NEW THOUGHT WEEKLY
 
SUNDAY MARCH 9 PROGRAM
 
March 9 Lorin Lasher on "What Really Matters". Loren Lasher, psychologist, will speak at New Thought Center Sunday morning on the topic "What Really Matters".  He will also lead an afternoon workshop on Effective Use of Time.
    Lorin Lasher is president of Potential Development Unlimited, an Oahu-based firm specializing in human resource development.  He holds degrees in psychology and education.  His career experience includes stints in both the academic and business worlds, and he describes himself as an avid reader, a tri-athlete, a juggler, and a sailor.
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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CONTENTS
 
- Sunday March 9 program  ( Lorin Lasher )
- About New Thought Center of Hawaii  ( Principles of NewThought )
- Upcoming Programs   (Hank Wesselman )
- Humor  ( Bill Gates; Faith Healing; Best Country )
- Words of Wisdom/Quest for Quotes ( 22 )
- White Board Wisdom  ( yes )
- Worthy Websites ( The Guest House by Rumi )
- Attachment  ( From the moth of a wise old woman )
- Raw  Food Recipe  ( Marielle's Ruby Dawn juice )
- Miscellaneous ( Whose connected )
- Announcements ( 5 )
- Personals ( 2 )
- Spiritual Message  ( The Peace Song )
- Affirmation ( about release )
- Reader Feedback  ( 1 )
- Editorial  ( - )
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NEW THOUGHT CENTER OF HAWAII
                                                                       
TRADITIONAL NEW THOUGHT PRINCIPLES
 
We affirm:
1. the inseparable oneness of God and humankind, the realization of which comes through spiritual intuition
2. the freedom of each person in matters of belief
3. the Good to be supreme, universal, and eternal
4. that the kingdom of heaven is within us, that we are one with God, that we should love one another, and return love for fear
5. we heal by having a consciousness with God.
6. our belief in God as the Universal Wisdom, Love, Life, Truth, Power, Peace, Plenty, Beauty, Joy, "in whom we live and have our being"
7. our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and becomes our experience
8. the Divine Nature is expressing itself through us as the spirit of Aloha
9. that we are one in sprit, continuing and unfolding as spiritual beings beyond the change called physical death
10. the universe is the body of God, spiritual in essence, even when material in appearance, as demonstrated through Miracles.
   
NewThought is a sanctuary for the nourishment, development, and evolution of each individual's unique spiritual path.
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.                   
 
The NewThoughtWeekly is archived on the NewThought website at www.NTCHawaii.org
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
 
March 16 Hank Wesselman, PhD, is a shaman, and  author of "Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future"; and "Medicinemaker: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman's Path and his newest book "The Journey to the Sacred Garden: A Guide to Traveling in the Spiritual World" will be presenting a program titled "The Sacred Garden."
        Recent surveys have revealed that as many as one in every two of us has had some sort of involuntary paranormal experience--one that has carried us into the more expanded realms of consciousness. This fact has led paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman to suspect that there may be countless numbers of "evolutionary sleepers" out there in the mainstream of humanity at large, each containing within themselves an extraordinary bio-energetic program.
        He believes that this program is on our DNA, on our inner genetic "hard drive", so to speak, and when it is "double-clicked", higher functions coded into the personal mind-body matrix appear to awaken. Our conscious awareness may expand dramatically in response, allowing us to have the direct, transpersonal connection with the sacred realms that defines the mystic.
        Drawing from his new book The Journey to the Sacred Garden, "Dr Hank" will discuss this intriguing idea and will guide us along a well-traveled path into this extraordinary experience, utilizing an effective, easily-learned technique for expanding awareness and shifting consciousness safely. The first goal: to find our Sacred Garden, a place for personal empowerment as well as physical, psychological-emotional, and spiritual restoration.  
        His web site can be accessed at  www.sharedwisdom.com         
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HUMOR
 
BILL GATES DIES AND SITS  BEFORE JUDGMENT
"Well, Bill," said God, "I'm really confused on this one. I'm not sure whether to send you to Heaven or Hell. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in the world, and yet your greed resulted in serious problems for millions of people. I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to let you decide where you want to go."
Bill replied, "Well thanks, God. What's the difference between the two?"
God said, "You take a peek at both places briefly. If it will help you decide. Shall we look at Hell first?"
"Sure" said Bill, "Let's go!"
Bill was amazed! He saw a clean, white sandy beach with clear waters. There were thousands of beautiful men and women running around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about. The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect. "This is great!" said Bill. "If this is Hell, I can't wait to see heaven.
God replied, "Let's go!" and so off they went to Heaven.
Bill saw puffy white clouds in a beautiful blue sky with angels drifting about playing harps and singing. It was nice, but surely not as enticing as Hell. Bill Gates thought for only a brief moment and rendered his decision.
"God, I do believe I would like to go to Hell."
"As you desire," said God.
Two weeks later, God decided to check up on the late billionaire to see how things were going. He found Bill Gates shackled to a wall, screaming amongst the hot flames in a dark cave. He was being burned and tortured by demons. "How ya doing, Bill?" asked God.
Bill responded with anguish and despair. "This is awful! This is not what I expected at all! What happened to the beach and the beautiful women playing in the water?"
"Oh THAT!" said God. "That was the screen saver."                 Via Barbara Concoby
 
FAITH HEALING
A faith healer asked Mike how his family was getting along.
"They're all fine, except my uncle. He's very sick."
"Your uncle is not sick," the faith healer said. "He THINKS he's sick."
Two weeks later, the faith healer ran into Mike on the street.
"How is your uncle getting along?" he asked.
Mike shrugged, "He THINKS he's dead."    Via Beliefnet / Religious jokes
 
BEST COUNTRY
    An Israeli doctor says:
"Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of
one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks."
    A German doctor says:
"In my country, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in
another, and have him looking for work in four weeks."
    A Russian doctor says:
"In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart
out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks."
    The American doctor says:
"In my country, we just took a man with no brain out of Texas,
put him in the White House, and now half the country is looking for work."
                                                                                                                                        Via Glenys Spitze
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WORDS OF WISDOM / QUEST FOR QUOTES
 
- "Yet within the expanded-state connections with Nainoa, a most amazing story began to unfold. In the initial episode, I had learned that his people are the descendants of Hawaiians who reached the N.American coast in a fleet of double hulled ocean going canoes about 130 years before. Upon their arrival they found no people, no cities, and no evidence of the once great American civilization. The had established a chain of settlements around the western edge of an inland sea, largely planned, self sufficient slices of landscape with a fishing community on the coasts and a farming community a days travel inland....
    If I was in fact seeing a slice of the future, it seemed that humanity's destiny lies in a system of balanced feudalism....
    It was during this journey that Nainoa began to experience the time shift phenomenon in reverse, on occasion finding his conscious awareness merged with mine. His reaction was to hypothesize that I was his ancestor, an insight that threw the entire affair into an entirely new light. As an invisible participant  observer to these incredible events, my own investigations began to extend far beyond the ordinary nature of reality, into the inner realms of human mind and spirit...
    I know this sounds quite fantastic, even unbelievable...... Hank Wesselman, author of "Spiritwalker: messages for the future", "Medicinemaker: mystic experiences on the shamans's path, and Visionseeker: Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge. New Thought's March 16 program will feature Hank Wesselman. See "Announcements" below for his upcoming week-long workshop in Waimea.
          
- "To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."         Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)
- "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless.         T.S Eliot
- "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."  

- "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
                                                                                                                                        Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president
- "As I said many times we have only one political party---call it Reprats."         Glenys Spitze
 
- "Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose.There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."         Elizabeth Kubler-Ross via Larry Morningstar
- "He who expects to change the world will be disappointed. He must change his view. When this is done, then tolerance will come, forgiveness will come, and there will be nothing he cannot bear." Hazrat Inayat Khan
 
- "In your battle with the world, bet on the world."    Morty Breier
- "... At that moment I understood the importance of saying, in time: "I LOVE  YOU" and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve. Nothing in  life is more important than God and your family. Give them the time they  deserve, because these things cannot be put off to "some other time".          Author Unknown via Peter Guthrie 
 
- "When I am hungry, give me someone that I can feed.
 And when I am thirsty, give me someone who needs a drink.
 When I'm cold, give me someone to keep warm.
 And when I grieve, give me someone to console."      Mother Teresa's adaptation of the Prayer of St. Francis
Larry Morningstar on love
- "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."  Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970
- "Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day." Marianne Williamson
- "In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another. Daphne Rose Kingman Larry Morningstar on love
 
- "I can not see, I can not pee, I can not chew, I can not screw, Oh my God what can I do?
My memory shrinks, my hearing stinks, no sense of smell, I look like hell.
My mood is bad, can you tell? My body's drooping, have trouble pooping.
The golden years have come at last, the golden years can kiss my ass."          Dr. Seuss parody via Barbara Concoby

- "Hawaii has the highest electricity costs in the nation." Karl Stahlkopf, senior vice president for energy solutions and technology for HECO in the January edition of the HLPC Newsletter
- "A recent nationwide study of tax codes and their effects on taxpayers confirms that Hawaii's residents are the most heavily taxed citizens in the country."    January edition of the HLPC Newsletter

- "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."           Henry David Thoreau
 
- "Victory comes in cans. Defeat comes in cant's."              Dr. Graham's perpetual health calendar via Marty Kelemen
- "The difference between work and play is attitude. While one attempts to avoid interruptions from play, one will create interruptions from work if non occur naturally.           Ibid
- "You may  not be able to control the length of your life, but life's width and depth are completely up to you.    Ibid
- "When you give, forget, when you take, remember.          Ibid
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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. 
 
- Dissent is patriotic.
- My idea of peace is between your ears.
- Reading is a discipline of ..... journey   (GS)
- Give peace a chance.
- Be true to yourself.
- Live and let live.
- Just say "no" to Bush.
- Just do it.
- Walk the walk not just talk the talk.
- Be love.
- Be happy.
- Peace within. Peace all around.
- Practice the speech of poetry.
- Be absolutely grateful for all things from morning to night.
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WORTHY  WEBSITES
 
The Guest House by Rumi        
 
 
 via Nan Howell
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ATTACHMENT

.....Yes, we must stop this war. We must stop this attack on our Bill of
Rights. But we are bailing out our flooding boat with our straw hats
if we do not look to the cause of this insanity.

Sanity is in finding alternative energy rather than blowing up our
Appalachian Mountains for their coal. Sanity is in buying bicycles or
at least hybrid cars rather than bombing other people for their oil.
It is in supporting our family farmers, especially the organic
farmers, rather than suburbanizing all our land and turning to factory
foods that are more health hazard than nutrition.

We cannot have world peace without peace in our own lives. We cannot
attack our planet by the way we live, and then go off to a peace rally
and hope to set right all the imbalance we have caused. Peace is first
a private matter. It cannot grow except from there. ......

 
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RAW FOOD RECIPE
 
Marielle's Ruby Dawn Juice

-2 beet
-2 apple
-juice from 2-3 limes
-1-2" of ginger
-1 big handful of mint

(can extend juice with a peeled cucumber, tomatoes, carrots,
grapes...whatever moves you)
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MISCELLANEOUS
 
WHOSE CONNECTED

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that  it was a mouse trap.

Retreating to the farmyard the mouse proclaimed the warning: "There is a mouse trap in the house, a mouse trap in the  house!

THE MOUSE TRAP "The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in the house, a mouse trap in the house!"

"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow. She said, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse. A mouse trap. Like I am in grave danger. Duh...NOT!"

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mouse trap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well and a few days later she passed away. So many people came for her funeral, that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem that you think does not concern you, remember that when there is a mouse trap in the house, the whole farmyard is at risk.

Author Unknown via Judith Lynn
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

JUDITH LYNN, PRACTITIONER OF SACRED SOUND FREQUENCY ALIGNMENT WORK will be featured on the television program "Art In Hawaii" during the month of March on Ch.55 (public access TV). She is shown at various local sites doing her sacred sound work. The schedule is as follows:
Wed.Mar.5 10:30am; Sat.Mar.8 10am; Mon.Mar.10 6pm; Tue.Mar.13 7:30pm; Mon.Mar.17 3:30pm; Thur.Mar.20 6pm;
Mon.Mar.24 5:30pm; Sat.Mar.29 9am;

FREE COPIES OF VERIZON'S "TELEPHONE DIRECTORY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, STATE OF HAWAII 2003". This 38 page pocket size booklet is packed with valuable information for anyone wishing to contact any of their elected county state and federal government officials. Very useful. Call 329-1568.   

PEACE CONCERT Thursday, March 6 from 7pm (door open:6:40pm) Kona Outdoor Circle (76-6280 Kuakini Hwy, Kailua-Kona) 329-7286; 325-7266 Admission: $10 (kids are free)
Program: Native Hawaiian Chant and Dance: Hula Kahiko
              Flute and Piano: Sicilienne (J.S. Bach)
                                     Melody (Noblot)
                                     Riviere (Debussy) and more
              Guitar and vocal: Blowin' in the Wind
                                      Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
                                      World Folk Songs
Performers: Native Hawaiian performers: Kamuela Himaraya and his halau
                  Yumi Kikuchi(Flute)
                  Annu            (Piano)
                  Gen Morita (Guitar/Vocal)
Speakers: Tammy, Hallie and more
            All the proceeds go to Global Peace Campaign which is currently working on promoting peace in the US by connecting peace groups and media work, including several peace ads in US major papers.
 
VISION SEEKER 1 with HANK WESSELMAN AND JILL KUYKENDALL
MARCH 16-22, 2003,  ISLAND OF HAWAII, WAIMEA - JACARANDA INN
        The rediscovery of shamanism has emerged as a major thrust of the
current spiritual reawakening sweeping the Western world. Traditional
shaman's time-tested techniques for accessing the realms of the
sacred are providing non-tribal Westerners with an extraordinarily
effective method for connecting with the inner sources of power and
wisdom that reside there.
        During this week-long retreat, to be held
on the Kohala Coast, we will rediscover our own indigenous heart,
reestablish connections with our spirit helpers, teachers, ancestors,
and possibly descendants, engage in visionary fieldwork and examine
the nature of health, illness, and healing from the perspective of
spirit medicine. The workshop will provide a powerful introduction
for those less familiar with the shaman's path and enhance the
practice of more experienced inner travelers.  Unique material on the
soul cluster as well as the nature of reality from the Hawaiian
Kahuna perspective will be presented. Shamanic journeying will form
the centerpiece of our work, and the program will conclude with a
powerful healing ritual.
        Bring drums and rattles if you have them, a notebook or sketchpad, a
yoga mat or cushion if you prefer to lay on the floor during journey
work, and a bandana or eyeshade.  For a review of past programs see http://www.nmi.org
        ANTHROPOLOGIST HANK WESSELMAN has worked for more that 30 years with
an international team of scientists investigating the mystery of
human origins in East Africa's Great Rift Valley. He has spent much
of his life with indigenous people, and in the 1970s, while doing
fieldwork in southern Ethiopia, he began to have spontaneous
visionary experiences strikingly like those of traditional shamans.
His experiences are documented in his autobiographical trilogy:
Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future ( Bantam, 1995),
Medicinemaker: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman's Path (Bantam, 1998),
and Visionseeker: Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge ( Hay House, 2001).
        JILL KUYKENDALL is a Physical Therapist and Transpersonal Medical
Practitioner who has worked in the standard Western medical paradigm
for over 20 years.  She is now in private practice at the Center for
Optimum Health in Roseville, CA, northeast of Sacramento, specializing in Soul Retrieval work.
        STRUCTURE  OF THE RETREAT This educational retreat will be held in the comfort and
privacy of The Jacaranda Inn, a beautiful historic inn, located in Waimea.
        HAWAII RESIDENTS If you are living on the Big Island and do not require accommodations
or transportation, the Kamaaina rate for this event is $1095, plus tax. 
Otherwise, full package rate is $1,795.
        TO RESERVE A SPOT OR REGISTER Please contact Susanne Sims  by email at nmi@aloha.net
or call The New Millennium Institute at  885-2181. http://www.nmi.org  

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PERSONALS

FOR SALE "by owner". No realtors. Must be refinanced at today's low interest.                                                                       
 5 1/4 acres of real Hawaii deep soil, mauka of Sure-Save in Capt Cook
Hundreds of tall trees, palms, six varieties of 50-75ft TORREY/GEORGIA/PINES, five JACARANDAS, 100yr old coffee.
Historic CEDAR REDWOOD bldgs w/renewed electrical &plumbing in place.
Has a 1/2 mile long LAVA TUBE!
2 huge redwood tanks-can be converted
This is a project w/room for 2 or 3 families to renovate these neglected buildings which were occupied until summer 2002.
Or they could legally build on TWO of the existing house sites.
Open to sound plans w/adequate down payment.
Best Contact is   sig@movietreasures.com;  328-8119
 
JUDITH LYNN is looking for a place to live beginning March 11th. It could be temporary or long term. It could be a room in someone's house that I stay in temporarily or a housesitting position or a studio or ohana or whatever. I am open to considering many possibilities. My main requirements are access to a telephone so that I can do phone sessions and a non-smoking environment as I am allergic. Ultimately I want to live in a place where I can see clients and voice students. I would welcome that opportunity as soon as possible.  judithlynn@earthlink.net
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SPIRITUAL MESSAGE
 
THE PEACE SONG
(sung at the conclusion of every NewThought Sunday service)
 
Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be.
With God as creator family all are we.
Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me let this be the moment now.
With every breath I take let this be my joyous vow:
to take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.
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AFFIRMATION
 
I am God's beloved light in my world, and I illumine every path wherever I go, bringing my good into every circumstance.
I realize the importance of real release of old thoughts and old conditions. I am committed to my own growth at all levels,
and so I leave behind all that does not belong to my new experience.       Sci. of Mind magazine Feb. 27
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READER FEEDBACK
    I really enjoyed your last issue of NewThoughtWeekly...There seemed to be a rhythm to it that was brighter and clearer... although perhaps its my own vision that is improving... In any event ...I want to thank you for sending it to me... and for all the effort that goes into its preparation...
    I have never been a very religious person...not a regular observer of traditions... neither was Doris...but she was a very spiritual person... since her passing..I oft times hear her speak to me through  writings..and movies..and TV...not airy fairy kind of things...but i can sense her sometimes...passing things to me...putting people and thoughts in my way... for a purpose... I know that some of these things are written just for me... so I thank you for being the conduit... One of the things Doris used to say was...there are no coincidences... everything happens for a reason...I believe that more and more..    Stanley (Printed with permission of the writer.
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EDITORIAL
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                                                             Aloha till next week
                                                           Jerry Rothstein, editor
                                                             NewThoughtWeekly
                                                              jerry@turquoise