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Manslaughter - Guilty by Definition

After over 13 years working a nurse I had witnessed some weird and wonderful things. Occasionally, one of them stands out as significant. Back in ‘97-’98 I went to Australia with a one year working visa. During this time I worked for nurse agencies in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The experience was a good one […]

Animals Show Us How to Love

The caramel-colored corgi spotted me walking toward the city-run recreation center. Out for a walk with his person, the little dog stopped in his tracks and fixed me in his gaze. The woman on the end of his leash tried to move him along, but he wouldn’t budge.
He stood his ground, waiting for me to […]

Part 1: The Healing Circle Transforms Lives

“Donna” was trapped in an agony of indecision.
Her eight-year marriage to a man older than she, of another ationality, culture, and religion, had never been easy. Now it was threatening to founder on the rocky shoals of severe financial strain and quarrels over in-laws. At age 29, she already had one child, a daughter […]

Part 4: The Healing Circle Transforms Lives

After requesting protection, the healing circle conductor then tells the inquirer to speak the name of the soul in question. The inquirer verbalizes the soul’s full name two times and a pet or nickname the third time.
Thought-Energy Communication
Sometimes, the soul hesitates to enter the circle precisely because there are strangers present. If that’s so, the […]

Part 2: The Healing Circle Transforms Lives

A healing circle–better known as a seance–is one of the most misunderstood and thus inadvertently abused of all spiritual healing practices. The very word seance immediately brings to mind what most people consider the unreal and laughable notion of “conjuring up spirits.”
Derided by some, proscribed by others, the healing circle tragically has degenerated into a […]

Part 3: The Healing Circle Transforms Lives

Just because someone has asked for a healing circle does not obligate you to conduct one. Check into the inquirer’s motives carefully. You not only have the right to feel comfortable with the inquirer, you actually need to establish some sort of rapport to help ensure the success of the session.
Do not force a session […]

Are You Thinking Of Retirement?

The number one rule of saving for retirement is to begin saving immediately. Be sure to talk with someone in your company about the pros and cons of borrowing from your retirement funds. Following this simple guideline will hopefully help you reach your retirement goals at a decent age.
Retirement is to be realized some day. […]

The Role Of Funerals In Today’s Society

Funerals are ceremony or procession commonly held for deceased persons. The ceremony may be in the forms of a simple memorial service attended by family and friends while it can also be grand State burial usually for soldiers who died in the battlefield. A funeral consists of an assortment of customs which might be different […]

A Spiritual Perspective on Resolving the Grief of Sudden Infant Death

If home is where the heart is, so also dwells there a place for healing the grief and anguish of losing a child or any loved one.
All we need do is step inside our heart by means of a heart-centered meditation.
The heart isn’t only a physical organ or merely an intellectual concept. The heart is […]

A Spiritual Perspective on Sudden Infant Death

This was not a typical get-back-in-touch letter from a business associate who moved out of town some years ago. Instead, a mother wrote about the quiet death of her five-week-old daughter in the child’s car seat. It happened on the way to the home of baby’s grandparents, where the extended family was anticipating the arrival. […]