KarmaTube posted a heart-wrenching music video this morning featuring Michael Jackson's 1988 hit, "Man in the Mirror." I don't believe it would have been possible to assemble this piece this well and get it online in the hours since Jackson's death yesterday, so it seems to me a "cosmic coincidence."

One of my primary and favorite healers is Dia Lynn of Monterey, CA. She is one of the most talented and diverse healers I've ever heard about, well-versed in Qi Gong, essential oils, body work, Rolfing, mental healing (she's a Religious Science Practitioner) and many others.

I've been taking a class from her for a couple of weeks in which she is charting the chakras against the bodily systems to which they relate. I've been fascinated with energy healilng for quite some time and I've been curious about the anatomicl connections involved in the body's electromagnetic system of fields. This course is exactly what I'd been looking for.

She's going to produce a dissertation for her ministerial degree program around this subject and I'd like to encourage her to wite a book about it. But I can't gauge the market for such a book. If  you're interested in this idea, I'd appreciate it if you'd just indicate that by posting a reply to this post. No commitment, just an indicator.

Thanks very much.
Namaste

Here are my planned speaking dates for May-June. All events are at Unity of Montery Bay, 601 Madison St., Monterey, CA unless otherwise indicated.

I try to keep up with things that are being written about spirituality in various places and to that end I have customized my Google News page so it follows the topic. This morning, a very interesting piece by Arturo Mora showed up from the Kansas City Star's community voices page.

I just ran across an announcement from Link TV about an exciting new series making its debut Sunday, April 12. The series, called "Global Spirit", sounds like something I will thoroughly enjoy. I've applied for press certification so that I can pre-screen some of these episodes and make specific recommendations here.  

There has long been a disconnect in many therapists' offices and practices between the vastly important role most people claim religion and spirituality play in their lives and the degree to which the therapist will even consider discussing the connection, let alone using it to the client's advantage.

But some progress has been made in recent years, as revelaed in this article from the Toledo Blade.

Therapists are psychologists by training and psychology wants so  badly to be viewed and treated as a science that its practitioners seem unwilling to engage in any activity that might even smack of unscientific or even non-scientific thought. This is just a side effect of Western -- and particulary American, German and Russian -- elevation of Scientism to the status of a near religion in its own right.

But as the professor interviewed in that article points out, when upwards of 90% of Americans claim a belief in God or a spiriutual path and only 25% of therapists do, the disconnect is all but inevitable.

My Science of Energy Medicine Group here on Gaia.com is a place where we will be examining this issue in depth and discussing ways we can further the research into the topic as well as improve the promulgation of the truth of the onenness of wisdom.

Take the vow of non-violence in your thought, speech and actions. I was the 6,546th person to take the vow tonight. Let's hit a tipping point. Deepak Chopra is a key backer of this new movement.

I just created a new group here on Gaia.com called Science of Energy Medicine. This will be the virtual home of a national movement I'm launching called the Science of Energy Medicine Group (SEMG). Its purpose is to foster and facilitate research and study of the connections between what modern science (particularly physics and biology) has discovered about energy and how energy can be used to heal.

If you're interested in the intersection of these two topics, please join the new group. And if you live in or near the Monterey, CA, area, note that I will be presenting on this topic at a Jan. 9 meeting, details of which are in the first post to the group forum.

Namaste

I'd like to point you to the Unity Web radio station, Unify.fm. They have a set of programs broadcast at the top of the hour several times a day all week. The topics vary from deeply philosophical to practical (a fair amount of emphasis on health, e.g.).

You can listen to the broadcasts live, but they also archive all of them so that you can listen at your leisure.

Even the "advertisements" are spiritually focused: on events, affirmations, and all sorts of interesting stuff going on in the world of New Thought.

I just found out about this site tonight. I don't know how I've missed it.