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Posted October 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 October 2020 Truth be told, you have no choice because not voting is also a “vote.” It may not be a vote for a candidate, but it is an expression of political preference, nevertheless. A long time ago, a musical group called The Fugs asked the question, “Why are we always voting for the lesser of […] October 31st, 2020 | Tags: battles, candidate, choice, Civil War, democracy, desire for war, elections, father, Give Peace a Chance, John Lennon, leadership, lesser of two evils, limited resources, militarism, military, military service, necessity, not voting, outcomes, outgrow, Peace, social progress, the Fugs, truth, U.S. Civil War, uncles, vested interest, Vietnam, voting, Wide, Wide River | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted September 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 September 2020 “There is no power on earth that can withstand the united cooperation on spiritual levels of men and women of goodwill everywhere. It is for this reason that the continued and widespread observance of the Silent Minute is of such vital importance in the interest of human welfare.” ~ Major Wellesley Tudor Pole I received […] September 30th, 2020 | Tags: Beyond Mastery Newsletter, Big Ben, body, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Heater, holistic health, inspiration, Jennie Lee, Joel P. Bowman, Lord's Supper, mind, natural health, reminders, Rocking Chair, Sacred stories, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, Silent Minute, Sir Winston Churchill, Sounds True, Spark Change, spirit, spiritual evolution, Wellesley Tudor Pole | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted September 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2020 I may be the only regular reader of this newsletter who has actually been to war. My guess is that most of our readers are following Debra, and, like her, are women. In general, especially these days in the States, men have more experience with war than women do. “My” war was Vietnam. All my […] September 30th, 2020 | Tags: Army, beggar, brotherhood, chance, combat, conflict, disease, events, extraordinary, Grace of God, hold energy, humanity, last generation, life, London, Londoner, Love, luck of the draw, lucky, male relatives, men, mysteries, newsletter, Peace, perspective, physical problems, poverty, reports, spiritual lessons, study war, study war no more, there but for the grade of god, type, Vietnam, war, wealth, women | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted August 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 August 2020 Gray and grey are both common spellings of the color between black and white. Gray is more frequent in American English, whereas grey is more common in British English. During the week of the primaries, my sister put the following post on Facebook. I do not know who wrote these words, but I think […] August 31st, 2020 | Tags: Beyond Mastery Newsletter, body, Center for Nonviolent Communication, CNVC, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Dimensional Flux, Gillian MacBeth-Louthan, holistic health, inspiration, Joel P. Bowman, Marshall Rosenberg, mind, natural health, politics aside, reminders, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, spirit | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted August 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2020 A long time ago a musician named Pete Seeger wrote a song entitled, “Which Side Are You On:” The song depicted the conflict (often bloody) between the mine owners and the miners in Harlen County, Kentucky. Most of the conflicts in human history are based on perceived differences, pitting what is basically one […] August 31st, 2020 | Tags: cattle, choice, Civil War, conflict, differences, eat meat, Europe, extinct, fish, fowl, Greeks, Harlen County, history, humans, Indian Wars, lesser of two evils, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther, mine owners, miners, natural, Nature, Pete Seeger, progress, Red in Tooth and Claw, red it both and claw, Revolutionary War, Romans, sin, study war no more, Tennyson, tribal warfare, tribe, Which Side Are You On | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 July 2020 Nine-year-old Michaela Munyan, is CEO and sole seamstress of an unincorporated operation. Michaela had learned to sew hair scrunchies in an after-school program, so when her school was shut down because of the coronavirus, she did something constructive. She found a pattern and made a mask. Then she found a YouTube video about batch sewing […] July 31st, 2020 | Tags: abundance, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Embrace Reality, Energy Medicine, Healing Touch, holistic health, Joel P. Bowman, Milton H. Erickson, mind-body, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, orientation to time, Reiki, Reverend Debra Basham, Richard Bandler, Sacred stories, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, Steve d Shazer, Tips for Well-Being, wholesome thoughts, Yellow Brick Road | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2020 Life moves in only one direction: forward. There’s no going back, and there are no “do-overs.” That’s why we need to do the best we can with everything we do all the time. A long time ago, the Steve Miller Band said, “Time keeps on slippin’ into the future”: Time is, in fact, […] July 31st, 2020 | Tags: apologize, being spiritual, Catholics, childhood, Christians, church attendance, do-overs, Edward Fitzgerald, Faust, Faustian, holy day, holy day of obligation, Jews, life, Martin Luther, Omar Khayyam, one-way street, perspective, Protestants, Richard Bandler, Saturday, school, sin bravely, slippery slope, spiritual, Sunday, third grade, time | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 June 2020 As the 4th of July comes around it looks as though social-distancing measures to mitigate risks of contracting COVID-19 are likely to be with us for a while. Although Marie Curie said “the way of progress is neither swift nor easy,” there are ways that we can all still let freedom ring on Independence Day. […] June 30th, 2020 | Tags: abundance, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, blackface sweater, COVID-19, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Embrace Reality, Energy Medicine, freedom, Gucci, Healing Touch, holistic health, Independence Day, Joel P. Bowman, mask, mind-body, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, Reiki, Reverend Debra Basham, Sacred stories, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, Tips for Well-Being, wholesome thoughts, Yellow Brick Road | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2020 We seem to be living the “ancient Chinese curse” that was rumored to have been made up by Robert Kennedy in the 1970s. The phrase has been investigated many times because it has the “ring” of truth. Peace and plenty are not as interesting as war and famine. We can find a lot of times […] June 30th, 2020 | Tags: ancient, Ancient Greece, ancient history, arrows, bows, carnage, Chinese, combat, conflict, Crystal Blue Persuasion, curse, dream, England, even a rat learns, France, Greece, hundred years war, learning, let there be peace on Earth, Lysistrata, psychology, rats, ring of truth, Robert Kennedy. 1970s, shields, swords, truth, undergraduate, Vietnam, Vietnam era, war, War in Vietnam, wars, weapons | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 May 2020 “Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.” Carlsbad, California, June 2006, “The Scariest Thing,”, AA Grapevine Accepting life right now means adapting to a lot of change. By the first of June, in the past many years, I would have for a couple of months been comfortably settled […] May 31st, 2020 | Tags: AA Grapevine, Aaron, abundance, Barbara Brodsky, Beyond Mastery Newsletter, Buddhism, coronavirus, COVID-19, darkness, Debra Basham, DebraBasham.com, Deep Spring Meditation Center, Embrace Reality, Energy Medicine, five spiritual faculties, Healing Touch, holistic health, Joel P. Bowman, lovingkindness, mind-body, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, Path of Clear Light, Pema Chödrön, Reiki, Reverend Debra Basham, Sacred stories, Sangha, SCS Matters, scs-matters.com, Tips for Well-Being, wholesome thoughts, Wisdom of No Escape, Yellow Brick Road | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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