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Atham Z - Psychic News - December 2003
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Hello and welcome to the Psychic News.
In this edition we discuss the following:
1. Time
2. Humour
3. My FAQ
4. Candy Canes
5. Seasonal Dreams
6. Trivia
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TIME
Ecclesiastes
(3:2-8)
A
time to be born and a time to die.
A
time to plant and a time to uproot.
A
time to kill and a time to heal.
A
time to tear down and a time to build.
A
time to weep and a time to laugh.
A
time to mourn and a time to dance.
A
time to scatter stones and a time to gather them.
A
time to embrace and a time to refrain.
A
time to search and a time to give up.
A
time to keep and a time to throw away.
A
time to tear and a time to mend.
A
time to be silent and a time to speak.
A
time to love and a time to hate.
A
time for war and a time for peace.
Recently
having lost a loved one from my family, and
now
coming up to another new year, I was halted in
my
reading and my thoughts by the need to
contemplate
these Biblical verses. Birth of course is
the
first step on the road to death, but when death
touches
our lives, we are forced to directly face our
own
aging and mortality. The only way to survive the
pain
of life is to joyfully celebrate births and actively
grieve
at wakes for deaths.
The
verse about birth and death seems to encompass
the
time for tears versus laughter as well. Try to
balance
the periods of weeping with other periods of
hilarity.
Remember that although life may be painful
at
times, time itself eventually heals or softens all.
Now
that the harvest is in, we can only endure the
wintertime
until the sun warms the earth for our
replanting.
The phrase about reaping and sowing,
speaks
of the need not only for periods of hard work
but
also for patience and creativity in our use of the
intervening
time.
The
pacifists out there, I am sure, feel there is
NEVER
a time to kill. Respect for life must dictate
that
a person also respects his or her own life. If it
boiled
down to him or me, I must admit I could find
it
within myself to kill. Meanwhile healing (physically,
emotionally
and spiritually), is a constantly ongoing
process
for all of us. This to me is the same concept
as
tearing and mending, although the latter phrase
involves
much less vital decision making.
The
time to demolish or construct involves common
sense
and is often slowed or hastened by the ever-
fluctuating
available resources. It is very sad and
restricting
when a person refuses to accept or identify
when
it is time to move on. Something in this verse
similarly
speaks to me about mourning and dancing.
It
is part of the normal human condition to find changes
unsettling,
perhaps initially sad and once the adjustment
is
accomplished they can be wonderfully joyous through
having
opened up new opportunities.
Scattering
and gathering stones, in my case, reflects
the
meditative state of gathering or discarding ideas and
beliefs
or sometimes even friendships or dreams. Of
course
gathered stones build dikes against the rising
water
levels of global warming, and scattered stones
shape
the quiet stillness of Japanese meditative gardens.
In
ancient times, probably exactly the same stones were
used
as the clocks to measure time. That idea expands
the
concept of this verse to include deadlines versus
times
of leisure.
One
of the most rewarding parts of work with handi-
capped
people is that they hug you when they are
pleased
with you and bite you when angry at you. If
people
in general would more often openly express their
true
inner feelings by embraces versus restraint, it
would
be a much easier world to live in. We could then
discard
assumptions and fuzzy or erroneous conclusions
about
what other people are implying to us through what
they
don’t say.
In
terms of searching and giving up, this again
revolves
around common sense about how our time is
spent.
"We all have a limited number of heartbeats,"
said
Neil Armstrong, the first human to touch another
world.
I genuinely hope that all my readers here
respect
life. In combining these ideas, I hope that we
don’t
waste any of these heartbeats, because they are
the
only ones we are certain of in this lifetime. We
simply
don’t know exactly how many we still have left.
Keeping
and throwing away becomes very complex
when
applied to relationships. Coming to a decision in
this
area, is the hardest task known to man in my
opinion.
Sometimes it really helps to write down a list
of
the positives and the negatives associated with a
relationship,
and when negatives put the situation out
of
balance, your decision is clearly made for you.
Then
the trouble is finding the physical strength and
overcoming
any barriers of fear in order to carry
through
with what you know you must do. Finding
inner
strength can be a lifetime opus.
A
time to be silent and a time to speak. What a
conundrum
this one can raise. All too often when I
spoke
I wish I had shut up, and vice versa. I feel
part
of the balance here is to choose your words
carefully
and don’t use too many of them. The most
important
part of silence is in your capacity to listen
to
what the world or other people are really saying to
you.
I suggest silencing the self-centered ego while
encouraging
your globally oriented id to speak.
Love
and hate are not as different as you might
assume.
Both require time, energy and attention.
Loving
is expansive by enlarging you through
encompassing
another or others, while hating coils
and
squeezes around your heart and twists and scars
your
very soul. By no means am I suggesting that a
person
must love everyone else on this planet, but
work
not to hate often or for long, work for
indifference
to those you may have unsuccessfully
tried
to love. Work towards caution and safety with
those
who have deliberately or inadvertently hurt you.
Work
towards tolerance and understanding of those
other
billions of people on earth. Here again, time
can
be a helpmate in tempering extremes of both
positive
and negative emotions.
We
all wish for peace. I believe even those who
start
wars are only seeking peace in their own
narrowly
defined terms. War and peace are
intricately
connected with our notions of privacy and
freedom.
We fight to maintain our privacy so that we
can
feel free to do whatever we want. But what on
earth
are we doing with our freedom that requires so
much
privacy? Is our freedom being used to exploit
others,
to cover up lies, to plot the overthrow of
governments?
I definitely want privacy for my
intimate
bodily functions, but otherwise I don’t really
need
it at all. Figuratively send those private secrets
into
space, build transparent walls, let the world see
the
beautiful person that you are and enjoy your
freedom.
Now of course in this transparent utopia
someone
will want to steal your teapot because they
can
finally see it and they like it better than their own.
Even
in peacetime there are criminals for the justice
system
to deal with. But with peace rather than war,
no
bombs will break your windows, no loved ones will
be
lost to political atrocities and your freedoms won’t
be
burdensomely restricted.
Have
a good new year. Take the time to consider
how
you spend your time in 2004. Enjoy all those
magical
heartbeats. Live each and every one knowing
that
they will never come again. And what, you may
ask,
does this have to do with psychic matters?
Remember
that when we attune our energies to
positive
conditions we can remotely affect other people
whose
health, attitudes and even priorities are skewed
negatively.
Please make 2004 a year of wisely
spending
your time.
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The Humour Offering
"Do
you believe in life after death?" the boss asked
one
of his employees.
"Yes
sir," the employee replied.
"Well
then, that makes everything just fine," the boss
went
on. "After you left early yesterday to go to your
grandmother's
funeral, she stopped in to see you."
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My FAQ
Dear
Atham,
Hope
you can help me with a concern I have. Since
I
went through a very traumatic experience I have
become
able to see auras (too bad I don't know what
they
mean). My biggest concern is that now I also
have
a tendency for spirits to attach to me. They make
me
feel extremely shaky, cold and lose my appetite
and
sleepless. Do you have any knowledge or
information
on how to over come this problem? I also
can
no longer do laying on of hands because I end up
taking
on other people's spirits. It was my dream to
become
a good healer. I also have become sensitive
to
people’s psychic attacks. Thank you for any help
you
can offer.
Judy
Hello,
Obviously
whatever psychic or healing gifts you have
are
out of your control at the moment. My best advice
is
to immediately stop all activities that expose you to
or
invite you to interact with "psychic" energy. Take
a
prolonged break, as in several months. You need to
become
"grounded", which basically means in control
of
making the perception and/or touch of such "spirits"
stop
when you want it to. When you feel better and
your
appetite and sleep patterns are solidly back to
normal
then you could try to resume your intuitive
activities.
It will help you to attach your perceptions to
a
ritual (ceremony) or tool (object) so that you simply
don't
get the vibes unless you have invited them
deliberately.
Also envision an encircling dome of
protective
white light around yourself that has the
properties
to not let any energy near to you that you
are
not actively seeking to interact with.
As
for psychic attacks, the old religious statement
"evil
be gone" really works, because you are then
focusing
your intent to repel whatever. You can also
use
candle magic to cleanse your personal space. For
a
few minutes each day burn a white candle (to
protect
you and those you love), a purple candle (to
rebound
bad energy back to anyone who may be
sending
it) and a black candle (to burn negatives up
in
smoke and make them vanish). Make sure you
snuff
the flames when you put them out rather than
blowing
them out, as that shows your respect for the
forces
of intent within the flames.
Eventually
you will feel that the space around you is
clear
and calm again. Only then will it be time to start
very
slowly back into your perception and healing
activities.
Just
for your information, readers vary drastically
about
what the appearance of aura's mean. Here is
a
short list to explain one commonly accepted set of
colour
interpretations:
Red - passion or anger
Blue - spirituality
Yellow - high intellect or degree of intellectual
activity
Brown - greed
Green - jealousy
Dull colours, such as browns, grays, or other
muddy hues often indicate fatigue or illness.
I
hope this answer has helped you in some way.
Bests
- Atham Z
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:::Just for Fun:::
Home Made Candy Canes
3
c sugar
1
tsp. peppermint flavoring
1/2
c water
3/4
c light corn syrup
3/4
tsp. red vegetable or food coloring
1/4
tsp. cream of tartar
The
sugar, water, syrup, and cream of tartar you
combine
and heat till the sugar's dissolved completely.
Divide
into two saucepans, boil, but don't stir, please,
until
each lot is 280 degrees F. Add 1/2 tsp. peppermint
to
each lot and add the coloring to one, but not the other:
place
on an enamel or marble table to cool. (First oiling
the
table, as a general rule). Like taffy you stretch and
pull
and form into ropes of red and white, now twist
them
around again and again. And form them into your
candy
cane. Now on an oiled surface you allow them to
harden.
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Dreams of Christmas
Is
there any other holiday so filled with dreams and
references
to dreams? "...I'm dreaming of a White
Christmas..."
"...as visions of sugarplums danced in
their
heads..." Each year we revisit the music and the
pageantry
of the Nutcracker Suite -- a story inspired
by
a young girl's dream of her nutcracker doll.
Perhaps
the most famous Christmas dreamer of all is
none
other than Ebeneezer Scrooge who reasoned
that
perhaps his weary Christmas Eve visits from
Jacob
Marley and crew were no more than
nightmares
he experienced from an "undigested bit
of
beef". What does it mean to literally dream of
Christmas?
Some of my favorite dream sites on the
Net
reveal the following:
To
see a Christmas Tree in your dream, symbolizes
family
celebrations, gatherings, and familial
relationships.
To
see a Yule log in your dream, signifies a positive
turn
of events in the coming year.
To
see mistletoe in your dream, symbolizes joyous
occasions
and much happiness
Is
it any surprise we could not readily find an
interpretation
for "fruitcake"?
Contributed
by Marta Martin
<funnygirl@thenetwits.com>
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Trivial Tidbit
Have You Smelt these Spells?
These
ancient Celtic spells are about securing a lover,
but
‘omigosh’, I don’t know how even ancient peoples
could
have gone to such bizarre lengths!
"Catch
a sparrow. Kill him and eat the brain with
your
love interest on your mind. Lust will rise within
you."
I
would personally have to be already consumed with
lust
or perhaps a burning psychosis to go to such a
gruesome
extreme for a lover. Bottom line here -
would
anybody be worth this obscenity? The spell
doesn't
say the love object would be reciprocally
consumed
with lust, and neither would anyone else
unless
you were conscientious about using your
mouthwash.
"Hunt
down a wolf. Scrape the marrow from the
bone
in his left foot and put it inside an amulet to wear
near
your heart. Then he or she is sure to want you."
Or
sure to successfully avoid you when they can smell
you
coming! For centuries people have been overly
afraid
of wolves and this sounds like just another
creative
excuse to eliminate yet another wolf. Wolves
can’t
be that dangerous if they are so easy to find and
murder.
"The
Dead Strip: Sneak into a graveyard at night and
exhume
a corpse, nine days buried." (Use your
handy
collapsible shovel for this part of the work.)
"Tear
off a strip of the skin from head to foot. Then
crawl
into the bedroom of the one you lust for and
while
he or she is sleeping, wrap the skin around the
person’s
arm or leg. Take special care to remove this
before
the person wakes up." (I guess so and they
would
have to be a very sound sleeper too!) "As long
as
you secretly keep this skin in your possession, the
person
will only have eyes for you and their lust will
be
most satisfying to you."
Let’s
hope the object of affection takes the time to
shower
and leaves you the time for the same before
hunting
you down. And where on earth would a
person
stash such grizzly dermis? Thank goodness
in
this day and age we all usually lock our doors
before
vulnerably retiring for sleep at night.
There
is a small but important lesson within this
smelly
review. The spells are supposed to generate
"lust",
rather than "love". I think it is important for all
of
us to carefully differentiate those two.
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