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palm reading

Have you studied palm reading? Once you do you’ll most likely catch yourself frequently glancing at hands, yours and others. When you look at your left palm you’ll notice it’s different from your right one since the left and right indicate the unconscious and conscious part of us. The length of our fingers and thumbs, the length between the joints of our fingers, the lines on our fingers and thumbs, the shape and size of our nails, the space between our fingers, the space between our fingers and thumbs, etc. are all indicators of what’s been our experiences, and where we’re headed. Also, nicely etched on our palms are our heart, head and life lines, our fate lines, chains, islands, stars, forks, dots and lines along our palms, all indicate things about ourselves. When something changes in our life, it’ll be recorded on our hands. Neat! Right?

If you were ever to begin studying palmistry, chances are your research and reading would be different from mine. I’ll just tell you what I’ve read: ‘William G. Benham, author of The Benham Book of Palmistry, is considered the father of modern palmistry (reissued 1988, New Castle). “Benham turned palmistry from an esoteric art into a codified science with its own laws and principles.” What a marvelous hobby palm reading is, or to take it a very big step up, after a lot of studying, what a fascinating career it could be if someone is so inclined.

Our bodies are truly amazing. What do you see when you look at the palms of your hands? It’s impossible to say until you begin unravelling what they are offering up to you.

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dried split pea soup for a change

I can’t eat lentil soup anymore. The reason is I made so much of it last winter, sort of overdid a good thing. Now I’ve got to let it rest. There are plenty of different kinds of soups, but I don’t easily shift gears in the soup department. Actually, there’s tasty, hearty, and easy to prepare pea soup. It’s hard to get it wrong. If you’re inclined to add too much water it’s simply not as thick – less water makes scooping it up with delicious slices of crusty bread, or great tasting crackers, easy. And it’s pure delight to open the refrigerator and see lots of it.

So I scooted over to a nearby organic market and bought a package of dried split peas, and  two bags of vegetables, and added a few pieces of delicious-looking sushi to the cart. It was a sleeting, cold, dismal kind of evening. The kind of evening that found customers hovering over the dessert counter for comfort. Yes, it seemed a perfect evening for preparing pea soup and having its fragrance greet every room.

It was cold – definitely not a night to linger outside. I scurried back, and soon began chopping a big onion, diced 1 clove of garlic, and 6 carrots, and into the pot they went. Then I sifted through and rinsed 3 cups of dried split peas and added two cups of water for every one cup of dried split peas, 5 whole cloves, and Celtic salt and pepper to taste.

Adding a sliced steamed yam. and a few pieces of dulce is a nice touch. Look at the beauty of the colors before taking your first taste, and enjoy.

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jerry and esther hicks

Have you checked out the website of Esther and Jerry Hicks recently at www.abraham-hicks.com ? Jerry and Esther Hicks wrote the LAW OF ATTRACTION, ASK AND IT IS GIVEN, THE ASTONISHING POWER OF EMOTIONS, and that’s not all. They have a busy and delightful website packed with information. If you’ve seen the movie, THE SECRET, you might be interested in listening to a video about its beginnings. You can do this by clicking on: More From: AbrahamHicks Abraham Reveals The Secret Behind “The Secret” – Esther Hicks.

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looking outside the box

Kevin Trudeau’s book, NATURAL CURES “THEY” DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, has sold over 10 million copies. It’s a #1 New York Times Bestseller. It’s also an eye opener. Have you read it? I started to last week.

That said, I don’t want to become a bore again. I used to talk to friends about this ‘n that way of doing things regarding healing, and I got weary of seeing their eyes roll way up into their sockets. Now I understand that just because I like the subject doesn’t mean everybody does. I think I’ve corrected that fault because sometimes a friend will say, “You knew that and didn’t tell me? And I’ll say, “Yes, because you, my friend, gave me the hairy eyeball whenever I talked about looking outside the box for anything having to do with healing body mind spirit.”

There’s magic out there and at times we need to look outside the box, or as someone said, “Get rid of the box.” It’s that simple.

Imagine!

 

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the essence of what is

Photochopped – tampering with a human being’s original features and form. To change a human being so that s/he is thinner – maybe the word is gaunt – and/or more attractive, takes away from the original. The photochopped look has no depth as the essence of a living human being is missing.

When the icon of perfection displayed on a daily basis is inauthentic, how can this be a good thing? And anyway, the original is far more interesting than the photochopped version. Our own features are a unique creation. There are a variety of things to do with the original while leaving one’s essence intact. The authentic way is beautiful; we just don’t know it because there’s so much coming at us saying otherwise.

And speaking of tampering with, all the information in those mainstream magazines geared at women and men are exhausting to read, many pages dedicated to opinions and then, in a month’s time, they change. They say: Wear this and . . . Go here and . . . Do it this way and . . . Say this and . . . Exercise like this and . . . Eat this and . . . Use this and . . . How are we going to take on other things when we get feelings from these mags that we need help for everything?

I have an idea . . . Let’s start trusting ourselves, observing, checking out what’s right for our own needs, and create according to what works for US. Because being a carbon copy is no fun. The things we could accomplished if we weren’t obsessed with nonsense, boggles the mind.

(This post written because a young woman died recently when she checked into a hospital for a tummy tuck and a few other things she thought she needed to look beautiful.)

“Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.” – the Buddha

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oprah and eckhart and a 10-week online web event

Eckhart Tolle’s book A NEW EARTH: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose was announced as new pick for Oprah’s Book Club, and together Oprah and Eckhart will have online Web classes in order to study A NEW EARTH, “. . . but not as an academic subject or in order to acquire new theories or beliefs.” www.eckharttolle.com

Oprah’s worldwide classroom begins on Monday, 3 March, at 9/8c. It’s a free Web event. You can reserve a seat and find out what you need for the first class at www.oprah.com

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tom cruise and a video

I saw the Tom Cruise video. Someone forwarded a website. I watched it, and noticed there’s something not quite right. The interviewer is cut out, and TC seems to be rambling on and on, looking slightly crazed because the whole of it is missing. That said, what I want to ask is: Why do many people find so much pleasure in defaming “public figures”? When adults make fun of other people, criticize, joke after joke at someone else’s expense, they’re not really adults. They just look as if they are. You would think that once someone reaches adulthood, they have far better things to do with their lives than to focus on the lives of others. Not only focus, but to try to take them down – people they don’t even know – who have every right to their personal views without being slandered and made fun of by the silly ones who can’t find other things to do in this fascinating world.

Tom Cruise belongs to an organization called Scientology. So what? Is he going around killing people? Is he going around slandering anyone? Is he starting a war? Is he making life difficult for anyone? It would seem that what he does with his personal life IS HIS BUSINESS. Those that slander say, well, he’s a public figure. In their minds, this means a public figure is theirs to prey on without limits. Hmm! Something’s not quite right here.

Will someone please tell all those slanderers to get on with their own lives. Perhaps concentrating on another somehow relinquishes them from working on themselves, improving themselves, and maybe in the process bringing a little more love and harmony into the world.

We have so much to learn about ourselves, the world, the universe. Wouldn’t it be more important to concentrate on those things than to put our attention on causing disharmony? It’s not humor when the joke is biting someone. Humor is fun and is not done at the expense of another unless it’s with their approval, and they’re laughing, too. It seems the train has gotten off the track and we’re sliding down into the muck.

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heath ledger – life and death, death and life

It seems that it’s always a shock when a young person dies. I find a person of any age who dies leaves a wonderment. When Heath Ledger died this week at 28 – it doesn’t really matter how – he was here and now he’s not, it was a shock to many people.

Robert Pirsig is the author of ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE. In the Introduction to his book he wrote about the death of his son who was two weeks away from his 23rd birthday when he was murdered in San Francisco in 1979. He wrote about how he dealt with his son’s death. He said that over and over and over he asked the question “Where did he go?” and then he realized that before that question could be answered “What is the ‘he’ that is gone?” must be asked. He asked until finally something answered him.

Although it seems we don’t come into the world with a promise that we’ll be here for any particular amount of time, in our western culture we’re still struck dumb, so to speak, when death happens. Many of the books I read have a way of reminding the reader that death is a part of life and life is a part of death. And they do this in an exquisite way, and the reader becomes comfortable with the idea of death. In many cultures throughout the world people have an understanding that life and death go hand in hand. When Sumi and Toshi visited Bali they got caught up in a street funeral. There was singing and dancing in a happy funeral parade and they were invited to join. If that’s the attitude about death, there are no surprises when it happens.

I’ve been at their bedside when people I love have died. Some died in peace and joy and some struggled til the end. Peace and joy is a choice and watching someone die this way feels right.

‘Impermanence is the universal law.’ – from Swami Bashkarananda to Alexandra David-Neel

“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” – Grace Hansen

“If I knew I were going to die tomorrow, I’d think, so soon? Still, if a man has spent his life doing what he wanted to do, he ought to be able to say goodbye without regrets.” – Paul Bowles

“It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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on not noticing

Have you been left holding a door while a bunch of people you don’t know pass through without a nod, a smile, a thank you? They see you as their seemingly invisible doorman. Sometimes life leaves you holding the door. Now some people can do this graciously accepting their new position for the moment, others hold the door grudgingly unable to let go because they know it will slam into someone and they don’t want that to happen, others don’t care, if releasing the door from their hold means it will slam into someone, so be it. It’s all so hilarious. It’s a lesson in allowing.

People who write magazine articles often write about how busy and stressed out people are. But the busy and stressed out part of this is that it’s a busyness that’s mostly going nowhere because it’s a busyness caused by not being able to slow down or not being able to be alone.

It’s the same thing with people who drive while using a cell phone. If you ever walk in a city you have to be aware, or else. People who drive while using a cell phone have a look that says driving is secondary to talking on the phone. They don’t notice the things they should be noticing while driving. A little dangerous this is. They must have a angel on their shoulder or they wouldn’t make it home.

What am I getting at? Well, yesterday I saw a handsome, young, well-dressed man smiling as people passed by him as he held a door for a group he wasn’t attached to. They all paraded by, never noticing him, no one thanked him for not slamming the door in their faces. He didn’t care. That attitude was a neat thing to see. And the busy, busy ones? Well, maybe one day they’ll not be too busy to say thank you, or to actually hold the door for themselves and others.

“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” – Kahlil Gibran

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seth, a book; gary renard, more books

After reading SETH SPEAKS and now up nights reading THE NATURE OF PERSONAL REALITY, two books channeled by Jane Roberts, I’ll say this, it’s all really, really intriguing. There was a time when I’d hesitate to talk about a book that was channeled. That’s changed. The information in these books can only enhance one’s life and death. The thing is that this kind of information contributes immensely to a life lived consciously and powerfully, and a death of peace and joy. And besides, if we really sat and pondered all those other things we were taught that tend to stretch the imagination, well, why not this also. www.sethcenter.com

As I walked along South Street recently trying to figure out the lay of the Philadelphia land, I came across the bookshop Garland of Letters at 527 South Street. In front to the side of the entrance were a stack of magazines. I took the one called EVOLVE, and glanced inside. I hadn’t heard of “international best selling author” Gary Renard before reading his article in the magazine. He wrote about A Course in Miracles, forgiveness, death, the Mayan calendar, changes in the world, and there’s more. www.garyrenard.com It would seem that checking out this author can only be a good thing. And he talks about his ‘ascended masters,’ Arten and Pursah. Oh, yes.

In the book SETH SPEAKS Seth also talks about 2012 not being the end of the world, and he elaborates beautifully on what’s to come. www.sethlearning center.org . Gary Renard has a somewhat similar view about this topic which many were concerned about as the 21 century approached.

It’s a sunny, fairly warm day here. Hope it’s that way for you. Enjoy!