Autumn bounty! We pulled in the last of the third harvest this morning: tomatoes, a couple of white eggplant, and the last of the corn which will go to our growing farmfowl population. The weather was glorious -- sunny, gorgeous October blue skies, and upper 60's.
I feel victorious today. I landed the first sponsorship account for MindCast. Once I got over my fear of cold-calling (thanks to some great coaching from KJLL's media director, Christopher Lidberg), it was actually fun! The reaction to the MindCast idea has been very warm -- people are getting excited!
I mentioned Jo'Ann Ruhl, professional psychic and medium, in my last post. She will be on AM 1330 on Gnosis this Saturday at 3 pm doing a special Samhain (Sow'en) show. It can also be live-streamed at www.tucsonsjolt.com from any web browser other than Firefox. Give it a listen, and let me know what you think! She will be MindCast's guest on New Year's Eve talking about oracles, psychics, and prognostication. Jo'Ann has taught a class on psychic development for the last 7 years, and is well known as an astrologer and energy healer as well.
I am postponing the MindCast debut for a week for several practical reasons. 1) I'm going to have an emergency tooth extraction next week and I'm not sure how much I'll feel like talking come Friday. 2) It will give me more time to sew up some sponsorship deals, and 3) it will give the KJLL production guys a chance to breathe after the election before jumping in to do our ads.
So tune in on Friday, Nov. 12th at 6 pm. We will talk about experiences "beyond the veil." Email us at mindcast1330@gmail.com, or call live during the broadcast (520-529-3508) to share your own story.
Julian
"Casting my mind into the abyss...only then do I begin." Dr. Christopher Hyatt
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Exciting guests and opportunities!
MindCast's lineup of shows is coming along fabulously with some really outstanding guests!
First I'm very excited about how our "Wiccans and Heathens and Druids, O My" four-show set is shaping up. This is a fabulous opportunity to educate the public on the serious nature of these religions -- serious versus fluffy, scary, "not real," etc.
We seem to be entering a new era of openness and recognition. Gone is George Bush with his "they're not a real religion." The UK has pronounced Druidry an "official religion." The US Air Force Academy has dedicated an outdoor place for Pagan rites and celebrations.
The public is taking notice. We are going to strike while the iron is hot! Local members in leadership will be interviewed and respond to listener's questions on the opening night of the series, Nov. 26th. That's "Black Friday," so be sure to get your shopping done early so you can listen to the show.
The Wiccan show on Dec. 3rd will feature author and long-time priestess, Ashleen O'Gaea and her partner Canyon Dancer. She's a woman of great energy, many talents, and highly creative. Her noteworthy accomplishments as a Wiccan are too numerous to list here, and beyond that she's a wife, mother (cat and dog mommy, too, one of her bios says), novelist, teacher, speaker -- the list goes on and on. She and her husband have accomplished much together. Check out her website at www.ashleenogaea.com. We will cover lots of ground, from secret covens to Wiccan families.
Our Heathenry show on Dec. 10th will be live with Dennis Ford, the current Chieftan of Raudhajordh (Redearth) Kindred, who is both local leader and Vice-Steersman of the national Troth organization. The Troth defines itself as a church of Northern European Heathenry or Asatru. We are hoping to also talk that evening with Troth clergy coordinator and board member, Diana Paxson, author, speaker, and long time member and leader in the Pagan and Heathen community.
From the Druid community on Dec. 17th, we will have the Grand ArchDruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer as a call in guest to discuss his Order, to help us compare and contrast some of the Druid orders in Britain and America. Wikipedia describes Greer as an independent scholar, historian of ideas, cultural critic, Hermeticist, environmentalist/conservationist, blogger, novelist and occultist/esotericist in addition to being an author, translator of ancient texts, and national leader in the Druid community.
That same evening we will be joined in the studio by Linda Costello, a long time member of Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF) as Druid Dedicant, former founder and Senior Druid of Grove of the Rising Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ, several years a member of ADF's Mother Grove (its governing body), and current clergy for the Fellowship of Druids in the Latter Age (FODLA). Linda calls herself a "well-rounded Druid." I'll let her explain that on the show.
Beyond the Pagan community, we are especially pleased to announce that Jo'Ann Ruhl, professional psychic, medium and astrologer, has agreed to be our guest. She assisted UofA professor, Dr. Gary Schwartz in his Afterlife research. I have asked her to be with us for New Year's Eve, when the topic for MindCast will be "Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow." I have invited her to discuss Oracles and Psychics, and the topic of prognostication. Her husband, Mark, wears the title of hypnotherapist, among several hats. Together they host one of the largest healing circles in Tucson. Mark was recently a guest on AM 1330's show Gnosis where he discussed past life regression. Find out more about Jo'Ann on www.essentialwisdomhealing.com.
So much more coming, much more in the works, including your own opportunity to interact with these guests via live call-in during the show. However, we still need your help for the kick off. In order to begin on All Soul's weekend, I need underwriters. Very soon the program will be self-sustaining through advertising, but for now I need assistance. If I can find 60 people to send just $10 by this Friday, I can debut the show on Nov. 6th. $20 will guarantee the show through Dec. 31st. Your name will be mentioned more than once on air as an underwriter, and during the month of November, if you like, you can memorialize a loved one, an ancestor of kith or kin. PayPal your monetary assistance to gaylenjade at gmail dot com. If you are memorializing someone, include your name and the name you would like spoken in memory. Any questions, be sure to contact us at mindcast1330 at gmail dot com.
Think of being able to help educate the public on all things metaphysical including our spirituality. Help defy fear and ignorance. Become, in essence, MindCast's board of directors or steerage with your suggestions, comments, questions (both live and privately). It's a work of honor and reciprocity.
First I'm very excited about how our "Wiccans and Heathens and Druids, O My" four-show set is shaping up. This is a fabulous opportunity to educate the public on the serious nature of these religions -- serious versus fluffy, scary, "not real," etc.
We seem to be entering a new era of openness and recognition. Gone is George Bush with his "they're not a real religion." The UK has pronounced Druidry an "official religion." The US Air Force Academy has dedicated an outdoor place for Pagan rites and celebrations.
The public is taking notice. We are going to strike while the iron is hot! Local members in leadership will be interviewed and respond to listener's questions on the opening night of the series, Nov. 26th. That's "Black Friday," so be sure to get your shopping done early so you can listen to the show.
The Wiccan show on Dec. 3rd will feature author and long-time priestess, Ashleen O'Gaea and her partner Canyon Dancer. She's a woman of great energy, many talents, and highly creative. Her noteworthy accomplishments as a Wiccan are too numerous to list here, and beyond that she's a wife, mother (cat and dog mommy, too, one of her bios says), novelist, teacher, speaker -- the list goes on and on. She and her husband have accomplished much together. Check out her website at www.ashleenogaea.com. We will cover lots of ground, from secret covens to Wiccan families.
Our Heathenry show on Dec. 10th will be live with Dennis Ford, the current Chieftan of Raudhajordh (Redearth) Kindred, who is both local leader and Vice-Steersman of the national Troth organization. The Troth defines itself as a church of Northern European Heathenry or Asatru. We are hoping to also talk that evening with Troth clergy coordinator and board member, Diana Paxson, author, speaker, and long time member and leader in the Pagan and Heathen community.
From the Druid community on Dec. 17th, we will have the Grand ArchDruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer as a call in guest to discuss his Order, to help us compare and contrast some of the Druid orders in Britain and America. Wikipedia describes Greer as an independent scholar, historian of ideas, cultural critic, Hermeticist, environmentalist/conservationist, blogger, novelist and occultist/esotericist in addition to being an author, translator of ancient texts, and national leader in the Druid community.
That same evening we will be joined in the studio by Linda Costello, a long time member of Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF) as Druid Dedicant, former founder and Senior Druid of Grove of the Rising Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ, several years a member of ADF's Mother Grove (its governing body), and current clergy for the Fellowship of Druids in the Latter Age (FODLA). Linda calls herself a "well-rounded Druid." I'll let her explain that on the show.
Beyond the Pagan community, we are especially pleased to announce that Jo'Ann Ruhl, professional psychic, medium and astrologer, has agreed to be our guest. She assisted UofA professor, Dr. Gary Schwartz in his Afterlife research. I have asked her to be with us for New Year's Eve, when the topic for MindCast will be "Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow." I have invited her to discuss Oracles and Psychics, and the topic of prognostication. Her husband, Mark, wears the title of hypnotherapist, among several hats. Together they host one of the largest healing circles in Tucson. Mark was recently a guest on AM 1330's show Gnosis where he discussed past life regression. Find out more about Jo'Ann on www.essentialwisdomhealing.com.
So much more coming, much more in the works, including your own opportunity to interact with these guests via live call-in during the show. However, we still need your help for the kick off. In order to begin on All Soul's weekend, I need underwriters. Very soon the program will be self-sustaining through advertising, but for now I need assistance. If I can find 60 people to send just $10 by this Friday, I can debut the show on Nov. 6th. $20 will guarantee the show through Dec. 31st. Your name will be mentioned more than once on air as an underwriter, and during the month of November, if you like, you can memorialize a loved one, an ancestor of kith or kin. PayPal your monetary assistance to gaylenjade at gmail dot com. If you are memorializing someone, include your name and the name you would like spoken in memory. Any questions, be sure to contact us at mindcast1330 at gmail dot com.
Think of being able to help educate the public on all things metaphysical including our spirituality. Help defy fear and ignorance. Become, in essence, MindCast's board of directors or steerage with your suggestions, comments, questions (both live and privately). It's a work of honor and reciprocity.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Free but not cheap
In January of 2007, I got a tarot reading from Lon Duquette, a highly respected leader in the esoteric community. He told me he wanted to take a snapshot of the card spread because he had never seen one so wildly full of success! He said, "if anyone ever asks me what success should look like, this is it!"
That same month, I watched a personally inspiring movie, then went for a walk to think it all through, and to talk with the Universe. As I was taking that walk, a nearly audible voice said to me, "If you want all that success that Duquette promised you, you're going to have to give up "x." I was horrified! Not that of all things! No, no, no. I just couldn't do it.
So, I didn't. Not too surprisingly, success didn't come. In fact, that entire year, circumstance after circumstance arose -- offers of business loans, offers of business partnerships, wild and wonderful offers, but consistently, one-by-one, everything fell through.
I just avoided the thought all together. It was not lost on me (after a year) what was keeping me from success. But I still couldn't look at it. No more did I say, "Oh, please, don't ask me that," but neither did I offer to do anything about it. This feeble little voice down inside me repeated daily, "Do all as unto the Beloved." That was all the courage I could muster.
But it was apparently enough -- enough to do for me what I couldn't do for myself. But, just like any hard-head that has to be hit upside the head with a 2x4, it was a lot harder on me than if I had taken care of it myself. Sixteen months after the reading, "x" was extracted from my life. Then ensued a year of stormy chaos (my reaction to the extraction).
The storm abated as suddenly as it had come. Suddenly it was quiet..stilled.. hushed, and the green buds began. More buds came, were tended, grew into glorious spring, and blossomed. This past year has been a breath of fresh air -- verdant and fecund -- long cherished dreams coming true. The magick continues. Success burgeons.
Whether one calls it karma, or *ghosti, or just plain consequence -- the secret is not a magic wand or cosmic Santa Claus raining gifts; to put the law of attraction into action requires heightened attention, harmonious intention, agreement with the Universe, and letting go.
The reading predicted the success, but was followed by a caveat: never underestimate messages from the Universe -- they may be free, but they're definitely not cheap.
That same month, I watched a personally inspiring movie, then went for a walk to think it all through, and to talk with the Universe. As I was taking that walk, a nearly audible voice said to me, "If you want all that success that Duquette promised you, you're going to have to give up "x." I was horrified! Not that of all things! No, no, no. I just couldn't do it.
So, I didn't. Not too surprisingly, success didn't come. In fact, that entire year, circumstance after circumstance arose -- offers of business loans, offers of business partnerships, wild and wonderful offers, but consistently, one-by-one, everything fell through.
I just avoided the thought all together. It was not lost on me (after a year) what was keeping me from success. But I still couldn't look at it. No more did I say, "Oh, please, don't ask me that," but neither did I offer to do anything about it. This feeble little voice down inside me repeated daily, "Do all as unto the Beloved." That was all the courage I could muster.
But it was apparently enough -- enough to do for me what I couldn't do for myself. But, just like any hard-head that has to be hit upside the head with a 2x4, it was a lot harder on me than if I had taken care of it myself. Sixteen months after the reading, "x" was extracted from my life. Then ensued a year of stormy chaos (my reaction to the extraction).
The storm abated as suddenly as it had come. Suddenly it was quiet..stilled.. hushed, and the green buds began. More buds came, were tended, grew into glorious spring, and blossomed. This past year has been a breath of fresh air -- verdant and fecund -- long cherished dreams coming true. The magick continues. Success burgeons.
Whether one calls it karma, or *ghosti, or just plain consequence -- the secret is not a magic wand or cosmic Santa Claus raining gifts; to put the law of attraction into action requires heightened attention, harmonious intention, agreement with the Universe, and letting go.
The reading predicted the success, but was followed by a caveat: never underestimate messages from the Universe -- they may be free, but they're definitely not cheap.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Creating Reality
I said yesterday that I had made up stories that came true. Interesting how that works in my life. It's not just a certain kind of story. I started realizing that any story I make up comes true -- that just seems to be my karma. So it can work for good or ill. It has made me a very careful truthteller -- I simply cannot tell a lie. Not unless I want to bring a whole lot of consequence on my head.
I first noticed it in just little things. If I wanted a day off work and called in sick -- guess what? I'd get sick! Of course some might call that guilt or self-fulfilling prophecy, but as other, more positive effects happened by my speaking things, I began to see a pattern.
When I was in seminary, I was identified as having the "gift of prayer" because my prayers were answered far more often than the average Christian's. Once I started learning the principles of magick and of creating reality, I began to put it all together, and to make it even more effective for myself.
For me, narrative is a pretty powerful way to affect the cosmos. I'll be telling lots of stories on the air -- stories about stories, and the stories themselves. Listen in and find out how to create your own reality.
I first noticed it in just little things. If I wanted a day off work and called in sick -- guess what? I'd get sick! Of course some might call that guilt or self-fulfilling prophecy, but as other, more positive effects happened by my speaking things, I began to see a pattern.
When I was in seminary, I was identified as having the "gift of prayer" because my prayers were answered far more often than the average Christian's. Once I started learning the principles of magick and of creating reality, I began to put it all together, and to make it even more effective for myself.
For me, narrative is a pretty powerful way to affect the cosmos. I'll be telling lots of stories on the air -- stories about stories, and the stories themselves. Listen in and find out how to create your own reality.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Paranormal? Supernatural?
When I was first inspired to create MindCast, I touted it to the station's media director as a show about the "paranormal." But I had a philosophical objection to the word. Same with "supernatural."
"Beside the normal," "above the natural" to whom? I was willing to use the word metaphysical because it means beyond the physical, and that I agree with. But who's the judge of what's normal and natural?
Then I realized that what's normal and natural for me may not be to the average person. It's in my nature to see beyond. To walk in both worlds. That's why I'm doing this show, right? I've been told over and over as I've told my stories that I should write them down and publish them because people are hungry to hear them.
My current fascination is with narrative. Storytelling. I have made up stories that came true. I began to understand that we create in telling. The Bible says that God made the Universe by speaking it into being. I think that must have been one of the first things I ever learned as a child that stimulated my imagination beyond the rational. Words create. Words create ex nihilo -- something out of nothing. Some people call that magic. Some call it religion. Some call it science. I call it will. As we learn more and more about this thing called reality, it is demonstrated over and over that we create our own reality. I create mine by telling my story, to the gods, to the Universe, to the people. And it's coming true every day.
I want to share it with you -- that's what MindCast is really all about.
"Beside the normal," "above the natural" to whom? I was willing to use the word metaphysical because it means beyond the physical, and that I agree with. But who's the judge of what's normal and natural?
Then I realized that what's normal and natural for me may not be to the average person. It's in my nature to see beyond. To walk in both worlds. That's why I'm doing this show, right? I've been told over and over as I've told my stories that I should write them down and publish them because people are hungry to hear them.
My current fascination is with narrative. Storytelling. I have made up stories that came true. I began to understand that we create in telling. The Bible says that God made the Universe by speaking it into being. I think that must have been one of the first things I ever learned as a child that stimulated my imagination beyond the rational. Words create. Words create ex nihilo -- something out of nothing. Some people call that magic. Some call it religion. Some call it science. I call it will. As we learn more and more about this thing called reality, it is demonstrated over and over that we create our own reality. I create mine by telling my story, to the gods, to the Universe, to the people. And it's coming true every day.
I want to share it with you -- that's what MindCast is really all about.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Welcome to MindCast!
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5
Horatio was a realist; he leaned toward a steady diet of ethics and and logic. But Hamlet had just had a conversation with his dead father. Hamlet and Horatio were both students at the University of Wittenberg; the same institution that nurtured Horatio's realism also harbored the famous Dr. Faustus who consorted with demons. (enotes.hamlet)
How do two people who have the same background and education end up with such different viewpoints? Personal experience. A whispered voice might have been easily dismissed if Hamlet could not say whether it was guilt or conscience or imagination, but Hamlet's dead father had appeared to him as a free-floating, full-torso, vaporous apparition, not just a voice in his head. Little was left to interpretation. He was given information that he had no other way of knowing.
Such things -- visions, psychic phenomena, apparitions, spirits -- are beyond the physical. Some people don't "believe" in such things. I don't think it has to do with belief; I call it experience, awareness, consciousness.
A very dear friend of mine told me once, "Spirituality is the art of noticing." People can be made to believe anything if it strikes their emotions just right. But to actually experience the metaphysical in a way that cannot be denied, opens ones eyes to see in a way that can't be unseen.
To see, to know, to have experienced. These bring a kind of wisdom which, when combined with energy, brings power. Experiences shared and explained bring others to desire gnosis -- authentic knowledge which brings personal light and understanding. To plant the seed that will ultimately generate the fruit of change in accordance with will -- that is MindCast.
Horatio was a realist; he leaned toward a steady diet of ethics and and logic. But Hamlet had just had a conversation with his dead father. Hamlet and Horatio were both students at the University of Wittenberg; the same institution that nurtured Horatio's realism also harbored the famous Dr. Faustus who consorted with demons. (enotes.hamlet)
How do two people who have the same background and education end up with such different viewpoints? Personal experience. A whispered voice might have been easily dismissed if Hamlet could not say whether it was guilt or conscience or imagination, but Hamlet's dead father had appeared to him as a free-floating, full-torso, vaporous apparition, not just a voice in his head. Little was left to interpretation. He was given information that he had no other way of knowing.
Such things -- visions, psychic phenomena, apparitions, spirits -- are beyond the physical. Some people don't "believe" in such things. I don't think it has to do with belief; I call it experience, awareness, consciousness.
A very dear friend of mine told me once, "Spirituality is the art of noticing." People can be made to believe anything if it strikes their emotions just right. But to actually experience the metaphysical in a way that cannot be denied, opens ones eyes to see in a way that can't be unseen.
To see, to know, to have experienced. These bring a kind of wisdom which, when combined with energy, brings power. Experiences shared and explained bring others to desire gnosis -- authentic knowledge which brings personal light and understanding. To plant the seed that will ultimately generate the fruit of change in accordance with will -- that is MindCast.
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