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being hereIt is the same yellow and orange and red that surrounded me when I was fourteen and pissed off at my own mom for making me wipe table after table, so I guess I shouldn’t blame her for her smart-ass attitude.
Death surrounds me, Sixteen entities within a room, Clothed in blue and white garments, It is not heaven that they experience, but instead the cold steel of the blade, I feel guilt, guilt having been lost over time. A question arises, Will they forgive me?
I spent last month working with a really fabulous family doctor and three home birth midwives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Without a doubt, this was a very different experience from anything I imagine is offered in any medical school.
-Catherine Ingram. Passionate Presence: Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness-Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment-Kenneth Cohen. Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing-Minding the Body: Clinical Uses of Somatic AwarenessDonald Bakal-Susan Chernak McElroy. Animals as Guides for the Soul-Kathleen R. Wren and Carol L. Norred. Real
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Learning Reiki should be more than a weekend course of study Throughout humankinds history of healing therapies, such as Theraputic Touch, and their often-attendant Eastern mystical practices, such as reiki, charismatic individuals have contributed to the path of healers development. Mikao Usui wrote a manual of his teachings on reiki in 1920. In April of
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