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Saith is a treat to watch in this video for his new single, Again and Again. There’s an amazing community of gifted musicians in Sedona, and he’s one of the most talented among them. This new single, and the video, are so good. (He also teaches the best yoga class I’ve ever taken….if you ever get the rare chance to take a class from him, jump on it! His yoga opens you up, body and soul, just like his music does.)  Raven Playing in the Snow Living in Sedona where there is a thriving, very interactive, community of ravens has turned me into a huge fan. This short clip from a very entertaining PBS special is a wonderful look into the playful, fun side of the magical black bird: . .  Rob Brezny Author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, Rob Brezny is guaranteed to light up your life with new perspectives on life, love, sex, and lots more. I recommend everyone sign up for his astrology newsletter – even if you don’t like astrology. He opens each email with an uplifting, somewhat anarchistic, excerpt from Pronoia and follows that with three links to amazing sites that will inspire you. It’s one of the only newsletters I ALWAYS read because it just makes me feel good! You can sign up for it here: freewillastrology.com/newsletter Here’s a funny, inspiring Pronoia excerpt that was featured in the email he sent out this week: CRIMES THAT DON’T BREAK ANY LAWS, Rob Brezny We’re psychically assaulted by dangerous images and sickening words every day. The media relentlessly blast us with their trendy doom and gloom fixation, generating an endless onslaught of messages about how bad life is and what a mess the future will bring. The entertainment industry force-feeds us insipidly paranoid scenarios that keep our fear reflexes chronically throbbing. Is this acceptable to you? It’s not to me. Our eyes and ears are constantly scalded by blistering harangues to buy stuff we don’t really need. The sacred temples of our imaginations are pounded ruthlessly by smart bombs whipped up by evil advertising geniuses in their Madison Avenue laboratories. Our ability to envision the astounding intricacy and richness of the web of life has gotten hijacked and hooked on decadent fantasies about new possessions that would allegedly make us happier. I for one am no longer willing to absorb the dazzling psychic toxins that sting and sap and wound our lust for life. I reject the epidemic obsession with big bad nasty things and flashy trite empty-hearted things. I say it’s time for us to rise up and fight back — to reconsecrate and regenerate our imaginations. Here are my demands. Continue reading Rob Brezny’s 15 Demands – Rescuing Your Imagination
There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness. Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you. Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life. Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God’s children. A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, “nourish them.” Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you. Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favourite food is, and treat you to a movie. Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you — for free. Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on. The next great song is being rehearsed. Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth. Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way. Someone is in profound pain, and a few months from now, they’ll be thriving like never before. They just can’t see it from where they’re at. Someone who is craving to be partnered, to be acknowledged, to ARRIVE, will get precisely what they want — and even more. And because that gift will be so fantastical in it’s reach and sweetness, it will quite magically alter their memory of angsty longing and render it all “So worth the wait.” Someone has recently cracked open their joyous, genuine nature because they did the hard work of hauling years of oppression off of their psyche — this luminous juju is floating in the ether, and is accessible to you. Someone just this second wished for world peace, in earnest. Someone is fighting the fight so that you don’t have to. Some civil servant is making sure that you get your mail, and your garbage is picked up, that the trains are running on time, and that you are generally safe. Someone is dedicating their days to protecting your civil liberties and clean drinking water. Someone is regaining their sanity. Someone is coming back from the dead. Someone is genuinely forgiving the seemingly unforgivable. Someone is curing the incurable. You. Me. Some. One. Now. SPREAD THE RA-RA. ADD TO THE MANIFESTO. ENCOURAGE. . . . . . . . Source: http://WhiteHotTruth.com . . . . . . .
This showed up making the rounds again on Facebook, he’s so right and so funny!
On the occasion of the Sony e-book release of my book, Kama Sutra I would like to share the following insights on sex and spirituality: 1. Sexual energy is the primal and creative energy of the universe. All things that are alive come from sexual energy. In animals and other life forms, sexual energy expresses itself as biological creativity. In humans, sexual energy can be creative at all levels — physical, emotional and spiritual. In any situation — where we feel attraction, arousal, awakening, alertness, passion, interest, inspiration, excitement, creativity, enthusiasm — in each of these situations, sexual energy is at work. Whenever we feel these states of awareness, we must put our attention on the energy that we are experiencing, nourishing it with our attention, experiencing it with joy and keeping it alive in our awareness. 2. Sexual desire is sacred and chaste. The suppression of sexual energy is false, ugly and unchaste. 3. During sexual union, there is union between flesh and spirit. 4. Bliss, carefreeness and playfulness are the essence of sex. 5. To improve your sexual experiences, get rid of your expectations. 6. In sex, as in all areas of life, resistance is born of fear. All resistance is mental. It implies judgment against what is being felt. Sex becomes a problem when it gets mixed with hidden emotions such as shame, guilt and anger. 7. Sexual intimacy is the road to the taste or experience of true freedom, because it is the one area of life in which we can become completely uninhibited and free. 8. Sexual fulfillment occurs when the experience comes from playfulness instead of need. Frequently people bring their conflicts and needs into the sexual experience. When sex is used to fulfill needs, it leads to addiction. When sex comes from playfulness, the result is ecstasy. 9. All problems related to sex, neurosis, deviancy, sexual misbehavior, violence, abuse, can be traced to resistance, suppression and repression — not to the sexual urges themselves. If we are allowed to discover our urges, desires and emotions, without outside inhibition, they won’t go to extremes. Extremism, in any form, is a reaction to repression, inhibition and suppression. Aggression and violence are the shadow energies of fear and impotence. 10. Sex is a means of escaping our little self or ego. It is many peoples’ only experience of meditation. 11. Meaningful sex has to be value based. Values are personal. Each situation that has sexual energy in it, involves the whole human being and their entire value system. My values may be different from yours, and I have no right to be the moral judge of anyone’s values. It is important, however, to have core values, and respect them. Without values, we become spiritually bankrupt. Sexual experience will never cause problems and will always be joyful, if lovers share the same values. 12. True intimacy is union between flesh and flesh, between subtle body and subtle body, between soul and soul. Sexual energy is sacred energy. When we have restored the sexual experience to the realm of the sacred, our world will be chaste and divine, holy and healed. Love, Source: The Huffington Post
I started feeling a strong urge to visit Los Angeles weeks ago. It was unexplainable, but quite persistent so finally I made a casual call to a new Facebook friend to see if he had any rooms available at his house for a few days. Was I in luck. I’d seen some intriguing photos of “Gemini Manor” . . . but photos do no justice at all to this amazing work of art. In fact first night I was there, I decided not to leave my room to get something I’d forgotten downstairs. I just wasn’t sure I could find my way back through the winding maze to reach my cozy room up in the trees.  A peak into the Wizard's Bedroom I’ve since heard several people say that visiting the Manor feels like being inside an M.C. Escher drawing. Only this is much, much more elaborate than anything Escher ever drew. There are multitudes of… - stained glass windows  Stained Glass Window at Gemini Manor - comfy sofas And on. I’ve never experienced anything like it. I’m addicted – I’ll be going back again soon. Meanwhile I just can’t keep it a secret from the world. Other people should experience this place. It’s the kind of destination people travel far across the world to see, only it’s just around the corner in Hollywood. It’s a creation that both awakens and satisfies the innate human thirst we all have for the magic and mystery of life.  Alexander Lehr, creator of Gemini Manor Alexander Lehr is the creative, amazing Wizard behind the curtain. He’s a gracious, wonderful host who will happily transport you into his secret oasis of stunning beauty. A visionary genius of many talents, he’s a Filmmaker, Event Producer, Real Estate Investor, Artist, Business Man, and Collector (ask him about his 41 cars!). He’s lived on the property for decades so he naturally knows the town, and it’s residents, very intimately. A natural storyteller, he thoroughly entertained me with fascinating accounts of his adventures in Hollywood, as well as his tales of the area history. He’s a real insider with connections to people and parties others only dream about. He also throws some great parties himself, find him on Facebook (Alexander Lehr) and keep on eye on what he’s doing. His events are as magical as his home.  The Jungle Room at Gemini Manor (where I got to stay) If you’re going to LA, forget Disneyland (even though it’s one of his favorite places) and visit Gemini Manor instead! I highly recommend it. (P.S. The Manor is frequently used as a film set. You’ll find lots more photos on the Ambassador Locations website.) ~~ This video made me feel good all over. I hope you enjoy it, too!
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