The Dawn of the Great Eastern Sun

Posted on March 30, 2014 by webmaven

Dawning of the Eastern Sun

“The way of the Great Eastern Sun is based on seeing that there is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in the world – which is the innate wakefulness of human beings.” Trungpa p.55

I picked a book off of the bookshelf that I haven’t looked through in many years. The book is Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chogyam Trungpa. It immediately spoke to me. It’s a collection of talks from the 1980s which together with Trungpa’s  drawings make a beautiful and very readable introduction to the path of the spiritual warrior. We talk about the spiritual warrior in Caregiver Revolution. Every challenge in our caregiving work can be viewed as an opportunity to open up our hearts a little bit more. We can trust that our innate true nature is unclouded pure awareness.

There are countless passages that I could quote from this text but pls take a listen to just this one: “Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior’s discipline.”

If you want to do yourself a great favor, tune in to the Shambhala teachings. You and your loved ones will be glad that you did!

 
 

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Working with the Readings

Posted on March 16, 2014 by webmaven

Question arose about how to work with the Angels Healing Journey material and I wrote something up. In retrospect think that it looks like a good summary of the ways that one can work with the Labyrinth Readers Society materials, so I will post it.

You can go to www.theclearlight.com and you will see a lot of material about how to do readings. Using the AHJ is much like using the American Book of the Dead, so the information there, especially in the “How to Do a Reading” section does apply.

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Take care of yourself!

You can also join our very active discussion group the LRS Forum on Facebook where we talk about doing readings for the benefit of others and discuss a new service technology called “orb runs,” FYI, I wrote an article about the relationship between reading and “orb running” on this caregiver website. 

We also have study groups which meet live on the internet in various chat venues. Several are currently active at the prosperity virtual ashram on the second life platform.

If you don’t know about the ashram you can read about it here: What is Ashram Work?

It’s easy to get to the Ashram, go to secondlife.com and choose an avatar. Download the free environment. Go to prosperity//the link below, then please send us your avatar’s name. There are many ongoing programs.

One location in secondlife where we offer an open meeting and discussion on Tuesday evenings 7pm PST is: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/prosperity/113/207/2011

Finally, we are in the process of developing a home study course for working with the readings. It will be oriented around the American Book of the Dead but the skills of doing readings apply to the Angels Healing Journey as well.

Thanks – Grant

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Eight Buddhist Prayers to Benefit the Dead

Posted on March 10, 2014 by webmaven

This is a beautiful e-book (about 30 pages) with prayers about death and dying from a Buddhist perspective:

Eight Buddhist Prayers to Benefit the Dead

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Prayers for the Dead

 

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Restart Living – Chronic Disease Self-Management Information and Workshops

Posted on March 6, 2014 by webmaven

This looks like a good program for those with chronic medical conditions. Based on the work of Kate Lorig and others at Stanford, the chronic disease self management program. The site below will direct you to sign up for an online workshop that actually looks like it has real content and is authentic, ie not a corporate sponsored sham. Be sure to watch the videos to find out more:

Restart Living – Chronic Disease Self-Management Information and Workshops.

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3 Years in Print, A New Edition, and 25K visitors to our website!

Posted on February 22, 2014 by webmaven
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Caregiver Revolution

We’re coming into a busy spring season for Caregiver Revolution as we celebrate our 3rd year in print and, very soon, over 25,000 visitors on the caregiver website. You could be the one who puts us over the mark!

We’re also scheduling events for the fall conference season and our publisher has just agreed to support a second edition (with TONS of new material) which which will be coming out later this year.

How you can help – healing orb runs and readings for the benefit of those you love.

Prayers for healing and for those who are dying.

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Caregiver Tips and Tools

 

Thanks, everyone, for your support!

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At end of life, an Encoded Prayer?

Posted on January 29, 2014 by webmaven

Here’s an intereting story about the mysteries that surround life and death:

Internet community helps crack dying grandmother’s code on note cards 

Truth or conjecture, no matter what we think, it’s an interesting concept that communication can take place in all kinds of ways for those who cannot communicate through speech and normal writing.

And then there is the mystery of prayer. As the New Yorker eloquently writes:

“Now, every prayer is a mystery, even if it’s not written in a code that takes two decades to crack. Even the very impulse to pray is mysterious. The faithful may understand their prayers as an act of obedience, though even they may wonder why desires must be articulated to a deity who knows all. Others believe that prayer affects the one who offers it, not necessarily the one who receives it. How one should pray—not only which words, if any, to use, but also which postures to inhabit—remains an active conversation in many religious communities, and the yearning to pray “better” or more “effectively” sustains an industry of gurus and guides.

Prayers can be as private as a whisper or as public as a pop song. Dorothy Holm, the author of these cards, crafted a prayer that was both, but it was the conventional prayer that she recorded that allowed her code to be broken: the recognizable triple “amen” first oriented the code breakers, and the well-known “Our Father” confirmed their cryptographic instincts. If she had not used a conventional prayer, her code might never have been figured out.”

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