Podcasts about blue sapphire

Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #27 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Blue Sapphire meaning, including: Blue Sapphire for commitment Sharpening the mind with Blue Sapphire History and folklore of Blue Sapphire Blue Sapphire and Full Moon in Libra   Tune in now for a deeper look at Blue Sapphire meaning! Are you interested in becoming a Certified Crystal Healer? Find out more about the CCH and Advanced Crystal Practitioner Program HERE!

Have you adopted scripts around the terms feminine and masculine? Today we unpack Chapter 8 of Richard's book, Eager to Love, entitled "Lightness of Heart and Firmness of Foot: The integration of Feminine and Masculine", and we ask for our listener's grace as we imperfectly grapple with a subject inherently challenging to define. The conversation delves into the integration of masculine and feminine energies within the context of spirituality, particularly through the lens of the Franciscan tradition. Richard and our hosts explore how cultural influences shape our definitions, how terms like masculine and feminine can easily be confused for gender, and the revolutionary approach of Francis of Assisi in breaking free from traditional norms. We're then joined by two incredible voices in the world of liberation psychology and contemplative spirituality, Jennifer Abe and Douglas Christie, who share their personal journeys and insights, emphasizing the interconnectedness of life and the need for openness to mystery and transformation. Jennifer Shimako Abe earned her PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA and has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychological Science at Loyola Marymount University since 1994. Her experience in Central and South America drew her to the work of Jesuit priest and social psychologist, Fr. Ignacio Martin-Baró, SJ and the field he founded, liberation psychology. The principles of liberation psychology have guided her research in different areas, including how the practice of cultural humility relates to institutional and social transformation, and how culturally rooted, community-defined evidence practices are critical for addressing mental health disparities across diverse communities. In 2024, she helped lead a commission on Student Spiritual Growth and Mental Health: Toward a Hope-Filled Future for Jesuit institutions in North America. Jennifer is currently the interim director for the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts at LMU, leading efforts to strengthen the legacy of the women religious and the Marymount educational tradition at her institution. Across different leadership roles, Jennifer has been committed to working at the intersections of culture, spirituality, and justice in the context of Ignatian values and the Jesuit educational mission.  Douglas E. Christie is Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford, 1993), The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Note for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford, 2012), and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss and the Common Life (Oxford, 2022). He has been awarded fellowships from the Luce Foundation, the Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2013-2015 he served as Co-director of the Casa de la Mateada study abroad program in Córdoba, Argentina, a program rooted in the Jesuit vision of education for solidarity. He lives with his family in Los Angeles and is currently working on a book about the desert as spiritual landscape.   Hosted by CAC Staff: Mike Petrow, and Paul Swanson Resources: A PDF of the transcript for this episode can be found here. Grab a copy of Eager to Love here. To learn more about the work of Jennifer Abe, visit here. For more by Douglas Christie, visit the following: Wasting Time Conscientiously, What is Contemplation

  Libra season is here! This astrological season, it's important to focus on cooperation and justice. During Libra season, be mindful of your interactions with others. This is an important time for relationships of all kinds, from friends and family, to acquaintances and co-workers, or even those with whom you have a difficult time seeing eye to eye. As we dive into Libra season (September 23 - October 22), the focus shifts to cooperation and relationship building, especially when working in community with others. Discover more about this special time, and some of the best crystals for Libra season to use in your healing practice...     The opposing energies of competition and cooperation are at odds and how you engage with others will influence the outcome of each interaction. Cooperation is always more pleasant and productive than competition, so make an effort to keep your relationships working in your favor.     Working with the following Libra stones aligns you with the current celestial energies and is an excellent way to enhance the positive aspects of this astrological phase while balancing its challenges. Libra Season Correspondences: Dates: September 23 - October 22 Symbol: The Scales Ruling Planet: Venus Modality: Cardinal (Outgoing – related to imagination, resourcefulness, and talent) Element: Air (Click Here to learn more about working with Elemental Crystals) The Body: Kidneys Keywords: Balance, Cooperation, Justice Libra Season Gifts: Accommodation, Community, Compassion, Diplomacy, Geniality, Grace, Harmony, Imagination, Marriage, Partnership, Romance, Unions Libra Season Challenges: Fear, Hurt Feelings, Indecisiveness, Individualism, Isolation, Laziness, Loneliness, Over-Sensitivity, Projection, Wastefulness       Best Crystals for Libra Season: During Libra season, select crystals that amplify balance, harmony, and partnership. It's important to note that Zodiac crystals are a little different than birthstones (more on that here). You can work with the following crystals to enhance or balance the energies of Libra season. Whether enhancing positivity or addressing challenges by balancing out the more difficult energetic aspects of Libra, these stones are the best companions for the celestial journey ahead.     Aquamarine (Blue Beryl) Azurite Chrysanthemum Stone Chrysoprase Rainbow Fluorite Hiddenite (Green Spodumene) Tai Chi Jasper Zebra Jasper Lapis Lazuli Malachite Snowflake Obsidian Ethiopian Opal Pinolith Pyrite Blue Sapphire Sardonyx Selenite White Marble Wish Stones   Top 3 Crystals for Libra Season: Azurite: This deep indigo stone is connected to your center for intuition and stimulates creative expression and imagination. Work with this crystal when you need a little intuitive help understanding the thoughts or feelings of others. When you can put yourself in someone else's shoes (or their head for that matter), it's easier to hold compassion for them and work in cooperation. Rainbow Fluorite: Rainbow Fluorite promotes clear thinking and allows you to see what's most important in a given situation. If you've been feeling scattered or pulled in lots of different directions, work with this crystal to get you back on track. It can also bring clarity to your role in projects, relationships, or social groups and help you better understand what people expect from you. However, this doesn't mean you need to agree with these roles. Whether you choose to conform or rebel against these societal expectations, Rainbow Fluorite will guide you on your path. Blue Sapphire: This crystal promotes peace and harmony, especially among groups of people. If you've been dealing with a tumultuous situation, Blue Sapphire can help you remove your ego from the equation, set your differences aside, and find some common ground with others.  

Hans Petrovic and guests review three films currently showing in Christchurch

主播／发发大王 大杨 小鲁 司南文案／发发大王 封面／Blue Sapphire声音编辑／司南忙忙碌碌了10多年，这次终于公司项目黄了，拿着赔偿金出来旅行。但万万没想到老公安排的第一站，是巴基斯坦。从小就听说过这个中国人民的老朋友，刚到机场就走进了“中国人专用通道”，中国人住的酒店也必须有持枪保安，在这里中国人确实会被“区别对待”。也见识到了他们的“热情”，体验了一把当明星的感觉。巴铁真的铁吗？

Volume 7, we wake up in the desert after a night of Blue Sapphire Martini's, Mr. Brightside, and a chat about the 2004 debut album "Hot Fuss" by The Killers! Cocktails come from Homemade Hooplah & "Make Shake Cocktail" https://www.patreon.com/drinkthemovies https://www.instagram.com/drinkthemovies/ https://twitter.com/drinkthemovies https://www.facebook.com/drinkthemovies https://www.drinkthemovies.com https://discord.gg/fsdW2QqqpS *Please Drink Responsibly*

Douglas E. Christie, Ph.D., is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is author of The Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Early Christian Monasticism; The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology; and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss and the Common Life. He is the founding editor of the journal Spiritus and served as co-director of the Casa de la Mateada Program in Córdoba, Argentina from 2013-2015. Doug and I talk about why the poetic and apophatic theology of Hadejwich of Antwerp and Jan Van Ruusbroec might be important for our times, incarnational risk and AI, kindness as a spiritual practice and much more. Listen to Doug's first appearance on Contemplify here. Visit contemplify.com for the shownotes.  

Whats up famiglia?! I hope you are all well. Today we have a special NYC edition with one of my guys from New York! A Queens native (QGTM!) who hopped in the game very early and started chasing paper under his big brother's wing. Once he was in, he never looked back! He went through all the trials and tribulations that comes with that life over the years and landed himself in a very interesting position through it all. He is the owner of Zatti Distribution in LA and just had his first California rec drop with his strain called Blue Sapphire! Not to mention, he just took home 1st place at the East Coast Zalympix for his Zoap x Zkittlez strain. If you haven't tried that, keep looking, she smokes like a champ! In my short time of knowing him, he has proved to be a standup guy, a great business man, a proud husband and father, and I am happy to call him a friend! He has major momentum going on the east and the west coast and there is no doubt his company will be a cannabis household name in no time! You know what time it is! Roll em fat, torch those rigs, pack your bongs, do what you gotta do because we are about to hear the story from my cannabis cugine Gino from the Gotti brand!Peace, Love, & Good PizzZa,J Peezy------Connect with Gino from The Gotti Brand: IG | WebsiteShop Merch: goodpizzza.comInstagram: @good.p1zzzaInstagram: @goodpizzzapodcastShow some love: patreon.com/goodpizzza

Check out my Meditation app: Level SuperMind https://levelsupermind.onelink.me/CsSR/youtube Join the Level Community Here: https://linktr.ee/levelsupermindcommunity नमस्ते दोस्तों! The Ranveer Show हिंदी के 148th Episode में आप सभी का स्वागत है. आज के Podcast में हमारे साथ जुड़ चुके हैं India के One Of The Most Famous Numerologist Sanjay B Jumaani. इन्होंने Bollywood के ही नहीं बल्कि देश के कई Famous Personalities को Consultation दिया है। Mukesh Ambani, Shah Rukh Khan, जैसे कई लोगों ने इनको Consult किया है। इस Podcast में हम बात करेंगे Astrology क्या होती है, Numerology क्या होती है, इसका Origin कहाँ से हुआ, Rakesh Roshan, Ekta Kapoor, Numerology में Number 1 की Information, Birth Dates से अपने Life Secrets कैसे जाने, Numbers के Through Predictions, Numerology में Research और Success Stories, Lucky Numbers के बारे में। साथ ही साथ हम बात करेंगे Signature में Do's और Dont's, कौनसे Colours Lucky होते है, Black पहने या नहीं, Intuitive Energies और Crystals और Gemstones का Importance, Red Coral, Opal, Blue Sapphire, Ruby और Diamonds के बारे में और भी ढ़ेर सारी बातें। मैं आशा करता हूँ कि ये Video आप सभी Viewers को पसंद आएगा। खास तौर पर उन सभी को जिन्हें Astrology और Numerology के बारे में जानने में Interest है। Big Stars की Numerology, Amitabh Bachchan, Yash Chopra Films के बारे में Prediction जैसी चीज़ों के बारे में हम Discuss करेंगे इस Hindi Podcast में सिर्फ और सिर्फ आपके Favourite BeerBiceps Hindi Channel Ranveer Allahbadia पर। (00:00) : Episode की शुरुआत (02:51) : Numerology की शुरुआत (04:58) : इनके Clients Rakesh Roshan और Ekta Kapoor (10:02) : Numerology में Research (14:33) : Number 1 वाले लोगों की Numerology (16:25) : Number 2 वाले लोगों की Numerology (18:18) : Number 3 वाले लोगों की Numerology (27:43) : Number 4 वाले लोगों की Numerology (32:37) : Number 5 वाले लोगों की Numerology (34:21) : Number 6 वाले लोगों की Numerology (43:27) : Number 7 वाले लोगों की Numerology (46:49) : कैसा Signature आपको Successful बनाएगा? (49:23) : क्या Black सच में अशुभ Colour है? (01:03:11) : Number 8 वाले लोगों की Numerology (01:08:37) : Intuition कैसे बढ़ती है? (01:13:31) : Crystals का महत्व (01:16:10) : क्या Numbers भगवान की भाषा है बात करने की? (01:22:47) : Number 9 वाले लोगों की Numerology (01:29:00) : कैसे इन्होंने Anuskha की Pregnancy Predict की? (01:33:15) : 2023 में India कैसे होगा? (01:36:06) : Episode की समाप्ति

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Wearing gemstones associated with each of the days of the week will allow you to invoke the energy of their corresponding planets and deities. The days of the week were originally named for the sun, the moon, and the five ancient known planets. These planets were associated with particular gods depending upon the culture. For example, the Greeks, the Romans, and Germanic peoples each had their own gods associated with the different days of the week. To invoke the energy of the planets or deities listed below, wear or carry one of the listed stones on the corresponding day of the week.  Wearing crystal jewelry (or keeping a stone in your pocket) in this way is considered a talisman of good luck and protection. These stones can also help you ease into your day and work through whatever the day may bring.  To further connect with the energy of the crystal, try meditating with your chosen stone, creating a crystal grid, or placing the stone in a prominent position on your altar or in your sacred space. Correspondences for the Days of the Week: Monday (Moon's Day): Deities: Selene, Artemis, Hecate, Mani, Luna Stones: Selenite, Pearl, Moonstone, Silver, Blue Kyanite Keywords: Intuitive, Emotional, Feminine, Receptive Celestial Body: Moon  Tuesday (Tiu's Day): Deities: Mars, Aries, Tyr/Tiu Stones: Ruby, Red Garnet, Red Jasper, Carnelian, Sardonyx Keywords: Warrior, Passionate, Motivated Celestial Body: Mars Wednesday (Woden's Day): Deities: Mercury, Hermes, Odin/Woden Stones: Green Nephrite Jade, Turquoise, Amazonite, Blue Topaz, Chrysocolla Keywords: Trickster, Scientist, Inventor, Healthy Celestial Body: Mercury Thursday (Thor's Day): Deities: Jupiter, Zeus, Thor Stones: Lapis Lazuli, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine, Alexandrite, Amethyst Keywords: Leader, Spiritual Seeker, Wisdom Keeper, Traveler Celestial Body: Jupiter  Friday (Freya's Day): Deities: Venus, Aphrodite, Freya/Frigga Stones: Emerald, Copper, Chrysoprase, Rose Quartz, Pink Tourmaline Keywords: Loving, Beautiful, Gentle Celestial Body: Venus  Saturday (Saturn's Day): Deities: Saturn, Kronos/Cronus Stones: Black Tourmaline, Brazilian Banded Agate, Jet, Shungite, Black Obsidian Keywords: Virtuous, Proud, Mysterious Celestial Body: Saturn  Sunday (Sun's Day): Deities: Apollo, Helios, Sol Stones: Sunstone, Imperial Golden Topaz, Gold, Amber, Heliodor Keywords: Brave, Masculine, Dominant Celestial Body: Sun  Another interesting way to use these stones is to find out on which day of the week you were born and use the corresponding stone as a personal talisman.   For example, I was born on a Friday, Freya's Day.  Something fascinating happens when we are born into this world, and the cosmos imprints that energy onto our spirit from the moment we are born.  If you embrace that energy and tap into the strength it can give you, you can create and do amazing things. So, if I wanted to strengthen my understanding of the archetypal energy of love and beauty, enhance my connection to Venus (or Aphrodite or Freya), or utilize the positive aspects of the planet Venus, I would carry or wear an Emerald, Copper, Chrysoprase, Rose Quartz, or Pink Tourmaline at all times as a personal talisman. Pin it!     Are you interested in becoming a Certified Crystal Healer? Find out more about the CCH and Advanced Crystal Practitioner Program HERE!

Douglas E. Christie is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. His books include The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the Common Life and The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. His work explores the early foundations of Christianity and connects its spiritual traditions to important issues in our modern world. …

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When you know what is happening in the heavens, you can prepare with gifts from the Earth. This episode explores the major astrological influences of October 2022 and which crystals and essential oils to align with to make the most of each energy shift. Here is a summary for October 9th - Full Moon in Aries - Angel Aura Quartz and Coriander Seed 25th - New Moon in Scorpio - Covellite/Nuummite and Juniper Berry 30th - Mars turns retrograde (until 12th Jan) - Red Jasper and Cinnamon Bark Planets Going Direct 2nd - Mercury goes direct - Where are you not clear in your life? - Blue Sodalite and Lemongrass 5th - Vesta goes direct - Where have you been betraying yourself? - Red Garnet and Coriander Seed 22nd - Juno goes direct - Are you with the right partner? - Blue Sapphire and Blue Lotus 23rd - Saturn goes direct - Where do you lack commitment to your goals? - Pietersite and Basil See the crystals and oils on my visual monthly forecast on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet To book a reading with me, please click here: https://calendly.com/adambarralet/private-reading-with-adam-barralet FOLLOW ADAM https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet https://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/ https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/ FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and more http://www.adambarralet.com/ BRING MAGICK HOME My books, oracle cards and more https://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shop My monthly online crystal sale https://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/ My favourite essential oils https://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterra KEEP IT SIMPLE! All my details http://linktr.ee/adambarralet

When you know what is happening in the heavens, you can prepare with gifts from the Earth. This episode explores the major astrological influences of September 2022 and which crystals and essential oils to align with to make the most of each energy shift. Here is a summary for September: 10th - Full Moon in Pisces - Howlite & Jasmine 10th - Mercury turns retrograde - Blue Sapphire & Geranium (Libra), Leopardskin Jasper & Magnolia (Virgo) 16th - Artemis turns retrograde - Labradorite & Davana 22nd - Pan turns retrograde - Zincite & Summer Savory 23rd - Ostara - Aqua Aura & Eucalyptus 23rd - Mabon - Red Jasper & Clove 26th - New Moon in Libra - Onyx/Larvikite & Myrtle See the crystals and oils on my visual monthly forecast on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet To book a reading with me, please click here: https://calendly.com/adambarralet/private-reading-with-adam-barralet To join my astrological course, visit: http://bit.ly/adambevents FOLLOW ADAM https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet https://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/ https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/ FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and more http://www.adambarralet.com/ BRING MAGICK HOME My books, oracle cards and more https://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shop My monthly online crystal sale https://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/ My favourite essential oils https://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterra KEEP IT SIMPLE! All my details http://linktr.ee/adambarralet

Feng Shui is the Chinese system of harmonising energy in your surroundings. This episode explores how to analyse your home or workspace and using simple Feng Shui principles and crystals to change your space and change your life!Crystal Summary:Prosperity & Abundance – Citrine, Jade, Turquoise, Jet, Iolite – add water features and leafy green plantsFame & Reputation – Sunstone, Bumblebee Stone – pictures of sunrise and/or phoenixLove & Marriage – Rose Quartz, Rhodonite, Rhodochrosite, Kunzite – pair of ducks and/or fresh peoniesFamily & Community – Amazonite, Super Quartz, Ametrine, Brown Tourmaline - mirrorsWellbeing – Clear QuartzChildren & Creativity – Carnelian, Labradorite, Sunstone, Thulite, Turquoise, Tanzan Aura QuartzKnowledge, wisdom, learning – Fluorite, Dumortierite, Blue Sapphire, Blue SodaliteCareer & Life Path – Charoite, asterism crystals, Atlantisite™ – add water features and fishFriends, Helpful People & Travel – friends: Rose Quartz, Dalmatian Jasper, Champagne Aura Quartz, new friends: Unakite, Bumblebee Stone, Golden Danburite, travel: Falcon's Eye, Yellow Jasper, Moonstone (add a six-rod wind chime to attract beneficial people)FOLLOW ADAMhttps://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralethttps://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and morehttp://www.adambarralet.com/BRING MAGICK HOMEMy books, oracle cards and morehttps://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shopMy monthly online crystal salehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/My favourite essential oilshttps://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterraKEEP IT SIMPLE!All my detailshttp://linktr.ee/adambarralet

This is PBP: A Peaky Blinders Podcast presented by The Joe Blow Football Show. Join your hosts Jamie G and Magnum Mills as they break down the fourth episode of season six of the television show 'Peaky Blinders', "Blue Sapphire". SPOILER ALERT: This podcast WILL spoil all events from the all six seasons of 'Peaky Blinders'.Join us as we break down the episode and talk about what we liked and what we disliked. We'll also see what Arthur Shelby has been up to, hand out some awards for our favorite parts of the episode and speculate on what will happen next.Thank you for listening, please remember to like, follow, comment, subscribe, all of that good stuff. We really appreciate it and it helps us out.Find us on social media @PeakyPodcastFind the Joe Blow Football Show at JoeBlowFootballShow.com and on social media @JoeBlowShowHave a more detailed comment or question? Email us at peakyblinderspodcast at gmail dot com.

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The New Moon is a great time to pause, take stock and realign with our intentions. On 5th November, 2021, the New Moon occurs in the sign of Scorpio and this is the ideal time to contemplate, “How can I use my money to fulfil my deepest yearnings?” and “What are my fears around money?” Adam has pulled an oracle cards for each sign to offer guidance from some of his favourite decks including his own upcoming deck “The Magic of Essential Oils”You can now pre-order this oracle deck at http://bit.ly/ShopAdamTo see the twelve cards spread head to https://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/ or https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/FOLLOW ADAMhttps://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralethttps://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and morehttp://www.adambarralet.com/BRING MAGICK HOMEMy books, oracle cards and morehttps://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shopMy monthly online crystal salehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/My favourite essential oilshttps://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterraKEEP IT SIMPLE!All my detailshttp://linktr.ee/adambarralet

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Profiteer is the short-priced favourite for this afternoon's Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes

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It's the Choo Choo Train episode of ‘ Drinks with Dee Dee ‘ Emmy Award winning host Dee Dee Sorvino brings the fun and games along with terrific guests. Amtrak , New Jersey Transit , NY Metro & international trains. The manifest is full on this trip ! Drink of the show is the ‘ True Blue Train' made with gin , triple sec , lemon juice & HPNOTIQ liquor. Guests enjoy 3 types of wine , Blue Sapphire gin , & Hornitos Tequila. The passengers on the Dee Dee Express include : Kurt Messick Alyssa Cuttler Jen Remauro Vanessa Goode Stephanie Janiczek & Michael Gilkison. The talkative train group talk Train travel , Train movies & Train stories ! All Aboard !

In this episode George is joined by Jean-Claude Biver, former President of the LVMH Watch Division as they discuss the Hublot Big Bang Unico Blue Sapphire.

Tony talks with Catholic theologian and historian Douglas E. Christie about his book, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind." They discuss contemplative ecology, Thoreau's laundry, our unconscious desire for healing, asceticism, learning how to love our fellow human beings, grieving for the world, becoming less fidgety, and more.  Find Douglas's book here: https://amzn.to/3fkj1tN 

Tony talks with Catholic theologian and historian Douglas E. Christie about his book, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind." They discuss contemplative ecology, Thoreau's laundry, our unconscious desire for healing, asceticism, learning how to love our fellow human beings, grieving for the world, becoming less fidgety, and more.  Find Douglas's book here: https://amzn.to/3fkj1tN

The Nick & Gator Traveling Freakshow and Cigar Evangelical Revival kicks off 2021 with a visit at The Smoke Pit in Greenwood, Indiana. The guys sit down with owner Reid Storvick and Broccoli Rob to talk all about the shop, while smoking the 1502 Blue Sapphire.  Broccoli fed Nick a lot of alcohol so things quickly go off the rails as we also discuss the trip, our horrible rental car experience, and what Gator did to the hotel room shower. We also answer listener questions in this week's Ask the Boys and give away some cigars in the Weekly Giveaway.  Get more information about the Smoke Pit on their Instagram page at @TheSmokePitIndy Check out the Cigar Pulpit on Instagram at @TheCigarPulpit and @NekkidGator and sign up for the free newsletter HERE. Sign up for the Robusto box at My Monthly Cigars and smoke along with the guys at MyMonthlyCigars.com  Follow JRE Tobacco at @JRETobacco on Instagram or check out their website, JRETobacco.com for a store near you that carries their cigars

It took me months to read Douglas E. Christie’s book Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. I found it a joy to read slowly, soaking in the poetics married with scholarship on the Christian contemplative tradition which I so dearly love. It felt like a love letter, albeit in academic one, to a tradition that is still bursting with so much fruit waiting to be tasted by the many. I think it will wet your contemplative whistle, disarm any judgements, and welcome you to be a part of the great contemplative conversation. Our conversation highlights a few arrows of Blue Sapphire of the Mind that struck my heart. We talk about contemplation and parenting, memento mori (remebering deatth), a painting by George Inness, apprenticeships, contemplative practices and so much more. Visit Contemplify.com for the shownotes on this episode

Jessica Mesman is founder of the blog Sick Pilgrim and coauthor of Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters. Her essays have been published in US Catholic, Lit Hub, Elle, Vox, America, and Christianity Today. Jessica joins Elise to discuss writing as a form of accompaniment and how the experience of mourning shaped her, both as a Christian and as a writer. They talk about the Catholic practice of memento mori, the unique way horror movies can convey truth, and how to live a Christian life when you can’t let go of grief.   How place shapes you   The unique religiosity of New Orleans   Horror movies and haunting   A Christian look at grief   Memento mori   Why remembering the dead is a work of mercy   Wrestling with the darkness of the human experience as an Easter people   St. Therese of Lisieux   What makes a good friendship   Writing as accompaniment   Links: Jessica's website Laudato si The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas Christie The Exorcist The Babadook Poltergeist Awakened by Death by Christiana Peterson

Jack Dickens from Dicko's Mailbag with his thoughts at the super card of racing at Caulfield's Blue Sapphire meeting this arvo.

Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace have seven runners at Caulfield tomorrow headed by Anders in the Blue Sapphire, while Al Galayel needs to win the Coongy to secure his spot in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup

I love this interview. Warm and fuzzy and homey-like sitting down with a favorite older couple filled with light and wisdom and having a little chat-which is exactly what this was.

I love this interview. Warm and fuzzy and homey-like sitting down with a favorite older couple filled with light and wisdom and having a little chat-which is exactly what this was.

Welcome to Harmonic Evolution podcast. I'm Joe Heller, your host, your guide, and I am honored to have Reverend Michael Shane. Reverend Shane is a physical medium and a spiritual teacher Reverend Shane has spent his life connecting with the Ascended Masters of Shambala to bring forth their teachings and principles into the world this three-dimensional world we live in. Reverend chain offers healing instruction, direction direct application, so individuals can strengthen and fully realize their connection to the spiritual world, their guides and their masters as well as work directly with the Ascended Masters. In the lady masters of Shambala, if a student seeks the calling, so welcome, Michael, this is a real thrill to have you here because there's just so much I want to get into. And it's just like, Wow. I mean, they're obviously there's so few physical mediums on the planet. So why don't we start there? Because I'm sure people and I've met James Vaughn, Prague and a few others. So can you talk about the difference between a physical medium, and then a just a traditional, I guess, medium, and how you kind of came down this path?Well, the differences between mediums. And the first thing I want to say one isn't any better, or any less than the other. All gifts given to us by God and everybody has one it's just a question or an issue of finding what it is. But there are differences I mean, with everything, you know, you Like in a football team, you have your quarterback and you got your offense Do you know? But there's mental mediums like you mentioned James Vaughn, Prague and John Edwards who are very, very talented individuals that speak to meet people's loved ones to give closure and information to those that are grieving. And they do that through hearing him seen spirit. Hmm, that's what a mental mediumship is. In reality, it has nothing to do with the mind. See, but they call it mental mediumship in more you probably be better to call it spirit connection mediumshipor psychic mediumship. Then you have the trance mediums which are those that go into trance and as Spirit will come into their body and utilize the physical body to communicate to people or like a seance mic. Or that one's a seance. Yes. Okay, but it's usually done in red light. Where the idea of a transfiguration medium came from, because in a red light setting in a dark room, when the medium is inside the seance cabinet, not using a seance trumpet, the spirit comes into the body, their body tends to, to kind of shift and change into a very close, familiar appearance of the spirit that's taking over the body. Wow. And then you end up seeing all these different orbs and things floating around. And it's a pretty exciting thing. The other one is handwriting medium I'm sure your listeners and yourself have heard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, yes, his wife was a hand handwriting medium. And what would happen is an automatic handwriting medium would use the opposite hand to write from what they normally write with. So if you're right-handed, the spirit world would use the left hand if you were left-handed, they would use the right because then your control factor isn't as connected to the opposite side as it is the one that you normally use. So it's easier for spirit to use. Now if you use both, then I guess they just flip a coin go and I'd actually heard that before in reading some of Dolores cannons stuff is that when let's say she You're gonna connect for the past life through her client. And that past life was left-handed, they would write in the left hand and it would be anything from a completely different language, such as even ancient languages like Sanskrit or cuneiform or Sumerian cuneiform. So it's fascinating the way that this can kind of come through the body.Oh, we are truly all of us are connected. You see, especially the mother to their child, some mothers through what they call a symbiosis of their record. Uh-huh. their child could be on the other side of the world. And they're going through some sort of trauma, and the mother on the opposite side of the world can feel it. Yeah. To give you an example, everyone knows who Gladys Presley was. Elvis Presley's mother, yes. She always knew when he was on the road when something was wrong. And she would describe what she was feeling to him when he would call and in one specific incident, their car caught on fire and they had you know, in his mom saw the fire and all of that. And so she was really connected, the more connected that one person is depending on how sensitive you are and how emotional one it can be. To net would that also apply to obviously twins, correct? Same thing. And then what if a twin because you might have one twin that's a star seed and then one twin that may just be incarnate as in this world for the multiple times and maybe not a star seed. So I understand those maybe have a less of a connection or it does it really matter do you think?I don't think it matters because they're hanging out in the same space for No see mom? Yeah, you know and they're together pretty much their whole life at least when they're at home anyway.But, the connection, because we're all connected, is still there. So I would think that it wouldn't matter. I don't know for sure, but I would think that it would matter I I have known some twins in my life and I even know a set of twins that still wear the same clothes. Wow. And they're my age now.Wow. So they're 31 ish.Yeah, thank you.So yeah, I interrupted you, you were talking about the red light and apportioning and so I know you weren't going to finish that story. Because then I really want to ask you your origin story like all superheroes because your talent, your ability, and I know all gifts are equal, but it's pretty amazing. What you can do in this gift from the Ascended Masters that has, I guess, open some gates for people to see a greater understanding of the otherworldly realms through you?Um, well, in regards to the Transfiguration, red light sans, I pretty much told you about as much as I can there. I could probably talk about it for over an hour, but just that one, that one element alone.But in my case, how I got involved was I really didn't have a choice.You're volunteered.In my grandmother. She knew Marjorie Crandon. I don't know who that is. She was one of the old mediums the one that passed the Houdini test.Wow.And Houdini tried to get upset because she keeps passing in His tests and so he tried to set her up as a fraud on his own and got caught by the Spirit that was coming through her. And so he, and he still hasn't paid her to $10,000 reward to pass his test. So well, I would imagine the interest on that now she'd be it's probably a pretty good paycheck.Yeah, I would think so. That was what 1920s Yeah, I think so. I would say $10,000 now, could be worth close to 2 million, maybe nice. I don't know. My math isn't very good. So anyway, um, that led her to meet an individual in Seattle, Washington, who was studying this book called The Eurancher book and had these teachings of these masters from Shambala. And this comes from the Theosophical Society. Helena Blavatsky. Yeah, the optical society. She was the first medium physical phenomena medium to introduce the Ascended Masters to the physical world. The three there's a picture of her sitting in a chair with three of those masters standing behind her. That was St. Germain comes to me and l Moria.And if I'm correct, Michael, is she the first woman that was ever trained by Tibetan masters?That's correct. That is correct.You know, as James Brown says, in one of his songs, it's a man's world. In those days, it kind of was right, though today. It's not. You know, I'm not sure whose world this is right now.Well, like going back to the future. I think the professor would tell Marty whenever you Do Marty don't go to 2020?Yeah.Yeah. And look at what happened. Um, well, the point, though, I mean, Michael, I mean, you're up. But yeah, back in those days you had What? Helena Blavatsky. And then Alice Bailey. I mean, two women that really kind of shaped spirituality the world we live in today.Yes. And in fact, Marjorie Crandon, who I mentioned earlier, she was instrumental in how women got the right to vote. Wow. She was married to an upper-class surgeon, Dr. I believe it was in Philadelphia. Somewhere in that arena, and she had these gifts that her husband thought it was kind of neat. So he would have so his elite, rich, upper-class people will come over to his house and she would do events and stuff and every once in a while, she Go out and do stuff publicly you know and when he was working because you know if you're a surgeon you're not home that often, right? And that was even the case in those days. And she is in a seance, a spirit by the name of I believe his name was Dr. Black Hmm. Or no, that was Edgar Casey's sleeping prophet. He got his information from a spirit called Dr. Black. You don't read much about that anymore.For some reason, but that was the case but she had a spirit that came through and told all of these upper-class women in society, you know, in society to go down to the White House under designer outfits and pick it for the right to vote. Well, they took it one step further than that. They did get into their designer outfits. They went down to the White House with their signs and everything. But they chained themselves to the White House fence.Wow, wow, that's crazy.I actually read about that happening. Not the part about the seance. You have to go into another area to find that information. But that was one of the instrumental reasons why women got the right to vote. Awesome, which they should have been given the right to vote, you know, after the scenario with Jesus because He was teaching equality, that women were just as important as equal as men were.That's correct. And a lot of people don't realize how many women followers Jesus had. Mary Magdalene was actually my understanding, a high priestess from Egypt, which is one of the That they communicate well together is because they were very aligned with their teachings and eventually became his wife.Yes, I wasn't gonna go down that path. But yes, tantric sex in a whole type of which could be a whole different podcast for us, Michael, just to kind of give a little thing.I've been writing a book about his life including the missing years His Spirit has come to me and told me all these different stories that's also about his life in I'm not sure if everything is good that he has told me I'm going to write it in there because I'm worried about the controversy that may arise because of some of the information but yes, it was Mary Madeline's parents are from Egypt. She was actually born in Israel.I did not know that. But that's interesting. And But to your point, I would think that with everything breaking loose in 2020, this is the Great Awakening, I would say included because, I mean, there's been so much controversy around Jesus's as you were just talking about missing years and obviously those of us that are kind of following that path know that he was in India and receive certain teachings and, and other places that he had traveled to, which are not in the doctrine, probably in the archives in the Vatican.Like his master teacher, Maitreya, who, yes, in India, you know, wonderful master teacher, he is so anyway, to my story is a long story. So I'm going to make it I'm going to give you the short of it, please, if I know how to do that. When my mother was 15 years old, she was she went to this church called me The Aquarian foundation in Seattle Washington not too far from where they just recently had all the riots and stuff.Interesting and she was 15 years old and she was told by a spirit in a seance through a medium by the name of Reverend Keith Milton Reinhart that she was going to have a baby boy that was going to be born July 4 1963 11:59 am and that I would have these gifts this boy would have the similar gifts as the medium wow trained by the by this medium and that she wasn't to raise me that the church would raise me as an avatar nice now my I do have a little bit of an ego but not to the point where I think I'm some sort of avatar or God child like they treated me in those days they put like a big blue stripe on your right here, Michael I think that's yeahI'm no I'm not going there.But we know we know what your next Halloween costume is gonna be.I think it was gang stuff.Every once in a while I come out wearing robes and stuff. But that's for another purpose not to be egotistically inclined there. So I ended up being born on July 2 1963 1159. Wow, everything was correct. Except for the day. They missed the day by two days. But I've always been told that was because I was in a hurry over here. So I was born on a Tuesday. And I was in my very first seance that following Sunday. And I didn't make a sound through the whole seance.Wow, that's an interesting baptism.Yeah. And, you know, because there's a higher consciousness that's getting training this you know, that I mean, I might have been in that, you know, little body Google, you know and stuff but there's another part of us that's that exists called the heart consciousness mind. Yeah. Know, the heart-mind consciousness,especially that age because you're wide open you just came in, right? I mean, you are wide open and most of us aren't like six years old.Right? And it was I remember my birth and I remember those days even to details of people were wearing and I told my grandparents, what my grandfather was wearing. When he came to see me through the glass at the hospital. You know, remember, remember those days used to go stand behind the glass. There's my son, you know, that kind of thing?Yeah, with a cigarette, right? This is my son in the hospital. Right?And, and... Oh, I lost my thought.So you would just be in your seance you were able to tell everybody what they were wearing what they were doing kind of like an out of body experience. When you do like a transition from this world and you're in you get pulled back, you could see everybody in the hospital room in the circle.It was a chaotic day because I died three times. And my mom died twice. Wow. While I was trying to be born. And I believe I was saying you know what, I don't want to deal with this. I'm out of here.After seeing your soul is like God no, no, thank you.But so because of in those days religion was a big stickler in the hospitals. So the doctor went out and told my grandparents you know, which one do you want us to save? Because some religions save the mother other religions even child right like crazy. My grandfather, I was told this because I wasn't out there to see it. But he grabs the doctor by his white coat. tells him you say both of them were you better not show your face out here again. And he ended up saving both of myself and my mom. I love that story. You know. And then I, my grandmother was the lady that helped Reinhardt do the books, she set up the event, she ran the church for him. And all he had to do was come in and do his thing. And I ended up living with her and a few other people in the church as kind of passed around like a hot potato there for a while. And those were what I call my happy years.So do you think you're just kind of indoctrinated in this higher energy and you're playing kind of like the old Frank Sinatra song playing in the stars are among the star so it just kind of like permitted within your physical avatar your body?Well, to be honest, I milked it for everything I could up to me on a Sunday and say they would call me a little queasy because I was named after my biological birth name is Keith Milton, Lester. Okay. And I was named after him. And they would ask me if I if I had breakfast, I'm hungry. You know, they would take me over to the Safeway where they had this deli to buy me some breakfast. But really, all I wanted was a milkshake.And I'll get one, right.Yeah. And my grandma would say, don't do that. You know. I got a lot of good memories from those days. And I was, you know, was treated very special spoilt. People would give me money, candy, birthdays and Christmases were just undescribableWow, payment in advance. I like that.Yeah. And people would, I mean, I'm four or five years old people want me to come up and do healings on them? Uh,well, I was gonna ask you about that. So, obviously, we talked briefly about the A portion. I want to jump back into that in a second. But I also believe through some of the material I read, that you do hands-on healing and remote distance healing, is that correct?Correct. Now, when I was about six years old, Saint Germain whispered in my ear, now you do know you're not healing these people. And I thought about that. I said, What do you mean? You are aa avenue a vehicle, a tool. Think of yourself as a hammer. The Hammer does not build the house until someone comes along and picks it up. And I think he what he was doing was trying to help me not to lose my egotistical, negative side, right. Don't get into that I heal you. And truthfully, you're being used as a vehicle to help people believe in themselves enough to heal themselves.Right But that's also something you were chosen for. I mean, not all of us are chosen for something like that, especially, it's six years old. That's, that's pretty amazing.It was and, and it's just I think it's wonderful and amazing, but I also feel that Everybody, you know, has the ability to heal themself. I agree. Because, you know, they're the ones that created the issue in the first place. Yep. No, if you're the one that writes the map to the treasure, right, then you should probably be able to find the treasure.Exactly, yeah, we just become disharmony, disharmonious. We don't really know how to get back in sync. And so, I kind of see us as a, if you will cymatic wave pattern that, like Dr. Emoto. His work, when you have this corrupt is just negative or disharmonious thinking the whole wave becomes disharmonious, which causes corruption. Aging does disease within the avatar of the body.Right. And disease will eventually come into disease.Right, exactly. So let's jump back to reporting because I find that fascinating And I want my listeners to really kind of get their head wrapped around it. And I through the videos, I was like, wow, this is like so crazy cool. Because I'm watching you a port in reporting really is kind of, I guess opening a spiritual gate through different parts of your body. And what's the physical mediumship is, is you're actually bringing through gold jewels, I mean a number of different things, including, I think one we were talking before the show, a 1300 karat with Sapphire, Blue Sapphire. And then one of the other really fun ones for me was when you were talking about holding a class and there was a puppy in a car and the puppy was like going crazy and you imported the brought the puppy in or Saint Germain brought the puppy in, and he jumped out of your belly and onto the lap of the owner and it was in your class. I mean, I was like, had to wrap my head around porting living like puppies. I was like, Oh my god, that's so cool. Ever needs to go shopping again?Well, I remember that day that was in Renton, Washington. And we were doing a seance and there was my helper. Her name was Pat. She had this dog named chipper and we left with my car was parked just outside of the window next to the dance room. Uh huh. This little dogs out there, get get get get, you know, and people were getting cranky because they couldn't hear what spirit was saying. And one guy says, you know, he makes a comment about getting a refund because you know, and the next thing you know, and I'm in trance, so I didn't know this, it happened. And so the dog comes through and jumps out into the audience in pitch dark conditions and is able to find The, you know, hit her, her owner. And so jumped up in her lap and sat quietly for the rest of the seance. Now that gentleman afterward wanted my car keys and I go, what do you want my car keys for? And he says, I want to go look in your car and see if there's a recording device with a dog barking. And so he goes out and he looks he doesn't find anything.Are you serious? Okay, I thought he was like joshingNo, and he was in a suit, you know, with a tie and a suit coat and everything. So he asked, he says, Can I go under the house because there was this the section where you can crawl under and right in the old houses right on the pier beam. Yeah, this house was built in the 1920s. Right. And he goes under there. He takes his coat, jacket coat off, but he goes under there. With his tie his shoes, his slacks, and nice shirt and all that, you know, and as soon as he sees under there for 45 minutes now what he's looking for is a trap door. Right? Right. And he doesn't find anything and he notices no one's been under there because of where the cobwebs were and they were undisturbed when he ruined his outfit. I mean, when he came because it rained the day before. And, but he just couldn't wrap his mind around and says I just don't believe it. And so he never went public or anything to say anything negative and never seen and heard from him again. But, um, you know, it's just hard for people to imagine now.Well, Michael, to that point real quick. I mean, even for me because I was like, Okay, I can see a porting or bringing through the spiritual realm non Living materials like joules and go, but when I watched that video, I was like, really living materials can be imported through a body that's like crazy and it's like, could give a whole new meaning to the virgin birth if you will, because it's just something that was kind of beyond my comprehension I've got I got my head wrapped around it now, but it was like, wow, that's and I would imagine, even as a physical medium, there's probably very few physical mediums that can aport living material through their body.Um, I have not heard of any I'm not even Keith Reinhardt. But that doesn't really mean it doesn't take anything away from anything that any of them I'm sure, you know, but you got to think in terms of quantum physics. In reality, there is no distance between point A and point B. Okay, the closest distance between two points is not a straight line. It's where you take the two points and put them in the same space and time. So you're folding space and time, which is where the reality of, of existence really is. Because the past, present, and future exists simultaneously, like for instance, right now, you're still going through your childhood. And you're also going through your future, and you're going through the now. It's just this element of your consciousness is here. There's another element of your consciousness. That's is in the tomorrow, and another one that's in the past. You see yesterday, well, that's brilliant. As a matter of fact, right before we jumped on this call, I did a video for my YouTube channel, and I talked about past lives and future lives. And then I threw some monkey wrenches in there around. They don't need to be linear so you can actually go back and have a past life that wasn't there from a current life because you've developed something in this life. That needs to be developed in the past life, he actually has it in this lifetime. So looking at the observer being the observer observed who's being the observer. So it's really kind of a house of mirrors, if you will, which is interesting because I understand exactly what you're saying in that perspective. It's fascinating. That you're right, it's the points are together, there is no separation. It's almost like being on a computer, hard drive people, like run and play these games and climb mountains and swim through rivers and rowboats, but that one piece of code never moves from that one spot on that hard drive. And yet, they're all over the world, but that one piece of code are in the game, and that one piece of code never moves.Right? And it's kind of like an illusion. Right? And we are sitting in the illusion everything that you see around us. Is it the way that it truly is? And I have come to realize that the physical world in the spirit world are one in the same?That's why we loved ones and spirits and stuff are still there with us that we sometimes see them. Because we're, we're in the same space as they are, because of the conscious mind and the experience that we're going through relative to this side of the veil. We see this right. See. I was working with a scientist. His name was Edward Wilson. lived in Boulder, Colorado up in the mountains. He was the very first scientist to test me at the heartmath Institute in California.Oh, yeah. Great. Great place. Yes, yes.I met Dr. Childers. He was a he was a riot.Raleigh is his first name I think. Well, Raleigh, I think is his first name. Yeah, Holly. Yes.A wonderful man. I don't know if he's still alive or not. This was back in the 90s. But who knows he could still be around but anyway, he was studying the healing effects of sound. Yeah, as a time heartmath you know, so in one of the scenariosI was in trance describing the crucifixion of Jesus. Wow. Because I, I was astral projecting my consciousness back to those to that time. And the machine that they had me hooked up to stated that I believed what I was seeing wasn't saying that I was really seeing what I was describing. But it was basically saying that I believed it. Meaning I wasn't making it up. I was seeing it in my mind and It was there even down to the emotional level of the experience. And I gotta say, the Mel Gibson movie has nothing on what really happened to the poor guy. Wow. Do you know? I did a seance I believe it was in Lilydale New York and his finger we were doing a paraffin wax fingerprint where he materialized his hand and he put his hand down in the wax and the finger was broken.And, and I was told that that was because when he was being tortured one of his fingers, you know, was was was, was broke, right when he was on the cross. He was tortured. Are you talking about when he was actually carrying across the city when he was trying to when they were trying to nail him on his wrists, the hammer, went hit the finger and it broke his finger and twisted it back. Wow. And so it showed that on the handprint but with Ed Wilson I then did what a thing of the past life regression. This gentleman that I was that was working with me at the time. His name was Reverend Weston Bailey, who recently passed away a couple of years ago. He basically is the guy that brought me out of lethargy. You know, I was going down the deeper rabbit hole in those days.I understand life. but anywayI would astral project myself out of my body into the throat chakra of the individual. I'd be able to go in and see past lives, medical issues, childhood stuff, present-day stuff. I'd see all this stuff by etherial. And I described I'm looking at his blood.And I'm describing something that I thought was kind of peculiar. I said, I see these Jelly Bean, looking things being devoured by these round plate looking things. And Mr. Wilson stood up in the chair. He turned absolutely white and said, I don't believe this. I just don't believe this. But it happened was I had described as leukemia. Now, nobody that was there in the room other than Him, knew he had leukemia.Wow.And if you looked at it under The microscope that's what it looks like. And, and only people that knew that he had leukemia was him, his doctor, his wife, his wife wasn't there and I didn't know his doctor and, and so there was no way that I could have known that he had leukemia. So he, so that led me to a place called the heartmath Institute. I'm sorry, the subtle energy and in energy medicine organization, which used to be out of Boulder, Colorado, and another group, a gentleman by the name of Jerry Pittman, PhD.He also passed away a number of years ago, and he did some studies on me too. And then recently, another gentleman out of Heidelberg, Germany, a car cruise, huh. He did. Some thermal imaging infrared he was actually there present with his equipment when I did the 1300 carat Sapphire. Wow, that's that was under scientific conditions. Wow. And then he did a voice analysis where he was testing my voice along with the other voices that were coming through the seance. And all five of them came from different voice signatures which is not even rich little could have created that.I would say that most of my listeners probably don't know who this little is. But if you get a chance Google Rick's a little look up some of his YouTube videos because he's a classic comedian that had all these crazy voices. It was just a brilliant guy.So he did a really good Nixon.He did Exactly, yes. And of course, some of our listeners probably don't know who Richard Nixon is. I am not a crook.Well, Mike, we have something in common because I was actually born in 63 as well. So we are kin kindred spirits from back in the day of. Yeah, unfortunately, the JFK assassination. So a couple of questions is so the 1300 carat and I know that you go through incredible prep relative to making sure that in the scientific conditions, you're put in a box, your mouth is taped, you're kind of handcuffed to a chair. So there's really no way you can fake these jewels and gold and jewelry coming through. I mean, you're just there's just no way I mean, you're searched and all this sort of stuff. You're never left alone. So when you aport these, these items, let's say you've mentioned a trance Is there like a gate that opens Can you see the port, the apportioned, let's say the jewel or the ring or whatever it might be? Can you see it in your mind's eye before it comes out? Or does it just come out? And it's just it's, I guess everything selected by the Ascended Masters, mostly Saint Germain. I'm just as surprised as everybody else. It's a really, I don't, I don't. I don't, I'm not completely 100% in my body in the first place. Okay, and I don't know what's coming through and even when they're coming out because there's a process. Let me briefly give you a, please. I was gonna ask you about how to get into a trance state and what the real processes will sit once I'm in the cabinet.And yes, I do this spontaneous, where I'm not in the cabinet like I did with Wayne Dyer. I did it just right in front of them before he went into the cabinet. The first part of it anyway. And so, St. Germain will have located objects that he's going to Through that they have been programmed and energized for specific people from their guides and master teachers. And he then puts it on this makeshift table and Shambala. It has kind of a bowl and it's a table concave, okay? concave so it does, you know, step don't roll out or whatever. Then his heart opens up his heart chakra. And from that heart chakra, this silver energy will come out of his heart chakra into the Conclave of the table where the objects are. And then the objects including the table, really lose their physical appearance and in turn into their natural appearance, or, which is energy in motion.Okay, so so this is the table concave table on St. Germain in Shambala, in the theoretic realm is there he's doing that there and it just turns into energy and then just reports where you are in the physical.Well, then he lists the energy up with the will of the silver energy. And then this vortex opens up which looks like mercury that's moving in a counterclockwise motion.Mercury, the planet or Mercury, the element, the element the liquid or Well, it's not really a liquid but it looks like a liquid, you know, which is interesting because a lot of free energy in ancient times has been tied to mercury. And Sir Isaac Newton. Most people obviously know him for the law, gravity, that's an ad, but he was actually more of a proponent instead you're of alchemy, and he actually died of mercury poisoning.Yep. Yep.alchemy is a lost art and that's what St. Germain is doing in the process of the application. So once the energy of these objects goes into the vortex Immediately appears through my body somewhere because space and time is has been folded into the same space and time which in reality is never separated. It's always been that way, right? Okay. And so then when it hits this what we call the third dimension, the air, you know the oxygen the light, it will turn into a gas from the energy into a gas and then into a fluid which people will see that part is that the ectoplasm Michael, is that the ectoplasm?Well, it's a fluid, it goes through a fluid state it goes from a gas, the objects Okay, was from a from the energy to a gas to a fluid, and then it solidifies once it hits the light into the object and it was interesting and if you touch them too soon, they can do dissipate right away, you have to be careful. And, and so that's the process. And then I go back into the cabinet to kind of get myself together and again, people are organizing them. And then I come out and I call people up. And they receive an object with a message from there, from whoever gave it to them. And for healing for knowledge for the message, and also to get them to start thinking about what really is this world has to offer, you know, so and the first time I ever recorded myself as I was seven years old.We can't afford it yourself. You mean you transitioned into a different dimension or time station? The first time I ported an object?Okay, okay. Okay. Okay.Yeah. Um,I was playing in a dirt pile out behind my house.And I was playing. I don't know kids don't do this anymore. But I was playing with army men. I did that. Yeah, we're good. Well you did, but I mean, the kids today they're playing with their little and hide stuff, you know, right? Um, even bicycles are becoming obsolete, right? So I started feeling this nauseousness in my stomach.And then this cloud of ectoplasm came out of my stomach, about three feet in front of me three feet above the ground and this object drops into the dirt. And I pick it up and I look at it. I didn't know what it was. You know what kind of gemstone it was Iris. I'm all excited. I knew what it happened. I ran up to my mom. And she looks at it and immediately she thinks I stole it from someone she knew. She calls this person up because we had spent the weekend at this person's house to calls her up and says can you go look in your you know your jewelry box? And she looks she says no, no that my appetites still there from the medium Reinhardt. And so then my mom knew Oh, well, this, this happened. Well To this day, you know, I was when I was seven I'm 57 now 50 years ago. She sheets, I haven't seen it. She keeps it. It's awesome. What a great story, an 88 carat white Sapphire.So two quick things, um, the ectoplasm So can you talk a little bit about what Ectoplasm is because I think that's something that many of my listeners may not have a concept of. I mean, we remember the movie Ghostbusters, where they talk about the ectoplasm. So what is it from a from the Ascended Masters perspective what would be best for people to go read Charles Roget's work because he's the one that actually coined the word ectoplasm. Hmm. Okay, but relative to what I know ectoplasm is really a lifeforce energy that comes from your soul through your seven bodies, past your silver cord into the physical body down into your nervous system, which gives us energy to keep things moving, like your heart beating, being able to breathe, having the nerve fluid to move through the nervous system, and everybody has that only one out of every millions child is born produces enough ectoplasm to produce phenomena on its own, right. And that's usually kids that have overactive adrenal glands. You Know the kid that that won't sit still right? No matter what you do plasm would be in a sense, like, key or ci or real. So an energy, lifeforce that's, that's used to create this or the chemical by-product of the soul. Okay. Interesting. I called that before. That's my analogy.Okay. And the second thing I just wanted to point out to my listeners is that all these incredible it's not just jewels, its rings, it's all kinds of things that have like symbology. You give these to the people that are in the workshop. I mean, St. Germain is you mentioned brings these through with a message, and it's, I don't know, hundred thousand dollars or whatever it might be of jewels that you report in a workshop. And then one of your attendees gets one of these because it's specifically been gifted to you to bring into this realm for them is that correct?Yes um, there's gemstones are mostly the what the objects that come through me because most of the people that come to my events are women. Ah, you know and women like those little sparkly gemstones every once in a while. silver dollars will come through, some of them still encased in plastic that never been touched. Wow. I'm different origins of the world I've had gold coins come through from a 10th of an ounce to a one-ounce gold coin. There's a couple of times that I have hoarded gold nuggets. And there are people can actually tell you where the nugget came from. So these nuggets actually came out of Alaska.  Right, because I know that gold has a specific radiation signature that you can track to whichever mine in the world it came from.Now the funny part of this is some people think I'm regurgitating this stuff right now. Especially when that Stephen star guy on British got talent and talent came out and started swallowing, pool balls and things like that. But any guests or biologists would tell you regurgitator is don't swallow the objects. For one thing that Sapphire I brought through was two and a half pounds. Not only was it bigger, a lot bigger than my esophagus. my esophagus would not have been able to push that up from my stomach.You know, right, well into your point before we jumped on, it's a recording. You actually said it broke a tooth I believe because it was so shattered this tooth here and dislocated this job.Wow, you think St. Germain would be like a game like or not? Like?People have asked, Well, why would Ascended Master put you through that kind of pain? Well, they don't. It's by my choice for one thing, and I don't feel pain anymore during this process, because now, through the years of doing this my specific master teacher is Jesus, which is why I'm writing about it. It feels like he's holding my heart. You see? Hmm. And I don't feel the pain. Now. I do feel pressure. And sometimes it's uncomfortable. Now. I do feel the pain after like, like, for instance, when I was on the plane, my tooth was killing me. Right. My father wasn't really all that happy for a while, you know? And so, but every single person that comesEvery once in awhile, it's not the case, but most of the time everyone that comes will receive an object. St. Germain will make sure to the best of his abilities that everyone received something because there are 100 people in the room and one person doesn't get an object. That person's not going to be happy.Yes, I can.And it's also one point I wanted to finish.I honestly can't afford to give away all this stuff. So you know, me Bert purchasing this stuff. I mean, people that are really close in my life right now are aware, you know that. I'm not buying this stuff. Right. You know, to give away. con men never give away their props in the first place. Right, but I'm no longer In the mode to try to prove myself or convince people are going to believe or not going to believe it's, it's what St. Germain says. We're proof is needed. no proof will suffice. We're proof is not needed. no proof is necessary.So what is the craziest thing you've recorded Michael?Besides a puppy, we already talked about the puppy.Well, it's two things are actually three things.About three and a half years ago. I have a video of this and I was going to post it, but I was warned and then I thought better of it. So I only give I've only given this video to a certain couple of people.But in an event with the help of Saint Germain, ad ported a hamster out of my chest and a corn snake out of my mouth. The corn snake came first. Then the teddy bear hamster came out and he tried to escape now can you imagine these women were in the fifth row? What was happening with them when this little hamster was running across the carpet. And this wasn't excited conditions everybody saw it happen. And you can see it happen in the video. And, and we were told though, prior to the snake, we weren't told about the hamster.And so we had that it happened. So that's the one of the things that I would say. And then the other was a set of It was a wooden box probably. Well, it was a pretty good-sized box up about maybe eight inches tall. Maybe 12 inches wide in both directions.It was handmade and hand-carved.Inside the box was some red velvet and you can tell that the material was old and laying in the red velvet was to handmade solid Silver Goblets and underneath where the stick underneath the stem where the thing that holds the goblets up was st remains Hallmark.Wow, his is hearts.Yeah, his Hallmark. Wow. And hebrought that through The bummer is that night someone broke into my temple install it.Unbelievable.And I knew I was I kept telling myself I should, I should turn around and go get it and take it home. But I wanted it to be in display so people can see it. Right?Well, obviously St. Germain knew that. I mean, these people will probably needed it more than you did. There are no coincidences, right hand the way everything unfolds.Now in regards to the message that comes through, if there's any more than 40 or 50 people, obviously, not everybody gets an individual message, right? It's more than that. Because I've had up to 503 people during an app that seance and everybody got an airport. But everybody got the same message.Oh, right. So would you say that would be like maybe a soul group that for some reason got entangled and came together?Well, keep in mind, past, present, and future so the Masters already know Who's coming? Right?If you really sit down to think about all of this stuff, two things are going to happen. One is if you're having a glass of wine, you'll probably stop drinking. If you're not having a glass of wine, you might start drinking. If you really sit down to think about it, you know, because I mean, even Einstein knew something about all of this. That's where he left that unfinished formula. MC square equals two, right? That's an unfinished formula, and we still haven't been able to figure it out. But the answer to his formula, I believe, has a lot to do with a lot of what we're doing, but it's not just me. There are other people doing it. You know, there's other mediums that I've met from physical mediums to mental mediums. I even met a medium that did mediumship with her toes.How do you do mediumship with your toes? That'sI have no idea how she was doing it, but it was working.And yeah, and then you have the one that's kind of playful. And that's the table tipping.You know, right. Right. Right. Right. For sure. Yes. Yes. So jumping back to what I got one quick question and then kind of a wrap-up question because I've had you on for about an hour and I could talk to you for two or three hours and hopefully we get a chance to do this again and didn't dive deeper. I do want to mention before I ask this next question is you can find Michael at Michael Shane calm and it's -- m y ch e l s h n e So Michael with a Y. And he's got his training courses up there. He's got a YouTube channel. Yeah, so just really cool stuff. So if you want to go down this rabbit hole, I highly recommend you check Michael out because, well I'm fairly well versed in quantum physics. Michael has actually blown my mind a little bit as well as I saw in the puppy thing that just and now I think but the God was in St. Germain and the snake I'm just like, wow, the snake, just kind of wondering what kind of reaction the women in the room and with the snake.They had more of a reaction with the hamster than they did the snake. That's right. Now I have asked the Masters not to do any more live objects through my physical body anymore. Because I actually ended up taking on the fear that the snake was having.Oh, wow, I can see that sick for two weeks. So I that The Masters, you know, no more of that. But I do want to say in October coming up the end of September through the second week of November, I'm going to be in Detroit, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Erie, Pennsylvania, Rochester, New York, and the lily Dale area, which is called Cassadaga, New York to go on a road trip, and because, you know, as we all know, US citizens are not allowed to go to any other countries, right.So I'm doing this road trip, where we will be following the COVID guidelines and all that for those out there that are wondering about that. So that's coming up, if anyone's in those areas that might want to check it out. out. They can get ahold of me like you said, either at info at Michael Shane calm or Michael at Michael Shane calm and just go to my website which is Michael chain calm.Okay, fantastic. Yeah, it's exciting and you do so much more than what we just had a chance to talk about getting into psychometry and other things and I guess it depends on where and what people want to learn from you from healing techniques to the mediumship to it, I'm just fascinated that you just have this collection of gifts. So let me kind of jump back and ask a question because one of the things that struck me because we talked about heart math, and the heart chakra and the high heart, but you talked about going into the gentleman's throat chakra, why the throat chakra, were you that something divine guidance? Were you able to see the Leukemia I mean, I would think that you would?chakra is where the silver cord connects to the physical body which is at the base of the skull, okay. And the silver cord is what gives us physical life. Once that is severed physical death occurs, but it takes up to in earth language three days, which goes to the issue of, you know, Jesus rising in three days or no, there's a lot of things that happens in threes. Number three itself, but there are people that have been pronounced dead and then two or three days later they're waking up in the freezer, you know, you've heard stories,right? It actually back in Europe, but in the I know my mom's from a very old town for the 1700s in North Carolina, Beaufort, and they actually had bells that you where you're buried, and you could pull a string and a bell would ring above ground in case they buried you while you're still alive to your point which is People were really feared of that, which is where the outcome of embalming comes in place. So you don't wait no, come back. Right. And, you know, plus there were all kinds of stuff that people are afraid of death, but death is no different than being born. It's just being born into a different reality leaving, you know, one room to go into the next room. Right? But the only thing about death that I worry about is I don't want it to hurt.Exactly. Well, there's that glass of wine again. I do have one final question because it just dawned on me which because you're talking about the silver cord attaching to the back above the neck, which is really the ninth chakra and that's what I've been taught the mouth of God. I'm just wondering about your thoughts of the importance and we may go down a rabbit And we may just you might want to say, well, Joe, we'll just table that. But I'm just curious about the importance of the pineal gland because I personally, my guides have shown me the pineal gland is not all that important. It's really just kind of a whole concept, but I'm just curious how you look at the pineal gland because there's such a heavyweight and burden that's put on you've got to decalcify you got to do this getting that and one of the things my guides had showed me was no just go up in the etheric, you have your third body there's no calcification there as an example, well the first thing I want to say is if you go down that rabbit hole, my rabbits will talk to you. Nice.  Okay, so the petite the deal and pituitary glands are not actually for the physical body. It is a tool that is brought in from the ethereal realm to be used. As we start to develop, for instance, if you were to take a four-dimensional or three-dimensional picture of the inside of the brain, beyond the physical mass part, all the little synopsises and stuff. In the middle, there is an empty dark space which holds room for us to evolve. And the pineal, the pituitary gland is there for that very reason. Plus, it also helps you connect to the gifts which come from the ethereal realm by nature, to help you produce the site to see certain things that are in the future, but you're not actually traveling into the future. The future is already right there. Right. Okay. So the argument is whether they were important or not, relative to the physical part of it, probably not so much. But when it comes to the bigger picture, they're very important. It's like, it's kind of like the appendix. You know, medicine doesn't really know its true purpose. But one of the things that I've been told is it is a cleansing area for ectoplasm as it goes to the Kundalini, which helps us develop our creativity, and the seances and the mediumship part of the ectoplasm as well. But if you end up losing that, it bypasses that organ and goes directly to the Kundalini. And that could be a tough scenario because now you're getting the whole whack on your, on your Kundalini, instead of it just being gradually and cleaned.Right? Exactly like it'll gain whack a mole. Right, just for you.Yeah. You know. So there's a lot to understand about the physical body and I, personally, I'm not well versed in what that is. I'm a medium, not a doctor, you know, or a scientist. I get certain information from my guides and master teachers. But if they gave me too much information, especially stuff that I couldn't possibly understand, that would change the whole direction of where I'm supposed to go karmically. So, um, you know, I'm not, I'm not a brain person. I'm really good at history. But when it comes to math and things of that nature, I just best stay out of those conversations.I agree. I'm playing with the abacus myself. So with that, thank you, Michael. It's been a pleasure. So again, Michael Michael m y ch a e l s h a n e.com  He's got these courses. Gosh, if you're in the upper part of the US I think he mentioned area Indiana, Rochester, New York, which is kind of like a foreign country with that...Erie, Pennsylvania...Oh, Erie, Pennsylvania.  Okay. Okay, so and I guess all of this is on your website. I don't have that pulled up in front of me right now.Not yetBut I haven't actually added anything to my website for a long time. Because I've been having problems with it with the emails and stuff and but I am planning on attempting to put these dates now that I've received them today. on there so people can go to that or if they don't see it on my website, they can get a hold of me through the website. Well, and then ask or befriend me on, on messenger. And I would just you know, you gotta say who they are. Don't just leave right there. You know? And make sure they have a profile because they don't have a profile. I don't approve it.Perfect. Yeah, that's exactly how I connected with you originally was on Facebook. So thank you. It's been a mind-expanding, conscious expanding experience just visiting with you just wow. I mean, what can I say is, and I would say that anybody that probably sits in your presence is going to have just this vibe of fluid energy that just kind of ignites their whole structure as you're reporting so what an experience I look forward to meeting you in person and hopefully get a chance to join one of these workshops in the near future.I look forward to thanks for tuning in evolutionary trees. Enjoying the show? Please rate and recommend Joe and the harmonic evolution podcast on iTunes, overcast, or wherever you tune in. Be sure to tell a friend and share these evolutionary insights you learned today with your tribe. Become an emissary for evolution. You can get more great evolutionary insights to expand your consciousness at www dot Joe heller.com. Be sure to tune in to our next episode. Until then, May there heavens been shine brightly upon you. As always, this show is offered to you in love

Title: Episode 16: Today, our guest is Diana Bertoldo, who is a dog momma to two hounds. Diana is warm and so relatable. She has unique views that I loved hearing! Be sure to listen for her very worth considering idea for a president - all in the name of loving our dogs. :0) Her website is: http://dianabertoldo.com/.Our Big News: a second weekly episode!Coming on Wednesday, September 2nd: Wednesday Wisdom episodes - for dog training tips and PLUS more dog stories! I get many questions about common issues such as barking and jumping up on furniture so I'll share how to deal with these unwanted behaviors and offer other useful help. Join our free Facebook Group Community - Dogs are the Best Friends! We are starting some little mini workshops and other informational sessions to help us all be the best dog owners we can be - from thinking about our dog’s health to keeping them busy while you’re working.. we’ll be sharing a lot. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogsarethebestfriends/) Last Week's Episodes - 14 (Monday) & 15 (Friday) : CJ Puotinen, author and presenter shared about her reactive dog, Blue Sapphire along with great training tips to help othersAbout us:This podcast is for dog lovers to share and hear about dog stories, training tips, and other helpful bits of information. Please review and subscribe to the Dogs are the Best Friends podcast as that helps others find us! If you want to share a story or two about your dog(s), be sure to fill out the Contact Us form on the website: https://dogsarethebestfriends.com/

Episode 15 Today's episode: In this episode, author and speaker CJ Puotinen shares resources for living with and training a reactive dog. On Monday’s episode (#14), CJ spoke about how she learned what a reactive dog is because of her black Lab, Blue Sapphire. Be sure to head to our website, Dogs are the Best Friends, to access her full article on reactive dogs that was published in the Whole Dog Journal this past January (2020).About: This podcast is for dog lovers to share and hear about dog stories, training tips, and other helpful bits of information. Please review and subscribe to the Dogs are the Best Friends podcast as that helps others find us! If you want to share a story or two about your dog(s), be sure to fill out the Contact Us form on the website: https://dogsarethebestfriends.com/

Jill interviews guest, Dava Muramatsu, designer of Nymph Jewels, on the healing properties of gem stones. Dava is a well-known "Fashion Maven," in the Boston area, a Wardrobe Stylist, Image Consultant, Editor of Closets, Merchandiser and Curator. Her showroom is located at "Atelier Weston,"in Weston, MA. The power of gems to heal has been known and practiced throughout the ages. Jill discusses the practice of "gem remedies" in classic Vedic Astrology which includes primary gems called "Navaratnas" to help with planetary afflictions including: Ruby for the Sun, Pearl for the Moon, Red Coral for Mars, Emerald for Mercury, Diamond for Venus, Yellow Sapphire for Jupiter, Blue Sapphire for Saturn, Hessonite Garnet for Rahu and Tigers Eye for Ketu.Dava suggests integrating gemstones into one's wardrobe by adorning oneself with them to add color and creative expression into your life. Dava shares the benefits of many gemstones including: Amethyst, Citrine, Tanzanite, Emerald, Green Garnet and Phantom Quartz.Dava explains the wearing of gemstones can help someone get unstuck, open up their energy centers, become more empowered, improve relationships and self-expression, and feel better on many levels.Check out Dava Muramatsu's website: www.nymphjewels.comBook a reading with Astrologer, Jill Jardine to find out what gem remedies are the best for you based on your astrological chart: www.jilljardineastrology.comOrder organic, clean-crafted wines at: www.scoutandcellar.com/jilljardine

In last week’s post, I shared a simple method for working with your crystals to uncover the deeper energies and meanings of the 22 Major Arcana cards in the Tarot. This week, we’ll be diving into the remaining 56 cards in the Tarot deck, known as the Minor Arcana. These Minor cards add perspective to what is happening in your everyday life.   The cards in the Minor Arcana are divided into four suits. Each suit represents a different aspect of your life and corresponds to one of the four elements: Water Element: Cups (also known as Chalices) Fire Element: Wands (also known as Rods, Staffs, or Staves) Air Element: Swords (also known as Daggers) Earth Element: Pentacles (also known as Coins or Discs) Each suit is then made up of numbered cards (Ace through Ten) and Court cards (Page, Knight, Queen, and King). Each number has its own meaning within the suits, giving you a deeper understanding of what the cards are telling you. In general, the Even numbers (2, 4, 6, 8, and 10) reveal that there is balance and harmony in your life whereas odd numbers (1/Ace, 3, 5, 7, and 9) represent obstacles or challenges you may face (think of these as opportunities for growth). To dive deep into the Tarot Minor Arcana, you can work with your crystals to help you uncover even more about the meaning of each card. To do this, you’ll need a deck of tarot cards and a crystal to represent each element (that’s four crystals in total). I’ve listed some of my favorite elemental crystals here below. Earth: Petrified Wood, Anthracite, Malachite, Carnelian, Red Jasper, Emerald, Rainforest Jasper, Chrysocolla, Serpentine, Agate (all types), and Peridot Air: Celestite, Pumice, Azurite, Blue Apatite, Lepidolite, Turquoise, Blue Kyanite, Blue Sapphire, Angelite, and Mica Fire: Amber, Rhodochrosite, Ruby, Lava Rock, Fire Agate, Red Spinel, Citrine, Diamond, Heliodor, Obsidian, and Clear Quartz Water: Amethyst, Boulder Opal, Larimar, White Calcite, Pearl, Blue Lace Agate, Amazonite, Aquamarine, Moonstone, Selenite, and Blue Tourmaline   To begin this process, separate out the Major Arcana (0-21) cards from your Tarot deck and set them aside, leaving only the 56 Minor Arcana Cards. Choose just one of these Minor Arcana cards that you’d like to explore in-depth. Place it in front of you (on your altar, or on the floor or a table in your sacred space). Reach for your corresponding elemental crystal. For example, Aquamarine for Cups and the Water element or Malachite for Pentacles and the Earth element. You might also like to have other representations of these elements on your altar or in your sacred space for this process. Bringing the Elements Into Your Sacred Space: Earth: fresh flowers, a dish of sand or soil, crystals or fossils, wood carvings, fruit, seeds, an image or statue of a land animal. Air: feathers, incense, lace, athame (or small dagger), windchimes, bell, a hand fan, a flute, an image or statue of a bird. Fire: candles, a lantern, a cauldron, an image or statue of a dragon, salamander, or phoenix Water: a small dish of water, a fountain, seashells (especially an Abalone shell), a chalice or goblet, a mirror, an image or statue of a mermaid or dolphin.   Hold the stone in cupped hands above the Tarot card. Ask that the stone help provide you with more clarity about the meaning of this card. Close your eyes and breathe deeply while holding the stone in your hands. To truly embody the vibration of the card, take the number of breaths equal to the number of your card. For example, three deep breaths for the 3 of Wands, or six deep breaths for the 6 of Swords. Breathe in the elemental energy of the crystal in your hands as you do this. If you chose to work with a Court card, use your intuition to guide you on the correct number of breaths. After your final exhalation, open your eyes and immediately look at the card. Do this while still holding your stone.

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Today's episode is all about PvE tips and speed running. Joining to give us the scoop is Blue Sapphire whose been streaming Temtem speedruns!Check out Blue Sapphire on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bluesapphire04Send your questions! temtalkshow@gmail.comListen on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/qsd26tm

Think you can beat a Canadian that can go 4 times in one night?  We answer listener questions, talk to Blue Sapphire (another hotwife) and hear some crazy stories from the World Famous Red Rooster swingers parties in Las Vegas. 

A podcast all about cocktails and The Office.    It’s our Blue Sapphire anniversary!  We have a blue cocktail as well.   You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Stitcher!    iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cocktails-at-the-office/id1148416109?mt=2 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-619647076 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=99870&refid=stpr   Check out our website: www.cocktailsattheoffice.com   Email questions or comments to: officecocoktailspod@gmail.com.   Or find us on your favorite social media platforms at:   Twitter: @officecocktails Instagram: @officecocktails   facebook.com/officecocktailspod   Thanks for listening!

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According to Peter Wilson in Cleveland, Capricorns are the most determined amongst all the zodiac signs. Their prevailing characteristics involve being determined, conventional, helpful, realistic and independent. Capricorn natives make transcendent leaders as they can concentrate on the task at hand meticulously. These workaholic people are also suspicious, stubborn and pessimistic at times. So herewith Peter Wilson in Cleveland - a Certified Gemologist, let's explore lucky gemstones for the Capricorns. 1. Rainbow Obsidian Rainbow Obsidian is the best gemstone for Capricorns says Peter Wilson in Cleveland. Rainbow Obsidian consolidates the functional, down-to-earth qualities of Capricorn. It serves to provide you perspicacity. Capricorn is fantastic when it comes to the traits correlated with this energy. The energy of Capricorn is infrequently all work and no play. Sometimes, you require to balance that with a bit of a visionary and thought. Also, the gemstone has more going on than what’s on the surface. It's black with a very precise shimmer of the rainbow that appears through when you observe it nearly. 2. Blue Sapphire stone for Capricorns This dark sapphire gemstone is the essence of prosperity and fortune. As sapphire waves the power of planet Saturn, same as Capricorns ruling planet, it can draw luck your way. Sapphire stone, when worn as a ring on Saturday mornings, can be the most propitious time to secure luck. It can draw luck into your career to love life if you use dark sapphire to program your manifestations. 3. Onyx for Capricorns Black Onyx is the gem of ruling your destiny or fate. Onyx brings proper grounding to balance volatility or stress. It is excellent for cerebral and emotional stress. When someone with powerful Capricorn energy becomes anxious, it can be particularly harmful. This is the symbol that grows over time and sticks around for the long haul. Onyx is exceptional for Capricorn Season because it replaces true-to-life vision and benefits grow our command over our own activities. 4. Garnet Acquiring from classical Chinese medicine, the Garnet gemstone promotes the movement of Chi throughout the body, which heightens the detox of negative emotions that manifest in the body. Garnet healing crystal qualities bring warmness to the system, which increases flow on a cellular level. If you're in a relationship, use Garnet crystal properties to deepen your passionate love. If you're single and ready to mingle, Garnet is a gem at intensifying the laws of attraction. 5. Green Aventurine It is an uplifting gem for Capricorns. While this sign likes their seclusion, they may encounter feelings of isolation from to time. To mitigate feeling too stuck in your own head, Capricorn should turn to Green Aventurine to attract joy and positive energy. This gem is connected with increasing confidence, optimism, and releasing negative beliefs. Final Words According to Peter Wilson in Cleveland - a Certified Gemologist at Howard's Jewelry Center in Cleveland, these were the lucky gemstones for Capricorns. If you found this information informative then do share it with others. Also, for more info, one can leave a comment in the comment section below.

SPOILER ALERT Review Conan Movie 23 dan Berita seputar Topan Hagibis

Saat Conan dan Kaito Kid terjebak dalam konspirasi pembunuhan yang terjadi di Marina Bay Sands, mereka secara terpaksa harus bekerjasama untuk menguak misteri yang terjadi dan hubungannya dengan berlian yang megah; The Fist of Blue Sapphire. Sebuah pengalaman menonton Special / Fans Screening yang tiada duanya!

حساب اروى مصممة الشعار twitter.com/arwabgh الاشياء الي ذكرناها: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Punch Club Euro Truck Simulator 2 Katana Zero Gris Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire يمكنكم التواصل معنا تويتر twitter.com/gfullyc انستقرام instagram.com/gfullyc/ عبدالله الشريف twitter.com/3rdeen مؤيد النجار twitter.com/moaid0102 محمد الصالحي twitter.com/iM7me المتواجدون في هذه الحلقة عبدالله الشريف مؤيد النجار خالد الكعبي مروان النجمي

Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D. is an Irish-American theologian, author and sacred song writer who has been engaged in the ministry of liturgical musicianship for over forty years. She is currently composer-in-residence of Schola Ministries and is the founder and director of Iona Spirituality Institute at Iona College, New York, and previously directed the Iona Institute for Peace and Justice Studies in Ireland. Sr. Kathleen is a GreenFaith Fellow who recently completed an intensive training in religious environmental leadership. Her work in this area focuses on the prophet legacy of Father Thomas Berry and The Great Work of our time. She has previously served as president of the International Thomas Merton Society, and currently sits on the board of the American Teilhard de Chardin Society. We all come from a kind of silence of which we have no idea. We come out of a very mysterious milieu or dimension, and in some ways, if we take the poets seriously, and the mystics, we have been abiding in silence ever before we came into a sound environment. — Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D. Some of the resources and authors we mention in this episode: Sr. Kathleen Deignan, ed., Thomas Merton: When the Trees Say Nothing — Writings on Nature Sr. Kathleen Deignan, ed., Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours Thomas Berry, The Great Work Thomas Merton, Mystics and Zen Masters Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Selected Writings Douglas E. Christie, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems Paul Hawken, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing Charles Peguy, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope Wolfhart Pannenberg, Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology Sister Kathleen notes that her music is freely available online. But if you are interested in purchasing her music on CD, here are a few titles that feature the music of Sr. Kathleen: Ave: Songs of the Congregation of Notre Dame A Garden Once Again: Songs in Celebration of Creation The Gift: Songs of the Grateful Heart What silence opened up for me was music, or maybe I can even say it the other way: music opened up silence for me. — Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D. Episode 66: Silence and Nature: A Conversation with Sr. Kathleen Deignan (Part One) Hosted by: Kevin Johnson With: Carl McColman, Cassidy Hall Guest: Sr. Kathleen Deignan, C.N.D. Date Recorded: April 22, 2019 The challenge for us now, I think, especially for people who are laboring to be awake, or 'woke,' — people who are yearning for the transformation — is that we know it is a profound spiritual work, it is a tremendous spiritual work; we're not going to technologize our way out of this, we are not going to scheme our way out of this; because a new human being has to build up the new planetary civilization for us to go forward. And it will take centuries. — Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D.  

Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D. is an Irish-American theologian, author and sacred song writer who has been engaged in the ministry of liturgical musicianship for over forty years. She is currently composer-in-residence of Schola Ministries and is the founder and director of Iona Spirituality Institute at Iona College, New York, and previously directed the Iona Institute for Peace and Justice Studies in Ireland. Sr. Kathleen is a GreenFaith Fellow who recently completed an intensive training in religious environmental leadership. Her work in this area focuses on the prophet legacy of Father Thomas Berry and The Great Work of our time. She has previously served as president of the International Thomas Merton Society, and currently sits on the board of the American Teilhard de Chardin Society. We all come from a kind of silence of which we have no idea. We come out of a very mysterious milieu or dimension, and in some ways, if we take the poets seriously, and the mystics, we have been abiding in silence ever before we came into a sound environment. — Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D. Some of the resources and authors we mention in this episode: Sr. Kathleen Deignan, ed., Thomas Merton: When the Trees Say Nothing — Writings on Nature Sr. Kathleen Deignan, ed., Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours Thomas Berry, The Great Work Thomas Merton, Mystics and Zen Masters Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Selected Writings Douglas E. Christie, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems Paul Hawken, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing Charles Peguy, The Portal of the Mystery of Hope Wolfhart Pannenberg, Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology Sister Kathleen notes that her music is freely available online. But if you are interested in purchasing her music on CD, here are a few titles that feature the music of Sr. Kathleen: Ave: Songs of the Congregation of Notre Dame A Garden Once Again: Songs in Celebration of Creation The Gift: Songs of the Grateful Heart What silence opened up for me was music, or maybe I can even say it the other way: music opened up silence for me. — Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D. Episode 66: Silence and Nature: A Conversation with Sr. Kathleen Deignan (Part One) Hosted by: Kevin Johnson With: Carl McColman, Cassidy Hall Guest: Sr. Kathleen Deignan, C.N.D. Date Recorded: April 22, 2019 The challenge for us now, I think, especially for people who are laboring to be awake, or 'woke,' — people who are yearning for the transformation — is that we know it is a profound spiritual work, it is a tremendous spiritual work; we're not going to technologize our way out of this, we are not going to scheme our way out of this; because a new human being has to build up the new planetary civilization for us to go forward. And it will take centuries. — Sister Kathleen P. Deignan, C.N.D.  

The guys open the show with a discussion of the Netflix original Unicorn Store. Jeff reviews Bad to the Bone by Nicki Bennett. Will reviews LaQuette’s Under His Protection. Jeff & Will interview LaQuette about Under His Protection. They find out about the story’s inspiration and how it ties into LaQuette’s other series. LaQuette also shares details on her upcoming Harlem Heat series, what got her started writing romance and details about what she does as the president for New York City’s Romance Writers of America chapter. Complete shownotes for episode 184 are at BigGayFictionPodcast.com. Book Reviews from this week: Bad to the Bone by Nicki Bennett. Reviewed by Jeff Bad to the Bone turned out to be one of those perfect Dreamspun Desires for me. I’m a sucker for second chance romance combined with friends to lovers and this one adds in a bit from the redeemed bad boy trope as well. It all combined to give me exactly the read that I needed. The story kicks off on the eve of a high school reunion taking place in a small Oklahoma town. Alex Morrison has been back in town for several years, taking over his family’s hardware store when his parents needed him to. One afternoon, while working with his sister at the store, they witness a motorcyclist pulled over and it’s soon revealed that the man is Alex’s high school bestie, Ricky Lee Jennings. Alex hasn’t heard from Ricky Lee since he was expelled and sent away to reform school. Alex regretted he didn’t defend Ricky Lee and prevent the expulsion, but he was scared he’d lose his football scholarship if he did. Sparks fly at the reunion when Ricky Lee shows up without a ticket and Alex gets him in as his guest. What unfolds over the coming weeks is the rekindling of far more than a friendship. Nicki does so much with this rather simple set up. Both characters complexity made me love this book so much. Alex is someone I wanted to wrap up in a comforting hug. He does so much for the community that he lives in between serving on the library board, working for Habitat for Humanity, helping out with the high school reunion committee, and anything else he can do to help his fellow citizens. Yet, all he can see in himself is failure from a lost college football career because of an injury, a failed marriage, and even coming back to manage his family business is something he considers a fail because he gave up his dreams of being an environmental lobbyist. Of course, what he’s done is made the decisions that are right in the moment but he can’t see that. Ricky Lee, on the other hand, subverts every stereotype the town has for him. It’s awesome to watch as people who believe they know exactly who he is after ten years begin to see who he has become. He’s far from the young man who was abused by his alcoholic father and just wanted to survive high school. As both relive their high school times and share what they are doing now, Ricky Lee and Alex are drawn back together. Alex, however, is sure this can’t be more than a fling. He’s scared of revealing himself as bisexual to the town and there’s no way Ricky Lee will move back to Oklahoma since he’s got a life in Portland. The wooing that Ricky Lee does with Alex is outstanding. I love a good date and their weekend trip to Oklahoma City is all that. They stay at a boutique hotel, go to art museums and the botanical gardens and eat delicious food. The sizzling sex made the date all the hotter. It showed Alex in vivid detail what life could be like in if he decides to make a go of it with Ricky Lee. The other depth that Nikki weaves into this book is the town Alex lives in. In particular, I liked the local pastor, who is nothing like what you might expect a southern pastor to be. He turns out to be one of Alex’s biggest supporters in being true to himself. We also see Alex’s work with the library, which is a central subplot for the story since Alex and Ricky Lee’s high school nemesis, Odell, who wants to expand his car dealership by buying the land the library sits on. The goings-on with Odell took some wonderful turns that I couldn’t have predicted and I might’ve cheered just a little when everything was revealed and [spoiler alert] Odell gets his. It’s a great ending for a high school bully. There’s a tremendous cast of supporting characters too. Alex’s sister Alana and his best friend, local police officer Samantha, a.k.a. Sam, both nudge Alex in the right direction. Ricky Lee comes to town with Crae, who he introduces as his friend and assistant although many initially think they are in a relationship. I actually wish Crae had had more screen time in the book as they were a fascinating character. Crae and Sam develop a friendship that might be more and I’d love to see a book that explores that. There are also some townsfolk who have interesting reveals to Alex along the way that were incredibly sweet. And if audio is your thing, certainly pick this one up. Colin Darcy is a new-to-me-narrator and boy did he make me swoon with his voice for Ricky Lee–deep, rumbly sexiness. If you’re looking for a great category romance with some very tropey goodness, I highly recommend Nicki Bennett’s Bad to the Bone. Under His Protection by LaQuette. Reviewed by Will. This book literally starts with a bang when one of our main characters, assistant DA Camden, is nearly blown up by a car bomb. In order to keep him safe, he’s put in protective police custody. Unfortunately, the man watching over him is the memorable one night stand he walked away from five years ago, a guy named Elisha. Sequestered away in Elisha’s Westchester house, our two heroes must come to grips with the attraction that still, after all this time, is still there. As things start to become more romantic, the situation becomes even more complicated when Elisha’s family shows up for a weekend visit. They assume that the two of them are a couple and Cam and Elijah play along since it’s too dangerous to explain why Cam is hiding out at Elijah’s house. Over the course of the weekend Cam can’t help but fall for Elisha and his wonderfully crazy family. You might think things get a little too close for comfort with are two heroes and the family all in one house. Elisha actually has a very small apartment in his attached garage. They escape there every once in a while, for some truly superduper scorching sex. The chemistry between these characters is very real and very palatable. As the weekend winds down, there’s an unfortunate kidnapping attempt by this crazy religious group and Cam sacrifices himself in order to save Elisha’s mom. Camden ends up in hospital and, unfortunately, his father arrives on the scene. Camden’s life has essentially been controlled by his father, who’s had his son’s life planned out from my birth to death. It’s essentially how Cam has lived his entire life. The expectations of his father are actually part of the reason why he walked away from Elisha five years ago. Having a sexy one night fling and living a life with an average guy like Elisha just wasn’t in the plan. After experiencing the possibility of loving a man like Elisha and realizing the wonderful possibilities of a fun and fulfilling family life, he tries to stand up to his father. Cam’s father puts a stop to everything, setting up some genuinely insurmountable roadblocks to our hero’s happiness. But Cam and Elisha are not only charismatic and sexy, but also really super smart. With the help of Elisha’s police chief friend, Cam concocts a way to outwit his father and get out from under his thumb, so he Elisha can live happily ever after. I don’t know if I can adequately find the correct words, or enough adjectives to tell you how much I loved Cam and Elisha’s story. It’s just really damn good. One of my favorites of 2019 so far!   I hope it’s obvious that I really enjoyed Under His Protection by LaQuette and I highly recommend that everyone give it a read. Interview Transcript - LaQuetteWill: We are so pleased to welcome LaQuette to the show. Welcome. LaQuette: Thank you. Will: So I just spent several minutes praising and telling the entire world how much I loved "Under His Protection." Now, you've been writing for a while now, and I freely admit this is the very first book of yours that I have read, and I went absolutely bonkers for it. I love it to pieces. LaQuette: Oh, thank you. Will: Can you give us sort of an idea of where the concept for "Under His Protection" came from? LaQuette: Well, I was encouraged by Kate McMurray to submit a "Dreamspun Desires" concept. And I kind of read the submission guideline, and I really didn't think that the category section was for me, because I'm long-winded in my writing and there's this, you know, 50,000-word count, and I didn't know that I could meet that and make the story make sense. But I just felt like, you know, there's a lot of angst in my writing and a lot of heavy topics sometimes. And I didn't... You know, category can be light and, you know, it doesn't have so much angst to it, so I wasn't sure if it was actually the right fit for me. But she encouraged me to do it anyway. So I thought, "Well, if I'm gonna do it, it has to be, like, LaQuette style. It can't be, you know, the traditional map of a category. I've gotta throw, you know, everything but the kitchen sink in it." And I had this sort of, like, this Prince and Pauper sort of situation in my head, but in Brooklyn. And it worked out really well in my head anyway. I really enjoy the idea of Camden coming from this really, really posh existence, and then clashing with Elijah and his very loud and boisterous family. And, I think, putting those two people together and those two, you know, with their backgrounds and differences in their backgrounds and the differences in their, you know, perspectives in life, it really...it just made for a richer experience for me, as a writer. Will: I utterly fell in love with Camden and Elijah. I think they're two incredibly...they are exceptional heroes, and they're part of what makes this book really sing. But as I mentioned in my review just a few minutes ago, part of what, I think, what makes the story compelling and even more enjoyable is the sort of supporting cast that helps them along in their journey towards saying, "I love you." Elijah's family is amazing, every single one of them. But I was particularly struck by one of Elijah's co-workers, the police chief, who is his best friend, along with, you know, being a colleague. And what I was struck by is that at the beginning of the book, the character seemed, you know, pretty, you know, straightforward, it was a secondary character, and she was there to kind of like, you know, get the story moving along. But as we read further and get to know Camden and Elijah more and more, she becomes a much more integral part of the story. And in fact, she's pretty vital to the solution that Cam comes up towards the end. And I was really surprised to read in an interviewer just, I think, this last week it appeared online. I learned that one of the reasons that this secondary character is so well-drawn is because she's actually already had her own book. LaQuette: She's had three books, actually. Will: Can you tell us real quickly, for our listeners, can you tell us about the origin of this particular character and why you thought she would be such a good fit for Camden and Elijah's story? LaQuette: Captain Heart Searlington is a character from my "Queens of Kings" series, which is all heroine-centered. And she is this...you know, her name is Heart for a reason, because she has a huge heart, even though she really carries it under this gruff exterior. She's a badass, she's all about getting work done. And if you ever get the chance to read her books, you know, she's really out there hands-on in the street. And I felt like Elijah would need someone like that, professionally and personally, to kind of...to get him to the place where he could admit his flaws. Someone that's not... You know, he's a very...he's a large man, he's aggressive, you know, he carries a gun, so he could be a little bit intimidating for the average person. But for her, she's not afraid to tell him like it is to his face. And, you know, when you have that kind of a personality where people might not tell your truth because they find you imposing, having someone who will speak the truth to you, regardless of whatever the situation is, can be vital to you, you know, making the right choices in life. And I felt like having her there would give him that balance, because he needed some really cold truths told to him, for him to get his head together and do what he needed to do. Jeff: Was it always your intention to have the character crossover or did that just kind of manifest itself? LaQuette: Well, the precinct that they work at is sort of anytime I have a police situation, those cops show up in a book somewhere. So one, because, you know, the world is already created, so it's kind of easy for me to draw from that precinct, but it's also because my readers absolutely adore this woman. And so they're always asking for her, and this was an opportunity for her to show up and say, "Hi." And not in a way that overshadows, you know, the main story, which is Camden and Elijah, but just enough to make readers go, "Oh, my God. She's here." Jeff: It's always good to get those universe crossovers and little Easter eggs like that, for sure. LaQuette: It's true. It's very true. Will: Yeah. Now, "Under His Protection" is not your first M/M romance. LaQuette: No, it is not. Will: There's also "Love's Changes," which I believe came out in 2016? LaQuette: Yes. Will: And I wanted to ask you, what drew you to writing in this specific subgenre? I mean, along with all of your other books that are more traditional male/female romances? LaQuette: Well, one, I wholeheartedly believe that everyone deserves a happy ending. And when I wrote the "Queens of King" series, I always knew that Heart's cousin, because the characters, the protagonists in "Love's Changes" are Bryan, who is one of Heart's lieutenants, you met him, actually, in "Under His Protection," and her cousin, Justice. And so they get to have their own story. You get to see them a little bit in the "Queens of King" series, but they're more background. We know that they were having a hard time and they were broken up for some reason, but we don't know why. So they get, you know, readers... Which really surprised me because I didn't really believe that there was a lot of crossover between male-female readers and male-male readers. But people really asked me for a story for those two. Like, "When are we gonna get Justice and Bryan's story? We wanna know what happens to them and how they get back together." And so I that story was actually born out of the fact that readers requested it, and so I gave it to them. Jeff: That's very cool. You know, it's always nice to see as the M/F readers catch the male-male pairing to then want to know more. LaQuette: Yes, it was really a trip for me. I did not believe that they would want it at all. But it was very touching to write their story. I was very happy with how the story turned out. I was very happy with the fact that they get their happily ever after. And it's not...it's connected to the "Queens of Kings" series, but it's not really part of it. So the story kind of takes place outside of everything that's going on in that particular story. Jeff: Do you envision more, I guess, "Dreamspun Desires" books that happened in the universe you've created with everything that's going on so far? LaQuette: I really didn't, but I've been getting a lot of mail recently about this book. And, you know, people wanting to know what happens after this. They wanna see how Camden's family kind of blends with Elijah's family and how that's going to work. I'm like, "Dude, I'm not there. Like, I have so many other projects. I can't right now. But we'll come back to that maybe." Jeff: Just based on your review, I don't see how those families mesh. Will: Two different worlds. Most definitely, yeah. LaQuette: They really are. Jeff: Now, one of the things that I'm super excited about, having recently read about, is your new contract with Dreamspinner for "Harlem Heat." LaQuette: Yes, "Harlem Heat," so when stuff makes me mad, it also makes me really productive. So I was really kind of getting tired of hearing the "not historically accurate moniker" criticism given to African-American romance, especially historical African-American romance. And it just bothered me because it's not that those happily-ever-afters weren't possible. It's just people aren't really aware of the completed history. So a lot of thing...you know, a lot of people who think they know about African-American history, the only thing they know is slavery and Jim Crow, and that's it. And, you know, black people have been downtrodden since we were brought to this country. But that's not exactly the truth because even in all of the horror, there were still moments of triumph. And we didn't just, you know, survive, we thrived. We're still here, the proof that we're still here, you know, the proof that we had happiness at some point is that we're still here. So I decided I wanted to write about a time that was where to be black and to be gay wasn't something that you had to hide from the world. It wasn't something you had to...you had your own pocket of community. There was a celebration of it. And I wanted to speak to that. I wanted people to know that these two intersections of life existed with happy endings. Jeff: And this series, in particular, is gonna go to such an interesting time period in the U.S. when all of the Harlem Renaissance was happening. LaQuette: Yeah, so it's based on three actual people who lived during the Harlem Renaissance. So it's based on Bumpy Johnson, who was the godfather of Harlem for 30 years. It's based on Langston Hughes, who was a great contributor to the Harlem Renaissance as a poet and writer. And it's also based on Cab Calloway, who was sort of one of the most notable faces in jazz and jazz music and jazz performance at the Cotton Club. So we're gonna see... we won't be using their names, but those characters will be based off of those actual people. Will: Yeah, because it was...I think it was like mere moments after I finished reading "Under His Protection." I read about this Harlem Renaissance series that you were doing, and I like lost my mind. I was like, totally doing a happy dance. This is going to be so amazing. I know this is still far in the future. But when do you think we can expect this series? LaQuette: I don't know. And that's the God's honest truth. I'm actually currently writing, finishing up the series for Sourcebooks. And so "Harlem Heat" doesn't...I don't think I'm projected to start it until like the end of the year. So I don't know exactly when it's going to be ready. But I mean, you know, ready for the world anyway. But I think I can talk to someone about getting you a beta read...a copy for beta reading if you'd like. Jeff: Please do. Yes. Will: That would be amazing. Jeff: I imagine the research for that got to be a lot of fun to look at that period in history and figure out what parts you wanna take and use. LaQuette: It is. I mean, I was very fortunate when I was in college. When I did my undergrad in creative writing. I was very fortunate to have a professor who thought outside of the box, and he taught a class on Harlem Renaissance. That was amazing. I mean, it was so rich and filled with culture. And you know, not just the usual things that we see in mainstream history but, you know, getting really down to the nitty-gritty of it. And you know, showing you to...I'm sure that when you when you guys, as gay men, look at the history of the LGBT community, and you get to see it unfold, there's such a moment of connection there. And it's the same thing for black people when we're getting to experience our history because we don't often get to see it through mainstream lens. And so to see it and to see the information dispensed in a way that's positive and celebratory and uplifting, it changes your whole perception of yourself, of who you are and where you came from. And so I'm delighted to be able to dig back into that. I have Piper Huguley, who is a history professor at Spelman College. I believe it's Spelman. And she's also a romance writer, and she's brilliant. So she helps me with a great deal with telling me what books I need to read for this period, and where I need to look for information. But it's so much fun. It really is so much fun. Jeff: That's amazing. Let's talk origin story for a minute. How did you get started writing romance? What led you down this path? LaQuette: I didn't see me on the page. I started reading romance when I was about 16 years old. Way too young to be reading some of the stuff I was reading, but you know, hey. And by the time I was about 18, I probably went through every "Harlequin Presents" that my local library had. And every romance novel I read, it was never about a girl that looked like me, never about places where I lived. So it kind of pulled me out of the romance reading for a while because it was nice to read about those stories, but there was just something missing for me after a while. And I probably, at the time, didn't recognize that I was internalizing that these stories were basically saying, "Romance isn't for you. You don't look like this. You don't fit this mold, so romance isn't for you." And I kind of just pulled away from it. And I think after I finished my undergrad, I just wanted to relax and have some fun and I kind of got back into it. And at the time, I discovered black romance was a thing. And I discovered people like Rochelle Alers, and Brenda Jackson, and Zane. And I'm like, "Wow." Like, it became exciting again. It was refreshing. It was new and yet still very familiar because I could see myself in all of the antics that were going in these stories. I could see myself in those characters. And so I decided I wanted to do that. I wanted to create those spaces, create more stories like that so people could have those connections in reality, you know, reactions when they opened up a book and saw themselves. Jeff: Now that you are writing, what do you think the trademarks of your books are? LaQuette: I do sex and snark really well. Like, I do sarcasm really well because that's my language. It really is my language, and sex, yeah, that's so if you're gonna pick up a LaQuette book, you're going to get lots of sex and lots of sarcasm. Jeff: Did she meet those two in your book? Will: Oh, yeah. Just before we started this interview, we were talking about the possibilities of an audiobook for "Under His Protection." And whatever narrator lands this job is going to, number one, have the time of their life, because Camden and Elijah are very...the banter is very smart and very witty. But also, as you say, the sex scenes are...I'm not even sure what the correct adjective is. It's smoking hot. Yeah, you're gonna need a nice cool beverage after you listen to those scenes, for sure. LaQuette: I don't know that I could listen to that. I don't know that I could. It would be so weird for me. I don't know. I mean, I know I wrote the words, but to hear them aloud, I don't know that I could do that. Will: Exactly. Yeah. Jeff: Yeah, I know, you know, many authors can't listen to their own audio books. LaQuette: Especially those parts. Like I said, I do sex. Amy Lane told me, she was like, "You write sex in such a beautiful concrete way. Like, I just wanna have all the facts when I read your books." I'm like, "Amy, that is the sweetest and weirdest thing that anyone has ever said to me, and I love you for it." Jeff: That almost should be a blurb on the book cover or something. Will: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Jeff: Is there anything you're reading right now that you wanna shout out to people as like a book to grab? LaQuette: Oh, I'm reading a few books. So I just finished Adriana Herrera's...the third book in this "Dreamer" series, and I can't remember the title because it's not actually out yet. I beta read for her, and it is fantastic. I mean, book one is great and I love it. It was so real to me that literally, I had to drive like two to three miles from my house just to go get Dominican food, because I was so hungry after reading book one. Will: Exactly. Yes. Yeah. LaQuette: And book three does the same thing. There's lots of cultural food. And it's part of the tapestry of how these two people connect and share their backgrounds, their experiences, their worldviews. And not to mention, she's so good at writing books that are socially conscious without making you feel like you're being talked down to or preached at, and I love her for that, for being... I don't know that I could do that the way she does it. She's so talented. And I'm also reading...I'm halfway through...I stumble with her name because I know her as Blue Sapphire, but she's now writing as Royal Blue for Dreamspinner, "Kyle's Reveal." Will: Yeah, I've heard of this book, yeah. LaQuette: And I'm halfway through it. And, you know, she's fire, like, she writes hot books. So I'm really excited. I can't wait to get to the end of this book. Will: What was the name of that book again? LaQuette: "Kyle's Reveal." Will: Okay. And that's the...please remind me, is the basketball book, is that correct? LaQuette: Yes. Will: Okay, yes. LaQuette: I mean, it's kind of dark because the protagonists have like a really dark traumatic history. But it's definitely deep and I'm loving it. So I'm really, really, really interested in getting to the end to see if I could just get a minute to stop writing and finish it, I'd be great. Will: Awesome. Jeff: It's such a hard thing balancing. LaQuette: It is. Jeff: "I wanna to finish this book." Then it's like, "I don't wanna read it too fast." LaQuette: Exactly. Jeff: Finding that balance. LaQuette: It's true. Jeff: Are there tropes or genres that you wanna tackle that you just haven't yet in your own writing? LaQuette: I don't know that there are any tropes, because I kind of...I throw a lot of different tropes in my books. Like, "Under His Protection" has second chance romance, it also has proximity, it also has sort of kind of enemies to lovers the way Elijah and Camden started out in the book. And it could sort of kind of be considered like a workplace romance being that they're both involved in different sides of law enforcement. But I don't know. I mean, I've done secret baby before and I love that. That was really fun. And I've done...the only thing I haven't done is like May-December romances. So I think maybe that might be something I'd might want to try. Jeff: Cool. I would read that. I love a good May-December. Absolutely. So beyond the writing, which obviously takes up a lot of time, you also are the president of RWANYC. So the New York City chapter of Romance Writers of America. Tell folks what that entails and what actually led you to running for office. LaQuette: I didn't wanna run. I had no intention of running because I have a lot of stuff to do. And it takes time away from the things that I'm contracted to do. But one of the things that's very important in romance that's happening right now is the fact that romance can be a very whitewashed world, meaning the protagonists that we see, the authors that get the most opportunities are white authors and white characters. And so if you're not white... and straight characters. If you're not writing that, it's difficult to get into the door, it's difficult to find the same resources, the same backing. It's almost impossible to get contracts. And so I ran for president of RWANYC because I wanted, in some way, to help change that landscape, to do some of the work necessary with publishers to try to change that. And it's a heavy task, it's a heavy burden, especially when we get, you know, over the last couple of weeks, we are still reeling from the RITA Awards, which is basically like the Grammys for romance. And every year, it's the same thing. It's a very, very white landscape, and very few authors of color are made finalist. No black woman has ever won a RITA in the 30 years that this award has been established. And people do a lot of mental acrobatics to justify why that is. So "Oh, maybe the writing is just not that good. Maybe that's why we've never had a black RITA award winner. Maybe black authors are not entering." You know, these are also questions that are ridiculous, because statistically, it's just impossible that no black woman would ever have won in 30 years. It's just impossible. And the reason it is, is because the judging pool, there's a bias there in terms of black women and black characters, not just black authors, but black characters. Because you cannot know who the author is, but you cannot...well, I don't write characters who are racially ambiguous. I'm proud of my blackness and my characters are as well. And so I don't try to hide that or trick people into reading my books, or make it so difficult for people to recognize who a person is or what their background is because I feel like that is an important thing. In real life, we don't really get to not know who people are by looking at them. So I don't do it in my books. And because of that, it's very difficult when you know, going into this, "I'm gonna submit this book, and it's not going to final," not because it's a poorly written book, not because I didn't do everything I could to make this book as good as it could be, but simply because my characters, especially my heroines are black. And that is just something that the judging pool cannot handle as of yet. So my work as president is a lot of, you know, being the champion for this cause and taking on this battle because it's not just about me succeeding, it's about any black author who was writing black characters having the ability to write and be supported by the industry. And if I can make any sort of headway in that and if I can help anyone along the way, I'll feel like I've done something positive with my life. Will: With books like yours, and with Adriana Herrera, who you mentioned not too long ago, do you think it's really just a matter of representation that can help build awareness for diversity in romance or is there something else that readers, specifically, should be doing or asking for? LaQuette: Well, specifically, yeah. I mean, readers have a lot of power. So if you're asking publishers, you know, "Why don't we have more diverse romance? Why don't we have romance where...you know, that shows basically the colors of the rainbow and all those brilliant facets of intersectionality in life, like, why don't we have that?" Because your buying dollars is what demands, what makes the demand. Because publishers will say, "We don't sell that. We don't contract black books because they don't sell." One of the things we discussed at Dreamspinner was the cover. That was an intentional choice. I was very clear with them when we sat down and talked about this project that Elijah needed to be on the cover. I would not subscribe to the ideology that a black man on the cover can't sell. And there are...I mean, we've seen in our writing community that some publishing houses have actually made this statement. I don't subscribe to that. So we talked about it. And then we talked about the fact that readership sometimes can have a bias. And sometimes they won't engage with the book if they feel like the person is the wrong color or wrong background. And I said, "I understand that, but we're still gonna work...you know, to work with me, this is how we're gonna work." And they were in agreement. I didn't have to convince them. I went in prepared to battle. And it was like, "Listen, I really need this guy to be black and I really need him to look like this." And they were like, "We agree. We agree." So we need more of that in the industry. And it starts with readers. It also starts with the gatekeepers. People reaching out and specifically looking for these things. It also, people who are gatekeepers also need to check themselves. So when you're reading a book and you're saying, "I can't connect to it. I didn't relate to it." Why aren't you relating to it? Is it that it's a poorly written book? I've gotten rejection letters that literally said, "This is a really well-written book, but I didn't relate to the character, so I'm not gonna buy it." That doesn't really make a lot of sense, right? So what was it that you didn't relate to? If you could see that it was a really well-written book, I mean, if it's that good, why not work with me in terms of editing to kind of get things right, you know, to where it would be something that you feel is that you could sell. But a lot of publishing houses out there don't have that mentality. And it's this sort of...it's insidious. It's not something, you know, you can actually like, look and see. Some people don't even notice it. They just think, "Oh, I don't read those kinds of books because I don't like them." And it's not that they don't like them, it's that they've not actually giving them the opportunity to be great. Jeff: So that is, obviously, great words for the readers. Kind of spinning it back to your RWA role, you're in such a diverse chapter there because you're in NYC. LaQuette: Yeah. Jeff: How are the authors in that particular region banding together to like help RWA move past the issues? LaQuette: Oh, well, a lot of my recent successes, because, you know, allies, colleagues like Kate McMurray and Tere Michaels, are like, "Listen, you're fabulous, and we want you to meet people who will also think you're fabulous. So come here." And that's part of the beauty of RWA, and that's why I fight so hard for diversity and inclusion within RWA, because my success, as I said, my recent success has all been attached to people pushing me in different directions to say, "This is where you need to be. This is the person you need to meet." And if you're not a part of the organization, you can't make those connections. And networking connections will get you further than anything you know, right? So when we cut off authors of color from that source, from the resources, from the networking connections, and the opportunities that are presented to people who are part of the organization, what we're doing is we're disconnecting them from publishing. And we're forcing them to be indie. And this is not an indie versus trad conversation. This is... some people cannot be anything other than indie, because trad will not give them the opportunity. They've been completely marginalized. And so that should not be. People should be able to publish however they choose to, whether they up to be an indie author or whether they decide that the trad route is for them, because, you know, different strokes for different folks. It is different, you know, depending on what your lifestyle is like. I have crazy children and I have to juggle being a mom, a writer, and everything else and try to keep sane. Being an indie author is a lot of work. It's a lot of effort on your end to make a book successful. I don't have that kind of time in my life, or that kind of energy, honestly. So being a trad author is a much better avenue for me and my situation. And if that is the only way that I can publish, but publishing will not give me the opportunities, then it's, you know, I'm losing out. And that's the purpose of RWA to sort of bridge those gaps. But I don't think we're exactly where we need to be yet. So we're still working on it. Will: Yeah, definitely. Jeff: We very much appreciate your efforts towards that, for sure. Will: Now, the Romance Writers of America National Conference is going to be in NYC this summer. LaQuette: Absolutely. Will: And I expect you're going to be there. LaQuette: Oh, yeah. I wouldn't miss it for the world. Will: Yeah, we're actually making a trip for the first time this year as well. LaQuette: Yay. Will: So hopefully we will... I know it's gonna be crazy busy. But hopefully, we're gonna get a chance to say hi in person. LaQuette: It is. Absolutely. Jeff: For sure. Now, we talked about "Harlem Heat." You mentioned a couple other things. What is on your docket for the rest of this year for releases? LaQuette: I don't think I have any other releases this year because I'm writing. So I've been very blessed in that I have landed these two major contracts with Sourcebooks and with Dreamspinner, both for series. So I'm halfway through Source's books. And I need to start on Dreamspinner's toward the end of the year. So there won't be any more releases from me. I mean, if I get a moment where I'm, you know, feeling really creative, I might try to get a novella together. But I'm not making any promises. Jeff: All right, so we'll look for a lot more in 2020, for sure. LaQuette: Yeah, 2020 is definitely...the first book for Source comes out in 2020. I don't have a release date yet. I have delivery dates for Dreamspinner, but I don't have release dates yet. So I'm thinking probably sometime toward the end of 2020, possibly, or maybe the beginning of 2021. Jeff: All right. Well, when "Harlem Heat" comes out, you definitely have an invitation to come back and talk, for sure. LaQuette: Oh, yay. Thank you. Jeff: Now what's the best way for everybody to keep up with you online? LaQuette: Oh, so you can find me on Facebook at, you know, my Facebook page, LaQuettetheAuthor. You can find me on Twitter @LaQuetteWrites, or you can find me on Instagram at la_quette, or you can email me at laquette@laquette.com, or you can go to my website laquette.com. Will: Fantastic. Jeff: She's well branded, and everything is the same. Will: Most definitely. Well, LaQuette, it was a genuine honor to have you on the show today. LaQuette: Oh, thank you. Will: We're so glad that you could take some time out of your extremely busy schedule that you can come talk to us. LaQuette: Thank you for having me. I mean, I was so excited and a little bit nervous also, to come on and talk to you guys because I've seen the show before. And I'm like, "Yay, I get to go hang out with them. I feel special." Will: Well, it is a genuine pleasure. We're so glad that you came. LaQuette: Thank you so very much for having me.

What’s Good? Our buddy Duncan is joining us to talk about nerd stuff like anime, giving insight to the anime industry between the US and Japan. News Psycho-Pass Season 3 has been officially announced and is being made by Production I.G. Crunchyroll has put out a video as a visual reminder that we have some big movies coming this year. One Piece Stamped premieres on August 9th in Japan Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution premieres July 12th in Japan Konosuba: Crimson Legend premieres this July in Japan (no set date) Detective Conan: The First of Blue Sapphire premieres April 12th in Japan Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl premieres June 15th in Japan Sound! Euphonium the movie ~Oath of the Finale~ premieres April 19th in Japan Weathering with You premieres July 19th in Japan Promare premieres May in Japan (no set date) Ascendance of a Bookworm - I’ll Become a Librarian At Any Cost! Receives a TV anime adaptation. Mob Psycho 100 Studio: Bones Creator: One   WHERE TO FIND DUNCAN Twitter: https://twitter.com/duncanandstuff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duncanandstuff/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/duncanandstuff/   Our logo artist!  http://turvytops.com/           Our intro artist! Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tomnasr Instagram: @tom_nasr Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperArmhair                Contact Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/instantramenpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/InstantRamenPod Instagram: http://instagram.com/instantramenpodcast E-mail: instantramenpodcast@gmail.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtwCC2BbsLxpgA1cE1PBtA Blog: https://instantramenpodcast.blogspot.com/

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In this first episode of Who Run the Show?, I go over the current slate of cancellations that occurred this week as Networks prepare for the Upfronts in New York and ramble in my first attempt at creating a podcast. Enjoy! -Alex Update: We have an audio/editing error at the 4.30ish second marker. The series I am talking about here is American Crime. Growing pains. It'll get better.Thx! *Show Notes* ATX Festival - http://atxfestival.com/ The Writers Panel Podcast - http://nerdist.com/podcasts/nerdist-writers-panel-channel/ The Showrunner Podcast - http://rainmaker.fm/series/showrunner/ NBC's Timeless - http://www.nbc.com/timeless?nbc=1 MTV's Sweet/Vicious - http://www.mtv.com/shows/sweet-vicious Outro - "Blue Sapphire" by Automatixx - https://soundcloud.com/automatixx/13-bluesapphire-produced-by Intro Music: www.bensound.com