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DONATIONS FOR THE TROOPS
The Blue Star Mothers of America are mothers
who have, or had children that are active in the military.
They represent all branches of service, offering support to one another,
to their children, and to troops all over the
world and to our Veterans.
They adopt troops sending them
cards, letters and care packages.
Mary Ellen Shupert’ business
SAUNTE’ along with the
Miami Township Fire Dept.
is hosting a “Care Package
Packing Party” for the troops.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2008
Time: 7 P.M. - ?
Location: SAUNTE’ 110 South 2nd St.
Miamisburg OH 45342
Contact info: Mary Ellen Shupert
(937) 684-7513 or
Sandy Lozier (937) 609-2987
You can help by collecting donations
of needed items (see below); write a
card or letter; a monetary donaton
to help defray the shipping costs.
Each package cost $8.95 to ship.
Make a check payable to Blue Star
Mothers – Miami Valley Chapter #3.
You can also join us on the 11th of
April to help pack.
**Pizza and refreshments
will be served**
Items needed by the troops: Baby
wipes, shampoo, soaps, lotion,
foot care products, sun block
(SPF-15 or higher), Visine, Q-tips,
baby powder, chap stick, hand
sanitizer, deodorant, all dental
products, stationery and envelopes,
sanitary products for women.
Items that the troops would like
to have: Small hand-held
games, batteries
(AA or AAA), brown t-shirts
(any size), white tube socks, music
CDs and any kind of movie DVDs.
List of most requested items
from the troops:
Beef jerky, slim jims, peanuts,
tuna fish, small packages of
cheese crackers, hard candy,
small packages of cookies,
life savers, gum, suckers,
crystal light drink mix, kool-aid
drink mixes in presweetened
packages, tic tacs, and anything
else that they can put into
their pockets to carry with
them when they go
out on missions.
Donations may be dropped off at
The Healing Zone and I will see
that they get delivered
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REIKI DRUMMING™
Reiki Drumming™ is a
specialized method of introducing
Reiki energy into a client’s energy
field to facilitate deep relaxation
and stress relief.
As stress is relieved, tensions in
the physical body are often relieved
as well Reiki Drumming™
affects the physical, mental
and spiritual bodies simultaneously, helping to bring them into
harmony while raising the vibratory
rate to levels which may allow the
body to accelerate its innate healing abilities.
Drumming reminds our body of its
ideal vibratory rate, which is in
harmony with the pulse of the earth
and the Universal flow of creation.
This class will be taught at
The Healing Zone, by
Keith Longstreth, who received
his training from Michael Baird
at the Infinite
Light Healing Studies Center.
The classes will be held on two
consecutive Sundays, April 6th and
13th The cost is $250.00.
This includes your own
Reiki Drum which is attuned
especially for you, plus 14 to 16 hours
of instructions. (Depending on class size.).
You must have at least
level II
Reiki training because a major
portion of the Reiki Drumming™ curriculum involves the use of
Level II Reiki symbols.
Please call for reservation
at
937-836-2274.
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INTRODUCTION TO REIKI
Judy Brown will be presenting this
class on Thursday, April 10 from 6 – 9 P.M. There will be general information,
demos and questions and answer time.
Cost: $20.00.
If anyone wants to take Reiki I,
they may deduct this cost from
the cost of the Reiki I Class.
Those wanting take Reiki I will attend
this class plus the following Friday
night (April 11, 6 – 9 P.M) and all day
Saturday (April 12, 9 – 5 P.M)
for $150.00.
This includes text book, handouts
and certification.
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The
Healing Zone and Bookstore
March and April 2008 Newsletter
Hello Everyone!
This month, I’m enclosing excerpts from Neale Donald
Walsch’s Home with God.
I thought about just sending half of it, but it will be two months before
you get the next newsletter and you’d probably forget about the first
half! Anyway, it’s rather long
and you may do what you want with it. I hope you enjoy it.
A Wondrous Message of Love in a Final
Conversation With God
Home with God
in a Life That Never Ends
The destination is the same for all
of us. We are all on a journey Home, and we shall not fail to arrive there.
God will not allow it.
That is, in three sentences, the message
of this entire text.
It is impossible to live or to die without
God, but it is not impossible to think that you are. If
you think that you are living or dying without God, you will experience
that you are.
You may end this experience whenever you choose.
NDW: Those words convey
all that anyone who is afraid of living or dying will ever need to know.
God has said many times, “You have nothing
to learn, you have only to remember.”
You will notice that many of these Remembrances have to do with death. This is by design, for it is through a deeper understanding of death that you will most quickly reach a deeper understanding of life.
THE FIRST REMEMBERANCE
Dying is something you do for you.
You are doing it for yourself, because dying
is a wonderful thing. And you are doing it “on purpose,” for reasons that
will be made clear as we move deeper into this conversation. Welcome the
death of another with soft celebration and deep happiness, for theirs
is a wondrous joy.
THE SECOND
REMEMBRANCE
You are the cause of your
own death.
This is always true, no matter where, or how, you die.
When we explore these basic
principles more fully, you will come to know that what you call “death”
is a powerful moment of creation.
THE THIRD REMEMBRANCE
You cannot die against your will. Nothing
happens that you do not want to have happen.
You can IMAGINE that things happen that you do not want to have happen,
but this is not what is so, and it merely allows you to think of yourself
as a victim.
Nothing holds you back in your evolution
more than this single thought. The idea of victimization is a certain
sign of limited perception. True victimization cannot exist.
NDW: It’s pretty darn hard to tell someone
whose daughter has been raped, or whose entire village has been wiped
out in a vicious act of “ethnic cleansing,” that no one has been victimized.
It would be nonbeneficial to speak in this way to people while they are
in the midst of their suffering. During such moments, simply be with them
with deep compassion, true caring, and healing love. Do not offer spiritual
platitudes or intellectual excursions as a remedy for their pain. Heal
the pain first, then heal the thought that created the pain.
Of course it is true that, in the ordinary human sense, there are those
who have been the “victim” of terrible occurrences and circumstances in
life. Yet this experience of victimization can be real only within the
context of normal—and therefore extremely limited—human awareness.
When I say that true victimization
does not exist, I am speaking from an entirely different level of awareness.
Yet this is a level of awareness that human beings, can achieve, once
their pain has been healed.
THE FOURTH REMEMBRANCE
No path back Home is better than any other
path.
Some paths are less arduous. “Less arduous” is a factual description,
“better” is a judgment.
Take then, each of you, your own path to Me. Undertake your own journey
home. Do not worry or render judgments about how others are taking theirs.
You cannot fail to reach Me, and neither can they. Indeed, you will all
meet again when you are together at Home, and you will wonder why you
quibbled so.
What, exactly, is this “home” to which people seek to return?
Most people think that “going home” means returning to God. But you cannot
return to God, because you never left God—and your soul knows this.
YOU may not know this at a conscious level, but your souls know this.
NDW: But if my soul knows that I have no need to
return to God because I never left God, then what is my soul trying to
do? What is the purpose of life on earth, from the soul’s point of view?
I can tell you in four words.
Your soul is seeking to experience what it
knows.
This life ends when you have completed what
you came here to the physical world to experience this time.
You then add what you completed here to what
you completed on other journeys through Time, until you ultimately “have
it all together,” and Absolute Awareness has been achieved.
THE FIFTH REMEMBRANCE
Death is never a tragedy. It is always
a gift.
Perhaps it will help you to understand that
human beings create, and also “know what they know,” at three Levels of
Experience—subconscious, conscious, and superconscious.
Remember that I said, when you die, it is
impossible to not be Complete, but it IS possible to not be consciously
aware of this.
A soul can know at the superconscious level
that it is Complete for this lifetime, but not be “aware” of that at the
subconscious or conscious level.
THE SIXTH REMEMBRANCE
You and God are one. There is no separation
between you.
Now obviously, the individual that is
“you” does not represent the Totality of God.
Yet you have all the characteristics, all of the aspects, all of the elements
of Divinity within you.
NDW: I’ve often heard the analogy that I am, to
God, as a wave is to the ocean. The same stuff, exactly. Just smaller
in size.
Than analogy has indeed been used may
times, and it is not inappropriate. Some waves are small, barely a ripple,
while other waves are huge, thunderous in their sweep. Yet, whether minuscule
or monstrous, there is always a wave. There is no time when there is not
a wave on the ocean. And while every wave is different, not a single one
is divided from the ocean itself. Difference does not mean division.
You are different from God, but you are not divided from God. The fact
that you are not divided from God is why you can never die.
God creates all of life and you create all of your life. You and
God are creating all the time—you on the micro level, God on the macro.
NDW: So when we say that “God, and God alone” chooses
the time of our death, we are saying that humans are part of the process,
because humans are part of God.
Yes, that is exactly right.
THE SEVENTH REMEMBRANCE
Death does no exist.
Your perspective—that is, how you look
at something—creates your reality both during this lifetime and after
it.
In just about every place I’ve ever been
quoted—no matter what religion, no matter what culture, no matter what
time period or context—I’ve been correctly described as declaring that
death does not exist—not in the way that most of you think of it, which
is as the end of all life. There is no such thing as the “end of life.”
NDW: So “death” as a human experience does exist.
It is the end or your present physical
existence, yes. That experience is over at the time of your death, but
life itself is not.
THE EIGHT REMEMBRANCE
You cannot change Ultimate Reality,
but you can change your experience of it.
The example given here was being caught in the rain, with the rain being
an example of Ultimate Reality. In one instance, you could be very upset
or angry about being caught
in the rain or you might be with someone and want to “play” in the rain.
The rain is the same—it is how you choose to experience it—your perception
of it.
Let us be clear. Hell does not exist. There simply
is no such place.
In the first stage of death, the soul comes
to understand that the body with which it spent physical life is not real.
That is, it is not who the soul really is. In the second stage of death,
the soul comes to understand that the mind, with all its thoughts, is
not real. That is, it is not who the soul really is. In the third stage,
Ultimate Reality is experienced. You will merge with the Essence and begin
to experience the Ultimate Reality at the Core of Your Being.
NDW: You mean, God?
You may call the Ultimate Reality anything that you wish. Some
people call it the Essence. Some people call it Allah. Some people call
it the All. It does not matter what you call it, it is the same thing.
THE NINTH REMEMBRANCE
It is the desire of All That is to
Know Itself in Its Own Experience. This is the reason for all of Life.
A soul arrives at Complete Knowing along
the path of the spiritual world, and at
Complete Experiencing along the path of the physical world. Both paths
are used,
and that is why there are two worlds. Put them together, united at the
Core, and you
have the perfect environment within which to create Complete Feeling,
which produces Absolute Awareness. The Moment of Absolute Awareness—that
is, of Knowing and Experiencing and Feeling Completely Who You Really
Are—is arrived at in steps.
Each passage through a lifetime can be considered one of those steps.
THE TENTH REMEMBRANCE
Life is eternal.
I have been sending this message to you
through many messengers over many centuries.
THE ELEVENTH REMEMBRANCE
The timing and the circumstances of death
are always perfect.
NDW: I believe that. But
how does the parent of a child who has been raped, mutilated, and murdered
call the circumstances of such a death “perfect”?
Comfort for the bereaved will be found in the
sure knowledge of the certain perfection of God. God is perfect, always
and eternally. Now there is only one thing left for you to understand:
who and what “God” is.
GOD and LIFE are one and the same.
All things happen in their perfect timing
and in their perfect way. It is not always possible to see this, to perceive
this, from the extremely narrow perspective of human experience. That
is a limitation of the physical world.
No death is wasted, and all death brings
a message to those who leave the earth and to those who remain.
THE TWELFTH REMEMBRANCE
The death of every person always serves the agenda of every other person
who is aware of it. That is why they are
aware of it. Therefore, no death (and no life)
is ever “wasted.” No one ever dies “in vain.”
When you understand the endless and miraculous
interweavings of life, every death is transformed into an event of enormous
celestial significance.
THE THIRTEENTH REMEMBRANCE
Birth and death are the same thing.
Both are simply energy attenuations, acting
not unlike power transformers, facilitation transitions from one world
to the next.
The words death and birth could well be eliminated
from all of your languages. The word creation could easily be substituted
in both cases.
NDW: So instead of saying that so-and-so was “born”
today, we could say that so-and-so was “created” today. And instead of
saying that so-and-so “died” today, we could say that so-and-so was “created
anew” today.
Yes, that would be wonderful! That would be far more accurate! Very
few people understand “death,” and so, many have painted it as the saddest
experience. Remember I said that you may paint the mural any way that
you wish…and the picture you create is the picture you will experience.
THE FOURTEENTH REMEMBRANCE
You are continually in the act of creation,
in life and in death.
Every thought, word, and deed is creative.
You are being changed in every single moment. Your future is produced
in tiny increments, not in one fell swoop or with one major decision.
THE FIFTEENTH REMEMBRANCE
There is no such thing as the end
of evolution.
THE SIXTEENTH REMEMBRANCE
Death is reversible
When a person does the thing that you
call, “die,” that person is always given a choice: Do you want to experience
that the life you have just left is continuing?
Or do you wish to experience a reality in which you are moving on, heading
toward the spiritual realm? Nearly every person who is dying is not dying
for the
first time. If they choose, this time, to “stay dead,” it is because they
feel really complete with what they came here to do. The times they choose
to come back to the physical, are referred to as “near misses.
The process of what you call “death” is not
complete until the soul “passes over” to
“the other side.” To put this another way, your death is not final until
you say it is final.
THE SEVENTEENTH REMEMBRANCE
In death you will be greeted by all of your loved ones—those who have
died before you and those who will die after you.
These souls will comfort you as you release
your attachment to the physical world, gently guiding you into the spiritual
realm. You need never be alone, ever, not are you every alone now. We
are all with you always, and you with us. It takes but your belief to
Know that we are there.
NDW: Do you mean that when I close my eyes in death
and open them again in the Afterlife, everyone I have ever loved—including
those I have just left behind—will be there?
If you want them to be, they will be. If you believe they will be,
if you so much as hope that they will be, you will be aware of their presence
beside you.
NDW: I’ve never heard it said that the people who
are alive with me now, who are alive at the moment of my death, will be
there to greet me. How can this be?
Such is the wonder of the Ultimate Reality that, though
is may be experienced, as a long while for those who remain living in
physicality within the illusion of time, it will be in your own Moment
of Now that you will be reunited.
It may be many years before your presently
living loved ones die, yet those years will be compressed into less than
an instant in the place of No Time. If you wish to step back from the
mural and see the whole picture, you will experience them joining you
in the Afterlife in “no time at all.”
THE EIGHTEENTH REMEMBRANCE
Free Choice is the act of pure creation,
the signature of God, and your gift, your glory, and your power forever
and ever.
You may exercise this power both in the spiritual realm and in the
physical world. With your thoughts, with your words, and with your deeds
will you do so.
And know this, finally: Whatever you choose and wherever you are, you
always have the ability to instantly be…Home
with God.
The above information is much abbreviated. I highly recommend reading the entire book, especially if you are fearful of death or are grieving over loved ones who have made their transition or have been “created anew.” Or if you just want more information on what will happen when you reach that time. You don’t have to believe everything you read, just think about it—notice how you feel about the information—then make up your own mind. If it “feels” right you can make it your truth or discard it if it doesn’t “feel right.” As God says in most of the books, “Words are the least reliable form of information. Trust your feelings!”