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Relationship Issues with being "Spiritual"?! ...

2008-08-01T19:00:56Z

Anyone having extra difficulty forming or maintaining relationships, as a result of being committed in their spiritual work?

I'm experiencing multiple problems, in that most of the women that I'm meeting just don't want to deal with even knowing about what I'm into, much less experiencing it. They seem to just want "normal" guys that help with the mortgage, kids, and investments. Anything that might cause them to work on THEIR stuff is way too scary to consider.

Unfortunately, I seem to have reached a point in my "spiritual path" that just being in the room with someone creates spiritual tension and forces some level of "shifting" in them. It's a kind of entrainment process, that isn't conscious for either them or myself. It would be great to find an attractive woman, who's taken care of her body, and has some spiritual courage. That seems to be a tall order, at the moment. :-/

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Practice Reiki one on one

2008-08-01T18:58:09Z

Hello, I've been attuned for a few months now and I enjoy giving reiki and learning more about my personal style. If there is anyone interested in a one on one share maybe once a week or every other week let me know, also if you have other skills we can totally barter whatever you see fit.
I live in NE, I do not have a table, usually practice with people on my couch or on the floor in my meditation/art room. I'm also up for traveling to your house if it's close in Portland, (I am car less and proud of it).
enjoy-
margarete

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cranial sacral

2008-07-04T23:51:12Z

I just learned cranial sacral therapy and want to practice and/or trade with someone (would trade for reiki also because I do that as well and massage)
I live and work in NW Portland and have weds and thurs off (also Fri morning)

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Reiki Circle in Castle Rock, WA

2008-07-04T16:57:20Z

Hello, I have a Reiki circle that meets once a month in Castle Rock Washington. Just about 1 hour North of Portland on I-5. The next one is July 31st from 7-9p. See my posting under Community.

If you are looking for a place to find out if you have the ability to do Reiki I would recommend my friend Judy who owns Spirit Feathers in Sellwood www.spiritfeathers.net Years ago when I was trying to figure out why I could feel hot and cold spots on people someone told me to go to Judy's Reiki circle and see if that was what I was feeling. Judy welcomed me into her Reiki circle with a big beautiful smile encouraging me along the way and has been a BIG factor in my path that I am now on as a Reiki Master (she gave me my first attunement) and vibrational healer. Along the way we have become great friends. So, if you go please let her know I said HI!

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CHOOSING LOVE INSTEAD OF FEAR (the only reason we're here!)

2008-05-21T22:32:01Z

The only reason we incarnate is to learn how to choose love instead of fear. It does not matter what you do for a living, where you live, or who you marry, etc. The only purose you have is to extend love to everyone you come into contact with, including yourself. This is how you BECOME what you already ARE: LOVE. The only way to restore perfect inner peace that is stable and unwavering is to choose to be willing to extend love to everyone you come into contact with, including yourself.

By "love" I mean unconditional acceptance. And by "unconditional acceptance" I mean God. By "you" I mean me. And by "me" I mean you. We are all ONE and we are all LOVE. And by "we" I mean GOD. And by "God" I mean LOVE...You get the picture!

The most amazing miracle has transpired in my life over the last 24 hours as a result of my own sincere willingness to be a vessell for love, to be a vessell for that which I AM, which is God. I wanted to share...

I put a profile on My Space about a month ago. I saw a woman on there named Joni Ellen Jenkins. This is my name. I almost asked her to join my friend list but hesitated and then did nothing. I had a very stressful custody hearing scheduled with my son's father yesterday. When I got home from the courthouse yesterday there was an e-mail from Joni Ellen Jenkins who lives in Pennsylvania. Her e-mail address is jonijenks@gmail.com and mine is jonijenkins@gmail.com. She had suspected that her insurance company had sent e-mails meant for her to me. Sure enough I had the e-mails in my box that day. We started to breifly chat and make small talk through e-mails. She invited me to join her friend list on My Space. One thing led to another and she told me she had cancer and is only a 40 year old mom. I am a 39 year old mom. I started writing to her from a spiritual perspective, and then suddenly I realized what was going on!

Here is the last e-mail I sent to her; this is incredilbe!!

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Dear Joni Ellen Jenkins,

Oh my God, I think that meeting you has been the greatest gift God has ever given me!

I have been trying to release all my own walls to self love, with perfect inner peace being the goal. I have made much progress but there was still a little bit of work left.

I went through a traumatizing custody trial with my son's father yesterday, but won. However the experience made me more aware of my own walls to love. When I came home from the courthouse I got your e-mails.

I know why I hesitated when I first saw the My Space profile. There was a timing issue. I was meant to make contact with you right after court when my own fears were so triggered and my walls to love were easy to see.

When you told me about the cancer my heart was flooded with so much love and compassion for you. It is always easier to see someone else's perfection and divinity than your own. It is always easier to see someone else's wall to self love than it is to see your own. As I was loving you and contemplating that we have the exact same name, Joni Ellen Jenkins, the reality that we (all of humanity) really are ONE permeated my consciousness. I had the profound realization that by deeply loving and forgiving you (Joni Ellen Jenkins) I was deeply loving and forgiving myself (Joni Ellen Jenkins).

The truth is that you are love, you are God, and you are soooooooooo powerful and perfect. All you need do is forgive yourself for forgetting the truth. That is always easier said than done. And all I need do is forgive myself for forgetting the truth. By loving you so deeply I have let down yet another wall to self-love and that is the greatest gift I have ever received. When I love you I love myself becasue we are, in truth, ONE. The fact that we have the same name is just a coincidence, but has aided me in dramatically shifting and healing my perception.

You truly are God--you knew exactly when the right time was to contact me so that the highest form of healing would take place for both of us.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU MY DEAR SISTER OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Joni Ellen Jenkins

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I hope that Joni Ellen Jenkins inspired you as much as she has inspired Joni Ellen Jenkins. I hope that LOVE inspired you to remember that you are LOVE. I hope that God is willing to allow God to remind God that God cannot be anything but God.

I LOVE YOU.

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Mind Body Spa in April

2008-03-05T21:24:31Z

Mind Body Spa
Intentional Eating Retreat
in Gearhart on the Oregon Coast
April 18-19-20, 2008
6:00 p.m. Friday to 4:30 p.m. Sunday

From food all creatures are produced
And all creatures that dwell on earth
By food they live
And into food they finally pass
Food is the chief among beings... Verily he obtains all food
Who worships the Divine as food
from the Taittiriya Upanishad

Intentional Eating Retreat provides space enhance our spiritual connections with food and with what nourishes us.

Presenters:
Satya Ambrose, L.Ac, N.D. graduated from New England School of Acupuncture in 1977. She co-founded The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in 1982, and finished her ND degree in 1989. She has taught oncology, immunology, oriental medicine, women’s health, endocrinology and environmental toxicology, and nutrition, among other topics. She currently is working on her 24-acre organic farm in Damascus , OR , and is working with the Chitari Foundation to open an integrative healing center. Satya will present “Food for Thought,” inspiring information to help us build healthy eating habits for greater vitality and health.

Jeanette Chardon, M.S.W., a counselor who has worked over 14 years with clients challenged with life-threatening illnesses, currently works with clients, both individually and in groups focusing on achieving mind/body health through counseling and alternative healing arts and practices. Jeanette will be leading the group in guided meditations for deep healing and profound relaxation. She also leads us in morning yoga exercises to increase energy and clarity of mind.

Kathy Schaeffer, LMT, M.Ed., is a Licensed Massage Therapist with a Master’s in Education. Her training includes Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports Massage, Trigger Point Therapy, Reflexology, and Hot Stone Therapy. She strives to help people connect with their body, to listen to their inner wisdom, and to find healing and wellness from within.

The cost of the massage is included in your registration fee. ******************************************************************************************************************************
Retreat begins Friday evening, at 6:00 p.m. and conclude at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. The cost for weekend is $280. Cost includes accommodations, 30-minute massage, and gourmet vegetarian meals (some fish may be served; special dietary needs will be accommodated). Discounts are available. Please call for available discounts. Please send $100.00, due April 4, 2008

Jeanette Chardon, 5827 SE Tikki Ct., Milwaukie , OR 97267

Additional information and directions will be sent upon receipt of your deposit. Please call Jeanette - 503-866-3192 with questions.

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reiki circles

2008-02-09T02:38:19Z

anybody want to start a reiki circle, or are you looking for more people to join yours?

i'd love to connect with more energy healers in portland, or.

rusty

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Past Life Regression hypnotherapy; still looking

2008-02-03T06:12:42Z

I am looking for a strong intuitive mediator that can assist me in my journey of regressing to past lives. I'm not looking for someone who specializes in helping folks to quit smoking, but more like a Dr. Brian Weiss mentor.

Any suggestions or referrals, personal experiences? Please direct my way....

Love & Light.

~eyefleye~

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Planetary Creatrix

2007-04-24T00:28:51Z

Greetings and Namaste'

I have been working with sound through the work of Tom Kenyon and Judi Sion for the last few years. For those of you who are aware of their work this may be information that you do have. However there has been a call that this information be distributed as widely as possible so I shall post it. I ask that you pass it along as well. I will be working here in Portland the day of 7-7 which will keep me from attending in person however on Sunday there is a call for us to gather wherever we are on the planet at the designated time and anchor the energy there. If you are interested in joining with me contact me. I will be checking into my profile for mail.

The Planetary Creatrix

From the Hathors through Tom Kenyon, April 15, 2007

You are on the brink of an escalation of intergalactic energies coming to you from deep space. As we have indicated in previous communications, this wave activity, related to the expansion of consciousness, is on the rise. Specifically, the expansion of consciousness has to do with a greater awareness of the subtleties and complexities of your life as terrestrial beings, but also as intergalactic and interdimensional beings.

One of the effects of these waveforms of energy from deep space is an increase in volatility—emotional volatility. As these waveforms increase in both number and intensity, they will increase irritability, sleep disturbances, irrational thoughts and behaviors. These will most likely be acted out between individuals, but also collectively.

These waveforms of energy from deep space are both a negative and a positive. They are negative from the standpoint of your status quo, of your habitual ways of being and operating, for these waveforms will break these structures down at the most minute subatomic and quantum levels. And they will create changes in your physicality and psyches. These challenges to your psyches are a result of your holding on to old ways of perceiving and being. The collective effect of this can be quite devastating to the old ways of living in this world.

The positive of these waveforms of energy from deep space is that they create an opportunity, a choice point in each moment as the waves pass through your solar system. The choice points occur as the waveforms strike the very energetic structures of your body, your mind, and your interpersonal relationships. The choice points are a collapsing of your old habitual patterns and an opportunity to rapidly and radically move in new directions.

In very real ways these waveforms of energy from deep space are like messengers that unlock and throw open the doors of your personal prisons. For a moment there is the opportunity for escape, escape from your own self-made prisons, whether they are personal, interpersonal, collective or global. The challenge, when the prison door is thrown open, is to recognize the opportunity for freedom. When the old ways of being collapse—when the charades that you have been living are revealed to you—don’t shrink from the experience. The old ways of hiding will not work, for a new energy is being released into the cosmos.

Your freedom lies in abandoning old ways that do not serve you. Again, this is true at the very subatomic structures of your being, through your “psychologies,” and through your relationships. As the waveforms become stronger—which they will—and as the period between the waves becomes shorter, it will feel like the pressure waves of consciousness are relentless, and in the face of such a pounding, it can feel like insanity or madness. Feelings of desperation will be on the increase.

But we wish you to clearly understand that your desperation is self-created and self-generated, as it is a resistance to the pressure waves of evolution, specifically spiritual evolution. If you seize the opportunities, the choice points, when your prison doors fling open, you will find a new freedom, a new way of living with yourself and with the world.

Those of you who are most sensitive to energy will feel this first. Those who are mired in the material experience of life and in their animal nature will seemingly, at first, be less affected. But as the pressure waves increase, so will their sense of desperation. And nothing feeds desperation quite as clearly as perceived threats to one’s survival.

In previous communications we gave directions for how to use the Holon of Balance. We strongly suggest you master the ability to create them at will. Your experience of life, in so many ways, is changing at an unprecedented pace. How you move through the narrow gate of chaos is determined not by the outer events of your life, but by how well your internal compass operates, your inner intuitive sense of direction.

In previous communications we have given suggestions for how to create ecstasy or bliss. Our reason for imparting this information is that ecstasy and bliss are vibrational fields that allow you to escape the lower vibrational field perpetuated on your planet. Residing in ecstasy and bliss, or at the very least, joy or happiness, independent of external factors, allows you to slip through the doors of your own prison.

From our perspective, which is from other dimensions beyond your third dimension, your Earth is engaged in an acute struggle between the forces that would imprison you and those that would liberate you.

We say this to you with greatest clarity—you are in the midst of a battle for your very souls, your very spiritual essence. For this is the greatest treasure that exists upon your Earth, not the gold or silver or diamonds, but the very ephemeral spiritual spark that each of you possess. Whether you are aware of your spiritual spark or not is immaterial; it is still of immense value. The forces that have imprisoned this planet for thousands of years are threatened by these waves of energy from deep space. They can be expected to do everything in their power to continue their domination of the human spirit. And yet, in the great dance of the cosmos, there are others who wish to free you, for in your freedom a great renaissance of consciousness can take place that will be a great benefit to the entire universe; and so it is that many beings from many realms—who hold human life as sacred—are here to assist you. We are just some of them.

Because you are at the brink of this massive increase of evolutionary pressure, this moment is a critical opportunity to increase the strength of light, spiritual light, upon this Earth. And so it is that we present to you our plan for the immediate future, and if you feel called and aligned with our vision, we invite you to join us.

We call this the Planetary Creatrix. It is based upon an interdimensional physics by which we can, with your assistance, send highly coherent and benevolent forms of energy into the energetic matrix of your planet. This work is made possible by something that occurred this last Easter when Magdalen called the seven great Archangels, and they, through this invitation and the co-creation of many people across the globe, descended from the realms of light into matter imparting their highly elevated vibratory fields of energy into those who participated and into the Earth itself. Within the Earth they planted innumerable seeds of light. They are scattered throughout the world. Some of them are time-coded and will increase their amplification of spiritual light over time. Some of them will be activated when specific waveforms of energy from deep space pass through your world. They are designed, intended to create choice points, opportunities for increased illumination and spiritual awareness. They are a direct counterpoint to the forces that would control, manipulate and imprison all life.

For three days, beginning July 6 through July 8, 2007, we are calling a gathering in Seattle, Washington we call The Creatrix. At this event we will impart fundamental understandings and techniques involving interdimenional physics and the ability to manifest into the third dimensional world. On Sunday, July 8, from 2-4 pm Pacific Standard Time, using the techniques we have imparted, all who are gathered will activate the Planetary Creatrix. We shall be assisted in this by the two earth healing sites we have established and by those individuals throughout the world who feel aligned with our vision. During this time, Sunday, July 8, 2-4PM, Pacific Standard Time, we shall activate many of the light seeds that were planted by the Archangels this last Easter.

Preparation

For those who wish to participate with us in the Planetary Creatrix, but are unable to attend the event physically, some preparation is needed. Essentially, what will occur during this time period of Sunday, July 8, 2-4 PM, is that you will use the central column of your subtle energy body to serve as a conduit for higher dimensional light and energies to pass through you and into the area of the Earth where you are located. This will provide the entry point into the planetary matrix, for you are standing wave patterns of Earth energies; and because your body is of the Earth elements, you possess, by your nature, the right and the inherent ability to impart energies to the Earth.

The more individuals who participate in this, the stronger the imparting of these highly beneficial energies will be. During this time period we ask that you set aside outer activities and for this two-hour stretch of time, focus upon the central axis, the central column of your subtle body and allow the higher dimensional energies to enter through your crown and proceed through your body into the earth. It is important, during this two-hour period, that you create an alignment of your own energies with the higher dimensional energies. This is done most efficiently by placing yourself in the Holon of Balance and by generating feelings of bliss and ecstasy using the methods we have given previously. For your ease, we will place the information on how to create the Holon of Balance and how to create ecstasy through the heart at the end of this communication.

If you feel called to participate with us from wherever you live upon this Earth, we ask that you begin to train yourself in mastering the Holon of Balance and ecstatic states, so that during this two-hour period in July, you shall reside in a state of balance and joy or bliss as much as your current evolutionary state allows you. For those of you who feel called to join us in the Planetary Creatrix, we bow to you. We bow to the many spiritual lineages that you represent and to the many intergalactic beings that you are, and we challenge you to step up to the higher vision of planetary service that this requires.

Practice and master the Holon of Balance. Master the ability to create gratitude, joy and bliss instantaneously, without the need for any outer condition. With these two dynamic fields of energy—balance through the Holon and ecstasy through the path of gratitude—you will be able to assist the imparting of these higher dimensional energies to your Earth for the benefit of humanity, and you will have a most interesting and compelling experience during these two hours.

This is a great experiment, a bold action involving the coordination of many realms of being. Nine days prior to the Creatrix, on June 29, 2007, we will give further and more detailed instructions for how to operate during this two-hour period of the actual Planetary Creatrix.
The Hathors April 15, 2007

Thoughts From Tom on this Planetary Message

I thought I would share some information with you that is not in this Hathor message, but which they (my group of Hathor guides) gave Judi and me upon further questioning.

For one, as they say in the Message, the consciousness-inducing-waves coming to us from deep space are now increasing in both frequency and strength (amplitude). The current wave that prompted them to give this message began to arrive in our solar system late in the evening of April 12th. This wave will last for approximately nine days (until April 21st). They told us to watch the news during this period, as there would be increases in irrational behavior, destructiveness and anomalies in our weather, and indeed there have been. Shortly afterward, a new series of waves will pass through our solar system and our Earth. According to them, each successive wave (with a few exceptions) will be stronger than the previous ones. In other words, we are not off the hook on April 21st. There will be wave after wave of consciousness-stimulating-energy that will pass through our world for years to come—that’s years to come, not months.

There are many ways to look at the effects of these messengers from deep space. On one hand, they are evolutionary catalysts that can free up immense personal and collective energy. The Hathors use the metaphor of opening the doors to our personal prisons—prisons being defined as our ways of living in relationship with our selves, with each other and with the Earth. If we are going to survive as a species, we must change how we are living. Period. End of sentence.

This is a great potential being unleashed, but it is also extremely disorienting. Perhaps you have experienced some of these side effects for yourself—sleep disturbances, an increase of irrational thoughts, unusual feelings of despair and/or desperation, extreme sudden and unexplainable fatigue, as well as emotional volatility. Important Side Bar: Some of these symptoms can also be indicative of clinical depression, which might need professional help. If these states of mind and body are not a constant, seem to come and go quickly, then they are probably not related to clinical depression, but may be due to the energetic effects the Hathors are talking about. If, however, these symptoms seem to have settled in, so to speak, do not come and go quickly, you might indeed be suffering from clinical depression, in which case you would do well to consult a mental health practitioner.

The Hathors don’t mention it specifically in this message but there are also feelings of physical disorientation occurring for many. These include feeling like the world is spinning (which it is of course, but in this case, the world spins or tilts at unusual angles). In addition, one’s usual sense of dimensionality (our perception of physical space and interdimensional space) seems to be changing or morphing somehow. If you don’t know what I mean by this, don’t give it a second thought.

While it is probably good to know about these waves from deep space and their challenging effects, that is not the main reason for this message from the Hathors.

They are putting out a Clarion Call to the world spiritual community. They are calling together in spirit, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, around the world to join together in what they (the Hathors) are calling the Planetary Creatrix.

For those who join us in Seattle, Washington for the actual gathering (July 6-8, 2007), the Hathors will prepare us for two and a half-days with specific sound meditations and instruction in the use of multi-dimensional awareness as a key to manifestation. This knowledge of how to manifest will, I believe, be of immense value to all of us, but on Sunday, the focus shifts from the personal to planetary service during the actual times of the Planetary Creatrix, which will occur on Sunday, July 8th from 2-4PM Pacific Standard Time.

My Thoughts On Preparation

For those who cannot attend the event in Seattle, the Hathors ask that you train yourself so that you can create the Holon of Balance at will (see instructions below). They also ask that you begin to train yourself in creating states of bliss or ecstasy. If you are unable to generate feelings of bliss or ecstasy at will, then the Hathors have given a method for creating ecstasy through gratitude and focusing at the heart (see instructions below). This union of gratitude and focused awareness on the physical heart creates a shift in awareness that eventually leads to ecstasy (if you stay with it along enough).

Now here’s the rub. For some people, due to unresolved emotional conflicts held in the heart, focusing on the heart with gratitude will often first bring feelings of sadness, anger, etc., to the surface of awareness. If this occurs, I suggest continuing to work with the method until the feelings are resolved or transformed. Repetition is a key to mastery. Eventually, this method will bring you to ecstasy, but you may have to work through some unpleasant personal material first. This situation reminds me of the story about a boy who was given a donkey for Xmas. He entered the barn where the donkey was, but all he could see was a big pile of manure. He said, “I can’t see it, but I know there’s a donkey around here somewhere.” So in other words, if you get a bunch of shit coming up for you when you focus at your heart, know that ecstasy or bliss is around there somewhere.

You have two options, depending upon where you are in your training when the actual Planetary Creatrix arrives. If you have discovered the pathway to bliss or ecstasy, then you would be resting in these highly pleasurable states of body and mind for the two-hour period. Most likely, if you are like me, you would create it for a few minutes and then your mind would wander off, and you would be out of it. Then you would just recreate it and do so as often as required during the two hours.

If you have not discovered how to create ecstasy or bliss at will, that is not a problem—so long as you have, at the very least, learned how to create gratitude. Then during the Planetary Creatrix, you would hold these feelings of appreciation or gratitude as much as possible during the two hours.

Essentially what you will be doing during the Planetary Creatrix is to allow higher spiritual energies to ground into the Earth through a central energy channel that runs through your body, from the crown at the top of your head down into the Earth. In other words, you act like a tuning fork, anchoring these highly beneficial energies into the region of the Earth where you live. (As the Hathors mentioned, we will be assisted in this process through the two Hathor sound temples, one in New Mexico and one in Costa Rica). In order for this to work, you have to be in a balanced and coherent state of energy. The Holon of Balance imparts a sense of balance, and coherency is created by feelings of ecstasy created through gratitude. If, when the time comes, you can’t create ecstasy through gratitude, then you can go into gratitude. If you are unable to generate feelings of appreciation and gratitude at will (see the instructions), then all that will happen is that the descent of spiritual energy will not be able to anchor into the Earth through you. Good intentions are not enough here. A basic level of mastery is required for those who desire to participate with us in spirit. And so…if you feel called to join us, I ask you to begin practicing the methods below. I certainly am.

This invitation is being extended by the Hathors to all persons who share a common vision as to the sacredness of life, regardless of personal belief, religion, philosophy or life-style. If you feel the truth of this undertaking, and feel called to participate, we invite you to join us. As they said in their message, final instructions for participation during the Planetary Creatrix will be given at this website on June 29th.

The Holon of Balance
From the Hathor Message of February 3, 2007
"We suggest you experiment with this; play with this, and master this very simple geometry. Carry it with you in your conscious awareness at all times so that you may create it at will, as needed, both for yourself and those you are connected to.
It is called a Holon, and the specific one we refer to is the Octahedron, or the Holon of Balance. Imagine yourself surrounded by a pyramid of light that extends above you and a matching pyramid below you. These are square-based pyramids, one pointing up, and one pointing down. You are in the center of this. If you are lying down, you are on the square, where the two halves of pyramids touch, and the pyramid above you matches the pyramid below you. You make this as large or as small as you wish, so long as you are completely enclosed within it.
If you are standing or sitting, the axis of the octahedron extends through the center of your body, so that if you were to draw a line through the apex of the pyramid through the center down to the apex of the opposite pyramid, this line would pass through the center of your body. This octahedron balances energy. It is the balancing of the male and female aspect of consciousness. Do not let its simplicity fool you. It is a powerful tool for balancing subtle energies."
The Hathors
Some Observations from Tom
The octahedron is one of five three-dimensional geometric shapes known collectively as the Platonic Solids. The octahedron has a total of eight sides, thus the root octa, meaning eight. The top pyramid has four sides and the bottom pyramid has four sides, and the bases of both pyramids meet to form a square. The Platonic Solids can be found occurring naturally in nature, especially in the form of crystalline structures, as well as atomic and molecular configurations. Esoterically speaking, each of the Platonic Solids has specific energetic effects. Some people have emailed us and asked if the octahedron is the same as the star tetrahedron, and no, it is not. The star tetrahedron consists of two triangular based pyramids, and they are not joined at the base. They merge into each other. The star tetrahedron also has different energetic effects from the octahedron.
When I first received information about the Holon of Balance from the Hathors, I thought it was pretty simplistic. But sometimes the simple things are the best. There is no doubt in my mind that this Holon imparts a feeling of balance and protection when it is engaged.

Further Elucidation on the Holon of Balance

We have received several emails asking us to clarify the Holon of Balance. First of all, this information is for those who have said they need a more basic understanding of this particular Holon (the octahedron). It is not intended for the advanced student of sacred geometry. I have purposefully kept this simple. And the reasons are two-fold. For one, you do not need to have a complex understanding of the Holon of Balance in order to use it. And two, many people are turned off by complex geometries. Since this Holon is highly effective and simple to use, I have chosen not to complicate matters. In other words, I choose not to go into detail about the subtleties between the various Platonic solids or the intricacies of working with them esoterically.
An octahedron is basically two square-based pyramids joined at the base.
The Holon of Balance is created by forming an octahedron of light around you through the power of your imagination.
It doesn’t matter what color you make it. The color may change spontaneously, depending upon your state of mind. Personally, I make mine clear white light, but that is a personal preference, not dogma. In fact there is very little dogma around this, thank God, thank Goddess.
The main thing is to make sure that you are completely enclosed in the space of the octahedron. If, for instance, you are lying down, the base of both pyramids (where they meet at the middle of the octahedron) will most likely be right underneath you. But you could put yourself anywhere inside the geometry. You could hover up at the top, or sink down to the bottom, or slide over into a corner. It doesn’t matter. And you don’t have to orient yourself to any direction in particular, like north, south, east, west, etc. There are also no prayers, incantations or special breaths required. The whole affair is quite simple. And this may be one of its many saving graces, besides the fact that it works.
If you are standing or sitting, the axis of the octahedron (i.e. the imaginary line that runs through the top of both pyramids to meet at the center), would, most likely, pass through the central axis of your body (running through the crown at the top of the head, through the perineum). But you could imagine yourself up near the apex of the top pyramid or down at the apex of the lower pyramid. In other words, the central plane of the octahedron—the place where the two pyramids meet to form a square—could be aligned anywhere on your body. Perhaps you will have it aligned with your heart, or maybe your head, or perhaps your feet. It does not matter—at least as far as its balancing effects are concerned. In actual fact, some alignments of the center square with your body (i.e. where the square passes through you) may affect you stronger than others. So I say—experiment! Find out what works best for you. Although I am being redundant, let me say it again. It doesn’t matter where you put yourself in the octahedron, where you orient it, or what color you make it. The main thing is to make sure you are completely inside it.
One final point about the geometry, since some people have emailed us with this question—is the octahedron the same as the star tetrahedron? No it is not. They are distinctly different geometries. Since I am purposefully not going into the details of the differences, if you are interested in further information I suggest using your Internet search engine to explore the fascinating worlds of geometry and its complement—sacred geometry. There’s a whole world of information out there just waiting to be discovered. And it’s all at your fingertips with just a click of your mouse!
In the message of Jan. 18, 2007, the Hathors gave some information about sending the Holon of Balance to places or persons in distress—in order to impart a balancing energy. In this instance, creating the Holon of Balance (octahedron) is very similar except for the fact that you are obviously not inside the Holon—the person, persons or area of the world you are sending the Holon to, is inside the Holon. In other words, if I send a Holon of Balance to an area of the Earth, I imagine this area inside the Holon.
You can send these Holons of Balance anywhere on the Earth you wish—or anywhere in the universe for that matter (if your belief system takes you there). Sending Holons of Balance is a kind of benevolent act, but there is a caveat—don’t mess with other people’s reality. In other words, everyone has a right to his or her own suffering. Just because you or I would like someone to be in a more resourceful state, doesn’t mean that they want to be. We all have a right to be sad, angry, confused or whatever, for as long as we want. Sometimes it gets a bit fuzzy. Maybe we have a friend or a family member in distress, and we want to make things better. But to project our intentions on others when it is not what they desire, is, I think, a misuse of subtle energy. And so my suggestion is to send the Holon of Balance not as an imperative or an imposition, but as an invitation, a breath of fresh air so to speak. If we send a Holon as an energetic offering of balance to those who choose to accept it, without attachment that they do anything, then we are, I think, sending Holons into the world in the right manner.
My suggestion is to make learning how to create the Holon of Balance a game. Play with it. Spin it maybe. Make it different colors. Find where it feels best to you to place yourself inside the geometry. Practice it at odd times in the day. Create the Holon of Balance in all types of places. No one will know what you are doing. Do it when you are shopping, taking out the trash, feeding your pet, taking a walk, or during those damned commercials when you’re watching TV. The list of where and when you can take a Holon break is virtually endless. The thing is to practice it enough so that when you feel off-centered—emotionally or energetically off-keel—you can, without thought, create the Holon of Balance. Then it becomes a great ally. It will be one of your best friends, and unlike a dog, you don’t have to feed it, or take it for a walk, and it won’t chew up your newspaper.
Ecstasy and the Heart
Hathor Channeling 4/18/05
We wish to speak with you in this section concerning the generation of ecstasy through focusing on the heart. We do not speak of the heart chakra in this instance, but rather we refer to the physical heart, the heart muscle itself.
This technique involves your focus, or attention, joined with the emotion of gratitude, or appreciation—which ever you prefer to use.
As soon as you focus your attention on the heart, you may notice a flow of subtle energy.
From our perspective, your focus of attention operates much like the central point of an energy vortex. This is especially true within your physical body and the field surrounding your body—your energy field—what the ancients called the aura.
Your ability to create a focus of attention is not just a cerebral, or brain, activity. It is an activity on many levels of consciousness. Wherever you place you attention within your body, or within the energy field of your body, there is an immediate flow of subtle energy to that point, or area, which has an enlivening effect upon the cells of your body, and/or the luminous light fibers that comprise your energy body.
Your focus, indeed, creates a warping effect at the subatomic levels, what you might call quantum field effects. These field-effects create distinct flows of energy, geometry and harmonics within you.
To alter the quantum field through the power of your focus is an important ability we urge you to master. Its applications are numerous, the cultivation of ecstasy being just one of them.
In this method, you use this ability to hold focus or attention, joined with the emotion of appreciation or gratitude. These two emotions have a coherent effect upon your energy field and upon the rhythmic magnetic emanations of your physical heart. This combination of focus and coherent emotion can be used to generate high states of ecstasy.
As we have said previously, the generation of ecstatic states of consciousness is an important evolutionary catalyst. We strongly suggest that you learn to create states of ecstasy throughout your day.
We realize that, for many of you, your daily life may not be conducive to the cultivation of such states, but we urge you to find times throughout your day where you can practice attaining these states for at least a few minutes at a time. A little bit of time spent in ecstasy is better than no time at all.
This practice will set up a harmonic or a relationship with the Earth, as a conscious living being, and with the harmonic waves of catalytic evolution that are flowing through your galaxy.
In this technique you focus your attention on the physical heart. As you focus your attention on this area, you generate the feeling of appreciation or gratitude. It is not the thought of appreciation or gratitude—but rather the emotion. In this method, thought will not activate the subtle energies needed to generate ecstasy—only feeling is capable of activating the energy vortices within you.
As you focus on the physical heart and generate the feeling of appreciation, or gratitude, a waveform of energy begins to flow throughout the body—carried by the magnetic fields of the heart, which emanate outward from the physical heart to encompass your entire body. As the flow of energy begins throughout the body, there is a spontaneous arising of ecstasy—cellular ecstasy.
Experiment with this technique. Sense what happens in your body as you focus upon your heart and generate these feelings of appreciation and gratitude. Physically feel what seems to be happening at the cellular level as the one trillion (or so) cells of your body receive this coherent energy of gratitude or appreciation.
Once you have established the ability to create ecstasy as described above, and once you are able to generate ecstasy whenever you desire it—at will—begin to experiment with your energy field—what some call the subtle energy body.
In working with this method your attention is, again, on the heart, generating feelings of appreciation and gratitude. And as you sense ecstasy beginning to arise in your body, you shift your attention to the field around your body. This field of energy looks very much like a luminous egg when viewed clairvoyantly. The wide part of this luminous egg shape is up around the shoulders and the more narrow part is around the feet. There is a central line or axis that runs through the center of this field, and it happens to also run through the center of your physical body—through the top of the head and down through the perineum. This line is the central axis of the magnetic field that comprises the subtle energy body. This body, or field, extends above the head and below the feet a few inches, to a several feet, or even yards. In certain highly charged energy states, the axis and subtle energy body can expand much farther than that.
By shifting your attention to this central axis and to the field surrounding your body, you allow the ecstasy to move out from the physical body into the field. This is very positive and creates powerful harmonic patterns that bring you into resonance with the waveforms of accelerated evolution that are flowing through your galaxy.
Do not underestimate the power of this technique. Though it is very simple, it is profound and effective. It will bring you into a higher state of resonance and vibration. And this is, from our perspective, crucial in order to pass through the energetic portals and transformational energies that your Earth is now experiencing and will continue to experience.
There are things we would like to say to you about your nature and your destiny, but they would, most likely, not be understood by you unless you are, at the very least, in a state of ecstasy.
This is because the reference point for consciousness is established not only by belief, but also by one’s emotional harmonics. And without you being in a state of ecstasy, it would be like trying to describe a sunrise to a blind person who does not have the ability to directly perceive what you are talking about. To such a person it would be a make-believe world you are describing. But if suddenly this person could see, he or she could sense the sun directly and verify that your description of the world was accurate. And what was once deemed to be in the realm of myth will now be seen as real.
And so we leave you in this moment with what may seem like a myth, but which we hold as self-evident. You are creator beings in the midst of creating your future and the future of generations yet to come. You hold within your heart a key to the Mystery of Mysteries. And the threshold, the opening into this mystery is through your capacity to enter ecstasy. Be bold and find your path, your way of living upward into this elevated state of being. Do know, however, the ecstasy is not the end of the way. It is simply the beginning.
Try the method we have laid out for you here. Experiment with the methods we have given earlier and that we will give in the near future. Enter ecstasy whenever you can. Know that when do so, you enter into communion with all the elevated beings and masters who have served and who are serving humanity. Know that when you do so, you enter into communion with your Self.
In joy and laughter, The Hathors
A Few Thoughts From Tom For Those Learning To Create Gratitude
Some people can immediately go to the feeling of appreciation or gratitude, just by recalling these feelings. However, some individuals are unable to experience these feelings without an outward “reason.” Nevertheless, almost anyone can self-generate these feelings, at will, with a little training. If you know how to re-create the feelings of appreciation and/or gratitude, experiment with creating them at various times throughout the day so that you can use the method the Hathors have given for producing ecstasy.
If you don’t know how to create the feeling of appreciation or gratitude at will, here are a few pointers. First of all, gratitude is just a stronger feeling of appreciation. We are also looking for the feeling here, not the thought about appreciation or gratitude. Thinking about it will not create the required energetics, only emotion will. Some people prefer one term over the other due to their personal history. Go with the one that feels more comfortable to you.
The first method of creating appreciation/gratitude involves your memory. Recall something, someone, or a situation from your past that made you feel appreciative. It doesn’t have to be something big. Anything that made you feel appreciative will work. As you recall the memory in detail, the feeling of appreciation or gratitude will arise. Then let the memory drop away and you will be left with the feeling. Focus on the emotion and sense how it feels to you. Repeat the process many different times so that you get the hang of it. Eventually, you will be able to recall the feeling of appreciation/gratitude without having to resort to a memory.
For a few individuals, there is nothing in their past that they feel appreciation or gratitude for. Believe it or not, this is not a problem. Simply create a fantasy of something that makes you feel appreciative. The odd thing is that your nervous system will respond to both imaginary and real events in similar ways. And the goal here is not to have something in your life that makes you feel appreciation, but rather to be able to just create the feeling (without having to have a reason). If you have chosen the right fantasy, you will find that feelings of appreciation/gratitude arise spontaneously. Then, just as with the memory method, you let the fantasy drop away, and then focus on the emotion. Practice this many times throughout the day, and eventually you will be able to recall the feelings without the need of the fantasy.
There is one more pointer in regards to the fantasy method. Sometimes, a fantasy of having something to feel appreciative about will bring up not just appreciation, but also feelings such as sadness or anger at not actually having anything in your life to feel good about. If this happens to you, then you must engage a degree of mastery and allow the “negative” feelings to be there, while allowing the feelings of appreciation to arise. In other words, allow whatever comes up to be there, while focusing your attention on the feelings of appreciation.
For most people, one of these methods will eventually allow them to create feelings of appreciation/gratitude at will. Practice the method that works for you as often as you can. The attainment of an appreciative or grateful state of mind and heart is the minimum that is required to join us energetically in the Planetary Creatrix.
©Copyright Tom Kenyon, All Rights Reserved, 2005 This article may be copied and shared as long as nothing is changed and Tom Kenyon is credited along with the web site www.tomkenyon.com

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Fellow sacred sensual healers here?

2007-04-17T02:32:12Z

Greetings.
I am returning to my path of healing mostly working with the kundalini, life force, sexual energy. I am looking for mentors, students, teachers in this work.
I am working with people to help remove shame, fear and general blocks within sexuality.
Also incorporating other types of healing.
I am working as an intuitive and not too locked in to any one way or teaching but recognizing that focusing on something like tantra gives a framework.
I am seeing there is a great need for this type of service.
Blessings!
<3
Goddess Oshun

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OregonHealers.org is live

2007-03-02T03:01:35Z

Check out my new web site http://oregonhealers.org let me know if you are interested in joining it email me at sheri@oregon healers.org.

Namaste`

Sheri

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looking for landing in portland....

2006-12-21T21:33:11Z

Hello...
I'm a sound, crystal and energy healer, moving from Seattle to Portland, looking for a home... a place of big love, presence, peace...where i can both meditate and rejoice. i love to sing, i play the violin, i laugh a lot...
please let me know...
thanks and blessings..
~Caitlin

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Forming Spiritual Support Group in Beaverton...

2006-11-08T21:49:35Z

ON-GOING SPIRITUAL SUPPORT GROUP FACILITATED BY JONI & MOTHER MARY

I am organizing a spiritual support group that will be facilited by me and Mother Mary (I am a professional channel for Mother Mary). We propose to do a group twice a month for approximately 2 hours. We will do some guided meditations and interatcive discussion with Mother Mary. The purpose of this group is to provide participants with on-going high vibrational light, love, healing energy, wisdom, and guidance to help you make rapid progress with regard to your own spiritual growth and healing. Often we go to a workshop or read a good book that makes an impression on us, and then the motivation and enthusiasm fizzles out after a few days or few weeks and mundane life sets in. Let's keep the momentum going by offering you external support every other week. Suggested donations of approximately $10 will be accepted.

If you are interested in participating in this support group, please send me an e-mail and tell me which days/nights of the week will NOT work for you. Let me know if you prefer days, nights, weekends, etc. The more feedback you can give me the better. I also need to find an appropriate space for the group to meet. We may start out at my apartment in Beaverton or the clubhouse here, and move somewhere else later on as the group grows in size. If you are centrally located and have a large space in your home for us to use, and don't mind holding the group at your house, let me know.

I look forward to hearing back from you! Thank you so much!

Rev. Joni E. Jenkins
www.SpiritRetrieval.com
jonijenkins@gmail.com

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Aloha

2006-09-19T02:53:16Z

My name is Asha and I am a Tantric Facilitator and couples communication teacher.... and I would LOVE to meet the local healing community in Portland. I am considering moving to Portland from Hawai'i. I am from seattle and I have always loved Portland. I would love it if any of you would welcome me to your beautiful city. I will be visiting on November 4th and will be staying for a spell...

My email is ashamelia@gmail if you would like to get in touch with me directly.

See you all soon,

Love,

Namaste,

Asha

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Reiki I Class - NE Portland, OR

2006-06-24T20:09:46Z

Reiki I:
Reiki is an ancient hands-on healing art that promotes self-healing, relieves disease and stress, and encourages an overall state of well-being. Experience the shift possible when you unblock stuck energy in your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual field.

In the Reiki I certification course, we will examine the history of this fascinating healing art, as well as the practical teachings to allow students to begin practicing with the energy right away. The main distinction between Reiki and other hands-on-healing modalities is an attunement process. This process allows the student/recipient to access universal energy. I liken the process to arteries being cleared. The attunement will open up energy channels in the recipient, allowing healing energy to pass through their hands. This is a very simple, yet powerful, process. Once attuned, we will practice on each other, exchanging healing hands. This class allows the Reiki I student to facilitate self-healings, and healings of friends.

Reiki I, July 9th, 2-4pm. $75. NE Portland. Reiki I Certificate upon completion. Questions/reservations call Jill at 971-998-7222 or email jahlstra@hotmail.com.

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CALLING ALL SOUND HEALERS, MASSAGE THERAPISTS AND BODYWORKERS!

2006-05-16T07:12:20Z

CALLING ALL SOUND HEALERS, MASSAGE THERAPISTS AND BODYWORKERS!

Your Light and Hands are needed from May19-28th for City Repair's Sixth Village Building Convergence.

Find out how you can bring your healing energies to the building sites, encourage the holistic health of our growing village and volunteer your services in exchange for free evening passes.

Opportunities for a placemaking work party where we will build a healing space within the central venue will be coming up next week. Get in touch for details!
Contact

Just
younjust@peacemail.com
206.948.0180

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Surrender into Union with God.....

2006-05-10T17:49:07Z

I just love this quote from Mother Mary and wanted to share.....

"Stop planning, be still, and let God's plan unfold. The same force that makes the planets orbit around the sun everyday is the same force that is in charge of all the events of your life. You do not get up everyday and worry about how you are going to make the planets orbit around the sun, nor should you worry about the details of your own life. God has a wonderful plan for you and all you need to do is get out of the way! Wait for God to move you, not the other way around."

--Mother Mary (channeled through Joni)

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Reiki I Class - NE Portland, OR

2006-04-22T21:58:26Z

Reiki I:
Reiki is an ancient hands-on healing art that promotes self-healing, relieves disease and stress, and encourages an overall state of well-being. Experience the shift possible when you unblock stuck energy in your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual field.

In the Reiki I certification course, we will examine the history of this fascinating healing art, as well as the practical teachings to allow students to begin practicing with the energy right away. The main distinction between Reiki and other hands-on-healing modalities is an attunement process. This process allows the student/recipient to access universal energy. I liken the process to arteries being cleared. The attunement will open up energy channels in the recipient, allowing healing energy to pass through their hands. This is a very simple, yet powerful, process. Once attuned, we will practice on each other, exchanging healing hands. This class allows the Reiki I student to facilitate self-healings, and healings of friends.

Reiki I, May 7th, 2-4pm. $75. NE Portland. Reiki I Certificate upon completion. Questions/reservations call Jill at 971-998-7222 or email jahlstrand@gmail.com.

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The Portland market (for "healing" work)

2006-04-18T06:08:34Z

OK, this is going to sound like a rant ... you've been warned. ;-)

--->

I'd like to know if anyone is making money (at least $30K/yr) in Portland, doing "metaphysical" work? This would include things like Reiki, general energy work, Tarot, meditation classes, or psychic information. It would NOT include mainstreams like acupuncture, massage, or anything that technically needs to be licensed by the State.

My contention - and I'll admit that it's become a prejudice - is that Portland is a lousy market for metaphysical "healing".

I'll concede that a few places/people who have been "working it" for at least 10 years have become icons in the area. Portland LOVES its icons! To wit:
If you want coffee, you go to Starbucks.
If you want to read or buy a book, you go to Powell's.
If you want beer, you go to McMenamin's.
If you want metaphysical books, it's New Renaissance Bookstore.
If you want cable T.V, Comcast is your only choice (Dish or DirectTV, for satellite - again, only 2 choices)
In each major category, there are only 1 or 2 choices.

The reasons for this low success rate for "healers" is both simple and complex. Here are the assumptions, and the reasoning behind them:

1. Portland is a city of addictions. This wouldn't seem very obvious, to most people. Portland leads the nation in the following categories:
Highest per capita adult book stores and nude dancing establishments.
High Meth rate.
Largest bookstore west of the Mississippi. (Powell's)
Highest (or in the top 4, at least) per capita Internet connectivity, per household.
For at least one Native American tribe, the word "Willamette" (river) means "river of sorrows". Seems that the natives have always believed that people come to this area to heal, and having succeeded, are expected to leave. This area, according to the lore, is a mecca for the "damaged".
People here LOVE to "medicate". They drink (alcohol & coffee), read, take drugs, smoke, and protest to avoid doing work on themselves.

2. The "Body, Mind & Spirit Expo" (bmse.net) attracts a lot of people to its biannual event. However, the speakers and vendors are long on "services" and short on "tools". (Just TRY to find a decent selection of crystals in this town!) People here, especially, want quick fixes that don't cost them anything. They want to "hire" the effort, or want to take some pill, class, or buy some pendant that will make it all better. It's about feeling better, not being better. For example ...

3. The Portland area is heavy on East Indian and Buddist teachings - in that order. Guru's and maharishis, swamis are the order of the day. Portlanders want to find someone to give over their will and personal responsibilities to - PLEASE take responsibility for our karma, swami. We'll pay you (with the procedes from the sale of our house and personal belongings) to tell us what to think and believe. (Remember Rashneespuram? Many of those people still live around here.)
If all else fails, meditate on it with other Buddhists. ... Oh, and you can buy all of your Buddhist trinkets at New Ren.

Rant over ... Whew! That's better. ;-)

So, anyone care to rebut my assertions? I'd really like to hear from someone who "made it" (makes at least $30,000/yr) here, and did it in less than 5 years. 'Cause, I know several "prominent" metaphysical people who seem to have realized the folly of trying to make money in Portland plying their trade and have taken "regular" jobs in order to keep afloat.

-- Patrick

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Meditation ... which flavor?

2006-02-17T19:39:50Z

(Rev.) Joni's event post reminded me that people use the word "meditation" very casually. I often assume that people who say "meditation" mean the Buddist/East Indian "lotus position" variety. The Maharishi seems to have gotten early exposure with that style (TM) and it seems to have stuck.

Anybody practice meditation using any OTHER style?

I have had exposure to the Chinese "Standing Meditation" (Zhan Zuang), as well as the Tibetan version. I find either to be helpful, as well as conferring many benefits that TM-style meditation doesn't touch. I like it so much that I have become certified to teach the Tibetan version.

Thoughts??

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essential oils

2005-12-12T18:31:00Z

Is anyone interested in the healing powers of essential oils? I have some amazing, pure, high grade oils that are used medicinally. They are from france where regualr doctors use essential oils instead of medicines. Write back if you want to know more or could share anything. Kaya

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New arrival to Portland

2005-10-10T17:18:33Z

Hi
I have moved to Portland, and am looking for a place to live, with some cool people. I am an artist and reiki master. I am looking for a roommate situation. If you have any suggestions or hear of anything, please message me.
Thanks!
Jill

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Reiki Level One class special - $50

2005-08-16T20:01:57Z

Hello there Fellow Portland healers.
My name is Brian Rohr and I am
a Reiki Master and Massage Therapist
with a practice at the centerRing
who is beginning to teach
Reiki Level One classes to the public.

In order to celebrate this,
I am offering a special deal:

Throughout the month of September
I will be offering the class for only $50!
(it is normally $100-$250 for Reiki level one)

In October the price will be raised to $75,
and then November and on will be at $100.

I will be teaching almost every Saturday,
and will be accepting a maximum of
4 students per class.
It is a one day (full day) class.

If you are interested in taking this step,
and inviting Reiki to be a part of your life,
or if you have any questions at all,
Please email me at:

reikirohr@yahoo.com

or call: 503.621.6054

At that time,
I will provide you with
specific dates, times and details.

What is Reiki?
Reiki is a unique form of energetic healing
that has the ability to bring about
balance and harmony in one's life.
The word Reiki is often used to mean
"Universal Life Force Energy."
or “Spirit Driven Life Force Energy”
The word also describes a system of energy work
that is simple and gentle, yet very profound,
which was developed during the nineteenth century
in Japan by a man named Dr. Mikao Usui.

What is Reiki used for?
Some benefits of Reiki can include
support during times of depression,
giving relief from chronic pain and illness,
helping to reduce stress and anxiety,
and helping to provide support during times of transition.
Most importantly, Reiki is very useful in helping one
get more in touch with their spiritual self.

How is Reiki Taught?
Reiki is not taught in the usual way
of many healing modalities.
The gift of Reiki is transferred
from Master to student in a process called an attunement.
During this process, the Master helps
to open up the students energy field,
and create a permanent link to the source of Reiki.
One this link is created and you have Reiki,
you have it for life, it will never fade or go away.
The rest of the class is used to teach
about what Reiki is and it’s history,
and how to use this wonderful, loving energy.

A little of my background:
I have had the fortunate experience
to study with three distinct and amazing
Reiki Masters during my journey from
first learning Reiki to becoming a Master myself.
Reiki Level One was with Maurita J. Murphy
at the Choosehealing School of Reiki in Cornwall, England.
My Reiki Level Two Master was April Orem,
here in Portland, Oregon.
And I have had the privilege to
be trained as a Reiki Master under William Lee Rand,
a known figure in the Reiki community
who founded The International Center for Reiki Training,
and is the founder and editor of Reiki News Magazine.

Take care,
and with love and light,
and Reiki blessings,

Brian J. Rohr, LMT #11832
Reiki Master and Massage Therapist
503.621.6054
reikirohr@yahoo.com

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Sociability

2005-06-12T02:23:29Z

The New York Times April 30, 1996

Illuminating How Bodies Are Built for Sociability

By NATALIE ANGIER

[W] ASHINGTON

-- The most vicious and mulish winter in memory finally behind us, let
us
now praise gentleness, in temperature and temperament alike. For as
much
as people must compete for status or global markets, they need
sociability, affection, love. These are not options in life, or
sentimental trimmings; they are part of the species survival kit.

Children who are not held or given love when young may grow up into
disturbed, scared and sometimes dangerous people. Adults who isolate
themselves from the world, refusing to so much as own a pet, are
likelier
to die at a comparatively young age than those who cultivate
companionship. This unshakable dependence on others is not confined to
humans, but extends to any creature designed for group living.
Carnivores
need meat, migratory animals need motion, and social animals must
socialize.

The importance among a wide variety of species of comity and
friendship,
grooming sessions and peacemaking gestures, and what one researcher
wryly
dubbed nature's original "family values," received its celebratory due
at
an unusual conference held here recently at Georgetown University. The
meeting, called "The Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation," was
organized by the New York Academy of Sciences to address a subject long
neglected and even scorned in scientific circles: the biology of
benevolence.

In the thematically broad embrace of the conference, scientists
discussed
the rituals of reconciliation and solace that chimpanzees and other
nonhuman primates engage in after a nasty fight that threatens social
ties: gestures like holding out a hand to shake and make up, or hugging
and grooming, or mouth-to-mouth kissing. The researchers considered the
neural and hormonal differences between the rodent species that form
inseparable pairs and those that prefer to go it alone. They explored
instances of humans who are unable to love or connect with others, the
sorrowful outcome of neuropsychiatric disorders like autism and
schizophrenia.

Throughout the meeting, scientists made clear what may at first seem
counterintuitive, that the capacity to be pleasant toward a fellow
creature is in a sense hard work. It is not the default mode. Instead,
affiliative behavior requires a hormonal and neural substrate, an
activation of circuitry every bit as intricate as the mechanisms
controlling the body's ability to fight an opponent or flee from
danger.

Dr. Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg, of the Karolinska Institute division of
physiology and pharmacology in Stockholm, made the point graphically by
displaying opposing slides, one of a fierce, snarling battle-ready man,
fists cocked, and the other of a nursing Virgin Mary, she of the
exposed
breast and benignant mien. The warrior's so-called stress circuitry is
indicated and labeled. The levels of fight-or-flight hormones like
cortisol and epinephrineare surging, his heart rate has accelerated,
his
blood pressure and blood sugar are soaring, and any gastrointestinal
activity that could divert energy from his muscles has ceased. All in
all,
he is in a state of physiological catabolism, a mobilization and
breaking
down of the body's energy stores for the business of attacking an
enemy.

Of the calm Madonna circuitry -- the physical condition that defines a
woman who is nurturing her baby -- comparatively less is known, Dr.
Uvnas-Moberg said, but researchers are beginning to flesh out the
details.
In a lactating woman, anabolism replaces catabolism: the emphasis is on
building up rather than tearing apart. Insulin levels mount, the better
to
pull sugar from the blood and store it in cells; so, too, do the
concentrations of gastric acids and hormones like gastrin and
cholecystokinin, all of which aid in efficient digestion and the
transfer
of energy from food to the body and to breast milk.

Within minutes after beginning a bout of nursing, the mother's cortisol
levels subside and her blood pressure drops, fostering a sense of
relaxation that keeps her willingly quiescent for as long as it takes
to
sate her child; at the same time, the blood vessels of her chest
dilate,
which turns her into a living space heater to warm the suckling infant.

If the fight-or-flight response is seen as a strengthening of the
distinction between self and the other -- a tightening of the body's
response mechanisms, like springs compressed into a box -- then the
affiliative, nurturing circuitry suggests an opening up, an expansion
of
self toward others, and a trading of anxiety for at least a momentary
state of quiet joy.

Orchestrating this broad suite of maternal responses, Dr. Uvnas-Moberg
said, is the hormone called oxytocin. A small yet gorgeously powerful
peptide hormone originating in the hypothalamus deep within the brain,
oxytocin is the hormone that acts as a muscle contractor and gets milk
flowing from the breast in the first place. But, beyond simply
releasing
breast milk, it modulates the many accompanying changes in body and
behavior.

Oxytocin was in fact the hormonal luminary of the conference, coming up
repeatedly in discussions of nearly every type of animal bonding:
parental, fraternal, sexual and even the capacity to soothe one's self.
Dr. C.Sue Carter of the University of Maryland in College Park, one of
the
organizers of the conference, is renowned in the field of oxytocin
research. She suggested in her talk that oxytocin might have played an
essential role in the evolution of social behavior, particularly for
mammals.

"The neuroendocrinology of lactation may be important to the wiring of
the
mammalian brain," she said. "Its development was revolutionary."

Oxytocin's first and strongest role may have been in helping to forge
the
mother-infant bond. But its ability to influence brain circuitry may
have
been co-opted to serve other affiliative purposes that allowed the
formation of alliances and partnerships, thus hastening the evolution
of
advanced cognitive skills.

Carter also emphasized that the capacity to affiliate with others
increases, not just the quality of life, but its length as well;
animals
that live in groups enhance each other's chances of survival, not to
mention the survival of each other's offspring. "Social behavior
contributes to both individual survival and reproductive fitness," she
said. "You can have it all."

Dr. Cort A. Pedersen, an oxytocin researcher from the University of
North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, chimed in with a paean to maternal behavior as
the source of the world's brilliance.

"Sustained maternal protection and nurturing of offspring until they
were
able to fend for themselves allowed a much higher rate of survival," he
said. "Mothering also permitted a much longer period of brain
development
and was therefore a prerequisite for the evolution of higher
intelligence.
Species that mother their offspring have come to dominate every
ecological
niche in which they dwell."

In his studies, Pedersen has demonstrated that oxytocin is essential
for
the initiation of maternal behavior in a rat after giving birth but
that
other cues, like the sensation of the pups suckling the mother's
nipples
or the taste of the pups as the mother licks them, eventually replace
the
hormone as a sustainer of motherly affections. Consequently, oxytocin
levels subside.

Yet if the mother and her pups are kept physically separated in the
cage,
unable to interact in any way other than visually, the mother's
oxytocin
concentrations remain elevated. Once reunited with the pups, no matter
how
many days later, she immediately resumes all her mothering duties. But
that willingness to nurture anew is dependent on the sustained oxytocin
pulses during the semi-separation; if given a drug that blocks the
effects
of the hormone, she appears to forget that she ever gave birth at all.

Other scientists at the conference argued that the root of affiliative
behavior lies not in motherhood, but in the act preceding it: sex. The
need for one organism to meld its genes with another drives the need
for
one organism to overcome temporarily any innate antipathy it may feel
toward strangers and cooperate -- affiliate -- long enough to court and
spark.

"Reproduction is the single most important event in an animal's life,"
said Dr. David Crews of the University of Texas at Austin. "I believe
that
social and affiliative behaviors evolved from reproductive behaviors."
And
once such anti-antipathy mechanisms had been established -- for
example,
in the limbic areas of the brain, which control emotion and sex drive
--
such mechanisms could be put to use for entirely new purposes, like
promoting the formation of monogamous pairs to rear offspring or teams
of
creatures to fend off predators.

Crews and others pointed out that even blue-green algae, which
reproduce
asexually by cloning themselves, must for unknown reasons come together
en
masse before any one of them can beget new buds. Somehow the
stimulation
of group life -- perhaps chemical, perhaps physical -- stimulates their
individual photocopying efforts.

In other words, the forces that impel a living creature to seek succor
from others of its kind are knit into the very principle of life; even
DNA, for that matter, is a double-stranded molecule, pair-bonded with
its
complementary mate.

To speak of algal affiliation, though, strikes most researchers in the
field as stretching the concept of sociality beyond recognition. Dr.
Stephen W. Porges of the University of Maryland in College Park sees
the
ability to affiliate in any meaningful way as a largely mammalian and
avian privilege, and he views it as the byproduct of mammals'
comparatively efficient metabolism.

In a novel theory with the faintly mystical name of "the polyvagal
theory
of emotion," Porges proposes that the capacity for emotion, and its
consequent role in social behavior, is dependent on the advanced nature
of
the mammalian autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system
that is essentially automatic, controlling vital functions like heart
rate
and digestion.

Through phylogenetic comparisons across the evolutionary spectrum,
Porges
has identified the vagal nerve complex, a cardinal component of the
autonomic nervous system, as a possible key to the development of
mammalian emotions and hence sociality.

This complex has ancient origins in vertebrate evolution, beginning as
a
simple connection between the brainstem and the gut, heart and other
organs of the body. Its original purpose was to conserve energy. When a
fish encounters a reduction of oxygen in its watery world, for example,
its primitive vagus nerve slows its heartbeat and digestion and thus
cuts
back on the fish's oxygen needs.

As life became more complicated and new threats arose, Porges said, the
vagal system of nerve fibers likewise became elaborated. It split into
two
divisions: the original, oxygen-thrifty circuitry -- the dorsal vagal
complex -- and a newer component that communicates with the sympathetic
nervous system.

Each element of the vagal nerve complex links up to a different region
of
the brainstem. Rather than slowing things down, the sympathetic nervous
system speeds things up; it allows an animal to use more than the usual
amount of oxygen and thus makes possible the famed fight-or-flight
response.

With the arrival of mammals came yet a third element of the vagal
system,
what Porges calls the "smart" vagus. This vagal nerve complex controls
the
facial muscles and the larynx, and therefore allows facial
expressiveness
and vocalizations, the kindred souls of emotionality.

It is also coupled with the regulation of the heart, breathing and
digestion, keeping the heart beating and digestion running smoothly; at
the same time, it inhibits the sympathetic nervous system -- the
fight-or-flight response -- to prevent a state of hyperstimulation that
would needlessly burn oxygen and calories. The new vagus allows one to
make all sorts of facial expressions -- a smile, a frown, an artful
widening of the eyes -- and any number of calls, or, in the case of
people, words, with little effect on breathing or metabolism.

"This enables us to signal other organisms and to be fully engaged in
our
surroundings, without major metabolic demands or challenges," Porges
said.
Yet even with the sophisticated new vagus, the older vagal systems
remain,
Porges said, and are called upon should the higher vagal reactions
fail.
If we try to talk our way out of danger, for instance, and find that
the
threat remains, the fight-or-flight response kicks in.

If we cannot escape no matter how fast our heart beats and muscles
throb,
and our attacker moves in for the kill, the primitive dorsal-vagal
response assumes command as a final attempt to save all life-support
systems. It dramatically slows breathing and heart rate, sending one
into
a state of terrified shock. Alas, the last-ditch effort may prove
fatal,
Porges said, for a mammal cannot live long without oxygen coming in and
with a heart rate slowed to nearly zero.

In a sense, then, when we lose our capacity to affiliate, we may be on
our
way to dying of fright.

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Hello fellow healers... you are invited

2005-06-01T19:19:38Z

Hello my fellow healers,
there is a new community center that is
opening up which dubes itself as a
'home for community, healing, & the arts'
and really is quite an amazing place.
I am going to be starting real soon as a practitioner in
their holistic health clinic,
and have been putting in a lot of time there,
helping to make the place look amazing...
and it does.
this sat. june 4th is the grand opening
from 12-11pm (main events 12-6pm).
i would love to see you there.
below is the announcement.

with love and light,
-brian

the quick info is:
june 4th 12pm-11pm (main events 12-6pm)

at

the centerRing
5339 se foster rd.
503.788.3389

the long info is:

------------------------

Like a slow buzz,
steadily getting louder and louder,
you begin to hear about it.
*The centerRing*
At first you don't pay attention,
thinking it nothing more
than a new Portland fad.
But the buzz continues.
*The centerRing*
Maybe you have heard about one of the events,
theatrics or classes taking place.
Or maybe it was the magical parties.
*The centerRing*
Or possibly you have heard about
the Nectar Yoga Studio,
the Synergy Holistic Health Clinic,
the Annapurna Organic Café,
or the Pomegranate Center,
a resource center for pregnant moms
and single parents,
all located within this
healing, arts, and community center.
*The centerRing*
Now as you begin to notice this space,
and your curiosity is aroused,
we are proud to open up our doors,
and welcome you to our
Grand Opening Celebration!

On Saturday June 4th from 12pm-11pm.
You are invited to help us
celebrate the grand opening of
The centerRing (5339 SE Foster Rd.),
a space where all aspects of life,
including culture, nourishment, health, family and
spirit, are encouraged to be deeply reintegrated into
the community.

This day-long event will provide:
- tours of the space (including our brand new,
naturally built courtyard, lovingly built as a
part of this year's Village Building Convergence)
- free yoga classes (9am, 1 & 4pm; tai chi 10:30am)
- tasty organic snacks
- a healer's fair (from 12-6pm)
- shamanic journeying (9pm)
- and great music throughout the day and night

We look forward to seeing you
and welcoming you to The centerRing.

When: June 4th 12pm-11pm

Where: The centerRing
5339 SE Foster Rd.
Portland, Or.

Music schedule:

1:00pm - Svila Balkan Folk Choir
3:00pm - David Franklin on Classical Guitar
5:30pm - Kentucky Junction
7:00pm - The DroneyTones
8:00pm - DJ's and dancing!

For more info. please call 503.788.3389

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introductions

2005-05-30T18:38:37Z

I would love it if people would introduce themselves.
My name is Alorah and I am working on getting my massage license. I do reiki, however more on myself than others. I am interested in all kinds of healing tools: essential oils, crystals and other stones, sound, and much more. I would love to learn more.
I look forward to chatting with you all.
Hugs,
Alorah

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Can you activate your own DNA without the help of another?

2005-05-30T18:32:57Z

Someone recently wrote to me and asked me this question...

> Do you believe that one's DNA can be
> activated by ones self, without the
> assistance of any other?

Since I beleive that technically none of us really truly knows the answer that question, I decided to channel the answer from Mother Mary. I am a professional channeler and there's always a chance of channeling inaccurate info, however, I am told over and over that I am an amazingly clear and accuarte channel. Based on that repeated feedback from others, I think it is safe to say I can trust the info I channeled from Mother Mary. I am curious to hear your reactions.

So here's the response I gave to this person...

That's a really good question. I don't claim to be an expert on this subject, I am merely trained by the Mystery School in how to perform the 22-Strand DNA Activation and it has proven over and over to be very powerful.

I do however have the luxury of channeling advice from Mother Mary whenever I feel like it and I trust her more than anyone else incarnate on the planet. I'm told by my friends, clients, and the head of the Mystery School that I am a very clear, phenomenal channeler. So I feel like I can trust whatever I bring through from Mary. So I read your question and simply asked Mary.

She said that man activates their DNA naturally through the process of spiritual evolution, however the evolution occurs very slowly on a grand scale, and so far man is in a very primal state spiritually (no surprise there--just look at the mess our planet is in). The Head of the Mystery School says the average man has 1 or 2 strands activated. Mary says some of the not-so average (the lightworkers) still just have an average of 4 strands activated. Mary says it is highly unlikey that we could ever activate our DNA on our own through spiritual evolution up to 22 or 24 strands simply becasue it would take much more than one lifetime to do so. Given the primal state of man we would not see anyone activated on their own beyond 6 strands.

Personally I see a lack of humility among some lightworkers. No offense, I'm just being honest about what I see. Some of the people who think they are so evolved and have all their DNA activated on their own, aren't really evolved at all and it's just obvious to me that they have no more than 2-6 strands activated. I just know this though a lot of life experience and through my own intuition.

You see an angel can incarnate into a body, but as long as they are having a human experience on a planet that is genetically in a very primal state, that angel will be in a genetically primal state as well. We don't incarnate into a body to have the expeince of an angel, what would be the point of incarnating if you were not going to accept the limited, primal human experience and you had "angel status" in a body. A true, effective light worker accepts the limited human body/experience, and works with it to evolve it as much as they can, and therefore we have ancient tools brought forth by the Mystery Schools to activate our DNA for us very quickly (but this is not normal or natural to activate 22 strands of DNA in one lifetime). When you activate your DNA it also brings light into the DNA of your biological relatives, both backwards and forwards, thus evolving and activating your parents, children, brothers and sisters, etc. It's quite a remarkable process and over time have found this to be true in my own family. I can see the change in them after I had all my activations, initiations, etc. even though they are not at all on a spiritual path.

Wow, this turned into a long answer. It's hard to stop when I'm channel writing with mary. I want to hear what she has to say just as much as you since I honestly did not know the answer to your question! So thanks for aksing so I could clear this up for my own self! : )

Best wishes to you!

Joni

www.SpiritRetrieval.com

P.S. Just for clarification, there's 12 physical strands of DNA and 12 etheric strands. When you activate all 24 through the Adam Kadmon gate activation at the Mystery School you activate the 7th root race, perfected God-human, and it takes 7 years to fully incorporate the activation at a cellular level.

The violet soul color is the 5th root race, and indigo soul color is the 6th root race. The 7th root race is either gold, silver, or bronze, depending on your path. People who have incorprated the 24 Starnd DNA Activation actually have a new 9-sided cell, as opposed to the less evolved 8-sided cell of the 5th and 6th root races--this has been documented scientifically. The doctor actually thought the person with the Adam Kadmon activation had leukemia! But the perfected God-human cannot get sick! Ironic!

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new member

2005-04-14T16:40:06Z

Good Morning everyone

I work with Esoteric Acupuncture, a new system that focuses on self realization/actualization by working on the charkas and finer frequecy bodies. Physical concerns can also be addressed with E.A.

Some example treatments in E.A:

-Clarity. Puts you back on your path or helps with tough decisions

-Harmony. Harmonzies the finer frequency bodies to provide a strong base, enhances relaxation and mental clarity.

-Palm Qi Installation. Opens up and sensitizes the palm chakras.

one of my favorties...

Inward Spiral Pattern. Used to balance the yin/yang of the throat chakra. Enhances the ability to speak one's Truth. Also helps with stiff necks and thyroid.

I aslo work with medical qigong therapy and use a selection of angelic sybols.

In short, I'm all about the vibrational medicines. I want to learn more about flower/gem essences and homoeopathy.

Blessings
Gary

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