Seasons of the Soul

New Energy Informational Medicine

We are on the brink of a medical revolution as physics brings us closer to understanding about the importance of the quantum field. Although the phrase is often overused, we are being introduced to a revolutionary approach to how the body works and why disease occurs. Rather than focusing on body parts, the new understanding focuses on the field around the body where the information is stored that affects health and wellbeing. As more and more proof of this unfolds, we will be able to deal with disease in a whole new way, and to that end there are a few books to recommend as thought provoking reading.

The Field, by Lynn McTaggart

The Reconnection, by Dr. Eric Pearl

Decoding the Human Body-Field, by Peter Fraser and Harry Massey

The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton, M.D.

Virtual Medicine, by Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby, M.B, Ch.B, M.D., Ph.D

Re-reading Books that Made an Impression on Us

I was going through my library a few weeks ago and came upon some “old” books that were good when I first read them many years ago. Something inside suggested that I read them again. Some held up very well through the intervening years, and some didn’t, but I’d like to recommend you look through your books to see what jumps off the shelf to ask you to read them again.

I noted in the second reading that I got a great deal more out of the book than I had the first time around. The vantage point of years and experience allowed me to see something I’d only dimly perceived back then in a whole new light now.

And in keeping with the old books,  Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman has now been made into a full feature film starring Nick Nolte. It's well done and worth seeing. For people who are more moved by movies than books, the points are well made that the book addressed. 

As for the books I reread that stood the test of time, The Last Barrier, by Reshad Feild, holds up and does itself better second time around.. I’ve also been going through Peace Pilgrim, Illusions, by Richard Bach, and Saved By the Light, by Danion Brinkley. My own book, Vision of the Grail, is being serialized in its entirety on www.planetlightworker.comso here again is an oldie being brought back for a new look.

What’s on your shelves that might be calling you to read it a second time around?

From Seasons of the Soul print edition 2006

Summer Reading

Recently I’ve read several significant books, and would like to pass them along for your summer reading consideration.

Fiction—
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
This is a very unusual work—feeling a lot like non-fiction, about a 14 year old girl who deals with the complexities of life and tragedy. Through events, she ends up living with a family of bee keepers in the South. It is filled with warmth, poignancy, and insight about life. I read it on my vacation and had a hard time putting it down.

Non-Fiction—
The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D
As a researcher, Lipton was steeped in the left brain idea about science and how the body works. Through an amazing intuitive awakening, he was able to do research on memory held within cells—not DNA—that affects the body and is the underpinning of the subconscious mind. This work reads like fiction and shows the importance of our thoughts and how they affect current and future health.

Same Soul, Many Bodies by Brian Weiss, M.D.
This inspiring work by the author of Many Lives, Many Masters, left my mind reeling with questions and a desire to connect the dots within my own lifetimes. As a traditional M.D. who ventured into hypnosis to help his psychiatric patients, Weiss stumbled upon past life regression, and to his amazement, found that the healing potential of integrating past with present led to remarkable recoveries without drugs. In this book, he expands into future  lives as well—with remarkable results. This book is hard to put down, and I’m going to read it again to get what I missed the first time.
Dr. Weiss also has CD’s available to guide an individual into meditation, relaxation and hypnosis sessions. 

The Disappearance of  the  Universe  by Gary Renard
This book makes you think, makes you mad, and makes you question previous assumptions about life. It references  A Course In Miracles and was a result of an encounter with two guides who materialized in the author’s living room unannounced over a period of nine years to bring him a series of lessons about the origin and purpose of life. The results are revolutionary and require an open mind. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in the book, but it has been a catalyst to observing life from a different perspective.. If you are willing to shake up reality, this is a good summer read.

The Blue Sweater

I often share wonderful pieces of information I receive from The Daily Good. www.dailygood.org  It is filled with inspiration and news that uplifts and empowers us as individuals, communities, the world, and as a species. The following book is one of the gems that points to possibility for alleviating some of the issues the world faces. It is practical and pragmatic in its outlook, and hopeful in finding solutions to issues by empowering those who are in need of help, not causing more harm by handing out aid that does not involve their own efforts. Take a look at the excerpt to get a taste of how helping the world helps all of us.

http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3718a

Jump Start Your Creativity with The Artist's Way

Whether you are an artist, writer, poet, inventor, or want to make inspired recipes - there are times when we all seem to come to a standstill in our creative lives. Things seem stuck or uninspired, and it is in times like these when we need a little something to jump start the process. I have never found a better book for doing this than The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron. She offers some amazing tips on how to get yourself going again - many of them fun and providing ways to think "out of the box."

The one exercise she offered that made a major difference to my creativity was the Three Pages A Day. Each day, you write three pages of whatever is on your mind without reading it back or editing it in any way. Some days, you have nothing to say or are angry, and just scribble whatever angry thought comes to mind over and over again. Other days, you may have more than three pages worth of commentary. The point is that by getting your internal process on paper, you are stimulating the creative centers, and soon more comes, and you open yourself to inspiration. I did this exercise for about 12 weeks before I was overcome by a desire to write a book that turned into Vision of the Grail. Now, I've embarked on a new writing project, but have gotten stuck, and am pulling this classic motivator off the shelf and doing the three pages a day once more.

If you've felt stuck, I encourage you to try Cameron's way. It worked for me, and looking at how successful her book was, it may very well work for you, too!

Happy Easter!

Presence of Angels

Presence of Angels: A Healer’s Life

For anyone who is interested in healing, the book Presence of Angels: A Healer's Life, by J.C. Hugh MacKimmie, is a fabulous read. It is full of wit and wisdom, and true stories that will astound you. More than that, there is a powerful energy of healing that comes through the book and has touched different people in different ways, including being a conduit of healing. I have already ordered several additional copies after reading it, and feel it is an important contribution to anyone wanting to experience a first hand healing journey.

I was privileged years ago to have gone to Dr. MacKimmie when he lived in the S.F. Bay Area, and many of the things I learned about healing and health came from this very special man. It is an honor to recommend his book.

The book is only available through the following distribution company in Montana, and I'm including the e-mail site in case you would like to look at the cover and see an excerpt from his story.
Knowing Heart Publishing or http://www.knowingheart.com/
Phone 1-800-214-8110

Deconstruction of the Universe - Review

In the book, Deconstruction of the Universe, by Gary Renard, a position is taken that demonstrates the entire process of life as a field of play to bring about  realization that there is only One Self – the God that is a unified force field, and that each of us is part of an original error thought that has split into fragments and continues to play out an illusion of reality through duality.

“Let Thine Eye Be single”, “In the twinkling of an Eye” - and all biblical passages  referring to the unifying principle of oneness  -  are points of recognition within each fragment that it is truly part of a whole. When we overcome the individuated “i” that runs on free will choice and clarify our position and our true source, we become the single “I”, and that recognition can occur in a twinkling, so that we realize we are not separate, not apart from – but that we are the one “I” in which all things live and dwell and have their being. This becomes the basis of Self Realization.There is nothing other than that, save for the projection of error consciousness playing out in the realm of Earth.

When we look at scenarios that individuals play out we can see the truth in these concepts. Each person has a different vantage point and a different story based on their own perception. Ten people can view the same incident and report it differently – based on their own perception and bias.

We look from a larger view at the squabbles of people over the “differences” in religion, race, ethnic background – the wars fought amongst the so-called righteous to promote their “one true truth”. Yet, even by biblical standards, we are all derived from one coupling – the Adam and Eve heritage. If this be so, how can we claim that any of us are superior to another? If this be so, how can we say that any other is sub-human or inferior or wrong? We being derived from One must return to One – and in the process the ego (I go) must come home.

We can see the magnetic repelling or connecting when we take two force fields and hold them in different ways. As a child, many of us who are older used to play with the magnetic Scotty dogs – one black, one white. If they were held a certain way, they would lock together as one. When they were held differently, they could not be attached because the force fields  energetically repelled the other. So with us. We are locked in a perceptual force field of repulsion, unable to come together until we turn energetically to a different field of perception and knowing. Once this occurs – we are able to re-unify, and those who were sent out as one who became two and then millions can be reabsorbed as the out-breath becomes the in-breath. From the millions to the two to the One…separate no more."

A Few Good Books for Late Summer Reading

Living Buddha, Living Christ                                    
by Thich Nhat Hanh
This is the 10th Anniversary Edition that includes new material, and is a thoughtful and heartfelt exploration of the teachings of Buddha and Christ as great emissaries of light and compassion.  It is a wonderful read, and full of thought provoking similarities that draw us to recognize the richness and texture presented by both. Here we can find that which unites us rather than dwell upon our differences.  .   

Ask and It Is Given                  
The teachings of Abraham            
with Jerry and Esther Hicks
Esther Hicks is a channel for the teachings of Abraham, and this book is an excellent collection of  practical wisdom for living a meaningful life. It has prompted me to open myself to my own channel of inspiration, as the Abraham teachings affirm that we are all connected to the stream of consciousness that enriches each of us as we ask.
If you appreciated the Seth Material with Jane Roberts, you will enjoy this, too.

The Attractor Factor         
by Joe Vitale
Vitale is one of the presenters in the hugely successful DVD, The Secret. This book takes some of the principles proposed in The Secret and offers steps for creating what we want to achieve in any area of our life. It also deals with removing the blocks that get in our way and includes meaningful exercises that really work. At the end, the author provides a 30 day meditation challenge that I plan to incorporate, boosting us up to another level of accomplishment. It’s a good read and a valuable resource.

What Is Your Tree?

You may recall the story of Julia Butterfly, who sat in a giant redwood tree for two years to save it from being cut down. She created quite a buzz at the time, and in this short video, she reminds each of us  to find out where our passions and sense of belonging to something bigger are, and then to do something with that information.

KarmaTube: What is Your Tree?

On The Subject of Books

There is considerable interest in a new revelation about Jesus and Judas that you may have heard about. A lost gospel of Judas has been located that shows Judas actually did the bidding of Jesus by seemingly betraying him in order that a prophecy would be fulfilled. This has fueled deep debate and consternation, as we have believed the story of Judas being betrayer as unassailable.

There are also two new books that have been released recently that examine the Bible in depth, with unsettling discoveries that call for reflection. 

In the book, Misquoting Jesus, author Bart D. Ehrman, a deeply devoted fundamentalist Christian and biblical scholar, found that the Bible had been changed throughout the years by incompetent translators, capricious power mongers, and for political purposes. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative view of the Bible.

Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origin of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes—alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.

In Michael Baigent’s new book, The Jesus Papers, he delves into similar arenas of investigation, but uncovers evidence of a cover-up  designed to keep a powerful church in control of how people viewed Jesus and the subsequent Keepers of the Faith.

More books and revelations will probably be forthcoming as investigators are on the trail of  “truth”, and in this some may become disillusioned or distraught. However, the reminder to us is that truth is not in the details, but in the spiritual sustenance we receive through teachings that make us better human beings. As we  release attachment to the need for our stories to be the exact Word,  we can put our attention where it needs to be—on unity within ourselves, to one another, and most importantly,in God.