CARRIE HART

Carrie Hart was not seeking a spiritual connection when a spiritual entity who called himself Quado began speaking to her.  But the deep wisdom was so apparent and the guidance so much more effective than her busy thinking mind, that she not only started listening, but also began sharing the messages with others.

Carrie was not at all interested in becoming a Pathfinder when a Quado follower asked for a spiritual healing and a shaman named Running Wolf showed up in Carrie’s mind and said:  Yes, we can do that.  And so she did, and a whole world of healing and Power Animals began to open to her.

Carrie had no religious background or interest when Jesus appeared to her during her Usui Reiki Master attunement ceremony in the center of Stonehenge and touched her shoulder, filling her with a pure, intense flood of love unlike any she has experienced before or since.

And after a while, Carrie began to accept that this was how it would be.  As she worked with clients, Spirit would show up and teach her the shaman arts of Power Animal Retrieval and Soul Retrieval, or take her into Past Life Exploration and Energy Healing.  Angels would show up to capture the energy of lightning or to remove the burden of the past and transmute it into light.  Spirit forms from other galaxies would come to teach Prosperity.  And throughout it all, Quado would ensure that everything came from a foundation of love and light, and would offer interpretations where needed.

John Lennon said:  Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans.  And Carrie’s plans were unfolding nicely, as she continued with her career in IT, advancing from computer programmer to project manager and then to CIO and Vice President of a Fortune 50 company, all while she was also pursuing her love of singing and songwriting.

And then, one day, it was time to leave the corporate world behind.

The way that Carrie’s spirituality developed has given her a special point of view:

• She has developed her own techniques of meditation. In fact, she prefers what she calls an Empowerment, a combination of meditation, visualization and energy work that she does live for i-am-this.com members four times every week.
• She has her own brand of shaman work, which does not imitate an older culture but harkens instead directly to Spirit and which is completely based in love and light.
• She is deeply connected to Spirit and the Oneness, but has no particular concern with what happens after we die, focusing instead on what we can be and do during this brief, precious life of our to create joy and love, fulfillment and meaning.
• She loves to embrace the mystery and does not expect a rational explanation for how things happen. In fact, she believes that the way things truly work is beyond the comprehension of our limited mental powers.
• She believes that ultimately everything is within us and that the most important thing we can do is develop our own deep core of power and radiate our unique energy, even as we also know ourselves as one and inseparable with all that is.
• As she says, our purpose lies in our uniqueness, but our power lies in our deep connection to the Oneness.

Carrie offers private and group sessions to strengthen this inner core and use spirituality to promote a beautiful life.  She also has music, books and unique websites you may explore.

Carrie continues to accept the gifts of Spirit as they come, when they come and however they come.  Her latest adventure is to speak and sing in an unidentified language that has come from Spirit to her, something she suspects is from an indigenous culture of the Americas that is no longer existent.

She has also recently published her latest book, Earth Survival Guide, Why You are Probably From Another Planet and How to Survive This One.  The first 50 pages are a humorous look at the crazy society that is Earth, from the point of view of someone who can’t possibly be from around here, since it clearly makes no sense whatsoever.  The next 100 pages propose what we might do to save the Earth and ourselves, featuring the help of the Power Animals and including a story of their origins.

Carrie looks forward to the next thing that Spirit will bring her way and to continuing to share it all as it unfolds.

You may write her at carriehart@msn.com and learn so much more by visiting her websites listed above.

Composer/arranger/pianist BEVAN MANSON often combines classical elements with jazz forms. He has arranged music for various jazz artists including Manhattan Transfer vocalist Cheryl Bentyne, and Village Vanguard Orchestra saxophonist Gary Smulyan.

Bevan’s interest in jazz originally began quite early, listening to his dad’s jazz records of Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Jimmy Cleveland, and Bill Evans. At the Eastman School of Music he studied with noted arranger-composers Ray Wright and Manny Albam, and famed jazz pianist Bill Dobbins, as well as working in classical composition and theory.

Over the years he has performed with musicians such as: George Garzone, Ira Sullivan, Ron Jones L.A. Big Band, Cecil McBee, Tierney Sutton, Jimmy Guiffre, Marina ‘Frenchie’ Pacowski, and Gunther Schuller.

Bevan’s own piano trios have included Matt Wilson, Steve Hass, Bernie Dresel, Edwin Livingston, Bob Nieske, Jeff D’Angelo, Brad Dutz, Tom Rizzo, and Luca Alemanno.

His unique piano style has been called ‘wholly original yet accessible’ by the Boston Globe. The San Jose Mercury-News said ‘Bevan spreads a Bach-like web of composition in his improvising, telling a compelling story.’

He has worked in film and TV in the LA. studios, with music of his appearing on ‘Breaking Bad’, and his keyboard work sounding in ‘JAG’, ‘My Boys’, ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ‘House’, among others.

Bevan has also received commissions from Sierra Chamber Music, the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, the Pacific Philharmonic Foundation, the San Francisco Symphony, First Night Boston, clarinetist Gary Gray, and L.A. Chamber Orchestra violist Victoria Miskolczy,and jazz vocalist Cathy Segal, among others.

The Washington Post called his Piano Quartet “powerfully polyrhythmic…also with sweet lyricism” The piece received an American Music Center (now New Music USA) grant.

His four-movement ‘Santa Monica Mountains’ (Concerto For Guitar And Orchestra) was recently recorded at Fox by Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, with soloist Evan Taucher, KuanFen Liu conducting.

His ‘California Concertino’ for Flute and Chamber Orchestra was premiered by Katherine Fink of the Brooklyn Philharmonic with Paul Dunkel conducting, and also performed by L.A. Chamber Orchestra flutist David Shostac with the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony. It appears on Parma/Albany Records (Troy 1476).

Several studio orchestra/jazz recordings have been for released recently: ‘Talking To Trees’ features vocalist Tierney Sutton and vibraphonist Joe Locke among others in combination with jazz groups augmented by woodwinds, strings, and percussion. ‘When The Cup Is Lifted’ features Bevan on piano, Luca Alemanno on bass, Bob Sheppard on saxophone, and Gordon Au on trumpet, with woodwind and string orchestrations.

He formally taught at New England Conservatory, UC Berkeley, and Ventura College. Bevan now resides half the year in Albuquerque, and half in Los Angeles, plugging away in the circus of the music business.

Kathleen Gomez began her political career working for President Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign. She went on to work at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington and was the Administrator for the Democratic National Convention which first nominated Bill Clinton for President. She has worked for several members of Congress including Jim Mattox of Texas and Congresswomen Pat Schroeder of Colorado. She has also worked for a national trade association and was a community activist and organizer for issues involving the New York City public school system. Kathleen moved from Manhattan back to her home town in Arizona, where she helped her father get elected Mayor. She holds a degree in International Service from American University in Washington, DC.

Kathleen also was the co-host on SHADOW POLITICS (on the BBS Radio Network every Sunday at 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm Eastern on Station 1) along side Democratic Senator Michael D. Brown of the District of Columbia. SHADOW POLITICS is a grass roots talk show giving a voice to the voiceless. For more than 200 years the people of the Nation's Capital have ironically been excluded from the national political conversation. With no voting member of either house of Congress, Washingtonians have lacked the representation they need to be equal and to have their voices heard. SHADOW POLITICS will provide a platform for them, as well as the millions of others nationwide who feel politically disenfranchised and disconnected, to be included in a national dialog .

Currently, Kathleen is the CEO/Founder of a new project called 'Candidates Platform' which provides a virtual 24/7 political platform that is affordable and easy to use for all candidates and free to the voter! 'Candidates Platform' gives a place for the common person who wants to get involved to connect their campaign with the voter. It offers a simple easy to use interface where a candidate can interact with their constituents, link all other social media, post videos and schedules and hear back from the voter. We also provide technical support for any questions or problems the candidate may encounter.

Knowing where to find information about local candidates without having to seek a vast number of websites and news sources is key to keeping the voter engaged. That is why the mission of the Candidates Platform is to provide a virtual 24-hour platform where the voter can become knowledgeable on where candidates stand on the issues.     

Kathleen strongly believes that while national elections are very important, smaller elections down the ballet are just as vital to the continued strength of a nation. Due to this belief our service and information is free to the voter, providing the means for a better-educated and more knowledgeable voting base. Take a look at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2052224993/1696116936?token=be010573.

Kathleen is also a consultant for 'Statehood; No Other Way'. This is a nationwide campaign to get the word out about the disenfranchisement of the citizens of our Nation’s Capital. It is the start of a new movement to finally fulfill the promise of democracy for the residents of the District of Columbia by making DC the 51st state of the union, New Columbia. It recognizes that only through statehood will the citizens of our Nation’s Capital finally be equal members of the democracy that they have served, paid for and died to defend for more than 200 years.

Steve Bhaerman is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 23 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the "Cosmic Comic." Swami's comedy has been called "irreverently uplifting" and has been described both as "comedy disguised as wisdom" and "wisdom disguised as comedy."

As the Swami, Steve is the author of Driving Your Own Karma (1989), When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It's Worth (1993), Duck Soup for the Soul (1999) and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction (2004).

In his "past life" (before Swami), Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Place to Go: Making of a Free High School. A political science major, he later taught history to autoworkers at Wayne State University in Detroit as part of the Weekend College. In 1980, Steve co-founded Pathways Magazine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the first publications bringing together holistic health, personal growth, spirituality, and politics. Subsequent to Pathways, Steve was a freelance writer and co-author with Don McMillan of Friends and Lovers: How to Meet the People You Want to Meet (Writer's Digest Books, 1986).

Since 2005, Steve has written a political blog with a spiritual perspective, Notes From the Trail, hailed as an encouraging voice "in the bewilderness." His latest book, written with cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here (Hay House, 2009). Steve is active in transpartisan politics and the practical application of Spontaneous Evolution. 

Rick Simpson is a retired power engineer who worked for 25 years in the medical system in Canada.  After suffering a severe head injury in 1997 he took all the medications that the doctors prescribed, but their side effects did nothing but harm.  So in desperation he turned to the use of cannabis extracts, which he produced himself and quickly found that he had discovered the greatest natural medicine on earth.  After learning the truth about the amazing healing abilities of these extracts, he then went to everyone in authority to have its use recognised once more,  but found that in reality those who control our lives, wanted to keep the truth hidden from public view.  Having no where else to turn, he then made this knowledge public and since that time countless individuals world wide have used his information to cure or control illnesses for which our current medical systems have no solution.

Rick Simpson was giving the oil away for free, since he was growing plants in his own backyard, while he was still in Canada, until 2009, when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police did the final raid at his home. Rick was always talking about THC oil, and not CBD oil. The oil that he was giving away for free had a very high percentage of THC and it also contained low levels of CBD and other cannabinoids.  Today these extracts are usually called RSO or Rick Simpson Oil and it was the previous leader of the hemp movement Jack Herer himself who coined this phrase. Since 2013 Rick no longer lives in Canada.

Rick Simpson put up the phoenixtears.ca website back in 2004 and he made the information people need to heal themselves free for all to use at no cost. Rick did not even try to patent the oil or the method he used to produce the oil, because he felt that this is knowledge everyone should have so they could learn how they can deal with their medical problems themselves, in a sensible harmless manner. 

"I want people to know how to heal themselves." (Rick Simpson)

For more information visit: phoenixtears.ca - the only real Rick Simpson web site!  Find Rick on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ricksimpsonofficial

A reporter once remarked in his article that Feng Shui Master Diana Garber "isn't your typical candle sniffing cloud watcher". In fact, her results have transformed the minds of many skeptics.  She has achieved much success in the Feng Shui world serving as the Feng Shui practitioner for the Ohio State University. Diana is the 1st Feng Shui Master to speak at a national medical convention and has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX and NPR.

Russell Friedman: Executive Director of The Grief Recovery Institute [www.grief.net] and co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook, When Children Grieve, and Moving On.



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Russell arrived at the Institute in 1987 on the heels of a second divorce and a bankruptcy. At that point, he would not have known to use the word "grief" to describe divorce and financial problems. Like most people he thought grief was only about death. Now he knows that the emotions of grief attach to more than 40 life experiences. More importantly, he knows how to help people deal with the impact of all grief and loss issues, large and small.

Arnie Gundersen has 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he earned his Bachelor Degree cum laude while also becoming the recipient of a prestigious Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship for his Master Degree in nuclear engineering. Arnie holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie also managed and coordinated projects at 70-nuclear power plants in the US.

In 1990, Gundersen discovered radioactive material in an accounting safe at Nuclear Energy Services, the Danbury consulting firm where he was employed. Three weeks after notifying the company president of what he believed to be radiation safety violations, Gundersen was fired. According to the New York Times, for three years, Gundersen was "awakened by harassing phone calls in the middle of the night" and "became concerned about his family's safety". Gundersen believes he was blacklisted, harassed and fired for doing what he thought was right.

Gundersen questioned the safety of the Westinghouse AP1000, a proposed third-generation nuclear reactor and has expressed concerns about the operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. He served as an expert witness in the investigation of the Three Mile Island accident and has provided commentary on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

AP1000
In April 2010, Gundersen released a report (commissioned by several anti-nuclear groups) which explored a hazard associated with the possible rusting through of the AP1000 containment structure steel liner. In the AP1000 design, the liner and the concrete are separated, and if the steel rusts through, "there is no backup containment behind it" says Gundersen. If the dome rusted through the design would expel radioactive contaminants and the plant "could deliver a dose of radiation to the public that is 10 times higher than the N.R.C. limit" according to Gundersen. Westinghouse has disputed Gundersen's assessment. Gundersen has testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards saying that "if a hole appeared, the chimney effect would disperse radioactive material far and wide".

VERMONT YANKEE
Gundersen has also expressed concerns about the operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, saying a leak of radioactive tritium there could be "followed by releases of other, more dangerous materials if the plant keeps operating".
v Gundersen has said that the U.S. nuclear industry and regulators need to reexamine disaster planning and worst-case scenarios, especially in reactors such as Vermont Yankee, which have the same design as the crippled nuclear plant at the center of the 2011 Japanese Fukushima nuclear emergency. He says that Vermont Yankee and similar plants are vulnerable to a similar cascade of events as in Japan.

FUKUSHIMA
As part of Fairewinds Energy Education, Gundersen has hosted numerous videos and provided updates about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He was also a regular guest on Democracy Now discussing the issue. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Gundersen referred to Fukushima as "the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind".