Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness.

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Montgomery, Pam.

Bear and Company: Rochester,Vermont.  2008.

By D. Tigermoon 

This book has some incredible photos, some regular pictures and some digitally altered to show the Spirit Beings of plants discussed in the text.  The text itself is quite readable.  The author does a very nice job of introducing the subject, and explaining her thoughts, beliefs, and teachings, as well as using journal entries to start the chapters, and clear examples to clarify or expand on points she makes.  There is a very clear and concise explanation of the Chinese Five Elements, the Chakra system, and the Medicine Wheel.  The fact that she got all this information into one chapter and it is clear and understandable is a wonderful accomplishment by itself, but the rest of the book outshines even that in content, teachings, ideas and information.

A wonderful volume for anyone interested in plants and their connections to us and the world we share with them.  Very well written, and enjoyable reading, even when the subject is complex.

Contents

Foreword: Reclaiming the Invisible (by Stephen Harrod Buhner)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: The Theoretical Basis for Plant Spirit Healing

1        Spiritual Ecology

2        The Essential Nature of Plants

3        The Triple Spiral Path

4        The Heart of the Matter

5        The Connecting Link – Our Soul

6        Spirit Healing

Part Two: The Practical Application of Plan Spirit Healing

7. The Dreamtime of Plants
8. Building Relationships with Plants
9. Healing Oneself, Others, and the Planet with Plant Spirits
10. Building Personal Power
11. Foundational Healing Modalities
12. Origins of Dis-ease and the Therapeutic Use of Plant Spirits

Part Three: The Healing Gift of Plants

13    Plant Allies

Epilogue

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

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Review: Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection With The Elements.

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Moss, Nan and Corbin, David.

Bear and Company: Rochester,Vermont.  2008.

By D. Tigermoon

This is a delightful volume that explores meeting with and learning from the spirits of weather.  The authors do a very nice job with examples of the teachings they and other practitioners have received from a variety of weather spirits.  This is not at all a beginner's book on Shamanism but does have some good basic journeying information.  It would be a wonderful read to get in tune with the weather, even for someone not planning a Shamanic journey to meet the spirits themselves.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: The Call

1. The Door Blows Open
2. A Different View – A New Story
3. Changing the Weather: Is It Real?
4. Stepping Through: We Find and Cross the Threshold

Part Two: The Spiritual Nature of Weather

5. The Middle World: Home of Weather
6. Form: Life Force and It's Transformations in the Middle World
7. What Is Weather?  Emotion, Reciprocity, and Change
8. Chaos, Order, and Power at Work: Weather in the Middle World
9. The Faces of Weather
10. The Sacred Nature of Storm

Part Three: Weather Shamanism

11. Enlivened Relationship with Nature: The Way In
12. The Dance of Power: First Steps
13. To Honor Hurricane: A Divine Tempest
14. Weather Working: A Closer Look

Part Four: The Practice of Weather Dancing

15. Weather Dancing: Metaphor for a Spiritual Practice
16. Ceremony: Dance of Alignment
17. Ethics of Weather Working
18. Healing with Weather
19. Carrying On

Notes

Bibliography

About the Authors

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Going on hiatus

I need to take a couple of weeks to get caught back up on everything, so there won't be any rviews posted for the next couple of weeks -- sorry everyone, but sometimes my "other life" gets too overwhelming!

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The Voudon Gnostic Workbook

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Bertiaux, Michael.

Weiser Books: ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />San Francisco, CA.  2007.

By D. Tigermoon

This is a HUGE book that holds what I understand to be all the teachings of a particular sect or branch of Voudon.   I cannot speak to the content, but to say it is a change from the mainstream Voudon that I have studied for many years.  I know people have been holding on with ragged copies of this work and waiting for someone to publish it again.  This volume looks like a direct copy of the old pages.  They look like fax pages that are copied one notch smaller.  The pages are not hard to read, type wise, but the content is a bit obscure or dense.   If someone is a student of Michael Bertiaux or his teachings, this would be an invaluable resource.

The big issue I have with the book is that the drawings and figures were ALL left out!  I was searching around the web looking for them and did find on the Weiser site where you can send an email and get a copy of the appendix with all the figures.   I also looked on Amazon.com and there is now a "searchable" appendix on the book listing page for this title.  If you click to "search" you can also save or print the PDF.  Add that bunch of pages to the 400+ of the book and you'll have plenty of reading and study material if this branch of Voudon is what you are looking for.

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Review: Sublime CD by Jaya Lakshmi.

Sublime CD by Jaya Lakshmi.  Sequoia Records. 2008. www.sequoiarecords.com

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The ethereal sounds of Jaya will transport you into a new world, leaving you feeling renewed and refreshed. This CD is great for yoga or other exercise, meditation, unwinding or keeping you sane during a long commute.

This enhanced CD by Jaya can be played on your computer to access special features on the internet including 2 bonus music videos and 2 audio mp3s.

Collaborating musicians include:

Daniel Paul – Table (Jai Uttal)

Manose – Bansuri Flute (Deva Premal)

Deva Priyo – Sarod, Spanish Guitar (Lost at Last)

Yoko Silk – Cello, Violin

Tracks include:

1. Brahma Shanti
2. Shiva Shankara
3. Radhe Shymasundari
4. Jayati (Surrender to Love)
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6. Jai Ma
7. Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura
8. Sri Vrndavan
9. Prema Dhama

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Let NBC know what you think of Kathie Lee’s comments

If you would like to sign the petition.....

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/392567595

petition overview | letter
"NASTY BAD PAGANS?" Protesting hate speech on NBCTarget:NBC, the TODAY Show, Kathy Lee Gifford & sponsor SamsungSponsored by: Ellen Evert Hopman & Dana Corby
NOTE TO SIGNERS: Please don't put the WLPA legal document in your comments. It's already on several times.  Thanks!

On Wednesday, June 25, 2008, during a live broadcast of a wedding reception on the TODAY Show, Kathy Lee Gifford gratuitously referred to Pagans as "nasty, bad Pagans." Ms. Gifford's hate speech has done harm to American Pagans' ability to live in peace with our neighbors of other faiths. By allowing her hate speech to be broadcast, her direct employer the TODAY Show, and their network, NBC, participate in that hate speech

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Kathie Lee Gifford makes negative comment about Pagans!

Does Kathy Lee Gifford Hate Pagans?
Thursday June 26, 2008

I'd rather remove my eyes with a spork than sit through seven minutes of Kathy Lee Gifford, but reader TwinkerBelle tipped me off to this video of yesterday's Today Show. Apparently Kathy Lee was going around a wedding asking people little quizzy questions so she could give them gift bags.

At around the 4:45 mark, here's the exchange:

Kathy Lee: Why do you wear your wedding band on your left hand ring finger? Is it because (a) most people write with their right hand? Is it (b), because Egyptians believed that finger follows the vein of love to the heart, or (c), the Pagans -- the nasty, bad Pagans -- believed it was bad luck to wear metal on your right side?

Now, I know Kathy Lee is all big into born-again Christianity, and she's quite devout -- more power to her, she's welcome to be. But really, Kathy Lee, was that little dig necessary? If she had said, "Those greedy, sneaky Jews" or "Those dirty, unwashed Hindus", or any other ugly stereotype, it would have been equally obnoxious.

> Here is the link to the clip from the Today Show in which the comment is made by Kathy Lee.


> http://www. msnbc.
msn. com/id/ 21134540/ vp/25367292 25368216

Of course you'll probably have to type the address in since myspace can be so ridiculous about links.

I found this link to be able to send her email -- which I did letting them know it was an uncalled for statement and I highly doubted she would say such a thing about Catholics.  I also let them know they have lost a Today show viewer.  I encourage you all to do the same!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23884527/

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REVIEW: GODDESS ALIVE!

Goddess Alive! Inviting Celtic and Norse Goddesses into Your Life by Michelle Skye, Illustrations by Kris Waldherr.  Llewellyn Publications: ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Woodbury, MN. 2007.

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In this guide to connecting with the different goddesses of the Celtic and Norse pantheons, the author gives information on the myths and tales of the goddesses along with pathworkings, guided meditations, invocations, activities and planned out rituals.

The author shows that each goddess is associated with a different sabbat,  or moon phase and information is also provided about the individual sabbats and these moon phases.

The goddesses encountered in this book are Cerridwyn, Brigid, Eostre, Freyja, Aine, Danu, Modron, Hella, Branwen, Maeve, The Valkyries, Morrighan and Rhiannon.

The pathworkings and guided meditations show the reader how to build a relationship with each goddess and how to bring the goddess's power into their life. The accompanying rituals emphasize this connection and celebrate the alliance created with the goddess.

This is a great guide for anyone looking to create a more personal relationship with the Celtic and Norse Goddesses, and bring their abundance of power into the reader's life.

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REVIEW: Earth Drum CD and DVD

Earth Drum CD and DVD. The 25^th Anniversary Collection Vol.1 by David and Steve Gordon.  Sequoia Records. 2008.  www.sequoiarecords.com

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This Anniversary Collection from the Gordon's includes some of their best drumming, accompanied by the Native American flute, Incan pan pipes, acoustic and electric guitars, and sounds of nature sprinkled throughout.

Each song is not only on the CD, but also on the DVD featuring pictures and films of beautiful scenery from national parks and other locals throughout the world, giving this set added versatility.  Not only can the music be used for yoga, ritual, dancing or just relaxing, the DVD can also be used in these ways while giving the added sense of visual aids to focus on.  The DVD can also be used simply as a background during a party. 

The music is intense and filled with feeling and emotion to help you explore your senses, your self, and the world around you.  Get lost in the hypnotic sounds of Earth Drum.

Tracks include:

1. Ancient Way
2. Dancing for a Vision
3. Within the Cloud Lodge
4. Sun Blessing (Fire-Heart Edit)
5. Thunder Dreamer
6. Spirit Vision
7. South Wind Meeting (Harvest Mix)
8. Power Animals
9.  

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REVIEW: Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy

Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy

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Bear & Company, ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Rochester, Vermont, 2008

336 Pages, Retail: $18.00

By Tami Richings

Forbidden Science is a collection of essays by the author/editor's team of researchers

that contribute to his bimonthly journal (Atlantis Rising).  According to the back

cover synopsis, this book serves as a "compelling introduction to the true history of

alternative and New Science research".

Most of the essays dwell on theories of metaphysical or spiritual attributes of known

and some unknown technologies.  Thought provoking and historically based

viewpoints are presented resulting in some surprising conclusions. 

Personally, while it was an interesting read, I found some of the essays to be as biased

and critical of the scientific community they accuse of doing the same.  In many of the

essays it seems that their sole purpose is to place an argument on their theories rather than

provide solid evidence.  More proof and less mud-slinging would have left me with more

of a feeling of validity after reading.

 
Table of Contents

Introduction

Part ONE • Stacking the Deck

1. Debunking the Debunkers: Do the So-called Skeptics Have a Secret Agenda?
• David Lewis

2. "Voodoo Science" on Trial: Challenging the Establishment's Kangaroo Court of Alternative Science
• Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

3. The Establishment Strikes Back: Never Mind the Evidence, The Learning Channel Wants to Eradicate the Looming Atlantis Heresy
• Frank Joseph

4. Inquisition--The Trial of Immanuel Velikovsky: Velikovsky's Battle to Get His Seminal Book, Worlds in Collision, Published
• Peter Bros


Part TWO • The Past Reconsidered

5. The High Technology of the Ancients: Have We Forgotten Secrets We Once Knew?
• Frank Joseph

6. A Scientist Looks at the Great Pyramid: In a New Book, the Geologist Who Stunned the World by Redating the Sphinx Turns His Attention to Another Enigma Nearby
• Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D.

7. Precession Paradox: Was Newton Wrong? The Author of a Startling New Book Reexamines the Evidence
• Walter Cruttenden

8. The Dogon as Physicists: Do the Symbols of This Enigmatic African People Show Knowledge of Theoretical Physics?
• Laird Scranton

9. The Astronomers of Nabta Playa: New Discoveries Reveal Astonishing Prehistoric Knowledge
• Mark H. Gaffney


Part THREE • Challenges to Traditional Physics

10. Tesla, a Man for Three Centuries: Our Debt to the Eccentric Croatian Inventor Continues to Grow
• Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.

11. Tom Bearden Fights for Revolutionary Science: A New Energy Pioneer Lays the Groundwork for Coming Discoveries
• William P. Eigles

12. Sonofusion: Can the Energy of the Sun Be Captured in a Bottle--Like an Ancient Genie--and Provide Us with a Future of Limitless Energy?
• John Kettler

13. Escape from Gravity: Is the Ancient Promise of Freedom from the Pull of Earth Alive and Well at NASA and Elsewhere?
• Jeane Manning

14. Power from the Nightside: Could Earth Itself Be Trying to Provide the Clean Abundant Energy We Need?
• Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D.

15. Techno Invisibility: Can Newly Emerging Technology Make Solid Objects Vanish?
• John Kettler

16. Weather Wars: Is There an Unnatural Side to Natural Disasters?
• John Kettler


Part FOUR • Spiritual Science

17. The Sensitivities of Water: Startling New Evidence That Water Can Reflect Thought and More
• Jeane Manning

18. The Power of Water: Are Its Secrets the Keys to Solving Today's Most Vexing Problems?
• Jeane Manning

19. Madame Curie and the Spirits: What Are We to Make of the Strange Alliance between a Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist and a Notorious Medium?
• John Chambers

20. India's Mystic Military: Are Fleeing Tibetan Monks Changing the Balance of Power on the Indian Subcontinent?
• John Kettler


Part FIVE • Astronomy Farther Out

21. Is the Big Bang Dead? A Maverick Astronomer Challenges Reigning Theory on the Origins of the Universe
• Amy Acheson

22. The Cycles of Danger: Does New Research Mean We Are Headed for Trouble?
• William Hamilton III


Part SIX • Medicine of Another Kind

23. Healing Vibes: Dr. Richard Gerber Is Still Convinced There's More to Getting Well than the Medical Establishment Can Comprehend
• Cynthia Logan

24. The Malady in Heart Medicine: A Doctor Shatters the Myths behind Popular Treatments for Heart Disease
• Cynthia Logan

25. Energy Medicine in the Operating Room: A New Age Pioneer Takes Her Intuition Where Few Have Dared to Go
• Cynthia Logan

26. Getting Left and Right Brains Together: Author and Doctor Leonard Shlain Believes the Future Is Where Art and Physics Intersect
• Cynthia Logan

27. X-Ray Vision and Far Beyond: Troy Hurtubise's Amazing Lights Are Said to See through Walls and to Heal as Well
• John Kettler

28. The Biology of Transcendence: Do Newly Discovered Retrotransposons Hold the Key to Our Liberation?
• John Kettler


Part SEVEN • Paranormal Possibilities

29. Paranormal Paratrooper: For David Morehouse, the Military's Psychic Warfare Program Was Much More Than an Exotic Experiment. It Was His Mission, yet It Nearly Destroyed Him
• J. Douglas Kenyon

30. Psychic Discoveries since the Cold War: Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder Revisit the Revolutionary Research of Their Classic Study
• Len Kasten

31. When Science Meets the Psychics: New Research Buttresses the Challenge of Mind to Matter
• Patrick Marsolek

32. Rupert Sheldrake's Seven Senses: A Candid Conversation with a Scientific Iconoclast
• Cynthia Logan

33. Telephone Telepathy: Skeptical Outrage Notwithstanding, Rupert Sheldrake Seems to Be Winning the Argument for ESP
• John Kettler


Part EIGHT • The ET Factor

34. Back-Engineering Roswell: An American Computer Maker Fights for Its Right to Exploit Alien Technology
• John Kettler

35. The Fight for Alien Technology: Jack Shulman Remains Undaunted by Mounting Threat
• John Kettler


Part NINE • Other Dimensions

36. Altered States: Recent Research Sheds New Light on the Inner Reaches of Human Consciousness
• Patrick Marsolek

37. Searching for the Unifying Field: Author Lynne McTaggart Is Tracking the World's Most Exotic Research toward Discovery of a Secret Force
• Cynthia Logan

38. The Mind-Matter Connection: Did the Long-Sought Smoking Gun of Scientific Proof Finally Appear on September 11, 2001?
• John Kettler

39. Dr. Quantum's Big Ideas: Fred Alan Wolf Searches for Concrete Answers to Ephemeral Questions
• Cynthia Logan


Part TEN • The Future

40. Further Explorations of the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Joseph Chilton Pearce's New Book Probes the Biology of Transcendence
• Cynthia Logan

41. Challenging the Reality Consensus: A Popular New Movie Has People Thinking about the Unthinkable
• Patrick Marsolek

42. From Apollo to Zero Point: When Is a Walk on the Moon Not the Highest Point in Life?
• J. Douglas Kenyon

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

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