Free-Mind-Body-Spirit Spiritual Awareness Blog - Eva Ravenwood

The poem below was written by Julia Ward Howe. She wrote this in the post civil war movement. It was a call for women to unite for peace and disarmament. She believed it was the responsibility of women to shape society not just through the nurturing of a home, but at a political level as well. What a truly modern thinker. She is considered the the person who started Mother's Day. Modern Mother's has really changed in many ways, maybe it is time to return to the original intention of Ms. Howe. Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking of carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, will be

Vibrating Rocks in England ! - Avebury Formation I have a new English client, Colin, one of my MySpace friends. In honor of his wonderful, wise spirit, I’ve decided that England should be the focus of this week’s blog. Thank you Colin for your support and wisdom! May your engineer’s spirit soar with this tidbit. In 2005, I visited my friend Mike in England . He took me to the rock formation called Avebury, which is larger and more impressive to me in complexity than Stonehenge . Some of the rocks when I touched them, gave off high sounding/feeling frequencies, some low and others very deep and rumbly, almost like the sound of a giant generator humming, in a pulsating manner. Both Mike and I experienced headaches when we got near the two gigantic rocks (maybe 20 feet high) on the back field. I sat down on one of the rocks and asked a few questions and jotted down some notes and drawings. They went back to Mike’s and asked for a formal reading about the site. This is what I heard

This is a repost from another site. An interesting article on the pervasiveness of auditory hallucinations in modern society and throughout history (very relevant to Jaynes’s theory) that appeared in the NY Times by Daniel Smith. Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head? by Daniel B. Smith Angelo, a London-born scientist in his early 30s with sandy brown hair, round wire-frame glasses and a slight, unobtrusive stammer, vividly recalls the day he began to hear voices. It was Jan. 7, 2001, and he had recently passed his Ph.D. oral exams in chemistry at an American university, where, for the previous four and a half years, he conducted research into infrared electromagnetism. Angelo was walking home from the laboratory when, all of a sudden, he heard two voices in his head. “It was like hearing thoughts in my mind that were not mine,” he explained recently. “They identified themselves as Andrew and Oliver, two angels. In my mind’s eye, I could see an image of a bald, middle-aged man

Original post - Oct. 26, 2007 Being Spiritually Courageous I’ve had an interesting week as seems to be the case when a new lesson is introduced by God. I join a lot of groups because I am confronted with so many clients with truly difficult issues in their lives, so I try and listen to everyone’s point of view. Being a part of varied groups allows me to check the posts each morning and know if some new thread presents an issue I’ve never heard of or a new perspective on something I have dealt with before. Most of my readings are by e-mail and I never see the person, so I’m comfortable with reading people’s communications. Because of that, I got a friend request from a person in one of the Atheist groups that I belong to, a “free thought” group. I was going to accept, but when I went to his page, he is a huge supported of a person who is a rabid anti-paranormal/mystic/beyond material understanding person, famous for his attacks on anyone who believes or claims knowledge of a world I l

We had a great show on the Blog Talk Radio on April 24, as I was able to interview Dr. Phelan author of 1-2-3 Magic. This is a really simple yet thorough book on discipline. My producer pointed out the topic lacked a spiritual component, as my show is called The Spiritual Mom's Corner, and it is true that spirituality as a term was not directly addressed. But my view is being a effective and good parent takes certain amount of detachment. As Dr. Phelan responded when I asked the question of why parents fail to use his methods when they are so easy and simple he said they get into the cycle where they get angry. We talked about how certain parts of our brain turn off when we are angry. How many of us have raised our voices at our kids when we really look back and regret it. I have. As parents we have an awesome responsibility to raise healthy, happy, well adjusted kids who contribute to the greater good of humanity. And who taught us how parent? We learn bad and good from

Teaching Our Children About God You know I guess I have procrastinated about blogging about this show. I really like doing the show but it also gave me some personal anxiety (Danah here). It seems to me we are all on a journey to learn and grow and as Eva says be our best spiritual selves. But this looks so different for each and every one of us. I will use myself as an example. I was brought up by very strict Christian Reformed grandparents. This is a religion which started in Holland and as my family came to the US they brought it with them. It is very strict and in many ways did not match my own personality. So this show was a tough one for me as I believe I left . . . spirituality with my being uncomfortable with the religion I was born into. So I sure don’t feel like I have much to say on teaching children about God because I am still learning and at the infant stage myself. With this disclaimer, I will recap some of the thoughts which were shared in the show.