She is talking about the sacred use of consciousness, for shape-shifting and other purposes. This is done through what she calls a person’s “assemblage point.”

“This assemblage point’s sustained movement can be achieved through training and practice and particularly through utilizing the council of the elders, thereby resolving inner conflicts.

“Assemblage points can also be shifted with the use of mind-altering drugs like peyote.

“The Plains Cree and Anishnawbe did not indulge in the use of mind-altering drugs, believing that they disturbed judgment and clarity.

“They also believed that peyote was grown on the soft ground where other tribes dwelt and that it was not a medicine for them to use.

“Later, Toltec Shamans also shied away from the use of mind-altering drugs, believing that it caused an erratic movement of the assemblage point and could produce realities from which man would never return.

“The controlled shifting of the assemblage point was valuable in releasing the tyranny of left-brain and was also a highly developed skill to be used under a trained Shaman Nagual or spiritual teacher.”

For more about Almine’s magnificent essay, “Why Seekers of Higher Wisdom Do Not Perform the Act of Shape-Shifting,” follow this link:

http://www.ancientshamanism.com/seekers-higher-wisdom-shapeshifting.html

In the Mind-Body-Spirit community, “Judging,” as you call it, is nearly as controversial a topic as somoking pot.

Clearly you consider judging a bad thing, and something to overcome if you feel that someone else has judged you.

My warning about smoking marijuana is not about judging but about deeper perception and reality, as I perceive it.

Reality is different for different people, but all I can ever do in this blog, or elsewhere, is to honestly share my views and experiences in reality.

In the reality of deeper perception, smoking pot, weed, marijuana, the wonderful medical substance that distracts people from pain — whatever you call that — it adds STUFF galore to a person’s aura.

This STUFF makes it harder to have a good life. Living all clogged up with STUFF is an inalienable right.

The more STUFF you carry, the more likely that you will wrestle with issues around feeling “judged.” Life becomes simpler, and speech and action become more effective, with less STUFF.

You Blog-Buddies are free to judge — or to discern — for yourself, and make choices accordingly.

Perhaps you would like to become an expert at Aura Reading and do your own impartial research on chocolate. Aura Reading I definitely CAN teach you.

Perhaps start with “Aura Reading Through All Your Senses.”

There’s a uniquely effective form of Regression Therapy, what I call Energy Release Regression Therapy, that can help in many cases. This is a particular set of techniques that helps the client to permanently release causes of specific problems, as located in the form of subtle energies from the past.

Coletta Long, Ph.D., is my mentor for this. Her discoveries in the field have been tested for over 60 years, and I feel privileged to have studied with her.

So if Daisy has needed to take Ritalin, or she has become a big advocate of daily pot smoking but secretly wonders what makes her so desparate to get high, or if she simply would like to kick her cigarette habit — Energy Release Regression Therapy really might help.

You’ll find general information about it here:
http://www.rose-rosetree.com/RegressionTherapy.htm

For discussion of how Energy Release Regression Therapy can help with specific problems, click here:
http://www.rose-rosetree.com/RTBenefits.htm

Finally, background articles about how and why Energy Release Regression Therapy works can be found here:
http://www.rose-rosetree.com/RegressionTherapy.htm#consumer

Although the subject of kids on Ritalin for the sake of social convenience is sad, it brightens my day that YOU are reading auras from photos.

More of us, over time, can change the sleepy, confused consciousness that allows such things to happen.

I don’t usually comment on effects of substances on auras in general, because it’s a very individual situation. Instead, if someone is really concerned about psychiatric medication, I would recommend an Aura Reading Research session, so we can investigate different aspects of life.

Since I don’t have the knowledge or credentials to prescribe medications, this kind of research would be a supplement to monitoring by a mental health professional.

Thanks so much for writing, Deirdre!

I just was involved in drama project of 14, 15, and 16 year olds here in Germany. A boisterous, bursting at the seams, creative group of Ritalin free kids with the most exquisitly beautiful auras.

A lot of the graduates in the picture you posted the other day also have such a lovely radience.

It made me aware of the kids I have worked with who are on medication. It breaks my heart to see children with signatures of brilliance in their auras who are forced to be like plants planted in cement because society is the wrong shape for them. Drugs are visible years and years after people are clean. What are we, as a society, doing to our kids?

Deirdre

Many people, I’ve found, share your concern about caffeine, whether from green tea or black tea or coffee. Mostly these people are either into pot or major purists about food, or both.

Personally, I do not find that these beverages put STUFF into people’s auras. Tobacco doesn’t either, apart from the damage to a person’s breathing system. Whereas pot does, cocaine does, heroin does.

So it’s fascinating to me, Non, that people can call pot healthier than tobacco or claim that tea is far more toxic than weed.

Anybody can learn to become a really good aura reader, and do it in depth and detail whenever you like, using the Gift Set that God gave you. Anybody can learn to read auras really well from photos, too.

I offer techniques for doing this, and if you can find someone else’s techniques that get you there, and your prefer those techniques, do them instead. These days, there’s no good reason to simply speculate or have abstract conversations about what does what to an aura, which concerns are serious versus trivial, etc.

Today I gave a day-long workshop for 20 new Japanese aura readers, all of whom are now successful, none of whom was able to read auras before we began our study together. When more people DO read auras, I hope we’ll have an end to fear-based statements about tea.

Giving a workshop last weekend, I had a student ask about something she heard from a New Age teacher, saying that “If you drink tea or eat meat, angels will avoid your aura.”

Ridiculous! Aura readers, research that one on your own and have a huge laugh, because just about everyone alive has loads of angels who work with you at any given time, delighted to be part of your aura and not the least bit horrified if you go to a Starbucks.

Until people do Aura Reading, perhaps the confusion involves lifestyle. Pot smokers, meditators, and people who are passionate about having a pure diet often are very mellow people, soft spoken, walking gently on the earth, etc.

These sweet people can find folks who drink caffeine to be too hyper or aggressive, also people who are not vegetarians.

I remember eating dinner at a youth hostel in London with a mellow, mellow American traveler who seemed to have all the time in the world to make his elaborate vegetarian dinner. He was exceedingly careful about what he put in his body. But his aura was such a mess. Some of the mystery was solved, for me, after dinner… when he went off to smoke weed.

A mellow lifestyle can be immensely appealing. It’s just a lifestyle preference, however. Definitely not any guarantee of a super-pure aura! Plenty of seemingly mellow people carry rage in their auras, actually.

No lifestyle guarantees purity on the level of auras. From what I’ve observed, a rather huge number of ardent vegetarians and food purists are walking around in bodies that, aurically, can be quite undernourished.

Some people whose lifestyles are based on passionate ideology may actually confuse WEAKNESS with SERENITY.