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The Medicine Within YOU—Personal and Planetary Healing is the theme for this year’s annual New Year’s Conference held at the international headquarters of Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Va. This conference invites participants to rediscover the path of beauty that was once known to all our ancestors. Speakers include Ken “Bear Hawk” Cohen, author of Honoring the Medicine, who shares Native American sacred Earth teachings,  Mark Thurston, PhD, Judith Stevens, Henry Reed, PhD, and Peter Woodbury—all will explore personal and global transformation, living in harmony with the natural world and healing bodies, souls, and the planet.

Kenneth “Bear Hawk” Cohen, a health educator and practitioner of indigenous medicine, has trained with Native American and other indigenous elders for more than thirty years. His work is strongly endorsed by his adoptive Cree Indian family and elders from several nations. He was an apprentice to Rolling Thunder, Keetoowah, and other noted North American Indian medicine people and is a member of several medicine societies. In 2003, Ken won the leading international award in energy medicine, the Alyce and Elmer Green Award for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement.

Mark Thurston, PHD, is an educator, psychologist, and author of nineteen books about personal spirituality. He worked with the A.R.E. and Atlantic University from 1973 through 2008, and is a cofounder and course leader for the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute. Mark is now senior fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Consciousness and Transformation, in suburban Washington, D.C., where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on consciousness, meaning, and conflict transformation.

Judith Stevens, a former A.R.E. staff member who served as manager of the worldwide Search for God Study Group Program and originated A.R.E.’s Prison Outreach Program, has studied the Cayce readings for more than forty years and is the author of the forthcoming book Edgar Cayce’s Tools for Abundance. She will lead the New Year’s Eve meditation. Henry Reed, PhD, Director of the Edgar Cayce Institute of Intuitive Studies, is a visionary psychologist who has, for more than forty years, used his dreams and visions to create extraordinary experiences for others. Peter Woodbury, MSW, a Harvard University graduate and psychotherapist who focuses on the use of spirituality and faith as tools for transformation, is a popular A.R.E. tour leader and speaker on the Edgar Cayce perspective.

Ellen Cayce, who served on A.R.E.’s staff for fifteen years, will lead a special morning World Peace Meditation that has been celebrated every New Year’s Eve at A.R.E. for more than twenty years. Patrick Belisle, director of A.R.E.’s Office of Development and a longtime student and teacher of the Cayce material, will help you find your own path through joyful service to others.

Celebrate 2010 with an exciting New Year’s celebration featuring music, dancing, fellowship, food, and fun, followed by a peaceful midnight meditation to usher in the New Year. Special thanks to The Heritage Store for underwriting our New Year’s celebration.

Open to all, The Medicine Within YOU—Personal and Planetary Healing is scheduled for December 28-31, at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Admission is $255, with special pricing for a single day or single presentations. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this conference are approved by IACET and provided by Atlantic University. The conference is approved for up to 15.58 contact hours or 1.56 academic CEUs. For more information or to register, contact the A.R.E. conference registrars at 757-428-3588, ext. 7401, or go to EdgarCayce.org/conferences.

Held concurrently with the adult conference, there is also a youth track for this event. Teens, ages 13 to 17, are invited to attend Where Are YOU in the World? at the special tuition rate of $250 which also includes food and lodging. A residential program entitled The Cayce Principles: Inside and Out is open to young adults between the ages 18 and 25. Tuition of $250 includes food and lodging for four nights. Finally, a special $45 children’s one-day program, Making My Mark in the World, is open to kids ages 5 to 12.

More about the A.R.E…
Edgar Cayce founded the non-profit Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in 1931, to explore spirituality, holistic health, intuition, dream interpretation, psychic development, reincarnation, and ancient mysteries—all subjects that frequently came up in the more than 14,000 documented psychic readings given by Cayce, who died in 1945. The mission of A.R.E. is simply to help people around the world change their lives for the better through the ideas and information found in the readings. The Virginia Beach headquarters is a popular site for locals and tourists with free daily lectures, a Health Center and Spa, the Cayce/Reilly® School of Massotherapy, an extensive metaphysical library, a meditation garden, a stone labyrinth, and a bookstore and gift shop. Visitors from around the world come to our conferences to hear expert speakers on subjects like ancient mysteries, holistic health, and spiritual development. A.R.E. also maintains an affiliation with Atlantic University. Through its many programs, services, publications, and membership outreach, Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. provides individuals from all walks of life and a variety of religious backgrounds with tools for personal transformation and healing at all levels—body, mind, and spirit. For more information about Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., please visit EdgarCayce.org.

From the time I was very young, I have been blessed with seeing auras. Although I didn’t know what they were called at first, I could see energies of diaphanous colors and hues around people, animals, plants, and even inanimate objects. When I was a teenager, I made the unmistakable connection between the aura and health. So began one of the most beautiful times in my life as I learned the art of spiritual healing with Divine Light.

The aura is a vibratory essence that surrounds all living things. It is your spiritual support system in all you do, your energy blueprint that shows how you’re using God’s infinite spiritual power. The aura is essential to healing because it is the first place you generate health.  There is a whole division of the aura dedicated to physical well-being. This health division shows itself in several ways. For example, the organs of the body each have their own aura. When healthy, the lungs and heart have blue auras, the liver usually has a red-orange aura, the stomach a pink aura, and the brain has a green aura. Even the cells of our body have an aura, a tiny, bright silver aura, revealing their inherent intelligence!

When we become ill, the aura becomes discolored. The primary color of illness is gray. Gray indicates a devitalization of spiritual power in the affected area in the body.  Our thoughts and emotions play an important part in effective healing and in maintaining health. It has been my clairvoyant experience that 50 to 75 percent of our ills are of our own making! Without our realizing it, destructive thinking and feeling can create an environment in which disease and physical distress can grow into the most terrible of conditions.

Fortunately, your aura is working for you constantly to build and maintain health, whether you are aware of it or not. Yet when you work in conscious cooperation with your aura, its effectiveness is greatly multiplied. I have seen many wonderful testaments to the power of spiritual healing, from Divine Light helping to alleviate a headache to its helping dissolve malignant tumors. You will find that by working with your aura and spiritual energy, you have discovered the single greatest key to building and sustaining health, and you are discovering the secret to healthy living in all departments of your life and are drawing yourself closer to your divine source.  Copyright © 2006-2009 by Barbara Y. Martin, Dimitri Moraitis

More about Barbara Martin…

Barbara Y. Martin is an internationally renowned clairvoyant, author and spiritual teacher. Her new book The Healing Power of Your Aura is the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award. She teaches classes on how to develop your aura and spiritual nature through her nonprofit organization Spiritual Arts Institute. Read Barbara’s Aura Blog at:  www.aurablog.org with more info available at: www.spiritualarts.org

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I am often contacted by people who are beating themselves up because they have not progressed on the healing and growth paths as quickly as they should. They ’should’ on themselves time and time again, frustrated by their inability to embody their highest vision for themselves after only a few years, or even months, of determined effort.

The personal journey I wrote about in Soulshaping took me six years to write and forty five years to live. From the moment I began my first wave of psychotherapy to the completion of the book was almost twenty years. And, still at the end of all that determined and genuine effort, I still have a workaholic tendency, and a very deep abandonment wound that seems impossible to shake. It seems I am not going to heal it all in this lifetime. (Yes, the ladder to heaven is made from broken rungs…)

This blog is a call to patience. Not the kind of patience that keeps us asleep (there are times when we need a karmic kick in the ass), but the kind that is compassionate and sees our efforts to expand in a broader context. When my Grandfather would see me fail, he would see me with Grandpa eyes. He would tell me that he loved me and always remind me that those things I was attempting were not even available to him when he was young. He focused on the wonder of my opportunity, the beauty of progress, rather than the simplistic question of success or failure. He recognized how extraordinary it was that I was even able to consider a quest for my ‘true-path’, only decades after he would have taken ANY path that paid the bills. This was a valuable teaching, and served me often when I developed inhuman expectations for myself. He taught me the meaning of context.

Given that most of the world is still vibrating around survivalism, the simple fact that we have formed the intention to transform our consciousness is already courageous. When we actually make a leap of fate and set out for soulful waters, we have truly embarked on a heroic journey.

And, at the same time, lets not expect too much, too fast. Even when the world around us doesn’t impede our progress, the processes of inner change will. Despite our best efforts, our defenses will arise to protect us from the unknown. After all, the collective unconscious is still gripping at the root. And at other times we will turn back to familiar harbors to ground and protect us. The fall back to habitual ways is a natural part of the journey home. Like turtles we stick our heads out until it becomes uncomfortable and then we retreat to the safety and familiarity of our shell. The time we spend under the shell can be just what we need to weave new experiences into our usual ways of being. So long as we persist in sticking our head back out a little further each time, we continue to grow: Three steps forward, two steps back is progress…

And we must also remember that REAL change takes time. TIME. Although the external world changes rapidly, the inner world moves slowly, cautiously. For example, shifting a deeply embedded pattern requires lots of soulitude and real time inside- time to feel into the pattern and identify its source, time to move the feelings and let them go, time to sit in the place of not knowing until the next way of being emerges. TIME. You can have all the peak (peek) experiences you want but the real work happens between the peaks, while laying down and integrating on the valley floor. TIME.

I remember a beautiful moment with my Grandmother before she died. She had often resisted my need to look at the past and deal with my family baggage. It probably brought up too much of her own unresolved material. She often told me that I was involved in the process for too many years-’Get on with it, Jeffrey’. But, one day, we got to talking about the progress I had made healing my heart through years of psychotherapy. She looked me in the face and said ‘You weren’t just doing this for you Jeffrey. You were also doing it for me. I couldn’t look at these things in the world I lived in. You’re healing my pain, too.’ And that said it all. Every time-consuming step I took beyond the defenses and parameters of the mundane world, actually took my whole soul pod to the next level. All the more reason to take it slow. All the more reason to get it right.

I think that we sometimes forget that we are some of the first generations to consider the possibility that how we feel inside matters more than how things look outside, to entertain the idea that there is something more to this life than survival and protection. The very fact that we are trying to heal our hearts in a world where so many have had to bury their hurt is already extraordinary. It may not seem like such a big deal, but when the energy has been moving in another direction for so many generations, it is quite a challenge to turn the tide. We are breaking new inner ground, after all. Recognizing this should translate into giving ourselves a break when we can’t quite get it perfect.

The Soulshaping journey is life-long and lives long. We come into each lifetime with what James Hilman called an ‘innate image’- an image of who we are here to become in this lifetime. That image represents the next step in our soul’s march toward wholeness. But it is only the next step. It is not EVERY step. Most of us will be back for another round. So let’s see ourselves through Grandpa eyes, and breathe…

More About Jeff Brown…

Jeff Brown, LL.B., M.A. (Psych.) is a former lawyer and body-centered psychotherapist. He has been a successful businessman for over twenty years. He lives in Toronto where he is actively searching for wheels for the Soulshaping bus tour, a spirited adventure across North America with his gaggle of soul-friends, heaven bent on inviting more people to raise the flag of little voice to the rafters of consciousness. In his spare time, he is also co-producing a film about his relationship with Bhagavan Das, of Be Here Now fame. Included in the film are poignant interviews with Ram Dass, Yogi’s David Life and Seane Corn, and Chanters Robert Gass and Deva Premal.

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