Deborah is a fascinating person. "The Future That Brought Her Here" is her journey through spiritual awakening to enlightenment. And this lady is now very dialed up! It started one day when she had the oddest experience of discovering her multi-dimensional self. This led her to study Dream Image Work and she subsequently went on spirit quests to the Holy Land, among other interesting destinations. Enjoy her perspectives on "Why The Current Economic Crisis Is A Good Thing:" We are living at the end of a 26,000 year cycle, a destined time mark, when our civilization is radically undergoing change. The large institutions, the banks, the government, the corporate structures will hold on to their status quo as long as they can. They may even begin to react defensively, as we are already seeing with the credit card companies. We have also seen the heavy hand of the government attempting to shore up these structures to avoid all out panic in the streets, but we see the unfairness in what is happening with the bailed out companies. Yet, we needn’t worry, despite all the efforts to maintain business as usual, these structures are going to be overhauled and revamped.
Astrologically, Pluto has moved into Capricorn for the next eighteen years. Pluto always takes out what isn’t serving the soul, and the soul of the people is no longer being served by these structures. Capricorn means big business, markets, investments, corporations, hospitals. Essentially “we the people” have been enslaved to way of life that breeds more and more illness and stress. The idea that the energy we call “money,” or more aptly “abundance,” is limited and scarcity reigns is an idea whose time is over.
People losing jobs, homes, savings and insurance protection are forced into creative thinking. We need to look at this phenomenon as liberating. Already thousands of people have created new companies and services to increase consciousness and they are working online. People are asking themselves what do they really want to do for work. Work needs to align with the soul. The market on the Internet is extensive and one need no longer be tied into a forty hour week schedule and a tiring commute to the office. Whenever there is crisis, the people with new ideas and thinking outside the traditional box, are the ones who create new visions and then manifest them. We need to remember that the Chinese character for challenge is also opportunity.
During times of upheaval, whether it is through natural disasters or intentional attacks like 911, people draw together in community and begin to see where their real values lie. Superficial material concerns dissolve and the important, essential necessities of life take preference. People are known to share, to provide service, to shelter one another during these crises. Humanity has created an opportunity for change on the most fundamental level. And the Spiritual Universe will not permit any more shenanigans. We will be seeing more and more exposure of corporate crime.
The wealth of the world has been held in the hands of a silent, invisible few who have controlled the population at large. But new light has raised the vibrations of millions of us here to desire earnestly a peaceful world, to hold the vision and to begin to band together to rediscover our atrophied intuitive powers. It is imperative that each of us begin developing a spiritual practice to commune with our higher selves.
The Age of Aquarius will be an era where justice becomes the foremost value. We may expect to experience chaos during this transition. That is why it is necessary to become aware that this is not just another cycle that will play itself out, but the groundwork for an entirely new and infinitely better global society; a society that we may not have thought possible. Indeed, until the present era, it was not possible.
The most important factor will be the perspective you take as you see the old world crumbling. Clinging to what is bound to change is futile. The traditional media and other stalwart institutions will do their best to unhinge our beliefs. But conservative thinking will only prolong the growing pains and increase fear. Technology has offered us ways to communicate in large groups and the power of the group vision will create resolutions to our problems. We will unhook from the structures that have held us at their mercy. Destructive intentions will no longer be supported. We are learning the natural laws of the universe, such as the law of attraction, and we are going to see results from our intentions that serve the whole rather than the few.
We may not yet be sure what steps to take, but in the moments when we need to know, we will go inward and find our answers. There is an old Zen saying: “When you don’t know where you’re going, go the way you don’t know.” Let us hang onto our faith in our own goodness and our ability to create peace. It’s the only thing we haven’t tried. Support is here from the spiritual dimensions. Ask for it. Give permission to be profoundly changed and watch your world change with you. We need to remember we are eternal spirits in bodies. We need to remember “The meek shall inherit the earth.”
We do not need to know how. We need to visualize the outcome and desire it, and trust that it will come. This is the greatest passage in the history of the earth. Let us love one another, share the vision, join in the collective community of faith in nothing other than ourselves. Aquarian values favor the group consensus. Find a community in which to share your best vision of what our world can and will become.
Deborah DeNicola is the author of 5 poetry collections and most recently her memoir, The Future That Brought Her Here from Nicholas Hays/Ibis Press. Available at Amazon.com. Another poetry collection, Original Human is forthcoming in 2010 from Custom Word. Among other awards she received an NEA Fellowship for her poetry. Her website is www.intuitivegateways.com.
I recently had the pleasure of connecting with Kris Steinnes as she embarks on her Amazon.com launch for her award winning book "Women of Wisdom: Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women." Part of what intrigues me about this book besides the obvious fact that it's about self-empowerment, is that it's also multi-dimensional. The book incorporates many different forms of stirring the innate wisdom of the soul, such as poetry and drawings, along with its written teachings of wisdom. Her book launch officially begins June 23rd, and I'll have more posted here on that day as well. She's put together an amazing package of free gifts for you. You won't want to miss it. In the meantime while we're waiting for the main event, here are some little appetizers for you, as Ms. Steinnes graciously granted me an interview:
1. Kris, please define "empowerment."
Empowerment to me means you are standing in your inner wisdom, confident who you are, and you know what you are willing to support and what you will speak up to change. You are willing to face your fears and be visible. You will show the world who you are, which will empower others to do the same. What also does it take to be empowered? You need to connect to the universal power, the love and light of the universe that supports us, not personal power. Call it whatever you'd like, God, Source, Love, Allah, etc. You'll drain yourself fast if you are just using personal power.
2. Please define "wisdom."
Wisdom comes from knowing who you are, knowing your gifts. You trust what you know from your gut, not your head. So it comes from a deep place inside of you, not from books, and knowledge. It comes from life experiences.
3. What makes a woman wise?
Knowing who she is, being strong and willing to be visible to show the world who she is.
4. Are women less empowered then men, and if so, why?
We are when we're not wiling to speak up, be seen, be heard, and show ourselves as powerful. When we sit back and let others do it, we're not in our power. Sometimes we take on an attitude of how can I make a change, I'm just one person, so why try. Or we think we have too much on our plate taking care of our children, our home, in addition to working that we don't have any more time, let others do it. But everyone has an effect on the world. If you can touch one person by sharing who you are, sharing your stories, you are empowering them. If you know this, you are more willing to share yourself and your wisdom, your power to others.
5. Do both men and women have a divine right to create or is it just women?
Everyone has a divine right to create. Creativity is a feminine trait, that is not connected to gender, but is available to everyone. It may appear women are more creative as we birth new life, An important feminine trait that women have is they are interested in the process, allowing the process to naturally enfold, instead of focusing on the product, the end result. Both are important, but there's not a balance if there's more focus on the outcome, if there's more focus on the masculine or yang in the world. Again that's not a gender issue, but it can be sometimes. When men and women are both balanced in their feminine and masculine we all are creative and can co-create our new world.
6. How can a woman begin to become empowered? What are the first steps?
One idea I have is to look for people who you see as empowered. Observe them, see what makes them powerful. Acknowledge if you can see it in them, it's in you as well. So find that in yourself and start practicing being that. Be clear on what you want in your life, be clear on what you want to develop. In order to do that there first is an inward journey to discover your gifts. It helps to have a circle of supportive friends to then practice sharing your gifts, sharing your voice. Practice using your voices with friends who will validate you for who you are. And be willing to make mistakes, keep finding that strength within to move forward in your life as you learn from those mistakes.
7. What is one secret gift that women have?
Do we? Shh don't tell anyone! I feel that women are coming into their power and are glad they have come at this life time as a woman, as we're bringing in a new way of being here at this time. That doesn't mean it's totally new, just means we're reclaiming it, bringing it back to our awareness.
If there was one gift I'd say is important right now it's intuition. Women are often gifted with that ability; it's just a matter of trusting it and learning how to follow it. Another one is we comprehend the value of community, we know the value of friendships to support us. But a secret gift is hard to define. When I think about that to answer this it feels illusive, like it's on the tip of my tongue, I know it, but I can't define it. It's just an exciting time to be a woman!
8. How can women begin to transform the world?
Women will transform the world when they share their wisdom, their ideas, their different ways of doing things every where they go. We can talk about change and want others to transform how things are, but it's doing it in our own lives that will begin the real change. If we're to change the world from a hierarchal world to a co-partnership world we have to manifest it in our personal lives. We have to see where the patriarchy is in our lives and transform those areas to co-partnership as Riane Eisler talks about ,or the feminine co-creator as Barbara Marx Hubbard calls it.
We can't sit back and think we can't affect change in the world, it's too big, so why bother. It starts with what's occurring in our lives. Where we see things that we feel need to change - in our families, our neighborhoods, our schools, any committee we are in - it's up to us bring a new way of being, such as circle leadership, sharing responsibilities, changing the hierarchal model to an inclusive one that involves all voices to be part of the process. As we change that in our personal lives, it'll begin to show up in the greater community, and the world.
Thank you, Kris for this enlightening interview!
With all Angelic Blessings,
Dyan Garris
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Women of Wisdom: Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women by Kris Steinnes
Excerpt: "Have You Put Your Dreams On Hold?" (Angeles Arrien's chapter)
Each one of us has a great dream and a great calling. Many of us have put our dreams on the back burner. We say, “Someday when I have enough time, when I have enough money; then I’ll do what I really want to do, what has fire for me.” At this time there is such a wonderful opening in history, in evolution, if we will just come and take our place.
What I’ve found among many of the indigenous peoples of the world is that they know how important it is to bring our medicine and our dreams to this world. If we want the earth to get better we need to show up and take our place, not with our shrouds of insufficiency, but with our long tall bodies and our deep, deep roots. The warrior’s way or the leader’s way is to show up. And then I can pay attention to what has heart and meaning, which is the healer’s way. I can’t know what has heart or meaning until I choose to show up, until I choose to be present.
Among the shamanic traditions of the world, if you go to a shaman or a medicine person, and you are dispirited, disheartened, or depressed, many of them will ask you one of four questions: “When in your life did you stop singing? When in your life did you stop dancing? When in your life did you stop being enchanted by stories, and particularly your own life story? And when in your life did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”
Wherever we stop singing, dancing, being enchanted by stories or deeply comforted by silence, we begin to experience soul loss. There’s not a culture in the world that does not have song, or dance, or story, or doesn’t recognize that in the sweet territory of silence we connect to the mystery in our contemplative and reflective practices.
I know I’m not at home when I’m in appeasement, weak-heartedness, seduction, drama or exaggeration. I know I’m not at home when I am playing the martyr or the victim and wanting someone else to be responsible for my life and therefore guilt induce others. I’m not at home when I’m controlling, because the opposite of control is trust.
I am at home when I have fire; when I am deeply connected to what has heart and meaning, the heart’s fire; when I’m seized by a vision that I want to manifest and bring to the sweet face of Mother Earth. I know I’m on fire when I’ve lost time through some creativity, and when I’ve experienced a moment of tender sweetness and intimacy in a relationship that has substance and depth. I know I’m on fire when I’ve connected to something numinous and extraordinarily beautiful that can only be found when trusting in an unshakable part of myself, in a sacred refuge that I can find in my deep interior.
Angeles Arrien is a cultural anthropologist, award-winning author, educator, and consultant to many organizations and businesses. She lectures and conducts workshops worldwide, bridging cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religions. Her work is currently used in medical, academic, and corporate environments. Angeles is the President of the Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research. Her books, including The Four-Fold Way, The Signs of Life, and The Second Half of Life, have been translated into nine languages, and she has received three honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of her work.
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To learn more about Kris Steinnes and her new book Women of Wisdom: Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women, as well as the Women of Wisdom conference, visit www.womenofwisdom.org. Also check out ongoing Community Events Calendar in the Natural Choice Directory web page for future Women of Wisdom sponsored events.
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Dyan Garris
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Julianne Moore is U.S. Ambassador for Save the Children working with children and families in rural areas, focusing on literacy and early childhood education. She successfully launched the Save the Children Valentine program in 2008 whereby children’s book illustrators donated art work for cards, with the proceeds benefiting poverty in the United States. She is also a member of Reach Out and Read, a children’s literacy organization dedicated to educating parents on the importance of reading to their children, as well as an acclaimed actress who has appeared in such movies as The Hours, Far from Heaven, The End of the Affair, and Boogie Nights. Ms. Moore was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from Boston University’s School of the Performing Arts. She now lives with her husband and children in New York City.
Nicknamed "Freckleface Strawberry" when she a young girl, Ms. Moore disliked the title as much as she disliked her red hair and freckles. “As a child, my hatred of my freckles was only matched by my love of reading,” said the author, who eventually grew to tolerate her red hair and freckles and find amusement in telling her own kids about her childhood nickname. "Dodgeball" isn’t based on personal experience, but its purpose was to create a feisty character who makes the best of a bad situation—and does so with style and wit—is essential to Ms. Moore. To Order Your Copy Today - http://www.amazon.com/Freckleface-Strawberry-Dodgeball-Bully-Story/dp/1599903164 Download Your Own Freckleface Strawberry Activity Kit - http://www.walkeryoungreaders.com/downloads/FrecklefaceDodgeballActivity.pdf
Links to Video with Julianne Moore about the Book
http://virtualblogtour.blogspot.com/2009/05/freckleface-strawberry-by-julianne.html
With All Angel Blessings,
Dyan Garris
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1. Put the logo on your blog or post
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude
3. Be sure to link your nominees within your post
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Wow! Much to my surprise I have been bestowed the honor of "Brilliante Weblog Award" by Rebecca at Creating Wealth and Health. Her blog is very interesting but she is even more so. She cured herself of an "incurable" disease and learned how to move beyond the childhood belief systems that were taught to her.
This is a fine example of everything I've been talking about in terms of integrating, freeing up stuck energy, getting to the root of your issues in order to move forward on the path. Kudos to you Rebecca and thank you very much for this award. You are an amazing person. ![]()
Here are the rules for the next recipients of the Brillante Weblog Premio 2008 Award, established in 2005:
l. The award may be displayed on a winner’s blog.
2. Add a link to the person who you received the award from.
3. Nominate up to seven other blogs.
4. Then add their links to your blog.
5. Add a message to each person that you have passed the award on to in the comments section of their blog.
Here are my own nominees for this award:
Nikki Leigh (talk about an incredibly talented woman!)
Gamy Rachel (this woman impresses me on many different levels)
Donna McDine's blog (she's always got something interesting going on there)
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Welcome to Dyan Garris' Money and Manifesting Book Tour
During the month of April, Dyan Garris is touring to promote her book Money and Manifesting. Her latest book is a tool in her "toolbox". To learn more, visit - www.voiceoftheangels.com/home.html.
Moving Beyond The Secret
The Secret gave us the foundation for the law of attraction. If you've been trying to use the laws of attraction to create, but there isn't much happening, you may wonder what you're doing wrong. The answer is - you aren't doing anything wrong, but there is more to the story than just the law of attraction and the power of positive thinking. The law of attraction is one step in the process of manifesting. This is where Money and Manifesting comes in. Dyan Garris helps you learn how to take things further and to make more things happen in their lives. The Secret was the foundation, while Money and Manifesting gives you the additional building materials to create a solid creation.
Virtual Book Tour Details
During April, Dyan Garris will visit a wide variety of blogs, several radio shows and a chat to discuss her work and her book Money and Manifesting. We invite you to visit her at any or all of these visits throughout the month.
Click to view the full schedule for her tour - http://inspiredauthor.com/promotion/dyan-garris-april-tour-schedule . If you miss any of her blog visits, feel free to visit her virtual book tour home page to read any information that you missed.
Book Summary
Not just another manual about the laws of attraction and the power of positive thinking, Ms. Garris teaches what stands in our way of manifesting, how to unblock the energy flow of money, and how to actually transform energy to get what you desire.
Parts of the book are fictionalized so that your left brain and right brain processes begin to integrate. So, when you get done with the book you've already begun the first steps toward manifesting. Automatically.
Author Biography
Dyan is an author, artist, musician, and developer. For many years Dyan Garris has been counseling clients in order to help them move forward in their lives. She is clairvoyant, clairaudient, and clairsentient. In addition, Dyan is also what is known as a voice recognition psychic and trance channel. This means that she can help her clients via telephone, which is how she conducted her readings throughout her career.
To sample Dyan's music - visit her MySpace page - www.myspace.com/voiceoftheangels.
Website Addresses: www.voiceoftheangels.com, www.newagecd.com, www.dyangarris.com and her primary blog address is http://blog.voiceoftheangels.
For more information, contact Nikki Leigh at nikki_leigh22939@yahoo.com
Powerful, clear, concise book,
Dyan Garris has written a powerful book filled with clear explanations and simple directions on how to manifest that which your heart desires, be it wealth, a great relationship, health or something else. What sets this book apart from many others is the clarity of the overall message. Ms. Garris explains in concrete terms what one needs to understand and do as well as why people who are doing affirmations, visualization techniques, and meditating, which are all good things, may not be succeeding in achieving their goals and what they also need to do and best of all, how to do it. There's no unnecessary filler to wade through. This is a fast, delightful, and powerful read.
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All the knowledge you will need to create your reality is right here!,
For a long while now I have been waiting for someone out there to "truly" share all the parts that we need to "re - learn" to enable us to create our own reality - The Secret left bits out, which personally made my blood boil for by it not giving the "whole story" individuals could be left slowly losing any faith and trust in themselves and or the Universe. |
MONEY AND MANIFESTING BY DYAN GARRIS
You think positive thoughts. You apply the laws of attraction. You visualize. You even clear pathways to abundance. And you manifest nothing. Now you want to find out exactly what to do about it. You want wealth. You want prosperity. You want transformation. Here you will discover the real secrets to money and manifesting. What you learn will change your life forever.
“It is not enough to think positively, repeat affirmations, and attract positive energy. We must implement and integrate this learning into our daily lives. This is the real secret of manifesting money. It is the real secret to manifesting anything.”
— Dyan Garris, author, musician, and clairvoyant.

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