Living in Interesting Times: practical energy Work

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Please join Tchipakkan and Catherine Kane on the New Normal 8 pm Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 8-9 p.m. edt.

Here’s the link to this show’s archive.

We’ve all heard the joke that “May you live in interesting times” is a curse. Catherine Kane, author of insightful books including the Practical Empath, Manifesting Something Better, and Adventures in Palmistry, has just published a new book Living in Interesting Times: Practical Energy Work When Times Get Tough. (available through lulu.com) and we’ll talk about it.

We’ve all been there, whether health problems, loss of job, family crisis, or societal upheaval; the “interesting times” that overwhelm us and make us wonder if things will ever get better and how we’ll make it through. This is what “Living in Interesting Times” is about. It’s a collection of easy and practical techniques, some energetic, some not, of finding our centers, taking care of ourselves, holding onto our joy and keeping our energy positive so we can come through those interesting times and into the light again. In “interesting times”, you need skills to survive and thrive. Living in Interesting Times is the book that shows you how.

Catherine Kane is a professional psychic, a Reiki Master, a bard, a metaphysical Christian, and  a delighted student of the Universe (amongst other things). She brings creativity, an eclectic body of knowledge, and an attitude of fun to empowering people to find and live their best and brightest dreams. Her writing has been seen in magazines such as Thorn, the Door Opener, and Helix; and she is also the author of “The Lands That Lie Between“, “Magic for Pennies“, and “The Psychic Power of Your Dreams“.   Visit her and husband Starwolf online as Foresight (the Information you need for the Adventure of Life) at http://www.ForesightYourPsychic.com and http://www.ForesightYourCtPsychic.wordpress.com

you can also find Foresight on Facebook.

Catherine’s Amazon page, and her writing blog.

Listen to the show on http://liveparanormal.com/ , live Wednesday 8-9 eastern time. If you want to call in with a question or comment, the number is 619-639-4606 If you miss the live show, we’ll share the link to the archive as soon as it’s done on fb, and the CTCW.net site, as well as https://Tchipakkan.wordpress.com Hope you can join us!

 

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“I don’t want to be any trouble!”

One of the unspoken “side-effects” of illness, whether physical or mental, is the added stress of worrying whether one is causing problems for friends and family.

I think the short answer is “yes”, and the more accurate answer is “yes, but we think it’s worth it.” We all have perfectly healthy friends who need help occasionally, who need us to forgive when mutual plans are messed up because of something they overlooked or didn’t anticipate. In theory the sick person could always anticipate something going wrong, in which case we’d probably be annoyed with them for depriving us unnecessarily of their company, and knowing that their behavior is making their own lives harder in order to reduce inconveniencing us.

On the one hand, while we admire people trying to take care of their own problems, it can get frustrating to try to have to deal with a problem that has gotten worse when help could have kept it a minor inconvenience. At the same time, it’s too easy to criticize those who ask for help frequently. It seems a no-win situation. But as parents know that while it’s easier to do almost anything for a child, that only by letting them do it themselves (even though it takes longer, and possibly more effort for the parents), this is the way kids learn and get better, and feel good about themselves. We have to let our friends choose their own comfort levels about when to ask for help. But we also need to reassure them that needing help isn’t going to drive us away, that in balance, the extra effort having them in our lives is worth it for us.

Since they have to spend so much time and effort focusing on dealing with their problems, those problems may be the only aspect of the relationship they notice. We need to help them see past that filter, and not feel that we are keeping them around out of sympathy.

This may be why many of us are happy to push for awareness and general societal supports, from ramps to interpreters for the deaf. If we recognize the rights of all to participate in society in a useful, meaningful, and satisfying way, our whole society is better off. We benefit from the things that they can do. On a personal level, friends each have some special something that enhances our lives that makes it worth while for us to make sure that the restaurants we go to have a reasonable selection of gluten-free or vegan offerings, or even that activities are enjoyable for everyone participating. This is normal social interaction for everyone (I’m not counting the occasional narcissist who assumes that just because sports is the center of his life that everyone must enjoy it). Yes, sometimes we may want to eat Mexican, even though our best friend thinks cilantro tastes like soap, or wish we could go see fireworks, although our friend has PTSD that is triggered by loud noises. It’s a matter of scale.

There are some people who seem to think that their special circumstances entitle them to have the world, including you, rearrange itself for them. Hey, a jerk is a jerk whether they have a handicap or not, I’m not talking about that. There are mothers who still do their adult son’s laundry, but most of us achieve a better balance. I haven’t yet found a perfect answer to how to decide when to ask for or to offer help when it might make a task go faster, but make the person feel more helpless, and I think it probably each situation needs to be looked at individually.

I am getting older, and this means I sometimes have to have jars opened for me, and get help carrying heavy loads. I don’t drive after dark anymore. I don’t hear as well, nor is my memory as annoyingly good (there may be an advantage to that). All of us, unless we die young, are going to need help. And, let’s face it, not only is an old person not as cute as a baby, we’re a lot heavier, so it’s not as easy to pick up an elder as it is to change a baby’s diaper.  We’d better make ourselves pleasant enough to make it worth it to those we need help from.

There’s no answer to this one, we can only think about it, and try to be kinder to each other.

Shamanism without Borders 10-18-17 on New Normal

Please join Tchipakkan and her guest, Shamanic Practitioner Stephanie Seger, on the New Normal 8 pm Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 8-9 p.m. edt. Well be talking about Shamanism without Borders.

Miss the live show? the archive is here: http://tobtr.com/s/10344969

Shamanism Without Borders is a global rapid response network of shamanic practitioners who tend to traumatic events and natural disasters.

Shamans throughout time have used special techniques and principles to tend to trauma and disasters. Shamanism Without Borders (SWB) began as a guidebook, written by the Society of Shamanic Practice, detailing a cross-cultural method for tending to these incidents. Since then the book has become a supportive tool for a global network of shamanic practitioners and community leaders who provide rapid response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, war, pollution, and anything that causes disruption and suffering to humanity, to the animal and plant life, and the earth’s delicate bio-system.

Stephanie is a Shamanic Practitioner that currently bases her practice out of Northern Virginia. She has studied Shamanism for over 10 years and has been immersing herself in the current contemporary Shamanism course work. She graduated from a two year program from a Sandra Ingerman licensed practitioner in 2016, and is currently dual enrolled with Christina Pratt and an apprenticeship with a Shamanic Seminole Elder. Combining her traditional teachings with contemporary, she has been leading public ceremonies since 2009. She opened up her doors with her practice back in 2014, and has been leading Heart Centered Sound Circles, Ancestral Healing Circles, Shamanic Journey Groups, Land Healing Ceremonies and private one-on-one healing sessions with individuals or groups of people.
For more information, please visit www.eagletherapies.com
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Veil Between the Worlds on the New Normal

Please join Tchipakkan on the New Normal 8 pm Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 8-9 p.m. edt.  Miss the live show? Archive here.

Around this time of year, you may have heard how as we approach Samhain, aka Halloween, “the Veil between the worlds becomes thinner”.  I want to talk about that ever-so-common image, and see how well it works in practice. The theory is, that it’s easier for the dead to contact the living, and vice versa during this time period. Some say that there’s a similar “ebb and flow” around Beltane (others disagree).  Morgan Daimler suggests that not believing in a veil between the worlds makes her a pagan heretic.

How literally should we take this common term? There are certainTimes of Liminality, during which making contact between worlds is more easy, but how much of that is cultural? How much is a personal perception? How much of a barrier is there between worlds? In what ways does calling it a veil serve to help us understand, and in what ways does it confuse the issue?

To listen on your computer open a tab to www.Liveparanormal.com,

between 8 and 8:50 eastern time

Want to call in and join the conversation? Call 619-639-4606.

You can listen later, Liveparanormal archives the shows by date on their website.

Hope you can join me tomorrow night from 8-9 at the New Normal on liveparanormal.com

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Importance of Ancestors with AVee Baron

Please join me snf my guest AVee Baron on the New Normal 8 pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 8-9 p.m. edt.

If you missed the live show- it’s archived here: http://tobtr.com/s/10314023

We’ll be talking about Ancestors. Most cultures have some version of ancestor veneration, where the spirits of their beloved dead aid them in their lives. Even modern folk sometimes feel in touch with our relatives. Mediums and Spiritualists assure us that they watch over us and tweak reality to help us as they can. As with most forms of mind-to-mind (soul-to-soul) contact, frequent interaction makes it easier to communicate. Rituals, offerings, keeping an altar all help, and this time of year (approaching Samhain/Halloween) is one where many feel closest to their ancestors.

This year at the Changing Times-Changing Worlds conference, my guest AVee Baron will be running an Ancestor Ritual (as well as teaching Cartomancy).

AVee is a pagan who has practiced new age, Buddhism, Wicca and Witchcraft. She’s a Reverend in the Correllian Tradition, speaks and teache on many subjects, and owns Witchy Spellz N Wares occult online shop in Connecticut. She also has several other pages and web sites for different purposes.

Witchy Spellz N Wares, for products and spell services.: http://witchyspellzandwares.wixsite.com/viatrixsage.

Sage Willow and Horn University- Studies in in Paganism and Witchcraft   covers online or in person eclectic study courses.

A Witches Journey  is about craft and pagan information;

Babalon Shrine Scarlet Woman is a Thelemic and related page; the Shrine of the Mystical Stag Group.

The Witchy Spellz N Wares  Page lists my working services and products.

 

Listen on your computer: Open a window on your computer to www.Liveparanormal.com, click the “Listen Live and Chat” listing under the “radio-listen/chat room” heading, and click “LISTEN HERE” next to “the New Normal”.

We’d love you to phone in with questions: 619-639-4606 (live only).

If you know you’re going to listen later but have a question, look on the facebook events page and leave a question there. We’ll try to answer it during the show.

If you can’t tune in 8-9, Live Paranormal.com archives its shows by date, and I archive them by date, guest, and topic on my website: https://tchipakkan.wordpress.com/the-new-normal/directory-of-podcasts/

Hope you can join AVee and me tomorrow night from 8-9 at the New Normal on liveparanormal.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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