Topic: Magick & Spirituality

Laurie Conrad is a divine healer who works with the Distant Healing Network, a group of healers from around the world who send healing to anyone who requests it. She is also the author of The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants a collection of true stories. The book speaks of miracles and healings, as well as the innate spirituality of animals. The author is giving a large percentage of her profits to animal protection organisations. For more information on the Ms. Conrad or hef book go to the Figaro Books web site. This interview took place on September 10, 2001 in Ithaca, New York.

DS: It seems that the greatest of all gifts that have come to you through your sixth sense has been your realization of what you call divine love. What do you mean by divine love?

LC: My perception of divine love, perhaps, is the result of my clairvoyance - I’m not sure that one has to be clairvoyant to sense that divine presence... Actually, I don’t think so...

In every adult there lurks a child - an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the human personality which wants to develop and become whole. Carl Jung

At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service. The late Fred Rogers (of "Mister Rogers" TV)

We each know what genuine respect and reverence feels like in our minds and bodies. As we know it, so too our children know it. They continually attempt to show each of us their comfort level with the “matters” of this world. All of us adults have a choice in deciding how much we participate in responding with indifference or with peaceful expansive kindness. Our choices affect our children even more than they do our fellow adults. We each are continually modeling avenues to deal with conflict and stress in our world. The violence in our schools and events of “9-11” all point to the necessity of remaining connected to one another. While we remain conscious of the events occurring in this world, we also can actively reflect on our attitudes, feelings and thoughts. They do “matter” and those matters are easily passed onto the minds and bodies of our children.

From the perspective of the cosmic plan and the Mayan calendar the Oneness Celebration takes places at a very significant point in time. In the Galactic Underworld we are approaching the Seventh Heaven beginning on December 4 of 2004, when the World Tree once again will start to make itself known and this time it will favor the Eastern Hemisphere and the right brain half. The Oneness Celebration includes the day (June 6, 4 Ahau), when the current NIGHT reaches its midpoint and the approach to dawn begins.

Although it was now long into the afternoon, we had been stuck hitch hiking on the same spot since early morning.

We shuffled on the roadside to keep warm. It was late August of 1967. somewhere between Wawa and White River in Northern Canada. We were trying to get back clear across the continent, west to Vancouver on the Pacific coast, with twenty cents in our pockets. That was twenty cents each, mind you.

From a purely biological perspective, dolphins are air-breathing mammals that inhabit the ocean. They have the ability to swim so fast they can propel themselves out of the water and perform somersaults. They also make funny little clicking sounds. Although interesting, that information hardly explains why many humans find them so fascinating that it borders on obsession.

Laurie Conrad is a divine healer who works with the Distant Healing Network, a group of healers from around the world who send healing to anyone who requests it. She is also the author of The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants a collection of true stories. The book speaks of miracles and healings, as well as the innate spirituality of animals. The author is giving a large percentage of her profits to animal protection organisations. For more information on the Ms. Conrad or hef book go to the Figaro Books web site. This interview took place on September 12, 2001 in Ithaca, New York.

DS: This is an excerpt from your book, The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants: "When I was a child, for years I sat and waited in fields and meadows hoping to hear the flowers sing - and they never did."

A Once in a Lifetime Event: Time, Mythology and Paradigm Shifts

Back last year, as I was doing research on a very different subject, or so I thought, I came across an account of an expedition to Africa in 1882 to scientifically record the rare Venus transit of the sun. The head of that expedition was the famous astronomer, Antoine D’Abbadie, soon to become the President of the Royal Academy of France and perhaps the person responsible for the mysterious Hendaye Cross, so we might suppose that accurately tracking and timing the event was of the utmost importance, and not just to the scientific community. It was curious that someone connected to a mysterious monument, one that marked the time period of 1992 through 2012 as the season of catastrophe, should also be involved with an astronomical event that points to the same time period.

Every religious, philosophical, or political belief system attempts to define reality. It tells us what is real. On a larger scale, society embodies and synthesizes a multitude of these beliefs. This creates a culture, which provides a common understanding or "common sense" of How It Is (for that group). A country's form of government usually influences the homogeneity of beliefs within a culture: the more restrictive the government, the stronger the demand for a single, dogmatic picture of reality.

In the Amazonian tradition working with planta maestras (teacher plants) is known as the Shaman’s Diet. The working can be seen as a conscious body of actions to incorporate the plant spirit into one’s own spirit. From this incorporation or union, the plant spirit informs and teaches the maestro or apprentice. They learn the magical chants (icaros) which invoke the power of the plant, how to use the plant for healing purposes, and how to strengthen the dieter both psychologically and physically. The purpose of the diet is to prepare the body and nervous system for the powerful knowledge and expansion of consciousness given by teacher plants.

Recently a discussion based on the Mayan calendar regarding an upcoming economic crisis in the United States has emerged. As I have shown in my forthcoming book The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness, the Mayan calendar does indeed with great exactness describe the ups and downs of the current economic system and this by itself is an important piece of news. Considering that we are getting deeper into a new Underworld, a new stage in the evolution of consciousness, such a discussion is indeed very much needed.