15 facts people should know about fluoride

S.O.T.T: Advocates of fluoride say its use in municipal water systems poses no adverse health concerns, however results from investigations clearly state the opposite. There has been considerable research done on fluoride regarding cancer, birth defects, and risks to the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary systems, however, very little has been done on its neurological effects.

There are now serious facts about the health risks regarding fluoridation which can no longer be ignored, and as a result, the practice itself is being questioned by most of the world...read more>>>... 

Reactions to Life Events

Daily OM: Our experiences color everything. The events of the past can have a profound effect on how we see our lives now and what we choose to believe about our world. Our past experiences can also influence our emotional reactions and responses to present events. Each of us reacts to stimulus based on what we have learned in life. There is no right or wrong to it; it is simply the result of past experience. Later, when our strong feelings have passed, we may be surprised at our reactions. Yet when we face a similar situation, again our reactions may be the same. When we understand those experiences, we can come that much closer to understanding our reactions and consciously change them. Between stimulus and reaction exists a fleeting moment of thought. Often, that thought is based on something that has happened to you in the past. When presented with a similar situation later on, your natural impulse is to unconsciously regard it in a similar light...read more>>>...

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Welcome Swallow

"Swallow shows how love and communication paired with trust can do the most good. It is time to renew the environment around you and ride the favorable air currents and tailwinds to stay above anything that comes your way."

Through A Druid's Eyes

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'Galah In The Mist'

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Intruders and incubi: The waking nightmare of sleep paralysis

S.O.T.T: "For Intruder experiences, the main sensation is the sensed presence—a feeling of something in the room," he recently explained over email. "That something may then also be seen, heard, or physically felt. It may move around the room, approach the bed, and sometimes climb onto the bed."

Scary! But remember, at this point you also can't move. As far as you know, you may never be able to move again, even if you somehow survive being horribly violated by the shadow monster in your periphery. Screaming would at least be cathartic, but you can't scream, and you can't breathe all that well, so all that's left is to wait...read more>>>...

A Concrete Dream

Daily OM: Our desires act as fuel, propelling us toward new horizons. Without something to strive for, we stagnate and become stuck in ruts of our own making because we are unsure of what to do next. Goals are the dreams that we are willing to work for. When we set goals, we take responsibility for our lives and choose to wholeheartedly devote ourselves to our aspirations. Even if we only take the smallest steps toward achieving our ambitions, it is vital that we actively pursue our goals rather than just daydreaming about them. Having goals makes us feel good because it adds a sense of purpose and direction to our lives.

When you endeavor to achieve clear and quantifiable goals, your choices and actions take on new significance. Consciously creating your goals can help ensure that the success you seek is attainable and serves you. Your plan must be conceivable, tangible, and measurable. If you cannot visualize your goal in great detail or believe that you can realize them, you may find it difficult to commit to your goals and take the necessary steps to achieve them. Make sure that your goals have the potential to be emotionally satisfying. You may even want to write them down. Putting your goals into words can keep your intention..read more>>>>...

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Halloween - OPen Day Party & Evening Seance

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!
HALLOWEEN OPEN DAY AND EVENING SEANCE TODAY
ALL WELCOME.

DISCOUNT READINGS FOR ONE DAY ONLY
1-2-1 readings $50 (Discounted reading usual price $80)
Evening Seance $25
!-2-1 Reading + Seance entry $70
Entry FREE if you bring a plate. Otherwise $10 as there is a planned meditation and open forum


BRING A PLATE. JUST TURN UP. JOIN IN THE SPIRITUAL DISCUSSIONS WITH LIKE MINDED SOULS

OPEN DAY COMMENCES 10AM - 5PM
SEANCE STARTS 7.00PM

BONYTHON, CANBERRA AREA
Please call 0458-22-75-76 or PM Matthew James for address and directions
LIMITED SPACES FOR SEANCE
Pre-book reading or just turn up!

Celebrate All Hallow's Day with Matthew James. Experience 'the parting of the veil' tonight...

All Hallow's Eve - Halloween - Samhain

Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtic peoples, who were once found all over Europe, divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were pastoral people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and all livestock had to be secured for the winter months. Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle.

The festival observed at this time was called Samhain (pronounced Sah-ween). It was the biggest and most significant holiday of the Celtic year. The Celts believed that at the time of Samhain, more so than any other time of the year, the ghosts of the dead were able to mingle with the living, because at Samhain the souls of those who had died during the year traveled into the otherworld. People gathered to sacrifice animals, fruits, and vegetables. They also lit bonfires in honor of the dead, to aid them on their journey, and to keep them away from the living. On that day all manner of beings were abroad: ghosts, fairies, and demons--all part of the dark and dread.

Samhain became the Halloween we are familiar with when Christian missionaries attempted to change the religious practices of the Celtic people. In the early centuries of the first millennium A.D., before missionaries such as St. Patrick and St. Columcille converted them to Christianity, the Celts practiced an elaborate religion through their priestly caste, the Druids, who were priests, poets, scientists and scholars all at once. As religious leaders, ritual specialists, and bearers of learning, the Druids were not unlike the very missionaries and monks who were to Christianize their people and brand them evil devil worshippers.

SOURCE: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/halloween.html

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Welcome Swallows

Photography Copyright Matthew James 2015

Did NASA Hide This? The Prairie Dogs moved!

Prairie Dog Found On Mars?

A possible hybrid rodent has been found on the red planet by the mars curiosity rover.

The anomaly which was photographed near gale crater appears to show a small mammal type creature possibly a hybrid species of gundi or prairie dog.

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Police hunt for Madeleine McCann is scaled back from 29 investigators to four after spending more than £10million in failed hunt for missing girl

Daily Mail: The police hunt for Madeleine McCann was drastically cut back today as Scotland Yard revealed it is running out of leads to follow. The Met, which has spent more than £10million on trying to find the missing British child, has cut the number of officers working on it from 29 to four. Three-year-old Madeleine disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007. Detectives say they have investigated 60 suspects and looked at 650 paedophiles as well as almost 9,000 sightings of the girl since she was abducted but have not solved the case. A total of 60 people were considered as more serious suspects but her kidnapper has not been found...read more>>>...

Raven Totem Animal

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'Raven Fellowship"

Copyright Matthew James 2015

Reversed Perceptions

Daily OM: We all have issues, as well as undesirable qualities or traits that we don’t like about ourselves. Most of us realize that we are not perfect and that it is natural to have unpleasant thoughts, motivations, desires, or feelings. However, when a person does not acknowledge these, they may ascribe those characteristics to someone else, deeming other people instead as angry, jealous, or insecure. In psychological terms, such blaming and fault finding is called projection.

When we are the target of projections, it can be confusing and frustrating, not to mention maddening, particularly when we know that we are not the cause of another person’s distress. Even people who are well aware of their issues may find that sensitive subjects can bring up unexpected projections. They may feel insecure about a lack of funds and thus view a friend as extravagant. Or, if they really want to get in shape, they may preach the benefits of exercise to anyone and everyone...read more>>>...

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A New Way Is Born

A new way is born. An old pathway has been rediscovered under the leaves and the dendritic grime of the forgotten ages. As one, who had been lost, who understands what it feels for the newly formed burning sword to be tempered by the cooling waters of the rainbow stream, this pathway means a way forward. For the ways are clear. There is nothing now between the veils, and the forgotten ancient ones can now be heard in my mind.

And I am smiling. For this way is still hidden to most. They fail to understand the new movements of the sun and the stars. They cannot passed their own ego rooted lives. They will never understand. Recognition is food for the ego. Yet it is the solitary ones who are the snow ploughs creating the openings and the roadways home ...

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Listen To Your Heart

We must all keep, on one hand a firm grip on this reality, for its the existence we see with our eyes and it is on the earth we live for this incarnation. However, we must also be mindful that this is not all that there is. It is only the reality we see in our limited light frequency range.

Our heart feels and sees so much more. It is telling us about these other wonderful dimensions all the time. We are not separated from those realities. In this dimensional shadow play we are ... but in the reality of the now, which the heart receives information from, we are infinite, safe, loved and connected ...

We must remember to listen to our heart more ... Matthew James

Raven Project Spoiler

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'Kangaroo in High Contrast Monotone'

Copyright Matthew James 2015

Retreat

Daily OM: Occasionally, we need to pause - and step away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. One way to do this is to get away from our daily life and go on retreat. Far more than a vacation, a retreat offers us time to ourselves to rest, heal, reflect, and renew our spirit. It is a time to cocoon so that we may emerge renewed, refreshed, and ready to return to our everyday lives with a new perspective. A retreat gives us time for uninterrupted meditation so that we may go deep within and spend time with ourselves.

A retreat may offer quiet, solitude, and sometimes even silence. Retreats often take place in humble dwellings with simple fare so that our senses may be reawakened to the beauty of unadorned tastes and the sights and sounds of nature. When we spend days in contemplation, we can more easily hear our heart when it speaks to us. We also are able to really listen when a bird sings, deeply breathe in the smell of flowers, grass, or earth, and delight in a soft breeze blowing on our cheek...read more>>>...

The Five Directions Of The Ego

The best way to move forward. There is only one way. By acknowledging that everything we see with our eyes has already occurred. We see into the past at all times. So its impossible to use the ego as a compass. It moves in five directions. None of which are the correct journey. Back. Left. Right. Up. Down.

It is only be using the heart that we move forwards. It is in the now and it knows the way home. We enter this maze from the same door we must leave. But we forget and spend all of our time going with the demands of the ego.

But the soul is always still. It never leaves the door. Letting its children run rampant through the maze.

Listen to your heart. Forget what others say and think. Focus on your own heart and wear the blinkers of the spirit. For the spirit sees the ego and ignores. The spirit rises above the maddening crowd and remembers truth - Matthew James

Through A Druid's Eyes

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"See the world of nature through my eyes. I walk this land as druid and healer. Let these wondrous images be my legacy. There is beauty in all that I see."

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'Master Raven'

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Taken from ;The Ultimate Raven' collection

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Evolution of the Soul

Daily OM: You meet someone for the first time and feel as if you know them already. You’re in a town that you’ve never been to before, yet you recognize streets and buildings. You start playing a new sport and amaze everyone, including yourself, at your natural abilities and intuitive knowing of the rules. We often describe such experiences as déjà vu: the experience or feeling that a new situation has happened to us before. Then again, the possibility does exist that we have actually lived these experiences in the past or, rather, in another lifetime.

Many spiritual practices believe that reincarnation is real: Our souls return to this earth over a series of lifetimes to evolve, learn, grow, transform, and become more spiritually attuned through the course of each life. When we reincarnate, it is believed that we tend to cycle through our different lives with many of the same people...read more>>>...

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Peregrine Falcon

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Sharing Your Genius

Daily OM: Each of us is born with a specific genius that was bestowed upon us so we can do our part to make this world a better place. All of us have a role that we’re uniquely suited for. Imagine our planet without trees, oceans, or clouds. In this same way, when one of us doesn’t develop or use our special gift, a cosmic void takes place.

This unique talent or ability may be hidden from your own sight like a golden treasure buried under shifting sands. Often, we spend so much time dazzled by the talents of others that we can overlook our own gifts. It may even be that our unique ability is something we view negatively. Perhaps we find it difficult concentrating on any one subject for long; meanwhile, others are thrilled by our ability to weave various ideas throughout our conversations. Or, you might think of yourself as “frivolous,” when it’s likely your charming approach to life casts a light of inspiration that others can’t help but follow...read more>>>...