“Evolution is speeding up, not time.
Consciousness is evolving, becoming aware of itself as creation's mentor.
Children are evolution's front edge. They push at boundaries... challenge the status quo...irritate convention.
That is their job...to set free all that sullies the human heart and blinds the mind to the relationship between the Creator and the Created."
~ P.M.H. Atwater~
MY WORK ... MY PASSION
• Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist ; Past experiences: Dream Analysis /10 Years Experience •Psychotherapist / Use of Gestalt, Jungian, Zen, Reality and Energy Therapies /10 Years Experience •EMDR • Men and Their Journey: the neuroscience of the male brain, and the implications in sexuality, education and relationship • Women: Their Transformation and Empowerment • ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs) / 21 years experience •Ordained Interfaith Minister & Official Celebrant • Social Justice Advocate • Child and Human Rights Advocate • Spiritual Guide and Intuitive • Certified Reiki Practitioner • Mediation / Conflict Resolution • “Intentional Love” Parenting Strategy Groups • Parenting Workshops • Coaching for parents of Indigo, Crystal, and Rainbow Children • International Training: Israel & England • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing • Post-911 and Post-Katrina volunteer
MSW - UNC Chapel Hill
BSW - UNC Greensboro
With immense love I wish Happy Birthday to my three grandchildren!
May 22: Brannock
May 30: Brinkley
June 12: Brogan
All three have birthdays in the same 22 days of the year ....what a busy time for the family!
"An Unending Love"
This blog and video is devoted and dedicated to my precious daughter Jennifer, my grand daughters Brogan and Brinkley, and my grand son Brannock. They are hearts of my heart. Our connection through many lives..... is utterly infinite.
The Definition of Genius
"THRIVE"
https://youtu.be/Lr-RoQ24lLg
"ONLY LOVE PREVAILS" ...."I've loved you for a thousand years; I'll love you for a thousand more....."
As we are in the winter of our lives, I dedicate this to Andrew, Dr. John J.C. Jr. and Gary W., MD, (who has gone on before us). My love and admiration is unfathomable for each of you..........and what you have brought into this world.....so profoundly to me.
The metaphors are rich and provocative; we're in them now. This world is indeed disappearing, and the richest eternal world awaits us!
The intensity, as was in each of the three of us, is in yellow!
In my heart forever.........
Slowly the truth is loading
I'm weighted down with love
Snow lying deep and even
Strung out and dreaming of
Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world
We're threading hope like fire Down through the desperate blood
Down through the trailing wire
Into the leafless wood
Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world This disappearing world
I'll be sticking right there with it I'll be by your side
Sailing like a silver bullet Hit 'em 'tween the eyes Through the smoke and rising water Cross the great divide Baby till it all feels right
Night falling on the city
Sparkling red and gold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world This disappearing world
This disappearing world This disappearing world
"The degree of our enlightenment is the degree of passion that we will have for the whole world." ~The Greystone Mandala
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." ~ Winston Churchill
Kant: "We are not rich by what we possess, but what we can do without."
In “Conversations with God”, by Neale Donald Walsch, there is a warning I think of. I refer to it as the Atlantis passage, and I've quoted it a few times before." As I have said, this isn't the first time your civilization has been at this brink,"
God tells Walsch. "I want to repeat this, because it is vital that you hear this. Once before on your planet, the technology you developed was far greater than your ability to use it responsibly. You are approaching the same point in human history again. It is vitally important that you understand this. Your present technology is threatening to outstrip your ability to use it wisely. Your society is on the verge of becoming a product of your technology rather than your technology being a product of your society. When a society becomes a product of its own technology, it destroys itself."
This is a guest post by Christopher Bowe, the US Healthcare Analyst at Informa Scrip. Informa is the leading global provider of specialist information to the scientific & academic, professional and commercial markets.
The pharmaceutical industry saw two very big drugs fizzle last week. Both wrecks show the way to real change......(click here to continue reading)
Take a few minutes to watch this video (without children around due to its language!). Make it a viral hit. And then make sure your voter registration is up to date. (click to read, and watch video)
When Mitt Romney lied about the Obama administration's response to the attack in Benghazi, pundits thought he'd killed his campaign. But at the Values Voter Summit, right-wingers are doubling down.....(continue reading)
Epilepsy. ADD. Depression. PMS. Insomnia. What do all these conditions have in common? They're being treated with a new form of high-tech brain biofeedback. So open your radical science horizons.
By Jim Robbins, published on May 01, 1998 - last reviewed on June 13, 2012
Bruni: The best morsel of political advice I can offer? If you catch even the faintest whisper that you might be nominated for the vice presidency, make for the hills. Run as fast as Paul Ryan pretends to. Your reputation depends on it. Maybe your sanity, too....(continue reading)
The Peter Pan of American conservatism is bursting with immature, half-baked ideas for the country.....Paul Ryan, voted “Biggest Brown-Noser” in high school and born with enough money for Colorado ski trips and a surefire job at his family’s construction company, embraced libertarianism in college.....(read more)
It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie.Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama:
He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing. (continue reading: Paul Ryan fails -- the truth
TAMPA, FLA. -- Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan may carry himself with an air of earnestness, but at his heart, he's a liar. What other determination could one make after Ryan's compendium of distortions and outright untruths, delivered Wednesday night to the Rep..........(continue reading)
John Hodgman: "I will reveal here that I am going to vote for Obama, and I hope he wins, and here is the reason: I LIKE WINNING.
This was not always the case. For someone who came of age as a long-haired public radio nerd in Brookline, MA in Reagan's eighties and Bush's early nineties, winning was a foreign country. A country that surrounded our northeastern patch of rent control and repertory movie houses and 100 Years of Solitude, but wanted nothing to do with us...." (continue reading)
On July 4, the Catholic bishops will conclude their Fortnight for Freedom, a vigil that opened the grassroots phase of their campaign to gain official religious status for hospitals, universities, and social service agencies they neither control nor support financially. That status, as has been widely noted, would exempt these organizations from the administration’s requirement that an employer’s health insurance plan cover contraceptives, with no co-pay or other costs to the employee. But the longer-term goal is to legally shore up the contention that........(continue reading)
A quick click revealed to me the 'ridiculosity' of Mitten's visit to Europe! I love the picture....poster child for 'clueless'! (Click here for today's truth! :-)
I’ll cut right to the chase and you can go back to whatever you were doing: smile, relax, sit up straight. You’re welcome.
In case you’re interested, here’s a little more context. Scientists have known for a long time that emotions are accompanied by numerous changes in the body, from elevation in the heart rate to flexion of the zygomatic major muscle (i.e. smiling). However.......(continue reading...)
Aaron Collins, wrote his brother Seth, "was the type of person that took great joy in unexpected kindness." And before his July 7 death, the nearly 30-year-old Aaron had made a request:
"Leave an awesome tip (and I don't mean 25%. I mean $500 on a f***ing pizza) for a waiter or waitress."
What the young man from Kentucky didn't leave, was much money. So the family created a blog called Aaron's Wish and a Facebook page to ask for help in making his dream come true.
Three weeks later, the family has collected nearly $50,000 and three lucky servers have been surprised with $500 gratuities. The Collins family members are posting videos as they spread the good cheer. Fair warning: you likely will tear up if you watch them. The second in the series is particularly touching. Waitress Chelsea Powell is clearly thrilled and appreciative.
"Aaron Collins' death was unexpected. His brother said the family is still awaiting a final determination on the cause, but a preliminary coroner's report said strangulation contributed to the death. ...
"Seth Collins said the family has raised nearly enough money to do once-a-week tips for two years. So far he has given three big tips, and said he plans to travel outside Lexington for the next dinner. He has been thinking of other possibilities, like leaving big tips for coffee or pizza delivery."
"Absolutely every penny we receive will go toward nothing but this. We will pay to host the website. We will pay for the food. Absolutely 100% of the donations we receive will be given to random waiters or waitresses. Our goal is to do this once a week, for as long as you give us the opportunity."
A lot of the world's misery can be traced to people who lack the wiring for empathy. What can we do to contain the damage they cause?
July 26, 2012 |
Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath? These individuals are either born with an emotional deficiency that keeps them from feeling bad about hurting others, or they are traumatized early in life in a manner that causes them to become this way. With more than 7 billion...(continue reading)
Denver Shooting Appears to be an Organized Operation
2012 JULY 26
Posted by Steve Beckow
“James Holmes”
UPDATED – July 27, 2012
I spoke with Sierra Neblina this morning, who said that MGM had offered $2 million towards the cost of patient medical services and recovery costs. MGM made the Batman movie at which the Denver shooting took place. Two million dollars will not go far to cover those costs and is viewed as a token gesture to deflect criticism from the studio for a movie extolling violence.
The Denver hospital is rumored to have expressed a willingness to waive the costs of the medical operations.
We’re not calling it the “Aurora” shooting because of suspicions that staging the shooting at a suburb with that name is designed to burden the word “Aurora” or dawn with negative connotations.
The Batman movie apparently features a scene where a gunman opens fire on a crowd of spectators at a sporting event, which at the very least is felt to be incitement to violence. The prevailing feeling here is that the Batman movies, or “dark knight” series, are being used to habituate viewers to chaos and violence.
Stephen Cook sends along this photo from the Sydney Morning Herald which shows two “views” of the shooter. Stephen points out that the two photos show different people – different eye shapes and colour, eyebrows, ear shape, noses - which suggests that James Holmes was not the shooter and that the shooter was a “Manchurian Candidate” substituted for the real James Holmes, whose fate is unknown. Sierra notes that it isn’t an easy matter to change an individual’s eyes in the ways these photos indicate.
Reports are that a second individual may have been involved in the massacre (see video).
Also it’s felt that the complexity of rigging Holmes’ apartment with explosives and the cost of the munitions involved would have been beyond Holmes’ means. All of this points to an organized cabal operation.
Stephen adds: July 27, 2012
There is also a story circulating via a couple of chat rooms that James Holmes’ father, Robert Holmes – who is the Senior Lead Scientist at Fair Isaac Corporation in San Diego, according to his Linked In profile – is about to testify before the US Senate inquiry into the Libor scandal. We cannot verify this post, so please read this as information only. Nevertheless the intrigue continues…
Posted by user “Ghost of Huey Long” – July 26, 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021025002
“Most important to note about James Holmes, however, this report says, is that his father, Robert Holmes, was said to have been scheduled to testify within the next few weeks before a US Senate panel on the largest bank fraud scandal in world history that is currently unfolding and threatens to destabilize and destroy the Western banking system. Robert Holmes, whose “blueblood” family links go back to the Mayflower, is known throughout the global banking community as being the creator of one of the most sophisticated computer algorithms ever developed and is credited with developing predictive models for financial services; credit and fraud risk models, first and third party application fraud models and internet/online banking fraud models.
Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, Robert Holmes is currently the senior lead scientist with the American credit score company FICO, which was formally known as Fair, Isaac and Company, and which every American citizen is beholden to should they need to borrow money.
Mind you I am not saying that there is any sort of conspiracy involved here, however it has to make you stop and wonder, “what are the chances that two of America’s most volatile issues — gun control and the ongoing banking and mortgage crisis and scandal — could be countenanced by a single family?”
If you go there, the video, which begins with another story, is rather ‘out there’. But it even says the information included in it cannot be verified.
President Obama is stumping in Scranton this afternoon, which is strange, because as everyone now knows, he has decided to abandon the white working class.
What, you hadn't heard? Everyone's been reporting it. Well, almost everyone. On Monday, Fox News' web site linked to a New York Times column by Tom Edsall by giving it this headline:...(Click here to read more)
"Eleven years ago, I moved to Washington, D.C. to work on education. The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once-a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001....."CLICK TO READ MORE....
Give us the statue, Penn State. Take it down, and do it now.
What about this don't you understand? Seven months ago the school fired Joe Paterno for not doing enough -- barely doing anything, really -- during the previous decade to stop longtime assistant Jerry Sandusky from molesting kids. Eight days ago Penn State released its own commissioned report on the Sandusky scandal, a report that focused on blame for the cover-up and concluded it lay heavily with Joe Paterno.(read more...)
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald — and he didn’t just mean that they have more money. What he meant instead, at least in part, was that many of the very rich expect a level of deference that the rest of us never experience and are deeply distressed when they don’t get the special treatment they consider their birthright; their wealth “makes them soft where we are hard.”(read more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.
When I was directed to this site, I was incredibly delighted! As a "recovering Catholic", and not in favor of organized religion, yet with a devout broad spirituality....this was like 'spiritual thinkers' crack'! The site self-describes as : DOMINIONISM IN AMERICAN POLITICS – "EXPANDING THE DISCUSSION BEHIND THE HEADLINES"
Things the Republican base has to like to vote for Mitt. Corrupt mafia like figures that want to buy a war with Iran because they are more a citizen of Israel than the US: By corrupt I mean gambling kingpins who bribe with cash, women, use stand over tactics and who put wealth over nation, greed over good. A Presidential candidate who is devoid of all notions of patriotism and decency, someone who courted Sheldon’s billions even though Sheldon paid for King of Bain, a documentary that showed just how amoral and heartless Mitt’s days at Bain were. Politicians that block tax breaks and incentives for job importers and fight to keep an expand tax breaks and expanded incentives for job exporters leading to 12 million jobs going to China alone in the past decade and then complaining about Obama not doing anything about jobs. Billionaires openly buying or attempting to buy the government and them supporting the eventual disenfranchisement of even themselves as government is finally bought and all opposition crushed, who think they’ll be fighting a pitch battle for freedom against the left while they give a very few people the whole country by supporting the sale of it wholesale and in collusion with vast amounts of foreign derived money. Thank God they are a rapidly aging ethno-homogenous species in a nation undergoing a renaissance of ethno diversity and expansion adding the dimension of an outside world. The old White billionaires might own the media and therefore have control of the perceived message and own most of everything else but the internet is where we get to fight back, spread the truth, organize and plan to reintroduce democracy back into the wild freeing it from its captivity program that has seen nearly all of it locked away. With the only illusion of freedom being the freedom to shop and the freedom to be mind numbingly entertained and programmed by our TV screens. Not forgetting the freedom to throw our money away at Sheldon’s house always wins casinos or Wall Street’s house always wins casinos.
After 7 months, 400 interviews and the review of more than 3.5 million documents, Louis Freeh has completed his report on the dark underside of Penn State University....
I have to admit, I started out giving Mitt Romney some credit for agreeing to address the NAACP. I’m a sucker for the make-nice gesture in this age of political division and cruelty. Republican presidential candidates have been known to snub the group’s annual gathering: Bob Dole did in 1996, and while George W. Bush attended in 2000, when he was promising to be a compassionate conservative, he skipped it in 2004, when it was clear that he was not.
I knew Romney’s visit was mainly designed to make him appear reasonable to white swing voters who are a little worried about the GOP’s wingnuttery when it comes to our first black president. Still, I thought it was a mildly reassuring symbolic gesture that might serve to keep the chasm between African-Americans and the GOP from turning into a dangerous canyon.
This Memorial Day Weekend, VP Joe Biden gave a speech to the families of those that have given their life for their country. The speech was given at the opening session of the 18th Annual TAPS National Military Survivor Seminar.
Today's ruling was an enormous win for the Obama administration, and will likely lead to a fundraising bonanza for corporate front-groups opposed to the law......
.....their eliminating HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) and CTS (Critical Thinking Skills) courses from all school curriculums:
"They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting [screwed] by a system that threw them overboard 30 years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly [worse] jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it" ~ George Carlin, 2005
Are we in the middle of a gratitude movement? Evidence suggests so.
Publishers can't seem to print enough books with the words "gratitude" or "gratefulness" in the title. Scientists rake in millions of dollars in grants to study how feelings of gratitude might improve physical health and psychological well-being. And this weekend.........
David Healy is a Professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and author of over 175 peer reviewed articles, 200 other pieces and 20 books, including The Antidepressant Era, and The Creation of Psychopharmacology from Harvard University Press,The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3, Let Them Eat Prozac, Mania, & Pharmageddon. He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide, suicide and birth defect legal actions involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and British regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghostwriting their articles.
