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This book is an introduction to understanding your own Spiritual Awakening, discovering the Shaman in you, and shamanism in the wider sense. It ends with The Tibetan Book of the Dead and how spiritual awakening and shamanism helps you through the last event of your physical body and your rebirth into the next existence.Yes, that is true, there is a shaman in all of us. For some it is more open and dynamic, it is a facet, an ability that expresses itself with the stage of our own spiritual awakening. This book starts with information and the stages of spiritual awakening. Spiritual awakening...

Shamanism is the oldest religion on the planet! In terms of human existence, it predates current day organized religions by tens of thousands of years. European cave paintings and carvings showing shaman date from the Paleolithic era. Graves of shaman 12,000-year-old and older have been discovered in Israel and the Czech Republic.Shamans have played an essential role in the defense of the psychic integrity of their community for thousands of years.They are pre-eminently the antidemonic champions; they combat not only demons and disease, but also black magicians... In a general way, it can ...

This is my personal journey with Type 2 Diabetes, learning about it, and making life style changes that have allowed me to be medication free since November 2023

he knowledge that “unseen” life-energy flows through all living beings and impacts the quality of our lives directly, including our physical health, is a part of the wisdom from cultures that go way back.[1] The word “Reiki” means spiritually guided life force. Reiki allows you to channel that energy in unlimited ways and “amounts” from the Universe, passing it on to others through your hands. [2] Today Reiki is a globally known, recognized, and highly respected healing technique. A Reiki treatment is a form of spiritual healing. It brings physical, emotional, mental, and ...

Shamanism is the oldest religion on the planet! in terms of human existence, it predates current day organized religions by tens of thousands of years. European cave paintings and carvings showing shaman date from the Paleolithic era. Graves of shaman 12,000-year-old and older have been discovered in Israel and the Czech Republic.In this book we will explore shaman and shamanism, in Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia and modern-day South Korea. We look at Bon, the religion that came after shamanism in that part of the world and incorporated shamanism and shamanic traditions into itself and then into ...

Shamanism is the oldest religion on the planet!

Shamanism is the oldest religion on the planet! In terms of human existence, it predates current day organized religions by tens of thousands of years. European cave paintings and carvings showing shaman date from the Paleolithic era.

Feathers and Foes is a Birds of Prey podcast dedicated to the DC comic book, Birds of Prey. We will go on the journey of reading and analyzing the book from its first start in 1996 all the way till the last issue. Hopefully, the book will come back.

A great schism has broken the church of Rome in two; a western church, traditional, and based in Rome. An Eastern church more progressive, powerful, and allowing female Cardinals and ultimately Popes.Vampires and humans, an age-old cycle of prey and predator. Within the vampires Lady Challis has achieved immortality and in so doing has lived through all of human history. She saw the birth of a united Upper and Lower Egypt under Pharaoh Narmer; she rode across the great Mongol Steppe as a general in the army of His Lord, Chinggis Khan. She saw the Crusades and the persecutions of innocents ...

Hello and welcome to my book on Crohn’s, Colitis and Diabetes. Crohn’s Disease and Type 1 Diabetes are autoimmune conditions; there is a genetic link between them. There is no genetic link between Diabetes and Colitis; however, there is a synergistic link between Colitis, Crohn’s Disease and Crohn’s Colitis - Indeterminant Colitis are part of a family of conditions known as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases – IBD. In this book we start to understand Crohn’s, Colitis and Crohn’s Colitis, which is not a combination of Crohn’s and Colitis; rather it is a rare form of Crohn’s ...

Hello and welcome to my book on Diabetes Distress and Diabetes Burnout. Diabetes Distress and Diabetes Burnout represent ongoing emotional and mental challenges in the face of a condition that requires continuous monitoring of blood sugars, food and drink, exercise and other life stye challenges. Diabetes is debilitating, managing it is mentally and emotionally exhausting. Diabetes is a lifelong condition. Diabetes Distress and Diabetes Burnout manifest differently for each Diabetic. But we also need to consider the distress and burnout affecting caregivers helping and supporting a Diabetic...

Hello and welcome to my book on the Risk Factors, PreDiabetes and Diabetes. I hope you enjoy and find this book useful. In 2020, approximately 10% of the American population was diagnosed with diabetes. However, the current trajectory suggests that the prevalence of diabetes could potentially reach 50% of the population by 2025, indicating a significant and concerning rise in the condition. Genetics, non-nutritious diets, inactivity, and obesity combine to create this surge in numbers. In all the research I have done since I was diagnosed, the term PreDiabetes seems to be in the process of ...

This book has been a learning journey. I’ve met diabetics who, after diagnosis, treat it as a medication-managed condition. I’ve always abhorred medication. The human body is amazing, and we can achieve so much in our short lives if we help and respect it. I was determined to lean about my condition, and the Life Style changes to help me manage it and make me medication-free. Chronic illnesses, which typically appear later in life, significantly impact life expectancy. A 55-year-old Canadian male, with no chronic medical conditions, has a projected life expectancy of an additional 23.3 ...

Hello and welcome to this book NOVA Food Classification, Food Additives, and Diabates. The humble but informative Nutrition label offers so much information and is depended on by so many, but also not read as much as it should be. In the past I have written extensively about Food Labels, Nutrition and how to use the information there. After all, it is all we have to tell us about a product. It provides ingredient lists and that is where we will find Food Additives such as Emulsifiers, Stabilizers, Sweeteners, colouring agents, and artificial flavours to name a few additives. A simple recipe...

Lady Challis has a sister, Gwendoline. Estranged since they were young, Gwendoline has lived in the far, far North of Europe most of her life. A reconciliation brings them together at the Palace in Northern India where Gwendoline helps broker a deal with a close member of David’s inner circle. David has been hunted by his mother, Lady Challis, for centuries, her intent being to end his life. Now with Gwendoline’s help, he can live out his days. Pope Sophyra and her nemesis Phaedra, remain in violent conflict. In the end though, Phaedra launches an attack of Lady Challis at her Palace ...

The kiss a mother gives a child before they slip into their dreams, a kiss on the forehead, one on each eye, and one on the lips is a special gift that opens the doorway to that special world.Elect-Si acquires a daughter and marries Manuel as her existence as Gatekeeper between the spirit world and the physical continues. But now she finds she is also the Gatekeeper of time. The past, the NOW, and the future, she can see the boundary and how unknown the future is and how those who exist in the past cannot be allowed to pass into the NOW, or the future.Her marriage brings children of her own...

In the Eastern Church a Female Pope reigns but it is not Lady Challis. It is the one she knew as Cardinal Sophyra.Pope Sophyra is a vampire unlike like Lady Challis. Lady Challis, like a vampire from Hollywood bites with fangs to inject the essential enzymes that allow her to feed, enslave, or kill. Cardinal Sophyra is of a previously unknown species of vampire, she spits her enzymes or “venom.” When it lands on the victim, it seeps through the skin into the blood stream. Powerful, intelligent, and scheming she and her kind not only drink the blood of humans, they harvest the body their...

Hello and welcome to my book on Owning Your Diabetes Diagnosis. I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes December 20, 2022. By November 2021 I was medication free. The diagnosis was a shock but also a huge motivation to change my life. I set a goal to make the lifestyle changes necessary to become medication free. My response to my diagnosis is set out in my book “Prevent and Reverse Naturally Type 2 Diabetes.” I succeeded in my response and I “owned” that response totally. Everything that went into it, good or bad, was completely mine. Owning my response to my diagnosis brought other ...

Hello and welcome to my book on Celiac Disease and Diabetes. My previous book, Crohn’s, Celiac, Colitis and Diabetes was an introduction to these lifelong conditions. This book concentrates on Celiac Disease and Diabetes. Coeliac disease (British English) or Celiac Disease (American English) is a long-term autoimmune disorder, primarily affecting the small intestine, where individuals develop intolerance to gluten. Gluten is present in foods such as wheat, rye and barley.[1] The impact of this damage is impaired absorption of nutrients from food and drink and can lead to a wide range of ...

Shamanism is the oldest religion on the planet! In human existence it predates current day organized religions by many millennia. Shamans are traditional healers, guides and protectors. They are a universal expression of the interaction between people and the natural and super natural worlds. European cave paintings and carvings showing shaman date from the Paleolithic era and in 2016, a12,000-year-old grave of a female shaman has been uncovered in Israel. Shamans have played an essential role in the defense of the psychic integrity of their community for thousands of years. They defend ...