Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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.

Monday, February 11, 2008

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.

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

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.

Friday, January 18, 2008

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.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

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.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

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

Sunday, December 16, 2007

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

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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


Saturday, December 01, 2007

*** I'M BACK***


Photos: The first was taken of the charred hillside along side the road. I snaped the second photo of Richard and Gigi stretching their legs after the long drive.

Hello Everyone,




I am very happy to share this fabulous book review by LA's The Place Magazine on my first day back at Starmerge. I am so happy, I have butterflies in my tummy. Check it out and let me know what you think.










Julian, California




When it comes to celebrating the holidays there is no place like the quaint little historic town of Julian, California to bring out the Santa in all of us. The population is approximately 300 with Holiday traditions dating back a little over 100 years.




I am very pleased to report that the San Diego fire storms spared this little town from devastation. The winding mountain roads leading to the little town were lined with blackened and charred hillsides. It was sad to see clearings of what was once stood a home. It was so inspiring to me to hear how positive the residents spoke of their horrific experience.




You know, we can all count our blessings this year for what we have, who we were and who we have become through all the turmoils of 2007 as well as all the blessings. I for one am so thankful for this gift of life and my rapid healing. Thank you for your prayers, blessings, and well wishes throughout my leave of absence.








Holiday Shopping




Our online Starmerge shop features Prophecy Prints for special occasions as Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and housewarmings. Our new book store is open each and every day of the year with " 7 Oracles Prophecy and Tools for Empowerment" and "Psychic Empowerment Workbook" available in both paperback and e-book.






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Monday, November 19, 2007

Thanksgiving Day Outing - Precious Memories



By Sophia

Photo by Ali Vasquez
Published 2007 "7 ORACLES, Prophecy and Tools for Empowerment


Thursday, November 24, Barbara Garcia is taking Starmerge on a Thanksgiving getaway to observe autumn, spend a thankful day at her favorite Mt. Palomar picnic ground and record the aftermath of the 2007 California Firestorms for reference files. Other areas to be recorded will include both Mesa Grande and La Jolla Indian Reservations. The psychic predicted the fires in Southern California over 7 years ago in 1998. It was significant to her because at that time she could not perceive when this disaster would take place, now that it has; she believes it to be an omen in her forecast of global events.

Although Barbara is still recuperating, she will participate in light hiking and plenty of food preparation on the night before. Being a long term vegetarian, the menu this year sounds delicious.

• Raw broccoli salad
• Pumpkin stuffed with wild rice dressing
• Baked sweet potatoes (no goop in this recipe)
• Cranberry, Orange relish
• Mashed potatoes with mitake mushroom gravy
• Desert is a special raw non-pumpkin, pumpkin pie ( it has carrot juice in it )
* Reggiano Lambrusco is lovely soft red table wine that will accent this vegetarian feast especially imported via Trader Joes from Le Grotte vineyards.

The history of visiting Mt. Palomar and the Indian Reservations on Thanksgiving Day goes back to her husband, Richard Garcia, who had been drawn to the areas since a child. In the year 1978 he found much more than he ever imagined on a brisk Thanksgiving Day hike along the forest path. There she was, the love of his life, sitting on a fallen Oak that crossed a rushing brook. She was in a deep meditation, she didn’t even know that the man she would marry was standing before her…or did she?

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

P.S. If you have any questions or if I can help you while Barbara is on leave, please feel free to leave a comment here or email me at: cnblue1@cox.net