Aurora Dawn Newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Sun, 8 Feb 2009 08:00:00 -0600

Stephen Schwartz is a researcher of non-local consciousness and futurist. Stephen is asked to pick up a Shoshoni shaman by the name of Rolling Thunder who was coming in to do a healing ceremony for two boys. Stephen met Rolling Thunder at a bus station and was driving him back to the place where he thought Rolling Thunder would be staying. Along the way Rolling Thunder asked Stephen to stop at a grocery store and pick up two steaks for him. Stephen did so thinking the shaman must be hungry.
Then Stephen and Rolling Thunder continued down the road until Rolling Thunder asked what time he needed to be at the location of the ceremony. Stephen told him what time he was expected and Rolling Thunder then asked Stephen to stop the car and let him out. Rolling Thunder walked into the woods and Stephen continued on.

The next day Rolling Thunder walked up to the location of the ceremony and at the same time an ambulance arrived with the two boys and their doctors. One boy was brought out of the ambulance and Rolling Thunder started his healing ceremony.

Rolling Thunder used what looked like a breast a wing of a raven and used sweeping motions over the boy’s body. Then Rolling Thunder asked Stephen for one of the steaks to be unwrapped and dropped onto the ground and Stephen complied. Rolling Thunder continued the sweeping motion with the raven breast and wing.

Stephen described a misty figure that looked like a wolf show up behind Rolling Thunder. It was an eerie sight to say the least.

The boy Rolling Thunder was working on had a deep gash in his skin that looked quite serious. At the end of the healing ceremony, the place where the boy’s wound was no longer was open but completely closed and pink in color.

The other boy was brought to Rolling Thunder and the same ceremony was preformed. Stephen was asked to un-wrap the other steak and drop it on the ground near the other one. Then Stephen saw the same apparition of the wolf as before but this time it was not appearing as clear and definite. It seemed to be fading in and out for some reason.

Rolling Thunder then stopped suddenly and said that this boy could not be healed because his mother was interfering with the healing. He said that the mother, for some reason, does not want the boy to heal. Stephen explained that the boy had become very independent and recently moved away from home. His mother did not want to let him go so when the boy got sick the mother had her boy back and she was unwilling to let that change.

Stephen described the state of the steaks that were dropped on the ground. He said they looked like they’d been sitting out for days. The explanation was that Rolling Thunder was pulling out the negative energy causing the ailments in the boys and putting it in the steaks.

Ritual is just spiritual sciences developed by empirical observation over long periods of time. Every human culture has a concept of an intermediary or force that can cause a change through the attention on an intention.

A common question is whether the patients have to believe in healing or not. The answer is no they do not. It’s helpful if they believe and are open but a person can still be affected by an intention of another. However, it is best to not send specific healing without the individual’s request so instead send general healing.

There was a woman who had a kidney stone. The healing group that was praying for her decided they would explode the stone. When she went into surgery they found the stone was in many pieces so a short surgical procedure ended up taking much longer in order to find all the pieces to the stone.

Religious ceremonies is a kind of protocol and if you look at the various religious activities they all have certain things in common:

Meet at particular time
Chant or sing
Reason for gathering is common for all

The protocol really is the instructions for directing energy and a way of uniting all who are participating in a group setting. The consciousness of one person can, though not always, have a therapeutic effect on the well being of another so a group of people isn’t really necessary to make a difference. This comes as a result of much scientific experimentation on sending intention.

Through these experiments it has been found that distance and time doesn’t seem to make a difference, however, if you have a protocol for expressing your intention that seems to make a difference. Sending healing intention can effect every level of living organisms. We now can say pretty firmly that healing is not just one thing but many processes. It also doesn’t matter which version of God you use or even if you don’t call on a God at all it will still work.

Is one prayer enough or does a person need multiple prayers? An experiment Stephan did was to have someone pray for a bottle of water for 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 15 minutes and then measuring the HO bonding relationship. He found that the 5 minute prayer results were the same as the 15 minutes. However, prayer over a long period of time may have an increasing effect but we just don’t know that right now.

You can find CDs by Stephen complete with protocols at http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/home.htm (click on “experiential CDs”) I have not listened to these CDs so I cannot comment on them.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to Aurora Dawn.© 2003- 2008 — Aurora Dawn, LLC —

The Cosmic Cross

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:17:00 -0500

In Western astrology we have twelve constellations represented by the twelve horoscope signs that mark out one year. Each of these constellations also marks an age called a "constellation age" and lasts about 2,160 years. Some of these astrologers tell us we are now entering a new constellation age called the Age of Aquarius. This concept of constellation ages came from ancient Greek and Egyptian science where the "shifting of the ages" is based on an astronomical phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes.

The precession of the equinoxes is determined by the wobble of the Earth on its axis. The Earth spins on its axis every 24 hours, giving us our daily sunrise and sunset. The Earth is like a spinning top and wobbles or precesses on its axis as it is spinning. According to modern astronomical calculations, one full wobble or one full precessional cycle takes about 25,800 years. This can be observed by the sun rising in different constellations over this time meaning the sun has been rising in the constellation of Pisces and soon the sun will rise in the constellation of Aquarius.

In the book, Hamlet's Mill, it is noted that during the precessional cycle, the sun will periodically line up with the Milky Way. The authors also wrote that about 6,400 years ago (4400 BC) the fall equinox sun lined up with the Milky Way, and this was called the Golden Age found in many myths. As the precession ended so did the harmonious celestial alignment. The authors of Hamlet's Mill suggest this slipping out of harmony resulted in our descent into violence and the rise of patriarchal society based on hierarchies that began in the Middle East and spread to form our own Western Tradition.

The Milky Way can be observed as a band of stars stretching across the night sky. In ancient Mesoamerica, dark blotchy areas could be observed in the Milky Way during the clear night skies. These dark formations, caused by interstellar dust, were called the "dark-rift" or the "Great Cleft" of the Milky Way. These formations looked a lot like a road and it pointed right at the crossing point called by the Maya the center of the Sacred Tree. The sun will be in this same place again in
2012.

Just a side note: This crossing point mentioned above was symbolized by a cross by itself or a cross with a circle like this picture.

Look familiar? The longer leg of the cross represents the point where our sun lined up with the center of the galaxy.

The road seen in the Milky Way was called the Black Road and was believed to be a road to the underworld. In much of Mayan art we see this Black Road as having something to do with a portal where the gods traveled through to get to the earth.
All galaxies have a center and it's considered a womb where new stars are born and thrust out into the galaxy's arms. Our galaxy's center is where everything in our solar system has come from, including us. On the winter solstice of 2012 there will be a rare conjunction of the sun with the galactic center and due to the higher density of the stars close to the galactic plane, mass extinction periods on earth has been experienced possibly due to an increase of impacts from meteors and other such cosmic debris.

The Ouroboros is a symbol inspired by the Milky Way Galaxy and refers to the ring or band of light seen in the heavens on a clear night. The point of the Ouroboros, where the serpent is eating it's tail, can be seen when our sun is crossing the galactic center near the constellation Sagittarius. The symbol showing the sun rising out of the mouth of the Ouroboros is called Suntelia Aion which is Greek for "The End of the Age" and will occur December 2012.

The precession of the equinoxes is not a new concept. Researcher R. A. Schwaller d Lubicz reveals, in his book Sacred Science, evidence that the ancient Egyptians were aware of the precession of the equinoxes. J. L. E. Dreyer found three Babylonian tablets, each from a different era, shows different posisitions for the equinox proving the Babylonian astronomers understood the precessons. Scholar David Frawley shows that the Vedic astronomers of ancient India, were also aware of the precessions and this knowledge could very well go back as far as 6,000 years. William Sullivan shows us that knowledge of the precessions was well known among the people of the New World. In Sullivan's book The Secret of the Incas, he tells us the Incas had an understanding of the precessional phenomenon.

The Pleiadian Agenda, by Barbara Hand Clow, explores the alignment in 2012 in a deeper, more multidimensional way. Clow shows us her insights of ancient history and the relationship humans have always had with the cosmos. This connection goes much deeper than just the physical, and this forces us to think in terms of dimensions. Clow explains that we are right now entering a new phase of spiritual growth that is being influenced by our galaxy.

There is possible evidence that 2012 will have an impact on life as we know it. According to Dennis and Terence McKenna, in their book The Invisible Landscape, explain the 2012 alignment could implicate the galaxy as a major formative influence upon the structure of the molecules that maintain and define life. Interesting enough, the McKennas arrived at the date of 2012 without the use of the Mayan calendar.

It seems to me the Mesoamerican shaman had an understanding of specific types of alignments in the cycle of precession and that it stimulated the evolution of life on earth. The ancient people of the world understood the profound implications the precession had in pushing life on earth to higher complexity and levels of organization that the end result is the full realization of spirit and consciousness in all living things on this planet.

There is an understanding with the Maya of the 260 day cycle as the period of individual human gestation, and the 26,000 year cycle is our collective gestation as a species. This knowledge is found encoded in their calendars and myths. It seems these truths of the Maya includes 2012 as a zero point for this evolutionary process and is seen as a collective spiritual birth.

We are experiencing a major transformation process that seems to be propelling us ever deeper within ourselves. To resonate with each other in a love-based vibration we must learn to stop resisting the experiences and start flowing with these new changes occurring within us. When we grow in love for the Self we assist in raising the vibration of others and the planet making the passage through this time of change easier.

This is a time of spiritual awakening where we reunite our fragmented soul, individually as well as collectively. Reuniting the soul can only come through healing that comes through emotional awareness. Raising your awareness and embracing your fears, pain, and your humanness you will find yourself on a whole different level of consciousness. This higher level of consciousness will make our journey through the Holy Cross a safe passage into a galactic awareness where we move into a cosmic reality.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to Aurora Dawn.
©2003- 2008 -- Aurora Dawn, LLC --

Was Jesus a Magician?

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:09:00 -0500

Many people speculate that Jesus spent time in Egypt attending the mystery schools and learning how to master the material world. A person who is considered a master of the material world is also known as a magician, but not to be confused with the stage magician who uses slight of hand to give the appearance of something supernatural. What Jesus learned was real magic.

In India these magicians are somewhat more well known than say Egypt. These Indian magicians are found mainly among the yoga masters but they tend to not be very public about their abilities, which is why we don’t hear about them on the evening news.

These yoga masters have been known to levitate, walk on water, translocate, heal the sick and much more. Some people believe Jesus learned how to work miracles from India.

Then there are those in the Far East who practiced martial arts that give them the ability to move objects with their mind, levitate, heal and much more. QiGong is a very old martial art that is known for developing these magical abilities in the practitioner. Perhaps Jesus spent time in the Far East. No one really knows for sure but it seems rather plausible to assume Jesus learned his ability to work miracles from some where instead of being born with these abilities.

Did Jesus use a wand to perform his miracles?

Many years ago it was popular to see a stage magician/illusionist use a wand to tap on the edge of his top hat to pull a rabbit out. Where did they get the idea of using a wand?

Before I answer these questions it is necessary to look at the Egyptian god Osiris. Most of us understand Osiris to be a human-like being, and that is one way he was seen in the paintings found in Egypt. But according to William Henry, Osiris is also shown as a Pillar, a Device or even the World Tree. In other words, Osiris is an apparatus used by the ancient Egyptians.

The Osiris device was a mechanism and a symbol for a whole host of sciences. The Egyptians called Osiris a ladder or stairway to heaven. The interesting thing to note here is the pharaoh served food to Osiris as a sacrifice. However, this sacrifice never included blood, animals, or humans making the Osiris completely peaceful.

Babylonian text describes the temples not as places of worship but places where humans served the gods. However, there was a catch to bringing food to the gods. Any human serving the gods food were required to be purified. So the gods selected certain individuals and taught them how to be purify themselves. In alchemy this is called the Great Work or Magnus Opus. Anyone purifying themselves in this way became gods themselves. Knowing this information, it is most likely that Enoch, Ezekiel, Elijah, John the Baptist, Mary Magdelene and Jesus all studied this work.

The way these gods knew a person was not doing the “work” was the person would show signs of age like gray hair and wrinkles. In other words, those who worked for the gods were able to transform their bodies into god-like beings.

The Egyptian word Ta-wer was used to describe the Osiris and it means the bond between heaven and earth. In Sumerian the word Dur an ki meant the bond between heaven and earth. Zecharia Sitchin explains that the Dur an ki was a tower built on the artificially raised platform atop Jerusalem’s Mount Moriah before Solomon’s Temple built. The Dur an ki was constructed by ancient beings known as the Shining Ones, the Enlightened Ones, the Ananaki and Sitchin believes the tower was an antenna or possibly a conductor of energy because it was lined with gold. The tower might also have been used to conceal something inside.

So back to Jesus using a wand. In early Christian paintings and sacophagi, Jesus is shown with short curly hair, clean shaven, and a wand in his hand. This wand was said to be a branch from the Tree of Life (the Osiris device). “Just as a branch from the Tree of Life was kept before the Ark, He will set the rod of light before Himself on the Throne of God, where the Tree of Life had grown in the Garden of Eden.”

After the Church council met in 400 AD they decided to have all pictures depicting Jesus to depict him with beard, long hair, and no wand. It just seems that after this time you no longer work for the gods but now worship a god in a master/slave relationship. You can aspire to be like god but you will never be equal to god.

So why did they take Jesus’ wand away? Well, like William Henry says, “You can’t have a planet full of Christ like beings running around because they don’t pay taxes and they’re completely unmanageable.” Jesus set an example of how powerful we humans are. The church seems to want to keep us from that power calling it evil or of the devil.

The rod or wand seems to have something to do with the Osiris device; perhaps it was a way to tap into the Osiris and channel its power. Do we need the Osiris to make a wand work for us? According to William Henry it seems our bodies, with our chakra system, may well be the Osiris or perhaps our bodies are capable of tapping into the Osiris. I also know that medieval grimoires show drawings tools to be used in the conjuring of demons and the wand is among them.

Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher, Clairvoyant who lives in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to Aurora Dawn.

The Osiris Device

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:35:00 -0500

I was watching a DVD entitled The Lost Secrets of Jesus, by William Henry. I have to say it was one of those DVDs that really blew my mind. The information William had revealed was about Osiris being a device used to activate and safely use a wormhole. William shows pictures of what looks like the gods traversing the stars using wormholes as a means for getting around.

In this picture we see the Osiris in a boat and these boats are symbol of a vehicle used to travel to the stars.

Notice the ends of the boat.

This next picture is a graphical depiction of a wormhole as Stephen Hawking sees it. See any similarities?

The many paintings show pictures of these gods traveling this way and even showing us how to do the same.

To read more about this topic go to www.aurora-dawn.com/ablog.

Working On Latest Article

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:10:00 -0500

I've just finished the article, "Did Jesus Use A Wand?" and I'm really excited! This will be the first article for the new Aurora Dawn newsletter and I think it'll be a good kick off topic.

I spent my teenage years learning and living the Christian life. I spent hours in bible studies and week long Christian seminars learning everything I could to live the good Christian life. I was taught to be an evangelical, fundamental Christian because that's what the bible tells us we have to do.

But what if what we thought was the truth was actually contrived by men in 400 AD seeking to control the people. For good or for ill, making people believe they are powerless and can never be equal to God does a tremendous dis-service to humankind.

It is my sincere hope to shed some light on this subject in my newsletter.

New Aurora Dawn Newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:32:00 -0500

Aurora Dawn,LLC is making HUGE changes in an effort to offer highly valuable information not readily available in the personal development and self improvemnet world. These newsletters will have articles dealing with the paranormal and the supernatural as it pertains to ways of accelerating spiritual healing and evolution. Many secrets will be revealed here.

Much of the information for these articles will come from my own research of some very powerful teachers and my own personal experiences. I will also be reviewing the many self improvement/personal development audio/video/literature systems and post my results. It's always nice to know more about the effectiveness of these systems before spending hundreds of dollars on them.

My main goal here is to find the fastest and easiest way to accelerate the spiritual evolution of everyone on the planet. I hope you will find the information here as useful as I have.

What's My Purpose in Life?

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:08:00 -0600

I've had people come up to me and ask me how they can find out what their purpose is in life. I ask them what they are interested in and what they like to do. More times than not I hear, "I don't know."

What I've found is people spend so much time practically obsessing about what they don't like in their life that they can't tell what they want out of life. Essentially they have given up their dreams and aspirations to focus all of their attention on all that is not right and makes them feel unhappy.

No amount of time obsessing about a problem is going to solve the problem. It's important to identify the problem so it can be corrected, but once it is identified, correct it and move on.

Well, there in lies the proverbial rub. How to fix the problems in our unhappy lives. Most people don't know how to fix the problems so they obsess about them which only continues the cycle of unhappiness.

I have spent over 10 years trying to learn how to identify and resolve my own causes of unhappiness only to be very disappointed. I tried many different techniques such as subliminals, self hypnosis, paraliminal, positive affirmations, visualizations, and much more. I couldn't get any of it to work for me. I had read in a few places that it was necessary to change the beliefs that were blocking what I wanted to create in my life. The problem is that they told me the way to get rid of these beliefs was to use positive affirmations, self hypnosis, subliminals, visualizations etc that all hadn't work for me.

I finally found something that worked and it's called the Self-mastery Program. The Self-mastery Program taught me how to surface and replace my old negative beliefs with positive beliefs and I've been very happy ever since!

Love Is...

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:35:00 -0600

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that
you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."

~Wayne Dyer

One of the most profound lessons I have learned during my present journey upon this earth is how to emotionally nurture myself. When we were children we believed that our parents provided all the emotional nurturing we needed. Then as we grow into adulthood, we are not taught how to nurture our own emotionally needs so we continue to look for it outside of ourselves. So we look to our spouse/significant other and intimate friends to nurture our emotional needs so we can feel safe, sane and secure.

But what happens when your spouse is home late and didn't call you.....again! What if he/she is nagging you about your less than perfect behavior. When those we expect to provide for our own emotional needs fall short, we think, "He/She must change so I can be happy." "If you would straighten up your attitude then I can be happy." "If you would just call to tell me you're going to be late then I can be happy."

Do you really want your happiness to be dependent on another person's actions and behavior? Instead learn to nurture your own emotional needs so no one will have to be, do, or say anything so you can be happy.

Living With An Enlightened Person

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:08:00 -0500

By Eckhart Tolle

It is not easy to live with an enlightened person because the ego finds it extremely threatening. If your partner, friend or family member is still mostly identified with their mind, this will represent a major challenge — not to you, but to your partner.

Remember that the ego needs problems, conflict, and "enemies" to strengthen the sense of separateness on which its identity depends for survival.

The unenlightened person’s mind will be deeply frustrated because its fixed positions are not resisted by the enlightened person. The ego demands feedback and not getting it, it will manifest arguments, drama, and conflict.

Beware because unenlightened people who are cut off from their feelings may try to convince you that they are enlightened or at least that there is "nothing wrong" with them and that there is something wrong with you.

Men tend to do this more than women. They often see their female partners as irrational or too emotional. But if you can feel your healing feelings, you are never far away from the truth of what is.

Life is so Amazing!

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:00:00 -0500

I have just completed the Self-mastery program and now I'm getting ready to teach it. This little program has done some amazing things for me.

Many years ago I decided I needed to forgive everyone who had hurt me in my life. So I spent countless hours bringing up all the situations I could remember where my peole had hurt me and I forgave them. I acknowledged the fact that they were only doing the best that could with the level of awareness they had. They really could not do any better. I forgave them and I felt good about myself.

However, later in life I found myself really struggling with my life. I felt discouraged because I was unable to build my business and create a sustainable living from it. It was very frustrating because there were things I knew I needed to do but I just couldn't get myself to do those things. It was like there was an invisible barrier blocking me at every turn.

I have been through enough training to know that what I think creates my reality so I tried very hard to hold on to the positive feeling and thoughts of what I wanted to create. It was very difficult and I could only hold it for a few days before I would give up. I found myself wondering why I couldn't make what I want happen but instead I was creating what I didn't want. I found myself in tears asking, "Why is this happening to me," and "Why can't I break through this?"

Now I understand what was happening and now I have the power to create and manifest the life I want, effortlessly (meaning without struggle). What I found out was that forgiving was only part of the healing process. I still had fear beliefs and fear identities that I needed to heal. These were the things that made up the invisible barrier that I was experiencing.

If you or anyone you know is interested in learning more about the Self-mastery program, feel free to contact me. I'll be taking new clients in July at a very low introductory fee. I will be putting additional information on my website in the near future.

TO FREEDOM!

Wanna lose weight then meditate.

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:58:00 -0600

Meditation has many benefits besides just making you feel relaxed. It can lower your blood pressure, give you a break from the busy chatter in your head, boosts the immune system, helps to overcome depression, and much much more.

I found an article today on meditation that explains how this simple practice can actually help you loose weight. When your body is under stress the adrenals go into overtime releasing cortosal in the body that causes the body to hold on to fat for emergency fuel. Breathing deeply and meditating can help your body avoid stress therefore avoid the fat collecting signal from the release of cortosal.

Now the article suggests breathing in to a count of 10 seconds then holding the breath for 10 seconds then exhale to a count of 10 seconds. Unless you are adept at this breathing, you may find 10 seconds to be a little on the long side. Never force your breath or this will cause disturbance in the body. Instead try adjusting the count to one that suits your individual breathing capacity. In my yoga class I usually have them inhale to a count of 7 seconds (or 7 heart beats), then hold for 7 and then exhale to 7. So experiment and find what count works best for you.

Read the article.

More Benefits from Meditation

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:26:00 -0600

We all know the peace and stress relieving benefits of meditation. Now there may be scientific evidence of physical change in the body from a regular meditation practice. Scientists have found that those who "meditated regularly had increased thickness in a region called the insula, central to integrating thoughts and emotions." This could explain how stress is released as a result of meditating.

Here's another quote from the article: "Most of the increased thickening was in the right hemisphere, in the prefrontal cortex, which sustains attention and regulates memory. Those areas generally thin as people age, so one hypothesis is that meditation might slow age-related brain loss. Three of the 20 meditators practiced yoga in addition to meditation and had even greater increases in brain thickness."

I personally have found meditation to be the most important tool for improving my life mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Meditation is something every human should practice regardless of the spiritual path they may be travelling.

Read the entire article
Thanks goes to my mom for sending me this article.

The Devil Inside - Get to Know Your Shadow Self

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:05:00 -0600

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.— Dr. Carl G. Jung

We go through life blaming others for our suffering and unhappiness when in reality we create our own unhappiness. We are our greatest obstacle to our own happiness and well-being. We would rather walk around with a fake smile while wearing rose colored glasses and live in quiet desperation rather than face the source of our darkest fears...the "Shadow."

It is so much easier to blame than be responsible, at least that's what your Shadow would lead you to believe. When you blame someone else for your suffering and unhappiness you relinquish your power to do anything about it. You are forever under the control of other people and circumstances because you choose to blame and give your authority away. The Shadow sabotages your relationships, jobs, and denies your spirit by keeping you from realizing your destiny and your dreams. As long as you continue to sweep the Shadow under the rug, bury and repress it, the Shadow will remain a powerful force in your life because you lose your power to choose. When you don't have the power to choose your own response to a particular situation, your Shadow chooses it for you.

The Shadow is everything you deny to be you. Carl Jung defined the Shadow Self as "that which we think we are not." In your journey back to your Self, that which you think you are not must be embraced and integrated. It may be your belief that you are not like your coworker who is such a negative person with less than perfect behavior, something you deny having within your own character. The very fact that you are disturbed and agitated about your coworker's less than perfect behavior is proof that the same behavior lurks within your Shadow Self. If these things were not in you to begin with then seeing them in your coworker would not trigger your emotions. The Shadow shows itself through your projection of judgements on others. What you don't own about yourself you project onto other people. Terrified of being discovered, the Shadow disowns the less than perfect behavior and uses judgement of others to protect itself, but this only prevents self-realization. When you don't own an aspect of your life... it controls your life.

The Shadow is the place where your dark impulses originate and hold you back, make you fearful and keep you feeling inadequate. It stifles your passion and limits your ability to be creative. You know these forces as fear and anxiety. You chalk them up to insecurity or a personal inadequacy and try to live with them as best you can. When you try to uncover the truth of what is really holding you back, you find yourself up against a great deal of fear and resistance. You struggle and hobble along trying to break through an invisible barrier but never seem to get very far. It doesn't have to be that way.

Love is....

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:22:00 -0600

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
Wayne Dyer

DuPont Hid Chemical Risk Studies

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:13:00 -0600

JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Nov 16, 2005 — DuPont Co. hid studies showing the risks of a Teflon-related chemical used to line candy wrappers, pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags and hundreds of other food containers, according to internal company documents and a former employee.
The chemical Zonyl can rub off the liner and get into food. Once in a person's body, it can break down into perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts, known as PFOA, a related chemical used in the making of Teflon-coated cookware.
Read more: ABC News

True Prosperity

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:36:00 -0600

There was a man who appeared to be ragged and financially destitue. He came upon a road boss and he said, "I need work." The road boss said, "Go over there and roll that big stone up and down the hill, and that will fulfill your need." The ragged man responded, "You don't understand. What I really need is money." The road boss said, "You didn't say that. If it is only money you need, here is $50, but you can't spend it." Again, the man was confused. "What I truly need is food, fuel and clothing, not just money." The boss responded, "Again you didn't say that. If you truly need these things, take the money and spend it on food, fuel and clothing, but don't eat the food, nor burn the fuel, nor wear the clothing..." Because of the road boss, the man was forced to look at what he really needed, which was a sense of security, a sense of inner satisfaction. These are all invisible; all are within the mind and made of a divine substance.
-Self-mastery manual

When you break it all down, it wasn't work that he needed, nor was it the money or even the things money can buy. It has something to do with an inner sense of fulfillment, of satisfaction, of being taken care of. It is the ability to be able to manifest all of those things in your life, with or without money or food or fuel or whatever. What you think you need and what you truly need are often very different things. Prosperity is in the now. It is in your mind and in your thoughts. You'll never find it in material things. The only thing you'll find in the material world of things is a need for more material things.

Aurora Dawn

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:48:00 -0600

My website Aurora Dawn is back up. It's small with little content but we're working hard to make improvements. My friend Holly is my webmaster (thank the gods she knows what she's doing because I certainly don't).

Currently, I have a lot of content written about yoga that is waiting for Holly to upload. She's been very busy lately with redesigning my class schedule. I plan to add information, in the future, about Reiki and about the Self-mastery program that I am just ga-ga over. That will come in time.

Life is good!

Lessons from Katrina...My View

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:49:00 -0500

Since some people couldn't see the forest for the trees, I've deleted the article and everything else (I've removed the trees). I just can't seem to get my point across clear enough.

Response from Senator Harkin

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:05:00 -0500

October 11, 2005

Ms. Dawn Ziemer

Thank you for contacting me. I am always glad to hear from you. Organic agriculture is an important industry to the state of Iowa. Currently, Iowa has roughly 100,000 acres dedicated to this type of production. The number of producers making the transition into organic agriculture in Iowa is increasing rapidly, which also mirrors the national trend.

It is important to me that organic standards remain strong to ensure an even playing field across the entire organic industry. Earlier this year,the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that some of USDA's ruleswere inconsistent with the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. This will require USDA to issue new rules for synthetic ingredients and feed requirements for dairy cattle. The organic community has differing opinions on how to respond to this case, which has caused some contention and concern across the industry. There was a legislative proposal that would respond to the Harvey case, but many in the organic community felt that there should be more time among stakeholders to reach a consensus. This proposal was not included in the fiscal year 2006 Senate agriculture appropriations bill. It is my hope that common ground can be reached on this issue within the organic community in the near future.

Your views on the Harvey case are helpful to me. The many letters, emails and phone calls I get from Iowans each day helps me keep track of what issues matter most to Iowa and often alert me to problems or issues that deserve closer attention. That helps me better do my job of serving Iowa.

I will continue to do whatever necessary to strengthen the organic industry and work to protect the National Organic Program. If you have any questions or concerns about this or any other matter, please don'thesitate to write or contact my office.

Again, thanks for sharing your views with me. Please don't hesitate tolet me know how you feel on any issue that concerns you.

Sincerely,

Tom Harkin
United States Senator

TH/

Please do not reply to this email. To contact me, please log on to mywebsite at http://harkin.senate.gov/.

Organic Standards at Risk of Compromise

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:27:00 -0500

I guess it boils down to our priorities. I ask myself, "do I want to have a few extra bucks in my pocket or would I rather know that I can really trust my food to be truly organic and healthy for me?" I don't think we value health very much in this country as it is. Just look at the ads for medication these days. We would rather take a pill and risk all the nasty side-effects than change our diet and exercise. Most of the diseases are preventable and even reversable with the proper nutrition, exercise, and nutritional/herbal therapies. Sometimes it does require some spiritual help as well but it sure beats having to take some crappy medication that is synthetic and often times does as much harm as good.

Why are we always looking for the profit-over-values in our society? Just look at our cars over the past few years. Either I've gotten smaller or they've gotten bigger. I keep hearing people say, "I need this huge, gas guzzling, behemoth vehicle because I have two kids." Like the back seat of a four-door passenger car doesn't have room for two children.

Then there are the oil and car companies, who I swear are in cohoots with each other. I just recently attended an alternative fuel expo in Cedar Rapids where people were talking about extremely fuel efficient gasoline engine cars that could get well over 80 miles per gallon. The technology for these extremely fuel efficient cars have been around for 30+ years.

MONEY'S KING BABY!

So, back to the subject. Sorry for the rambling but it all seems to fit somehow. I recently sent an e-mail petition to my senator and congressmen letting them know how I feel about the standards for organic certification. It makes me sad to know that they want to allow human sludge (you know how toxic people are with all their medications and stuff), genetically engineered (they honestly don't know the long term effects of this) and irradiation (which means using radiation on my food) and not put it on the label anywhere.

I have one question. DO THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE? Why don't they want us to know?

Read more about this at http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/

The petition can be found on http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=27854

Money Money Money....

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:39:00 -0500

We really do live in the land of opportunity but most of us live pay-check-to-pay-check. Why is that? Is it a lack of education? To some extent I think it is but that's not the real problem. For example: If you take a person who is always broke and give them a million dollars, would that person be broke again in a year to two years? I would say a resounding YES. Why is that?

Just looking at my own experience I can tell you that even though I got the big income and the financial education, money was still illusive. I tried very hard to follow the plan but I could never increase my streams of income on a consistent level. It was like there was a thermostat control that would return my income stream back to the level it was before, which was just making ends meet.

In 2003 I wrote a business plan that I KNEW was going to be successful. Part of the plan was to hire a mentor. How could I go wrong with a mentor supporting me every step along the way? Well, failed it did and miserably. I was so deep in debt that it really scared me. For the first time in my life I could not pay my bills. The funny thing was I really believed in this plan and could FEEL the success. This was it!!! This was the plan that was going to make my "ship come in."

All the while I was working my plan along with my mentor I was battling what seemed like a wall of resistance. I really wanted to do the work but I felt this incredible force holding me back. It was the weirdest feeling in the world and it wouldn't be until 2005 before I could find out what this mysterious barrier was.

I started a program in the Spring of 2005 called Self-mastery Program. This program was a definite eye-opener and cleared away the fog. You know, if you can't define the problem, you can't find a solution. Well the Self-mastery program taught me how to define the problem. I discovered the thing behind the thing, behind the thing, behind the thing that was causing the invisible barrier.

I have studied the many self improvement greats such as Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, and so on. There is much to be gained by following their teachings but it really did not provide me the tools and insight for uncovering my unconscious beliefs. Affirmations I found would only re-affirm the negative. I would affirm that I had more money than I needed while my mind affirmed that I really didn't have enough money. It's more than uncovering your money beliefs, though, because that's only part of the problem. Uncovering the fact that your parents made negative comments about money did and does affect you. But there's more to the equation than that.

When we are children we developed our beliefs based on what we believed we needed to do to be safe. If that belief said that you had to withdraw emotionally to be safe instead of express your emotions, then you may end up in close relationships where you do not believe you are safe to express your emotions. You're an adult now and don't have to protect yourself like you did when you were a child. Children are vulnerable because they are not powerful enough to stand up for themselves in defense of their boundaries.

I could go on forever but I'm going to stop for now. Anyone reading this who wants to know more can contact me.

Karuna Reiki

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:47:00 -0500

Curiousity got the best of me. I took a Karuna Reiki I class yesterday and thought I would share my thoughts. It is definitely different energy than Usui's traditional Reiki system. It swirls every where and it's really near impossible to direct. It is also very intense and by the time I got home, I was ready for a nap. Usui's system has never made me feel tired so I am very curious about this.

I will say that before the class started I did feel and see a large swirl of energy all around me and I heard a voice say, "We are here." I told the teacher and she explained that Karuna is a feminine energy and it swirls and that the Usui Reiki energy is masculine and is a direct flow.

The teacher said that Karuna is more expansive and is a bigger part of the Universal Life Force Energy but I don't think I agree with that. Perhaps my mind will change after I take the next two classes but right now I feel it is just a different part of the Universal Life Force energy.

I did connect with Merlin during the attunement process and I've never connected with him before. Merlin (St. Germain) is one of the ascended masters that interacts with Karuna Reiki. The others are Mother Mary, Jesus, Kuan Yin, the laughing Buddha, Archangel Gabriel and Michael along with other angels. She said the list was not limited to the above ascended masters and angels but those are the main ones.

Karuna Reiki is not meant to replace Usui's system but to enhance it. The symbols have a very wide variety of uses for each one and the uses for each aren't necessarily connected.

The four symbols I learned yesterday are to be done in sequence at the start of a session and then Usui's symbols are drawn after. She meantioned that there are times when the Karuna symbols can be used at other times and can be used independently of the others and not necessarily in order. Sounds very feminine to me with no hard and fast rules.

Anyway, that's my assessment so far.

Book Review - Journey of Souls

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:02:00 -0500

What a phenomenal book! The book is about what happens to us in between lives. It was written by a hypnotherapist that specialized in past life regression. Then one day he accidently regressed one of his clients into the place between lives. He continued to regress clients to this place and recorded his findings.

This book answered my question about soul mates. I often wondered if there was a special someone or if I should grow up and realize that we all are soul mates to each other. I suppose in the bigger picture we are all one and therefore soul mates are just a fantasy. But in this book we find that we often choose a soul to mate with while on this earth and that we are given triggers to remember so we can recognize each other. And there are other souls that we agree to meet with for the purpose of growth.

Another question I had was whether we chose our blood line and/or body. This book explains that we do look over different situations and bodies that we can be born into and make our decision based on what it is we intend to learn. We can arrange for certain bodily difficulties to challenge us in particular ways.

This really is a fascinating book that will answer a lot of questions but it also sparked a lot of questions as well. For one I have wondered what happens to animals when they die. I know they have souls because I have seen the spirit of my neighbor's cat moving about in my home. My own cats saw it as well. Perhaps the answer is in the authors second book, Destiny of Souls.

Happy reading!

The Dreamer Awakes

noreply@blogger.com (My Illuminations) — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:45:00 -0500

Those who research quantum physics realize that we are dreamers here creating the world we call reality. Is it really real or just imagined. This is only the beginning as the dreamer gets her bearings on how the dream works.