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An Interview with… 

8 ROSEMARY HURWITZ 

What we are is God’s gift to us; what we become is our gift to 

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21 MOnTHlY COSMIC nEWS by Kelley Hunter 

This Year March comes in like a Fish, goes out like a Ram. 

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Interview with... 

Rosemary Hurwitz 

Walter Perschke: Rosemary, 

how did you get involved with the 

Enneagram and when? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: One good thing 

led to another, I see now as I look 

back. Motherhood was so amazing 

to me, and raising a family. I was 

looking for something for my own 

development …. My husband and 

I were facilitators for Discovery, a 

program patterned after Marriage 

Encounter for the engaged, which 

I loved. Then I enrolled in a two 

year program for facilitating small 

groups with Christian laity. Some 

people were into the Enneagram in 

that program. At the end of those two 

years, loyola University offered us 

a few credits toward our Masters in 

Pastoral Studies. My work was in 

corporate recruiting and I remember 

thinking, at the time I was very 

pregnant with our youngest, “well, 

that is really nice, but I’m not going 

to be doing that.” (“life is what 

happens when you’re making other 

plans,” John lennon.) 

Our daughter was born, and two 

and a half years later, my mom died. 

My mom was a strong spiritual 

infl uence in my life, and I began 

thinking about the offer from loyola 

(with a fi ve year window) that would 

close a few years after she died. I 

decided I wanted to do the Masters 

program, and the fi rst course I 

wanted to take was the Enneagram. 

going back to school would 

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by Walter Perschke 

coincide with my youngest starting 

kindergarten, and I was excited at the 

idea of changing careers from HR/ 

corporate recruiting to the holistic 

fi eld. There is also a deeper reason 

the Enneagram appealed so much to 

me. 

I often share with clients and 

students that I believe it had “neon” 

around it for me—that is, appealed 

to me, because I had worked very 

hard on my own individuation and 

somehow was being called to assist 

others in theirs. I had a clinical 

depression my fi rst year in college, 

and while it was a very dark night 

of the soul, it was perhaps the most 

fruitful experience of my life. I think 

my folks and entire family learned 

through it, too. Because of that 

experience, I was very interested in 

good emotional and mental health. 

good emotional and mental health 

go hand in hand with spiritual 

connection, which is summarized in 

the statement from St. Augustine: my 

heart is restless until it rests in thee. 

Walter Perschke: What is the origin 

of the Enneagram? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: The origin is 

in question. Some say it began 2500 

years ago and others say it may have 

roots in the sacred geometry of the 

Pythagoreans approximately 4000 

years ago. The Enneagram symbol, 

which is a nine-pointed star-like 

fi gure within a circle, depicting the 

nine types (ennea means nine in 

greek, and gram means point), has 

been found in some variation within 

the 3 major religions, Judaism, Islam 

and Christianity. These variations 

can be found within an Islamic Sufi 

order, the Brotherhood of the Bees 

(because they collected and stored 

knowledge), and it’s been likened 

to the tree of nine-foldedness in 

Judaism, in Kaballah, and in the work 

of Christian mystics like Ramon lull, 

who was infl uenced by his Islamic 

studies. It fi ltered down to Loyola 

University and to the mainstream. 

I see it as a bridge to these three 

main faith traditions, and spiritually 

speaking, the Enneagram is 9 

manifestations of the Divine. 

god is 1. good reformer, 2. 

loving giver, 3. effective achiever, 

4. original individualist, 5. wise 

observer, 6. loyal faithful, 7. joyful 

adventurer, 8. powerful protector, 

and 9. peaceful mediator. We have all 

those aspects within us, too, but have 

our “home” in one, that is, one type 

is dominant within us. This has to do 

with our essence, I believe. 

Psychologically we view the 

Enneagram as 9 ways of being, so 

among the non-spiritual, it is wellreceived 

also for their personal 

development and well-being. 

It is mainstream. I have taught 

it and led workshops in corporate 

environments, as well holistic and 

continuing education centers, not just 

in the spiritual community. Atheists

and agnostics look at it from the 

standpoint of 9 ways of being, not a 

spiritual point of view. 

It is an ancient and time-honored 

personal and spiritual growth tool 

that develops self awareness and 

compassion. It is very rich and 

profound for many who study it 

alone or with a guide. It helps greatly 

with understanding ourselves and 

others on their path through life. 

There is a saying on a needlepoint 

sampler that I did during the clinical 

depression I experienced. It kind of 

describes the process of the practice 

of the Enneagram; it is: 

What we are is God’s gift to us; 

what we become is our gift to God. 

You can substitute the word love or 

Spirit or Divine for god, and it will 

work. 

Different authors use different 

synonym descriptors for the nine 

types. I like to use two word 

Rosemary Hurwitz 

descriptors because I think it helps to 

“fl esh them out” a bit more. 

The nine Universal—because 

they are found all over the world— 

Types are: 

1. good reformer 

2. loving giver 

3. effective achiever 

4. original individualist 

5. wise observer 

6. loyal faithful 

7. joyful adventurer 

8. powerful protector 

9. peaceful mediator 

Walter Perschke: How does it 

work? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: With the 

enneagram you can learn your own 

wellness map; it shows you what 

you feel like when you are really 

experiencing your own well being, 

and how you can come from this 

YOU WILL LEARN 

1. About the 9 universal types and your core personality type - (which of 

the 9 universal types you have your "home in."- see the Enneagram 

symbol here.) 

2. Your wing-style and how this contributes to your unique personality. 

3. Your emotional passion or driving energy is and how it works to make 

the most of it. 

4. Your area of avoidance, under your "shadow" how to recognize it and 

work it through. 

5. Your preferred instinctual center, (heart, head or gut) and how to align 

them when problem solving. 

6. Your "wellness map." This is a profound piece of the consult because it 

will show you very specifi cally (and resonate within you) where you 'go' 

in states of security or stress. This new awareness can help you to live 

from your gifts, and choose to come from security not stress, more 

often, living with more joy, creativity.and inner-direction. 

place, live from this place more 

often. It is a powerful tool for self 

mastery, loving healthy relationships, 

and good emotional health. Of 

course, there is a spectrum of health 

that runs from a maladaptive, 

disconnected Charles Manson to very 

adaptive, connected Mother Theresa. 

And most of us fall in the middle. 

I like to believe people who are 

attracted to this work are veering to 

the high end of the middle. I have 

given thousands of Enneagram 

profi les and consults and I see that 

this is often the case. 

Walter Perschke: What do people 

like about the Enneagram and gain 

from it? 

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The Enneagram shows us 

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ourselves back to the safe and 

secure places which bring out our 

resourcefulness. This awareness 

is not general at all—it is very 

specifi c. It shows me my essence, my 

authentic self—who I am called to 

be, really—and keeps me in charge 

of my life and my emotional patterns 

and behaviors. 

Two very big areas you learn 

to work with (in yourself) with 

the Enneagram are your area of 

avoidance, falling under what Carl 

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emotional passion or driving energy. 

It helps to work through areas of 

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If leaders of countries would do this 

work, the impact and results could be 

staggering. 

Walter Perschke: How much of 

what we are looking at is hereditary 

and how much life experiences? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: It is a 

combination and I don’t know 

exactly; not sure anyone does, but 

as a mother and an 11 year student 

and teacher of the Enneagram, I 

know there are different aspects 

contributing to it. We come into the 

world with something going on; 

that I am convinced of, call it prebirth 

in the womb and maybe even 

before, for all we know. Taking our 

temperament and adding to it our 

reactions to caregivers and other life 

experience factors, we become the 

unique personality we are by about 4 

years of age, maybe 5. 

Walter Perschke: How would you 

describe our culture? Which number 

are we in America as a country? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: America is 

the Effective Achiever type, a 3. We 

are good leaders, when we manage 

our emotional passion of self deceit. 

We lose that leadership ability, in 

the purest sense, when we reframe 

ourselves as “successful no matter 

what types.” 

When the U.S. says “only I can 

do this,” we get viewed as ugly 

Americans, and the rest of the world 

says, can I take a turn and contribute, 

too? 

At the high end, 3 is a team player 

and builder, and that end trumps any 

fear of failing. 

Each type brings a different light 

to the table; these nine universal 

types are kind of like a diamond with 

a different light that comes through 

nine sections of the diamond. 

At the high end, 3 knows how all 

the parts fi t and is committed to truth 

and knows about the natural order of 

things. 5 sees the big picture, and can 

detach healthfully with no judgment, 

6 has a strong inner knowing and 

faithfulness that with god before 

them, who can be against them? 7 

sees essence and light, 8 innocence. 

4 is like the woman or Man of la 

Mancha, and teaches us to have a 

dream , 9 brings in brilliance with 

nuance and harmony. The gifts are 

amazing. 

Walter Perschke: How do you 

prevent the subject from picking the 

wrong type? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: In an 

introductory workshop, I do a 

discernment process with them 

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comprehensive profile, in which they 

learn 6 things: core type, wing style, 

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(what I call) the wellness map. 

learning all of this is a start. 

Deepening your awareness and 

compassion for others is a process 

and a practice. Dr. David Daniels 

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(of this awareness,) Action (taking 

action, that is making choices that 

support my emotional health which 

I learn in my wellness map), and 

Adherence (or, practice of those 

actions that will manifest in deep 

growth). Again, what I am is god’s 

gift to me; what I become is my gift 

to god. 

Becoming is not just wishing; it is 

co-creating; there is much grace here 

in this work when you do your part. 

Walter Perschke: Tell us where 

you teach and give workshops in the 

Chicago area. 

Rosemary Hurwitz: I am on the 

faculty at Common ground in 

Deerfield and have a Friday morning 

Enneagram group, and teach for The 

Present Moment and Harper College, 

and other area holistic centers, such 

as Be Optimal Holistic Health Care. 

I have some online classes as well. In 

my workshops or in private sessions, 

I also offer an Enneagram pendant, 

which I have created for each of 

the nine types, with their essence 

qualities on the back, close to their 

heart, for a symbol of what they have 

learned. 

Walter Perschke: Are you writing a 

book on your work? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: Yes, I will be 

turning in my Enneagram themed 

manuscript to a publishing company 

this spring, who published another 

inspirational (compilation) book that 

I have a chapter in, which is due out 

this June (2013). The title of that 

book is No Mistakes; How You Can 

Change Adversity into Abundance. 

My chapter is “The Call,” and 

actually it is a story of my experience 

with clinical depression and the 

positive outcome as a young adult. 

Walter Perschke: What is the most 

powerful thing about your work? 

Rosemary Hurwitz: I like 

metaphors so; here is one I like that 

may answer your question; 

getting to be an instrument 

for this profound “music” of the 

Enneagram, which expresses 

wholeness through each individual 

who is drawn to it, is powerful. It 

can be so helpful and healing in our 

relationships too, as the foundational 

one with the self is healed. 

Every time, I get to be around the 

process called the Enneagram, I am 

humbled and grateful. 

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Sound Matters: 

Neuroscience, Quantum 

Physics, and Sound Healing 

by Steven Halpern 

“Deep Alpha by Steven Halpern – GRAMMY® Nominated Album “ 

This month marks the 27th 

anniversary of my monthly 

newsletter. Over the years, I’ve 

covered a wide range of subjects, 

but always related them to my 

primary focus, harnessing the 

healing powers of music to 

enhance physical, emotional and 

spiritual well-being, and amplify 

our connection with Source. 

As a sound healer, my work 

is based on honoring our innate 

intelligence and our body’s natural 

ability to heal itself. Because this 

happens most effectively in a state 

of deep relaxation, most of my 

recordings have focused on that 

intention. 

However, it is also true that 

healing happens in a variety of 

ways. One of the keys is to pay 

attention to the subtle clues and 

cues and the way your body and 

spirit communicate the signs of 

and the presence of “the healing 

feeling.” 

Healing can also be enhanced 

through the release of endorphins, 

neurotransmitters/hormones we 

make in our own bodies when we 

experience pleasure. lately, I’ve 

been spotlighting the connection 

between certain music and what 

Jennifer lopez has made famous 

on American Idol as “the goosies.” 

learning the code can 

deepen your understanding, and 

appreciation of these magical 

moments whenever they occur. 

That’s why I may comment on 

an example in sports, such as the 

amazing pass and catch of Eli 

Manning and Mario Manningham 

of the new York giants football 

team. 

Some of you may remember 

The Psychic Side of Sports, 

the landmark book by Michael 

Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen 

Institute. Well, what I’ve been 

writing about over the years 

has been “The Psychic Side of 

Music.” If you’ve been in any 

of my keynote presentations 

or workshops, you know that I 

often share some personal stories 

that have not been as widely 

publicized. 

On the other hand, I have 

written extensively about some of 

my own experiences in the liner 

notes of Gifts of the Angels and of 

course, Chakra Suite. It seems that 

reading liner notes is not nearly 

as common now as it was when 

many of us read every word on the 

album jacket of vinyl lPs. 

I’ll be sharing some stories 

in upcoming newsletters I think 

you’ll resonate with. 

At the moment, I’ve been 

refl ecting on why I’m enjoying 

the recent American Idol 

performances, in which band 

members appear on stage with 

the vocalist. It’s a vicarious deja 

vu for me, 

especially 

when the 

horn section 

is up front. 

last 

week, I 

fl ashed on 

the time my 

band opened for and then backed 

pop star B.J. Thomas in 1969. 

It was an object lesson in magic 

moments, virtuosity and music’s 

power to heal a racially divided 

stage. 

In past installments, I’ve 

refl ected on breakthroughs and 

limitations of research, hot topics 

in the fi eld of sound healing, and 

many other issues. For instance, 

I was likely the fi rst person to 

publicly question the reality 

of the “Mozart Effect.” My 

newsletter was cited in hundreds 

of other websites, including 

Fundamentalist ones. (Strange 

bedfellows?) 

Although I got a bunch of fl ack 

for pointing out what I believed to 

be true, I was ultimately proven 

correct. 

You heard it here fi rst. 

In future installments, I’ll 

be refl ecting on the current 

fascination with neuroscience, 

which offers new insights into how 

our brain processes music, but 

which also contains a fundamental 


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flaw. 

I am also the only source I 

know of that is offering a fair 

and balanced exploration of 

the competing “most healing 

frequency” debate. Is there a 

“true” vibratory frequency music 

should be tuned to? Is it 528 Hz, 

440 Hz, 432 Hz? 

Does anyone really know? Is 

there research, or shall I say, good 

research? 

let me give you a few 

examples. 

When it comes to research, 

I’ve been honored and privileged 

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by some of the most brilliant and 

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BS radar, so when I hear several 

different individuals saying “their 

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on the planet,” I naturally have to 

wonder: can they all be right? 

It seems more and more often 

I’m seeing folks asserting “facts” 

when they are really just their 

opinions. As a great author said, 

“You’re entitled to your own 

opinions. You are not entitled to 

your own facts.” ... Or to make up 

facts. 

When I first went public with 

my work in 1975, I wanted, and 

needed, to educate the media 

and the public about what sound 

healing entailed. It was important 

to me to establish a high level of 

integrity, so that the field couldn’t 

easily be dismissed. It almost 

seems as if some of what has 

gone on has been intentional misinformation 

and dis-information. 

We see a lot of this sort of spin 

and distortion in the presidential 

campaign. I suppose I was a bit 

naïve to think the field of sound 

healing would have more integrity. 

I share my insights and 

observations in my newsletters, 

and offer suggestions on how you 

can enhance your own sensitivities 

so you can determine what is best 

for you, rather than just taking 

someone else’s word for it. 

Examples of well-done 

research would be the studies 

headed by Dr. Barry Bittman for 

the REMO percussion company on 

the healing power of drumming. 

Brain Wave Synchronization 

(Photo-Stimulation) with the 

Shealy RelaxMate (1990) at 

normshealy.com is a classic in the 

field. There are many others in 

the audio sphere indexed by Dr. 

Eldon Taylor and available on his 

website, www.EldonTaylor.com 

The seminal book on brainwave 

biofeedback is by Dr. C. Maxwell 

Cade, The Awakened Mind: 

Biofeedback and the Development 

of Higher States of Awareness 

(1979). I had the opportunity to 

conduct a brief bit of research 

in his lab on my first visit to 

london in 1977. He was shocked 

to see how powerfully my music 

balanced and entrained the brain 

to the highest level of functioning, 

what he termed “The Fifth State.” 

I’ll share never before revealed 

details next month. 

On the other hand, some 

authors, researchers and recording 

artists make such outrageous 

claims that they are just begging to 

be exposed. This is especially true 

when I’m directly involved, and 

know the truth firsthand. 

Case in point was a book 

that was first published in 1984, 

The Secret Power of Music. The 

first historical chapter covering 

ancient music in China is accurate; 

I referenced most every one of 

his source materials in my own 

graduate dissertation. However, 

when he writes “In All of 

Halpern’s workshops, he states 

that ...” 

I know he’s just blowing 

smoke. 

First of all, only one person 

has been in all my workshops 

and lectures ... and that person 

is me! If he was even in two 

or three programs, I’d likely 

have recognized him as a repeat 

attendee, or a stalker. 

Secondly, he misquotes me, or 

simply makes up a quote from me 

that is exactly opposite to what I, 

in fact, have stated. 

And thirdly, he even spells my 

name wrong! 

With a track record like that, 

how can anyone trust anything else 

he says? 

As you’ll see, as ancient 

mystics and quantum physics tell 

us, it is no longer a stretch to say 

that “all life is vibration, all life 

is music.” I’ll continue to explore 

the many aspects of the world of 

sound and music. 

I invite you to join the 

discussion at Facebook.com/ 

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com/StevenHalpern, or email 

me directly at askdrsound@ 

innerpeacemusic.com. 

Yours for sound health and 

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Columnist’s Note: Due to space 

considerations, my Cyberweave column 

did not appear in the February issue 

of The Monthly Aspectarian. That 

column, which was written in January, 

focused on the consternation that has 

cropped up among those who were so 

sure that December 21st, the end of the 

Mayan Calendar, would bring with it 

sudden and dramatic world changes. 

Please read that original column, then 

the update at the end, in which I revisit 

these folks as I write this in February. 

My December CyberWeave column 

asked the question, “What if?” As 

we were closing in on the end of the 

Mayan calendar, I explored the question 

of whether that date would possibly 

be the turning point for planet Earth, 

a signifi cant date that births a time 

of great transformation leading to 

enlightenment. 

That December exploration included 

some of the foremost proponents of 

the idea that December 21st would 

be a giant turning point for the Earth 

and all of the beings upon it—a 

veritable portal to Ascension. The list 

included Messages from Matthew 

(www.matthewbooks.com), galactic 

Channeling (http://galacticchannelings. 

com) and The 2012 Scenario (http:// 

the2012scenario.com). 

In this column I will revisit these 

websites in order to take the pulse of 

the Ascension community. In addition, 

I will check in with José luis Stephens, 

Ph.D. (www.thepowerpath.com), who 

gave a lecture entitled “Re-envisioning 

the Future of Our Planet: Mayan, 

Hope and Contemporary Forecasts 

for 2013-2071,” during the December 

meeting of Chicago suburban-IOnS. 


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Spirituality and the Internet 

By Mary Montgomery 

Have We Ascended Yet? 

An excellent overview of that lecture 

appeared in the “All About Town” 

section of The Monthly Aspectarian 

in January. It turned out that Stephen 

s’ view of a very positive, but much 

slower, transformation may be a helpful 

prescription that allows us to continue 

our belief that ascendant transformation 

is possible. 

If you’re like me, you probably did 

something special on December 21st. 

You may have meditated; you may have 

joined together with friends. For me, 

December 21st is also my birthday, so 

I threw a big Mary’s Birthday Party/ 

End of the Mayan Calendar party 

that featured a combination of joyful 

celebration and serious ceremony, 

prayer and meditation. It was a fabulous 

and mutually uplifting occasion. But, 

I have to admit that I woke up the next 

morning to a world that seemed pretty 

much the same as before. Things didn’t 

seem suddenly ascendant to me! In fact, 

a few days later, my own ego raised its 

ugly head and plunged me into some 

very unnecessary dark nights of the 

soul. Because of my quiver of excellent 

spiritual tools and mentors, I was able 

to get a handle on that situation. But, 

what about the folks who so ardently 

espoused big time Ascension on 

December 21st? How were they fairing? 

Did they experience something I didn’t, 

etc.? let’s take a look: 

Messages from Matthew (www. 

matthewbooks.com): There has only 

been one Matthew message since 

December 21st. That message on 

December 29th acknowledged that 

there was a whole spectrum of reactions 

on the big date, all the way from 

heightened spiritual attunement to a 

sense of peacefulness and well being to 

disheartenment for those who expected 

to see momentous changes to absolutely 

nothing (what most people expected 

and felt). nonetheless, according to 

Matthew, something big did happen. 

The message states: Our beloved Earth 

family, something absolutely out of 

the ordinary did happen! Everyone in 

your world would rejoice with us if 

they knew that the powerful energy 

that was anchored on Earth during the 

solstice illuminated many millions of 

souls … You cannot see this from our 

perspective, of course, but you will 

be seeing the effects of that massive 

infusion of love-light energy ... 

This Matthew’s Message also 

stated: Earth is passing through the 

celestial window where the last few 

wisps of third density are so feeble that 

they’re barely perceptible alongside the 

brighter, stronger fi rst wisps of fourth 

density, where darkness cannot enter. 

While all light beings are jubilant about 

this glorious accomplishment, which is 

unprecedented in universal history, it 

doesn’t mean that suddenly Earth will 

be transformed into a paradise. 

I love this message, so fi lled with 

hope, but … 

To be fair, although the Matthew 

Messages have an ardent following 

among those who looked for spectacular 

changes on December 21st, the actual 

messages themselves indicate a 

more gradual change. For example, 

the December 10th message stated: 

December 12th and 21st have long 

been considered as pivotal dates for 

the planet. To be sure, major energy 

surges due to planetary alignment are 

important thrusts forward, but Earth has 

been on an ascension course through

successively higher vibratory levels 

and surges for over 70 years … That 

is why we do not see a momentous 

event occurring on the 21st that will 

be equally profound for all worldwide. 

Each individual is a unique being and 

will experience a uniquely personal 

response to that day … 

Galactic Channeling (http:// 

galacticchannelings.com): The home 

page of the galactic Channeling site 

had a Count Down to Ascension box. 

As I wrote my December column, 

the counter said: 36 Days; 00 Hours; 

24 Minutes; 30 Seconds. The counter 

is gone now, but not the idea that 

somehow we still are on that 

Ascension course. In addition 

to Matthew Ward (Matthew 

Messages), the channelers 

featured on this site include 

Mike Quinsey, Blossom 

goodchild, Sheldon nidle and 

Kris-Wan. 

Prior to December 21st, 

the channelings seemed so 

sure that a major transition 

was imminent. Mike 

Quinsey’s november 14th 

SaluSA message talked 

about the idea that some of 

our learning would take place 

aboard galactic space ships 

and stated: We know how 

patient you have been as the 

saga of defeating the dark 

Ones has dragged on. We are 

satisfi ed that they have little 

power left and we are in the 

throes of curtailing it now. 

After December 21st, the 

channeling is still stressing a 

shift and Ascension, but there 

is a toned down feeling to 

the messages. For example, 

Quinsey’s December 28thth 

SaluSA message begins: 

It does not matter how 

many predictions are made 

because as given they are all 

possibilities, dependent on 

the extent of your creative 

powers as to whether they 

materialize. So we are 

telling you that what you 

experienced was what you 

created, but for those of you 

expecting more evidence of Ascension 

it was disappointing. We understand 

your feelings, but the process of the 

awakening Ascension energies has not 

stopped and will proceed even more 

quickly than previously. The upliftment 

of energies in your Solar System, took 

place through the alignment of your Sun 

and the great Central Sun of the galaxy, 

and as many souls experienced some 

evidence of it, as did not. 

The other channelers on the site 

seem to have followed a similar pattern. 

The 2012 Scenario (http:// 

the2012scenario.com): In the days after 

December 21st, this website retained 

its the 2012 Scenario name and URl. 

In early January, however, the name 

was changed to golden Age of gaia 

(http://goldenageofgaia.com). Seeing 

that, you might think that these folks 

all experienced Ascension big time on 

December 21st. not so. While great 

hope is being kept alive, there sure have 

been a lot of rollercoaster emotions 

among the contributors including those 

of the sites’ creator, Steve Beckow. 

Prior to December 21st, Beckow was 

certain of big and immediate changes 

that would take place on or even before 

that date. His “2012 for Beginners” 

section, for example, said: 

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world, taking shape before our very 

eyes. What world am I talking about? 

I’m talking about the new Age 

expected to begin after a planetary 

transformation on or before Dec. 21, 

2012. 

But in the days immediately 

following Beckow and at least some of 

the other contributors were wringing 

their hands, wondering what had 

really happened. They had followed 

all the guided instructions. They had 

stayed in a quiet place and meditated 

during the fateful December 21st date 

and although there were moments of 

ecstasy, at the end of the day, they 

weren’t quite sure that anything really 

big had happened. In the days that 

followed, posts ranged from the hopeful 

to almost despairing rants against 

galactic forces and angels that had 

not followed through on the golden 

promise. 

I wish I had printed out these 

postings, but I didn’t and they are 

gone, not even archived as far as I 

can tell. Instead, the messages on the 

newly named site seem to be saying 

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A January 8th post entitled “Sanat 

Kumara: Our Heartfelt Apologies to the 

Disappointed,” for example, features 

a message from Sanat, the planetary 

logos and keeper of the universal laws. 

Beckow’s communication with Sanat 

occurred during his “An Hour with 

an Angel” radio show on January 7th. 

Beckow states: Sanat begins with a 

heartfelt apology to those of us who feel 

that the Company of Heaven let them 

down. He says that a cry went up from 

humanity to extend the process and the 

Divine Mother granted an extension. I 

don’t disbelieve that statement but it’ll 

be a hard sell, I think. Ascension was 

postponed in 2000, if memory serves 

me, for much the same reason … 

Oh dear, this is all beginning 

to sound a lot like those Christian 

ministers who keep moving up the date 

of the end of the world! It’s a brighter, 

more hopeful picture, however, and 

there is some comfort in that. 

The Power Path (www.thepowerpath. 

com): All this brings me to the work of 

José luis Stephens. Unlike those who 

were so focused on the big December 

21st date, Stephens’ view was and is 

that December 21st, while defi nitely 

a shifting point, is more realistically 

seen as the beginning of a highly 

transformative time period that extends 

until 2071. During this extended time 

period, according to Stephens, we will 

see the rise of the feminine and this is a 

good thing for our planet. 

I checked out Stephen s’ website 

to see if there had been any updates. 

First, in order to get your own overview 

of what Stephens thinks the Mayan 

Calendar really means, check out his 

article “The Mayan Calendar, 2012: A 

Vision for a new World,” which you 

can fi nd in the section, “Forecasts, 

Trends, Articles, Reviews & More.” 

Stevens, who made two recent trips to 

guatemala to study the matter, states: 

let me begin with my two recent 

trips to guatemala, land of the ancient 

and current Mayans … Every Mayan 

priest or shaman I encountered on my 

travels pointed out without exception 

that the end of the long count is not the 

end of the world but rather a transition 

point, a shamanic initiation if you will 

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as the predictions of many western 

astrologers, we can be certain that the 

12/21/2012 date is extremely important 

and transformative. All the Mayans I 

spoke with perceived the date as a time 

to celebrate the ending of the old dream 

and the beginning of a brand new one, 

one that all humans could take part in 

forming. So rather than the events of the 

date being preordained they were saying 

that the future is ours to dream, ours to 

create, our responsibility after all. 

Will all of this take place on 

12/21/12? Of course not! There is no 

way all these changes can take place 

in one day. Change takes time. But 

unlike the past, the changes we are 

about to go through will be radically 

accelerated. This accelerated change 

will be experienced by the peoples of 

the world like a massive tsunami of 

shifting values, like a mammoth social 

earthquake, like a raging forest fi re or 

fl ood, burning and washing away all the 

old corrupt forms, all rigid hierarchies, 

all inequities for so long unquestioned 

and tolerated. nothing will be 

untouched by the time these changes are 

adopted. Is this the end of the world? 

Yes, in a manner of speaking. Is it the 

beginning of a new world? Absolutely. 

So, Stephens, like the others 

mentioned in this column is also talking 

about a coming Ascension—but not 

something we should have counted 

upon happening in one 24-hour time 

frame. Stephens’ website contains 

monthly forecasts, so I checked out the 

one he posted for January, 2013. I think 

that one of Stephen s’ January forecast 

statements sums up the tone of the rest 

of this column pretty well: 

The energy this month is up and 

down. One day you will feel truly 

inspired with your new ideas, clarity 

and resolutions, and the next day 

you may feel depressed, withdrawn, 

confused and scattered. Some of you 

may experience yourselves as wanting 

to sleep more, being drawn into the 

dreamscapes of the astral plane, and 

for some it may be just the opposite. 

There is a fatigue factor that relates 

to a let down after holding so much 

intensity and energy around events and 

expectations and changes in the last few 

months. 

Update for March Column: 

For my update, I decided to revisit 

two sites that were most vocal about 

the dramatic December 21st changes: 

galactic Channeling and golden Age 

of gaia (pre-December 21st name: The 

2012 Scenario). 

Galactic Channeling (http:// 

galacticchannelings.com): Basically, 

the channelers on this site are sticking 

to their guns. While toning down their 

pre-December 21st dramatic and sudden 

change messages, they emphasis that a 

huge energy shift did indeed occur on 

that date. They urge us to be patient as 

the new golden age takes shape—soon. 

Here are some recent excerpts: 

Mike Quinsey’s February 8th 

SaluSA message states: 

Where are your travels leading 

you to now, after the excitement of 

Ascension even if did not bring with 

it the greatly expected changes? As 

we have informed you, you have lost 

absolutely nothing as 

a result of Ascension 

passing in a manner that 

failed to bring you the 

long awaited changes. 

They remain ready to 

be brought upon the 

scene, when they can 

be co-ordinated in such 

a way that they can be 

of maximum benefi t to 

everyone … Meantime 

millions of lightworkers 

have been able to 

recognize the changes 

within Self, and are 

continuing to bring even 

more light to Earth. 

They are in the forefront 

of a massive move to 

fully establish even 

more light upon Earth. 

This growth cannot be 

halted and will continue 

to set up your future. It 

is like a giant snowball 

gathering more as it 

moves around. Believe us 

Dear Ones, this year will 

see you set up for great 

advancements … 

And, Blossom goodchild’s February 

13th galactic Federation of light 

message states: 

You are moving into the new world 

that has been created by you. Yet, it 

would not be agreeable on all accounts 

to fi nd yourself suddenly plonked there. 

It would not be the easiest way for you 

to adjust and although you are feeling 

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you simply are fl oating in a sea of 

‘unknown.’ You cannot get out … and 

you feel you are being tossed and turned 

by the fl ow of the water. Yet it seems 

more at these times that there is no 

particular direction of that fl ow …. 

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immediately following December 21st. 

As of February 13th, while there is 

still a mild sense of disappointment 

over what did and did not happen on 

December 21st, the overall message is 

about forging ahead and about taking 

action to ensure that Ascension happens 

after all. The lead messages on February 

13th, for example, were about nova 

Earth Day, a world-wide event taking 

place on February 14th. 

Site creator Steve Beckow’s entry 

states: 

Tomorrow is nova Earth Day. And 

nova Earth Day has several objects. 

The first is to send a Valentine to 

Mother Earth, to gaia … Archangel 

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suggesting a specific activity. He urges 

his readers to “join one billion people 

on the planet Feb. 14, 2013, dancing 

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another video, which teaches you the 

dance. The news section of the One 

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from around the world including los 

Angeles, India, the Philippines, the 

United Kingdom and Thailand. I was 

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imminent occurrence. On the other 

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just be right: great transformation 

is on the horizon and it’s up to us to 

make sure it really happens. So my 

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the traditional meditation, prayer or 

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There’s the old saying, “March comes 

in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” 

Probably not this month. This year, 

“March comes in like a Fish, goes out 

like a Ram.” After swimming through a 

dreamy sea of planets in Pisces as March 

begins, we end with planetary fireworks 

in Aries. Firecrackers and popcorn will 

be popping. 

The nEW MOOn at 22 PISCES, March 

11, 1:51pm CST, 

is the first of this Chinese Year of the 

Water Snake, thematically hosting 

an ocean of Pisces planets: neptune, 

Mercury, Chiron, Venus, Sun-Moon and 

Mars. That’s a lot of fish in the sea! Let’s 

sort them out. 

nEPTUnE continues to rule in its own 

Dreamtime sign, with increasingly 

subtle affects that stir the soul but slide 

sideways and slippery in the mundane 

world, especially with Mercury 

retrograde. Still at the beginning of its 

14-year stay in Pisces, neptunian themes 

infuse movies, music and the internet 

with images that speak to the collective 

consciousness. What are you watching 

lately? Our level of emotional sensitivity 

may be more open and impressionable, 

needing plenty of down time to clear 

the waters. Watch out what you watch, 

as images may stick with you longer 

and haunt your waking hours. While 

thinking about themes for this month, I 

web surfed into Eckhart Tolle, with his 

nOW presence, very apt for any time— 

especially nOW! 

MERCURY is retrograde until the 

March 

Cosmic News 

17th. Distractions, wonderments and 

confusions diffuse any clear-edged 

reality, which eludes our grasp and seems 

to shapeshift when we try to locate our 

space-time coordinates. Saturn in Scorpio 

supports this proposition, agreeing that 

reality is “in process” of being redefined. 

This Mercury retrograde is a fine time to 

allow the mind to deeply relax and offer 

up guidance in its quiet murmur. 

The “sweet spot” of this retrograde is on 

March 4, when Mercury is in the heart of 

the Sun. The Magician aspect of Mercury 

takes over from the Trickster, able to 

cancel out the retrograde frustrations 

and bring out the best of its insight. Ask 

for a special message and try out the 

possibilities in this moment to connect 

Heaven with Earth. 

CHIROn adds another level to the 

“be here now” theme, with quantum 

potentials. The healing sensitivity of 

the current energy has a yearning for 

wholeness, compassion and forgiveness. 

Don’t forget self-compassion. Pisces, 

especially with the presence of neptune 

and Chiron, evokes a felt understanding 

that we are all one. This universal 

consciousness is opening in a poignant 

way through personal experiences and 

other larger events, including tragedies. 

VEnUS is still “under the beams” of 

the Sun, unseen until May. Her brilliant 

presence is missed in the sky, but her 

quality of compassion in Pisces is felt. 

Venus is said to be exalted in Pisces, 

where its best qualities of universal love 

come forth, but this position has a down 

side. A tendency to demur and doubt 

from a hesitant lack of self-esteem can 

undermine one’s strength in a Cinderella 

sort of way. There is an undercurrent of, 

“If others are having a hard time, I don’t 

by Kelley Hunter 

deserve to be happy.” We contribute and 

support as we can, while remembering 

that joy is a great contribution to the 

collective field. Empathic identification 

may be an emotional drain or, on a 

more energizing level, be full of grace, 

uplifting spiritual devotion and aesthetic 

appreciation of the beauties of life and 

arts. 

The Chiron connection to Venus was 

exact on March 5, sending a wave of 

female shamanic power that reverberates 

with emotional healing into the currents 

of the new Moon. Here is another 

lovely, relevant musical selection, 

called “lamento as Aguas,” a Brazilian 

“lament Ye Waters” (I think that is 

correct translation) that conveys a 

universal sorrow that this combination 

can evoke. Music, dance and the arts 

unite us beyond the limitations of 

language. 

http://www.youtube.com/ 

watch?v=O0bV64bb8Vk 

With all these Pisces planets, keep in 

mind that we are easily picking up on 

energy all around us. It may not be “our 

stuff” to take on. let the energy keep 

flowing, and keep moving to avoid any 

cluttered emotional eddies. let’s call on 

Virgo energy to balance out the Pisces 

emphasis. listen to your body, support 

your health in this sensitized energy 

field, stay grounded with exercise, 

yoga—do whatever it takes to support 

the strength and wellbeing of your body, 

so very essential during the current Earth 

changes. 

MARS is at the outside edge of Pisces on 

the new Moon, but immediately 

heads into ARIES on March 12. 


Appropriately, Mars is the first to enter its own sign, the Hero 

heading into the unknown, blazing a trail for a caravan of 

planets to follow. Heading into Aries, any planet is soon to 

encounter Uranus and its globe-changing square with Pluto. 

Mars will activate the square on March 21-27, releasing a 

surge of power that can shift the balance and push forward 

the revolutionary agenda. Aggression is one option when 

frustrations can no longer be repressed. Prepare to step forth 

with clarity that is cleanly assertive, not pushy or domineering. 

MERCURY TURnS DIRECT at 6 PISCES, March 17 

Impressions are the forte and fallback mental mode of Mercury 

in Pisces. At this turn-around point, the Messenger of the gods 

is close to both neptune and Chiron, altering perceptions either 

toward confusion, even paranoia, or in serendipitous ways 

that suggest magic. Mercury/neptune can be very distracting 

and spacey if you don’t give it enough relaxing, napping or 

meditation time. Take a break with nothing on the schedule that 

calls for attention, so you can deeply tune in to inner directives. 

SUn into ARIES, March 20 

Equinox gets the Aries ball rolling in earnest! 

Emerging anew from the ocean of universality, every Aries 

knows s/he is first a child of the gods, the First (and sometimes 

Only) Child, washed in newness, freshly energized to move 

forth into undiscovered vistas, “where no one has gone before.” 

The quest for the true self is the adventure of a lifetime. Aries 

seeks to fully live the wonder of being human, to clarify the 

divine impulse. There is an unmistakable flash, a warm glow, 

a twinkle in the eyes of even the gentlest of Arians. This light 

is a ray from the Cosmic Mind, the logos, shining in a keen, 

knowing glance. 

Aries is the Original Hero—Jason sailing in search of the 

golden Fleece; young Parsifal naively stumbling along the 

road to knighthood; Joan of Arc leading the French army to 

enthrone the righteous King; Hercules with the strength to meet 

the challenge of every task. “Follow me, warriors!” cry these 

captains courageous. Even if no one else follows, they will 

carry on alone if they identify with the cause. Aries knows it is 

essential to face the challenge, and will often enough emerge 

victorious through the integrity of his/her convictions and the 

necessity to act upon them. 

This becomes ever more so as the month ticks on. The Sun 

shines its brightest light on the 

Uranus-Pluto square from the 28th, 

conjuncting Uranus, to April 1, 

squaring Pluto. 


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VEnUS into ARIES, March 22 

now we’ve got a theme going! 

Sabian Symbols are images relevant to each degree of the 

Zodiac, often experienced in some literal way. The first degree 

of Aries shows “A 

woman rising from 

the sea, embraced 

by a seal.” This is 

the mythic image of 

the seal-woman or 

Selkie shapeshifter. 

She arises anew after 

her sea change, clear 

as a crystal or a bell chime. I’ve got two book suggestions along 

this line from award-winning fantasy writer Patricia McKillip 

(one of my top favorite authors): The Changeling Sea and The 

Bell at Sealey Head. And for movies: Ondine and The Secret of 

Roan Inish. 

Rising from the seas of Pisces, Venus bursts into flame, needing 

to match the initiative of Mars without overdoing it. Venus 

meets the Uranus-Pluto square on March 28-31, with emotional 

fire. What new initiatives are you going for in your life? 

FUll MOOn in lIBRA-ARIES, March 27, 3:27am CST 

This is an exclamation point Full Moon! one of the most 

powerful of the year, right in synch with the Uranus-Pluto 

square. Venus and Mars flank Uranus, with Venus exactly 

conjunct Sun and Mars exactly square Pluto. This Moon will 

move a lot of the energy!! incorporating new dynamics into the 

global revolution. 

JUPITER in GEMINI amplifies the WOW! NOW! factor of 

this Full Moon manyfold in a precise, to the minute, activating 

square with Chiron. The crazy wisdom potential is multiplied 

exponentially when we bring an open mind to each and every 

moment. If your mind seems to sizzle with faulty wiring, and 

what appears to be cosmic interference turns out to be a silly 

simplistic “mistake,” don’t worry. It may be inconvenient, but 

kind of funny, eh what? Just a jump-up in the operating system. 

We can’t cling on to any outer thing. new avenues spark and 

sparkle in our neural pathways, offering new perceptions while 

short-circuiting others. Saturn in Scorpio’s deep circuits keep us 

plugged in to the regenerative currents in this process. 

The Moon weaves cosmic energy into the mundane. The Full 

Moon is like a flower in full blossom, revealing what was 

planted at the new Moon. Water your seeds, with the waters 

of Pisces. The Sprouts of potential emerge with the fireworks 

of Aries. With clarity, integrity and a fresh open-mindedness 

without expectation, watch the fireworks shimmer with 

inventive possibilities and amazing outcomes. 

Kelley Hunter, Ph.D. is an internationally known astrologer 

and mythologist, author of living lilith: Four Dimensions 

of the Cosmic Feminine and Black Moon lilith. She lives 

in the Virgin Islands, where she leads stargazing nights for 

star-struck visitors. A Sagittarian, she travels far and wide, 

teaching, lecturing and consulting. Astrology parties are one 

of her specialties. Watch for her online offerings. Visit her 

website at www.heliastar.com or on FaceBook: Kelley Hunter, 

AstroMythology. 

Call or Text 847-966-1110 with any 

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During an overnight airplane fl ight, I 

perused the entertainment selections and 

discovered the audio book Fire Starter 

Sessions by Danielle laPorte. I liked 

what I heard and found Ms. laPorte to be 

an articulate, poetic exponent of living a 

juicy, authentic life. She had my attention. 

One of the ways to recognize your 

talent and passion, laPorte suggests, is to 

consider what other people have criticized 

you for. I had heard, “What you thought 

was wrong with you may be what’s right 

with you,” but the idea of using criticism 

as a compass to greatness takes the lesson 

to a whole new level. 

Consider, for example, humor writer 

Dave Barry. In junior high school, Barry 

was the class clown, often dismissed to 

stand in the hall after disrupting the class. 

One day Barry’s teacher told him, “You’d 

better get serious, Dave Barry, you can’t 

earn a living making people laugh.” 

Fast forward fi ve decades: Barry’s 

weekly columns have been syndicated 

in over fi ve hundred newspapers, he has 

written thirty popular books, and The New 

York Times dubbed him “the funniest man 

in America.” Oh, and by the way—he also 

won a Pulitzer Prize. 

“The Dog Whisperer,” Cesar Millan, 

shy and unpopular as a child, was teased 

by his friends for spending more time 

with dogs than he spent with them. They 

nicknamed him, “El Perrero” —“dog 

boy.” Since then he has starred in a wildly 

successful television series broadcast in 

eighty countries, written fi ve bestselling 

books, produced a line of pet products, 

established dog sanctuaries, and donated 

large sums to charities. 

Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and 

other genius inventors were chastised 

by their early teachers for not paying 

attention in class. Their minds were about 

other things. Einstein later declared, 

“Imagination is more important than 

knowledge.” 

From the Heart 

A Critical Gift 

by Alan Cohen 

let’s reframe the verbal and emotional 

arrows that others cast at you for not fi tting 

in, and regard them as arrows pointing you 

in the direction you were born to walk. The 

world rarely welcomes genius in its early 

stages; more often it is ridiculed. Jonathan 

Swift said, “When a true genius appears 

in the world, you may know him by this 

sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy 

against him.” Einstein echoed, “great 

spirits have always encountered violent 

resistance from mediocre minds.” 

Another way to appreciate your holy 

weirdness is to recognize that your biggest 

challenges can become your most helpful 

assets. nearly all successful teachers have 

risen to greatness by passing along the 

skills they gained through overcoming 

their undesirable traits. The founders of 

Alcoholics Anonymous had to get beyond 

their own drinking problem; weight loss 

teachers were overweight; yoga teachers 

were stressed; relationship gurus have 

had bad marriages; and on and on. Your 

biggest problems offer you the most fertile 

opportunities for personal transformation 

and service to others. So don’t criticize 

yourself for your problems or apologize 

for them. Turn them into rocket fuel for 

awakening, a dazzling livelihood, and 

world upliftment. 

You will gain far more by authenticity 

than by conformity. Conformity is safe but 

boring; realness is risky but empowering. 

After I gave a lecture, an audience 

member told me, “I took a course in public 

speaking, and as I observed you giving 

your talk, you violated eight of the ten 

rules of public speaking. But of all the 

speakers I have heard, you are my favorite 

because you are the most authentic.” I took 

his statement as a compliment. (I didn’t 

ask him which rules I broke. I refuse to 

spoil my career with training.) 

I know many people who have either 

quit or been fi red from “straight” jobs 

because they couldn’t survive as a cubicle 

dweller. Then they went on to become 

successful entrepreneurs, selling unique 

products and services they never would 

have developed if they remained in their 

cube. Sherrie Baxter became sick living 

and working in the rainy northwest. She 

contracted “Seasonal Affect Disorder.” 

In fi nding her way back to health, Sherrie 

discovered full-spectrum light bulbs that 

compensate for lack of natural sunlight. As 

a result, she now has a thriving business 

(bio-light.com) providing SAD sufferers 

with the products that helped revive her. 

In the new Testament, we are told 

that Jesus told a sick person, “This is not 

an illness unto death, but unto greater 

life.” Thus we might regard the barbs and 

pains you have been dealt for not fi tting 

into the cookie cutter mold. That mold is 

appropriate for some cookies, but not for 

all. 

There is nothing wrong with you. Selfcriticism 

is based on illusion. A Course in 

Miracles asks us to remember, “let me 

recognize the problem so it can be solved,” 

and then, “let me recognize that the 

problem has been solved.” 

Every experience is a gift, including 

criticism. If criticism is valid, you can take 

the feedback and improve. If it is not valid, 

affi rm your strength and your purpose to 

the contrary. Thank the world for criticism. 

It is your arrow to positive destiny. 

Alan Cohen is the author of many popular 

inspirational books, including the newlyreleased 

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Every day, throughout the world, 

millions of people go to their yoga 

mats and begin their practice of poses, 

breathing and meditation. In America 

however, yoga practitioners are eluding 

yoga’s true purpose while their practice 

becomes more athletic than meditative. 

In traditional yoga teachings, one of the 

most renowned yoga texts is Patanjali’s 

Yoga Sutras. These teachings begin 

with the most important concepts: “The 

quieting of the activity of the mind is 

yoga” and “When you quiet the mind 

you will abide in your own true form.” 

(Sutras 1.2 and 1.3) 

This, then, is the true purpose of 

yoga: to abide (live within) your own 

true form. What then, is your “true 

form”? Is it outward? The evidence of 

dedicated physical practice that results 

in a lithe, flexible body? Or is it inward? 

Quiet emotional poise in a noisy, 

abrasive world? 

Yes, and no. There’s even more. 

When you come into this world, you 

arrive with what is often called a “veil 

of forgetfulness.” This “veil” helps you 

cope with entering another lifetime. 

You forget who you were in other lives 

and you forget where you came from. 

You forget that everything is Shiva, 

the omnipotent divine reality or god 

or infinite being or Spirit or whatever 

name you choose. You also forget your 

true Self. You cannot remember that 


Plug Into 

Consciousness 

with Yoga 

you came from this infinite state and 

contracted into this finite form. 

With yoga, you can reconnect with 

Consciousness; you can pierce this 

lifetime’s veil of forgetfulness and reexperience 

your true Self as Shiva—or 

god, or divine reality. Every time you 

practice yoga or meditation you have 

an opportunity to connect to this divine 

spiritual knowing of your true form. 

Much like cell phones running on 

battery power: you can function well 

for a limited time, but eventually you 

must find your way back to your power 

source for recharging. Your “veiled” 

state is your “battery” state. When you 

experience your true Self, you no longer 

will be satisfied to run on batteries: 

you must connect to the Main Power 

Source—Consciousness. 

According to Kashmiri Shaivism 

philosophy, “Consciousness is the ever 

pervasive, omniscient, divine energy 

that contracts to create all energy, all 

matter, all things.” Consciousness is 

there to be experienced from the seat of 

your yoga or meditation pose. 

Have you plugged yourself in lately? 

First contact with Consciousness 

may be initiated in the pause. Pauses in 

yoga are between the movements from 

one direction to the next or between the 

inhale and the exhale of each breath. 

What is “the pause”? 

Margo Gebraski 

The pause is the moment or second, 

or even less, that allows you to drop 

into a calm and quiet state, beyond 

the activity of the mind when you are 

grounded into your inner being. For 

that instant, you begin to reconnect 

with your true form, not your external 

identity, but your divine essence which 

is you, as you in this world. 

Many yoga practitioners do 

sequences of poses that flow from one 

pose to the next, typically connecting 

the poses with the breath. When poses 

are done at an appropriate pace and with 

awareness, the flow can be more than 

physical and the pauses can drop you 

into a space of quiet. The space when 

you can connect with Consciousness. 

When your practice is more 

physically focused and you are 

following an instructor who moves 

you in and out of poses faster than 

you are able to keep up, you miss this 

opportunity to be in consciousness. As 

you attempt to catch up to the next pose 

you miss the most delicious moments 

of ease and peace. Your mind is focused 

more on the external pose than the 

internal effects and the pauses available 

to you. 

Then at the very final moments of 

the class when you are in shavasana, 

yoga’s relaxation pose, the opportunity 

is there to experience the pause and 

you drop into Consciousness. This is

the feeling that brings you back to your 

next class looking for more! 

The physical practice may be 

superseding the purpose of yoga, which 

is to quiet your mind and connect with 

your Self. It is as if you are seeking the 

most precious gem in the world, which 

is buried just beneath the earth and you 

continue to only look within the grass. 

If you knew that this priceless gem was 

just inches below you, would you dig 

and fi nd it? 

The initial contact with 

Consciousness is available to you in 

every pause in your life and your spine 

is the conduit of Consciousness. It’s 

just like turning on a lamp; the energy 

begins to fl ow from the base into the 

light bulb to illuminate the room. When 

you connect to Consciousness, you 

awaken the energy from the base of the 

spine and the energy rises to illuminate 

the higher sense of your true form, your 

Svarupe. 

If you do a more subtle practice 

such as Svaroopa ® yoga, fully supported 

poses are aligned for spinal release 

and awareness is cultivated. A basic 

tenet of Svaroopa ® is “Support equals 

Release.” You support yourself with soft 

blankets and simple blocks. In this safe, 

supported space, you allow the release 

of bodily tension surrounding the spine. 

In this practice, more time is taken in 

each pose, which then allows for more 

pauses. Awareness is cultivated in every 

pose to experience the change and 

transformation. The opportunity to drop 

into Consciousness is there in every 

pose. 

In Patanjali’s yoga sutras, mostly 

a book about working with the mind, 

physical postures are referred to only a 

few times as they are not as important 

as quieting the mind. In one sutra, it 

states, “Asana or poses are to be steady 

and comfortable.” (Sutra 2.46) Asana 

here refers to a seated posture. The 

physical poses of yoga are to prepare 

your body for a steady seated posture 

with an upright spine in preparation 

for meditation. Meditation techniques 

are used to quiet the mind. When you 

quiet your mind you abide in the bliss 

of your own true form, also known as 

Consciousness. 

In Svaroopa ® yoga, the spine and 

body are well supported to enable 

a steady and comfortable posture 

for meditation. You can try this for 

yourself. 

Sit in the middle of a stack of 

blankets, high enough to make your 

thighs level with each other and parallel 

to the fl oor. Your legs are crossed at the 

shins. 

Place a “wedge” of another blanket 

tucked under the fl eshy part of your 

buttocks to assist your spine to stay in 

an upright position. 

Use rolled blankets under your 

knees to stabilize your whole body. 

Then sit in the steady quiet, notice 

the pause, become aware of your 

breath and notice the pauses between 

the inhale and the exhale. If your mind 

becomes active, gently bring it back to 

the pauses of the breath. 

In this solidly supported pose, your 

sit bones at the base of your pelvis are 

the prongs of the lamp plug. Seated 

fi rmly on your sit bones, the energy 

begins to move from the tailbone at 

the base of your spine up through the 

crown of your head. You may feel a 

sense of heaviness as you drop into 

your inner Self and then an immediate 

lightness as this contraction of 

Consciousness becoming you expands 

out into the Universal Consciousness. 

There is a constant play of energy that 

you become aware of and you begin to 

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This is the second part of a two part 

article forecasting the future. In this 

article I am discussing the topics of 

Medicare and health care, our life 

span, attitudes toward death, our state 

of spiritual isolation, climate change 

and global warming, world hunger, 

celebrating holidays, the practice of 

rituals and what is America’s place in 

all this. 

I think that’s enough for right now. 

Some are trying to support 

Medicare and others are trying to tear 

it down. Both of their visions are of 

the past. Our future is very bright and 

includes medical breakthroughs we can’t 

even imagine now and they will come 

quickly. Medical technology is going 

to move in directions that cannot be 

envisioned now, but the developments 

will be spectacular and soon. The 

energy of medicine and healing is 

evolving rapidly and will make the 

debate over Medicare moot within 10 

years. 

Illness, including cancer, when 

evidenced in the physical body can be 

dealt with spiritually and medically 

and it will go away. now, illness has an 

energetic hold on us until we move to a 

higher vibrational level. 

Today, some hospitals and 

medical facilities are practicing healing 

modalities that were not accepted 20 and 

even 10 years ago. Acupuncture, energy 

healing, Reiki, sound and color healing, 

prayer and many other modalities 

are now being accepted by western 

medicine and that trend will accelerate 

as well. Some hospitals with heart care 

units are now painting the walls of those 

rooms green, the heart chakra color. 

Once the insurance industry catches on 

that these alternate practices not only 

work but are cheaper, the merger of 

Eastern and Western medicine will be 


Vision Of e Future 

Part 2 

By Walter Perschke 

well on its way to completion. 

Our life span is headed towards 120 

years or perhaps 130. 

That is good news for most people and 

the even better news is that we will be 

healthy throughout that lifetime. Much 

of our energy fi eld is subconscious. It is 

below the surface and we are not aware 

of it. As we raise our consciousness 

our immunity to illness soars and 

prevents many of the health challenges 

that we now experience. That higher 

consciousness brings with it the ability 

to manifest perfect health. That doesn’t 

mean we will live forever in these 

bodies because these bodies do simply 

wear out, and our soul may decide to 

move out and experience reincarnation 

once again. Our concerns about 

Medicare and health insurance will fade 

as illness does, and we get to decide 

how quickly this occurs by addressing 

the issue of the internal journey to our 

higher self, where perfect health lives, 

at a faster or slower pace. As with most 

issues, we get to choose. 

As our consciousness rises and 

illness falls away, our attitude toward 

death will change. The belief in 

reincarnation will rise and people will 

honor the life and death process with 

no fear. A new sense of community is 

emerging where everyone will be cared 

for and each has a role to play. 

Energy is moving in cycles upon 

cycles and patterns upon patterns. 

Everything is cyclical. There are cycles 

within a lifetime, birth through death. 

In a well lived life we pass through all 

cycles, life, old age, and death. now we 

have a fear of and a confl ict with death 

which shall pass. 

Assisted death will be readily available 

legally for those who choose it, but 

eventually, when the fear subsides, 

we will choose our own time to leave 

and prepare for it, leaving no mess or 

baggage behind. (See the portion of this 

article on rituals for more on death.) 

We are moving out of the state 

of isolation that we created for 

ourselves and we have been in for 

over 10,000 years. Our future holds 

a movement from the individual to 

the community. Communication 

technology is a partner in this. I hear 

the complaints of how people spend 

their time texting or twittering and are 

losing the personal contact and that 

is true, but it is also creating a whole 

new universe of community that is 

connected electronically. look at 

what has happened in Egypt where the 

demonstrators communicated on their 

cell phone and other devices about 

where to go next and where not to go. 

That was a community effort facilitated 

by technology that was not in use 10 

years ago. 

The fi scal cliff has not been 

resolved, just put on hold, and it is not 

looking good. There is a Hatfi eld & Mc 

Coy energy at work. The two sides are 

ready to arm wrestle each other over the 

cliff, and the country with them. neither 

side has the right vision. Old systems 

are no longer applicable anywhere, but 

both sides are not just struggling with 

each other, they are struggling with the 

old paradigm which simply needs to be 

abandoned because it no longer serves 

our current situation. Change is needed 

on both sides. Polarization is so extreme 

it may need outside intervention. 

neither plan works. They are both right 

and wrong at the same time. We need 

something new, outside of the box. 

The cliff is self imposed. Congress 

created it. It is real only because we 

say it is real. If we hadn’t created the 

cliff we would have nothing to jump 

off of. The focus has been on lack and

limitation. It should be on the incredible 

economic power of America and our 

ability to create wealth where none 

existed before. That creation will pay all 

our bills and debt if we can just let it go 

unfettered. The answer lies in creation 

of wealth, not saving it. Try and find 

a multi-millionaire, or especially a 

billionaire that saved their way to 

wealth. 

Will it be resolved, yes it will, 

but probably not in the spirit of 

bipartisanship co-operation but rather in 

the energy of desperation, and that won’t 

be a long term solution. 

Climate change, weather, and 

global warming are real. But don’t 

place much blame on humanity for 

the change, because we have very 

little to do with it. The earth’s core is 

simply warming up. We are actually 

experiencing the end of an ice age 

and the melting ice will have to go 

somewhere, so some areas of the world 

will experience flooding, and some, 

especially in the Pacific Ocean, will 

disappear. The eastern coast of America 

will also experience flooding and some 

loss of land, particularly the outer banks 

of north Carolina and parts of Florida 

and louisiana. 

We can’t prevent global warming, 

we can barely slow it down, but we can 

participate in all efforts at pollution 

control, conservation, recycling and 

minimizing the warming because it is 

good for the planet and good for us as 

residents. 

Shifting effort into adjusting to the 

changes rather than struggling against 

them is a productive idea. Changes 

in the construction of buildings in 

hurricane and tornado areas would be a 

start. no new construction in waterfront 

areas is another. 

There are other effects of climate 

change and they are called tsunamis 

and volcanoes. We have nothing to do 

with them; they are part of the evolution 

of the earth. We can, however, affect 

the path and density of storms like 

hurricanes and tornadoes. It requires a 

group consciousness to manifest these 

changes. Call or email me if you are 

interested in participating. 

World hunger, while a serious issue, 

can be changed. There is no shortage of 

food in our world. There is inadequate 

distribution and inappropriate use of 

food as fuel that is creating the problem. 

In some cases there is a lack of political 

will to get the job done. Again, this is 

a problem that we can solve and solve 

fairly quickly with resolve and effort. 

Professional sports! Do I have the 

attention of the men and some of the 

women in our reading audience? The 

good news for fans is that professional 

sports will be with us for some time. 

Professional sports dissipate aggression 

and we need that now and for the near 

future. As you can already tell, they 

are evolving along with the rest of the 

world into a safer format for the athletes 

and a more level playing field for all 

participants. 

The Olympics will grow as more 

athletes participate, but a shift in 

emphasis beyond personal goals and 

towards a more harmonious relationship 

with our physical bodies and mother 

earth will occur. It doesn’t seem likely 

that we will return to the ancient greek 

Olympic tradition of competing naked, 

but today, anything is possible. Our 

Olympics are a metaphor for a “more 

harmonious relationship with self and 

the earth.” And we will continue to set 

more records in the Olympics. 

Holidays and celebration days 

will evolve. Thanksgiving, Christmas 

and Easter will remain but evolve into 

a new tradition or form. We do many 

things “for old times sake” and those 

practices will fade and ultimately fall 

by the wayside as our own evolution in 

consciousness grows and expands. It is 

difficult to say which will fade because 

our collective consciousness hasn’t 

decided yet, but when change comes, 

it will be rapid. Part of that shift in 

consciousness is honoring and blessing 

the past while releasing it. Clinging to 

the past is like clinging to an anchor 

that holds you in place right where you 

are. no forward or expansive progress 

is possible, but the comfort zone it 

creates will be more than many people 

can let go of. There is stagnation in our 

civilization created by an underlying 

sense of fear, fear of where things are 

going and fear of change in any form. 

Where we are going is for certain. How 

long it will take is problematic. The 

faster the fear consciousness that exists 

is dissipated, the faster we can move 

forward in the spiritual expansion of 

humanity. The dissipation of the fear 

energy takes two forms. Those who 

are consciously endeavoring to change 

themselves and move ahead on their 

personal journey to their inner higher 

self and those who will simply leave the 

planet, perhaps because it has become 

too uncomfortable for them here and 

their soul decides to move on. 

Rituals will evolve. Some will fall 

away, some new will be created, and 

the rest will evolve for the spiritually 

and emotionally engaged. The power 

of the ceremony is much more profound 

in a group, or community. Overall, an 

increased use of ritual in our lives would 

be a healthy development and I believe 

we will see some of the ancient practices 

enjoy resurgence. One ritual that will be 

created is to honor the life of a soon to 

depart person, while they are still here 

in the earth plane. We will know 3 to 4 

months in advance of our death and that 

will be the time for this ceremony to 

celebrate the life. 

And what is Americas place in 

all this? America has a unique voice 

in our world. There are many regions 

of our country with different cultural 

and ethnic customs, but we are still one 

country. The uniqueness of America 

began before our Revolutionary War 

and continues today. America has an 

important role to play in the future of 

the planet as a beacon of freedom and 

example of democracy. We have played 

the role of world’s policeman but that 

role is coming to an end. Our world 

leadership role is not. 

America’s military will be reduced 

and its role morphed to natural disaster 

relief troops, who are welcomed world 

wide. 

There is no end point to change! 

We will create the end point, but we 

have barely begun to create changes and 

that process will take some time, and we 

will determine the end point and we may 

determine that there never will be an end 

point. 

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opportunity to know our True Self more fully, explore how 

we Love, and how we engage with Others and with Life 

itself.” – Ruthie Landis 

On February 9th I 

attended the Finding 

Your Way Home 

workshop hosted 

by certifi ed Body- 

Psychotherapist 

and hypnotherapist, 

Enneagram teacher, 

life coach, and 

Reiki master, 

Ruthie Landis. 

Ruthie Landis & Liz Wagele 

Joined by about 

50 fellow spiritual seekers, I was moved, entertained and 

educated by Ruthie, along with a variety of performers and 

guest musician, speaker, and renowned Enneagram author 

and expert, Elizabeth Wagele. While I’ve been introduced to 

the Enneagram personality system in the past, I have never 

delved into the study of this ancient mode of transformational 

technology. I don’t have the page space to provide you with a 

summary of the Enneagram, however I thought this humorous 

illustration written by one of the attendees, Reverend Liz 

Stout would be both insightful and entertaining: 

DE GUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM (Latin Translation: 

No Accounting for Tastes) 

ONES always chew 

more than they have 

bitten off. 

TWOS offer a bite 

to someone else 

fi rst. 

THREES take a bite 

of the best-selling, 

most popular brand. 

FOURS take a 

bite slowly and 

dramatically, hoping 

that others are watching. 

FIVES hide the wrapper so no one else will know what bites 

they are enjoying. 

All About Town… 

Finding Our Way Home 

Ruthie Landis 

The Ethical Humanist Society, February 9, 2013 

SIXES check the expiration date or read the list of ingredients 

before taking a bite. 

SEVENS do bite off more than they can chew, and proceed to 

chew it. 

EIGHTS may take possession of someone else’s bite, putting 

up a fi ght if necessary. 

NINES can’t make up their minds what to take a bite of; they 

take a little of everything so as not to show partiality. 

Did you spot your core self in one of the nine personality 

types described above? To further assist you on your journey 

of self-refl ection: Type 1: Perfectionists, Type 2: Helpers, 

Type 3: Achievers, Type 4: Romantics, Type 5: Observers, 

Type 6: Questioners, Type 7: Adventurers, Type 8: Asserters, 

and Type 9: Peace Seekers. When I fi rst arrived, I was wary 

of labeling myself as a defi nitive type, however as the day 

progressed, I could clearly see how we each portray one of 

the nine dominant features. You can, in fact, be a combination 

of two types. For example, I am a Romantic with an Achiever 

wing. 

As I entered the workshop hall, I was immediately struck by a 

fi gure that stood at the front of the stage. It was life sized and 

was wrapped in a dark and somewhat daunting black hood. It 

brought images of the grim reaper up from my subconscious, 

which was apropos given that the theme of the workshop 

was death and grief. While many avoid these subjects at all 

costs, I was impressed by the way the attendees delved right 

into their own pain and fear around loss. Ruthie opened the 

event by honoring her recently deceased father. Her heart was 

wide open as she shed tears in remembrance of her beloved 

dad. This heartfelt 

memorial set the 

mood for the rest of 

the day. Laughter, 

tears, pain and joy 

were all a part of 

the smorgasbord of 

emotions that were 

shared throughout 

the event. 

After Ruthie’s 

introduction, we 

were privileged to 

watch one of the 

Dr. Ann Cusak & Peter Maslej 

participants, 


Dr. Ann Cusak, do the Death Tango with her dance partner, 

Peter Maslej. It was both somber and dramatic, and 

again, added to the tone of the event. We then watched 

monologue readings based upon the nine Enneagram 

types that refl ected both their inner descriptions and their 

transformational journeys. The performers were powerful 

and true to their type. Most of the actors were actually the 

type they portrayed, and shared anecdotes and insights on 

their own personal dances with death and loss. After each 

performance, participants shared their own moving insights 

and experiences. It was very evident that, while we may all 

have different ways of dealing with death (or not dealing with 

it!), we all share the mutual pain that loss brings. 

One of the most touching moments of the day took place 

near the end of the morning. Having once been a professional 

dancer, Marylou Tromanhauser took to the stage and shared 

a chair dance that was truly inspiring. She had recently been 

diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease; however this debilitating 

disease showed 

no signs of 

stopping her. 

While the 

disease may 

have slowed her 

down physically, 

she remains 

a magnifi cent 

creative force! 

The afternoon 

was very 

interactive in 

nature as we 

broke into groups, 

joining with 

fellow enneagram 

types. I supped 

the sweet nectar 

Marylou Tromanhauser 

of creative 

expression with fellow dramatic, creative number fours. After 

we each briefl y shared what our recent experiences were with 

grief and loss, we wrote our own private phrase about the 

subject matter on a long scroll of paper. The scroll was later 

read out loud as a compilation of our myriad of thoughts and 

feelings. It became a loosely contrived co-creative expression; 

our composite eulogy. 

One of my favorite endeavors of the day was our fi nal project. 

Ruthie spread art supplies, magazine pictures, ribbons, and 

all sorts of fun items out on tables around the room. Each 

Enneagram group had a blank mural to fi ll in whatever ways 

their imaginations saw fi t. The room was all a clutter with 

busy bodies, fi nding manifestations of their soul messages 

among the art supplies. Ribbons, pictures, messages and 

nametags were all placed on each blank mural, and ultimately 

became montages that spoke our heart and soul messages 

on grief and loss. After we fi nished the exercise, we walked 


around 

Monologue Performers 

the room 

observing 

the 

messages 

and 

meaning of 

each mural. 

As I drank 

them in, I 

was struck 

with a very 

distinct 

personality 

that emanated from each. For example, the Perfectionists 

had a very thoughtfully constructed mural - symmetric and 

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As we approach Springtime, we are 

peeking out of the hibernating months of 

winter and beginning to stretch our arms 

up to the sky, maybe give out a big yawn 

as if to say, “Alrighty, I have had enough 

sleep. I am ready to be back out in the 

world and bask in the sunshine and 

dance in the moonlight.” This is truly 

what is happening internally with the 

enlightened human. We are waking up 

to so many truths. We have been getting 

downloads of information coming out of 

nowhere. The answers to the questions 

we’ve had our entire lives are somehow 

showing up for us. We have been 

seeking answers, searching for ways 

to not just survive our existence, but to 

live it fully. We were asleep, but now we 

have awakened. Now we see the truth, 

and it’s getting clearer and clearer. 

The time has come for many of us 

to break free from the “trying” and start 

“doing,” We’ve been reading the books, 

we have attended the seminars, we’ve 

listened to webcasts, all because we are 

continually searching for and sometimes 

fi nding the answers and solutions. 

We are seekers, it’s part of the human 

experience. We want to know all about 

this life here and explore the depths of 

our spiritual selves. But what do you 

seek? What answers to life? Answers to 

know who you are in the greatest form? 

Your destiny? What answers lie ahead 

for you to fi nd? 

What I am about to share with you 

is one perspective, getting you closer to 

the answers you seek. So, I invite you to 

come along with me on a journey as we 

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I’ve Got Your Number! 

Spring into Your 

Human Blueprint 

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travel back to a far, far away place, the 

place where it all began, prior to your 

being here. 

Before you got here, in your body, 

in this physical life on planet Earth, you 

sat down with the almighty Creator. Yes, 

you sat one-on-one with the Architect 

of Life and when you were asked to 

come into human form, you jumped up 

with enthusiasm and said, “Yes! Yes! 

Pick Me!” And so the creative process 

of inventing yourself began. Then you 

began to visualize the experience as an 

expression of the Creator on Earth and 

you were asked, what would you like 

to experience in order to evolve? How 

will you choose to contribute to the 

betterment of humankind? Who would 

you like to become? What does your 

potential look like in human form? 

And you deeply pondered these 

questions, imagining the highest, 

grandest version of yourself. Then 

suddenly the Creator exposed a beautiful 

beam of light, showing you the entire 

world, all the people in it and every 

form of life to choose from. You saw 

the beauty of the land, the miracles, the 

good deeds being done for one another, 

but you also saw the suffering that took 

place. And you suddenly felt the urgency 

of having your presence there. And in 

awe of it all, you began to weep. You 

could hardly wait nine months to be 

born. 

And so you got to choose. Your free 

will has chosen your existence. The 

good, the bad and the ugly. You chose 

it all. We were born with a veil over our 

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eyes that prevents us from remembering 

ourselves prior to being here, but we did 

bring that one important component to 

help us navigate our human experience, 

our free will and the freedom of choice. 

We got to carry that free will with us 

here so we can use it to choose again and 

again and again. Until we can remember 

who we are, our authentic spiritual self, 

that we are an expression of the Creator 

and why we chose to be here. 

While you were gazing upon all the 

amazing choices, you could see all the 

paths leading you to your destiny. So 

many to choose from to get you there, 

although you knew as a human, you 

would not be able to see them all, and 

thus realizing the opportunity to utilize 

your free will would come in handy. 

And so you got to work, mapping 

out all the aspects of your human 

experience; what you’ll look like; your 

personality traits; where you’ll live and 

what part of the world you will grow up 

in; what your gifts and talents will be; 

your mission and soul purpose and all 

the people, relationships, assignments, 

soul contracts to help you fulfi ll that 

mission. These souls, the ones you 

selected, all agreed to play that role for 

you while you’re here; the good and the 

bad, the ones who bring out the best and 

worst, the ones who remind you who 

you are and teach you who you are not. 

These are the messengers you planted 

here to remind you who you are and why 

you are here. 

Then you picked the two people 

(souls) who would bring you into 


physical form ... your mother and 

father, and they gave you ... your name. 

Your name has an energetic blueprint 

that decodes the characteristics of 

your human make up including your 

motivation, inner-self, expression, 

hidden tendencies, subconscious 

response to life karmic lessons and 

challenges. Yes, you chose all of it. 

Your plans are complete and finally, 

it’s time to select the special point in 

time that you would make your grand 

entrance, your arrival date, your birth 

date. And you carefully selected this date 

so that it will contain all the answers you 

have about your human life. This code, 

behind the numbers of your birth date, 

will lead you to your destiny. 

And you were well aware that life 

as a human would not be easy for you 

as you observed so many in emotional 

and physical pain and disbelief of their 

own spiritual selves. You knew life 

here wasn’t going to be smooth sailing. 

Growth rarely happens on Easy Street. 

You didn’t come here for simplicity. You 

came here to grow, evolve and to serve. 

And you set up for yourself 9-year 

increments, so in the event you’re not 

on track with your human plan, you 

arranged for some life-altering event 

(crisis, tragedy, illness, relationship, 

financial distress, marriage, divorce, 

death, etc.) to bring you back to your 

spiritual self and perhaps call to your 

Creator for assistance. Pain is a catalyst 

for change. And yes, you chose it all. 

The Law of Life Cycles allows you to 

hit the reset button every nine years; 

unfortunately, we have to experience 

some discomfort to realize/remember we 

even have a button to press. If you are 

not following your blueprint, each year 

brings you energetic support to guide 

you closer to your destiny. 

Yes, this is one way to look at your 

existence and if anything, it will take 

you to the balcony for you to get another 

look, a higher perspective, at your life. 

But now that you see and resonate with 

some truth in this, let me ask you ... do 

you have the courage to really look at 

your life as it was intended to be lived? 

And the greatest question of all ... are 

you ready to live it? 

There’s a reason why you chose to 

read this article. You asked, and I said, 

“Yes, I would. I will be a messenger 


for you and do my best to remind you, 

because I love you.” The blueprint you 

created, its available to you. The humans 

call it Numerology. 

By adding the numbers of your 

chosen birth date and breaking down 

the letters of the name your parents 

gave you, it will give you tremendous 

insight into who you came here to 

become. Numerology will also help you 

understand the events that have occurred 

in your life as you calculate the events 

and match them to the 9-year cycles. 

You still have permission to seek 

the answers to all of life’s questions, 

however, you must know by now, you 

were born with them and you’ve had 

them all along. 

History of Numerology 

For those of you who are new to 

Numerology, here is a brief history of 

how it began. 

The history of numerology is 

somewhat cloudy with no definite 

answer as to where it first originated. 

Egypt and Babylon are recognized as 

the locations of the earliest recorded 

history of numerology by the majority 

of numerologists. It was here that the 

Chaldean system was developed under 

the influence of the Hebrews. There is 

also evidence of the use of numerology 

thousands of years ago in China, 

Rome, Japan and Greece. The credit for 

modern numerology, however, is most 

often given to the Greek philosopher 

Pythagoras. 

Pythagoras was born is Greece 

around 590 B.C. and was one of the best 

known philosophers of his day. If his 

name sounds familiar, it is likely because 

you were taught his theories in high 

school geometry class. He was a very 

important figure in the development of 

mathematics, although little is known 

about his true achievements. 

There is very little recorded of the 

early life of Pythagoras, but it has been 

reported that he was a very magnetic, 

attractive, charismatic person and that 

everyone loved him. He is also believed 

to have won prizes for his agility at the 

Olympic games. 

When Pythagoras was around fifty 

years old, he established a school that 

was sort of a secret society in Crotona, 

Italy. The society was called the semi- 

circle and there he taught Mathematics, 

Astronomy and Music. The society 

was open to both men and women, and 

it is said that his students were made 

to adhere to a strict code of secrecy 

and were not allowed to put any of his 

teachings in writing. It has also been 

reported that his students had to go 

through a five year period of perfect 

silence which allowed them to reach 

a level of deep contemplation and to 

develop faith. Most of the little that is 

known of what he taught was written 

down after his death. 

Rather than focusing on solving 

mathematical problems like modern 

day mathematicians, Pythagoras was 

primarily interested in the concepts or 

principles behind the mathematics. He 

felt that the entire universe could be 

expressed through numbers, and created 

a system for this that was then further 

expanded by other Greek philosophers. 

Although Pythagoras did not invent 

numerology, his theories took it to 

a different level which is why he is 

often credited with being the father of 

numerology. 

Dr. Julia Stenton is credited both 

with raising awareness of Numerology in 

modern times in many parts of the world 

and with giving the name “Numerology” 

to the Science of Names and Numbers. 

Though numerology is probably 

the least known or understood of the 

metaphysical sciences, it is enjoying a 

resurgence in popularity. Today it is most 

often used to discover secret meanings 

and to predict the future. (Resource: 

AboutNumerology.com.) 

Characteristics of the Numbers 

You can calculate which path is yours 

simply by adding the numbers of your 

birthdate. For example: My birthdate 

is June 23, 1966, So I would add the 

numbers as such: 6+2+3+1+9+6+6 = 

33, 3+3 = 6 path. Always break down 

the number into a single digit. If you 

end up with a double digit with the same 

number, you came here with the option 

of a Master Soul Path. Here are some of 

the characteristics of the numbers that 

make up your human plan: 

Number 1 

Strengths: Independent, 

extraordinary leadership skills, very

ambitious, driven, goal-oriented, strong 

will power, courageous, unconventional, 

inventive, creative, original, pioneer, 

unique approach to problems, 

independent, individualistic, great 

potential for success, lone ranger. 

Challenges: Stubborn, dominant, 

impatient, selfish, egotistical, selfcentered, 

angry, aggressive, demands 

respect and attention, pride, need to feel 

in command, status and prestige, bossy. 

Professions: Entrepreneur, leader, 

manager, business person, inventor, 

speaker, consultant, editor, scientist, 

ideally you should be your own boss. 

Number 2 

Strengths: You are gentle, subtle, 

cooperative, tactful, diplomatic, 

patient, sincere, harmonious, love, 

detail oriented, kind, artistic, emphatic, 

intuitive, supportive, loving, cautious, a 

follower, humble and peaceful. You are 

considerate and sensitive to the needs 

of others. You sense what others want 

and how they feel, you are a great teamworker 

and an organizational talent. You 

have an eye for beauty and are often the 

power behind the throne. 

Challenges: Timidity, fear, low selfesteem, 

lack of self-confidence, paranoia, 

coward, obsess about insignificant 

details, dependent on others, depressed. 

You are vulnerable and easily hurt and 

you try to escape from all kinds of 

confrontation and criticism. 

Professions: Healer, counselor, 

teacher, musician, designer, architect, 

diplomat, advisor, researcher, secretary, 

administrative assistant. 

Number 3 

Strengths: You are creative, social, 

artistic, very positive and optimistic, 

playful, happy and fun-loving, 

expansive, diversified, inspirational, 

loves the limelight, imaginative, 

motivating, enthusiastic and uplifting. 

You have great verbal skills and a talent 

for self expression. You are a great 

communicator, you enjoy life and you 

don’t take things too seriously. 

Challenges: You are disorganized, 

irresponsible, conceited, talk to much, 

antisocial, jealous, moody, emotional 

and vulnerable. You can be moody and 

cynical, you lack focus and discipline 

and you might have difficulties with 

handling money. You tend to scatter your 

energies, often lack direction and it is 

often difficult for you to finish projects. 

Professions: Entertainer, writer, 

actor, musician, singer, interior designer, 

journalist, model, art therapist. 

Number 4 

Strengths: You are practical, detailoriented, 

self-disciplined, determined, 

organized, orderly, systematic, stable, 

conservative, hard worker, endurance, 

methodical, precise, reliable, punctual, 

dependable, honest, trustworthy, without 

artifice. You are the rock and cornerstone 

of an enterprise, don’t give up easily, are 

perseverant and a hard worker. 

Challenges: You can be rigid, stingy, 

stubborn, completely lack self-discipline 

or be too disciplined, judgmental, 

stubborn, too detail-oriented, bossy, 

overly cautious and too serious. You 

might lack flexibility and adaptability. It 

is difficult for you to deal with changes 

and you are often too conventional in 

your approach. 

Professions: Banker, accountant, 

manager, scientist, lawyer, engineer, 

mechanic, professional athlete, builder, 

general contractor. 

Number 5 

Strengths: Change, adventure, 

curiosity, adaptable, versatile, social, 

sensuality, passionate, charismatic, 

upbeat, good communicator, dynamic, 

explorer, persuasive, bright, quickwitted. 

Challenges: Lack of discipline 

and order, impatient, restless, easily 

distracted, rebellious, addictions, 

reckless, very impulsive. You might 

also be susceptible to overindulgence in 

sensual pleasures. Discipline and focus 

are the keys to your success. 

Professions: Salesperson, promoter, 

entertainer, scientist, travel agent, 

travel or food writer, life coach, actor, 

advertising. 

Number 6 

Strengths: You are compassionate, 

responsible, sacrificing and unselfish, 

harmonious and balanced, generous, 

kind, humble, community, family focus, 

charismatic and charming. You are 

also committed, protective, nurturing, 

domestic, community conscious and 

family oriented. You like to offer a 

shoulder for others and are a good 

parent. 

Challenges: Overly emotional and 

sentimental, overanxious, obstinate, 

sacrifice self for others, suppresses 

own talents for others. You have to find 

a balance between truly helping and 

interfering. Sometimes you are also selfrighteousness, 

stubborn and egotistical 

and you tend to dominate family and 

friends. 

Professions: Musician, actor, teacher, 

healer, artist, craftsperson, social worker, 

counselor, doctor, nurse, choreographer. 

Number 7 

Strengths: You are analytical, 

intellectual, focused, scientific and 

inventive, contemplative, secretive, 

studious, quiet, introspective, analytical, 

needs to be alone, meditative, spiritual 

and enigmatic. You are a seeker of truth 

and an accumulator of knowledge and 

wisdom. You prefer working alone and 

you need space and privacy. You enjoy 

solitude, but you also like to display 

your knowledge in public. You are an 

abstract thinker, you are self-oriented, 

a perfectionist and you possess great 

mental strength. 

Challenges: Intimacy might be 

difficult for you. You can be cynical, 

selfish, egocentric, withdrawn, sensitive, 

sarcastic, aloof, reclusive, lonely, can 

use drugs or alcohol to escape, overly 

reserved and suspicious. Maintain your 

independence, but be careful not to 

become too inward and isolated. 

Professions: Scientist, religious 

leader, philosopher, scholar, preacher, 

sage, teacher, inventor, researcher, 

psychiatrist, investigator, artist. 

Number 8 

Strengths: You are inspiring, resultoriented, 

powerful, ambitious, visionary, 

generous, perseverant, zeal, forgiving, 

broad-minded, money-conscious 

and self-disciplined, executive, 

philanthropist. You have the potential for 

enormous success and the possibility to 

accumulate great wealth. You are also a 

good judge of character a natural leader 

and a survivor. 

Challenges: You might be stubborn, 

intolerant, impatient, stressed, 

materialistic, greedy, stingy, impatient 


with people, bully, abuse of power, arrogant and reckless. You 

have the power to accumulate great wealth, but you are also 

susceptible to losing everything. You are a gambler, you have a 

strong desire for luxuries and you can fall for corruption. You 

have to fi nd a balance between the spiritual and the material 

world. Learn to use your power for the benefi t of mankind. 

Professions: Manager, investor, entrepreneur, CEO, 

business person, manufacturer, scientist, politician, fi nancial 

expert, real estate, politician, athlete, publisher. 

Number 9 

Strengths: You are socially conscious, concerned about 

the betterment of the world, humanitarian, service-oriented, 

idealistic, visionary, tolerant, imaginative and creative, 

compassionate, romantic, selfl ess and generous. are also 

giving, sharing, loving, caring, compassionate, patient, noble 

and aristocratic. You don’t mind sacrifi cing time, money and 

energy for a better world. You usually fi nish what you start and 

are ready to sacrifi ce without the need for reward. 

Challenges: You can be aloof, bitter, sad, selfi sh, blame 

others, withdrawn, distracted, possessive, moody, timid and 

uncertain. You are often unsatisfi ed with achieved results and 

you might get disappointed with life’s realities. You also tend 

to be careless with your fi nances. 

Professions: Designer, photographer, politician, lawyer, 

teacher, healer, statesperson, writer, philosopher, artist, 

physician, philanthropist. 

MASTER SOUL NUMBERS: 

Number 11 Illumination 

Strengths: Idealist, humanitarian, courage, power, 

leadership, visionary, inspirational, extremely high standards, 

decisive, sensitive, psychic, charismatic. 

Challenges: Egocentric, dishonest, abuse of power, dictator, 

selfi sh, loss of self-confi dence, late bloomers. 

Professions: Politician, diplomat, psychic, writer, artist, 

musician, inspirational speaker, teacher, astronomer, scientist. 

Number 22 The Master Builder 

Strengths: Inspirational, intuitive, ambitious, hard worker, 

practical, self-confi dent, visionary, idealistic, large goals 

beyond that of a personal scope. 

Challenges: Greedy, abuse of power, workaholic, rigid, 

stubborn, bossy, lazy, lack focus, too serious, fear, avoid 

confrontation. 

Professions: Import-export business, ambassador, 

international fi nance, CEO, fi lm director, political organizer, 

entrepreneur, leader. 

Number 33 The Master Teacher 

Strengths: Devotion, determination, understanding, 

wisdom, caring, healing, compassion, truth, protector, 

humanitarian, giving, romance, altruistic, leadership, 

responsibility. 

Challenges: Caring too much, taking on the pain of 

others, overly critical, doing everything for others, intolerant, 

disconnected, dictatorial and dogmatic, co-dependent, 


compulsive liar. 

Professions: Spiritual leader, doctor, nurse, counselor, 

social worker, social services, artist, musician, interior 

decorator, theater, prophet. 

Number 44 The Alchemist – Mental Mastery 

Strengths: Building group consciousness, wisdom, 

visionary, empowerment, individualist, hard work, joyous, 

insightful, honor, strength, leadership, abundance, selfdiscipline, 

successful. 

Challenges: Lack of personal discipline, abuse of 

power, rigid, insensitive, outspoken, critical, controlling, 

procrastination, lazy. 

Professions: Business, military, law, architect, builder, high 

fi nance, industry, manufacturing, government, psychotherapy, 

analyst, scientifi c research. 

Mystery Celebrity 

Last month’s mystery celebrity: A Universal sex symbol, an 

American Academy Award winning actress and fi lm director. 

She was named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress by Forbes in 

2009 and 2011 and often promotes humanitarian causes. 

If you guessed Angelina Jolie, you were correct! She is a 

Life Path Number 5. The key to Angelina’s personality is 

liberty. Angelina loves travel, adventure, variety and meeting 

new people. She possesses the curiosity of a cat and longs to 

experience all life has to offer. Angelina enjoys being involved 

in several areas at the same time as long as she isn’t tied down 

to any one area. Angelina likes change, new things and new 

horizons. She makes friends easily; her upbeat and frequently 

inspiring personality attracts from all walks of life. 

Next month’s Mystery Celebrity: 

A former American professional basketball player and 

entrepreneur, is also noted for his product endorsements. He 

also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive 

players in basketball. In 1991, he won his fi rst NBA 

championship. He holds the NBA records for highest career 

regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and 

highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). 

In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete 

of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth 

on the Associated Press list of athletes of the century. He was 

inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. (Look for 

the answer and a numerological overview in the next issue of 

The Monthly Aspectarian.) 

It is an honor and privilege to serve the readers of The 

Monthly Aspectarian. For a private numerology consultation, 

please contact: AngelTCarlton@gmail.com. A discounted 

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Science Fiction 

& The Art of Storytelling 

What Is Life? Part 5: Let’s Dance! 

Dragon’s Ring by Dave Freer. (Baen 

Paperback, January, 2011.) 

The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer. (Daw, 

July, 2012.) 

Dream Called Time by S. L. Viehl. 

(RoC Paperback, 2010.) 

Life Guards In The Hamptons by Celia 

Jerome. (Daw, May, 2012.) 

Firebird by Jack McDevitt. (Ace 

Hardcover, November, 2011.) 

Burn Notice (USA Network, June, 

2012.) 

“Let’s dance!” is a very famous movie 

line, but I can’t recall the name of the 

fi lm that fi rst used it. The cliché scene 

is two martial arts experts contending 

an issue. Eye to eye, in a showdown, 

one says to the other, “Let’s dance,” 

meaning, “Let’s fi ght.” Movie fi ght 

scenes are choreographed like dance for 

an esoteric reason. 

Dance, combat, warfare, chess, 

football, and all the board gaming 

and videogaming, even online games 

like Second Life and Farmville, all of 

these are metaphors for life that have 

“fi gures” like dance and rhythm like 

music. 

I explained how that works in this 

column in 2007 and 2008, in the series 

titled “The Soul-Time Hypothesis and 

Formulating Decisions” (www.simegen. 

com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2007/ 

index.html, and 

www.simegen.com/reviews/ 

rereadablebooks/2008/index.html). 

The reason fi ction “works” for 

consumers of stories has to do with 

the way a story replicates our reality. 

The similarities that are hidden the 

most deeply are the ones that affect 

us the most powerfully. Blake Snyder 

fi ngered that perfectly in his series on 

screenwriting: Save The Cat! 

The magical principle is “As Above: 

So Below”—an artistic piece that 

reveals the Above’s pattern is exciting, 

riveting, because it ignites the hope 

of understanding the Below where we 

struggle. Artists reveal the hidden forces 

driving the events in our world. 

Games are an artform, as is warfare. 

“Let’s dance!” is the invitation to throw 

down, to determine the philosophical 

truth of a matter that’s unfolding above 

by determining who the prevailing 

contestant is below. Does might make 

right? Or does right make might? Do 

the good guys always win? Or are the 

winners always transformed into good 

guys in spite of themselves? Or, as 

detailed in the February, 2012, column 

“Justice Part 2,” is that question a false 

Hobson’s Choice? There is such a thing 

as a Pyrrhic victory, isn’t there? 

Combat is a dance, the dance of 

life, as well choreographed as corporate 

negotiating or political maneuvering. 

It’s all about patterns, dance step 

patterns, the moves, the rhythm, the 

grace and coordination with a partner’s 

moves. 

I suspect this is why every time I 

analyze the natal charts of candidates 

for public offi ce, I see that they hit the 

campaign trail when solar arc transits 

to their natal mid-points are indicating 

by Jaqueline Lichtenberg 

peaks in artistic performance, not 

peaks in judgment. They’re inviting 

the audience to watch them dance, like 

two martial artists in a showdown at a 

tournament. The one who gets the most 

applause, or points for form, prevails. 

Watching carefully, the audience 

may glimpse that which is above by 

analyzing the choreographed moves 

below. This is exactly what the best 

novelists do. Some of the best are using 

the tropes polished in videogames to 

create novels with very broad appeal. 

Here’s a novel that Sarah A. Hoyt, 

whose work I’ve reviewed here, 

recommended to me. Dragon’s Ring 

by Dave Freer gives us a world with 

a Tolkienesque variety of intelligent 

creatures. Filmed, it would be as 

colorful and breathtaking as the movie 

Avatar. 

In Dragon’s Ring as well as in 

Avatar, destruction of the most precious 

and beautiful is the primary image. The 

motivations, as with the two squared 

off martial artists, show us that life 

“Below” is about power and dominance. 

This leaves us to infer what is “Above.” 

Dragon’s Ring shows us how those 

without power in their world can 

nevertheless achieve miracles worthy of 

a hero. 

Two equally matched martial artists 

are fun to watch, but even more fun 

is David vs. Goliath! Jim C. Hines 

has invented a David who is a tiny 

runted goblin named Jig in a world of 

huge dragons and immensely complex 

(realistic) supernatural politics. The 


three novels reprinted in The Legend 

of Jig Dragonslayer all feature this 

very likeable goblin who somehow 

wins despite the odds. That lets us see 

“Below” (in the text) that which is 

“Above” (good wins!) 

S. L. Viehl has this long-running 

series called Stardoc about an artifi cial 

intelligence shaped as a woman, who 

believes she is a woman, and who is 

a healer, and maybe a weapon, in an 

interstellar war. She fi nally unravels 

the truth about who and what she is in 

Dream Called Time, but that raises a 

lot more questions. This entire novel 

is a showdown, a set of climaxes to a 

long story. This is where the artifi cial 

intelligence gives that little smile and 

says to her opponents, “Let’s dance.” If 

you haven’t been reading Stardoc, start 

with the novel titled Stardoc. 

I’ve been following Celia Jerome’s 

In The Hamptons series since Daw 

sent me the fi rst one. It’s an ongoing 

urban fantasy story, so I recommend 

you start with Trolls In The Hamptons. 

This little town in the Hamptons is at 

the intersection with another dimension 

where magical creatures abide. They 

aren’t supposed to come over here, but 

something about Willow Tate’s magical 

gift attracts them. She can communicate 

with them by drawing, as she draws and 

writes graphic novels for a living. In 

Life Guards In The Hamptons, Willow 

Tate once again must confront the 

overwhelming forces re-shaping her 

life, against her will. 

Celia Jerome is using the structure 

of a typical amateur detective novel 

where each novel is a “case” that 

drops into the detective’s life (Willow 

Tate). The story is about how Willow 

Tate struggles to meet book deadlines 

despite the “cases” she has to cope with, 

solve, resolve via confrontation. She 

is resisting being manipulated by her 

grandmother. Often she ends up in a 

magical battle to protect the town full 

of people. Sometimes they help. Her 

compassion is her undoing. 

Jack McDevitt is doing something 

very similar, but in a more science 

fi ction interstellar setting where the 

“magic” is science beyond our current 

ability to understand. Alex Benedict, 

the amateur detective, is an antiques 

auctioneer, a fellow who buys and sells 


unique artifacts usually of artistic value, 

often with archeological value. It’s a 

profession akin to that of a detective, 

needing vast amounts of expertise, 

powers of observation, and Sherlock 

Holmes level logic. 

In each Alex Benedict novel, some 

artifact, or an estate that must be closed 

out, drops into his life. Benedict is 

famous enough to be a TV talk show 

guest upon occasion, so everything 

interesting ends up in his life! 

In Firebird, the sixth Alex Benedict 

novel, mysteries discovered in previous 

novels begin to be solved. Benedict has 

to auction off the estate of a physicist 

who is famous in the fringe-science 

community, perhaps the most scoffed 

at among the fringe crackpots for his 

theories about former civilizations in 

the galaxy. As Benedict suspects the 

truth, then proves it, we get a sense of 

a galaxy-spanning mystery emerging, a 

mystery that affects our ideas about who 

and what humanity is. The past matters, 

pay attention. 

McDevitt’s terse, precise prose 

creates a refreshing, fast-paced, hardhitting 

mystery/detective series as 

award-worthy as his Nebula Award 

work. You don’t have to read these in 

order, though it helps. 

From all these novels, it’s possible 

to learn to dance with adversaries 

such as advertisers, politicians, and 

others who are treating you the way 

the miscreants in these novels treat the 

amateur detectives—with misdirection, 

covert actions, hidden clues, and outfl 

anking maneuvers. 

One of my favorite TV shows was 

on again this summer, Burn Notice 

on the USA Network (Characters 

Welcome) season seven, I think. You 

can get previous seasons on Amazon 

streaming video, Netfl ix and elsewhere. 

Michael Westin is a spy—just like a 

detective who has to fi nd out something 

other people want very urgently to 

keep from him. But he’s no amateur. 

In the season opener in June, Michael 

has found the man who “burned” him 

(kicked him out of his spy job without 

I.D.). Michael and his friends leave a 

trail of explosions across Miami as they 

chase their quarry of several seasons, 

and fail to nab him. This leaves Fiona, 

one of the team, in jail framed for 

murder, and Michael at his wits’ end. 

The fellow Michael’s been chasing 

is a con artist who uses Michael’s 

love for his mother, for Fiona, and 

his willingness to sacrifi ce himself 

for the good of others, as weapons to 

manipulate Michael into doing things 

Michael considers evil. For the good 

of others, Michael has done things that 

make him emotionally unstable, one 

might say, that make him hate himself. 

He has to save Fiona by proving that 

this man, who was a spy boss with 

power over Michael, who may not be 

the only rotten apple in the FBI/CIA 

barrel, is the murderer. 

Burn Notice is plausible because 

the plot choreography replicates some 

elements in modern politics. 

Send books for review in this column 

to: Jacqueline Lichtenberg, email jl@ 

simegen.com for instructions. 

Tell me what you like and I’ll 

tell you what you are. 

—John Ruskin 

e meaning of life is to give 

life meaning. 

—Ken Hudgins 

A di cult time can be more 

readily endured if we retain 

the conviction that our 

existence holds a purpose - a 

cause to pursue, a person to 

love, a goal to achieve. 

—John Maxwell 

Outstanding people have one 

thing in common: an absolute 

sense of mission. 

—Zig Ziglar

In Print 

Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, 

Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner 

by Ellen Kanner. (New World Library, 

$15.95, Paperback.) 

The “hungry ghost” in the title of 

this book is a Tao concept, evoking 

restless souls 

still hungry, 

still seeking, 

even beyond the 

grave. We all 

have a hungry 

ghost that food 

alone cannot 

satisfy. We see 

this by the rise 

in obesity and 

the sense of 

disconnection 

from the very food we gobble. 

Spirituality alone doesn’t fulfi ll 

all our human needs, either, which 

is why we need to combine these 

hungers and learn to eat mindfully, 

in harmony with our natural seasons 

and in relationship with our families 

and wider communities. Feeding the 

Hungry Ghost contains stories that are 

centered on the seasons. The moods 

they evoke nudge us to think and feel 

more deeply about how we live now. 

Ellen Kanner knows that all the spiritual 

cheerleading in the world can’t get the 

average person to change their habits, 

so she offers bait, specifi cally, delicious 

vegan recipes from her personal arsenal, 

many of them re-workings of cultural 

favorites from around the world. 

Feeding the Hungry Ghost combines 

elements of humor, spirituality, cultural 

food traditions, current science about 

health and diet, and seasonal recipes. 

It shares the importance of food that 

nourishes both heart and soul while 

supporting a more sustainable approach 

to raising the food that graces our 

tables. She describes why simple 

choices can begin to change habits and 

alter behavior, how these small steps 

can lead to a healthier, happier person 

and a healthier, more peaceful planet. 

The Healing Power of the Sacred 

Woman: Health, Creativity, and 

Fertility for the Soul by Christine R. 

Page, M.D. (Bear & Company, $20.00, 

Paperback.) 

Four 

thousand 

years ago, 

women were 

seen as living 

representatives 

of the Great 

Mother, whose 

cyclical and 

potent energy 

gave birth to 

all existence. 

Today, this 

sacred awareness has been lost or 

distorted, causing a collective amnesia 

among women around the world. 

There is, however, one symbol of the 

Great Mother’s loving presence that 

has remained unchanged for tens of 

thousands of years: the physical body. 

Its curves, sensuality, softness, and 

monthly fl ow are constant reminders 

of this deep, loving connection. When 

illness appears, especially within the 

breasts and fertility organs, a woman is 

being reminded to return to her pure and 

sacred identity, where death and birth 

are essential for growth and love fl ows 

without expectations. 

Combining more than thirty years 

of experience in health care with in 

depth research into the history and 

mythology of the divine feminine, 

Christine Page reveals that women 

are the foundations of the birth of 

new levels of consciousness, without 

which the evolution of humanity will 

become barren and dry. Yet, such birth 

can occur only when women have the 

courage to reject the beliefs and images 

of the feminine imposed upon them and 

reclaim their true identity. Through a 

fascinating journey into the body, Dr. 

Page shows the importance of self-love 

and self-respect. She reminds women 

to reconnect to the potent and creative 

energy of Mother Earth, which gives 

power to the intuitive voice of the heart 

and nurtures new seeds of inspiration 

and enlightenment. 


Mothering from Your Center: Tapping 

Your Body’s Natural Energy for 

Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting 

by Tami Lynn Kent, foreword by 

Christianne Northrup and Kate 

Northrup. (Beyond Words/Atria, 

$16.99, Paperback.) 

Mothering from Your Center offers 

a holistic approach to women’s health 

that goes beyond simple healing to help 

each woman tap into her core feminine 

energy to live 

a creative, 

joyful, and 

powerful life as 

both a mother 

and a woman. 

Whether trying 

to conceive, 

presently 

pregnant, 

recovering from 

childbirth, or 

raising children 

today, we can fi nd hope, healing, and 

inspiration. 

Tami Kent shares the story of 

her own soul-fi lled journey from 

miscarriage to motherhood and offers 

effective tools to help women heal and 

thrive both physically and emotionally. 

She also teaches women how to access 

the energetic power of the pelvic bowl 

and connect with their feminine energy. 

We can learn how to strengthen the 

bond between mother and child, create 

holistic family harmony, and fi nd the 


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balance between work and home. Kent 

offers an intimate and comprehensive 

guide to reclaiming the energetic center 

of the female body to liberate the spirit 

and ultimately unleash the creative 

potential as both woman and mother. 

E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself 

Energy Experiments That Prove Your 

Thoughts Create Your Reality by Pam 

Grout. (Hay House Insights, $15.95, 

Paperback.) 

Don’t face reality. Create reality! 

E-Squared could best be described as 

a lab manual with simple experiments 

to prove once and for all that reality is 

malleable, that consciousness trumps 

matter, and 

that you shape 

your life with 

your mind. 

Rather than 

take it on faith, 

you are invited 

to conduct 

nine 48-hour 

experiments 

to prove there 

really is a 

positive, loving, 

totally hip force in the universe. Yes, 

you read that right. It says prove. The 

experiments, each of which can be 

conducted with absolutely no money 

and very little time expenditure, 

demonstrate that spiritual principles are 

as dependable as gravity, as consistent 

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as Newton’s laws of motion. For years, 

you’ve been hoping and praying that 

spiritual principles are true. Now, you 

can know. 

E-Squared proves the following: 

1. There is an invisible energy force 

or fi eld of infi nite possibilities. 2. 

We impact the fi eld and draw from 

it according to your beliefs and 

expectations. 3. We, too, are a fi eld 

of energy. 4. Whatever we focus on 

expands. 5. Our connection to the 

fi eld provides accurate and unlimited 

guidance. 6. Our thoughts and 

consciousness impact matter. 7. Our 

thoughts and consciousness provide 

the scaffolding for our physical body. 

8. We are connected to everything and 

everyone else in the universe. 9. The 

universe is limitless, abundant, and 

strangely accommodating. 

Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives 

to Mainstream Psychology by David 

Bedrick. (Belly Song Press, $17.95, 

Paperback.) 

In Talking Back to Dr. Phil, David 

Bedrick introduces a fresh approach to 

understanding disturbing feelings and 

behaviors. Using examples from the 

television show Dr. Phil, he illustrates 

mainstream psychology’s tendency to 

shame people 

into thinking 

something is 

wrong with 

them. He 

then debunks 

many standard 

protocols and 

“fi xes.” Drawing 

on provocative 

insights into 

such topics 

as dieting, 

sex, anger, addictions, and domestic 

violence, he goes on to present a love 

based psychology rooted in the belief 

that there is profound meaning in our 

struggles, which can come to light when 

they are compassionately reframed. 

Through the lens of a love based 

psychology, Bedrick tells us that we can 

embrace our authentic selves instead 

of attempting to fi x ourselves. He 

shows us that we can view humanity’s 

deviations from the norm as a refl ection 

of nature’s diversity. Recognizing the

larger culture’s formative role in our individual suffering, 

we can learn to experience the power and intelligence of our 

feelings. We can also learn to transform conflict into a catalyst 

for building sustainable relationships and begin to accept our 

greatest difficulties as our strongest allies. 

The Art of True Healing: The Unlimited Power of Prayer 

and Visualization by Israel Regardie, edited by Marc Allen. 

(New World Library, $12.95, Paperback.) 

The Art of True Healing details a powerful exercise that 

stimulates the body, mind, and spirit in creating physical 

health and personal success. Predating by over seventy years 

the current interest in the mind’s power to heal, this concise 

work guides us through what Dr. Regardie calls the Middle 

Pillar meditation—a technique that combines the mystical 

concepts of yoga’s chakras and the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life to 

create a simple and effective healing 

tool. 

“The first step toward freedom 

and health is a conscious realization 

of the vast reservoir of energy in 

which we live and move and have our 

being,” writes Regardie. “When we 

reflect on this repeatedly, and make 

repeated mental efforts to make this 

part and parcel of our outlook upon 

life, part of the hard, inflexible shell of 

the mind beaks down and dissolves. 

Then, inevitably, life and spirit pour 

abundantly through us. Health spontaneously arises, and a 

new life begins as our point of view undergoes this radical 

change.” 

Like few books before or since, The Art of True Healing 

provides both the theory and practices necessary for wellbeing 

and fulfillment. In this new edition, Mark Allen, cofounder of 

New World Library, brings Regardie’s work into the twentyfirst 

century—showing us how to unleash energy to create 

physical healing and, ultimately, healing in every part of our 

lives. He urges us all to try these exercises as this form of 

meditation definitely contributed to his health, success in the 

world, and ability to help others. 

The Two Truths About Love: The Art and Wisdom of 

Extraordinary Relationships by Jason B. Fischer, MA, LPC. 

(New Harbinger, $16.95, Paperback.) 

Some relationships last, others 

fall apart, and still others seem to 

thrive and grow as the years go 

on. The Two Truths About Love is 

a guide to creating this third type 

of relationship—an extraordinary 

partnership wherein each partner feels 

fully accepted and loved as they are. 

Designed over the course of thousands 

of hours conducting face-to-face 

counseling sessions with clients, 

psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk Jason Fischer’s 

unique approach has already improved the lives of countless 

individuals and couples. 

The two secrets to creating extraordinary relationships are 

simple: partners must give permission for the other person 

to be who they truly are, and take responsibility for their 

own reactions, behaviors, assumptions, and expectations 

of their partner and the relationship. This book gives us the 

tools to start giving permission and taking responsibility in 

our own relationships and offers strategies for letting go of 

dissatisfaction and habitual conflicts. In short, accessible 

chapters, we learn how to put these seemingly simple rules 

into practice to regain balance and peace in our partnerships. 

Answering the Contemplative Call: First Steps on the 

Mystical Path by Carl McColman. (Hampton Roads, $16.95, 

Paperback.) 

The mystical path is not some sort of static experience for 

the select few, says Carl McColman, 

rather, it is a living tradition, a rich 

and many-layered dimension of 

spirituality that is in large measure a 

quest to find the mysteries at the heart 

of the universe, paradoxically nestled 

within the heart of your own soul. 

McColman first introduced readers 

to Christianity’s lost mystical roots 

in his popular book, The Big Book of 

Christian Mysticism. Now he is back 

with Answering the Contemplative 

Call to show us how to apply the 

riches of the mystical tradition to daily living. 

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Spiritual Learning Center 

March Calendar of Events 

This hour-long Sound Bath will be comprised of a few minutes of Tibetan Singing Bowls at both the beginning 

and ending, with a Paiste Earth Gong in between. This event is called a “Sound bath” because you are bathed in 

sound, while remaining fully clothed in a comfortable position. Bring your own yoga mat if you prefer to lie on the 

fl oor. The vibrations of the Tibetan Singing Bowls and Earth Gong coax the brain into Alpha and/or Theta states, 

resulting in the autonomic nervous system switching to parasympathetic dominance. When the brain goes into 

Alpha or Theta it then slows our heart rate, lowers blood pressure, releases stored tension and toxins, and more. 

Join Danielle Dvorak for absorbing the soothing sounds of the gong and singing bowls. 

Location: Soderworld 


Guided Meditation with Walter Perschke 

Thursday, March 7, 14, 21, 28 • 7-8pm • Suggested Love Offering $5 

“Now is the time to build bridges. Because when the fl ood comes, and it will come, you 

need to be ready. It will be too late to prepare.” Walter Perschke 

Be a learner to prepare for the changes our world is experiencing now and the changes to come. 

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Can men and women really understand 

each other? Sometimes it seems like the 

wall between the sexes is impenetrable. 

At my annual men’s retreat last 

month, the difficulty understanding 

women became a central theme. One 

after another of the men shared his 

challenges with his female partner. 

During dinner on Saturday night, after 

a very deep and vulnerable day for the 

men, I was feeling the need to give 

the group a break for the evening – 

maybe do something lighter or more 

entertaining. One of the men and I came 

up with a funny skit. I would pretend 

to be his wife (who I actually knew), 

and he would try to understand and 

communicate with me. We came up 

with some pretty funny lines. Except 

we had no idea what was really in store 

for us! 

The evening program began with 

several of the men sharing their musical 

talents. Then I introduced my idea. I 

felt vulnerable, even though it was my 

intention to keep it light. It was still a 

risk for me. I found a feminine-looking 

scarf to put around my head. The man 

and I ran through our semi-rehearsed 

skit, some of which was funny, and 

some of it more serious. 

When we were done, another man 

raised his hand with a question for his 

wife (me), “Do I snore?” I instantly 

quipped back, “Only when you sleep.” 

I fully expected these kinds of silly 

questions but, without warning, the 

mood shifted with another man’s words 

to his wife, “I try so hard to protect you. 

I do so much to make sure you feel safe. 

Why aren’t we more connected?” He 

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Women” 

looked like he was on the verge of tears. 

Although his real wife might not be 

able to say this, I felt her answer and 

compassionately spoke, “You’re so busy 

being the strong one in our marriage, 

you rarely give me a chance to protect 

you. If you would only come to me for 

help, or lean on my strength, it would 

make me so happy. We would then be 

so much closer.” 

He started crying and spoke, “I never 

realized that. I’ve been so vulnerable 

here at this men’s retreat, but I don’t 

show you this part of me. Thank you for 

helping me understand.” 

My intention of a light and whimsical 

evening was turning into something 

much more meaningful. 

Another man spoke to his “wife:” “I see 

how afraid you are. I just don’t know 

how to help you with your fears…” 

I interrupted him, feeling what his wife 

would want to most say, “Rather than 

focus so much on my fears which, I 

admit, I maybe talk too much about, I 

need to hear about your fears.” 

Again, the message from the women 

(and the woman in me): stop attributing 

all the vulnerability to me. Be more 

vulnerable yourself. Rather than trying 

to fix me, which keeps me weak, let me 

help you, which makes me strong. 

He got it. And I found myself getting 

more and more energized. I was really 

getting into this special kind of roleplaying, 

which was turning out to 

be so much more than role-playing. 

Even though the mood in the group 

had turned very serious, all the men 

were into it as well. Somehow Barry, 

the workshop leader and the man, had 

taken a back seat. In his place was 

every man’s special woman. Even the 

single men addressed questions to the 

significant partners from their past. 

The next man addressed a former 

lover. “We had so much trouble 

communicating. You would ask me a 

deep question. I would start to ponder 

the answer but before I could even start 

to speak, you would ask me another 

question. This would drive me crazy, 

so I ended up wordless, and ultimately, 

woman-less.” 

I didn’t have to ponder long for an 

answer. The woman in me spoke, “I, 

like many women, am so clued in to my 

feelings that they always seem to be on 

the surface, easily accessed. I should 

have given you more time to answer my 

feeling-oriented questions. I see now 

that it just took longer for you to get to 

your feelings. Each time I got impatient 

and asked another question, it drew 

you back up to your head and you had 

to start the process again. This was my 

part. Your part was not stopping me to 

give yourself the time. Instead, you just 

got more silent. Maybe we would still 

be together if we both understood this 

dynamic…” 

What I “planned” to last perhaps fifteen 

minutes, ended up lasting one and a half 

hours. Every man in the room got to 

understand something important about 

a woman in his life. We ended with a 

little more music and then called it an 

evening. Except I couldn’t sleep. For 

the next few hours I was wide awake. 

I had activated my inner woman, 

my feminine side, and I actually had 

some difficulty getting back to my 


masculine side. It was exhilarating. I 

lay in bed deepening my understanding 

of Joyce, what she needed from me, 

especially my own vulnerability and the 

expression of my deeper feelings. 

I wish every man could have my 

experience of such deep attunement 

with the inner woman. I believe it 

would so much help his relationships 

with women. In the end, I deeply 

believe, as souls, we are both male and 

female. Taking birth as one sex just 

seems to partially eclipse the expression 

of the other sex. For me, it just took the 

Saturday evening of a men’s retreat to 

more deeply drive this point home. 

Here are a few opportunities to bring 

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Summer Renewal in Oregon; and Oct 

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Everyday Matters 

By Jeanne Spiro 

Country of Smart 

Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, recently said, speaking to Republicans, that they should stop being the party of stupid. 

I would broaden that sentiment to include all of us here is the U.S.—let’s stop being the country of stupid. As I see it, we are 

letting our greatness slip through our hands. Instead of wondering what we can do, and taking steps toward change, most of us 

seem to be oblivious, caught up in non-issues and the trivia of everyday life. Maybe we’ve never attained our ideal of greatness, 

but we need to change direction and continue to strive for it. 

We mostly hear about the rights and freedoms our form of government affords us. While those who founded our country 

were conscious of this, we’ve forgotten the responsibility we all carry to make sure this grand experiment of ours survives 

intact for those who follow. We all must begin to assume that responsibility in a bigger way since there are a multitude of issues 

we must deal with. 

The list is seemingly endless. The economy, privacy, food, health care, environmental issues, violence, prisons, treatment 

of women, veterans, immigration, poverty, corporate infl uence, loss of jobs, energy, banking, poverty, our deteriorating 

infrastructure, obesity and its attendant issues, children’s health, our broken government, voting, income disparity, education, 

wars ... 

Our representatives, government agencies, courts, media and corporations have dropped the ball; we’ve allowed them 

to, and things are poised to crash down around us. While I know that Aspectarian readers are likely to be well informed, 

most Americans are all wrapped up in silly stuff and are not paying attention. We are becoming the country of stupid. We are 

frittering our greatness away, while living under the illusion that since we’ve been on top, it’s a given that we’ll always be on 

top. 

It may look as if there are more problems than we could ever deal with, but I think they are due to just a few core attitudes. 

While these attitudes have always been around, they have been adopted by more of our population over the last handful of 

decades, they’ve infl uenced behavior and policymaking, and the texture of our lives has been changed dramatically. I think it 

would be smart for us to take a look at our attitudes toward Us/Them thinking, me-not-we thinking, and short term thinking. 

We suffer from thinking that somehow those in our group are different from, and less than, those in other groups. This is 

amusing for sports fans or college alumni, but it’s not great for rich vs. poor, educated vs. non-educated, color vs. not, resident 

vs. immigrant, old vs. young. We have to know that we’re all in this together, that the hopes and dreams of all of us are more 

similar than they are different. We’re all here, we all have a stake, we all have value, and we all deserve a shot at a good and 

rewarding life. 

Our culture has become very self-centered. In some ways it’s healthy to have freed ourselves from the bonds of the 

repression of earlier times, but now we need to grow to the next evolutionary step which is to understand that what’s best for 

the whole is what’s best for each of us. Taking another’s share of the pie is not only unfair, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it 

creates unintended repercussions. 

And fi nally, like in all things, taking a long view translates to more success than grabbing short term gratifi cation. We need 

to get into the habit of thinking several generations ahead. We need to replace what we take, establish systems that sustain 

themselves, and remember that the roots of the future are being formed now. Many of the tensions we’re experiencing in the 

world today are the consequences of thoughtless actions taken decades ago. 

As more of us keep these things in mind as we go about our days, we’ll soon begin to see positive results. The way we 

conduct ourselves, how we spend our money, where we choose to put our consciousness, which issues we choose to support, all 

these things improve the quality of our own lives, but also that of our country. If every decision is one that respects the dignity 

of all, supports the greater good, and takes into account the world that future generations will inherit, the transformation will be 

tremendously great. Seems stupid not to go for it. 

A note about last month’s article: BPA was banned from baby bottles and sippy cups last July; my apologies for missing this 

development. Contact me with comments or questions at jeanne@monthlyaspectarian.com. 



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