may last for two years, it may last for five or it may last the rest of my life, but there is no more attachment to it. It’s just free and more playful. A lot healthier. Is there a final thought, something we haven’t talked, about that you’d like to leave with our readers? My final thought is really about self-love and self-acceptance, and how important these things are right now. I came to this through dialoguing with my emotions, through allowing myself to feel completely all that there is to feel, and to accept all that I am feeling as true and as good. I think that there are things in this life that we take too seriously, such as our title, or what kind of car we drive, or what kind of car somebody else drives, or what someone else thinks of us. And then there are things that we don’t take seriously enough, and that is the wisdom from our bodies, the validity of our emotions, and the information available from our instincts. As we come out of this place of denial and come into more of a place of acceptance, we settle, we ground, and compassion comes more naturally, bravery comes more naturally, and empathy comes more naturally. All of these things that we’re seeking and wanting in our life spring from self-acceptance. a Contact Keri Mangis at keri@kerimangis.com or www.kerimangis.com for more information. 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.

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Soul Lightening Acupressure DEANNA WAGGY DR. AMINAH RAHEEM, a transpersonal psychologist and bodyworker, developed Soul Lightening Acupressure in the early 1970s as a way to address whole-being health and consciousness. In her studies, Dr. Raheem realized that talk therapy alone could not address the vibrational imprint of history held within the body. She combined simple verbal processing skills along with acupressure point combinations using gentle curved interface touch to create this method. As practitioners of Soul Lightening Acupressure holding specific point combinations, they can feel the synchronization of energy between the meridians and points in real time. This synchronization signals energy restoration and balance of the whole being — body, mind, emotions and soul. The Soul Lightening Basic Protocol is a comprehensive sequence of point combinations that balances the 12 organ meridian flows, the eight extraordinary vessels and the seven chakras of the body. The practitioner may also choose from more than 70 acupressure protocols to address various specific symptoms and imbalances. These formulas, along with facilitating personal awareness, assist the client in removing restrictions to the energy flows and allowing the body’s innate wisdom to move towards greater health. All the protocols can be used by the practitioner for self-care, which is an added benefit of learning this work. The term “soul lightening” has multiple meanings. The mission of Soul Lightening International is to cultivate soul actualization (the process of becoming who you are and why you are here): • Spark of light: As the body’s energy systems align, conscious development occurs as a person returns to the spark of their “original essence” where they have an opportunity to reclaim their whole-being health. • Light of consciousness: Shedding light (or conscious awareness) on internal experience activates the body’s innate wisdom BY

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THE PERMANENT, MORE authentic, part of you did not come to Earth to live from fears and mental limitations, but rather came to become aware of and overcome whatever blocks hold you back. The soul part of you has no fears. Thus, fears tend to melt away the more we begin to identify with the eternal part of us that we can never separate ourselves from. Take a moment to imagine what life would be like if you had no fears or self-doubts. Who or what would you do and be if you had no limiting beliefs holding you back? What would it feel like if you purely lived life from your passions, gifts, strengths and interests — all while knowing that you are a being of pure creative potential that comes from the same Source of love that everyone else does? For one, you may begin to have compassion for every human being on the planet who is blindly living life from their own subconscious limiting beliefs. You also might notice a feeling of harmony and exuberance. This is what it feels to live from your authentic Self. No longer believing our self-imposed, limiting thought programs may be considered one of our life purposes. Behind every area that you feel stuck in your life, you’ll find an unconscious false belief that you’re living from. As you dissect these mind programs, you discover that they are not inherent to your core being, but rather you picked them up in your life experiences. Becoming aware of them is the first step in letting them go. One beautiful example of this is my friend who began college as he turned 40. Although he is one of the wisest, most intelligent people I know, the reason he didn’t start college earlier was due to a subconscious belief that he was too stupid for academia. He picked up that false assumption in his early school years when he struggled with a learning disability, and it wasn’t until his late 30s that he began to see through that false belief with self-reflection. He recently finished his masters in therapy with all A’s and is now an outstanding therapist. Years ago, when I found myself very anxious before giving a talk, I later went home and mentally dove into that fear to meet it and question it. My subconscious fear was trying to protect me from the audience because of the belief that I might be ridiculed, judged and hurt. I had to reassure that part of my subconscious mind that it no longer needed to protect me from audiences. Even if there were judgments against me, I could accept a differing viewpoint without being harmed. I thanked my protective impulse, but told it that it was hindering me rather than helping, and it no longer needed to “overwork.” The subconscious fear then began to loosen its grip and dissolve. It was a lesson for me that we can all reprogram our subconscious minds. It feels a bit

like awakening from a sleep. Living life with negative beliefs feels like trying to run a marathon with heavy armor on. If you have trouble letting them go, there are very effective healing modalities that can help, including hypnotherapy, EFT, EMDR, and QNRT. Noticing our mind programs has a subtle, but powerful, subconscious effect on us. A small distance gets created between us and our mind programs. As that identity gulf widens, it reveals the difference between bondage and liberation. We are not our thoughts. We are that which can observe thoughts, change them and use them. If you don’t consciously use thought, you will unconsciously be used by thought. Eckhart Tolle writes in his book Stillness Speaks, “The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn’t mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.” As we see through and no longer identify with our limiting mind programs, our “truer” Self shines through — the “more permanent” part of us that can’t be hurt, that never leaves, even at physical death. Simply rest in this expansive aspect of yourself. It is here now. It is who you are, animating your body. The more you bask in this perception shift, the more you will feel whole and complete, and then those beliefs that don’t resonate with the truth of who you are may rise to the surface to be examined and released. The resulting freedom of this has an enormously beneficial effect on your entire being. Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, once said, “As you heal yourself, you do your part in healing the world. More than you could ever know.” 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, lifebetween-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.

Authentic Beauty Spirit Leaves BY JANET MICHELE RED FEATHER There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet… — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock RAISED IN THE OLD ENERGIES, I worked to perfect my persona, my mask, my false self. I was like Eliot’s iconic mock-hero, J. Alfred: articulate and dressed for the part, while inside I feared I might drown at the first hint of real human love. I honed that self-image. Not surprisingly, I excelled in theatre, a genius and chameleon at taking on fictional roles. Eventually, I would shift with the new energies, a consciousness that only harmonizes with truth and authenticity. We enter this human condition as a Divine candle, a mere spark within a vast consciousness of love and light. Reasoning that we are “on our own,” we become dense and fearful, looking outside ourselves for support. Media exploits this fear, creating icons and fashioning ordinary humans into demi-gods, hoping we will worship them and wish to become like them. Our culture has become superficial, placing a high premium upon appearances. We waste a lot of energy trying to fit in, to become like the models touted in ads and videos. Despite our efforts, we come to realize we will never be pretty enough, thin enough, or stylish enough. What we are slow to learn in our hearts, and what many aphorisms affirm, is that real beauty radiates from within. So, how then do we cultivate the lotus in the mud? First, we must see that lotus through eyes of compassion. Its pink-and-white petals are so tender and beautiful that its initial instinct is to hide in the dark. When it first emerges into the light, all the world laughs, because it is an awkward stalk, dripping in mud. Curling back on itself, it nevertheless persists. Tears of rain wash the muck from its edges. Then one day, in the sparkling sun, it unfolds dew-encrusted petals amid bright green algae-carpeted waters. It opens its heart to the light, and everyone admires and is uplifted by its symmetry and quiet beauty.

That is an apt and ancient metaphor for the soul. Inside us is beauty, love and light; but when we first express that in the world, we may feel rejected by events and relationships that eclipse our light. We may dwell in the dark out of dejection, covering the true self in layers of protection. We may choose to project outwardly a tough, I-can-take-it exterior. That false hubris worked, at least, in the old energies. What is attractive now is authenticity. Very recently, Cedric remarked to me that the key to living genuinely is to love yourself. It’s easy to think of loving and accepting our friends unconditionally, so why can’t we give ourselves the same loving consideration? Even if we embrace that notion intellectually, how do we arrive there emotionally? The key is to resolve to be true to yourself in everyday situations. Instead of reacting to events routinely, take a moment to breathe, relax and be genuine. At first, it may feel a little like holding your breath, closing your eyes, and jumping off a cliff. After making this jump a few times, you will experience the rush of endorphins that flows from being congruent with your true nature; and that is a better and stronger reinforcer than the questionable rewards of social approval. Self-love is not an abstract concept: it is a feeling, a state of being. It takes time and care to cultivate. Spending time alone will help you focus and reflect upon your own path. There is plenty of wasted time in a day that could readily be converted to quiet “rediscovering me” time. We learn that the journey is inward, where it has always been; and indeed, there will be time to prepare a face that reflects authenticity, in harmony with the new consciousness that is evolving on Earth. a JANET MICHELE RED FEATHER, J.D., M.A., is a ceremonial singer who has learned over 60 traditional songs in Mandan and Lakota. 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. 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 a full-time, tenured English faculty member at Normandale Community College. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Your Authentic Self

Love Who You Are BY DR. RITA LOUISE An excerpt from The Dysfunctional Dance of the Empath and Narcissist

MANY OF US LIVE our lives on autopilot. We exist day to day programmed like an automaton and never consider the choices we have. We let our old habits dominate what we do and what we think. We have walked down the same familiar, well-worn path for so long that we assume this is what life is all about. We unwittingly accept it and do not believe it can be any better or different. We can become so entrenched in our old habits that we do not even realize that we are not living but are only surviving. If you think about it, many of us have spent the better part of our lives operating based on a series of false beliefs. These beliefs can make us feel as if we are somehow inadequate. We learned to say and do things to keep the peace and make others happy. But, who is working on making us happy? This task, my friends, is ours and ours alone. Researchers suggest that our ability to be congruent with ourselves and others is linked to our happiness. When we are congruent with ourselves, our inner world matches our outer world. We are our “authentic self.” Being our authentic self is about reconnecting with who we are. It is about being true to ourselves. It is about having our thoughts (inner world), words, and actions (outer world) match. It is about honoring our feelings and having the confidence to express them. It is about going deep inside and letting go of the false beliefs, which are not serving us any longer. Individuals who are controlled by their negative programmed false beliefs frequently want to please others over themselves. They also have a hard time being authentic. It can be terrifying to do or say

things that go against the norm, the tried and true. Our ability to be authentic is often challenged in our relationships, where we find ourselves discarding our own wants and needs to make room for what we think others desire. We fear the repercussions of our words and actions. “Will he or she still accept me if I speak my truth? What will happen if I say no?” Being authentic allows us to love and accept ourselves at our core, to do what makes us happy, and to follow our passions regardless of who we may disappoint. Doing so may leave us vulnerable, but at the same time, it allows for the creation of genuine, intimate relationships filled with unconditional love. What does loving ourselves feel like? It is about treating ourselves with kindness, concern and compassion. It is about not judging ourselves harshly or punishing ourselves for every mistake we make. It is about being warm and understanding, recognizing our inadequacies and imperfections, and responding to them with the same level of support and respect we freely offer others. It is about liking who we are, lock, stock and barrel. Self-love compels us to act with our best interest in mind and challenges us to ask, “Why not?” As they say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Imagine the inner strength you will develop as you flex this

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for healing. As the light of their original soul is remembered, so is the realization of their soul purpose in the world. • Lighten the load: As we facilitate more consciousness, may we also “lighten” the load of past burdens and layers of conditioning. • Lightening bolt: Just as a lightning bolt creates a powerful charge of energy, this transformative work creates an energetic connection for the individual between heaven and Earth. Practitioners learn basic principles of both Process (PA) Acupressure and Clinical (CA) Acupressure in the Foundation Certification (50-hour) program, then can pursue additional 300-hour certifications in either Clinical or Process Acupressure. Clinical acupressure practitioners incorporate 5-element prin2 0 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

muscle. We naturally love ourselves when we have appropriate self-worth and selfesteem. These things allow us to be internally whole and let us interact with the world as our authentic selves. One other thing is required to love ourselves. It necessitates that we move beyond our fears. It demands us to have the courage to feel our feelings and honor them, regardless of where they may lead. We have to be willing to risk showing our true self, complete with all of our imperfections, shortcoming and insecurities when we are our authentic selves. We have to embrace who we are instead of who we think we should be. We also have to be prepared to love ourselves enough to accept the costs and consequences that our words and actions may elicit from others. It might sting in the moment, but in hindsight many come to realize it was the best and smartest thing they ever did. Being authentic creates a foundation where we can begin to experience joy and happiness in all we do, every day of our lives. a DR. RITA LOUISE is a gifted empath and talented clairvoyant medical intuitive. She is a Naturopathic physician and the founder of the Institute of Applied Energetics that trains students in the art of medical intuition, intuitive counseling, and energy medicine. She has authored six books, including her new title The Dysfunctional Dance of the Empath and Narcissist, and produced several featurelength and short films. Dr. Louise has appeared on radio, television and in movies and has lectured on health and healing, ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal. Her books and articles have worldwide circulation. Visit SoulHealer.com. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

ciples into their practice, and Process Acupressure practitioners include work with parts of the personality, inner child and ancestral healing. Advanced Soul Lightening practitioners weave the two tracks together to hold a deeper perspective on the integrated systems of the whole-being. “We facilitate the health, balance and compassionate exploration of the whole being right to the very core,” Dr. Raheem says. a DEANNA WAGGY, OTR, is a holistic Occupational Therapist with additional training in Spiritual Direction, Zero Balancing and Soul Lightening Acupressure. She teaches Seva Stress Release, Acupressure for Anyone and the Foundation Certification classes for Soul Lightening International. She has a private wellness practice in South Bend, Ind., integrating Zero Balancing and Soul Lightening Acupressure, developed by the husband/ wife team of Drs. Fritz Smith and Aminah Raheem. For more information on training and certification through Soul Lightening Acupressure, visit www.SoulLightening.com. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Becoming an Authentic Person HERON DIANA WHAT DOES THE authentic self mean? It is who you are, including your innate wisdom, in your deepest place — in your core. What does it mean to live authentically? It means you must go inward and spend time defining who you are, what you want, how you will act. You must take You seriously. You will change definitions of what success means, what beauty means, what power means. You must be aware — as often as possible — of the choices you make, the actions you take, your impact on others, and your responses to others and the world around you. You must go from reaction to action. You must become grateful for all you have instead of miserable about what you’ve lost or not acquired. You will ask questions about your spiritual beliefs and connections. All this must be done to navigate the steps from a non-authentic life to an authentic life. Why should we look within? For many of us, we yearn for a deeper peace in life that we haven’t been able to achieve — the feeling that life lacks something. Maybe we’re downright miserable. We want mastery with our life, choosing our way instead of running in the dust that life’s race has a way of making us run. Perhaps we want a spiritual connection or a stronger connection. Here is a secret: you can’t have everything figured out before you take the first step. And, all you need is the desire to take the first step. In fact, desire is the first step. You’ve already discovered that you’re not as happy as you’d like, whether it’s meeting goals or having honest relationships. You’ve already started to go within. You’ve started to search your soul and have emotional reckoning time. Acknowledge this and feel good about this! Taking that first step isn’t easy. You may BY

also have discovered that it takes courage to continue down this path. But from this courage you will develop strong emotional and psychological muscles. How do we continue taking steps? Just keep doing it. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then take a break. We all need rest stops along the way. Resting is as important as working. Rest stops are good places to learn how to be gentle, to lessen the pressure we are so good at placing on ourselves. The workout is worth looking at every fear, worth every tear, every stumble and fall that comes from restructuring our lives into the direction of finding our authentic self. The path of becoming and maintaining our authentic self requires us to discipline our ego, listen to our self, and slow down. Remember, any skill takes time and maintenance. Learning to live from our authentic selves is a skill learned through consistent attention. Once we start getting the hang of it, the amount of work goes down and the amount of enjoyment and competency goes up. Wisdom comes in bits and spurts; it doesn’t come all at once at the end of the journey. First off, there is no end to this journey. There is no end to our depth. Secondly, we become more authentic the stronger we become. The more authentic we become, the wiser we are.

The wise person living an authentic life will always be presented with choices and will understand this. The wise person living an authentic life will know that the outcome of a choice — an action we make — will depend on all the strength and awareness we have at that very moment in life. There are times when we’re not our best. We all slip sometimes. Being authentic in that moment allows us to be easy on ourselves and find our center again. What do we get from living an authentic life? Self-awareness, self-knowledge and trusting your intuition — knowing your true self. You will act deliberately according to your values and desires, you will respond from your genuine self. These facets of authenticity create a vulnerability to life that is your choice, not your reaction. Decisions are easier because you respond from your honest self. And when you’re in touch with this part of you, your values are front and center. You are living an authentic life. a HERON DIANA is a Conscious Living, Conscious Dying Coach. She is a compassionate, supportive coach helping people through stumbling blocks, fears, confusion, or changes in life. Individual sessions and ongoing workshops. Please visit www.herondiana.com for testimonials and much more. Contact her at 612.205.6080 or heron@ herondiana.com. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Accepting Ourselves Completely BY JOYCE AND BARRY VISSELL An excerpt from Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love, written to honor a beloved mentor, Ram Dass, who passed on December 22, 2019

WE ALL HAVE PARTS of ourselves that we prefer to remain hidden. We are all ashamed of certain things we have done or were done to us, or even feelings or thoughts we have had. We imagine that if people knew these things about us, they would not like us, that we would be rejected, abandoned, judged or criticized. We think we are safe by keeping this shame hidden, but we are far from safe. Shame kept hidden keeps us from our freedom and happiness. The parts of ourselves that we try to hide are the parts that have the most power over us, because they control us from our subconscious. Trying to bury our past is really rejecting, abandoning, judging and criticizing parts of ourselves. On the contrary, when we vulnerably share our shame with another in a safe setting, and this is what Joyce and I strive to create in our workshops and counseling sessions, we actually become more lovable. Our vulnerability in a safe setting opens people’s hearts to us. This is a basic premise for much of our work. And going further, seeing and feeling other’s acceptance of us helps us to accept ourselves more deeply. This is a path toward freedom. In 1977, Ram Dass, whose books and lectures had helped awaken us to the path of consciousness since 1970, came to live in our community of Santa Cruz while he worked on one of his books. For about two years, Joyce and I, along with a few others, had the wonderful opportunity to be individually counseled by this gifted teacher. He told us it was important for him to be in direct service to others instead of just locking himself away writing. It is extremely humbling to admit our spiritual arrogance when we first visited Ram Dass after he moved to town. At that time, Joyce and I dressed all in white and wore sacred mala beads for our intensive meditation practice. We didn’t go to see Ram Dass for help. We didn’t feel we needed help. Instead, we went to see Ram Dass to help him. We sat at a picnic table in his backyard while he sat opposite us loudly munching on a green apple and gazing at us with those piercing crystal blue eyes. After about a half-hour of putting up with our shenanigans, he interrupted our (well, mostly my) eloquent proselytizing, and announced, “You guys have just given me a headache. You really need help. I’ll 2 2 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

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agree to see you each individually while I’m working on this new book. Your energy together is too much for me to take. You’re both, mostly you Barry, ‘phony holy.’” So much for our helping Ram Dass. We left that day humbled to our roots, and then began what became a two-year intensive training that pulled the proverbial rug out from under us, spilling all of our righteous beliefs about ourselves, and helping us integrate true spirituality. One of my visits happened to coincide with Halloween, which triggered some old memories from my childhood. I told Ram Dass about my childhood obsession with monsters. I had watched every monster movie that came out, read monster stories and played monster games at night, delighting in scaring my friends with my various expert monster sounds. One night, while my parents were next door at the Cooper’s house, they heard a loud roar and scream coming from outside. Upset, the Coopers asked what had happened. My mom casually remarked, “Oh, that’s just Barry playing his monster games.” Yes, part of all this was perhaps innocent, but there was another part that was shameful to me, that I hid and didn’t tell anyone but Joyce. It was my cruelty, the ways I took out my anger that hurt others, that was particularly shameful. Ram Dass listened compassionately as I bared my soul to him. Then he asked me to close my eyes and feel this shameful part of myself as deeply as I could. While I did so, he secretly reached down beside his chair into a bag and quietly pulled out a mask that he planned to wear that evening for Halloween. By “coincidence” it just happened to be a full-head, very realistic, hideous-looking monster mask. He slipped it on and then asked me to open my eyes.

I was in a very vulnerable state when I opened my eyes and, unlike a traditional therapist, Ram Dass was sitting with his face perhaps two feet from mine. The scene was surreal. There was this grotesque life-like face immediately in front of me, my complete projection of the cruel monster inside of me, scary beyond belief. In my vulnerable trance state, I was sitting in front of a real monster. And then I noticed the eyes through the mask. There was no cruelty there, only compassion and love pouring out to me. The combination was so incongruous that I felt an acceptance of the monster part of me, and especially the pain and anger that was behind it. Then I started laughing. Ram Dass looked strangely cute with the mask but, more importantly, I felt the cuteness of my own inner monster persona. Not that my cruelty was cute, but that I was cute, and thus could more deeply forgive myself for the actions that hurt others. This is the heart of self-acceptance. Behind our shame is our pain, and behind the pain is the precious, innocent child who deserves love. When we touch upon this precious child inside ourselves, we more easily accept the shameful parts. And this brings freedom — and peace. a

JOYCE & BARRY VISSELL, a nurse/therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counselors near Santa Cruz, CA, who are passionate about conscious relationship and personal-spiritual growth. They are the authors of eight books, including two new books, To Really Love a Woman and To Really Love a Man. Call 831.684.2299 for further information on counseling sessions by phone/ Skype or in person, their books, recordings or their schedule of talks and workshops. Visit SharedHeart.org for their free monthly e-heartletter, their updated workshop0 schedule, and inspiring past articles on many topics about relationship and living from the heart. COPYRIGHT © 2020. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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our Thursday Program; Sunday guided Meditation at 8:30 a.m. and a Sunday program at 10 a.m. Easy online registration for series classes and workshops. The Primordial Path, a Self Empowerment Center, 612.513.3663, www.theprimordialpath. com — Learn to connect with your higher self to

get guidance for every day living and discover your true path. Meditations guided by Xena Victory by Xena Victory, Runic Master, Shaman, Healer, LifeCoach. Have a specific question or problem? Let us find the answer for you. Sacred Space Yoga + Meditation, 1955 Johnson St. NE, Minneapolis, 612.361.1138, www. sacredspacemn.com — Sacred Space is an inclusive sanctuary for the wondering, woke and spiritually curious. We specialize in alchemical classes that blend yoga, meditation and energy work (including soundhealing with our 9 quartz crystal singing bowls!). Our classes are always taught with intention, to the students in the room. Yoga by Blisstopia, 10611 Baltimore St. NE, Blaine, MN 55449, call/text 763.432.3242, www.yogabyblisstopia.com — We invite our entire community to discover their own blissful nature through comprehensive yoga instruction — from beginner to advanced — meditation, workshops, classes, consultations, teacher trainings, Ayurveda study and continuing education. Find us on Facebook and Instagram too!

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ENERGY HEALING: Accredited and Certified, Mary Jo has been working in the Energy Healing field since 2003. She uses Healing Touch, Reiki, Light Language, Hara and crystal healing, channeling, past life healing and essential oils in her professional healing practice. Usui Reiki, Crystal and Energy Healing classes. All ages welcome! 4th Dimension Healing, Mary Jo Feely, RN, HTCP, RMT, CCH, 651.439.9001, Stillwater, MN, www.4thdimensionhealing.com

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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

FLOWER ESSENCES: Numerous Flower Essences for spiritual and emotional healing. Books, Practitioners Available. In business 37 years. Contact Martin Bulgerin. Present Moment Herbs & Books, 612.824.3157, 1.800.378.3245, herbshop@presentmoment.com, www.presentmoment.com, at 3546 Grand Ave. S., Mpls

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

HEALING TOUCH & THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Relax with a meditation, intuitive healing touch and chakra balance, then enjoy a 60-minute therapeutic massage, all for $90 for first-time clients (2 hours). Edgar Massage & Chakra Balance, 5215 28th Ave. S., Minneapolis, 612.384.4572, www.edgardennis.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 and Dale Fisher, Maple Grove, 763.420.9017, kistones@comcast.net, www.kistones.com

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

EDITING & GRAPHIC DESIGN Affordable and timely fliers, brochures, posters, banners and PDF docs. Plan ahead for events and expos. Tim Miejan, 651.578.8969, t.miejan.25@gmail.com

HOMEOPATHY: 2,000 Homeopathic Remedies, Individual Potencies, Books, Practitioners Available. Contact Dr. Andrew Lucking ND, Martin Bulgerin, We buy and sell new and used books. Present Moment Herbs & Books, 612.824.3157, 1.800.378.3245, herbshop@presentmoment.com, www.presentmoment.com, at 3546 Grand Ave. S., Mpls

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

HYPNOSIS TRAINING – CERTIFIED – ALL LEVELS Past Life & Between Lives Regression, Private & Group Sessions, Healing, Spiritual Mentoring. 20+ years experience. Madonna Kettler, PhD, LBLt, CHt, 612.709.5578, madonna@madonnakettler.com, www.madonnakettler.com

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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

REIKI HEALING Experience the divine energy of Reiki for balance, relaxation, wellness. Treatment sessions. Student-oriented training for all levels. Sheryl and Dale Fisher, Reiki Master-Teachers, 763.420.9017, dashf@comcast.net

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

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

INTUITIVE HANDS HEALING: Do you need guidance with your spiritual journey or need to heal some aspect of your life? Give Barbara Farr a call. She has over 14 years experience. By appointment only. Located in Hugo MN. Granny Healing, Barbara Farr, 708.802.1717, barbara.farr@yahoo.com, grannyscountryhealingcottage.com

SUFI Four Layers of the Heart. Jess Fauchier, 763.360.9259, fauchier@goldengate.net, www.suficentermn.org

MEDIUM & PSYCHIC READINGS: With over 30 years’ experience, Liz is now offering sessions at The Crescent Moon in Wyoming, MN. Friday 1-4pm, Saturday 11am-4pm. Walk-in, or call to schedule. 15 minutes $20, 30 minutes $14, first question free! Liz Lukacs, Deeply Well, 651.269.9060, info@deeplywell.com, www.deeplywell.com

WELLNESS COACH, ENERGY HEALING, MASSAGE: Author of “Choosing Conscious Health for a Vibrant Life.” Bodyworker since 1990, helping people heal their body, mind and spirit with gentle, intuitive paths for transformation. In Roseville. Kristen Wernecke, 612.963.4463, kwchoosinghealth@ gmail.com, www.choosingconscioushealth.com

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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

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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. ECK Light and Sound Service: first Sunday of each month, 10-11 a.m. Experience the Sound of Soul: third Sunday of each month, 10-11 a.m. Free Spiritual Exploration Classes: Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Temple hours: Noon-9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Tours available. Lake Harriet Spiritual Community: A Center for Conscious Living, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis, 612.922.4272, www.lakeharrietspiritualcommunity.org — Raise your consciousness by attending our classes, workshops and Sunday Services led by amazing speakers! Raise your vibration in our beautiful, historic building (now on the National Historic Register). Give us a try as part of your spiritual journey and feel the love of our heartbased community. Visit our community for: great meditations, yoga classes, speakers and programs that include mindfulness, developing your intuition, releasing negative beliefs, allowing greater abundance, and breaking the barriers to deep self-healing. Spirit United Church, 612.378.3602, sunited@ aol.com, www.spiritunited.com, mailing address: P.O. Box 130811, Roseville, MN 55113 — When Spirit calls you to something more, to go beyond limitations of what has been, to explore possibilities of what can be,

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You’ll gain skills in assessing, clearing, and healing through the chakras. $145, Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington, 952.358.8343, www.normandale.edu/ ce/classes February 7 – Crystal Grid Experience™: During this Crystal Healing Class, you will experience a customized crystal healing with a crystal grid set up in the room, as well as on and around each individual participant. You will be guided to a deep state of relaxation where healing, release, and restoration occur both consciously and unconsciously. 6:30-7:30 p.m., IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets: www.IntraAwareness.com/ classes (included with IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio Monthly Membership, drop-in’s $30, children $11). Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www. IntraAwareness.com February 8 – Energy Medicine Energy Healing: This energy work and play day is dedicated to consciously accessing information, vibration, and the combination of the two for diagnosis, healing, divination, and problem-solving. We’ll cover topics and techniques including energy assessment, clearing, balancing, and opening to help heal self and others, as well as the two main types of healing concerns: autoimmune and trauma. How does a practitioner (working on self or other) engage and then disengage safely? You’ll leave this practical day enthused to become the healer that you are. $145, Saturday 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington, 952.358.8343, www.normandale.edu/ ce/classes February 8 – Post-Oprah 2020 Vision Tour Meetup: Register for fun and supportive Post-Oprah meetup to share our workbook intentions & goals, and receive support to move through any roadblocks that may be hampering forward movement. Be sure you have attended Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour, and have your workbook to bring with you. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets: $20.20 at bit.ly/30lERoA. Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www. IntraAwareness.com

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February 8-9 – 2-Day Intuitive Healing Workshop with Carol Lowell: Carol will share techniques she has learned over the years, including: Introduction to Hands on Healing; aura identification, clearing, balancing, chakra system, vibration and energy flow. $325, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 8-9 at 10285 Yellow Circle Dr., Hopkins, MN. Pre-registration and payment required. Info: Carol Lowell, 612.840.3562 or carolmargaretnow@gmail.com February 8-9 – Healthy Life Expo: We expanded this show to be our largest ever! Nutrition, Fitness, and Longevity — It’s all here! Explore up to 200+ exhibitors offering everything for health, balance and success in all areas of life. Three stages of ongoing speaker presentations and demonstrations. Hourly prize drawings, play booth bingo and win a FitBit. Product sampling, hourly drawings and free health information. The Smart place to get the free tips information to start living a healthier life. $6 at the door or Free with food shelf donation. See all the attractions at www.MediaMaxEvents.com or call 952.238.1700. February 8-9, March 14-15, April 11, May 9-10 – Crystal, Psychic and Healing Fair: A wide variety of hand-picked stones, and some of the best healers, readers, mediums, crystals, jewelry and more. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Crysty’s Crystals, 407 N. Riverfront Dr., Mankato, MN. Fair Dates for 2020 are February 8-9, March 14-15, April 11, May 9-10. Store is open Wednesday through Saturday. Info: 507.304.3364, fullmoonpro@gmail.com, christyscrystal.com February 9 – Teaching Session with Leonard Jacobson: Join beloved author, teacher and mystic Leonard Jacobson for this Sunday session and experience the transformative and deeply healing power of Presence. Leonard offers clear guidance and inspiration to anyone genuinely interested in liberating themselves from a painful or limited past and awakening more fully into the Now. Donations at the door. 10:30 -11:45 a.m. in Wayzata, MN. Register to attend: info@leonardjacobson.com. Sign up to our mailing list to receive news of upcoming events: www.leonardjacobson.com February 12 – Wealth Mentoring – Member Exclusive! Has anyone ever told you that money is included in wealth, but wealth is not limited to money? Do you honestly know how to level up your Wealth Consciousness? Learn what the education system, your parents and perhaps the people in your life don’t know, and learn what it takes to get personal & measurable financial results you want. 7:15- 8:15 p.m. at IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Exclusive offering for studio members, sign up: www.IntraAwareness.com/ classes. Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www.IntraAwareness.com ➤ see HAPPENINGS on p. 30 FEBRUARY 2020 THE EDGE

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February 14 – Launch Party & Book Signing for Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness: Please join us to celebrate as author Keri Mangis launches her first book, Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness! Bring only your curiosity and playful spirit as we shift into the soul realm to draw down its gifts and wisdom. Signed copies will be available. 5:30-8 p.m. (book talk at 6:30 p.m.) at France 44, 4351 France Ave. S., Minneapolis. No RSVP necessary. Free. Contact Keri Mangis at keri@kerimangis.com or www.kerimangis.com for more information. February 16 – Experience the Sound of Soul: Discover your inner guidance, healing for body, mind and spirit, and a higher form of creativity by chanting the sacred sound of HU. Spiritual discussion and light refreshments. Free. 10 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Temple of ECK/Eckankar, the Path of Spiritual Freedom, 7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen, 952.380.2200, www.TempleofECK.org February 16 – Book Talk and Signing for Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness: Author Keri Mangis will share information about her new book at the 10:30 a.m. service, followed by a book signing. Bring only your curiosity and playful spirit as we shift into the soul realm to draw down its gifts and wisdom. Don’t miss this special event to meet the author, purchase your copy, and receive a complimentary soul care gift set! Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis. Contact Keri Mangis at keri@kerimangis. com or www.kerimangis.com for more information. February 19 – Group Hypnotherapy Healing: Quiet your mind and connect to higher-consciousness through guided meditation (trance). In this relaxing group setting you will have a personal experience of healing, insights and rejuvenation. 7:15-8:15 p.m. at IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Mpls. Tickets: www.IntraAwareness. com/classes (included with IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio Monthly Membership, drop-in’s $30). Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www. IntraAwareness.com February 19 – Psychic Development Beginning/ Foundation Class: Learn to consciously access your soul’s guidance, clarity and wisdom. Discover your abilities and purpose working with your body/ soul partnership in this lifetime. Wednesday evenings, February - November (36 sessions). Please see website or contact Cindy for more information. Cindy Lehman, 612.669.1861, cindy@cindylehman. com, www.cindylehman.com February 19-March 18 – Naturopathic Medicine Series: Naturopathic medicine is a distinct primary health care profession that focuses on whole person healing by integrating all aspects of human health and looking for the root cause of disease. Learn the history, principles, and foundations of Naturopathic Medicine as well as an introduction to the modalities used to treat patients. This series will introduce core modalities including hydrotherapy, botanical medicine, physical medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, nutrition, mind/body medicine, and homeopathy. Participants will learn key aspects of each modality, learn simple applications, and 3 0 WWW.EDGEMAGAZINE.NET

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review example case studies. $195, Wednesdays 6-8 p.m., Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington, 952.358.8343, www. normandale.edu/ce/classes February 20 – Business Bootcamp for Holistic Practitioners: Are you a holistic practitioner ready to start your own business or maybe just considering what it would be like to have your own business? Join us for this business bootcamp to discover the big picture to becoming an entrepreneur as well as to work out the fine details of owning a business. This course will cover a step-by-step process on starting a business, including business types, laws, taxes, insurance, marketing, financing and business strategies. Taking the right steps now will let you concentrate on the fun part - helping improve your clients’ health and wellness. $89, Thursday 6-9 p.m., Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington, 952.358.8343, www.normandale. edu/ce/classes February 22 – Love [YOUR + SELF]: Love is not something that we do, it is something that we are, when we are in our most natural state. Are there blocks or conditional programs you learned at a young age that stop you from truly loving your Self, and therefore not allowing love in your life? This Guided Meditation class will focus on bringing you closer to your most true self, which is love. 9-10 a.m.,

third Monday of each month. Learn how to expand into your personal vibration of success. Hear how you can ride the leading edge of your own transformation and create the life you desire and deserve. 3pm, call 714.364.4750 at show time or listen anytime after the show at Blogtalkradio. com/edgemagazine. February 24 – “Psychic Buffet at the Edge” with Jean Wallis: Join psychic Jean Wallis as she serves up the Psychic Buffet at the Edge 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.

IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets: www.IntraAwareness. com/classes (included with IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio Monthly Membership, drop-in’s $30, children $11). Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www.IntraAwareness.com February 22 – Soul Whisperer Program: Releasing Lost Souls. Not all souls leave this dimension when they die. The souls that remain are referred to as ghosts or spirits and have been largely misunderstood. Learn where spirits come from and how you can help them. $128 includes Space Clearing E-Book and guided meditations. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Marriott Courtyard Hotel, 7800 Bloomington Ave. S., Bloomington. Info: AnnetteRugolo.com/calendar February 22 – Journey Into Now with Leonard Jacobson: Are you ready to awaken? Join beloved author, teacher and mystic Leonard Jacobson for this special One-day Workshop and experience his teachings on awakening at a deeper level. Discover the transformative power of Presence, heal and release a painful or limited past and awaken more fully into the joyful and unlimited world of the Now. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in Wayzata, MN. Email info@leonardjacobson.com for more information; to register, visit the Events Page here: www.leonardjacobson.com/events

February 22 – February Sound Journeying | Deepening: Your February Journeys will focus the element of Fire. The Fire element has many spiritual and physical significances when it comes to creation, passion, creativity, and motivation. This journey will uniquely ignite and connect you to the part of Fire that is most important to you in your life, right now. 10:30-11:30 a.m., IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets: www.IntraAwareness.com/classes (included with IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio Monthly Membership, drop-in’s $30, children $11). Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www.IntraAwareness.com February 22 & 23 – Silva UltraMind ESP Systems Seminar for Absolutely Everybody: In Only Two Days learn to: use your intuition, at a deep level of mind, dependably, at will, whenever you wish, for any positive purpose; turn problems into projects, into solutions; train your mind; change your thoughts; create better outcomes. Make a positive difference! 100% money-back guarantee! Silva: Changing lives since 1966! It works! Silva Instructor LaJeanne Runnels 763.227.9577, www.IntuitionMN. com February 26 – Self-Hypnosis: Learn to put yourself into deep hypnosis to improve self-esteem, reduce stress, improve concentration, quit smoking, lose weight, sleep better, enhance creativity, reduce pain and more. Create your own customized sessions to use in everyday life and explore the latest findings on neural plasticity and hypnosis in class. $49, Wednesday 6-9 p.m., Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington, 952.358.8343, www.normandale. edu/ce/classes February 26 – Wealth Mentoring – Member Exclusive! Has anyone ever told you that money is included in wealth, but wealth is not limited to money? Do you honestly know how to level up your Wealth Consciousness? Learn what the education system, your parents and perhaps the people in your life don’t know, and learn what it takes to get personal & measurable financial results you want. 7:15- 8:15 p.m. at IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Exclusive offering for studio members, sign up: www.IntraAwareness. com/classes. Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www.IntraAwareness.com February 28 – Crystal Grid Experience™: During this Crystal Healing Class, you will experience a customized crystal healing with a crystal grid set up in the room, as well as on and around each individual participant. You will be guided to a deep state of relaxation where healing, release, and restoration occur both consciously and unconsciously. 6:30-7:30 p.m., IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio, 104 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets: www.IntraAwareness.com/classes (in-

cluded with IntraAwareness Lifestyle Studio Monthly Membership, drop-in’s $30, children $11). Info: Info@IntraAwareness.com, 612.930.2662, www.IntraAwareness.com

with training in St. Paul. Phase 1 is March 26-28, and Phase 2 is June 22-26. Info: call 303.440.8018 or email info@ConsciousDyingInstitute.com. Visit ConsciousDyingInstitute.com

February 29 – Reiki Energy Therapy Level 1 Certificate: This course is a simple, natural and safe method of therapy that uses life force energy transmitted through a practitioner’s hands that offers physical pain reduction and profound relaxation. Reiki Energy Therapy sessions are a hands-on, fully clothed touch therapy. These courses are taught using traditional Usui Reiki form. This course prepares you to become a Certified Reiki Energy Therapy practitioner. $150, Saturday 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Normandale Community College, 9700 France Ave. S., Bloomington, 952.358.8343, www. normandale.edu/ce/classes

May 14-17 – Process Acupressure IA - Foundations: This workshop is designed to provide healthcare practitioners basic foundational skills for addressing mental, emotional and spiritual issues that may arise organically during a bodywork session. The most profound healing comes from empowering this inner soul-guided wisdom. Presented by Deanna Waggy of Soul Lightening™ Acupressure. For more info: ot4peace@gmail.com, 574.276.1068, www.soullightening.org

February 29 – Walking a Heart-Centered Path to Healing: Explore an authentic approach to healing. Experience a deeply profound and generous process to connect with your intuitive wisdom. Learn skills to harness the power and resources you have within for healing. $90, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29, at 7400 Lyndale Ave. S., Suite 180, Minneapolis. Reserve your spot: www.herondiana. com or call 612.205.6080.

May 18-31 – Clinical Acupressure 1 - Basic Applications: This workshop in Hazelhurst, WI, is designed for health-care clinicians who wish to learn traditional methods of acupressure to support the body’s own balancing and healing processes. Participants will learn to deliver a full treatment session as well as how to use this method as a complement to their established practice. Presented by Deanna Waggy of Soul Lightening™ Acupressure. For more info: ot4peace@gmail.com, 574.276.1068, www.soullightening.org

March 2 – Soul Whisperer Online Program: Releasing Lost Souls series, online on March 2, 9, 16, 23. Not all souls leave this dimension when they die. The souls that remain are referred to as ghosts or spirits and have been largely misunderstood. Learn where spirits come from and how you can help them in this online class. 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays. $128 includes Space Clearing E-Book and guided meditations. Info: AnnetteRugolo.com/calendar

October 1-4 – Clinical Acupressure 1 - Basic Applications: This workshop in Lake Mills, WI, is designed for health-care clinicians who wish to learn traditional methods of acupressure to support the body’s own balancing and healing processes. Participants will learn to deliver a full treatment session as well as how to use this method as a complement to their established practice. Presented by Deanna Waggy of Soul Lightening™ Acupressure. For more info: ot4peace@gmail.com, 574.276.1068, www.soullightening.org

March 7 – The Other 13 Chakras and Spiritual Growth: Orion’s People of Oblan taught Sharon K. Richards about 13 chakras beyond the familiar 7. Each chakra contributes uniquely to spiritual growth. Sharon will speak at the BodyLabUSA Wisconsin Holistic Healing & Wellness Fair, March 7, at the Hudson House Grand Hotel, 1616 Crest View Dr., Hudson, WI. For more info: SharonKRichards. com or ReadingsFromSharonK@gmail.com

November 7-8 – Edge Expo 2020: A Body & Soul Experience: An inspirational event featuring 88 exhibitors and two days of free workshops! Healing Samples, Spiritual Guidance and Intuitive Insight, and products to support your life journey. Exhibition Booths are now available at 763.433.9291 or sales@ edgemagazine.net. Reserve yours today.

March 20-22 – Paganicon Midwest Conference: Celebrating our 10th annual conference, Twin Cities Pagan Pride and its volunteers offer workshops, panel discussions, rituals, social space, music and a costume ball. The art show and vendor room is open to the public. Day and weekend rates available. Located at Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West at 3131 Campus Dr., Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.paganicon.org March 26-28 & June 22-26 – Sacred Passage End of Life Doula Certificate: What if your life purpose and calling is your spiritual path? The Conscious Dying Institute invites you to become an End of Life Doula

Coming Events – Integrative NLP Practitioner Certification® Training: Empower your Career, Empower your Health, Empower your Mind. It’s time to level up your life, both personally and professionally. The techniques of NLP have been proven to work in freeing you from negative selftalk, limiting beliefs, and self-defeating patterns and behaviors that are preventing you from achieving your goals and dreams. Only $144 with promo code Edge. For upcoming dates and locations, visit www. empowermentpartnership.com/training-schedule/ — for more info: info@nlp.com, 800.800.6463, www.empowermentpartnership.com, www.nlp.com

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