New Class! Developing Your Psychic Abilities

I am very pleased and proud to announce that I am now offering a course in Developing Your Psychic Abilities. We are all born with psychic abilities, but we are taught to varying degrees to ignore the information we receive through them. This course gently reacquaints you with your innate abilities and teaches you ways in which to use them productively and with compassion and respect. The course is held entirely by email and on the Internet, making it much easier for you to fit it into your busy schedule.

In addition, because of its flexible design, you can start it at any time. You don’t have to wait until a certain date, but can instead start it right now. As soon as I receive your payment, I email you the first lesson. After that, the speed in which you complete each lesson is up to you.

What’s In It?

The course covers a lot of ground! It starts with several lessons on ethics, which have proven to be very popular with the people taking the course  so far. (I’ve even been asked to write an entire separate course that goes into the topic in more depth.)

It then proceeds to look at spirituality and religion and how they affect our psychic abilities, then review of the different types of psychic abilities there are and the kinds of tools psychics use, and then concludes with several lessons on getting in touch with and using your psychic abilities.

This course has many bonuses, including a free mini-reading for each lesson, plus access to several of the digital albums from the Wellspring channeling series. The mini-readings themselves are worth more than the price of the course!

Interested? You can find out more on this page, which describes the course more thoroughly.

Three Upcoming Channelings: Checking in with the Divine

I am happy to announce that I will be appearing at Crystal Chalice, a wonderful crystal shop in Fairfax, which is near Marin (north of San Francisco). Each channeling will be on or near the full moon in May, June, and July. My channelings on or near the full moon always have an extra element of strength and power, so I am happy to be doing these particular channelings. The overall theme is Checking in with the Divine. The channelings will be interrelated, although, as always, each one can be enjoyed individually. Continue reading

How To Save Money #9: Drop Your Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions

I once read that all newspapers and magazines made their money from their advertisers. The money they make from subscribers is a pittance compared to the amount rolling in from people who want to sell something to you. Next time you pick up one of your magazines or newspapers, take a look at just how much space is dedicated to advertising and not to actual content. And that advertising is insidious. It can lead you to think you must have Product X or Fashion Style Y, which in turn leads you to, yes, spend more money.

Think about it this way:  Most of what you are getting from your magazines or newspapers is available for free on the Internet, and you can more easily avoid advertising while you are at it. Yes, even (or maybe especially) that kind of material.

In addition, all those magazines and newspapers consume trees. Trees may be considered a renewable resource, but have you seen a forest that is being managed as a resource for wood as opposed to a forest that is being managed as, well, a forest? There is a huge difference. A forest being managed for the value of the trees as wood is not a stable habitat for wild plants and critters. We can’t yet completely avoid using paper, but each step we take to reduce our personal consumption of paper is another step taken toward a healthier, saner planet. Continue reading

How To Save Money #8: Borrow Books, Don’t Buy Them

Take a look around your home. How many books do you have that you read once, perhaps even enjoyed, but that you know you will never read again? Instead of buying books, use your local library or borrow books from friends.

Calm down, I don’t mean all books. There are some books that you will refer to, use, or re-read a number of times, and those are (probably) worth buying. These are most likely to be reference works or cookbooks, for example, though they could be fiction or other types of books as well.

But in my experience, the majority of books that people buy are read once, then never read again. If you take a look at Amazon.com, at the prices of used books for the most popular books (especially fiction), you will find that many of them have dozens, or even hundreds, of copies listed for a penny or just a few pennies. This is especially true of fiction. The reason so many books sell for pennies even when they sold for close to $30 when new is because there are far more copies than there are people who want them. People read them and then never read them again.

If you instead first borrow a book, either by checking it out from the library or borrowing it from a friend, then you save some trees, save your own dollars, and reduce the amount of bookshelf space you need. If you decide after you have read that book that you must have it, then first give yourself a cooling-off period. In this case, I recommend a full month. If, after a month, you still want the book, then go ahead and buy it, but consider buying it used, either from a local used bookstore or from Amazon.com.

In addition, as a way to make a little cash, consider selling some of your books at Amazon.com. Amazon has fees that will dig deep into the amount you sell your book for, but you can still make some money. You might even hit the jackpot and be able to sell some of your books for $40 or more.

How To Save Money #7: Eat Less Meat

While on the road to better eating, try having beans or other vegetable proteins instead of meat for some of your meals. Most Americans eat far more meat than they need, and the alternatives are very tasty and healthy.

Beans in particular are an under-appreciated protein source. They are low in fat and high in minerals and other nutrients (and fiber!), and they are delicious, nourishing, filling, and very low cost. A pound of beans, an onion, some celery, possibly a can of tomatoes, and some ordinary spices and seasonings can create a delicious meal for 6, and no one will walk away hungry. Make some homemade biscuits and you are in heaven.

Here’s one of my own original bean soup recipes and one of my favorite biscuit recipes (which I adapted from the “Mother’s Biscuits” recipe in Bernard Clayton’s New Complete Book Of Breads, hands down the best bread cookbook you will ever buy).

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How To Save Money #6: Drink Healthier Beverages

“Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.” (Quote possibly originating from Maela.)

Another way to save money in the food department is to take a look at what you are drinking and make some healthy adjustments. People in America drink way too many soft drinks, and soft drinks are nothing but flavored, carbonated water, usually sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (very bad for you), often with phosphoric acid, with caffeine thrown in just to add insult to injury. And don’t get me started on aspartame/NutraSweet/whatever they are changing its name to so you won’t know you are ingesting poison.

Instead, save yourself money and try something different. Water is great! If you can’t consume sugar because of diabetes or some similar difficulty, you are better off drinking water than drinking beverages with artificial sweeteners.

Or try tea. Remember when we were all told that tea was bad for us? Nutritionists and scientists have done a 180 on that one. Oh, and it doesn’t matter whether you like black or green tea—they both have great health benefits. Which makes sense, since they are all made from the same plant. Tea has no calories or sugar, but it tastes great and is very good for you. Continue reading

How To Save Money #5: Cook At Home

A great way to save money, improve your health, and possibly even lose weight is to cook at home rather than eating fast food or dining out. There are many excellent, delicious, and healthy meals you can make for very little money. Even if you don’t think you have many cooking skills, there are a lot of meals that are easy to make.

Yes, I know how much easier it is to go out and pay someone else to fix your food. But when money is tight, for the price of a fast food meal or a meal at even a moderately priced restaurant, you can buy enough food to fix several meals at home. Even if you can only cook simple meals, simple meals can be quite tasty. Continue reading

Seth on Healing Energies

Some years ago, I did a reading in which Seth came through very strongly, giving what he called “a short treatise on energy.” It was a very powerful channeling, and that portion of the reading was not specific to the person I was doing the reading for. (One might even think that Seth planned it that way.)

The person I was doing the reading for voluntarily said that if this information was of value to others, I had permission to type it up.  (Normally, I erase all readings after the readee gets his/her recording.) So I set the reading aside to transcribe just the non-personal information; however, the disks got filed away without me doing it. I recently started to clean up my office, and found the disks again. I’ve taken the time to listen to and transcribe the 25 minutes of non-personal information, and here it is. It could potentially be of interest to anyone, and is of particular value to people who are healers.

Seth’s “Short Treatise on Energy”

We’ll give you a short treatise on energy and its uses in the physical universe. Now, from your perspective, energy is not something that you see but instead something that you feel. Though there are those of the human race—the human population—who have the ability to see energy as it flows, as it ebbs, as it moves about, and to even associate colors, if you will, such as with people’s auras. There is a root existence of energy that is “energy as energy” and that is basically the source of all life. It is the source of every physical thing—everything. It is the source of rocks, it is the source of trees, it is the source of dirt, water, it is the source of animals and humans in their physical expression That energy is constantly flowing transforming dissolving from one form to another as life seeks its constant creative expression in the universe as you know it. Continue reading