Awakening through the Veils: A Seeker’s Guide by Ric Weinman

Awakening Through the Veils takes the reader, step by step, though the mysterious process of awakening. For most readers, it will be a direct and practical guide towards an actual awakening. For those already awake, it will help to deepen them from where they are now.

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“During the last 10 years I have had the privilege of following Ric’s awakening path and it has produced a huge transformation in me. I have worked on my inner constraints, freeing the issues that caused me great fear and suffering. Through Ric’s guidance I have been able to walk step by step on a road that leads to awakening to our true nature, creating a life with more freedom and openness. It has been a journey from the shadows to the light. I am completely sure that as you read this book and put your consciousness into it, you will have the same wonderful experience.”
– Santiago Ardissone, President of the Columbia Foundation on Consciousness and Energy

Ric Weinman “Spiritual Awakening”

Ric Weinman was a full-time healer for 15 years until Merlin reawakened his past knowledge of VortexHealing® and moved him to teach its magic. He has taught it for 13 years, and has now trained a handful of other teachers, enabling VortexHealing to be taught internationally.
Founder of the VortexHealing® Institute, Weinman is also author of Your Hands Can Heal: Learn to Channel Healing Energy and Breaking the Illusion: Tools for Self-Awakening.

Ric’s Talk at Conference in Buenos Aires May 5, 2013

Published on May 14, 2013
This is the full talk that Ric gave at the Conference for Consciousness & Energy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 4 & 5, 2013, featuring Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss, and himself. The talk is about energy, consciousness, and awakening, and the role of VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing. The conference was produced by the Columbia Foundation on Consciousness and Energy (of Argentina) with the Omega Institute (in Rhinebeck, NY).

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Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person By Judith Blackstone

Penetrating insight. Profound empathy. A gift for healing. These are just some of the talents of the “spiritually sensitive” person—yet these apparent blessings can often become a source of loneliness, self-doubt, and limitation. Belonging Here is a lifesaving book that shows how our spiritual gifts become entryways into both the everyday world of shared human connection and the most subtle dimension of our being.

Written by one spiritual sensitive for another, Belonging Here draws from Dr. Blackstone’s personal story as well as her 30-year psychotherapy practice that has focused on teaching clients how to integrate personal healing and spiritual awakening through an embodied approach she calls the Realization Process. Readers will explore five of the most common challenges of the spiritually sensitive, along with exercises for overcoming each, including:
• Thin Skin—how you can strengthen your boundaries and still
remain open to the world around you

• Landing on Earth—staying grounded within the whole of
your body by mending inner “fragmentation”

• Hearing the Cries of the World—how innate compassion can
ripen into the unconditional love of spiritual maturity

You can live authentically in a world that once seemed alien. You can find happiness and acceptance where sadness and confusion had reigned. You can come home at last, with Belonging Here.

Judith Blackstone, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychotherapist in New York and an innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality who has shared the Realization Process with students across the US and Europe since 1987. Her published works include the books The Enlightenment Process (Paragon House, 2008) and The Intimate Life (Sounds True, 2011), and the audio learning course The Realization Process (Sounds True, 2011).

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Judith Blackstone – Embodiment

Short excerpt from Judith Blackstone’s talk on embodied spiritual awakening at the 2007 Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy Conference. Here she talks about how internal contact with one’s body is the basis of openness to life. For more information on Judith’s books and teaching schedule, visit http://www.judithblackstone.com.

Entangled In Darkness Seeking the Light ~ Deborah King

Pub Date Sep 17 2013

Come on an epic journey into the heart of healing with one of today’s foremost masters!

In Entangled In Darkness, noted teacher, healer, and NY Times bestselling author Deborah King takes you on the adventure of a lifetime—around the globe and into the inner sanctums of the planet’s most powerful and prolific healing traditions. Delve into mysterious modalities where “miracles” not only occur but are often commonplace, and understand why millions each year seek out these particular people and sites. With Deborah as your guide, you’ll learn to speak the language of unconditional love—the source of all true healing. Through her tremendous wisdom and rare insight, Deborah will help you uncover what these age-old yet cutting-edge spiritual techniques have to teach you about your inherent capabilities and how you can use them to heal.

Among those you’ll travel with Deborah to meet are John of God, the legendary psychic surgeon of Brazil; West Africa’s Malidoma Somé, whose teachings about reconciliation with the ancestors can facilitate personal and collective healing; the “visionaries” of Medjugorje, who for more than 30 years have been receiving apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, who emphasizes compassion as the way to a happy life.

The final destination of this adventure, however, is none other than your own heart. Journey into Healing will open the door to the infinite possibilities awaiting you on your path to heal.

This book has been impressed by Deborah with the Energy of the Ages. By holding the book in your hands, you too are the recipient of this universal vibration of boundless love.

DEBORAH KING is a New York Times best-selling author of “Be Your Own Shaman,” which takes you on a one-of-a-kind journey into the powerful esoteric world of healing. Traveling extensively, Deborah brings her knowledge and experiential workshops to audiences worldwide, hosts a popular weekly Hay House radio show, and offers an online program, 21st Century Energy Medicine, for those who are interested in healing themselves or others.

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Spiritual Teacher Deborah King Tells Us How to be Your Own Shaman

Deborah King, wellness coach and shamanic healer, explains how to be your own showman and energy healer on Lifetime Television. Spiritual Teacher Deborah King tells us what it means to be your own healer and educates us on alternative energy healing and energy medicine as well as the energy fields that surround us on a daily basis. You can learn all these techniques in Deborah King’s book, “Be Your Own Shaman”

Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life ~ Katherine Parker

Resonance Alchemy takes you on a remarkable journey of discovery that will expand your consciousness and transform forever the way you view yourself and your reality.

Based on the author’s direct experience, this journey begins with a mysterious gift from a group of celestial Light Beings. Their gift leads to the unveiling of ancient but long hidden techniques designed to assist humanity in the current shift of consciousness now taking place.

Join Katherine as this ancient knowledge unfolds, from the revelation of a universal language of Sacred Syllables to the discovery of a unique healing method based on the vibrational resonance of this sacred language. Learn how these Sacred Syllables can bring your body, soul, and spirit back into harmony with their Divine Design. Transform your consciousness as you gain a profound new understanding of inner alchemy and shift your perspective from separation to unity with your Divine Nature.

Discover powerful methods that will:

• open your heart and develop your intuition

• activate your body’s power to achieve and maintain radiant health

• reconnect you to your Higher Self and accelerate your spiritual evolution; and

• help you achieve a profound inner alchemy of body, soul, and spirit.

Katherine Parker is a gifted empath, intuitive, and the visionary founder and developer of Resonance Alchemy, a new system of healing and personal development that uses the vibrational frequencies of higher dimensional sacred syllables. She is a certified massage therapist, hypnotherapist, and ordained minister with over twenty-five years of experience in the field of holistic health.

In 1994 she began to have a series of profound mystical experiences that initiated the development of the Resonance Alchemy healing system. During that time she received the elements of this unique system of healing through a process of direct spiritual guidance. She now lives in Crestone, Colorado, with her husband and two cats. She maintains a private Resonance Alchemy practice in Denver and Crestone and teaches Resonance classes and trainings. In 1994 she began to have a series of profound mystical experiences that initiated the development of the Resonance Alchemy healing system. During that time she received the elements of this unique system of healing through a process of direct spiritual guidance. She now lives in Crestone, Colorado, with her husband and two cats. She maintains a private Resonance Alchemy practice in Denver and Crestone and teaches Resonance classes and trainings.

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Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home, and a Living Faith by Judith Valente

Publication Date: August 26, 2013

In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life–and promises to do the same for her readers.

The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead, she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process.

With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing–a journey that will invite readers to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.

Judith Valente covers the religion beat for PBS-TV’s national program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Her reports have also appeared on The News Hour on PBS and on Chicago Public Radio and National Public Radio. She has worked as a news producer for WTTW/Chicago and is a former staff writer of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, where in 1992, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in the feature writing category. She has won nine broadcast awards and was twice nominated for an Emmy.

Valente is a speaker, retreat leader, and the author of two collections of poetry. In 2004, she won the Aldrich Poetry Prize, which was judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver. She is co-editor of the anthology Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul. She has been a frequent guest on WTTW’s weekly program 30 Good Minutes to talk about monastic wisdom for the modern world. She recently became a Benedictine Oblate. Valente and her husband Judge Charles Reynard live in Chicago and Normal, IL.

Shamanic Quest for the Spirit of Salvia The Divinatory, Visionary, and Healing Powers of the Sage of the Seers By (author) Ross Heaven

About Shamanic Quest for the Spirit of Salvia

The first practical guide to the transformative uses of salvia

• Explains how salvia connects you with your higher purpose and aids you in envisioning your unique path in life

• Describes appropriate methods of use, a shamanic diet to increase effectiveness, and the meaning of the symbols experienced during salvia’s ecstatic embrace

• Explores recent clinical research into salvia’s long-term positive psychological effects and its potential as a treatment for Alzheimer’s, depression, and addiction

Salvia divinorum has been used since ancient times by the Mazatec shamans of Mexico for divination, vision quests, and healing. Known by many names–nearly all associated with the Virgin Mary, who has come to symbolize the spirit of salvia–this plant ally is now regarded as the most powerful natural hallucinogen.

Providing the first practical guide to the shamanic, spiritual, and therapeutic uses of salvia, Ross Heaven shares his in-depth quest to connect with the spirit of this plant teacher. He explores recent clinical research into its many long-term psychological effects, such as increased insight and self-confidence, improved mood and concentration, and feelings of calmness and connection with nature, as well as salvia’s potential for combating diseases like Alzheimer’s, depression, and even cocaine addiction.

Reviewing the traditional Mazatec ceremonies surrounding salvia’s harvest and use, Heaven describes appropriate methods of consumption, typical dosages, and the shamanic diet he used to increase salvia’s effectiveness. Examining firsthand accounts of salvia journeys from around the world, he decodes the meaning of the symbolic images experienced during salvia’s ecstatic embrace and details the interplay between salvia and the lucid dreaming state. Comparing salvia to ayahuasca and the San Pedro cactus, Heaven explains that salvia’s greatest strength as a shamanic plant ally lies in its ability to connect you with your higher purpose and aid you in envisioning your unique path in life.

About the Author of Shamanic Quest for the Spirit of Salvia
Ross Heaven is a psychologist and healer with extensive training in the shamanic, transpersonal, and psychospiritual traditions. The author of more than 10 books, including Plant Spirit Shamanism and Cactus of Mystery, he teaches workshops on shamanism and plant medicines and coordinates trips to Peru to work with indigenous shamans. He lives in Spain and the United Kingdom.

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Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender: David R. Hawkins M.D. Ph.D.

The present work describes a simple and effective means by which to let go of the obstacles to Enlightenment and become free of negativity. During the many decades of the authors clinical psychiatric practice, the primary aim was to seek the most effective ways to relieve human suffering in all its many forms. The letting go technique (surrender) was found to be of great practical benefit and is described in this book.

Sir David Ramon Hawkins M.D., Ph.D.

Obituary Hawkins, Sir David Ramon M.D., Ph.D. affectionately called “Doc,” died peacefully at home in Sedona, Arizona, on September 19, 2012, at the age of 85. He was born on June 3, 1927, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is survived by his wife Susan J. Hawkins of Sedona, step-daughter Sarah J. Humphrey (Josh Spradling), and step-granddaughter Evren L. Spradling of Peoria, Arizona.

Dr. Hawkins was renowned as a physician, author, lecturer, and researcher of consciousness. After serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, he graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1953. For the next 25 years, he lived in New York, where he directed the largest psychiatric practice in the state. In 1973, he co-authored Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobel Laureate chemist Linus Pauling. Dr. Hawkins spent his last three decades in Arizona. In 1983, he established the Institute for Spiritual Research, a nonprofit organization dedicated to consciousness research.

In 1995, at the age of 68, he published the book, Power vs. Force, translated into 25 languages, with over a million copies sold. Just before his passing, he completed his twelfth book, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender. His numerous awards include The Huxley Award for the “Inestimable Contribution to the Alleviation of Human Suffering,” Who’s Who in the World, and a nomination for the prestigious Templeton Prize that honors progress in Science and Religion. In recognition of his contributions to humanity, Dr. Hawkins was knighted in 1996 by the Sovereign Order of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

In 2000, he was bestowed the title, “Tae Ryoung Sun Kak Tosa” (Teacher of Enlightenment), in Seoul, Korea. He was a member of the VFW, American Legion, Elks Lodge, Mensa International, the first U.S. Zen Institute, St. Andrews Episcopal Church, and he was the first president of the Country and Western Dance Club in Sedona. Internationally, Dr. Hawkins was the founder of Devotional Nonduality, a spiritual pathway that teaches unconditional love and Self-Realization. In lieu of flowers or gifts, tax-exempt donations may be made to the Institute for Spiritual Research. http://www.veritaspub.com.

Published in The Arizona Republic on September 30, 2012

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A Lesson on Surrender ~ Dr David R. Hawkins

Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself by Lissa Rankin

We’ve been led to believe that when we get sick, it’s our genetics. Or it’s just bad luck—and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help; they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Through her research, Dr. Rankin discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years.

Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body’s physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes.

In the final section of the book, you’ll be introduced to a radical new wellness model based on Dr. Rankin’s scientific findings. Her unique six-step program will help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life—spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships—so that you can create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health-promoting pieces of your life. You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s “whispers” before they turn to life-threatening “screams” that can be prevented with proper self-care, and you’ll learn how to trust your inner guidance when making decisions about your health and your life.

By the time you finish Mind Over Medicine, you’ll have made your own Diagnosis, written your own Prescription, and created a clear action plan designed to help you make your body ripe for miracles.

Lissa Rankin, M.D., is a mind-body medicine physician, author, speaker, artist, and blogger at LissaRankin.com. Passionate about what makes people healthy and what predisposes them to illness, she studies how doctors might better care for patients and how patients might better care for themselves. She is on a mission to heal health care, help patients play a more active role in healing themselves, and encourage the health-care industry to embrace and facilitate, rather than resist, such miracles. She trains physicians and other healing professionals, and she empowers others at I Can Do It events, TEDx conferences, health conferences, hospitals, and on her popular blog. When not spreading the word, she paints, practices yoga, and hikes in Marin County, CA with her husband and daughter.
Website: lissarankin.com

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Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? Lissa Rankin, MD at TEDxAmericanRiviera 2012

About Lissa Rankin, MD:
New age gurus suggest that we can heal ourselves by simply changing our minds, but is this concept grounded in cold, hard science? Lissa Rankin, MD explores the scientific literature, reviewing case studies of spontaneous remission, as well as placebo and nocebo effect data, to prove that our thoughts powerfully affect our physiology when we believe we can get well.



TEDxFiDiWomen – Lissa Rankin – The Shocking Truth About Your Health

Lissa Rankin, MD is an OB/GYN physician, author, keynote speaker, consultant to health care visionaries, professional artist, and founder of the women’s health and wellness community OwningPink.com. Discouraged by the broken, patriarchal health care system, she left her medical practice in 2007 only to realize that you can quit your job, but you can’t quit your calling. This epiphany launched her on a journey of discovery that led her to become a leader in the field of mind/body medicine, which she blogs about at OwningPink.com and is writing about in her third book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013).

She teaches both patients and health care professionals how to make the body ripe for miracles by healing the mind and being healthy in all aspects of life, not just by promoting healthy behaviors like good nutrition, exercise, and adequate sleep, but by encouraging health and authenticity in relationships, work, creative expression, spirituality, sexuality, finances, and living environment. She is leading a revolution to feminize how health care is received and delivered by encouraging collaboration, fostering self-healing, reconnecting health care and spirituality, empowering patients to tap into the mind’s power to heal the body, and encouraging women not to settle for being merely well, but to strive for living vital, joyful, authentic lives full of “mojo.”

When not spreading the word, she chills out, paints, does yoga, and hikes in Marin County, CA with her husband and daughter.

Lissa Rankin: Mind Over Medicine

founder, Jonathan Fields, interviews Lissa Rankin, author of Mind Over Medicine.

When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage Our Relationships ~ David Richo

In this book, psychotherapist David Richo explores how we replay the past in our present-day relationships—and how we can free ourselves from this destructive pattern. We all have a tendency to transfer potent feelings, needs, expectations, and beliefs from childhood or from former relationships onto the people in our daily lives, whether they are our intimate partners, friends, or acquaintances. When the Past Is Present helps us to become more aware of the ways we slip into the past so that we can identify our emotional baggage and take steps to unpack it and put it where it belongs.

Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Richo helps readers to:

• Understand how the wounds of childhood become exposed in adult relationships—and why this is a gift
• Identify and heal the emotional wounds we carry over from the past so that they won’t sabotage present-day relationships
• Recognize how strong attractions and aversions to people in the present can be signals of own own unfinished business
• Use mindfulness to stay in the present moment and cultivate authentic intimacy

David Richo, PhD, is a therapist and author who leads popular workshops on personal and spiritual growth.

He received his BA in psychology from Saint John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, in 1962, his MA in counseling psychology from Fairfield University in 1969, and his PhD in clinical psychology from Sierra University in 1984. Since 1976, Richo has been a licensed marriage, family, and child counselor in California. In addition to practicing psychotherapy, Richo teaches courses at Santa Barbara City College and the University of California Berkeley at Berkeley, and has taught at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. He is a clinical supervisor for the Community Counseling Center in Santa Barbara, California.

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Norman Rosenthal & David Lynch, “Transcendence” Part 1 of 6

Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., a twenty-year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the celebrated psychiatrist who pioneered the study and treatment of Season Affective Disorder (SAD), brings us the most important work on Transcendental Meditation since the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Science of Being and Art of Living-and one of our generation’s most significant books on achieving greater physical and mental health and wellness.

While Dr. Rosenthal’s book does not set out to teach TM (it’s a technique that must be learned from an instructor), he illuminates the scientifically proven health and stress relieving benefits and how it can dramatically improve the way we feel and function.

Here, Dr. Rosenthal is joined by filmmaker David Lynch (“The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks,” “Mulholland Drive,” etc.), one of his devotees.

Norman Rosenthal & David Lynch, “Transcendence” Part 2 of 6

Norman Rosenthal & David Lynch, “Transcendence” Part 3 of 6

Norman Rosenthal & David Lynch, “Transcendence” Part 4 of 6

Norman Rosenthal & David Lynch, “Transcendence” Part 5 of 6

Norman Rosenthal & David Lynch, “Transcendence” Part 6 of 6

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