Spiritual Practices from Archangel Michael

This is a book review of a new book by Les Feast, Messages from Heaven: Is Anyone Listening? The review is written in PR Web from Dudley Park, Australia. It tells of the story of Les’ experiences with Archangel Michael when he was in India and the subsequent communications with him. Here’s a little bit about this new spiritual book: Messages from Heaven and the spiritual practices from Archangel Michael.

Spiritual Practices from Archangel Michael

Yet, things go from bad to worse when Feast breaks his foot and is mired at the ashram with Sri Sathya Sai Baba for seven days. However, says Feast, on that seventh day, something miraculous happened.
“At about four in the morning,” says Feast, “I am awakened by this huge light shining in my room and as I gaze at it, I hear the words, ‘I am Michael and I have come in answer of your prayer, do you want my help?’ There was no hesitation in thinking. I immediately, say, ‘yes, please.’”
Feast lists this first communication with Archangel Michael as the first of many. This first encounter also marked Feast’s commitment to serve as a medium and healer.
Feast has taught and worked with some of Australia’s leading mediums and healers. In Messages from Heaven, he recounts the lessons and words of the Archangel Michael and shows readers how to operate from their inner source of power.
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Les is a spiritual teacher and healer who holds weekly meditation and development groups in Western Australia. He is involved in the Spiritualist Church there. If you are interested in reading more about this book by Less Feast, click here. There is a regular and a Kindle version. If you like the ideas in this article, please click “like” below or perhaps ever “share” as well.

Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation through Fasting

Fasting is an old way to gain insight and direction, especially if it is done alone in a remote place without distraction. But did you know it’s good for your body and soul too? Here’s an article by Jack Eidt written for wilderutopia.com (Environmental Health section) about spirit healing and rejuvenation through fasting. He first discusses some famous historical fasters such as Jesus, Muslims during Ramadan, Gandhi and Jews during Yom Kippur. Then he explain the health benefits of fasting.

Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation through Fasting

ACMany health practitioners follow the rapidly advancing research field of autophagy, the study of how cells metabolize and eliminate damaged cellular debris, a process which increases under conditions of nutrient starvation. Hence, fasting and cleansing diets that reduce nutrient intake induce detoxification at the cellular level that does not otherwise occur. According to Dr. James Balch in his book Nutritional Healing, during a fast:

• Natural toxin excretion continues without new toxin replenishment, reducing total body toxicity.
• Energy used for digestion redirects to immune function, cell growth, and eliminatory processes.
• The immune system’s workload is reduced and spares the digestive tract inflammation due to allergic reactions to food.
• Lowered of serum fats thin the blood, increasing tissue oxygenation and moving white blood cells more efficiently.
• Fat-stored chemicals such as pesticides and drugs, are released.
• Physical awareness and sensitivity to diet and surroundings are increased.

A three-day fast helps the body rid itself of toxins and cleanses the blood. A five-day fast begins the process of healing and rebuilding the immune system. A ten-day fast can help fight off illness, including degenerative diseases common to our chemically polluted environment.
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The article ends by suggesting a couple of well-known types of fasts and suggests avoiding fasts of water only as toxins get released too fast, causing strong reactions such as headaches and muscle cramps. This is good advice as we are all not Gandhis or native Americans of old. However, what he fails to mention is that a fast needs to be done in a time when the person is not pressured by work or that commitments and preferably in the warmer months as your fasting body does feel the cold most strongly. If you would like to know more about spirit healing and rejuvenation through fasting, I recommend The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvenation by Paul Bragg.

Summer Solstice and Spiritual Journeys

The longest day of the year is upon us and many will celebrate as usual. While the traditional celebrations are part of Wiccan traditions and thus religious, there are many solstice celebrations today that are not Wiccan based. Here is an article written by Grove Harris, a writer, speaker and consultant on religious diversity. The article appeared in The Huffington Post (Religion section). Let’s see what she has to say about summer solstice and spiritual journeys.

Summer Solstice and Spiritual Journeys

Celebration may be among a broader spectrum of people, such as the 35,000 who gathered at Stonehenge last year. BBC's coverage of that event included an interview "with those who appreciate the solstice the most: 'We believe it is very important for people to move with the cycles of nature, and actually feel them. If you get up early in the morning and you watch that special sunrise, you've been a part of it. The rest of the year is shaped by that. And we think it's a really healthy thing to do, and a very spiritual thing to do.'" And clearly the large crowd shared at least some of this sentiment and journeyed to one of the world's most renowned sacred spots to observe the sunrise. For those for whom this is a religious practice, there are variations on the rituals or traditions.
Some will burn a Yule wreath in a bonfire; some will dance, drum, sing, and pray. The variations are endless -- some rituals may be prescribed and ceremonial, while others will be more spontaneous: all are witnessing the turning of the wheel of the year. People attune themselves to the rhythms of the natural world and invite the seasons of waxing and waning, of birth, growth, death and renewal to reverberate more consciously in their lives.
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This is an very old ritual time dating back to 3000 BC, and the rituals have been passed down from one generation to another. I sometimes attend a solstice celebration that has been going with the same people for over 40 years now. They have their own set of rituals and parties. However, this year I’m going to opt for a pot luck party where people are encouraged to read original poetry or sing original songs. I’m sure the food will be good, and perhaps we will get lucky and have some good entertainment from our neighbors too. It will be another kind of spiritual journey. I’m going to recommend a different kind of book this time, a romantic suspense story just published: Summer Solstice by G.M. Frazier. Very affordable in the Kindel version at $3.99. Great summer reading.
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Spiritual Tours in Tibet

Our featured journey for this week is a spiritual tour around Mt. Kailash near Kathmandu staying in or near Drirapuk and Zutrulpuk monasteries. The tour is sponsored by the Tibet Travel Coop, a group of local tour companies that all work together to promote and provide authentic travel experiences. Here are more details about spiritual tours in Tibet by the Tibet Travel Coop (TTC).

Spiritual Tours in Tibet

“Travelers will visit magnificent monasteries, ancient chortens, sacred mountains, caves and temples, lively bazaars and historic trading towns.” TTC said. “Throughout the trip, they will meet monks, Lamas, Yogis, nomads and scholars and learn about Buddhist culture. They can participate in meditation, observe rituals, mingle with pilgrims, and deeply connect with local people and traditions.”
Itineraries for the spiritual journey include a 14-day tour in and around the sites of Lhasa in central Tibet, and a 16-day pilgrimage to holy Mt. Kailash. All tours in central Tibet require a group of at least 5 and a guide.
“The Kailash itinerary is the 53km pilgrim path around Mt. Kailash.” TTC said. “The trek begins and ends in the city of Darchen and the journey can be started in Lhasa or Dam via Kathmandu. Three days is perhaps the minimum time required to walk leisurely around the mountain, spend two nights in or near Drirapuk and Zutrulpuk monasteries.”
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The Tibet Travel Coop also offers two other types of tours - cultural odysseys or adventure trekking. Perhaps some of your group would prefer these types of tours to the spiritual ones. I have talked to people who have gone on tours in Tibet. Aside from the indoctrination that the Chinese have improved the country since their take-over, the tours were well organized and delivered what was publicized. The regulations keep changing, but you are still limited as to where you can travel to on your own without a tour guide in Tibet. If you want to know more about traveling in Tibet, I recommend this book: Lonely Planet Tibet by Chris Bradley. The Lonely Planet books are kept up to date and give some out of the way places to visit as well for spiritual tours in Tibet. Next week we will look at traveling in some of the neighboring countries to Tibet - Bhutan, Nepal and China.

Archangel Gabriel Speaks About Spiritual Healing

The Angel News Network contains a wealth of information particularly useful in this coming year of change. It is rich in videos since the founders have backgrounds in advertising, TV and movies. Here is one, the first part of a series of videos channeled from Archangel Michael by Robert Baker in an interview format by the founder of Angel News Network, Joel Anastasi.

Archangel Gabriel Speaks About Spiritual Healing

 

If you wish to learn more about these channeled messages, please return to this website in subsequent weeks when parts 2 & 3 will be featured, or go to the Angel Network News website by clicking here. If you wish to know more about the channeled book, The Second Coming: The Archangel Gabriel Proclaims a New Age, then click on the link below.

How to Handle a Healing Crisis

Bronwen and Frans Steine are world-renowed Reiki practitioners and certainly have witnessed more healing sessions than most people. Their latest article, “Healing is Not Always Fun” is very clearly written about the problems of “stuck energy” busting forth or strong emotions occurring after healing sessions. Please read more about how to handle a healing crisis.

How to Handle a Healing Crisis 

Many people think that healing is fun and takes you straight into a state of bliss. But this is not always the case, healing yourself can be painful.
Yes, some issues will clear up without any side effects at all--they are like a drop of cooking oil on the kitchen bench, wiped away with one flick. Many issues, however, are so stuck within our mind and energy that it takes much more then just a flick. These are like old stains on a kitchen bench which need a mighty scrub to clean off, and, in the process, leave scratches behind.

Some of the "side effects" of healing might be slight dizzyness, vomiting, pain in your joints or organs, crying, shaking, or diarrhea--just to name a few.
One of the best ways to deal with stuff that comes up when we start to heal is to make sure that we stay grounded. This we can do with traditional Japanese Reiki practices like joshin kokyu ho (its on this CD) for example. You can also support yourself by receiving hands-on healing sessions from a practitioner, counseling, massages, acupuncture etc. And always make sure you drink lots of water.
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The Steines living in Australia hold wonderful workshops and retreats both in Australia and in other countries. To know more about their approach to Reiki, I recommend The Reiki Sourcebook.

Spiritual Healing for the Future

This article is a book review of Dennis Linn, Sheila Faricant Linn and Jesuit Fr. Matthew Linn’s insightful book, Healing the Future: Recovering from Societal Wounding. The Linns have now written over 21 books translated into 20 languages. However this is the first book in which they have looked at the effects of our toxic society with the violence and economic hardships many endure (or at least watch on TV and at the movie theater). Here is what the reviewer, John Dear has written in The National Catholic Reporter.

Spiritual Healing for the Future

Dennis, Sheila and Matt Linn have spent decades teaching processes for healing from personal brokenness in more than 60 countries. Their 22 books have sold more than a million copies in English and have been translated into more than 20 languages. For the last few years, however, as they faced their own despair over the world, they began to make the connection between our personal wounds and the wounds we all suffer from this toxic culture.

Healing the Future takes their work in a new direction and suggests that healing ourselves individually includes facing the illness of our culture and being part of healing our entire society so that the cycle of violence and wounding will not continue into the future. These last few years of war, terrorism, corporate greed and climate change have hurt us more than we realize. The Linns invite us to integrate spirituality, emotional healing work, social awareness and a new understanding of the universe itself to help us recover our peaceable humanity in a more intentional, conscious way.

The Linns' new book is the fruit of retreats and workshops to thousands of people in the last few years. People everywhere have told them -- and me, too -- that they feel overwhelmed and paralyzed by the state of the nation and the world. The Linns want us to learn how to stay healthy and open and not be overwhelmed by fear and despair so we can go forward and do the work that needs to be done to create a more peaceful, nonviolent world for ourselves and our children.
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The Linns’ new book is not available through Amazon as yet, but it can be purchased through Paulist Press. This article really strikes a chord with me as being accurate and something we should all be aware of. I’m not sure how our society became so negative and fear-producing, but the psychological effects are already being felt by the increase of childhood obesity, increase in ADD and ADHD problems. I especially like their idea of noticing and returning to what works for you to deal with current situations. Do you have experiences where negative societal situations influenced you? Please share you comments below for others to see.

A Great Buddhist Resource: Mahamevnawa Meditation Monastery Florida

While full-on monasteries are common in Asia and India, even in Europe, it’s great to hear about a few that exist in North America in full form, not just retreat centers. Anyway, here is part of this article about the spiritual community from the monastery website.

A Great Buddhist Resource: Mahamevnawa Meditation Monastery Florida

 

The residential monastic community and lay practitioners as well as outside members and supporters equally contribute to the life and activities of Mahamevnawa Florida through their dedicated work. This includes offering daily meals for free to the resident meditators (monks & lay people), cleaning, maintenance, shopping, office work, and running courses. In addition, the resident community principally supports the daily maintenance and functioning of Meditation Monastery.

All our study programs are available for everyone, including introduction to Early Buddhist teachings and meditation practices, daily devotional pujas (chanting meditations) and weekend retreats and many other courses throughout the year.
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It seems that they have a good mix of lay and ordained practitioners. Do you know of other monasteries in North America? Please leave a message and let me and others know about them.

A Healing Retreat for Australian Businessmen

Here is a retreat with a difference. The participants are all disillusioned, even burned out executives, needing to change their lives. The sponsoring company, The Legacy Process, based in Singapore, was started by a group of bankers and former bankers, and this workshop will take place on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia this August. Each participant will pay a cool $13,680 (the discount price) for the week-long retreat including meals, accommodations, psychotherapy, meditation and financial resource management. Here’s more information about this healing retreat for Australian businessmen from World News Report and PRNewswire-Asia.

This year, thousands of jaded executives will ponder the 10-million-dollar "What Should I Do With My Life" question against a high-stress backdrop of restructuring, global volatility and diminished bonuses. In response, enter The Legacy Process started by a group of bankers and ex-bankers, which aims to help individuals' transition to a life of meaning by pursuing their passions and living sustainably.
"We can choose to do work which nourishes us rather than depleting our spirit. That is what The Legacy Process is about," said Legacy Process Director, Mark Leahy, a veteran debt capital markets banker who also owns an organic micro-vineyard in rural Australia.
Guest speakers will share their own experiences of moving on from a purely corporate life to found charities, set up green businesses, explore and adventure.
"If you empower yourself to chase your dreams with passion and unleash your real energy, you really start living again, but more meaningfully. Speaking from personal experience, it's an amazing discovery that is also very infectious!" said Legacy Process advisor Noor Quek, founder of NQ International Pte. Ltd. and President of Breast Cancer Foundation Singapore.
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It seems like a good idea to me, and I wonder how many other retreat centers or spas offer workshops for people transitioning from one career to another. I suspect it would be a popular topic if the presenters could actually help these people sift gears, so the speak. I like the phrase on the website for The Legacy Process: “How do you want to be remembered?” I also like the fact that 10% of their profits go to charity. If you like this article, please let us know by hitting the Facebook “like” below, or better yet, leave a comment.

An Ultimate Exercise in Spiritual Mindfulness

Marcelle Pick, co-founder of Women to Women, author of Are you Tired and Wired? and a OB-GYN N.P., has written about a journey to Machu Picchu to visit her son who was studying shamanism there. She was not sure what she would find, and then when the airline lost her suitcase, she was really tense. However she was about to have an ultimate exercise in spiritual mindfulness as she trekked up to higher altitudes and Machu Picchu.

An Ultimate Exercise in Spiritual Mindfulness

My son was studying to be a shaman two hours outside of Iquitos in the jungles of Peru, and I was there to bring him home. I had also felt called to the mountains to do some spiritual journeying myself. I'd always dreamed of going to Peru, and when I traveled there 21 years ago, I didn't have the wonderful experience I expected. So it was time to return and explore all that I'd missed the first time around. But I have to admit that I was worried about my son and what I would find when I saw him -- we'd been out of touch for months.
But when I met up with him and our shaman guide, somehow the suitcase and my worry became less important. I was humbled by the altitude that kept me breathless, even though I thought I was in great shape, and by the Incan architecture that has withstood the test of time. I was humbled by the knowledge and peace of our wise shaman guide, who led us through a four-hour shaman ritual on the side of Machu Picchu. During this time of peace and quiet, surrounded by the spiritual history of past civilization, I welcomed the opportunity to step away from the person who was frantically searching for her suitcase, who was so caught up in the drama of her life.

 Often when people get caught up in their own or other’s dramas the inner peace goes right out the window. How to maintain a relaxed state of mind in the face of conflict, loud noise or extreme weather is a task for advance practitioners. Yet we can all succeed with effort and practice. If you would like to know more about Marcelle’s book, Are You Tired and Wired? click here.

Can Spirit Communicate with Us Through Animals?

Dr. Stephen Farmer, a world renowned author and shamanic practitioner, has written this article in Care 2 Make a Difference about a different type of spiritual communication through animals. Here is part of what he has to say to answer the question: Can spirit communicate with us through animals? The first part is an example experience of his.

Can Spirit Communicate with Us Through Animals?

I’ve had many experiences where Spirit has come through with messages in this way and have heard many stories from others of similar occurrences. Just recently while preparing to attend a mens group, I walked out to the back yard and heard a flutter of wings coming from the trees in the neighbor’s yard. At first I thought nothing of it, as it’s not unusual to see crows flying about here and there. Then in a flash a different type of bird appeared and much to my surprise and delight, it turned out to be a hawk! It was the first time ever that one showed up in our yard, so it certainly qualified as unusual. The hawk flew to the Arbutus tree directly behind the house and landed on the branch for a few moments, during which-I swear-he looked directly at me.
He didn’t stay long, but long enough for me to know he was delivering a message. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and asked, “Hawk brother, what’s your message?” Once you ask the question of the spirit animal, in this case Hawk spirit, it’s important to pay attention to everything that happens following, including what you see, hear, or feel. In this case I immediately heard my inner voice, “Stay focused and pay attention for other signs”, which turned out to be completely relevant for the upcoming mens group. My friend and I had offered to facilitate this particular session and since the group had been meeting for some time now, we both agreed that it was time to push the edges a bit further. We were confident the processes would open the way for greater honesty and depth.

He goes on in the article to suggest what you and I can do to facilitate messages from animals.

1) Close your eyes, take a couple of nice, comfortable deep breaths, and in your mind state, “Please tell me or show me the message”, then pay attention to any immediate thoughts, images, or dialogue. Trust what you get, whether or not it makes immediate sense. It will later.
2) Think of the characteristics of the actual animal. That will give a clue to the spirit animal’s “medicine”.For instance, a hawk has incredible eyesight and when scanning the horizon with his broader vision, when something gets his attention, he focuses. So one of Hawk spirit’s medicines is the gift of focus and presence.
3) Refer to any books or other devices that give you some ideas as to the possible message, such as my book Animal Spirit Guides or the new condensed -and-revised Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals
4) Search the Internet for terms such as spirit animals, power animals, totem animals, etc. to discover what others have noted as to the message of the particular spirit animal of your inquiry.
No matter the possible interpretation or meaning of the message, be sure that it somehow resonates with your inner knowing and your heart. The more you listen, the more you will hear
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If you wish to know more about Dr. Farmer and his work, I recommend reading Earth Magic: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom for Healing Yourself, Others and the Planet.If you enjoy this book, you might also enjoy his 48-card oracle card deck.

Three Day Spiritual Meditation with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama at the Tsuglakhang temple will be teaching starting Thursday, June7, 2012 for 3 days. There are over 6,000 people there, according to Voice of America (Tibet section). It is interesting to hear the session from yesterday recorded and narrated in Tibetan on this website. Here is more about this amazing retreat.

Three Day Spiritual Meditation with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala

Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama today started a 3-day teaching on Kamalashila's ACThe Middling Stages of Meditation for Indians audience in Tsuglakhang temple in ADharamsala.
Thupten Tsewang of New Delhi based Foundation for Universal Responsibility of Dalai Lama - one of the organizing institutions - said Indians from big cities, rural villages and overseas have come to Dharamsala for Dalai Lama's teachings.
The Indian audience will have a special session with Samdhong Rinpoche and Geshe Lhakdor la, to further discuss the teachings in the evenings. They will have a question and answer session with the Dalai Lama on the last day of the teaching.
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The Dalai Lama is loved the world over, and the size of this gathering certainly shows his popularity. He is reported to say he was very happy and honored that so many people were taking this training. If you wish to read more about the Dalai Lama’s teachings as they are going on in India, click on this link and then find the box in the upper, right corner that says, “Listen: Thousands of Indians Attend Dalai Lama’s Teachings in Dharamsala”. Come back later to this website to read more about this yearly retreat held by the Dalai Lama in different parts of the world on the birthday of the Buddha. This year it is a three day spiritual retreat with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his home in exile.

Spiritual Healing, Diet for Diabetes

According to Rebecca Shepard writing for Diabetes Health one in three children will develop diabetes worldwide. This is an epidemic by any measure and something that needs to be addressed if we wish to keep medical costs down and a healthy population in the future. Here is part of what Rebecca says about Spiritual healing, diet for diabetes.

Spiritual Healing, Diet for Diabetes

I am not advocating that everyone view illness in spiritual terms. Our relationship to our body is the most sacred and personal one we have, and one that must be entirely our own. Rather, I am advocating for an extended discourse on exactly what illness is and where it could be coming from. Western medicine does not know the cause of type 1 diabetes. AACPractitioners believe that it has ties to genetics and may be affected by toxins in the environment or injections that set off autoimmune reactions. Type 2 diabetes is linked more solidly with poor diet, lack of exercise, and genetics. Not surprisingly, the form that has more understood and accepted origins is also the one that is deemed "curable.
I believe the root of the disease is toxins: toxins in what we are eating, toxins in our environment, and the toxic quality of societal consciousness at the present moment. We have lost a connection to what we need in order to survive and to flourish: healthy foods, relationships, and spaces. We are in imbalance, and the level of disease in our society is a mark of this.
I have gone completely off insulin twice, following the raw food diet and finding that my blood sugar remained stable even after meals that contained sugars (good, natural sugars such as fruit and nuts). Because I am at school and enrolled in a meal plan, I am unable to eat raw currently, so I need to inject certain amounts. But in the future, I plan on extending my raw food experiment from one month to four to see how my body can relearn and heal itself.
I in no way intend to insinuate that diabetes is an easy disease that everyone should just "get over" or be constantly positive about. Illness is, and always will be, a challenge. Instead, I am arguing that we can make use of the different lenses available to us through which we can view its place in our lives and in our bodies. We should not throw out the last century's advances in Western treatment and understanding of diabetes, but nor should we turn a blind eye to the more "old fashioned" (read ancient) ways that can help us maintain balance and health.
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She goes on to say that illness can bring pain and death or it can be a guiding light to spur everyone on to find the solution and cure. If you wish to know more about the raw food diet and diabetes, I recommend this DVD about a group of “ordinary diabetics” who are introduced to a different way of eating and living. Good for both Types 1 & 2 diabetes. Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days by Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins and Aaron Butler. Remember that this article and this DVD do not advocate foregoing modern medical remedies for diabetes but to supplement what is already provided by your doctor with spiritual healing, diet for diabetes.

Mental Patients Held Prisoners in a Church for Spiritual Healing

This report comes from South Africa near Namibia. The mentally challenged people were left chained to trees and heavy objects of years sometimes. Mathias Haufiku reports on this story in AllAfrica. Here is what he says about mental patients being held prisoners in a church for spiritual healing.

Mental Patients Held Prisoners in a Church for Spiritual Healing

The practice of incarcerating mental patients with chains padlocked to tree trunks and other objects has apparently been going on at the church for over a decade after the victims sought "spiritual healing" from Reverend Matyayi for mental and other illnesses.
After New Era broke the story, members of the police and social workers appalled by the illegal detentions intervened and ordered their immediate freedom on the grounds that the practice infringed on their human dignity.
But the police said Matyayi's actions though well-intentioned, were illegal. They say the situation was prompted partly by the fact that the country has only one psychiatric unit, denying many mentally challenged patients in the country access to proper mental health care.
The psychiatric unit in Windhoek cannot accommodate all people with mental disabilities in the country, hence it sometimes takes years before patients are even admitted, the deputy commissioner said.
"Whenever we have criminal cases involving mentally-ill patients it becomes a problem, because we do not have the facilities to detain such people. Sometimes we have no choice but to lock them up in cells all by themselves to avoid fights with other inmates," he said.
Last week Thursday, Bampton led police officials to the Sauyemwa informal settlement where they ordered the reverend of the church, Moses Matyayi, to unchain the mentally challenged patients.
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While this situation is shocking, what are the alternatives for these people? They haven’t the money for medication and chances are these poor people are violently dangerous. If we think back to mental asylums before medication in Western countries, people were chained up as well. The article didn’t say what became of the 9 people nor what spiritual healing they actually received in the Apostolic Church outside Rundu. What do you think should happen to these people in order for their lives to be more peaceful and productive? Leave a comment below for others to see.

Positive Spiritual Changes are Getting Easier

In a world filled with negativity, thinking positively is an important part of personal spiritual growth. Eve Wilson, Director since 1986 of the Healer Development Program, has written this article in Mind, Body, Spirit Guide about positive changes. In her world people are making positive changes more easily and perhaps more quickly. Here’s what she says about positive spiritual changes getting easier.

Positive Spiritual Changes are Getting Easier

Over the next 20 years we will actualize a significant piece of our potential as spiritual beings living in a physical world. You could compare the spiritual changes we are undergoing with those that the industrial revolution and technology have brought to our material experience. The shift we are undergoing is of that magnitude but taking place in consciousness and spirit. It will impact the material world in every way, but the influence will come from a higher and truer state of being and have infinitely more balanced and healthy results.

The ascension process you are going through at this time is a speeding up of your vibration so that your body and soul resonate more in harmony with God within you. This is activating changes in your body chemistry, your genetic makeup, and your spiritual and psychic development. You are becoming increasingly intuitive and self-aware. It is easier and easier to forgive the hurts you experience and the stress from the world and to trust that somehow everything is going to be OK. You can sense a purpose behind things and are more inclined to be patient and let go of trying to control things. You are more and more inclined to watch and see how things turn out.
Increasingly God consciousness is waking up within us and within the world at large. As we awaken to this truth at the core of all life forms, and especially within ourselves, we will find new ways of being and doing things that really work for us. These new ways of being will be natural and emerge out of a new wholeness and awareness of our unity with all of life. We will be telepathically able to cooperate with all life forms to create a world that supports all of us without greed, fear and selfishness. All of this will take time, but we are seeing positive change becoming easier and easier. Just 10 years from now, you will look back and see so much that has worked out better than you could have predicted and even more so in 20 years. No change is without stress, but there is good stress that brings about good changes and we are experiencing it now.
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While there are an increasing number of people who realize we are changing as a human species, there still is not much in the way of guidelines to foster or even speed up this process. This article also doesn’t offer us much in the way of HOW to ascend to a higher level. Some people think we don’t need to do anything; the change will just “come over us” like rain from the sky. Some maintain that the extra terrestrials will come down and help some more advanced people to spiritually advance towards enlightenment. What do you think? Are positive spiritual changes getting easier for you to make? Please leave a comment below.

The Spiritual Healing Presence of Silence

We are a society that has overdosed on media, both visual and auditory. I don’t know about you, but I tend to tune most of it out. What then replaces it? Do we have something better to see and hear? Are we really comfortable with just silence? I suspect most people just let their own babble go on in their heads instead of taking a break, letting go and enjoying silence. Here is an article by Father Gabriel Rochelle, a priest of the St. Anthony of the Dominican Orthodox Mission in Las Cruces, New Mexico who suggests we find the spiritual healing presence of silence and the voice of our hearts.

The Spiritual Healing Presence of Silence

The novelist and essayist Pico Iyer wrote, "We have to earn silence, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion. We all know how treacherous are words, and how often we use them to paper over embarrassment, or emptiness, or fear of the larger spaces that silence brings. 'Words, words, words' commit us to positions we do not really hold, the imperatives of chatter; words are what we use for lies, false promises and gossip." Iyer is onto truth in this Time magazine essay from Jan. 25, 1993, but I think it incomplete; what I miss is the note that genuine speech emerges out of true silence even as true silence issues forth in authentic speaking. Thus are the lies avoided, thus do we become truly present, and thus does the soul speak.
The world is full of babble. It surrounds us on all sides, seeps into our lives via a host of media: radio, television and now the other devices that invade our space and rob our silence. Words have become cheaper than ever before, it seems, and hence we distrust the voice.
For many people in our society, the retreat to silence means only absence and not possibility, only void and not creative center. We have been so long drawn off silence by noise that surrounds us that we think we are hollow when noise and words are absent. It is not so.
We still have time to find that heart where the voice originates, where the soul can be expressed through the voice. Every spiritual tradition presents a way into silence through contemplation, meditation or prayer. Find it in yours or find someone to help you enter it. The world is in need of authentic speech.
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Paul Simon years ago wrote the song, “Sounds of Silence”. If you truly take a break from the hubbub of your modern life you might discover true peace of mind or even the solution to that problem you have been trying to resolve, maybe a great invention or a way to resolve differences with on old friend. It’s sort of a defragmenting of the brain, a type of walking meditation to find the spiritual healing presence of silence. I will stop now as there is also too much written nonsense. I’ve said enough. However, I’d love to hear from you, so please leave a message below.

Spiritual Journeys American Native Style

Here is the spiritual journey for this week at MysticFare. Here is a tour group, Spirit Trails, can offer you a great variety of experiences sectioned off by tribal First Nations traditions or at least by geographical location. They use the slogan, “Insightful Encounters with People and Planet”. Here are some of the details of their spiritual journeys American Native Style.

Spiritual Journeys American Native Style
TRIBES OF THE SOUTHWEST USA:

# TRIP 1: EARTH MEDICINE VISION QUEST RETREAT

# TRIP 2: NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU

# TRIP 3: SACRED MOUNTAINS OF THE NAVAJO

# TRIP 4: NAVAJO CROSS-CULTURAL TOUR

TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN USA:

# TRIP 1: LAKOTA PRAIRIE ADVENTURE - TIPI CAMPING AND HORSES

# TRIP 2: LAKOTA TERRITORY - THE SIOUX RESERVATIONS

# TRIP 3: LAKOTA TERRITORY TOUR WITH HORSE-RIDING

# TRIP 4: ON HORSEBACK WITH THE CHEYENNE, NEZ PERCE AND LAKOTA

# TRIP 5: MYTHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST

# TRIP 6: HORSE-RIDING WITH WHITE THUNDER

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Not only are there these intriguing-sounding trips but they also advertise mini trips and soon trips to Equator and Peru. While I have not been on any of their trips and I don’t know about the authenticity of what they offer, the tours themselves look quite informative and well organized judging from the website and the contact I had with them. For anyone interested in Native culture and an up-close-and-personal experience, this is the tour group for you. I think “Horse Riding with White Thunder” is the one for me! Anyway, please enjoy spiritual journeys Native American style and leave a comment below. Better yet, please share this article with your friends.