NEW THOUGHT WEEKLY
 
SUNDAY OCT. 13 PROGRAM
 
Oct. 13 Don Choquette. Chinese Gong Meditation. A musician and healing practitioner, Don uses the sound of crystal bowls, bells, and gongs to create a state of stillness and meditation. Don will be demonstrating three different gongs from 14" in diameter to 30" in diameter including two wind gongs and a tiger gong including a $3,500 wind gong on loan from the Harbor Gallery in Kawaihae.
 
The 10:00 a.m. Sunday service is held on the makai lanai at Pualani Terrace in Kealakekua on the makai side of Mamalahoa Hwy. (Rt.11) just south of Kamagaki Market. All are welcomed. For further information call 329-2222 or see our web-site at www.NTCHawaii.org. Childcare is provided.
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                                NEW THOUGHT CENTER OF HAWAII
    By providing a loving, accepting, non-judgmental community, we at NewThought Center of Hawaii create a sanctuary for the nourishment, development, and evolution of each person's unique spiritual path.
    The circle we sit in represents our inclusiveness and our equality. We have no minister. We take turns facilitating, and we minister to each other. In addition to sharing our own spiritual insights, we invite teachers from all wisdom traditions. We invite and honor such variety and in ourselves and in the world around us. We understand that no single source has exclusivity of spiritual truth, health and joy and that there is much to be learned from many of these sources.
    We gather every Sunday at 10 a.m. in Kealakekua at Pualani Terrace just south of the Kealakekua Library. You are invited to join the circle.                                             Morty Breier pres. and board of NTCH.
 
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CONTENTS
 
- Sunday Oct. 13, 2002 program  ( Don Choquette - Chinese gong meditation )
- About New Thought Center of Hawaii
- Upcoming Programs   ( 2 )
- Humor  ( 
New government emblem; An old man was sitting on a bench in the mall ... 
)
- Words of Wisdom/Quest for Quotes ( 
18 )
- White Board Wisdom  (
13 )
- Worthy Websites ( Access to free libraries )
- Attachment  ( 
G.W. Bush safeguarding the environment )
- Raw  Food Recipe  ( 
Banana Papaya pudding 
)
- Miscellaneous ( 
Reincarnation quiz. Were you here before?)
- Announcements ( 
5 )
- Personals ( - )
- Spiritual Message  ( 
For souls in process  )
- Affirmation (
yes )
- Reader Feedback  ( 
yes )
- Editorial  ( - )
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
 
Oct. 20  The Healing Power of Poetry and Music. Bring your favorite poem, story and song and perform it  for other  New Thought members.

Oct. 27 Mikahala Roy. Hawaiian traditions.
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HUMOR
 
NEW GOVERNMENT EMBLEM
    The government announced today that it is changing it's emblem to a condom because it more clearly reflects the government's political stance. A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually getting screwed.                                 Via Glenys Spitze
 
AN OLD MAN WAS SITTING ON A BENCH AT THE MALL.
     A young man walked up to the bench and sat down.
     He had spiked hair in all different colors: green, red, orange, blue, and yellow.
     The old man just stared.
     Every time the young man looked, the old man was staring.
     The young man finally said sarcastically,  "What's the matter old timer, never done
anything wild in your life?"
    The old man replied, "Got drunk once and had sex with a parrot.  I was just wondering
if you were my son."            Via Gwenda Eliason
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WORDS OF WISDOM / QUEST FOR QUOTES
 
- "You gain or lose power according to the choices you make."
- "Choose with wisdom because the power is now fully in your hands."
- "The loving personality seeks not to control but to nurture, not to dominate but to empower."
- "As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourselves also." 
- "The universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention."
                                            Gary Zukov in "Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul: Meditations for Souls in Process."
 
- "Let me tell you something we Israeli's have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil." Golda Meir, ex- Israel prime minister quoted in Kathleen Parker Sept.30 column in WHT relating to the humor in the movie "Barbershop" in which black character says "Rosa Parks aint do nothing but sit...down."
 
- "Love is or it aint. Thin love aint love at all."                     Toni Morrison
- "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.                                                                                     Erich Segal
- "Passion make the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.         Rap singer Ice T
 
- "Physical activity was strongly associated with better erectile functioning." In Feb. 2002 Reader's Digest, from a Harvard School of Public Health study by Eric B. Rimm who concluded that men who exercise vigorously 20-30 minutes a day are half as likely to have ED and that as a man's waist size increased, so did his chance of ED (Waist not, want not). 
 
- "Those comments can't go out."     J.Steven Giles, Dep.Secy of Interior when EPA staff criticized plans for natural gas drilling in Wyoming's Powder River Basin on the grounds that it would cause severe air and water pollution and endanger the nation's last herd of plains elks, in "Sierra" the magazine of the Sierra Club
- "An obvious perversity of the Clean Water Act designed specifically for the benefit of the mining industry." A federal judge referring to federal rule proposed by EPA administrator Christie Whitman allowing mining industry to blow the tops off mountains and deposit resulting waste in rivers, streams and wetlands.
- "It's not a giveaway to the mining industry." Christie Whitman, EPA administrator, defending a federal rule allowing mining industry to blow the tops off mountains and deposit resulting waste in rivers, streams and wetlands.
- "We're looking at them as working landscapes." P.Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Interior Secy. explaining plans for opening public lands to mining and drilling.
- "The truth is rarely pure, and never simple."                    Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
- "The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible."                                                                                                                                             Arthur C. Clarke
- "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." 
                                                                                                                      Ansel Adam via Larry Morningstar
 
- "Hawaii indeed has lost a powerful voice. Patsy Mink. A woman of vision. A pioneer. A true Democrat who always chose her own road. Her legacy lives on in her ideals and her work. In the civil rights she championed for all people, her efforts to help women attain equality, her support of working families, her care for our kupuna. She made achievements possible for our female athletes, protected the environment, stood up for what she believed and always had the courage to speak out. With gusto. Hers was a spirit like no others. For all of this  Hawaii says "mahalo nui loa." We will miss you. But we will never forget you."   Democratic Party ad in WHT
seeking contributions to the Patsy Mink Education Foundation for Low Income Women and Children.
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WHITE BOARD WISDOM
 
Write your quotations on the NewThought WhiteBoard  which awaits your words
of wisdom at every NewThought SundayService. Share your own, or the words of others. 
 
- One now
- We need to recognize the necessity of pleasure, not the luxury of it.
- The work to be done is what relationships have to offer.
- The only way to change another is to change yourself.
- Oneness of God, oneness of religion, oneness of mankind.
- Love and light.
- Sex is like touching the hem of God.
- Gwenda's e-mail is gwindah@yahoo.com
- Relationships is the most powerful learning tool.
- Let the beauty you love be what you do
- If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, is the man still to blame?
- It's better to be alone than to wish you were.
- Ummm Ha
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WORTHY  WEBSITES
From "50 Most Incredibly Useful Sites"  from"Yahoo/Internet Life" magazine's sixth annual list.
 
Access a free library.  Everything from novels by Agatha Christie and Virginia Wolf to poetry by Robert Frost is available for free. Also, a full set of classic reference books if you need to look up something.  www.bartleby.com
 
Next Week:  Pay by e-mail. Send cash by e-mail from your credit card or checking account and pay your bills by e-mail.    
 
Make your own anagrams at the Internet Anagram Server:
http://wordsmith.org/anagram
DORMITORY                   DIRTY ROOM
STATUE OF LIBERTY  BUILT TO STAY FREE
TELEVISION SET          SEE? IT'S VIOLENT!
GEORGE BUSH            HE BUGS GORE
EVANGELIST                 EVIL'S AGENT
PRESBYTERIAN           BEST IN PRAYER
DESPERATION             A ROPE ENDS IT
THE MORSE CODE     HERE COME DOTS
ANIMOSITY                    IS NO AMITY
MOTHER-IN-LAW        WOMAN HITLER
SNOOZE ALARMS      ALAS! NO MORE Z'S
A DECIMAL POINT      I'M A DOT IN PLACE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO   TWELVE PLUS ONE
PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA     TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS 
                                                                                            Examples provided by Barbara Concoby
 
Go to website's FAQ's to find out anagrams from phone numbers
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ATTACHMENT (see above)
 
G.W. Bush "safeguarding" the environment 
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RAW FOOD RECIPE
 
BANANA PAPAYA PUDDING
 
Smooth, creamy and filling, this pudding is also delicious
with two pitted prunes or figs blended in.
 
1/2 ripe papaya (1 cup)
1 banana cut in chunks
Blend papaya just enough to break up the fruit
Add the banana and blend till smooth
Optional: blend in 2 pitted prunes or figs.
Optional: blend in 1 or 2 tablespoons of almond butter.
 
From Nomi Shannon of www.rawgourmet.com
 
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF EATING RAW FOOD?
    Do you want to achieve optimal health? The best way to do that  is to eat a high enzyme diet consisting of raw fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds, nuts, grains and some seaweed.
    Eating predominantly cooked food puts a tremendous strain on your body. To understand why this is true, you need to  understand the role enzymes play. Enzymes are in he cells of  every living plant and animal. It is enzyme activity that  accomplishes all biological work from blinking
an eye, to  lifting a finger, to having a thought.
    When you eat, you need enzymes to help digest the food. If the food you eat is raw-whether it is a rutabaga, a carrot, lettuce leaf or a banana-all the enzymes you need are right there in the food itself, ready to go to work for you.
    If the food is cooked beyond 118 F (48 C), however, these naturally occurring enzymes are killed by heat, and your body must manufacture its own digestive enzymes to do the job.
    Is this a problem? Raw fooders believe it is. The father of the food enzyme concept, Dr. Edward Howell, explained that when your body is busy digesting food, it is unable to divert
the necessary energy to make the type of enzymes needed to do other tasks. There is a tug-of-war between the demands of your digestive system for a constant supply of digestive enzymes and the needs of your body for the metabolic enzymes vital for cleansing, healing, and building. Without an adequate supply  of metabolic enzymes, over time, you suffer.
    This decline in health is usually attributed solely to 'aging'. But it is really the result of two facts: Over time, your  body loses its ability to manufacture enzymes (young adults have thirty times the enzymes of the elderly); and, when you eat food that is cooked, it forces your body to
manufacture enzymes for digestion, instead of enzymes that could be used for healing. Ultimately, when you don't have enough enzymes to carry the basic needs of life, you die.
Gourmet direct from www.rawgourmet.com!
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MISCELLANEOUS
 
Reincarnation quiz. Were you here before?
http://www.BeliefNet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=192
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
 
Hawaii Public Television (PBS Ch.10) is starting "PBS Program Club." It's like a book club but you meet to discuss a program instead of a book." Start a club in your community.  808-973-1386 for info.
 
PBS (Ch.10) program suggestions for this week: (All times are at night)
Wed. -"Making 'The Misfits' (the movie)"; American Masters: a documentary about Willie Nelson at 9.
Thur. - FRONTLINE: "The Man Who Knew:" (about BinLaden and Al Queda). Saga of FBI agent. Rare glimpse inside FBI that helps answer the question "What did the government know?"
Fri. -    ISLAND INSIGHT with Dan Boylan interviewing candidates at 8; NOW with Bill Moyers at 9:30
Sat. - "Breaking the Silence:Journey of Hope" about domestic violence at 9;   Bonny Rait at 11.
Sun. -NATURE: Intimate enemies:Lions & Buffaloes" at 7; NA MELE "The Art of Solo Ukelele" at 10.
"The Jew in the Lotus": A writer travels to India to meet the Dhali Lama, at 10:30.
Mon. - AMERICAN STORIES: "Frank Loyd Wright." The two part story of the revolutionary architect at 9.
"Publivision," the month's program guide is available by mail with a $25 contribution to PBS, PO Box 11599, Hon. HI 96828.
 
THE BIG ISLAND HEALING ARTS EXPO A Festival For Body, Mind & Spirit
Friday & Saturday ~ October 11 & 12, 2002  9 AM to 6 PM daily
OHANA KEAUHOU BEACH RESORT ~ KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII
Open to the Public and Free Admission Experience the BEST Hawaii has to offer in Holistic Health, Personal Development, and Positive Living!
Featuring:  Dr. John Gray "Mars and Venus on a diet:
                     Joan Ocean "Your Dolphin Connection"
                     Dane Silva "Integration of Multi-cultural Healing Arts" 
                     Joy Gardner "Vibrational Healing & Chakra Diagnosis"
Performing:    Manuel & Bernice Roberto 
                          Tony Selvage (electric viola)
                          Padma (Dance of the Sacred Body & Belly Dancing Lesson)
                          MYSHA & Friends (Folk guitar, percussion and voice)
                          Valerie Myles (T`ai Chi Narrow Blade Sword Demonstration & T`ai Chi Lesson
                          Shanawo & Renewo (Sacred Movement in Sacred Sound -
                          Oona McQuat ~ (Harp)
                          Lon Wallace & Morgan Ryan (conga & flute)                                                                               A Festival for the Body, Mind and Spirit featuring:
  • Hawaii Healing Arts Practitioners & Businesses
  • Showcasing Natural Therapies, Products and Services
  • Free Speakers, Lectures and Workshops
  • Healing Music, Entertainers, Dancers
  • Body Work, Readings, Fitness,
  • Wellness Solutions & Natural Products
  • A Lavish Healthy Food Buffet
  • Door Prizes                                                                                                                                           Sponsored by: Ohana Keauhou Beach Resort, Hawaii-Healing.com, KBig Radio, Five Mountains Hawaii, Hawaii Island Journal and the Center for Alchemical Medicine. To volunteer, sponsor or inquire about booth availability please call 808-887-0044

- "The Foreigner": an award winning comedy play about what happens when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who they think knows no English. Aloha Theater Friday-Sunday Oct 4-6 and 11-13. 322-2323 for info.

- 9th Annual Hamakua Music Festival at Honokaa People's Theater Fri.Oct 11-Sun.Oct 13:         Fri. Oct.11 David Benoit and Red Holloway. Sat.Oct 12 Legends of the Jazz Guitar, Sun. Oct. 13 Maria Muldaur. All concerts start at 7pm. 933-9772 for information
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PERSONALS:   
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SPIRITUAL MESSAGE
 
FOR SOULS IN PROCESS
 
-    In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intention.
-    Behind every aspect of the health or illness of the body is the energy of the soul. It is the health of the soul that is the true purpose of the human experience. Everything serves that.
                        Gary Zukov in "Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul: Meditations for Souls in Process."
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AFFIRMATION
 
    I forgive you (say the name of the person). You and I are one in the presence of God. Thank you Father, because you always forgive us.
    Today I choose to live in peace and experience the good in every situation and person I meet.
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READER FEEDBACK

"It is an uproarious comedy in the interpretation of gestures.  Love,"
Scarlett Bill re "Silent debate between rabbi and pope in Oct 6 NTW
Thanks!  It's a nice way to stay with you -- much appreciated!  And you all are very much in our hearts ... "The wind beneath our wings".  With love, Elena
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EDITORIAL
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                                                             Aloha till next week
                                                           Jerry Rothstein, editor
                                                            
NewThoughtWeekly
   
                                                           jerry@turquoise.net