Environmental Holocaust

Saturday evening I couldn't get to sleep; I had one vision piled on top of another - all pertaining to the world in which we live. My feet and hands were sweating, and my toes were curling under, going into spasms, because I couldn't bear to witness what I was being shown. It was hell, literally and figuratively.

I'll begin by saying that there are many people who think that there is a conspiracy by the powers to be to depopulate the Earth. They cite example after example of atrocious practices by big businesses with polluting and pillaging Earth's resources, including people, without a thought or conscience as to how those resources are acquired - well, without thought as to how resources are acquired as long as it's profitable. I've said time and again that it's not a case of genocide but rather greed; after all, how can a corporation make money if there are no buyers for its products? It always comes back to mega-profits, and how greedy the company and its shareholders (or partners) can be.

So Saturday evening's dreamtime was all about that greed. But I was shown and told what is REALLY happening in addition to the bottom line of money, and it may be, to some of us, worse than a scenario of genocide would be.

The companies are deregulating the EPA and risking lawsuits over sloppy/unsafe business practices because they're performing a type of ongoing experimentation: how much pollution and/or poisoning can the human body and the environment withstand before there are massive deaths? How much poison can be emitted into the water/air/ground and have life be sustainable? Which types of species - animal, plant, mineral - will be caused irreparable harm, and which types of species will continue to limp by? And if a species dies, how will that impact the whole? How will that impact human life? And finally, how will that impact future profits?

Instead of retrofitting a business to ensure safety and environmental compliance, these big businesses are willing to spend billions of dollars to see how far they can take their greed. If cancer clusters form in the human population, they don't want to know why the clusters are forming - they already know - but instead want to know how many are acceptable before that business must be shackled and moved to another location. How is the ecosystem in that location handling the poison? Can plants regrow on toxic soil, and if so, what specifically can grow?

Ever wonder why many companies have stellar labs and scientists working for them who specialize in health, safety and environment when the companies are so obviously out of compliance? This may be one of the reasons why: they're studying not the worst case scenario but rather ongoing effects of modern day poisoning and what it means to sustainability. Definitely not sustainability as we organic activists understand it, but sustainability as to how much before the entire ecosystem dies. I was shown the labs, I was shown the scientists, I was shown the results. I wept and kept weeping even after the vision ended.

This is not only unacceptable to me but a crime against nature, humanity and Mother Earth herself! The Wall Street/We Are the 99% protests are still in full gear. If you do nothing else in your life, I am begging you to support these protests. I am begging everyone who reads this blog to tell his or her State and Federal representatives that the EPA cannot be deregulated and instead must have stronger regulations. To allow any entity the power of choosing greed over life is NOT capitalism or democracy or fair and just; it is abhorrent, vile and an abomination against life for Earth. Please don't let my visions be in vain!!! I never, ever want to say, "I told you so."

Past lives and living in the present

This morning on The Monroe Institute's website I read an article that "renowned British psychologist Roger Woolger, Ph.D" has been researching past lives and the present life phobias attached to same: http://www.monroeinstitute.org/thehub/are-past-lives-real-could-they-be-important-for-our-health-and-well-being-today/. So it got me thinking about two of my phobias: heights and drowning.

I've been swimming since before I can remember. My mother was a beach babe, and I was born and spent the first 6 years of my life in Coronado, California. My earliest memory of swimming was in the Hotel Del pool, diving off the board and hearing someone remark, "Oh my god! That toddler is diving! How old is she? Only two?" I can remember my stepfather telling me after he took me to the deepest part of the pool to hold my breath, he was going to take me to the bottom of the pool, and when he released me, for me to just float to the top. He told me that we always float back up as long as we don't panic. So we went to the bottom of the pool, he released me, I floated to the top, and I learned my first water safety lesson.

We moved to Jackson, MS when I was six, and we had a backyard pool in which we swam constantly. Then when I was seven we moved to Montgomery, AL, and built a backyard pool two years after that. In Montgomery we all took advanced swimming and diving lessons at the YMCA, and all four of us children attended summer camp every year for the next seven years. At the Y, the only dive I never performed was one off the high dive - I was terrified of heights with no reasonable explanation. My siblings weren't afraid, my parents weren't afraid, my friends dived with impunity off the high dive. I couldn't do it.

We went to Lake Jordan and Panama City Beach every summer too, often for a week or so every time. I was water skiing by the time I was in third grade and snorkeling in the Gulf of Mexico at that age. At Auburn when I took the required swimming class for credit, the instructors chose me to be the demonstrator of the various strokes and treading water. I could tread water for hours - it's as natural to me as breathing.

But I'm terrified of the water, specifically being stranded in the ocean or the boat flipping over in the lake. I've been on several deep sea fishing expeditions and all that water skiing required that I ride in the boat, but the unreasonable fear of drowning was constant until my anxiety level amped up to where it is now as an older adult: it gives me the willies to have to even ride on a ferry. When my mother died, we had her cremated and spread her ashes in the Gulf, which meant riding about two miles out into the sea. Luckily it was a beautiful day, beautiful ceremony - we each took a handful of her ashes and threw them into the wind, then threw in red roses afterwards - and my thoughts were firmly centered on the loss of my mama; and yet there was that nagging feeling in the back of mind of somehow drowning because we were so far from shore.

When Jeff and I lived in Seattle, he wanted to take the ferry to Victoria BC, and I refused. I desperately wanted to go to Victoria, but the rough waves, foul weather and certainty of drowning kept me from going. Jeff and I spent several days in Burlington VT a few years ago, and we had to cross Lake Champlain in the ferry so that we could go home by a scenic route. I stayed in the car the entire time while Jeff walked all over the ferry and took pictures. Of course it didn't help that I just knew the sea monster was going to rear his awesome head and crush me if I fell into the Lake!

As an adult I've often wondered why I suffer from these two phobias. I've had several nightmares in which I'm pushed off a cliff and drown in the sea below. I don't know if I'm reliving a past life experience or not, but since my visions always have some basis of reality in them, I would think that's probably the most plausible explanation. For the last ten years I've suffered from crippling vertigo in addition to the fear of heights; it's now so prevalent that I can no longer ride escalators (I feel as if I'm going to tumble backward, and getting on and off of them presents its own problem with dizziness and loss of balance). 

So once again I'm earth-bound. Solidly earthbound. Circle of life, y'all

Activism from This Shaman's Point of View (and earthquake vision)

Before I get into the activism portion, just wanted to say I had another earthquake vision at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31. This particular vision awakened me from sleep, and I thought it was much more a plain ol' dream as opposed to a true vision. But I posted it on Facebook anyway with the disclaimer that I wasn't sure whether it was real or not. It was real it turns out: in quick succession there was an earthquake in Alabama, California and Alaska. Interesting :D. And during the hurricane, I placed a huge bubble of protection - much like a figurative dome - around my neighborhood. Although this area had over a million customers who lost electricity and had numerous trees that fell and flooding, we never lost our electricity and the storm damage was negligible. So I'm giving a shout-out to my always present protective peeps who are part of my whole!

I've never spoken about political issues on my blog before but ain't no two ways about it, I'm an ardent activist. I attend protests and routinely write and call State and U.S. legislative leaders on various issues - most notably pertaining to environmental issues, human and animal rights, workers' rights, war, defense spending, religious freedom, social services and so on. It's not only my right and duty as an American to support or to protest so freely but as a sentient being and Shaman.

I know that all these issues on which I speak about so loudly may seem separate. But if you look at the core values of each, you'll realize they're all connected just as everything else is connected in our slice of the Universe. So I'm going to take each issue that I'm so passionate about, briefly explain each issue (I know I'm leaving out many, many atrocities that happen but anyone who's curious about following up can start his or her own journey of research) and hopefully you'll understand why it's the only stance to take, not only for someone like me who is so very connected to our Earth but for all of us.

1) Environmental issues: We have one Earth. One. There ain't any others floatin' nearby that we can use and abuse at our whim and leave to go to the next. Fact: drilling, whether it's for gas, coal or oil, causes groundwater contamination, poisoning of the surrounding plant life, and is toxic in the extreme. Yes, because of our present dependence for all three energy sources, drilling is thought of as an acceptable known contamination. But what's happening now goes way beyond acceptable (if it ever truly was): gas fracking causes earthquakes and extreme water contamination; coal mining not only mutilates the land ala mountaintop removal, but the coal ash is highly toxic and contaminates not only water sources but the land abutting those sources; oil drilling - let's just point to lack of adhering to safety standards with oil (and coal!) drilling, including continuing leaks from all the oil platforms in the Gulf and the recent discovery of a huge oil flow from the supposedly sealed Macondo well. The Gulf is DEAD y'all. There have been scores of dolphin and aborted dolphin fetuses washing up on shore in the last year, not to mention the turtle, fish and bird carcasses. The oysters are not spawning, the shrimp are still covered in black goo, the fish contain all sorts of toxins stored in their meats. I dreamed about this in May right after the oil spill, and I'm sorry that my vision was correct (see blogpost of May 27, 2010). Although I didn't mention this in the post (because I was still new to blogging and hesitant in posting how I really felt about what I "see"), I did write on Facebook that the feeling of dread and death was just as overwhelming as the oil smell itself.  In December 2009 I had a profound vision of a leukemia clinic (see blogpost of December 3, 2009); oil and dispersant toxicity often leads to leukemia or any of a number of other cancers, as does gas and coal. So how can I not be an advocate of funding for wind, solar or other non-invasive, green solutions to our energy needs? When you literally see the entire world dead and dying, it's not a choice. And since I'm connected to all beings, whether they're animal, plant or mineral, I feel their pain and hear their anguished cries for help. So I say that no life is expendable; it's unacceptable to consider harming one for the greed of another.

2) Animal and human rights: I have three dogs - The Girls. They are without a doubt my family and companions and guardians of my soul. But there are rabbits and chipmunks and squirrels and foxes, not to mention the birds and all other living beings, who are part of my neighborhood family. I would no more think of poisoning any of them than I would my own family - unacceptable. The plant life in my immediate vicinity are also my family: my veggie garden provides my food, my herb garden provides food and medicine and teas and perfume, the trees provide shade and shelter and the grass provides a safe place for all to wander. Helping to eat the veggies and herbs are the wildlife, the insects and the birds (not that I'm especially fond of them helping themselves, but hey! it happens lol); the earthworms feed below the surface, recycling decaying matter; the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds gather the pollen and nectar from the blossoms; the trees and bushes offer their own food and benefits. So you could say my neighborhood is its own rather complete ecosystem. All beings are connected; each activity of one goes to the benefit of the next, including me! So I see and feel this connection on a daily basis, and I see and feel this connection when I go out of my ecosystem and enter the larger system. The people and animals that many in our country feel are unworthy of our compassion or aid or even time are part of our larger ecosystem. Each is connected to us, each becomes a part of us. I would no more refuse them than I would the beings in my personal ecosystem. To refuse to acknowledge and accept someone because they are gay or a different color or a different religion or a different gender than you are is absurd. "Gay", "Colored", "Different Religion" are just labels - I see none of that but instead a human being who is part of me, part of my ecosystem, part of my whole. I've heard time and again the fear expressed by those who are frightened of Islam extremism. I agree - I too find any religion that elevates one class while subjugating another unfathomable. This applies to Christian fundamentalism/extremism and every other religion that goes strictly by words and not by inner-connectivity. Until those people realize that all those people they are excluding are actually part of their whole, they will keep exclusion in the forefront and thereby deny that they, themselves, are in an ecosystem. Hate of any kind is just plain contrary to our natural ecosystem. When you exclude one group, you upset the balance of the whole - a balance that may be very delicate to begin with - and catastrophe always follows, which may be a large reason why our country and world is so very fragile right now.

3) War: completely, utterly senseless. Who profits from a war? Those who manufacture and sell weapons and those who seek to take over a country's resources. The act of killing another human being for any reason is an abomination. Yes, I admit it - if someone tried to kill me personally, I would defend myself, but I'm pretty certain that's a natural instinct of self-preservation, and I have no doubt that my act of defensiveness would haunt me for the rest of my life in this existence. But our present-day wars have nothing to do with self-defense. The 9/11 terrorists were all from Saudi Arabia, so we reward Saudi Arabia and invade Iraq. We need oil and minerals and poppy from Afghanistan and proclaim that terrorists are training and plotting in that country when in fact Pakistan is a haven for anyone with a hate-filled mind. So we reward Pakistan and kill as many living beings in Afghanistan as we can. And it goes on and on and on: the fear, the hatred, the killing, the maiming, the raping of a country's natural resources, not to mention the killing and maiming of our own country's precious children who are now soldiers. There is nothing glorious about being a U.S. soldier today - nothing. They are NOT protecting our freedom - they are protecting U.S. Business' interests in a foreign land with the complicity of the U.S. government. The are dying for BUSINESS. And here's the deal: again, when one side excludes another, the entire ecosystem is unbalanced. What these wars are accomplishing, besides putting huge riches in the pockets of Business, are bankruptcy for our country, lack of aid for those who need it, hatred by other countries for the U.S., and a vicious cycle of never-ending war. Our personal freedoms, of which we were once so proud, are almost nil - invasive body searches, once-illegal wiretapping, lists lists and more lists of ordinary Americans now considered "homegrown" terrorists for speaking out, voter suppression, etc.

4) Social services: in Christianity, Jesus taught that even the lowliest of the low was worthy of His love and compassion and help. In Buddhism, the Buddha teaches that since we are all one, it is our duty to ensure that our less-prosperous brothers and sisters do not suffer needlessly. In Shamanism, we Shamans know that sharing is as natural as breathing. The present climate in our country toward privatizing and/or doing away with Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, emergency services, etc. is abhorrent y'all! The purpose of a government is to protect its people; the purpose of the people is to thrive within their chosen community. We cannot be whole until we are all whole. Yes, some people who receive government assistance are scammers, but so what? They're in the minority, and the majority of people who are desperate for help are really, truly needy. How can anyone turn away even one hungry soul? How can anyone turn his or her back on those less fortunate in their greatest time of need? What you do each time you turn away from those less fortunate is to turn away from yourself. You are denying a part of your existence which is vital to your own well-being. All those needy people are a part of you - you cannot thrive while they starve. The whole ecosystem is out of balance when one group lives while the other group dies.

5) Business and workers' rights: Contrary to what most may think, I'm not at all against making a profit nor do I think having a comfortable existence is wrong. What I am against is making a profit from others' misery. There are so many industries that can be eco-friendly and worker-friendly at the same time. To pay workers a living wage and provide decent benefits is not only fair, but with the record-breaking profits from the big businesses lately, it's more than justified and do-able. How far could those businesses have gotten without the workers? I'm not seein' the CEO on the assembly line, nor in the sales office, nor in the accounting department, legal department, etc. Yep, it's the CEO's responsibility for the whole, but the business is not producing anything without all the other workers involved. So we're back to the whole yet again: take away the workers, and the balance is upset. Giving only some all the profits and benefits while the majority suffer equals a less than thriving ecosystem, an ecosystem whose balance is broken; it's only a matter of time before the entire ecosystem dies. I go further with this thinking by claiming that our stock market and banking systems are tearing down our ecosystem as well: the outrageous profits while everyone else suffers are often a direct result of shareholders' and stock market projections and greed. I think the stock market is just one big legal bookie system - place your bets! With present day regulations (and now Republican Congressmen are calling for further deregulation), it's a giant insider Ponzi scheme of whom can out-bet and undermine whom. Same thing for the gold and silver markets - remember the crashes of the 1970s? Meanwhile the workers suffer and the balance is upset. For those businesses who have pulled out of the U.S. and now employ slave labor in underdeveloped nations and are therefore making even more record profits, I find this particularly loathsome. To treat others so disdainfully is to treat yourself as less than.

Obviously I could continue for hours ad nauseum but I think you get my point: each issue is connected to the next. We are all One; we each live in a small ecosystem enclosed within a larger ecosystem. When One suffers, we ALL suffer. To deny even one bee the right to pollinate our flowers is to deny our entire ecosystem of the right to thrive (yeppers, that's an allegory :D).

Earthquake and Hurricane Predictions Up Close and Personal, and Other Things on My Mind

On August 18 on Facebook, I wrote the following: "Speaking of crazy, while meditating today I felt a LONG rolling earthquake and thought "local" meaning U.S. Never hurts to be prepared y'all even if it doesn't happen." When I had meditated that afternoon, I not only felt the "long rolling earthquake" but a persistent thought of "local" kept running through my mind. Since D.C. never gets earthquakes, I thought "local" meant U.S. as opposed to all those quakes in Japan.

On August 19 I posted this on Facebook: "so I was right about the earthquake but it certainly wasn't in the U.S.: 6.8 earthquake hit Japan." I was a bit surprised that it wasn't in the U.S. because the "local" thought was so insistent, but I felt validated at my prediction (okay, half-way validated!).


On August 23 at 10:09 a.m. I posted this on Facebook: "My friend just sent me validation of my "local" (U.S.) earthquake vision: a 5.3 in Colorado. Another prediction: for those on the Southeast coast re Hurricane Irene, batten down the hatches y'all. Right at this moment I'm freaked about this storm, although hurricanes are notorious for changing course (let's all vibrationally veer it off-course, shall we?)." And then at 1:53 p.m. this: "omg - we just had an earthquake FOR REAL in my neighborhood - I can't stop shaking."

We did indeed have a "local" earthquake - up close and personal. And it was HELL. I first heard a loud rumbling sound, a cross between a freight train/thunder/preamble to an explosion. My first thought: earthquake, followed by: gas leak complete with thinking the house was about to blow sky high, then my final thought: D.C. is under attack and we're being nuked. And in the second it took for all three scenarios to cross my mind, the house started rolling in - yep - a "LONG rolling" and shaking motion that lasted almost 45 seconds. I watched my neighbors running outside but I stayed inside because 1) I was trying to stay upright and 2) I couldn't get the harnesses on my dogs because I couldn't keep my balance (I wasn't about to evacuate without The Girls). When the quake ended and I was finally able to go outside to talk to my neighbors, I realized the quake had affected my neurological system. My head wouldn't stop bobbing like one of the Bob-It Dolls. As I was speaking to my neighbors, I had to hold my face with both hands (I tried to make it look as if I was just putting my hands to my face, but they definitely looked at me questioningly). And my legs felt as if I was a puppet on a string - no coordination whatsoever. But I knew I wasn't in shock because I didn't have the shivers nor any other sign of shock other than my head and my legs not cooperating. I've had a muscular-neurological disorder for the last 12 years, and the quake just set it off BIG time; I'm still not back to "normal" and am having all sorts of issues walking. The horrible part about all this is that my head kept bobbing for almost TWO hours after the quake - completely freaky and uncomfortable and frustrating.


But I had a flash of when my disorder began - it was when we lived in Seattle from 1997-2000. My doctor referred me to a neurologist at the University of Washington who specialized in multiple sclerosis. I had a spinal tap and MRI of my brain and spinal column, and to everyone's huge surprise, I didn't have the typical lesions that are evident with MS sufferers. So my condition remains a "neurological-muscular disorder" without a defining name to accompany it, although the doctors all agree it's very real and very evident because of the other tests that confirmed it was MS (and which it's obviously not). Anyway, the reason I'm bringing this up is because I realized only today while driving with Jeff to get a wi-fi cellphone router that Seattle is earthquake prone. There WAS a small (noticeable) earthquake that happened while we lived there, although that quake happened after I was diagnosed (but that area has multiple seismic abnomalies on a routine basis). So today I thought oh, wow, I wonder if my disorder is actually caused by seismic activity or somehow related to the Earth's energy (as a living being)? Jeff pointed out that we haven't been in earthquake-prone area since Seattle (well, before this week, in any event) so that didn't make sense. But we lived in Bluemont VA until two years ago, and Bluemont is covered in quartz. Quartz is a conductor of energy. Even here in Falls Church I've found many quartz rocks in our backyard. What if the Earth's energy is affecting my neurological and muscular systems?


I obviously have some sort of really deep, profound connection to our Earth. I have felt and accurately predicted the earthquakes in Japan up to a week before they occurred. And I felt (and described the earthquake exactly as it came to be) our local earthquake in that same time frame. The reason I started thinking about my connection to the Earth with my disorder is because I read earlier today an astrologer's blog that Japan's earthquakes are happening on the 37th parallel - Virginia is on the 37th parallel as well. So am I able to feel everything that happens on the parallel in which I live? If I moved to another parallel would I then NOT be able to feel any earthquakes on the 37th but would instead feel anything happening on the new parallel? As to my connection to the Earth, I have said since as early as I can remember that I am of the Earth, that I am Earth-bound. I've tried to astral travel, and I'm sure on a dream level I often do. But I cannot for the life of me consciously astral travel. I've shrugged it off as being solely connected to Earth. Now I'm beginning to think there's a hell of a lot of validity to that. Another instance: I suffer from an agonizing vertigo. I've always been afraid of heights, but this goes way beyond that phobia. I now cannot even get on an escalator - I have to take an elevator, even in the Mall - without feeling as though I'm going to fall backwards by the third step. And the vertigo didn't start in earnest until, yep, you guessed it, we lived in Seattle. So I'm stuck firmly on Earth - literally stuck here. I refuse to fly for many reasons, but one is my vertigo.


On to the hurricane prediction of August 23 at 10:09: the hurricane should reach us tomorrow, and time will tell whether or not that's an accurate prediction. My feeling now is that it's valid; I believe we'll get massive flooding with at least some wind damage. I don't believe it will be along the lines of Hurricane Andrew in Homestead FL, but then I never did think that - after all, I didn't say "run!" but instead "batten down the hatches." As to loss of life, only the Universe is in charge of that, and I'm never shown bodies in natural disasters - only pictures of the disaster itself. Stay tuned...!

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes, Holistic Healing, Plus Those Damn Insects That Bite!

As most of us do, I'm changing. I grew up in a Deep South conservative home during the 1960's during a time of protests, the Viet Nam War, Civil Rights, Women's Lib, assassinations and the hippie scene. As a high school senior, I proudly announced that I was going to join the Peace Corps; it seemed to me even back then that we all had a duty to help and teach our poorer neighbors. My stepfather heard my announcement and said, "Oh, that's rich! You'll be making $2 a day and probably get some god-awful disease. Plus 'those people' don't have working sewage systems, there's no water and you won't be eating anything but worms and bugs." I knew the Peace Corps helped build water systems and sewage treatment alternatives so that didn't faze me. Neither did the "god-awful disease" 'cause I was young and invincible, and eating worms and bugs was, I was certain, a huge exaggeration on his part (he was prone to lying). But what did bother me was the $2 a day, but not the way you may think. The $2 to my stepfather meant that I was less than successful, and in our home we were thought of being the lowest of the low if we weren't a success. So I didn't join and instead went to college and entered the never-ending cycle of working for someone else - just as millions of us do. But I never forgot my desire to change the world one person, one community, one country at a time.

Now it's 40 years and many life happenings later, and I still want to help. I've been given the awesome gift of clairvoyance and an ability to connect with many unseen worlds ("the Otherworld"). I have spirit guides who pull me in the direction that I need to go, and I have 40 years of researching, experimenting and lessons learned ready to release to whomever wants to receive it. But I've noticed an odd thing (and I've blogged about this before): many people don't want to know and indeed become down right offended if I suggest that their "remedy" is less than viable. It seems odd to me because I soak up any and all information I can find on a particular treatment and always use myself as a guinea pig before I recommend it to anyone else as a real deal - if untested or unknown, I simply say, "Well, these plants are purported to be helpful...." But if someone knowingly posts false and misleading information about a remedy, I can't not comment - and trust me, I've tried to shut up and it's impossible! There are way too many false holistic prophets trolling the web right now, and as I keep changing, I'm finding it more and more a mission for me to correct these fallacies. The worst part about my self-imposed "mission" is that I'm gaining quite a backlash in the online world from those who push these false "cures" (and again, there are no cures for anything - every cell in our body is prone to relapsing into an unstable state at any given exposure to an invading toxin; combating a condition and being successful is a whole-body wellness treatment and consequent healing - way different from "cure" which implies a permanent outcome). So irregardless of any backlash this blog will now be about holistic remedies as well as paranormal events - in my life it's the paranormal world that enables me to use the knowledge the universal energy guides me toward in order to heal myself and everyone else.

So why am I blogging about this? Yesterday I came across someone on Facebook posting article after article about being bombarded by radiation. Personally, I'm not really concerned about it because we've been constantly bombarded by radiation since the first radio waves were sent into the great ionosphere, and unless a reactor blows up in my neighborhood, the chances of my - or anyone else's - accumulating more radiation than normal is low. So I didn't say anything because after all people will fear what people want to fear. But then she posted that she was safe because she applied Betadine daily to her skin, and so I answered with "the iodine won't work, but eating kelp or taking kelp supplements will" and then listed why: kelp not only ensures that the thyroid is healthy so that any radiation is rejected by the body, but is very low in cholesterol, a good source of dietary fiber, Vitamin C, Pantothenic Acid, Zinc and Copper, and a very good source of Vitamin K, riboflavin, folate, calcium, iron, magnesium and manganese. It's a good thing to eat y'all! What won't work against radiation is applying iodine on your skin - it doesn't work, period, and in fact can be toxic. Oh! And I just read that some other alt health site is promoting coffee enemas to expel radiation. OH DEAR GOD. Seriously, don't take a coffee enema - it won't work and will royally screw up your digestive system! Anyway, long story short, she declared that I was making her read too much, but she found website after website promoting iodine and taking epsom salt and baking soda baths.   As I've already blogged re the salt & baking soda baths, this is only effective immediately after exposure to remove any lingering radiation or chemical poisoning on your skin. To keep taking those baths can dehydrate the body and the baths are ineffective at best.

Just because ten alternative health sites may promote a particular "cure" (there's that word again!!!!) doesn't mean that they're correct y'all. The holistic, homeopathic field is overrun by charlatans - never forget that! And as much as my critics may try to label me as a know-it-all half-wit, I can't remain silent when I see lies, particularly when one's health may truly depend on being given the correct healing treatment. I have never been a fan of needless suffering, and I don't intend to back off now.

The one reference book I continuously rely on is A Modern Herbal by M. Grieves. This book was written in the 1930s and is an invaluable source filled with illustrations of the plants, what conditions the plants are known for healing, and recipes for preparing the concoctions. I usually go to this book first, then do online research to see if anything more current is known, and invite the universal energy to help out in research, knowledge and healing (ha!). It hasn't failed yet :D!

So on to the homeopathic remedies:

One of The Girls is a chihuahua named Maggie. Maggie's a shakin' fool when thunder or fireworks go off and is impossible to comfort. I've given her remedies/mixtures in the past that I found at either health food stores or our local organic pet food store, and absolutely nothing has worked. As the 4th of July approached, I was starting to become a shakin' fool wonderin' what on earth I was gonna do with Maggie during the explosions that we always have in this neighborhood. So I tapped into the universal energy, asked for guidance, and suddenly I remembered I had Valerian Root and passion flower in my stash of remedies. So I researched whether or not it's safe for pets to ingest either of these herbs and found that they're perfectly safe, although dosage obviously should be reduced from a human dosage level. Since the passion flower I have is in tincture form and contains alcohol, I chose the Valerian Root in a capsule to give to Maggie. I sprinkled about 1/4 of the capsule (human dosage is 3 capsules) on her dinner at 5:30, and when the fireworks went off at 9:00, she was totally unfazed. Didn't even blink when the booming started! She napped a little, but all three Girls nap at nightime while Jeff and I watch tv, so her behavior was normal. So the next time we get a thunderstorm warning, I'll sprinkle a little Valerian Root on some peanut butter and give it to her ahead of the storm; I'm also thinking that she and our yorkie Sadie - who dreads riding in a car - will benefit from this when we take our next road trip. Don't you just love it when a safe, natural alternative can be found for life's little problems????!

About the insects:

I mowed the grass yesterday and a swarm of biting gnats followed me the entire hour-and-a-half it took to mow. I got bitten on both sides of my face, 4 times on my left arm, once on my right arm, and once on my left wrist area. I have a quite severe reaction to gnat bites in that I swell and have huge red areas surrounding the bite, and although I usually take Benadryl to reduce the swelling/allergic reaction, I've been meaning to find an alternative to getting bitten in the first place (whole body wellness y'all - avoid the bug before it becomes an issue!). This morning when I walked The Girls, I was again followed by a cloud of those damn gnats. So I asked for help from my friendly energy guides and found out that patchouli essential oil and spearmint essential oil are good gnat repellants. Lavender essential oil is also a wonderful all-purpose repellant. I had the patchouli ess. oil and I had the lavender ess. oil (but no spearmint - must remember to get some!), and since I was heading back out to walk without The Girls, I applied drops of patchouli and lavender to my wrists, ankles and neck/throat. Mmmmmm - I smelled wonderful, to me at least! But guess what? This actually worked. The gnats were still dive-bombing me, but it's as if they hit an invisible barrier and turned away at the last second. Aha! Eureka! So my suggestion is for anyone who wants to repel insects, to use the below list as a guide, and apply the oils to your wrists, ankles, neck/throat and waist band (if going into the woods). If you're going on a long, several-hours or all day hike/trek, I'd suggest carrying the appropriate oil with you to reapply during the day since essential oils do wear off after a couple of hours. Some of the oils should be mixed with a tiny bit of olive or coconut oil before applying to the skin as they can be irritating - particularly the mints:

Specific Oils for Specific Insects 

ANTS Peppermint, Spearmint
APHIDS Cedarwood ,Hyssop, Peppermint, Spearmint
BEETLES Peppermint, Thyme
CATERPILLARS Spearmint, Peppermint
CHIGGERS Lavender, Lemongrass, Sage, Thyme
CUTWORM Thyme, Sage
FLEAS Peppermint, Lemongrass, Spearmint, Lavender
FLIES Lavender, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sage
GNATS Patchouli ,Spearmint
LICE Cedarwood, Peppermint, Spearmint
MOSQUITOES Lavender, Lemongrass

MOTHS Cedarwood,Hyssop, Lavender, Peppermint, Spearmint
PLANT LICE Peppermint, Spearmint
SLUGS Cedarwood ,Hyssop ,Pine
SNAILS Cedarwood, Pine, Patchouli
SPIDERS Peppermint,Spearmint
TICKS Lavender,Lemongrass, Sage, Thyme
WEEVILS Cedarwood, Patchouli ,Sandalwood

 Source: http://oilsforwellness.blogspot.com/2009/05/essential-oils-for-safe-insect.html

The Herb Garden ...and Yet Another Vision

This is my herb garden as of this morning. All the herbs were planted from organic seed, with the exception of the giant sage which is a transplant two years ago from my former home in Bluemont, VA, and is at least 8 years old. I've planted cilantro, sage, basil, holy basil, echinacea, chamomile, oregano, thyme and chives, and have lemon balm and lavender growing in the front flower beds. I also planted some mint, which usually overgrows almost everything else, but I have yet to see it, so I reckon I'll have to re-seed.


I love herb gardens! I've planted one every year for the last 11 years. I use the herbs in medicinal teas, as a food flavoring, as a snack, and perhaps most importantly of all as a mood reliever. Each time I take The Girls (our dogs) outside, I walk over to the herbs, snap off a leaf and inhale deeply. The basil is blooming right now, and the little flower buds are intoxicating! One of these days I'd love to own a distiller and make my own essential oils, especially of the basil with its clove-like spiciness and gentle floral scent. I'm already making my own perfume, and adding my very own essential oils would truly be a dream come true.

But I mention the herb garden because last Thursday while Jeff and I were at yoga, I had another vision. We were in the yoga meditation phase, and our instructor was guiding us to relaxation of our bodies: "Feel your toes, flex each toe and feel the muscles against your bones. Feel your feet, and feel each muscle...." By the time she finished with the abdomen and moved to the chest and rib cage, I was suddenly transported into the body of a cow being slaughtered. Oh the anguish and pain and fear was unbearable! I started weeping silently, copious tears running down my face, and could not get that poor creature's suffering out of my mind. Meanwhile, Jeff was fidgeting next to me as the instructor kept intoning gently, "Relax. Relax." After the class was over, Jeff said he couldn't relax when all he could think about was doing hard core exercise with the sweat and pain like he used to do when he was a Navy Search and Rescue swimmer, and yoga just wasn't doin' it for him. HA! I do believe he's missing the whole point of gentle yoga. But then he noticed my tear-stained face, and I told him about my vision. I stated, "I will never, ever eat meat again." Although Jeff's a committed omnivore, I've been a primarily raw vegan for several years now, eating meat only occasionally - and all of our meat products are from The Organic Butcher in McLean, VA. (the Butcher's source of meats are from local organic, humane, self-sustaining farms such as Polyface Farm, which is featured predominately in the movie Food, Inc.). So no more meat for me, ever again. Jeff's on his own!

Thank you herb garden for providing a much needed lift to my days and for providing the much needed medicine and nutrients my body craves! Thank you veggie garden for the abundant lettuces and snap peas and green beans you've provided me this summer, with carrots still growing (although I DID munch on a baby carrot yesterday - thank you!). The simplest things in life can bring great joy in the midst of sorrow to remind me that life is sweet and precious, indeed.

Holistic Practitioning or What To do If Chemically/Radioactively Exposed

As my friends all know, I'm a psychic and a shaman/healer and a practitioner of all things holistic. As a shaman and a healer, I've been shown in visions many plants, herbs and minerals to use for well-being and treatment. When not dreaming (hahaha - riiiiiiight), whenever anyone has asked for my help in choosing proper natural, holistic treatments, I've been able to tap into the energy and almost immediately find what treatment will likely work best. As I'm researching, I'm also gathering all that data into my own data center (my brain), and since I have a photographic memory, I'm able to recall much of that information at a moment's notice.

So when I research, I don't just look at holistic websites - I also browse the CDC, manufacturers' material datasheets for chemicals, the Environmental Working Group, the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, pharmaceutical companies and on and on. I think it's vital to know the entire picture, and an illness can't be treated until one knows how it began.

I was just unfriended on FB by yet another person who is giving out erroneous information (I objected and poof! unfriended - certainly wasn't the first and certainly won't be the last). The subject was radiation or more specifically what to do when exposed? She's a big advocate of taking baking soda and salt baths daily and taking iodine supplements. These don't work, y'all.

From all my research (and yes, prodding by the universal energy), including going to the nuclear regulatory website, here's what I found DOES work:

1) Immediately after exposure to radiation OR chemicals, wash your body with baking soda and salt. If you wait too long, the baking soda and salt don't work. Baking soda is an acid neutralizer; it will neutralize the radiation or chemicals on your skin. I've read that some people also take baking soda internally (a tablespoon in a glass of water) to neutralize any harmful toxins that may have leached into their system. I'm sure it can't hurt, but if the chemicals have already been absorbed into your skin, they're in your bloodstream. You cannot neutralize anything already in your bloodstream - but you can help neutralize it if it's sitting in your digestive system, so maybe taking a couple of glasses of water and baking soda is at least a good idea. As to the salt, the salt acts to draw out the toxin. This is really helpful immediately after exposure. Again, if you wait too long, it's not as effective and in fact can dehydrate you by drawing out vital moisture. A daily bath of salts will leave you dehydrated. I've also read of ingesting earth (or clay) - don't do it, y'all. This particular "treatment" is worthless; dirt (clay) is best used externally (see below).

2) In the days following exposure take a bath with clay (kaolin, rhassoul, white clay, etc.) and activated charcoal powder. You can use some sea salt as a scrub, which will slough off the dead skin cells and allow the new skin to grow unencumbered. The clay and charcoal powder are the most powerful substances with which to draw out any lingering toxins from your skin. They'll help immensely in preventing or healing any lesions that may have formed on your skin. If your lesions are on a roll, make a paste out of the clay, charcoal powder, witch hazel (antiseptic), honey (anti-bacterial and forms a skin barrier preventing more toxins from entering), aloe vera (healing), tea tree oil (just a few drops - it's anti-bacterial and anti-fungal) and a few drops of lavender and/or chamomile (these will reduce the redness and aid in healing) essential oils. There are many other essential oils that aid in healing, but lavender is my go-to in all instances. If your skin is too dry, add some olive oil (or jojoba or coconut oil) to the mixture. Keep the paste on your skin until it either dries or for at least 30 minutes, then rinse off (don't wash it off with soap!).

3) If you think you're at high risk for radiation exposure, start taking pure kelp supplements or the actual plant itself. Be sure to read the label because not all kelp supplements are pure kelp - you don't want to add in any unnecessary ingredients (I've been taking Christopher's Original Formula Kelp for years). Kelp will keep your thyroid healthy so that if you are exposed, your thyroid can battle the radiation more effectively. Kelp is not a "cure" for radiation sickness; there is no cure for radiation poisoning - the KI tablets are to lessen the effects. If you're over 40, you cannot take the potassium iodide (KI) tablets. People over 40 are already at low risk for absorbing radiation because their thyroids have a natural ability to reject it, and taking KI can cause severe allergic reactions including death. So make sure your thyroid stays healthy before you get exposed, even with routine x-rays. And contrary to popular belief, taking iodine does nothing. It's not helpful - period.

4) Eat organic fruits and veggies (and sprouted beans and peas) and as little meat as possible. Meat has a tendency to sit in your gut longer than produce does, and the fat from meats can make a bad situation worse. The fruits and veggies will help your digestive system work properly so that your kidneys, liver and bowels are not overtaxed; add a little olive oil into your daily salad to get the needed fat or take some salmon or fish oil (not from the Gulf!) supplements for Omega 3 and 6 vitality.

Finally, as to all things holistic, never, ever believe anyone when they say they have a "cure." Holistic medicine is best (always!) used as a preventative so that you don't have to be "cured." Certain natural solutions are best used immediately after an incident. In the days that follow the incident, other solutions come into play. Still other solutions are best used so that you don't get an "incident" to begin with. So please don't accept anything as being a "cure" - our bodies often reject one solution over another. When asked for a treatment protocol, I always ask the person to give me feedback: did it help? did it work? If not, the problem may be too wide-spread at that point, so an alternative needs to be used. Often many disorders need immediate medical attention first, and then a holistic regimen can be employed afterwards. I'll also explain (ad infinitum) why a certain herb or plant may work better than another. For instance, sage is well-known for stopping excessive sweating, so since I'm a big-time sweating person (hot flashes!), I drink sage tea often (pour hot water over fresh sage leave and let steep for 3-5 minutes). But why does it help with excessive sweating? Sage is an anti-hyperintensive, along with being anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial. If you're hyper, you sweat; if you have high blood sugar, you sweat; if you have an inflammation or bacterial infection, you start sweating. Sage helps with all of these disorders, and a side benefit stops the heavy sweating (it does not prevent you from sweating - just excessively - since it's helping to heal as it works). If someone touts a "cure", ask why those certain ingredients taken together will help.

In this day and age of the underinsured or not at all insured, we often don't go to a doctor until our condition has severely worsened. Make sure you're healthy to begin with - nip those smaller incidents in the bud before they become full-blown crises. And if you do have to see a doctor? Gather all the information you can, particularly as to the medications he/she may prescribe, read up on the contraindications of the medications, and start researching holistic alternatives. Sometimes nothing will do except an initial antibiotic, but you can always start a preventative program afterwards that will ensure your healing is fast and (relatively) painless ♥

NOTE: Well, I told you I'd go on and on ad infinitum (don't say you weren't warned!), but another "cure" that is being highly talked about is using a coffee or some other "natural" enema to wash toxins out of your body. Y'all, enemas are totally unnecessary and may actually be just as harmful as the poison in your body. An enema (especially a coffee enema) can dehydrate you to the point that your digestive system can be overworked and then shut down. When your body is having to unnaturally expel waste, it's working overtime, and working overtime puts a strain (no pun intended!) on your entire system. You can't heal very effectively internally if each organ is being overworked. Unless you have liver or kidney disease, your liver and kidneys already do a wonderful job of elimination on their own. Make sure that they keep functioning well by eating healthy foods!  

Casey/Caylee Anthony AND Cleaning House

Casey & Caylee Anthony

The day after Caylee Anthony was reported missing by her grandmother, I had a vision, one of which I'll never, ever forget. Keep in mind that when I dream of myself, I'm actually substituting for the victim/perpetrator: I was shopping. Actually on a shopping spree and delighted to be buying multiple little trinkets for The Girls (my dogs). I was in a full state of bliss and overjoyed to have money in which to splurge. As I was standing at the checkout counter, paying for my purchases, I suddenly remembered that I had left my (human) toddler in a car seat in the car and had spent over an hour in the store. I panicked, rushed outside where it was hot and humid, opened the car door, and my baby was dead, sweat rolling down her face, her hair stuck to her head, her precious, lovely little face stark white with red blotches. Too overcome with grief (I was sobbing and screaming in real life as I was seeing this vision), I made myself change the ending - kinda like rewind! - to one where I found the toddler alive, but with the physical description the same, and she looked at my stricken face and said, "It's okay, Mommy. I know you didn't mean to do it." A few days later Caylee showed me where her little body was buried - again in a vision, seemingly out of the blue. It was a shallow water area, and it reminded me of the little inlets that abound on Lake Martin/Lake Jordan in Alabama - secluded, marshy, filled with plant matter. When I awoke, I looked on a map of Orlando to see if I could pinpoint the spot, but if you've ever seen a Google Earth picture of Orlando, you notice that there are hundreds of such spots all over.

So fast forward to the trial this week of Casey Anthony for the murder of her daughter Caylee. Casey claims that the baby died accidentally in a pool drowning, and somehow her father was instrumental in paying off a meter reader to bury Caylee's body. We know for a fact that Caylee had duct tape on her mouth before she died. We know she was buried in a water-filled area of some woods near Casey's home and had plant matter growing through the plastic bag(s) that covered her body. We know for a fact that Casey's mother, Cindy, thought Casey was a negligent and horrible mother and was trying to adopt Caylee before Casey took Caylee and left her home. We know Cindy Anthony also had a violent confrontation with Casey right before Casey took Caylee and left. We found out months later that Casey went on a shopping spree the day her daughter supposedly died, and the money she used on that spree was stolen from her grandmother's bank account.

So what really happened? I honestly think Casey left Caylee in her car, with duct tape over her mouth to prevent her from crying out loud, went shopping, completely forgot about her daughter, and by the time she returned, Caylee was dead. I also think Casey was overwhelmed with grief at the discovery of her daughter. So why all the lies and coverups? Casey was terrified of her mother Cindy; if Cindy ever found out that Casey has negligently killed Caylee, Casey just "knew" Cindy would have her tried for murder and, most importantly of all, never forgive her nor love her again. So Casey did what she does best: she lied, lied and lied some more and tried to bury her daughter in a place close to home but covered up, nonetheless. And now Casey's dragging her father through the mud, laying the blame on him, because she cannot bear to accept the responsibility for her own actions.

Does the above make Casey a murderer? No (although it's definitely her fault). Does it make her a negligent mother? Yes. And she's still a liar above all else, constantly deflecting her own guilt onto others. But what I gained from the first vision was that Casey did suffer overwhelming grief, albeit not long enough to satisfy those who want an outwardly sign of justice for Caylee. So y'all, once again there's a moral to this story: even if someone is reprehensible in his or her actions, those actions transfer into karma, and Casey is affected and will continue to be affected by her actions. What goes around comes right back around to smack you in the face; so at the same time you're demanding justice for Caylee, remember that Caylee has forgiven her mother, but Casey will never be able to forgive herself - perhaps the harshest judgment and punishment of all.

CLEANING HOUSE

My next door neighbor has issues about mowing his yard - he doesn't do it. It drives me literally nuts! OH! Um, so actually this makes me the one with the issues - it doesn't bother him hahaha! This neighborhood, although distinctly middle-class, is so close to D.C. and so desirable that even the small homes are sold for hundred of thousands of dollars and often renovated by new owners into larger, newer mini-mansions. Our own home is small, not renovated (although the kitchen has been remodeled!), and our next door neighbor's home seems to be falling apart, exclusive of the unkempt yard. Our neighbor even has to walk his dog several times a day although he has a fence surrounding the entire property - apparently he's too apprehensive to let his dog out in all that chaos.

There's about a three-foot section of (unmown!) grass that adjoins his frontyard fence and the street. There's also an open (unmown!) area of grass next to his driveway, joining our property. So instead of continuously bitching about his neglect, I now mow both of his grass patches - the one next to mine by his driveway and the strip along the street - once a week while I mow my own yard.

I've never told him it's me that's mowing his patches of grass; perhaps he thinks that the grass fairies are doing it :D. But it keeps me peaceful and calm, and it keeps my immediate area uncluttered and chaos-free. Why is this important? When your yard or your house or your work area is filled with chaos, so goes your life. Negative energy is attracted to chaos. Always! My own home is cluttered but not overwhelmed. I no longer hoard those things that seemed so important just a few years ago. My husband has a tendency to cling, but I surreptitiously recycle or give to charity those objects of his hoarding (magazines, books, papers, socks, jeans, etc.) behind his back. He's never questioned my actions nor has he asked where those items are; the peace of a chaos-free environment soothes his soul.

If you think your life is out of control, or you're suffering negativity at work or home or in your feelings or, well, anywhere, take a look at your environment. Start cleaning! Get rid of all the extraneous things in your life, whether they're material possessions or overgrown yards or people. Don't let someone else's chaos invade your peace. Start cleaning!

The Otherworld, or Where Do We Go When We Die?

What happens when we die? Where do we go, specifically? Is there a Heaven and a Hell?

Death to us in this life is a finality. We've come to believe that it is an ending to one's glorious time spent here on Earth. We grieve for those who have died and are out of our lives, and often we can't be consoled by the many words our friends use, such as "She's in a better place" or "It was meant to be" or "It's God's plan."

I've been shown the Otherworld many times, both in visions while awake and in dreams while asleep. I've spoken to those in that otherworld, and I've watched them go through their transition phase. Death is not what many believe it to be.

When we die in our human bodies, our soul is released. It goes to another dimension or parallel world - I honestly don't know which it is, and it hasn't been explained to me in terms that I can comprehend. I call it the "Otherworld" because, well, it IS a world different from our own. Right after death, we might be confused or bewildered or not even realize we've actually died. Friends and/or relatives that we knew in this life appear to us, often within three days before we die if we have a terminal illness, and bring us immediate comfort; we realize at that moment of death that we are, indeed, still "alive" although not physically.

Every soul in the Otherworld first reflects on his or her human life. And by reflection, I mean he or she re-lives every moment, good and bad, and feels all the pain, sorrow, joy, humor, etc. of every single living thing we've come into contact with over our lifetime. We realize during that reflective period how our actions affected every person, plant, animal, mineral and the consequences that followed. In other words, we learn.  "Karma" means action, and our actions here on Earth all have consequences; hopefully we learn about those actions while still in human form, but if not, they're immediately clear to us during our reflective time in the Otherworld.

Even the people we consider truly evil go to the same Otherworld as the truly righteous go. Do the evil ones suffer? Not physically, but soul-wise, yes. Since all is known during the reflective phase, all is felt as well. Since all worlds and all beings are connected to each other (the "Universal One"), the reflective phase is a time of reconnecting to all - to the One - which is all the more poignant if the soul was less than kind while in human form. I realize that we all want to see a horrible person suffer, as he or she made us suffer while they were alive, and by thinking of Hell as a physical place of fire and brimstone, it satisfies our notion of revenge. But by knowingly being connected to All while in the Otherworld, that evil person truly feels and understands what he or she unleashed during their human time. Self-punishment, even in this world, is absolutely the most brutal form of punishment there is, which is why negative actions reap horrific consequences to the evil-doer, even if we aren't there to witness that person's realization. And after a soul goes through the reflection period, he/she has no need for revenge. Revenge is not even an afterthought, because the soul knows that his/her transgressions were just as harmful, even though it may not have been to an evil extreme. A childhood saying I remember illustrates this: "'Tis a sin to steal a pin, much less a larger thing. For when you die, God will say "Where is that pin you stole away?" When you say, "I do not know," He will say, go down below." So every wrong you've committed during your lifetime (and I know I've committed many) is equal to the acts of a Hitler or Stalin because Everything Just Is - neither good nor bad but equal in the energy picked up by the Universal All. Remember, the only person judging you is yourself, and you're your harshest judge.

So this brings me to the next point about the Otherworld: what we consider evil and righteousness in human life is not considered that way in the next because Everything Just Is. Souls in the Otherworld are able to interact with humans at all times; some of us are aware of the interaction, most of us are not. What many people consider divine intervention or angelic blessings are actually neither - those actions are actually connections with the One, and it's because of the One within yourself that you're able to receive an intervention. I know this is hard to grasp, but each of us, through our connection to the One, has the power to act in a way that we consider divine (or miraculous). As a shaman and healer, I'm a conduit to the Otherworld. I cannot heal another human without that human helping me. When I start the healing process by giving thanks to all the spirits of people, animals, plants and minerals, I'm sending out a vibration to connect with the One. I then connect with the sick person, who connects with me, and we both become the One. Get it? But the healing is not actually by God or an Angel or whatever many may think it is - the healing has come from within, from that person's connection to me and to the Universal One's energy.

Are all souls then human souls with no Angels whatsoever? Well, yes and no. Some are human and some are sentient beings such as animals we've come into contact with during our lifetime. Some souls haven't been human in eons, and some have only had one incarnation as a human (I'll get to that in a minute). So we think of those ethereal beings as Angels when in reality they're ascended souls or haven't been reincarnated yet. When you have an angelic encounter, chances are that you know that soul - you just don't recognize him/her in his/her ethereal form. There are also those souls who have never been human and have lived in the Otherworld (and if there are many dimensions, then there are many other entities) exclusively; they are neither angelic nor demonic but rather entities unto themselves that we, as humans, can't even begin to comprehend.

So when I say that in the Otherworld Everything Just Is, I mean it literally. When a spirit is watching you from there (and actually "from there" is right here - we just can't see it) and sees all the anguish you may be experiencing, the spirit doesn't make any form of judgment such as horror or pity or outrage. The anguish is yours to learn as part of your journey and time here in this world, just as utter joy is yours alone to experience. The spirit may let you know that he/she (and all spirits are gender-neutral, but I'll use pronouns) is aware of your situation, but he/she knows that whatever you're going through at the moment is an experience to remember and learn from, and that you must move on to the next experience. Everything Just Is, not good, not bad, just is - as a learning tool. For instance, a loved one died unexpectedly, maybe even was murdered, and you're inconsolable and wonder why this happened; not to mention you want instant revenge on whoever did this. From the Otherworld's point of view, you just learned that you are not only able to love someone other than yourself, but that you felt that loved one's pain to the point that you realized that all life is precious. Hopefully you'll also learn that killing is never an option, that pity and compassion should be given to the murderer since the murderer is also part of the One - which means you are part of the murderer, too.

Many lessons are to be learned from each of life's incidents. Do we learn them all during this lifetime? Sadly no. So after we die and we finish our period of reflection, we are then given the choice of reincarnation to try to learn love, compassion, respect, empathy and our connection to every living thing as a human. Those who embraced and thrived on all of that while in this world (before death) go on to live in the Otherworld without reincarnating (they "ascend"). We don't know how they live after ascension; again, it's not knowledge for us to know. Maybe they live in a utopia of bliss; I used to think, "How boring!" but in that Otherworld, souls don't think the same way as we do here on Earth. I like to compare it to junior high: all that crap that happened to us in junior high becomes less and less important as we age, right? Same thing in the Otherworld: things/events/feelings of importance in this world become non-existent as we mature, or ascend, in the Otherworld; Everything Just Is.

So is there a God? Of all things for me to come to terms with, this was the hardest by far. I would love for there to be a wise, compassionate God! The Universe and all within it is creatively designed, so perhaps there is, indeed, a single Creator. However, if so, the Creator is part of the Universal One and thus we are each the Creator, just as we are each the One. This means that there isn't a hierarchy per se; God isn't going to save you, because you already have that power within yourself. My biggest dream for humanity is to come to the realization that we can change our world instead of waiting for a savior - whether divine or not - to rescue us. We can all connect to the One because we are all One. Jesus, the Buddha, and others all taught this concept in its purest form before organized religion, with all its human foibles, perverted the teachings to accommodate the hopes and fears of followers. But it really is that simple, y'all, and you don't need a Bible or a Koran or a Torah or anything else to know the way to enlightenment (or heaven, if religion is your thing): we are all One, thus if you have compassion, respect, love, and empathy for every single animal, person, plant and mineral, there's no need for war or fear or jealousy or any of the many other negative feelings and actions most people live with day in and day out.

More thoughts on the Universal One: If you've ever experienced a coincidence in your life (and who hasn't?), you're actually experiencing synchronicity. There are no coincidences; everything is connected, so everything happens naturally and as it should be. A chance meeting or a phone call from a friend about whom you were just thinking? No "chance" to it; since we're all connected, mergers happen naturally and frequently. And the One pertains to ALL things. For instance, I like to mentally zoom into a tree and have the branches and leaves wave in the rhythm to which I'm swaying at that moment. I start at the roots, zoom through the sap, flow through the branches and start swaying. The tree follows after just an instant. Some people might think that it's me that's making the tree sway, but it isn't - it's my connection to the tree that causes us to sway. I'm now part of the tree, and the tree is now part of me. We are One. When you realize every single thing is One, the energy flow that you can impart and receive is phenomenal. You don't want to hurt yourself or allow any one else to harm you, so when you realize we are all One, you don't want to allow any harm to occur to any other thing. "Walk a mile in his shoes" or "Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you" takes on a whole new meaning when you're fully aware of being One. Spread the love, y'all, so that when one rejoices, we all rejoice!

Yet another earthquake and a recurring Vision

On March 29 I felt another earthquake tremor. This one was very gentle, almost like a rolling sea as opposed to a shaking tree, and I spoke about this on Facebook. Today Japan suffered a 7.4 quake. A tsunami warning was issued, then called off, thank goodness!

For the last week, I've awakened each morning to this thought: "The video is a LIE!" While most of the vision is obscured, I distinctly saw thousands of people raptly watching a television monitor and being alarmed by what a government official was telling them. So whatever's coming down the road, whatever the government is going to throw at us - and by government, I don't know if it's an official proclamation or by the Republican leadership or whomever - whatever "facts" may be shown as "proof", it's not true. I'm certain I'll know what this vision is about when the event occurs, so stay tuned y'all!

UPDATE: On May 1 Osama bin Laden was killed by the U.S. A special news report was aired, and in it the U.S. government claimed that OBL was armed and engaged in a firefight and was subsequently killed. I'm pretty certain that the entire nation was watching the report with shock. As the days passed, the firefight portion was amended to he was armed. Finally, the truth came out that he was unarmed. Makes me wonder what else the government lied about re this mission.