LOVELIGHT

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July 2007*** Vol. 4, no.7

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Special Issue: The Loving Power of Healing, the Healing Power of Love

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Managing Editors: Richard Shining Thunder Francis and Adamaria Francis

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Contributors to this issue: Ramona Abella, Jeri Boone, Mary Butler, Jim Dwyer, Maureen Dwyer, Carol Espelage, Pat Fields, Chris Finer, Debra Frazier, Sandra Grubb, Pat Helms, David Hem Sagar, Carol Lawson, Brenda Lee, Cindaluna Miller, Bob Piche, Kathy Rice, Becky Rogero, Karleen Sell, and Frank Tyrrell.

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LOVELIGHT MAGAZINE: WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT

Lovelight magazine is free, coming directly to your inboxscreen once a month. We love to laugh.:) So, if you discover any jokes that make you roar, please send them along to the efamily.:) But life is not all laughs. So, we hope also to share with you some pleasant and happy thoughts.

Lovelight wants to promote peace and harmony, and to aid you. If you are working on any religious, psychological, or spiritual issues, we encourage you to write to us at rmfrancis@juno.comm

Also, if you come across any wise or touching pieces, not copyrighted, fairly short, please share them with the efamily. Also welcome are practical tips, short pieces on personal philosophies, interesting facts, wordplays, and general spirituality (but no religion or "preachy" dogma, please.:). We reserve the right to make whatever changes we deem necessary or desirable before inclusion in Lovelight.

As a subscriber, your email name/address will not be shared. Please share, send, or copy, this magazine, or any parts of it. Share it as widely as possible, with all your friends, and all others. Please use it on your websites and bulletinboards. Also, please have friends send us their emailaddress and subscribe. Subscriptions are free.

This is a "light" introduction to spirituality. And it is also great, fun reading. A collection of magazines is produced once a year. We have published three volumes, and this would make a sweet gift for a loved one. Happy reading!:)

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SNORTS, CHUCKLES, AND GRINS: HUMORTHERAPY

LOOKING FOR…WHOM? Sent in by Jim Dwyer

Two guys, one old and one  young, were pushing their carts around the home-remodeling store when they collided.

The old guy said, "Sorry about that. I'm looking for  my wife, and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. "

The young guy said, "That's OK. I'm looking for  my wife, too. I can't find her and I'm getting a little worried."

The old guy said, "Well, maybe we can help each other. What does your wife look like?"

The young guy said, "Well, she is 24 yrs old,  tall, with blonde hair, blue eyes, long legs, big boobs, and she's wearing  tight white shorts, a halter top and no bra. What does your wife look  like?"

The old guy says, "Who cares? Let's look for  yours!"

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YELLING YOUR HEAD OFF!, sent in by Chris Finer

A kid named Johnny decided that he wanted to become a minister. “That’s fine with us, son,” said his mother, “but what made you decide that?”

Johnny was quick to explain, “Well, I already have to go to church on Sunday and it’d be more fun to stand up there and yell than to sit and pretend to listen.”

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THINGS THEY DIDN'T TEACH ME IN HEBREW SCHOOL, sent in by Chris Finer

1. The High Holidays have absolutely nothing to do with marijuana.***2. Where there's smoke, there might be salmon.***3. You need ten men for a minion, but only four in polyester pants and white shoes for pinochle.***4. One mitzvah can change the world; two will just  make you tired.***5. Anything worth saying is worth repeating a
 thousand times.***6. Never take a front row seat at a Bris.***7. Always whisper the names of diseases.***8. Without Jewish mothers, who would need therapy?

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SIGNS ON SYNAGOGUE BULLETINBOARDS, sent in by Chris Finer

1. Under same management for over 5763 years.***2. Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case.***3. What part of "Thou shalt not" don't you understand?

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COMFORTABLE, sent in by Chris Finer

An elderly Jewish man was knocked down by a car. And he was brought to the local hospital. A pretty nurse tucked him into bed and said, "Mr. Gevarter, are you
comfortable?"  Gevarter replied, "I make a nice living."

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THE FERN AND THE BAMBOO, sent in by Chris Finer

One day, I decided just to quit! I quit my job, my relationships, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.

"God", I said into the empty sky, "can you give me one good reason not to quit?"

Her answer surprised me: "Look around," she said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"

"Yes", I replied.

"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not give up on the bamboo. In the second year, the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not give up on the bamboo. In the second year, there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In the fourth year, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. Then, in the fifth year, a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern, it was seemingly small and insignificant. But just 6 months later, the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots had made it strong and given it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle. Did you know that all this time that you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots? I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you."

She said, "The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful. So, never compare yourself with others."

"Your time will come," the Goddess said. " You will rise high!"

"How high should I rise?" I asked.

""How high will the bamboo rise?" She asked.

"As high as it can?" I questioned.

"Yes," She said. "Rise as high as you can."

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Never regret a day. "Good" days give you Happiness. "Bad" days give you Experiences. Both are essential to life. Keep going. Happiness keeps you sweet, Trials keep you strong, Failures keep you humble, Success keeps you glowing.

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NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM, sent in by Carol Lawson

"For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning."--Archie Fir Lame Deer, LAKOTA

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The Medicine people focus on their Being, not their doing. The Medicine people are very patient and consciously trying to live a life of humility. Medicine people are servants. Their main purpose is to serve the needs of others. By this service attitude, they become the leaders to whom the people want to listen… The Medicine people say everyone is their teacher. Maybe we should try to live this way ourselves: Humble, patient, honoring the Earth and listening to all people, to our teachers.

Let us ask: "Grandfather, today, let me know all people are my teachers and I am the student."

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"I am particularly fond of the little groves of oak trees. I love to look at them, because they endure the wintry storm and the summer's heat, and, not unlike ourselves, seem to flourish by them."--Sitting Bull, Sioux

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Every season has gifts that it gives to all creatures. The animals will develop thicker furs just before winter and will shed this fur in the spring. Squirrels will store their food

in the fall; other animals build up fat so they can hibernate during the Winter. We can watch all forms of nature and see all creatures work in harmony with the seasons. The secret for us is to learn by observing nature. Watch the trees. Learn from them. We human beings need to learn the gifts and blessings of the seasons.

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Grandfather, Grandmother, teach me to live in harmony with the seasons.

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BUYING GASOLINE WISELY, sent in by Maureen Dwyer

       Just enter your  zip code in the site below, and it tells you which gas stations have the cheapest prices (and the highest) on gas   in your zip code   area.  It's updated every evening.  Just  click on the link.  You will see a map of your area and then scroll down and you will get a listing of gas prices in your area with addresses and brands starting with the cheapest and going up. http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

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Please be a good neighbor and   pass this along .

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LOVELETTERS FROM FRIENDS, PALS, AND BUDS

The following letters are all a response to a healing energy request:

From Pat Helms

Dearest Shi,

Yes, read of your struggle in Lovelight….  Oh yes,  I will send lots of imaginary color!  I think of you often. All times of the day and in all places.  I send while driving the car, sitting by the lake, reading,  lots of variety times as you are in my heart always.  I… want it [this struggle] passed and exchanged so you can become Bionic Donk.

I had been sending orange, as [I] thought that was healing; and [it was being directed] not directly to the kidney....  I was able to do the blue but am working on the crystal clear bright of it. I continue to learn….

Thinking of you and… your contagious laugh!  Will keep our atmosphere working in Love Healing. Taking care of these earthly dust mite bodies. Think of me...keep me posted often, you lazy donkamelephant. Catch Me If You Can, your learning Panther. Can you feel the Love?

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Second letter from Pat Helms:

I will try so very hard to send the clearest silver I possibly can. I am such a neophyte. With this color........  You are in my thoughts and prayers always….

I would love to help in any way. I read very well, with great passion,  good emphasis, follow instructions on what you like, and fetch books. I am open to learning anything new that makes healing progress for friends as rapidly as we humans can.   

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Reply to Pat Helms:

Dear Pat,

Happy July, tomorrow.  Your letter was a great laugh!:)  Still smiling.:)  This has been a great and rich Lovexperience for all of us, for two dearly beloved, beautiful, wonderful friends have volunteered to be donors.  Needless to say, this has drawn the bonds of warm, intense Love much more closely together than any other kind of event.  If the procedure occurs, fyi, it will likely be at Christ.  Adamaria's exquisitely lovely sister Shirley Sexton, whom I have loved deeply for years, has volunteered.  And a relatively recent friend, a cancer-lady filled with Love, a very dear friend of the heart, Carol Lawson, has also volunteered as "plan b."  This reminds me that I am a very "rich" and happy man!:)  How could someone surrounded by such quality Love be anything but rich, anything but happy?:):)  Thank you for your clever and healing (humorous) letter.  I want to use parts of it in the July 07 issue of Lovelight magazine.:)

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 From Brenda Lee:

shi,

…My dear friend, consider it [healing work] done. I will think very positive thoughts for you. Love is a wonderful healer. Continue to love yourself, my friend. :) Please keep me posted about your health.

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From Kathy Rice:

Hello my Dear Friend. I've thought about you so often, and don't know why I haven't written…. I will gratefully and joyfully focus the silver-sky-blue energies into your kidney area, and Thank God for bringing you the healing that your body so needs. Is

there anything else we can do for you? PLEASE let me know. You and AdaMaria are so very precious to us! I will put you on the prayer line at church as well, and ask them to also vision for you.

Please know that even in my silence I Love you deeply, and you are forever in my heart.

Eternally Yours with silver-blue bubbles of Light, Joy, and Love,

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Second letter from Kathy:

Dearest shi,

I continue to keep your kidney area surrounded in the silver-sky-blue Energies. [I] wanted to tell you that I was meditating on it yesterday, when I saw your smiling face… The light began around your kidney area and spread to a floating energy circle around the mid section of your body, it then grew in size and brilliance until it covered the whole

living room from just below your chest. You seemed to be floating within the soft glow of the energy field and seemed very peaceful and relaxed. I had a strong sensation myself... Hope it's working well for you too!

I will continue to keep you in my thoughts, prayers, and meditations. I hope you are feeling better dear friend.

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From Ramona Abella:

Dearest Richard,

…I did not know about the problem with your right kidney…. I do not read all the emails I receive right away....You can count on my thoughts, prayers, visualizations (as requested) and tidal waves of Love arriving at your "shore" every single day.  Although I know this life is only a temporary condition, I still cannot, do not want to, imagine it without you; nor can I contemplate the thought of your being in great discomfort or pain.  Anything that can be done (intended) at this end shall be done.

I am so glad you wrote to ask for my help and support….

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Second letter from Ramona:

My dearest, dearest friend of my heart and Teacher of my Soul:

I am onboard 1000%.  I am SO relieved and grateful to know that a donor is available already.  How I wish I could be geographically closer to you.

Sending you infinite amounts of Love and blessings and ENERGY, I will be working with the Silver.

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Reply to Ramona:

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Dear Ramona,

Your profound Love can be felt over the many miles.  With friends such as yourself, the donkey can't lose, no matter what occurs.:)  Look for part of your fine note in the July 07 edition of Lovelight magazine.:)  Yes, beautiful friends are the choicest jewels of this life; I now have been greatly blessed with two very sweet, compassionate potential donors.  These beautiful ladies have now become my best friends.  I am deeply touched and moved.

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From Cinda Miller:

Dear Love Bug,

No, I didn't know that you were having challenges with your right kidney.  I am soooo sorry that you are going through this.  I would be honored to send you a silver sky blue energy.  I know that we are all connected and that thought has the fastest and most powerful affect.  What do the doctors tell you?  Not that that makes a whole lot of difference, because, the mind is stronger than the words of a doctor.  You are a beautiful and Love-filled person, so, I know that with all the prayers and thoughts of those that love you, you will be able to overcome this situation.  I am sure that your Angel Wife is very concerned over this.  She is the strongest woman I have ever met and is truly your compliment. 

Along with color therapy, what about music?  The happy vibrations will do marvelous things for the body.  You are probably way above worrying over anything, but, music can have a positive affect on the emotional body.

You are waaaaay toooo essential to this world for your body to cause you any concern.  You are so filled with God/Goddess…. 

Please take good care of yourself and be assured of my Love for you, a Love that will continue for an eternity. 

It was your words some 26 years ago that saved my life.  You have no idea what a mind explosion you caused.  It changed every molecule of my body.  You said "Don't worry about doctrine, it has nothing to do with anything.....it is all about love."  You thrilled my soul with those few words.  I would have probably been lost in a world of uncertainty if it wasn't for you and your words of wisdom.  I'm sure I am not the only one…  The Goddess loves the way you have proclaimed Her…. 

Hugs and kisses and butterflies and rainbows always for you…,

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From Debra Frazier

Hello Shi,

Thank you for the opportunity of giving. My chroma-healing is in progress. I'll send the overlighting Deva of healing and Pan too. It could get a little crowded there for awhile!

Sending a radiant flo of silver/sapphire pure healing energy from my heart to your kid-kidney. I also dedicated my viiyasa yoga session to your healing.

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From Becky Rogero:

Dear Shi,

It would be my joy and honor to send bright silver-sky-blue energy to your right kidney.  I acknowledge and celebrate your wholeness and its expression as a vibrant, strong, and healthy functioning kidney….  I know that all that is necessary for its continued operation is present and active, and that your openness and receptivity to its perfect functioning makes it a done deal….

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From my very special friend Carol Lawson:

Richard,

We will be sending the silvery sky blue energy to you several times per day…. We enjoyed our time with you today tremendously. It is always a very enlightening experience…

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From Karleen Sell:

Dearest Richard,

Thanks for the update.

Seems there are more crisis-type minutes these days! Part of this must be a kind of illusion due to the rapid crunching of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc. caused by increasingly speedy means of communication and travel. We have no moments in which to "catch up" with our lives …on this planet.

I, for one, am curious about how time "flies" for beech trees, for example. I can imagine that our slow walking through the forest is a tiny blur in the peripheral vision of the old tree, and butterflies are just flashes of light! As the children watch the butterflies emerge from their chrysalis at school they are delighted and mystified! And they should be, for we can barely imagine shedding our skin, much less creating our very own little sleeping bag, napping, and awakening as a flying creature rather than a caterpillar. This is the

kind of life we have imagined for our spirits and souls…

Our lives do take on lives of their own, driven and supported by an artificial intelligence that has surrounded us with electrical patterns and equipment and sends our minds scurrying down some road programmed by someone else into a land that does not actually exist. I see this happening to the media children - eyes staring straight ahead….

Is this how the old weed got elected twice and how the war continues even though 70% of Americans think it was a mistake and we should get out? Is this the real life Sopranos that everyone sees as "just a show?"

Sorry for these heavier than I ought to send you thoughts. It is that you are, after all, a real brain out there! And, you and Maria are little lights in my life, for sure! Little delights of hope for humanity! Much love to you both.

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From Bob Piche:

Good morning, Richard! (say. "happy birthday, Bob") I started fulfilling your request last night. I wasn't familiar with 'chromovisualization'. I will also use this for [my elderly lady-friend] GG. I have received your "Journey" book. Thank you very much!

Will try to call you soon.

Sending peace and love your way!

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from Chris Finer:

will be sending energy nonstop to heal that kidney starting right now incoming with this email to you!

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from Coral Espelage:

You both have my glowing silvery love.

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From Jeri Boone:

Dear shi,

As always, my thoughts and energy are with you and Adamaria. I am sad that your health is not up to par and I will be thinking of you and sending the silver ray to your right kidney every time I think of you; and that will be often….

No matter what happens to any of us in the future of this planet, you will always be remembered…Not that you will be leaving, (of course we all will) but I want you to know how much I admire you now….You have a special place here. Love you and Adamaria.

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Reply to Jeri:

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Dearest Jeri,

Thank you for the very well-written and deeply compassionate letter.  It was amazingly uplifting, and healing in itself.  For Love, in its billion forms, is always healing when expressed; it heals both the sender and the receiver.   And it has been a great pleasure and privilege to have been a small part of your Journey here on earth.  Yes, we all will and must leave; but this donkey still has a few more projects.:)  And Goddess has very kindly warmed the hearts of two of my very special, spectacular, and splendid friends, and both of these lovely ladies, Shirley Sexton (Adamaria's sister) and Carol Lawson, have volunteered to be donors.  This great act of Love and sacrifice reminds that riches and happiness come in many forms!:)  So, the donkey is a very rich and happy man!:):)

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From Maribee Butler:

Dear Richard,

The energy of healing love comes to you daily. Your whole body glows with sparkling silver light, concentrated most heavily in, through and around your right kidney. You are seen in detail as each cell of your body stretches and awakens to the loving silver light and healing being eagerly absorbed by the tiniest cellular structures within your body, swirling out to every millimeter of your skin, and extending approximately six inches beyond. You glitter with internal iridescence and are in this instant, this very now, purified of all traces of toxin---utterly and completely healed in the Mind of Love,

and the dream of this physical world.big healing hug,

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Reply to Maribee:

Dear Maribee,

I loved the utter positivity of your "healing" letter, and will be delighted to share parts of it with the efamily in the July 07 issue of Lovelight magazine.  What an extraordinary visualization you created.:)

Actually, the donkey is not worried.  Nor is he anxious.  For he has been made very happy by the fact that two very lovely, loving, and Love-filled ladies have stepped forward and volunteered to be donors.  First, Adamaria's beautiful sister Shirley Sexton, whom I have loved for many years, has so kindly and compassionately offered.  And now, a relatively new friend-- a canncersun-- Carol Lawson, a very tender, gentle person overflowing with sensitive Love, has also joined the project as "plan b."

How could anyone surrounded by such deep, such tender, Love be anything but happy?:):)  The Love of these superfriends is so powerful that it is all but palpable.:)  And the joy is increased greatly by the Love expressed by your lovely visualization.:)  Thank you, my dear friend.  Let's set up a come-together soon.:)

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From Pat Fields:

You are very wise, my special brother - Love will carry us thru, free of fear and doubt. No matter what scary adventures we encounter, our lives will turn out beautifully. Looking back on our lives, each experience has taught us so much and made our Love so much stronger. So, living in the now, we will live without guilt or worry. We will trust Aphrodite to bring us through whatever we encounter. Sending each other energy will help too, as a 3 fold cord is not easily broken (me, you, and Adamaria.) Your e-mail was so well written and says what I'm unable to say, and I agree totally. I will save your e-mails and read and re-read them, again and again. You are the only one I can share every thought with and know that my words will be respected and appreciated. May our future have as much Love, or more than we've had till now. With you in love and determined to live in the Now. I remain, your sister, friend, buddie, throughout eternity- with love,

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Reply to Pat

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Dearest Pat,

Your letter was a profound sharing from the heart. It is rare, indeed, glorious, when we can find someone capable of being trusted with the heartcontents, uncensored and totally honest. This I so treasure with you, a fellow mystic. And I greatly admire your courage to have been so spiritually honest, to have turned away from the "comfortable hell" of the cult and into the bright and beautiful unknown. And the future is a similar unknown. This life was designed to be interesting!:) It was also designed to be exciting!:) But, most of all, it was designed to create Love-bonds just like the very special ones that we have celebrated for many years on our shared, exciting, often scary, Journey. And recent events have brought a most superb superlove into this life-- expressed so beautifully and touchingly by you, Adamaria, Shirley, and Carol! I treasure each and every one of you, my dearest, sweetest forever-friends! With the help and support of Love (Aphrodite, Jesus, and a crowd of "others"), our lives will turn out just beautifully. Doubt and fear are demons that we need to work out of our lives; and living the Way is the only way to do this. Living in the NOW can alone save us from the anxieties of guilt (fear from the past) and worry (fear from the future). You are right: Adamaria is a powerful magnet for the donkey to remain on earth, although he knows that the two of us (Adamaria and I) will always find each other, just as the two of us (you and I) will. We can rely on Love to carry us and to guide us. Love will keep, and bring, us together.

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STRANGE OBJECT ON THE MOON, sent in by Frank Tyrrell

This film [supposedly revealing a spacecraft on the moon] allegedly came about when NASA was looking for a likely spot for the Apollo moon landing. They sent up a satellite to orbit the moon and film the surface features in fairly high resolution. The film represents that a manned lunar orbiter was sent up for this purpose; and, while looking around, it discovered this object.

The film begins ho-hum as the satellite cameras look down on the moon's pocked surface. About half-way into the film, one can see an object on the surface characterized by a regular shape and exhibiting bi-lateral symmetry. The pilot of the orbiter is instructed to zoom in on this object; and what is revealed is amazing beyond anything I've ever seen. What seems obvious is that there is a very, very large spaceship crashed on the surface of the moon. One can see what appear to be thruster orifices near the bow of this machine, and it very much does look like a machine. The machine has a cone-shaped nose section and what appears to be a command bridge along one side beyond the taper of the cone. The machine, the object, reveals a thick coating of dust, and in this dust can be seen what appears to be cratering. The machine, if it is a machine, has obviously been there for a long, long time.

You are certainly aware of how the New Age Movement, valuable and optimistic, was rapidly co-opted by charlatans and snake oil merchants of every kind and stripe pushing items of doubtful or non-existent value upon a niche group of True Believers and their naive followers. I think the same has happened and for far longer in connection with UFO sightings, landings, abscondings, abductions, crashes, autopsies, conspiracies, and contacts-- sexual and otherwise. Kinda like the business of selling slivers of the True Cross, the salt of Lot's wife's converted body, and other such flim-flammeries in the Middle Ages. I bring this up because of the nature of this film, supposedly of origin with NASA.

I can't accept that NASA has been sitting on this astounding find all these years. I can't accept that suddenly NASA owns up to complicity in withholding what would amount to a watershed discovery, a paradigm shift for the human race of super-tectonic implications. I can't accept that some extra-solar culture out in the depths of space has discovered faster-than-light drive-- as is implicit should this "craft" actually be what it seems to be. If this "ship" discovery had any credibility, we all would have been on it like white on rice, in my opinion.

My "bullshit detector" pegged the needle when I saw this. And, to be totally honest, I WANTED this discovery to be valid. However, given the power and sophistication of software now available to create, edit, and invent wholesale video of such things makes it more than likely that this is another "sliver of the True Cross." If this "discovery" was valid, if this object is indeed a space ship, and it had crashed into the moon millennia ago, one would think the media would be all over it-- but they're not. Not one peep. If this phenomenon portrayed actual scientific fact, NASA would be holding a daily news conference to keep the public up to date minute-by-minute. Politicians of every sort and stripe would be on television talk shows intoning either dark messages of the impending slavery or extermination of the human race on the one hand, or brightly babbling that the Millennium had arrived on the other.

But none of these things is happening. Since there has been nothing but silence in the media, from politicians, and fakes of all kinds, I have to regard this discovery to be a brilliant fraud. Of course to UFO true believers, this silence only proves a great and dark conspiracy to keep the truth from a public clammoring for the truth. The American public likes to be humbugged, likes reading the National Enquirer and other such sources of sovereign, scientific rectitude.

I'm sooooooooooooooooo disappointed. I wanted to believe it was really a UFO. The producers of this little movie have done an expert job of putting this little fraud together. It is very convincing. The reason there's little to no audio in this production reflects the well-known reality that conversations between astronauts and ground control is, well, terse to the point of almost absolute silence, so their production had to reflect this reality.

But I gotta tell you, this particular fraud is very, very well done. Very well done indeed. I'm impressed. I'm also not taken in, even though in my heart of hearts I wanted this to be a real space ship.

And that's my little book report. Thanks for the opportunity of writing something other than technical instructions. Oh, and BTW, I am now producing all the precision technical graphics for my company. It's a real thrill. Straight-out writing became passe' a long time ago, but turning out technical graphics is really fun. In fact, engaging. And I have learned very much about how images can be fooled around with, and how easy it really is.

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DAVID ADOPTS ORPHAN GIRL IN INDIA

Those of you who follow our work know that we often work through, and with, a special friend in Darjeeling, India. He is David Hem Sagar.

He conducts a regular Pneumarium discussion-group, and he sends his Love to all of you, our dear efamily. He wants us to announce, in Lovelight magazine, that he has adopted a young girl, and they both could use some aid for her education. He writes:

Komal Thakre is a sweet girl of 16 years, an orphan born on 27 January 1991 in India. She lost her parents when she was a small kid. From that time, David Hem Sagar Rasaily, a social worker, and representative of Love Ministries in India, has been caring for her. He is trying to take care of her education. He is also providing meals for her. And he has also provided a place for her to live with his family. Now, she has successfully passed her Tenth Standard (high school), and she has to join the College. She is very talented and she wants to study further. David is looking after her many activities as an act of Love. His financial situation is not good, because he is also looking after three other girls in his ministry to the poor of India. Now, he feels a calling from God (Love) to help to improve the future of this girl, Komal Thakre. She cannot be neglected, for her needs are important. Neither can he ignore her education. For she has the ambition to pursue a higher education. Therefore, David is seeking a donor who can support this fine little girl with a donation of fifteen US Dollars per month or 180 US Dollars a year. This will be spent for, invested in, her College FEES. This amount will greatly, enormously improve Komal's life and future. Donors are requested to come forward with financial help of any amount, more or less. She is an orphan. She needs food, clothing, shoes, daily use items, and bus fare (while going to college). Please help her by your generous donation. David joins mind and heart with Love Ministries, and he has been friends with Richard since the year twenty hundred. Any and all donations can be sent through a "Western Union Money Transfer" or check in the name of: "Hem Sagar Rasaily". Mailing Address:

Hem Sagar Rasaily

C- 39 / 15

Defence Lab Quarters

Post Kanchanbagh

Hyderabad

Andhra Pradesh

INDIA - 500 058

Email:  lacindia@gmail.com

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GOD'S THOUGHTS ON LAWNS: A BRIEF FANTASY, sent in by Sandra Grubb

Here is a fantasy-conversation between God and the saintmystic who found God in nature, St. Francis:

GOD: You know all about gardens and nature. What in the worldis going on down there on the planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle, and other useful plants that I got started eons ago? I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought, and multiply with wild abandon! The nectar from the long-lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But, all I see are these green rectangles.

St. FRANCIS: It's the tribes that settled there. The Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers "weeds" and went to great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass.

GOD: Grass? But, it's so boring. It's not colorful. It doesn't attract butterflies, birds and bees; only grubs and sodworms. It's sensitive to temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want all that grass growing there?

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so. They go to great pains to grow it and keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing grass and poisoning any other plant that crops up in the lawn.

GOD: The spring rains and warm weather probably make grass grow really fast. That must make the Suburbanites happy.

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not. As soon as it grows a little, they cut it sometimes twice a week.

GOD: They cut it? Do they then bail it like hay?

ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags.

GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it?

ST. FRANCIS: No, Sir, just the opposite. They pay to throw it away.

GOD: Now, let me get this straight. They fertilize grass so it will grow. And, when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away?

ST. FRANCIS: Yes, Sir.

GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves them a lot of work.

ST. FRANCIS: You aren't going to believe this. When the grass stops growing so fast, they drag out hoses and pay more money to water it so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it.

GOD: What nonsense. At least they kept some of the trees. That was a sheer stroke of genius. The trees grow leaves in the spring to provide beauty and shade in the summer. In the autumn, they fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep moisture in the soil and protect the trees and bushes. It's a natural cycle of life.

ST. FRANCIS: You better sit down. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle. As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away.

GOD: No. What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter to keep the soil moist and loose?

ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.

GOD: And where do they get this mulch?

ST. FRANCIS: They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch.

GOD: Enough! I don't want to think about this anymore. St. Catherine, you're in charge of the arts. What movie have you scheduled for us tonight?

ST. CATHERINE: "Dumb and Dumber." It's a story about…

GOD: Never mind, I think I just heard the whole story from St.

Francis.

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SPIRITUAL QUOTABLE THOUGHTS:

SIMPLE FAITH. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.--the dalai lama

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THE CELEBRATION OF LOVE!

We who worship Love recognize each and every day as a "high" Holy Day. For each and every day is yet another opportunity to get "high" on, and celebrate, our Love. How do we do this? There are several ways that we, as sisters and brothers in the family of Love, can join hands and hearts, smiles and laughter, in this magnificent Celebration!

Every time that you love any living creature-- cat, dog, donkey, elephant, penguin, camel, or otherJ-- you are joyfully participating in the Celebration! But the greatest (and often most challenging) Love is the Love of human beings, who can so fully and completely love us in return with a symmetric Love of equal depth and complexity. It was to experience and know this greatest possible joy-- in both the receiving and the giving-- that we were created.

Worshipping Love is the most fun that any human being can ever possibly have! One relatively minor but explosively powerful and famous form is found in "making Love," which is sex, but enriched, beautified, and deepened exponentially. For to "make Love" is so much more than a merely physical activity, intertwined as it is with body, mind, Soul, and Spirit (God or Love).

Another form of Love is humor, for it can express kindness, also a species of Love. When we can make ourselves, or others, laugh or smile, we are spreading Love in our poor, little, Love-starved world. Our teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy nanoplanet needs desperately all the Love that we can possibly generate. For life on earth can really, sadly become a Love-desert-- lonely, fragile, terrifying.

So, the Way to celebrate Love is not by the asking, grasping, seeking, and receiving, but by the generous, gentle giving. Our deep Love-natures are satisfied, content, and fulfilled only when we choose to give Love. When we feel, then, as we so often can, that we are not "getting" enough Love, the solution is that this is a signal to give Love. For, as Brother St. Francis reminds us, it is in the giving that we receive. When we think, then, that the great joy is in the getting-- and that is very joyful indeed-- we must reawaken and remind ourselves that the sheerest ecstasy and bliss are in the giving!

So, my beautiful, good, kind friends, let us join the Celebration. And let us not be parsimonious in the giving. Let us give like there is no tomorrow! Let us give as if today is the final of our personal life! Let us give abundantly, immeasurably, as the heavens give rain during a downpour-flood! Let us give to each other as if there is no limit, for Love is as limitlessly infinite as the galaxies!

And let us not be "finished" with the Celebration tomorrow, the next day, or after the Fourth. No, let us live with the continuous and continual awareness that the best life is one of nonstop celebration! Any excuse for a party? You bet!!:)

Nothing in this universe can make us happier than joining the festivities! And so, with or without "church," with or without "biofamily," with or without friends' immediate reciprocations, with or without any external factors affecting us, we become free in this moment to review and to celebrate each minute of Love that we have known. Do they seem too few? That only makes them more precious! So, let us treasure each moment, each NOW, of Love, like a fine emerald, sapphire, or diamond. Let us bring out our "jewel collections of the heart" periodically just to stand in admiration and awe of our personal "jewels."

Let us try to be fully alive to the laughter of NOW-- not distracted, or brought down, by the past (which is dead, and does not exist) or the future (which is not yet born, and does not exist). Let us boot out from our hearts all destructive guilt (fear from the "past") and worry (fear from the "future"). Let us, like unselfconscious children, plunge clumsily up to our eye-balls into the refreshing sea of Love. Let us run screaming with joy, and dancing, into the Ocean of Lovemind! Let us bring Love and make Love on the "beach-playground" of earth, the former "amusement park" of this tiny world!

And, in all our joy, let us not forget to be grateful. ("Grateful" is related to "graceful"-- full of grace.) And don't be afraid to tell anyone that you love her, and to thank her sincerely for her Love! Let us regard each other with friendly and welcoming hearts. Let us be open to each other: Open in speech, and open in listening. Let us practice honor and justice-- indispensable aspects of purest Love.

Let us never forget that courtesy and friendliness are the very matrix of genuine Love, and that these fine qualities are by no means optional or dispensable. For courtesy is often the beginning-- and end (goal)-- of Love. Reaching out the hand of kindness or forgiveness can often be the "re-enchantment" of the world, for which human beings are so very hungry.

For the interior discovery of the Goddess is the beginning of the holy re-enchantment of the cosmos!

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HEALING HAVEN

This month, we want to turn our collective attention and healing visualizations, meditations, and prayers to Joyce Gustin, in Xenia, Ohio. Joyce has recently undergone by-pass heart surgery, and is currently recovering, successfully, and getting better and stronger, thank Love. But this is a draining experience, and she would do well indeed to receive into her bodymind all the energies of Love that we can, by grace, generate in her behalf. So, in your moments of meditation, you can use her ego-name to "access" her "file" in the collective unconscious, and "send" energy to her bodymind. She thanks all of you in advance for all the Love. Joyce's address is: Joyce Gustin, 3760 Engle Mill Road, Xenia, Ohio 45385-9719. Her email address is: yit@erinet.com

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KARMA, THE CONSCIOUS MIND, LOVE, AND HEALING

In the final analysis, Love is the only healing Power in the universe. Whatever technique that we might choose, if Love is absent, it will have limited value. On the other hand, if we have Love alone, and no "technique" at all, we can accomplish more good, and more healing, in our world. For the mind naturally, and irresistibly, responds to Love.

But the situation re biophysical, biochemical, and genetic conditions is nowhere near simple. For more data, much more data-interaction, and more complex factors, are involved than mere person-to-person Love. Indeed, in biochemistry, hundreds of thousands of molecular and cellular factors can be involved. Since these are far above the understanding of the everyday "conscious" mind, they must be cared for by a giant Supermind in the Unconscious.

One of the most influential and complex factors in healing is karma. There are two kinds of karma-- reflective (energy planted earlier comes back to us) and optional (the Soulmind chooses voluntarily to experience a condition of imperfection in order to improve spirituality). Many great saintmystics and people of immense, incredibly tender hearts, filled with Love, have suffered-- not because they were "bad" in a previous life, or because they caused someone else to suffer. They voluntarily, deliberately took upon themselves a biomedical condition in order to polish their spirituality. And there also exists a third, more rare, kind of karma-- propitiatory, in which a Soul takes upon itself the karma of other Souls. This arises from immense and intense Love.

So, it would be careless, as well as ignorant, and wrong, to assume that a person has planted seeds of evil, ignorance, or negativity in a past life simply because she is somehow limited in this life.

Since karma is expressed by all the characteristics with which we are born, every genetic condition is karmic. So, we can speak of "karmogenetics." This karmic state is created, or dreamed, by a very profound level of the Mind, so deep in Mind that it is below the "personal unconscious." (This level contains memories going all the way back to the moment of your birth.) But, far "below" this is the level called the "Soul," or "Soulmind."

This extremely profound level of Mind is generally inaccessible because it is so very "buried" by the three first "levels" of Mind. These are 1) the conscious mind, 2) the preconscious, and 3) the personal unconscious. This fourth level of Mind is, again, called the "Soulmind."

Karma is created by the Soul because it is at a Soul-level that karma is sown into the Mind by behavior. Now, the Soulmind might have a very different agenda than the "conscious" (thinking, aware) mind. So, if the Soulmind creates a karmic condition that is challenging, inconvenient, or uncomfortable, the conscious mind does not have the power to "over-ride" it.

In other words, if the Soulmind has chosen a karmic path-- say, one of discomfort, inconvenience, or even suffering-- for educational reasons, the conscious mind will not be able to change that karma. "Positive thinking" can change very much in physiology, true, but it cannot overcome karma.

We are terrified to hear this, for we feel, deep down, that we must personally control everything. We secretly fear, "If I do not do it, it will never be done!" (This is a form, of course, of egocentricity, a major spiritual disease.) We are terrified to trust. We not only do not trust God (Love), but fear to trust even nature. We do not trust ourselves or others, either, for we are usually quite scared of losing personal control.

That is why Taoist mysticism is such a profound school of mystical thought. It emphasizes that we control virtually nothing. It encourages us, in fact, to release all attempts at control