shaman's thoughts

A recent study aired on PBS's "Scientific American,6-04-03" revealed beyond doubt (using gadgets and gizmos like MRI and blind studies at major Universities) that stress indeed does make us sick, anger, intolerance, hatred and such are the cause of many heart failours in the society today, and with it the studies also found that meditation or as they used the new term "relaxation factors" do help reduce the effects of stressful acts/events on the heart and the ciculatory paths. I say congratulations are in order for the medical teams to prove the many thousand year old methods of the old masters for a better life!

You will know of your inner most strength as being well in order when you not only persist in bad times, but have endurance to start over again.Like the old saying goes;"if at first you do not succeed, try and try again".

Bring the wine, wine-keeper and fill mine cup, I beg of you say not wait till the morrow, for tomorrow I maybe lying with the ones gone a thousand years past! Now! I beg of you friend, quench mine thirst please.

What we believe in cannot be separated from how we live our day to day lives, this separation of chuch and the state is what is wrong with the picture here in our society, and the opposite, making th church all dominant over all the state's affairs is what is wrong with the fanatic Muslim or Christian worlds of now and of the past. Where is the sense of reason?

How many death does it take until we learn that war is not the answer to conflicts? Oh children of Adam, If you only knew the doom you create for your generations every time you loose sight of Peace and harmony.

Excellance only reveals itself in repeated times of trial and error. The mediocre gives up and complains bitterly in hardship, the one seeking excellance will continue in total acceptance and stick to it-ness.

It is much easier to give up and not try at anything that we know deep down inside to be good and worth while. Like an old relationship, an on friend who has sorely disappointed us, the sweetness in always being open to that moment of being "the big man about it" is that you'll have it to talk about some 10 or 19 years down the road, and today is a blessed day for trying. No guarantees though, but let me always choose peace my love!

No amount of complaining ever got anything accomplished, except add to stress. Roll up your sleeves my child and do whatever needs to be done and which is within your capablilities without concern for who gets the credit. Now you are on your way to becoming mature in universal wisdom.

It seems at times that there is more evil in the world than good, as if the power of good is being overwhelmed by the forces of evil doers, but let this shaman reasure all that BALANCE is always maintained by THE ONE ABOVE GOOD AND EVIL. Yes friends rest assured there is a plan!

We like to think that we are in control of most every aspect of our lives, "I know my self" is a common phrase, and yet, these could not be any further from the truth. We do not even have control over our bowel movements and or any of the other auto-responses we have built into our bodies and minds, who or what really does control our actions? In truth we seldom act a concious act, we are most always reating to our environment.

There is always a lesson to learn from every event in our lives, from the mondane to the extraordinary, in pain and in gain. The wise person looks then to all events with an eager learning eye rather than fret and fuss.

Let not a time of anxiety or sadness and anger go by without busying yourself with physical exertions, as this will purge the body of the poisons which the emotions have put in the blood. Go rake the yard, move some dirt around or clean your attic. But whatever you do, do not just sit and prune in the poisons of your own making. Go burn them in physical actions.

Let the actions of each day be as honest and straight forward as the sun rays that shine on you. let this become the path to higher conciousness!

Let me remind us all again lest we forget, that which we spend most of our energy on will dominate our lives and reverberate back again and again. Be careful of what you fixate your attention on, because that will be your reality.

Reflect upon a time when doom and gloom was all you had, ponder a bit more on how things seemed so hopeless and the way out, the light at the end of that dark tunel seemed so out of reach; Now think again at how it all is so far away, like the big fight with your mate way back when which you nearly separated over and now have to think real hard to even remember what it was all about! think yet again my love; ALL THINGS IN TIME WILL COME TO PASS AND BE FOREVER GONE!

May there always be work for your hands to do; > May your purse always hold a coin or two; > May the sun always shine on your windowpane; > May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; > May the hand of a friend always be near you; > May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. "Irish Prayer".

The lessons of life are woven into the daily events in our lives. The conciouse one amongst us is always looking for those lessons of personal growth in every encounter. Time is always passing and waits for no one. We seem to think that we have a lot of time on our hands to figure where we're going and what we do to pass the time this presious comodity. OOOPS! there goes another day in which I am still not whole! But the lessons, they keep coming.

Working on computers has taught me yet again the value of patience and endurance. There will always be a solution if we persist and not give up. Some times the solution is harder to find and requires much more delegence, but in the end having the technician wins the day by hook or by crook. My life seems to have been a series of lessons in enduring!

For all our technological advances, we have yet to be smart enough as a race or species to see that our very survival is at stake now for having forgotten how to be HUMANS IN NATURE.

I have decided to let my hair and beard grow as long as they want to as a way of protest to the insanity that seems to be the norm these days in our world. Looking in the mirror my shaggy self is a reminder that I too have my own shortcomings to fix and be concerned about. I may not be able to do much about the politics that make war, but I sure as hell can do something about the way I react to that insanity. Meditate, pray, do relaxations tecniques, just be a better human and wait on God to ring the bell!

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955). Well he was right about not being sure about the infinity of the universe, the expansion will only go on for a very determined length of time, at which time our own human ways of stupidity will have come to an abrupt end and clarity.

For all our technological advances, we have yet to be smart enough as a race or species to see that our very survival is at stake now for having forgotten how to be HUMANS IN NATURE.

Almost every time I work with a vegetable or fruit, I nearly start to cry with overwhelming awe! I am a chef and an herbalist, working with tastes and textures of foods and herbs has been a way of life with me for over 19 years, yet I, nor anyone else I know in my trade, has ever been able to make, put together, create, or even come close to God's wonder works. I have also gained knowledge of computers in the last three years, even got a degree, yet again, my love I do not see any program or prephrial carry a code like an electron does in any given molecule of God's creation!!