My sister-in-law, Susan, passed away this week. She was the last surviving sibling of my late husband, David. It dawned on me that of all the people who attended my wedding rehearsal dinner way-back-when, only two survive ~ my life-long supernal friend, Sue, and me. My, how the decades have flown. Life is one decision after another. Consequences lead to more necessary decisions. The life partner you choose, the food you eat, the exercise you do (or don’t do), the philosophies you adopt, all steer a course for your life journey.
I’ve come to see that living well is an art. It’s learning to make conscious decisions and considering where various consequences may lead. Living well to the last breath requires good decisions. Making a beautiful transition to the Afterlife can be artfully done.
I am gratified to be participating in the Death Summit Webinar on All Souls Day, November 2nd, sponsored by Ripples of Light. This three-hour Facebook Live seminar offers wisdom and guidance for living your best life to the final moments.
Featured Speakers
Father Nathan Castle, Noon Eastern, 9 AM Pacific ~ Catholic priest, author of the Afterlife, Interrupted Series, popular speaker and host of The Joyful Friar Podcast, Father Nathan ministers to souls in the Afterlife. For thirty years he has been helping souls “graduate” in heavenly realms. He offers important insights for the living from his unique perspective about what happens after physical death.
Intuitive Helen Nibs interviewed by Dana Taylor1 PM Eastern, 10 AM Pacific ~ Medium, Healer, Intuitive Counselor from Ripples of Light, Helen will reveal what she’s learned from the departed that she thinks you should know. Expect the unexpected!
Bekah Jane, Death Doula2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific~ Bekah Jane specializes in comfort care for both the dying and those grieving them, integrating herbalism, essential oils, and total healthcare management into her practice. She and her team works closely with families and doctors to ensure clear communication and coordination during sensitive times. She offers important information for navigating this little-talked about chapter of life.
Mark your calendar for this FREE Death Summit on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the Ripples of Light Facebook page for a LIVE presentation, beginning at Noon Eastern, 11 AM Central, 9 AM Pacific.
For the last twenty-seven years Father Nathan Castle has helped over 600 souls “graduate” in heaven to higher realms. Each experience begins with a dream, usually of a violent or sudden death. Later, he meets with prayer partners and allows angels and souls to speak through him. He is part of the “heavenly discharge team.” In 2018 Father Nathan began publishing books from the notebooks he’s maintained through the years. In 2022, he started The Joyful Friar podcast to reach a wider audience. His first two books fascinated me and the third in the series is equally compelling.
Book three brings us people from around the world who have lived in many cultures before they transitioned to other dimensions. Each story is chosen with a lesson for the living. This book is different in that three of the stories involve people who did not die violently, but rather gave up on life long before their deaths. A doctor who sank into the half-existence of long illness; the wealthy woman who harbored a secret rape and cut off close relationships; a perpetually grieving young woman focused only on her loss until cancer ends her days. Father Nathan’s poignant conversations with those souls reveal people who missed out on the pleasures and opportunities that life has to offer. For those of us still on the planet, those cautionary tales show us the consequences of our actions and negative thought patterns. Fortunately, there is mercy and grace in heavenly realms to guide and heal souls. Father Nathan’s books are filled with hope and wonder.
Father Nathan Castle
I always have many questions after reading the Afterlife Interrupted books. And, how lucky was I to be asked to be the Guest Host for the 2nd anniversary of The Joyful Friar podcast! I was able to ask Father Nathan many of my questions. How do those dreams work? What have you learned about Guardian Angels? How do Helpers assist in “heavenly graduation?” Those questions and so many more.
I invite you to watch our 2nd Anniversary Show interview. It was an honor and joy to be a part of the celebration. Father Nathan’s work offers hope and assurance that we indeed are eternal souls, and life is what we make it, both on earth and in heaven. So, make good choices and embrace the joy of living.
This is a photo of my mother, Gloria, and me from the Christmas of 1987. We knew it would be her last Christmas. I was 34 years old when my mother passed away after the slow deterioration from cancer. She and my grandmother had both spent that decade following doctors’ recommendations of surgeries and chemo, seemingly better for a while, but ultimately worn out by the disease and treatments. After they passed, I decided I would not go down their road. I would embark on a different path of health management. As the years rolled by, I explored Chinese medicine, spirituality, discovered the power of essential oils, and Reiki healing. I believe it was a better path. This year I’ve reached the milestone birthday of 70!😲 And what I’ve decided is good health comes down to energy. We each have an energy bank account, and every day we are either taking withdrawals or making deposits.
This is an exciting era when science and medicine are exploring beneficial energy devices to activate the innate regeneration of the human body. Let me share a few I have incorporated into my life.
FLFE.net came into my life just when I really needed it. In the summer of 2021, I was living in the Silicon Valley when 5G towers began broadcasting microwaves across the land. It took me weeks to understand why I suddenly couldn’t sleep and felt like I was jumping out of my skin. My whole body clock was blown out-of-whack. I tried many aids and remedies. One night a thought whispered in my mind “It’s the 5G.” Soon after that I happened upon an interview between Regina Meredith and the co-founders, Jeff Stegman and Clayten Stedmannof the Focused Life-Force Energy company. FLFE is an energy that is delivered to addresses or objects. There is also a component that mitigates EMF pollution. It’s a monthly service that can be transferred to locations as needed. Since I moved to the Santa Cruz mountains away from the ubiquitous 5G towers of San Jose, I have felt much better. But, I have continued to keep the FLFE service on the reasoning that having my home receiving a constant stream of positive energy is bound to be beneficial. Also, it allows me to sleep in EMF polluted locations on visits and vacations without feeling totally miserable. FLFE subscribers share anecdotal stories of positive experience, but it only takes buying some flowers and seeing how long they stay vibrant to know something good is happening. I can keep flowers 4 to 6 weeks before they lose their life force. If it’s good for the flowers, it’s good for me!
Back in 2018 I wrote a post called The Scalar Energy Experience when I first encountered the invention of Dr. Sandra Rose Michael in the offices of Dr. Terry Shintani in Honolulu. Surrounded by a bank of computer screens, clients are immersed in a scalar healing energy field, often with dramatic results. After my first session, I experienced an immediate and long-lasting improvement of my hearing. I bought a package of sessions in the pre-pandemic days and loved going and lying in a recliner for an hour in the energy soup. At the time, I understood Dr. Shintani was almost the only clinic available. Fast forward to spring 2024. I’m now in Northern California and dealing with a lingering respiratory illness and an “incompetent eustachian tube.” In other words, my ear was all plugged up and there wasn’t a medical solution. I wished I could jump on a plane to Hawaii and take some EESystem sessions. By chance, Dr. Sandra Rose Michael scrolled on my FaceBook feed and I discovered Energy Enhancement System wellness centers have popped up all across the world! There are two in my area. I booked a two-hour session and got on the road to wellness. I highly recommend discovering the healing power of Dr. Michael’s system at a center near you.
RED-LIGHT THERAPY
One of my birthday presents in June was a $40 red light therapy panel. I’d seen some beauty shops with “red light therapy” signs in windows, but I had never investigated it. A quick internet search reveals red light therapy enhances mitochondria function at the cellular level, which helps the body repair and regenerate. Popularity began in salons because it improves skin conditions. It increases blood flow and collagen production and decreases inflammation. I decided to give it a go. Nightly, I turn my small bathroom into a red-light therapy spa. The red light bounces off the walls as I shower, towel off and apply magical lotions to my arms and legs. I bask my face and neck for a couple of minutes and give my hands a good treatment also. The best benefit has been in my right hand, which was beginning to feel sore and swollen from nightly crocheting. That has completely gone away. Also, an area on my face had become chronically irritated from wearing pandemic masks. Despite no longer wearing a mask, the irritation persisted. That has also disappeared. And I think my skin looks pretty good—for my age!😉
Finally, I’d like to give a shout-out to the MONICOR USAhealing system. Though I haven’t personally experienced it, yet, I hope to find an opportunity soon. Earlier this year I wrote a post entitledHealing Devices Offer New Hope that featured the amazing healing of stage 4 cancer of a man in his 70’s using the Monicor USA device. Alden Butcher, whose wife Anne Archer Butcher I know through Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI), was given only two months to live after lumpy tumors appeared in his neck. His story of healing was featured on the Spiritual Awakening with AJ Parr YouTube channel. Now, AJ has created an in-depth look at the Monicor USA device through interviews with several health practitioners who have adopted it into their services. Basically, a patient is attached to wires that plug into the Monicor machine, which then uses AI to give a full analysis of body systems based on a Chinese medicine grid. Blockages and weaknesses are revealed. The practitioner than creates a program of electrical frequencies to be administered through the machine to elevate and balance the body. As with all healing energy modalities, it’s up to the body to utilize these frequencies to repair and rejuvenate. As a Reiki-minded person, that makes perfect sense to me.
I’ve learned so much since I took this picture with Mom. I’ve outlived my mother by 12 years, so far, and am grateful to have the health and energy to take care of the youngest of my grandchildren, ages two and three, several times a week. Plus, I’m going to water aerobics, joined a women’s singing circle, writing and recording for Supernal Living, volunteering for SAI and generally enjoying life. I make deposits into my body energy bank account through drinking plenty of water, eating live, uncooked foods, exercising and walking in nature. I believe incorporating energy devices is enhancing my health and quality of living. I encourage you to explore new inventions and innovations to live your best life!
Despite patriarchal push back, it’s exciting to see the rise of feminine influences. In my neck of the woods of Northern California we have emerging priestesses, earth mothers, clergy, and yes, political leaders. Female artists abound in all disciplines. To which I say, “hooray!” One of my favorite poets is Chelan Harkin of Washington, whose book, Susceptible to Light, I reviewed in 2021 (Delight in the Divine with Chelan Harkin). When I was asked to create a meditation for the Curious Soulwebinar sponsored by Helen Nibs of Ripples of Light, I included a fun poem from Chelan’s latest collection, Wild Grace.
The verses of Wild Grace veer between passionate, playful, and painful. Harkin takes iconoclastic swings at male dominated images of Deity. She shakes her fists at patriarchal authority, encourages women to release their pent-up Divinity, and kicks chauvinists to the curb. Here’s an intriguing example ~
THE HOLY WORD “SHE”
I don’t think God has a vagina or has ever had a penis.
But to use that holy word, “She” to describe the divine is the sweetest shorthand to overturn everything.
She is gloriously subversive She is radical— Meaning essential, of the roots.
Rather than up and out, She brings us down and in.
She brings us into the fertile lands of our bodies, into the intersection of ancient wounds and wisdoms.
She is what motivates our untold stories into their telling.
She is what germinates truth.
She speaks of a God that understands Mothers.
She undoes a power-over paradigm and describes power that comes from a cracked open heart.
She knows feeling is essential to reverence.
She restores tears to worship.
She honors pain as much as purity, the sullied as much as the sanctified.
She is the vastness of the oceans, She is the soft fire of the moon.
She is the revolution birthing in our hearts.
My meditation, Beautifully Bold, is offered here for your enjoyment. It begins with opening the Chakras and then unfolds with imagery to inspire the listener to become their best Beautifully Bold self. Included is a playful selection from Chelan Harkin’s Wild Grace. Listen and enjoy!
Do you love Essential Oils and Herbal Teas? Are you fascinated by the influence of cosmic forces revealed through Astrology? Would you like to learn more about your past lives and the Akashic Records? How about developing untapped Intuitive Talents? Well then, you qualify as a CURIOUS SOUL and this is the webinar for you! Helen Nibs of Ripples of Light gathered an informative and fascinating set of speakers on an array of subjects. I ended the day with a chat with Helen and a meditation I entitled BEAUTIFULLY BOLD. Now you can watch the videos. Here are a few ~ see more at the Ripples of Light YouTube Channel. Enjoy!
It’s 3 o’clock in the morning and now you’re wide awake, thoughts bouncing around in your mind. Tomorrow’s to-do list is nagging you. Worries spring up like weeds in the soggy field of your brain. Sound familiar?
My latest meditation was created for those wee hours of the morning when the dawn’s early light brings a sense of dread. Relax your body, mind, and spirit with this trip to a tropical island where the sea and stars lull you back to restful sleep.
