I am the single mother of an extraordinary boy. He arrived in this world on May 27, l997 at 2:30 a.m. after an interminable amount of hard work and coaxing, an attitude, I must confess, that pervades his life to this day. His first few minutes of life were concerning, but when he was returned […]
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Nanaimo Metaphysical Society – Network News
Nanaimo’s Metaphysical Network is growing faster than we could have imagined. It seems that every new speaker brings along newly-interested friends. It is very probable that we will require a larger venue next fall, in order to accommodate our ever-increasing numbers. Currently, over 500 are on our email list, by request. Recently three former speakers […]
Deconstructing Dinner in Our Schools
At only ten years of age, Kodiak Morasky is deeply concerned about where his food comes from. "I’d discovered that whenever someone sits down and eats a pizza, they don’t really think about it, they just go, ‘oh, this is so good’”, says ten-year old Kodiak Morasky. "They don’t think this [food] came out of […]
Weaving the Words
"The way Grandpa taught us,” Ellen White begins, gently tapping her forehead, "he always said, ‘What is the thought before it becomes IN you’? And that means, what you think, you will create.” Dark-haired and petite, she radiates both a peaceful calm and a bubbling energy as she sits comfortably at her kitchen table. Slipping […]
Conscious Living and Dying
When my mother became terminally ill a few years ago, I was devastated. Even though I had worked in hospice and knew that rather than being a morbid place full of fear, it was in fact the most beautiful peaceful environment, in which the sanctity of transition from this world was a very profound experience […]