My guests next Saturday, Dr Gil Kajiki is the founder of the Valley Thyroid Institute. He graduated from the Pasadena College of Chiropractic and has been a chiropractor for 30 years. The main focus of his practice is thyroid and Auto Immune conditions.

Through working with his patients he developed the Kajiki Protocol for determining thyroid and autoimmune issues with a particular concentration on Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. He offers his patients answers and protocols to improve thyroid function and overall health.

With his roots in chiropractic-biophysics, Dr. Kajiki was busy helping patients in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California with their spinal structural corrective care when his wife became ill with what at first appeared to be Epstein Barr.

As he watched his wife’s health deteriorate under the care of several doctors, Dr. Kajiki began a relentless search for answers to why his healthy wife could become so ill and yet no one seemed to know how to care for her. After more than two years of tests, medication, B12 shots, and finally hospitalization, it was her husband and not her medical provider who came to her rescue.

After countless hours of study, consultation with colleagues, and testing, Dr. Kajiki diagnosed his wife with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an autoimmune condition that attacks the thyroid. He spent the next several months treating her autoimmune condition through natural supplements, lifestyle modifications, and dietary changes. She is now symptom free and doesn’t take any thyroid medication.

Dr. Kajiki couldn’t stand to think that perhaps somebody else was having to go through the prolonged struggle with this condition as he and his wife had. Because of this experience, he dedicated his practice to helping Hashimoto’s and low thyroid patients overcome their symptoms naturally.

Dr. Kajiki still works from his office in Tarzana, California, however his patients are from countries and cities all across the globe—many as far away as Canada, Romania, London and New Zealand. He is available to his patients in person, via skype or phone. Dr. Kajiki also has more than 100 video testimonials of successful outcomes from happy patients that implemented his Low Thyroid Protocol and are thrilled to tell the world of their success.

Dr. Kajiki has been interviewed several times on Lisa Garr’s “The Aware Show”, heard on KPFK. Garr (also a Hashimoto’s patient), collaborated with Dr. Kajiki on an educational 5 DVD series of self-help for patients with chronic thyroid problems called “The Thyroid Mystery Solved”. 

In my position, I'm very fortunate to get to wear many hats at PSI as I oversee the association's marketing, communications and educational campaigns and programs. This gives me a chance to work closely with fellow PSI staffers, our wonderful members, PSI partners and sponsors and the media on various projects, including the PSI Certificate Program, Professional Pet Sitters Week, Take Your Dog To Work Day®, Hungry Bowl, Pet Sitter of the Year, the Get a Real Pet Sitter® and more. I'm passionate about educating pet sitters (through our magazine, e-Newsletter, blog, website, social media and most recently PSI's latest book, The Professional Pet Sitter's Startup Guide) and about educating pet owners on the importance of using professional pet sitters (through media announcements, press releases, advertisements and articles, etc.) I also manage PSI's social media accounts and plan the annual Pet Sitter World Educational Conference & Expo.

Carlos Latuff (born November 30, 1968) is a Brazilian freelance political cartoonist. His works deal with an array of themes, including anti-Zionism, anti-globalization, anti-capitalism, and anti-U.S. military intervention. He is best known for his images depicting the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and, more recently, the Arab Spring events.

Some of Latuff's cartoons comparing Israel to Nazism have been accused of being antisemitic by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and some authors. Latuff has dismissed the charges of antisemitism as "a strategy for discrediting criticism of Israel.", while book reviewer Eddie Portnoy in The Forward has stated that while his message is "furiously critical" of Israel, it is not anti-Semitic.

Latuff was born in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is of Lebanese ancestry; in his own words he has "Arab roots".

Latuff started as a cartoonist for leftist publications in Brazil. After watching a 1997 documentary about the Zapatistas in Mexico, he sent a couple of cartoons to them, which received a positive response. He stated that after this experience, he decided to start a website and engage in "artistic activism". Graham Fowell, ex-chairman of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain, compares his work to Banksy, an English-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director.

Latuff has been arrested three times in Brazil for his cartoons about the Brazilian police, in which he criticized police brutality.

In 2011, Latuff was contacted by activists in Egypt. Latuff stated that he was encouraged when he saw some of his cartoons depicted in the January 25 Egyptian protests, a couple of days after he made them. According to Reuters, this helped him become "a hero of the tumultuous Arab Spring with rapid-fire satirical sketches".

Latuff's works have been posted mostly by himself on Indymedia websites and private blogs. However, some of them have been picked up and featured in magazines such as the Brazilian edition of Mad, Le Monde Diplomatique and the The Toronto Star.  In addition, a few of his works were published on Arab websites and publications such as the Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance (JAMI) magazine, the Saudi magazine Character, the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, among others.

Themes

A vast number of Latuff's cartoons are related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which according to Latuff : "became important to Latuff after he visited the area in the late 1990s." These cartoons are heavily critical of Israel and have drawn criticism and allegations of uninhibited utilization of "judeophobic stereotypes in the service of the anti-globalisation movement."

In his We are all Palestinians (Arabic: كلنا فلسطينيون‎) cartoon series, various famous oppressed groups, including Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, Black South Africans during Apartheid, Native Americans, and Tibetans in China, are all shown stating "I am Palestinian."

Latuff has also made a series of cartoons that portray Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, United States President George W. Bush, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and British PM Tony Blair among other politicians as monsters and as Nazis.

Latuff is also critical of US military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has made promotional cartoons for anti-US militancy as well as cartoons alleging US actions have been motivated by the chance of making profit from oil. Among the cartoons, there are also some that portray US soldiers as severely wounded, dead, or paraplegic or as harming Iraqi civilians.

In his comic series Tales of Iraq War (Arabic: حكايات من حرب العراق‎) he portrays "Juba, the Baghdad sniper", an Iraqi insurgency character claimed to have shot down several dozen US soldiers, as a "superhero". He has also made a caricature of US President George W. Bush laughing over US casualties.

Since the end of 2010, he has been consistently engaged in producing cartoons about the Arab Spring in which he openly sided with the revolutionaries. After the victory of revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya his cartoons about these countries have focused on the menace of counter-revolution or Western interference. Some of his cartoons have been displayed in mass demonstrations in Arab countries.

Alleged antisemitism

The notability of Latuff and his cartoons has drawn criticism from individuals and organizations, especially in the form of accusations of antisemitism.

His works were criticized by a writer for the Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, part of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (an Israeli NGO), for allegedly containing antisemitism and antisemitic motifs.

In 2002 the Swiss-based Holocaust survivors organization Aktion Kinder des Holocaust sued the Indymedia of Switzerland on the charge of antisemitism for publishing Latuff's cartoon titled We are all Palestinians series in their website, which depicted a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian." The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court.

In their 2003 Annual Report, the Stephen Roth Institute compared Latuff's cartoons of Ariel Sharon to "the antisemitic caricatures of Philipp Rupprecht in Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer." The SRI also complained over a cartoon showing Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara in a Palestinian keffiyeh.

In 2006, Latuff placed second for his cartoon comparing the West Bank barrier with the Nazi concentration camps, in the Iranian 'International Holocaust Cartoon Competition'. Latuff's entry was described as "Holocaust inversion," a "motif" of antisemitism, by Manfred Gerstenfeld.

Joel Kotek, a professor at Belgium’s Free University of Brussels, in his book Cartoons and Extremism calls Latuff “the contemporary Drumont of the internet.” Eddy Portnoy, in The Jewish Daily Forward, reviewing the book, writes that Latuff material is "often terribly obnoxious... but it is a stretch to categorize his cartoons as antisemitic, and it is a disservice to the fight against genuine antisemitism to have included [the Latuff cartoons]".

Latuff's response

In an interview with the Jewish-American weekly newspaper The Forward in December 2008, Latuff responded to charges of antisemitism and the comparisons made between his cartoons and those published in Der Stürmer in Nazi Germany:

My cartoons have no focus on the Jews or on Judaism. My focus is Israel as a political entity, as a government, their armed forces being a satellite of U.S. interests in the Middle East, and especially Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. It happens to be Israeli Jews that are the oppressors of Palestinians... My detractors say that the use of the Magen David in my Israel-related cartoons is irrefutable proof of antisemitism; however, it’s not my fault if Israel chose sacred religious motifs as national symbols, such as the Knesset Menorah or the Star of David in killing-machines like F-16 jets.

Latuff also stated that anti-Semitism is real, that anti-Semites like European neo-Nazis, "hijack" the Palestinian cause to bash Israel. To assert, however, that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is, in his view, "a well-known tactic of intellectual dishonesty." He said that political cartoonists work by metaphors, and that similarities can be found between the IDF treatment of Palestinians and what Jews experienced under the Nazis. Such comparisons are not created by cartoonists, he added, but are made worldwide. He instanced the fact that a Holocaust survivor like Tommy Lapid reacted to the image of a Palestinian woman foraging in the rubble by thinking of his grandmother who died in Auschwitz. The use of cartoons insulting Muslims by depicting Muhammad as a bomber is defended as "freedom of speech", while using the Holocaust in drawings is deplored as "hatred against the Jews".

Latuff was included in Simon Wiesenthal Center's 2012 Top Ten Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs list, which he considered "a joke worthy of a Woody Allen movie". He also claimed that Zionist lobbying groups try to associate him with well-known extremists and racists in order to disqualify his criticism of the Israeli government. According to him, "criticism or even attacks to the polity known as Israel do not mean hatred towards Jews because the Israeli government does not represent the Jewish people just as no government represents the totality of its people". He also pointed out that figures such as José Saramago, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter were also accused of being antisemitic, saying that he was "in good company".

By most standards, I would consider my life as quite normal, perhaps like yours. I was born in upstate New York near Syracuse in the town of Canastota. I was born on 11/11/1948, and much later I learned that the numbers 11/11 were a sign of the angels. I would later come to see that the number 11 seemed to be evident everywhere in my life. Who would believe numbers would influence your life? I can now say that I believe that they do.

I came to northern California with my parents in 1965 and finished high school, and graduated from a nearby state college in 1970. I met my wife Carol and we were married on 8/29/1970. We are still together after all these years. By the way, I met Carol on a summer day as I drove by the front of her house. Funny, her house was 11 houses down on the same side of the street as mine! I soon was working in the discipline that consumed my life—that of a city planner. For 18 years, I worked long hours as a city planner for a local government. In 1989, I left that position and career to set up my planning consulting business which has lasted for over 20 years.

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Until 2/9/01, everything was quite normal. That was to change that day. At about noon, I was driving in my Jeep alone on Highway 65, a four lane expressway, when a loud firm male voice called out to me inside the vehicle, SLOW TO 35. I was going 60mph in the fast lane, and I immediately slowed to 35. I learned long ago to follow my intuition. This voice was a real one—not in my mind! Within 30 seconds, a car with three young men rapidly passed me and came up to a traffic signal that was showing “green”. Instead of going through the intersection, the car stopped at the green light and then made a left perpendicular turn and stopped fully broadside in my traffic lane. I had no other alternative but to hit their car which resulted in a major accident. Both cars were demolished but we all walked away with our injuries which did not cause hospitalization. The Highway Patrolman at the scene said that if I had been going 60 instead of 35, I would certainly be dead. I did have some injuries to my chest and legs that needed healing. Amazingly, I had cheated death this time—only because the voice gave specific direction and I listened and followed. What would you do if you heard such a voice in your car? Would you have ignored it or chose to follow its direction? And what would you have thought about such an incident.

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This accident started me on a path of exploration and adventure which resulted in a huge change in  my wife Carol’s and my lives. It started immediately when I began seeing some health professionals in acupuncture and massage to help with my injuries. These people and the people and events that I experienced over the next many years have led me to question everything about our existence and my role in that existence. In essence, I discovered the “meaning of life” for me, or you might say “my purpose in life”. I learned very quickly to follow the physical and mental messages that came to me. I also started seeing psychic professionals such as astrologers, intuitives, psychics, tarot card readers, you name it, I did it. I needed to know who and why that voice was in my car, and why I was subsequently getting all these strange messages. And why I was saved from certain death. All of these people that I met on this adventure were saying the same thing about me—that my life was about to change in a major way. At the time I felt that this did not sound right since I was happy in my life. I had a great job and a great wife and companion. Why would I want to change all that?

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Soon, Carol and I would encounter strange incidents. We would be awakened in the early morning hours by our bedroom lights going on and off for no reason, even when some lights were not even plugged in. Our bed would be shaken violently side to side. Put yourself in our place—how would you deal with such crazy things happening and yet you could not see who or what was doing these things? We learned that these were meant to wake me up and in that state of half awake and half asleep, I started having visions in a waking state—not dreams. These visions were short but happened several times a week. They included seeing places, seeing people that I had no knowledge of, seeing people dressed in clothes of decades long ago, being told to go to a certain place, and more particularly seeing images of angels. I was being communicated with—but by who and why? What would you do if such messages came to you frequently in the middle of the night? Would or could you ignore them? Would you act on them?

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The first angel vision was astounding, particularly since I really did not believe in their real existence. I felt that they were like mythical creatures, like Roman and Greek Gods, or dragons or fairies. This first angel vision was so clear that I could see each feather of the wings, see the clothes, the sword, the horse that he was sitting on. Soon thereafter, I went to Borders Books to find a book on angels. As I opened the book to a page in the center, by chance I found a picture of the angel. It was virtually identical to my vision of the angel. And it was no ordinary angel—it was the powerful Archangel Michael depicted on his horse with his sword. I felt that he wanted me to know of him—to confirm his existence.

By 2005, the messages were so strong and getting stronger each night. I went to a very highly respected psychic in my area for a first reading. Her name was Linda Schooler. She said that the energy was strong for me to travel extensively, first to the Southwest and then internationally. I said this could not be true since I worked so much and didnt have the time or even the interest in such travel. Within 6 months, Carol and I were traveling to Los Angeles, to Palm Springs, to New Mexico, and to Arizona. Linda was right! Later in 2007, we went to Peru, and in 2008 to England and France, to Hawaii, and then in December 2008 to Egypt. Linda was right again—this time about the international travel! All of these travels were not planned or expected. They seemed to happen for various reasons such as being invited by friends to visit or to join a sacred sites tour. For example, we went to Peru with new friends we had made in Palm Springs. We went to Egypt with another new friend on a tour. It was like these people were being sent to us to lure us to go, or to make the trip safe, fun, or easy. As it turns out, Linda was so right. How could she have predicted this so precisely? And what was the purpose to all these trips. This really opened me up to the psychic abilities and gifts of some people.

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I saw Linda again just a month before we went to Peru. She said this time that I would paint soon after I got back from Peru. I said, this cannot be true. I last painted in kindergarten and I was nearly 59. I said this has to be wrong. She responded by saying the energy was so strong that she was absolutely certain of this prediction. Well, 2 weeks after Peru, I was walking down the street in my local area when a strong craving to paint came within my stomach area. It was like a craving for food. I immediately went to the closest art store and bought art supplies that I did not know anything about. I started painting that night. It immediately became an obsession. Carol was stunned that I would paint. Now I paint without any training whatsoever and have shows, events, etc. See the Art section of this website to see samples of my art work.

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I have now been painting for several years without any classes or training. My paintings are selling. I am having art shows and my art is shown in many businesses. I simply cannot believe what has happened. Clearly, this art I am creating seems like channeled energy. Sometimes my hand goes where it wants, not where I want it. And every 3-4 months, the art style seems to change to something different or new. And I just love all of this creativity that has come into my life through art. But how could Linda be so accurate about my future in painting? And what is the real purpose for me painting?

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Another amazing incident happened in the Spring of 2008 on our trip to England and France. Just before the trip, I checked with my two best psychic friends, Linda and Francie Marie, and they both, independently, saw Carol and I seeing a Stargate in France. They said it would be guarded by two angels but to honor it. They did not know what it would look like. But then it happened. Near the end of our trip, we went to St. Malo, France, a beautiful small town resort along the English Channel with a wonderful wide beach area. As we got out of our taxi, there it appeared. First, a series of clouds that were angelic in form appeared, then one with a human body form with its arm and hand and finger pointing down in the sky to the Stargate. Then we saw it…the Stargate appeared over some of the buildings along the coast—an amazing pyramid cloud that looked so unique I could not take my eyes off of it. At that moment it felt like time stopped! People walking past me didn’t look up to see it, despite it being very large in the sky and seeing me looking up taking pictures. A truly memorable event. If you were to see something like this, how would it affect your life, and your beliefs? What would you do?

Later that Spring in 2008, Carol and I went to Sedona, Arizona. What was to happen to us there was something that could have never been thought possible! During our trip we walked a labyrinth located at the St. Andrews Church. It was a big labyrinth and it took some time to walk it. As we finished, suddenly the sky filled with clouds. We looked overhead, and there it was—an angel figure shown to us in the clouds. I fortunately had my camera and took many photographs. At last, I really had the confirmation of the angels that I had been experiencing since 2001. Little did I know then it would be the cover of my first book, “Journey to the Clouds”.

After we got back from Egypt in December 2008, I got another type of craving. This time to write books. It, in fact ,happened on December 21st when I awoke to this need. This craving resulted in my first book called A Journey to the Clouds—Messages from the Sky. This book is about messages being given to us in the form of clouds. The whole book was completed and printed in 6 months which is very fast. The angels woke me every night at 2 or 3am and pushed me to work on it and complete it as soon as possible. The angels would not allow me to sleep unless I worked several hours each morning. After this book was done, the angels immediately pushed me to do the second book “Faces of the Universe—Sacred Images”, which also was done in 6 months. In my opinion, one purpose for these books being created appears to be to “slow us down” and awaken us so that we may contemplate and appreciate our world and all the visible and invisible life that is within it. The other purpose is for us to make sure we preserve and enhance our beautiful planet through “LOVE” of ourselves and all other life forms. After all we have experienced over the years, we feel it is important to share our information with you through creation of this website and our books.

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David Love is a talk radio show host, board certified hypnotist, advanced past-life regressionist therapist, and Reiki healer.

He writes and speaks extensively on applying ancient mystical philosophy (he is a Rosicrucian and Spiritualist) as means for personal growth and development.

David’s current focus is on empowering people to develop effective personal success strategies.

He has written over ninety Internet articles on metaphysical, philosophical, and spiritual topics, along with dozens of guest media appearances.

David is the author several books including: The First Truth: A Book of Metaphysical Theories and Illusion of the Body: Introducing the Body Alive Principle.

David also co-authored a chapter for best-selling series the Adventures in Manifesting Series: Soulful Relationships (with Lynn Rose and Bob Doyle).

He is also a past article contributor to the Sedona Journal of Emergence. In December of 2015, Arielle Ford relationship expert and author of the best selling book "The Soulmate Secret", included a chapter in her new book "Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate" about how Det David met Dr Lana Love called Soulful Synchroncities. David and Lana are honoured to have their names included in Arielle's book with other well-known public figures like Harville Hendrix, John Gray, Dr. Helen Fisher, Neale Donald Walsch, and Marianne Williamson.

David and his Australian partner Dr. Lana Love, are the hosts of Universal Soul Love, a weekly “social activist” talk radio show. They discuss topics (with celebrity guest appearances) ranging from environmentalism, animal abuse, human rights, gender equality, mental health, alternative medicine, personal development, spiritual growth, and self-sustainable living.

David has over twenty years of experience working in the America judicial system as an investigator. As a career private investigator, he specialized in criminal defense investigations (working with violent criminal offenders), domestic matters (such as infidelity surveillance, child custody, and child support collection), missing persons (including fugitive recovery), complex financial fraud, corporate investigations, and civil litigation support. His clients included corporate executives, business professionals, public figures, and political leaders.

David is a committed advocate for missing, abused, and neglected children. He is passionate in promoting civil liberties, animal rights, and environmental protection.

Matthew David Hurtado is the CEO of Network Holdings LLC.  He has been involved in fitness and health supplements since the age of 15 years old, when he first fell in love with bodybuilding.

Matthew has overcome an eating-disorder, Lyme's disease with chronic fatigue syndrome, and PTSD, as well as having endured the financial strains of illness. After becoming successful in several different ventures and running the operations of companies doing millions-of-dollars in sales, Matthew noticed things he didn't like about the supplement industry.  One common denominator and theme kept showing up -- most health-supplement companies source inferior ingredients containing toxins and sell their product for thousands of times the actual cost of producing the product to the end consumer.  To make matters worse, many of the most successful supplements are sold via the endorsement of some doctor or health guru directly tied into the profits of the company.

In 2013, Matthew decided  that it was time to invest his own money and time into researching and developing a brand of products that he would feel safe having his own kids use.  This meant that ultra-pure ingredients and world-class manufacturing would have to be the backbone of the company, and cutting-edge science and innovative thinking would be employed to make these products affordable.  After hiring an elite staff of advisors, Matthew's dream became realized with the birth of Complete Ascentials in April of 2014.

Matthew enjoys playing guitar, spending time with his family, and his work is his passion.

Brett is the author of multiple books and winner of the 1995 Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry prize. He teaches a system of energy healing called Magical Awakening; which is a very playful and yet powerful style of energy healing. It is based in the Celtic shamanic concept of the 3 cauldrons as well as Arthurian imagery.  Brett Bevell shares an ancient system that has been tantamount to his own awakening. We also receive a short sample of a Magical Awakening healing given live by Brett. So much fantastic information shared in this intriguing episode. 

SERAH D’LAINE

Men’s Relationship Mentor, certified NLP practitioner, certified life coach, natural intuitive, actress, speaker, owner of Sovereign Alliance

Serah has always been fascinated with the deep inner working of the mind. Since the age of 13, she has been consciously studying emotional intelligence.

Having over 15 year success as an actress gave her access to in-depth experience of the full bandwidth of understanding human emotions through character development. Strengthening her skills through private education courses in psychology, NLP & multiple trusted mentors gave her a strong understanding of mindset, human behavioral patterns & relationship dynamics.

Her passion for coaching on the topic of relationships is rooted in her personal experience of overcoming her own limiting beliefs created from an unhealthy, verbally abusive relationship with an elder family member – with whom she lived with at a young age. Unaware of the impact on a young mind, the situation left her emotionally closed off from her own feelings & an unhealthy pattern of thinking that’s how love is given.  Thus, resulting in attracting a string of unhealthy, manipulative romantic relationships.

The lessons led her to deepen her understanding of herself, why she was subconsciously attracting the same partners, how to break those patterns & help others remain open to love & happiness after heartache & broken trust.

Currently Serah’s focus on coaching men provides them with powerful insights into the female mind, wants & needs leading to a mature relationship with themselves & their partner.