X-TASY (Freeing The Spirit) By: Alfred Carrico

  “Map-makers, myth-dancers, and Shamans live internally in a multi-dimensional realm continuous with so-called ordinary reality.”  Joan Halifax

            One of the shamanic tasks involves making the self, whole. The self is your body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit. When your spirit is free, it fills you with ecstasy. Ecstasy means being fully alive. Your spirit is the dimension that connects you to everything. 

            The path to ecstasy is through the 5 layers of consciousness. We view ourselves, relationships, personal history, groups we are a part of, the ebb and flow of daily life, through these layers. The layers are referred to here as : First Layer – Inertia – the level of unconsciousness.   Second Layer – Imitation.   Third Layer –  Intuition. Fourth Layer – Imagination.  Fifth Layer – Inspiration.

            The journey from inertia to ecstasy is the natural birthright of each one of us. On this path to your whole, true self, the core feelings are your allies.

            Beginning with the first layer, Inertia, is simply the place from which to start. This is where the part of us that is known as self-importance lives. Listen to the voices of inertia: You’ve got to plan ahead. Be Careful. Be prepared. Don’t burn your bridges. You’ll regret it. You’ll be sorry.

            The second layer, Imitation, is the level in which you strive for something more in your life and allow yourself to pay attention to your own growth. This is where you begin to search for a teacher to get you moving in the direction of spiritual liberation.

            The third layer, Intuition, is where at some point, from deep within, you realize that you are not becoming who you truly want to be and you begin to yearn for what you don’t have – a rooted connection to an original, creative self.

            The fourth layer, Imagination, is where the power of great creative artists like Elvis or Marilyn Monroe comes from. Imagination is the level at which you become the “STAR” in your own movie, getting serious about doing something special in your life.

            The fifth layer, Inspiration, is where pure energy, totally connected to the life force that vibrates through you. When you experience moments of ecstasy, they come as a taste of how life is meant to be. It is an ideal, a goal, but it can be the expectation of every day.

Alfred Carrico has 30+ years experience with Sacred Knowledge & Metaphysical concepts. His mission is to guide members on “A Path of Extra-Ordinary Knowledge.”  For more info Call (210)334-0782  or  E-mail:TheMantra1@netzero.net

DETOX For Better Health By: Dr. Wallace V. Nelson ND

Many holistic health experts believe that much of the degenerative disease that faces Americans is due in large part to the presence of toxic chemicals in nearly everything that we eat, drink and breathe. In order to start to get well, the first step is to cleanse the body through Detoxification. This is accomplished through a total body cleansing program, which cleans the liver, bowels, kidneys, and the blood supply. It helps restore the peristaltic action of the colon, and helps to rid the body of mucus, toxins and waste materials. These materials often become trapped in the colon, in some cases for many years. A successful cleanse is achieved through a three-day liquid detoxification and accompanying supplementation that will replace the normal diet and clean the body systems. This is the way to treat degenerative symptoms without drugs or chemicals, and to begin the journey to better health.

THE ROLE OF THE COLON IN HEALTH

Almost every chronic disease is due to the influence of bacterial poisons diffusing into the body systems from the intestine. 95% of all degenerative disease begins in one organ of the body — the colon. It is often possible to recognize the progression of poor health and find that generally all degenerative disease can be traced back to lifestyle and a toxic colon and body. The opposing side of this argument is that by lifestyle change and beginning at the source (the colon) to restore health, one can reverse degenerative symptoms. Dramatic changes in health occur simply by following a cleansing lifestyle.

The colon is part of the large intestine of the body and acts as the disposal system for human body waste. Much of what we eat, drink, breathe, and most of what our body is trying to slough off (such as atrophied tissue or dead cell growth), is eliminated out of the colon. The parts of the colon include an ascending colon, a transverse colon, a descending colon, and elimination through the rectum. The colon is an organ that is approximately five feet long and two and one half inches in diameter.
 
In a healthy person, within 8–10 hours of eating, food has passed through the mouth (worked upon by digestive enzymes in the saliva), through the esophagus, digested in the stomach, and gone through the small intestine, becoming mostly digested. It then enters the large intestine.

When waste material finally reaches the colon, the organ then performs peristaltic (accordion-type) action to move the waste along for elimination. This entire process should happen within 24–36 hours of eating. This means that a healthy body eliminates what is eaten for breakfast by noon of the next day.

The average person eats processed foods, overcooked foods, and very little fiber. We eat way too much sugar, excessive salt, and red meat. We don’t drink enough water, we don’t exercise enough, and stress is rampant. We attempt to prevent the body’s natural cleansing processes when we are sick or uncomfortable through chemical mediation, retaining unwanted wastes. Because of these factors, tract time (or elimination time) has slowed to anywhere from 6–30 days. The colon becomes clogged with waste that starts accumulating and forming layers of encrustation on its walls. The waste material begins decomposition and causes fermentation and putrefaction, which can lead to serious health problems.

Constipation is derived from the Latin “constipatus”, which means to press or crowd together, to pack, or to cram. Constipation means that the packed accumulation of feces makes the cleansing organ impossible to function.

As Dr. Bernard Jensen says, a cesspool colon “distills the poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction into the blood, poisons the brain and nervous system, poisons the heart so we are weak and listless, poisons the lungs so the breath is foul, poisons the digestive organs so we are in distress, poisons the body so we are unhealthy. In short, every organ of the body is poisoned. We age prematurely, the pleasure of living is gone.”
Restore your health, and regain the pleasure of living by giving your body, mind and soul the gift of detoxification.

CHOOSING GOOD FOODS - The Choices You Make Directly Impact Your Health by Dr. Wallace V. Nelson, ND

Today, Americans are facing an unprecedented assault on their wellbeing and way of life.  The perpetrators of this assault are an axis of bad-intentioned nasties working night and day to undo the most valuable parts of our lives and our culture.  They are the health-destroying trio of big money processed foods, harmful chemicals that ooze through the products we buy and use, and our own lack of willpower to steer ourselves clear of the traps laid with sweets, soda, and tempting junk foods.

The silver lining of this bleak forecast is that we each have the power to overcome the assault of health-robbing thieves by making just a few simple adjustments to our daily habits.  While it is true that our unique genetic blueprints play a role in our susceptibility to obesity, diabetes, and other disorders; we often have much more control than many realize over if we personally will ever be afflicted by them.  If we can apply the simple steps outlined below, risk factors for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc. can be dramatically reduced, and quality of life can be just as dramatically improved.

·         Processed junk foods have a strangle hold on the standard American diet.  They line the shelves of our supermarkets and have forced themselves into the menus of restaurants and even into our kids lunches at school.  They provide very little nutrition compared to whole natural foods.  Their concentration of vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients are pathetically low.  In the place of those life-giving nutrients, we find additives, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, and many other ingredients that would never be found in your kitchen at home.  These foods expand your waistline without building your health.  They have contributed to a modern nutritional paradox of a nation of people who are overfed but undernourished.  The fix here is simple, if not exactly easy:  replace these processed foods in your diet with healthy, natural foods like fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and healthy whole grains.  While it may be tough to replace all processed foods that you eat, it is easy to begin to replace a few.  Start small and build upon those successes.  Every cupcake given up in favor of a healthier choice is a small victory in the fight for a healthier future.

·         The additives in processed foods, along with thousands of other household chemicals, saddle our bodies with a burden of the removal of chemicals that are not beneficial to the health of our bodies.  Some can be downright harmful.  These chemicals are known by many as “toxins”.  Your body is in a constant battle to remove these toxins to make way for healthy nutrients, and to avoid any damage that can be done by their buildup.  Your body was made with its own waste disposal system specifically to handle these toxins, primarily your liver and kidneys.  However, the saturation of potentially harmful chemicals has reached an unmanageable level in the modern world.  Your body needs help to deal with this overload of toxic junk.  You can give your body the boost it needs by regularly performing a healthy detoxification process.  Ideally, a detoxification is to be completed at the change of each season.  Think of it as Spring cleaning for your body.

·         I have found in my years as a health practitioner that most everyone already knows what needs to be done for better health.  We all know that natural, fresh foods are better than processed.  We all know that getting a proper amount of sleep helps us feel and look better.  We all know that exercise is a good idea.  The tough part is making the choices to do what you already know is good for you.  I repeat the advice that I gave previously.  Start small.  Make one good choice today.  Follow it up with more good choices tomorrow.  Repeat for the rest of your life, and enjoy a brighter, healthier future.

Dr. Wallace V. Nelson, N.D. CNHP is a natural health practitioner  living in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“Our Energetic Bodies, Our Health” By: Brunie Kosta

This month’s theme revolves around the Aura, Meridians, Chakras and the Organs.  I was asked to write this article and thought it would be easy enough to write however it has turned out to be a little more daunting than expected.  As simplistic as it sounds there are also other aspects related to esoteric study or spirituality not covered in this article.  (The Author)

There are many schools to thought about the chakras and the Aura. So let us take these one by one.  Generally when one hears people talk about the aura it is implied that there is one component of this vehicle.

The aura is an energy field that surrounds the body.  To be more exact the aura is your personal energy field, but you don’t just have one aura.  Instead, the aura is a set of several-interlocking energy fields that surround and inter-penetrate the physical body.  Each person has three auras. (1) The Inner Aura, an “inner shield” of prana that stretches out about six inches from the physical body (if the person is healthy).  (2) The Outer Aura an “exterior casing” of prana that envelops both the physical body and the inner aura which can reach out many feet beyond the physical body. (3) The Health Aura which is a series of approximately two foot long pranic beams that emanate from the body’s pores and extend well into the outer aura.

          

                             

In a healthy person these rays are straight and well defined, but in a sick person they are crooked or droopy. 

What is Prana and where does it come from?  Prana is the fuel which the body uses to stay alive.  It is an Indian word for life force.  Thus it is often referred to as Universal life force.  One may know it as Chi or Ki and sometimes Bio-Synthetic fuel.  We get it from the Sun, the air and even the ground, known as earth or ground prana.  Yes, we also get prana from the foods we  eat.  Some foods have more prana than others, however the source is still the sun.

Prana is strongest and most plentiful during the day.  As seen above there is still prana at night, but levels are lower at night. 

The Aura or energy field contains Chakras and Meridians.  Chakra is the Sanskrit word for “wheel”.  Wheel is the term for the body’s power centers or transformers which take in and distribute life force or prana throughout the energy body via the meridians.  There are still many schools which use the seven chakra model.  This does not make them wrong.  That is simply the patterns which their High Masters or teachers chose to reveal at that time.  Through evolution of humanity other chakras were revealed.

You have 11 major chakras and many minor chakras.  Each chakra controls and directs energy to one or more organs.

The meridians are the energy channels, or “energy highways” for your aura.  The meridians take energy from the chakras and carry it throughout the body.

Together this three dimensional arrangements or auras, chakras and meridians that surround and interpenetrate the physical body is comprised of what is called your energetic anatomy or energy body.

The premise of energy and the health of the body is that with proper maintenance the body has enough energy to repair and heal itself.  Left untreated, unbalanced or neglected, diseased energy sets in and over time becomes physical.

Regular maintenance is therefore highly recommended through a clean healthy diet, exercise and regular therapy.  As always energy healing should be complementary to allopthaic medicine, not a replacement for medical check-ups, medication and or treatments.

Brunie Kosta is an MCKS Certified Associate Pranic Healer© She is also an MCKS Pranic Healing Instructor®

Brunie Kosta may be contacted via e-mail:  Brunie@PranicHealing.com or BrunieKPH@gmail.com

Reference Materials/ Suggested Reading

Your Hands Can Heal You – Stephen Co and Eric B. Robbins MD.

Other Books by Master Stephen Co and Eric B. Robbins MD.

The Chakras and Their Functions- Compiled from the books of Master Choa Kok Sui

Valentine’s Day and Love By: Gary L. Wimmer

 Valentine’s Day was originally known as Saint Valentine's Day and/or the Feast of Saint Valentine, and it is celebrated each year in many countries around the world on February 14. It began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Over time, stories evolved or were invented for each saint with accompanying tales of martyrdom, imprisonment and execution.

It was during the Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished, that Valentine’s Day became associated with romantic love, in part due to Chaucer's poetry about “Valentines.” In 18th-century England it became known as a day when lovers expressed their love for each other by offering flowers or sweets, and/or by sending greeting cards, which gave us the symbols still used today: hearts, doves, and figures of the winged Cupid.

The history of Valentine’s Day is somewhat shrouded in mystery, but it is inspiring that what started out as a rather serious, even morbid day that focused on pain and death evolved into a day to celebrate romance, happiness, relationships, and all those other great things that inspire us and bring us back to the basics of what life is really all about: love.

Humans are complicated creatures. We always seem to be in some stage of balancing our external and internal worlds, quelling or satisfying our hopes and desires, or searching for something. For one person the goal may be peace and happiness, for another it might be money and power, and for someone else it might be to selflessly serve humanity. And at our very core we all know that we are unique, endowed with our various concoctions of the good, the bad and the ugly. Bottom line, being one-of-a-kind also means we are all alone. Add in life’s constant curve balls, and it is enlightening that most of Mother Earth’s eight billion inhabitants deal with life and its struggles rather well. What makes this happen?

Love in some form or another. Consider this: If we did not love each other to some degree, there would be considerably less peace in the world and our problems would be insurmountable.

Backtrack to the 1967 and the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love.” John Lennon admitted it was a propaganda song, and stated, “I'm a revolutionary artist. My art is dedicated to change.” Still, the song seemed a little too optimistic to me when I first heard it decades ago. The Vietnam War was in full swing, antiwar protestors were considered traitors, cultures collided, and people got hurt.

But now, with the world even more complicated, the message behind that song seems to epitomize the only real truth. Yes, there is too much tension, hate, war, poverty and hunger, but as our love grows, so does our humanity. This world of contrasts does have a way of making some simple things quite mysterious, like how we often learn about one aspect of life only after by being bombarded with its opposite. Accordingly, learning more about love is the result of not knowing enough about it, or perhaps not practicing it as much as we could.

Granted, all people see love somewhat differently. Many years ago, a beer-guzzling, honky-tonk piano player ran it down for me as I drove us to a dance hall gig. “I see it this-a-way. There’s fifty-one percent good crap and forty-nine percent bad crap, and that’s just enough to tip the scales in the good crap direction.” I didn’t challenge his figures or his mystical analogy, but I did enjoy his crude way of expressing what he considered love to be, as that was our topic of conversation. 

Everything in Nature grows and expands. So does consciousness, and therefore, human love. Valentine’s Day evolved from being seen in terms of hardship and pain to expressing love and happiness. A similar process of evolution is going on within all of us and throughout our world, whether we know it or not. One does not have to understand or believe in gravity for it to work. The same goes for the Infinite Love from which we came, and for that flicker of love that is at the core of every human, whether we recognize it or not. Collectively and individually, we are realizing more about our interconnectedness, and that awareness lends itself to becoming more concerned about our fellow humans. And what is that but love.

In addition to showing our love to those close to us, perhaps this Valentine’s Day we can boldly contribute our own feelings of love to the growing awareness of the Universal Love that is unfolding. How? By loving who we are, where we are, and everything that brought us to this moment – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Then we can liberate ourselves from what we feel as our limitations and become even greater expressions of the love we want to see in the world. Every little contribution matters, be it a chocolate candy to a mate or an anonymous gift to a homeless stranger. It all adds up.

All You Need Is Love. It sounds so simple, yet it is so profoundly true. If we loved each other enough, we would conquer most of humanity’s problems. Rising waters raise all ships, and though that concept has yet to clearly translate into sane world policies to the degree it should, the fact remains that all ships are indeed raised by rising waters. The ocean of love is growing, slowly but surely. Make this Valentine’s Day the most special of all, the day when you once again expand your concepts of love. It’s a win-win scenario, as well as enlightening and fun! And you can do the same thing again next Valentine’s Day. Or better yet, every day.

By Gary L. Wimmer ~ Psychic and Author

http://garywimmer.com/psychic

A Path of Extra-Ordinary Knowledge (Personal Power) By: Alfred Carrico

“If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there.” ~Lewis Carroll

The warrior lives strategically, which means that he can formulate a plan and follow it. Knowledge or Enlightenment are “the BIG GAME” that the warrior, hunter and meditator are after. There is a mystical view of power that alludes to unseen forces. The notion of personal power considered here is seen to be the primary fuel that propels the warrior on his quest.

We can think of personal power as a form of energy bequeathed by a relationship with the Universe. This energy could be the life force itself.

Personal power can be the ability to live and work in a certain way that results in unfolding one’s potential and expanding one’s knowledge of the Universe by forays into the unknown. This will lead to further development of one’s relationship with the Universe. A deepening relationship bestows even more personal power on the warrior.

A being has a distinct identity and is identified by some kind of border, such as skin, that separates it from its surroundings. Living as a person means that there is some kind of a border between yourself and your surroundings, and your continued existence necessitates a relationship with the Universe. The self cannot survive without it. The border separating the two must be semi-permeable because an exchange of energy with the environment is necessary.

The point is that living beings get energy from the Universe by living in relationship with it. The basis of the relationship is the exchange of energy. Being alive means that we have personal power by the nature of our energy exchange with the world around us.

The warrior does not settle, he seeks more power so he can live at more effective and efficient levels. Therefore, he must expand and enhance his relationship with the Universe. Once the warrior has the capacity to live strategically he can become free of the Law of Accident and begin to live under the Law of Cause & Effect.

Only with a sufficient amount of personal power can one do what one wants. Don Juan told Castaneda, “A warrior actually affected the outcome of events by the force of his awareness and his unbending intent.” The warrior has the clarity to formulate intentions and the power to actualize those intentions.

Both warriors and ordinary people begin with a certain amount of power, but what happens to it? The answer is that we choose to spend it in certain ways, either through awareness or default . We must spend power to stay alive. Beyond this the question is, How do you want to live?

Most people aspire to a happy-go-lucky state of mediocrity. With this choice power is spent on survival and the rest goes to what we call power leaks.

The Warrior’s Choice

The warrior’s choice of how to spend his power springs from his recognition that something other than mediocrity exists. He believes that life is more than trying to get by, hoping to avoid trouble. There is a recognition that there is more. Consequently, the warrior strives to use his ration of personal power wisely and productively. This means that he tightens his life so that he wastes as little power as possible. In the warriorship teachings this is called impeccability. By reclaiming power from power leaks, the warrior sets out to expand his relationship with the Universe and claim even more power. He uses this power to be more effective and continue his quest for an ever expanding relationship with world.

To expand one’s relationship with the Universe it is necessary to contact parts of the world outside the confines of what one already knows. In other words, one must hunt power in the unknown. This is the core of the warrior’s life --- all other things a warrior does, from practicing his discipline to coming to terms with fear, are designed to facilitate and empower this quest

Impeccability

Personal power is the key to the warrior’s existence. He has only two possessions --- his personal power and the time he has between Now and his death. It is personal power that enables one to use the time to attain freedom and it is personal power that enables the warrior to travel the path with heart.

According to donJuan, “Everything in a warrior’s world depends on personal power and personal power depends on impeccability.”  One way of defining impeccability  is to say that, it is the conscious application of one’s resources to the matter at hand. To do this it is necessary to be truly awake, free of habitual behavior, aware of what you are doing and how you are using your personal power.

This capacity to act in ways that free power for the warrior’s use seems to be the core of impeccability. As don Juan tells us, “The only thing that counts is impeccability, that is, freed energy.”The warrior must develop internal guides that come from the struggle for impeccability.

Alfred Carrico is the founder of San Antonio Metaphysics Meetup. His  mission is to help people develop “ Extra-Ordinary Knowledge” He begins a series of meetings on “A Path of Extra-Ordinary Knowledge” in January, 2014, in San Antonio.

Call for time, dates, and location. (210)334-0782 or  Email:TheMantra1@netzero.com