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August 4, 2011

Will You Have a Breakdown or Breaktrough?

Filed under: Uncategorized — peacesender @ 5:18 pm

We are in a period of ‘trying times’ as the media may phrase it. Indeed, our environment and the way we live have changed dramatically in the past few years. There is a variety of opinions as to why this is so; to me, some are valid, some are not.

More importantly than what is causing the change is our response to it and how it affects our lives. For many, the changes are causing great distress in a myriad of ways. It affects our bodies, relationships, work, and how we see the world.

For me, the changing energy field is affecting my body and temperament. Even though I have a strong spiritual ethic and practice, there are times during the day when negativity of some kind interferes with my desire to live from my heart. For the first time in over 50 years of working out and eating healthfully, my body is troubled with several aches and pains, experiencing the effects of micro-organisms within, and the heat here on the east coast affecting me like it never has before.

How this change has affected my life is so insignificant compared to ….
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July 20, 2011

Relationships That Count

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — peacesender @ 1:45 pm

I just published a new article on my Articles page at my website. It discusses how we relate to the world and how important relationships are in our lives. Below is a preview.

We are all in relationships of one kind or another, whether it is the close bonding with our mother or a distant acquaintance. In reality, we are in relationship with everyone and everything. The closest relationship we experience is with ourselves.

Even though most of us probably never considered viewing our relationships by their importance to us, perhaps it is worth contemplating. Why would this be important? Since we view the world through our perspective of it, what is important to us is judged from that viewpoint.

The importance of a relationship is judged through our experiences and beliefs about them. When we view any relationship in present time, it may look quite different from the view we had of it from our memories, or beliefs from our past. The first step then is to look at your present-day relationships and determine what value each has for you.

By ‘present-day relationships’, I do not mean only ones you have just started; I mean all of your relationships, no matter how long they have existed. Besides yourself and God, your mother would be the longest relationship you have had. So let’s start there as an example.

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    Peace, Art

May 25, 2011

Being ‘in the moment’

Filed under: Uncategorized — peacesender @ 9:19 pm

What does it mean to be ‘in the moment’? It is a phrase coined years ago or maybe even centuries ago. For most people a moment probably represents a second or minute of time.

But suppose that time as we know it (AWKI) is only something we humans invented to manage our lives? Humans have kept track of time in some way for thousands of years. What if time ASWI does not really exist? Remember, we invented it. Then, being in the moment would take on a different meaning.

What being ‘in the moment’ really means is to be fully aware of what you doing, saying, or thinking, at a single point in time; and then again, and again, and again, and so on. It means be present with yourself and everything and everyone around you.

We cannot be ‘in the moment’ if we are multitasking. We cannot be ‘in the moment’ if we are thinking of other things, while doing something else. We must be present.

How do we do that? We focus on the task at hand, whatever it is, and keep our mind clear of distractions. A martial artist trains to be present and aware of everything around him. In a contest, she cannot lose her focus and awareness for a second.

What does being in the moment buy us? It frees us of the craziness of trying to do and think many things at once; it frees us to do a single job without distractions or distracting thoughts. Try ‘being in the moment’ once a day, if only for a few minutes. You will begin to feel unburdened and more alive.

Peace, Art

April 11, 2011

Nuclear Radiation, Fallout, and the future

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — peacesender @ 2:49 pm

The 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami near Japan not only devastated thousands of lives, it set off nuclear danger no one could have foreseen. The whole nuclear event brings up questions that perhaps most people had never considered. What would happen if more nuclear reactors suffered a similar fate at the same time? What will be the consideration when new reactors come online? Should the world dismantle the present plants? Should the world stop building nuclear reactors, period?

Will people actually consider any of the above, or will things continue much as they always have? We reach a point of complacency in our lives and just let the world take care of itself without our input. We need to wake up to the results the radiation fallout around the world, especially with so many nuclear plants in operation.

An even more pointed question is how would radiation fallout affect the world should insanity prevail and some country deploy a nuclear missile? Had America or the Soviet Union considered the devastating outcome of such an act? We humans run to help our neighbor when catastrophe strikes, just as we are helping Japan today. But we are also the ones who invented the nuclear bomb that fell on that same country decades ago.

There are nuclear missiles ready for some madman to deploy in the U. S., Russia, and other countries. Is it not the time to review the current situation and leave the nuclear age altogether? It is time for a new way of seeing the world: one love and unity, instead of fear and separation.

What do you think?

Peace, Art

February 19, 2011

New Book In Publising Phase

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — peacesender @ 2:26 pm

My new book, The Tibetan Wisdom Code, the second book of the Wisdom Stone Trilogy, is now in the ‘publishing’ phase. Reviewers are reading it and the next steps to publishing are beginning.

I am exited about this second book, as it is a departure from the first. Here we delve into a mystery and a coded document. It is great fun, mystery, and adventure, as was the first, searching for missing documents and all. I will keep you aware of the steps as they proceed, and let you know about a publish date.

Meanwhile, I am beginning to clear my inventory of the Seven Stones of Wisdom books. So while they are available at this new price, visit sevenstonesofwidom.com and get a great deal on the book. It will prepare you for the second book, and be a great read while you are waiting.

Peace, Art

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September 8, 2010

Fiction verses Non-Fiction Self-Improvement Books

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — peacesender @ 8:58 pm

When I began writing 15 years ago, I wanted to write books that would help people improve their lives spiritually. I figured I knew as much as any other self-help author, and started writing.

Later, I got interested in fiction after reading some of Dan Millman’s books, and James Redfield’s Celestine Prophecy. They were much more interesting than the dry non-fiction books and gave a lot of self-help ideas.

With that in mind, I began my own book that finally got published in 2007 as Seven Stones of Wisdom. While working with the book, I decided that writing self-help books with a fictionalized storyline is the way I wanted to go.

Sine then, I have published a non-fiction ebook, because I created it for an inner peace class I conduct. But my focus is on fiction as I work to complete the second book in what is now a trilogy about Tibetan Wisdom Stones.

Since there are a million non-fiction self-help books out there, and very few similar fiction books, I wonder why. I think that the fiction spiritual storyline is the wave of the future, if I have to be the one that creates it.

I would love your input about fiction verses non-fiction for self-improvement books. What have you read that really helped you? What has inspired you more, the spiritual fiction books, or non-fiction ones, or both? I would love to gain your perspective about this.

Love and Peace, Art

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August 30, 2010

The Unaware Mind

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — peacesender @ 3:10 pm

Everyone in some way knows that the world is changing rapidly. Worldwide communication via the internet, cellular phones, and satellites links people in way never before known.

But there is a more profound way that we have always communicated. It is called ‘race-consciousness’ or ‘the-web-of-life’ and connects all of us. The indigenous people seem to know about this connection at a higher level than ‘modern man’ and what natural changes are now occurring and are coming.

I call this phenomenon The Unaware Mind. The mind that built and uses the internet and other scientifically technical changes is not the same mind of which I am referring. Most Western-oriented societies know of the left-brain/right-brain aspects of our bodies, and that these societies are left-brain dominate. The ‘mind’ I am referring to uses the right-brain almost exclusively.

Just like using your eyes for computer work, narrows their vision, using the brain for technical, business, problem-solving, reading, and other such activities uses mostly the left brain. Artists, musicians, and writers normally would use more of their right brain, but not to the extent that links us to our ‘higher power’.

It is only through awareness that we are even capable of such a practice, that we can take steps to balance the two hemispheres of our brain. The unaware mind will deny that what I have just said is even possible if those people even had a clue as to what I am referring.

The point of this ramble is that awareness is the key to opening your mind to what is happening in the natural world, and that much of what you experience is being subtly influenced by many.

Love and Peace, Art

August 10, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill – Accident or Conspiracy?

Filed under: News Release — Tags: , , , , , — peacesender @ 3:00 pm

There have been a plethora of commentary regarding the Gulf oil spill in the last three months that range ‘poor BP’ to fraud. It rivals 9/11 by trauma caused but also how it has been perceived. Most people likely believe that it was an accident, whatever that means. Since I do not believe in accidents, everything is caused by something, whether it is on purpose or not is irrelevant.

Whatever the cause, and there are many excuses for what started it, it could have been prevented. I am pretty neural about the whole thing, since I am watching it (when I decide to) from afar. My take on this is that there is more going on behind the scenes than we know and, like the Kennedy assassination, may never be known.

For me, what the whole thing boils down to is that off-shore drilling is risky, dangerous, and should never have been approved. The other aspect of the whole thing is that the world, and especially the United States, is so locked into oil that we are controlled by the oil industry and made to feel we cannot live without it. Truth is, we can. There is technology out there, and has been for a hundred years, to create clean energy.

While solar and wind are being used somewhat, there is so much more we could use if the oil companies were not controlling everything. I read that Nikola Tesla was killed to prevent his technology (Tesla effect) from being developed. And how many hundreds of inventors and others who create have been silenced to keep the oil companies in control?

That is my take on the Gulf oil spill. What is yours? Leave a comment.

Peace, Art

July 28, 2010

Taking Steps to Inner Peace

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — peacesender @ 1:52 pm

I am often asked what is required in order for a person to obtain and maintain inner peace. My short answer usually is practice spiritual principles. However, a person needs to have some awareness of what these principles are.

The main principle I think most people need to be aware of is the Law of Attraction (LOA). Why? Because it is what you continuously create your life through. The Law of Attraction simply states that what you think, say, and do attracts the same kinds of energy, or factors, to you. What you put out, you get back in some form.

A lot has been written about this law, including the movie The Secret, leading to great misunderstanding of how it works. It is not just a way to attract money and other things in your life – it is working 24/7 and is attracting everything you put out there.

Since the LOA works continuously, it seems prudent to put out the kind of energy you want back. Put out love, kindness, and harmony and you attract that to you. Put out hate, resentment, and violence, you attract the same.

What is mostly misunderstood about this law is that what you attract is similar either by definition or metaphorically. Giving away money, for example, could attract an act of kindness, instead of actual cash.

Look at your life and take note of how it is shaped by what you send out to other people and situations. You will begin to understand this law much better.

Peace, Art

July 14, 2010

Sugar, Sugar, Sugar Everywhere!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , — peacesender @ 11:06 am

While I have been reading ‘ingredients’ labels on food and drink I buy at the grocery stores, I had not paid as much attention to the “sugars” part of them. Since I exercise and live a ‘healthy’ daily life, I figured a little sugar is no big deal. But recently, I discovered that the ketchup and other ‘condiments’ I use have sugar/fructose corn syrup in them. Then I began reading every label that came into the house. I was astounded!

Except for single foods, like frozen peas or blueberries, every package, jar, bottle, and bag of food contains sugar/corn syrup! Even peanut butter has sugar in it; unbelievable!

Due to my desire to remove any fat around my waist, I have stopped eating anything containing sugar except, of course, those items that contain their own natural sugars such as fruit. Looking over the dairy shelves I found that every container of flavored yogurt contains huge amounts of sugar. Of course, milk-based yogurt has some of its own natural sugars in it, but the flavored stuff skyrocketed the count.

I have switched to any ‘natural’ oriented product, such as peanut butter, to stay away from sugar. I will need to do some searching to find unsweetened ketchup I guess.
So what does all this mean? It seems obvious to me that not only is the food industry as a whole controlling what we eat and drink, specialized industries, like the sugar industry, has managed to sneak in its own product that is not even necessary.

See if you can find a cereal without sugar/fructose corn syrup in it. If you do let me know. See what I mean? Is it any wonder the United States has the highest obesity statistic in the world? And diabetes? And … you name it; much of it related to the food we eat. If the pharmaceutical industry does not kill us, the food industry will.

So what is the bottom line here? Read food/drink labels. Be careful about what you put into your body. To the extent possible stay with single-food items; beware of packaged stuff. As I have stated in articles I write – awareness is the key to letting go of what does not work, and moving forward to what does work in our lives.

To your good health and peace of mind,
Art

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