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SPRING 2010 Volume 17 Issue 1 www.aquarianonline.com INSIDE FEATURES Moving On: Help for Spirits ........1 Subconscious........................... 3 Radiance: New Management ........7 PLANT-BASED Vesanto Melina ........................4 View from the Veg: Brown Rice................................5 COMMUNITY Obituary- Joan McLaren............ 2 COLUMNS Voluntary Simplicity: Treatment ..................................1 Perspectives: Dentistry ...........6 Sharing Our Stories .................8 Kristi’s Kaleidoscope: Value of Tears .......................12 Pet Family: Cats ......................15 Book Reviews Mind Programming ................16 Weather Shamanism .............16 Peace In Our Time .................17 Movie Review The Cove .................................17 And more! Voluntary Simplicity hands trying to decide which was the Moving On: Help for Lost Spirits Rx for greener choice – towels made from Patti Slentz contacted me about Energy Dynamics courses about 20 years Environmental recycled paper or the electric hand dryer last issue’s orb article, to share her ago when he lived in Winnipeg. I have on the wall. By the time I made up my enthusiasm (see page 2). In the course natural psychic ability and my work with Anxiety mind, my hands had drip-dried, which of our conversation, she mentioned a him expanded it. He invited me to join more serious interest of hers, “spirit in the spirit rescue work he was doing. By MARK A. was probably the most sustainable choice all around.” rescue work.” My ears perked up. When he moved to Nova Scotia in 2001, BURCH “Okaaay. Well… let’s try some more of Maybe there’s a story here, I thought. I continued the work with the help of that deep breathing today.” I mentioned Haiti and the spirits of Alex, who had also taken Ben’s courses. “ O! HOW ARE we those who died. “Would they need help AO: What role do you play, Alex? feeling today?” Discerning the best S to go to the light?” I asked. It turns out AK: When people contact us, asking “Well Doc, the tremors and vomiting This bit of fictional dialogue between that Patti and her friend Alex Kachur for help dealing with a possible spirit have stopped, but I still get the cold therapist and client may be something have had some experience assisting presence, we’ll discuss the situation and sweats, have no appetite, holler at my cat many of us can relate to. “trauma spirits,” so we arranged an tell them how to proceed until we can get and can’t concentrate.” Human impacts on the environment interview. Here is the result. there. When we’re at the building, I act “Have you been doing the deep- are complex and densely layered. Since ANNA OLSON as a “safe guard” while Patti is talking breathing exercises and visualizations I the 1960s, hundreds of books, websites AO: Can you explain what happens with the spirit. taught you last visit?” and articles offer lists of suggestions when people die? “Yeah, sure; but I still feel nervous and about “things you can do to save the AO: What are some experiences the I keep waking up at 3:00 am with all this Earth.” This avalanche of instructions PS: When people die, they do it in one of two of you have had in Winnipeg? stuff spinning around in my head!” is to be expected in a society that still two ways: sudden, trauma death where no PS: First, I’d like to say that when we do “What stuff?” believes deep down that more is better – “signal” is given off, and a slower, more this work, we have only the benefit of the “Well, I’ve got to save the planet— even suggestions about how to overcome aware death where a signal alerts spirit spirit and the people involved in mind. right? We all have to do our part. And the consequences of more is better! helpers so they can come and help with We have no interest in proving spirit then I start thinking – is it better to But very few of these sources offer the transition. Different signals are given existence for entertainment or monetary buy my toilet paper from a company in much information about which are the at birth and death by the body intellect, reasons. Louisiana with a strong labour contract or smartest things to do. Not all actions are one of the layers of the aura. In one case, a baby had been “taken” should I buy from a Canadian company equally effective. I sleep sounder since After the body and brain of a person by spirit while she was still in diapers. using migrant labour but harvesting its discovering a list of things I can do to save have died, if the spirit stays on the earth Her parents were having difficulties pulp from a certified sustainable forestry the Earth that is short, science-based, plane, it doesn’t grow emotionally or and left her alone so much that a spirit operation? And is it better to buy a shirt simple to understand, and that accounts intellectually. This is why it is called a adopted her. It was not until she was 12 that is 70% organic cotton and 30% for over 90% of the environmental “mind-set spirit.” He or she is oblivious years old and having behaviour problems hemp, or should it be 100% hemp?” impacts of my daily activities. to the physical reality that we are aware that her father called us for help. “These things keep you awake at The Union of Concerned Scientists of and needs help to go to the right place. The spirit was helped to move on, night?” (UCS), a nonprofit science advocacy AO: How did you get started in spirit which left the young girl vulnerable. She “Well, sure! Don’t they you? Yesterday group based in the United States, rescue work? soon became a spirit magnet. As spirit’s assessed the environmental impact of I stood in a public washroom with wet PS: I took Ben Willemsen’s Human only form of communication is word of See TREATMENT on page 13 See LOST soUls on page 10 2 SPRING 2010 www.aquarianonline.com 16 Victoria Row, Winnipeg, MB R2M 1Y2 Letters to the editor Editorial & Advertising: ph: (204) 255-4884 fax: (204) 255-5057 Animal Research and The Aquarian reader response. After that, [email protected] I was both surprised and disappointed Patti Slentz was the first to send in orbs appeared [email protected] to read an article that espouses the use the story of her relationship to orbs. It in pictures taken www.aquarianonline.com of lab animals (“Nano Particles, Mega started two and a half years ago when at “restaurants, Publisher – Janet Whitley Problems?” by Carole Bass) in your she took a picture of a deer at her concert halls, Editors – Anna Olson & Syd Baumel Winter 2009 issue. Perhaps you should family’s cabin near Kenora, Ontario. A churches and other The Aquarian is a forum for shedding light refer to your past contributors who few orbs appeared close to the deer when houses of worship, on the path to personal fulfillment and the have written about animal research she looked in the viewfinder. Since then, friends’ homes common good. It is published quarterly being morally wrong and scientifically she has taken hundreds of pictures of her and dances,” she the first week of March, June, September, unsound. I will be thinking twice dog, cabin, the woods and lake with her writes. “I even and December. Annual subscriptions to before picking up another issue of The digital camera, revealing orbs in various photographed a small white ‘pollywog’ anywhere in Canada or the U.S. can be had by sending a cheque or money order for $12 Aquarian. sizes and colour. at a birthday party in an Osborne Village to our office. Outside North America please Debbie Wall She has also restaurant (enlarged head and eyes and contact us for prices. seen a number mouth with neck and fish-like body). I We welcome your suggestions, letters to Dear Debbie: Thanks for pointing out of bright light was no longer afraid. In fact, my photos the editor, article queries, press releases, something that flew under our radar. The forms that almost of orbs now brought me peace and announcements, and other input. Please fact that it did speaks to how easy it can resemble birds and comfort.” include a phone number or email address with your letters to the editor. be to tacitly accept animal research in or insects. Some medical articles – to go with the flow of of the orbs are red, I bumped into Nicole Verin-Treusch, We reserve the right to edit letters for length or readability. a practice many consider scientifically accompanied by a co-owner with her partner Kristen of Advertisers and contributors assume questionable and morally repugnant. kind of red mist. Muddy Water Tours, who had read the accuracy of their claims and statements. That said, The Aquarian has no official When Patti asks the orbs article. She pointed out that many The opinions and views expressed in articles policy on animal research. red orbs to appear, people see orbs in their photos of haunted do not necessarily reflect those of The Even regarding the use of animals for they have done so a few times, suggesting places. She suggested I go to their page Aquarian or its advertisers. food and fashion, we have no absolute a responsive intelligence is involved. on the Heartland Travel website (www. All contents are copyright. We welcome editorial policy. We have published a Pat Diane Olson wrote in to say she was heartlandtravel.ca – click Winnipeg reprint requests. range of articles that – while concentrated frightened when orbs first appeared on Tours then Haunted Winnipeg) and on the side of not using animals for her camera in March of 2009.