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		<title>BANKING IMPLOSION: MASSIVE CEO RESIGNATIONS SWEEP GLOBE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jean at http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/banking-implosion-massive-ceo-resignations-sweep-globe/ Wasn’t Ben Fulford telling us to expect this to [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>Wasn’t Ben Fulford telling us to expect this  to happen? ~Jean</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://images.blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mushroom-Cloud.jpg"><img class="alignright" title="Mushroom Cloud" src="http://images.blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mushroom-Cloud.jpg" alt="Mushroom Cloud" width="378" height="432" /></a>If one didn’t know better, one would almost certainly think that  something huge was about to happen in the world of banking and finance.</p>
<p>Over the past few weeks, a slew of high-level resignations have occurred  around the world.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, <a title="World Bank" rel="homepage" href="http://www.worldbank.org/" target="_blank">World Bank</a> President Robert Zoellick said <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/02/15/world-bank-president-zoellick-resigns/" target="_blank">he would be stepping down</a>, raising the possibility that a  non-American might be selected to head the 187-nation lending organization for  the first time in history.</p>
<p>Zoellick, 58, informed the board he would depart on June 30 at the end of a  five-year term, during which he led the bank’s response to the global financial  crisis.</p>
<p>In addition to Zoellick:</p>
<p>- ANZ Bank CFO Peter Marriott announced that <a href="http://www.proformative.com/news/1470243/cfo-anz-bank-resigns-amid-turmoil" target="_blank">he would resign</a></p>
<p>- Nicaragua Central Bank President Antenor Rosales <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-14/nicaragua-central-bank-head-quits-amid-row.html" target="_blank">has resigned</a></p>
<p>- Credit Suisse chief Joseph Tan <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-17/credit-suisse-s-private-bank-chief-asian-economist-tan-resigns.html" target="_blank">resigned</a></p>
<p>- German President Christian Ruff <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102524/German-President-Christian-Wulff-forced-resign.html" target="_blank">has resigned</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Royal Bank of Scotland" rel="homepage" href="http://www.rbs.co.uk/" target="_blank">Royal Bank of Scotland</a>‘s Austrailian CEO Stephen Williams <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/andrew-chick-to-lead-royal-bank-of-scotlands-australian-arm/story-fnay3vxj-1226272513981" target="_blank">resigned</a></p>
<p>- Kuwait Central Bank CEO Sheik Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabah, a member of the  Gulf nation’s ruling family, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/kuwait-central-bank-chief-resigns-amid-political-tensions/2012/02/13/gIQAcxrOAR_story.html" target="_blank">has resigned</a></p>
<p>- The CEOs of Slovenia’s TWO top banks <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-15/slovenia-s-nova-kreditna-banka-maribor-ceo-plos-resigns.html" target="_blank">have both resigned</a>. Andrej Plos, the chief executive officer  of Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor, resigned, as did, Bozo Jasovic, the CEO of the  larger <a title="Nova Ljubljanska banka" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nlbgroup.si/" target="_blank">Nova Ljubljanska Banka</a>.</p>
<p>- Bank of India CEO Amitabh Chaturvedi <a href="http://www.livemint.com/2012/02/06160111/Dhanlaxmi-Bank-CEO-Amitabh-Cha.html" target="_blank">has resigned</a></p>
<p>- A. K. Jagannathan, chief executive at <a title="Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited" rel="homepage" href="http://www.tmb.in/" target="_blank">Tamilnad Mercantile Bank</a>, <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tamilnad-mercantile-bank-md-resigns/464259/" target="_blank">resigned</a></p>
<p>On top of all this, there is an unconfirmed rumor swirling about that,  despite his previous <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/lloyd-blankfein-goldman-s_n_858647.html?" target="_blank">statements to the contrary</a>, Goldman Sachs Chairman and Chief  Executive Lloyd Blankfein may be about to step down as well.</p>
<p>Is the Eurozone financial crisis to blame for this onslaught of resignations  or are  we instead seeing a sweeping regime change unfold with regard to who  controls the majority of the world’s finances?</p>
<p>One thing is for certain – something big is happening…a changing of the guard  of epic proportions.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out.</p>
<p>Grab some popcorn, this should be good.</p>
<p>Related Articles</p>
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<li>World Bank President Robert Zoellick to step down in June  (telegraph.co.uk)</li>
<li>Zoellick to leave World Bank in June (money.cnn.com)</li>
<li>World Bank President Zoellick Resigns (business.time.com)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/2012/02/15/gIQAzVRjFR_story.html" target="_blank">World Bank chief Robert Zoellick to step down in June – Washington  Post</a> (washingtonpost.com)</li>
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		<title>Debate on UFO Cover Up: Dr. John Alexander and Richard Dolan Moderated by Leslie Kean!</title>
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<p><strong>The UFO ‘Cover-Up’!   True or False? Debate on The Inception Radio Network; Dr. John Alexander and</strong><br />
<strong>Richard Dolan</strong></p>
<p>Moderated by Leslie Kean.</p>
<p>Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 at 7 &#8211; 10:30 PM Eastern</p>
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<p><strong>“2012 UFO ‘Cover-Up’ Debate”</strong></p>
<p>This debate will be moderated by the esteemed journalist Leslie Kean and contested by the respected researchers and authors, Dr. John Alexander and Richard Dolan.</p>
<p>Listeners will have a chance to listen in, call-in, participate, and decide which side made a better case for the widely discussed argument of whether the government plays a role in UFO investigations.</p>
<p>The show will be co-hosted by Michael Rambaucher and Chase Kloetzke of Project White Paper Radio and Warren and Jason of Truth Therorum Radio.</p>
<p>It will include a &#8220;pre-show&#8221; to introduce the backgrounds of each guest in the debate as well as interviews with Steve Bassett, Marie D. Jones, Mack Maloney and Stanton Friedman as they weigh in with their opinions and researched contributions. The &#8220;Post-show&#8221; will feature each guest in an informal interview and wrap up.</p>
<p>It should be an exciting debate with Dr. John Alexander being a military insider who does not believe the Government has evidence or plays any role in a cover up and Richard Dolan being among the world&#8217;s most prominent UFO researchers with Leslie Kean, author of &#8220;UFO&#8217;s Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record&#8221; as the moderator.</p>
<p>This debate will take place Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 at 7 pm EST- 10:30pm EST on the Inception Radio Network at <a href="http://inceptionradionetwork.com/">http://inceptionradionetwork.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Thrive and the Free Energy Movement</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out this video blog from Foster Gamble, creator and host of the internet sensation, Thrive. Here he talks about Free Energy—what is it and how can we work to bring it to the world. Worth watching for sure.</p>
<p>Learn more at <a title="Thrive and Free Energy" href="http://www.thrivemovement.com/foster-gamble-free-energy-what-you-can-do-help.blog" target="_blank">http://www.thrivemovement.com/foster-gamble-free-energy-what-you-can-do-help.blog.</a></p>
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		<title>Six Trademarks of a Millionaire</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="color: #000000;">by IMU Instructor Richard Sutphen</span><strong> </strong></em></p>
<p><a href="http://intermetu.com/wp-content/uploads/dick-sutphen.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1899" title="Dick Sutphen" src="http://intermetu.com/wp-content/uploads/dick-sutphen.jpg" alt="Dick Sutphen is an internationally renowned hypnotist and author who teaches hypnosis for the International Metaphysical University (IMU), an online university dedicated to raising consciousness through education." width="183" height="244" /></a>The following is a tiny part of the of the  communications I’ll be sharing in the “Multi-Millionaire Mind-$et” seminar I’ll  be conducting March 18, 2012. Watch on your computer or attend in person in  Scottsdale, AZ. See notice below.</p>
<p><strong>1. CLARITY OF INTENT:</strong> You must know what you want if you expect to get  it.  Getting rich isn’t a  valid goal.  This is about knowing  what you want to do to get rich.   The Oracle of Delphi couldn’t step down and tell you  what you should want.  You have to decide, or  nothing will change.</p>
<p>Do you know what you want to do that will make you a  multi-millionaire? If I were you, I’d start by pretending you’re Dorothy in the  Wizard of Oz and all you have to do is click your magic red slippers to have  what you want.  No logical  restrictions.  What would you wish to  be, if you could have any wish you wanted?</p>
<p>What do you want out of life?   Not what should you want, or what someone else thinks you should want. What do you  want?  Maybe you think your  real wants are greedy, so you disguise them.   Or you feel your real wants are irresponsible or  unrealistic, so you won’t admit to them—even to  yourself.</p>
<p>What do you want to do?   Don’t put excuses between you and doing  it.  Excuses are automatic  blocks.</p>
<p>Here’s another way to explore what you want to  do.  Take a look at your  role models, going all the way back to high school.   Who are the people you admired?   List them.   Then check and see if there is a common  trait. When I did this, I  found several common traits in my role models, some that pushed me forward and  some that held me back.  Without realizing it, I had subconsciously become a  composite of my role models common traits without ever having consciously  thought about it.  The good news is,  you’re always free to choose new role models… role models that support your  current desires.</p>
<p>Okay, let’s move on to the second trademark of a  multi-millionaire.</p>
<p><strong>2. THEY ENJOY WHAT THEY DO.</strong> To become a multi-millionaire, you have to love to do  something.  For most people, work  is something they do to maintain their lifestyle.   But millionaires seldom feel like they’re  working.  Their work is their  play.  They enjoy what they  do.</p>
<p>If you don’t love the vehicle you’ll use to become a  millionaire, you’d better find a way to change your attitude about your work, or  find a new career.</p>
<p>Most of the millionaires I know and those I’ve met, consider vacations work. Their career is their play.  Exactly the opposite of 99% of the  population.</p>
<p><strong>3. THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE THEIR  POWERS. </strong> Millionaires tend to  concentrate all their power on the vehicle they use to make  money.  They don’t try to do  many things.  They don’t go off on  tangents, because when you do, you’re distracted from the area of your greatest  potential.</p>
<p>When you focus all your power in one area, you quickly  learn from your mistakes, and the more you learn, the more your productivity  increases.  In learning all there  is to learn about your area of expertise, you lower your chance of  failure.</p>
<p><strong>4. THEY HAVE AN EMOTIONAL  PURPOSE. </strong>You need an emotional  purpose to fulfill a large vision, because an emotional purpose will drive you  forward through the good times and the bad.</p>
<p>Example of emotional purposes: The desire to be one of the best in your field is an  emotional purpose. The desire to send your kids to Harvard is an emotional  purpose. To flaunt your success to all the people who used to laugh at you is an emotional  purpose.  Once, many years ago,  I was conducting a seminar with author Richard Bach.   We were sitting in a hotel room talking about success  and what drove us.  We decided we both were still reacting to our fourth grade classmates, I explained, “I was always  the last kid they picked to be on the basketball team.”</p>
<p>Okay. Let’s look at the practical purposes. If you simply want to  more easily pay the mortgage or to afford a nicer car, that’s a practical  purpose.  Instead of fulfilling  such a practical goal, you’ll probably tend to reduce your desires the moment  the going gets tough.</p>
<p>One thing is sure; no matter what their emotional  purpose, millionaires have excessive ego drives behind that purpose, and they’re  relentlessly driven to be winners.</p>
<p><strong>6. THEY MAKE DECISIONS AND ACT.</strong> Millionaires are willing to take  risks.  It goes with the  territory.  You learn to analyze  and evaluate, then you make a decision and act upon it.   To be highly successful, you’ll have to evaluate and  act, over and over again.</p>
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<p>Learn more about Dick&#8217;s classes, Hypnosis 1 and 2 at the International Metaphysical University.</p>
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<p>“Richard &#8216;Dick&#8217;  Sutphen’s Metaphysical World” radio show airs on Wednesdays at 11 AM Pacific  time, Noon Arizona time, 2 PM Eastern time. Live in the Seattle area.  Hundreds-of-thousands of people have subscribed to have iTunes download the show  into their iPods. Listen live at www.contacttalkradio.com</p>
<p>Richard and Roberta  Sutphen do a FREE 1-hour Webinar every Thursday evening to teach Metaphysical  Concepts. Watch on your computer. To learn more go to www.richardsutphen.com and  click on Free Webcasts.</p>
<p>Six  NEW kinds of  Private Sessions with Richard and Roberta in person in  Scottsdale, AZ, or via  phone:   http://www.richardsutphen.com/private-sessions/</p>
<p>3  NEW SEMINARS IN  SEDONA. Apr. 28-29—Metaphysics: Path of Liberation.  May 18-19—With Your Spirit  Guide’s Help. June 30-July1—Psychic  Explorations Weekend. Attend in person or  watch live on your computer.  Certification hours. Details at  www.richardsutphen.com Click on  Seminars/Trainings.</p>
<p>JUST POSTED: The Next  9 Free 1-Hour Webcasts to watch on your computer. Go to www.richardsutphen.com.  Click on “Free Webcasts.”</p>
<p>MULTI-MILLIONAIRE  MIND  $ET—Drive Success into your subconscious with the very latest  power-house  Manifestation techniques. Short talks and Multi-Millionaire  Mind-$et Hypnosis  Programming. There are sessions to find and remove  your blocks to making large  amounts of money, and to examine and change  beliefs that are working against  you. Much, much more. Sunday, March  18, 2012. Attend in person in Scottsdale, AZ  or watch at home on your  computer. Everyone attending or watching will receive  multi MP3  downloads to work on your own. More info: www.richardsutphen.com /   Click on Seminar/Trainings</p>
<p>Thur.  Feb 23  –“PAST-LIFE REGRESSION.”* FREE 1-HOUR WEBCAST. Richard and  Roberta will talk  about reincarnation and Richard will conduct a  regression session. Watch on your  computer. Info at  www.richardsutphen.com and click on Free  Webcasts.</p>
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		<title>Microloans and the Joy of Giving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Deborah Lindsey For many, times seem to be tough. And yet it is easy to forget just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Deborah Lindsey</p>
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<p>For many, times seem to be tough. And yet it is easy to forget just how blessed we are here in the United States and in other wealthy countries. I have a roof over my head, heat in the winter, running water, a car to drive and access to the roads. I have a cell phone that will allow me to call pretty much anywhere in the world at the drop of a hat and a computer that gives me access to people and knowledge at the flick of a button. I am fortunate indeed.</p>
<p>Others, it seems, have a more difficult road to plow. Now I know that we all choose our own experience and that we are all living exactly the life we need to live in order to master our soul&#8217;s journey. For some the experience needed is one of abject wealth and for others it is abject poverty. But I also know that just as I recognize that &#8220;everything is unfolding perfectly according to a divine plan&#8221;, I also know (as once said by Wayne Dyer) that my desire to make the world a better place is just as perfect.</p>
<p>So a few years ago I ran across an organization called Kiva. It is this amazing organization that offers microloans to people for whom they are life changing. It was fascinating to me because it was something that always simmered in the back of my mind as something I wanted to do at some point in my life and here someone else was already doing it! Whew! One more thing I could strike off my list of things I had to do in my life! lol!</p>
<p>But since someone else was doing it, I felt a tremendous need to participate.</p>
<p>And so I did. I went on line and I made my first microloan. I loaned $25 to a woman in Togo to buy a sewing machine. Now I can honestly tell you that I have blown $25 on a lot of crap in my life, stuff I don&#8217;t even remember. So even if this woman, Sonate Kpadonou, never paid back the loan, I knew I would be okay. By on the other hand, I LOVED the idea that she would be able to start a small business, feed her family and clothe her community with this tiny investment on my part. Kiva is, in my estimation, the essence of world community and I think it is a great thing. The sense of fulfillment I get from this small gesture is worth way more than the small amount extended.</p>
<p>So anyway, I have now given out 9 loans over a course of as many years, and I&#8217;ve done it all with a paltry investment of $25. With each person who repays their loan, I simply lend it out again. I plan to continue this project for the foreseeable future and I thought that I would share my joy with you.</p>
<p>Today I loaned the money to Victor, a 60-year old gentlemen in Ecuador who is going to use it to buy a cow. <img src='http://intermetu.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  As someone who grew up on a farm and whose childhood came from raising cattle, I understand how important this is. And so when I heard that he wanted to buy a third cow, well, I&#8217;m excited to help.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you find this whole idea as enticing as I do, you can go <a title="Kiva Microloans" href="http://kiva.org/invitedby/deborah2118" target="_blank">http://kiva.org/invitedby/deborah2118</a> to get started.</p>
<p>I wish you all the joy of giving.</p>
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<p>What is &#8220;the Veil&#8221; and what impact does it have on our lives? First, to understand <em>the Veil</em> we have to understand ourselves and the nature of our consciousness and our relationship to the universe.</p>
<p>Let’s start with ancient Egypt.  Hundreds of years before the Common Era, C.E., Egyptian philosophy had peaked. At that time, the Egyptian God of Wisdom and knowledge was known as Thoth. A corpus of scriptures involving metaphysical knowledge developed during that time and these teachings we attributed to the God of the mysteries himself.</p>
<p>The Greeks, also had a god that they equated to Thoth, his name was Hermes. Over time, the Greeks absorbed the teachings of Egyptian Thoth and infused them with their philosophical bias. Many of these teachings therefore became attributed to the Greek god Hermes and the corpus became known as the Hermetic Teachings.</p>
<p>The most lucid and influential of the Hermetic texts to be published in the 20<sup>th</sup> Century was part of a book called <em>the Kybalion</em>. <em>The Kybalion</em>, published in 1908 by the Yogi Publication Society, put into modern day terms a set of Hermetic philosophies that came to be regarded as the cornerstone of many metaphysical teachings. In the Kybalion, the teaching of Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender are elucidated and brought to light.</p>
<p>The symbolism of the Golden Dawn and the Tarot, as you will see later, are referenced in the Kybalion.  In the Kybalion’s chapter on Correspondence we find the famous Hermetic Axiom, “as above, so below”. In this same chapter it is written that “The ancient Hermetists considered this Principle as one of the most important mental instruments by which man was able to pry aside the obstacles which hid from view the Unknown. Its use even tore aside the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Veil of Isis</span></strong> to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the Goddess might be caught.” This river of mystical teaching which flowed from the land of Egypt, found fertile soil in the Greek mind and after the church released its hold on the world, found its way into the Kybalion. Since it is with the Hermetic philosophers that the teaching of the Veil began, it seems a fitting place to begin our journey.</p>
<p>However, before we can comprehend the Veil, we have to comprehend the Self. As with any journey, we will need a guide to put us on the road. With this in mind, I would like to introduce none other than our tradition’s founder, the Blv. LaVeda, a.k.a, Lady Elizabeth Greenwood.</p>
<p>Lady Greenwood published in her later years an exposition of her beliefs entitled “The Five Mystic Secrets.&#8221;  The five mystic secrets are a like a set of keys for understanding the dynamic of the universe. Lady LaVeda lovingly refers to these keys at the five sisters. The forth Key or sister is called the SOUL.</p>
<p>In Lady LaVeda’s description, she refers to the soul as being in two parts. The first part is called the OVERSOUL. The Oversoul is eternal and contains the sum of all or our lifetimes and experiences.  As a composite being, outside of space and time, it is constantly aware of its many human and other experiences. It is commonly referred to as the High Self, Guardian Angel, or simply Spirit.</p>
<p>The Oversoul, being eternal in nature, has an egoic representation that it defined by pure love. It is the Oversoul that gives us compassion and helps serve the human race. It imparts to us our highest ideals and aspirations. It is the Oversoul that connects us to the Divine and guides our FATE. While the Oversoul has chosen for us the road upon which we walk, it still gives us the freedom to explore the breadth of this road as we travel along its path.</p>
<p>Lady LaVeda, states that we are also composed of another type of soul, she calls this part of us the UNDERSOUL. The Undersoul is that part of us that experiences the space/time world. It is the sum of our physical, intellectual, and emotional experiences. Unlike the Oversoul, the Undersoul’s identity is formed in this lifetime and thus it knows only one persona. This persona is egoic in nature and its modus operandi is survival.</p>
<p>In order to fulfill its mission, the Undersoul seeks to get ahead, to be first, to thrive, and to overcome all obstacles. It is the Undersoul that makes you want to cut off the driver who tries to get ahead of you. It is the Undersoul that dresses you up in those uncomfortable shoes and too tight skirt so you can attract that special guy. It is the Undersoul who is afraid of dying and seeks to fills the world with its mythologies, only to suppress what it feels to be inevitable.</p>
<p>While the Undersoul is visceral, intellectual, and physical in nature, the Oversoul is empathic, intuitive, conceptual, and spiritual in nature. Like two sides of a coin they represent the sum of our potential and the essence of our being. Now consider once again the hermetic axiom, “As above, so below” and ponder the God and Goddess. Are they not like us? “As above, so below, as within, so without”, I say we are cut form the same mold. What if the God is that intellectual, visceral, material, survival oriented Undersoul of the Divine? Would not the Goddess be the intuitive, spiritual, and empathic Oversoul of the Divine?</p>
<p>Hmm….. makes you wonder. Like us, maybe they are two side of the same coin. But remember, even a coin, thought it contains two sides, is still one coin. That which separates yet joins the two sides is the middle.</p>
<p>The Oversoul, with its thousands of lifetimes of knowledge and the Undersoul, with its new kid on the block mentality are truly one being. So, if that is the case, then why is our human Undersoul only aware of its current life? At the beginning of this pager, we were asked, “what do we forget as a result of the Veil?” I am going to take an unconventional stance here and claim that “we forget nothing”. It is my intention that the Oversoul is incapable of forgetting. I would also argue that the Undersoul’s only knowledge of itself is what’s learned in this incarnation. Lady LaVeda states in the “The Five Mystic Secrets”, that “The Undersoul begins with birth and builds throughout one’s life”.  Therefore, I believe that the Undersoul simply never knew the Oversouls many lives. When people begin to pull back the Veil and access the memories of the Oversoul, they become confused and believe that they, the human persona Undersoul, lived those lives. Surely one cannot blame the Undersoul for believing this. However, I contend that it is the mighty Oversoul of our being, complete with its litany of thousands of lives, that is the true incarnator of our past, present, and future. Thus, the Undersoul cannot forget what it never knew, and the Oversoul can forget nothing at all. But given that this is crap shoot, I may be totally wrong here. However, this is what I have come to believe.</p>
<p>Now the next question is, why are these two souls kept separate and by what force are they obscured from each other’s vision? To me it seems reasonable to suggest that, in order for the Undersoul to maintain its individuality and not be gobbled up in the Infinite pool or Oversoul lifetimes, something must separate the two. The ancient mystics, who pondered this question, provided us an answer— THE VEIL.</p>
<p>What is the Veil? Some say it is an energy field. Others have suggested that it is some kind of dimensional barrier or variance in vibrational frequency.  However, I would like to suggest something altogether different. The teaching of the Veil is one of the most closely guarded secrets in metaphysics. The Masonic Order teaches about the Veil. The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians, speaks of a Veil mystery. Ceremonial Magicians teach of the Veil.</p>
<p>So what is the Veil?  Before we can answer that we must take yet one more detour. To comprehend the mystery of the Veil we must come to understand its importance and wrap our mind around that which it represents.</p>
<p>To complete this journey we will return to where we started—The Hermetic Teachings.</p>
<p>For over 2000 years, the corpus of Hermetic knowledge passed from person to person. As the power of the Roman Christ cult grew, it became necessary for the mystery schools, philosophers, mages, witches, priests, and the priestess of the various religious orders to go into hiding. What remained of ancient teachings survived though family bloodlines such as the Strega of the High-Correll. One of the most infamous of these magical societies and possibly the most influential in the neo-pagan revival of the last century was the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.”</p>
<p>The Golden Dawn was started by William Woodman, William Westcott, and Samuel Mathers, who all were practicing Rosicrucians and Free Masons. Later the group acquired several other members, such as Israel Regardi, Arthur Edward Waite, Dion Fortune, Edmund Berridge, and the infamous Aleister Crowley, among others.  To a student of metaphysics, the attendance roster of the Golden Dawn reads like the Who’s Who of the occult world.</p>
<p>Then, as quickly as they came, the Golden disappeared. Gobbled up by egos, petty augments, and too many chiefs, they split up and followed their own paths. However, they left their mark, and many of their teachings influenced Gerald Gardner and others who helped to keep the knowledge alive. The Veil teaching survived the Dawn in many fashions; mostly through the Kabbalistic teachings of Samuel Mathers, Dion Fortune, Israel Regardi, and through the Tarot.</p>
<p>The most famous of the Golden Dawn inspired Tarot decks is the Rider Waite deck. It is here, buried in card number two of this deck that we finally find the secret of Veil revealed.</p>
<p><strong>CARD NO#2</strong> – <em>The High Priestess</em></p>
<p>Here we have a card rich in symbolism. While I will not go into the Tarot meanings or how to read this card, I will address the secrets held in its imagery. Here we have a lady, who sets between two columns. One column is black and has a “B” on it. The other column is white and has a “J” on it. At the feet of this lady is what appears to be a crescent moon. She holds a scroll in her hands, which read Tora(?). Behind the lady is a Veil that is covered in Pomegranates. The view beyond the Veil is obscured. The lady has a strange head garment and there appears to be a lotus sprouting from the top of each. The lady sets upon a stone and appears to the guarding the passageway to the Veil.  To understand this imagery we need turn to a small little occult handbook published in 1911 by the Author of the deck, A.E. Waite, called a “Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, and to years of reading by many Tarot professionals of which I am the least. So let’s have a go at it.</p>
<p>(1)  The definition of the two columns is given away by the capitals “B” and “J”. These letters on two columns, in the occult world are known “Boaz and Jachin” references to the Columns of King Solomon’s Temple. The columns were said to have flower shaped tops.</p>
<p>(2)  The Pomegranates represent fertility and creation.  Thus, on this side of the Veil, life springs into being.</p>
<p>(3)  There appears to be a river just on the other side of the Veil. The river is a reference to the collective unconscious mind, that aspect of us that is the OVERSOUL.</p>
<p>(4)  On this side of the Veil, the moon is wrapped in the gown of the Priestess and it lies upon the solid yellow floor, which represents the union between the feminine moon and masculine sun. Thus, this side of the Veil represents our material existence manifested in divine union, which we experience by the power of our physical self, the UNDERSOUL.</p>
<p>(5)  But who is the Lady? She is the guardian of the Veil. She is the pathway between the two parts of ourselves. On this side, we have the sensory driven generative powers of the UNDERSOUL and on the other side we have the mysterious watery world of the OVERSOUL. The scroll in the ladies hand is a reference to decoding her image. The word TORA(?) is a type of anagram popular in the Golden Dawn Days. It is an obvious reference to the TORAH or the Jewish book containing the first five books of the Hebrew bible. So to decode this lady we will need to delve into the Jewish Mystical teachings of the Kabbalah.  If the missing letter of the scroll was a “T” and you read the scroll backwards, you get TAROT. It would seem that the author is trying to tell us that if we approach this card through the Jewish mystic’s eyes, we will unlock the secret of the tarot card itself. Of course we know this is the case historically as the Golden Dawn based its teachings on the Jewish Mystical teaching of the Kabbalah. Finally, if we link the Pomegranates with the Solar (God) cross and the vaginal opening of the Priestess, as in the next figure, you get the Kabalistic symbol of the Tree of Life.</p>
<p>If you have studied the Kabbalah, you will immediately recognize what’s going on here.  The Columns Boaz and Jachin now find their completion as the pillars of Severity and Mercy. The Lady guardian of the Veil is herself the middle pillar. She represents the path to transformation. The ascension from the Physical world represented bottom the bottom circle, which in Kabbalah speak is called “Malkuth” and the upper world of undivided spirit essence, called “Kether”. Whoever, this lady is, she is definitely the pathway between the two SOULS. She is the path beyond the Veil.</p>
<p>To find her truth we will need to find a few more clues, some of which are held in the other cards. Notice the flowing gown that parts unnaturally over the moon almost as if it were water. Even the gown itself falls in unnatural water like pattern. The Solar moon over her heart seems to be translucently suspended under water and even the gown itself seems to flow off the bottom of the card, indicating that is may flow onto or appear in other cards. Sure enough, on card IV (EMPEROR), this flowing water theme shows up again as a river, hidden behind and at the bottom of the Emperor’s thrown. In card XIII (Death) it shows up as another river flowing behind the dark rider known as death. Finally, is makes its last appearance in the major Archana as a vast ocean from which the dead arise. This last card is the reference that decodes this watery spirit and reveals identity of it source, the High Priestess.  This final reference point of a scripture at is part of the Christ’s cult resurrection mythos as revealed in the book of the Revelation of John. In this book, after the trumpets of the angels sound the dead arise. All of this occurs in the end of days, or the end of human time. It is TIME that is the key to this mystery.</p>
<p>What flows like a river, but TIME. What force cannot be stopped, and brings with it death, TIME. What marks the passage of the sun and moon at the feet of the High Priestess, TIME. What marks the passage of an Emperor, TIME. Finally, look again at the High Priestess card. The wacky headdress on the High Priestess is none other than that of the Egyptian Goddess Hathor, whose linage extends before recorded TIME. In later years, she became Isis. As Isis, she may have been worshiped for as long as 5000 years. She is known as the Goddess of 10,000 names and she became an archetype for many that would follow. Interesting that someone would put the headdress of a timeless Goddess on the guardian of the Veil. Now turn your attention again to the columns; notice that one column is white like the bright sunlight and the other is black like night. The guardian of the Veil is she which separates day and night. She is TIME.</p>
<p>TIME is the great power and secret of the Veil. Think about this, what if time is only a construct used by the collective consciousness to create this flow of experiences, you call life. Quantum Mechanics tells us that the universe is composed of energy and that this energy contains information. So, what does one call intelligent energy patterns – Thought? Everything that you see is an energetic construct and that construct is maintained by the one mind and its billions of Oversouls. Collectively together, they dream this world, and as the Undersouls we share this sensory environment together and we call it reality. The energy signature of the one mind that created this reality causes the quanta, or packets of energy, in our world to move at the same rate, the speed of light. It is this signature that determines the rate at which we experience time in this construct. Only in this artificial temporal environment can we collectively experience this flow of consciousness called time.</p>
<p>Therefore, time only affects the Undersoul. This is why we can appear to get old and things can appear to take motion. However, the Oversoul is not immersed in the temporal construct. Therefore, it does not experience ordered time. This is why the Oversoul can be ever present and aware of its thousands of lifetimes in any one instance. In the experiential world of the Oversoul, consciousness can flow at whatever rate the Soul chooses. We have all experienced this. For instance, when you are asleep, and your Undersoul takes a break, you become aware of the Oversoul’s potential and you dream. In your dream, your thoughts can be random, you can appear one place and then another, days can seem to go by in your dream and yet the body of your Undersoul experiences only what it thinks is a couple of hours. If you travel astrally, then you will have a more direct experience. For instance, you can think of a place, and appear there. You can travel to other times or even other universes. The power of the Oversoul is almost unlimited as it can create its constructs and order its existence from its own thoughts. The reason the Undersoul is not aware of the Oversoul, is because of the temporal constraints of TIME. The Undersoul must always be in TIME according to the natural law of this construct.</p>
<p>Apart from death, we cannot destroy this Veil and have our Undersoul magically show up in the Oversoul. However, by training our minds we can see beyond the Veil and glimpse into the shadowy domain of the Oversoul’s world. So how do we accomplish this feat? By shifting our consciousness. Think one more time about the columns of the High Priestess card. Why did the author of the card use a lotus like water lily on the top of the columns instead of some other flower? In ancient Egypt, the lily is symbolic of the type of vision that proceeds from an enlightened mind. Often this vision came through the use of a hallucinogenic extract of the blue lotus like water lily called Nymphaea Caerulea.  Not only did the author tell us the nature and identity the guardian of the Veil, but gives us a hint as to how we may circumvent her power. How do we see beyond the Veil, we shift our Consciousness? There are many methods for seeing, hearing, and sensing beyond the Veil. The techniques listed below, are those of which I am familiar and know that they are taught in many circles.</p>
<p>(1)         Mediation</p>
<p>(2)         Journeying</p>
<p>(3)         Astral Projection</p>
<p>(4)         Remote Viewing</p>
<p>(5)         Lucid Dreaming</p>
<p>(6)         Trance</p>
<p>(7)         Mediumship</p>
<p>(8)         Invocative channeling</p>
<p>(9)         Invocative Possession</p>
<p>(10)     Ritual</p>
<p>And the list goes on…</p>
<p>What lies between the realm of the Oversouls and the realm of the Undersouls? What lies between these two Realms – THE VEIL? Here we carve out our stone seat and in a place between the worlds, like the High Priestess of the Tarot, we recline upon the Veil, speak to the dead, see visions, and borrow the power of the Oversoul to recreate the world in which we live. Once we learn to enter trance and explore this realm, we are in a place of great power. This is why, we must be diligent in our studies, meditate and journey regularly, and discipline our minds.</p>
<p>To quote another mythical character, “with great power, comes great responsibility.”  Let us thin the Veil and with the Gods enjoin.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[by IMU professor Leslie Zehr A year ago today (February 11th, 2011) Hosni Mubarak stepped down as the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by IMU professor Leslie Zehr</p>
<p><a href="http://intermetu.com/wp-content/uploads/leslie-for-blog.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3684" title="leslie for blog" src="http://intermetu.com/wp-content/uploads/leslie-for-blog.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="192" /></a>A year ago today (February 11th, 2011) Hosni Mubarak stepped down as the president of Egypt. I will never forget the moment. I don&#8217;t have a TV, so I wasn&#8217;t keeping up with the &#8216;news&#8217; but I knew the moment it happened. The streets were quiet. We were still under curfew so only the neighborhood men who were guarding the streets were out. Suddenly I heard voices rising like a huge wave. People were running in the streets chanting &#8216;Allahu Akbar&#8217; (God is Greatest) and I knew it could only mean that Mubarak had stepped down. The feeling was beyond words. As if a weight not only from the previous 18 days but from years of oppression, had been lifted. A bird was flying out of her cage.</p>
<p>In the 26 years that I have lived in Egypt, I have never known a ruler except Mubarak, as is the case with 60% of the population which are under the age of 25. This fact is more impacting than it may seem at first. He had been in office almost 30 years. A whole generation of people had never known anything else. It creates apathy, giving one the sense of &#8216;this is just how it is&#8217;, there is nothing else.</p>
<p>Tunisia set the stage for what was about to happen in Egypt last year, just as Carl Johan Calleman explained using information from the Mayan calendar. He said that the &#8216;winds of history&#8217; would blow outwards from the latitude of 12 degrees east. Which is exactly what happened. Tunisia, which was Egypt&#8217;s inspiration for change, lays at 12 degrees east. But Tunisia and Egypt were lucky. The energy of planets assisted in creating a very &#8216;collective&#8217; and smooth transition unlike those uprisings that followed in Libya and through out the Middle East. Uranus the planet of revolution was in the last degrees of Pisces (unity) during our uprising. By the 12th of March it had moved into Aries; the warrior. Later uprisings had that strong violent energy of Aries (the warrior) raining down on them.</p>
<p>The catalyst for change began some months earlier when the news of Khalid Said, a young man who was brutally killed by the police, became public. Because of social media everyone experienced it. Khalid (an Aquarian himself) was the archetypal &#8216;common man&#8217;. He represented everyone&#8217;s son, brother or friend. Because of this feeling, the experience became personal, and everyone felt it. Once we can personally relate to an event, we can &#8216;feel&#8217; it, then we can no longer deny it. We can often block out what is in our minds but not what is in our body and soul. Personally I had this reaction. This young man looked so much like all the young men, friends of my son, that come through my home. I couldn&#8217;t escape the feeling that I knew this young man.</p>
<p>A Facebook campaign began with the slogan &#8216;We are all Khalid Said&#8217; when people recognized that it could happen to them or one of their own family members. Which is why this movement has spread everywhere. The fog has lifted, globally, and people have awakened and come to realize that they are human beings and not drones. This seemed to have been the jolt that was needed to awaken everyone from their deep sleep. The time is right as we move from the Piscean Age of illusion and sacrifice to the Aquarian Age of humanity and community.</p>
<p>On January 25th , Police Day (a holiday originally honoring the police who were killed by British troops in 1957) people gathered in Tahrir Square to protest police brutality. At that moment I don&#8217;t think anyone had any idea of the magnitude of what was about to happen. The people had just had enough, reached the critical mass of tolerance and had to DO something. People stayed in Tahrir Square protesting for three days until things escalated on the 28th when everyone took to the streets in what became known as &#8216;the Day of Rage&#8217; It was beautiful to watch people come together, moving in unison without a leader but somehow attuned to the &#8216;hive mind&#8217;. The government had shut down the cell phone network but it didn&#8217;t matter. People were communicating on a different level. People continued to camp out in Tahrir Square, refusing to leave until Mubarak stepped down; which finally happened on February 11th.</p>
<p>February 11th 2011 (for us 11/02/2011) is a significant day on Mayan calendar. It was the original date for the Universal Underworld to begin, before the dates were changed to March. Here in Egypt we clearly stepped into the new Underworld at that moment. Perhaps it was later for others in different parts of the world. For us a huge cycle was complete and it was a new beginning.</p>
<p>The past year has been difficult. Excitement turned to the reality of creating a new beginning. More strife and illusions shattered and still no new government. Our first elections were a sobering experience for those who thought democracy was the answer. The revolution is clearly not over. But there is always a silver lining. This period has also been a very creative time for many people. Many artists have emerged. People have found their voice and tapped into their creativity as they realize that art is a medium for social change as well as self expression. Graffiti, music, poetry, and film have all flourished in Egypt since the revolution. Social media has provided a forum for artists to exhibit their artwork to a global audience.</p>
<p>As we approached January 2012, the one year anniversary of the revolution, the atmosphere became very tense. Clearly the army was expecting something big. They began to redirect traffic closing down streets leading into and out of downtown. There was a lot of tension and heaviness. Then on the 24th of January the rains came (it normally doesn&#8217;t ever rain in Egypt!) causing people to take shelter inside, bringing even more heaviness. By the 25th of January, as if it was a scene from a movie, the rain stopped, the skies cleared and it was a beautiful day. Thousands of people gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate. Even more people gathered in Tahrir Square than they had the year before when it was first occupied. Everyone coming together with hope to celebrate the New Egypt.</p>
<p>Egypt is still in turmoil, as is most of the world, but change, especially great change is not an easy task. We are moving somewhere we have never gone before. The old paradigms don&#8217;t work and we don&#8217;t yet have new ones. Structure, in all forms, is breaking down. Some people want to implement structures, such as democracy, and it is not working and never will work because it is an old structure. A structure that has become devoid of meaning. The meaning was lost to the form. So we sit in chaos.</p>
<p>However chaos holds within it an excitement. Because within that chaos is the potential for everything. In the chaos that we are all experiencing, something is taking shape, gestating, waiting to be born, but it is not yet formed. So let us embrace the chaos and prepare to be amazed!</p>
<p><em>Leslie Zehr is the instructor of the &#8220;Al-Chemia Remedies&#8221; course available at the International Metaphysical University. Leslie explains more about her one-of-a-kind course. </em></p>
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<p>I thought it would be fun to post my dreams and give folks a chance to comment on their meaning, should they care to.</p>
<p>I do not have dreams every night that are worth posting, however, I  usually get 2 or 3 a month that are notable so when I get them I will  post them.</p>
<p>Here are 3 dreams that I&#8217;ve have had in the past 4 weeks.</p>
<p>Dream #1</p>
<p>I dreamed that everything I did turned out right. In the dream I was  positively mystified and in total disbelief that this could be happening  to me. I kept saying things like, “How can this be?” and “This just  does not happen to me, ever!” and “This isn’t right.” Saying I was  mystified was an understatement!</p>
<p>Dream #2</p>
<p>I dreamed that I was out walking in my own backyard. It was a  glorious day and everything was in bloom and many things were fruiting.  Also, there was an extraordinary amount of wildlife in my yard. There  were all sorts of birds and animals and many of them were not indigenous  to Maine. I was able to touch them and pet them and I was experiencing a  state of complete joy.</p>
<p>While observing this wondrous scene I accidentally backed into/bumped  against one of the large, low branches of one of my apple trees and the  branch broke off. Inside was a wonderful bee hive dripping with honey.</p>
<p>I immediately became frightened because the bees were obviously  agitated at this intrusion. A voice spoke gently to my mind and said,  “The bees are responding to your fear. Calm down and the bees will calm  down too.”</p>
<p>So I took a deep breath and put myself into a state of peace and  serenity and instantly the bees got calm and went about doing what bees  do. I was able, then, to walk among them without issue and even able to  collect some honey. It was delicious!</p>
<p>Dream #3</p>
<p>I dreamed I was an observer watching our universe. It was collapsing,  or rather condensing, into the present moment. I saw the past catch up  with the present and I saw the future pull back into the present. At  dreams end, there was only NOW.</p>
<p>My thoughts on Dream #3</p>
<p>I believe that this condensing of time into the present is happening  right now so I’d like to explain what this means to the human race from  my own sense of things.</p>
<p>I believe that more than ever, if you have not tackled your  baggage/your issues, they will be brought to you full force for you to  clear up right now. No more pushing our ghosts to some dark recess of  our mind. You will have to look at them, feel them and make peace with  them.</p>
<p>Not the kind of peace where you say you have consciously dealt with  it and moved on. Statements like that most likely mean that you have  walled it off from your heart, not truly faced it, felt it and accepted  it.</p>
<p>I’m talking about the kind of peace you get when you bring it into  your heart and feel it. That may mean facing unimaginable grief. I’m  talking wailing and gnashing of teeth, vomiting, writhing on the floor  in emotional gut wrenching agony kind of grief.</p>
<p>The peace that follows such a heart felt event is one of surrender,  grace, acceptance, love and forgiveness. It is a peace that passes all  understanding. Until you deal with your issues heart on, as opposed to  head on, you have not truly dealt with them.</p>
<p>The other thing about the past catching up with, or condensing into,  the present is that of karma. Karma that has not been equalized will  have to be. And, good karma will come back instantly or nearly so. Seek  to do good things and good things will be given in return absolutely in  the moment.</p>
<p>I have talked about the past so now I’ll talk about the future. What  does the future collapsing or condensing into the now mean for us? It  means instant manifestation. Whatever you place your intention on,  intention with feeling that is, you will get instantly or almost  instantly. This bodes as a warning as well as something good. Be careful  what you wish for!</p>
<p>It behooves us now to be exceptionally self-aware. Be aware of your  thoughts and feelings at all times. We have moved into our fully  realized Creator-selves now and that brings both reward and burden. The  burden being to always make decisions based on love and for the good of  all rather than fear, anger, frustration or hate. Still, I suppose, a  few instant “Ping Backs” from fear, anger or hate based decisions will  cure us of acting from any space other than love pretty quickly, don’t  you?</p>
<p>You see, we are no longer children in the eyes of the creator. We are  fully realized beings and it is time we start acting like it. It is  time that we take full responsibility for our actions and if we don’t,  well, we will know it instantly.</p>
<p>All for now, folks. Sweet dreams!</p>
<p>Janet Decker, C.Ht.<br />
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist<br />
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<p>Whether or not Jesus used hypnosis to heal people is something I have been pondering for some time. If we examine a passage from the 7<sup>th</sup> chapter of the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus performs a healing we can see some striking parallels to many now widely used hypnotic techniques.</p>
<p>Before we go any further with this thread of thought, though, first we must address how Middle Eastern peoples viewed illness.</p>
<p>Middle Eastern people during the time of Jesus did not see illness as something to be diagnosed and cured as we Westerners do. They saw illness as simply being out of rhythm, or out of balance with Sacred Unity. And to back up just a bit further it is important to know that the Middle Eastern concept of God was not then and is not now the same as that of the Western Christian concept of God. To Middle Eastern peoples the concept of God is that of no separation. To them they were not separate from the divine but rather a part of it. All are “One’ in Sacred Unity. So, to repeat, for Middle Eastern peoples illness meant that you were out of rhythm, or out of balance with  Sacred Unity.</p>
<p>In this story found in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus takes a man who is deaf and cannot speak aside from the crowd. The man, to the town he lives in, is known as the deaf and dumb man (as taken from several versions of the Christian Bible). In today’s terms this means that the people of the town have preconceived ideas about who the man is and they project that onto him.</p>
<p>Jesus knows that in order to help this man heal he must first take him away from the crowd because how can one heal if they are constantly being reminded that they are sick?</p>
<p>Fist parallel to using hypnosis: Taking the individual aside from the crowd as in bringing a person into the office, a private space in which to work. No outside influences.</p>
<p>As the story continues Jesus breathes with the man.</p>
<p>Second parallel to hypnosis: The use of various breathing techniques is part of every hypnosis session. Deep breathing, holding the breath, letting it all out, relaxing as you do so, then breathing normally and naturally, is all part of a hypnotic session.</p>
<p>Jesus speaks to the man.</p>
<p>Third parallel to hypnosis: Voice is a huge part of hypnosis. Modulation of the voice, speaking slowly, distinctly, rhythmically, in sync with the slower breathing that happens normally and naturally in hypnosis.</p>
<p>Jesus then makes embodied contact with him.</p>
<p>Fourth parallel: It is not uncommon in some hypnotic techniques to touch a person. Not all issues and hypnosis sessions call for it but some do.</p>
<p>Jesus spits on the ground.</p>
<p>Provided this is a correct translation from the Aramaic then this is not something we do in hypnosis. We do not spit, or at least I don’t&#8230;smile!</p>
<p>Jesus then looks to heaven.</p>
<p>Now, having studied Aramaic to a small degree, I can say with some assurance that this statement does not carry the same meaning in Aramaic as it does in English. To the Middle Eastern people heaven is not somewhere outside of you or a place you go to when you die if you live a good life, but rather, heaven is with you or in you or it can also be translated as, from within. So you might interpret this phrase, Jesus looked to heaven, as, Jesus became aware that both he and the man were now, at the same time, in rhythm with Sacred Unity.</p>
<p>Fifth parallel to hypnosis: Any hypnotherapist worth his or her salt knows when their client is in that space where healing can and does occur. You can feel it. It is definitely a rhythm or a flow or a vibration that can be felt.</p>
<p>So Jesus looked to heaven and spoke the word “Ephphatha!” which means, “Be opened.” Be opened to Sacred Unity, or put another way, come back into balance, or rhythm, with Sacred Unity.</p>
<p>Sixth parallel: When a hypnotherapist feels their client is in that space of openness this is when their words (suggestions) will have the greatest affect.</p>
<p>Jesus then told the man, “Don’t tell anyone about this.” Most likely he also told the man to go home and not to go immediately back to the town where they knew him as the deaf and dumb man.</p>
<p>Healing takes time to sink in to the psyche. Often, when first healed, a person will walk around wondering if it is real or imagined. So it takes time for the idea of being healed to become real for a person. If someone goes immediately back into the environment, or circumstance where they are viewed as ill, or in this case deaf and dumb, the person can be pulled out of a state of healing very quickly by the projections of those around them.</p>
<p>Seventh parallel: I often tell my clients to go home and be quite for a while and not to go back to work or out with friends immediately after a session. I always record my sessions for the client and I suggest they listen to the CD a few more times first before going back to their normal routines. I tell them to give themselves time to fully realize that they are healed of their illness or cured of an addiction or phobia especially if they have been sick or had an addiction for a long time.</p>
<p>So I leave it to you. Did Jesus use what we, today, call hypnosis to help heal people? Where we can never be one hundred percent certain it does seem to me that there are many similarities, at least in this one particular healing that Jesus performed.</p>
<p>Janet Decker, C.Ht.<br />
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist<br />
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Dean of Metaphysics<br />
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<p>The discovery of a second unrecognizable object on the Baltic Sea floor has treasure hunters speculating on the existence of UFOs.</p>
<p>News DeskFebruary 3, 2012 00:54</p>
<p>A ferry makes its way thru the ice in the Stockholm Archipelago on January 15, 2010. During the winter, ferries continue sailing in the Baltic Sea, which is partly frozen between Sweden and Finland. (Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p>Have treasure hunters found another unidentified flying object on the floor of the Baltic Sea?</p>
<p>When a Swedish team using side-scan sonar picked up a strange circular object about 200 feet in diameter sitting on the floor of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland last June, experts speculated that the object was just a glitch in the team&#8217;s equipment, NBC reported.</p>
<p>The object sat in in 275 feet of water and 900 feet of &#8220;skid marks&#8221; behind it suggested that it may have moved across, or crashed on, the sea floor.</p>
<p>Now, CNN cites the team as saying they have discovered visual evidence of a second &#8220;disc-like shape&#8221; some 200 meters from the original find.</p>
<p>Team leader Peter Lindberg, who made headlines with his recent haul of two 200-year-old Champagne salvaged from a 19th-century Baltic Sea shipwreck and recently auctioned — joked to CNN that the first object they found might be an unidentified flying object, or UFO.</p>
<p>(GlobalPost reports: 200-year-old Veuve-Clicquot Champagne to be auctioned in Finland)</p>
<p>According to an Associated Press report from 2009, the Baltic Sea is &#8220;awash&#8221; in shipwrecks.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are hundreds of Viking ships out there, hundreds of old trading ships, hundreds of warships,&#8221; the news service quotes Estonian wreck-hunter Vello Mass as saying. &#8220;The Baltic&#8217;s an archaeological paradise.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, according to Lindberg&#8217;s team, the objects they have discovered are too big to have fallen off a ship or be part of a wreck,</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve heard lots of different kinds of explanations, from George Lucas&#8217;s spaceship — the Millennium Falcon — to &#8216;it&#8217;s some kind of plug to the inner world,&#8217; like it should be hell down there or something,&#8221; Lindberg reportedly said, adding: &#8220;We won&#8217;t know until we have been down there.&#8221;</p>
<p>Andreas Olsson, head of Archaeology at Sweden&#8217;s Maritime Museums, while intrigued, questions the reliability of one-side scan sonar images, saying they make it difficult to distinguish between a natural geological formation and something else.</p>
<p>&#8220;It all depends on the circumstances when you actually tow the [sonar] fish after the boat,&#8221; he said.</p>
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