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Dear Friends:

It has been my privilege to work with the Aquarian Bookshop over the last 6 years. While six years seems like a long time now, many of you go back further with the Aquarian. You remember the early days when a teenage John J. Oli-ver would teach psychic development classes and do psychic readings and demonstrations. Metaphysical book-shops inspire people in transformation

and personal growth. Well, the bookshop has certainly evolved over the years. Do you remember the days when the shop was stuffed with books and tables with more books? The middle of the shop had a living room set up so that regular patrons could sit and “visit.” Those of you who have seen the bookshop lately realize that the transforma-tion of the store has come largely from the vision of a core group of Jerhoam’s Mystery School students and the hands-on work of our visionary designer V.

Spirituality is not just about accumulating knowledge and luxuriating in tid-bits of eso-teric wisdom. One part of the Sunflower Priestess’s motto is to “Be of Service.” It is very fulfilling to work with the store in its effort to support “The Baby Girl Project,” which to this date has raised enough money through psychic festivals to build thirteen schools in Kenya, Africa. We are so fortunate to be born into the boon of abundant education therefore it is so gratifying to help children on the other side of the world to learn to read. I wish to give a special thanks to everyone who has made the festivals possible.

I hope that you look carefully in this issue of the Aquarian Vogue and learn something that you can share with others to make your own life better. The Aquarian plans to con-tinue to host the Jerhoam’s Mystery School and it’s year long course studies in After- Death Environments. We also look forward to another visit from Mayan Elder Don Carlos Barrios who will share his profound shamanic knowledge with us or Max, the Ancient Crystal Skull who will amplify the incredible energies that are programmed within the crystal. Yes, we are looking forward to wonderful times ahead in an ongoing evolving Aquarian that promises many wonderful surprises in spirituality, transformation, and personal evolution. I love all of this stuff, but I also love to have fun with the people who visit the shop. I hope to see you there this year. Be sure to say, “Hi,” to the Sunflower Priestess.”

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Interview with John J. Oliver

Why is your Mystery School so interested in animals and animal spirits?

Animals are fellow creatures that we have a spiritual responsibility to protect and take care of. People love their dog, or they love their cat or whatever pet they live with. We are able to look into his/her eyes and sense that there is an actual sentient being there. In Jerhoam’s Mystery School we extend this concern toward wildlife, cows, pigs and other animals.

What do you mean by animal spirits?

I refer to animal spirits to remind everyone that all creatures have a soul. All creatures have feelings and play a very important part in our lives. I refer to them as “souls” just to remind people that they are evolving spiritually in the same way that we are.

What is a totem and do you work with totems in the school?

Many of the students do work with totems. I personally work with totems. A totem is an energy field essentially. A totem is a symbol and the symbol is usually represented by an animal or maybe even a plant spirit. A totem is a way for us to work

with particular energy fields, Native Americans refer to them as “medicines.” For example, if you want to invoke the energy

of health and longevity, you may want to use the symbol of a tor-toise because while it moves relatively slowly, it lives a very, very

long time. A tortoise picture or charm or actually keeping a tortoise or turtle can serve to invoke those qualities from your life force.

Are you saying that the spirit of the animal is actively participating in whatever the work is that you are invoking

it for?

Yes and no. There are spirits that are very conscious and very deliberate in their work. They might take the form of an animal such as a tortoise, a horse, or a bird.

When I look at a picture of a horse or I happen to encounter a horse in my travels, it reminds me of what that totem represents. For example, a horse might represent

strength, speed, safe journeys or good fortune in some way. Seeing the totem evokes the qualities of that totem so that I can do inner work.

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How does the average person begin to work with totems and how do you know what your totem is?

Working with a totem is very simple. You can make a list of your favorite ani-mals. If you are naturally attracted to a particular animal then perhaps the symbolic messages of that animal spirit are good “medicines” for you. Another way to work with a totem is to go on a vision quest. You may take a meditative walk in the forest. Along the way watch your surroundings. If you encounter a deer, or a bird, or a fox, or an owl, use that encounter as a sign that an “animal spirit” has shown itself to you. Each animal spirit has a message from the universe. The messages are in a perfect synchronicity. Nature and universe will show which energies you need to work with. You receive clear guidance if you listen.

Do you have a personal totem that you work with?

Yes, I do. I have several Totems. Many of you know that I have recently made a conscious choice to use the Chihuahua as my totem spirit and my familiar. I have chosen Chihuahua as a magical practice. The lore of the Chihuahua with the Toltec’s, Mayans, and especially the Aztecs is profound. The Aztecs used the Chihuahua dogs in their death practice ceremonies to help the dead to cross over. In fact Aztec warriors would walk with Chihuahuas, carrying them into the battle understanding that if one died while in the presence of a Chi-huahua, the Chihuahua “spirit” would help the soul to cross over into the Light. I feel that the Chihuahua is a perfect totem for someone that is a psychic/ me-dium/oracle. They possess the power to help the soul make the transition to the other-side.

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Are you a Psychic?Yes, I usually do a psychic interpretation and then use cards to clarify. Everybody has a certain way to read and interpret cards. They are not necessary for me. I have a way of helping people. They can be so upset when they call me and when we are done they are laughing. It is a way of helping them see the other side of the coin.

What sensations do you get when you do areading?I just let go, I feel like the Great Spirit comes thru me. I have a lot of talent for picking up what people need in their bodies, what’s wrong with them, like a medicine woman.

When did you first discover you were Psychic?I’ve known things since I was 5 years old. I would tell my mother things would happen and two days later she’d say “How did you know that?” In my teenage years I would read at parties, then peo-

ple began asking me questions all the time. Later I started doing readings at bookstores as well as individual consultations because I could go into trance and become an entity.

So would you say you are channeling?Yes, I channel a Native American entity named Wakatita. He told me the reason he can come thru me is because I was willing and I talk to the Na-tive American people, because I champion the Indian. I always tried to bring the Native American out of hiding. My great great grandmother was Native American and I’m very proud of the fact that I could talk to the Native Ameri-can people and champion them. I really think they got a dirty deal. Wakatita was good at speaking to young people. They are so easily inspired. He would talk to them and instigate good feelings about the Native American who was put down and maligned.

You are called the Grandmother of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation. How did that come about?These people that I champion are the ones that escaped and lived in the Appalachian mountains because they could live off the land and survive. Be-cause of the work I do and maybe because I’m 89 years old, they made me the Honorary Grandmother of the tribe. I go down and deliver clothes and bring them whatever they need. Right now I’ve got 50 bags full of clothes and boxes of toys we’re going to deliver this month. I have a lot of friends who help me, especially my daughter. Last year 45 families got clothes. I started doing this when I was a young girl in the country. Some might say I’m a collector, I always have stuff to give away.

At 89 how are you feeling?I still feel like a young person. I cover up my seriousness by laughing and joking. I care about everybody and try to do what I can to help everybody. I love kids. When I see a little child, my heart dances. I love my cats and the work I do with the Native American people. I think you have to have a reason to live, to live longer. When you’re helping other people you’re not worrying about your problems.

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Crystals and stones are fruits of the Earth, so to speak. It is important to understand that every object produced of Earth is a symbol. We can relate to crystals and stones from this understanding, as carriers of a higher intention for knowledge and directional energy. Each particular crystal or stone, furthermore, bears a unique purpose, a special and specific intention - and attraction - to its energy.

Why, we may ask in example, are so many people attracted to diamonds? Diamonds have an extremely profound vibra-tion. Yes, a diamond is precious. Our contemporary cultural metaphor of diamond as significator of a rarest value - and, thus, rarest power - is a notable one. Yet, a diamond has other and greater energetic properties and significances be-yond economic and status symbols; such is true for all crys-tals and stones. So be it.

WHAT MAKES THE CRYSTALS AND STONES SO SPECIAL?

Crystals and stones work according to intention. There is a long-standing discussion regard-ing this, but consider the following. A crystal has attained significance over ages of time and has an asso-ciated data bank that goes with it. While the physical body may not sense the effects of the stones or crystals nearby, other higher bodies - or body levels - of your being are registering the influence and are definitely being affected and altered, whether or not you are tuned into the process.

When some entities may sit in meditation, only to declare, “I am getting nothing out of this. Is there a point? What is this supposed to be about, anyway?” This is because the subtle bodies most effected by the subtle energies released

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Healing and Manifesting with Crystals and Stones.

in meditation are largely dormant in such entities. Likewise, crystals and stones work primarily at these higher levels of human vibration, to which many humans are insensate, all by intention, or consciously directed energy. The power of the intention - of which the crystal is the symbol and channel - generates, amplifies, or projects a particular thought ma-trix within an entity’s energy field, or consciousness. So be it.

One can only know which crystal is best through a special study of stones and crystals. One can also undertake an ini-tiation into the meaning of a particular crystal or stone with which you intend to build a deep working relationship, rath-er than having casually bought it to wear as an accessory. Take the time to select it, or know that it will come to you at the appropriate time. Then, invest the time to cleanse it, pray with it, meditate with it, work with it, and finally take an initiation with it, that is to have a “magic talk” with the object, wherein you open your channel and that of the crys-tal simultaneously to the Source, allow your own energy to communicate with its energy as the Light of the Source flows

throughout both channels. This facilitates cooperation with the object.

Energetic cooperation is the key. If you hold an intention of significance with a crys-

tal or stone, then your energy begins to cooperate with it. When using stones and crystals, consider all this and work with much creativity, much sacred imagination, much inspi-ration, and even, for some entities in some moments, rev-elation. So be it.

HOW DOES ONE KNOW WHICH TO USE AND HOW?

The power of the intention - of which the crystal is the symbol and channel - gener-

ates, amplifies, or projects a particular thought matrix within an entity’s energy

field, or consciousness.

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Many indigenous people today use crystals and stones of their own regions in magical, or shamanistic practices. The most ancient ones use crystals and stones thusly, and have deep traditions. These are vestiges of ancient civilizations that elevated the use of them to great power. These ancient civilizations specifically used the crystals as great generators in such ways as cannot be described in your current scientific language, except to say what the technology could produce. If crystals are somehow (and the “somehow” lies in the tech-nology devised) made to cooperate with the Earth’s energy lines and electromagnetism, they can do remarkable things. Crystals can create fields upon which there is sound vibra-tion that could lift up a massive block of stone.

Remember the Great Pyramid? Crystals could be used to create energy fields in the air that are like contemporary highways, whereby an entity in physical body can travel, as in the legendary tales of flying carpets. In the highest of ancient civilizations - whose existence modern archeol-ogy has yet to discover, let alone confirm - crystals in the practitioner’s hand functioned as devices of telepathy, so to speak. Here, crystals cooperated with the mineral crystals in the circuitry of the user’s own brain. In such a way, the crystal was a device similar to your telephone, conducting (from the brain) the thought content of your mind, access-ing the energy lines of the atmosphere, and signaling them to the intended recipient’s crystal/brain set-up. The general concepts of these are all energetic and related to sound in spiritual practice. The subject is wonderfully vast and pro-found. It is very exciting for entities interested in the subject to pursue it. So be it.

Enlightenment means freedom and that you are at peace. May we suggest, on this note, undertaking an ironic prac-tice. Many entities, having become in their own minds so lofty and pure in their meditation and spiritual practice, will declare stones and crystals to be crutches, external devices merely amplifying the energy the user already generates, and they assert of greater importance that truth exists al-ready within, with or without them.

All this is true. But, if this were the final truth, then why bother standing in the sun to receive its light? The sun is a bearer of light like a quartz crystal, only that much greater. Or why bother drinking water? Such is an even deeper pen-etration of your being from an external substance for one’s proper functioning than in meditating with a crystal.

The way to use the crystals and stones for enlightenment is to focus upon them with mental power to make them magi-cal devices to enhance inner qualities. Thus, without under-standing a stone’s properties, should you attempt to use it

HOW CAN WE USE THEM TO ENLIGHTEN OURSELVES?

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to attract a boyfriend or to increase your wealth or to attract anything from the external world that you expect will bringyou happiness, consider rather using stones for your inner practice first? Any stone can be used to increase peace and peaceful function. Peace comes from letting go of the de-sired object.

Thus, when the stone brings you what you want, you may find a temporary peace, until you imagine a lack of another kind, which leads to the desire of another object, and then you are in turmoil again. So it matters not what the stone can bring you, but what you will bring yourself through the stone. And so consider first implementing all stones to cre-ate peace. Pick your stone, and it will bring you peace if you dedicate your intention to it. So be it.

If the stone, regardless of its species - even if it’s a lump dug out of your backyard - is used consciously in a meditation practice, it becomes a sacred object of power. It facilitates the meditation in diminishing your stress. The released stress will allow increased healing. Study, meditate, and practice with various stones and crystals to learn their qualities. As you advance, you see the open possibilities of crystal and stone usage. For example, you will see how purple and blue specimens awaken the higher centers of consciousness as they correspond to those same colors of the higher chakras.

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Meditation and the reduction of stress is vastly underes-timated as a practice. Currently reducing personal stress levels in the field of the greater social consciousness at large by ten, twenty, or thirty percent will translate into increased wealth. Why? De-stressed, you will cease to reach for (and purchase) comfort food. You will cease from having to see the doctor quite so frequently. You will cease from needing to subject your happiness to so many external and limited manipulations, because you are at peace. That is the foundation practice within our school. So be it.

All stones that are actively used for inner practices require cleaning. Dusting and sometimes oiling them to remove physical debris are both good. However, let’s focus more appropriately on clearing the debris of subtler and less material vibrations. If the stone can withstand the extreme conditions, a very effective method of cleaning is to pass it through fire very quickly. With any kind of safely con-trolled open fire, such as a fireplace, and a pair of tongs, grasping the crystal or stone with the tongs and speaking a pre-chosen prayer or mantra, pass the crystal through the flame with a smooth, swift action. Fire is very purifying.

Cleansing really means one thing, which is to move out of a space or object that which is not desired. When you dust a room, the dust is not destroyed, but sent elsewhere. The concept is simple. The whole purpose behind cleaning the room or the crystal is that it may work more efficiently. In the case of a crystal, the undesirable matter is old or nega-tive energy clinging from previous use. Left in the crystal, it clogs or warps its action. The practice of cleaning in itself is cleaning of the mind. And when the mind is clean and clear, less stress clogs or warps its action, and you cooper-ate more fully with the stone. So be it.

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Susan HughesSusan is an Astrologer, Tarot Reader and Lecturer in the Metaphysical Field. She is certified in Reiki, Touch for Health and Intuitive Therapies that uncover and replace negative belief systems.Susan has a Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and a Bachelor’s Degree in Contem-porary Culture and Behavior. She uses Astrological counseling, Tarot, Numerology, Psychometry, Self-Hypnosis, Energy Work and Kinesiology in her healing practice.

Ginger VereGinger is an eclectic talent who addresses health issues through intuitive energy/aura readings, Reiki and healing artwork. She provides spiritual consultations utilizing trance mediumship, tarot and prayer. Ginger also uses her unique abilities to do energy readings on houses and sites. She has conducted interactive seminars across the United States and has provided private spiritual consulta-tions in Switzerland, France, Italy and Scandinavia.

Barbara EvansBarbara, a native of Richmond, has been an Intuitive since childhood. She is a Tarot Counselor and has studied Metaphysics here and abroad for 20 years. As an energy worker, certified by the Edgar Cayce Institute, she draws upon her guidance to bring about physical and emotional healing by help-ing others see solutions through intuition, palmistry and numerology.

Sebastian QuijadaSebastian , a native of Venezuela, has been a Spiritual Counselor for over 30 years. His abilities came about when he was a child and then as a teenager, when he enjoyed “readings” for his friends and family. He is a Medium and an expert in picture readings through which he helps people to identify angels, spirit guides, and other presences in their new and old photographs.

Ralph SitesAt an early age, Ralph was blessed with the gift of healing. He has been helping people around the City of Richmond for over ten years. He specializes in Crystal Healing, Tarot, Palmistry, Nu-merology and Runes Interpretations. Ralph is also certified as a Sekhem-Seichim and Usi Shiki Ryoho Reiki Master. His motto is “Leave your mind and thoughts in my hands.”

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Practice. Practice and wait. The technology will be enhancedmore and more profoundly. You will see absolutely new ex-tremes in your technological advancement as you carry for-ward the plan of the Masters and the Light. A multiplicity of more banal consumer developments and all the latest de-vices involved will appear from the host of corporations in the field, as well as inventions of more profound significance as the implementation of crystal technology is re-elevated to a new old art form. In general, expect to consider this new wave like visiting a gallery. The artist-inventor will put forth what he or she will, but, regardless of that personal interest, the art form is art, and it will help many in its pleasing effects. So be it.

It the work of art is beautiful, who has a true argument against it, however avant-garde and alien? No criticism against the art work of crystals and stones is any more valid than that against painting or sculpture. It is a unique art form destined to evolve and take us to new places. Science will evolve and incorporate the crystals in methods and applications that are currently unimagined. All this simply will come with time - unless you intend to become a scientist yourself and resolve to study the Universe’s entire breadth and depth of crystal knowledge. This, however, seems very unlikely, given that it would be quite a bore to most of you and requiring a huge amount of time, to the exclusion of everything else you love. You would long for other activities. Therefore, advance the subject by putting forward what is known of crystal technol-ogy towards the greater possibilities of what is possible, and you will help to create something wonderful and new. It will happen. Just watch. In the meantime, do not worry about evolving the science of crystals for meditation. Be content with evolving crystal art, and enjoy. So be it.

Remember that it is a truth that the power is within you, and that you never have required a crystal or stone to know God, to know peace, or to create wealth.

But may we also remind you that you never needed anything else outside of what already is, either. There is no use served by placing crystals and stones into any special category of need. If you prefer to admire their beauty and enjoy their form, do so in balance and in context with the service of your work; make the aesthetic function to channel light, and be conscious of this harmony. If your participation with crystals and stones in the Great Work deepens your spiritual practice, cultivating the inner virtues and inner powers, then inspires you to share the same with others through your service, then so be it. But if they become in any way a distraction from the work, bury them somewhere and dig them up later when you are ready to handle the balance. So be it. --Jerhoam

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he Mayan Elders hold the destiny of being the Shamans that are here to activate the High spiritual technolo-

gy that is dormant waiting to be unleashed in the Ancient Crystal Skulls. One of the most famous of these skulls is named Max. One of the most famous of the Mayan Elders is named Don Carlos Barrios of Guatemala who performs a traditional sacred Mayan Fire Ceremony with Max pres-ent annually, sponsored by the Aquarian Bookshop. He is the author of the Harper Collins book, Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012.

Jo Ann Parks is a delightful Texan lady who is thecurrent “guardian” of Max. Jo Ann was given Max by a Ti-betan Lama. She travels around the world to make Maxavailable to spiritual seekers of all traditions. Many people have claimed incredible spiritual phenom-ena and awak- ening while being in Max’s presence. Jo Ann her- self receives telepathic messages from Max from time to time. One of Max’s m e s s a g e s through Jo Ann states his purpose;

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“I am about Self, the reunion with your Self and tapping into the path of higher consciousness.

Each time an individual comes into contact with me, some shift in their consciousness

occurs. That shift is generally around their ability to feel more connected to

the self. I am here to gently awaken the sleeping giant of Spirituality that lays buried deep within hu-mankind. I accomplish this with my unique gift of touching each individual in my own way.”

Other spiritual leaders have been touched profoundly by Max. The Peace Elder Mary Thunder from Texas writes about Max on her website, “I have seen many Miracles and many Healings and

many wondrous things from Max. I bless the day I met Jo Ann and Max.”

The famed television psychic detective of TruTV’s Haunting Evidence, John J. Oliver, re-

ports that being with Max is like an “electric charge for the third eye.” Oliver has spent private

time with both Max and Don Carlos Barrios.

Don Carlos says that Max has the potential to awaken spiri-tual and psychic abilities in those who have the destiny to “see.” Don Carlos also reports that in the hands of a Mayan Shaman Max’s true technology can be utilized. “Each of the authentic Ancient Skulls has its own very specific and very unique technologies programmed within the crystal. In the Traditional Mayan Fire Ceremony with Max we will activate a specific energy for each of the people present.”

Max is an incredible spiritual artifact that legend says dates to Atlantis, and Don Carlos represents an ancient legacy of Shamanism.

Don Carlos Barrios is a historian, an anthropologist, a re-searcher and an author. Born in Guatemala, his home is in Huehuetenango which is also the dwelling place of the Maya Mam tribe known as the “keepers of time.” After studying with traditional Elders for 25 years, he became a Mayan Ajq’ij, a ceremonial priest, Shaman, and spiritual guide. He has studied the Mayan calendar with many teachers and hundreds of traditional Mayan Elders.

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Humanity urgently needs spiritual tools like Max and spiri-tual leaders like Don Carlos considering the prophesized year of 2012 looming. 2012 is claimed to be the “big” year of spiritual transformation, and some people feel it may be the Apocalypse. Many esoteric sources interpret the comple-tion of the thirteenth B’ak’tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar which occurs on December 21, 2012 by the most widely held correlation to mean there will be a major change in the world as we know it.

Don Carlos has explained that the Mayan El-ders are preparing for a sacred gathering that is to happen around a yet undis-closed lake here in the United States in which Elders from Native traditions from around the world will be at-tending. Joining the Elders will be 52 of the Ancient Crystal Skulls. As of last month Don Carlos reports that the whereabouts of 28 of the skulls is currently known and that Teachings say that there are 520 of the Ancient Skulls preserved for our time waiting to be found. The legend says that by joining these 52 skulls to-gether humanity will have the technological knowledge of the Atlantean civilization revealed. This revelation will help the Earth in its evolutionary change as we go beyond 2012.

In the meanwhile, over 200 participants have been initiated in the past 3 Fire Ceremonies with Don Carlos and Max. This year again, Jo Ann Parks will be traveling to Virginia from Texas with Max; and Don Carlos Barrios will be journeying from Guatemala. Don Carlos will perform the Sacred Fire Ceremony bringing each participant forward to have a mysti-cal energy of his/her choosing activated within each person with Max’s help. John J Oliver will participate and serve as an interpreter during the ceremony.

Don Carlos begins the ceremony by honoring the directions and creating a mandala made from various colored candles that are laid out in the fire pit. Once the fire is in full force, Don Carlos starts invoking each of the 20 energies for each of the twenty days of the Mayan Calendar day count. Some of these energies represent spiritual and mystical powers. Some represent the forest and elements of nature or heaven and earth. Participants make candle offerings during the cer-emony by throwing them to the fire as a symbolic act of their

acceptance of these spiritual gifts.

“After the fire ceremony I felt better and more expanded than I had in weeks,

“reported a lady named Dena of Richmond. She added, “I feel like a real healing took place.”

Usually before a special ceremony people either fast or eat very light-ly so that they can really embody

the Initiation. Central Virginia seems to have special spiritual energy and

special spiritual people. I am not sur-prised somehow that the Mayan Elders

are being called to this area to give us in the spiritual community a “boost” and to help us in

our ongoing transformation as individuals so that we can be better prepared for whatever changes we are about to encounter.

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AT LEAST 160 MILLION ADULTS IN AFRICA, TWO-THIRDS OF THEM WOMEN, ARE ILLITERATE. NEARLY ONE QUARTER OF THE WORLD’S CHIL-DREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 11 DO NOT ATTEND SCHOOL. 872 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE DE-VELOPING WORLD CAN NOT READ OR WRITE.

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As we stepped out of the vehicles, there was an ocean of small children dressed in blue running toward us, a sea of tiny hands reaching out to grasp ours. The welcome was overwhelming. The songs and dances they performed for us were alive with energy and grace. I spent the next fifteen days building a library at Motony Primary school and teaching the fifth grade class at Emoro-joi Primary School in the afternoon.

In the small classroom I watched as the students were huddled together sitting four to a desk while trying to under-stand my version of Eng-lish. Their patience was

admirable and their joy and enthusi-asm for learning was astounding. Their connection to the outside world was extremely limited; no electricity, ra-dio, phones, internet or TV. They were amazed when I showed them photo-graphs of my home in Virginia, my fam-ily, my car, my kitchen, and snow.

“I was amazed that the word “lack” did not appear to be a

part of their vocabulary.”

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The Baby Girl Project

n the beautiful expansive land at the edge of the Maasai Mara

in Kenya, I observed the beauty of the tall, noble Masai draped in red and tending their cattle. I watchedthe Kipsigis women in their colorful

I sarongs leading donkeys with part of the day’s water supply for their fami-lies loaded on their sides. The land was dry, parched and cracking and the cattle and goats were obviously starv-ing. The four wheel drive vehicle that was transporting us across this land was creating a whirlwind of dust while

people stopped, smiled and waved because an automobile carrying

strange looking foreigners was something of a novelty in this area.

Sitting in a lovely, tiny valley was the first school; four stone buildings that appeared to be invoking the four direc-tions. I had of-ten dreamed of this mo-ment, to finally see one of the schools that The Baby Girl Project, together with Free the Children, had built and the children for whom we were providing an education.

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“I was amazed that the word lack did not appear to be a part of their vocabulary.”

Because of the drought, the children’s only meal for the day was often the bowl of corn that was provided by the school. There were signs of malnutri-tion in many of the children. I often ob-served swollen bellies and vacant, wa-tery eyes. Despite these conditions, not once did I see anyone groveling for food or complain-ing about what they lacked. I was amazed that the word lack did not appear to be a part of their vocabulary. Even though they had little, they would not hesitate to share their food with you.

The Baby Girl Project was founded in February, 2004 with the purpose to-empower young girls in developing nations. We are partnered and act as a fundraiser for Free The Children, an international organization helping chil-dren through education. Since that time, we have built thirteen schools, provided clean water systems, uni-forms, school supplies, books and teacher’s salaries for these children.

With a great amount of support from the Aquar-ian Bookshop and Jer-hoam’s Mystery School, at the date of this article, we have raised over $260,000 and provided an education for thou-sands of children in this rural area in Kenya. The focus is on girls because of the repression of the femi-nine on this planet. Boys do attend our schools but the opportunity for girls to be educated in this area was very limited.

The girls’ duties are to carry water to their families, and often that job would take the whole day. Because we have built clean water projects at the schools which collect and conserve rain water, the girls

can get most of the wa-ter from the school rath-er than collecting drink-ing water from the same river where they bathe, wash dishes and laundry and water their cattle. It

then enables the girls to have time to at-tend school.

Because this project has been operating strictlyon a volunteer basis, we have been able to send 100% of the proceeds from our psy-chic festivals, donations and other fund raising activities to Free The Children. At this time, we have taken no admin-istrative or operating fees. It’s a simple operation but it has been working and the rewards have been immense.

What intrigued me the most about the people in Kenya is that they had nothing but they were happy. They liveof harmony with nature.

The lack consciousness does not exist like it does in our western world. They are happy with a little and we seem to never be able to get enough even though we have so much. Unlike the west, the sense of community and cooperation with each other is amaz-ing.

I have learned that the true key to healing yourself is in service.

That pure joy can be acquired by re-moving yourself from your own desires and allowing yourself to be a vehicle for the service of others. That is often called “pure desire” by the great mas-ters. In that pure desire often personal desires are met without realizing it un-til you reflect on what has happened. Thanks to everyone who has partici-pated in this project. I would especially like to thank the readers, healers and volunteers at our festivals, the Aquar-ian Bookshop and everyone who has contributed in whatever way possible.

We will continue with this project be-cause there are so many children in this world that desire and deserve an education.

“What intrigued me the most about the people

in Kenya is that they had nothing but they were

happy. ”

Psychic Festivals June 5, 2010November 6, 2010

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All proceeds benefit the school builiding project in Kenya with the Baby Girl Project and Free the Children.

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Continued from page 5Many people know that you are a vegetarian. Why are you a vegetarian?

The subject of being a vegetarian is big. I am vegetarian because of the animals. When my mother use to take me grocery shopping. (In the meat section) I could psychically see and hear cows screaming for help. This is what led me to become a vegetarian. Later on I educated myself about the environmental trauma that is caused by deforestation so that meat can be produced. I am also aware of the health problems that are caused by the over consumption of meat and dairy.

How does communicating with animals work?

In order to communicate with an animal, you must become extremely pres-ent. You are not going to have a verbal conversation the way you would when meeting a friend for lunch. You must observe the animal. You must take deep breaths to see the messages you are receiving in your mind. An animal is not going to converse with you in English but you might receive the messages through your own psychic “translation” in a way you can un-derstand. When you look into a dog’s, or cat’s, or a cow’s eye, you find a state similar to a meditative clear mind. Animals are in that state more naturally than human beings. It is relaxing to pet a cat or to have a dog sit next to you. We begin to resonate with them and begin to relax.

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