The only time when dark energies, which personify as hate-filled agendas, crime, and evil take place, is when enough good people do nothing.
There is much that you can do in your everyday life to help this world and where you live to lower the temperature of ego-filled and hostile attitudes. Be the first to find the missing empathy, compassion, Love and Light it takes to create a new healing path forward.
You can do this.
It is not about being right or wrong. It is about the gentle touch of your perspective about what all sides of the situation is going through, especially in complicated situations. No amount of retribution, threats, and negative options quells the insanity of perpetual violence. That only creates more, because what you focus on GROWS.
Now in the time to join to find more peaceful solutions to everyday family, work and social life. It is time to lower the hostile temperature that is increasingly spilling out into the world.
It all begins with you.
The wars of the world are only a side effect of the attitudes that each of us fuel every time we chose thought, words, and actions of the lower vibrational frequencies, such as fighting and not repairing all kinds of relationships when humanly possible.
It is so much easier to blame the other guy, but that solves nothing. Every person has the responsibility to create a better world in which to live.
All energy from moods, feelings, thoughts, words, and actions result from the fuel you ignite them with. They can change in the blink of an eye, but first you must be willing to try, or try again, or try again for the hundredth time.
I challenge every human being who reads this post, regardless of where you live in the world, to join me in purposefully choosing to make more empathetic, sympathetic, understanding, and compassionate thoughts words and actions from now on in every decision we make.
This is one way to stop the hate that appears to be running like the wild stallions across the plains. Be the impetus for change, change for a better tomorrow for everyone in the entire world.
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Luke 22:50-51 says, “And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.” New International Version (NIV)
If any flavor of Christian claims to follow Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the answer to violence, even if it is deemed justified, is not the path forward. Peter learned this the hard way. Jesus healed the severed ear of the High Priest immediately after Peter had cut it off.
How do you, your congregation, your state, and your country handle conflict?
If you are a Christian, the path forward is to promote peace, empathy, and compassion, based on the teachings of the Golden Rule taught in Matthew 7 and Luke 6:31.
Saving the most life matters. You matter. All human life matters.
It depends on which god, or God you follow. Jesus taught his apostles, disciples, and all humanity about the Energy of his Father. There is a difference between the loving God, Father of Jesus Christ, and the father of the evil spawn whose energy is also an option for some people.
How are you to know which “god/God” is which?
Anything that does not originate with Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control, comes from an unholy source, according to Galatians 5:22-23, and not the Father of Jesus Christ. Going against these virtues is not what Jesus Christ taught. All humanity has a choice.
Within your human DNA, you have the seeds to water the good, or the not good, what some people call evil. You have a conscience with the free will to choose good over evil or evil over good. The choice is yours every minute of every day.
Placing the blame game is the height of immaturity. Now is a good time to take stock of who you are, what is important to you, and how you wish to make decisions for the rest of your life.
You were born with free will, to live in freedom to be a human being, by virtue of your birth. Jesus Christ came to Earth to help us all with this, just as Buddha and Krishna did.
WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is a timely peace and hope offering to all people worldwide. It is filled with 70 chapters from this blog which has been around since January 2012. Since history has a habit of repeating itself, it is just as timely promoting peace, healing, and joy as the day each chapter was written.
I serve humanity in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates regardless of division, politics, religion, and social ideologies which often divide individuals based on race, skin color, gender, age, and/or belief system, or any other humanly contrived concoction.
I am a human being helping other human beings who also strive to live in peace, harmony, and for the unity and dignity of life for all people everywhere.
I am not political. I do not promote one religion over another. I am common sense.
I am an interfaith minister of the Universal Life Church, ULC, which honors and respects all life-affirming people. Regardless of any belief system, all human beings are animated by our Spirits/Souls, all of which are Sparks of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates all of us, with or without any belief system. Even atheists and agnostics are alive in this way. It is not a belief system. This is a learning curve for all of us.
WISDOM hopes to inspire you with positive solutions to difficult situations in your own life. Healing the world begins with healing the individual, the family, our neighborhoods, our states, our countries, which then can spread out to the world.
Peace is possible.
Notice whatever you as an individual, each individual country, and the entire world focuses on GROWS.
If we focus on war, we get war from the seeds we intentionally planted.
If we focus on peace and reconciliation, we will foster more human responses.
This is the reason we have a conscience, because we are so powerful, we can choose evil over good, just as easy as we can choose good over evil any minute of any day. The choice is ours.
This book features chapters on personal healing for your mind, body, and spirit. There is more to you than you most likely realize. You affect so many people.
You are worthy.
You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of life.
We all make mistakes. There is not one human being on the face of this planet that has not made mistakes. Join the club.
The solution to all ills within yourself and in the entire world begins with you. You are that important. No matter what your life has brought you thus far, know that you are amazing. You have the ability to right your own ship.
You can also contribute to making this one world we all live on a better place to live.
I am very glad you are here with me on this one planet we all call home. Let’s do our part to heal ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods extending out to the world.
We can do this because WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.
WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is a timely peace and hope offering to all people worldwide. It is filled with 70 chapters from this blog which has been around since January 2012. Since history has a habit of repeating itself, it is just as timely promoting peace, healing, and joy as the day each chapter was written.
I serve humanity in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates regardless of division, politics, religion, and social ideologies which often divide individuals based on race, skin color, gender, age, and/or belief system, or any other humanly contrived concoction.
I am a human being helping other human beings who also strive to live in peace, harmony, and for the unity and dignity of life for all people everywhere.
I am not political. I do not promote one religion over another. I am common sense.
I am an interfaith minister of the Universal Life Church, ULC, which honors and respects all life-affirming people. Regardless of any belief system, all human beings are animated by our Spirits/Souls, all of which are Sparks of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates all of us, with or without any belief system. Even atheists and agnostics are alive in this way. It is not a belief system. This is a learning curve for all of us.
WISDOM hopes to inspire you with positive solutions to difficult situations in your own life. Healing the world begins with healing the individual, the family, our neighborhoods, our states, our countries, which then can spread out to the world.
Peace is possible.
Notice whatever you as an individual, each individual country, and the entire world focuses on GROWS.
If we focus on war, we get war from the seeds we intentionally planted.
If we focus on peace and reconciliation, we will foster more human responses.
This is the reason we have a conscience, because we are so powerful, we can choose evil over good, just as easy as we can choose good over evil any minute of any day. The choice is ours.
This book features chapters on personal healing for your mind, body, and spirit. There is more to you than you most likely realize. You affect so many people. You are worthy.
You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of life.
We all make mistakes. There is not one human being on the face of this planet that has not made mistakes. Join the club.
The solution to all ills within yourself and in the entire world begins with you. You are that important. No matter what your life has brought you thus far, know that you are amazing. You have the ability to right your own ship.
You can also contribute to making this one world we all live on a better place to live.
I am very glad you are here with me on this one planet we all call home. Let’s do our part to heal ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods extending out to the world.
We can do this because WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.
This became a hippie anthem, often used by protesters to spread a message of peace. Unlike many protest songs, there’s no political bent to it, and it’s relentlessly hopeful, with Stevens “thinking about the good things to come.” Who wouldn’t want to ride this train?
Have you ever noticed how often TV commercials start a medical drug ad by telling you that you have this or that disease and what you need to take or buy in order to get rid of it, or reduce its effects on you?
I shut the volume off every commercial that starts out by telling me that I have “this” or “that” disease. I say out loud, “No, I don’t!”
Your mind is a powerful bionic machine that can manifest the seemingly impossible. The human mind can create peace, joy, calm, and healing. The human mind can also generate sickness, depression, and the poverty mentality making you susceptible to powerful suggestions because WHAT EVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.
You are that powerful.
Yes, I do want the doctor to offer helpful advice at any time I am in need of such medical attention. But the idea that the untrained patients watching a TV commercial ought to tell the doctor which drug to give themselves for whatever ails them is unadvisable.
This is a post about mind over matter. This is how to manifest everything in your life, including physical, mental, and emotional healing. Spiritual healing comes when you allow your mind to learn more than religious indoctrinators of every denomination proclaim.
Please know that there is more to know because much information has been hidden away for reasons of power, fame and fortune. That is what I discovered when I allowed myself to learn more than those at the top of religious and political systems. I write about this in my last 4 books, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, and TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS.
I am not anti-medicine, nor anti-doctor. People do have physical maladies and are even born with them. What I am discussing here is the strength of your mind and how programmable it is. Advertisers know all about this.
You are made with silicon dioxide, quartz crystals, in your body. All human beings are made like this. Quartz crystals are so programmable that chips of quartz crystals are used in cell phone, cars, car fobs, microwaves, and computers for starters.
You are very programmable.
Focus on empathy, compassion, and healing for yourself. Do not take on the suggestions of others that do not fit your highest good for you mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
So, when it comes to TV, radio, online or any other kind of advertising about medical drugs, do trust your doctors, but also include yourself in the decision-making process, because you really do know what works for you and what does not.
The following is an important message on CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM by James Talarico, seminary student:
Our pastor, Dr. Jim Rigby, is on his writing leave but I don’t know how much writing is getting done. I sent him a text asking for some inspiration for this sermon, and he gave me this. It’s “The Top Reasons Beer is Better than Religion.”
Number One: when you have beer, you don’t knock on people’s doors trying to give it away.
Number Two: there are laws against forcing beer on minors who can’t think for themselves.
Number Three: nobody’s ever been burned at the stake because of their favorite brand of beer.
Number Four: you don’t have to wait more than two thousand years for a second beer.
Number Five: and last, if you’ve devoted your life to beer, there are groups to help you.
My granddad was a Baptist preacher. I’ve been a member of this church since I was two years old. And now I’m in seminary studying to become a minister myself. My faith means more to me than anything. But if I’m being very honest, sometimes I hesitate for telling someone I’m Christian.
There is a cancer on our religion. Until we confess the sin that is Christian Nationalism and exorcize it from our churches, our religion can do a lot more damage than a six-pack of Lone Star.
There is nothing Christian about Christian Nationalism. It is the worship of power, social power, economic power, political power in the name of Christ. And it is a betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth.
He told us we would know them by their fruits. Jesus includes, Christian Nationalism excludes.
Jesus liberates, Christian Nationalism controls.
Jesus saves, Christian Nationalism kills.
Jesus started a universal movement, based on love. Christian Nationalism is a sectarian movement, based on mutual hate.
Jesus came to transform the world. Christian Nationalism is here to maintain the status quo.
They have co-opted the Son of God.
They’ve turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear-mongering fascist.
And it is incumbent upon all Christians to confront it and denounce it.
Christian Nationalism is on the rise.
Two years ago, Christian Nationalists stormed the Capitol, killing police officers while carrying crosses, and signs reading “Jesus Saves.”
Last year, Christian Nationalists on the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, allowing states like ours to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
And as we speak, two Christian Nationalist billionaires are trying to replace public schools in Texas with private, Christian schooling.
We are closer than we think to a Christian Theocracy.
How did this happen?
The first followers of Jesus didn’t call themselves ‘Christians.’
They called themselves ‘The Way.’
Their crucified teacher taught them a different way of being human.
And they intended to follow it.
The early church was a revolutionary community built on radical love, a ‘peculiar people’ who shared all their possessions and refused to participate in the economy, the military, or the culture.
The Book of Acts tells us that the first Christians were persecuted for ‘turning the world upside down.’
But three hundred years after Jesus was executed by the Roman Empire, Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official state religion of that very same empire.
Constantine was the first Christian Nationalist.
And ever since, the powers that be have been taming Christianity, domesticating it, diluting it into something more palatable.
Pro-war, pro-wealth, pro-white supremacy.
That original counter-cultural movement became a tranquilized, privatized, weaponized religion the official sponsor of western civilization.
A religion of sharing became a religion of greed.
A religion of peace became a religion of violence.
A religion of forgiveness became a religion of judgment.
A religion of ego transformation became a religion of ego affirmation.
Today, Christian Nationalists obsess over people’s private parts while the planet burns.
Eight men own as much wealth as 3.6 billion people and Christian Nationalists are boycotting Barbie.
The Bible doesn’t mention abortion or gay marriage.
But it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor and healing the sick.
Christian Nationalists like to say this is a Christian nation.
Not only is that historically inaccurate.
Not only is that theologically blasphemous, but it is just not true.
Look around us.
If this was truly a Christian nation, we would forgive student debt.
If this was truly a Christian nation, we would guarantee healthcare to every single person.
If this was truly a Christian nation, we would love all of our LGBTQ neighbors.
If this was truly a Christian nation, we would make sure every child in this state and in this country was housed, fed, clothed, educated, and insured.
If this was truly a Christian nation, we would never make it a Christian nation, because we know the table of fellowship is open to everybody, including our Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, and atheist neighbors.
Jesus could have started a Christian theocracy. But love would never do that.
The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multi-racial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people, something that’s yet to exist in human history.
Christan Nationalism is not only a threat to the American experiment in democracy. It’s also a threat to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
When someone asked Jesus to name his most important commandment, he cheats and gives two – two that he says are related. The first is to love God. The second, he said, is like it: “love thy neighbor as thyself.”
It’s like it because when I recognize the divine image in myself, I can’t help but recognize it in my neighbor; whether they’re Christian or not, whether they’re religious or not.
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus specifically defines neighbor as someone different from us, racially, economically, politically, religiously.
God loves diversity.
God loves variety. Just look around this big, beautiful planet of ours.
Do we really think that God would make all these beautiful people with all their beautiful traditions for no reason at all?
There are so many pathways to the sacred.
The Islamic mystic Rumi said, “Every religion has love, but love has no religion.”
God is so much bigger than our human categories.
God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb.
God is not a being. God is being Itself.
God is love.
And that’s why Jesus is against anything that gets in the way of that love between neighbors, including religion.
That’s why he’s always breaking religious rules.
That’s why he’s always getting in trouble with the religious authorities.
That’s why he says sinners will see the kingdom of heaven before religious people do.
Sorry to everyone here. (parishioners laugh)
I knew you came all this way.
Religious supremacy is antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus didn’t come to establish a Christian nation.
He came to reveal ultimate reality, which he called the kingdom of God.
But it’s not like any kingdom we’ve ever known.
Instead of a throne, Jesus sits at a table.
Instead of a warhorse, Jesus rides a donkey.
Instead of a sword, Jesus picks up a cross.
The kingdom of God inverts the power dynamics of “all the kingdoms in the world.”
True strength is vulnerability.
True stature is equality.
True wealth is sharing.
And we as Christians are called to realize that kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven,” not by force, but by faith.
Jesus asked us to have the faith of a mustard seed, trusting that by living and dying for love we give birth to a better world.
That’s not easy to do.
In a world full of fear, Jesus knew we would put our trust in something other than God, something other than love.
As a Jewish rabbi, he called those things idols: money, status, and the most dangerous idol of all, power.
When Jesus was tempted by the devil, when he was in the wilderness, one of the things the devil offered was power, “all the kingdoms of the world,” and Jesus rejected it.
When his disciples ask who will be the most powerful in the kingdom of God, Jesus said, you know the lords of the earth push their people around, “but among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be a servant.
And when they still didn’t get it, and they ask who will be the greatest in the kingdom of God? Jesus said, “Little children,” the least powerful, but most trusting members of any human community.
That’s the kingdom of God.
I think Chance the Rapper said it best, “Don’t believe in kings. Believe in the kingdom.”
Jesus knew, in the words of Dorothy Soelle, “There is only one legitimation of power and that is to share it with others. Power that is not shared, that is not turned into love, is pure domination and oppression.”
Christian Nationalists are more committed to the love of power than to the power of love.
And it exposes a lack of faith because the opposite of faith is not doubt. Doubt is a healthy part of any faith. The opposite of faith is control.
When we stop trusting God, when we stop trusting love, we start taking control ourselves.
Christian Nationalists want to control what we read, who we marry, where we travel, when we have children.
They want to control our minds and our bodies.
“O Ye of little faith.”
Christian Nationalists trust domination because they think domination is what works.
But Jesus revealed that the true power of the universe is not domination, but love.
In Daoism, they teach that over time the soft overcomes the hard.
The water wears down the rock. The wind takes out the mountain. The grass upends the concrete. “The meek … inherit the earth.”
Violence may win in the short run, but in the end, love always wins.
Jesus said this kingdom of God is in our midst. It’s hiding in plain sight. Heaven is already here inside of us. Above us. All around us.
On my mom’s side my granddad was a Baptist preacher. But on my dad’s side, my Grandpa Talarico never went to church, but he was one of the most generous, compassionate, moral people I’ve ever met.
He was an immigrant from Italy whose family saw firsthand the dangers of mixing church and state.
He settled in the Texas hill country, and on Sunday mornings he would take these long walks through the wildflowers and the live oaks, and he would take me with him.
He said it was the best chance to see G.O.D., the Great Out Doors.
Biologists tell us that everything in nature is connected and evolving toward greater union.
Anthropologists tell us that our ability to share and corporate is humanity’s superpower.
And astrophysicists tell us that the universe is just gentle enough to make our existence possible.
This universe of ours is nothing but gratuitous grace.
Teilhard wrote that the very physical universe is love.
We see it in the harmonies of music, the principles of mathematics, the patterns of nature.
We are all expressions of that creative power.
We are the universe becoming aware of itself.
As children of God, children of the cosmos, we are loved unconditionally, indiscriminately, infinitely.
No achievement can add to it.
No mistake can take from it.
No amount of church going or church missing can change it.
That’s truly deserving of the title, “Good News.”
We are made by love, with love, to love.
I call that love God. You may use a different word, and that’s okay.
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
We can cure the disease of Christian Nationalism.
We can protect against the virus of religious extremism with healthy religion.
The great faith traditions of the world have so much to offer us in this time of global crisis.
Hinduism’s ahimsa provides an alternative to the logic of violence.
Buddhist meditation provides an alternative to the abuse of our attention.
Judaism’s Sabbath provides an alternative to the demands of capitalism.
And in a world where everything can be bought and sold including the earth itself, Native American traditions provide an alternative to ecological extraction.
It’s hard. It is so hard to protect your spirit in a world trying to kill it.
That’s why we need faith communities like this one.
That’s why we need stories and traditions and practices that heal our soul and transform our mind.
Every time on this sanctuary that we say the prayers, sing the hymns, sprinkle the water, eat the bread, drink the wine, we’re tuning our hearts.
Our Buddhist friends tell us that it takes practice.
Neuroscientists tell us that we can become kinder, more empathetic if we work at it.
Things like love, peace, and hope, they require strength training, a gym for the heart.
So every week we gather here to sing our songs and tell our stories just for the opportunity in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, “dwell in the ultimate.” Together. Just for a moment.
And that’s almost better than a cold glass of beer.
I invite you now to your own reflection on these words.
IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM
LindaHourihanHHCP.com
The following is an excerpt from the 2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARD winning book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM:
“Each chapter in this book will include quotes which I call the Library of Knowledge pertaining to the subject matter, and examples of life experience. This knowledge can help you in your ascension process in this lifetime. This is all about free will and how you wish to use your freedom. You are your own boss, no one else rules over you, no priest, minister, nor politician can rob you of your cash, property, thoughts, actions, nor your voice, unless you let them.
“You are alive by the Divine Breath of Mother/Father God, what I also call your God Particle, which you may know as your Energy, Soul/Spirit, “I Am” Presence, Higher Self, or any other understanding of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which animates you. Awareness of this same Light of Christ within you enlightens you to the reality of which Jesus taught.
“Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is part of the spiritual DNA of all human beings, since everyone is made up of body, mind, and Soul. It is not just within Jesus, nor only in the saints, not only in me and you, and not only in those who believe a certain way, but is in every living, breathing human being. It is the animating force of all human beings and all life. Jesus tried so hard to teach this to humanity and it ultimately became the reason he was crucified on the cross, that the Light and Life of Eternal Universal Life Force lives within him AND us.
“Jesus never said he came to die on the cross for us. He told us many things that I will explain in this book. We will look at his words, not just the popularized fifteen historical years of the words of Jesus, those famous twelve years of his youth, and his three years from his ages 30 to 33. He lived and spoke for eighteen additional years before the crucifixion, as well as more years after his crucifixion. It is time to look at all that Jesus Christ told humanity, not only those words that agree with the different interpretations that have been placed upon his words.
“A Savior, a Messiah had been promised. The mass of humanity was not spiritually mature enough to grasp the new concept so far from their reality, that when Jesus spoke to them in Luke17:20-21 that the Kingdom of God was within them, they had no idea what he was talking about, no matter how many parables he used.
“Yes, Jesus was crucified on the cross, just as the Old Testament foretold and the New Testament acknowledges. But the purpose of the arrival of Jesus on Earth was to show us how to live in true freedom. This is true for every single human being on the planet, not only for those who find themselves living in democratic and life-affirming countries and humane political systems. Every human being is born with a God-given Soul, or a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy for those scientific, medical, technical, and/or metaphysical minds among us.
“This book is a life lesson on how to stand up with peace, love, integrity, magnanimity, truth, honor, valor, gentleness, kindness, modesty, humility, patience, friendship, generosity, goodness, self-control, faithfulness, much joy, and the abundance of all good things. We learn harsh and valuable life lessons when we go against these Eternal Universal Life Force Energy principles played out in our mission, dharma, and karma as I explain in Chapter 10.
“Rather than accept the oppression of sin placed upon humanity by religious, political, and social orders, it is more healing to recognize that we learn life lessons by our faults and mistakes, as well as by our successes and achievements. We human beings learn life lessons for our own good, the good of our families, the good of society, and the good of the world. If there ever was a time for the rebirth of these noble traits in the history of humanity, the time is now. Otherwise, we will fare no better than many other cultures that were brought to the end of their once thriving civilizations. History has an energetic and magnetic habit of repeating itself.
“The very thing keeping us alive, in addition to our physical structures and systems, is the complete emotional and intellectual freedom exhibited by individual interpretations of the use of free will. This book takes a closer look at free will. The choice is yours in this poignant moment. You can get off the merry-go-round of dysfunction anytime you decide to do something more positive. It is all about recognizing that you are not a victim of your life any longer. You are where you are in your life by the very seeds that have been sown. If you do not like where you are, you can change it at any moment, starting with your thinking.”
This 6 HEALING AUDIO MEDITATIONS ALBUM totals 3 hours and 32 minutes. You can choose to create your own time out retreat in your favorite healing get-away place in nature, or decide to include any one of them during your break or lunch time at work, or finally conclude you day in a relaxing and blissful way to enter your sleep time.
These meditations are digital and be listened to anywhere you have cell reception. You can purchase individual meditations or the entire album.
Relax at your leisure with the meditation of your choice. The first meditation, STRESS MANAGEMENT, was professionally recorded at my business, The Massage Clinic, in Stratford, CT in 2008.
STRESS MANAGEMENT:
It’s time to relax as never before, melt away stress from every cell and fiber of your being, and find that place deep inside you allowing your Soul to bask in Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This meditation was recorded after Linda graduated from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness.
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The Celestial Retreat collection of professionally recorded 5 meditations took place as a winter retreat in February 2010 at The Guest House in Connecticut.
AWAKENING THE MIND:
Activate your Mind, Body, Spirit Tripod. Soften the sharp blades of opinions. You are a creation of Divine Breath. Be the observer of yourself. What are your self-messages? Use I Am statements to advance in your personal power. Get off the mundane dysfunctional treadmill of life in a healthy and robust way to eliminate what is not serving your highest good by transmuting the lower energies of negativity into Limitless Loving Loving Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
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RECLAIMING YOUR POWER:
Heart centered and compassionate counsel with Linda, mind-body-spirit integration, assessing your paradigms, belief systems, belief in yourself, working with solar plexus, inner power and decision-making process. Use all your senses, breathwork, looking at habits, I Am statements, be the observer of yourself. What triggers or buttons do others push? Flags to pay attention to. Drop self-judgment. Living your truth. Listening to your inner voice. How to make positive changes in your life. How to stop allowing others to push your buttons. How to live in the present moment. It all begins with conscious decisions. Who are you really?
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CHAKRA & AURA BALANCING:
Take an inventory of your energy centers, 9 chakras and aura. Release what holds you bound, mental, physical and/or spiritual traps. Do you feel energy bottle-necked or depleted? Your Divine blueprint, Spiritual DNA, water for cleansing, mental cleansing, strengthening your energy field, expand your Limitless Living Light and Love vibration and energy field, 8th Chakra the Seat of your Soul, I Am that I Am, one foot below your feet – interacting with the earth, grounding, releasing what no longer serves your highest good including fears, concerns, worries in each Chakra. Absolutely never make any decision based on fear. Rather make your decisions based on the most Light and Love possible. Love cords are much stronger than fear cords. Breath in forgiveness for Self and others. Have compassion, empathy, understanding, and forgiveness for yourself and others. Remember who you are.
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THE LOST YEARS OF JESUS:
How do you like being handled? Discover what else Jesus taught and why humanity hid his empowering words that can now empower you. As Jesus told us all, “Keep seeking!” Join with Jesus in the Buddhist Temples during the so-called missing years of Jesus when he was between the ages of 12 to 30 years old. Jesus taught all about freedom, but how free are you in your own thoughts? Allow new information to shift the reality of what you know. Jesus said to keep seeking, not settle for his first 12 years of his childhood, and then only his years from his ages 30-33. Discover what has been hidden from you. The words of Jesus written at this time of his life are stronger than what the writers of the New Testament accounts written many years after the crucifixion of Jesus say. There’s one race of people, the human race. Travel with Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea, his uncle, and a trader of tin to the East, through India and to the monasteries of Tibet. Jesus there was also known as Issa. Jesus referred to himself as a prophet. Jesus edified women in Ladaka. Jesus’ Spirit, the Christ Light, is in your and my Spirit. Discover the journey of Jesus through the Far East during his missing years from 12-30 where he studied the knowledge of the Buddhas. You are part of this divine adventure. You are co-creating with divine Source.
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ASCENSION OM MEDITTION:
This Ascension OM Meditation comes from THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME, by the late Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. “This is an extraordinarily complete and comprehensive meditation. It is guaranteed to invoke the ascension energies. It is a meditation and treatment I would recommend working with every day, either once or twice a day, on a consistent and ongoing basis. I will guarantee you that this meditation and treatment will completely transform your consciousness, your four-body system, and your reality,” said Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. at the beginning of Chapter 27 of THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME.
Stress manifests when you least expect it. These meditations help you in your everyday life, during major life changes, and any time you feel like taking a break and fueling your Soul with positive encouragement.
This is the long-awaited trophy that I was awarded for writing the book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM in the 2024 International Impact Book Awards writing competition in the Social Change category.
Why am I only sharing this trophy with you now?
It is because I only received this acknowledgement of my years of research by special delivery yesterday. This book was originally published in October 2023. I submitted this book for the International Impact Book Awards contest early in 2024 and won in the Social Change category. However, it patiently waited on the custom docks due to surprise tariffs that held it hostage until its recent release.
This major award and achievement I earned is not merely a national award. It is an international award. Each individual country in this one beautiful world we all live on are much more connected than our human egos might want us to believe. We all share a common destiny for our human emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual lives.
All humanity is in this plight together, trying to live our lives as best as humanly possible. No one wants to be the ignorant fool who blows up the world to prove that his or her indoctrination in their understood brand of politics, religion, or social change is the only way to live in this one garden of life.
That would simply be a fool’s errand.
What has brought us to this precipice of deciding which “God” is better, which system of government is better, or which side of problem solving is better in the human dilemma of how to get along with each other?
This translates to this outrageous moment we all are finding ourselves in this exact moment. This trophy that I earned for studying religions, politics, and social structures of the world gave birth to my findings in this award-winning 3-book series, which also includes: MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM, and the last book in this series, NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, subtitled, LIGHT WITHIN THE ANGEL, MINERAL, PLANT, AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS.
I have 20 paperback copies of IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM, left for purchase by anyone interested in buying them since this book is in its second printing, now with Book Publisher USA.com. I will let you know when it is again available. You may email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com if you wish to purchase this book so you do not have to wait for its second publication. It originally sold for $17.99. I will sell my remaining copies for $15 each, if you are interested in it.
Coming to grips with the understanding that humanity does not have to sink to the lowest common denominator in the adult sandbox of the world is a healing remedy to a hurting humanity. This is not an insult to any human being on the planet at this time. It is a peaceful solution which is possible for everyone.
What is it that fuels humanity in the direction that it truly does not want to go in?
Let’s take a closer look.
There is a cancer upon not only the Maga Christians today, which bases its understanding on the War God instead of the Father of Jesus Christ. If they do not know this, it is because this information has been hidden from public view for unholy purposes of gaining your personal power, fame (your reputation and “club” which you belong to), and fortune (the keys to your cash). I go into great detail about this in IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM. This book also explains the difference between the ever-popular War God and the Father of Jesus Christ. They are different.
Christians follow Jesus Christ. What did Jesus teach, was it war? No, Jesus taught love in all forms, forgiveness, turning the other cheek, and loving each other, no matter what happens. But the hate-filled War God made sure Jesus was crucified because the War God does not want peace, but the dark and inhuman promotion of war and all the materialism and greed that promotes it.
This is not only a “Christian” problem. The cancer that has spread to every religion tells on itself by revealing its fruits.
If it is hate-filled, you are following the “War God,” not the correction which Jesus Christ came to teach all humanity, regardless of which brand of human political, religious, or social indoctrination you are following.
Trying to prove you are right when you are not, is also a fool’s errand.
You do not pluck apples off an orange tree, and you do not gather figs off a cherry tree. You will know them by their fruits.
IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM explains in empathetic and compassionate terms how following the War God will lead humanity to cataclysmic devastation, while following the words of understanding, problem solving, and seeking resolutions will be the life-giving seeds of peace and prosperity for all involved.
Hurting humanity in any way is the tell-tale mark of following the wrong War God home to a place where you do not wish to be.
The following picture is a snapshot of the engraving from the International Impact Book Awards committee that awarded me this prestigious award. The trophy stands upon this engraved base.
I am also a FINALIST in the 2025 International Impact AUTHOR OF THE YEAR writing competition for my latest book, TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIOUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY.
The future of humanity does not need to only be a dark and fearful place filled with multiple wars worldwide. We will grow whichever seeds we plant, either greed, ruthlessness, anger, and retaliation, or building up and healing all humanity in whichever corner of the world we call home with empathy, compassion, repair, common ground and ideals of peace, love, and happiness for all.
You are so powerful that you will reap exactly what you sow. First you manifest through your thoughts, then words, then actions.
Now is the time to build bridges, not walls, problem solve, not create the problems. It is the ego that gets in the way. Who wants to be wrong, or change course? Doesn’t that show weakeness?
No. Look at your children. Weakness is continuing to fight on the merry-go-round of lies and dysfunction. But strength, inner strength, is the upper hand of integrity and the backbone of character and adult maturity.
Now is the time to climb out of the adult sandbox of warlike games, and follow the Loving God, Father of Jesus Christ if anyone dares to call themselves Christians or religious people of any stripe. Christians supposedly follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. He taught peace, not war. Jesus told Peter to put down the sword. Remember?
Is Jesus the bridge to God? Jesus came to teach us, but humanity thought we knew better than what he actually said, then crucified him as a punishment for teaching against our previous human indoctrinations.
Picturesque morning in Plitvice National Park. Colorful spring scene of green forest with pure water lake. Great countryside view of Croatia, Europe. Beauty of nature concept background.
There are bridges that connect to nature. God is in nature.
Bridges uniquely connect people, places, and things.
Bridges connect to inspiration, like the “Eyes” of God.
Bridges find resting places.
Bridges find a way.
Bridges span the seemingly impossible.
Bridges span the gaps between people.
Aerial view of bridge asphalt road with cars and blue water lake and green woods in Finland.
Bridges connect our Souls to the beauty around us.
Brooklyn Bridge at and the Lower Manhattan skyline under a purple sunset
Nothing is impossible with bridges regardless of the hustle and bustle distractions because of the ingenuity of the Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that births it all.
Are you or your country in need of a bridge for a peaceful solution?
What did Jesus literally teach? It’s called the Golden Rule, a principle of treating others as you would want to be treated by them. It emphasizes empathy, compassion, mutual respect and ethical conduct, and is often expressed as “Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.”
The above website link stands for Linda Hourihan HHCP which stands for holistic health counselor practitioner with no spaces and no comma.
All 5 of my books are now showcased on my brand-new website available for purchase starting today.
The first meditation I professionally recorded was in 2005 after graduating from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness. It is called STRESS MANAGEMENT.
In addition, the 5 CDs of the 2010 Celestial Retreat Meditations professionally recorded in real time, are now available as professionally transformed into digital audio meditations.
Each of the audio meditations mentioned above deals with different points of holistic health counseling, for a total of 6 professionally produced digital audio meditations in all.
While these audio meditations vary in length, from 20 to 50 minutes, the profound pearls of relaxation and guidance are timeless and impactful. Each meditation serves its purpose when you follow them along. STRESS MANAGEMENT is the shortest meditation nearly 20 minutes long.
The Celestial Retreat meditations are between 30 and 42 minutes. They include:
AWAKENING THE MIND – 34 minutes
RECLAIMING YOUR POWER – 30 minutes
CHAKRA & AURA BALANCING – 45 minutes
THE LOST YEARS OF JESUS – 30 minutes
ASCENSION OM MEDITATION – 42 minutes
I hope you like them. They have helped so many people!
STRESS MANAGEMENT
It’s time to relax as never before, melt away stress from every cell and fiber of your being, and find that place deep inside you allowing your Soul to bask in Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This meditation was recorded after Linda graduated from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness.
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5 CELESTIAL RETREAT MEDITATIONS:
AWAKENING THE MIND
Activate your Mind, Body, Spirit Tripod. Soften the sharp blades of opinions. You are a creation of Divine Breath. Be the observer of yourself. What are your self-messages? Use I Am statements to advance in your personal power. Get off the mundane dysfunctional treadmill of life in a healthy and robust way to eliminate what is not serving your highest good by transmuting the lower energies of negativity into Limitless Loving Loving Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
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RECLAIMING YOUR POWER
Heart centered and compassionate counsel with Linda, mind-body-spirit integration, assessing your paradigms, belief systems, belief in yourself, working with solar plexus, inner power and decision-making process. Use all your senses, breathwork, looking at habits, I Am statements, be the observer of yourself. What triggers or buttons do others push? Flags to pay attention to. Drop self-judgment. Living your truth. Listening to your inner voice. How to make positive changes in your life. How to stop allowing others to push your buttons. How to live in the present moment. It all begins with conscious decisions. Who are you really?
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CHAKRA & AURA BALANCING
Take an inventory of your energy centers, 9 chakras and aura. Release what holds you bound, mental, physical and/or spiritual traps. Do you feel energy bottle-necked or depleted? Your Divine blueprint, Spiritual DNA, water for cleansing, mental cleansing, strengthening your energy field, expand your Limitless Living Light and Love vibration and energy field, 8th Chakra the Seat of your Soul, I Am that I Am, one foot below your feet – interacting with the earth, grounding, releasing what no longer serves your highest good including fears, concerns, worries in each Chakra. Absolutely never make any decision based on fear. Rather make your decisions based on the most Light and Love possible. Love cords are much stronger than fear cords. Breath in forgiveness for Self and others. Have compassion, empathy, understanding, and forgiveness for yourself and others. Remember who you are.
*** THE LOST YEARS OF JESUS
How do you like being handled? Discover what else Jesus taught and why humanity hid his empowering words that can now empower you. As Jesus told us all, “Keep seeking!” Join with Jesus in the Buddhist Temples during the so-called missing years of Jesus when he was between the ages of 12 to 30 years old. Jesus taught all about freedom, but how free are you in your own thoughts? Allow new information to shift the reality of what you know. Jesus said to keep seeking, not settle for his first 12 years of his childhood, and then only his years from his ages 30-33. Discover what has been hidden from you. The words of Jesus written at this time of his life are stronger than what the writers of the New Testament accounts written many years after the crucifixion of Jesus say. There’s one race of people, the human race. Travel with Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea, his uncle, and a trader of tin to the East, through India and to the monasteries of Tibet. Jesus there was also known as Issa. Jesus referred to himself as a prophet. Jesus edified women in Ladaka. Jesus’ Spirit, the Christ Light, is in your and my Spirit. Discover the journey of Jesus through the Far East during his missing years from 12-30 where he studied the knowledge of the Buddhas. You are part of this divine adventure. You are co-creating with divine Source.
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ASCENSON OM MEDITATION
This Ascension OM Meditation comes from THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME, by the late Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. “This is an extraordinarily complete and comprehensive meditation. It is guaranteed to invoke the ascension energies. It is a meditation and treatment I would recommend working with every day, either once or twice a day, on a consistent and ongoing basis. I will guarantee you that this meditation and treatment will completely transform your consciousness, your four-body system, and your reality,” said Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. at the beginning of Chapter 27 of THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME.
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It is time to PEACEFULLY, stand up for integrity, truth, and honor, because you matter. You may like to stand in the shadows or not make your voice heard, but now is the time for courage in the face of fear.
To quote from the back cover of my book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM, “Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear.”
Silence is agreement.
Since whatever we focus on grows, if you focus on the dysfunctions you see all around you, that will monopolize your mind. It is a self-sabotage trap. Instead, focus on integrity, truth, and honor as you think, speak, and act in ways that will help, not hurt humanity. This will build up humanity.
Correct lies when you hear them, not with slogans from TV stations that may lie to you. It is possible to find out the truth when you go to all news stations, not just one. Also, your friends may not understand that they have been lied to just as you may have been. Love them, but do not follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing right off the proverbial cliff. Truth may be inconvenient when you find out others have lied to you, but it is still possible to get to the truth.
It is possible to heal this hurting nation. The medicine for the current malady facing the world today is integrity, truth, and honor, all without self-serving spin placing blame on “the other side.” That is a dead giveaway that you might be involved in a cult.
Pay attention to the cult-like indoctrination of political rhetoric, especially if it pits one brand of ideology against another, as mentioned in yesterday’s post, “Today’s Christian Right Are Sheep In Wolves Clothing.”
Reclaim your personal power, the right to have and express your own personal opinion even if it goes against others in your circle of life. You can do this with dignity and grace.
“You can choose to have experiences of Light, joy, and abundance, or you can choose to have experiences of lack, limitation, and depravity.” quote from the back cover of IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS.
This is the book that just won the INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARDS in the category of SOCIAL CHANGE.
I will not align myself with groups and organizations that I once did because they have turned to “the dark side,” which I do not agree with. If you find yourself in a similar situation, stand up PEACEFULLY by using your freedom and free will to not align yourself with those who will hurt you, your family, your neighborhood, your town/city, state, country or the entire world.
For example, do you agree to cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security which you have paid into all of your working life just to benefit the top billionaire wealth earners, or that veterans benefits for disabled veterans who have served this country honorably should have their benefit cut to go into the top wealth hoarders’ pocketbooks in this country?
PEACEFULLY standing up with your thoughts, words, and actions may seem like a small step, but it is not. You matter. Your voice matters. Your actions matter. The changes that you may need to address will pop up in front of you, knocking on your conscience until you recognize that some alignments you may have had in the past no longer serve your highest good. That is what I am doing now.
Following in the footsteps of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), of which I am a supporting member, I will be no longer posting in X (formerly known as Twitter).
I joined Twitter, now known as X, in February 2012. Later I joined SPLC to amplify my and SPLC’s mission: fighting hate, seeking justice and promoting equity. For over a decade, Twitter served as a tool to share our work, values and vision with the world.
However, recent changes at X have ushered in a troubling rise in hate and disinformation, along with a decline in the enforcement of moderation policies. These shifts have resulted in a platform that is no longer conducive to a productive dialogue, and the racism, antisemitism, misogyny and anti-immigrant hate openly dispersed on X disproportionately harms the very communities I and SPLC are dedicated to protecting.
After careful reflection, I, as have SPLC, have made the decision to discontinue active posting and engagement on this platform since it no longer aligns with our core values. While our individual accounts will remain live to preserve access to past content, I am redirecting my energy to platforms that promote meaningful dialogue and prioritize the well-being of marginalized communities.
In the year 567 A.D., the Council of Tours proclaimed the 12 Days of Christmas, lasting from Christmas until Epiphany, as a sacred and festive season. The song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, was published in England in 1780 without music, as a chant, or rhyme. It is thought to be of French origin. Though the melodies have changed over the years, the standard tune now comes from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer, Frederic Austin, who introduced the prolonged “five gold rings.”
How many of us are familiar with the Christian meanings behind the song, The 12 Days of Christmas? When do the 12 days of Christmas start and when end within the Christmas Season of celebrations?
The 12 Days of Christmas begins with the Christmas Feast Day, which the Church put on December 25, and concludes 13 days later, when the Church celebrates the Feast of Epiphany.
Why was the Christian song written in such veiled language?
Christians within the first centuries were often persecuted, even to death, which is why The 12 Days of Christmas was written with ordinary things masking extra-ordinary meanings. Let’s take a closer look at the song, The 12 Days of Christmas, and meditate on the deeper reflections behind each one:
1) The Partridge in a pear tree: represents Jesus, Son of the Father in heaven, whose birthday we celebrate on the first day of Christmas. Jesus Christ is symbolically present as a mother partridge, the only bird that will die to protect her young.
2) Two Turtle Doves: represents the Old Testament and the New Testament, so the gift of the singer finds the complete story of the Judeo-Christian faith and God’s plan for the world.
3) Three French Hens: represents faith, hope and love.
4) Four Calling Birds: represents the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
5) Five Gold Rings: represents the first five books of the Old Testament, also known as the Torah, or the Pentateuch.
6) Six Geese a Laying: represents each “egg” as a new day in creation, a time when the world was “hatched,” as in formed by God.
7) Seven Swans a Swimming: represents the seven signs of the Holy Spirit:
As swans are one of the most beautiful and graceful creatures on earth, they seemed to be the perfect symbol of the spiritual gifts.
8) Eight Maids a Milking: As Christ came to save even the lowest of the low, this gift represents the ones who would receive His word and accept His grace. Being a milkmaid was about the worst job one could have in England during this time. This showed Jesus cared as much about servants as He did those of royal blood. The eight who were blessed were: 1. poor in spirit 2. those who mourn 3. the meek 4. those who hunger and thirst for righteousness 5. the merciful 6. the pure in heart 7. the peacemakers 8. those who are persecuted for righteousness sake
9) Nine Ladies Dancing: represents gifts of the Holy Spirit: 1. love 2. joy 3. peace 4. patience 5. kindness 6. generosity 7. faithfulness 8. gentleness 9. self-control
10) Ten Lords a Leaping: represents the judges as lords following the law, the Ten Commandments
11) Eleven Pipers Piping: represents the disciples minus Judas, since there were 11 men who carried out the gospel message
12) Twelve Drummers Drumming: represents the 12 points of doctrine in the Apostles Creed: 1. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth 2. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord 3. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and was 4. Born of the Virgin Mary 5. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried 6. He descended into hell 7. On the third day He rose again 8. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father 9. He will come again to judge the living and the dead 10. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic (universal) Church, the communion of saints 11. The forgiveness of sins 12. The resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
My Christmas wish for you is that your heart is filled with as much faith, hope and love that it can possibly hold; and that you be a beacon of this good cheer so that it overflowers your heart, into your families, neighborhoods, countries and the world.
My gift to you, if you are ready, open, and willing to receive it, are my latest books, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM, and my newest book, MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM, within 30-45 days from Amazon Book Press. The last book in this incredible, well-researched book series is on the Angel, Mineral, Plant, and Animal Kingdoms, Nature Spirit Wisdom, to follow soon.
As soon as these new links are available, I will post it.
There is a reason for all the masked symbology. Do you want to know?
Celebrating the birthday of my book publication with Blue Fortune Enterprises LLC, which is a publishing house, not a self-publishing company. This book has already helped so many people. This book would make for a thoughtful Christmas present.
This is on the back cover:
“Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear.
“She offers advice on how to know if you are in a cult (hint: many people are and to live a full, balanced life.
“You can choose to have experiences of Light, joy and abundance, or you can choose to have experiences of lack, limitation, and depravity.
“With an impressive background in religious studies, Linda offers encouragement and guidance to seekers who know there is more to choose to bring light into their lives. Told with wisdom, humility, and love, this book is a timeless guide to living in the Light with God, free of manmade shackles of corruption.
“It is all about love, choosing love over all other dark and sinister energies in the smorgasbord of life. Everyone has free will to choose love or not love every single minute of every single day.”
The quote on the back cover is from a dear friend Reverend Medium Tracey Lockwood:
“Get ready to take a deep dive. Metaphysician Lin Hourihan offers a multifaceted perspective of who we are at the core of our being. Challenging preconceptions and lending insight on how to maximize our experience here on planet earth.”
Linda Hourihan is an international holistic health counselor/practitioner, former feature writer for the Milford Daily News, and Laconia Daily Sun, former owner of The Massage Clinic, and author of The Virtue of Virtues, Mystery of the Sturbridge Keys. She and her husband live in Massachusetts.
Darkness is the lack of Light, naturally. It does no good to focus on the darkness of life. Fighting darkness is like fighting a ghost. The solution is to turn on your contagious and welcoming Light of Love without conditions, which is empathy and compassion instead of harsh judgment.
Focus on the Light, Love and Liberty for all, not just for a select few, or for people who only believe and/or look like you. Broaden your comprehension. Think deeper than simple sayings. Be the change you wish to see in the world through the light-filled lens of understanding illuminated by the Light of knowledge through non-violence.
It’s all about harmonizing with the Light, the Love, Peace, the Joy, which are all aspects of your I Am Presence, which is the Light and Love of your Spirit/Soul, your God-Force guiding and acting through your conscience. This is the same thing as recognizing your Great Presence animating your Life through your Higher Mental and Emotional Bodies. It is in harmonizing and balancing your Light and dark sides of your personality and awareness of who and what you are, a divine aspect of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy acting in the world right where you are at this moment in time.
Now is the time of New Age of Progress: building up, working together for the greater good of humanity at home and abroad.
Follow in the footsteps of justice for all human beings, eradicating lies, conspiracies and under-handed thoughts, words, and actions. Your thoughts matter. Raise them to a higher level of honesty rather than follow the leader of lesser minds. Your words matter. Stop touting conspiracies as if they were the same thing as truth fueled by friends who simply do not know better. Have compassion for them too, because they are like wolves in sheep’s clothing. Lying leaders have fallen victim to false truths for self-aggrandizement purposes. Even then, have compassion for them. They are deceived. Follow the example of Ghandi, for example.
Your actions matter, because truth matters. We will all reap the seeds we have sown. Money is not the bottom line. Those who would vote for people who promise to earn them more money will gladly sell their soul to the highest bidder. That’s what a prostitute does. However, the cost for selling out your Spirit/Soul will rob you of your integrity and ultimately diminish you.
Follow the Limitless Living Light of inspiration, solution, and good government for all, not only for a select few at the top. Top-heavy spires topple far too easily, crushing those below them.
There is room for everyone in this beautiful world of ours. Stop listening to the fear mongers who stir the pot of dysfunction for their unholy gain as if only fear of lack and loss is what is to be counted. This is the hoarder’s mentality. There is enough available on this life-giving planet of ours if only we would share.
Earth is our Garden of Eden and you and I are its caretakers, both of it and every human being living upon its fertile land and those we welcome into our beautiful human mosaic tapestry. Not one of us is any better or worth more than any other of us. Only those with runaway egos believe in such nonsense.
This is what the United States really looks like, United Humanity, not only white Americans.
The only problem is if or when you find yourself in any kind of cult. How are you supposed to know if that has happened to you?
“YOU MIGHT BE IN A CULT” by Eric Swalwell ~ This is How You Can Tell
The following was delivered by Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on June 4, 2024 in a hearing to the Republicans in the House Judiciary Oversight Committee:
“My colleagues, none of this today that you are bringing makes sense. Your inconsistencies, your hypocrisy, your sycophancy, unless you are in a cult.
“And guys, I’m starting to think you are in a cult. That is your right, but it is not your responsibility.
“I promise you, that is not what your constituents would want.
“So if you believe in state’s rights, except when a jury in that state convicts your nominee for president, you might be in a cult.
“If you claim to back the blue but want to defund the police, when the police go to your nominee’s house to retrieve national security secrets, you might be in a cult.
“If you’re supporting a guy whose felony convictions prevent him from getting a security clearance, you might be in a cult.
“And if the guy you’re supporting for president has felony convictions that prevent him from going to
I have spoken with people who still believe in Republican lies and conspiracies as if they are truth. These people are still my friends “across the aisle” because I refuse to let a difference of political or religious opinion, even on such a weighty matter, stop our friendship. There is always hope for truth to prevail.
They believe the Republican indoctrination because these lies and conspiracies are still being proclaimed from pulpits of continued indoctrinations, both political and religious, and even in social groups in their secret meetings.
The inconsistencies, hypocrisy, and sycophancy are still found in the heartbeat of the Republican cult followers as if this would-be sinister and maligned Big Lie, duped by their fearful leaders, were true.
It is time to uncover all their covert deceptions because truth matters.
Have you ever wondered if you were wrong in your listening to false information and indoctrination?
It is time for human decency, truth, and honor.
It is time to shine a light on all lies and conspiracies. The people I have spoken with say that it is the Democrats who are lying to their followers.
If that is the case, say these lies and conspiracies out loud. Climb out from the heavy rock of your indoctrinations and peacefully prove your point. Most will not do this because their claims are so ridiculous.
Fear is a powerful motivator. But remember, fear is also an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. This is how cults work.
This election matters. Do not let fear of discovering that you are wrong stop you. There is more for you to know. Don’t let fear and/or embarrassment stop you from finding out the truth for yourself.
Do more research. It is possible to go to non-biased sources to check out your “facts,” such as mainstream news outlets: Reuters, AP, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, and Politico. These are not left-wing, nor right-wing opinion news sources.
Allow yourself to hear something different, but don’t stop there. Allow yourself to ask deeper questions, like how this new information could possibly be true, without the negative spin you are used to hearing accompanying it. Try to understand viewpoints other than what is familiar to you. There is more for you to know.
You can tell if you are in a cult if some person or organization has enslaved your intelligence and your open and thirsty Spirit by your willingness to go along with them. They manifest powerful peer pressure. Unbridled fear and visual, verbal, and/or physical insults are the fodder cults use to spread their philosophies like wildfire on a blustery day. All cults use half-truths, those little white lies that are still a foundation of lies. It takes courage to heal your Spirit for the sake of your Soul, and escape from their mental and emotional clutches.
EVERY religion in this world is a cult, just as every political and social group is a cult, UNLESS IT SOLELY RECOGNIZES ETERNAL UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE ENERGY as the HIGHEST authority and reality. Cults tell you “how it is,” the popular think-tank jargon to believe in, justifying all other thoughts, words, and actions.It’s a belief system you buy into and with which you agree.
There is not a religion on the face of this Earth that has not been manipulated, beginning with just enough half-truth and accurate history to capture your attention. Most of humanity today has seen the forest for the trees, closing numerous churches in every denomination worldwide.
If you follow Eternal Universal Life Force Energy you will never go wrong. Mess with the Universal Laws and you will find yourself confused, angry, or manipulated by the most current think-tank agenda as you try to fit your round self into their square-peg mentality. Handing over your personal power usually begins by noticing some small point you do not believe in yet dismiss because you understand of agree with most of the rest of the subject matter.
This happened in the world’s stage when adult border patrol individuals justified putting people in cages, even ripping suckling infants away from their mothers because they were told to by their fear-mongering bosses. Fear of loss of job, fear of retaliation, fear of peer pressure, fear, fear, fear is the age-old motivator.
Yet, ALL IS ONE.
Even the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy continues to perfect Itself through you, me, and everyone else, as well as everything in the universes. It is the lived mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual expressions of life that educate and perfect Itself in every incarnation within the Nature Kingdom, Mineral Kingdom, Plant Kingdom, and Animal Kingdom.
Each of us is unique. No two of us are the exact same, even identical twins. While they may share the same DNA, their lived experiences and personalities are not identical.
The meditative mind knows the familiar and beautiful connection with the One That Is All.
Many who read today’s manipulated bibles, including the Old Testament, do not fully understand the pre-history of lived accounts that were told in oral tradition, that were altered prior to Athanasius dictating which books of the many bibles would be merged into one in the year 364 AD., and which ones would not be mentioned at all because of the powerful illumination of truth they contained.
For example, when the bible reads that the Jewish people were the “Chosen People,” they hid many facts for purposes of power, fame, and fortune. After 50 years of research, which led me to delve into these books that were buried for reasons of censorship for religious and political control, I truly understand the real reason Jesus came to Earth, why our brother was crucified, and the pure and true message he came to deliver to us. It has nothing to do with sin and sacrifice. It has to do with teaching that the Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is WITHIN each ONE of us.
ALL IS ONE.
Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is not duplicitous, nor triune. It is ONE. There are not three Gods, nor three aspects of ONE God. Jesus NEVER taught that he was God. Jesus NEVER taught that God was a trinity. Jesus came to teach us that the LIGHT of God dwells in all Spirits, in All Souls, even those dark and manipulating minds among us. It will take more lifetimes for those sick and dark energy minds to evolve through the lived experience to gain the LIGHT of the Spirit and Soul to reach ascension, just as Jesus taught.
Each one of us has free will to experience life as we see fit, drawn to something that attracts us. Sometimes we get too much of a good thing and fall into addiction by the seeds we have planted. Our personal Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy adheres to the Laws of Nature which reveals our lifepath.
You and I have been here before. In our other lives, we have planted the seeds for the things we experience in this life, perfecting our Spirit, Souls, and the rest of humanity along the way.
Our Spirit is found in the WISDOM and STRENGTH we have discovered. Without this wisdom of the Spirit, its full power cannot be utilized. Likewise, there can be no emerging of wisdom without the spiritual power. Yet these two things which appear as separate, are ONE with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
ALL IS ONE.
The two equal parts, body and Spirit, within each individual human being meld as ONE. You cannot be a human being having one without the other and still be a human being. A Spirit without a physical body remains Spirit, the living quality of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. But a body without its Spirit is simply dead, unanimated.
This is the key point of this post:
Therefore, when humankind was being taught by the scribes that humanity lives in a threeness (mimicking Father – Son – Holy Spirit), this teaching is erroneous and falsified, because it is not taught nor experienced according to the Laws of The Creation, also known as Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
Numerous cults have been practiced, some in the name of God, or Jesus, which have enslaved the individual souls of humanity. Cults enslave the souls of individual human beings. This is how to tell if you are, in fact, in a cult, regardless of its popularity.
All religions on the face of the Earth today are cults. They do not teach personal freedom based on LOVE without conditions. They teach oppression, censorship, sexism, racism in many cases, and prejudice and judgment against anyone unlike themselves. They demand complete obedience to their manmade doctrines, all of which decry that “God” is their author. This is false. Run from these ones.
No cult is justified unless it solely recognizes Eternal Universal Life Force Energy as the HIGHEST reality of all, AND NOT POINTING TO ONE HUMAN BEING AS THEIR FEARLESS LEADER.
Humanity has discovered the Laws of Thermodynamics, which come under the umbrella of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, state that Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed. This is the reality which man personalizes as God.
2 baby bear cubs rested on the classroom porch while Mama bear checked out the classroom space.
The Keynote of Bear, according to Ted Andrews in his Animal Speak book, is awakening the Power of the Unconscious. Bear stirs our imagination so much we have a constellation named for it, Ursus Major, The Great Bear.
Seven stars of this constellation are probably the most easily recognized in the northern hemisphere. These seven stars form The Big Dipper, and they have links to the seven great rays of Light of the Divine.
The goddess Diana is associated with Bear energy, since both Bear and Diana are associated with the moon. Bear is also known as a symbol for alchemy, and the nigredo of prime matter, which is the first stage of transformation and relates to all primal instincts.
The appearance of Bear Medicine teaches you to double-check your judgments. Are you being too harsh or not having a balanced perspective? Are you recognizing what is beneficial in your life? Bear medicine can teach you to go deep so you can make your choices and decision from a position of power.
Our position of power when taking this picture was from the inside of our house.
This bear with her 2 young cubs provides a tremendous significance for you if you choose to work with Bear Medicine. If you are reading this, you can take this opportunity to go deep within yourself, a time to go within to rejuvenate, perhaps on the soft sands of the beach of the ocean or find a tree-lined haven nature walk near you, just as bears do when they go into a state of semi-hibernation which renews their strength.
Remember, Black Bears are very playful, both as adults and their young. This is a good reminder for you if you have a Bear as a totem. Life is not all about the work. It is also about taking time out to find the joy and the beauty.
This is how close the house is to the House is to the classroom space.
Who am I and why might people want to hear what I have to say?
I am an international, ordained, interfaith Universal Life Church minister, metaphysician, author ~ blogger ~ internationally board-certified holistic health counselor, New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™) Teacher of the School of Esoteric Science™, certified Reiki Master Teacher and Qigong Teacher. I no longer practice nor teach Reiki since New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ has graced the planet.
As an interfaith, ordained Universal Life Church minister, I have helped humanity with weddings, renewal of marriage vows and funerals. Now in my retirement, this blog is my worldwide ministry. I deal with personal growth and development, maturity, and relationships encompassing many areas including religions and politics.
People who do not want to continue to learn what is going on around them stay stunted in ignorance and buried in cult-like indoctrinations. Learning anything will not make you angry, unless you grow to realize that you have been indoctrinated into a religious or political cult. Then it may be both infuriating and embarrassing.
I have met with priests, bishops, deacons, ministers and many others of other faiths to share important matters to humanity.
Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan and me in 1973 at the first Pro-Life Meeting of the Worcester Diocese.
I also hold a Master Catechist certification (1982) specializing in Youth Ministry from the Diocese of Worcester. I taught CCD for over 20 years for every grade level including First Holy Communion, Sacrament of Reconciliation, Confirmation, and adult Bible Studies in my home.
In my quest to better understand all faiths including the Catholic faith, I have participated in the once-in-a-lifetime Cursillo, a Catholic faith inspiration, joined the Cursillo Leaders School and gave the Study Talk on the Women’s Retreats; Life In The Spirit Retreats, and God help me, yes, I even tried out Opus Dei, meaning “Work of God.” To me, this translates to, “Give me all your personal power. Believe whatever I tell you to believe, by all means, agree to censorship and do not read anything I tell you not to read.” They even confiscated my book, Sidetracked Home Executives, because one of the women in it got divorced. I never got it back, so I bought it again.
I studied with Bible-belt Baptists, and yes, I spent 6 years studying with Jehovah’s Witnesses. And no, I do not need to hate you, shun you, or anything worse simply because you believe something different than I believe.
Freedom and Free Will is God-given, not humanly ordained.
Now I am an international, ordained, interfaith Universal Life Church (ULC) minister, with a compassionate understanding of all faiths. I know what they know, and what was left out of their education. I continue taking extra courses in the ULC Seminary to better understand humanity in my worldwide ministry.
I earned a Masters in Chaplaincy certification visiting the sick and those both pre- and post-treatment at Harrington Hospital for the required hours to earn my certification.
I also earned the Doctor of Spiritual Awareness and Doctor of Universal Order certifications in the Universal Life Church Seminary where my education is on-going.
I do not believe in religious censorship, burying or burning books. I do believe in sharing the truth hidden in the scrolls of sacred scriptures found and preserved in the caves at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, as well as in a cave in Qumran. Please know there is much more than you have been told unless you know everything that Jesus said during those buried (some say missing years) of His life. They were not missing. They were hidden from you to make you more controllable. I will share what I have discovered here with you. Ignorance is not bliss.
I share my research on the scriptures found at Nag Hammadi, the Books of Enoch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In this blog, I also discuss the Sacred Scriptures found that Jesus spent his missing years, from ages 13-30 in India and the Himalaya Mountain region. The Books of Enoch predate Genesis. Jesus not only studied the Books of Enoch and respected them enough to refer to them over 100 times in the New Testament.
Humanity has only been allowed to know the first 12 years of the life of Jesus, and his years from 30-33, for a total of 15 years. Are you aware that Jesus said many profound things between his ages 12-30, for a total of 18 years? There is so much more of what Jesus said, which any Christian proclaiming to know what Jesus said might like to consider.
How dare any religious leader call the words of Jesus Christ apocryphal because the words of Jesus during his ages 12-30, those 18 years, do not agree with any particular religious denomination?
The words of Jesus can also be found in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures. I do not think it is right to condemn the adult words of Jesus as apocryphal simply because they do not agree with the human interpretation of many denominations.
Every person has the freedom to use their God-given free will to learn all that Jesus taught, which does not need anyone else’s human permission nor interpretation coating the words of Jesus. Do not give your personal power away to anyone, no matter who they are ever again.
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Thank you for visiting my blog, which is read worldwide in 203 countries, territories and protectorates since 2012. Today shows 123,701 views since its inception.
A very dear friend of mine, who is also a former student and co-worker wrote this gracious testimonial:
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. You will always be one of my great mentors. I have four mentors, women in my life and you are the number one. I look forward to seeing you somehow even if I have to just come up for one night to visit. I would love to be in your energy.~ Donna C.
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I am a member of the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA), which is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA). The BCMA recognizes holistic health counseling and wellness, as well as energy work as valid therapies. I am a member of the BCMA because the School of Esoteric Sciences™ is a member, accepting the school’s teachers to also be recognized as BCMA members.
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Among the many books, newspapers, and magazines that I am published in, I have five prayers and meditations included in the book: More Weddings, Funerals and Rites of Passage, More Sample Ceremonies for Celebrants, Officiants and Ministers.
The following are the five prayers I wrote for your benefit:
House Blessing
Angels of Light and Love, fill this house with the radiant warmth of our Divine Creator.
Touch every nook and cranny with peace, harmony and compassion of our Divine Inspiration.
Allow all family, friends and guests to bask in the tender and loving embrace of the I Am Presence in all of us who live here.
Ground our house with understanding and forgiveness.
And forever be the pillar of strength that supports our hearts and our minds.
Meal Blessing
Bless this food, Oh God, with Your Heavenly Vibration.
Raise the level of my awareness to realize the wholesome goodness in what You have grown for me.
Nourish me in body, mind, and soul and transform this food into loving service of You.
Yard Blessing
Thank You God, Author of all life, for this yard, this part of the earth You have allowed me to care for.
I ask Your blessing on all living, growing things, that they flourish under Your ever-watchful eye.
Allow my hands to be Your hands as I work the soil, plant the seed, feed the birds and care for the animals You send my way.
Let those who walk by enjoy the beauty of Your creation and breathe in the tranquility of Your Spirit.
Night Blessing
Oh Divine Mother Spirit, care, protect and nurture us this night.
Show us our Divine Helpers, our Guardian Angels, Our Solar Angels, the Archangels.
Remind us we are not alone.
Surround us with our spiritual guides, our animals guides, our healing devas.
Help us remember our dreams, that place where you speak to us and unfold our lives.
Embrace our footsteps of the day as we journey on our way to You.
Receive our love for You as we love one another, loving You in them.
Driver’s Blessing
Help me to remember, Oh God, that I am not Mario Andretti.
Send me gentle reminders that this road that I am on is not the Indy 500.
Let me see the person in front of me as my friend, as You.
Please don’t look back in the rearview mirror Lord, I’ll try to be better, safer, more tolerant.
And I’ll try not to drive faster than my angels can fly.
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One of the most transcendent courses I took was from the Supreme Science Qigong Foundation taught by Jeff Primack, March 5-8, 2011, for a total of 32 hours, at the Connecticut Conference Center in Hartford. This covered Qigong healing using breathwork techniques in Levels 1, 2, and 3. I also took the additional 8-hour class the next day to learn how to use food as medicine. In all it was a 40-hour course that turned out to be one of the most transformative educational classes in my holistic health career.
I am so glad that I stayed for the extra day, for the optional food as medicine component, extending time away from my business, The Massage Clinic, in Stratford, CT and satellite offices in Milford, Orange, and West Haven. I came home with DVDs showing Primack going through all the moves he taught the hundreds of us all at once. The energy in that auditorium was palpable and phenomenal.
This was a poignant reminder that with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, there is no time, nor space, between the hundreds of students of all ages attending and practicing every move and thought he taught us. For me, it was like the powerfully moving charismatic meetings I had gone to, not with the indoctrination, but similar by elevating the energy in the room to an extremely healing place. All was One. You too can heal.
When medical doctors had done all that they could for their patients, some who were on their way out of this life, were sent to Jeff Primack to see if using food as a treatment could possibly save their life. Primack said in that class that he saw people heal from their maladies, which is why medical doctors today back his research of using food as medicine.
Who would have thought that food could heal a body better than chemical medicines could?
In more cases than one, by using Qigong and Primack’s smoothie recipes, the person sent to him by the doctors, was healed by the innate life generating and healing properties found in organic and high phytochemical foods.
Over 100,000 hardcover copies of his books have been sold, according to Amazon.com which said, “Conquering Any Disease is endorsed by top surgeons and doctors who have recommend these food protocols to help reverse disease naturally. This book engages all types of people to eat God s most healing foods. At the back of the book is an extensive glossary of food phytochemicals and fatty Acids that will elevate your understanding of nutrients to the next level.
“This is the 15-Year Anniversary Scientific Edition with the most compelling studies. It is the first book of its kind to Quantify Key Pigments/Phytochemicals (and show sources of data that doctors require) in ALL the most healing foods. It’s 300 pages of life saving wisdom fully illustrated to help you learn all you ever needed to know about food. Conquering Any Disease book covers the following conditions: Allergies, Alzheimer s, Memory, Anti-Viral, HIV, Hepatitis, Anemia, Arthritis, Inflammation, Asthma, Lung Disease, Autism, Cancer, Tumor, Immune Weakness Colds, Flu Virus, MRSA, Digestive, Constipation, IBS, Ulcers, Depression, PTSD, Diabetes, Eye, Vision, Diseases, Heart Disease, Stroke, Cholesterol Crystallization, Infertility, Insomnia, Kidney Stones, Liver Disease, Cirrhosis, MRSA, Infection, Menopause, Muscle Building, MS, Jing, Hair, Osteoporosis, Parkinson s, Seizures, Sexual Power, Thyroid, Weight Loss.”
Qigong, Prana Healing, Reiki, New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™, Tai Chi, and meditation, among other forms of energy work, are natural remedies without negative side effects. Mother Nature knows best.
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New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ class schedules are listed ahead of time for the convenience of students’ planning.
New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ classes are approved certified curriculums of the School of Esoteric Sciences™.There are teachers all over the world.
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2024 SCHEDULE:
BASIC MASTER™: April 6 & 7. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master ™ workshop is $295 due by March 23, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT ™: This 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place on 2 consecutive weekends, June 1 & 2, AND June 8 & 9, from 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $525, due by May 17, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this class, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com
BASIC MASTER TEACHER ™: This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, October 12-14, 10 am – 6 p.m. All Basic Master™ and 13D MDT ™ students with approved numbered prerequisite certificates from the School of Esoteric Sciences ™ may take this course. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher ™ is $395 due by September 28, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
2025 SCHEDULE:
BASIC MASTER™: APRIL 5-6. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master™ workshop is $295 due by March 22, 2025, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT™: This 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place on 2 consecutive weekends, June 21 & 22, AND June 28 & 29, from 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $525, due by June 7, 2025, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this workshop, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com
BASIC MASTER TEACHER™: This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, OCTOBER 11-13, 10 am – 6 p.m. All Basic Master™ and 13D MDT™ students with approved numbered prerequisite certificates from the School of Esoteric Sciences ™ may take this course. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher™ is $395 due by September 27, 2025, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
2026 SCHEDULE:
BASIC MASTER™:APRIL 4-5. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master™ workshop is $295 due by March 21, 2026, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT™: This 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place June 6-7 AND June 13-14, from 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $525, due by May 23, 2026, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this workshop, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
BASIC MASTER TEACHER™: This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, OCTOBER 10-12, 10 am – 6 p.m. All Basic Master™ and 13D MDT™ students with approved numbered prerequisite certificates from the School of Esoteric Sciences™ may take this course. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher™ is $395 due by September 26, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
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“Get ready to take a deep drive. Metaphysician Lin Hourihan offers a multifaceted perspective on who we are at the core of our being. Challenging preconceptions and lending insight on how to maximize our experience here on planet earth,”commented Tracey Lockwood, The Medium’s Medium, on the back cover of my latest book.
“Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear. …” quote from this book.
Amazon says, “With an impressive background in religious studies, Linda offers encouragement and guidance to the seekers who know there is more and choose to bring light into their lives. Told with wisdom, humility and love, this book is a timeless guide to living in the Light with God, free of the manmade shackles of corruption.”
If you go on the Amazon website, put my name, Linda Hourihan, in the search bar you will see my three books. IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM, is my new book. This book is available anywhere books are sold.
Do you like time travel books? MYSTERY OF THE STURBRIDGE KEYS, subtitled, CHRISTMAS UNLOCKED is just that. People keep wanting this book to be made into a movie. I say, then do it already. This book goes back in time to the days of Old Sturbridge Village (1830’s), starting at the Christmas by Candlelight celebration in real time, back to the days of the Underground Railroad, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, and back further to the days of Noah and the Nephilim, and to the days of the birth of Jesus.
Parents asked me to write this next book, which is the first book I wrote, THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUES. It was first published in 1999 and republished in 2020.
It is a seven-lesson morality curriculum, teaching children in grades five through eight how to deal with social situations that call for them to practice faith, hope, and love in their decision-making process. This book is appropriate for all children and Bible reading parents.
At that time, I was voted in by the town as one of two parents allowed to be on the new board as part of the landmark Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 (MERA). The concept was for this board to push the academic content and high standards over the Bush I and Clinton administrations’ agenda of K-12 education as merely workforce development training.[1]
I was voted in as co-chairman of the local school MERA board. The other co-chairman was principal of the elementary school. I hoped to address the education curriculum including the sex education curriculum, but the board opted to rewrite the elementary school’s handbook instead.
After I stated that we might consider teaching ethics, the other co-chairman asked whose ethics ought to be taught. I knew then that I needed to write this book. They did not want anything smacking of anyone’s personal religion to be taught in secular schools at that time. It seems today’s agenda seems to be welcoming only the Christian Right Maga views of wanting to put the Ten Commandments into all public schools, ignoring the separation between Church and State.
I modeled each lesson in The Virtue of Virtues with what was familiar to me, the same reporter questions that are the basis for every good news article I ever wrote, including sections in each chapter covering the questions of WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, WHERE, and HOW.
This is how students can navigate difficult situations in which they often find themselves. This has been taught in CCD programs once a month for the first seven months of the school year, and in other years, for the first seven weeks of the CCD school year once a week from October through December.
It is also a wonderful addition to homeschooling children in their own homes. This can be done in one lesson a night for one week, spread out once a week for seven weeks, or once a month for seven months, as the family or as groups of neighborhoods, friends, and families see fit.
I am a Metaphysician, a Reiki Master Teacher, 13th in line to Dr. Mikao Usui, who only re-discovered the Usui Reiki System of healing, and is not the founder of it. I only mention this because Reiki is so well known. However, what he discovered in the 1800s is only the tip of the iceberg, originally given to us by Germain, currently working with the NPMDT™ system of healing. There are myriad other energy systems of holistic healing that currently exist. Now is the time for energy workers everywhere to share their knowledge and gifts with humanity, Earth, and cosmos however you can.
As a life-long-learner, I continued to uncover some of what I had not yet learned in the metaphysical world beyond Reiki, which I later discovered is merely the beginning.
Curiosity sparked my interest. I asked my I Am Presence, what you may know as your Higher Power, or your Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy (God), when I saw an ad for an expansion of healing energy, if this class was for me. I sensed it was and took a series of these classes until I learned that New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ is the graduate curriculum of the next stages of hands-on healing which Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna practiced, to my comprehension.
I am a 2005 graduate of the American Institute of Holistic Health & Wellness, studying under the late Dr. Dolores Seymour.
All of these courses melded for me. There are not many different Earths for the many different belief systems and experiences. I think of it as semantics, using different words to express similar energies and occurrences.
I took classes from the late Dr. Dolores Seymour and went to her classroom space in New York. She was a very impressive and dynamic teacher. If you get the chance, you can find her book, Who Cares Why? from used bookstores. I found it to be extremely liberating from the usually life-long counseling traps. Her methods worked 100% of the time in my experience.
The American Institute of Holistic Health & Wellness is no longer in existence since her passing on but was accredited by the American Association of Drugless Professionals, and the National Accreditation and Certification Board. This is a lifetime and international certification. I have studied extensively in the fields of holistic health in mind, body and spirit which naturally includes counseling on all life issues, and bodywork.
There are drugless therapies that work very well most of the time when applied, and have no chemical side effects, obviously, except when they are not followed.
I am trained in Mind Inspired New Dynamics System, also known as M.I.N.D.S. Holistic Alternative Psychology has an emphasis on methods, individualized plans of action, fostering the ability of the individual to reach his or her highest potential physically, emotionally and spiritually; with advanced perspectives of positive personal growth, changing attitudes from negative to positive; enhancing intuition and self-discovery through creative endeavors, and improving health as impacted by psychological states.
I work with M.I.N.D.S. Wellness & Body/Mind Consciousness, which features positive self-analysis/awareness, self-control development programs, conditioning the healing mind, controlling mood swings, anxiety, avoiding depression and raising self-esteem to its highest level.
M.I.N.D.S. Meta-Psychology is person centered rather than technically oriented, and focuses on psychological health, consciousness, human possibilities, and challenges of body, mind and spiritual development. A person cannot heal in any program void of attention to their own spiritual development. As a matter of fact, many mental and physical ailments can be discovered when spiritual sickness is at the root of the problem.
This blog addresses mental health, physical health and spiritual health. Spirituality touches all aspects of life including but not limited to religious, spiritual, educational, social, political, financial, etc. This blog addresses all aspects of life. What we believe touches it all.
I am a former member of the Branford Hall Career Institute Advisory Board; and former owner of The Massage Clinic, LLC which had four offices in Connecticut, and more than 8,000 appointments helping everyone to achieve balance and health in mind, body and spirit. I personally held 5,000 of these appointments, making lifelong friends in the process.
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I am a graduate of Taliloquay School of Energy Remedies, taught by Phyllis Brooks. This program teaches the development of flower essences and what they can do for you through holistic therapy. Western medicine mimics the powerfully healing energies of flower essences, a sign of the future built upon the successful therapy of what worked in the past. The energies of flower essences were also discovered by Dr. Edward Bach in the 1930s, now famous for 38 remedies. He was a medical doctor who kept having patients come to him for things repeatedly until he switched from western to eastern medicine approaches using flower essences, which went to the source of the health issue rather than the side-effect of the issue.
I have found the flower essences of Phyllis to be extremely helpful for stress, anxiety, worry, depression, and grief, as well as many maladies which have physical manifestations. Flower essences are nature’s most pure form of energetic healing frequencies. https://www.taliloquay.com.
Here is an amazing synergy occurrence. Around 2008, I was asked to be a speaker at the Northampton Expo when the venders were to be taking their breaks between the more well-known Expo speakers. When I was finished, I toured the vendor’s booths. I came across a fascinating booth of flower essences, like those of the famous Dr. Bach and his Rescue Remedy which I liked when I felt stressed. I soon discovered that this booth was being overseen by Phyllis Brooks, who taught my New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ teacher. It truly is such a small world.
This amazes me still to this day. Here was Phyllis Brooks, the founder of Taliloquay School of Energy Remedies and https://www.taliloquay.com. Phyllis took lessons from John Armitage who comes from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and works directly with Germain. It turns out that Germain is the founder of the Reiki system in all its variations. Germain in this generation of humanity is co-founder with John Armitage in teaching New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ to the world. This is the world I hail from too.
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This blog is my legacy, a healing gift to the world in need of hope, kindness, empathy, compassion, encouragement, truth, forgiveness, faith, and love.
The following is on the back cover of IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM:
Linda Hourihan, HHCP, gives readers a brave perspective on the truth of spirituality.
Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear.
She offers advice on how to know if you are in a cult (hint: many people are) and how to live a full, balanced life.
You can choose to have experiences of Light, joy, and abundance, or you can choose to have experiences of lack, limitation, and depravity.
With an impressive background in religious studies, Linda offers encouragement and guidance to the seekers who know there is more and choose to bring light into their lives. Told with wisdom, humility and love, this book is a timeless guide to living in the Light with God, free of the manmade shackles of corruption.
It’s all about love, choosing to love over all the other dark and sinister energies in the smorgasbord of life. Everyone has free will to choose love or not love every single minute of every single day.
“Let them” is a concept that has taken me a long time to learn, and sometimes it’s still difficult to put into practice. I used to tolerate too much because I didn’t want to lose people. But I learned the hard way if they were really my people they would never treat me like that. Don’t make the mistake of being so understanding that you overlook the fact that you’re being repeatedly disrespected.
Let them be upset.
Let them judge you.
Let them misunderstand you.
Let them gossip about you.
Let them ignore you.
Let them be “right.”
Let them doubt you.
Let them not like you.
Let them not speak to you.
Let them run your name in the ground.
Let them make you out to be the villain.
Whatever it is that people want to say about you, let them!
Kindly step aside and LET THEM.
The hard truth is they know how much they are hurting you, and they simply don’t care. They did it knowing it might cause them to lose you, and they chose to do it anyway. People who love you care about how they make you feel. Period. The end. Let them go.
There will be people who would rather lose you than be honest about what they’ve done. Let them go.
The lack of respect was the closure.
The lack of empathy was the closure.
The lack of appreciation was the closure.
The lack of trust was the closure.
The lack of self awareness was the closure.
The lack of honesty was the closure.
The lack of accountability was the closure.
The lack of LOVE was the closure.
Let them go.
Forgiveness takes one. Reconciliation takes two. If they are not sorry, let them go. If they project, minimize, deflect, and blameshift every time you express how they’ve hurt you, let them go.
What we allow is what we will live. Acceptance is not indifference. You can still be kind. You can still love them deeply. But love them from the distance they created with their words and actions. Boundaries help protect your space and shield you from their hurtful behavior.
You don’t need to tell your side of the story. You are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, what some call God. You are Love personified. This Love, your I Am Presence, is deeply aware of you and all involved. You are complete and whole as you are in this exact moment. Let them go.
It’s taken me a long time to get here. So many sleepless nights, countless tears, and trying to manage a range of emotions filled with anger, disappointment, confusion, and deep hurt. Lots of self reflection, deep prayer, and seeking guidance from those much wiser than me.
If you are struggling with this please know you are not alone. We will never understand why hurt people hurt people. But we can do the hard work to grow ourselves. Because healed people do in fact heal people.
Don’t you dare let them steal your joy.
Don’t you dare let them steal your light.
Don’t you dare let them steal your peace.
You are in control of that.
Hold tight to what you can control and release your grip on what you can’t control.
Kindness is an electromagnetic frequency vibration that is contagious.
Empathy matters.
Empathy opens hearts to care for those around us as much as we care for ourselves.
Compassion matters.
Compassion is the pulse of the beat of the heart.
Love without conditions matters.
Love is the rose bud opening into a full-blown rose with attention to Peace, Joy and fulfillment.
Light is the fuel of inspiration and growth into majestic possibility of kindness, empathy, compassion, and love.
Limitless Living Light is the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy here on Earth.
You are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy when you activate the DNA Limitless Living Light codes within you.
Do you know who you truly are, where you came from, and where you are going?
New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™) classes make it possible for you to release what no longer serves your highest good.
Are you ready to grow in being a master, release karmic ties, stop living in the past, and activate your Antahkarana, Lightbody, and Ascension process?
You have the opportunity to activate all this and more in the upcoming NPMDT™ classes. For those traveling from a distance, there are many hotel and restaurant options nearby in Sturbridge, MA.
New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ Classes
Release, renew, rejuvenate. Discover more about your Self. All levels of energy workers of all modalities are welcome. Anyone who feels called may take these classes.
A percentage of proceeds of the energy classes I teach benefit the Girls Schools in Cambodia so that the girls are not sold into the prostitution and human slavery.
Basic Master ™ Class
Upcoming classes begin April 6 & 7, 2024. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master ™ class is $295 due by March 17, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
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13D MDT ™ Class
The 13D MDT ™ is 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place on two consecutive weekends, June 1 & 2, AND June 8 & 9, 2024, from 10 am – 6 p.m.The cost for this workshop is $525, due by May 17, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this workshop, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
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*Basic Master Teacher™
*Prerequisite: Basic Master™ or 13D MDT™ Class – All students taking this class must provide their Basic Master™ or 13D MDT™ certification number from the School of Esoteric Science
This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, October 12-14, 2024, 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher ™ is $395 due by September 28, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
While I am the “teacher” for this class, you are the teacher of yourself, as you know. I am the facilitator of the energies of New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™, a wonderful step into personal freedom and love without conditions.
Everyone who feels called to take these classes is welcome. Limit 4 adult students.
Link to buy IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM:
This African Proverb is an undoubted, self-evident truth.
You matter.
You are made of Light, by Light, and for Light, your ultimate ascension.
Love is Light.
Hope is Light.
Peace is Light.
Joy is Light.
Forgiveness is Light.
Wisdom is Light.
Knowledge is Light.
This means that you are the Light of Love, Hope, Peace, Joy, Forgiveness, Wisdom, and Knowledge.
The world is better because you are in it, sharing your Light in the dark places in the world, wherever you are, so that you can join the multitude of Lightworkers all over the world to make the one planet we all call home a better place to live.
You will notice the number at the bottom left of the picture, but that only counts the United States readers. The total number of readers is 120,991 at the moment. Thank you for you. You will notice the pink spots show where readers come from.
I write about all issues affecting humanity, with a focus on how to help humanity with empathy, compassion, and understanding. At this time of year, many people are focusing on the birth and life of Jesus, even in the midst of war ravaging our one home planet. People are dying in unjust causes, aggression, greed and land grabs. People are suffering in all kinds of ways.
How can one blog help the world?
Every minute of every day every individual makes choices on how to live their life the very best each one can. People do not usually make bad choices unless their backs are up against the wall with no way out.
I wish to tell the world there is always a way out that saves the most life, especially human life. No one can balance the scales of injustice by more of what caused the problem in the first place. This is obvious.
What kind of world do you wish to live in?
Some people choose to live in denial. But ignorance is not bliss.
Every single person on this planet matters, regardless of nationality, race, color, creed, age, gender, job description or any other division we opt to select as our unique trait. Not one of us is better than the other. To think otherwise is to trip on a self-inflated ego illusion.
Jesus was born to a Middle Eastern family, which is not Caucasian. He spoke of peace, love, forgiveness, kindness, virtue and goodness. Like Gautama Buddha, he taught about non-violence. Now is a good time to consider how each of us can apply these principles to our daily lives. So often we forget. Our thoughts, words, and actions make all the difference in the world, literally.
This is not all about what the other guy ought to be thinking, doing, and saying. That would be indoctrination. You are not the boss of anyone else but yourself, even if you are the titled boss of a corporation or army of people. At this moment, I am speaking to every individual, whoever and wherever you are.
Begin with yourself by treating yourself better, getting enough sleep, healthy food and clearing all negative thoughts, words, and actions. Decide if you are on the right path for your life. Who is watching out for your life, health, and happiness?
There is more involved than indoctrination and obeying senseless rules and obligations. Choose life. Stand up for principle and honor peacefully. There is always the possibility to take the road less traveled with peace, kindness, empathy and compassion at the helm.
Leave the group of people who beat the drum of low vibrations of prejudice, gossip, slander, racism, and anarchy. No country in the world flourishes when all of humanity is not taken care of with peace, love, and joy. This is the goal, to live in peace and harmony for all humankind in every land.
The following is the list readership views. Understand that there are 46,769 additional views as of this post not counted in the totals below, due to when I upgraded my WordPress.com blog. Every country, territory, and protectorate in the world is included in this readership.
I wish to say a special thanks to those on the original Princess Dawn Cruise Ship and the Royal Majesty of the Seas Cruise Ship crews for taking my business card for this blog from my hand and sharing this blog to all the islands and beautiful faraway places.
Likewise, I wish to show my gratitude from the bottom of my heart, for my clients and friends who have taken my words back to their native friends and family, back to their homelands and on vacations to these special places all over our one Earth. We are all ONE HUMAN FAMILY.
In the year 567 A.D., the Council of Tours proclaimed the 12 Days of Christmas, lasting from Christmas until Epiphany, as a sacred and festive season. The song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, was published in England in 1780 without music, as a chant, or rhyme. It is thought to be of French origin. Though the melodies have changed over the years, the standard tune now comes from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer, Frederic Austin, who introduced the prolonged “five gold rings.”
How many of us are familiar with the Christian meanings behind the song, The 12 Days of Christmas? When do the 12 days of Christmas start and when end within the Christmas Season of celebrations?
The 12 Days of Christmas begins with the Christmas Feast Day, which the Church put on December 25, and concludes 13 days later, when the Church celebrates the Feast of Epiphany.
Why was the Christian song written in such veiled language?
Christians within the first centuries were often persecuted, even to death, which is why The 12 Days of Christmas was written with ordinary things masking extra-ordinary meanings. Let’s take a closer look at the song, The 12 Days of Christmas, and meditate on the deeper reflections behind each one:
1) The Partridge in a pear tree: represents Jesus, Son of the Father in heaven, whose birthday we celebrate on the first day of Christmas. Jesus Christ is symbolically present as a mother partridge, the only bird that will die to protect her young.
2) Two Turtle Doves: represents the Old Testament and the New Testament, so the gift of the singer finds the complete story of the Judeo-Christian faith and God’s plan for the world.
3) Three French Hens: represents faith, hope and love.
4) Four Calling Birds: represents the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
5) Five Gold Rings: represents the first five books of the Old Testament, also known as the Torah, or the Pentateuch.
6) Six Geese a Laying: represents each “egg” as a new day in creation, a time when the world was “hatched,” as in formed by God.
7) Seven Swans a Swimming: represents the seven signs of the Holy Spirit:
As swans are one of the most beautiful and graceful creatures on earth, they seemed to be the perfect symbol of the spiritual gifts.
8) Eight Maids a Milking: As Christ came to save even the lowest of the low, this gift represents the ones who would receive His word and accept His grace. Being a milkmaid was about the worst job one could have in England during this time. This showed Jesus cared as much about servants as He did those of royal blood. The eight who were blessed were: 1. poor in spirit 2. those who mourn 3. the meek 4. those who hunger and thirst for righteousness 5. the merciful 6. the pure in heart 7. the peacemakers 8. those who are persecuted for righteousness sake
9) Nine Ladies Dancing: represents gifts of the Holy Spirit: 1. love 2. joy 3. peace 4. patience 5. kindness 6. generosity 7. faithfulness 8. gentleness 9. self-control
10) Ten Lords a Leaping: represents the judges as lords following the law, the Ten Commandments
11) Eleven Pipers Piping: represents the disciples minus Judas, since there were 11 men who carried out the gospel message
12) Twelve Drummers Drumming: represents the 12 points of doctrine in the Apostles Creed: 1. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth 2. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord 3. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and was 4. Born of the Virgin Mary 5. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried 6. He descended into hell 7. On the third day He rose again 8. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father 9. He will come again to judge the living and the dead 10. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic (universal) Church, the communion of saints 11. The forgiveness of sins 12. The resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
My Christmas wish for you is that your heart is filled with as much faith, hope and love that it can possibly hold; and that you be a beacon of this good cheer so that it overflowers your heart, into your families, neighborhoods, countries and the world.
Dimash Qudaibergen, also known as Kudaibergen, is a Kazakh multi-instrumentalist, song writer.
Dimash is nicknamed “The Six-Octave Man” due to his unique voice with a six-octave range. He rose to fame in China with his participation as a “wildcard competitor” in Hunan TV’s Singer 2017.
Dimash is university trained in classical as well as contemporary music and has performed songs in 13 languages.
He was offered a position at the Astana Opera but chose to carve out his career in contemporary music, mixing classical elements and traditional Kazakh music with pop. Dimash is popular in Kazakhstan and other post-Soviet countries in 2015 upon becoming the Grand Prix winner of the Slavinski Bazaar in Vitebsk, Belarus.
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