Ruth and the Angels

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'"So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn

there's vultures and thieves at your back...
In the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here."

My Angel, My Friend

        I miss my friend Ruth.  She and her husband are globe trotters, and at times I lose track what country she's in at the moment.  Lately, I've really wanted some lightness in my life, and it's times like this when I hear my own spirit guides say to me, "Elisa, it's time to go get The Book."

Meditation in Prisons: The Dhamma Brothers & Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

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We exercise the body, we steal, we run.  

But no one taught us how to exercise the mind.

                                  --Inmate/Vipassana practitioner

        Below is a full-cut presentation of an award-winning documentary called, Dhamma Brothers, which chronicles a groundbreaking Vipassana meditation program created for a group of America prison inmates.

Click on this image for a link to Netflix to view the film:

For further information, visit:  

The Dhamma Brothers links page

Just Imagine...

        Please note:  This is not meant to be a pro-Obama plug on my part.  I like the message of the lyrics and the performance of the talented, young singer, so here it is. 

In the Words of Will: A Solution to America's Food Problem

by Will Allen

"My vision is to have this world [where] everybody 

has access to good food.  It's something we should 

always be working on, so my work [exists] to

help make that happen."    --Will Allen

The State of Food in America

        Over the past century, we allowed our agriculture to become more and more industrialized, more and more reliant on unsustainable practices, and much more distant from the source to the consumer. We have allowed corn and soybeans, grown on the finest farmland in the world, to become industrial commodities rather than foodstuffs. We have encouraged a system by which most of the green vegetables we eat come from a few hundred square miles of irrigated semi-desert in California.

Pratyahara, and Unplugging from Haters

         When Haters Are a Good Thing

       Once, a colleague of mine did a reading for this person.  As we talked afterward, I could really see this person's troubling energy dynamic, just as my reader friend saw it.  This person was bright, beautiful, and talented ...and inundated with haters.  I mean, you could see the vampiric energy taking bites all over this person's auric field, mainly from the solar plexus chakra area, the seat of our self-esteem energy.

Dreamworking: Introduction

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A Dragon in the Halls

Artist: chrysaetos-pteron

        Here's one good reason to pay attention to your dreams:

        I had a dream years ago that a hungry, 6-foot dragon was slithering throughout the halls of the business for which I had recently began working.  The strange thing was, I was seeing through its eyes as it walked.  I was looking for "more," as though trying to feed a raging addiction of some sort.  I could feel this addictive need surging through my body.