Last night I went to hear Marianne Williamson and as always her words were soothing and restorative - I woke with a quick start to share them with you.

Marianne's insights from the course of Miracles continue to bring new clarity to issues and that is why I love going to her talks. She cuts through dense thinking and unlocks the answers - by returning to love. Easily healing our feelings with clarity  and hope, we feel connected - her firm yet gentle words bring us together.

At the end of her talk last night people were invited to ask questions. One woman brought up the mosque debate at Ground Zero. I sat and listened - thought about expressing my feelings (another post maybe, as these are changing momentarily) but decided against it - there were so many more issues to be heard. I sat and watched others talk of love and health problems and then a woman with an accent stepped up to the microphone and said she had an idea for the Ground Zero Project - Marianne summed it up as a Center for Religious Tolerance.

Lights flashed and bells rung in my head - my heart - it is the only answer to the question "what can we do with Ground ZERO?"  We all joined in prayer over this amazing idea.

How can we make this happen? Write about it - think about it visualize it - know it - feel it. This can be the answer we are looking for on many levels - this is our chance to take religion out of the battlefield - That is HUGE!

I'll  share other insights and solutions from Marianne's talk last night over the next week or so. In the meantime pray for this center - a center that will bring us all together in prayers for peace.

Wow - it has been a long time since I connected with my blog!  I've been writing and painting - and with restored health back to yoga practice, painting, writing and even traveling back east to see my family.

Each morning I do take time to see if anything important is waiting in my inbox and today this article was there - I had to share it with you.

The Biology Of Consciousness by Dr. Bruce Lipton

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      Using slides, films and language understandable to everyone, cell biologist Bruce Lipton talks about his discoveries, revealing compelling evidence that biochemical mechanisms facilitate the phenomenon of mind over matter.
     
      A former Stanford professor, Lipton spoke on the "Biology of Consciousness"at an annual IMDHA Conference one October.
 
      Proponents of the notion that we can influence the actions of our bodies
through our attitudes, emotions and beliefs have traditionally been
metaphysicians rather than scientists. Now, according to Lipton, there is hard
scientific data challenging the theory which holds that cells are closed units;
that we are who we are because of the DNA in our cell nuclei; and that our
future is dictated in part because of the genetic makeup of our ancestors.
Lipton believes the cell membrane is where consciousness resides - that the
outer boundary or each cell is where self and not-self come together.
 
      At this point in his lectures, Lipton turns to the chalkboard to diagram the makeup of cell membranes. He first explains that every cell is a microcosm of the larger organism. Apparently, there are 70 trillion of these self-contained copies of us running around in our bodies, each with its own digestive, excretory and reproductive systems. Rather than holding that each cell is dedicated to a singular function - for example a liver cell being created as part of the liver - Lipton argues that all cells are "robotic" - in other words, blank computer disks ready to be filled with the needed information.      
 
      When a cell is constructed, it's built to act on its own; it can survive by
itself in a laboratory environment. When it becomes part of a community,
it subjugates its individuality. The entire cell community receives instructions
from the life force itself similar to the way in which a radio pulls in broadcasts
from the air. If we beam negative messages, Lipton says, the cells will respond in a negative manner.
 
      Another way to look at it is to see cells as building blocks. Lipton talks
about creating an elaborate design from basic units of consciousness and
powering it all with the vital force. But the force is not inherent in either the
system or the cells. He suggests thinking of cells as crystal radio sets tuned
to the frequency of the life force.
 
      A cell is like a computer chip. A chip is a bit of information and so is a cell. Each has the means of receiving information through various channels and making something happen. The more chips you have in a computer, the more information it can process; the larger a cell's surface area, the
more information it can process.
 
      Cells are programmed to respond in certain ways beginning in infancy or
even before birth, but they can be reprogrammed to act differently. It is the
process of the membrane receiving information, processing it and sending it on into the cell for action that determines the behavior of the cell - not any
inherent, fixed programming. Lipton scoffs at the assumption that "cancer runs in the family". There is no cancer gene, he insists. Cells go cancerous when they are told to do so.
 
      By correcting this thinking, we can correct the diseases which plaque us,
Lipton continues. In other words we can heal ourselves by changing our beliefs. His theory would explain the success of visualization, faith healing, psychic healing and Christian Science.
 
      A change in personality can change physiology. Fear can lead to death. 
AIDS, cancer and other diseases can be started through fear. He feels that
when a person has no health insurance he or she tends to stay well. People
believe they can't afford to get sick so the don't. Lipton links the current high
incidence of colon and rectal cancer with the fact that there is a lot of
information that says there is a high incidence of colon and rectal cancer. It's
a case of self-fulfilling prophecy. "We see TV commercials that announce that
its flu season and we should take this or that drug. So we get the flu and end
up taking the drug. In a way those commercials are a lot like a witch doctors'
curse," Lipton said. The way things are now, most research grants are funded
by the drug companies so most research ends up proving the need for more
drugs.
 
      Drug-less healing starts with eliminating self doubts, with the small things. "There will be relapses into disbelief but the relapses will be shorter and shorter. Once you empower yourself, take control of your life, everything starts to go faster until ultimately you become your own healer," says Dr.Lipton.

Today is a partial lunar eclipse, one astrologers expect to have a huge impact on us collectively and individually. They all seem to agree that we've been shown the areas that will be impacted. For me it has been and continues to be the four angles of my chart - if you are not familiar with astrology - lets just say - pretty major - pretty intense.

Shadowing this eclipse, I was notified that a while ago my personal information was compromised by a security break in the Anthem Blue Cross - data base - a  woman and her attorneys were able to get into the on-line system and retrieve a few select files. No one at Anthem will speak to me about this.They have a recording stating their attorneys are on it and that they have been monitoring activity and nothing suspicious has happened. (they have been watching my accounts?) They also gifted me with a free year of identity theft protection. Since I don't know how much information they collected in my file, I had no choice but to cancel all of my accounts.

Hmm, 3 months ago someone charged 4000.00 using my credit card number - I had the card -  in Las Vegas. I would say that was suspicious.Then following that a virus hit my system and I lost all files on my computer (you can read about that on an earlier blog).

This is my first house hit from this eclipse - the house of Identity and for me it was stolen (or borrowed). So, I've spent most of this week trying to resolve all kinds of issues that erupted from this computerized automatic system we've developed to make life 'easier'. With each phone call, my head and heart connected with thoughts of days gone by when people ate real food and knew each other by face.

We teach the dangers of chemicals and processed foods. 

• Is it time to teach how unhealthy and dangerous computers are? is it time to change this  automated lifestyle that identifies people by website, blog, phone and account numbers rather than by face?
• Is it time to change the way we connect from text, email, IM and if you are lucky by phone?
• What would it be like to not be sitting alone on-line, on hold, and in traffic?

I say yes, it's time to make a change - a big change.

Yesterday I sent friends on facebook a video of Dr. David Simon on attention and intention, this morning I received notice that he has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.  He is having surgery today and he along with Chopra Center ask for loving thoughts, jokes and prayers for David as these are healing and the collective does rule .

This was another reminder from David Simon and the Chopra Center, one of my gurus and schools, of the power of intention and attention.  Focus on the healing rather than the pain, on the joy rather than the sadness. Keep your loved ones in your heart - send love and healing thoughts to those you know are in pain - tell everyone you love - I love you - in all the things you do and say keep your heart true and connected.

This is a big day for healing and my love and appreciation for the two people I know going through medical procedures today have a deep place in my heart. 

Watch this video to be inspired.


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It's sometimes difficult to find organic fruits and vegetables, even here in California where most of them are grown. Fortunately, there are some commercially grown, non-organic fruits and vegetables that are relatively safe to eat. Little or no pesticides were used to grow them. These 12 safe ones are: Onions, avocados, sweet corn (though I personally won't eat any corn, pesticides or not due to GMO contamination), pineapples, mango, sweet peas, kiwi fruit, cabbage, cantaloupe, grapefruit, sweet potatoes, and sweet onions.

On the other end of the spectrum are the fruits and vegetables that are dangerous and toxic to eat unless they are organic. These 14 vegetables and fruits contain MANY pesticides and you cannot wash them off.  do not eat these commercially, non organic foods if you want to be pesticide free : lettuce, peaches, strawberries, celery, apples, blueberries, sweet bell peppers, spinach, kale, collard greens, cherries, potatoes, imported grapes and lettuce.

Want to start the summer with a fresh outlook, a clear path and an authentic Shamanic blessing? I have done this regularly and Jade's ceremonies even from a distance have had made a  profound difference in my life path, clearing the way.  Check this out and the other teachings, services and events from shamanic.net.

New Moon Soul Cleansing & Blessing + + + + + + + + + + + + Sedona, Arizona Saturday, June 12th, 2 pm - 5 pm (also available for those who cannot be physically present... read below)
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If you were to forward this email from your own email program, and one of your recipients clicks the 'unsubscribe' link, YOU will be deleted from my email list, not that recipient! There is nothing I can do about this, it is an anti-Spam feature of this email service. ................................................ Jade Wah'oo Grigori Jade Wah'oo Grigori brings forth authentic Shamanic Ways on behalf of his community, the community of All Peoples. He underwent his first Shamanic Initiation, that of Death-by-Intent, in 1956 at 5 years of age. Of Mongolian ancestry, Jade Wah'oo Grigori received direct initiations and training from his Ancestral Spirits who guided and instructed him in the rigorous endeavors of journeying into the spirit-realms, ways of healing and accessing Knowledge. In 1974 Jade met and was adopted as Grandson by Juan Peña, an Old-Man Shaman (Téwa-Ké or Bear Shaman) of  the Tewan Pueblos of the Upper Rio Grande. Jade's Grampa Peña apprenticed him for the next 8 years. With his Grampa Peña's death in 1982, at the age of 104, the Caretakership of 'the Ways' passed to Jade Wah'oo.		Spring is in full bloom! Celebrate! Clearing the debris of this last year's troubles and turmoils provides us with room and space in our Garden-of-Life to be more productive and beautiful in the expression of the intentions and hopes that we choose to bring forth in the coming year. At this New Moon the Rite of the Seven Sacred Sisters is being offered to assist in the cleansing and blessing of our families, health, businesses, creative projects, spiritual path and our very life itself. Whether you are able to come and sit with me  in Sedona, or choose to participate from wherever you reside, you are invited to join in this powerful experience that will be palpably felt in the very core of your cellular nature, in your Soul and in your Life. Blessings~ Jade Wah'oo Grigori ; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-color: #9966ff;"> Soul Cleansing & Blessing Saturday, June 12th, 2 pm - 5 pm $52 Jade Wah'oo will perform the Rite of the Seven Sacred Sisters. This is a burning of seven incense herbs that invoke specific spiritual forces, through prayers, on behalf of the individual's heart-held desire for that which is to be Blessed: Family, Home, Relationship, Abundance, Spiritual Advancement, Health or other matters of your choosing. Please RSVP! Email Jade to RSVP your commitment to attend in person Click for Directions to Jade's house If you are not able to be physically present for this important ceremony of  Soul Cleansing and Blessing, you may email me: Email Me Your Name, Location and Age Up to three areas of concern to be Cleansed Up to three heart-held desires to be Blessed Paypal a payment of $52 (click button below) I will, in return, include you and your requests in the prayers of the ceremony and will email you, after the ceremony, a link to your free mp3 audiofile of the Rite of the Seven Sacred Sisters invocation. This offer is valid only for this Saturday's ceremony. + + + + + + + + + + + + Soul Cleansing & Blessing Really, there is no such thing as a healing of the Spirit, as one's Spirit is pure, unsullied and unsulliable, untarnished and untarnishable; regardless of what one may have done through thought, deed, action and behavior - or experienced via trauma, tragedy and violation - to bring about a corruption of the Soul thereby. Spirit is a singularity of frequency. Each and every person's frequency is unique, unchanging and enduring, lifetime to lifetime to lifetime. Soul is comprised of life-force. This life-force is generated through the dynamic tension that exists between our instinctually-driven bodies and our culturally-conditioned minds. If the body and mind are in harmony with each other, this life-force generated has a life-positive attribute, experienced as a positive emotion. When the body and mind, that is, our cultural conditionings and our instinctual drives, are in conflict with each other, that dynamic life-force that is generated thereby has a life-negative attribute, that is, it is experienced as a negative emotional state. Spirit resonates through the field of life-force (also known as soul-force) that we have generated throughout our life and lifetimes of experience. Where the soul-force we have engendered is of a positive nature, our Spirit is able to express itself with ease and harmony through our life and into the world. If, however, the soul-force has become contaminated with hostility, fear, anguish or a panoply of other debilitating experiences, the frequency of our Spirit is modulated by that disruption. Our experience of our Spirit's intent is then muddied. Dysfunctional and debilitating life experiences are the consequence of our Spirit's resonating through a disrupted soul-force field. When the Soul is dissonant, Spirit's expression into and as our life experience is dissonant as well. We experience this as hardships and difficulties, misfortune and illness. Whereas cleansing of the emotional body and the auric field is valuable and necessary as a part of one's inner house cleaning rituals, these do not alter the positive or negative nature of the soul-force that has been stored in the Soul consequential to the events of our life. This is why some find that, despite repeated emotional and energetic healings, the same conditions seem to crop back up continually. A deep understanding we have in our Shamanic Ways is of the underlying principles that govern the functions of life-force. Critical of these is the knowledge that energy is life-force in its dissipative state. No matter how much work is done at an energetic level, this will never affect the state and quality of soul-force, and therefore will not be able to alter the condition of the Soul. A Shamanic Soul Cleansing is, in essence, a cleansing of the contamination residue that is left in the field of soul force - that is, in the Soul - following the conflict and discord, heartache and grief,  or trauma and travail in a person's life. This is brought about the the application of the natural laws that regulate the movement and flow of life-force. Shamanic methods and techniques are designed to address just such situations. By engaging the techniques of the movement of life-force, Shamanic methods allow one to remove the field of disrupted life-force, separating it from the healthy life-force, purify it and then return it back into the Soul. Once the life-force has been cleansed and re-infused into the Soul it is able to be drawn upon for the regeneration of our health and well-being. Blessing Shamanic Blessings initiate a frequency structure into the field of soul-force that, when activated, expresses manifestly in accord with the nature of the blessings invoked. In order for a Blessing to authentically occur, the prerequisite is to first have the disruptive soul-force cleansed, neutralized. Then this field of life-force, no longer in a negative state, can be set to resonating in accord with one's Spirit's intention and desire. A very powerful method of activating the neutral life-force field into a life-empowering state is through the use of a specific set of seven herbs, burnt as incense. These will vary, depending upon both the relationship the Shaman has with the various Sacred Sisters (Plant Spirits) and the nature of the Blessings to be accomplished. The Seven Sacred Sisters that I call upon for assistance are: Cedar, for deep cleansing and the dispelling of negativity. Sweet Grass, to make pleasant a residing place for the Spirits that will be called upon for assistance. Sandalwood, to call upon the Ancestral Spirits for their oversight, insight and protection. Palo Santo, (or Copal, depending on which I have handy) an incense from the Amazon that both 'makes beautiful' and brings about an empowerment. Bear Root. This root cures what ails us and reconnects us to the Womb of the Earth Mother. Grandmother Sage/Spirit Caller (atemisia tridentia, not salvia sage!) to call in the specific Spirits (frequencies) that we require to aid us in creating the harmonic resonance in or Soul that will enable the manifest expression of our heart's desire. Tobacco. Grandfather Tobacco carries our prayers to the Loom of Creation, causing the Tapestry of Creation to reweave itself in accordance with those prayers. Through the knowledgeable utilization of the assistance of the Spirits of these herbal incenses we, in our Shamanic Ways, are able to set into motion the song of our Spirit's intent, i.e.: a Blessing! ; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-color: #9966ff;">

Well it was an official start to the holiday weekend here in LA County.  It was hot, sunny and festive. I checked out Sex and the City 2 - and well, those girls gave me lots to think about in terms of relationships, rules, expectations and aging. And then there is the sex, shoes and styles to talk about. It's a really great get away and go within movie, at least it was for me.

I practiced my visualization skills seeing myself walking around in a gypsy type ballroom sized hooped skirt and tshirt and wearing crazy sequined harem pants with a safari jacket and then there were the shoes - the shoes that caused years of discomfort, pain and disconnection for me.

I read on a new facebook friends page today a great quote and part of that quote applies to what has happened to me this past month - well, this past lifetime, really.  "when you learn to be patient you learn to understand".

I knew it would be rough moving to an new city and traveling back east all during this past (and still lingering) mercury retrograde period. It was in fact much worse than it should have been - because I did not adjust my pace to match the pace of the universe. So I hurt myself and lost my cool and as you may know, my files, too. I felt bad for a minute for not chilling and instead reacting too quickly - trying to fix everything much too fast.  Time was in fact what I needed to really fix things right.

My rewards have been a practice in patience. That is when I finally did practice patience everything came to me - and much different than I intended (and BETTER).  The blog that would not change templates, suddenly did. And better yet, I was able to finally download wordpress (been trying for a really long time).  Now the blog I was originally going to put on wordpress has evolved to something much more meaningful to me and my work. So time was needed here for the idea to gel.

I am moving slower and steadier.  It's a beautiful day here in Agoura Hills and I plan to take my time working on my new blog - a blog about being single, living on your own and finding meaning, purpose, passion and fun all by yourself.

I haven't been writing much lately because I was moving, traveling and receiving treatments for some injuries. It has been a process and a practice of patience for me to accept limitations and respect restrictions and rules of a new community, the airports and airlines.The more I pushed myself and my goals the worse things seem to have gotten.

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I wanted to be healed by the spring so I could go hiking, instead I overdid it and had a set back in my healing. So I painted.

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I dedicated hours to writing series of articles, research and a couple of book outlines so I could get ahead of my deadlines, instead, I lost my files because I was in a hurry and didn't back-up my files.
So I painted.
 

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I wanted to have everything purchased and delivered  to my new apartment pronto, instead, I bought a bunch of stuff that doesn't work and I have spent even more time returning them and looking for the right things.
So I painted.


With each struggle, the process of painting has brought me inspiration and I have learned to move with  ease within the time and restraints of moving, traveling, working, and healing. The contest and battle is over and time truly is on my side.

A few days ago my computer was infected by a virus and I lost ALL of my files including unpublished articles, research, business plans, legal docs, photos and more.  I am a writer, among other things - I was reckless not to protect my work.  I put off backing up continually so there goes many years work.

How it happened.

The virus was attached to a facebook email - I had several suspicious facebook messages from different friends over a period of a few days. I'd just moved last week - I was doing things quickly but still I thought I was safe.  After I clicked on the link and my internet security would not allow the link to be shown, I sent a warning message to the sender -  but somehow the virus got inside.

What I did

After restoring my computer to factory state, I decided to go out and take some photos of my new surroundings to recreate my photo file. My camera would not work - the battery just wouldn't charge.  So I decided to run errands and as I got to my car I saw the tire was flat.

It could be a classic mercury retrograde... But even I was taken aback. Then I decided to paint. I took a gentle but deep breath and turned on Enigma. As I listened I painted and began to gently process my feelings. The work I did was unlike anything I ever did before. I am excited about it and grateful for the hard road given me to get to this point. 

And I will back up my files daily .