November/December 2012 Radiance magazine

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Connection Therapy

By Cara D. Cadwallader

A Feast for the Senses

By Dr. Lorin Roche

Children, Animals and Spirit Guides

By Dr. Stephen D. Farmer

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AWAKENINGS

Connection Therapy

By Cara D. Cadwallader

A Feast for the Senses

By Dr. Lorin Roche


By Dr. Stephen D. Farmer

Go to Place

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AWAKENINGS

Accelerating Spiritual Growth through Flower PowerBy Dr. Natalia M. Schotte

Invite Magic into Your KitchenBy Meadow Linn

Happy, Healthy HolidaysBy Chele Eades

Accelerating Spiritual Growth through Flower PowerBy Dr. Natalia M. Schotte

Invite Magic into Your KitchenBy Meadow Linn

Happy, Healthy HolidaysBy Chele Eades

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CONTENTS5 A New Age

A message from Rev. Danielle Marie Hewitt, Publisher and Founder of the Temple of Light Spiritual Wellness

Accelerating Spiritual Growth through Flower Power: New Way to Propel into Higher Consciousness as the 2012/2013 Portal Approaches

By Dr. Natalia M Schotte

Practitioners

Go To Place featuring

Awakenings

Happy, Healthy Holidays

by Chele Eades

What’s the Significance of 12/21/12?

By Rev. Basia Christ, M.Div.

12 Days of Light

A Feast for the Senses: Meditation Practices from The Radiance Sutras

By Dr. Lorin Roche

Connection Therapy: Celebrating the Abundance

by Cara H. Cadwallader8

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Invite Magic into Your Kitchen: Create a Mystical Apron

By Meadow Linn

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A New Ageby Rev. Danielle Marie Hewitt,Founder & Spiritual Director

A shift is coming. We have all felt the stirring. There are as many confirming feelings as there are questions around what will happen, when, how fast, in what way and to whom?

Who will lead it? Will tumultuous events occur preceding or following the change? How long will it take and what ramifications will there be? Will some perish in the shift? Will our government and monetary systems be ineffective and will there be chaos for a time? I used to ask these questions of my guides. There were very few answers when I approached my curiosity in this way. I am far more apt to get clear answers when I ask questions in a non fear based manner. This is the way of my guides. It is not that they choose to withhold an answer or pull away from calming my fears, but rather when I am in that state of mind, I cannot hear their wisdom and so it appears they are silent.

As I now understand from them and many other sources that I have access to, what will happen is we will become aware fairly soon of events that have al-

ready been happening previously unbeknownst to us. Those who currently have control of money and gov-ernment have been losing their grip. The Universe is grooming replacements to seamlessly take the reins so that positive changes in how our world operates and is led will soon be seen.

We will see major changes in health care, food sources, monetary and bank systems, governments, education and media relations. This will happen gradu-ally over a period of 5-10 years as an evolutionary ap-proach will be used rather than a revolutionary.

The changes in health care that are being shown to me are primarily around preventive care and a reduction in our bodily toxins. Preventive care will become more and more developed as physicians and holistic health practitioners create a stronger foundation for under-standing that not getting sick in the first place is the best treatment. Education in how to avoid medications and surgeries rather than waiting until the body is de-teriorated will be the protocols of the new age. Classes and seminars on stress reduction (not management), yoga and exercise become the norm. Whole food sup-plements, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care and energy work will be implemented into our daily lives. When and if the body is at a place of dis-ease, old wisdom remedies will be juxtaposed with modern knowledge and alternative medicine will work in harmony with al-lopathic. We will see a reduction in prescription medica-tions (which are very toxic), use of microwaves ovens, heavy metals, pollutants in our water and pesticide rid-den foods. Pharmaceutical companies, surgery centers and cancer treatments will simply reduce over time and like the horse and buggy business will gradually go away as their use diminishes. People will more readily begin to accept and practice that a healthy state of mind cre-ates a healthy body.

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a student of metaphysics since 2000 and studied under several mentors, including Vianna Stibal and Dr. Doreen Virtue. As a meta-physical minister, She believes in the innate intuitive ability that is gifted to each and every one of us. Teaching this and witnessing healings has now become her life’s work and passion. Rev. Dani-elle Marie believes we can all live a life free of pain and suffering and be in a constant state of peace and joy. Visit www.LiveYour-Radiance.org for more information.

Food source types will take a turn towards a more holistic approach. As the media supports and educates the public on the health benefits of choosing locally grown organics, grass fed and free range food prod-ucts over micro waved, processed, packaged, canned, and preserved products, we will see the reduction of poor food choices on the shelf. Grocery stores will re-gain the appearance of the outer aisles of produce, fresh breads, dairy and meats with all of the packaged center aisles reducing in volume as demand for them decreases.

Monetary and banking systems will become a world-wide consistent system of a fair and equitable barter process. Class systems, “haves” and “have nots” will go away as each culture, country and province of people will gauge their personal desires of how much energy to exert for a desired return. Some will choose more output for a greater return while others will choose less and all choices are honored. The creation of debt on global and personal levels will be replaced with a system of exchange. As we no longer have a group consciousness of working to pay off mortgages, car loans and credit cards, our stress levels will decrease and begin to nurture healthier bodies as described in the changes in our health care above.

Government will become a system of one central worldwide body with subdivisions for each country, re-gion or province to self manage according to cultural norms. The central worldwide body will only be con-cerned with a globalized wide process of protecting human rights and keeping world peace. Lobbyists and politicians as we know them will lose their influence and breakdown their core power over law makers.

Education systems will be geared toward develop-ment of creativity, art, music, imagination, engineer-ing, technology and clean energy. The current system of rote education, suppression, compliance and lack of individuality will be completely rebuilt to nurture and grow the intelligence and emotional maturity of our fu-ture adults. Teachers and educators will be revered for the importance of their work. Higher education will be accessible to all who show desire and aptitude.

Our media systems of television, radio, internet and social media will not be driven by the voice of the ad-vertisers’ group consciousness of telling us what to buy

and how much to pay, encouraging us to get caught up in the hype of the moment and will take on a more edu-cative tone with higher levels of integrity and unbiased informative programming.

Overall, we will be begin to pursue richer, healthier, more dignified, more creative, more individualized lives with a greater level of personal sovereignty. This is how the new order of things has been shown to me. Is it a only a dream? Or is it really a possible or even probable outcome? I do not know the answer to this question. What I do know is that the only way to make this our reality will be to continue to see, feel and create it with all of our collective prayers. For you see “Imagination + Intent = Creation” especially when we do it together. If any of the above sounds like a world you would like to see, start imagining with the intent to see it come to life. I do this daily. [

In love and light, Rev. Danielle


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AcceleratingSpiritualGrowth ThroughFlower PowerNew Way to Propel into Higher Consciousness as the 2012/2013 Portal Approaches

By Dr. Natalia M Schotte

Flower essences are part of the long tradition of Shamanic and Earth-based healing. Shamans access and utilize the intelligence inherent in Nature for a variety of purposes, particularly

personal transformation and healing. In an era in which alternative health and sustainability have captured the interest of a rapidly growing number of people, flower essences have become popular among those seeking to achieve personal balance and transformation. This ancient modality now also has a new and unprecedented purpose - Accelerated Spiritual Growth®.

Accelerated Spiritual Growth is a new concept reflecting an opportunity previously unavailable to hu-manity - the opportunity to quicken the evolution of our consciousness. Einstein said, “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Thus, accelerated evolution of human consciousness is essential to the expeditious resolution of both our per-sonal and collective long-standing challenges.

In his book Power vs Force, Dr. David R. Hawkins states, “Consciousness itself...evolves slowly, over in-numerable generations.” He says that in a lifetime, the average person advances five points on his 1000-point ‘map of consciousness,’ where 700-1000 represents the range associated with enlightenment. He further ex-

plains, “Nonetheless, it is possible for isolated individu-als to make sudden positive jumps, even of hundreds of points.”

Now, a group of evolutionary and energetically advanced flowers makes it possible for anyone to ac-celerate spiritual growth. Think about transcending the incremental growth of the past in favor of the rapid expansion of consciousness! This is a profound break-through in human spiritual development.


Why do these particular flowers accelerate spiritual growth? They were identified by Nature as ones whose ‘energetic signatures’ hold the healing and ascension patterns required for Accelerated Spiritual Growth.

These flowers support:

• Resolution of the past, including transcendence of fear rooted in the imprints of our unresolved experi-ences

• Activation of the patterns, personal qualities, prac-tices and skills required to achieve enlightened con-sciousness

• Unfoldment of our unique sacred purpose - the outer expression of the Soul in creative and loving works that serve the higher good

Here are some examples of the next generation of flower essences created from these flowers:

Inner Sanctuary, created from Rose ‘Europeana,’ draws us into the Inner Sanctum of the Self where we experience our perfection as a Soul incarnate. It sup-ports relinquishing non-essential activities and the pri-macy of the thinking mind so we are able to seat our consciousness in the Inner Sanctuary of the Self. In this Inner Sanctuary, we experience the eternal and changeless nature of Being. We come to know that we are innocent even when we appear guilty, we are whole even when we appear broken, and there is no death even though we appear to die.

Generosity, created from Rose ‘Angel Face,’ assists us to transcend the Piscean dynamics of co-dependent giving and conditional love and anchor the Aquarian dy-namic of Extension of Self through Unconditional Love. The result is the experience of authentic intimacy and Oneness - essential aspects of evolved consciousness.

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It is especially useful for exposing what we require to heal in order to overcome patterns of codependent giving and/or withholding. If we are experiencing any form of lack in our life, Generosity assists us in transform-ing the perceptions that are keeping us from the ‘miracle of receiving.’

Unity, cre-ated from Shasta Daisy ‘Becky’, sup-ports individu-als and groups to achieve an ever-deepening sense of community such as coworkers, family, friends, healing circles, partners, project teams etc. Community ema-nates from the authentic, intimate connection of indi-viduals drawn to each other by a shared and/or unifying principle and/or purpose. Unity cultivates development of the authenticity and intimacy required for us to con-tinue deepening our experience of Oneness. It also stimulates the desire for, assists preparation of and supports participation in sacred ceremony.

Perfected Manifestation, created from Lily-of-the-Valley, supports all phases of the manifestation pro-cess. It elevates our consciousness so we are able to conceive ideas and intentions that allow for our high-est participation in the grand Divine Plan. It then sup-ports translating these ideas and intentions into Per-fected Form. Perfected Manifestation also assists us in becoming aware of, and transcending, the self-limiting perceptions that impede our ability to manifest.

This is a glimpse into the quality of intelligence ac-cessed through the flowers supporting Accelerated Spir-itual Growth. These flowers accelerate spiritual growth because of their specific ‘energetic signatures’ and heal-ing patterns, and also because of the how and where they are grown. One unique garden, situated on an en-ergy vortex--a key point on Earth’ energy grid--in an his-toric area in Michigan, produces such energy-advanced flowers and flower essences. The land on which this garden is location was consecrated as a Spiritual Light Center more than 25 years ago. The garden is graced with sacred objects from around the world, many of

which are hundreds of years old. The walkways and beds are created based on sacred geometry. The garden is organically maintained. Specific physical and ener-getic processes are used to bring the garden and plants

to their highest vitality. The Light Quotient of the flowers is so high, the flowers actually glow. It is a breath-taking place!

The fact that the garden is lo-cated in an urban setting is partic-ularly significant. Approximately 80% of Americans and more than 50% of the world’s population re-side in urban settings. Thus, the

principle of ‘like healing like’ or horizontal healing is tak-en to a new level when flower essences are produced in an urban setting. The plants undergo a process of development that allows them to thrive in this setting. When they thrive, the expression of their healing pat-tern has been perfected.

On sunny days, the blossoms that have reached their peak potency are chosen to fulfill their purpose. They are used to create Mother Tincture - the stock from which the dosage bottles are made. The produc-tion process is sacred. The Nature intelligences over-lighting the flower essence production process and the particular plant are invoked to extract the essence of the flower. Subsequently, through a specific invo-cation, Higher Beings are asked to bless the solution. The Mother Tincture is aged for a year and a day be-fore being used to produce dosage bottles. This aging process stabilizes the pattern of consciousness held in the Mother Tincture, which in turn supports stabilized expansion of the consciousness of the flower essence user.

“Orally ingesting one or more drops of a flower essence (on or under the tongue) daily produces its healing effect.”


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Orally ingesting one or more drops of a flower es-sence (on or under the tongue) daily produces its heal-ing effect. Flower essences work through the subtle energy system of the human body to create shifts in consciousness over time. These shifts are inevitably translated into positive life changes.

We have become accustomed to arduous, compli-cated and incremental approaches to personal growth. Though our evolutionary leaps can be challenging, our personal growth can be simplified as well as acceler-ated. This is the gift of the flowers.

Swami Rama in his book Living with the Himalayan Masters says, “The Himalayan sages taught me the gospel of nature...This gospel reveals that emphatic knowledge through which one learns truth...” It is time to harness the power of Nature to open the portal of Spiritual Truth so we can become the enlightened be-ings we are here to be.

The ancient Maya call the new age beginning on December 21, 2012 the Age of Itza which means, among many things, ‘the age of peace or flowering.’ It is time for us to individually and collectively blossom. Let us now choose to allow perfected flowers to guide our unfoldment of the Peace and Beauty within and accel-erate our spiritual growth.[

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Magic is everywhere. It’s in the air we breathe and in the food we eat. It’s

simply a matter of being open to it.

Do you want to become a Mys-tic Chef and employ the secret al-chemy of food to create meals that transcend simple sustenance? An easy, fun way to transition from the busyness of your day to a leisurely evening filled with delicious food for mind, body, and soul is through the aid of a Mystical Apron. Once the apron strings are tied, you en-ter into the world of the sacred. The ringing telephone, the ping of an incoming e-mail, and racing of your heart after a long commute all slip away. Like a high priest don-ning hallowed robes before a ceremony, your pulse slows, your breath deepens, and Spirit is able move through you as you prepare your evening meal.

Just as Superman has his cape, a Mystic Chef has her apron. With one twirl in a phone booth, the un-assuming Clark Kent transforms into a superhero, flying into the night with his billowing cape. Sa-shaying into the kitchen and pulling your mystical apron over your head and cinching the ties around your waist, you will undergo a metamor-phosis. Like a pianist at his instru-ment or a painter at her easel, as a Mystic Chef you will create kitchen alchemy with the dicing of your knife and stirring of your wooden spoon. The apron is your magic charm. Cooking with love and shar-ing good food is your superpower.

My maternal grandmother was a food chemist and recipe tester. My mom remembers watching her

mother in her kitchen in the 1950s. When her mother put on an apron, she did so as if it were a sacred ritual. The children knew that once the apron strings were tied, seri-ous business was about to occur. It symbolized a change of energy, and elicited the feeling that life as usual had ended. Something won-derful in the kitchen was underway.

Aprons are practical. They keep flying food and spilled sauces from soiling clothes. They also signify a ceremonial shift of energy. An apron can be an enchanted vest-ment marking a symbolic shift from the mundane to the hallowed. Meals prepared when Spirit is pres-ent feed more than your physical appetite; they nourish your soul. By wearing a Mystical Apron filled with your thoughts and powerful intention, you invite Spirit to be present as you cook. For many Mys-tic Chefs, the apron is an integral part of the cooking process, for it can be a cue to the subconscious that you’re making a meal to be savored, and not just a quick bite to fuel before the next task.

Invite Magicinto Your KitchenCreate a Mystical ApronBy Meadow Linn, co-author of The Mystic Cookbook

“An apron can be an enchanted vestment marking a symbolic shift from the mundane to the hallowed.”


Designate one apron as your Mystical Apron and imbue it with energy or have an assortment of for different occasions. A flowery pink apron with lace might invite feelings of springtime and new beginnings, whereas a denim apron might speak of getting down to business and hav-ing fun. If you prefer to cook without an apron, keep a Mystical Apron in a place of honor in your kitchen to mark your transition from your Clark Kent self to your Superman Kitchen Alchemist self. Enrich your cooking experience. Fill your kitch-en with divine energy.

If you sew, make an apron and fill it with love. Play inspiring music as you sew. Chant or sing to further energize it. If you don’t sew or have the time, buy one with the look and feel of the energy you want in the kitchen or buy a plain one and decorate it. The sky’s the limit as far as the energy you infuse into it. How do you want to feel while cooking? What do you want the guests to taste and feel? Create a Mystical Apron filled with the spirit of adventure, outrageous fun, heal-ing, or the energy of peacemaking. Consider the following when creat-ing or choosing your apron:

Intent: What is your intent for the kitchen energy? How do you want guests to feel after eating?

Color: Every color has a differ-ent vibration and energy. What color most represents your inten-tion? For a fiery, passionate feeling, consider red or orange. For a cheer-

ful energy and courage, choose yellow. For a soothing and peace-ful feeling, choose blue. For health and vitality, consider a bright green apron.

Symbols: What symbols or shapes have potent meaning for you? If you want your food to be im-bued with love, choose to decorate with the heart symbol. Perhaps you want there to be infectious laugh-ter and joy among your guests? Draw smiling faces on your apron. Be creative! The symbols don’t have to make sense.

Decorations: Use fabric paint or indelible markers. Sew on items like beads, buttons, ribbon, lace, even parts of necklaces that embellishes your intent. Decorate it with inten-tion, prayers, and love.

Words: Words have power. Write the ones that have meaning for you on the apron. For example, joy, love, or gratitude.

Goddesses/Gods/Angels: Invite a deity’s energy into your kitchen and activate its energy on your apron with color, symbols, design, or words. Invite the energy of Aph-rodite (for love), Ganesh (for break-ing through obstacles and abun-dance), or Archangel Michael (for protection).

Magical Pocket: Every Mysti-

cal Apron should have a secret magical pocket to put a crystal or talisman dedicated to magic in the kitchen. Of course, remove it when you wash the apron, but while you wear it, the energy will instill radi-ance and vibrancy to the meals you prepare.

If you’re wild, bold and always have food splattered on your apron, have a working apron and another one for serving. Deco-rate each with beautiful energy and love. Have many aprons from which to choose, depending on the energy you’d like to infuse into a particular meal.

May your meal preparations be mystical, and your meals be deli-cious! Invite the Divine into your kitchen, and so you shall receive. [

“Imagine creating a Mystical Apron filled with the spirit of adventure, outrageous fun, healing, or the energy of peacemaking.”

Meadow Linn, the daughter of Denise Linn, world-renowned healer and teacher-,

is a speaker, writer, and chef. She pens a food and lifestyle column for a Seattle newspaper and a blog, “Savor the Day.” Linn created her first dish when she was three-years-old and is now the chef for her mother’s popular retreats. With her moth-er, she co-authored “The Mystic Cook-book: The Secret Alchemy of Food” (Hay House). This empowering book is filled with luscious recipes, stunning photos, imaginative meals and magical wisdom so readers can embark on the sacred journey from nourishment to nirvana and harness the hidden dimension of food. Readers can send photos of their Mystical Aprons and stories of cooking up kitchen alchemy to www.themysticcookbook.com which also offers recipes and guided meditations to connect with your Kitchen Angel. www.MeadowLinn.com


December 21, 2012 is the date when the Mayan Calendar starts a new cycle when the sun’s

26,000-year rotation aligns with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (we won’t be able to see it because the sunlight will hide the stars). The alignment began in 1998 and ends between 2012 and 2016.)

However, some people are reading much more into this date and are obsessed about the “end of days.” Rumors of death and destruction are rampant. Others are advising people to stock up on food and prepare for the worst. Not since the hype of Y2K has there been such frenzy over a particular date. (Despite claims the Mayan calendar predicts our planetary de-mise, astronomer Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Ob-

What’s the Significance of 12/21/12?

By Rev. Basia Christ, M.Div.

ject Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says we can “sleep well during De-cember. The Maya never predicted the end of the world occurred at that time.”)

Yet there are some in the spiri-tual community who believe the ending of the Mayan calendar does not mark an end time, but rather the turning of a page into a dif-ferent era. However, the Mayans are not the only culture who put a special significance on this date. Buddhist, Taoist, Vedic and Hopi traditions also refer to the arrival of a golden age on this date. Numer-ologists also understand the signifi-cance of these dates:

According to Jean-Claude Koven, author of Will the World Re-ally End on December 21, 2012?, “It is no mere coincidence that so many

disparate cultures globally that have had no known contact with one another should focus on the same date. There is increasing evi-dence that the time leading up to 12/21/12 does mark the presence of an energy portal that has never be-fore been accessible to the human race. Each of us is being offered an opportunity to shift that may not again arise in thousands of years to come.”

Whether or not December 21, 2012 marks an immutable cosmo-logical event or not, this date repre-sents a significant moment. At one end of the probability bell curve is total physical annihilation. At the opposite end is the arrival of the Golden Age – the Age of Aquarius. Every other conceivable possibil-ity lies between them. Somewhere

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near the center of the curve most of us will find our most probable possibility in which the monumental moment will pass quietly like Y2K (remember the hype when our world was supposed to end because com-puters were going to stop working?) and our lives will continue as if nothing happened. When the clock ticks down to midnight on that day and the sun comes up on December 22, 2012, we will move closer to whatever fu-ture harvest it has sown. That doesn’t mean that many other people, who live their lives at the extremities of the curve, won’t experience radically different events.

According to numerologist Stephanie Joy, an intui-tive and healer located in Los Angeles, CA, “12/21/2012 adds up to 11, and this is a master number that works within spiritual, visionary, magically transcendental, healing and illuminating realms of creation. These are the dominant aspects for this date. Joy, love and cre-ativity become a guidance for this date from which, as a result of a grand change, we should be brought to the higher consciousness of love. Its potential for growth, stability, and personal power lies in its acceptance of intuitive understanding, and of spiritual truths. For the 11, such peace is not found so much in logic, but in faith. This day will hold all of the illuminating and insightful vibrations of the master number 11, as well as the vibra-tion of the 2, which it ultimately adds up to. The 2 is all about harmony, meditation, affection and all of the as-pects of loving energy. What a perfect way to usher in a global shift in consciousness, with the harmony and love of the 2 vibration and the spirituality, healing and vision of the 11 vibration. We have so much to look for-ward to!”

With this in mind, allow your soul to open to your highest state of being during this time. Only you will de-termine what and how it will manifest. Will you allow the fruit from the old tree to fall to the ground and rot away for Earth’s benefit? Will the soil in which you plant these seeds be fertile?

This powerful day also relates to the third chakra where our fire is lit or a new fire comes forth as in a birth or rebirth to awaken the heart chakra energy. There is also the dawning of the Winter Solstice light. These events and holidays happen every year, but this year is special, as it starts a new octave for rebirth.

Enjoy the beauty of the procession of the upcoming

holidays. As you are led to your gateway on December 12, 2012, light the menorah during the days of Chanu-kah, step through the threshold at the Winter Solstice, walk into the 12 days of Christmas, celebrate the seven principles of Kwanzaa and embrace the octave shift as it unfolds as this will be the beginning!

So what is significant about this date? I be-lieve it’s the Grand Finale, the BIG ONE for which we have been waiting, the 26,000-year Shift of the Ages. We came to earth to help bring forth the Divine Shift into the Golden Age and the time is now! [

Rev. Basia Christ, M.Div. will graduate with a Ph.D. in Spiritual Counseling from University of Metaphysical Sciences in December 2012. She has written “From Ash to Flame: Women Rising” (available soon after the New Year). Christ is working on “Breaking Adam’s Rib:

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Happy, Healthy Holidaysby Chele Eades

Is it possible to go to a neighbor’s dinner party, the company’s mixer or a family gathering, enjoy socializing, eat, drink, and be merry; then wake up the next morning feeling energetic and without any guilt?

Of course, it is! And no, it doesn’t mean you’ll have to fast the last three weeks of the year. It’s all about education and choices.

Yes, most every social function revolves around the buffet, especially during the holidays. In the U.S., it has become a holiday tradition to gorge ourselves and then justify the event with a New Year’s diet plan.

Why do we eat? What’s the purpose of food? Ac-cording to Encarta Dictionary: food is a source of nutri-ents (material that provides living things with the nour-ishment needed for energy and growth).

Do you truly believe the gooey, dairy-rich, sugar-filled, overly processed treats on the fancy platter is “material providing YOU nutrients for energy and growth?” I think not.

Party food, can be lavish, delicious, comforting and healthy! Let’s start with some background information.

From where does food come? Is it concocted in a lab by a scientist or grown locally without pesticides using organic heirloom seeds the way Mother Nature intended?

Get to know your farmer. Identify the source of recipe ingredients. For example, if you’re purchasing items in a box or bag, it’s difficult to understand what all those ingredients listed on the label are. Don’t as-sume if you are shopping at a health food store and buying items labeled “organic,” “natural” or “healthy,” that it’s good for you.

In order to be “shelf stable,” preservatives are added to products; they’ve been pasteurized and un-dergo other processing that causes them to be void of nutrients.

If you’re considering purchasing party trays from a deli or catering company, ask from where do they get their produce, what kind of oil do they use or which type of sweeteners are in their desserts? Once you know the provider’s level of standards, make selections based on your priorities for you and your guests.



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The goal is to have items you choose fit into the category I refer to as “a better choice.” These festive occasion foods (items we would not normally eat every day to maintain a balanced physical being), although prepared with organic ingredients, minimally pro-cessed and not containing harmful ingredients, such as GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) may be a bet-ter choice; however, but they’re still not nourishment. This should be a minimum standard for any health con-scious individual, holidays or otherwise.

Food vs. Nourishment

You’ve already read the official definition of “food,” now let’s com-pare how nourishment is defined: food, or the valuable substances in food that a person, animal, or plant requires to live, grow, or remain fit and healthy.

The majority of what we consume isn’t nourishment as defined above because there are minimal valuable substances in our food. Perhaps there should be an updated definition or better yet, an updated belief in what we are meant to consume. Energy is extracted from what we eat, therefore, the more life force our food has, the more energy we have. You may have heard that our soil is de-pleted of nutrients. This is true in the mass production commercial agricultural system; however, not true with the local farmer.

The best solution is Biodynamic farming practices (www.biodynamics.com) for a higher vibrational food supply and nourishment for our earth to sustain future generations.

Packaged food is dead food! Most restaurant food is more about the social experience than nourishing people. However, more organic and living food restau-rants are opening (the only safe places to eat out).

The next item to address is having a reliable out-let for obtaining high quality produce that’s essential in making your own food. For example, assess the event you’re invited to before deciding what to bring to a potluck. Since it may be the only safe dish on the table, select the recipe carefully because it might be the only thing you’ll want to eat. Provide the ingredients of your

dish; it will make for lively conversation and may inspire your fellow party goers to try something new.

You can find great healthy food recipes from sever-al sites and blogs on the Internet as well as from books within the healthy food preparation category. They will all claim to be delicious; however, be careful. For example, someone may write a recipe directed toward gluten-free, healthy baking and use white refined sugar as the sweetener.

You may know people who have food item intoler-ances who politely pass on dishes saying they can’t eat

them. When I hear this I wonder what was in that dish that both-ered them. Was it how it was prepared or the ingre-

dients used? Were they afraid of additives or preserva-tives because the dish was store bought?

Because of this, when preparing dishes to share, think about the ingredients. There’s no need to do without seasonal favorites so let’s establish what is truly healthy and do some conversions.

Everything I prepare and suggest is pesticide-free, GMO (genetically modified organism)-free, meat-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, and free of refined sugars. Sub-stitute any or all of these in any recipe. Know what you’re consuming, the benefits or how it may harm you.

Following are suggestions on cooking healthy dishes:

Pesticides

Download a the dirty dozen guide (www.ewg.org/food news) to help you discover which produce should either be organically grown or not eaten. Consider buy-ing at farmers markets as a better option than conven-tionally-grown produce.

GMO’s

If you aren’t familiar with this term, educate your-self by going to www.responsibletechnology.org. They are prevalent in our food supply.

“The majority of what we consume isn’t nourishment...because there are minimal valuable substances in our food.”


Meat-free

We’re not designed to consume animals. However, if you do eat meat, make sure it’s all free range, non-hormone raised. Fac-tory farming is not only unhealthy

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Gluten-free

Many people have developed sensitivity to the pro-tein composite found in processed wheat foods and other grain species. Studies show the benefit of avoid-ing these grains.

Refined Sugar-free

Sugar cane has become an overly processed crop stripped of nutrients. Be especially careful of sugar made from sugar beets as that crop is mostly all GMO. Neither variety of processed sugar has any beneficial properties. I recommend the following products for sweeteners: a raw, organic, low-glycemic sweetener Coconut Nectar, and Coconut Crystals, honey (provid-ing it’s from a sustainable farm) dates and stevia.

Previously, we discussed better choices when you’re purchasing prepared food and home prepara-tion, but what if a party you’re attending is being held at a restaurant or banquet hall? Call ahead and ask what will be served. Many venues strive to support lo-cal farmers and are using higher quality ingredients. Support them! Those that are focused more on mak-ing a profit use the cheapest ingredients, which are not

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My mother’s brother now sits in a hospital bed at the VA in Los Angeles. A decades-long alcoholic and homeless veteran, he brought himself into the facility after

experiencing confusion and a loss of balance. He was there for almost a month. My parents and I rushed from San Diego the day we found out the news. A week later, my aunt made a quick trip out to southern California to visit him at his bedside. While I sat at the kitchen table in my parent’s home, I chatted with my aunt as she prepared a breakfast of peppers, eggs and onions.

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In our rush to embrace the gadgets that our human ingenuity also births in, we subconsciously buy into the notion that connectivity is solely an intellectual pursuit. Ever since Rene Descartes declared, “Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am), this falsehood has been pro-grammed into our conditioning. Three centuries later, capitalism is firmly rooted in the overt disconnect of our minds from our bodies. Intuitively, we wouldn’t financially support most of the methods of western medicine, education, politics and more, if we were truly listening to our bodies. What we’re discovering is that it is our very capacity to reason - to perform analytical thinking - that has gotten us into our current mess of a warming planet, melting icecaps and wars waged on humanity. Mind over matter is the terrain where social injustice and environmental degradation plays out.

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doubt, addiction, paranoia, fear and scarcity thinking, must be pruned back. Rather than cutting them out al-together, we can accept these elements as part of our shared journey. We can help shift them from their hid-ing places in the shadows into the light of day. In the process, we re-integrate our whole selves – masculine and feminine, light and dark, good and bad – into a syn-ergistic and symbiotic relationship with real life.

Abundance is a natural by product of living in right relations with our planet, our selves and each other. There is enough food, money, shelter and attention for each of us so long as we are willing to divert our gaze away from the golden carrots outside of us and into our internal well spring of hope and contentment. Fortunately, there is an infinite resource that all living creatures can continue to have their cups filled to over-flowing with and that is an unending supply of LOVE.

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Please join us in this very special celebration and intention setting festivities. We have lined up 12 days of events to culminate our commitment to creating a new world, a new universe a new way of being here on earth. Don’t miss a day of the concerts, crystal grids, ceremonies, workshops, meditations and intention setting gatherings. Each event is individually priced and a total 12-day pass will be available.

12 Days of Light

INSTRUCTOR EVENT DESCRIPTION DAYS TIME FEESeth Pincus & Peter DeWitt

Pranam World Devotional Music

Concert Saturday, December 1

7:30-9:30 pm $20

Master Xavier Quijas Yxaytotl

Mayan Sound Healing Concert

Ancient Mayan sacred ceremony to open

pineal gland

Sunday, December 2

3 - 5 pm $35

Susan Rhodes Field Trip to Hsi Lai Temple Hacienda

Hts

Buddha Halls, Gardens and the Art Gallery

(Museum).

Monday, December 3

9am - 2:30pm $25

Steve Lesko Special Channeling Session

A Special Class to bring in messages from Ascended Masters as

we reach 12.12.12

Tuesday, December 4

7:30 - 9pm $10

Rev. Dr. Nancy Kimes

Kwan Yin Reiki Share

A special Reiki Share from Kwan Yin with

messages for 12.12.12

Tuesday, December 4

7:30-9:30pm $10

Jerry Yusko Special The Blend, Spiritual & ET Connections

A Special Class to bring in messages from other Worldly Beings as we

reach 12.12.12

Thursday, December 6

7:30-9:30pm $10

Deborah Shea & Isabella Stoloff

A Taste of 12.12.12 Light activation ceremony to bring our vibrations in line with

12.12.12

Friday, December 7

7 - 9pm $29 Prepay,

$35 at the Door


INSTRUCTOR EVENT DESCRIPTION DAYS TIME FEE

Rev Ayanna Mojica &

Dr. Maahes Sadhu

Wisdom of the Dragon

A Special Class to bring in messages from the

Elemental World as we reach 12.12.12

Saturday, December 8

1 - 3pm $22

Rev. Ayanna Mojica &

Dr. Maahes Sadhu

Twin Flame Dance of the

Divine Feminine & Divine

Masculine

A Special Class to bring in messages from Mary Magdalen as we reach

12.12.12


3 - 5pm $22

Neil Gaur Wholistic Music Festival

Chris Amadeo, Fontain's Muse, Jeanine Strong,

Jason Pastalis, iTom Lab, Torkom Ji & more!


6 - 10pm TBA

Teressena & Martien Backens

Crystal Skulls Experiential Workshop

Experience meditation & sound activation with Opheleah, an Ancient

Crystal Skull with messages for 12.12.12

Sunday, December 9

1 - 5pm $33

Rev. Danielle Field Trip to Excavate

Crystals

All day trip to Temecula, excavate and bring home as many crystals as you

can carry

Monday, December 10

TBA

Rev Danielle & Jessie Chiang

Meditation w/Ascended Masters

Crystal Grid & Intention setting with messages from your guides for

12.12.12

Tuesday, December 11

7 - 9pm $20

Larisa Stow & Shakti Tribe

Transformance Concert

Zen infused rock, the best New Age of this

millenium!

Wednesday, December 12

7 - 9pm $22 Prepay, $33 at the

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Feast for the SensesMeditation Practices from The Radiance Sutras by Dr. Lorin Roche

Food – can’t live without it. So why not take delight in each bite? The same goes for other appetites. We

are hungry for many things besides purely physical food. Music and poetry feed the soul. Love feeds the hungry heart.

From a Tantric perspective, we are always eating, always absorb-ing nutrition from the cosmos, al-ways being fed by the universe on many levels. All sensual perception is food. When we pay attention soulfully, it is food for the soul. Each of the senses is feeding on in-finity, metabolizing the energies of creation.

Every bit of sunlight that touch-es our skin and blesses the eyes is nourishment: the body absorbs the wavelengths and transmutes that electromagnetic energy into sub-stances it can use. Every sound we hear is the vibration of life in action; our ears are sustained by laughter, good conversations, and rhythms of all kinds. Breath is a primary food – we breathe in and out twenty

thousand times a day, we are filled and emptied as two thousand gal-lons of air-substance flows across the sensitive sensory tissues of the nose, mouth, and throat. We may as well notice this continual feast and rejoice in it, instead of taking it for granted.

In the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text, The One Who is Intimate to All Beings says:

All around you, in every moment,

The world is offering a feast for your senses.

Songs are playing, tasty food is on the table,

Fragrances are in the air,

Colors fill the eyes with light.

You who long for union,

Attend this banquet with loving fo-cus.

The outer and inner worlds

Open to each other.

Oneness of vision, oneness of heart.

Right here, in the midst of it all,

Merge with the elation.

Become identical

With the ecstatic Essence

Embracing both worlds.

gitādiviayāsvādāsamasaukhyaikatātmana |

yoginas tanmayatvena manorūhes tadātmatā

This is verse 73 of the Bhairava Tantra, which correlates to Sutra 50 of The Radiance Sutras. If you want to sound out the words, here they are, approximately (thanks to Dr. John Casey of Loyola Marymount University):

geetaa aadi vishaya–aasvaadaa

sama–saukhya eka–tat–manah

yoginah tat–mayatvena

manas–aaroodheh tat–aatmataa 73

Looking in the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary we see:


Gita - song, musical performances, music instruments; adi – the first, or etcetera; visaya – anything per-ceptible by the senses, object of sense, sensuality; asvada – eating with relish, (also metaphorically), tasting, flavor, enjoying; sama - equal, equipoise; saukhya - comfort, welfare, felicity, enjoyment; ekataat ma-nah – one-pointed focus; yoginas – the yogis; tanmayatvena - become one with that; tanmaya - absorbed in THAT, identical with THAT; dvai-na – duality; manah – mind; arudhi - ascent, mounting, elevation, riding; tat-atmata - become one with that; atma, nature, existence, essence, the life principle, spirit, soul.

Visaya deserves its own para-graph, for its semantic range is quite broad: anything perceptible by the senses, object of sense, sensuality, range, detail, material enjoyment, material happiness, abode, do-minion, kingdom, scope, compass, horizon, range, reach of the eyes, ears, mind, within the reach of the five indriyas or senses; shabda - sound, sparsa – tangibility to the skin, rupa - form or color, for the eyes, rasa - savor, for the tongue, gandha - odor, for the nose.

Each sense is continually trans-muting energy from one form into another. When we see, touch, hear, taste, and smell, we are absorbed in holy communion if we would only attend to it as such. For example, visible light is a tiny range of the electromagnetic spectrum, of the wavelengths that are continually crisscrossing the universe. When light enters our eyes, it stimulates photoreceptor cells to produce im-

pulses that are electrochemical in nature. These impulses are trans-mitted along the line of neurons to the brain, which decodes the infor-

mation to give us a colorful picture of the world. The whole process is transmutation. We may as well ac-cept it as a gift of the divine. This is why in Yoga, the senses are named after Indra, king of the gods. The indriyas or senses are “the com-panions of god, belonging to god.” The metaphor we are offered here is that the senses are intrinsically divine and are the functioning of the divine.

Your real diet is the divine feast you are in the midst of, all the sen-sual pleasures within the range of your senses. When we listen to music we love, there is unparalleled joy that arises from listening to song. If you listen with your whole being, you can hear the song of life even in ordi-

nary conversation. We are called to listen wholeheartedly. Taste with our whole being. See with the eyes of the soul.

If you are hungry for love, spiritual experience, excitement, adventure, or for the richness of life, one thing you can do it tune your senses and your attention so that you are

capable of receiving fully. Medita-tion is a great way to do this, if you find a technique that suits your na-ture. Keep in mind that there are thousands of different meditation practices, and many of them were designed for monks, people who intend to turn away from the world and the life of the senses. Whatev-

“Each sense is continually transmuting energy from one form into another.”

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er path of spiritual practice you se-lect, make sure it works with your individual nature and helps you to fulfill your desires.

There are many ways of paying atten-tion, a whole continuum – scrutiny, skep-ticism, clinical watching, cold observation, appreciation, delight, wonder, adoration, love. Each has its place. We can dial each one in as needed or appropriate. But if we get stuck in cold witnessing, we may miss the joy of outer life and also our own gateways to transcen-dence. The quality of attention this sutra is calling for is more than ster-ile, joyless noticing.

Jack Kornfield, the Vipassana meditation teacher, once pointed out that “mindfulness” is an “insip-id word,” not suggestive of living

fully, with cour-age and spa-cious-ness.

Mindfulness is not a good trans-lation of what Buddha taught – “heartfulness” would be a better term.

Every experience is divine if you accept it as such. There are times when we need to give our-selves permission to be in shame-less pleasure, and absorb delight with our whole bodies, in every cell, with every sense. This is spiritually

and physically healthy, and a way of giving thanks to life.

Use yoga to extend the reach of your senses – visaya – and tune your body’s ability to metabolize prana, the en-ergy of life. The bliss flowing in your nerves and body is also a form of prana. In yoga, become one with the hap-piness of this divine feast;

Lorin Roche discovered the Vijnana Bhai-rava Tantra in 1968, and it has been a love af-

fair ever since. He is the author of The Radiance Sutras, Meditation Made Easy (Harper 1998), and Meditation Secrets for Women (Harper 2001), written with his Shakti and wife Camille Maurine. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cali-fornia at Irvine in Social Science, where he studied the language yogis and medi-tators develop to describe their inner ex-periences. Visit lorinroche.com to order copies of The Radiance Sutras.

Come to Esalen December 14-16 for a joyous weekend with The Radiance Sutras with Dr. Lorin Roche and his wild Dakini wife, Camille Maurine. Reserva-tions: (831) 667-3005, or visit www.Es-alen.org.

Lorin attended Newport Harbor High School, then UC Irvine, and he worked his way through school by teaching meditation.” And even, Lorin’s parents lived on Balboa Island during WW II and were surfers during the 1940’s, surfing the coast from Corona del Mar to Malibu.

“Mindfulness is not a good translation of what Buddha taught - ‘heartfulness’ would be a better term.”

mount this happiness, aru-dhi - ride it, ascend with it, be-come one with it. This is sublime spiritual bliss, and it is available to us, here in the midst of everyday life.

This sutra is inviting us to at-tend to the feast of the senses that is everyday life, and use the skills we practice in yoga to ascend and transcend with the joy. [


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Sleeping In The Forestby Mary Oliver

I thought the earth remembered me,she took me back so tenderly,

arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before,a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me

and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated

light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night

I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds

who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling

with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen timesinto something better.


Children, Animals and Spirit Guidesby Dr. Steven D. Farmer

Children are the ones who hold our future in their hands as they will someday be the ones to lead the way. Though they will be taught about the workings of life by others and by

their own experiences, it’s up to spiritually awake adults to help them come to know their spiritual Self. Parents, grandparents, and other significant adults can provide conscious guidance and teaching, not through dogmatic or coercive methods, but through their own example and gentle, welcoming invitation.

One dimension of spirituality that has been neglected in our western cul-ture is that of the spirits of the natural world. We’ve tended to view the Earth as here mainly for our benefit rather than understanding that we’re simply a part of the web of life, intimately connected to all beings, both physically and spiritually.

This view has been gradually changing as new para-digms emerge across many fronts. We’re drawing from the wisdom of indigenous and ancient peoples, those who had a deep reverence and understanding of the natural world and our profound relationship to it. We are coming to deeply appreciate how Spirit moves in all things and learning to receive Spirit’s messages from

any number of sources. It’s inherent in the emerging paradigm that we must reconcile our relationship with Spirit-and with our Earth Mother.

Spirit in the Natural World

So how do we encourage our children’s spiritual-ity and in particular, how to receive guidance from the many voices of Spirit? How do we influence our chil-dren’s familiarity and appreciation of the natural world and come to know the Life force that expresses not

only through but also as ev-erything? It starts with over-coming the addiction to tech-nological devices and getting outside as much as possible. From there we can teach our children by our own fascina-tion with the magic that’s in-herent in the Earth.

The degree of estrangement from the world around us has increased in direct proportion to our reliance on technology. With this explosion of electronic tools available to us, it’s easy for parents and children to suc-cumb to the allure of the multitude of devices, from smart phones to computers to television. The down-side is that it keeps children inside, close to electrical outlets or wireless routers, at the cost of the direct experience with the three-dimensional world. There is

“One dimension of spirituality that has been neglected in our western culture is that of the spirits of the natural world.”



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Center for Spiritual Living, Costa Mesa2850 Mesa Verde Dr. East , #111Costa Mesa, CA 92626www.cslnm.org(714) 754 7399

Center for Spiritual Living, Capistrano Valley32261 Camino Capistrano, #D105San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675www.cslcv.org(949) 240 6463

Center for Spiritual Living, S.County23141 Verdugo Drive, #103Laguna Hills, CA 92653www.SpiritOfLifeChurchOC.org(949) 365 0050

Center for Transformation242 W. Main St., #106 Tustin, CA 92780www.Center-For-Transformation.com(714) 658 3669

Christ Unity Church1648 W. BroadwayAnaheim, CA 92802www.UnityOfAnaheim.org(714) 774 7660

Common Ground, Tustin14051 Newport Ave. Ste H Tustin, 92780www.EmbraceHumanity.com(714) 573 2546

Goddess Temple of OC17905 Sky Park Circle Ste. AIrvine, CA 92614GoddessTempleOfOrangeCounty.com(949) 651 0564

InSpirit Center for Spiritual Living, Orange County25782 Obrero Dr. Unit DMission Viejo, CA 92691www.inspiritoc.com(949) 481 4040

ISC Inspirational Center2301 East 28th St., #301Signal Hill, CA 90775www.ISCcenter.net(562) 997 3800

Kabbalah Center18800 MacArthur Blvd. Irvine, CA 92612 (opposite OC Airport)www.Kabbalah.com/OC(800) 522 2252

Sangha Center for Spiritual Living7641 Talbert Ave.Huntington Beach, CA 92648www.SanghaCenter.org(714) 596 0900

Temple of Light11 Goddard Irvine, CA 92618www.LiveYourRadiance.org(949) 333 1641

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Dragon & The Rose1636 E Edinger Ave., Ste USanta Ana, CA 92705www.TheDragonAndTheRose.com(714) 569 0100

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Four Crows420 El Camino RealOld Town Tustin, CA 92780www.FourCrowsCenter.com(714) 505 4414

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Lapidary International1228 South Beach Blvd.Anaheim, CA 92804 (714) 827 5680

Living Temple7310 Center Ave.Huntington Beach, CA 92647www.TheLivingTemple.com(714) 891 5117

Messenger of the Sun332 Forest Ave. , #1Laguna Beach, CA 92651www.MessengerOfTheSun.com(949) 715 4814

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Kali Mandir20371 Sun Valley Dr.Laguna Beach, CA 92651www.KaliMandir.org(949) 494 1906

La Paz Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine25260 La Paz Rd.Laguna Hills, CA 92653www.LaPazAcupuncture.com(949) 768 5044

Maum Meditation14171 Chagall Ave.Irvine, CA 92606www.maum.org(949) 502 5337

Mind, Body, Spirit Business NetworkEvery 3rd Wed. at 6:30 pm at the Holiday Inn2726 S. Grand Ave. Santa Ana, CAwww.MindBodySpiritBusinessNetwork.net(949) 515 8727

O2 Wellness Center3551 Camino Mira Costa, Suite CSan Clemente, CA 92672www.o2-wellness.com(949) 240 6713

California Academy for Healing Arts22762 Aspan St., #266Lake Forest, CA 92630www.PhoenixHealingArts.org(949) 351 8493

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Au Lac Vegetarian Restaurant16563 Brookhurst St. Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2344www.aulac.com(714) 418 0658

Bodhi Tree Vegetarian Café501 Main St.Huntington Beach, CA 92648www.BodhiTreeHB.com(714) 969 9500

California Health Foods115 E. Commonwealth Ave.Fullerton, CA 92832(714) 525 4260

Jan’s Health Bar501 Main, Ste. #DHuntington Beach, CA 92648www.JansHealthBar.com(714) 536 4856Native Foods2937 Bristol St.Costa Mesa, CA 92626www.NativeFoods.com(714) 751 2151

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Calcopa Massage School18582 Beach Blvd., #11Huntington Beach, CA 92648www.CalcopaMassageSchool.com(714) 964 7744

California Academy for Healing Arts125 E. Baker, #180Costa Mesa, CA 92626www.ahaschool.com(714) 708 2282

Healing Hands School of Holistic Health, Laguna Hills23022 La Cadena, #204Laguna Hills, CA 92653www.HealingHandsSchool.com(949) 305 2722

Learning Light Foundation1212 E. LincolnAnaheim, CA 92805www.LearningLight.org(714) 533 2311

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increasing evidence of the detrimental effects of this obsessive preoccupation. On the flip side, there’s also a growing awareness of the benefits of regular contact with the natural environment.

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, coined the term “nature deficit disorder” in that book to describe the growing alienation that children--and many adults--are experiencing in this increasingly tech-nologically-dominated world. In an article about this book Louv goes on to say:

“. . . new studies demonstrate just how important direct contact with the outdoors is to healthy human development. Most of the new evidence that connects nature to well-being and restoration has focused on adults, but during the past decade, scientists have be-gun to study the impact of nearby nature on child devel-opment. Environmental psychologists reported in 2003 that nature in or around the home, or simply a room with a view of a natural landscape, helped protect the psychological well-being of the children.

Researchers have found that children with disabili-ties gain enhanced body image and positive behavior

changes through direct interaction with nature. Studies of outdoor- education programs geared toward trou-bled youth--especially those diagnosed with mental-health problems--show a clear therapeutic value. Some of the most intriguing studies are being done by the Human-Environment Research Laboratory at the Uni-versity of Illinois, where researchers have discovered that children as young as five showed a significant re-duction in the symptoms of Attention-Deficit Disorder when they engaged with nature. Could nature therapy be a new option for ADD treatment?”

Animals and Animals Spirit Guides

There’s ample evidence of how animals are inter-twined in our lives, from the shoes we wear to the food

Dr. Steven Farmer created 24 Children’s Spirit Animal Cards and a guidebook with Satiama which provide a way to promote values most parents would agree with and an opportunity to receive clear, simple messages from Spirit in

a fun way. Each card features a spirit animal that guides children with simple, profound messages to develop awareness. Farmer is the author of Earth Magic, Earth Magic Oracle Cards and Animal Spirit Guides. He hosts his own radio show, Earth Magic Radio, on ContactTalkRadio.com. He is a shamanic practitioner, ordained minister and licensed psychotherapist. To purchase Children’s Spirit Animal Cards or the Children’s Spirit Animal Stories Audio CD visit www.Satiama.com or call (719) 487-0424.

“...new studies demonstrate just how important direct contact with the outdoors is to healthy human development.”

we eat (if you’re an omnivore). Our pets give us comfort and solace, while animals in the wild give us a glimpse into our own instinctual nature. With rare exceptions, children readily relate to animals, sometimes starting with their attachment to that stuffed animal figure that they fall to sleep with every night. It’s a short step from their love of animals to eventually understanding that animals can also be teachers and guides. [


Workshops & Classes

Check out all the links in this magazineat www.RadianceMagazine.org

EVENT DESCRIPTION INSTRUCTOR DAYS TIME FEEA Channeled Experience

Learn How to or Just Observe Channeling in a

Semi-Trance State

Steve Lesko, PhD Tuesdays 11/6, 11/20, 12/4 & 12/18 (Repeats

1st & 3rd)

7:30 pm - 9 pm $10

Crystals for the New Consciousness

Each Class Learn the Properties and Attributes of

a Different Crystal

Deborah Shea Tuesdays 11/13 & 11/27 (Repeats 2nd & 4th, but

no class on 12/11 or 12/25)

7 pm - 9 pm $20

Kwan Yin Reiki Share A channeled healing method utilizing Reiki energy

blended with the vibration of Kwan Yin

Rev. Dr Nancy Kimes Tuesdays (1st) beginning 12/4

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm $10

Reiki Share/ Healing Journey

Reiki Attunements, Drumming, Meditation,

Chanting, Singing Bowls

Tony Giuffreda Wednesdays (All) 7 - 9 pm FREE

Healing with Essential Oils

Each Class Learn the Properties and Attributes of

a Different Essential Oil

Alyssa Fitzpatrick Thursdays (no class 11/22)

7 - 8:30 pm Love Donation to Facility

Bruno Groening Circle of Friends

Witness and learn about the healing powers of the

medically verified "Heilstrom"

Janene Brunk Thursday (11/1 and 12/13)

7:15 pm -8:45 pm FREE

Intro to Selenite Swords & Workshop

Learn how Selenite heals, it's special properties when

in the shape of sword

Tom Ledder & Deborah Shea

Friday, November 9 7-9 pm $20 Prepay, $25 at Door

Advanced Practitioner Selenite Sword Certification Class

Become a certified Selenite Sword Practitioner

Tom Ledder & Deborah Shea

Sunday, 11/11 Noon to 5 pm $56 Prepay, $65 at Door

The Blend, Spiritual & ET Connections

Bringing our world & other worlds together, channeled

messages from other worldly beings.

Jerry Yusko 1st & 3rd Thursdays 11/1 & 11/15

7 pm-9 pm $10

Kwan Yin Reiki Workshop

Kwan Reiki Attunement & Initiation (Prerequisite Reiki Level 1 from any instructor)

Rev. Dr. Nancy Kimes Saturday, 11/17 11:30 am - 6:30 pm $144

Lemurian Seed Crystal Class

For 1,000's of years Lemurian crystals have been used to facilitate

miraculous healings and impart wisdom.

Deborah Shea Thursdays (Repeats on the 4th) 12/27 (No class

11/22 Thanksgiving)

7pm-9 pm $20

Begin Again Tarot Learn to Divinate with the Ancient Wisdom of the Tarot

Rev. Kristin Bradfield Sundays 11/18 & 12/16 (Repeats 3rd)

12:30-2:30 pm $20

Intuition, Healing & Consciousness Skill Building Classes


Workshops & Classes

For more information, visit us atwww.LiveYourRadiance.org or call (949) 333-1641

EVENT DESCRIPTION INSTRUCTOR DAYS TIME FEESoul Tech Self Enlightenment

QiGong, Meditation, Taekwondo and Mu (dance)

Gesun "Sun" Yoo, RN Wednesdays (All) 12 pm - 2:30 pm $35 per class or $60 course

(2 classes)Orange County Drum Circle

Facilitated Drum Circle, for health, wealth & team building

Stephen Dolle Fridays (2nd) 11/9 & 12/14

7 pm - 8:30 pm $20

Sound Healing Journey Using the ancient sacred didgeridoo to create sound

healing vibrations and transcendence

Seth Pincus Fridays (3rd) 11/16 & 12/21

7 pm - 9 pm $15 prepaid $20 @ door

Live Music Naam Yoga Celebrate, Breathe, Dance, Chant & Remember

who you are!

Lemia & Josh Fridays (4th) 11/23 & 12/28

7 pm - 9 pm $19

Qigong Healing & Meditation

QiGong Healing & Meditation Gesun "Sun" Yoo, RN Saturdays (2nd) 11/10 & 12/8

3:30 pm - 5 pm $17

Drum for Joy Circle Groove & Harmonize with rhythms from West Africa & the

Middle East

Pam Nishikawa Saturdays (3rd) 11/17 & 12/15

7 pm - 9 pm $15

Crystal Bowls & Percussion with Aum Now

Healing sounds of crystal bowls & percussion

Aum Now Sundays (All) 12 pm -1 pm $9

Integrative Dance A unique and revered way to call us closer to the soul

John Salat Sundays (1st) 1 pm - 2:30 pm $5

Dance Artistry & Self Expression

Remove emotional blocks through graceful dance

movements

Renee Devereaux, MS Sundays (3rd) 1 pm - 2 pm $10

Music, Sound, Dance & Movement for Your Emotional & Physical Health

United Conscious Community Interfaith MeetingsEVENT DESCRIPTION INSTRUCTOR DAYS TIME FEE

Ananda Group Meditation

Based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda,

Chanting, Energy Excersises, Spiritual Readings,

Affirmations

Rose Gradel Thursdays 7:30 pm-9 pm $5

Self Realization Fellowship Meditation Group

A movement based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda that helps you

bring God into your life through meditation and

spiritual living

Munni Krishnan Saturdays 10 am - 12 pm Love Donation to Facility

United Conscious Community, An Interfaith Sunday Gathering

A weekly meditation and exploration of the values,

truths and wisdom of all of the world's religions and spiritual

leaders.

Rev. Danielle Marie Sundays 10 am - 11:30 am Love Donation to Facility

Continued on next page >>Coming Soon: Buddism chants, Kabbalah and Agape


Workshops & Classes

EVENT DESCRIPTION INSTRUCTOR DAYS TIME FEENaam Yoga for Women With movement, mantra, mudras,

breathwork, visualization, wisdom & sacred prayer we bring out the

divine feminine

Lemia Astarabadi Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30 am - 11 am $12 or 10 for $100

Crystal Yoga for Healing This restorative yoga incorporates movement, sound, essential oils

and crystals

Dina Kleiman Tuesdays 12 pm-1 pm $12 or 10 for $100

Ardent Light Yoga A unique, holistically optimally bal-anced fusion of Ashtanga, Iyengar

& Kundalini Yoga

JAL aka Jose Luzardo Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm $12 or 10 for $100

Naam Yoga Naam Yoga combines the ancient and powerful sciences of yoga with

Universal Kabbalah.

Lemia & Josh Wednesdays 6 pm - 7:30 pm $12 or 10 for $100

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Special focus on the Tristana of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with

breath work

Darren Santos Fridays 6:30 pm - 8 pm $12 or 10 for $100

Yoga at the Temple! Buy a package of 10 for $100, apply to all classes

EVENT DESCRIPTION INSTRUCTOR DAYS TIME FEEHolistic Healing Fair 40 Healers/Vendors, music and a

drum circle. Come stay all day!Temple of Light Spiritual

CommunityEvery f 1st Saturday 12 pm - 5 pm FREE

Celebrate Your Radiance An event dedicated to the +55 citizens in our community. Holistic

healers donate their time and provide FREE healings all day.

Healthy Living Club at Laguna Woods

Saturdays (2nd) Nov. 10 10 am - 2 pm FREE

Super Saturday Leading a Spiritually Balanced Life (Having it All)

Daniel O'Hara Saturday, Nov. 10 6 pm - 9 pm $20

Celebrate Your Radiance An event dedicated to the +55 citizens in our community. Holis-tic healers donate their time and provide FREE healings all day.

Healthy Living Club at Laguna Woods

Saturdays (2nd) Nov. 10 & Dec. 8

10 am - 2 pm FREE

Fun, Personal Development, Networking & Education


InterfaithSUNDAY SERVICES

TRANSDENOMINATIONALBeyond the concepts of all beliefs, there exists one universal truth that guides every living

being. It is not a personality or single being, but rather a life force with unlimited love and intel-ligence that lives within each of us. We are individual, yet simultaneously part of a whole that connects all of us to each other in ways that are perhaps beyond our comprehension and yet at the same time something we all know to be true at the core of our being. We are an inter-faith, transdenominational community. Tolerance is to have forbearance and an objective patience of different beliefs. We go beyond tolerance because we see more similarities in all living beings than we see differences. We understand that we are all of the same life force and our connec-tion to each other is on the highest and most loving energetic vibration.

We are one. The Temple of Light is a Transformational Spiritually Conscious Community Center whose

mission is to bring our world together in peace, harmony, health and well being.

We honor all beliefs, lifestyles and personal choices as a fundamental human right. We celebrate and support each person’s spiritual journey knowing in our hearts there is no “wrong” way to grow and explore our humanity in its magnificence.

11 Goddard, Irvine, CA 92618

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November/December 2012 Radiance magazine

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