Tending Your Psychic Garden

Tending Your Psychic Garden
By Barbara Garcia

Photo: Garden Creation

Now that you have had an “Introduction to Psychic Gardens” and you have established your “Psychic Garden Rapport”, it is now time to learn how to tend your psychic garden.

The nature of all things on our planet is circular; snow drops, trees, flowers, everything, including you and me. Therefore, tending your psychic garden should be in the same fashion. Through the simple act of plucking a blade of grass, the circular form of its root, you begin to understand that the specific function of all life has no beginning nor ending.

Tilling the earth clockwise around your plants and trees may seem mysterious and illogical; however, it is in direct harmony with the flow of life. Fertilizing with organic materials promotes the healthy growth of your garden and a healthy environment for you. A blanket of mulch and a little water completes the basic care.

Your water features should be kept free of debris. If you have placed quarts or crystals in the water, they should be charged with solar energy once a month by laying them out in the sun for a day or two.

Considering that we are not separate from our environment, tending your psychic garden is rejuvenating and a pleasure. This is your garden of psychic exploration; therefore, responsible gardening will help in your development.

With each weed that you remove from your garden, focus on what it is that you want eliminated from your life. The psychic connection of this action has a ripple effect of healing your life through conscious direction.

With each seed that you plant, focus on the new ideas and goals that you would like for your life. As the seeds sprout in your garden, the manifestation of your ideas and goals will sprout in your life.

Your psychic garden provides you with renewal of spirit and balance of mind as you telepathically connect to every plant, tree, bird, or animal that abides within its perimeters.

Anger and frustrations of your day will become almost non existence as you learn to release these harmful emotions. The technique is to place your hands palm down upon the grass. Draw the harmful emotion down through your arms to the palms of your hands and then out into the grass. Don’t worry; you are not harming the grass with your negative projections. The grass that takes on this charge will transmit them into ions. Within minutes you are completely relaxed and at peace.

The healing energy of your psychic garden will become apparent in all aspects of your life. Your psychic capabilities will have become enormously magnified and expanded in perfect harmony with the growth rate of the garden itself.

As your understanding of your psychic garden increases, you will become more aware of subtle vibrations and emanations, of which you have had no previous knowledge, have been preserved within the circumference of life cycles. The importance of tending your garden becomes a heightened awareness of the preservation of the planet of which you have become a participant.

Life is Beautiful

No matter what comes our way each day, the very fact that it does and that we are living each day is a gift. The following article by Kimi Hendrix expresses thoughts about life that I believe we have all pondered at one time or other. It is a privelege and a pleasure to present "The Life" to you.

Photo: Mt. Baldy, California

By Barbara Garcia

The Life

By

Kimi Hendrix

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It's insanely fast how time goes by. We live our daily lives, hoping that each day will be better. Days fly, people come and go in our lives and each of them leaves an imprint in our hearts; a glimpse or as Umbrella says...an image to our memory. You learn something from these people that makes you a better person, whether it is directly or something you learn passively by observing their actions.

You come across people you wish you didn't meet, and then you meet people you want to stay longer but don't. I guess it's all what God wants. People come, serve there purpose in your life for however long it takes them, and then they just merge back into the mainstream.

Sometimes you want them to stay around for longer. You want them so much that it hurts. Aren't you just glad enough that they were just part of your life, even though they're moving on with their own? Some say it's like a tease - "You know you want me, you've had a taste but you can't have". Maybe it is for a bit, but in the end, it's just something you'd look back on a couple of years, cringe and laugh about with your friends over dinner somewhere.

It's sometimes sad to see things change, to see people grow up, to experience the rapid effect of time on our life. It feels like time is running out. And out time on earth is getting shorter, so we must do something more with our life for God. And that doesn't necessarily mean waiting for the right day to come or doing something extraordinary.

Start by just building up what you think, say and do on a daily basis, because it's only each day you can handle. There's just so much you can do in one day and every minute of it has to be offered up for the Lord.

The things we say every minute, the stuff we do around the house, the way we present ourselves when going out, the tone of voice we use to our parent - we can change this and really monitor whatever we want to improve so that these little things can build up into an overall better life. Isn't that what life is - a collection of single days after each other? If we are gonna live, make it worthwhile and enjoyable, both for God and for ourselves.

The way we live each day,
is the way we live our lives.

I thank God so much to live this life... to be able to experience life on earth, and to be able to converse with so many different people in my life. I thank you for me being able to experience myself. Why we do things the way we do... Why we were like that when we were younger...

Being able to meet such inspirational people, and even more gratefully, allowing them to become a part of your life... being that image to your memory. The act of sharing in each other's knowledge and wisdom and what they have to offer in making you a better person in the eyes of God is absolutely incredible.

Life is beautiful.

"It's interesting how people come in and out (come and go) in your life. It's funny how you can just meet or know a person for such a short period of time yet they can have such a phenomenal impact in your life."

Epilogue
We can sit here and regret experiences and dwell on them, but isn't it better to learn from it and be better next time? The words of Aaliyah - "If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again" say it all. You gotta do what you gotta do, just to make it through (the legendary Alicia Keys).

Psychic Garden Raport

Photo: Gigi's 1st day Gardening 101

By Barbara garcia

A psychic garden is an adventure of many different dimensions. It is a personal relationship: with the living intelligences of nature, with the spirit visitors that you invite into the garden and most of all, with yourself and your multidimensional mind.

One of the most beautiful things about a psychic garden is that it communicates through images and unity rather than the harsh concepts of words from the intellect. The images you see in the plants, the flowers, the trees or water features lend themselves well to the intuition and to your interpretations that are not etched in a study of metaphysics.

If it is not clear of what you are psychically receiving, I suggest that you let go of your analysis and not get too hung up on the message, but rather, consider where you are at the moment. Breathe in the essence of unity that your garden generates and join with your own sense of unity.

The miracle of the psychic garden is in the healing of mind, body and spirit. We draw from the garden everything it is that we need for rejuvenation. Our senses are heightened, our worries dissolve and the plans we have for our life are declared.

The architectural blueprints in the wild of nature is of course the most influential for psychic communication but the effectiveness of a created psychic garden is capable of producing the same. One of the ways to create a strong source of energy in your garden is through the use of copper and natural clear quartz. By placing them in the four corners of your garden, they will draw energy into the resonance matrix of each and every physical and non physical entity within its diameters.

Materials: Copper poles ½ to 1 in. circumference and 1to 2 feet long. (You can purchase the copper pole at your local hardware store and they will even cut at the length you specify.
Copper wire: Most Arts and Crafts shops carry copper wire- be sure to buy extra for future projects.

Clear Quartz: You are sure to find natural clear quartz in your local lapidary shop. You will need eight of them. Take one of your cut poles with you so that you can choose the size. You will be securing the quartz in both ends of your pole with your copper wire.

Preparation: Insert copper wire through the pole and wrap around quartz. Make sure you have about ½ of the quartz protruding outside the pole. Secure the other end in the same manner.
Insert your pole into the ground leaving half out into the open. Continue with the remaining three poles. The effects of these energy poles are immediate. You may feel the frequency pulsating on your skin at first.

Situating yourself in the center is ideal for rapport with the nature spirits, animal, rock, plant and water intelligences within your garden. It is also the perfect place to ask particular questions and receive answers. You will notice that psychic information is quickly perceived and your visions clear and vivid.

All of your senses and your extrasensory capacities are heightened with each session in your garden. You will learn how to manage the energy, the rapid influx of psychic sensations, and the indescribability of your experience as you transit your reality through each season.

As the seasons change, your psychic garden will absorb the positive information and dissolve the negativity that is directed your way, by means of the power source you have created with your copper poles. These frequency waves also have a healthy effect on your vegetation, water sources and animal life.

As you establish a deeper rapport with the intelligences of the garden, expect visitations of other unexplained life forms such as orbs and/or other world life forms. Some of these may be etheric, dimensional and physical. Depending upon your location and surrounding natural structures, your psychic garden may also expand, and evolve into a portal through time and space.

The sanctuary of your psychic garden allows you to develop naturally and remain in a natural healthy state as you explore the alternate realities of your existence, independent of barriers, blocks, or restrictions.

Omens of Love

By Barbara Garcia

Veiled in mystery and romance comes February's day of love every year in every culture around the world throughout the ages. We set aside this day to entertain the passions of our heart amid flurries of fantasies, superstitions, and omens. In the following collection of centuries old omens are some that are ever so popular today. Lucky is the young lady who is kissed under mistletoe for example. However, it is bad luck if she refused the kiss, she remains a spinster.

• If a groom sees his bride on the wedding day before they are wed, the marriage is fated in bad luck.

• To ensure a long and happy marriage, the bride must wear something old, something borrowed and something blue. If she tears her wedding dress or burst a seam, her husband will be mean.

• Ever wonder why lilacs are not as popular as roses on Valentines Day? To give lilacs to your finance is an omen that the engagement will be broken off.

• Never propose in a public place, on a bus, train, or plane, it is considered very bad luck.

• A pearl on an engagement ring induces sadness and unhappiness to the marriage.

• Words of love should always be mailed on Friday because it is ruled by Venus, the goddess of love.

• If you should receive two love letters at the same time from two different people, it is an omen that you will not marry either of them.

• The message of a ladybug is not where it lands but in the direction of where it fly's away-it is the direction of your future love.

• Love at first sight comes on the seventh day after the full moon.

• A burning candle in a window has long been associated with the safe return of a lover. A pink candle burned on Saint Valentine's Day will bring true love.

You may or not believe in these old omens but they are fun to observe and appreciate having survived throughout the ages. There are countless numbers of omens, some of which you may wish to create and incorporate into the little joys of your day.

Happy New Year

Gong Hee Fot Choy

February 7, 2008 begins the New Year of the Rat on our western calendar. Those of us who were born in the years of 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 are under the sign of the Rat.

Those born under the sign of the Rat are said to compatible with the Dragon, Ox, Monkey, Snake and Rat.

According to Eastern astrology sources, those born in the year of the Rat are hard-working, ambitions, have high energy and are perfectionists. They are known to be loving, loyal, and charming.

Endorsing Tools for Manifesting

Endorsing Tools for Manifesting

By
Barbara Garcia


Everyone knows that manifesting is a process. Every day we are lulled into the process with the attention we give it. We look for the synchronicities that follow our intent; we stay open and receptive to the opportunities that arise. We work with pictures, affirmations, and our own thought process as a daily practice in the process of manifesting. Our lives are totally engaged and emerged into the magnificent celestial process of creating.

After manifesting many wonderful things in my life, I have noticed that no sooner than something is manifesting, I get a new desire to work on. Once you know what it is that you want and feel it with all your heart, the Universe simply makes it so.

In my personal experience, I was led to what I consider high tech tools for manifesting. I am experimenting with encoded “Orgone” based creations that truly are the most unique and energetically based tools I have found thus far. I think it is absolutely fantastic that we have these high tech tools available. I wholeheartedly endorse the efforts of http://www.ProtonicCreations.Com and am happy to refer you to them.

Psi Journal offers our Starmerge community the opportunity to read interesting articles, updates, and to join with others through our links, affiliations, and common interest. I encourage you to contact us with your own personal manifesting experiences for posting on Psi Journal so that we may all journey through the universal laws of attraction together.

American Identity

By Nasrin Dastjerdi

Traditionally, researchers of American identity have mostly focused on only two components of American identity: liberalism (America as a land of freedom and opportunity) and ethnoculturalism (America as a nation of white Protestants).

In recent years additional dimensions of American identity have been considered. Two newly overlooked elements of American identity are civil republicanism (America as a vibrant participatory democracy with dutiful citizens) and incorporationalism (America as a diverse nation of immigrants).

The content of American identity: Rooted in liberalism

Recent scholarship has identified complex and often competing components of American identity that are rooted in the widely accepted liberal tradition, civic republican tradition, the contested ethnocultural tradition, and the equally contested incorporationist tradition. This perspective has been termed the "multiple tradition" or multiple conceptions model of the content of American identity.

Liberalism, in short, is the image of America that comes most easily to mind when people think about what it means to be American and is widely seen as the defining essence of American political culture. It stresses minimal government intervention in private life and promotes economic and political freedoms along with equality of opportunity.

Ethnoculturalism has also been a defining element of American identity. It sets boundaries on group membership. In its extreme, ethnoculturalism maintains that Americans are white, English-speaking Protestants of northern European ancestry. Over time this tradition has been discredited, but it is far from breathing its last breath.

Civic republicanism emphasizes the responsibilities, rather than the rights of citizenship. It advances the notion that the well being of the community is more than just the sum of individualistic pursuits of private gain. Rather, a vibrant self-governing community needs individual members to act on its behalf. In his view, we should all be involved in social and political life and pursue ends that serve the public good. As Tocqueville noted, pursuing the public good engenders pride and patriotism, which further motivate people to "labor for the good of the state".

Incorporationalism is a more recent tradition to the set of norms that constitute the content of American identity. The seeds of this tradition were planted nearly a century ago with cultural pluralism, and only in the past few decades have both elites and citizens come to endorse this notion that America's unique identity is grounded in its immigrant legacy and in its ability to convert the challenges immigration brings into thriving strengths. Ethnoculturalism continues to exist, but it does so alongside an incorporationist challenge that has grown stronger over the years due to many factors, including rights-based movements of the 60s and 70s and the political incorporation of immigrants and their descendents.

The simplicity of incorporationism - the idea that the United States is a nation of immigrants - belies complex beliefs about the balance between unity and diversity. While there are people who advocate one extreme of complete assimilation and others reject the premise of assimilation altogether, most Americans do not fall at these extremes. Incorporationism celebrates Americans ability both to assimilate and maintain difference.

The above mentioned elements can make the concept of American Identity which can be studied and measured each separately and widely.

2008 Gut Feeling Predictions

In addition to my annual predictions for 2008 that were published in on Starmerge at: http://www.starmerge.com/newsletter.html , it is a joy to post the following 5 National Predictions by my brother, John of North Carolina.

Photo: (C)2007 Painting by Ali Vasquez

2008 Gut Feeling Predictions
By
John Lowe

1. The financial crisis will worsen and will become even more widespread affecting markets worldwide. It is like a giant snowball rolling downhill gathering more snow as it goes. However, it will eventually bottom-out and then markets will gradually begin to rebuild. This process may take a couple of years.

2. Hillary Clinton will get the Democratic nomination for President. Barack Obama will receive a strong second place win while others will straggle far behind.

3. The Republican party will continue to flounder but Rudy Giuliani will narrowly receive his party's nomination for President. His primary support will come from the big money states, such as, New York, Florida, Texas and California, and they should be enough to carry his nomination.

4. Hillary Clinton will be elected to become the next President of the U.S. by a wide margin - I'm feeling between 60 - 70 percent of the electoral vote. However, I'm also feeling a possibility of her developing some health issues from either natural or unnatural causes at some point during the year. I can't tell how serious these issues will be but I feel she will get through them. While I feel most Americans support her, I also feel danger from the right-wing radical side.

5. Everything else I feel will be pretty much a repeat of 2007. There will of course be a lot of worldwide political posturing and a bit of shoving back and forth going on but I don't feel anything truly significant will come out of 2008, at least not on the world political scene. I feel like the whole world is collectively holding its breath - waiting in anticipation and in hope of something better - but it will not happen in 2008.

Well - this is the way I see it.

Happy New Year,
John

2008 Psychic Predictions on Starmerge

Happy Holidays from the contributors to Psi Journal to you. We wish you and yours good health and happiness during this beautiful holiday season and for the coming year.

Our staff psychic, Barbara Garcia has completed her annual predictions and has been sent out for syndication this week but can now be viewed on Starmerge (just follow this link) http://www.starmerge.com/newsletter.html

Gerry-A Boy With Autism Who Surprised Staffers With His Unsolicited Messages

By Mary Ann Harrington
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Jerry was a verbal student with autism. He had a photographic memory that he often used to memorize information about favored movie stars. Jerry was a very social kid and loved to say hello to others throughout the school. He often initiated conversations by providing rote compliments to the person he wished to interact with. When working with him to on academics, it was important to break everything down line by line, otherwise he became overwhelmed and seemingly lost in tangents relating to his personal agenda.

One day, out of the blue, Jerry said to a member of the staff: “Is your husband’s name Gregory Garner?” The staff member said, “No, but that is my father’s name.” Another time the same staffer was working with Jerry and a few other boys in a small group. One of the other students had just been released form the hospital, and they were talking about the hospital he had been in. The staffer then went on to say that there were other hospitals in Milwaukee. Gerry then said, “I know, you went to another hospital on Sunday because your father, Gregory Garner, had a heart stroke on Saturday.” She was taken aback, because it was true that her father Gregory Garner had a heart attack on Saturday and she had gone to visit him in the hospital on Sunday. Jerry provided these unsolicited remarks with others too. He would usually have the names right, but the relationship wrong; he might say brother name when he meant father and so on.

Since he demonstrated this special ability, I wanted to see if he seemed to have some of the abilities of my nonverbal kids, so I randomly put colored blocks behind his head. He could identify all of them. He was also able to send the colors to another student as I had done for him. I was in proximity so I am not sure if that variable had an effect. I then tried it through a seven-foot opaque partition and he was just as successful. Later I found he could also correctly identify colors over the phone, as could several other students in my class. I wondered if it was the intensity of our connection and lack of interfering stimuli from others that allowed for our success over a distance. We were about five miles apart and both using landlines.

Although he was successful when the category was limited; for example, requesting colors, he did not have the ability of my non-verbal students who could type any word or sentence, I deliberately sent to them. I noticed the same need for category by the other verbal students; for example, I would have to specify I was looking for a color, number, or shape.

Lessons I learned from Jerry:

• Some kids are able to give unsolicited information that was not received through ordinary channels.
• Some verbal kids are receptive to thought sending if the information is limited by category: colors, numbers, and shapes. Nonverbal kids do not seem as limited as they can type letter by letter what you send them.
• Some kids are not dependent on proximity control but can receive information through telephone lines.

Some kids can send to other kids if limited by a category.

I have served as a teacher of individuals with autism for 18 years. What they have taught me was to be sure of nothing, and open myself to the extraordinary. Please check our other anecdotes if you are interested in reading more about these remarkable individuals.

Mary Ann Harrington