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- ***The New Morality and Me - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhat people used to openly call good and evil in others must now be considered a matter of personal style or personality instead. This is the politically correct mores imposed by—hmm, the media perhaps? So now one can feel the same illicit thrill saying so-and-so is evil as one can saying a ...
Views: 2914(4 votes) - ***Open Face Vegetarian Chili Orgy - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOPEN FACE VEGETARIAN CHILI ORGY Oil warms in a large fry pan, getting acquainted with half a head of jumbo garlic that left the food processor finely honed. A bunch of green onions (white and green, whole body) are getting chopped while the other ingredients get together in that pan, and the ...
Views: 2905(4 votes) - ***Tarot Supports the Spiritual Path and Personal Growth - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromIt is an act of will – a decision, that's all – that starts a person on the mystic path of being one with the Almighty. After that initiation, it is events of the person's life, and the “voice in your gut” that are the training, the lessons. Seeing a pattern in the events of your life is ...
Views: 2852(5 votes) - ***Psychics Find Turning Points in your Life that Reframe Your Reality - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromEverything is going swell, and I am really, really happy. And here are tears on my cheeks, some psychic pain. I ask my body 'What's up?' and it replies it is deeply sad. At that moment, I would attach that sad feeling to what is going on around me, and conclude my job is depressing. But I ...
Views: 2824(4 votes) - ***Over Easy Scallion Eggs - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOVER EASY SCALLION EGGS 6 or so young fresh scallions (green onions) which you have chopped go onto a plate and briefly (maybe 5 minutes?) into the microwave to precook them (wilt them). Meanwhile, in a nonstick pan on medium heat, grape seed oil (no flavor to clash, high Vitamin E, A, ...
Views: 2823(5 votes) - ***Take the Lid Off - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSmall stresses lessen ability to focus on the meaningful stressors. They operate just below the radar of consciousness because often we deal with them by suppressing them so we can focus on important things. The problem is: a myriad of these gnats are as large a drain on us as a 'real ...
Views: 2822(2 votes) - ***Tarot, Mass Consciousness Entity, Reports Data It Focuses Upon; How Tarot Predicts - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTarot, Mass Consciousness Entity, Reports Data it Focuses Upon; How Tarot Predicts Tarot itself reflects what a person is actually thinking at the time that person is handling the Tarot deck. There is no doubt of this: At least one scientist has demonstrated this fact, and you can too. ...
Views: 2802(6 votes) - ***Success: The First Step; How George Got Out of the Ghetto - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSuccess: The First Step, How George got out of the Ghetto Here is this book that was old in l959. George Washington Carver (the renowned head professor of the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee University; researcher into, and promoter of, alternative crops to cotton in the Reconstruction ...
Views: 2797(10 votes) - ***Confidence is a Tangible Asset Worth Its Price - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromConfidence is a Tangible Asset Worth its Price We face some challenge. We mentally list what our resources are to deal with it. 'I have the time. I have the money. I have the skill.' we say to ourselves, listing our ammo. Confidence does not show up as one of those tangible assets in our ...
Views: 2795(6 votes) - ***Meditation that is Comfortable For You and Relevant to You - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromMeditation that is Comfortable For You and Relevant to You Do you find the whole meditation thing intimidating? OK, I admit it: I do. Sitting cross-legged on an oriental cushion is, hmmm, unamerican? It's something. It's uncomfortable in more than one way. It's something that is 'not ...
Views: 2774(5 votes) - ***HERE’S HOW YOU FIND YOUR MEANINGS OF TAROT CARDS - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromYes, the books are nonsense. I remember one that had ‘a melancholy youth’ for the Rider Waite Page of Swords, which clearly depicts a person in the grip of paranoia. (I did find one book that was mostly all right.) What you need, especially if you use Tarot ‘not for entertainment only,’ is ...
Views: 2742 - ***How Tarot Works; Learn Tarot by Listening to Tarot - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe more things change, the more they are the same especially when it comes to human behavior. So many things appear to be happening...and they are...and yet there are templates that overlay the events, patterns and sequences that the events fit into. The question is: Where in the pattern, ...
Views: 2742(4 votes) - ***Ducks' Capacity for the Enjoyment of Life Surpasses Humans' - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromHere is a picture of ducks who have been slimed by the latest oil spill. They are doomed, and the water they float in is doomed. But here they are doing what ducks do, up until the very last minute of their lives. They have no horror on their faces, just a relaxed but miserable expression. ...
Views: 2648(4 votes) - December 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromDecember 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever Breaking my custom, today on my blog, I ask a question, "Tell us all about this doomsday or big day thing?" Our overall message is that since you don't really know about it, and since there's nothing you can do about it, just let it ...
Views: 2603 - ***The Placebo Effect: Claim It - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe laws of random distribution are not some theory; they are principles written in the same stone as the laws of physics. Actuaries, persons who calculate chances of things for a living (Really!), base your insurance premiums on the FACT that, when there is a hazard that could cause a ...
Views: 2595(4 votes) - ***The Placebo Effect: Claim It - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe laws of random distribution are not some theory; they are principles written in the same stone as the laws of physics. Actuaries, persons who calculate chances of things for a living (Really!), base your insurance premiums on the FACT that, when there is a hazard that could cause a ...
Views: 2595(4 votes) - ***Changing Your Ways, Keeping that Resolution You Made - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromChanging Your Ways, Keeping that Resolution You Made to Change It is one thing to decide to change something about yourself, and quite another to do it. There is a concept that holds me back: that I relate to the current "I" that has to change. You, too? As if a parent needed to be defied ...
Views: 2534(4 votes) - ***Diet You Can't Cheat On! - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSpend two weeks deep in thought about what your favorite foods are. All your favorite foods. Including junk foods, alcohol . . . think, think, because we don't eat our favorite foods just like we don't live the life we would prefer. Example: You love canned pineapple, but classify it as a ...
Views: 2519(3 votes) - ***Zucchini-from-Hell, a Heavenly Recipe for Them - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhere I live, in the dead of night people whose gardens have produced many of those monster zucchini will sneak onto the doorsteps of their neighbors and leave them. Here is a recipe to make easy and fantastic use of one or more of the monsters. Got a steamer? If not put a colander or large ...
Views: 2511(6 votes) - ***Exactly How to Find Your Meanings for Tarot, and Your Meaning for Life - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromHere’s how - without any instructions - you find your meanings of any deck of Tarot cards if it pictures scenes of social situations. *Make a list of questions you know the answers to. The question should be something you are sure of because your answer is the unknown in the ...
Views: 2389 - ***Making the Best Mistakes - A Recipe - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSimmering just below most people's awareness most of the time is an instinct for not making a mistake, not being wrong. It can be a quiet but steady unease that makes a person less comfortable in his own skin. Having to choose one right thing, the most right thing, instead of a right thing ...
Views: 2376 - ***Profit on an Old Grove: The Last Hurrah - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe old orange grove had seen its last bearing days years ago. The trees were ancient gnarled and unattended. Everyone knew there was to be no citrus coming from there. It was the 1920s in south Florida, then a backwater swamp populated by vacationers who spent all their cash and never could ...
Views: 2372(17 votes) - ***Putting up with Torina the Terrible - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhat Was in it for Him? Everyone wondered how this sweet-natured good-looking man put up with Torina the Terrible. Torina owned this huge clubhouse on the golf course with its restaurant and bar, spa and the works. She reminded me of Catherine the Great – same dull and powerful look, same ...
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