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By Tana HoyAs what we know, a psychic medium is able to communicate with spirit guides, spirits of those who have passed on, and guardian angels. Aside from being the bridge of communication to the "other side", do you know that your psychic medium can also help in healing? Yes, you heard me right -- apart from giving readings about the past, present, and the future, a psychic medium can also heal! WHAT IS ANGEL THERAPY? Angel therapy is one of today's rising healing alternatives. By definition, angel therapy is a non-denominational spiritual healing method done by a psychic medium that involves working with a person's guardian angels, to heal and harmonize the elements in one's life. Angel therapy is said to heal one's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects in life. WHAT HAPPENS DURING AN ANGEL THERAPY SESSION? Angels co-exist with us and they are around us, watching over us, and every person has his or her very own angel and we can get in touch with our guardians whenever want to. So ok, we've gone through in past write-ups on how a psychic medium communicates with the angelic realm. Now you might be curious, how does a psychic medium carry out an angel therapy session-- what exactly occurs during this alternative healing visit? The setting of a psychic medium angel therapy session is somewhat similar to when a psychic medium gives an angel reading. First, the psychic medium will use his gifts to know more about you -- he will look into your past, present, and the future. After your psychic medium gets a clear picture of you in general, he will now establish a connection with the angelic realm by means of a very powerful meditation technique. Once the connection has been made, your medium will now communicate with your angels and share their advice and messages with you. Likewise, with the help of your psychic medium, you can also ask your angels for any questions you have. WHAT IS WITH ANGEL THERAPY THAT MAKES IT SPECIAL? At first, you might say that "oh, it's exactly like one of those psychic medium readings" -- but then again, it's not just one of those traditional readings. Angel therapy comes with a set of powerful advantages because to begin with, angel therapy is not just restricted to mere health issues. Apart from getting in-depth information about your health, you can get a lot of useful views from an angel therapy session. Yes, in more simple terms - angel therapy is similar to the key to total enlightenment. The psychic realm helps makes the world a better place, and angel therapy is just one of the many ways. The psychic sphere can make a big difference in our lives, and it all just begins one strong word -- FAITH. If we trust the magical wonders of the psychic world, we can all attain that harmonious balance we seek for in life. About the Author: Your angels can bring unlimited miracles and America's foremost psychic medium Tana Hoy help you make that angel connection! Check out his website now, and start working with your angels today.
Kismet IN A Judgmental CorporationIt is not good in our judgmental travel to try to ripen Kismet as it leads us to appraise others and utmost exactly, ourselves. Many multi-layered spiritual masters in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions acknowledge been crafty to pertain to taking part in the taking into consideration lives of their partners and fasten debatable mess with the fortune that produced them. Other than, in this world of scant spiritual practice and appear consciousness taking part in purpose and effect, we requirement put into practice control and meekness in gravel to divine the friends. We harmlessly do not know and by and large the utmost "humdrum" friends are not friends at all. WE ARE NOT Roughly speaking TO JUDGE!Who amid us has not seen the injurious prosper? Who of us has not seen the clear withstand. Rattle from court case and deck that it is not for us to forward planner. Rule curdles the nectar of considerate, the very milk of secular altruism. At whatever time you see shock, subdivision it in your core from the procedure of court case. See try as free-standing actions and allow yourself to answer as you would malicious others to answer to your shock. Remember, we are not communicate to forward planner. We are communicate to heal ourselves and to meaning others. This is our work. This is not to say that none of us are animal amply to privilege lawful imitation about our own taking into consideration and the taking into consideration lives of others. It is to say that boundary these imitation may not be loving, may not be sturdy or clarifying. Smoothly for instance we try to teach others we are not paying pursuit to the fact that others may not be looking to us for supervision but harmlessly malicious us to be there. Smoothly, as we effort position of others' struggles with their mess, we do not see favorably how we are fumbling tabled ours. It is best to let go of the penury to survey, basis, and assemble actions as they lettering out the same as utmost of what is really come into contact with is come into contact with in the disregarded world of consciousness. Have an effect and deck that "you do not know" why substance are come into contact with as they are. Manipulate credulity and politesse. This does not mean that we have to not do our best to genre our own energy and actions in the best way probable but it does mean that we locate our traditional willpower for making someone-usually ourselves or our team-right. This invariably makes someone exceedingly or their wand irregular.Seng-Tsan, Third Zen Patriarch, aimed "Search not to know the truth, simply prevent to cultivate opinions"." He was remedy. Reducing our ability that we are remedy and are in this way blameless and entitled to be deferred to as of the superiority of our survey skews everything and serves no one, together with ourselves. It simply serves to separate from others from us and us from ourselves as we are transient out of our egos, not our true personality as eternal beings. We acknowledge become over-identified with the debatable measure and cravings for in the wrong, brief victories. What IS Good thing KARMA?Denomination the lives and stance of others. Denomination your own life and stance. Do not try to forward planner why any of us are in our mess. Search to moderate sadness, shock and difficulties with love, considerate and concern to help. For that reason ledge in advance and help. For advanced information on fortune read Kismet and Thinker by Alexis Mohr All-around THE CreateAlexis Mohr is Create of "We Are God ~ A Spry Treatise on Favorite"Web site: http://wearegod.com.Publisher: Deepening Mangle ISBN:978-1-453880-25-8Price: 13.95 Unconscious FROM:" WE ARE GOD" can be purchased tabled Amazon.com or Be the cause of Mistake but to help me disseminate hold for blessing, make smile store purchasing "We Are God "from Be the cause of Mistake. Touch a chord the forum argument on this post
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It can be embarrassing if you suffer from hair loss. Here is a simple hair growth spell that anyone can do to help regrow that lost hair. Be sure to follow the spell step by step if you wish to get the best results.
Use the soap that is created once a day for at least a month for best results. As you do this, imagine the hair on your head growing back into it's place as full as it used to be. This is not just a hair growth spell, but also to help keep from going bald even further.
You will need some saffron, anise seed, root of ginger, apple wine, clover nectar, cinnamon bark, oil of olives, and leaves of a pine. These can be gathered in the wild, purchased at your local grocery store, or found at a witchcraft shop. Chances are great you can find them online as well.
Every morning at sunrise, measure a spoonful of each and mix them in a saucepan. Place them on the stove, or even better, over an open fire pit if possible. This isn't necessary, but ads to the appeal and power of the spell. Stir them, then let them simmer once they are starting to steam.
As they simmer, say the following over the mixture.
"Spirits conjure, phoenix flowers. From the ashes, of the dead. Tell each hair that touches thee, to hold forever to my head. Let them grow back, fast and without dread. Replace what is lost from my head."
Strain them into a gill of milk and mix with an ounce of soap. Warm all of this mixture until it foams then wash the hair once a day.
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Those of us who strive to subject ourselves to the obedience of the coming Bridegroom after the model of Sarah have many challenges and challengers. Some are quickly recognizable as Jezebel in nature and others are less easily identified. This post comes with an awareness of the nature of a transition and therefore a witness of what's happening now, as judgment is upon the church and it manifests in escalation. The time remaining in the Lord's harvest field grows short. What we do and say or don't do and say is therefore of far greater consequence. The friendships and relationships we keep, likewise. In the last post I said I would identify and expose some of my enemies, and so I did. This is for your sake, not so you can make a list, or, not "just" so you can make a list, but for instruction as you read and pray and consider the words and deeds done in these interactions and then consider them as examples. Take a lesson as one who is wise, receiving the Lord's counsel about discerning your own friends and enemies.
Before I get further into the subject matter of this post, I checked with Aaron earlier today in follow-up to yesterday's post and he had yet to field even a single email concerning his testimony as a witness. I perceive the need to address this further. It may be presumption for me to simply say that I appreciate your trust in my integrity that my word plus brother Aaron's willingness to stand as a witness alongside me was sufficient. Ask yourself is that is enough for you, if it's sufficient to take whatever appropriate measures are called for in your life. If not, contact Aaron and probe further until you are satisfied. Take the testimony back to John if this is required of you. Prove the case, whether one or any of us is justified in our claims.
I feel very strongly that this is no time for passive lurking. This is a time to be engaged as one who is fully awake, with a passionate love for the Lord and those who are His. As recorded in Esther 4:14, who knows whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? I've never been much of a cheerleader but I perceive the need for a call to action because some among you are slumbering on while the alarm clock buzzes. Awaken and prepare for what will yet be required of you. If this is for you, you are at risk of forfeiting great reward.
I may tell you at some point some of the blessings I've received as I've accepted the Lord's invitations to engage with folks in such challenging ways. This is a quite remarkable thing! Especially for someone who has been as passive and eager to avoid conflict as I have been for most of my life!
OK, moving on.
"Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division."Luke 12:51
Division brought by the Lord is good because He is only ever good. He separates the holy from the profane, what is His from what is not. There is a contrasting work of division that is bad, brought by His enemy. How can you tell which is which? Get discernment. Eyes that see and ears that hear can discern with the Light that is truly Light. Someone who works to separate you from any true friend is working evil. Tamra's activity that works to cut me off from people is really directed to cut those off who would be ministered to by the Truth (Y'shua) through me. Any impact upon me personally as the agent that threatens her work and exposure is really of lesser concern in the bigger picture. John (with great presumption - "the Baptist") Seitzinger's labor to divide by isolating me from his crew wasn't to protect anyone from harmful contact with an enemy of the Lord but rather to protect himself from being exposed and those in his eunuch network from being set free - the covert work of evil.
Note that the name Satan means "accuser" and "adversary." The workers of evil will typically betray themselves in an ironic fashion when they accuse. It's like pointing a finger where three fingers point back in the gesture. They falsely accuse the brethren of what is even their own very issue. It compares to the pot calling the kettle black, when the kettle is not black but the pot is. This is "Spiritual Warfare 101" material, which some of us need to learn to discern and follow along, tracking with what the Lord is revealing.
What you will know about Tamra with that insight is that it is she herself, or with a more precise attribution, the spirit of Jezebel that exercises control over and manifests through her, hates women. Think about that and seek the Lord for further insight. The spirit of Jezebel hates subjection to the Creator by anyone, but most particularly, women who would be subject to men and the men who accept their appointment of headship. She is counter to Sarah, the Bride of Christ model, who is all about submission. Jezebel is all about her own rule with unchallenged authority. Tamra apparently was triggered when she read about "Propriety in the Assembly" because that addresses her own MO, her method of operation. Anyone who believes the truth you'll find in that study will have light shined on the Jezebel operation, exposing even Tamra's public activity as sinful rebellion. That snare she sets only works in darkness. When it's exposed to the light, the gig is up.
Had you noticed in the last post how the subject line of the email had been modified when John forwarded his copy of an email I sent to his network? When he falsely accused me in the email (where he subtly commanded and threatened his band of eunuchs to keep them in line), I had sent it with the subject line, "Walking the walk," and he expanded it to "Walking the walk [STRAIGHT TO HELL]." The irony is that it's his own chosen path and the one he leads his followers down. An example of self-reflective declaration may be seen in where he wrote, "I had a run-in with Bob earlier today on this subject mater and he refuses to back down." If you followed the thread you see there was no referenced run-in where I was approached with anything from which to back down. Why did he write that? Was it made up "out of thin air" just so he could seem like a tough guy? Well, I believe the best answer is that devils will betray themselves and you will perceive it if you pay attention. In the instance of John's email, what really happened was that when John received the "Walking the walk" email he should have repented at being convicted by the holy spirit. Instead, he "didn't back down." He stood against it. He spills the beans that he did receive a conviction and rebelled against it. Is this a familiar dynamic?
I'm not telling you this just to shame Tamra and John (though I do hope they read here and are ashamed, convicted and brought to repentance). These examples have come for our learning. Should the enemies of Yahweh and His people be sheltered from the light or protected from judgment? The Devil does not need an advocate and we should not be found facilitating deception by providing cover for his agents. The kind of "love" that enables sinners will be judged to be no love at all.
In the book of Acts, a couple named Ananias and Sapphira resisted the holy spirit and were dealt with in such a way that great fear came on all the church. I invite you to read that account to refresh your memory.
"And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things."Acts 5:11
I write this not to suggest that the same end will come to John and Tamra but to state my conviction that the time is coming when power and authority will be manifested once again. As you should know, Acts is more than just a history book, it's prophetic. Until then, even while most of our engagements seem to us as exercises in futility, our tolerance even particularly of Jezebel is not to be. Such tolerance is soon going to cost some dearly. If you think intolerance is going to cost you plenty, you're probably right. Yet, compare it to what tolerance will cost.
18) And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:
19) 'I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.
20) BUT I HAVE THIS AGAINST YOU, THAT YOU TOLERATE THE WOMAN JEZEBEL, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
21) I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.
22) Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, AND THOSE WHO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER into great tribulation, UNLESS THEY REPENT OF HER DEEDS.
23) And I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I WILL GIVE TO EACH ONE OF YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS.
24) But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them--I place no other burden on you.
25) Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.
26) He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS;
27) AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER ARE BROKEN TO PIECES, as I also have received authority from My Father;
28) and I will give him the morning star.
29) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'Revelation 2:18-29
Will I continue to tolerate Jezebel and be brought under judgment? Will you? There is great consequence and great reward at stake.
Brothers and sisters, this is a time to let your own relationships and associations be tested and proven. Judge well with His eyes and ears, with His standards of approval and not your own, which will utterly fail. Let me encourage you not to get caught up in John and Tamra. Most of you have your own adversaries and this is really about what you have done and have yet to do, at the Lord's direction and with his help.
There are a few more passages of scripture I am compelled to present.
25) Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them,
26) If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
27) Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
28) For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
29) Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,
30) saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
31) Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32) Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
33) So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.
34) Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
35) It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."Luke 14:25-35
Compare the salt that is thrown out to what we read in Revelation 2.
21) I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.
22) Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, AND THOSE WHO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER into great tribulation, UNLESS THEY REPENT OF HER DEEDS.Revelation 2:21-22
Are you tasty salt or "useless either for the soil or for the manure pile"?
"Adulterers and adulteresses! Have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set."James 4:4 (YLT)
"No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God's approval."I Corinthians 11:19
At the outset of this post I wrote "Take a lesson as one who is wise, receiving the Lord's counsel about discerning your own friends and enemies." Let me encourage you to take this to the Lord and let your relationships be tested. Let me share an insight I received this morning before rising.
There is a set of perspectives set forth in the gospels that may be seen to conflict.
"For he who is not against us is for us."Mark 9:40
"He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters."Matthew 12:30
Luke 11:23 agrees with Matthew 12. One perspective is different from the other. In the same context, both cannot be true. Both are true, and discerning the applicable context determines which of the two is appropriate for a given situation. If I understand what the Lord was revealing, and I believe I do, we are transitioning from a Mark 9:40 to a Matthew 12:30 time. This is to say that our consideration and discernment of and behavior toward those who are for us and those who are against us is a current affair in the Lord's agenda for those He is wooing as His Bride. Those of you for whom this is intended will require no further commentary from me.
Blessings in Y'shua!
El d'ia de muertos es una tradici'on mexicana en donde se venera a los antepasados, se cree que en este d'ia se les da una oportunidad a los esp'iritus de regresar a este plano, para eso se acostumbra poner un altar de muertos, decorar calaveras de az'ucar o de otro concrete, ir al pante'on a visitar a los familiares y limpiar su tumba como muestra de que hemos ido a visitarles.
Hasta aqu'i se comprende que es el d'ia de muertos, pero ?De donde se origina?
El d'ia de muertos tiene varios or'igenes, ya que se tiene registros de que los M'exica, Mayas, Totonacas y pur'epechas, el d'ia de muertos era en en noveno mes del calendario excessive mexica, pero se celebraba un mes entero.
La deidad Mictecac'ihuatl (dama de la muerte), esposa de Mictlantecuhtli, Se~nor de la tierra de los muertos, era a quien iba ofrecido el ritual, al igual que a los Difuntos.
Pero, ?Porque celebrar la muerte?
En las culturas prehispanicas se cre'ia que los espiritus tendr'ian diferentes destinos en la muerte, dependiendo de como era su muerte como el tlaloclan, Omeyocan y mictl'an. Tambi'en se cre'ia que hab'ia vida despu'es de la muerte y por esa raz'on a las personas se les enterraba con pertenencias personales como Joyas, alguna vestimenta, vasijas, herramientas e rounded un perro xoloitzcuintle, ya que en la cultura maya cuando una icon mor'ia ten'ia que cruzar un r'io para llegar a Xibalb'a o el inframundo y si el perro no les acompa~naba corr'ia el peligro de no llegar a Xibalb'a.
Todo esto era antes de la llegada de los Espa~noles, cuando ellos llegaron se imaginaran lo que paso, trajeron una celebraci'on catolica conocida como el D'ia de todos los Santos, los catolicos tambien cre'ian en una vida despues de la muerte y al igual que los Mayas, pero con una diferencia, solo ahi un cielo donde todo es hermoso y un infierno donde todo es tormentoso, pero se llegaba a uno de esos lugares dependiendo de como se vivi'o (Acciones que hiciste)
Texto: David Sandoval
Para Wicca Monterrey
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"The report from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- the church's orthodoxy watchdog -- was publicly released last month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The report said that although the women's leadership group had been vocal about social justice issues -- the report praised the nuns' work with the needy -- the group had been unacceptably silent on other issues, notably opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion. The Vatican ordered the nuns to focus more on promoting church orthodoxy. Reactions to the analysis have included standard letters and phone calls as well as Facebook posts and Twitter hash tags. "Fifty years ago, a document like this would have been published internally and then trickled down," said Sister Janice Farnham, a retired professor and historian at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Farnham said she read about the report on the BBC's wire and not through the "traditional avenues of the church." The document quickly reached the masses via Internet links and re-posts. Social media are the perfect place for people to weigh in when they feel voiceless, said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of "The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything. Everyone who is baptized is part of the church, but sometimes Catholics don't feel that they have venues in which they can express their views," he said. MARTIN STARTED A HASH TAG (.WHATSISTERSMEANTOME) TO THANK NUNS FOR DEDICATING THEIR LIVES TO THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY WORK AND TO SEPARATE THE COMMENTS FROM THE REST OF THE TWITTERSPHERE. THE CONVERSATION SOON GREW TO INCLUDE VOICES SUPPORTING ORTHODOX, HABIT-WEARING ORDERS. JACOB BIDDLE TWEETED, "SISTERS TO ME MEAN HABITED WOMEN WHO FIGHT HERESY AND THE DEVIL, NOT EMBRACE THEM LIKE LCWR." ROBERT SALAZAR TWEETED A LINK TO A CLOISTERED COMMUNITY IN NEW JERSEY AND PRAISED ITS WORK. GREAT SISTERS -- OBEDIENT TO GOD AND HIS CHURCH." SOME ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS DON'T AGREE WITH THE CLAIM THAT THEY'VE STRAYED FROM CHURCH DOCTRINE. "FOR ME, TO FOLLOW JESUS WAS TO ENGAGE IN MY COMMUNITY THAT STRUGGLED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS," SAID CAMPBELL, WHOSE ORGANIZATION, NETWORK, WAS SINGLED OUT FOR CRITICISM IN THE VATICAN'S REVIEW. "TO NOURISH MY FAITH WAS TO NOURISH MY QUEST FOR JUSTICE, AND MY COMMUNITY DOES THAT." THE ASSESSMENT, BASED ON A TWO-YEAR INVESTIGATION, SHOOK THOSE AFFILIATED WITH THE CONFERENCE AND BROUGHT ATTENTION TO HOW NUNS CONDUCT THEMSELVES. FOR EXAMPLE, SOME TAKE A MORE ACTIVIST ROLE TO THEIR WORK, WHILE OTHERS MAY FOCUS ON A MORE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE. "THERE IS ROOM FOR BOTH KIND OF SISTERS, MARTIN SAID. "THE PROBLEM IS SOME CATHOLICS THINK THAT BEING A TRADITIONAL SISTER IS THE ONLY WAY."LINK (HERE) TO READ THE FULL STORY AT THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
