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BRAIN FILTERS A dialogue with doubt, in two parts – Dr. Joe Vitale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

ELEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 TAKE THE HEAT And get on fire – Leslie Fonteyne THE FIRE DOWN BELOW – Meridian Grace, ND Don’t hurt yourself with summer WATER Its Mysteries and Memories – Joseph Bender

AHEMP May we have you attention, please? – Michael Abedin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

THE AIR YOU BREATHE Air pollution and ozone therapy – Colter Bowman . . . . . . . . . 15

TO HEAL Is to step into infinity – Christina Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

FIRE IN THE HOLE Is your jawbone making you sick? – Michael Abedin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Welcome to THE ALLERGY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD – Nerissa Oden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

UPCOMING EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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EVERYBODY PRANIC Master Stephen Co and Pranic Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 RE: CONNECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

DEAR ASHTARA – Ashtara Sasha White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

CHOOSE YOUR BRAIN Fight, flight, or height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 BACH CHRONICLES: OAK – Michael Abedin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Endurance Remedy

A Letter to Our ReadersIn the 1996 film Michael, John Travolta is Archangel

Michael, vacationing on Earth (again). He smokes, drinks beer, and dances (and more) with the ladies, who are drawn to him because he smells like cookies – and he loves a good fight. It’s his job, after all, and his battle cry is Battle!

Turns out archangels only get twenty-six visits, and this is his last blast. “Listen,” he says, standing in a green field and taking a deep breath. “Listen to the Earth. I’m gonna miss this so much.”

Slumming .Read too many bumper stickers, and you can convince

yourself that if you’re a spiritual being having a human experience, you’re slumming, sort of the metaphysical version of waking up in a double-wide with a hangover, not sure how you got there – and your goal is to get back to heaven, ASAP.

Archangels won’t steer you wrong, though. Take a tip from Michael. Enjoy it while you can. Breathe in the flowers and the lightning and the colors. Taste the fire, the water, the earth and the air.

You’re on vacation. – Michael Abedin

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by Dr. Joe Vitale

BRAIN FILTERSA Dialogue with Doubt,

in two parts

“I’m not a fan of your books.”I’m not a fan of your saying that.“But your books don’t jell with my experience.”Of course they don’t. Your experience is based

on your beliefs, and your beliefs don’t match my beliefs, so you naturally can’t be a fan of what you don’t believe.

“Huh?”Look. Your life has been one of struggle. So when you

look around, you don’t see positive things. But you’re looking around through a brain filter of limiting beliefs, and those beliefs are giving you the life experience.

“See? You don’t make any sense!”Well, if you believed in positive thinking and positive

doing, and began to see the positive in what’s around you, you’d attract positive experiences – and then you’d agree with my positive teachings.

“But that’s not my experience!”Exactly. Your current beliefs are attracting your current

experiences. You’ll get the same thing in the future as you have in the past, until you change your beliefs.

“You’re not in touch with reality.”I’m not in touch with your reality. But I was once. I used to

think in terms of struggle, lack, limitation and victimhood. But I spent a lot of time, money and energy to retrain my brain, so today I see and experience miracles.

“But even if that were true, how do I change my beliefs?”

The first step is being open to a new view of reality.

“I’m not sure I can do that.”That’s a belief, you know.“It is?”Yep.“Then how do I become aware of

my beliefs, since I don’t seem to know what they are.”

By looking at what you have and asking, “What must I believe, to attract that into my life?”

“Will your books help me with that?”

You mean you haven’t actually read them?“I flipped through them.”

Yes, start with my books.

That dialogue reminded me of what another person told me once . . .

“Affirmations don’t work for me.”That’s an affirmation, you know.

“Huh?”Affirmations are anything you affirm as true, I explained.

You can affirm something positive or something negative.“Say what?”You said, “Affirmations don’t work for me” – which is an

affirmation that affirmations don’t work for you.“I don’t follow.”You get what you believe and expect, I explained. If you

believe affirmations won’t work for you, then you will get the experience of affirmations not working for you.

“But they really don’t work for me!”I know. That’s because you are affirming that they don’t

work.“You’re confusing me!”Look, the meaning you give an event is the belief that

attracted it. If you feel affirmations don’t work, then you are attracting experiences to prove that affirmations don’t work. If you switched it, you could attract proof that affirmations do work.

“But how would I do that, when my mind says they don’t work?”

That’s simply what you currently believe, I went on. It’s your current habit of thinking. But you can begin a new habit by beginning a new thought process today.

“It’s that easy?”It’s simple but maybe not easy, I said. But

you can begin right now.“Affirmations do work?”

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of the sun, and it has some truly quintessential and transcendent powers – life, and growth.

High five.The Chinese like fives, since

their character for the number four looks a lot like the one for death. If they want more than three of something, like tea settings, it’s not uncommon to jump straight to five, and the five elements play an important role in Chinese medicine, martial arts, feng shui – all the good stuff.

The mysterious Fifth Element is the synergistic whole, greater than the sum of its parts – but be careful. Go too far into the whole, get too mystical, too ethereal, too holistic, and you can begin to lose sight of the raw power of the individual elements that make things holy – the sun and soil, the wind and rain, the blood and bones that breathe the breath of life.

In Tarot (the smoothie that popped out of the blender after the

goodies of Eastern and Western metaphysical symbolism were tossed in) the fifth card of the major suit is the Hierophant – the magician, the priest, the shaman, the one whose job is to go up into the ethers and bring the juju home.

Indigenous people who lived close to the elements, however, knew you don’t have to be a shaman to play with the elements, although they were handy to have around when someone needed to climb the magical Tree at the Center of the Earth – which is a nice segue back to trees and wood and such.

Fire works. Summer is long and hot hereabouts, a fiery time and

a good time to get back in touch with elemental forces, illustrated on this month’s cover design by Leslie Kell – lightning blazing through a cosmic blossom and lighting it up like God’s own fireworks.

Turn off your phones and tablets and jump on in. Get as nekkid as you can, sweat in the sun, dive into sacred springs, walk barefoot in the grass and dance in the rain when it comes.

Enjoy here while you’re here – it may not be here forever.

he always excellent Caroline Myss (Mace, not Miss or Mice) spoke at a June event in Austin and didn’t pull any punches, telling a packed house that even though we’re spiritual beings, we still live in a physical world that has certain laws – like, say, gravity. Drop something, and it’s a pretty good bet it’s going to fall to the ground.

Manifestation and co-creation, she pointed out, don’t give you a free pass to break those laws – but if you understand them and live in harmony with them, you can make them work in your favor, like humans once did when we lived closer to the forces of Heaven and Earth. Angels, she maintained, really did speak to Abraham, really did pass over the doors of Israelites in Egypt that had been marked with the blood of a spring lamb.

Powerful stuff – and she’s right. Before paradise was paved to make it a parking lot (or condos), the true elemental forces of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air ruled the land. Respect for their power earned humans the right to walk and talk with them as the living beings they really are, and they gave that respect back in the form of what was once called magic or miracles – medicine, to the First People of this continent.

For the trees.What makes the mojo work, though, is something in, of,

and beyond the four elements. The ancient Greeks called it ether, the stuff the gods breathe. Medieval alchemists called it quintessence, the fifth or quintessential element, and put together some pretty adventurous combinations trying to isolate it in physical form.

The Chinese, a practical people, knew it was there in front of them all along, saw it in the forest and knew exactly what to call it.

Wood.Think about it. Wood is the result of the interaction of

the other four elements. It needs air, water, soil, and the fire

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by Leslie Fonteyne

Fire consistently surfaces as a symbol of an all-consuming, purifying energy, forcing deliberate choice when it comes to passion, integrity, courage, focus. We can’t hide from its meaning. It separates, burns, and cleans – and it’s meant to.

We wince at that gauntlet statement of intimidation, “If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen!” It’s aggressive, daring you to show up to life’s challenges. We question our courage and integrity when we imagine the gritty commitment required in a fiery furnace, a crucible.

We’d rather hide. In the face of the refiner’s fire that burns off impurities to

make pure gold, we fear who we might be without the frantic busyness and excuses masking the fear of stepping into all that we are. It takes courage, boldness, and stamina to step into your dreams. We are facing down some fears, both seen and unseen. If you become passionate for yourself and your dreams, won’t you be criticized and abandoned?

Outgrow those fears, and let Source show you otherwise. Make your appointment with destiny, and revive that fire in the belly.

Give your fire some air. Have pen and paper handy.

Feel the excitement and joy of focus and directed passion. Just for now, let it flourish without fear. Jot down ideas, inspired actions, and new choices that come to you.

Whether you’ve been hiding in long novels, family distractions, errands, or TV, let some of them go. Expose their usefulness.

They may have been true for you as a child. Are they true now?

Any great achiever will tell you – failure is a matter of perception.

Just begin. Let yourself be that happy – so happy, people will ask if something’s wrong. Stir up your courage, let that inspirational fire work for you.

Have fun with it. You’ll find you really do have what it takes – and you’ll be amazed.

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by Meridian Grace, ND

Summer is upon us, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In both Chinese and Ayruvedic medicine, this time of year is associated with the fire element, and an imbalance can cause heatstroke or heat exhaustion – and lifelong health challenges.

With extreme heat, the hypothalamus tries so hard to regulate heat within that it sends messages to the dermis to release fluid and salt (perspiration) to the surface of the skin for cooling. Extreme perspiration can leave you dehydrated – in twenty minutes you can lose more than a quart of water and a pound or more of water weight. The hypothalamus also regulates blood and the autonomic nervous system, and twenty-five percent of the body’s blood flow can end up going to the skin instead of muscles and organs.

The Army’s chief of thermal and mountain medicine points out the organs often left lacking in an overheating event are intestines, liver, and kidneys, and research indicates leaky gut is often the result of heat exhaustion or heatstroke. Leaky gut contributes to inflammation in the body, and to autoimmune and neurological disease – even the cerebellum and cerebral cortex can be damaged by heatstroke.

What to do.

with a cool rinse.

exercise during the heat of the day, stay hydrated. On a normal day, half an ounce per pound of body weight is enough water. On a hot, humid day, outdoors and active, drink at least an ounce per pound, with a pinch of Celtic or Himalayan sea salt in every glass for electrolytes.

Eat foods that support healthy hypothalamus function – seaweeds, leafy greens, carrots, seafood (like salmon), high-mineral foods like broccoli, kale, collards.

watermelon, pineapple, cucumber, tomatoes. Put watermelon in the blender and drink it. (Not too many seeds or rind – they’re powerful diuretics.)

hot spices can cause internal warming.

cottons. Pitta, fire energy, is associated

with an overactive brain – keep your head cool, literally and figuratively. Trust your feelings, express them in supportive ways.

tend to get really red doing outdoor activity, have a

thermometer to check your temperature – 102 to 103 are danger marks.

packs on the groin and armpits and cold cloths to cool them down as quickly as possible.

an ice bath.

find a reputable, trained alternative health professional to look into inflammation, leaky gut, and overall health.

A favorite solution. Go to Barton Springs with a cold watermelon and jug of

lemon water with a bit of salt, hang out in the shade of the trees, take periodic dips in the waters – and enjoy some great Austin people.

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THE FIRE DOWN BELOWDon’t Hurt Yourself with Summer

THE INTELLIGENCE OF WATERIts Mysteries and Memories

by Joseph Bender (Part 3 of an exclusive Austin All Natural ongoing series)

We live in exciting times, when science is finally catching up with what the mystics of every spiritual tradition have always taught – water is the secret of life. Researchers are finally daring to cross the safe paradigms of seeing water as a simply a chemical substance, to discovering and pursuing its anomalies and asking serious questions that take them out of the safe comforts of existing beliefs about water.

The first pioneers that declared water had memory were ridiculed by the scientific community, and there’s still a staunch enclave of traditional scientists that, regardless of ever-mounting evidence, refuse to believe not only that water has memory, but its own unique intelligence – an intelligence that defies many of the known laws of physics, and behaves differently than any other substance on the planet.

Once you realize how it captures the information of everything to which it’s exposed, you’ll have a completely different attitude towards water – and its quality.

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not tainted by industrial pollutants, from companies that take the extra effort and expense of bottling in glass so plastics don’t influence the water.

freed from previous water memories, and then re-vitalized with oxygen and negative ions to be far more biologically available for hydration.

Understand the mystery of water.

you with quality water. Hopefully, you may even throw away those filters and seek out water purification systems that actually purify water – not only from physical pollutants, but also from memory and negative homeopathic imprints that water can be exposed to.

Above all else, keep educating yourself about the most important substance you put in your body – a substance that makes the difference between just existing and true,

passionate vitality. Educated, you can ask intelligent questions and steer clear of hucksters marketing inferior, overpriced equipment or products.

Leonardo da Vinci said when you understand water you will understand all of nature. Researchers who travelled to a monastery measured characteristics of water, and then after all the monks prayed over the same water, they realized many of these characteristics changed – based on nothing more than the interaction with the monks and their prayer.

Try it at home. As you’re watering plants, try an experiment. Pick out a

few plants and hold your water sprayer in your hand, sending it loving thoughts. Water those plants, and watch the amazing results of how water will transmit that love to the plant, and how the plan responds.

In my own research, we saw an immediate change in a person’s intercellular hydration when they’re less exposed to negative emotions. Whether the emotions were coming to them from another person, or even if they were simply in the presence of negative emotions not related to them, they started to dehydrate within their cells.

Inversely, loving words and gratitude moved extracellular water into intercellular water. When you realize aging is simply slow cellular dehydration, you begin to have a different attitude, not only towards water, but towards others – and towards life itself.

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by Michael Abedin

It’s coming.It can make biofuel, rope, paper, cloth, biodegradable

plastic, concrete, cars, ice cream, cosmetics, and flour. It can feed both livestock and people, clean toxins out of wastewater, soil, and nuclear disaster sites, kill other weeds, and polish wood.

It can also make a lot of money.Not bad for a weed, huh? There’s just one problem.

There’sabadseedininthefamily.Hemp has a next of kin with a criminal record, illegal in the

U.S.untilrecently,butlegalinacoupleofstates,exceptfederallaw still considers it illegal, except if you have glaucoma, or something. Products made from industrial hemp, on the other hand, are perfectly legal to sell in all fifty states – but only legal to grow in a handful of them.

Confused? Welcome to the club. So are growers, manufacturers, and distributors waiting to cash in on a crop that could change the economic structure of American agriculture, one that’s being held up by hemp’s resemblance to it’s reprobate relative.

We’re talking pot, boo, gage, ganja, reefer, Mary Jane (hssssssssst) – marijuana. (Whooooossshhh…)

Both hemp and marijuana are members of the Cannabis sativa family, but marijuana has that extra something special. Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC to its friends, is the psychotropic ingredient in marijuana, the part that gets you stoned. Industrial hemp has little or no THC, usually 0.3% or less, and those who grow either of those crops like it that way.

Bigbiz,onbothsidesofthefence.One of the biggest arguments against legalizing and

encouraging industrial hemp growing on national and state levels is that hemp fields could be used as a way to camouflage

pot fields, since hemp plants grow much higher than marijuana plants. That might be a legitimate concern if you were sending Barney Fife out on surveillance missions with a Kodak Brownie, but like other failed wars, the War on Drugs has generated some sophisticated hardware – and a lot of bucks.

Drug property seizures are a major source of income for local law enforcement, and seminars are taught about how to do it right. Kind of a moot point, though, because hemp growers don’t want their plants cross-breeding with marijuana plants and putting all their growing power into illegal THC-laden buds instead of instead of fiber-rich parts, and pot growers don’t want their babies to grow up to be part hemp, with lower THC levels.

Economicsalwaystrumpslegality.South Carolina’s Republican governor recently signed a bill

legalizing the growing of industrial hemp, so it’s probably just a matteroftimebeforetheU.S.startsgivingthecurrenttoptwoproducers, China and Canada, a run for the green. (Tobacco, a staple of South Carolina since plantation days, is losing its luster, and its lobbyists probably had something to do with that vote.)

If they can look up from their phones long enough to reproduce, the offspring of millennials may well be buying packs o’ pot from convenience stores, patented by Monsanto. In the meantime, the good ol’ American entrepreneurial spirit that drove stoners to break down a pound into few lids for resale to keep a stash on hand will make the first wave of the hemp business grow.

Like a weed.

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AHEMP… May we have your attention, please?

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by Colter Bowman

The average human breathes over three thousand gallons of air a day, about twenty percent of it oxygen. All humans, plants, and animals need air to survive, making it the most important resource on Earth.

It’s even more important to keep it clean. Air pollution affects everyone, causing serious health problems – and over six million premature deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization. An average family in the

industry creates even more, including: Fuel combustion from

vehicles and engines. Reduces the amount of oxygen reaching the body’s organs and tissues, increasing risk of heart disease.

Smelters (metal refineries) and other metal industries; leaded gasoline in piston engine aircraft; waste incinerators; battery manufacturing. Damages the developing nervous system, resulting in IQ loss and impacts on learning, memory, and behavior in children. Cardiovascular and renal effects in adults, and early effects related to anemia.

Fuel combustion (electric utilities, big industrial boilers, vehicles), wood burning. Worsens lung disease, increases susceptibility to respiratory infection.

Formed through chemical reactions, fuel combustion (burning coal, wood, diesel), industrial processes, farming (plowing, field burning), unpaved roads or road construction. Short-term exposure can worsen heart or lung disease and cause respiratory problems. Long-term exposure can cause heart or lung disease, possibly premature death.

Fuel combustion (especially high-sulfur coal), electric utilities, industrial processes, natural occurrences like volcanoes. Aggravates asthma and makes breathing difficult. Contributes to particle formation, with associated health effects.

Many of these toxins you can’t see, smell or taste, so you don’t realize you’re being affected until you come down with a chronic disease, after years of subtle and consistent exposure to a combination of them. This makes it almost impossible to pinpoint a specific environmental toxin as the source of illness – but look at increasing numbers of cancers, immune system disorders, neurological problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivities, allergies, and hormonal disturbances, and it’s hard not to take notice.

Some 77,000 chemicals are produced in North America, over a thousand new ones each year. They’re absorbed into groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans, added (quite

intentionally) to your food supply – and spewed into the air. It’s important to take steps to provide cleaner air for the future, and it’s even more important to your immediate health to deal with the effects of those pollutants. One way to do that is with something often mistaken for a pollutant itself.

It’s gotten a bad rap. Consumer-level indoor ozone generators can irritate the lungs, and dire “ozone warnings” on weather reports imply outdoor ozone is a pollutant. (It’s cleaning pollutants from the air – and has the potential to help do the same thing in your body.)

Transdermal ozone therapy with the ozone steam sauna – during which ozone binds with water and is absorbed through the skin, and toxins leave the body through the eccrine sweat glands – is one of the most powerful ways to increase the body’s ability to remove toxins and absorb oxygen.

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THE AIR YOU BREATHEAir pollution and ozone therapy (Part 1)

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by Christina Allen

When we are born, we arrive as an envelope of conscious light, wrapped around and connected to a tiny naked body. We come complete with all the basic hardware necessary for survival, but it takes another twenty years or so before our brains and bodies fully develop.

In that time we have – and do not have – a whole array of experiences that shape who we will become. Because they are interrelated, each experience creates a matrix of changes within our bodies, minds, and souls.

Alone in the crib.Imagine, for example, that you’re a child born to parents

who are afraid of intimacy, or uncomfortable holding you when you cry. Instead of picking you up and soothing you, they hastily place you in a crib, walk outside, and shut the door. They’ve even read this is what to do when your baby cries.

Many studies have shown, however, that when a baby’s held and soothed, a whole cascade of genes that shape our immune and nervous systems are activated, giving us high resistance to stress and illness. Those genes are not activated in those who were never held, making them more prone to illness and nervous disorders in maturity.

As you lie alone in that crib, you realize you cannot count on support from your environment, and you create a belief that the world is an unsafe place. Your higher self responds by forming an imprint of the event, and burning it into your Lightbody. These imprints become lodged in your chakras and attract you to similar such events – until you remove them.

You grow up having a compromised physical body, limited beliefs about the world, and an energetic blueprint that recreates this story for you indefinitely, until you heal it. Most chronic physical diseases and neuroses are a direct result of this imprinting.

Energetic imprints are distortions, or trigger points, that lie dormant within your chakra wells, compromising their ability to spin properly. Think of how a car tire that’s not weighted properly wobbles. When chakras can’t spin well, they fill with heavy energy, weakening the organs and glands that depend upon them for energetic sustenance.

Imprints are formed when an event happens that you don’t have the tools or resources to process properly. They lock you in the physicality, time, and emotions of that original incident, until they’re finally removed.

The small window.To truly heal, on all levels, we must be able to step

completely out of time, and unravel this energetic matrix that binds us to our past experiences. Shamanic traditions have long revered the ability to step in and out of time as an essential part of their healing practices.

Most shamanic training involves ways of cultivating higher states of consciousness to transcend time. Standing between the literal, physical world and the eternal, ethereal world, the Shaman holds open a place of timelessness for you to step into and reclaim your life. When you return, you have a small window where you can re-imprint yourself with the nurturing you went without, activating the genes and neural pathways you need to create new minds and bodies.

From there, you consciously choose the beliefs you want to orchestrate your life around and have those imprinted upon your soul instead, aligning you with new opportunities and health.

A cure will cut out a tumor or medicate a condition, but these methods don’t get to the root of the problem. Until new genes are activated and new belief systems are developed, we’re locked into that original time. True healing requires stepping into infinity and consciously reclaiming – and recreating – your healed self.

Christina Allen, Healer, Teacher and Founder and Director of the Austin Shamanic Center, combines a strong science background (BA Physics, MS Neuroscience) with decades of applied ancient spiritual wisdom (Master Yogi, Reiki Master, and Shamanic Healer based on Q’ero Indian traditions of Peru) to help you step into your highest destiny. Available by appointment for one-on-one sessions at (512) 391-9829. More info on sessions and upcoming classes at www.AustinShamanicCenter.com Join the conversation at the Blue Raven Circle Of Light Facebook Group.

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The human immune system is extremely complex. Like many complex systems, some mysterious connections exist, and a lot of them may originate in the jawbone.

Here’s how it works. (This gets a little tricky – hang on tight, follow the bouncing bullet points, and please don’t stray from the tour group.)

• Jawbonetissueisextremelysusceptibletocavitation, hollow dead spaces where bone marrow is infected, dead, or dying. (The fancy name is Jawbone Osteonecrosis – call him JON.)

• YouknowJONhasbeenaroundifthere’sRANTESandFGF-2 present. (Don’t ask.)

• Okay,okay–RANTES is Regulated on Activation, Normal T cell Expressed and Secreted and FGF is Fibroblast Growth Factor. (Told you not to ask.) They’re signaling molecules for the immune system, reacting to tissue trauma by sending in white blood cells and such.

They’realsotelltalemarkersofinflammation.Inflammation is the body’s attempt to deal with infection,

pathogens, or tissue damage, and it’s characterized by redness, swelling (as in inflamed, or in flames) and eventual loss of tissue function. (Anything ending -itis refers to inflammation, btw)

Left unattended and allowed to become chronic, inflammation can turn into the equivalent of what an American officer in Vietnam said after the massive bombing of a Vietnamese village to drive out the Viet Cong. “It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.”

Destroy, indeed. Inflammation has been implicated as a main cause of everything from cardiovascular disease to autoimmune disease, allergies, IBS, Celiac disease, cardiovascular disease, even cancer.

Dr. Matthew Carpenter of Transcend Dental Health refers to research by Johann Lechner, a German dentist, on jawbone infection and inflammation. “Lechner took many samples of jawbone infections, had them analyzed, and found really high levels of RANTES and FGF-2. These inflammatory markers are higher in jawbone disease than in to any other fluids in the body, and they’re highly associated with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and breast cancer.”

A healthy body tries to use inflammation sparingly, but it can spread from the area where it originates to other, more distant, areas. Lechner’s research, Carpenter says, indicates necrotic areas may act as instigators of inflammatory disease in the body, not just indicators.

In a word (okay, a sentence), the presence of RANTES and FGF-2 in dead or dying jawbone tissue may not only mean inflammatory disease has spread to other parts of the body – the jawbone inflammation may have caused it.

Get rid of the inflammation, and – well, here’s how Herr Lechner explains it:

Chronic jaw osteitis (jawbone inflammation) is looked upon as a local occurrence, but often it can act as a ‘focus’ causing very distal and puzzling disturbance fields. Case histories demonstrate chronic disease in various areas can be successfully cured through dental surgical removal of chronic jaw osteitis. A thorough surgical removal of inflamed areas goes hand in hand with the disappearance of general symptoms.

And then what?Bone tissue can regenerate, and Carpenter favors

doing that with natural methods – diet, targeted nutritional supplementation, and a regenerative system that uses healing and bone growth factors from your own body. Ligaments left in a socket when a tooth is extracted can interfere with new bone growth, so he also removes all ligaments (not always standard dental practice), using hand instruments and muscle testing to make sure they’re completely removed.

A healthy body tries to use inflammation sparingly, but it can spread from where it originates to other, more distant, areas. The process by which inflammation in a jawbone cavitation might contribute to autoimmune disease (or worse) in other, more distant parts of the body gets into some quantum-level stuff. Lechner calls it scalar wave-based nerve functioning, and sees it as part of the energetic body.

Cutting-edge natural healing techniques like ozone therapy have often originated in dentistry, and then been integrated into other medical practices. Quantum, wave-based healing of the energetic body might follow the same path.

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With more people moving to Austin, many of them are learning about its reputation as the Allergy Capital of the World. Some start experiencing symptoms when they drive into town – runny nose, itchy eyes, sinus pain and pressure, headaches, even flu-like symptoms.

But are Austin’s trees, bushes, grass, and molds really the culprits?

Yes and no .Pollen (and mold) is in the air you breathe, and removing

it’s not a practical option. Like dust, you touch it and unthinkingly rub it into your eyes or mouth, dozens of times each day. If you could gather it all, it probably wouldn’t equal the size of one Tic Tac a day.

Your body’s immune system, like an army, engages a few troops when invading pollen enters – the more pollen or mold, the more troops. As long as they outnumber invaders, they’re effective and stealthy, and you never notice a thing.

Allergy symptoms, however, can be created by another

invading particle – food. Even healthy foods like broccoli and lettuce can be perceived as a harmful, a phenomenon called food intolerance or food sensitivity.

Don’t confuse these with food allergies, life-threatening overreactions by your immune system that activate its Immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies that only reside in your skin, mucous, and lungs, producing massive amounts of histamine quickly. This can lead to life-threatening anaphylaxis, or whole-body reactions like hives and skin rashes. IgE reactions are almost immediate.

Food sensitivities, however, activate your immune system’s Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies, which reside all throughout your body, producing inflammation that can adversely affect any one part, system, or area of your body, making you sick in a variety of ways. IgG food reactions are non-life-threatening reactions which can occur immediately, or as late as seventy-two hours after ingestion – or application. Food-based ingredients in body care products, like soy protein in shampoo, can have the same effect as ingesting them.

So if it’s not an allergy in the true sense of the word, how can a food sensitivity make an allergic reaction to pollen or mold worse?

Themindbender.UnlessallyoueatishalfaTicTac,youencountermorefood

particles daily than pollen. When you eat food your immune system thinks is harmful,

many more troops are activated than when you encounter pollen, to handle the larger number of food particles. The more frequently you eat the invader, the longer your troops are on duty – possibly 24/7 for a week, month, even a year, creating a suppressed immune system.

Like an army spread too thin, a suppressed immune system lets invaders get past your natural defenses, and when you move into heavy pollen or mold territory, like Austin, you’re more likely to experience symptoms – runny nose, itchy eyes, foggy brain, sinus drain, pain, and pressure.

Isthereanygood news?You can remove offending foods from your diet. When you

do, your immune system will have more troops available and rested for fighting pollen, without you even noticing. Certified clinical nutritionists, along with some naturopaths and wellness centers, routinely offer food sensitivity testing to look for IgG reactions to foods.

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Watching Stephen Co demonstrate Pranic Healing is like watching a martial artist practicing form exercises. His hands move precisely, sometimes slow, other times with quick grabbing and sweeping motions, always fluid and focused. You can feel (at times, you’d swear, even see) energy being generated and released.

He likes working with martial artists, he says. “They understand energy movement – Tai Chi practitioners in China were amazed that Pranic Healing used some of their same movements for healing applications.”

Doyouwanttohearmore?He’s also a consummate storyteller, and his favorite

question in classes is “Do you want to hear more?” Here’s the story of how he came to Pranic Healing – or how it came to him.

“I grew up in the Philippines and went to Catholic school and followed the sacraments. But if you’re looking for someone to tell you he was always on quest for enlightenment, or dabbling in alternative healing, I’m the wrong man. My only exposure was to the Catholic Church, and to fortunetellers my mother often took me to. By the time I grew up I became an engineer and a Baptist – and for me, anything that didn’t come from the Church came from the other side.”

Co, however, remembers a strange prophecy made by a fortuneteller when he was thirteen, dragged again to the man by his mother. “He kept pointing to triangles and other lines on my hands and saying to her, ‘Do you see this, do you see that?’ All I wanted was to go home. But then he said something that’s remained in my memory to this day. He said, ‘When this boy is twenty-four years old, something more precious than gold will fall in his hands.’ And it was when I was twenty-four and my wife broke her hip that I found Pranic Healing.”

The doctor said it was a compound fracture and would be three or four months before his wife would walk again. “At that time I took a visualization class called Silva Method, and there someone told me about Pranic Healing. I said, okay, I’m skeptical but I’ll try it if it heals my wife.”

It did, very quickly – and Co became a lifetime student of the man who taught the class, Pranic founder Grand Master Choa Kok Sui of the Philippines.

Pranicbuttons:• PranicHealingisanon-touchsystemthatteaches

students to scan, or actually feel the aura, to assess areas of energetic depletion, congestion, or stagnation.

• Itthenemploysamanualcleansingtechniquecalledsweeping to remove blockages and stagnant energy

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before giving fresh energy. Sweeping can help prevent uncomfortable detoxification symptoms, and often allows the body to heal itself more quickly by permitting fresh energy to penetrate deeper into the body, to be utilized as healing fuel.

• Pranictechniquestakeacookbookapproachtohealing, using specific energetic routines of cleansing and energizing, matched to specific patterns of energetic deficiencies related to illnesses.

• Practitionersaretaughttodrawenergydirectlyfromthe sun, air, ground, and other spiritual sources, and project this prana into a subject’s auras and chakras, using color energies to accelerate the body’s innate healing abilities.

• PranicHealingalsoincludesapracticecalledenergetic hygiene not always found in healing modalities – a set of breathing practices, dietary recommendations, and cleansing routines designed to keep your personal energy tank clean and full, and prevent subjects or negative people from draining your life force.

Thenon-competeclause.Master Co points out that Pranic Healing is designed

to complement and enhance other healing techniques, not compete with them – shamanism, Native American techniques, Chinese chi kung, Reiki, massage therapy, chiropractic, Christian laying on of hands, even traditional orthodox medicine.

“After all,” he says, “all healing comes from One Source, expressed in a myriad of ways.”

(Some information excerpted from Your Hands Can Heal You by Stephen Co and Eric Robins, MD.)

Master Stephen Co returns to Austin for evening workshops July 14, Nature’s Treasures; July 15, Unity Church in Gruene; and July 16, AOMA. All workshops, 7pm. Full weekend MCKS Pranic Healing intensives, August 2-3 (Level 1) and August 3-4 (Level 2). More information and registration: www.MasterStephenCo.com

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Reconnective Healing (RH) is a technique developed by Dr. Eric Pearl, designed to connect a spectrum of several elements to help restore a state of balance and harmony.

The first element, everything you’re made of – your essence, and your actual physical body.

Light: The resonance and communication within all frequencies, and between you and the universe.

Information: What comes through as a result of the interaction and entrainment of energy and light.

difference.The Reconnection process is an accelerated exchange of

those frequencies of energy, light, and information, a focused way of connecting three systems – the lay lines of the planet, meridian lines in the human body, and the universal energy grid. The aim is to facilitate realignment of the axiatonal grid, a meridian-like structure of internal energy, and is intended to be evolutionary in nature – a way to declare being open to being solidly grounded and connected to who you are, to the

(At least one Reconnective Healing session is recommended before doing a Reconnection.)

Reconnective Healing sessions are done above and around the body, in person or from a distance. They’re neither a therapy nor a treatment, and they don’t focus on symptoms, diagnosis, or predictable results. As long-time Austin practitioner Maria Benning explains, “All manner of results have been documented, but three people with the same areas of concern may experience three very different outcomes. If a physical affliction isn’t immediately restored to balance but the emotional state that contributed to it in the first place is, that’s still a healing.”

In both Reconnection and Reconnective Healing sessions, studies have shown that when these frequencies entrain with the energy body, there’s an emission of measurably higher levels of bio-photonic light.

As Eric Pearl says, “If you’re lucky, your healing will come in the form you anticipate. If you’re really lucky, your healing will come in a form you’ve not even dreamed of – one which the

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Dear Ashtara, I am about to start a tech company with my friend. We want to build cool technology and make a very profitable company. Are the stars aligned for us? Raj, 39, Austin, TX

Dear Raj, When you were born, the stars, moon and seas radiated within your etheric body so that you could do exactly this. According to your Akashic Records you are to hear the voice of Michael who was there to assist you. Good job for being in tune with your universe.

Dear Ashtara,I have a tissue growth on my thyroid gland. The doctors want to remove it even though tests show it is healthy tissue. Can this tissue dissipate on its own, with natural treatments? And if so, what kind what be most beneficial?Jan, 34, Austin, TX

Dear Jan, It looks like it is not going to dissipate on its own with any kind of treatment. If it were me, I would do what the doctors recommend. It will not be that troublesome. Do it sooner rather than later. Archangels Raphael, Metatron and Melchizedek will be there as your protectors.

Dear Ashtara, I currently work in a hospital but I’d like to make a better income. What opportunities are there for me? Natalie, 46, Austin, TX Dear Natalie, It looks like you are going to change careers. As a matter of fact, you may go back to school. If you do, it will be for a life changing and gratifying new career. Consequently, the force will be with you or not. Let’s just request The Force in

your life, for when you are elevated in consciousness the career course begins to beacon. You will determine what path to take, and when you do, you will be selecting wisely. You have a broad spectrum of being able to maneuver two jobs at one time. Magical moments will be with you.

Dear Ashtara,I would like to have another child but I do not feel my husband and I have a strong enough relationship nor do we have a strong enough financial situation. Should I be happy with what we have or go for another? Marissa, 33, Austin, TX

Dear Marissa, According to your Akashic Records you are to have three children. However, they will be waiting for you if you decided a later date. You were meant to be a college professor, lawyer or leader in some way. You still have eight or nine years to bear children. Focus on career and career changes in order to support them in grand style. Build a rapport with your husband by making positive changes. Your highest angelic teacher isarchangelUriel.

Private Sessions can be scheduled (in person or phone) that include psychic, medical, profound healings, questions answered and more. Ashtara Sasha White is a gifted psychic, profound healer and channel from the Ascended Masters/Archangels. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, Sound Current Healing Master Teacher, speaker and teacher of the Light. Join her group on the 2nd Thursdays of each month at 6:30PM. See her events at www.AshtaraSashaWhite.com. Call (512) 278-0559 or email [email protected] to submit your question for ‘Dear Ashtara’ (10 to 20 words) with name, age, city and state, and visit her at BMSE, booth #20, July 26-27.

Dear Ashtara: Messages from Your Angels and Master Teachers

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Dear Ashtara: Messages from Your Angels and Master Teachers

CHOOSE YOUR BRAIN

Fight, Flight, or Height

The evolution of humanity’s consciousness is a wondrous thing to behold. From primitive lower brain instincts, the human brain has now risen to a level capable of creating a fascinating and complex world of technology, art, and lofty spiritual concepts that – hey, watch it, you @#%*&! jerk! Stay in your own lane!

Umm,wherewerewe?Oh,right,loftyspiritualconceptsthatelevate mankind to its rightful place as the crown of creation.

Until,ofcourse,somebodycutsyouoffintraffic.Gottadefend your turf, right?

Ofcourseyoudo–unlessthey’rewaybiggerthanyouare.

That’s the message of your lower brain – fight or flight, stand your ground or run. It was a good message in a world full of predators hunting and being hunted, and it’s still the default mechanism when something threatens you, even if it isn’t justified.

The higher brain, the prefrontal cortex, is where you go when you meditate, do yoga, or try the next holistic or spiritual practice or practitioner. Problem is, those modalities tend to plateau, and as a species, we’re still in a stage of evolution where the lower brain’s instincts will kick in whenever they see an opening.

The lower brain thrives on uncertainty, fear, anxiety – it gets to pull out all its survival tricks to keep you safe, and can send you rocketing tens of thousands of years into the past, where ancestral memories lurk.

Combine those with your own storehouse of childhood, career, and relationship traumas, and dealing with the teeniest bit of stress can activate mechanisms designed to keep you alive in a life-threatening environment – say, one where you just sank your spear into something really big, and it decided it didn’t like it.

Thebiggestthreatofalltothelowerbrain?It’s change, and it uses all its wiles to fight it, or run from it.

Anything you do to get up into higher brain territory has to be sustainable – if that’s where you want to stay.

Higher Brain Living is a gentle-touch process designed to activate specific points in the body, creating a surge of energy from the primal, fear-based lower brain into the prefrontal cortex – the seat of the higher brain, where life changes are possible. See HBL at Body Mind Spirit Expo July 26-27, and RSVP for a special July 28 presentation. www.HigherBrainLivingEvents.com

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In the 1930’s, English physician Edward Bach created a series of thirty-six flower remedies, prepared from plants found in his native England, to address underlying mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of physical disease.

by Michael Abedin

Fill in the blank. “The ________ oak.”Lots of choices, all of them describing strength and

dignity – mighty, regal, towering, noble, enduring. Even the word looks and sounds strong and capable – an “OK”, with the letter that you get on your report card when you do a really good job sitting quietly in the middle of its single syllable. No fancy, hard to spell bougainvillea or delicate orchids here, nosirree.

That’s Oak folk, in a nutshell. They’re capable, calm, reliable, very strong and enduring. You can count on them. It’s not a whim of design that gold oak leaves are wrapped around a royal coat of arms and the caps and epaulettes of high-ranking military officers, and are attached to the ribbon of a medal when you win it – again.

Keep marching .Kings, generals, and heroes carry a heavy load. Oak is

Bach’s remedy for strong, dependable, responsible people who’ll work themselves to exhaustion or illness, never complaining, even when the joy has gone from their work. They don’t stop to rest, and would never think of giving up – keep marching, one foot in front of the other. If you fall, you won’t get up.

Oaks have powerful magic – ask a Druid if you can find one, or the ghosts of the Comanche and Tonkawa, who met under the branches of Austin’s five-hundred year-old Treaty Oak for councils of war and peace, back when it was part of a ring of fourteen of its brothers. Sam Houston is said to have rested in its shadow when he was kicked out as president of the Texas republic at the start of the Civil War.

In 1989, someone deliberately poured enough Velpar on its roots to kill a hundred trees – and it lived, against all odds. Maybe, in the international vigil held in its support, someone thought to place a few drops of Oak on its ancient roots.

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