Energy/Human Energy

Sometimes I realize that people may not understand that we are energy beings and as energy beings we are eternal.  Our energy never dies, despite the fact that our human physical body dies.  This means that we have been creating new lives for ourselves since the beginning of life on Earth (and before) by using the energy of our original design.  Our human energy is phenomenal, and when we do not realize that we are energy beings first and physical beings second, we can be terribly self-abusive with negative and inappropriate behavior. When we destroy our human design with chemicals, we can bring this destruction back into our next life.  I learned that I was energy first as a very sick child.  It has been a valuable lesson for me and it is what motivated me to become an RN with an intense interest in research.  I spent many years of my life involved in research and in the beginning of my life that was research in tuberculosis.  We discovered the cure for tuberculosis which is still being used today. This cure was and is Isonazid, which is a "pill" that is marketed under other names by drug companies today.  Later I was involved in HLA and DNA research as well as research in Kidney Transplantation, which were all connected.  These were National and International Research programs that to me revealed a lot more than they probably did to other people that were involved in the programs, simply because I have always looked at life from a different perspective.

One of my intense drives to be a nurse was motivated by my seeing different energy fields around the bodies of different people, even as a very young child.  I have now learned that our energy is dramatically affected by our mind, emotions, and the chemical condition of our physical body, and at the time of death the energy of our Soul and Spirit is very visible as it leaves the body but hangs around outside of the dying body.  Once I understood how energy was reflected into and from our cells by multiple sources including our chemical and physical reality, I wanted to be involved in the RNA and DNA research to get one more image of how the energy supports us, so I became involved in the DNA research through an NIH program at NMRI.  I joined a research team which was defining the DNA (the chemical pattern of us) and how it worked to support or destroy organ transplantation, and I loved it because I could very clearly see the chemical patterns that give us "eternal life" as well as the chemical pattern of our current physical life.  I now understand that our creation of human life was a tremendous piece of "work" even as a chemical design of energy, which most of us don't really think about or appreciate, or we would eat only from the Organic foods of Nature, from which we were designed.

Once we can understand the chemical patterns of who we are, we can support our health in keeping our chemical patterns as pure as possible, and it gives us another concept of energy, especially our own internal energy that is always being created by what we eat, drink, and breathe.  Because I work with sick people, and many of these people have cancer or neurological disorders, I know how and what I am doing to release an energy "clogged" nervous system.  I have and I was born with a visual capacity that many people do not have.  This ability to see internally as well as externally has given me an appreciation for the human body that is beautiful and rewarding, and it has given me the gift of knowing and seeing energy.  My vision also helps me appreciate energy in other people and what it means to us in our health as human beings.  When people do not eat, drink, and breathe right, they do not have the same level of energy that they should have to keep themselves healthy and happy in their physical reality.  We get our energy from the chemicals that are found in the foods that we eat, the water that we drink, and the air that we breathe.

Energy is a misunderstood "concept" in our physical reality.  Our energy is produced by us and what we put in our mouth.  Our chemical design is what provides us with the energy of our physical life, which is why we must eat, drink, and breathe to live a healthy life. That will be my topic for tomorrow.  Goodbye. Kathy O.

Patterns of Eternal and Ethical Growth

Evolution is an Energy movement of Ethical Growth. If we are not living our Ethical Growth, we are not growing as a Spiritual human being. Ethical Growth is well defined in Spiritual Philosophy, and it is a continuous growth of our internal energy process that takes place in our thinking mind, loving emotions, and Spirit Senses as a singular inclusive mental and physical growth process that we live by living the entire scope of our Ethical Values as our daily lifestyle. Our continual growth process will always be reflected in our physical reality because we will change our energy from fear to love, we will change our lying to living truth, and we will recognize other people as equal to us. Once we can understand and live this level of Eternal Ethical Growth, we become different people by changing how we think, feel, and physically live as we relate to our family and friends.

Being love and living our love is the definition of being a Spiritual Being. We must learn and grow from our specific level of the physical energy that we are living to evolve into an energy level of Ethical Growth, which we are only capable of doing when we know ourselves as a  Spirit Consciousness energy being. We automatically grow into our physical form, but we do not automatically grow into an advancement of our thinking mind, loving emotions, and Spirit Senses. As we live our multiple lives, we will find that without our advancement as a Dual Soul Mind and Loving Emotions, we cannot grow and change in the level of our Spirit Consciousness Energy.

When we talk about the Soul and Spirit energy, we are talking about the energy of our internal Soul and Spirit Consciousness that we are designed to constantly expand, which is why we are living eternally through a continuation of each of our multiple physical lives as a Spirit Consciousness Energy. If we cannot live our physical, mental, and emotional expansion from one energy level to the next energy level of Spirit Consciousness, we cannot grow and change our physical behaviors and our thought processes, except on a physical level. At this point in time, we sincerely believe that the physical level of thinking, growth, and change are sufficient to open our thinking mind because the physical level of ourselves is all that we are open to accepting. When we find ourselves stuck in one physical level of thought and physical behavior, we are clearly showing ourselves that we have stopped moving and growing as an energy being and that we are resting on our laurels of being physical beings.

Spiritual Philosophy shows us the internal path of the expanding thinking mind, loving emotions, and sensory movement of our human energy design and the changes that we have been seeking to learn in the entirety of our energy design since we first became human beings living on Earth. The memory of Spiritual Philosophy is stored at our cellular level in our ancient memory and understanding usually at some vague level of the philosophy of life. Even Jesus studied Spiritual Philosophy, which was the basis of his teachings. We have lived countless lifetimes as human beings, which is the journey of our Dual Soul Evolution. Spiritual Philosophy is present in our ancient memory because we have lived many lifetimes with our memory of Spiritual Philosophy trying to expand our Spirit Consciousness through the pattern of our Ethical Value by showing us the relationship of our Spirit Energy to our physical thinking, emotions, and matter.

It is Spiritual Philosophy that helps us over the mountain tops of our ancient memory as we try to remember our ancient past, who we were, what we learned, and the difference that we will see in the “then and now” comparison of our thinking mind and loving emotions as we open the internal gates to our ancient memory.

When we believe that we live only one life, we cannot understand ourselves as eternal energy beings. Energy never dies but it does change form, which is the eternal pattern of energy that we live as we move from one physical life to another physical life, through our normal patterns of physical life and death.

We have lived endless volumes of our recorded history and it is never a challenge for us to look at our ancient human appearance in relationship to our human appearance today. As we have lived our countless lives we have streamlined our body, mind, and Spirit as a process of our growth and change. As we expand our thinking mind, we expand everything in our physical reality including our physical body and what it can do. This is what the word “evolution” means. As we have lived our countless lives, we have changed the way that our human mind thinks, how it relates to the heavens, Earth, and to each other, but most of all we have changed how we “see” ourselves as human beings, which has supported us in looking at ourselves to find the means of change that supports our growth.

Once we recognize that we are eternal beings as energy that create multiple physical lives for ourselves to live, all of the physical changes that we have lived begin to make sense. We must use what we know and begin to understand ourselves as eternal  human beings, and we must understand our relationship to the air, water, soil, Earth, and the “energy” that we live within our human body. We have been taught that we are physical human beings and we are, but what does it mean to be physical? It literally means that as physical human beings we must learn to understand ourselves as energy beings, take care of ourselves, and think in a different way if we want to live and enjoy our physical lives for longer periods of time from our energy potential. As human beings we are dependent upon Earth with its air, foods, and water to survive.  When we die young, we are missing the lessons of our physical life, which we must ultimately learn by living countless lives until we can "Know Thyself."

As we learn to think about ourselves as eternal beings, we begin to keep ourselves healthier, happier, and we keep our thinking mind open to change as a means of expanding our Spirit Consciousness as our eternal energy of life. Growth and change are always our personal responsibility. No one else can grow and change for us. If we study the design of the human body, the thinking mind, the loving emotions, and the Spirit Senses, we are studying Spiritual Philosophy as our pattern of creation, life, growth, and our eternal life as energy beings. This is an essential change of thinking for us to understand, if we want to know ourselves and the mystery of “disease” that is capturing our attention as it interferes with our health, our happiness, our life, and our Spiritual growth. We must look internally at our inherent energy design.  We do not have to be sick. We can live for hundreds, even thousands of years once we learn to change our belief systems and our thinking, clean up our environment, and protect our human body and mind from all foreign chemicals that are not a part of our human cellular design.

Our change begins one person at a time. We cannot live with our ancient beliefs and we cannot live in fear any longer and evolve as human beings. Our Spiritual Energy is designed as an eternal energy.Our physical energy is designed as a one-life-at-a-time energy. When we die we create a new physical energy that we call a human body. It is time that we begin to think about ourselves in a totally different way if we want to protect our human design, Earth and the space around us that we call home.

Learning to live our Ethical Values in how we eat, our relationship with family and friends, our relationship with ourselves, and our interaction with all people both young and old can help us, because with these changes we can learn to live our Ethical Values continuously, and we will become a more Spiritual and a healthier and happier physical human being. Our energy change and growth are always our personal responsibility. No one else can change for us because no one else can grow for us; therefore, the more we focus on the physical, the less we understand our internal and eternal energy.

Health Care - Our Body is begging us for nutrients!

Health Care is one of my favorite topics because I am a Registered Nurse with a very long life experience in caring for hospital patients, doing Nursing Administration, doing research on the HLA, DNA, and other types of medical research on diseases.  Quite frankly, as human beings we are forever creating our own personal health challenges by our thinking and behaviors, especially our eating, drinking, and breathing.  The foods that we eat and what we drink are frequently atrocious because they do not provide our physical body with the chemicals that our body specifically needs. We seem to have forgotten that we are all part of Nature.  Therefore when we make ourselves sick, we put ourselves into the position of  "needing to be saved."  In effect our body is begging us for the nutrients that it needs to heal itself so that it can continue to live and thrive as a human being.  Junk foods will not heal us because they do not provide the nutrients that we need to protect our body from disease.

Our focus on "needing to be saved" by the doctor is not very different than our "needing to be saved by Jesus." This is the moment in time when we all must look honestly at our own eating, drinking, and breathing habits and behaviors to help ourselves accept personal responsibility for what we are creating so we can accept the wisdom and activity of changing our life to be healthy and happy.  I work with individual clients, including those that are in the throes of disease, especially cancer/and or other "incurable" diseases.  I know that we can cure nearly any disease if we change our lifestyle soon enough and we release the body from its agony of starvation. I do not consider any disease incurable unless it has done so much damage to our body that we have destroyed some or one of our vital organs, which interferes with our physical life.  In 1989 I wrote the first of my eight books entitled, "The Joy of Health."  I suggest that everyone read this book and start saving money on your medical bills.

The truth is that most diseases can be healed, easily and simply with the right fresh healthy foods, pure water, and clean, fresh air.  Hospitals and doctors are not generally about health and happiness, they are about treating diseases with medicine and surgery.  Many Nurses and Nurse Practitioners care more about health and happiness than they do about medicine.  We are looking at our health care system in a very mixed up and expensive way, which we are all destined to pay for unless we learn to heal ourselves.  Medicine and health care are about diseased patients who need some immediate intervention.  Of course, diagnosis and treatment are another level of discovery.  Everyone needs to know what is making them sick.  After we learn the diagnosis, we can usually go a long way in building back our health and our happiness on our own.

Once we discover our diagnosis, we must learn how to regain and to maintain our health.  As patients we must be about our own  "personal health and happiness," which means we must learn how to eat right, drink pure water, and breathe only fresh air rather than deodorants out of a can, and we must keep our body and mind active.  Exercise, work outside, learn to open your windows and let fresh air into your homes, and we need to  think!  Many cancers are caused by a variety of sprays that are used in homes.  Open the windows of your home and let the fresh air re-calibrate the air in your home.  Once we learn to take care of ourselves with the fresh foods of Nature, pure spring water, and clean fresh air in our homes, we will find ourselves living with a new lease on a healthy life and an expanded happiness in our heart and in our relationships.
 
Health is always our personal responsibility and it has very little to do with medicine, which is focused on the "treatment of disease."   Our goal should always be to maintain our health into an old age so that we can enjoy the wisdom that we have all been looking for and soaking up as human beings.   We can all do this and find that happiness that we have been searching for as we live long and happy lives.

Cleaning up our health care industry. Prevention of disease versus treatment.

When I listen to people contributing all manner of ways to clean up the health care industry, it seems important to me that I contribute my life experiences as an R.N. since I worked my entire life in this profession.  When I began in nursing, we did not have the same conveniences that we have today in hospitals and I know how we relied on other concepts of health care that very few people pay adequate attention to today.  The very first issues in our human health are what we breathe, drink, eat, and expose ourselves to chemically.  First we must look at how we think because our thinking creates our behavior and behavior has become toxic to our health and it supports us in our other negative behaviors.  What we breathe, what we eat, and what and how we drink all play active roles in creating disease and/or keeping us healthy.
 
Years ago we did not have the same level of chemical contamination in our lives that we have today.  Today we breathe into and we feed our bodies multiple chemicals that act as contaminants in our cellular design which can and do trigger the creation of many diseases, especially in our lungs, liver, and blood stream as well as other organs, especially in the development of cancer.  The air, water, and foods that we expose ourselves to today should be as pure as we can find them to protect ourselves from disease. Pure air, water, and the pure foods of Nature serve to restore the chemical design of our human body.  This is why the air, water, and foods must be pure as we use them, or they alone act as contaminated chemicals which can contaminate our cellular design by not having the capability to support our health.  This helps us to see the process that we are using to destroy our own health. Years ago our foods came from pure soil, we drank pure water from underground sources, and we breathed the fresh air of Nature, which was consistently purified by the trees as a natural  purifier of air, but now our foods, water, and air are the source of our diseases because of their physical contamination.


We can change a huge portion of our human contamination by eating only organic foods, drinking only pure water from glass bottles, and keeping the air in our homes fresh by opening the windows rather than polluting our air with sprayed deodorant chemicals.  Small plastic bottles of water are being filled in different municipal water plants around our country and most of it has many chemicals added to it to act as water purifiers.  Water is essential to our health.  Spring water in glass bottles is much safer and healthier.  Cancer is a disease of the excesses of chemical contaminants and deficiencies of the pure chemicals that our human body needs to stay healthy.  When we fail to provide our human body with the chemicals that it must have to survive, then we begin to make ourselves sick without understanding what we are doing and how we are doing it.  Changing our smoking habits, eating habits, the water that we drink, and our current use of  sprayed contaminants in the air of our living space, can play an enormous role in keeping us healthy.  Health should be the goal of every human being because health gives us a greater enjoyment of life and living.  As we learn to prevent our own diseases, we will help to clean up the health care industry, which is very broken.

Health and Happiness

My earliest memories as a child was my intense desire to become a nurse and how I felt about nursing.  As a first year nursing student I was observing one day in the operating room.  The surgeon cut a very large nerve and I screamed.  He turned around and shouted at me, ........."what is wrong with you?"  my answer was, "You cut a nerve."  I have never to this day gotten over his response, because he shouted at me that nerves were simply strings that were like the strings that hold packages together.  Even in 1948 there was already enough information about the nervous system  to know that nerves did not represent the strings that hold packages together.  How did I know that he was ignorant?  All of my life I have had a dramatic affinity for the nervous system that in my mind makes us human, besides that I was in nursing school because I had healed my nerves following rheumatic fever. 

One of my favorite people in history has always been "John Newport Langley, PHD"  Dr. Langley was a "nerve" researcher in England and in my estimation he knew the nerves better than any human including the present Doctor's of today.  As a child with rheumatic fever, I learned a lot about my nerves and the pain that was common in the nerves with rheumatic fever.  In childhood my goal was to become a registered nurse when I grew "big."  Even a child can understand that you have to walk to be a nurse, and to walk you have to use the nerves in your legs as well as in the rest of your body and that you need to use your nerves without intense pain.  This information helped me to stay very active throughout my life and the more active I was, the less pain I experienced from my rheumatic fever.   My parents would always tell me that I had to heal myself, because we already had learned that medicine was of no help with the pain from rheumatic fever or with the rheumatic fever itself.

Therefore, even though I was a freshman nursing student when the surgeon screamed at me, I knew that he did not know as much about the nervous system as I knew.  I went through the long nursing program without missing any time despite my pain, and I learned along the way that exercise is probably better for the nerves than it is the muscles, especially when you have rheumatic fever.  Thankfully rheumatic fever is no longer the "scrooge" that it was in my youth because of penicillin, but I have found the information that I learned from living this disease invaluable in my understanding of the Nervous System.  What I taught myself as I was living with rheumatic fever I continue to use today to restore health in other people.

The Nightingale Initiative - How Do We Take Care of Ourselves?

The Nightingale Initiative is returning our physical focus to an understanding of our personal health and healing internally as a human species. Florence Nightingale has been accepted as the “first Nurse” of our society. But for the past fifty + years, we have not been focused on health and healing, we have been focused on “medical care.” Medical care is important to our health but it has to be a partnership between us and the health care system. Individual health and healing are focused on “self care” not “medical care.” Medicine has become addicted to the concept of drugs, not health.

When we focus constantly on our own human health, we think positive thoughts, we live truth, we eat from the organic foods of Nature to support our cellular health, and we love ourselves and other people as a positive and supportive energy. Many people do not realize that we are chemical energy beings, and that we must keep our chemical energy balanced by what we eat, drink, breathe, and think. We can never be healthy when our thinking mind is focused on fear.

How do we take care of ourselves? Hour by hour, day by day, year by year we must focus on what we think, eat, drink, and breathe to keep ourselves healthy internally as our chemical design? Health is always our very individual personal responsibility. No one can think, eat, drink, breathe, or sleep for us. Years ago health was seen as being synonymous with our daily lifestyle. This continues to be the truth of our health, but unfortunately we do not accept personal responsibility for how we think, breathe, sleep, or eat anymore. We have attempted to pass our concepts of health to the medical community. We have become “junkies,” as we make the medical community responsible for our health. We buy junk foods as fast foods as they appear on the store shelves, and we do not usually stop and think about how we are abusing ourselves by living through the power of consumerism and television ads.

As human beings we are designed from the air, soil, and water of Nature and Earth. The time has come for us to “eat from a pure Nature, drink from a pure Nature, and breathe from a pure Nature once again, if it is our intention to restore our health and happiness. We should all be living much longer than we are currently living. One major disease that is directly related to what we eat, drink, and breathe is cancer. The other primary influence on developing cancer is our thinking mind. Negative thinking, anger, fear, and negligence are all part of creating cancer. Cancer is now thriving in epidemic proportions in our human society. We can never live a lie and be healthy, because the lie will “eat” away at our physical body. Cancer infects people today in all age groups. What we eat, drink, and breathe either makes us sick or supports us in staying healthy. Eating, drinking, and breathing are all inclusively our personal choice.

It is time for us to look carefully at ourselves. Who do we want to be? Do we want to live long and happy lives or do we want to experience the lesson of “free choice” and live disease? My first book, which I wrote in 1989, is all about “The Joy of Health” which will also be the focus of my classes this year. As human beings it is our personal responsibility to learn how to keep ourselves healthy, happy, and productive in learning the truth of who we are as the essence of our life. Learning is a major part of our health and it should be part of our health care. People do not know how to change if they do not understand themselves and how change opens the doors of our mind, emotions, and senses to bigger and greater opportunities in life and living.

Staying healthy and happy as human beings is a major part of the Nightingale Initiative as it was defined by Florence Nightingale years ago. Florence Nightingale is being honored today as the creator of living a healthy lifestyle with the Nightingale Initiative. In our society, we have a belief that “all food is good food,” which is definitely an erroneous belief that supports us in making ourselves sick as we eat multiple types of foods prepared in multiple styles. Never forget that eating organic raw foods in a fresh state is truly supporting our health and happiness. Root vegetables that are grown in healthy soil will provide us with many of the nutrients that we need.

Organically grown foods are healthier than foods grown from manmade chemicals. Foods lose a large portion of their chemical design when they are shipped across the country and not stored properly. When foods are not grown organically, they can be hazardous to our health. Prepare your soil properly and grow your own garden of fresh foods. Eating healthy foods is our best medicine and when we eat well, breathe pure air, think happy thoughts, laugh, and drink pure water, we will have found a recipe for health. Many manufactured home products, drinks, and foods are hazardous to our health.

No Price Tag on Our Health and Happiness!

I lived my entire life on the same farm, and I still considered that piece of land "home" until my parents died and the land was sold. When I finished nursing school in 1951, I moved to Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. in 1951 was a very different town than it is today. I had a younger sister living there and I wanted very much to go live with her. We were very close, but my school and her work had put us in very different areas of the country and I wanted to spend some time with her. As my years of school came to a close, I began to make my plans to live with my sister. At that time I was passionate about medical research, so before I moved from Indiana I accepted a nursing position at D.C. General Hospital in the Tuberculosis Building which was actively doing multiple forms of research. I had been at D.C. General less than a year when we discovered the perfect treatment for tuberculosis, which healed the disease very quickly, and it is still the drug of choice today.

My sister, her friend and I moved from Washington, D.C. into a house in Arlington Forest in Arlington, Virginia. This was one of the first areas of Arlington that was being developed. It was a community of two-story brick houses just across the D.C. line, where we settled in to enjoy our lives, our freedom, and our successes. We had a wonderful year of working, dating, going places together, and being together, and then I got married. Marriage was an interesting challenge for me because I was not used to control, and suddenly I found myself being told what to do and when to do it, and my new husband did not appreciate my focus on tuberculosis research or my working at D.C. General Hospital. Gradually he wore me down and I left D.C. General Hospital and went to work at the Yater Clinic.

In the long run this was a perfect move, because working for Wallace Yater, M.D. was a dramatic gift to myself that I had no idea could happen. I knew him by reputation only when I went to work in his clinic. With my first meeting with Wallace Yater,I was struck by his gentleness, kindness, and his wisdom, which created a dramatic energy field around him. As I watched him work with "very important people" in the concept of our human reality, I was aware of his wisdom, his love, his utmost consideration of all human beings, and his total expertise as a physician.

It was after I started working for Wallace Yater that I realized he had written the "medical book" that was being studied by many medical students. To this day I cherish this medical book that he wrote and I use it to keep my mind fresh on many medical subjects. Wallace Yater had a wide following of patients, and as I started working in the Yater Clinic in Washington, D.C. I was always amazed at the steady influx of diplomats, movie stars, and "important people" that were his clients and that would fly halfway across the world to see him. His personality never changed in my presence. He was always calm, polite, brilliant, and considerate of other people. I have found his medical writings to be as important today as they were fifty years ago, and if they were followed more carefully by today's medical profession, perhaps we would have fewer problems healing diseases, and we would not create as many diseases as confront our human population today. As I remember, Dr. Yater had brilliant physicians working in his clinic and people came from all over the world to see him and his team of specialists.

As a young R.N., I felt very honored to work with these seasoned and intelligent men and women. When I began having children, I always took my children to the pediatrician that I loved so much at the Yater Clinic, whose name was Dr. Catherine Knop. I raised healthy children, and they have all done well in the world today. I do believe that getting off to a healthy start physically, mentally, and emotionally is like money in the bank for us as human beings. We cannot put a price tag on our health or happiness.

I left Yater Clinic to have my first child, but during my child-bearing years and my six children, I always took my children to the Yater Clinic to be seen because I trusted these physicians explicitly, and they were worthy of my trust. The pediatrician that I used for my six children was Dr. Catherine Knop, and she was also the best and brightest pediatrician that I have ever met. To make a long story short, after you have had the best medical care in the country, anything less than what you are used to falls rather flat in your mind and it may never reach your heart. Reaching the heart of a client does not appear to be the intention of our current medical community. Sometimes in my "musings," I wonder how many of today's physicians have studied the medical book written by Wallace Yater? I have his book and I have consistently used it as a reference in my life. I can see him and "feel" his energy when I think about him. Many times I have been given very important answers to my medical questions from his energy field. This is where I learned the reality of medicine and what it means on a personal basis.

In The Beginning

When I was still seventeen I left Salem (Illinois) to go to nursing school in Indianapolis, Indiana. I don’t remember how many miles there were between home and school, but I do know that in 1948 no one jumped in their cars and started off on long joy rides just for the sake of riding on the roads. Route 50, specifically, was pretty terrible between Salem and Indianapolis in 1948, so my trips home during the three years that I was in nursing school were infrequent. My father and my brother-in-law were given the responsibility of coming after me, so I was driven home and returned by car on every trip. At that time my father was still working building houses for the influx of employees of The Texas Company, which was the major oil company in town.

We lived on a farm about seven miles outside of the town of Salem. When the oil fields were being put down we could read a newspaper outside late at night from the light of the oil field flares. This was a very interesting situation to experience after living in the darkness of night for so many years. We did not yet have electricity when the oil fields were being created. We had not yet been designated as an area that had enough human beings living in it to make electricity a money-making project, so we had to wait our turn which was pretty much at the end of the line. My parents did get electricity about late 1950, but I was still at school. This putting in of the electricity had my parents so excited that they called and told me they were coming to get me and bring me home for the weekend. Their surprise for me was the electricity, which of course they loved and so did I because they deserved this modern convenience, and also the convenience of the indoor bathroom that they had built. Most of all, I was excited because I could read at night after everyone else was asleep.

Somehow electricity made me less worried about my parents when I returned to school after that trip home and I felt the change in myself and my academic concentration. When we stop worrying, we can think better and focus more carefully on what we are doing, which I experienced and which I continue to appreciate today. I have had ample opportunities to experience life in the dark and life with light all around me. Living in the country itself was a marvelous experience that I will never forget. When you do not have central lighting in your house, you find yourself staying in closer groups and doing things that you might not do any other time.  Sometimes the moon would light our way.

I was extremely close to my father and I loved to hear his stories about baseball, the army, how he spent his time in France when his leg was too “sick” for the army to put him on a ship to come home. It was my father’s stories about the “coffee houses” in France and how they talked about philosophy that triggered my interest in philosophy as a child. For some reason, which was probably their lack of interest, my father talked to me more about Spiritual Philosophy as he had learned it than he did with my sisters. Later as I got older, I went to work in town in a local drugstore. I made the trips to and from the drugstore with my father as he went to work and came home from work, which was a perfect time for me to listen to his stories. These were wonderful years for me where my father and I could talk consistently about the things that he had learned when he was wounded in the Army and was living in France. He always told me not to share our conversations with the rest of the family because they were religious and we were discussing Spiritual Philosophy as he had learned it, and I never have until this moment in time revealed any of our communication. Now I hope they are open to understanding as I reveal my life and thinking during my early years that have so intensely shaped my later years in life.

Reasons to Study Spirituality

Spiritual Philosophy teaches the truth of Spirituality.

• How Spirituality can change your life
• The Law of Attraction
• Where like minds meet
• Learning as one
• Finding peace in a chaotic world
• Knowing Thyself as a Spiritual Design
• Making sense of your life experience
• Health is self-knowledge- learning how to heal yourself of disease
• Finding inner peace as part of your eternal design
• Facing your fear, changing your physical reality

What is the Secret of Life?

The secret of life is always energy. We are energy! Energy is eternal. As humans we are energy, therefore we are eternal. With each physical life we have an intention of learning. As we learn, we grow and change as energy beings. If we simply look at ourselves, we can see ourselves growing from birth until death. When we think that we are simply physical beings, we miss the entire concept of being eternal beings. Learning is a method of expanding our eternal energy. When we learn more about ourselves as energy beings, we learn how to live longer as physical beings. Our progress of growth must be lived in our physical lives, which allows us to take advantage of our accumulative growth of energy in our successive lifetimes. As Spiritual Energy we live eternally through multiple physical lives. Knowing who we are gives us the impetus to learn more about ourselves as energy beings so that we can have a stronger hand in our future lifetimes as well as our present lifetime. What we know helps us to channel our thinking into more growth energy, which is an eternal gift to ourselves.

10 Steps to Conscious Living -

• Love yourself
• Think positively
• Listen carefully
• Communicate truthfully
• Speak from your heart
• Think and live equality
• Honor your feelings
• Live your loving emotions
• Behave compassionately
• Respect unity as power

2010- The Age of Aquarius?

This is the age of Aquarius. 2010 is the time of opening the mind to Know Thyself! I have not studied astrology and don't know much about "Aquarius" in those terms. I do know that "Aquarius" is the dawning of an energy event for us as spiritual energy beings, and that we are on the threshold of great change potential as human beings. The energy is expanding and becoming more real in the human mind, which opens us to our human consciousness in a new and more joyful understanding of energy than we have experienced in over 2,000 years.

I hope that some of you will open your mind to the Spiritual Philosophy that I am teaching, and expand your human growth into a new age of health and happiness!

Millions of minds will open up to themselves as energy and no longer see themselves as just matter. This is an "enlightenment" we have all been waiting for as human beings. What we are dealing with as human beings is the change in the energy of the Universal system, which will affect minds and help us open up to the truth of us as energy.

Magnolia Wreath Gift!

Steps to Healing

1st Step to Healing:

Change your belief system

2nd Step to Healing:

Change your behaviors and actions

Seek relaxation, the fun things of childhood that bring joy to your heart

Use simple excursions into exploring your life that are fun, spontaneous, and free

Share your home with someone you love

Encourage the relationships of families, friends to become closer and more supportive of individual and group giving

Generate love to light the heart and soul of everyone you meet

Share thoughts, feelings, and emotions from a core level

Communication improves appreciation for each other, and builds the respect that gives us the freedom to love totally!

Light up my life!

I spend a lot of time teaching the Ethical Values in my counseling and in my classes. There was a time in my life when I firmly believed that every human was born knowing and living the Ethical Values as the design of our Spirit Consciousness. The older I became the more conscious I became of how few people even knew the words "Ethical Values" so light dawned in my mind and I realized that we cannot live what we don't know. The term Spirit Consciousness is also a mystery to the average person, especially if that person is focused on "being saved." One of the bench marks in understanding our Spirit Consciousness is knowing that we and we alone are responsible for "saving ourself." When I was a child, growing up on a Midwestern farm, I learned how to plant a garden, milk cows, feed chickens and pigs, and overall to stay busy by doing what needed to be done next on our farm. This was a very active and happy life for me, where we lived as part of Nature and Earth. During my childhood years, I lived in an oil town where we could literally read a newspaper from the light of the many gas flares that were constantly burning from oil wells that were scattered over a fairly large area. When I was very young, I could not understand why the sky seemed to be on fire, but as I got older I realized how and why the sky was so bright and what these oil wells meant to the town itself. Now as I watch people grow and learn Spiritual Philosophy, I can see this same light phenomena as their faces light up with understanding and joy. Those who don't learn to understand Spiritual Philosophy do not "light up" in the same way that people do when they recognize their internal and eternal beauty as Spiritual Energy beings. My goal in life is to teach as many people as I can how to understand Spiritual Philosophy and how to let the "light bulb" of Spiritual Energy light up their own lives.

Our lesson is to learn to Love

Loving self is an awareness of ourselves as perfect at the core of self as a Dual Soul and Spirit level of energy, despite the physical dramas that we have created. It is this awareness and love of thyself that allows us to act with love, to think with love, and to BE love. Understanding yourself is loving yourself. Our lesson is to learn to love.

A Personal Search for the True Self

Being religious and being Spiritual are not the same thing. Religion by history has been a means of controlling the mind, Spirit and body of man. Spiritualism is a movement to understand the self and free the body, mind and Spirit into an awareness of its own energy form. Earth has never had a religion or culture that has not controlled man in some degree, in some way. Spiritualism gives the control to the self through God. Spiritualism is a movement of Love created from within the Spirit world. Spiritualism is based on the ancient knowledge that was shared by ancient Philosophers and in living the Ethical Values to support a better human and a better Earth.

Sometimes in today's Spiritual movement it is hard to get people to gather together. That is because Spiritualism is not a method of control. It is an internal process of learning the history of ourselves as human beings. You do not have to gather together for your energy to connect, but gathering together creates an advanced pull on all energy. It is the energy on the planet that will spread the understanding. It is a personal search for the true self. It is not a search for a leader. Indeed, following any leader other than God can be very detrimental to the Dual Soul and Spirit Consciousness. Attempting to follow Spiritual guidance, when you deny personal responsibility, will not be effective. For those who believe, it will require a commitment to change. Change is the miracle of the energy of man.

Choose Wisely

If you have a partner that is willing to grow with you it is a perfect way to strengthen relationships. Spend quiet time together. Practice positive communication on a soul level. Understand each other. Quiet down your lifestyle. Limit your reading to positive information. If it makes you laugh, enjoy it. If it relates nothing but war on any level, turn it aside and search for the positive reading of understanding and growth. Know that you have a choice of what your life truly is. Whatever you do, whatever you say, however you feel, however you think are all your individual choices. No one makes that decision for you. Every human has free will. Choose wisely.

It is with the loud music, the constant talking, the constant doing, the constant searching for news of the world and others, that we allow ourself to lose sight of us. Man understands the political world better than he understands the world of self. How can man make decisions that affect the Universe, when he can’t make decisions about what he should do in the next moment, what he should eat for dinner or which television program he wants to see?

The process of understanding and awareness is an internal process. It cannot be conducted as a scientific research project that studies other people. Man must first study himself internally, from the physical matter that he created as body, to the functioning mind, to the core self of his soul. Man must look within for the answers.

True emotional health is spiritual growth. It is allowing those soul memories to surface. It is understanding that we are more than our physical manifestations. It is being aware of why we are here on Earth. It is accepting responsibility for the creation that we are. It is loving, sharing, caring. It is oneness. It is honesty, truth, faithfulness, open mindedness, trust. It is non-judgement in a world of opposites. It is loving yourself. It is finding your balance of energies.

It is only through our understanding of the Ethical Values of our Spiritual chemical design that we truly know ourselves. As we know ourself, we change the world we live in to one of love and celebration of the life we create to share and learn.

Consciously Living Our Ethical Values as Our Spiritual Energy

Before we can truly change, we have to understand our true relationship with energy. When we are consciously living our Ethical Values, we reflect the energy of our Ethical Values into all of our thoughts, words, and actions as we interact with other people. We must look carefully at ourselves.

Learning how to consciously live our Ethical Values as our Spiritual Energy is the primary lesson for our Dual Soul, which means that all of the many lives that we live as physical beings are primarily focused on the growth of our Dual Soul, with each lifetime being focused on the lessons that our Dual Soul must learn before it can move forward in its growth and change. Each lesson that we must learn in this lifetime and during any other lifetime is always essential for us as human beings that must consciously be living the Ethical Values that create the precise pattern of our Dual Soul that is growing into our Spirit Consciousness.

Our primary challenge is to learn how to understand ourselves and the capabilities that we have been given to help us with our growth and change. As a human being we must look very closely at our thinking and our behaviors if we want to stay on our path of evolution as a Dual Soul that is growing into our Spirit Consciousness. If our thinking and our behaviors do not show what we have learned reflected into our physical reality, we are not ready to live our Spirit Consciousness, which means that we are not ready to teach what we have been attempting to learn.

Sharing what we think we know is not the same as sharing what we have learned as an integrating being. If our personal growth is our ultimate goal, we must rise above our lying, cheating, and personal camouflage before we can even begin to meet our goal. We have developed a trait as human beings where we sincerely believe that other people remain unaware of our behavior and our communication that is derogatory towards them. This can only be our belief when we do not understand energy and the personal and consistent reflection of our personal energy, which defines every word that we speak, every action that we are involved in, how we think, what we are saying to other people, and of course what we do with ourselves and our lives.

Join us November 20-22 as we learn together, focusing on Consciously Living the Ethical Values as Spiritual Energy. 919-545-9937 for info. Pittsboro Community House, Pittsboro, NC.

Being A Spiritual Person

More and more people are seeking the Spiritual path today, which in truth is the eventual path of recognizing all energy. This does not mean that all people who want to be Spiritual understand energy, or that they have any realization of the energy being emitted by themselves and other people.

Being a Spiritual person is basically all about learning the truth of information, which is a form of energy. Before we can open our thinking mind to consciously live our Ethical Values, we must learn who we are, how we function in the physical world as an energy being, and we must learn how to understand the eternal and internal energy sources that we are always living in our physical reality of life. If we have no understanding of who we are, we will judge other people as "less than" us. Once we understand our own internal energy, we learn to live our energy as total love and we learn to accept other human beings as total love. Our goal as human beings is to learn how to live our Ethical Values every day within our moment by moment physical reality, which supports the design of our Spirit Consciousness energy as the core energy of us. To actively live our Spirit Consciousness we must live our "love" as the energy of our human body throughout all of our physical life, that evolves from birth until death, and we must live this loving energy in total relationship to ourselves, our family, and everyone else that we know. When we can live our truth in our daily life, we will find ourselves feeling the Spiritual energy within us. We cannot lie, cheat, steal or live any negative behaviors if we want to live as Spiritual Beings.

Our Goal As Human Beings is to learn to live our Ethical Values

Many people will freely use the word "Spiritual," and they will sincerely believe that they are living their Spiritual Energy every moment of their life. Words do not make someone Spiritual. It is only the energy of the physical body, its thoughts, actions, and its behavior that reflect our Spirit Consciousness. We must understand the "energy" of our Ethical Values as the living part of our Spirit Consciousness, which is important if we want to understand our Ethical Values as the Energy Source of our Spirit Consciousness, which we use to guide us through our multiple lives. Our Ethical Values are the most advanced energy of our Spirit Consciousness as our Spirit Energy. When we live our physical reality from any level of addiction, fear, judgement, or negative physical behaviors, we are unable to live the loving energy of our Spirit Consciousness because we will be unable to access our Spirit Consciousness Energy. When we live simply from the patterns of our physical reality and negative thinking, we are not capable of living the energy of our Spirit Consciousness as our loving, guiding energy.

Our goal as human beings is to learn how to live our Ethical Values every day within our moment by moment physical reality, which supports the design of our Spirit Consciousness energy as the core energy of us. We are always Spirit Consciousness Energy, but we cannot be living from our Spirit Energy when we are living in fear, lying, judgement, or anger or we are unable to be conscious of our own energy fields or another person's energy fields. This shows us that we are not usually in touch with Energy in any conscious fashion as living human beings, because we are too self-focused. We can never understand the energy of our Ethical Values until we are fully capable of living all of our Spirit Consciousness energy (Ethical Values) in our everyday physical life.

Join us at my October 18 seminar, where we will learn more about our energy fields and the Ethical Values of our design!

Protecting and Healing the Body is an Art

When we care about self and others, we are inspired by the love of the spirit and motivated through soul memory to create with new ideas, new concepts, new perspectives, and new levels of conscious awareness. It is time we expand our creative abilities to help ourselves in disease prevention and treatment.

It is evident within our world that physicians and nurses are not always comfortable with the outcome of therapy. It is also evident by the expanding liabilities that patients and families are not comfortable with medical care.

Physicians are facing a world of people that are not happy with the medical care they are receiving. But from the perspective of the medical world they are doing all that they were taught to do. The medical world has become a "victim" of the cyclic energy of instant gratification. The more science focuses upon scientific gratification, the more the public focuses upon self-gratification.

This phenomena of the "quick fix" creates an energy that is captured between the judicial and medical system. Feeding upon this system is the supporting energy of self-gratification for the pharmaceutical business, all the supporting businesses of the medical world, the insurance companies, and the government.

There are more and more instances occurring where medical judgment is based upon the beliefs and self-gratification needs of the physician and patient, and not upon correcting the balance within the body. The beliefs of the patient are many times manipulative and unethical in the world of science. In turn, science can be manipulative and unethical in the world of mankind.

The reasons for opposite focuses are multiple and they are always influenced by all sectors of society that support and expand the phenomena of self-gratification and dissatisfaction. Instant gratification is publicized by all avenues of the media, the family, the schools, and the business world.

Blaming is a disease of negative energy. Creating change is a challenge of positive energy. Death can never be avoided in all instances because the spirit uses death as its method of change. But it is our responsibility to create an atmosphere of healing and loving support regardless of the choice of the spirit. Change will occur more rapidly when multitudes of people understand the need for change and are willing to support change.

Medicine is an art. Protecting and healing the body is an art. Science has made many advances that can be integrated with the art that is within the soul and spirit of us. Now we need to open our minds to new perspectives, new ideas, new inspirations, and integrate them with the intellect that has expanded within us.

Integrating art and science will give us the opportunity to provide for ourselves the love and support that we all may need at some point in our lives. This challenging endeavor will benefit from the loving energy of each and every person who understands the importance of self.

The Purpose of the IMS Online School

The Language of Silence

The language of silence is the energy consciousness of the form and feeling of words. Within the stillness is expansiveness, knowledge, all the words, all the feelings that have been, and will be in the language of the Universe. This consciousness is there eternally for us to utilize. It is the ego of man that keeps man exclusively focused within the physical world of words.

Sharing understandings will not BE if there is truly no understanding within. The activities of man make it necessary to listen to the voice within. In our world this is known as intuition.

Intuition is the expression of spirit guidance. Intuition is connecting physical understanding to the spirit consciousness. Intuition is an automatic response within the inner self of man. It is not a thought process that one evaluates and assesses in making a decision. It is a discernment, a knowing that defies scientific proof within you your reality. The inability to prove something on your level of awareness does not mean that it does not exist. It does man that you have connected with an energy flow of the Universe that is a memory for you.

It is the ego that becomes threatened by soul memory and spirit guidance. Intuition is a spirit influence - a guidance from the inner spirit of the self. Intuition is a silent language from the spirit world. The man who relies on his ego will not rely on his intuition. It would not be logical to accept help from such an unidentifiable source. The ego of man is a person of "status," who demands status in return. Status is a perception. Living from the ego force will permit man to climb to the top of his physical reality by using his fellow man as his stepping stones. This process of growth at another's soul expense is growth only on a physical level. We do not grow spiritually by putting another soul at a disadvantage. Manipulation is an ego function.

This lesson will be a lesson that another has agreed to share in, and the lessons they are learning in this instance will normally be diametrically opposite. One lesson will be focused within the spirit plane and one lesson will exist only on the physical plane. Neither will be right or wrong but will be what is needed for each soul in that creation. Adversity is an ego function with all of the emotional drama of anger, hate, and fear that is a drama of the physical. Only man commits to adversity. It is within the activities of adversity that man learns to listen to his spirit. Adversity is indeed a physical challenge that is a role of the physical realm. Man was created in the image of God. The image of God is the image of love. When we create with love, we understand the power of the creation of love.

(for more on this subject, read pp. 203-205, Bridges of Consciousness)

IMS Online School

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Why Do We Have a Sick and Befuddled Society?

We are designed as human beings to live from the guidance of our Sensory Energy. Our sensory energy is an integrated design that is found within our physical energy and which is motivated through our Spirit Consciousness. Our Spirit Sensory Energy is a Dual Design in the same manner as our human design. We were given our Spirit Sensory Energy to help us understand ourselves as male and female human beings. It was imperative that we learn to understand ourselves, everyone around us, Earth, nature, and the challenges of our physical lives if it was our intention to grow, change, and evolve as a human species. As human beings, we are still struggling to understand ourselves in relationship to each other, Earth, and the Universal System. It is our Sensory Energy that explains all of our human life to us. Once we begin to understand the essence of our human life, we begin to understand ourselves, which is really the secret of life.

Now we have a sick and befuddled society that is struggling to understand itself and how to live a healthy and productive life. Despite our challenges, we continue to be ignorant of what is making us sick to death. It truly is not a deep and mysterious challenge that we face. As we learn to know thyself, we begin to understand that we are one with the Universe, Earth, and Nature. We are energy and we are matter. We have made a scientific effort to destroy the validity of these three supporting features of our physical life, which has presented us with our present-day challenges through Nature, Earth, and the Universe. We are always challenged to see ourselves as the culprits in destroying our own health and happiness.

First IMS Online Course!

Invest in yourself first! How well do you truly Know Yourself?
Understand your relationships as you never have before! Strengthen your drive to integrate your spirit, mind, and body in all aspects of your life with loving, real-world guidance. You will be challenged in this course to gain a greater appreciation of all your relationships as experiences of self-discovery. Discovering ourself is our path of learning, and learning is the way our soul evolves.

Course begins Sept. 14! Enrollment is limited for this pilot course, so sign up today - Visit my IMS Online School for course information.

Next Seminar - How & Why We Have Spirit Sensory Energy

For thousands of years, humans have lived and learned, seeking to Know Themselves and their purpose on Earth. How many of us continue to ask ourselves who we are as human beings, why we live and die as we do, what is freedom, what is love, what does it mean to be healthy and happy? These are indeed eternal questions. They are not eternal mysteries, except to the mind that does not continue to gain knowledge and use that knowledge to become an Ethical Energy being living in physical form, as a human being. Do we become "better people" each day? What does it mean to become a "better person"? How do we know? Are our minds truly open to knowing ourselves as energy beings?

We have a tendency to see ourselves as simply physical beings that live only one physical life and then we die. We need to realize that we are growing and streamlining ourselves as energy beings as we learn and change in each and every one of our physical lives. If we do not learn, we do not change! If we do not understand the importance of our internal growth and change, our thinking mind and emotional self will continue to be strictly focused in the physical reality that we accept as who we are. Our physical lives are at all times a learning experience for our Dual Soul and Spirit Consciousness, but when we begin to see every aspect of our human experiences as an energy learning experience for the "internal energy design of us," we take our learning out of the physical concepts and shift it to the energy concept of who we are as evolving human beings.

We are much more unique as cellular beings than we have accepted and learned about. We are Spirit Consciousness Energy that lives eternally, whether we are living in physical matter or we are living in total Spirit Consciousness Energy. At this point in our evolution we cannot consciously learn without the support of our physical matter and our consciousness intention. We use our physical senses as part of our Spirit Consciousness Energy to stimulate our thinking mind and its consciousness levels, to allow ourselves to grow and change through our energy stimulation. We automatically respond to the physical reality of life at the precise level of Consciousness Energy that we are living. This is why we must always focus on growth and change as the energy of our physical lives. Without growth and change within our physical reality, we will not grow and change enough to create a higher level of consciousness in our next life.

We all know people that we immediately understand do not meet our operational level of energy, and we know that we must adjust our own internal energy fields if we want to be capable of communicating with that person on their individual level of energy. Once we are living at higher levels of energy, we understand how to use our physical energy without losing any of our Internal Spiritual Energy, therefore we can communicate with anyone by using our "sliding scale" of energy fields. Athletes refer to their capabilities as their "physical energy" without realizing that physical energy is not an "original" energy fields. Our physical energy is a by-product of our thinking mind and physical body, and both of these energies have built-in energy sources. As humans we are not "original" energy fields, but we are created energy fields that are very methodically returning into new physical life and intentionally moving through different energy fields to help us grow and change internally.

Socrates spoke of this sliding scale when he discussed with others through his questions and answers, asking that others "take me with you" so that I might follow your thought and then reply. This art of dialogue is the opposite of war, and leads to wisdom as minds listen and respond. Today we seem uncomfortably content with simple answers which do not lead us to wisdom. Simplicity leads to wisdom when minds are open to Knowing themselves, and exploring the energies which make up our design, the history of us as interactive, interdependent energy beings.

Join us, enjoy the art of dialogue, give your mind the gift of guidance of spirit love and its infinite senses! Next seminar - August 30! How and Why We Have Spirit Sensory Energy. (The picture above is the Pittsboro Community House, new home of our current Spiritual Philosophy events. Imagine yourself there, see if you don't smile!)

Providing Balance in Life

Man has difficulty opening to the mind to the Universal Consciousness, because man has a fear of looking within. Looking within must begin with the ego being subjected to an intense and concentrated review. When man begins to review the ego actions of life, the ego responds with resistance. You will think such things as: 'I wasn't responsible for that.' 'It just happened.' 'I don't need to feel guilty.' 'I was only trying to help.'

Go beyond this chatter of the ego and look for the lesson. Looking within is not an exercise to destroy the ego. It is an exercise of providing balance in life. The ego is only a small part of the life of man on Earth. When the ego takes over control of man's life, dramas are created to defend the take-over.

Search for moments in your life when you can be with silence. Silence has an expansiveness and openness that is innate within itself. Silence does not fence you in as sound fences you in. When you can become comfortable with silence you will find the higher self that is you, reaching further and further into the spiritual world. You will begin a silent communication of energy which you will be able to identify by the peaceful feelings that will wash over you. At this moment the ego may create fear. Do not respond.

This silence does not remove your consciousness, it expands your consciousness. You will be aware of your physical world, but you will be developing an awareness of things within that physical world that you did not see before. You will feel a freedom, a wideness to your world. In time your thoughts will begin to come from a higher level, and you will suddenly be astounded by how profound you can be.

As you allow yourself to travel further and further into the stillness, the silence of life, you will begin to develop an awareness of light within this expansiveness. The light will increase into an understanding, a knowledge of self and your intimate relationship to the Universe. This will be the beginning of your transformation from a physical being into a balanced being. You will give nothing up. You will be adding to.

The entire world of man has been focused upon the physical self from the beginning of time. In your world today this fascination with the physical body controls much of your economy; even your medical and food industries. Man will become aware of the soul and spirit of self more rapidly, when he makes the choice to focus on the soul and spirit. (Bridges of Consciousness, 91-92)

Simple

Once we understand our mind, the rest is simple!

"The man who has no fear has an open mind. He is willing to go with the flow of life. He is willing to be exposed to new ideas, new thoughts, and new concepts. The man who understands love knows that he is in control and that he has conscious choice in his world. He has no fear of change because he understands the enfinity of his spirit self. He accepts that he is eternal and cannot be harmed.

A man who has no fear looks at himself, not in judgement, but in relationship to his exposure and his lessons. He views himself as he views other people, with unconditional love. If he makes what the world might identify as a 'mistake,' he sees it as a lesson because he created the opportunity to learn from the opposite of what he wanted. He has now created the opportunity to change and to grow within himself. Always, he continues to love himself and his neighbor because his perception of his world is new, with motivating and creative challenges."

Bridges of Consciousness, 46. (my second book)

Reviewing Self

At least once a day we need to look within ourselves and do a thorough review of who we are, how we are functioning, what our focus is, and what we want to create in our lives. I have been doing this little self-test for most of my adult life and I never cease to be amazed at how good it makes me feel to know who I am, where I am going, how I want to get there, and how much time it is going to take for me to meet my goals. We should do frequent reviews to make certain that we are following the path that works for us and that is going to make us feel good about what we do. One thing that I have learned is that we cannot always depend upon the amount of money that we make as the token of our success. I find it more encouraging to look at the lives that I touch and help along my journey, than to look at the bottom line in terms of money return. This is not necessarily a smart way to do business, but it is a way to help people who are not in the highest income bracket of life. There is also a great deal of satisfaction in seeing a face light up because their pain has left their body.

The joy of my life is my nervous system. When I say this most people look at me as though I have just declared my death warrant, but it is more like a life warrant than anything else could ever be. When I was a child I had rheumatic fever very badly, which didn’t even begin to subside until several months after I had a tonsillectomy (at 16). When I was a child there was no penicillin or any other drug to treat Strep Throat, which was considered to be the primary cause of rheumatic fever at the time. The theory must have been correct because the entire concept of rheumatic fever is only a memory today in civilized countries rather than a childhood epidemic. Having my tonsils out literally changed my life and allowed me to run, walk, play, and work without intense pain. Learning to live without the severe pain always being present in my joints and in my body was a revelation to me.

I had always wanted to be a nurse. When I was two years old I told my parents that when I grew up I was going to be a nurse. They were stunned because they could not understand where or how I learned the word nurse. In addition, they looked at their sick child that was always on the verge of death and wondered where and how I could ever be well enough to pursue being a “nurse,” while I was deathly sick with rheumatic fever. It was confusing to them to have me speak about something that was foreign to my experience and age at the time, especially in the relationship that I verbalized in how to relate it to an adult life and the concept of health. That was my beginning declaration into the concept of making nursing my chosen career. I never faltered in my intention, and happily I fulfilled my own challenge in May 1951. It was not always easy, but in relationship to the pain that I had experienced in my early life, I was now living essentially a “pain-free” life.

Later I learned how controversial pain can be. My level of pain was simply my level of pain which I learned to tolerate and to grow within. Later in my life, when I became essentially pain-free, I could not believe the divine difference between agony and pleasure. How can anyone equate that difference without living it?

My Life: Conquering Pain

I was born knowing what pain is. I lived with pain from infancy, 1930, until 1992. When anyone lives in pain as long as I have lived in pain, you develop an intimacy with the pain that allows you to ignore the pain for more exciting moments in your life. I was born on October 13, 1930 and from infancy until 1992 I lived with a dramatic level of pain. Pain expanded my motivation of life. I found myself doing many things that I might not have tackled otherwise, simply to force my body into a higher level of activity. I announced to my parents when I was two years old that I was going to be a nurse. Neither one of my parents could understand how I knew the word nurse, let alone created the motivation to stress myself even further. My primary pain was the result of rheumatic fever which was common in America when I was a child. I never spent a day or a night without overwhelming pain that literally wracked my body. My parents took me to every Doctor in town, hoping that one of them would have an answer, but in the 1930s there was no answer for rheumatic fever.

When I was six years old (1936) a new doctor moved into our hometown and I was taken to see him. I will never forget this big, rough-as-a-cobb man with his red hair, because he made me bend my legs and arms, he made me touch my toes, and twist my spine. The pain was incredible, but even at my youthful age I knew that the pain made me feel better over time. He was relentless in his instructions. He had my parents order oranges by the bushel, which were then shipped to our home from Florida by Rural Route Delivery. He instructed me on being conscious of my pain, where it traveled, and how I felt afterwards. He taught me a method of compression to deal with my acute and unbearable pain. He began to treat me with cod liver oil to supplement my diet of fresh oranges and fresh farm foods, and he made me walk, run, and jump as though I had no pain. In time, I began to feel better and I became capable of walking the four miles to our country school.

This doctor looked very large to me at six years old, and later I realized that he looked large because he was large, probably well over 6 feet tall with red hair and a no-nonsense attitude that made me active even when my pain was intense and I wanted to cry. His name was Dr. Logan and he had been an Army Doctor prior to moving to Salem, Illinois. He taught me more about the nervous system and the pain that could be generated by the nervous system than any other physician in my young life. He taught me about muscles, nerves, bones, and flesh in his gruff and no-nonsense manner. He would pick up my inflamed and swollen legs and arms and he would make me bend my joints and use my muscles. I would cry, but he never gave up and he never showed even one ounce of pity for me. He made me live with the pain and activate my body with the same intensity that I am sure he would have used with a healthy child.

It was Dr. Logan that gave me my first lesson in the nervous system and what the nervous system meant to us as human beings. He taught me to “think health” and to look beyond pain. He would tell me about the growth of my body and how it affected the intense pain that I was living. I lived with chronic pain because I was living with a streptococcus infection that had no cure at that time in the history of medicine. When I was sixteen, I reached the golden age where they allowed me to take “drip Ether” for a tonsillectomy to remove my streptococcal-infected tonsils. This was a gigantic step forward in restoring my health, which was dangerous but accepted as I had a goal of getting into Nursing School when I graduated from high school.

During the fifteen plus years that I was a patient of Dr. Logan’s, I learned about our physical body, its bones, ligaments, muscles, nerves, blood vessels and the pain that a streptococcal infection could cause in my body. From the age of 16 to 18, my focus was on healing my physical body so that I would be accepted into nursing school. Those painful years of my life taught me much more than I could ever have learned if I were healthy. Most importantly I learned that healing is possible, and when we can will ourselves out of pain, we certainly have a more positive choice of healing ourselves and being capable of living a healthy life. At the age of eighteen I applied to St. Vincent de Paul in Indianapolis, Indiana to attend their Nursing Program and I was healed and I was accepted.

Dr. Logan probably taught me more about my body and its capabilities during my youth than any Doctor had before or has since. It was an invaluable lesson that lives with me today. He taught me most of all how to cope with and to deal with intense pain by recognizing what was happening in my body at any given time. He taught me to be consciously aware of my brain, my lungs, my heart, all of my nervous system, my blood system, my kidneys, my boney structure, plus every other organ in my brain and body. From that initial focus of learning about the multiple organs and systems in our body, I was hooked. I wanted to know more, much more, and therefore I did. When I graduated from Nursing School, I followed my heart and went into Tuberculosis research. After this nursing stint I took time off to have six beautiful children. When I returned to work in my late 30's and early 40's I spent many years learning the intricacies of Nursing and Hospital Administration, before I began my second career in research. This time the research was focused on the HLA and DNA as it was being discovered through organ transplant.

In 1984 I quit working in transplant and decided that I would work with clients on my own. Since I was a small child and very sick, I had become intensely aware of the energy that lives in each of us as human beings. When I worked as a nurse I was always in touch with the energy as it left a person’s body, and I liked the sense it gave me. This was a very intense energy feeling that I had also experienced when I went with my parents to visit the “dead.” During my years in hospital nursing, I had always been fully aware of the energy leaving a person’s body. Since I was very conscious of the energy within the human body, I taught myself to work with this energy field to better understand death and dying, as well as the overall energy field that seemed to always leave the body of the dead.

As I worked with this energy I found that the energy would listen intensely to me and would many times follow my suggestions to the letter. This prompted me to begin working closely with the energy itself through interactive communication. I was very pleased with the results that I discovered, which prompted me to see if I could heal different diseases in the body by using the person’s own internal energy. The more that I worked with the internal energy, the more successful I became in making the changes that I could see needed to be made. In time I began to address very serious diseases such as cancer with a great deal of success. The secret to healing diseases is to be capable of seeing the energy and dramatically changing the energy, which changes the physical situation. I soon discovered that I could not heal a person that did not want to be healed, nor could I work with energy that did not want to be worked with from an outside force.

Since my first forages into “energy work” I have learned how to interact with many forms of energy. In most cases any energy that is open to being healed can be healed. Some people do not want to be healed because their future plans are already made and set in place. Conquering pain is a major focus for many people, which can change the entire focus of their disease outcome.

I Love Rocks

I love rocks. I have always loved rocks. I remember my mother wondering why I was always picking up rocks and carrying them with me when I was a small child. My sister and I used to wander the farm and beyond, roaming the woods until we came upon one of our favorite places, a beautiful river where we swam. The water was deep in this spot, with a sandy bottom loose with pebbles. It was one of our favorite places to enjoy the beauty and peace of nature. As much as I love flowers, I have a special affinity with rocks. The minerals within us are part of our chemical relationship to Earth as our home, and rocks are a wonderful image of layers of minerals that have grown into different forms over millenia, just as we have evolved as consciousness into our human form. The Earth supports us in our physical strength, as we eat from nature, drink pure water, breathe fresh air, and enjoy the beauty of nature in all forms.

We are one with nature in the identical way that we are one with the Universe and Earth. When we destroy the natural hierarchy of nature we destroy the natural hierarchy of our body and mind. Learning to honor our body, mind and spirit must be our first step forard in correcting disease. When we intellectually accept our soul memory and spirit influence, we will change our behavior towards our physical balance and toward the physical balance of nature.