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This 2009 event has passed. There are more opportunities to see Michael Beckwith.

Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith was in Philadelphia on Friday, September 18, 2009 for an evening of speaking about Spiritual Liberation and Transformation so "we may consciously accelerate our soul’s evolution and skillfully work with both the individual and global challenges we face today. This event was uplifting, inspirational and informative.

Who is Michael Beckwith?
To highlight just a few of his accomplishments, Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith is a spiritual leader and visionary, the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles (with over 13,000 members), has written several transformational books, was an expert on The Law of Attraction in The Secret and appeared several times on Oprah. His teachings have changed many lives. His teachings have been described as New Thought / Ancient Wisdom.

View Michael Beckwith’s latest book at Amazon: Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential

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Deva Premal and Miten on tour in concert with Manose
Concerts are currently scheduled in Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Boulder Colorado for their tour with Manose.

Who are Deva Premal, Miten and Manose?
If you’ve ever chanted, know the value of chanting or go to chants regularly, you might have heard of Deva Premal and Miten. They are world-renowned for their chanting events. Ecstatic states of Being can be achieved and when you’re talking about 600 people chanting together, well, it’s quite blissful. Deva Premal leads the chanting with the assistance of Miten and Manose, who both play accompanying instruments and chant. It’s one of the loveliest experiences I’ve had.

CDs
You’ll want to have some Deva Premal and Miten CDs at home to keep your heart open.

View upcoming events: Deva Premal and Miten in concert with Manose

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Eckhart Tolle now has a TV station on the web: EckhartTolleTV. When I went there I could immediately feel the great energy coming from it. He considers it an experiment to bring consciousness to people over the internet.

There will be monthly webcasts, teaching people what they need to become conscious, present and alert. This information, they say, isn’t available anywhere else. It’s all new for this project.

There’s also a community.

Right now you can watch what he has to say about the experiment of EckhartTolleTV, the current economy and the question of personal responsibility.

It’s $15 a month or $75 for 7 months.

Here’s what’s listed on their website as what you get from EckhartTolleTV:

* Unlimited access to a private seminar series: each issue features a new, exclusive- to-this-site 60 to 90-minute streaming video with Eckhart Tolle
* Unlimited access to online community to chat with members worldwide
* Video shorts: 10 to 20-minute clips where Eckhart answers questions from members (at least one hour of content for each issue)
* Submit questions for Eckhart to answer in upcoming recordings—and become eligible for a seat in the audience
* Eckhart will lead live online group meditations once per month
* Exclusive content from Kim Eng
* Receive 10% off when you purchase audio downloads from Eckhart Tolle TV
* Unlimited access to the content for 90 days after your subscription expires
* There are two ways to subscribe. You can pay a monthly issue rate of $14.95 or pay $74.75 and get 6 issues the price of 5

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What this is
The Lohasian is an informative website focused on Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, delivering "information and opinion on the news and style of conscious culture worldwide." It covers a broad range of topics from concerns through brilliant new ideas that will transform the world as we know it to a greener, healthier place to be.

Addressing all areas of life
With stories and topics like How To Know If You Are Settling For A Mediocre Life, Mindful Parenting in Times of Crises, Physician & Researcher Stuart Brown Asks, "Can PLAY Save the Human Race?", and my own personal favorite body + mind + spirit, you know it will be a definite stop for you on the information highway.

I didn’t know that was a problem
Check in to see just what they’ve  uncovered that might not have seemed like an issue to you: The Environmental Price of Smoking Bans, West Virgina Coal Association Markets Dirty Little Tones (Environmentally That Is).

Giving hope
United Nations & "The Billion Tree Campaign": 7 Billion New Trees Inspire Global Climate Change, Curing Asthma Naturally… and Other Lessons in Breathing.

Raising awareness
The Climate Project Summit Opens Uniting Al Gore With World’s Experts On Climate Change.

And making us say, "Really?!"
Coke Creates Eco-Friendly Bottle Made of Plants…Targeting LOHAS Consumer, Eco-Friendly Chocolate Powered Racecar …(Yes, You Read It Right).

Conclusions
If you are into living a healthy lifestyle (and you must be, since you’re here), moving toward what you want and moving away from what you don’t want, put The Lohasian on your reading list. Make it easy by signing up for The Lohasian’s newsletter.

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The question:
Have you ever noticed that during your evening meditation your mind is easier to quiet? Well I have, and I believe I’ve figured out why that is. At least, I think I’ve figured out the physical reasons but there are probably mental and emotional reasons as well.

The answer:
In Arnold Ehret’s, Mucusless Diet Healing System, he describes how mucus gets into the body and how the mucus gets out when the body detoxifies, as in an illness or an intentional fast. When we eat, nutrients, mucus, toxins, etc. go from our stomachs into our blood stream and then into our cells. While fasting and detoxifying, the process is reversed as the toxins, puss and mucus travel from the cells into the bloodstream before exiting through one of the body’s organs of elimination: respiration, skin, alimentary canal, etc. When the “food” is in the bloodstream you’ll taste it again. He states that that’s part of the reason why people get cravings when fasting or changing their diet: they “taste” it again as it exits the body.

Putting the answer together
What this means in that in the morning, before we have our break-fast (before we break our fast of the night), those foods, toxins, mucus and whatever else, are in our bloodstream from our intentional fast. They flow with the blood through our bodies and also through the brain, activating thoughts.

To prove the point
Just think about previous eating experiences you’ve had. Hmmm…. Here are some memory joggers: Have you ever had a highly processed meal or snack and then found it hard to focus? How about a lunch of pasta and then not being able to focus in that afternoon meeting? Here’s one of mine: I remember playing a memory game with my daughter a few years ago. I had won three games, then we had some organic cookies with organic flour and sugar. She won the following three games. ‘Nuf said.

My potential solutions
I can…
use this challenge as an opportunity to redouble my efforts to stay in the moment. Ooh, that will make the meditation even better since it’s all about being in the moment.
eat a mucusless diet and after I finish detoxifying there shouldn’t be as much in the blood stream. I guess that’s a very long-term solution, though.
drink water to flush it out of the bloodstream. This could work if it’s a short meditation otherwise I’ll have to get up and use the bathroom during my meditation or have the added distraction of a full bladder, huh?
learn some cleansing breath techniques. anyone know of any that purify the blood?
do some purifying yoga asanas. Yoga’s great to do in the morning.
do the energization exercises that are part of the spiritual study program from Self Realization Fellowship. Nah, this requires concentration as well and my mind definitely wanders the same way.

Conclusions
I haven’t found any sure-fire way for helping bring more peace to my first-morning meditation but I think it makes it easier to address now that I have some idea of why it’s occurring. Please let me know if you come up with some ways that work for you.

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