Julia Sweeney PHOTO: tedtalks.com
In this 2006 Ted Talk, Julia Sweeney relays humorous stories on matters related to her experiences with Catholicism and Mormonism and culminates her talk by getting at the heart of religion.
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“Places also exercise an important influence in occult operation; some spots upon the earth’s surface are naturally highly magnetic. These have usually been discovered of old time by the ancients and their possibilities developed, and according to the type of development employed will be their influence at the present day. There is a very great difference between a place which has been used for evocatory rites involving blood-sacrifice.
“Occultists having the necessary knowledge avail themselves, as far as they can, of places with magnetism already developed; but failing this, they magnetize a place for themselves, but it takes considerable time and work to do this.” ~Dion Fortune
Substitute spiritual for occult, and this quote remains essentially true. While it is debatable that magnetism is the key factor, there are places that are good, great, and not good for spiritual activities. Unfortunately, it is impractical for most of us to travel all over the country or the world seeking spots of good energy to practice our spiritual techniques, and the results may actually be disappointing. When a group of Cosolargists visited Israel some years ago, they found that whatever positive energies once were there are long gone. On the other hand, we were surprised to find on our 2009 trip to Greece that the sun was quite mellow in Athens, which is very unusual for an urban area. Also, as Ms Fortune points out, strong energy or magnetic forces in a place isn’t necessarily a good thing. Those energies may be very negative or of low frequencies that harm rather than aid spiritual growth.
In some cases these energy vortexes formed naturally, but most often are the result of spiritual people, especially highly developed ones, conducting spiritual activities there over a long period of time. But again, it isn’t really necessary to travel to such places. In most cases, you can find a place of reasonably positive and high-frequency energy close to home. The basic rules are:
The main idea is to find a place where higher frequency energies are found, or can grow. If that isn’t possible, at least try to avoid a place that is probably full of negative or very materialistic energies such as Wall Street or a prison yard. If you can’t go to such areas every day, try to do it at least a few times a month.
And last but not least, when you practice spiritual techniques with others, the positive energies of the group can help raise the energy of the location.
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Reno resident Tom Fee sent in a brief testimonial of his experiences with the Church. We thought we would share it with you. Here it is:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I am a 71 year resident of the Reno-Sparks area and served this area for 37 years as a special education teacher, a special education administrator, and as a school psychologist.
I’ve been interested in Religion and The Spirit since my discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1959 at the age of 20. I’ve attended services of a variety of groups, including The First Church of Religious Science, now known as The Center for Spiritual Living. In fact I was a member from 1977 to early 2008. I’ve also attended Unity Services, off and on , for a number of my younger years. These churches are somewhat philosophical and believe in the power of the mind and the power of thought. There is rare mention of Jesus Christ or the Spirit of God. They are not God centered or spirit centered, in my mind, although they have a wonderful philosophy of using affirmation, clear thought, and positive thinking to better themselves personally and financially. Yet God and Spirit does not seem to play a part in it.
As a psychologist, I do a great deal of observation. In my association with the International Community of Christ, I’ve noticed a heavy and consistent emphasis in their services on God, the Christ, the Christ Spirit, the Christ Light, and the Light. I’ve never experienced any other church with a greater emphasis on God, Christ, Spirit, and The Light.
Very sincerely yours,
Thomas S. Fee
Posted on YouTube are four 10-minute excerpts from the 2001 documentary made on the Andean Explorers expedition to Peru that year. (Gene Savoy Sr. was 74 years old at the time.) The four-part series presents the entire television documentary. The documentary was originally made by the German film group ZDF for Discovery International. This YouTube posting credits neither the film makers nor the producers.
The original documentary was translated into several languages, including French. This series of four YouTube postings is in French and titled “Gene Savoy, le veritable Indiana Jones.”
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The primary cause of evil in the world is that it is a fallen world. Fallen from it’s original spiritual state. The story of Lucifer is an allegorical tale of this great fall, as is the story of Adam and Eve. When the fallen angels “created” the material universe, they created something that did not have the perfection of God’s creation. As a result, it is a place that has evil in the form of death, disease, struggle, and negative emotions. While well-meaning people often tell us that we simply can change the way we thing, and become loving and peaceful, history shows us that such an approach simply doesn’t work for very long. You cannot change the nature of matter as long as it remains matter, so the only permanent solution is to change matter back into spirit. Spirit doesn’t die, doesn’t get sick, doesn’t turn on it’s brother. So the true servants of God do not offer him dead animals, or piles of money. They offer Him themselves by working with the angels and other Being of Light to turn this fallen world back into a spiritual world. And we need to work quickly because time is running out.
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Dr. Stephan Fuelling PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling
Dr. Stephan Fuelling, longtime Consociate of the Community, delivered his first lecture before members of the Reno branch of the Omnia Society on Monday, June 23, 2014.
Dr. Fuelling is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno and he is involved in experimental plasma physics. However, this is not his only passion. He has a great interest in alternative health.
Dr. Fuelling opened his talk with a discussion of the two “states” of water in the human body. He first discussed the highly structured water in the cells, discovered by Dr. Gilbert Ling, author of many books, including Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level and further studied by Prof. Gerald Pollack, University of Washington, author of the books Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life and The Fourth State of Water.
He then discussed the other state of water in our bodies, the highly specialized liquid of our blood. Blood is a stabilized colloidal system and its stability is determined by the Zeta Potential. The strength of the Zeta Potential has tremendous consequences for cardiovascular health, as first discovered by Thomas M. Riddick, author of the book Control of Colloid Stability through Zeta Potential. Dr. T.C. McDaniel, author of the book Disease Reprieve, who celebrated his 100th birthday this May, has used the concept in relation to cardiovascular disease in his practice for over 40 years.
Another cause of cardiovascular disease lies with ‘bad dentistry,’ and Dr. Fuelling discussed problems with root canals and also dental amalgam. He then described the use of ‘MMS’ (Miracle Mineral Supplement), a mixture of sodium chlorite and citric acid, to keep the gums and teeth healthy as well as its effect on arthritis and other health issues.
The Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet PHOTO: sacredsites.com
The web site “Sacred Sites: Places of Peace and Power” provides a way to travel through the world region by region and visit specific sites by map and illustrations. Each specific region and site is also provided with links to topical books and blogs. The site offering is selective, but what is offered is done with style.
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link submitted by Frieda Nelson
The good news though is that we still have a spirit and soul so we still can reverse the process with the help of God. God won’t do it alone though. We have to make a concerted effort to fix it ourselves following the methods revealed to prophets and other holy ones. And we can’t wait forever, time is running out.
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Prana glyph PHOTO: Gary Buchanan
On June 23, 2014, Dr. Gary Buchanan announced the creation of a new Sonatherapy web site. The front page of the new Sonatherapy web site is posted at http://www.sonatherapy.com/.
Developed by Dr. Gary Robert Buchanan and practiced at Steamboat Boat Healing Center in Nevada, Sonatherapy combines Light, Color, Sound, Water & Subtle Energies in the promotion of self-healing. A practicing Sonatherapist, Dr. Buchanan regularly meets with clients from around the world each month offering “self-healing” via light, color, sound, water, and subtle energy therapeutics.
On the new web site, links are active to several Sonatherapy videos and a general description of the therapy and its practice. Yet to come are pages on Dr. Buchanan himself and links to order his newest book, Sonatherapy.
We will keep you posted on new developments on the site as they occur.
Congratulations, Gary!
“This is why the Lawgiver, symbolically commanding us to deny entry to sensual pleasure, told us to watch the head of the serpent, because it is watching our heel. Its aim is to bite our heel and so to poison us; … This means that we should first learn to detect the attack of deceitful thoughts from premonitory signs and to watch their first beginnings, which they contrive to make attractive in appearance so as to attain their end; than we can expose the wickedness of these thoughts by comparing their first beginnings with the final results. …
“To clarify what has been said, let us take two examples. Often the vice of unchastity has it’s first beginning in self-esteem; … Under the influence of self-esteem, a man may perhaps enter the priesthood or the life of monastic perfection; … his self-esteem makes him think highly of himself. … So, by beguiling him with such thoughts, self-esteem draws him far away from the inner watchfulness that he should possess.” ~The Philokalia
“Perhaps the most important part of this quote is near the beginning where we are told that when the teacher or master tells us to give up sensual pleasures, it is an allegorical way of saying that we need to watch our own thoughts and stop ourselves from thinking evil things, evil thoughts being anything that turns us away from doing God’s work. It doesn’t have to be thoughts of murder, or rape, or robbery to be evil. Any thought that encourages us to engage in more materialistic activities and cut back on our spiritual ones is an evil thought, but is often not recognized as such.”
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contributed by Harold Boulette