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The Boy From Oz, featuring Hugh Jackman (CD)

This CD is an up, guaranteed to lift your spirits! Met Hugh Jackman backstage, (what a dreamboat) and he told me his birthday: Oct 12 1968.

My friend Paul Avignon and I saw this fabulous show and re-lived my nights as Peter Allen's opening act at Reno Sweeney.

   
 Book Features of the Month »
  As I'm privileged to have several of these authors participate in my Manhattan-based lecture series, I've personally reviewed and enjoyed their material found in the books listed below. These excellent books can be found on Amazon.com. To learn more about each and/or purchase them, click on the titles:
 
 Political Book Picks of the Week
 
The Bush-Hater's Book available at Amazon.com Worse Than Watergate Book available at Amazon.com The Price of Loyalty Book available at Amazon.com
The Bush-Hater's Handbook Worse Than Watergate The Price of Loyalty
 

 Book Picks of the Week

 
Soul Made Flesh Book available at Amazon.com Free Culture Book available at Amazon.com

SOUL MADE FLESH: The Discovery of the Brain -- and How It Changed the World

By Carl Zimmer.
Price: $26.

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

By Lawrence Lessig
Price: $17.47

Now and Forevermore: The Story of Two Hearts Reunited to Write of Love that Continues Beyond the Grave

By Denise Fecketter
Price: $16.76

     
 
The Sound of Paper Book Available at Amazon.com Retire Your Family Karma Book available at Amazon.com
The Sound of Paper Retire Your Family Karma
   

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, by Brian Greene
List Price: $20.95 , Price: $17.37
Hardcover: 576 pages; Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375412883; February 10, 2004

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

   

Sacred Water: The Spiritual Source of Life, by Nathaniel Altman
List Price: $20.00 , Price: $14.00
Hardcover: 304 pages; Publisher: Hidden Spring
ISBN: 1587680130; January 2, 2002

Much more than a comparative religion study, this book begins at the beginning, with the simple science of water inside and outside our bodies. Altman addresses the usual suspects (rivers, wells, oceans, etc.), but also includes the unexpected, such as bridges, agriculture, hammams (Muslim sweat baths) and even sewage treatment.

More than 60 illustrations visually convey the global scope of the work, and varied chapters (e.g., "Sacred Space," "Cleansing," "Healing," "Initiation," "Wisdom," and "Enchantment") literally cover the rainbow and much more. In addition to the so-called major religions, Altman includes Sikh, Jain, Shinto, ancient Greek and Native American views on water. With so much material to cover, the sense is that Altman opted for breadth over depth, tantalizing readers with the possibilities of this essential element for life.

   

Psychogenetics: The Force of Heredity, by Chris Griscom
List Price: $18.00 , Price: $18.00
Paperback: 192 pages; Publisher: Light Institute Press
ISBN: 0962369675; 1st edition (July 2000)

In these troubled times where misguided folks use holy scriptures as a substitute for personal emotional accountability and as a defense for hateful behavior toward one another, Chris Griscom offers these and many other important insights in Psychogenetics: The Force of Heredity. Below, an excerpt from the book:

       "The spiritual focus on the Divine is the truest and most powerful force to bring humanity together, not to alienate us one from another.
       Our sense of fear and separation stem from learned belief systems, not from actual spiritual experience. Back in the shrouded beginning of religious expression we were imprinted with the concept of the "angry God" who had to be dissuaded from wrathful vengeance upon mankind for their imperfection. This resulted in the ritualistic practice of sacrifice to appease God.
       I can truly imagine how easy it might have been for a priesthood that overstepped the boundaries of directing others' lives to fall into the trap of blaming their behavior for any mishap that befell the group. How convenient to say that God is angry and we must pay by suffering. This concept has buried fear and punishment deeply within the human psyche and into the spiritual DNA.
       It is not God who is angry with us; it is nothing more than an effective manipulation that allows the few to control the many. Virtually every type of authority has used this technique to harness in its constituents-from priests to police to parents. The goodness in us needs to be allowed, without coercion. The era of martyrs, sacrifice, and punishment is over. It is time for us to realize that we can give a holy gift without taking a life or inflicting pain upon others or ourselves. We can instead celebrate the sacredness of life as Divine expression.
       Healing this global rift must begin with individuals who are willing to risk opposing the subtle coercion of society, in order to teach their children a kinder way".

   

A Goddess is a Girl's Best Friend, by Laurie Sue Brockway
List Price: $14.95, Price: $10.47 on Amazon.com
Paperback: 368 pages; Publisher: Perigee
ISBN: 0399528261; (December 2002)

31 is no longer just the familiar number of flavors at Baskin Robbins, but will now be best remembered as the number of Goddesses in Laurie Sue Brockway's soon to be classic book: "A Goddess is a Girl's Best Friend..." It's a must have for every goddess in your life, starting with YOU!!

How timely for this third millennium (and Pluto in Sagittarius, where religions the world over will go through rebirthing)! Laurie Sue will inspire millions as she levels the spiritual playing field to balance masculine and feminine for a more healthy and rewarding existence on earth.

In this fun and informative guide, readers will discover how to achieve their dreams and aspirations with the wisdom of the goddesses. By providing mythology, history, rituals, prayers, and exercises, she reveals how anyone can tap into the power of the Goddess to improve all areas of her life. Readers will find practical and spiritual solutions to show them how to: free themselves from bad relationships, increase their income, welcome change, find compassion, connect to their healing power, and pursue the career of their dreams.

Brava LSB! Who knew we were all so wonderful?

   

The Heart of The Soul: Emotional Awareness, by Gary Zukav and Linda Francis
List Price: $14.00, Price: $11.20
Paperback: 302 pages; Publisher: Fireside
ISBN: 0743234960; Fireside edition (August 6, 2002)

A MUST read. In the classic book The Seat of The Soul, Gary Zukav says that "the prerequisite for spiritual growth is emotional awareness". In this groundbreaking new book, he and spiritual partner Linda Francis delve into what that really means, why it is so important, and how to get there. This text should be required reading for all religious leaders, teachers, psychologists, lawyers, judges, politicians, and would-be parents. World peace begins with the enlightenment of one individual at a time.

   

The Voice of Silence, by Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo
List Price: $10.95, Price: $8.76

In her inspiring memoir, former nun, midwife, and acupuncturist Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo, 73, tells of her childhood in Ireland, her training in Chinese medicine, her own brush with death, miraculous recovery, leaving the convent, getting married, and her work with Princess Diana, and Edward VIII, better known as The Duke of Windsor.

:: Portrait of Diana's Healer: Oonagh Shanley Toffolo- Royal Medicine Woman

 
 
 
ASTROLOGY
   
Bernie Ashman Roadmap to Your Future
Louis Acker and Frances Sakoian The Astrologers Handbook
Hajo Banzhaf and Anna Haebler

Key Words for Astrology

Caroline Casey Making The Gods Work for You
Lloyd Cope The Astrologers Forecasting Workbook
Ronnie Gale Dreyer Healing Signs, Vedic Astrology, Venus
Diane Eichenbaum Soul Signs
Marianne Glenn How To Hear What Life is Telling You
Liz Greene Relating, The Outer Planets and Their Cycles, The Astrological Neptune
Karen Hamacker-Zondag The Yod Book
Linda Joyce

The Day You Were Born

Mark Mann Astrology For the Absolute Beginner
Jim Maynard Jim Maynard's Celestial Influences Calendar 2002
Alan Oken Alan Oken's Complete Astrology, Soul Centered Astrology
Lois Rodden Money: How To Find it With Astrology
Shirley Soffer The Astrology Sourcebook
Bil Tierney Dynamics of Aspect Analysis
Noel Tyl The Creative Astrologer
   
SPIRITUALITY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK
   

Retire Your Family Karma, by Ashok Bedi, M.D. & Boris Matthews, Ph.D.

This is a remarkable book designed to help you navigate your way through ancestral patterns that confine and cripple. Perfect for Saturn's transit through Cancer.

Gregg Braden Walking Between The Worlds: The Science of Compassion
Laurie Sue Brockway A Goddess is a Girl's Best Friend
Julia Cameron The Artists Way
Bill & Judy Guggenheim Hello From Heaven
James Hillman The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
Sam Keen Hymns To an Unknown God
Barbara Marciniak Bringers of The Dawn, Earth: The Living Library, Family of Light
Sanaya Roman Living With Joy, Spiritual Growth, Soul Love
David Rosen, M.D. The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity
Gary Zukav The Seat of The Soul, Soul Stories
   
HEALING: ALL AREAS (past, present, health, & perception)
   
Kenny Ausubel When Healing Becomes a Crime
Annie Berthold-Bond Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living
John Bradshaw Family Secrets, Healing the Shame that Binds You
Barbara Brennan Hands of Light, Light Emerging
Tom Chappell The Soul of a Business
Chris Griscom Soul Bodies, Time is an Illusion, The Healing of Emotion, & Feminine Fusion
Russ Kick You Are Being Lied To Compiled by Russ Kick
Tony Schwartz What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America
Richard Thomas The Essiac Report
Richard Walters Options
 
 
 
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