Reiki 4 Coming in a Couple Weeks

For those that have taken Reiki 1, Reiki 2, and Reiki 3 from me, you are eligible to take the Reiki 4 (Reiki with Crystals) class on Saturday, May 3rd. I know some have missed previous classes, and want to take it. So, here is your chance. I need to have 4 students signed up by April 24^th to have it at the hotel. 

If you are interested in taking this class, please sign up as soon as possible.

Congratulations to More Reiki Masters

We now have 5 new Reiki masters! Yes, five students showed up and learned and practiced the material to be a Reiki Master. May they go forth and spread the love.

Spiritual Information from The White Lotus

by Brian Dean

I was watching an episode of this program (yes, I do watch more then sci-fi), and it had a man meeting this religious leader and asking a question. Now this was Thailand, and the religion was supposedly Buddhism, yet they had the leader dressed as Hindu. (I guess the costuming people and writers didn’t get together.) At any rate, the man asked… what happens when we die?

The answer was brilliant… When we are born, it is like a single drop of rain getting separated from the one great consciousness. You get older. You descend back down. You die. You land back into the water, become one with the ocean again. You return to the consciousness. Death is a happy return.

Interesting piece of spirituality.

Karma

by Brian Dean

Okay, so what is Karma? Well, some might think that it is the universe enacting judgement on you for all the bad things you did, basically the Christian idea of Hell. There being a point where you have done so many bad things to get ahead, that the pendulum has now pointed in the other direction, and the bottom just drops out on your life.

But while that might be true in some cases, Karma is truly the universe’s way of keeping things in balance. There has to be balance between all things, positive and negative. If you do a lot of bad, yes, Karma will come back to haunt you. I know there are a lot of politicians that should be looking back and fearing their comeuppance. But Karma is not immediate, at least usually. 

I remember some 35 or so years ago when I was backing out of a parking lot in the back of some store. I probably didn’t see the person that came up behind me. They honked (which scared the felgercarb out of me), and I flipped them off. After I got out of there and pulled onto the next street, someone suddenly pulled out in front of me, cutting me off. At that moment, I laughed and thought about John Lennon who sang about Instant Karma.

But Karma is usually not instantaneous. In fact, it can take weeks, months, years, and… lifetimes. If you are having a lot of problems in this life, maybe it is to balance out another, previous life. As the universe and energies go, they have to be kept in balance, two opposite forces working alongside each other trying to maintain equality.

When we live our lives, we enter with a plan that our soul makes for this specific journey. But the soul comes in with that plan, but we have free will, and can override it. We come into each life to learn certain things. The concept is to learn what is needed to be learned, and then take that knowledge back to the “soul collective”. One life you might be rich. The next, you might be poor. One life may be full of hope and sunshine, while another is so bad that you commit suicide. Each way shows balance. 

I remember a movie many years ago called “Oh God, Book 2” which starred George Burns. In one scene, he is telling this little girl about things needing to be kept in balance. He said that we can’t have good without evil. We can’t have happy without sad, up without down, pain without joy. I could not have said it better myself. 

Karma is a tightrope pulling us on each side as we walk across. Yes, it is balance.

Side Note...

I met someone a few years ago that had a dog named "Karma". It was said that you had better be nice to Karma, or Karma would bite you in the ass.

Squirrelly Solutions

by Brian Dean

As I mentioned in the last newsletter, we have had a squirrel problem with them chewing and then stealing the light bulbs from the string we had. Well, the squirrel feeder has been moved to a new location. And a new, slightly different light string was added where the old one was. The feeder is a good distance from the lights. The new string does not have drop down bulbs. Instead they are part of the string. So far, the lights seem to be fine, and the squirrels are getting fat.