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<channel><title><![CDATA[EVOLVE ASIA MAGAZINE - EVOLVE SPOTLIGHT]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight]]></link><description><![CDATA[EVOLVE SPOTLIGHT]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:48:28 -0800</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[AN INTERVIEW WITH  AUTHOR 'ALCHEMY OF POSSIBILITY']]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/an-interview-with-author-alchemy-of-possibility]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/an-interview-with-author-alchemy-of-possibility#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:32:53 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/an-interview-with-author-alchemy-of-possibility</guid><description><![CDATA[ 				    				  Contributed by David Jay BrownImages are first pages of each oracle summary from "Alchemy of Possibility"David interviews celebrated author and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld on the inspiration behind the launch of her free online divination oracle (alchemyoracle.com) based on her book&nbsp;The Alchemy of Possibility, (now in its second edition) about dealing with change.&nbsp;David: What originally inspired you to write The Alchemy of Possibility?     Carolyn: My life&rsquo;s exper [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"></div> 				<div id='901888338561224693-gallery' class='imageGallery' style='line-height: 0px; padding: 0; margin: 0'> <div id='901888338561224693-imageContainer0' style='float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;'><div id='901888338561224693-insideImageContainer0' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageBorder' style='border-width:1px;padding:3px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder' style='position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;'><div class='galleryInnerImageHolder'><a href='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/9848336_orig.jpg' rel='lightbox[gallery901888338561224693]' onclick='if (!window.lightboxLoaded) return false'><img src='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/9848336.jpg' class='galleryImage' _width='400' _height='603' style='position:absolute;border:0;width:100%;top:-50.5%;left:0%' /></a></div></div></div></div></div><div id='901888338561224693-imageContainer1' style='float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;'><div id='901888338561224693-insideImageContainer1' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageBorder' style='border-width:1px;padding:3px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder' style='position:relative; 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width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;'><div class='galleryInnerImageHolder'><a href='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/9920221_orig.jpeg' rel='lightbox[gallery901888338561224693]' onclick='if (!window.lightboxLoaded) return false'><img src='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/9920221.jpeg' class='galleryImage' _width='400' _height='453' style='position:absolute;border:0;width:100%;top:-25.5%;left:0%' /></a></div></div></div></div></div><span style='display: block; clear: both; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;'></span> </div>  				<div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"></div></div>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><em>Contributed by David Jay Brown</em><br /><em>Images are first pages of each oracle summary from "Alchemy of Possibility"<br /></em><span></span><br /><em>David interviews celebrated author and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld on the inspiration behind the launch of her free online divination oracle (<a href="http://www.alchemyoracle.com" target="_blank" title="">alchemyoracle.com</a>) based on her boo<font color="#2a2a2a">k&nbsp;</font></em><font color="#2a2a2a"><em style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">The Alchemy of Possibility</em><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">, (now in its second edition) about dealing with change</span></font><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;"><font color="#2a2a2a">.&nbsp;</font></span><br /><br /><strong>David: What originally inspired you to write <em>The Alchemy of Possibility</em>? </strong><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> My life&rsquo;s experiences inspired me! <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <em>The Alchemy of Possibility</em> is the result of over 10 years of creation and reflective contemplation. The ideas, images, and philosophies expressed in the book were excerpted from over 950 pages in journals written during that period and then arranged by topics to form the 56 chapters. &nbsp;<br /><br /><span></span>  <em>The Alchemy of Possibility</em> is about change, the metamorphic aspect of our lives, evolving in the endless seasons of mortal and eternal life. The book implies that it is always possible to view life from a broader perspective, to metabolize change rather than to resist it, and to be re-alchemized in the process. In fact, for these reasons, the original title of the book was <em>The I Change</em>.<br /><span></span><br />Even before I realized the book could be used as a divination <br />oracle, I was drawn to include quotes from the <em>I Ching</em> and the Tarot to head each chapter, as at the time, the <em>I Ching</em> was an important daily guide for me.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    In addition to the prose, each chapter also includes one of my paintings and poems chosen for its resonance with the psychological or spiritual theme of the chapter.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    An innate need to create and re-alchemize my experiences of life&rsquo;s challenges and changes is essentially what inspired the book into being. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Davi<em>d:</em></strong><em><strong> How did The Alchemy of Possibility first become a tool for divination? </strong></em><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  <strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Carolyn:</strong> When <em>The Alchemy of Possibility</em> was first published, I held a number of book readings around California. During these readings,&nbsp; people spontaneously asked questions about their personal lives, and then opened the book &ldquo;randomly&rdquo; to find guidance. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    This process continued over the years with people consulting the book on their own, and the results were often remarkable. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>David: How did the Alchemy Oracle website develop from the book?</strong><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> Many years ago, it occurred to me that we could expand this divination dynamic with computer technology. After meeting the skilled computer programmer Richard Rasa, we felt the technological advancements were such that the time was right to recreate the personal experience into cyberspace. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    Rasa built the Alchemy Oracle website, incorporating all of the prose, poetry, art, and <em>I Ching</em> and Tarot quotes from the book.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>David:</strong> <strong>How can the Alchemy Oracle website be used for divination or to gain personal insight?&nbsp;<br /></strong><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> <em>The Alchemy of Possibility</em> provides a vehicle for interactive&nbsp; self-discovery, allowing you to tune into your own subconscious, as I do in my painting and poetry. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    Because my artwork and poetry arise from &ldquo;the life process&rdquo; itself rather than from the projections of an outside authority, I find it to be<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  my most honest mirror, reflecting back to me the deeper recesses of my psyche. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    In this same way, you can access the Subterranean through the imagery and poetic prose you are drawn to in the Alchemy Oracle, deriving intuitive guidance and insight from your soul, however the Oracle speaks to you.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    My daughter, psychotherapist Dr. Carla Kleefeld, summed up this dynamic: &ldquo;As in Ancient times, the <em>Oracle </em>gives us a chance to address a larger Mystery or the great wisdom of Gaia and to ask Her questions and receive creative and useful responses to our lives.&rdquo;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  The instructions for using the Oracle are on the website at this link: <u>alchemyoracle.com/suggestions.html</u><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    You can consult the oracle by going to the website and asking a <br />question, holding the question in mind, and then clicking on the &ldquo;Start&rdquo; button at the bottom of the page.&nbsp;As you focus your mind on the question, the 56 archetypal paintings will then shift, change, and rearrange themselves on the <br />screen until you are ready to receive guidance by clicking on the &ldquo;Oracle&rdquo; button.<br />The Oracle will then rotate through the different possibilities, and a divination reading will be highlighted and displayed on the screen, accompanied by the chosen painting and the entire text of that chapter.<br />You can then read and reflect on the text, the <em>I Ching</em> or Tarot quote, and focus on the image, the poem, or wherever you are drawn, to find the guidance that is awaiting you. Your intuition draws what you need to know from the symbolic imagery and words.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>David:</strong><strong> Can you share any interesting stories with us about how people have used the Alchemy Oracle for divination?</strong><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> Yes, at the reading in which I first launched my book at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood, a youth asked how he could get over his unwanted feelings of anger and hate. Then he opened the book at &ldquo;random&rdquo; to the chapter aptly titled "Prejudice and Judgment." Now, as a political consultant working in Washington, DC, he uses the online oracle on a weekly basis. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    Recently, a friend who wanted to learn more about the seriousness of a relationship between her grown son and his girlfriend used the online Alchemy Oracle, which selected the chapter "Union," foreseeing a profound connection between the two. Apparently, they are soon to be engaged.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    And another friend who was in a lot of confusion about his job, &nbsp;&nbsp;asked the online Oracle for guidance and was shown the chapter &nbsp;"Mission/Ambition-- the Business&nbsp;of Art," which talks about distinguishing between mission and ambition and having our ideals guide us in our pursuits. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    These are just a few of the many stories that I&rsquo;ve heard over the years, which are inspiring on so many levels, as our sublime intuition is our most essential guide, leading us in our discovery.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>David:</strong> <strong>What sort of relationship do you see between art, poetry, and divination, and how does this relationship reflect in the workings of the Oracle?</strong><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> Since art, poetry, and divination are fueled from the same ancient wells that have existed primordially, we can resonate with them beyond our minds. It is from these magnetic fields that the Mystery speaks to us in divination.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    Dr. Carl Jung expressed these thoughts comprehensively: &ldquo;The man who speaks with primordial images speaks with a thousand tongues; he entrances and overpowers, while at the same time he raises the idea he is trying to express above the occasional and the transitory into the sphere of the ever-existing. He transmutes personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, thus evoking all those beneficent forces that have enabled mankind to find a rescue from every hazard and to outlive the longest night. That is the secret of effective art.&rdquo; And this is why divination, art, and poetry are essentially of each other. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    This is also why the Alchemy Oracle works as it does. Because it is symbolic imagery, it is rooted in the unconscious, &ldquo;the language of a thousand tongues.&rdquo; This poetic language offers us a kaleidoscope of possibilities. With a question in mind, we are intuitively guided by the image we draw to the guidance/fulfillment of our soul&rsquo;s longing.<br /><span></span><br /><br /><span></span>  <strong>David:</strong><strong> How did you choose the artwork and poetry that's used with the Alchemy Oracle?<br /></strong><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> It was the creative process itself, with many passages and paintings calling out to be included. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    It involved many years of my refining the writings, and collaborative effort among editors. And the magic of synchronicity was at work during the whole process.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>David:</strong><strong> What are you currently working on?</strong><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    <strong>Carolyn:</strong> I&rsquo;m working on a few new manuscripts. <em>Wilderness Muse</em> is a book of poetry and prose expressing my pantheistic love of the wilderness here in Big Sur.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    I&rsquo;m also working on a book of prose entitled Revelations, which was inspired by my reading of Lao Tzu, the author of the Tao Te Ching and a book of poems and prose, <em>Rippling Revelations: Memoirs of an Extra Terrestrial.</em><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    I continue to paint and create poems and prose. My life is a continual process of letting the Mystery unfold and speak to me, as well as through me. And as you know, David, life is a full-time process (ha!).<br /><span></span><br /><br />David Jay Brown is the author of <em>The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality</em>. He is also the coauthor of five bestselling volumes of interviews with leading-edge thinkers, <em>Mavericks of the Mind</em>, <em>Voices from the Edge</em>, <em>Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse</em>, <em>Mavericks of Medicine</em>, and <em>Renaissance of the Mind</em>. Additionally, Brown is the author of two science fiction novels, <em>Brainchild</em> and <em>Virus</em>, and he is the coauthor of the health science book <em>Detox with Oral Chelation</em>. Brown holds a master&rsquo;s degree in psychobiology from New York University, and was responsible for the California-based research in two of British biologist Rupert Sheldrake&rsquo;s books on unexplained phenomena in science: <em>Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home</em> and <em>The Sense of Being Stared At</em>. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including <em>Wired</em>, <em>Discover</em>, and <em>Scientific American</em>, and he was the Senior Editor of the special edition, themed <em>MAPS</em> (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) <em>Bulletins</em> from 2007 to 2012. In 2011, 2012, and 2013 Brown was voted &ldquo;Best Writer&rdquo; in the annual <em>Good Times</em> and <em>Santa Cruz Weekly</em>&rsquo;s &ldquo;Best of Santa Cruz&rdquo; polls, and his news stories have been picked up by <em>The Huffington Post</em> and <em>CBS News</em>. He's&nbsp;currently&nbsp;working&nbsp;on a book about lucid dreaming and shamanic healing for Inner&nbsp;Traditions.&nbsp;To find out more about his work see: <a href="http://www.mavericksofthemind.com/" title="">www.mavericksofthemind.com</a>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  <strong>&nbsp;</strong><br /><span></span><br /><span></span></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EVOLVE ASIA MAY FEATURES]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/tips-on-accessing-the-akashic-records]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/tips-on-accessing-the-akashic-records#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 15:51:26 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/tips-on-accessing-the-akashic-records</guid><description><![CDATA[Scroll down for more articles this month:-Become somebody's guardian angel-Interview: Our legacy for our daughters  TIPS ON ACCESSING THE AKASHIC RECORDS   Evolve Asia caught up with the zippy Zeo Sheehan, International Channeller and Akashic reader on his trip to Singapore recently. Here are some intimate nuggets of wisdom for our spiritual seekers to chew on.&nbsp;On Akashic readings and what they areThey are records and databanks of all things that have happenedEverything that has happened ha [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Scroll down for more articles this month:<br />-Become somebody's guardian angel<br />-Interview: Our legacy for our daughters</div>  <h2 class="wsite-content-title" style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php#" title="">TIPS ON ACCESSING THE AKASHIC RECORDS</a></h2>  <span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/9662269.png?175" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;">Evolve Asia caught up with the zippy Zeo Sheehan, International Channeller and Akashic reader on his trip to Singapore recently. Here are some intimate nuggets of wisdom for our spiritual seekers to chew on.&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><em><strong>On Akashic readings and what they are</strong></em><br />They are records and databanks of all things that have happened<br />Everything that has happened has an imprint and record of the soul&rsquo;s progress and energetic field changes<br />Readings extract information and allow you to tap into the field store of information<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><em><strong>    On his experience of Akashic readings</strong></em><br />Some say that it is a library.. I have seen that.<br />My experience is that of sound and word.<br />I rely on hearing like someone whispering in my ear or head. <br />And like a storyteller, the story will eventually develop.<br />I&rsquo;m not making it up. I am led. <br />My training started with developing other senses, now i get a visual. <br />I was trained to trust each psychic sense equally in the beginning. <br />Now i get a reference point then a data package<br />So it starts visually to help me to orientate myself then I am led into the situation<br />And the download is much quicker. <br />At the delivery stage, the speed of the download is a quick way of accessing knowing.<br /><br /><em><strong>Zeo was not a born channeller, nor did he receive a bolt from the blue. He developed his skills gradually.</strong></em><br />They came progressively like going to university.<br />I was interested already in my twenties and purchased books, crystals and attended classes until I got more serious and signed up for one year of training with a mystery school. That has helped me more than anything to transform my energy. I was trained first and foremost to access my akashic records through this class and it energetically upgraded me, like planting a satellite dish in my backyard. The lessons taught me to trust my inner senses.<br />&nbsp;<br /><span></span>  Often our Ego wants clairvoyance, but I was trained to let go of my insistence on how it should be.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  As such I learnt to trust my own hearing, like a step-by-step learning of psychic faculties.&nbsp;Once you I let go of my ego preference, I arrived where I am today.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><em><strong>      On meditation as a route to accessing the akashic records</strong></em><br />The experience varies.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    I use meditation in my classes and some people may switch on like that if they had read their akashic records in their past lives. Others who have not may need more time to cultivate this ability.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Because it is a high realm of consciousness, if you have been meditating for ten years, it is easier for you to tap into it vs someone else who has not put in the time and discipline.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Your heart and higher chakras will always be activated in this exercise. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    With visualisation (as a means of accessing your akashic records), you&rsquo;re using imagination.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  It&rsquo;s all really ultimately: What is it I just thought up?<br />What is it that actually happened?<br />Because the Intention is there, even if you imagined it, you're having that experience.&nbsp;In the beginning it&rsquo;s imagination, you will eventually transition into experience. You ask yourself, "Did I have an experience?"<br />Your intention is what counts.<br />At some point you drop into experiential meditation<br />Mind starts to fade out and unfold effortlessly<br /><br />I still use imagination to lead myself into my centre to draw certain healing energies into my body.&nbsp;I think it is really useful.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s like a bicycle .. once it runs.. you can stop peddling..<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><strong>    For our readers, how do you know when you know?</strong><br />The simple answer is you know when you know (chuckles).<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  It&rsquo;s connected to trust, connected to doubt and confronting the fears and doubts in your mind.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Am I being deceived? Can I trust my higher self? How do I know if this is clear or not?<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Work with those fears consciously.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  I already had an access to akashic records before I started channelling so I had a head start to find out where my fears developed from. If you don&rsquo;t&rsquo; have that, you can observe. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  My mind often fears the information will be incorrect, that my advice will make things worse for the person&hellip; <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  The key is to bring love to it at some point<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Sometimes you don&rsquo;t have to know where it comes from<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  All you sometimes need to use is use some technique to release fear and doubts, e.g. the ritual of forgiving it, loving it and saying sorry. If you do it, mind becomes less interference, you can relax and trust. I had a scientific education, am more sceptical, the reason I kept going was because of client feedback. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    I believe that the client is there for a reason. Whatever that resonates they will take.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  The worst thing you can do is go into judgement<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  We are all improving ourselves. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span><em><strong>    On Karma </strong></em><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Karma is the lessons and growth the soul needs to embrace.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  From the Akashic records we can extract the info on what is growth, current, future, what growth decided upon and what growth was un- mastered in the past.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  All information is contained there.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Purpose can be found in akashic records, karmically speaking what they&rsquo;re dealing with right now<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  Karma is a mixture of resolved and unresolved issues. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  The Akashic records are a big video recorder that record everything including emotions without &nbsp;judgement-just the facts. I use the records to seek out a repeating loop that keeps coming back to challenge us and causing us not to transform, so we can move on. <br /><span></span><br /><span></span>    Everyone has these loops in their life.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  My session is a gift in acceleration.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>  We&rsquo;re no longer distracted by an old story<br /><span></span><br /><em><strong>On discerning a good akashic reading from a lesser one</strong></em><br />A good akashic reading needs to create a resonance within yourself, relate to the dynamic not the experience itself.&nbsp;Go to where it began. <br />When you have an absolute resonance, you know that the information is hitting the spot.&nbsp;This is the difficulty with spiritual practitioners.. you don&rsquo;t know until you tried.&nbsp;Name, fame, recommendations only go so far.. only when you have experience, that finally counts<br /><span></span><strong><br /><em>For practitioners with setbacks</em></strong><br /><span></span>  Sometimes clients get overwhelmed and need time to digest. <br />If a reading was good, most recognise something deep has shifted in their lives.<br />Ignore those focused on a narrow range of things on the surface, your business is to remove the old.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUR LEGACY FOR OUR DAUGHTERS]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/our-legacy-for-our-daughters]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/our-legacy-for-our-daughters#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 15:51:13 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/our-legacy-for-our-daughters</guid><description><![CDATA[Evolve Asia talks to Carole Ng and Susan Tham, who organised the Miss Representation screening and panel discussion featured this month, on their motivation behind rescreening this controversial film.&nbsp;        CAROLE NG1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tell me about yourself, your work, your family.&nbsp;&nbsp;We moved to Singapore from New York over 16 years ago for work.&nbsp; Both are children, Nicholas and Natalie were born in Singapore.&nbsp; I have been with the same company, Credit Suis [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Evolve Asia talks to Carole Ng and Susan Tham, who organised the Miss Representation screening and panel discussion featured this month, on their motivation behind rescreening this controversial film.&nbsp;</div>  <div><div class="wsite-multicol"><div class='wsite-multicol-table-wrap' style='margin:0 -15px'> <table class='wsite-multicol-table'> <tbody class='wsite-multicol-tbody'> <tr class='wsite-multicol-tr'> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:50%;padding:0 15px'>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">CAROLE NG<br />1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tell me about yourself, your work, your family.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />We moved to Singapore from New York over 16 years ago for work.&nbsp; Both are children, Nicholas and Natalie were born in Singapore.&nbsp; I have been with the same company, Credit Suisse for the entire time.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span></span>2.How did you come together?<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />Susan and I met through friends over 10 years ago &ndash; and our children have practically grown up together.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve vacationed together, celebrated many family holidays together.&nbsp;<br /><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />3.&nbsp;This is a pretty feminist film, right?<br />&nbsp;No &ndash; this is not about women&rsquo;s rights&hellip;but rather how negative images persisted by the media can have a negative impact on how women are valued in society by both women and men. &nbsp;&nbsp;These images and messaging impact our children and will shape how they perceive their roles in society &ndash; again this is true for both boys and girls.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />4. What is your motivation for showing it?<br />We want other to be awares of how media (both tradition and social media) can shape our children&rsquo;s view of the world.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s important that we all play a part in society to change images and portray a more balanced view of the value that both genders can bring to table when decisions are made with a more diverse points of view.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />5.You're both women in business and you've climbed the ladder.&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />Would the film have helped you earlier in your journey?<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />I do think that talking about the topic would help raise awareness and change mindsets&hellip;.and they more mindsets that change, the momentum can be built to creating a more gender-balanced work environment, as well&nbsp; as more gender-balanced representation in government.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />6.You've mentioned that you wish to spread the message for your children.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />What does the world look like to you today? What do you hope will change for them?<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br />I hope that both my son and daughter grow up to respect both genders and appreciate that by understanding the viewpoints of both genders, they can make better decisions and have access to more opportunities (than is available today both)&hellip;.more men running our homes and more women running government and businesses!<br /><span></span><br /><span></span></div>  </td> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:50%;padding:0 15px'>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">SUSAN THAM<br /><br /><span></span><br /><br /><span></span>Mom, with a boy and a girl, both teenagers. Both born in Singapore, very much cushioned in a &ldquo;safe family friendly&rdquo; environment. I am a banker and my husband is an engineer. Both husband and son are in Canada now, I am here with my daughter and will return to Toronto end of this year.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span></span><br /><span></span>Met Carole here because our kids.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Actually NO. It is NOT about fighting for gender equality, rather to correct the INCORRECT PERCEPTION PERMEATED BY THE AMERICAN MEDIA.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>They have already type-casted women into certain roles in a bias way.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>And certainly a lot of broadcasters were disrespectful of women in general.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>So imagine a dad raising a daughter, does he want his daughter to be seen as &ldquo;sex objects&rdquo;? It is a terrifying thought. &nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Simple. Spread the message. &ldquo;PASS IT ON&rdquo;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>This is a very simple gesture in Canada (I&rsquo;m sure in USA as well). I was once stranded on the highway as my car broke down. A total stranger stopped by to help, called AAA (road side assistance) on his mobile phone and send the tow truck to help me as I didn&rsquo;t subscribe to Road Assistance. When I want to thank him, his simple reply was &ldquo;pass it on&rdquo;. So the next time, I saw a car stranded, I stopped and passed on the same gesture to the poor stranded gal.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>I saw the movie, I felt it was worthy for others to see it and I simply &ldquo;passed it on&rdquo;.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span></span><br />Nah ! My personality is such that I don&rsquo;t care two hoots what others (guys or gals) think of me. So how others think of me wouldn&rsquo;t have affected me at all.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span></span><br />The world in Singapore is sterile, safe and good. The world I am returning to in North American is not. I hope this film gives my daughter a different perspective, to prepare her for a diverse and not necessary always &ldquo;safe&rdquo; world.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>I watched &ldquo;TAKEN&rdquo; the movie with her. She was rightly horrified and she acknowledged to me, now she understands why I want her to always text me her whereabouts when she goes out with her friends or when she goes to work on a bus. Yes , she is 14 and working in her first job at a pizza parlor.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>&nbsp;<br /><span></span><br /><span></span>In school, she learns about diversity, religion, tolerance, eco-friendliness etc. Her choices however, are her own, all I do is to give her a structure to guide her in her choices. So in showing her this film, she saw the difference in &ldquo;respect&rdquo; (understood norm in Singapore) versus &ldquo;disrespect&rdquo; (as shown in the film) of women in America. She also understood how people can judge her by first impression &ndash; a point related to her dressing. I once commented her top was a little too low and shows her cleavage. Then, she couldn&rsquo;t understand why I was picky. Now after the movie, she does. However, her choice of dressing is hers to decide &ndash; all I can do is to guide her.<br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /></div>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BECOME SOMEBODY'S GUARDIAN ANGEL]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/become-somebodys-guardian-angel]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/become-somebodys-guardian-angel#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 15:50:19 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/become-somebodys-guardian-angel</guid><description><![CDATA[ If you have&nbsp;a compassionate heart, an open mindset, and a desire to make a difference in someone's life. Perhaps a background / experience in psychology / counselling / coaching &amp; mentoring / holistic wellness, you may be the volunteer Over the Rainbow, a one-stop hub for youth mental wellness, is looking for in their mission to help youths with mental illness and/or their families and friends to&nbsp;&middot;Navigate the local mental health and wellness landscape;&middot;Facilitate th [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/3710071.gif?449" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; none;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="display:block;">If you have&nbsp;a compassionate heart, an open mindset, and a desire to make a difference in someone's life. Perhaps a background / experience in psychology / counselling / coaching &amp; mentoring / holistic wellness, you may be the volunteer Over the Rainbow, a one-stop hub for youth mental wellness, is looking for in their mission to help youths with mental illness and/or their families and friends to&nbsp;<br />&middot;Navigate the local mental health and wellness landscape;<br />&middot;Facilitate the help of the right wellness expertise / treatment at the right time;<br />&middot;Provide a guiding hand &ndash; as coach, counselor, mentor;<br />&middot;Be a buddy &ndash; with a attentive listening ear, caring compassionate heart, and open non-judgmental mindset, whenever and wherever is needed;<br />&middot;Assist, enable and empower them on the journey to sustained healing, lasting happiness, and optimal wellbeing.<br /><br />8 Volunteers, known as Guardian Angels, upon acceptance via an application process, will&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;"><font color="#2a2a2a">undergo three training modules in the month of June.&nbsp;</font></span><br /><ul><li>Training Module #1 (June 10th, 9am-6pm): Mentoring &amp; Coaching 101: the Journey towards Self-Realization</li><li>Training Module #2 (June 17th, 9am-6pm): Counselling 101: Self-awareness, Mindfulness &amp; Basic Counselling Skills</li><li>Training Module #3 (Date TBA): Mental Health First Aid</li></ul><br />Visit Overtherainbow.sg to find out more.&nbsp;<br /><br /></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[FAMOUS PSYCHIC'S TIPS ON BECOMING A PSYCHIC]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/famous-psychics-tips-on-becoming-a-psychic]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/famous-psychics-tips-on-becoming-a-psychic#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:38:12 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/famous-psychics-tips-on-becoming-a-psychic</guid><description><![CDATA[ Celebrated psychic She D' Montford was born a&nbsp;psychic and tutored by Tibetan and Hindu Shamans since the age of 12. A&nbsp;teacher, healer, author, promoter, and activist for shamanism, tantra, wicca and the tibetan cause, she&nbsp;has also had her powers tested on Australian television and is the first person the media turn to for questions on witchcraft.&nbsp;She demystifies the phenomenon of psychic ability for Evolve Asia. Here are some very powerful notes from a recent interview at Go [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/2647628.jpg?171" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="display:block;">Celebrated psychic She D' Montford was born a&nbsp;psychic and tutored by Tibetan and Hindu Shamans since the age of 12. A&nbsp;<span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">teacher, healer, author, promoter, and activist for shamanism, tantra, wicca and the tibetan cause, she&nbsp;</span>has also had her powers tested on Australian television and is the first person the media turn to for questions on witchcraft.&nbsp;<br /><font color="#2a2a2a"><br />She demystifies the phenomenon of psychic ability for Evolve Asia. Here are some very powerful notes from a recent interview at Golden Space Singapore.&nbsp;<br /></font><br /><br /><em style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>What is a psychic?</strong></font></em><br />Everyone can be and is psychic.<br />A psychic is someone who has become adept at reading natural signs, symbols and people as well as one who is deeply in touch with one's gut feelings.&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><em><strong>What is the internal experience of a psychic like?</strong></em><br />You receive an impression/pictures that you then interpret.<br />Interpretation is not 100 percent but very close.<br />It comes as a vision and you learn to let images come and equally important you learn to let them go.&nbsp;<br />Verification is received when your&nbsp;customers return to you<br />time and again.<br /><br /><br /><em><strong>Can you teach one to be a psychic?</strong></em><br /><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a">Psychism can be taught methodically in a step-by-step manner.&nbsp;</font></span><br /><font color="#2a2a2a">There is no reason why you will not get certain results if you follow certain steps.&nbsp;</font><br /><br /><strong><em>There is a general perception that a psychic that uses tools is lesser than one who doesn't use them. What are your thoughts on that?</em></strong><br />There<font color="#2a2a2a"> is n<span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">othing wrong with tools. They can be very helpful. I used to be smug about not needing tools in my youth.&nbsp;</span></font><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a">But you miss out on a lot of valuable spiritual education if you don't get to know the tools available out there. eg the tarot (an englishman once told me that no spiritual education is complete without knowing the symbolism of the tarot). I have recently released my own deck.&nbsp;</font></span><br /><br /><em style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><strong><font color="#2a2a2a">She added some very important advice to aspiring psychics and readers in further response to this question...</font></strong></em><br />Don't try to be more credible.<br />Often we try and it becomes counterproductive.<br />Trust yourself.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Learn more about She, her articles, tarot deck, publications, traveling schedule and book online appointments at&nbsp;</strong><br /><strong>http://www.shambhallah.org/she-dmontford.htm</strong></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW WITH YVONNE SIM]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/interview-with-yvonne-sim]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/interview-with-yvonne-sim#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:37:47 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/interview-with-yvonne-sim</guid><description><![CDATA[ Self-professed 'karang-guni' (garbage collector) Yvonne Sim is a discreet lady with a heart of gold. As the Singapore contact for the Love the Children Foundation based in the Philippines, she has for many years sponsored the delivery of boxes of toys, books and computer parts collected from various charity drives in Singapore to the foundation. Evolve Asia catches up with a lady who has found a useful and simple way to be of service to many.&nbsp;1, How did you come to hear about Love The Chil [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/1394865425.jpg" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:0;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;"><em>Self-professed 'karang-guni' (garbage collector) Yvonne Sim is a discreet lady with a heart of gold. As the Singapore contact for the Love the Children Foundation based in the Philippines, she has for many years sponsored the delivery of boxes of toys, books and computer parts collected from various charity drives in Singapore to the foundation. Evolve Asia catches up with a lady who has found a useful and simple way to be of service to many.&nbsp;</em><br /><br /><strong>1, How did you come to hear about Love The Children and what is the story behind what is now your three-year affair with them?</strong><br />&nbsp;My journey with Love The Children Foundation ( LTCF ) began in Jan 2011. I have always been keen to explore a Social Enterprise model with a developing country to promote their home-grown resources for a sustainable livelihood project, as well as to work closely with an orphanage, for personal reasons. So when I was given the contact details for LTCF by a missionary friend, I quickly booked my flight and wasted no time in &nbsp;jumping onto a plane and flying off to Davao to meet Cindy and Tony Chua, the founders of LTCF.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;That meeting had a profound impact on me. I met two people with such big hearts, that they would give up their time, careers, and emptied all that they had, based on a conviction that they were called to house and to care for abandoned children who had no one to take care of them. I saw that commitment and passion in all the staff of LTCF who treated the children with dignity, respect, and loved them as their own. The children were happy, secure, and had a home to call their own.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;I left Davao with some soul-searching to do.<br /><span style=""></span><br />That same year, my family visited LTCF during our year-end vacations. Before our trip, I asked Cindy for wish-lists of the children at LTCF so that we could bring them over for Christmas. The wish-lists were modest, but the response from the people I sent out requests to were overwhelming. The donations filled up almost 10 jumbo boxes ( the size of a washing machine ) for shipment. This was the beginning of the &ldquo;karang-guni&rdquo; collection I now do on a regular basis. The boxes can be filled up to the brim and are charged a nominal rate per box. I learnt that this is the usual mode for domestic helpers to send stuff back to the Philippines and am thankful that such a service is available.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;<br /><strong>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What kind of contributions do you make to LTCF on a regular basis?&nbsp;</strong><br />My husband and I make a monthly contribution to LTCF to support their operating costs. Last year, we celebrated our 25th&nbsp;anniversary with Cindy and Tony as our special guests. A special offering was taken at our anniversary party for LTCF, for its livelihood programme. Our friends gave very generously.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;<strong><br />3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How often do you visit LTCF?</strong><br />About once or twice a year. I get monthly updates and statement of accounts .<br /><span style=""></span><br /><strong>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What kind of obstacles and challenges have you faced in this journey?</strong><br />The realisation that donors suffer from donor fatigue. Many charities run into difficulties when funding is&nbsp;uncertain, and they are therefore unable to plan, budget, and manage their operations efficiently. That is the reason why we decided to make a long term commitment to LTCF. Also, the &ldquo;karang-guni&rdquo; concept has taken off well, since people are more willing and ready to give away their pre-loved items than to make monetary contributions. In this way, I get a constant stream of donations ( from friends and through word-of-mouth ) and have no qualms about being thick-skinned in asking. The value-added of such items is beyond what we imagine. Our excesses become other people&rsquo;s treasures.<br /><span style=""></span><strong><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What are the rewards of this association?</strong><br />That in our own small way, we can make a big difference, like ripples in the ocean.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><strong>6. What are your current projects in relation to them/others?</strong><br />Continuing with what I&rsquo;ve been doing and being open to opportunities which can help LTCF expand and grow.<br /><span style=""></span><strong><br />7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What are your future plans in relation to them/others?</strong><br />I have big dreams for LTCF, to become a resource and outreach centre for their community. They are premature at the moment, but I&rsquo;m working on it.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>&nbsp;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXPERIENCING RECONNECTIVE HEALING]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/experiencing-reconnective-healing]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/experiencing-reconnective-healing#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:37:23 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/experiencing-reconnective-healing</guid><description><![CDATA[Sonia Ong shares her experience of reconnective healing with Dawn Chen. Compared to reiki,&nbsp;Dawn describes reconnective healing as a healing method that activates not only universal energy               but also frequencies at different levels. Clients can sometimes see healing               frequencies or colors and/or messages as instructions to               overcome their physical or mental disease. Clients are also visited and helped by their guides, angels and other beings like fairies [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><em>Sonia Ong shares her experience of <a href="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/reconnective-healing-an-introduction.html" title="">reconnective healing</a> with Dawn Chen. Compared to reiki,&nbsp;Dawn describes reconnective healing as a healing method that </em><em>activates not only universal energy               but also frequencies at different levels. Clients can sometimes see healing               frequencies or colors and/or messages as instructions to               overcome their physical or mental disease. Clients are also visited and helped by their guides, angels and other beings like fairies.&nbsp;</em><br /><br />Her hands touch me only to signal the beginning and end of the session.<br />The rest of the time she is positioned around and occasionally very far from me at the corners of the room.&nbsp;<br /><br />Internally I feel the pooling and eddying reservoirs of energy circulating around my problem areas in the solar plexus and the back. Subsequently the energies travel up, down and around my spine rhythmically and urgently. It feels like a spring bath without the wetness. I emerge fresh, pulsing.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#878787">T</font><font color="#2a2a2a">he experience is more dynamic and less gentle than a reiki session and i don't find myself dozing off as much.&nbsp;</font></span><br /><br />Post session we discuss our experiences of the healing.<br />She tells me that a being was present and was stitching up my back.<br />And after, angels assuring that everything will be ok. It's a lovely experience even as i am not clairvisual. After, i feel lightbodied the whole day, possibly energy detox, and in need of a restorative nap that I honour and highly recommend- a positive and enjoyable session.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong style="">About Dawn Chen</strong><br /><br />Dawn is one of the few pioneer practitioners in Singapore, who has been trained by Dr. Eric Pearl personally in the United States for both the Reconnective Healing and the Reconnection. She is also a certified practitioner for Usui Reiki and Matrix Energetics. Dawn is also a Style Enthusiast who has written her own book, &ldquo;The Pocket Guide to Confidence &amp; Graciousness&rdquo; which is obtainable from Amazon.com. Dawn will be delighted to be able to help restores anyone&rsquo;s health to a state of balance through her private healing sessions.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can find out more at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reconnectivehealingsg.com/" style="">www.ReconnectiveHealingSG.com</a>&nbsp;or schedule a session with Dawn at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:dawn@reconnectivehealingsg.com" style="">dawn@reconnectivehealingsg.com</a>.<br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[evolve books: reiki pure and simple]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/evolve-books-reiki-pure-and-simple]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/evolve-books-reiki-pure-and-simple#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:36:53 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/evolve-books-reiki-pure-and-simple</guid><description><![CDATA[ Elaine Grundy, teacher-owner of the Reiki Centre, profiled by Evolve Business this month, is also the writer of the book Reiki-Pure and Simple (2010).&nbsp;This clear and concise book&nbsp;may convince prospective students that Reiki works! It is at parts a&nbsp;Reiki 1 manual and at parts a verbal advocate for Reiki.&nbsp;Elaine offers research evidence that has been lacking in a lot of literature on Reiki. Readers will find the results of surveys and experiments on Reiki conducted at the Reik [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/2686832.jpg?215" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; none;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder wsite-image" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;"><em>Elaine Grundy, teacher-owner of the Reiki Centre, profiled by <a href="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-business.html">Evolve Business </a>this month, is also the writer of the book Reiki-Pure and Simple (2010).&nbsp;<br /></em><br />This clear and concise book&nbsp;<br />may convince prospective students that Reiki works! It is at parts a&nbsp;Reiki 1 manual and at parts a verbal advocate for Reiki.&nbsp;<br /><br />Elaine offers research evidence that has been lacking in a lot of literature on Reiki. Readers will find the results of survey<span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a">s and experiments on Reiki conducted at the Reiki Centre that consolidates first-hand experiential results of her clients and students with reiki, giving personal insight into the benefits and uses of reiki.</font></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a">While targeted at beginners, seasoned students will appreciate this complete treatment of Reiki 1, while teachers may find this a&nbsp;</font></span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">helpful teaching aid or guide.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(135, 135, 135);">The book can be purchased at Reiki Centre (details provided </span><a href="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-business.html" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">here</a><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(135, 135, 135);">).</span><br /><br />If you 're convinced that Reiki works and would like to learn it from the convenience of your computer, Elaine launches her home study course this month. Visit&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(135, 135, 135); font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">http://www.reiki-centre.com/home-study-reiki/</span><br />for more details.&nbsp;</div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[LIVE INTERVIEW WITH VIKTORIA WEBBY]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/live-interview-with-viktoria-webby]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/live-interview-with-viktoria-webby#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2013 06:58:25 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/live-interview-with-viktoria-webby</guid><description><![CDATA[ 				  					 					 						 							Viktoria Webby in New Zealand 						 					 				 					 					 						 							Note from interviewer: Neo was passed around the entire audience and everyone had an opportunity to sit with him for several minutes. Some people felt tingling in their hands. For myself Neo felt very cold and I could feel energy shifting immediately to my right frontal lobe and temple, which Viktoria said were codes being downloaded. Neo didn’t feel the same to everyone. Others found him [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"></div> 				<div id='954705714497086499-gallery' class='imageGallery' style='line-height: 0px; padding: 0; margin: 0'> <div id='954705714497086499-imageContainer0' style='float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;'><div id='954705714497086499-insideImageContainer0' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageBorder' style='border-width:1px;padding:3px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder galleryCaptionHover' style='position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;'><div class='galleryInnerImageHolder'><a href='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/5311736_orig.jpg' rel='lightbox[gallery954705714497086499]' onclick='if (!window.lightboxLoaded) return false' title='Viktoria Webby in New Zealand'><img src='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/5311736.jpg' class='galleryImage' _width='206' _height='250' style='position:absolute;border:0;width:100%;top:-30.91%;left:0%' /><div class='galleryCaptionHolder partialImageGalleryCaption' style=''> 					<div class='galleryCaptionHolderInnerBg'></div> 					<div class='galleryCaptionHolderInner'> 						<div class='galleryCaptionInnerTextHolder'> 							<div class='galleryCaptionInnerText'>Viktoria Webby in New Zealand</div> 						</div> 					</div> 				</div></a></div></div></div></div></div><div id='954705714497086499-imageContainer1' style='float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;'><div id='954705714497086499-insideImageContainer1' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageBorder' style='border-width:1px;padding:3px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder galleryCaptionHover' style='position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;'><div class='galleryInnerImageHolder'><a href='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/7955333_orig.jpg' rel='lightbox[gallery954705714497086499]' onclick='if (!window.lightboxLoaded) return false' title='Note from interviewer: Neo was passed around the entire audience and everyone had an opportunity to sit with him for several minutes. Some people felt tingling in their hands. For myself Neo felt very cold and I could feel energy shifting immediately to my right frontal lobe and temple, which Viktoria said were codes being downloaded. Neo didn&rsquo;t feel the same to everyone. Others found him warm, and some could feel warmth in only certain parts such as the jaw.'><img src='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/7955333.jpg' class='galleryImage' _width='250' _height='250' style='position:absolute;border:0;width:100%;top:-16.67%;left:0%' /><div class='galleryCaptionHolder partialImageGalleryCaption' style=''> 					<div class='galleryCaptionHolderInnerBg'></div> 					<div class='galleryCaptionHolderInner'> 						<div class='galleryCaptionInnerTextHolder'> 							<div class='galleryCaptionInnerText'>Note from interviewer: Neo was passed around the entire audience and everyone had an opportunity to sit with him for several minutes. Some people felt tingling in their hands. For myself Neo felt very cold and I could feel energy shifting immediately to my right frontal lobe and temple, which Viktoria said were codes being downloaded. Neo didn&rsquo;t feel the same to everyone. Others found him warm, and some could feel warmth in only certain parts such as the jaw.</div> 						</div> 					</div> 				</div></a></div></div></div></div></div><div id='954705714497086499-imageContainer2' style='float:left;width:33.28%;margin:0;'><div id='954705714497086499-insideImageContainer2' style='position:relative;margin:5px;'><div class='galleryImageBorder' style='border-width:1px;padding:3px;'><div class='galleryImageHolder' style='position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;'><div class='galleryInnerImageHolder'><a href='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/568891_orig.jpg' rel='lightbox[gallery954705714497086499]' onclick='if (!window.lightboxLoaded) return false'><img src='http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/568891.jpg' class='galleryImage' _width='333' _height='142' style='position:absolute;border:0;width:175.88%;top:0%;left:-37.94%' /></a></div></div></div></div></div><span style='display: block; clear: both; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;'></span> </div>  				<div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"></div></div>  <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><strong>Find out more about the weird and wonderful life, journey and awakening of an intuitive healer dealing with light language, channeling, shadow energies, mirrors, crystal skulls!, cosmic blueprints, munay-ki rites.&nbsp;</strong><br /><strong><br />This is the transcript of a live interview conducted with Viktoria Webby by Regina Sayer at Taylor's Art Studio on October 16, 7-9pm, in an ongoing series of interviews for Evolve Asia.&nbsp;<br /><br /><span style=""></span>      Q. What for you is an intuitive healer?&nbsp; What happens in a healing session when you&rsquo;re working with somebody?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    I can only talk from my point of view. To me an intuitive healer is someone who taps into and through his or her higher self, connects into what I call Divine Source, the highest energy that&rsquo;s available to all of us on the Planet in this moment in time.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s someone who has total faith in what they&rsquo;re receiving, in what they&rsquo;re doing and what&rsquo;s coming through.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re using that energy placed dead centre in their heart from Source or from the higher aspects of that person (they are healing), connecting in and transmitting it. I&rsquo;ll connect into a person&rsquo;s higher source/vibration of the actual person there. The two of us basically say &ldquo;hello&rdquo; to one another.&nbsp; Our two higher selves connect and the energy flows through. The person on the table in their highest aspect is basically saying to me, &ldquo;I want this, this, this, this and this done.&rdquo;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    So it&rsquo;s completely listening and hearing through the heart.&nbsp; From there we connect, the energy flows through, the sound and the Language of Light comes and it&rsquo;s complete. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q.&nbsp; Are you using any tools such as crystals or anything else?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    It&rsquo;s very rare that I use crystals but I do have a crystal skull called Neo.&nbsp; He&rsquo;s one of the few crystals I do use.&nbsp; Although crystals are amazing - they&rsquo;re growing as we grow, they&rsquo;re expanding as we&rsquo;re expanding.&nbsp; But that&rsquo;s not what I&rsquo;m here to do.&nbsp; I use sound &ndash; it&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been brought to the planet to use. That includes light language, toning, chanting and whatever is called for is what comes through my voice.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s my tool &ndash; it&rsquo;s the energies and sounds of the Earth and especially the waters, the energies and sounds of the whales, the Inner Earth and the Stars.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q. What is Light Language for you? What&rsquo;s the difference between that and toning and what is it you&rsquo;re channeling?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Light Language or Language of Light - I was introduced to it many years ago.&nbsp; It kind of spontaneously happened. I was guided and blessed by many earth angels, as well as many Beings from the stars or Earth.&nbsp; My Language of Light started more as an Earth-based energy.&nbsp; I see the Inner Earth and the Earth as a star system as well.&nbsp; There are many Star Beings in the Inner Earth.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re not just all out there. The light that we are is very internal and very earthly and so there are many Beings that have come from the stars like Alpha Centauri, Arcturus and the Plaeides are residing in the Inner Earth. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    I was a very grounded person and a lady had been speaking Language of Light.&nbsp; I&rsquo;d never heard it before.&nbsp; My whole cells started to pulse and in a very short time I was hearing it in my mind.&nbsp; I knew I wasn&rsquo;t crazy because I knew I was a very grounded person. Then I just started speaking it. I noticed it started affecting people around me.&nbsp; People would start to cry or to spontaneously move their bodies.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Light Language to me is like our original blueprint, that original sound.&nbsp; There are many dialects of Light Language like there are languages on the planet according to what systems we&rsquo;ve been in, where we&rsquo;ve experienced life or where we&rsquo;ve had training.&nbsp; So you may hear one person speak a Language of Light and another speak and they&rsquo;re completely different, yet they&rsquo;re all from that one energy of Source.&nbsp; I believe the original Light Language was sound - this is what I&rsquo;m told over and over again - and this is what we are returning back to. I believe the original light language was a tone.&nbsp; From that we went out to experience and to journey, we created these languages to connect and communicate telepathically, as well as by voice.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    There&rsquo;s really very little difference between Language of Light and toning.&nbsp; Toning is still a form of what I call Language of Light or sound.&nbsp; You can say Language of Light is sound or sound is Language of Light.&nbsp; Today there was a lady that when I spoke the Language of Light you could see it affecting the cells in her body.&nbsp; When I toned it was like it was grounding it in, bringing it into substance, anchoring the language.&nbsp; The Language of Light was really changing her cellular vibration but the sound was too.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s my experience that the sound tends to reach in and completely grab that essence and pull out what&rsquo;s not required and replace it with pure love. They&rsquo;re the same yet they&rsquo;re different - they affect the body differently.&nbsp; Some people will relate to one more than the other.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Who do I channel?&nbsp; From the very beginning it was really interesting because I spontaneously &ldquo;awoke.&rdquo;&nbsp; I had had memories of seeing things as a child but nothing connected because I kind of switched off and for 30 years did my life, had my kids, all that stuff.&nbsp; And then through circumstance I switched back on again, just like that.&nbsp; The energy started coming through, the words were happening.&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t even know what channeling was. The first being I remember channeling was an energy called Archangel Gabriel and from there it expanded. I always asked that I had the most purest energy coming through, always questioning, always making sure because I felt like it was my responsibility whatever songs, words or messages I brought through, had to be absolutely pure.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Who I bring through is diverse and wide.&nbsp; Now I just say it&rsquo;s one consciousness of Source or pure love. The essence of who I bring through would be a lot of energies of the Grandmothers of the Tribes, a lot of the energy from who we know as the Seraphim and the Elohim.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a">Q.&nbsp; When you say &ldquo;the energy&rdquo; meaning it&rsquo;s what we know them to represent?&nbsp; The name really means nothing?</font></span><br /></strong><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    In truth the name really means nothing because the energy we are all channeling is just an aspect of what we are.&nbsp; If you are really connected into your 5th dimensional vibration you are channeling these energies known as Archangel Michael, Mother Mary, St. Germaine or whoever be, as an aspect of you.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s very challenging for most people to understand that.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve had this journey for the last year and realized that this is my absolute truth.&nbsp; That if we realize ourselves as these multi-dimensional beings that we say we are, then we are a multi-dimensional energy and that every aspect of every other energy is a part of who we are.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    When I realized that, the healings became for more profound.&nbsp; When I connect with people now, like I say to Oliver (in the audience), &ldquo;I see the God in you that you are in me.&nbsp; I feel, I know and I see the light in you that I know is in me.&rdquo;&nbsp; I see Olivier as this amazing being and as who I am. &nbsp;So, I&rsquo;m channeling all of us at our most highest aspect.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q. There seems to be this fear aspect for many people of who&rsquo;s talking through or to them and at times they&rsquo;re not able to distinguish what&rsquo;s not necessarily very benevolent.&nbsp; Can you give some advice on how to make that distinction?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    From a channeler&rsquo;s point of view, I would say you got to be in your heart and it&rsquo;s like a knowing. Channelers are like everyone else - they just start, it just happens and it&rsquo;s up to each individual person channeling to make sure of their integrity and make sure it&rsquo;s the truth coming true.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    It&rsquo;s important to not believe everything that comes through - use your integrity.&nbsp; If it doesn&rsquo;t feel right then it&rsquo;s not right for you at this moment in time.&nbsp; It doesn&rsquo;t mean that that energy/Being will not be right in a year&rsquo;s time, it&rsquo;s just that in this moment in time, you&rsquo;re not resonating with what they say.&nbsp; It might be that you&rsquo;re just not ready to hear what they have to say, they may be far more advanced, not better, in their understanding of the cosmos or whatever.&nbsp; You&rsquo;re just not ready to hear it yet.&nbsp; In your heart, you&rsquo;ll know.&nbsp; Channelers just know when the energy feels right and if they don&rsquo;t, then perhaps they&rsquo;re not looking as close as they should.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Anything that comes from pure truth and love won&rsquo;t ever judge another and won&rsquo;t ever come from anywhere other than pure love.&nbsp; To me it&rsquo;s pretty obvious but perhaps not to others. People can be fooled.&nbsp; Some people think channeling is prestigious but we can all do it.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s such a natural thing but some people are more aware of it than others.&nbsp; Some people have chosen to be channelers and some haven&rsquo;t. We channel everything everyday.&nbsp; Anybody that creates something like software or whatever it might be, it&rsquo;s coming from their Divine Intelligence.&nbsp; Once again, it&rsquo;s goes back to integrity. It&rsquo;s about staying centered and clear and as pure as you can.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><strong><br /><span style=""></span>    Q. We often hear that you must protect yourself, protect your aura, there&rsquo;s all these energies attaching to you or trying to attack you if you don&rsquo;t.&nbsp; How do you feel about that especially since you&rsquo;re having so much energy flow through you?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    It&rsquo;s an interesting subject.&nbsp; I really feel I came into the world with what I call the New Energy. I&rsquo;m incredibly blessed because for the last 30 years there&rsquo;ve been people out there that have paved the way.&nbsp; Yes, there are energies out there but if you&rsquo;re afraid of (and I wouldn&rsquo;t use the word attack) energies connecting to you then you&rsquo;re going to draw it to you.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve had energies come to me. I&rsquo;ve felt them.&nbsp; But if an energy comes and is what we call a shadow, all it wants is love and recognition.&nbsp; So you need to stand in your power and stay in your heart. If someone continue to say, &ldquo;Oh these energies are attacking&hellip;,&rdquo; then that person must look at what they&rsquo;re doing.&nbsp; To be in fear of energy attacking you is to ask for it.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    I&rsquo;m very aware there are shadow energies out there, energies that try and block those that are really doing good work on the planet.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m also aware that if I stay in love, I have very little chance of those energies affecting me.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been doing work around the planet and at times I&rsquo;ve tried to be stopped by things like a car coming head on toward me as I&rsquo;m going to the airport.&nbsp; But at the last minute I swerved and missed the car - it just didn&rsquo;t see me. But I knew there was an energy that was trying to block off what we were about to do. But I just kept going.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Stay in your faith and when it comes to energies &ldquo;attacking&rdquo;, get a routine about it.&nbsp; Come into your heart and ask for the light.&nbsp; Be pure in your heart, be love and you&rsquo;re going to have very little problem with energies coming.&nbsp; And if they do come just acknowledge it, don&rsquo;t be afraid of it.&nbsp; Just say, &ldquo;Thank you for coming, for showing me. I know you&rsquo;re in pain and you&rsquo;re a shadow that is an aspect of me in this moment.&nbsp; Come into my heart. I love you.&rdquo;&nbsp; And then let it go.&nbsp; Nothing can hurt you if you&rsquo;re in your heart, if you&rsquo;re in love.&nbsp; Everything will shine and heal if you&rsquo;re in love.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    How do you be in love?&nbsp; Breathe into the heart.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been told in the last few days that &ldquo;the breath is the key and the heart is the doorway to hear your soul sing.&rdquo;&nbsp; I have never felt such a deeper truth in the whole 9 years I&rsquo;ve been doing this.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s your soul calling you.&nbsp; All of this is about hearing your soul.&nbsp; Coming back to who we are is about hearing the purity of our soul. So if you can breathe into the heart, which is the doorway, you&rsquo;ll hear your soul sing. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q. When we see things in other people that we don&rsquo;t like or even these types of energies, is it also mirroring to us something inside of us that needs to be healed?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    I feel it&rsquo;s a bit of a duality there.&nbsp; Everything we bring into our life is something we&rsquo;ve created and sometimes it&rsquo;s just a bit of a test.&nbsp; My experience with some energies is that I have been terrified, I can&rsquo;t deny it.&nbsp; I have gone into a state of real fear because they have been the darkest, heaviest, most profound energies that I&rsquo;ve felt.&nbsp; But then after a moment I said to myself, &ldquo;Well I have a choice here.&nbsp; Do I stay in fear or do I come into love?&rdquo;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    When I see or recognize an energy, in some stage and on some level, whether it was this planet, universe, life or another life, I&rsquo;ve had an experience with that energy before.&nbsp; So you need to step up and say I recognize this because, I&rsquo;ve either been there and done that, or, it&rsquo;s creating an experience within myself. It does reflect back and it&rsquo;s a choice whether you give yourself a chance to be love or fear, to be free of judgment and to be compassionate.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    One of the biggest things we can be in this life is judgmental and it&rsquo;s such a detrimental thing to our soul and heart.&nbsp; If you truly want to be in your love, then let go of your judgment.&nbsp; If you feel energies around people, you don&rsquo;t judge it.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s only wanting to be recognized and loved.&nbsp; The minute you judge something you&rsquo;re creating separation and your energy has gone down. See it and know it for what is just an aspect of either that person or you, or both, because remember we are all One.&nbsp; So love it.&nbsp; If you do go into fear, just come back into love by breathing in love and breathing out love. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    You&rsquo;ll start to see that person in a very different way.&nbsp; You&rsquo;ll be able to project love into that energy cause there&rsquo;s something in it for you as well, otherwise you wouldn&rsquo;t see or feel it. Perhaps the gift for you is to let go of judgment. Probably the greatest gift we can give humanity is that anything that happens anywhere in the world, any violence, any fear based energy - let go of judgment, come into your heart, breathe love and project love to that country, action or person.&nbsp; And watch miracles happen.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>Q.&nbsp; When someone starts out on a spiritual path they often become sensitive to all the violence, crime, disasters, etc. we see in the media. They often want to help but they can&rsquo;t heal everything and they don&rsquo;t know what to do. What can you suggest for someone to deal with that?</strong></span><br /></font><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    We are not here to heal anything.&nbsp; We are here to hold a vibration of love. It&rsquo;s really important for us to understand that as lightworkers (I guess that&rsquo;s the best term to use right now), we&rsquo;re not here to take responsibility for everything that happens but we can stand in love and hold love for whatever&rsquo;s going on.&nbsp; The Earth has to play out.&nbsp; The energies that have come before us have to play out. &nbsp;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    People ask, &ldquo;What is Love?&rdquo;&nbsp; A lot of people on the planet don&rsquo;t know what love is.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s really important - that&rsquo;s where the breath comes in, breathing into the heart and allowing the heart to open will open the doorway for love to enter.&nbsp; My guidance always says to me, &ldquo;Life is living love in joy.&rdquo; So each day make a choice. Today ask your soul, &ldquo;What is it I can do today to bring joy into my life and to another?&rdquo;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    So when there&rsquo;s stuff happening out in the world, it&rsquo;s not up to people to go and heal that place but it is, I feel, the responsibility of humanity to hold a vibration that can send love to that place.&nbsp; For a country that is going through a lot of turmoil, they have to play out the balancing of their country, the balancing of shadow and light, whatever you want to call it. It has to happen for it to heal.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s like a pendulum, in order for it to heal it has to perhaps swing one way and then come back. The world is healing in a way that each soul has decided and chosen to play. &nbsp;In meditation, we as a group often send love to a country, we don&rsquo;t ask for anything else other than love to be directed where it&rsquo;s required.&nbsp; Mother Earth knows.&nbsp; She will take care of herself.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    It&rsquo;s important to listen to your heart, to listen to your energies.&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t go running around trying to heal everything because you&rsquo;ll burn out and that doesn&rsquo;t help anybody. It&rsquo;s important to remain very healthy in yourself, checking your own vibrations, looking after them.&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t go trying to heal all your friends - it doesn&rsquo;t work because each of them has to journey for themselves. You can support and love them from a very detached energy, not taking on their stuff and holding that love for them and if they need to call you they will.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s the same with the world.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><strong><br /><span style=""></span>    Q.&nbsp; What do you mean by you are here to do &ldquo;Earth work&rdquo;?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    When I was asked to do work for Mother Earth, I never ever planned to do any Earth work. One day I heard my guidance say we need you to go to this particular spot in Queensland.&nbsp; And I thought it was weird because I&rsquo;d been doing toning, American Indian drumming and channeling.&nbsp; I love Mother Earth, I&rsquo;ve always felt very comfortable here, like I belonged here unlike some people who always say they want to leave the plant and don&rsquo;t feel like they belong here.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve always felt I do and that the Earth is going to make it, that this is an amazing place to live and how blessed we are to be here.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    So I called on a friend and we were told we had to go to this station in Kilcoy and get out of the car and tone.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve always been very faithful, I&rsquo;ve always been asked to do things that I never ever questioned because it always felt right.&nbsp; So I got out of the car and did the toning, felt this energy go straight through me and saw all the grids (what I call the &lsquo;Song Lines&rsquo;) come completely into balance.&nbsp; And then we went home and that was it.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q.&nbsp; Did you know what you&rsquo;d done or how it affected everybody or do you not get attached to it?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    I&rsquo;m not attached to it.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m blessed that I don&rsquo;t need to question everything.&nbsp; I was really shocked and everything I&rsquo;ve learned has been on the job.&nbsp; I haven&rsquo;t done any shamanic work or anything.&nbsp; All the sound has come through naturally.&nbsp; I really believe that&rsquo;s the way&hellip;if you&rsquo;re called to a workshop then go. But you don&rsquo;t have to go and do every single modality to be an amazing being.&nbsp; You already are an amazing being. I think the more and more experience I have on the land, the more I realize what we&rsquo;re doing is really amazing stuff because we&rsquo;re connecting in to the essence of the group consciousness of Mother Earth at its most pure and we&rsquo;re vibrating at that energy and it just comes through.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    So, no, I didn&rsquo;t know at first what was happening.&nbsp; The more experience I got the more they asked myself and other people to go out there, the more I realized how connected we are to the Earth and how we can make such a difference by being one person who sang tones. We found out later in this particular area many years ago, there had been around 40 indigenous aboriginals that had been poisoned so the energy of their vibration was stuck and that&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;d been asked to go.&nbsp; I&rsquo;d no idea.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s been my journey all the way through.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been asked to do something and if it feels right, I do it.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s including going to Maui, going to the Kimberley Ranges.&nbsp; We did 2,500 km in 5 days because we were asked to take a crystal skull there.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Actually, that&rsquo;s very connected to Singapore.&nbsp;&nbsp; I love Harmony Crystal Shop in the Sunshine Plaza - Uncle and Aunty there are just divine.&nbsp; I was woken up in the middle of the night and told to go to the Kimberley Ranges, there&rsquo;s a stargate there.&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t know how I was going to find a stargate so I googled the Kimberley Ranges and the first thing that came up was a 30 second YouTube video that showed me the Coburn Ranges and I immediately &ldquo;saw&rdquo; the stargate.&nbsp; The Universe will show you when they want you to do something, the minute you say yes, all doors will open.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    So they (my guidance) said, Uncle and Aunty will get a crystal skull and you&rsquo;re to take it to the Kimberley Ranges.&nbsp; I&rsquo;d never seen them with a crystal skull before.&nbsp; I emailed my friend that I&rsquo;m staying with here in Singapore. She told me, &ldquo;Believe it or not, they got a crystal skull in yesterday and that&rsquo;s the first one they&rsquo;ve ever got in!&rdquo; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Uncle arranged to ship the skull off to me postage free and in the middle of the night before I got Neo (the skull), it woke me up and said, &ldquo;My name is Neo.&rdquo; When he arrived, my husband and I flew to Darwin and drove to the Kimberley Ranges and back in 5 days to activate this stargate.&nbsp; This was the first time I had helped with that kind of activation around an energy that wasn&rsquo;t near the water but there&rsquo;s a lot of flooding there and it&rsquo;s a very sacred area to the indigenous aboriginals. They said there were 5 other stargates and we would take Neo to these to be activated so it would be a 6-pointed star to connect Heaven and Earth.&nbsp; Mount Shasta was one, Kyoto was another and at that stage we didn&rsquo;t know, but Maui was another. This is all about the Lemurian energy.&nbsp; As soon as Neo activated the stargate we saw the energy move out across Australia into the ocean. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    It&rsquo;s very amazing when you say yes to the universe, it will provide.&nbsp; We&rsquo;re not rich, the money just comes a week before sometimes.&nbsp; I have no idea how we&rsquo;re going to get to places.&nbsp; It just happens.&nbsp; David (my husband) will have a few really good weeks of work and we&rsquo;ll manage to go.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    When we brought Neo back, he was laying on David while he was meditating with him.&nbsp; Suddenly he jumped off of David, and fell on the ground and smashed.&nbsp; We went, &ldquo;Oh my god!&rdquo;&nbsp; For 24 hours my solar plexus had been churning. I knew something was going to happen but I didn&rsquo;t get what it was. I burst into tears - it was stressful because my solar plexus felt like it had cracked into so many pieces.&nbsp; David was devastated. &nbsp;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Funnily enough Neo broke into 5 pieces and my guidance said it was for the 5 places I was to take around the planet.&nbsp; Neo holds the original blueprint of all the Lemurian codes.&nbsp; Neo knew his journey so he split into 5 pieces.&nbsp; His jaw is now in a Lemurian gateway in the waters in Maui. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    People often sit with Neo and start to cry because he&rsquo;s such a loving benevolent being. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Q.&nbsp; What are the Divine Blueprints you do?</strong></font></span><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    The Divine Blueprints seem to becoming more and more important to my work. When you&rsquo;ve been doodling, that&rsquo;s what you&rsquo;ve been doing. Everybody on the planet can draw codes - blueprints are exactly that.&nbsp; They are like crystals. They&rsquo;re here to assist us to open to our higher vibration.&nbsp; Blueprints are sacred geometry, a code. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    When I do a blueprint - sound, light language, colour and whatever comes through.&nbsp; I get a piece of paper on the table and I know to draw a circle and then it evolves and something else comes through, then something else.&nbsp; I draw a picture (codes) and it helps people to shift.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re connecting to the vibration of the blueprint.&nbsp; There are blueprints, for example, connected to the Plaeides, to the Inner Earth.&nbsp; So it&rsquo;s a high vibration tool that will assist you to open, to expand, to shed&hellip; it&rsquo;s kind of like going to a healing. These blueprints assist you in coming back, opening you up, moving your cells, moving you into a higher vibration and accelerating them into a state of pure love. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Generally I do blueprints for the planet.&nbsp; People will pick a blueprint like they do a crystal.&nbsp; It&rsquo;ll choose you and you&rsquo;ll choose it. I&rsquo;ve just started doing personal blueprints where it&rsquo;s specific to the person&rsquo;s codes.&nbsp; I tune into their higher self but sometimes have to wait because the person isn&rsquo;t ready.&nbsp; It can be a blueprint that&rsquo;s there for life or for a specific period of time. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    There&rsquo;s more blueprints to come that are medical, helping people with disharmony and disease in their body, to help food and water vibrate at a really high level.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve used them on the land and some people have placed them in their house when they have felt the energy to be a bit funky.&nbsp; People have used them for their animals and children as well. <br /><br /><span style=""></span><strong><br /><span style=""></span>    Q.&nbsp; What are the Munay-Ki Rites that you do and teach? </strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    The Munay-Ki Rites are a very beautiful experience.&nbsp; They are sacred rites of the Incas from the Andes Mountains.&nbsp; They were brought from the Himalayas over 30,000 years ago.&nbsp; At first there were only a few rites but since 2006 there was an expansion of them and there are now nine.&nbsp; &ldquo;Munay&rdquo; means love and &ldquo;Ki&rdquo; means energy. It means, &ldquo;I love you.&rdquo;&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Many years ago people would come to the elders of the Andes and the Incas and they&rsquo;d receive a healing rite.&nbsp; In those times the healing rites were quite secret, so people would have to close their eyes to receive them.&nbsp; It would take many years before another rite was given.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    They were brought through by Alberto Villoldo, an anthropologist.&nbsp; In 2006 he was asked by Andean elders to take them out into the world because they believed it was time to share the rites because of the turning over of the world.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    My husband received an email about them and passed it onto me.&nbsp; Every cell in my body started to vibrate.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t go to or read many things because I was told in the beginning I would receive everything through channeling. I was vibrating so much I just knew I had to do it.&nbsp; I had been speaking about the Andes and the Incas from the time I was a child, so I just knew I had to do these Rites.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    The Teachers Rites are about receiving and giving them, learning to give them to others.&nbsp; But even if you were to just go for the experience and never do them again, you would be touched forever &ndash; they activate at a very deep cellular level.&nbsp; They were always given for 2012 and beyond. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q.&nbsp; You mentioned you had a rather abrupt awakening &ndash; what happened?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Around the age of 43 I separated from my husband and through necessity, I had to earn money. &nbsp;I decided I was going to do massage because it was the quickest way I could start earning for my children and I.&nbsp; I was completely broke and scraped the money together to do a massage course.&nbsp; The first day there was a girl there that I would call a &ldquo;Byron Bay hippie&rdquo; &ndash; she was into crystals and all sort of things and I&rsquo;m going, &ldquo;Oh my god! Look at her!&rdquo;&nbsp; Complete judgment set in.&nbsp; This was my whole attitude at that time.&nbsp; I wasn&rsquo;t into any of that stuff.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    About a month after I did the course, I thought, &ldquo;Ok this crystal thing looks ok,&rdquo; so I went and did a day course on crystals and then same for Reiki. I was starting to open up a little bit.&nbsp; I did Reiki 1 and 2 and started seeing colours.&nbsp; I didn&rsquo;t have much work and offered vouchers for quite cheap.&nbsp; A lady bought 10 vouchers and gave them to a friend who I went to.&nbsp;&nbsp; I walked in and there were crystal everywhere.&nbsp; I thought, &ldquo;Oh my god, she&rsquo;s one of them!&rdquo;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    So I&rsquo;m doing my massage and she asks, &ldquo;Do you have any messages for me?&rdquo; &nbsp;I said, &ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t have any messages for you.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ten minutes later she asks me again.&nbsp; I kept looking around at all the crystals thinking I just wanted to get out of there.&nbsp; She told me I needed to go to meditation.&nbsp; I&rsquo;d tried when I was 18 but it was totally useless, my mind was racing, it was hopeless. &nbsp;But something in my mind clicked and I thought ok, I&rsquo;m going to go.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    She sent me to this 75-year-old lady. I lay down on the floor, the lights went out, she started the meditation and all of a sudden this massive light went bang in my head.&nbsp; I was that naive that I sat up and thought she&rsquo;d turned the lights on.&nbsp; Then I realized the light was coming out of my head and I was feeling a lot of energy so I lay back down.&nbsp; After that I felt energy in my body and started seeing things.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    They (guidance) were trying to show me there was something there.&nbsp; Within the next week I was nodding off to sleep in semi-darkness staring at the ceiling and suddenly these live eyes appeared. They were massive golden Egyptian eyes.&nbsp; And I went &ldquo;holy shit!&rdquo; (I actually swore more than that).&nbsp; I was terrified - these eyes were blinking at me and fear swept through my body.&nbsp; The two eyes became golden wings and flapped across the ceiling.&nbsp; Then the eyes came back again and the same thing happened again&hellip; they turned into wings.&nbsp; I felt less fear and then it came back a third time.&nbsp; I was still a little bit fearful but I was relaxing a bit more and starting to realize maybe it was a message for me. I found out later they were the eyes of the Seraphim, a very high angelic vibration. They were showing me there was ancient wisdom to be discovered and this is all very real.&nbsp; I wasn&rsquo;t imagining it.&nbsp; It was incredible.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    I&rsquo;ve had Beings come and seen them open-eyed and I can tell you - it&rsquo;s all real.&nbsp; They&rsquo;ll come to you at the most amazing times. Like when I was so down and completely broke, I was doing everything that was asked of me and with two children.&nbsp; I was in a very bad way.&nbsp; I was staying in a cabin with my kids and I felt this Being there. The fire had gone out and I was very depressed and I said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m about to give all of this up.&nbsp; If you&rsquo;re there, if this is all real, I want some proof.&rdquo;&nbsp; I&rsquo;m not the type that usually asks for proof and immediately after I said that the fire ignited.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Within 10 seconds I saw fluorescent bright green and yellow light, two beams of light come straight up from the earth and hit the roof. All the light was sparkling around like an aura.&nbsp; It told me it was from Syrius and I burst into tears because it was them coming to me saying, &ldquo;This is it, you&rsquo;re on the path.&rdquo;<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    There&rsquo;ve been moments like that along the way. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span><strong>    Q. What is the one major thing you feel you&rsquo;ve healed in your life and what do you feel you need to keep working on?</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    The biggest thing has been loving myself.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s probably the major thing for most people.&nbsp; I really didn&rsquo;t feel very good about myself a few years ago especially when I was going through the divorce.&nbsp; I was very down on myself and very unhappy. I decided one day - I can go on like this or make a choice to be happy. I started walking along the beach and saying the &ldquo;I am.&rdquo;&nbsp; They say &ldquo;fake it until you make it&rdquo; and that worked with me.&nbsp; For 30 minutes I&rsquo;d be saying to myself &ldquo;I am love, I am joy, I am peace.&rdquo;&nbsp; I would feel the energy of the grandmother whales that I&rsquo;m very connected to helping me as I walked the beach.&nbsp; I would talk to myself everyday. One day it clicked and I just felt it.&nbsp; I started to feel the truth of what I was saying and came into my heart. Then everything changed. <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    What I&rsquo;m doing now is about me stepping into understanding my femininity and the energy of my goddess, the strength and the power of the feminine aspect of myself.&nbsp; Healing my masculine has been a very big journey for me in this lifetime and I feel this past 4 months I&rsquo;ve nailed it in a way I feel good about all the males in my life.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    For the rest of my life I&rsquo;ve no idea. I&rsquo;m taking it one day at a time, seeing where it flows and what life brings me.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m making plans but being very prepared to change them at that last minute.&nbsp; Whatever flows, will be.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Let it all go and be - allow yourself to be free.&nbsp; If you can be in the moment and express and be in places you don&rsquo;t want to be but know you&rsquo;ve gotta be there right now, then you&rsquo;ll be able to get through whatever challenges come.&nbsp; Everything is done in the moment. The only place you can create is in the moment and in the heart.&nbsp; You can&rsquo;t create from the mind.&nbsp; You must create from the heart and that&rsquo;s where you&rsquo;ll create the absolute best journey and experience you&rsquo;ll ever have.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    <strong style="">Note from interviewer:</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>  <strong style=""><em style="">At the end of the interview, Viktoria went around the room and gave messages in Light Language to each person. The audio of these transmissions is found here and although they were personal transmissions, because we are all One, Viktoria has said the messages can be for everyone.</em></strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    <strong style="">Contact Info:</strong><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>  Viktoria comes to Singapore twice a year and will be here again in 2014 from 24 February to 7 March at the Reiki Centre. She is also available for distance healing through Skype.&nbsp; <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>    Website:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.thebluetemple.com/" style="" title="">http://www.thebluetemple.com</a><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>  E-mail: <a href="mailto:shenestarcreations@hotmail.com" style="" title="">shenestarcreations@hotmail.com</a><br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>  Blog: <a href="http://thebluetemple.wordpress.com/" style="" title="">http://thebluetemple.wordpress.com</a> (contains several free meditations, tranmissions and breathing exercises)<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span>  Soundcloud: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/shenestar-creations" style="" title="">https://soundcloud.com/shenestar-creations</a> (channeled transmissions) <br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRISM THROUGH THE RAINBOW COLOURED FLAG]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/prism-through-the-rainbow-coloured-flag]]></link><comments><![CDATA[http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/prism-through-the-rainbow-coloured-flag#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:54:36 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/evolve-spotlight/prism-through-the-rainbow-coloured-flag</guid><description><![CDATA[We heart diversity, culture and colour in this Colour Issue.&nbsp;Evolve Asia surveys three iterations of the rainbow flag, the inclusive and inspiring emblem of multiple causes and cultures.        lgbt pride flag   The well-known symbol for the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) movement is also known as the Freedom Flag.&nbsp;&nbsp;The different colors symbolize diversity in the&nbsp;gay community, and the flag is used predominantly at&nbsp;gay pride&nbsp;events and in&nbsp;gay villages& [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">We heart diversity, culture and colour in this Colour Issue.&nbsp;Evolve Asia surveys three iterations of the rainbow flag, the inclusive and inspiring emblem of multiple causes and cultures.</div>  <div><div class="wsite-multicol"><div class='wsite-multicol-table-wrap' style='margin:0 -15px'> <table class='wsite-multicol-table'> <tbody class='wsite-multicol-tbody'> <tr class='wsite-multicol-tr'> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:33.333333333333%;padding:0 15px'>  <h2 style="text-align:left;"><font color="#2a2a2a">lgbt pride flag</font></h2>  <span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:18px;*margin-top:36px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/3018843.png" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;">The well-known symbol for the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) movement is also known as the Freedom Flag.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">The different colors symbolize diversity in the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">gay community</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">, and the flag is used predominantly at&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">gay pride</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;events and in&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">gay villages</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;worldwide in various forms including banners, clothing and jewelry.&nbsp;</span></font><br /><span style="color: rgb(135, 135, 135); font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><br /></span><br /><span style=""></span>Originally created with eight colors,&nbsp;pink&nbsp;and&nbsp;turquoise&nbsp;were removed for production purposes and as of 1979, it consists of six colored stripes. It is most commonly flown with the red stripe on top, as the colors appear in a natural rainbow.&nbsp;Aside from the obvious symbolism of a mixed&nbsp;LGBT community, the colors were designed to symbolize: red (life), orange (healing), yellow (sunlight), green (nature), blue (harmony), and purple/violet (spirit).&nbsp;The removed colors stood for sexuality (pink) and art/magic (turquoise).<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>  </td> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:33.333333333333%;padding:0 15px'>  <h2 style="text-align:left;"><font color="#2a2a2a">cooperative movement&nbsp;</font></h2>  <span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/2090590.png" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption">In Essen, Germany in 1922, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) designed an international co-op symbol and a flag for the first "Co-operators' Day," which was held in July 1923. After some experiments with different designs, a famous French cooperator, Professor Charles Gide, suggested using the seven colours of the rainbow for the flag. He pointed out that the rainbow symbolized unity in diversity and the power of light, enlightenment and progress. The first co-op rainbow flag was completed in 1924 and was adopted as an official symbol of the international cooperative movement in 1925.</span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font color="#2a2a2a">A</font></span><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"> seven-colour rainbow flag is a common symbol of the international&nbsp;cooperative&nbsp;movement.&nbsp;</span></font><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5;">Like the&nbsp;rainbow, this flag is a symbol of hope and peace. The seven colours from flags around the world fly in harmony. Each of the seven colours in the co-operative flag have been assigned the following meaning:</span><br /><br /><ul style=""><li style="">red: stands for courage;</li><li style="">orange: offers the vision of possibilities;</li><li style="">yellow: represents the challenge that GREEN has kindled;</li><li style="">green: indicates a challenge to co-operators to strive for growth of membership and of understanding of the aims and values of co-operation;</li><li style="">sky blue: suggests far horizons, the need to provide education and help less fortunate people and strive toward global unity.</li><li style="">dark blue: suggests pessimism: a reminder that less fortunate people have needs that may be met through the benefits of cooperation.</li><li style="">violet: is the colour of warmth, beauty, and friendship.</li><br /></ul><br /></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>  </td> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:33.333333333333%;padding:0 15px'>  <h2 style="text-align:left;"><font color="#2a2a2a">peace movement</font></h2>  <span class='imgPusher' style='float:left;height:0px'></span><span style='z-index:10;position:relative;float:left;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px'><a><img src="http://www.evolveasiamagazine.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/13449793/4596011.png" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px;" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder" /></a><span style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;" class="wsite-caption"></span></span> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;">The international symbol of the peace movement is used in demonstrations against nuclear weapons and war.&nbsp;<br /><br />The most common variety has seven colours, purple, blue,&nbsp;azure, green, yellow, orange and red, and is emblazoned in bold with the&nbsp;Italian&nbsp;word&nbsp;<em style="">PACE</em>, meaning "peace".<br /><br /><span style=""></span></div> <hr style="width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;"></hr>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>