And in other news...casting out demons - no, really!

Got the political ranting out of my system, viewed Salon's Baby Animals: Your election antidote http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/11/03/baby_animal_slideshow, so on to other news!!!

Making progress in the advertising department. Friday I establish MindCast Productions as a business. It's tough being both the creative person and the marketing person. Two different sides of the brain. That's why I was resisting the selling at first and wanting underwriters (donations) instead.

But the cool thing is that the response to the idea of the broadcast has been so warm. Nearly everyone thinks this is a fabulous idea. (I wanted to say "everyone," but I did encounter one curmudgeon today.) So the sales are not difficult once I pick up the phone.

We WILL go on the air on the 12th as scheduled. I'm very excited. There's so much to say, so many stories to tell. I'll actually have to be organized and have notes -- not so I won't have dead air space -- just the opposite! So I can prioritize and leave time for the audience to tell their own stories.

I find it interesting that the majority of my what would be considered "paranormal" experiences, happened in one paradigm. I've tried analyzing them or rather re-analyzing them from my new paradigm, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Luckily both paradigms include Otherworld experiences so it's not a conflict of "believe it or not," rather a matter of perspective.

It's like going from a traditional medical view to an alternative medical view. Neither says the malady doesn't exist, but most often in the traditional view they're looking for symptomatic abatements or cures via pharmaceuticals, where alternative medicine looks for underlying causes and works to resolve the issues without causing further harm to the individual, effecting a real cure from the inside out.

When I was a Christian pastor and well -- uh, the traditional term would be "exorcist," but it seems less off putting, perhaps, to call it "deliverance from spiritual harassment," I would take my son with me because he could sense things in the physical realm that I could not. When we did house cleansings, he would smell sulphur in certain places. It was like the "x" on buried treasure, or like getting "hot or cold" in a child's game -- if I followed up on his nose, I could always get to the source of the harassment. Why? Sulphur was associated with The Devil in Christianity, so the assumption was that a smell of sulphur meant there was something demonic nearby. So now, if I try to reanalyze what happened in light of my current paradigm where I no longer "believe" in that Devil nor his sulphurous reputation, where does that leave me?

The fact is that when he smelled the odor, we got to the bottom of the problem, the domicile was purged of the offending item or entity and everything was better. My point? Who cares what the methodology was or the philosophy behind it? The "cure" was effected. As in alternative medicine. A real cure, not a symptomatic masking nor a treatment where the malady was likely to reoccur.

When dealing with "energies" or "powers" or "entities" or illnesses or what-have-you, there are many, many ways to approach them. What matters is how the person being treated feels about the approach and its fit for them. Do you know that most doctors sued for malpractice did not have a good relationship with their patient to begin with? No trust. Go figure. Hmmm...I never had that problem with my clients...