Test Your Psychic Ability - Quiz

This is a shortie quiz which will help you to see how your psychic abilities rate. There are many other ways of evaluating this ability, but this will give you a quickie glimpse into how some psychic talents operate.

http://www.psychics.co.uk/psychictests/psychiciq.html

Pet Foil Hat Technology - To Stop Government Scanning!

Viva the Tinfoil Hat Revolution! Here is a seller on eBay selling tin foil hats for pets.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5542646796&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

10 Steps to Clarity and Purpose by Lynn Cohen

10 simple steps to clarity and purpose - each one of them sensibly laid out. By a writer named Lynn Cohen.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Cohen5.html

Feng Shui Geek Site - Very Cool!

This is a fun, refreshing site about Feng Shui (the ancient Chinese art of aligning one's physical environment with the Earth's natural energies.) You'll find lots of cool info, a discussion board, and you can also sign up for the Feng Shui Geek's free e-newsletter. Each issue of her newsletter has simple, useful tips on applying feng shui principles to improve the overall flow of your life.

http://www.fengshuigeek.com/index.php

Peak Experiences and Happiness by Eric Armstrong

I enjoyed this article about ways to generate happiness by a man named Eric Armstrong. He is apparently a student of a teacher named Dr. Tae Yun Kim, and while I'm not familiar with her work, I thought his analysis of some of the hows and whys of generating happiness was right on.

He discusses the trap of the intellect and how it is always micromanaging our emotions, demanding that we only experience happiness in response to things or events in our lives. True emotional mastery comes from being able to summon up a happy energy from within, regardless of what is happening in your exterior world. But even peak experiences of bliss can have their downside, because you can't maintain them indefinitely. So being TOO happy probably isn't a completely authentic state for us down here in the world of
3-D. He quotes one of his teachers as saying that after a while on the spiritual path, you learn to avoid the emotional highs as well as the emotional lows.

I can attest to the wisdom of this. I used to be very polar in my emotionality, a dramatic actress who lived by those peaks and valleys. Much of my twenties was a mad dash from one thing to the next. I changed residences and relationships at the drop of a hat, always chasing joy. It was great when I was "up" because I'd be filled with creative energy and optimism. But I was very dysfunctional during the "down" times.

Through many years of self-clearing and what I hope has been real personal growth, I now have a very different core emotionality. I'm just more - level. While generally optimistic and joyful in my overall outlook, I'm not looking for crazy "highs" because I know that they are an exaggerated state.

For me, feeling appreciative for the little things and giving thanks keeps me in a good place, because gratitude can put you in a spiritually humble place where you are content but not ecstatic.

Anyway, I think Eric Armstrong raises some good ideas in his essay about happiness. Enjoy!

http://www.treelight.com/essays/meditationAndHappiness.html

Mindless Entertainment #11: What Kind of Soul Are You?

Here's an interesting quiz that rates certain personality qualities and generates an analysis of what type of soul you are. Fun categories and good material to ponder about your core energy.

http://www.blogthings.com/kindsoulquiz.html

Quickie Manifesting Tips to Help You Focus

The new moon is in Aries today, and while it's Mercury retrograde until the 12th and not the greatest time to start new projects, there's still some good energy floating around. The new moon marks the "new year" for a given month, the time to clear away the debris of old thoughtforms, stale relationships, and unwanted energy.

It's also a good time to focus on manifesting what you really desire in your life, both for yourself and for others.

Some people like to write a new moon abundance check for themselves at this time (see my series of articles at http://www.lipstickmystic.com.) That can be a fun, powerful ritual to help connect you with the energies of abundance.

But this particular new moon carries some volatile energy with it, so I myself am going to sit this one out. I won't write a new moon abundance check. Instead, I'm focusing on tithing and giving good energy and donations to others. What goes around, comes around, you know? :) (I also have a new article posted about the energy of tithing and how it helps put you in the energy stream of abundance.)

As you continue to study the art of manifestation, you might enjoy this simple checklist about creation that I found at a site called Freewebs.com:

http://www.freewebs.com/flowingfree/manifesting.htm

Happy New Moon!

Spirit Release Work and Dr. Shakuntala Modi

Dr. Shakuntala Modi is a psychiatrist and author of two wonderful books, Remarkable Healings and Memories of God and Creation (Hampton Roads.) I highly recommend Remarkable Healings to anyone who stumbles upon this blog entry and is interested in learning how to keep their auric field clear, reclaim lost energy due to soul fragmentation (or "soul loss"), and to improve their physical and emotional health. Remarkable Healings is simply the most ground-breaking and helpful book I have EVER read in the metaphysical genre, and you'll find it amazing, too.

I'm including a link to an interview with Dr. Modi in which she talks about her work. Basically, through working with hypnosis on her patients, she stumbled across information she hadn't expected to find. People described various entity attachments ranging from the human (discarnate entities, often loved ones!) to the demonic (negative beings who are opposite from angels in vibration and seek to drag a person down, spiritually.) The accumulation of these energies in a person's body and energy field proved to be the sole source of their ailments, both on the physical and the emotional level.

The implications of this work are astonishing. The auric egg or energy envelope surrounding the body can be penetrated by these various entities, if a person's psychic "immunity" isn't strong enough. And this is the number one cause of ailments of every kind - including many conditions modern medicine has never been able to cure, like depression and chronic fatigue. These are usually the by-product of parasitic entity attachments, and, once they are removed, the person's well-being is restored.

Dr. Modi gradually discovered some simple forms of invocation which can clear out these entities and attachments and relieve many physical and emotional ailments in the process. She works with a person's angelic helpers and spiritual guides and, of course, the power of God/Goddess/Great Spirit/The Great Kahuna. :)

This is amazing work. By adapting her techniques in my own healing work (and also through having other complimentary techniques revealed to me by my own higher guidance,) I have been able to help people release core stuff that they didn't even know they were carrying around. Many times, people are so saturated with attachments that what they think of as their "core personality" isn't even their own! It's more of an overlay of all of these entities.

So, through diligent clearing work (which you can learn how to do on yourself with this book,) you'll experience many amazing changes on a physical and emotional level. The more comfortable you are with invoking and working with the angels for healing, the more readily you can incorporate what she teaches in the book.

Here is Modi's intriguing interview:
http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue18/18evilspirits.html

If this interview excites you, stay tuned at my website for a forthcoming book which I will be offering that takes these ideas even further.

Some Signs of Spiritual Awakening

We're truly living in interesting times, and whether you believe in Earth changes, ascension, a dimensional shift, a time shift, or the Four Monkeys of the Apocalypse, it seems that many people are experiencing an "awakening" of sorts. Along the way, psychic senses seem to be popping open for a lot of people, or existing psychic senses may be gaining greater strength and magnitude.

Physical changes are common, too. Some bodily symptoms which are widely reported include feelings of inexplicable vertigo which come and go (as if the very Earth were wobbling beneath your feet, yet it's not a measurable earthquake - more of a "psychic quake;) changes in sleep (needing more sleep or less sleep;) and weight gain or loss.

A lot of people are seeing "sparkies" too - if the responses I'm receiving about my recent article on sparkies are any indication!

This is an interesting list of some symptoms of spiritual awakening on a web forum called Wolf Spirits. It includes some good recommendations about how to handle some of the sensations.

http://groups.msn.com/WolfSpirits/yourwebpage24.msnw

New Articles Up - Have a Look!

I've been so busy crafting new articles for my main site that this blog has been a little neglected. Please do have a look at some of the new features.

Want Money? Time to Tithe:
http://www.lipstickmystic.com/articles/articles040405.html

and today's piece about the strange union of Charles and Camilla:
http://www.lipstickmystic.com/astro/astro040505.html

Enjoy!

Mindless (or Mindful) Entertainment #10: Online Oracles

This is a neat site which features several different online card readings, ranging from the "chakra" reading (which reveals energies you're working with now and stuff you need to work on) to the "magic mirror" reading (a more contemporary reinvention of the traditional tarot symbols.)

Just focus on your question or issue beforehand, click on the "My reading" button, and your card reading will be automatically generated.

Enjoy!

http://www.soul-guidance.com/tarotdecks/readings.htm

The Cost of a Miracle - True Story

Here's an inspiring true story someone sent to me today:

A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. She counted it three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. There was no chance here for mistakes.

Placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention but he was busy speaking with someone and didn't pay her any mind.

Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it!

"And what do you want?" the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. "I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't seen in ages."

"Well, I want to talk to you about my brother," Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. "He's really, really sick... and I want to buy a miracle."

''I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist.

"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head, and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?"

"We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but I can't help you," the pharmacist said, softening a little.

"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I'll get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs."

The well-dressed man who had been standing by the counter talking with the pharmacist looked down and gave her a smile. This was the pharmacist's brother. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does your brother need?"

"I don't know," Tess replied with her eyes welling up. "I just know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can't pay for it, so I want to use my money."

"How much do you have?" asked the man from Chicago.

"One dollar and eleven cents," Tess answered barely audibly. "And it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to."

"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and eleven cents --- the exact price of a miracle for little brothers. " He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the miracle you need."

That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn't long until Andrew was home again and doing well.

Some months afterwards, the little girl's Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place. "That surgery was a real miracle," her Mom whispered. "I wonder how much it would have cost?"

Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost...one dollar and eleven cents .....plus the faith of a little child.

A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a higher law.

(End true story.)

Editor's note: I would add that a miracle is what happens when events occur which stand at the outer edge of our belief window, challenging our very notions about what is and isn't possible.

And I'm all for living on that edge. It's where all the magic is.