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Sabine Neches Baptist Area
Thursday, August 17, 2017
How to Live Forever
You're not here by accident. Jesus Loves You! He wants you to have a personal relationship with Him. There is just one thing that separates you from God. That one thing is sin.
People tend to divide themselves into groups-good people and bad people. But God says that everyone that has ever lived is a sinner, and any sin separates us from God. That includes you and me.
"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God". Romans 3:23
According to man's rules, people should be punished or rewarded according to how good they are, and it might be hard for you to undertand how Jesus could love you when other people don't seem to. But I have great news for you! Jesus DOES love you! More than you can ever imagine! And there is nothing you can do to make Him stop!
Are you thinking that you should make things right in your life before you come to Jesus? Many people feel that way, but that's not what God says!
God demonstrates His love for us in this: "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8
God says that you can't make yourself right with Him by being a better person. God wants to save you JUST BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU!!!
"He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy." Titus 3: 5
It's God's grace that allows you to come to Him-not your efforts to "clean up your life" or work your way to Heaven. You can't earn it. It's a free gift.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through Faith-this is not from yourselves, it is the gift from God-not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2: 8-9
For you to come to God, your sin must be paid for. God's gift to you is His son, Jesus, who paid the debt for you.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
Jesus paid the price for your sin and mine by giving His life on Calvary's cross. God brought Jesus back from the dead and paved the way for you to have a personal relationship with Him through Jesus.
All that's left for you to do is to accept the gift that Jesus is holding out for you right now.
"If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Romans 10: 9-10
God says that if you believe in His son, Jesus, you can live forever with Him in glory.
"For God so love the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not parish, but have eternal life." John 3:16
Are you ready to accept the gift of eternal life that Jesus is offering right now? If it is your sincere desire to ask Jesus to come into your heart as your personal Savior, then talk to God from your heart through the Sinner's Prayer:
Sinner's Prayer:
"Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and I do not deserve eternal
life, but I believe You died and rose from the grave to purchase
a place in Heaven for me. Jesus, come into my life, take control
of my life, forgive my sins and save me. I am now placing my
trust in You alone for my salvation and I accept Your free gift of
eternal life."
If you have trusted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, please let us know. We want to rejoice in what God has done in your life and help you in any way we can.
If you have any questions or concerns you would like help with, please call, write, or e-mail us and let us know. We're here to help you understand the love that Jesus is offering you for free, no matter who or where you are. If you would like to speak with someone about a relationship wih God, please call or write:
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(409) 423-2224 or E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Okay, I'm a Christian; what do I do now?
1. Read you Bible daily
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved ,
a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who
correctly handles the Word of Truth." 2 Timothy 2:15
"Your Word is a Lamp unto my feet and a Light for my path"
Psalms 119: 105
2. Pray "without ceasing"
"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in
prayer." Matthew 21:22
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God." Philippians 4:6
3. Be baptized and worship with other Christians.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit." Matthew 28:19
"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all
the more as you see the Day approaching."
Hebrews 10:25
"All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."
2 Timothy 3:16
4. Tell others about Jesus
"He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the
good news to all creation." Mark 16:15
"Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am
compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the
gospel." 1 Corinthians 9:16
" I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the Power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." Romans 1:16


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1. Last week, this photo of a flyer that detailed the ways in which women don't appreciate "good guys" went viral.
2. Twitter user Matt Collins said he spotted the creepy flyer – written anonymously – taped up with black duct tape around his hometown.
The note – which originally went viral on Tumblr in January – reads:
"OK, ladies.
I get it.
You don't want a pleasant evening chat.
You don't want a gentleman to walk you to your car.
You don't want a friendly dude to help you carry your groceries… or hold open the door… or crush the life out of other men that would do you harm.
Fine – fear the good guys… I guess we'll have to just suffer through watching you get broken over and over by the scum you think you love.
But I want you to know – it's not easy and it hurts to see you fall.
Give the good guys a chance to help you be less afraid of the world."
3. Many women said the message in the flyer was exactly why they're terrified of men who try to convince them they're just "nice guys".
4. Others likened the note's creepy message to the ramblings of a serial killer.
5. So we're here to help men figure out if they're a good guy who's just misunderstood or, in fact, probably a serial killer.
You like being a gentleman by walking ladies to their cars
You wish women would sometimes just want a pleasant evening chat
You consider yourself a friendly dude!
You want to help carry women's groceries when they're struggling
You open the door for women when their fragile female hands are unable to
You would crush the life out of any man who may cause harm to a woman who you liked
You have used the phrase "crush the life out of someone"
You suspect that women are fearful of nice guys
You find it difficult to understand why some women want to see men in pain
You would never break a woman's heart over and over again
It hurts you when you see women fall for people who aren't nice like you 🙁
You just wish you could teach women how to be less afraid of the world
At times, you consider typing up your feelings about women and printing it out as a reminder of the pain you often feel
You think about sharing your feelings about women on printed flyers and posting them around your town
You think using black duct tape to tape up flyers that detail your frustration with women would really draw attention to how sane your opinions truly are
In fact, you think women always go for scum – you know, the type who would never go into intricate detail about why other men are worse than you
The men who don't even *own* a roll of black duct tape for nice-guy emergencies like these
The men who wouldn't sit there after posting up one of those flyers in your hometown, patiently waiting for a woman to walk by, stop, read it, and say: "Do you know what, this sign has really moved me. Maybe I should go for a good guy after all."


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In their natural state most Conservatives weren't all that interested in politics because unlike Left-Wing Liberals, they don't have to win elections in order to eat. Or depend upon government subsidies or budgets. But over years issues intrude. And accumulate. Then achieve critical mass.
Abortion, removal of prayer from schools, crèche scenes from village squares, attacks on the pledge of allegiance, sex education, school busing, declining educational standards, history textbooks with founding fathers purged from them or which exalt other cultures, attacks on the Second Amendment, English as a second language, Ebonics and eugenics, government validation of the homosexual lifestyle, racial quotas not to mention out of control spending, a growing culture of dependence and government mandate light bulbs and government redesigned toilet bowls.
And so more and more Conservatives began to think that they had to get into this game and win it.
Aside from economic Conservatives the first big block to weigh in were Evangelicals and the shock and alarm with which the Left-Wing Liberals greeted their arrival was pretty amusing. Ralph Reed with his voter guide being passed out in thousands of churches was a dagger aimed at the upper east side of Manhattan, the harbinger, according to the New York Times, of Nazi storm trooper legions goose-stepping in from fly-over country. A reaction we saw repeated when the TEA seemed to spring up out of nowhere twenty years later.
The list of Conservative victories of the intervening decades was substantial, Reagan of course, but also the 1994 Gingrich Revolution, 2010, the overthrow of the Soviet Union, isolated elections like Scott Brown into Ted Kennedy's old seat, the pretty thorough defeat of Federal Gun Control, the reestablishment of the death penalty and the increase in prison population which ever since the 1960s has been reducing the murder rate.
But to be honest Conservative engagement in politics cannot be described as a mixed as much as it can a mostly empty bag. School busing has been defeated but the only prayers being said in public schools today are for the humiliation of the United States and the destruction of whatever remains of academic standards. Gay marriage has obtained a secure foothold in many states, abortion continues up until the ninth month with the partial birth horror, indeed the few babies which survive it are left to die while Obamacare, which the majority of Americans oppose and still oppose has been riveted upon America's back and will destroy American medicine as surely as the Federal Government's regulation destroyed shipbuilding and the shipping industry, railroads, community banking (in the entrepreneurial sense), mining, the housing market, the employment market, coal power generations (175 plants now slated to close), general manufacturing and certain types of farming. The list is endless. Meanwhile Administration by Administration the reach and size of Government continues to balloon as the government strives to regulate every facet of everyone's. While of course piling up trillions in unsustainable debt.
And so Conservatives have now divided into two camps. Those that want to pack it in and those who hope upon hope that reason will finally prevail.
The opposing rationales are wonderfully summed up in two recent American Opinion pieces.
In favor of withdrawal Selwyn Duke makes a very persuasive argument in Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain onDecember 19, 2012 when he arguess that the fundamental question all of us "healthy acorns" have to put to ourselves is whether or not there's any point in "… trying to fertilize a tree destined for the sawmill." The politics he explains, reflects the culture, the culture has been captured "and there is no way to democratically reclaim" it.
Then in Cocooning Is the Wrong Solution for Conservatives, January 7, 2012James G. Wiles makes a compelling case for continued Conservative involvement in the political process. Conservatives cannot, as he points out, withdraw to some new Canaan. There is no wilderness to retreat to, America is the only game in town. Besides we have the facts on our side and facts will inevitably triumph.
Powerful arguments, but I wonder if they aren't both wrong and right at the same time.
As Mr. Duke points out the culture has been captured "and there is no way to democratically reclaim" but so what? Because what culture anywhere, has ever been established democratically? And while Mr. Wiles' point that facts will triumph is obviously true, a blind man can see that it will triumph by crashing the current unsustainable system not by changing the public's mind about anything important.
Indeed the crash itself will not change the public's mind about anything because they are not going to step outside the culture that has been established. So since American cannot be reclaimed through the ballot box, not through the presentation of facts why isn't it more evident we have to change the culture through other means?
I believe because we're so caught up in the details: the "facts" of various issues, polls, elections, court decisions, the face of changing demographics, that we've lost sight of how the game of America should be played.
More or less like a guy I know who was all about baseball. He played Little League as a kid, then Babe Ruth, got married but kept watching Big League on TV, would drive two hours to cheer in the stands, smacked a three foot high Yankee logo on the back window of his SUV, endlessly studied statistics to the point where he'd call sports talks to correct someone about who started in the 1922 World Series or Lou Gehrig's minor league career hits. Then one day he was sitting all alone in his TV room littered with blown up pictures of baseball stars and memorabilia waiting for another game to start on his super wide screen with surround sound when he remembered something. That his wife was out and he was supposed to be watching their young son. So he went looking and found the boy all alone playing a video game in his darkened bedroom.
Staring at that sad lonely silhouette he suddenly realized what his own fixation was costing him. That what he had been doing and how he was treating his own son wasn't either what baseball or his family life was really about. That baseball was supposed to played not obsessed over.
So he rummaged in a closet found a couple of gloves and a ball and routed his son off his bed announcing that "we're going to the park to throw a ball around. And later was reduced to tears by his son's shouts and laughter when he scooped up his first grounder.
And that's about where Conservatives are today, obsessing not playing the game and that's why they're losing everything important. We have to start playing America the way the game is designed to be played.
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And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live."
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denari and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.' Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise." (Luke 10:25-37, ESV)
Who is my neighbor? It is a question full of import and weight. And if most of us are honest with ourselves , we probably ask it with much the same mindset as the Pharisee in Luke 10. After all, if there is someone who can be excluded from the list, then our disrespect, our low opinions, or even our relative apathy toward others has a loophole. Love is big call – it is an act of the will, a commitment, not simply to tolerate someone, but to seek the best for them; to give our best to them; and to relate to them with forgiveness, compassion, and benevolence. Indeed, "who is my neighbor" is one of the biggest questions we will ever ask.
It shouldn't surprise us, therefore, that the answer should be just as big. And the answer comes in the form of a story. The story Jesus tells in response to the Pharisee's question is probably the story Christianity has done the most damage to in terms of where we have taken it versus what Christ intended by it. Commonly known as the story of the Good Samaritan, the early Church Fathers typically allegorized the parable of the Good Samaritan – ingeniously piecing the elements together to make it the story of man's fall and redemption, but in doing so, ripping it out of its context and causing it to offer no real answer to the question. Modern interpreters have too often made the story into an almost vacuous reflection on the importance of helping people – suggesting that the point of the story is that we should be like the Samaritan in the story and help those who are different then us. While this approach does generally offer a response to the question and is instructive in the example given, I believe it fails to hit us as directly and completely as Jesus intended and, in fact, works more to confirm our prideful heart than to correct it.
As Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart point out, the most important aspect of interpreting a parable of Jesus is asking who is the audience He is telling the story to* – what are their prejudices, what is their theological baggage, and what is the response Jesus is trying to elicit from them because of their perceptions? In other words, their response to the story is as important to understanding its meaning as the content itself. In this particular case, as the Pharisee is hearing the story, he would have assumed that the neighbor was the wounded man. Hearing of the priest and Levite's failure to love their neighbor, he would have thought to himself, "I would expect as much from them," since although they were fellow Jews, they would have been from rival parties within Judaism. Certainly, he thought, as the climax of the story approached, Jesus would use a Pharisee (since Jesus' himself would have been categorized as someone of the pharisaic tradition) to help the man out and he could walk away having been given a good example to live by and having a renewed commitment to try harder to help those around him. But Jesus is not interested in confirming the Pharisees prejudices and making him feel good about his commitment – Jesus is trying to break through a prideful and calloused heart. So, the hero is a Samaritan! In the eyes of the Pharisee, a sinner in every possible description of the word – he didn't worship correctly, he questioned the truthfulness of the Torah, and he lived in state of thorough uncleanness! God couldn't love him and so therefore I certainly don't have to! And therein is the meaning of the parable – those feelings of anger, hatred, disbelief that such a person would be used as a positive example experienced at that moment laid bare the fact that this Pharisee did not love his neighbor, because in the eyes of the Pharisee, his neighbor wasn't worthy of love. And so Jesus asked him, "Which of these three proved to be a neighbor?" Forcing the Pharisee to consider the possibility that someone so unclean could be his neighbor too. The Pharisees response is telling…he can't even name him! All he can say is, "The one who showed mercy." Jesus' point had been made and so all that was left was the challenge – you go love that Samaritan!
When we read this story some of the power of it has been lost because most of us relate more closely to the Samaritan than we do to the Jew. We hear the story much as the Pharisee first thought he was going to hear it – someone like me (a Gentile) is going to be the hero, so we can walk away having been given a good example to live by and with a renewed commitment to try harder to help those around us. But, rephrase the hero into someone we consider unclean and unworthy and we will hear it as it was intended. As verse 33 begins, input "But an activist homosexual, as he journeyed to where he was…" or "a radical Muslim" or "a leftist democrat," or for my left leaning friends "a Tea Party activist" and you begin to feel the weight of the call to love our neighbors. If they bleed, they are not our enemy – they are our neighbor!
I'll admit, I struggle with this mandate. It's hard to see the value in others who voice opposition to my core beliefs and priorities, sometimes in expressing that opposition in a desire to kill me or those who believe as I do. But that is what I have been called to. That is what it means to take up my cross and to die to myself! That is what it means to be a disciple of the One who prayed on the cross for those who were crucifying Him, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!"
One final note, because I feel it is necessary and because I know someone may assume certain things because of their omission. I am not saying we cannot challenge people with their false beliefs or call them to repentance for their sin. Disagreeing with someone is not the same as not loving them. To know someone is on the path of destruction and to say nothing about it is not love. But my goal and challenge is to model my approach after my Saviors when He met a Samaritan who was by every definition of the word "unclean." He pointed her to the truth, He identified her sin, He corrected her misconceptions, He challenged her to holiness, and He offered her hope – simply by listening; recognizing her as a person, not a sin; and by revealing that He is the answer to every need she had. May I learn to do the same!
*Fee and Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Most of the interpretative directions of the comments that follow grow out of their observations and exegetical methodology…in fact, they themselves use this parable for their methodological example.


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A few posts ago, I mentioned that I had a four days in a row off work coming up, so because this is likely the only holiday I'll get this summer, I decided to book myself a wee trip to Northern Ireland. One, because it's very close to Scotland and the flights were relatively cheap given I booked about three weeks beforehand; and two, I'd never been to Northern Ireland before, and after exploring Spain for 9 months I realised how little I'd seen of my own country and its UK neighbours.
So, flights and hostel booked, I set off for a few days exploring a new part of the world, and one of those days featured a coach trip up the Antrim coast to see the Giant's Causeway. I took far too many pictures there, so I thought I'd post some of the best ones as a little teaser for the travel diaries which are coming up soon.


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Lesotho: The Roof of Africa (Day Five)
Whilst travelling round South Africa for three months we embarked on a detour into landlocked Lesotho. Due to time constraints we decided to join onto the private "Roof of Africa" tour provided by Sani Lodge. Unfortunately it was soon time for our final day but there wasn't a minute to be sad as Matthew had a full day planned and we were determined to make the most of it.
Day Five: Returning to South Africa
After an early breakfast provided by the fabulous team at Maliba Lodge we joined up with another group from Sani Lodge and headed over to the cultural reserve at Liphofung. Matthew began by showing us around before a guide took over to assist us with the interpretation of a well-preserved panel of Bushman Rock Art. The art explained the significance of this cave to the Basotho people as an important part of their history. They also had a cultural village which we explored thoroughly.
Back in our 4×4 we continued on and over the Moteng Pass where we managed time to stop at Afriski Mountain Resort. It is regarded as the only ski resort in Lesotho as well as an all year mountain adventure destination with a multitude of winter and summer activities. For us it provided the opportunity to drink a much needed hot chocolate at Africa's highest restaurant (the aptly named Sky Restaurant) whilst reflecting on the affect that tourism was having in Lesotho.
Warmed by our hot chocolate we continued climbing Mahlasela Pass on to the "Roof of Africa" route to the town of Mokhotlong. This was known in the 1950s as one of the more isolated outposts of the British Empire. They still had an old store selling basic goods and the popular woollen blanket worn by so many Basotho people. There was also a post office and although there was mail on the side, I wasn't convinced a post card would make it home – plus they had no international stamps!
Due to excellent time management on Matthew's part (even though we kept wanting to stop for photos and to explore) we were able to stop for a drink at the highest pub in Africa. As the warmth from my hot chocolate had worn off, I opted for a Glühwein or Mulled Wine, and was not disappointed. Not only did it warm me up but it settled my nerves ready for the hair-raising switchbacks of the Sani Pass. Descending below the clouds and back into South Africa, we said farewell to the Mountain Kingdom – a fairytale-esque world hidden from view on the Roof of Africa.
We opted for a paid tour of Lesotho due to time constraints and were not disappointed as it was our guide Matthew who made it a highlight of our time in Southern Africa. If you have more time then as always a self-guided tour could be the best way to maximise your time, keep costs down and give you the flexibility you want. Our good friend Ivan over at NoLegRoom did just that and you can read how he got on via his blog. As always, please free to comment and sign up for updates so you don't miss our next adventure.


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Gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare tumor with and unpredictable prognosis usually find in young adults. We present an 18-yearold man with gastric IMT. He complained of epigastric pain, intermittent fever and night sweating associated with weight loss since two years ago. Physical examination showed anemic and cachestic features with… (More)
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INTRODUCTION Multidrug resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa may be due to efflux pump overexpression. This study phenotypically examined the role of efflux pump inhibitors in decreasing antibiotic cross-resistance between beta-lactams, fluoroquinolones, and aminoglycosides in P. aeruginosa isolates from burn patients in Iran. METHODOLOGY A total of 91… (More)
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17589696767178102872014-10-04T19:20:30.201-07:00this life is wonderfullifeiswonderfulhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758969676717810287.post-64353888368904472802010-02-18T07:58:00.000-08:002010-02-18T08:04:05.065-08:00It's the Middle of FebruaryWow, I can't believe it's Feb 18th already. It's been 5 months since I was "transistioned out" of the organization; it's gone by fast, and yet it seems like forever. It's been nice being home but now I'm really feeling the pressure. I feel like I'm in a bubble and it's not good. I need more purpose. I need to finish my pm studies. I NEED TO GET A JOB! So many emotions, such sadness. I want to make it stop and yet am so powerless to do just that. So much I should do that I don't. Hopefully I'll pull myself out of this funk & get to where I need to be. I need to lean on my faith more than ever.lifeiswonderfulhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758969676717810287.post-34968703256609411532009-01-18T17:13:00.000-08:002009-01-18T17:27:12.068-08:00The new year is upon us! I have found inspiration in so many unexpected places. A child I never met of a family I didn't know personally earned his angel wings 1/5/09. Coleman Larson was an amazing child of God. He continues to be an ispiration to his parents, twin brother, family,. friends and folks that weren't an immediate part of his circle. I read his mother's blog, and the journey Pediatric Cancer brought them to and through is nothing short of amazing. We have so much to be grateful for in reading about this little man's life. His mom just blows my mind. Her faith in God is just beyond anything most of us can comprehend. I hope some day she decides to share her faith story woth the world. She will turn it on its ear.

Me & my family have had a good start, albeit very cold the last week--subzero temps for more than a week. We're finally out of the basement & enjoying 20+ weather. The kids have been spending a lot of time skating, great exercise for them, peace & quiet for me & their dad!

One of my dearest friends and her family have moved back after a brief sojourn to another state. I had hoped they would return and am very glad they're back. There is so much I want to share; to let them know what their friendship means to me! Oh well, the time will come and the words will be right. How do you tell someone that they are the most amazing friend they've ever had? That they guided you to a life you couldn't imagine, let alone know you needed? Too many thoughts to share & I'm not funny, at least not tonight.

Lots going on, I am so hopeful and excited at our country's new chapter in history. I think President Obama will provide unparalled leadership, insight & will deliver our country back to the great nation it once was. God Bless you, Mr. Obama!

Best Wishes for the Happiest of New Year's yet!lifeiswonderfulhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1758969676717810287.post-17092914881538953222008-11-06T10:21:00.000-08:002008-11-06T11:01:47.342-08:00Starting upWell, this is my first attempt at blogging. I guess we all have to start somewhere. : -)

I am married to the love of my life, we have two wonderful boys. They keep us very busy with their various activities and are both very sports minded. We are very blessed.
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Awakened at Needle Point: A Shamanic Journey into Body-Mind-Spirit Wellness By John Jay Harper The search
for new shamans has begun in earnest. ~Margaret Wheatley, Ph.D., Harvard University, author of Leadership and the New Science
Introduction It was late Friday afternoon February 26th, 2010; a cold, snowy mid-winter day in the Pacific Northwest when an unresolved, incapacitating childhood conflict surfaced again. Indeed it was the source of symptoms, mental and physical, that had controlled my entire life story until now. These anxieties dogged me like a proverbial hound from hell and I began paying close attention to them. I knew my sanity depended upon comprehending these symptoms as signs and symbols of my unconscious psyche, but I did not understand why they manifested yet! The original catalyst for my crash and burn was the abandonment by my father in Seattle at age 5. He left my mother, Catherine, and my two brothers, Ron and Steve, homeless and penniless, so he could hire on with a fishing fleet. His goal was to become the chief marine mechanic to keep them trolling for the deadliest catch in waters up and down the coastlines of Alaska, Canada, Washington, Oregon, and California. I never saw him again until I was 32-years old. In fact, as I shared in the Second Edition of my book, Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century, my perceived reality since the 1950s was nothing but the symbolic cutting down of my family tree reenacted through me. And my heroic efforts to stop it from happening to those I loved, again and again and again. Clinically speaking, I was suffering from a borderline personality disorder known to psychotherapists as third degree emotional burns. In short, I felt a swarm of toxic emotions sting me that evening and reacted as a helpless child alone in the dark not an adult. I truly did not have a life yet, nor an authentic sense of self that was symptom-free and able to engage the world on its terms. But the scenario that led initially to nothing more than headaches and sinus symptoms was Claritin clear enough. My beloved 20-year old granddaughter, Kathryne, who had been living with us for the past 3 years, was embarking on her first solo cross-country road trip from Spokane, Washington to Jacksonville, North Carolina, and I was deathly afraid for her safety. Katie was en route to Andrea, a girlfriend she had known in Spokane since 14, to share a recently purchased home close to the Atlantic Ocean. Andrea was today a proud U.S. Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune, awaiting the return of her husband, high school sweetheart Joshua, likewise a combat soldier fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan until summer 2010.
Specifically, I decided to drive our gas-miser Honda Civic in front of Katie s car for the first one thousand miles of her four thousand mile journey to the East Coast, in a heartfelt albeit panicstricken moment. I wanted to blaze the trail, so to speak, make certain she, and co-driver Jody, got safely through the snowy mountain passes in Idaho, Utah and then into the first city they planned to stop on Saturday afternoon: Las Vegas, Nevada. I even paid for a deluxe room-inadvance at the Luxor Hotel for my wife, Connie, and myself before we departed Spokane confident this was a mission possible. However, my cock-eyed military veteran optimism overstretched my capacity to drive aroundthe-clock anymore, as I did easily in my pre-retirement years. We never made it. For I collapsed from physical exhaustion early Saturday morning while driving on Interstate 84 through Boise, Idaho, forced to exit the freeway pulling into the Hampton Inn at approximately 3:30AM PST. Connie called Katie s cell phone and explained what had happened and wished her and Jody a fun weekend in Las Vegas, but without us. We would rest a few hours, we said, and chart a new course back home via western Idaho, eastern Oregon, and central Washington, avoiding the mountain passes crossed in the middle of the night. With hindsight 20/20, I saw I d been literally travelling on sacred ground, revisiting a segment of the East-to-West migration route from Scotland-to-Virginia-to-California that was significant to my family ancestry. I recalled my grandfather was born in Salt Lake City in 1890 and my great-grandfather, Robert Harper, helped lay stones on The Mormon Temple. Moreover, my father, in fact, was born in Eureka, Humboldt County, California on April 6, 1928, but died at Las Vegas Medical Center on February 25th, 1991. So my advice early on to my readers is pay special attention to the meaningful coincidences sprinkled like Old World spices throughout this autobiography. These, of course, are relevant to me and my life story ultimately but let me give you a hint upfront: Your body is an open book too! Wake-up and follow the trail of breadcrumbs blood and bones of your own genealogy for there is meaning to everything in existence once we can read the signs of the times, symbolically mapped by The World Tree and The Cosmic Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Clinical psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, Ph.D. (1923-2005), could do just that, soul travel, and worked for many decades with the mentally ill in California state hospitals after serving during WWII in the U.S. Merchant Marines. He had a remarkable life concluding that spirit possession can be the soul cause of illness. And upon retirement, he wrote about his life as a mystic, sharing a lifetime of insights in many inspiring books on heaven, hell, and hyperspace nature of existence: infinite worlds within worlds without beginning or end. Dr. Dusen became a proponent of Swedish scientist, inventor, and Christian mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg (16681772), and learned, as I had, that The great spiritual adventurers found the whole of creation and every part of it symbolic as he shared in Seeing Through Symbols: Insights into Spirit.
Wikipedia records this much on Swedenborg: In 1741 at the age of fifty-three he entered into a spiritual phase in which he eventually began to experience dreams and visions beginning on Easter weekend April 6, 1744. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works. Interestingly enough, overall Swedenborg s model of creation matches the shamanic that is usually akin to a three-layered cake: upper, lower with earth in the middle of it. So how does evil work? Quite simply, through negative emotions! I also have had such close encounters with the citizens of hyperspace since childhood and methodically investigated near-death experience (NDE) visions of the End-Times for that reason, as well as written and spoken to millions of listeners on talk radio shows regarding my conclusions about them since 1993. Today these themes are common cocktail party conversations among psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers, physicists, and theologians; so at least I am in good company, finally. I no longer feel crazy nor like a fish out of water. French scholar of religions, Mircea Eliade, saw the axis mundi conduit, subway, tunnel or trunk within The World Tree as the gateway to the gods, and devils, writing in his classical book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy: The underworld, the center of the earth, and the gate of the sky are situated on the same axis, and in past times it was by this axis that passage from one cosmic region to another was effected. My vision in total is that we are in the early stages as a species learning to climb the world tree, walk between worlds, bring the spiritual truth of heaven down from the magnetosphere and hell of our fiery molten core up to the surface of planet earth again through the third eyes of shamans. Moreover, I see us integrating the wisdom of outer and inner space through an emerging science of soul First Nations wisdom tradition wellness clinic in the 21st century. (See www.near-death.com/experiences/experts13.html) Shamans of the 21st Century In the days, weeks, and months of spring 2010, my symptoms increased from sinus to serious and I lost the ability to control my neck muscles and it collapsed. A pinched nerve in the upper region of my spine at the base of my skull became so painful that it demanded medical intervention. This bracing against pain 24/7 began a decline in my health with sleepless nights and miserable days of suffering spiraling towards disaster. I no longer had a life really; rather I became a walking, talking set of symptoms constantly seeking a savior with a magic silver bullet. So I brushed-up on my pig Latin because my constant bedfellow companions spoke only in the multisyllabic language of the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)
dictionary. My medicine cabinet s stock and trade went from boxes of Alka-Seltzer to neatly ordered rows of pill bottles from the allopathic pharmacy. To my primary care doctors credit at Group Health Cooperative in Spokane, Tim J. Meyer, M.D., and Jan H. Mueller, M.D., I began a course of drugs that did address the PAG (periaqueductal gray), the pain control center of the brain. Thus we started down the right track pharmacologically even if I was to derail later. I reviewed the medical literature in articles, books constantly for clues to my situation and read in Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel the encouraging words of biochemist Candace Pert, Ph.D.: Pain researchers all agree that the area called the periaqueductal gray, located around the aqueduct between the third and fourth ventricles of the midbrain, is filled with opiate receptors, making it a control area for pain. It is also loaded with receptors for virtually all the neuropeptides that have been studied. There was the key word I must investigate further I mused: neuropeptides. So began a major turning point in my search for salvation from suffering, although understanding neuropeptides was not that easy since they acted more as quantum ghosts in the brain, non-local fields of energy declared the late Francis Schmidt of M.I.T. He called them information substances or messenger molecules. Dr. Pert proclaimed This complexity has led to their being classified under a variety of categories, including hormones, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, growth factors, gut peptides, interleukins, cytokines, chemokines, and growth-inhibiting factors. Nonetheless, ideally, these information substances in balanced proportions give our human brain-blood-bones a sense of wellbeing, bliss or euphoria that make life worth living in plain terms. But my body quit making them, and my physicians prescribed the opiate-derivative equivalent drugs to them such as hydrocodone and oxycodone as I underwent a comprehensive diagnostic work-up to isolate the problem over a 3-month period from June to August 2010. These tests included the cutting-edge in X-Ray for the spine, laboratory analysis of blood and urine for general chemical health index baselines, as well as cardiac enzyme function examination at Sacred Heart and then, the final straw that pushed me into an urgent search mode for alternative treatments, my MRI at Holy Family Hospital. For now I had more diagnoses, prognoses, and fear factors than my beloved late grandmother, Mary Evelyn Scott (1888-1977), would say Carter had liver pills! Yet these high-tech toys are our pride and joy in the Western world, our electron microscopes and spaceship-shaped nuclear magnetic resonance imaging capsules save lives every single day because we can see into the living brain-body-blood-bone matrix non-invasively, but intervene surgically with razor-edge, laser-light precision if warranted. Indeed, my wife s cousin in Kansas City has her husband, Bob Stevens, alive today because a neurosurgeon was able to pinpoint a brain aneurysm earlier this year and repair it successfully. They call Bob a miracle-man for he beat the odds but he is still seeking relief from one nagging problem: pain that prevents sleep! Though pharmacologically, we ve only scratched the surface of these non-toxic vision plants for pain potions and cancer cures. However, if my musings on this topic are validated, amino acid therapy can combine with indigenous hallucinogens to create a pharmacopeia to treat
addictions, pain, and stress disorders second to none soon. I mean every single one of us make the spiritual visionary substances of ayahuasca, the vine of the soul, for instance, every second within our brain, blood, and lungs. The entheogenic creates God within us sacred plant researchers such as Martin W. Ball, with a Ph.D. in Native American, mysticism, shamanism, and religious studies, and Graham Hancock report the same inner space mindscape in their own books, respectively, Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness, and Supernatural: Meetings of the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. (See www.alexgrey.com, www.martinball.net, www.deoxy.org/mckenna.htm and www.grahamhancock.com) Psychiatrist Rick Strassman, M.D. has also released his clinical experiments on 60 volunteer subjects at the University of New Mexico with approximately 400 doses of the spirit-seeing substance N,N-dimethlytrptamine in DMT: The Spirit Molecule. One hypothesis is that DMT is endogenous, made in the pineal gland, what French philosopher, physicist, and mathematician Rene Descartes (1596-1650) himself called the seat of the soul. In metaphysical terms, this is the third eye. Since 1996, Dr. Strassman has been exploring models for the DMT effect, and has focused primarily on the Old Testament concept of prophecy. This is a spiritual experience which takes into account the apparently external, free-standing nature of the DMT worlds, in which one s sense of self is highly preserved and interactive. This is in contrast to previous models that borrow more heavily from Eastern religious systems, ones that emphasize unitive, ego-dissolving experiences. In addition, the prophetic model deals directly with ethical and moral concerns, adding a crucial element to our ability to understand and integrate the content of the psychedelic experience. He is developing these ideas in his next book, The Soul of Prophecy, due to appear in 2011. (See www.rickstrassman.com) Again, in addition to healing, the shaman is the one that can read the star maps, the signs of the times in the precession of the equinoxes, as did the Old Testament prophets with regards to the coming of Jesus Christ. In fact, the Zodiac, or circle of animals has been used as the solar lens by which to forecast the future of the past for millenniums. I mean it is true, what goes around comes around only in new costumes for there really is nothing new happening under the living Suns of God! Columbia University scholar Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880-1963) studied comparative religions, mythology, and linguistics then wrote his doctoral thesis based upon his mastery of Egyptian sun sign symbolisms linking them completely to the origins of Christianity titled Theosophy: A
Modern Revival of the Ancient Wisdom. This is not surprising given the Genesis of the Holy Bible stories are themselves attributed to the writings of Moses and the retreat by Mary and Joseph to Egypt with the baby Jesus for theology schooling by the priests-shamans overseeing the temples and pyramids. This culture worshipped the Sun God: RA. However, the rest of the story is apocalypse, or unveiled, truth about the revelation of renewal or Second Coming that Dr. Kuhn only hinted at in his final book prior to his death, A Rebirth of Christianity. Clearly, we are about to die and be reborn too! No modern-day mythologist speaking to these matters is akin to the integrity and intelligence of Joseph John Campbell (1904-1987), than is Director of 2012 Studies, John Major Jenkins, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. He is the author of several authoritative books on
the Maya and Mesoamerica but, in particular, I am referring to his latest, and most informative in dispelling the nonsense and highlighting the Sense of Self as the focus for the End-Time in The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History [December 21, 2012]. Although I desire to cut-to-the-chase, since we are according to the Mayan calendar running out-oftime, and that seems to be truly Good News! Specifically, Jenkins shares a vision he experienced in an isolation tank under the influence of LSD at age 19 in Chicago, not unlike the approach employed by the late John Lily, M.D. in Hawaii to symbolically, telepathically communicate with dolphins. Briefly, after Jenkins sensed he was under-the-influence of this psychedelic neurotransmitter-receiver messenger molecule, lysergic acid diethylamide, he awoke within the dream we call physical reality. He travelled to the farthest reaches of inner space by catapulting through outer space in blunt terms and that was his ultimate conclusion and one that I wish to emphasize as extremely important to my own thesis now: I also felt I had never left my body: I had, rather, explored the cosmic contents of it, Jenkins revealed. Is this not the supreme revelation of Jesus Christ with respect to his Second Coming: The Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the face of the earth but men do not see it? (See www.Update2012.com) Andrew Collins has, in my opinion, decoded the secrets in shamanic healing and divining and what is the key idea to 2012 in his monumental book The Cygnus Mystery: Unlocking the Ancient Secret of Life s Origins in the Cosmos: The purpose of junk DNA. The shorthand translation of his research is that the star constellation in the sky known to ancients as representing a swan (astronomically Cygnus X-3), is the source of creation for us. This was discerned through the use of trance states by shamans in these early cultures as depicted in prehistoric that is to say, before language cave drawings and myths. Yet what we need to know is that gamma-ray bursts (GRB) from this, and perhaps, other light-storing black holes in the Milky Way, are mutating amino acids-DNA-RNA protein synthesis into new configurations. And this is reworking the expression of genes throughout the animal kingdom itself signifying a time of rapid change in the ecology, and biosphere, referred to biblically as a new heaven and a new earth. (See www.andrewcollins.com)
The Cosmic Serpent is the Human Body In this same time period, Mona Klinger, a medical intuitive, vibration healer, Reiki master, and shaman in Bend, Oregon came into my life just when I thought I could go on no longer. My suffering reached cosmic-levels heretofore unimaginable and I could not cope with the pain or life s demands. Often collapsing into a fetal position, I retreated to my back porch deck to curl up on my side to relieve the unrelenting ache in my neck and pain in the bones of my skull. The cold concrete floor served as a whole body ice pack in those early morning hours before the sun heated it anyway. Without a doubt, however, there is One Great Spirit that listens to our pleas for intervention, and speaks to others to go help us recover, and Mona was that earth angel God sent to my rescue. Through a synchronistic chat on Facebook Mona sensed my situation resulting in her flying, and later driving, to Spokane to reorient my focus from fear to faith, illness to wellness once again. She conducted not one but
two 3-day treatments a month apart for me and Connie, and she made all the difference in our world. From her first session employing shamanic wisdom, it was clear that I was being spared to walk the talk of a Christ-centered, earth-honoring medicine man as I had written a couple books on this topic and it was time to put up or shut up! (See www.sacredreconnections.com) Along this same line of treatment, I went to several complementary health care specialists in my community to tap my biological plant farm roots that included acupuncture with Rebekah Giangreco, L.Ac., Dipl.Ac., at New Moon Family Acupuncture; sports medicine chiropractic with Ryan Johnson, D.C., at Pearson and Weary Pain Relief Clinics; and massage therapy with Marlene Sullivan, L.M.T. Thank God, I also had a strong spiritual support team that appeared as if by magic, usually a bad choice of words with the Christian evangelic. Hopefully, I will be instrumental in helping them step-up to the plate: the challenges and opportunities for ministry in this matter now. He knew that Glory Trust me they are right-on-target when it comes to Hades and Hell too, the hidden place and the evil spirits! For the doubting Thomas, I only ask you to review one non-religious Are in your soul, with textbook, The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and The Sacred Geography of the Body by mathematician, and all their myths; physicist Professor J. Nigro Sansonese, and the objective documentary DVD film titled Gates of Hell produced by The He knew, like the Greek, that the days Of History Channel. That is, I am not focused on fear at all but facts that will convince you beyond a reasonable doubt that Time are Eternity s what we ve called hell is right here on earth. Specifically, Mirrors. we re experiencing a literal warfare going on within the cells of our human body-mind-spirit! (See www.history.com)
~Jorge Luis Borges
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship. (Romans 12:1) Pastor Robert Lindseth of the Life Church located at the corner of 25th and South Grand Boulevard in Spokane came into my life miraculously after his teenage daughter happened to come by our house one evening to ask my wife if there was anyone that needed prayer? Oh did I ever! Bob invested countless hours ministering to me this past summer as we prayed together for answers to my situation. I even asked him to renew my covenant in baptism for I identified with this proclamation of Paul of Tarsus as never before in my life: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20) Hint: The word covenant in Hebrew
means a cut-where-blood-flows!
And while all of these skilled practitioners of the healing arts, sciences and religions helped me cope to a certain extent, over the span of excruciatingly painful weeks that stretched into
agonizingly slow months I realized I was missing a critical key to opening the locked gates of hell to my wellbeing: Life force energy. In particular, I needed to increase my ch i with amino acid therapy administered intravenously (I.V.) to repair the cell damage of aging, diet, and toxic emotions in order to restore the functioning of my communication circuitry, the message molecule carriers of the central nervous system. I had to glue Humpty-Dumpty back together again, increase the ligands that are binding elements of DNA-RNA coded protein synthesis cycles of consciousness. These electronic ions cement amino acid molecules into chains, the building blocks of life. Anthropologist Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Stanford University, unpacked the secret in DNA from his own shamanic field work with the plant teachers in the Amazonian rainforests, ecstatically reporting in The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge: "When I started reading the literature of molecular biology, I was stunned by certain descriptions. Admittedly, I was on the lookout for anything unusual, as my investigation had led me to consider that DNA and its cellular machinery truly were an extremely sophisticated technology of cosmic origin. But as I pored over thousands of pages of biological texts, I discovered a world of science fiction that seemed to confirm my hypothesis. Proteins and enzymes were described as 'miniature robots,' ribosomes were 'molecular computers,' cells were 'factories,' DNA itself was a 'text,' a 'program,' a 'language,' or 'data.' One only had to do a literal reading of contemporary biology to reach shattering conclusions; yet most authors display a total lack of astonishment and seem to consider that life is merely 'a normal physiochemical phenomenon. " Again, Dr. Pert, formerly a Research Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., wrote in her aforementioned textbook on this topic: Ligands are generally much smaller molecules than the receptors they bind to, and they are divided into three chemical types. The first type of ligand comprises the classical neurotransmitters, which are small molecules with such unwieldy names as acetylcholine, norepinephrine, dopamine, histamine, glycine, GABA, and serotonin. (See www.candacepert.com) Soon thereafter, at my wits end with drugs of every flavor that did not yield viable cures only intolerable side-effects, I remembered an informative dialogue I had on Facebook again, albeit a year earlier, with Steve Sewell, founder of Mind & Body Works in Durango, Colorado. He had succinctly replied to a comment I made that I was using amino acids orally to improve my health but he knowingly stated that in many cases, they had to be administered via I.V. to enter the bloodstream: bypass the deleterious impact of digestive tract juices and processes. Then in a subsequent telephone conversation, I shared my medical history and Steve offered that, perhaps, my brain-body could no longer create its endogenous, morphine-like pain killers, the endorphins, to give me that runner s high I associated with wellness? That was a
reasonable conclusion given my free-floating symptoms of anxiety-panic, hypomania that seemed even to me to be a case of hypochondria; that is, more psycho than somatic! In the final analysis, I needed high-tech soul food: the finger-licking-good to the last drop ligands! If I wanted what they offered, Steve said, I could report to the clinic on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 for a physical examination by Paul Glanville, M.D., an anti-aging specialist schooled in complementary and traditional medicine. Of course, I was impressed with the intravenous protocol s potential for healing my spine and took his advice to heart, and head: they seemingly had exactly what I was looking for no doubt about it. From my own decades of study in the shamanic sciences and practice in Community Health Administration and Wellness Promotion with the U.S. Navy Hospital Clinic, Keyport, Washington, I knew that healing disease happened through integration of the East and West: what Larry Dossey, M.D. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and his wife, Barbara Dossey, R.N., Ph.D., call ERA-III Medicine. They do not mince words or split-hairs and neither do I for this is the emerging health care paradigm of the future: We are literally thought forms co-existing within the Mind of God Body of Christ and we need to apply this eternal truth to our lives here and hereafter. We co-exist with myriad life forms and we need to get over it and get on with it: There is a lot of work to do if we are to bring hell up from and heaven down to earth. Our mission is to merge three worlds upper, lower, and middle into one new world order right here and now! Dr. Dossey counsels: Taking nonlocal mind seriously can, as I describe in Reinventing Medicine, widen the dimensions of consciousness. We can tap into sources of wisdom beyond ourselves and beyond the present: Creative breakthroughs and prophetic knowing become ordinary in the context of nonlocal mind. Empathy and compassion flower as a result of our felt linkage with one another. And the awareness of immortality, as I've described, takes the pressure off living and dying. This will not happen automatically, however. We have to do our share and set our biases and prejudices aside. These are urgent matters. As Andre Malraux said, "The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all." (See www.dosseydossey.com) Rocky Mountain High For the record, it is an absolutely divine drive into Durango. Colorado from all directions but we had come by way of the northern Interstates: I-90E, I-15S, I-70E: Spokane-Billings-Salt Lake City-Grand Junction, and then south onto Colorado Highway 550. This is a breathtaking scenic route with big timber, wildlife views at somewhat oxygen-starved elevations: over two miles high at its jagged-rocky top peaks. But what a beautiful clear-blue unpolluted sky!
Then as we descended into the City of Durango itself, we saw clean streets, a well-planned city center and marketplace that highlighted its southwestern cowboy theme. The focal point was the restored train station for the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Of course, the antique brick hotels with crystal-chandeliers and gun-fighting saloons of the 1800s helped set the stage, literally. Actually, Connie remarked that we had come to a 5-star vacation getaway not a sterile-looking typical medical district as we had envisioned. There was even a gorgeous fast-moving river running through the city park: Animas. This in fact was a sacred space nestled within the Four Corners of the USA. Upon arrival at the clinic the next morning, I already knew that I came to the right place to kickstart my immune system. If I needed a booster shot of confidence, I was greeted with a warm smile by Julie Frank, the office administrator, and Steve Adams, my co-counselor for the next 10-days. Then I reported for my physical exam at 10AM to Paul Glanville, M.D., and read these inspirational words on his business card from Psalm 103 that made my day: Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. You know what an eagle can do, right? It can grow brand new feathers no matter its age! Indeed I needed new feathers, and bones to support them, if I was ever to fly again without a neck brace and a beak load of medicines. In a nutshell, be careful what you pray for and write about, and who, for they may very well return to validate, or not, your claims about them be they among the living or dead. You ll see what I mean when you read the First Edition of my book Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century. But, in brief, you will learn what I did from an after-death communication incident with a deceased optics physicist colleague, George, and why analytical psychologist Carl Jung, M.D., stated Modern behaviorist psychology reduces psychic happenings to a kind of activity of the glands; thoughts are regarded as secretions of the brain, and thus we achieve a psychology without the psyche. In other words, we removed the powers of the psyche soul from our physical sense of self but the greater truth is we are entangled within messenger molecules of spirit all the time. Close encounters of ETs/UFOs, for example, are synchronistic clues profoundly meaningful coincidences that speak to a multi-dimensional, layered hyperspace cosmos filled-to-thebrim with psychophysical beings. Mind and matter is a single substance made of information. There is simply no wiggle room anymore around this fact says National Public Radio awardwinning correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty, and acclaimed author of Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality. The lesson we are learning from amino acid therapy is straightforward: the mind of the mystic, prophet, and shaman is lying dormant, sleeping untapped within DNA yet cosmic consciousness is forever flowing-freely through us all now. That is, the knowledge to heal ourselves is available for the asking if we ask the right questions symbolically and playing possum is not the answer to
a spiritually alive, genetically mutating universe. The author of creation, God, writes the Book of Life and illustrates it via DNA codes with our life experiences providing the data each and every second for the messenger molecules forming and informing an infinite number of spacetime real worlds. With this insight, I wept tears of joy for I knew that my prayers had been answered: my deliverance from pain was at hand and my walk into wellbeing had begun. Although I was optimistic, and looking forward to the treatment sessions, I was about to take an unexpected swan dive, and it was not the 6,500 foot elevation in Durango that made me swoon either. I Died in Durango Are you okay, John? my nurse, Jessica Dehen, R.N., asked. She had skillfully inserted the first of ten-day intravenous (I.V.) feeding tube needles into my arm, but suddenly my mind relaxed its tenacious grip on the pain in my neck. I unwittingly started to slump into what I imagined was the darkness of unconsciousness, so replying softly, I said what I felt was obviously true: I m dying. She calmly helped me into a black lounge chair and discretely summoned Dr. Glanville to check my vital signs, if that was needed. But it wasn t, and of course I was not dying but being reborn in fact into a new way of living. Yet I didn t know that until a few days later after I shared what had happened to me with Jessica and she corrected my distorted perceptions of this incident. She informed me that I did not faint nor have any type of adverse reaction to the amino acid nutrients whatsoever, rather I simply slipped into a deep state-of-sleep and snored to high heaven! As I reflected upon her words, that made perfect sense since I had not slept without a sleeping pill in months. I knew I had stopped dreaming once I began taking Ambien and my educated guess was that rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep is much more critical than we have imagined. Perhaps, the brain-body cannot repair itself properly if we induce sleep with drugs of all types: alcohol, prescription, and street? Maybe the organic messenger molecules created by nature such as serotonin, dopamine and melatonin, for examples, are paralyzed, and cannot exchange DNA-RNA protein synthesis maintenance information between brain hemispheres, I pondered? Author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, Daniel Pinchbeck, shared the conclusions of Dr. Carl Anderson of McLean Hospital, Virginia: disparities between the left and right brain disrupt REM sleep, which as Anderson notes is essential for emotional regulation, learning, and memory consolidation. In particular, I agree with Dr. Anderson, although I acknowledge that Pinchbeck, a wise urban shaman in his own right, is not totally convinced yet with respect to this physician s hypothesis: Interhemispheric struggles, primarily a result of child abuse, may be a fundamental psychological root of drug addiction. (See www.breakingopenthehead.com)
Accordingly, drug addiction is indeed getting worse every single year in PTSD breeding grounds: military combat zones, inner cities, and First Nations reservations. This is the siren song warning that our children and grandchildren are at high-risk for self-destruction in untold numbers if we do not intervene now, if not for any other reason that we are a nutritionally-bankrupt nation! The obesity we see is symptomatic of stress stored in belly fat and the high corn sugar-low exercise diets will have only one long-term outcome for the Western world: degenerative diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, premature pain, suffering, and death with its correlated runaway health care medical costs for taxpayers. So I asked myself: Can amino acid therapy rewire our genes towards not only optimal wellness and personal happiness but world peace too? Is it that simple: Let food be our medicine in the way that the father of medicine, Hippocrates, meant it? It s a visionary idea for certain and will require considerable scrutiny if and when taken seriously enough to have federal government funds assigned to it. In the meantime, I d reflect upon the meaning of the epigenetic medicine model findings of Dawson Church, Ph.D. relayed recently in his book The Genie in Your Genes: The healing power of consciousness and intention appears to be independent of time as well as space. Prayer seems to work retroactively as well as across great distances. Perhaps the whimsical injunction is true: It s never too late to have a "This body, that you are in, has happy childhood! (See been alive forever. It comes www.soulmedicineinstitute.org) from an unending stream of Can we pray our self and world well too? This much I know from my observation: our brain is a terrible thing to see waste away on junk food, drugs, and ~Mellen-Thomas Benedict www.mellen-thomas.com booze! Slowly I stitched the pieces of my addiction, pain, and stress disorder together with the help of the staff assigned to me for that purpose: cocounselors extraordinaire Steve Sewell, Steve Adams, and shamanic practitioner Marie Redfeather. Though my life story is not unique, it is totally relevant to you my friends regarding how to heal from childhood traumas, symptoms, employing specific steps I took along the way that I methodically, painstakingly but also joyously, outlined in the Second Edition of my book, Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century. Again, Daniel Pinchbeck speaks wisely beyond his tears: With his visions, his ability to transform energies, and his mastery of healing, Christ could be seen as a prototypical shaman. Not surprisingly, every one of the lessons-learned on my own from decades of research, I saw incorporated into the wellness model employed at Mind & Body Works. Therefore, amino acid therapy is the key to survival in our efforts to offset the impact of climate changes and what near-death researcher at the University of Connecticut, Professor of Psychology Emeritus Ken Ring, Ph.D., knowingly called us to embrace two decades ago: the shamanizing of humanity! By the way, my two books are also directly related to what is happening to people and planet today in era-2012: We are threatened with extinction. As cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. has
life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond."
said, It s the environment stupid! Our toxic technology has turned our agricultural soils and drinking water sources into septic tanks and our dysfunctional attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles are eating away at our immune systems worldwide. (See www.brucelipton.com and www.iands.org) Thus I cannot emphasize enough the importance of shamanic tools and techniques for our day and age for it is indeed the myths by which we live that determine our life story individually and collectively as a civilization. What is it we want to experience, in other words? It could not be said more clearly and forcefully than this prophet: As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. (Proverbs 23:7) The Key is Under Your Mother s Pillow Over the 10-day course of I.V. treatments with amino acid nutrients, what I came to call Love Potion Number 9, I also had sessions with other outstanding health care providers including Healing Touch with Linda Marie Ambrose, as well as in the downtown Durango community. Namely massage therapy at Amaya Natural Therapeutics, and acupuncture at Animas Oriental Medicine clinic. Macushla F. Hobin, L.Ac., MSTOM is a graduate of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego, California and her expertise in clinical diagnosis and needle placement really opened the door chakras and meridians to my healing. For the first time in six months, I finally heard an assessment of my situation that made sense of the symptoms that was a true mystery to me. Yet I agreed with her immediately, intellectually and intuitively, as to the underlying cause-effect relationships: Sleep Deprivation. More so, I was told that my neck symptoms presented itself in a way that was well-known to the classical oriental medicine model and therefore had specific treatment protocols that could be followed to heal me now. Beyond a doubt, I benefited once these blocked pathways were opened to the flow of life force energy ch i again through my spinal column vertebras and into the skull s sinus cavities. I felt the instant relief from pain when she inserted needles into C7 vertebra that second session: these circuits began to function as intended. That is, I was no longer grid-locked neurologically between my head and heart in particular and the neurotransmitters could transmit messages full-circle in these circuits of consciousness. My nerves quieted down and restored themselves to peaceful co-existence with the natural rhythms of my lifestyle in the days and weeks ahead. Marie Redfeather played a pivotal role in recovering and releasing early childhood trauma that I had completely buried within my body. She is a First Nations, French-Canadian descent initiate of Peruvian shamanism. Through her expertise, and sensitivity, to what was seeking to surface during our counseling sessions and ceremonies together, we rediscovered a series of medical crises that had crippled me throughout my life. Specifically, I broke my leg in the 3rd grade and had to be transported for treatment to Auburn General Hospital, Washington. This was in the
days when a parent could not visit or stay at will with a scared child, but to make matters even more terrifying in my case the ward nurses used hypodermic needle injections to sedate me keep me quiet throughout the night. Moreover, during my days hooked-up to I.V. at Mind & Body Works, I flashbacked to several incidents that involved doctors, nurses, syringes and I.V.s in Seattle. For examples, I had blocked memories of Children s Orthopedic and Virginia Mason Hospital clinic visits that had traumatized me severely in my early teen years. Thus, we uncovered and brought to light how these disturbing incidents ultimately steered my studies to psychology and theology in my totally subconscious efforts to continually work through these fears as an adult much as psychiatrist Stan Grof, M.D. outlines happens in Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research. (See www.holotropic.com) Needless to say, I was indeed awakened at needle point in Durango, Colorado! However, it was the insights of the founder of Mind & Body Works that triggered a major catharsis during his first counseling session with me. Steve Sewell patiently listened to my medical history: recitations of childhood and alcohol abuse, military injuries and related psychophysical symptoms, allopathic and integrative treatments, as he observed my body gestures, too. He then gently, nonchalantly offered this pearl of great price for me to mediate upon later that evening at the Iron Horse Inn motel as my homework assignment in fact: The Key is Under Your Mother s Pillow. So I mused into the night, as my wife slept alongside me, about my life s story and how I spoke it into existence with every word uttered. Specifically, I came to see the wisdom in the words of St. John: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1). That is to say, I needed to wash my mouth out with soap for I spewed out toxic temper tantrums, childish concepts and emotions in nearly every sentence. I colored my world with words that had coagulated, nearly choked the life out of me with fear over many years by failing to follow my bliss as a public-speaker because I was reenacting my mother s sense of learned helplessness, also known as clinical depression, at being abandoned by my father not me. In reality, I never knew my father given my age at the time of his departure so how could I blame him for being a bad parent or role model? But I did incorporate make physical every negative emotion my mother felt and expressed by her body postures and inadvertently poisoned my environment. My father had little to do with my life issues was the bottom-line: It was mommy dearest after all. Summary Apostle Paul summed-up my conclusions nicely: Now you together are Christ's body; but each of you is a different part of it. (I Cor. 12:27) No one knows that truth better than Andrew Newberg, M.D., Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College. He is a pioneer in the study of a field frequently referred to today as neurotheology. In his career, he has also actively pursued neuro-imaging research projects on aging and dementia, Parkinson's disease, depression, and
other neurological and psychiatric disorders. He has also researched the neurophysiological correlates of acupuncture, meditation, and alternative therapies, and how brain function is associated with mystical and religious experiences. Dr. Newberg has received an award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences for his program entitled "The Biology of Spirituality." (See www.andrewnewberg.com) In the Gospel of Thomas, Christ spoke these words of wisdom: If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is inside you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Daniel Pinchbeck has the right molecular spin on many of these matters: The tryptamine molecule is the building block of many neurotransmitters. You may spend the rest of your life suppressing the memory, but it is still inside of you. Later in a mystical burst of clarity, I saw that I did not get sick or healed in a vacuum these past months either, rather my life story was the well-orchestrated script that God designed to bring me to Him and my future work with people suffering from addictions, pain, and stress disorders needing amino acid therapy. No doubt about it today, my history is not my destiny. Yet to say I m objective anymore is a lie: I am subjective in that I know what works and I plan on shouting it from the rooftops. If you are an adventurous, courageous soul willing to follow the road less travelled to achieve optimal wellness here and hereafter, then I wholeheartedly suggest that you go to this website right now without delay: www.mindandbodyworks.org. Indeed, be bold and call the Mind & Body Works clinic Toll Free at 1-888-788-7348 and, perhaps, you too will become awakened at needle point! Further Recommended Reading References 1. For those interested in the symbolic treatment of illness, I refer you to an eclectic new book on this topic, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy by Alejandro Jodorowsky in Paris, France. As well as the insights of Jungian-oriented psychotherapist Paul Levy in Portland, Oregon, himself a former mental hospital patient and now crazy life a fox. (See www.awakeninthedream.com) 2. Braverman, E.R., M.D., and Pfeiffer, C.C., M.D., Ph.D. The Healing Nutrients Within: Facts, Findings and New Research on Amino Acids. CT: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1987. 3. Twiss, Richard. One Church Many Tribes. CA: Regal Press, 2000. (www.wiconi.org) About the Author John Jay Harper is a Community Health Coach specializing in the treatment of addiction, pain and stress disorders and author of the bestseller Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century. He holds post-graduate degrees in Business Administration, Human Resource Management, Community Health Administration, Wellness Promotion as well as Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychology. He can be reached for radio/TV/print media-interviews at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Facebook anytime. John is now serving as a consultant to Mind & Body Works in order to establish a public-speaking awareness campaign for amino acid therapy clinics nationwide. (See www.johnjayharper.com)


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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
My Babes at Disneyland
15 comments:
- Rose from Oz is Back! said...
Oh yes Denise - technology is indeed a grand thing.
At times I am amazed at life's lessons I learn from my children. They seem so much wiser these days. :)
- July 17, 2012 at 1:48 AM
- gigihawaii said...
What a sweet picture! And you got it on a moment's notice, too.
- July 17, 2012 at 2:11 AM
- ZielonaMila said...
Nice taking, the nice time. I am greeting
- July 17, 2012 at 2:33 AM
- diane b said...
Isn't it great to see our children enjoying themselves. This is a lovely happy shot of them. I love your quotes they are so true.
- July 17, 2012 at 2:58 AM
- Lui said...
Hi Denise!
They look like they are having lots of fun! And how awesome to see all that in a jiffy! ;-)
- July 17, 2012 at 3:33 AM
- Valerie said...
We might criticise technology at times but it sure has its uses. Love the picture, it's perfect.
- July 17, 2012 at 3:53 AM
- eileeninmd said...
Denise, I love this shot of your babes with their mickey mouse ears. Great quote too, have a lovely day.
- July 17, 2012 at 5:32 AM
- Roy said...
Thats very true Denise, as we get older our children are keeping us on the straight and narrow. Which I am beginning to discover.{:)
- July 17, 2012 at 5:35 AM
- Out on the prairie said...
I like the headgear, it was something I always wanted as a kid.
- July 17, 2012 at 7:47 AM
- TexWisGirl said...
that's cute.
- July 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM
- Janie said...
They're such a cute couple. They look like they're having a lot of fun.
- July 17, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- Linda Gross said...
Nice picture of your son and his wife together. We were able to see our grandchildren a few minutes after they were born thanks to technology.
- July 17, 2012 at 10:37 PM
- cloudia charters said...
Thanks for sharing your joy!
Very generous-
Warm Aloha to you from Honolulu
Comfort Spiral
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- July 17, 2012 at 10:39 PM
- Denise said...
Thank you for all the wonderful comments.
- July 18, 2012 at 2:33 PM
- Kay said...
Technology really is a fabulous thing! The funny thing is I'm beginning to take it for granted which is amazing.
On the other hand... it does have its own drawbacks which make me crazy sometimes. But when I can text my son in Peru and know he's feeling better, it means the world.
- July 18, 2012 at 6:25 PM


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