Stuart Wilde on the Energy of Money

This is an excerpt from one of author Stuart Wilde's wonderful books. It's called The Little Money Bible: The Ten Laws of Abundance.

If you've ever wondered why money flow is eluding you, you'll find some practical wisdom in this article based in metaphysical truth.

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1998/September/0998-05.htm

Beware Psychic/Astrologer Scams by Anthony Pena

Anthony Pena is the astrology editor at About.com, and I like his writing. He has a great deal of clarity, cutting through astrological jargon, and his sense of humor is great, too.

This is an article he wrote about how to recognize a psychic or astrology scam, especially the online kind.

http://astrology.about.com/cs/beforeyoubuy/a/scams5.htm

Wayne Dyer Interview the Power of Intention

I just found this inspiring interview on Wayne Dyer's website. In it, he talks about the program he did on PBS based on one of his recent books, The Power of Intention. Many good concepts here that will remind you of how powerfully your focus defines your life experience.

http://www.drwaynedyer.com/articles/art8.cfm

Mindless Entertainment #9: Easter Bunny Hip-Hop

This little cartoon and song will get you into a groovy bunny mood. Happy Easter!

http://www.grayace.com/dex/bunny.html

Interview with Sandra L. Brown: How to Spot a Dangerous Man

Sandra L. Brown, M.A. is an amazing and brave lady who has worked in the fields of victimology and psychopathology as a psychotherapist, counseling female victims of violence and emotional abuse.

Through her many years of work she has gathered information about the universal "red flags" or warning signs women seem to ignore right at the start of a relationship, or even before a relationship gets going, when they just KNOW that something isn’t right. By ignoring these red flags, they often allow themselves to get immersed in an abusive relationship, sometimes with tragic results.

Sandra has been on a quest to empower women to learn about their own programming and attitudes which can predispose them to getting involved with a Dangerous Man. And she teaches workshops geared toward helping build self-esteem in all women, so they will never have to experience a destructive relationship. Or, if they’ve already been burned by a toxic romance, they are given tools to prevent that from happening ever again.

Her new book is How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved, and it is explosive, amazing, and powerful. Your life will be forever changed by it. Buy this book for the female friends or relatives in your life who seem to always get involved with guys who are bad news so they can break this pattern once and for all. Give a copy to your precocious teenager before she starts testing her sexual power and gets hooked up to an abusive partner, so she'll know exactly what to avoid as she comes into her sexual maturity.

Sandra has also written an accompanying workbook which shapes the ideas in her book into practical exercises. It's a nice compliment to the main book.

Read the Lipstick Mystic's exciting interview with this daring pioneer who is striking out to give women everywhere the tools they need to start experiencing greater self-esteem, personal power, and interpersonal health.

And if you're fired up after reading the interview (as I know you will be!) you can order her books by clicking on the Amazon links at the end of the interview. The books are also shipping out to major bookstores right now.

Go to the Guest Interviews part of my site:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/interviews/interview032505.html

How Our Emotions Affect Our Bodies

Below, you'll find a link to an eloquent essay about how our emotional state affects our physical bodies. It's so true.

Sometimes, though, when our bodies appear to be misbehaving, it can take a while to tune in and receive the deeper message of our illness. We all have our blind spots, issues we're reluctant to address, and sometimes we're too deeply involved with old patterns to be able to clearly see beyond them.

But it is something you can learn to do, with vigorous self-reflection, meditation, and prayer.

***Warning: personal sharing is about to happen.***

For the past few weeks, I was dealing with this weird, flaky skin that was happening all over my face. I'd never experienced anything like it before. At first, I ignored it and thought it was due to an allergic reaction to some moisturizer or makeup I'd been using. But even when I went without makeup (not that I wear much, anyway, being a country girl these days) it persisted.

It wasn't itchy, it was just like the severely flaky skin you get after you've experienced a sunburn and your skin is starting to heal.

I learned to embrace the world of hypoallergenic moisturizers. Still, even after applying tons of it each day, my skin was just as flaky as ever.

I worried that maybe I was mutating into some alien being, which I didn't want to have happen! But as I meditated and connected with my inner guidance, I got that that wasn't the case. Good.

Then, the humorist in me thought, "Well, I'm used to people calling me a flake, so perhaps my skin took this message a little too literally." But that wasn't it.

There was some redness beneath the flakiness, sort of a strange red floating blotchiness.

I finally started to get that this was all connected to a couple of things that were going on in my life.

My husband/boyfriend/companion-unit has been involved with putting together a workspace for his consultants downstairs in our house, and it's involved a tremendous amount of coordination on both of our parts. For several weeks, we were immersed in setting up computers, coordinating various people from furniture movers to computer network guys coming in to set things up. There was a blur of 10 hour work days and weekends filled with office coordination. Then I was putting together a website for him ASAP, which took a lot of my focus.

I was happy to help with all of that, and since I have my office upstairs, I didn't see any problems with our two businesses getting in the way of each other. But it was stressful getting things going, I had to admit.

So.....my skin was rebelling. There was a lot of anger and anxiousness associated with this rash. I got that part. I worked at trying to release it. I did some healing work on myself, had some healing work done on me, all geared toward acknowledging the anger.

The other part of the equation was interesting. I'm in the process of going much more public about my weird life and my unique perceptions about life, the universe, and everything as I go through some expansion on my website and in my writing work. And I realized that the face is a key component of our public image. We all want to present a good "face" to others. Anxiousness about this more public role and what people's reactions might be to my work was another piece of the puzzle. So I began working to release that.

I did a lot of research online about skin stuff and was relieved that this wasn't any of the bizarre skin diseases that are going around. I didn't have any of those symptoms. No flesh-eating killer bacteria from the Planet Clare, thank God.

Somehow, my intuition was telling me that this was minor, but it also was something I needed to heal for myself.

Finally, I realized that I needed to send a message to my body in a more powerful way that I UNDERSTOOD what it was trying to tell me. I investigated homeopathic treatments for skin rashes and received the guidance that sulphur was the thing I should take for a couple of days.

Sulphur represents fiery stuff, anger, passion, rage, etc. Homeopathic treatments are interesting, because they work in a different way than most Western forms of medicine. Homeopathy works on the principle that you apply treatment by using the SAME THING that the body is experiencing (in my case, the buried rage, which is an energy principle tied to sulphur) and trigger the body into manifesting its OPPOSITE by doing so.

So a homeopathic allergy remedy, if you're allergic to a certain pollen, would contain microscopic amounts of that pollen you're allergic to.....using the principle that the body will now be triggered into an OPPOSITE response.

I'm not a homepathic expert, so forgive my clumsiness with this description. But this is the overall idea, anyway.

So....I started taking the little tablets with microscopic amounts of sulphur in them. With homeopathic remedies, they either work very fast, or you aren't working with the right remedy. Somehow, I knew sulphur was the one. Within two days my rash had subsided 75%. And it's almost gone now. (I only took the homeopathic remedy three days. You're not supposed to take them for very long.)

Lots of lessons learned along the way....about expressing and acknowledging emotional energy.

And, much to my surprise, I discovered that since so much old skin has exfoliated, my skin now has a lovely color to it, and some fine wrinkles are gone. So there you go! The cosmos organized this whole experience perfectly. I can truly put my best face forward now. :)

***End personal sharing***

Okay, you can read below about the energy behind illness and how acknowledging our real emotions and releasing them can be the key to physical health.


http://www.newhopehealthclinic.com/depression_symptoms_emotional_healing_broken_heart.htm

Ken Adachi on the Mind/Body Connection

Ken Adachi maintains a remarkable website called Educate-Yourself.org. Here you'll find tons of info on alternative health, consciousness raising, and various nefarious agendas of some of the world's organizations which, unfortunately, we often give too much of our power to. I'm not as into the conspiracy theory stuff as some of his article writers are, yet darkness and bad people DO exist, and it can be helpful to learn more about some of the nonsense that our leaders have been up to.

Still, overall his site is an empowering one which gives readers many tools to improve their lives and heal this wonderful planet that we are privileged to be living on at the moment.

This particular article is Ken's views on our spiritual essence, our soul's journey, and I like what he has to say. You might, too.


http://educate-yourself.org/mbc/

The Mind Can Affect the Body's Biochemistry

Here is a list of fascinating things that are happening IN SPITE of conventional science holding that these things are impossible. Have a glimpse of the happenings which are permanently shifting the way science is viewing the mind, the body, and the universe (short but excellent article.)

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18524911.600

The Heart Has Its Own Nervous System

Researchers are finding out more and more fascinating things about the heart. Did you know that it has its own energy field? Or did you realize that it contains its own nervous system? This is an article which touches upon some of the exciting biological discoveries which are starting to prove that, indeed, the heart may be the most important organ in the body - physically and energetically.


http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HealingRegeneration/html/HeartBrainConnectedToGod.html

Mindless Entertainment #8: Fluffy Bunny Theater

A cartoonist from the UK has been posting quirky 30 second animations at her site, http://www.angryalien.com. They are all reenactments of famous movies (It's A Wonderful Life, Jaws, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc.) performed by a cast of fluffy bunnies.

You, um, have to see it.

http://www.angryalien.com

STUDIES IN SPIRITUAL HEALING

This is a really cool, short summary of some of the studies which have been done in which people received greater levels of healing from ailments when they received spiritual forms of healing than when they were treated with conventional medicine.

There are so many studies being done in this arena, but the information is largely repressed here in the U.S. The long, dark arms of the AMA and the FDA don't want the average person to know how powerful energy, emotion, and intent are, and how employing spiritual tools for healing isn’t just “magical thinking.” It’s power prayer in action, and it's something every single one of us is capable of.

http://www.spiritheal.com/science.htm

Uri Geller and the Power of Curses

Uri Geller has volunteered to help clear a town of what would appear to be a "curse," or, at the very least, a highly-concentrated dose of chaotic energy which seems to be focused in a stone.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/08/urigeller.curse.reut/index.html

Curses are real, and all of us are capable of doing them. The "evil eye" is nothing more than sending out negative, hateful intent to someone and being so powerful in your desire for that person to experience pain that the energy of your desire overrides their natural psychic protection (and their desire to be well.) True psychic protection always comes down to self-love, self-esteem, and establishing a strong, unbending connection to a loving Higher Power, one which you can access when times get tough.

You can read more about my study of this phenomenon in my latest article at my website:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/articles/articles031605.html

Silly Cat Animation to Watch

Okay, I'm on a deadline and the brain is feeling rather strained today, so instead of offering words of wisdom, I thought I'd offer this incredibly cute cat animation. The animation loads up if you go to this link. Make sure your speakers are on! (And you dog lovers, c'mon, give it a try!)

http://www.clean-your-screen-for-free-now.com/

Weird Dog Sightings in Texas and New Jersey

You may have seen photos of a weird dog-like creature that has been spotted in Texas various times over the past year. It looks like a cross between a dog and perhaps a hyena, or maybe a jackal. And it's kind of hairless, too. Here is a photo of one that was seen in East Texas recently:

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3048669&nav=1TjDXFJ9

There have been many interesting developments on the "cryptozoology" front over the past few years. Cryptozoology is the science of studying strange creatures that have yet to be added to the list of accepted "flora and fauna." What I'd like to know is just who decides that a creature exists? I mean, if hundreds of people see it, take photos of it, and maybe even have a carcass to show scientists, shouldn't that make it "real?"

Alas, the march of science is often a slow one, moving at a pace roughly equivalent to watching paint dry. Maybe even slower.

Personally, I want to mention that I've seen these weird dogs before. I live in central New Jersey, and my honey and I have seen these creatures roaming in farm fields on several occasions. They are very strange. Your eyes keep wanting to make it a familiar animal - so when you see one, your brain starts to play games with you. Your brain wants to turn it into a coyote or a fox, except you've seen coyotes and foxes before, and this doesn't look like them.

I'd say the weirdest part is the tail. That's the part we keep really noticing. Because that's not a normal dog tail. When one of these animals runs in front of the car, you really notice that long, stringy tail dangling behind it.

Anyway, I just wonder how many people have to see something before we get to call it "real." Or is it a matter of affiliation? Like, if you're a registered Republican or hold a PhD in rocket science, then do you become qualified to say whether something is "real" or not? And then they call you up to talk about it on Crossfire?

Just wondering.

Enlightenment is Over-Rated by Susan Quinn

Susan Quinn is the author of a book called The Deepest Spiritual Life, an interfaith discussion of what it means to be truly spiritual. She also maintains a website, http://www.thedeepestspirituallife.com, where she posts a monthly ezine.

I especially enjoyed this piece from her archives called “Enlightenment is Over-rated.” In it, she talks about how she was studying Buddhism for a long time and was seeking the classic enlightenment experience. Everyone around her was going into these blissful states and having glimpses of nirvana, and while her own meditation practice was going well, she never had one of those sought after moments of intense connection with the divine.

One day, she started to realize that maybe enlightenment doesn’t have to be something that finds you from the outside, arriving out of the blue like a thunder clap. Enlightenment can simply be the light that you shine on your everyday life, the energy that you bring to your daily experiences.

I like this idea and agree with her totally. Our loving intentions and our open hearts are the tools we can use to create our own enlightenment – don’t you think?

Have a peek at her essay here:

http://www.thedeepestspirituallife.com/ezine/5%20January%202003.htm

Ask the Magic 8 Ball

Of course, the Magic 8 Ball is not nearly as exciting as our dear Fortune Chicken, oracularly speaking - however, this is a fun diversion if you'd like to see what the Magic 8 ball has to say about your future.

http://www.paganality.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=8ball&file=index

Stress Relief the Natural Way

Dr. Farrah Khan is an expert in oriental medicine who writes about some Chinese herbs which can help our bodies manage stress. She also has some interesting tips on using essential oils to help calm you down or, if you're feeling droopy, pick you up.

http://www.aromahealthtips.co.uk/article/drkhanstress.htm

Real Life Miraculous Healings

This site is one of those inspiring places with stories of real life miracles people have experienced. Most of these are health-related, and they are very moving. Many of them have a religious/Christian context to them, but the types of miracles these people have achieved through prayer are available to ALL of us, whatever our denomination, belief system, religious heritage, etc.

I know this stuff is real because I've had the privilege to witness and be a part of many healings which were as dramatic as the ones described here. Power prayer is what I call it when you get down to the business of "active faith..." putting your spiritual understanding into action down here on the physical plane.

I love stories like these, and if you have your own miracle you'd like to share with me, let me know! I'd love to post it in my Mystic Mail section.

http://home.san.rr.com/healing/miracles.htm

ParanormalNews has Paranormal News

This is a good site if you're looking for late-breaking news about Mars anomalies, cryptozoology (sightings of weird and unexplained creatures,) and other paranormal stuff which falls into the "X Files" realm.

http://www.paranormalnews.com/news.asp?nCategoryId=20

Jennifer Ayers-Gold on Spiritual Mid-Wifery

Jennifer Ayers-Gold is a healer and midwife who writes about how we Westerners are always trying to change things that, perhaps, don't really need changing. I enjoyed this perceptive essay which she posted on a site called spiritualminds.com, and you will, too!

http://www.spiritualminds.com/articles.asp?articleid=1587

Be Uplifted, Visit theblissfullife.com

This is a fun site with lots of funky artwork and a light-hearted spirit. You'll find many cool features and goodies for sale, much of it angel-related.

http://www.theblissfulllife.com

Mindless Entertainment #7: I Can Compost Anything by Eclectech

This is a very cheery piece of animation where flowers and vegetables sing about an amazing compost bin. It was created by the gifted animators at UK site electech.co.uk (the same folks who brought us the marvelous "I've Got My Tinfoil Hat On" some time back.)

It's funny and whimsical and just what the doctored ordered, in an odd sort of way. And just wait 'til you get to the cameo by the mutant cauliflower. . .

http://eclectech.co.uk/compostbin.php

David Angel on African Healing and the Sangoma Tradition

David Angel is a Sangoma or African shaman who provides a wonderful overview of the indigenous African approach to healing in a recent article which he wrote at Onespirit.com. Shamanic traditions permeate every culture, and they are based on a thorough knowledge of the healing properties of herbs and the very real power of prayer or spiritual ritual. I like Angel's explanation of what a Sangoma is (and what it isn't!) Unfortunately, many like to demonize those who are trained in the ancient ways, and yet, these are the very folks who have the training to cast OUT demons!

I have a friend whose aunt and uncle called a priest to their house to do an exorcism for them because so much dark energy was clouding both their home and their relationship.

Priests are no longer trained in the metaphysical arts that have long accompanied their sacred role, so as with many such cases of attempted exorcism, this priest's work had no effect. The couple experienced zero improvement.

The knowledge of subtle energies and the various dimensions which flow in and out of this one is something that the shamanic traditions have carried forward for millennia. The work of a Sangoma, according to David Angel, encompasses a wide variety of work, from physical healing to psycho/spiritual healing. People who have the courage to take on this role in our modern society are true spiritual warriors, because they deal with so much fear and superstition from "average folk" who don't understand how energy works.

Who are you going to turn to when YOU are under severe psychic attack? Most likely, your priest or minister will just offer vague encouragement about how you should pray. That's all well and good, but most people aren't taught how to pray properly, so their prayers have little effect. It's one thing to rebuke dark energies in the name of Jesus, quite another to do so with the necessary spiritual passion and applied faith which creates a true doorway for that divine Great One to intervene here. You have to hold the doorway open if you want to manifest miracles from a higher level of reality, and people aren't taught how to be energy gateways.

Prayer is a magical collaboration between you and a Higher Power to shift energy in the physical and spiritual planes. Passion, conviction, an open heart, and a knowledge of how energy works are all keys to successful prayer. This is true whether you honor Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, or the Mother Goddess as your focal point in prayer. These energies cannot help you unless you link up with them, and the only way to do this is with a burst of real love and a willingness to allow the Divine to work through you.

All spiritual practice comes down to this: are you ready to be an instrument for peace and to allow that essence to permeate your being? The closer we are to achieving this on a daily basis, the more we create Heaven on Earth. And I firmly believe that is our job! It's one we should all be consciously entering into.

The path of the Sangoma, as with all holy people, is to be an interface between humanity and that Higher Power and to serve up "miracles" down here in the world of 3-D.

All such folks should be honored, supported, and appreciated, because they walk a path of lost knowledge. . . knowledge which we need very much to reclaim, if we are to set this planet on a course for peace at any time in the near future.

Okay, enough of my ranting. Go and read Angel's article. It's very illuminating.

http://www.ofspirit.com/davidangel1.htm

Send a Free AngelGram Through Angelhaven.com

Angelhaven.com is a site dedicated to angels, and you'll find essays about people's experiences with angels, an angel forum discussing angels, and all manner of pretty angel merchandise there.

One thing they offer for free is an "AngelGram." You can send a free AngelGram to someone by email by simply choosing the type of angel image you want to send as an e-postcard and typing in the recipient's address. If you know someone who could use a lift, consider sending one!

http://www.angelhaven.com/AngelGrams/

The Energy of the Four Elements at Tryskelion.com

http://www.tryskelion.com is a beautifully done site with tons of helpful information of interest to neo-pagan types. When I say neo-pagan, I’m referring to people who tend to be attuned to the “old ways” of understanding energy, working with the elements of fire, air, earth, and water as a part of their spiritual practice. Obviously, the neo-pagan traditional covers a lot of different sub-groups – from modern Wiccans to indigenous shamans to Native American healers. But basically we’re talking about people who have kept alive the ancient approach of respecting Mother Earth and the building blocks of material creation.

I tend to tread gently around all of these highly-charged terms, because there is so little unity among spiritually-oriented people. Many Christians feel they have nothing in common with pagans. And many pagans are still smarting from the very real “burning times” which are still alive and well today. I mean, when I worked full-time as a psychic counselor, whenever I was at a social gathering and people asked me what I did for a living, people’s heads tended to spin after I talked about what I do. It’s sad, really. Jesus was one of the greatest metaphysicians who ever walked the planet, and understanding how he worked with energy can actually be an important part of the pagan path. So there is “magic” that has been hidden in the Gnostic traditions and buried deeply within the Christian faith, left in the hands of the anointed few to a large degree (the secret societies who kept this wisdom to themselves for many centuries.) Recapturing this wisdom and learning to truly do “power prayer” can add much to any traditional religious practice, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Anyhow, if you’d like to read a simple and powerful explanation of the energies of fire, air, earth and water and how they work in our lives, this site will be very inspirational to you.

By the way, the four Greek elements are woven into all metaphysical traditions, so you’ll see the elements turning up in astrology (signs are divided into Fire, Air, Earth, and Water signs), tarot symbology (the four suits of the cards) and more.

The Chinese have a slightly different understanding of the elements and break them down into fire, air, wood, metal, and water. The goal of harmonizing these elements within the physical body and the psyche is central to their forms of healing, so these are woven into systems like acupuncture and Chinese herbal healing.

For more elemental wisdom, go to the main page of the tryskelion site and look to the right menu bar, where you’ll see a list of intriguing articles. Click on the one that says “Working with Energy” if you’d like to read what they have posted about the four elements. Enjoy the rest of the site, too!

http://www.tryskelion.com

Shirley MacLaine on Essential Oils

Shirley MacLaine has a nice section on her site where she discusses some of the uses of various essential oils. Essential oils are highly concentrated forms of plant or flower oils. Many of the sweeter smelling oils like lavender, frankincense, sandalwood, and rose carry an extremely high spiritual vibration. So if you're ever in need of a pick-me-up, simply sniffing a little of the oil while it is still in the bottle acts as a dose of aromatherapy. And putting a tiny bit on your pulse points, the wrists and so forth, is great, too. You don't want to use TOO much of any essential oil on the body or in the bath, as it will tend to burn the skin.

There are other wonderful oils, too, including sage oil, which is excellent for clearing out negative stuff. There's a lot more info about oils at this section of MacLaine's site:

http://www.shirleymaclaine.com/healthaging/healthoils.html