Elton John, Songbird for Rush Limbaugh

“I just can’t wrap my mind around it,” Gladys told me. “Elton John! How could he sing at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding?”

She had a point. The famously liberal and philanthropic singer was recently hired to sing at the radio broadcaster’s fourth wedding. You could perhaps predict that Limaugh’s new wife would be blonde, skinny, and young enough to be his daughter. (Kathryn Rogers is 33 years old, while Rush is 59.)

But what could the flamingly gay Sir Elton John have been thinking? Feeling?   How would he have been presenting himself in that room? Rush isn’t merely a gay basher. He could be called The Lord of Conservative Hate Speech in America.  Bring on aura reading to search for some answers.

Before Aura Reading, some common sense

Energetic literacy (aura reading) is not meant as a substitute for paying attention to external reality. So I’ll practice what I preach and first look to objective reality for some explanation of the unlikely wedding performance.

Illumination came, thanks to Google and People Magazine:

• Both men believe in civil unions for gays, rather than marriage.
• According to People Magazine, “John, 63, has never been reluctant to confound those who think they know him. Consider his unlikely collaboration at the Grammys with Eminem, despite the controversial rapper’s gay-bashing lyrics. The two are still friends.”
• Also, this might have meant a lot to the philanthropically minded musician: Rush paid a performance fee of $1 million.

Okay, now let’s prepare to bring on full Stage 3 Energetic Literacy

What do I mean by Energetic Literacy, anyway?

People can mean very different things by the term “aura reading.” To me, it’s just basic literacy in the third millennium. Just as Gutenberg literacy became widely known in the second millennium — and is the main reason you are able to read this screen — so, too, is energetic literacy becoming available in this third millennium.

From my perspective, it starts with Stage 1 Energetic Literacy, where a person starts to “reads energy.” Although this is exciting and sweet, it isn’t the full extent of aura reading that a person is capable of enjoying in everyday life.

With more techniques and experience, a person can begin to enjoy a more detailed kind aura reading. I call it  Stage 2 Energetic Literacy.

The energy field around a person consists in layer upon layer of information. This information is especially concentrated in places that correspond to parts of the physical body and are known as “major chakras.”

With this moderate degree of energetic literacy, a person generalizes about chakras and starts to find specific interpretations to perceptions at the level of the auric field. Even though this is an improvement over Stage 1 Energetic Literacy, with this Stage 2 Energetic Literacy there will be many inaccuracies and confusions. For instance, Gladys could have both these things going on in her Heart Chakra:

• Heart Chakra Databank: Emotional Giving to Others: 7 miles. The habit of giving until it hurts.
• Heart Chakra Databank: Emotional Receiving Others: 1 inch. Hesitation. Routine martyrdom. Feeling unworthy to receive.

If you’re interested in Aura Healing, either as a client or a practitioner, you want the full range of information, right? Otherwise with Stage 2 Energetic Literacy an aura reader might say, “How nice. Your heart chakra is open.”

Because the system of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses(R) emphasizes spiritual and emotional information, I’ve been able to bring some refinements into the field, including techniques that help a person to enjoy Stage 3 Energetic Literacy.

Not that I’m the only one who has that or can teach that! How do you know when you have full energetic literacy? You can read anyone’s aura in depth and detail, whether in person or from a regular photo.

What else? In my reading of Sir John at the wedding, I’ll use the technical term “chakra databank,” which simply means a small sliver of the information in any chakra. This type of information is easily available to anyone to read fluently, much as you are reading this screen, once full Stage 3 Energetic Literacy has become available.

Each chakra databank contains a gift of the soul, permanent like a fingerprint. Also included, usually, is “STUFF,” stored-up emotional or spiritual astral-level debris. STUFF can always, always, always be healed!

Which photo is used for this aura reading?

Many a newbie to energetic literacy is surprised that auras can be read from regular photos. Of course they can. Special aura photos are a cute marketing gimmick, also reassuring to people who are just discovering that they do indeed have an energy field.

But Stage 3 Energetic Literacy allows you to read auras from any photograph. You’re not reading the person for all time, of course, just in that picture.

Choosing the appropriate picture would be important for an aura reading like this one. Chakra databanks morph, depending on our choices, activities, level of stress. Gifts of the soul do not change but the rest sure is negotiable. So I chose a photo that showed all three protagonists in this non-drama, a Facebook photo of all three on the wedding day.

Rush is "right." But so is Elton.

Whatever your current level of energetic literacy, you Blog-Buddies are invited to join me. Use the photo above. Or you could use this Aura Reading Link to bring up the picture used here. Then paste it onto a word document, pull on the corners and have a fine, juicy picture.

For technique, I’d recommend the “Reading Auras from Photos” technique in Read People Deeper (start on Page 35), or the “Magic Picture” technique in Become the Most Important Person in the Room (start on Page 201). Most of my students like to start with the 100+ techniques in Aura Reading Through All Your Senses. Okay, here we go.

Presence in the Room,  Aura Reading Databank, at the Root Chakra

A gift of the soul is Elton’s tremendous sweetness. He’s a profoundly loving being. The sartorial outrageousness for which he’s famous may serve as a distraction — or protection. But deep down at the level of chakra databanks, this is an incredibly heart-centered, vulnerable, innocent being.

At the time of this wedding, it’s also notable that Elton is manageably stoned on something like pot. His entire presence is trippy, with diffuse awareness.

I know that’s a serious thing to say about someone, and I don’t regularly read celebrity gossip so I don’t know if he has a reputation for being wild about weed these days.

Soon as I noticed this stoner presence, I checked our photo above, with the blue glasses. There he isn’t stoned on marijuana or anything else that I could detect.

As a super-talented empath, there’s a certain diffuse quality to Elton John’s aura all the time, but that’s a different deal from being stoned.

Hey, I can relate. The last time I got “drunk” was at an annual family gathering where I had to deal with “Joe,” an extremely arrogant relative. Okay, he’s a well meaning person of good character, but he sincerely believes himself so much wiser than my husband, son or me that it’s his duty to serve as our spiritual mentor and “educate” us at every opportunity.

In 2008, Mitch called my attention afterwards to the fact that (unbeknownst to my own conscious mind) I kept shaking my head “No” whenever Joe started preaching to us. (Apparently Joe didn’t notice, due to my position in the room.)

To avoid repeating this mistake, I decided to get drunk in 2009. And did. Of course, all it took to get me drunk was about five sips of wine. (For the record, the last time I got drunk before this was in college, in 1966.)

Probably Sir Elton had enough money to hire a driver to get home safely, don’t you think?

Sexual Self-Esteem, Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra

First, the gift of the soul: Elton John has a huge presence in this chakra databank, with sex appeal off the charts (which helps to put his music ON the charts). The Sexual Self-Esteem chakra databank needs to be a big deal because his sexiness is such a big deal.

Fortunately, at the time of this photo, that self-esteem is going really beautifully.  He has learned so much, done so much aura healing and life healing around his personal identity (showing in many chakra databanks). Scar tissues shows too, symbolizing to me how very much Elton John has grown in this area, far beyond his original life contract.

Specifically, being here with Rush and his bride, there is a faint quality of defensiveness, a slight presence of a mask that Elton has learned to wear around people who are, well, questionable.

Performance as a Singer, Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra

People ask me sometimes if all people have the same 50 chakra databanks in each major chakra (and with the smaller number of databanks in the sub-chakras). The answer? Of course not.

Certain chakra databanks are standard, if you’re human. For instance, every adult has a Throat Chakra databank about “Communicating with Strangers” and “Asking for What You Need and Want in Close Relationships.”

Other chakra databanks change, depending on life choices and the specialties of that evolving soul. I don’t need chakra databanks to support me in being a professional singer, but you can be sure that I have many that support me as a writer, since that is my favorite thing to do in life. If you are in a love relationship with Elvis, you’ll have chakra databanks to support that. After you break up with Elvis and date Eddie, instead, those databanks will have Eddie’s name in them — and many may be quite different, since you could be growing in different ways now that you’re with Eddie compared to Elvis.

Over at Elton, in this particular situation, the talent persists but is minimized, much like a screen you could toggle on your computer. Granted, the size of this chakra databank probably shifts enormously while he is in the act of performing. (This is true of all major stars who really have talent as well as celebrity.)

However, even beyond the fact that Elton’s chakra databank would be smaller now, since he isn’t performing, I notice a strong energetic with-hold. It may be conscious, maybe subconscious. (I love that I have skills as a Consulting Hypnotist, used for Energy Release Regression Therapy, so I can help clients – and learn about them –as THEY access information at the level of the subconscious mind. This is such a fascinating way to complement the knowledge of the subconscious level that anyone with Stage 3 Energetic Literacy can find automatically through aura reading.)

Bottom line: “No way am I going to give this man my best performance. I’ll hold out on him. He won’t notice. He has no taste. He wants me here as a symbol, not as someone to listen to really. He’s playing his game? Hey, I’ll play mine.”

Emotional Self-Awareness, Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra

It’s just plain huge, verging on self-indulgent at the time of this photo. Of course, this is an effect of smoking marijuana. Subjective reality is way over-emphasized. It’s part of the fun of losing contact with objective reality.

Usually (as in the photo here where Elton wears the blue glasses), the musician has a delectable, and proportionate, degree of self-awareness.

Now it’s over-the-top, slightly maudlin, self-pitying, and tinged with a need for secrecy which smells like a garment that had been in mothballs — a very ancient habit, not used in ages, but brought out for this particular occasion.

How he feels about Rush, Poking around INSIDE the Emotional Self-Awareness Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra

Yes, Blog-Buddies, once you’ve become quite experienced at reading chakra databanks, you can start researching how your subject feels about other people in a photograph.

In this chummy photo op with the two celebs and the new, hopeful, adoring bride, here’s what I find. Elton has a bit of conflict going on, all the more woozy and unresolvable given his stoned state.

Mostly he does feel dislike and contempt. But Mr. John also struggles with himself to find common ground, not be “judgmental,” etc. Then there is denial over what he truly feels. Plus there’s a bit of an energetic sub-routine where Sir John is getting an assist from his intellect, supplying emotional ideas like, “It will be over soon. Just hang in here.”

I know that, according to People Magazine, Elton John is friendly with other potential adversaries on a social level, such as gay-bashing Eminem. And it would be possible to research a range of chakra databanks during such interactions. We might find many chakra databanks related to being social, and the intellect, the will, even spirituality, that make such relationships work. But other chakra databanks don’t necessarily stay “with the program,” most notably ones in the heart chakra and the high heart chakra. Which brings us to our final research item of this article….

Soul Thrill, Aura Reading Databank at the High Heart Chakra

This chakra databank is one of the most important I’ve discovered, the basis for Thrill Your Soul Research. Many other blog posts can educate you about the life-enhancing effect of making choices in your life that have a positive impact on this particular chakra databank. Just use that SEARCH box on the upper left to find them.

Here, in this photo, Elton John’s Soul Thrill chakra databank is jubilant. He has triumphed over an enemy. He is earning a million dollars off this man, after all. Just by going through the motions, stoned as he is, and giving a relatively mediocre performance, Elton John is going to be able to claim that he did such an event and never let Limbaugh intimidate him.

And you know what? Sir Elton is right to be thrilled.

Conclusion

During his life, Elton John has dealt with gay-bashers, tragedy, loss. He has had to power his way through the usual artist’s obstacles, all of which require great courage. (Is there any performing art, for instance, that requires as much courage as singing? Think about it.)

Even though speech and public persona may be telling the world, “This is no big deal. I’m chummy with this guy,” let’s be real. Energetically, politically, this jolly bridegroom, Rush Limbaugh, is one scary man.

Aurically, Rush  isn’t technically evil. But he has a super-sized energy field. And even on a day of rejoicing and general benevolence — I love the way this photo captures the fawning, adoring body language of hopeful Bride #4 — Rush Limbaugh has an aura that drips with STUFF and wicked uses of power. 

Why wouldn’t Elton John be proud of himself. It would be of no use to stand up to this radio broadcasting bigot. When was the last time that you heard of Rush changing his mind?

No, a better, and more practical, ploy would be to stand beside him, photo op and all, being well paid and weirdly respected. Think Harry Potter, paid well to go visit Lord Voldemort. Only, of course, you’d also have to think of Harry Potter stoned.

So, how are you doing these days? And the people in your life, how are they doing?

Today’s topic is gray slime — an ongoing theme you can search in previous posts. Current observations have been inspired by some of my clients for sessions of Aura Healing and Transformation, Energy Release Regression Therapy, and Aura Reading Research. But this gray slime report also come from reading The Washington Post and paying attention to life as it unfolds around me. 

Mostly I find life to be full of sweetness and light, now more than ever. Spiritual vibrations are moving humanity faster as, collectively, we’re in the process of evolving into a higher state of consciousness — whether you call that Enlightenment, Ascension, or any other name that is meaningful to you.

However, all that accelerated growth is also bringing out reactions that I call “Gray Slime.” What happens to people as they go along for the ride, not even knowing that such a ride is happening?

History or Histrionic?

Glenn Beck’s rally last weekend at the Lincoln Memorial wasn’t just about “Restoring Honor” or politics but religion. The Mormon called the nation to prayer, sounding urgent.

Or course people are feeling urgent. With so much releasing going on, it’s like having gray slime on your skin, in your clothes, in your body, in your environment.

Many people are so uncomfortable, they don’t know what to do. So they turn, for comfort and explanation and hope, to whatever source can speak to them at their level of consciousness. In some cases, Glenn seems like a good choice — which, to me, just shows how truly desperate and slime-ridden many people feel. I mean, look at the man as he speaks on TV. This man, someone to admire or, even, believe?

His fear-based tactics aren’t unusual, just Beck-like in their histrionic staging. I wonder if the many people today who fear “psychic attack” and “energy vampires” might do better to keep a watch out for “histrionic personality disorder,” as it explains so much about pop culture today.

As spiritual vibrations accelerate, the STUFF already in a person’s aura feels more uncomfortable than ever. Releasing takes place in reaction to having all that STUFF. (Not to be confused with removing the STUFF, which requires skill sets such as self-help with techniques like 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R), Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology; or using the services of trained healers of all kinds who are also talented at healing and compatible with the client).

Releasing like crazy is like living in a vat of gray slime with no hope in sight. A person has choices in how to respond. These choices include:

1. Welcome the chance to evolve, even if some purification is involved.
2. Ride the momentum of that evolution; spend time, money, attention on actively getting STUFF out of your aura.
3. Resist with all one’s might, then turn outward for people to blame.
4. Resist and find people to fear.
5. Resist and find people to tell one exactly what to do, a.k.a. Join or intensify participation in a cult.

Cult Mind Control vs. New Age

In pop culture, New Age is often equated with “cult.” A minority of New Age teachers and workshops would, unfortunately, meet the standard of “cult.” But so would many mainstream religions, political organizations, and even multi-level marketing companies.

Beck does seem to be intensifying his attempt to blend politics and religion at full-cult strength. Columnist Ruth Marcus described his rally today in her Washington Post editorial and offered a superb example of someone turning to Choice #5 listed above. Marcus quoted Andrea Carrasco, interviewed at Beck’s rally:

“She came, Carrasco said, to ‘ask God to restore the country. Our freedom is lost. My freedoms are lost. To be able to preach anywhere we want, to have God in our schools, to drive any kind of car we want and if I want to drive a gas guzzler, I can, if I want to eat a lot of sugar and salt, and I shouldn’t be forced to buy medical care.’

“Carrasco paused, but only briefly. ‘To be able to burn the kind of light bulb I want,’ she added. ‘The list goes on and on.’”

Of course it does. It’s like an angry teenager’s list, ranting against Mom and Pop. And why? The troubled teen is awash in hormones.

Remember how you felt, back in the day? That’s a bit like today’s gray slime.

I’d estimate that 40% of Americans, like Carrasco, find comfort in cults these days.

Cults, of course, are never labeled. With aura reading, you can find out how well people really are doing, in contrast to how they think they are doing. Although there is no one “cult” indication in an aura, you can find plenty of nuance and put the puzzle pieces together one person at a time.

Self-proclaimed religious leader Glenn Beck, for instance — compare his “Connection to Spiritual Source” chakra databank at the Third Eye Chakra with that of Dr. Martin Luther King, pictured above. (And to do the research for yourself, use this Energetic Literacy Link to click on a larger version of the photo at the top of this post, which you can copy, pull the corners, and research as I’m about to do now.)

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Inch-age at the third layer of his aura: 20 feet.

Huge, vibrant connection to God. Pulsating with inspiration — the photo was obviously taken while King was speaking. Joyful. co-creating in a totally spontaneous manner. High notes (as a wine taster might say) of peace and active connection to the Divine.

• The “Rev.” and also, perhaps, “Philosopher-King,” Glenn Beck: Inch-age at the third layer of his aura: 2 inches.

Zero conscious connection to God. Fascination with himself. Satisfaction with himself.

You see, Blog-Buddies, one reason I long for aura reading to be as prevalent as Gutenberg literacy — and I mean full, Stage 3 Energetic Literacy — is that a Glenn Beck won’t be able to get away with posing as a religious authority when people can clearly perceive what is going on with his energy field. The man is like a so-called fashion authority who isn’t even wearing pants.

Psychic Vampires, Energy Vampires, and Psychic Attack

At this time, most Americans respond to gray slime by choosing fear-based options 1-4. In many cases, there’s a fear of terrorism or other political fears.

Example of crazy-confused due to gray slime? Here’s my favorite. USA Today has reported that only 34% of Americans now believe that President Obama is a Christian. He says he is. But why would that be good enough?

Nearly 1 in 5 believe that our president is a Muslim. And that’s up 11% compared to last year, you know, a year after Obama took office. How weird and fear-based is that?

But many New Agers substitute a different fear: Psychic Vampires, Energy Vampires, or Psychic Attack. Really, such fears could be considered a reaction to gray slime in a different guise, perhaps shaped by a bit of energy hypochondria.

Recently I did a first session of Aura Healing and Transformation with “Joe.” He was convinced that someone had to be attacking him, since he had lost three jobs in a row. Great guy, Joe, but he was dealing with a lot of STUFF; Joe still is in the very early stages of taking personal responsibility for his own STUFF and attempting to heal. A caring friend gave him the session with me as a gift.

It’s standard when I facilitate Energy Spirituality that I first I explain some basics to a new client. So I told Joe about auras, chakras, and chakra databanks. Joe had never heard of any of these before. Yet, as he talked a bit about his fears,  I asked him on a hunch, “Well, have you ever heard of energy vampires and psychic attack?”

Sure, that he had heard of. Remarkable, isn’t it?

I was able to tell Joe my favorite statistic about this big, and often convenient, fear:

In the thousands of sessions I have done with clients since 1986, many clients have come to me with fears of psychic attack, energy vampires, psychic vampires, etc. How many actually had such a problem? Nine. Exactly nine. And that includes Gladys’ cord of attachment where her client’s ex had engaged the services of a professional practitioner at voodoo.

Was I able to help Gladys and the others? Sure. I was also able to help the other clients who had real problems with STUFF that they had mislabeled. Anyone who works professionally to heal STUFF from auras needs to be able to diagnose the problem and then bring in the appropriate skill set, right?

This prevalent, inaccurate, self-diagnosis of “energy vampire, psychic attack,” etc. is one more reason to develop full energetic literacy — whether you are a healer, a self-healer, or simply a person who wishes to know what’s what with your own aura.

In Joe’s session, I facilitated moving out the kind of STUFF bothering him most, psychic coercion. That’s a completely different form of astral-level debris from truly being under attack. Or general malaise related to gray slime.

Skills of Spiritual Cleansing and Protection

Moving out STUFF is the best way to avoid that feeling of gray slime today. One resource is to learn the skill set I call Spiritual Cleansing and Protection.

Even very experienced energy workers, healers, and therapists aren’t usually trained in telling the difference between problems like these, let alone knowing how to remove them in an efficient manner:

• Astral entitites
• Extra-terrestrial entities
• Psychic coercion
• Negative thought forms
• Psychic ties

I would love to teach you this skill set. Sure, you can learn how to detect and heal all these problems (and more) at my upcoming Spiritual Cleansing and Protection Workshop, October 15-17. Or request phone mentoring, which is done one 55-minute session chunk at a time.

Another choice is to have a regular session with me of Aura Healing and Transformation. I can facilitate healing one or, possibly, two forms of astral debris listed here. When I make sound files of your session, I do the healing part as a separate sound file, recorded in real time energetically, so that you can play it repeatedly as needed in weeks or months or years to come.

None of these forms of astral debris is an attack. When dust gathers in your house, is that an attack?

However you educate yourself, heal yourself, enjoy yourself at this great time in history, don’t be distracted by the prevalance of gray slime. It’s unpleasant but not contagious.

Blog-Buddy, your life belongs to you. Your own choices can help you to feel way more comfortable than poor Andrea Carrasco.

“Cassandra” is a Blog-Buddy who works in the field of psychiatry. She has been working for years to develop full energetic literacy. Here’s what she has to say about several recent blog posts.

I’ve been reading the comments on your blog with great interest – the ones about New Age, Laura Schlessinger, and microwaved food specifically.

My reaction to the comments about New Age, aside from agreeing, is that I find similar reactions toward psychiatry – from other physicians, the patients themselves, the general public. 

I cannot tell you how shocked I am when even the patients call themselves “crazy” – “We can talk about how crazy I am at our next visit” – and even colleagues and friends seem to inadvertently drop comments about how “crazy” or whatever the patients are.  That does the patients and our profession a tremendous disservice and discourages those needing our help to pursue it.

Perhaps part of the new millennium will be in the realigning of viewpoints and priorities – that the inner life and spirituality are important and need not be maligned – even if others do not find them important or give them the same priority in their lives. 

After all, there is no outcry against people who don’t see their doctors or dentists – their loss, right?  No need to pick on them.  Why the need to pick on New Age (or psychiatrists)?  Nobody is forcing them to seek such services.

I personally find that not engaging is sometimes the simplest solution, though it depends on the situation.  After all, someone who says something uneducated/racist/sexist/demeaning/anti-psychiatry is not likely to be changed by my disagreement.  That said, such people don’t tend to try and cross paths with me – they generally try and spend their time with others they perceive as more like them.  Which is their choice – and maybe their loss.  Who knows?

As for Laura Schlessinger, when she first started out I found her refreshing and very common-sense.  As your readers pointed out, she seems to have changed – become more rigid, more into being right, perhaps even more conservative (not in a good way).

I find microwaves convenient and do own one, though I try not to use it that often.  I have actually been using my oven more and cooking more.  But when in a rush, I do use the microwave, and it’s very convenient that we have one at work, since we don’t have a stovetop or oven in the kitchen there.

Cell phones are immensely convenient and have been lifesaving for me when my car has broken down on the highway, when I’ve been stuck in an airport, and so forth.  I use my land line at work and actually don’t spend that much time on a phone, in general.  For financial reasons, I did get rid of my land line (and it also had a terrible echo) and now I use a Bluetooth earpiece so that the phone isn’t actually up against my ear. 

I find it much more comfortable, actually, and can hear the other person even better than when the phone is against my ear.  They hear me better, too, because my head piece swings out and has a microphone that sits about an inch away from my mouth.  It cost as much or more than the phone (I think it was $90), but it was definitely worth the investment.  So when I do spend time talking on the phone, I am much more comfortable.

Note from Rose: Better your head piece swings out than your ears, Cassandra.

Thanks so much for these thoughts. Comments from the rest of you Blog-Buddies?

Aura Readers, you may not specialize in physical healing any more than I do. But even someone who specializes in emotional and/or spiritual healing needs a physical vehicle. Today an article came to my attention about the dangers of microwaved food.

Back when I wrote Aura Reading Through All Your Senses, I commented on the danger of eating irradiated food. I think I mentioned microwaved food as well. Probably the former is even worse, as it’s like putting an energetic black hole into your body with every bite.

You can learn a lot about subtle tips for making food better aurically with that aura how-to book (check the index). Here I just want to share with you some of the highlights of the article. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola:

Regarding Radiation

Even when the microwave oven is working correctly, the microwave levels within the kitchen are likely to be significantly higher than those from any nearby cellular phone base-stations. Remember also that microwaves will travel through walls if the microwave oven is against an inside wall.

Care About Your Heart?

A recent study examining the effects 2.4 GHz radiation (which is the frequency of radiation emitted by Wifi routers and microwave ovens) on the heart was just completed. The study found “unequivocal evidence” that microwave frequency radiation affects the heart at non-thermal levels that are well below federal safety guidelines.

Zapping Nutrients out of Your Food

The majority of studies on microwaves and nutrition were conducted prior to 2000, I suspect because the focus of radiation research of late has shifted toward a more ominous threat: environmental radiation from electromagnetic devices, such as cell phones and computers, which has mushroomed into a gigantic cloud of electrosmog worldwide over the past decade.

Nevertheless, some excellent scientific data has been gathered regarding the detrimental effects of microwaves on the nutrients in your food:

• A study published in the November 2003 issue of The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found that broccoli “zapped” in the microwave with a little water lost up to 97 percent of its beneficial antioxidants. By comparison, steamed broccoli lost 11 percent or fewer of its antioxidants. There were also reductions in phenolic compounds and glucosinolates, but mineral levels remained intact.
• A 1999 Scandinavian study of the cooking of asparagus spears found that microwaving caused a reduction in vitamin C.
• In a study of garlic, as little as 60 seconds of microwave heating was enough to inactivate its allinase, garlic’s principle active ingredient against cancer.

Not just Zapped but Dangerous

A Japanese study by Watanabe showed that just 6 minutes of microwave heating turned 30-40 percent of the B12 in milk into an inert (dead) form.

This study has been cited by Dr. Andrew Weil as evidence supporting his concerns about the effects of microwaving. Dr. Weil wrote: 

“There may be dangers associated with microwaving food… there is a question as to whether microwaving alters protein chemistry in ways that might be harmful.”

Microwave Sickness

When your tissues are directly exposed to microwaves, the same violent deformations occur and can cause “microwave sickness.”

People who have been exposed to high levels of microwave radiation experience a variety of symptoms, including:

• Insomnia, night sweats, and various sleep disturbances
• Headaches and dizziness
• Swollen lymph nodes and a weakened immune system
• Impaired cognition
• Depression and irritability
• Nausea and appetite loss
• Vision and eye problems
• Frequent urination and extreme thirst

I’m proud to say I have never owned a microwave. Of course, that doesn’t protect me from all those restaurant meals where the silly appliance has been used. I very, very seldom use a cellphone, because here, too, I am leery of being a human guinea pig for a technology experiment that could be dangerous.

You’re invited to share your comments about microwaves and other radiation-causing appliances.

 Magnetize Money with Energetic Literacy:

10 Secrets for Success and Prosperity in the Third Millennium

Here’s a secret (or former secret) about this Magnetize Money Program.

When designing it, my intention was to help each reader to bring in $10,000 more per year until you reach your personal goal for financial success.

Well, just for fun, why not keep track? Toward the end of the book, I tell readers:

You already have at least one day each year when you add up all your savings, assets, and investments, right? You already save for retirement and do financial planning, right?

You might do this annually, on that same day you review your progress and plan for your next year.

What personal aha!s have you had during that time? You’re invited to share any insights or experiences related to your journey into greater worldly effectiveness.

Just for fun, send a comment to my blog to chart your progress.

Here is the place to post that comment.

I’m not a big fan of hate speech. Are you?

When I teach Face Reading Secrets(R), one type of language I discourage is nasty facial put-downs — like “Big schnozz.” I like to raise consciousness about disrespectful ways to talk or “joke” about human faces. The whole point of physiognomy is that everything about the face has meaning.

Ironically, face reading isn’t just a means to discourage hate speech about faces. It receives its fair share. Often I have shared newspaper interviews with Paul Ekman, the highly credentialed college professor known for his face reading. (The TV show “Lie to Me” was based on his work.) That work really is marvellous, only it ain’t face reading. It’s expression reading.

Nevertheless, Ekman has often been interviewed as a face reading source, just like me. Sometimes he has been interviewed along with me, with our quotes used in the same article.When I read his part of the interview, the reporter never fails to cite Ekman’s categoric put-down of all other types of face reading. Gee, thanks a lot, Paul.

But if there’s an aspect of life where even more nasty put-downs occur with regularity, it concerns “New Age.” We New Agers seem to be oblivious to it. Have you been?

I don’t love the term “New Age,” because the connotation is so pejorative. Yet, Bl0g-Buddies, we definitely fall into that category, don’t we?

The Glory of New Age 

What does “New Age” mean to you? To me it means:

1. Truth seeking, where you are willing to blend new wisdom with older wisdom traditions — anything really that has stood the test of time.
2. Spiritual seekers are equal — no more of that old “Authorities know what is best for you, dear. Just do what you’re told.” Also no more of the specialty once attributed to Queen Victoria. What, you don’t enjoy sex? “Do it for England.”
3. Self-authority rules. You decide for yourself what helps you and what doesn’t.
4. Not being afraid to seek God, or Enlightenment in your own terms — by coloring outside the lines in the coloring book, thinking outside the box, investigating “disorganized” religion, or whatever other path works for you.
5. Avoiding unnecessary judgment of other people and their sacred paths — although I do think it’s important not to confuse avoiding judgment with avoiding discernment.

I have proudly taught and facilitated healing as part of the New Age crowd for 40 years. Which is even longer than people have used that term.

Old Age Disrespect

Hate speech, casual disrespect, gusto with using words that reflect prejudice — radio host Laura Schlessinger has gotten into trouble with that recently. In her notorious interview where she used the term “N.” 12 times, what if instead she had said something like “New Age horrible person”?

In German, that could be all one word, right? Imagine saying it New-Age-horrible- person all in a rush with a German accent. Thanks to that great linguistic feature of the German tongue, we have, voila! a New Age “N.” word.

Had Schlessinger used that  New Age “N.” word 12 times, who would have cared? Who would even have noticed?

It is apparently socially acceptable to heap insult on “New Age.” And we even do it to ourselves.

Offhand, I can’t think of another social group in America to receive such treatment, can you? Granted, I don’t read a lot of media praise of “Militia Groups.” But at least they don’t diss themselves.

Besides, Militia groups have murdered people and want to kill more. How many tree huggers do you know who are packing a weapon? Why would the establishment be so eager to insult this group at every opportunity?

You may know that I write a quarterly book review column for Pathways Magazine. With the fall column in press, I’m already at work on the winter column of “MBS Books With Muscle.” Yesterday, I was reading some of the galleys sent by one of my very favorite New Age publishers, New World Library.

As a book reviewer, most of the work involves selecting which books to review. That means seeking out titles, going through them, and deciding who deserves the rare compliment of a review – rare because there are so very few legitimate opportunities today for book reviews, especially in the New Age field. 

Chetan Parkyn Dissed New Age

One book I will, unfortunately, not consider for a book review is Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be by Chetan Parkyn. Sure, I was impressed initially. This man has given over 2,000 readings in the last 15 years. Besides, he’s published by New World Library, you know, one of my very favorite New Age publishers.

So I’m smiling and merrily reading along until I get to page 19:

“This is not some New Age concept — its accuracy is inescapable and timeless”

Gee, thanks, Mr. Parkyn. You’re publishing a New Age book for New Age readers (see definition of “New Age” above) and you just can’t wait to gratuitiously insult this group.

I’ve seen it before, heard it before. Countless times. Only I just don’t stand for it any more.

“Eat, Pray, Love” Disses New Age, Too 

Did you read Elizabeth Gilbert’s megabestseller, now also a movie? I tried reading it once.

It’s supposed to be a heartfelt, honest book about personal spiritual seeking. Very New Age, right? Maybe you read it and loved it, like so many of my New Age friends.

Well, I stopped cold in my excited little reader’s tracks. I stopped early because of a put-down of New Age.

Just now, putting together this blog post, I researched at Amazon to find the exact quote and couldn’t. For that I’ll have to find the book itself. Or maybe you can locate it if you love this book so much you own it. (Comment away!)

The place to look is probably between pages 5 and 25. Apparently the put-down OF New Age didn’t exactly contain the terms “New Age,” but the spirit of put-down was crystal clear. You know, crystal, so New Age, right?

Even searching at Amazon this morning, I was able to find both these quotes:

p. 49 “Some spacey New Age massage therapist.”

p. 80 “None of this new age southern California olives-and-sundried-tomato wannabe pizza twaddle.”

Thanks so much, Ms. Gilbert. While wooing your New Age audience, and bringing in new folk to the large but humble New Age tent, be sure to mock us.

How Perfect to Involve Julia Roberts

With “Eat, Pray, Love” the movie, you’ve seen the main publicity photo everywhere, right? Julia Roberts is sitting on a bench, eating, looking vulnerable. It is, evidently, part of the fantasy being sold that a woman who weighs perhaps 90 pounds, when soaking wet, spends random moments by stuffing her face with junk food.

And perhaps you know that Roberts bought the rights to the book. She wasn’t merely cast in the role. This entire flick is her vanity vehicle.

Julia Roberts, interested in market share from the New Age community? Sure. It figures.

Years ago, I read an interview with her in a women’s magazine where she was asked about practicing yoga. The star reassured all of America that she only did yoga for the sake of her butt.

That’s Julia Roberts for you! When putting together this blog post, I searched for the original quote. Didn’t find it. But I did find this one from an article in the January-February 2000 issue of Yoga Journal, “Americanized Yoga” by Anne Cushman, where Roberts was asked about yoga:

“I don’t want it to change my life,” actress Julia Roberts told In Style magazine. “Just my butt.”

Use Energetic Literacy + Self-Respect

Julia Roberts and Elizabeth Gilbert (and Paul Ekman, for that matter) can’t stop me from going my merry way on this New Age path. And, as I go, I will do it as a zesty and unapologetic New Ager.

On my version of New Age path, I will continue to use Energetic Literacy, sorting the wheat from the chaff among New Agers and everyone else.

 There’s nothing like aura reading, face reading, and skilled empath merges to tell the truth about people. Does Julia Roberts really have a huge spiritual connection going on at her third eye chakra? Does she really love other people a lot?

Hey, forget the “Pray” and “Love” parts. Does Julia even do much of that activity which we little people call “Eat”? 

In this topsy-turvy world, anything goes. And we do have the right to read it deeper to find out what is, and isn’t true.

One suggestion I have for you Blog-Buddies is this. Don’t let people in your life, or authors of books you consider buying, get away with the New Age N.-word. Maybe the usage will make you angry or sad (I admit to both). But denial never made human life better. Not in any age.

One of my clients, Joe, has been trying to live from his heart chakra. To him, this means being a loving, caring person. It means living with a higher state of consciousness.

In aura terms, many a religion and spiritual path could be expressed as “Trying to live from my heart chakra.”

Only, guess what? This is one of the very biggest mistakes a person could make. Results could be tragic, and certainly not as intended.

Your aura contains seven major chakras. Eight as far as I’m concerned, since I count the High Heart Chakra as a very important, often under-rated chakra. Your aura has sub-chakras as well.

Well, what do you think? All the lot of them was just made for practice, so God could give you a really excellent Heart Chakra?

God don’t make no junk. That includes every built-in compartment of your auric field.

Every ability you have for feeling, thinking, spiritual connection, relating to human earth reality — and the corresponding chakras and chakra databanks — all of it counts. It’s all beautiful.

Striving for Enlightenment

But what if you’re spiritually ambitious like Joe? Doesn’t it make sense to strive to live in a loving way? And what about all you may have heard about “lower” and “higher” chakras?

You may have heard all kinds of theories about chakras. What makes the difference between theories and reality, and what helps you evaluate different theories beyond a surface (or sentimental) level is having full energetic literacy. Sometimes I call that Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, where you have moved through the stage of “Aura energy is real” (Stage 1 Energetic Literacy) and “Chakras are open or closed.” or “Auras are colors.”) (Both of which generalizations suggest Stage 2 Energetic Literacy.)

With Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, you can read chakras in depth and detail, no more special nor strange than using regular Gutenberg literacy to read this page. This blog, like all my work, is devoted to helping regular people, like you and me, do exactly that.

Striving to live in a loving way — sure that sounds great. Pink puffy clouds, rainbows, and droolingly well-iced cakes also have appeal to people. But you wouldn’t build a house of pink clouds, nor eat rainbows for dinner, nor benefit particularly if your entire dinner consisted of said well-iced cake. 

When you have Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, it becomes preposterous that someone would consider it desirable to “live” from one of your chakras or chakra databanks.

Aura Reading of the Misery of Gladys

Yesterday, I was in session with Joseph J., reading his friend Gladys. After going into detail about gifts of the soul for this wonderful person, I started describing the STUFF.

As you regular readers at “Deeper Perception Made Practical” know by now, auras contain two types of information:

• Gifts of the soul, magnificent and permanent and distinctive
• STUFF, stored-up emotional and or spiritual debris at the astral and subconscious level. STUFF can always, always, always be healed. 

Gladys had the saddest thing happening. In a social situation, she was still trying to act as a world server rather than simply a human being. In her case, that means being a very talented psychic.

At Gladys Root Chakra Databank about her Presence in the Room, she had virtually no ability to be with other people socially as herself. Joseph J. was a really good friend and he, if anyone, would have been a safe person for Gladys to visit with as, just herself. But she showed patterns all over her auric field of denying her human self.

The terrible mess o’ STUFF was related to a noble, but misguided, kind of striving. Gladys had been denying her human ego, her personal wishes and drives and points of view and feelings, all for the sake of connection to God.

When someone is Enlightened, the connection to God is so strong that it does dwarf the personal  wishes and drives and points of view and feelings. But the goal is not the path.

You can’t become more evolved by trying to act as though you were yourself at a higher state of evolution. That’s like being on Rung 43 of a ladder and trying to behave as if you were on rung 53. The only way to get there is to start from where you are. Pretending to be higher up will slow down your progress, not speed it up, not one bit.

The terrible consequences for Gladys were a kind of whipping and beating down of her human self. Although she was doing this out of love for God, Gladys’ aura still was a horrible collection of self-smooshing STUFF. Not only did this diminish her clarity as a psychic.

I mentioned to Joseph J. that Gladys was setting in motion some terrible karma. Maybe you have noticed that, eventually, the way you treat yourself will outpicture as how others treat you. I fear that Gladys has, inadvertently, called in some rather dramatic experiences of having other people show her extreme disrespect, because that’s what she does to herself.

What If Only Your Heart Feels Good?

Joe got the point about all this, he really did. However, he told me the underlying reason WHY he had been trying to live from his heart chakra:

“Rose, when I pay attention to my solar plexus, or other parts of myself, I start feeling my human ego. It’s dark and heavy and, frankly, disgusts me.”

Here’s what I told Joe, just in case it winds up useful information for you to consider, or to share with someone you know:

“Remember the difference between GIFTS and STUFF. Your human ego is beautiful, as are all the rest of your chakras. The part that disgusts you is STUFF. It can always, always, always be healed. “

With Joe, I could remind him that he had done six previous sessions with me and had been having wonderful, and cumulative, results.

Joe also appreciated the idea that, “Avoidance can’t fix, or prevent, the consequences, of having STUFF in your aura. Sure, you can ignore some parts of yourself and try to emphasize other parts, but that won’t help you in the long run.”

Yes, Joe got it. He gave up trying to do something that, if achieved, would have made his life a nightmare.

Aren’ t There Many Paths to Enlightenment?

Some of you Blog-Buddies may be furious by now. Aren’t there many sacred and effective paths to Enlightenment? Who is this Rose Rosetree to scoff at a path that sounds as beautiful as “Live from your Heart Chakra”?

First of all, I am not somebody who teaches ANY path to Enlightenment. Deeper Perception (aura reading, skilled empath merges, face reading) are not presented as paths to Enlightenment. They are basic Energetic Literacy in the third millennium.  This can support you on your spiritual path or religion of choice, helping you to perceive who really walks the walk, not just talks the talk.

Instead, besides teaching literacy, I work as a healer. I teach skill sets to remove STUFF within people’s auras to support you on your spiritual path or religion of choice, like 12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R) and the skills for Spiritual Cleansing and Protection to be in my upcoming workshop this October 15-17. (See details at www.rose-rosetree.com and, incidentally, please forgive the webmaster and me for not having updated the home page in a while; we are both really busy getting my latest book to press, etc.) 

Why would I need to develop a spiritual path or religion? Aren’t there plenty of great ones already?

However, there may also be some paths or religions that you have outgrown. At a certain stage of development, maybe at evolutionary rung 3, instead of 43, it would be hugely great to try to live from your heart chakra or put aside your personal ego. Energetic Literacy may help you to tell the difference.

One other thing, if you’re wondering just how well your current path suits you. Look to the quality of your life now, in everyday situations. Is it fulfilling? Do you feel good about yourself? Do you feel as though you are growing spiritually and materially?

If not, do not simply work harder. Do not redouble your efforts to whip your ego into submission, or speak in a super-sweet voice, or try even harder to listen to what your angels or Jesus would have you do?

At a certain point in my own progress up the ladder of evolution, I felt chronically miserable. It made no sense. My path was my life, and I had sacrificed everything else for the sake of it. Really, the amount of life I had left was pitiful — not that I noticed this at the time. I just knew I felt like a gray, rainy day every month of the year. It had been that way for years, come to think of it.

I took a deep breath and thought a new thought: “Is my commitment to God or to this path.”

Aha! For me, that was how I began to leave a cult that had given me some goodies but, mostly, left me stuck as a person, STUFF ridden and paying little attention to my human life.

Earth School is a superb place for evolution. Sometimes we evolve by committing to an ideology or belief system. We cling to it, even after we have outgrown it. That’s okay. That’s learning, too.

For a more joyful learning, you can move upward on those rungs of the ladder of your evolution. You can honor life by living from your full self, no matter what you call that.

"Mr. Enlightenment" Murthy

One of my clients, Joe, does sessions regularly. He calls from Asia. Sometimes he requests sessions of Aura Healing and Transformation, sometimes Personal Mentoring (where he asks some of the best questions anyone has asked of me in 40 years).

Sometimes, just for fun, he will ask me to do Aura Reading Research — not just on people he knows but on people he’s  heard of — successful people in different walks of life. Joe asks me to read their auras simply out of curiosity.

Recently, Joe had me read auras on a really great sequence of photos I want to tell you about.

One made it to my Enlightenment Life List. The other must remain anonymous, for he is one of the most wicked men I have ever read in my life.

Two photos for me to open up, one at a time. I used the usual techniques for reading an aura from regular photos, what I’m calling these days Energetic Literacy Stage 3, which anyone who can develop. If you can do ordinary Gutenberg literacy, you can develop full literacy about the human energy field.

How Aura Reading Shows Enlightenment

N. R. Narayana Murthy isn’t the cutest-looking guy around. He wouldn’t make it onto that website for beautiful people, the highly selective website that turns down prospective members but now allows them to use the beautiful people sperm bank. (Anyone know the name of that site, which I saw featured on “The Colbert Report”?)

Murthy wouldn’t make that, but it was immediately evident that this man has huge, love-based, peace-filled, highly individual chakra databanks. I cited his generosity and caring about poor people, Murthy’s ability to think in act in ways that could impact very large groups of people.

All I knew about this man from Joe was that he was a very successful businessman. Murthy’s entrepreneurial talent and creativity were very evident. I also was struck by the very powerful, yet very modest, Presence in the Room Root Chakra Databank.

About five chakra databanks into this aura reading research, it occurred to me to check for Enlightenment. I wound up placing Murthy on my Enlightenment Life List, where he stands at #64. He is the founder of Infosys Technologies, a consulting and IT services. The man is worth mega-bucks (or should I say mega-rupees) and he also is known as a philanthropist.

Reading his entry at Wikipedia, I was also impressed to learn about his wife, a social worker who actively helps others as well. This is no trophy wife, nor a Cindy McCain. ( For a Wikipedia entry on this remarkable man, click here.)

How Aura Reading Shows Evil

By contrast, another successful businessman was appalling. Even Nanny McPhee couldn’t fix this guy up.

“Mr. Gladys” showed one snarky chakra databank after another. What made him evil, though, to my perception?

It was his ice cold heart. Seldom will you meet such a person, such chakra databanks at the heart chakra. At such times, you’ll be glad you are a skilled empath, who chose to turn your empath gifts OFF and do a simple aura reading instead. (Right? Right?)

Once upon a time, Ann had a name that didn’t quite suit her. Two names, actually, both first and last. Recently we have been pursuing a thread about Name Change Research, the opportunity to find a name that produces great consequences in your life — not just because you like it better, or it seems to fit better in a vague way, but because the chosen name has real impact for realigning your auric field.

An appropriate name is a treasure, a chance to make a major step forward on your path toward Enlightenment. It’s an easy way to get big results fast.

You can research your name on your own in a number of ways. I offer Name Change Research as one of my sessions of Aura Healing and Transformation. Technically, it is a specialty of Thrill Your Soul Research. It requires just energetic literacy and the desire to investigate a name that resonates well with a big, representative sample of your chakra databanks.

Ann has found a perfect first and last name. That first name is “Grace.” In this Guest Post, she shares her latest discoveries related to going from “Ann” to “Grace.” I’ve added the headings. Am I ever proud of this Grace!

Energetic Shift with Making a Name Change Legal

Though my name change isn’t ‘official’ yet (given that the final legal ruling is in November), I am aware of a shift in my energy since I filed the papers on Friday… and since a pile of the discombulation murk that was present in my aura in our recent session has settled.

Tonight I stopped at what I’ve considered a second choice grocery store that I only go to when my normal one is closed. I was walking around shopping, feeling quite content, when this funny revelation dawned on me. See, I’d always been mildly grumbly about this particular store, never really liked the place for various reasons, but tonight it was a different experience.

What hit me suddenly was the notion of my former identity, as in that associated with the name I’m changing, simply feels worn out.

With great compassion, I can say that in my still current (but moving to former) identity, I needed to be jolted or thwapped upside the head numerous times over the years along the path of waking up and figuring out who I am.

It feels like a worn out piece of clothing or a skin being shed that simply didn’t fit any more. I remember that one of the aspects of the new name that came up in our research was that it has no baggage; this is what I’m already getting inklings of. It’s really a fascinating experience.

Social Consequences of a Vibrational Shift

There was a subtle but always present sense of loneliness with my old name, but what I’m discovering as I start to share my news is that there are more supportive people in my life than I’d been aware of. So far I’ve been telling those who get that the new name is just plain a better vibrational match for me and they are excited.

What a fascinating process.

There’s a connection, not surprisingly, between the current astrological climate (which is all about huge shifts that involve shedding the old and taking on new social identities; what better way to do that than to change one’s name??), the homeopathy I have been doing, and the name change.

Here is the way that dear deeper-perception-vetted Christine [i.e., Rose did Thrill Your Soul research on potential healers and Christine was the clear best choice for me] explained my homeopathic remedy: “It’s clearing away what she described as ‘malignant codependency.’”

Sounds gross, huh? “Clearing vines away from trees” was the image she used.

 What’s fascinating now is that I can sense what was shed with the name and the purged energy.

For example, this morning I had a lovely little conversation with my hot Cuban salsa teacher — he with the formerly-collapsing-in-my-presence aura.

A qualitatively different experience, free of the ‘vines.’ Very easy, sweet. I feel so happy about this.

I adore this guy for his gifts and the joy he’s brought to my life, and so to not have that weirdness in the way of just simple conversation is a blessing.

Less STUFF, More GIFTS of the Soul, Simply Being Yourself

It’s like now, at least just today, I’m able to have the kind of exchange I always wanted to have and that I could sense was possible to have, but there had been this barrier in the way.

I actually think that this is the ‘worry’ you identified in my session the other day. I’ve been aware enough to sense this ‘thing,’ the old skin needing to be shed, standing in the way of the kinds of connections I’ve so wanted to have. And it seems to me that the act of the name change and that shift in vibration is key to all this.

Rose Again, Commenting about Name Change Research

Imagine if, since the day you were born, folks had been calling you “Fido.” And you’re not really a “Fido” at all.

The name rubs you the wrong way. Even though you learned to respond to that name, do the tricks required of you, especially the roll-over-and-beg part. Yet something never felt quite right.

Now think about the model I use for healing in Energy Spirituality:

• Your aura contains chakra databanks, easy to read with full Energetic Literacy.
• Every chakra databank has a GIFT of your soul.
• There also can be STUFF. It gets in the way of your being you.
• STUFF can always, always, always be healed.

Don’t you think it might deposit some STUFF in your aura, being called “Fido”? And if, phew!, that name could be finally changed to something that truly honored your human self, don’t you think that might be a good thing? A whole lot of STUFF you have carried could dissolve immediately.

Name Change Research isn’t for everyone. And it’s possible that Name Change Research might inform you that your name really is excellent, no change needed.

My own naming saga is quite complex. I went through:

• Laura Sue Rosenbaum (birth certificate name)
• Laura Davis (married to first husband, Donald Davis)
• Laura Ramsay (after divorce, then when married to second husband, David Ramsay)
• Laura Rosetree (after divorce from second husband and, hooray, after marriage to my husband of 20 years, Mitch Weber)

Only after my son was born did I think about the spiritual implications of having my name be a really good fit. (Here I give a shout out to one of my beloved spiritual mentors, Tantra Maat.)

Eventually I researched “Rose Rosetree.” It really is the appropriate name for me.

The name was legalized and celebrated with a Name Change Ceremony in 1991. In retrospect, my whole biography could be divided quite neatly into Before Being Named Rose Rosetree and After Becoming Rose Rosetree.

So many of you Blog-Buddies have had a Near Death Experience (NDE). Today I was reminded of this while talking with Gladys, who was gracious enough to tell me the story of the one she had at age 12.

I would love to do aura reading research on one or two of you Blog-Buddies who win this contest. I am especially interested in investigating chakra databanks related to your connection to Spiritual Source, way of viewing reality, and soul expression — both before and after that experience.

Entering the contest, or just reading the entries, may be so inspiring. Here’s how to enter:

Entering this contest, where the prize is having your aura read on this blog in a subsequent post.

The contest is open until October 1, 2010.

To enter: You may only enter for yourself, not enter to propose my reading the aura of another person.

Describe what happened in your NDE. At a minimum, please address all these points and supply as many details as you wish:

1. How old you were
2. The circumstances right before the NDE
3. What happened during the NDE
4. Coming back from the NDE
5. What you noticed in your life as a result, anything that changed

Also needed is a photo link on the Internet. This cannot be on Facebook or any site where I (or other Blog-Buddies) must sign on, belong, do passwords, learn how the website works, etc. It also cannot be a jpeg from your camera or elsewhere. You may know how to go to a website like www.photobucket.com to convert that file into a usable link there, and that would work fine, too.

The photo must show you clearly, face forward, at least your full head and neck.

It is preferable if nobody else is in that picture, and if it is larger than a postage stamp. Please, please, no special lighting is needed. It will NOT be a big plus to send a photo in near darkness. My fun technical term for what is required is “a regular photo that shows you from a front view.”

Thanks in advance for your entry!

What kind of aura reading research will be done?

Hey, I’d be curious about this before entering the contest.

Some of you long-term readers know that when you have a photo, or I talk with you on the phone, I can access experiences you have already had. Based on the information you supply in your entry, if you win, I’ll be able to go into the chakra databanks of interest and describe what I find.

The following is obvious to me but may not be obvious to you: Entries will be chosen on the basis of what seems interesting, and whether the entry is complete. I will not be reading every photo. As a skilled aura reader, this is a form of energetic literacy for me, not a compulsion. I can go through entire days, as on vacation, when I don’t read anybody’s aura. To do so is a choice, not a compulsion nor a way to go through reality, constantly reading people with any skills of energetic literacy.

So I do hope all this makes sense.

Who is invited to comment?

You don’t have to be entering officially. You might want to tell the story you have heard of a close friend’s NDE, or even share your own tale, but without sending your photograph or wanting to win the contest and have your aura read in this very public place.

You might just want to comment on this post, or another person’s comment, as usual.

Please do understand that, as with any of the contests at Deeper Perception Made Practical, only a very small numbers of entries can win, and I am not agreeing to supply free aura readings for all who enter.

Also, the end date of the context is final. So I will enable comments after that date, in this case, October 1, 2010, and members of this online community may enjoy what you have had to say, but no entry is going to be eligible for this particular contest and research.

I can’t think of a more sensitive, sacred type of tale to request, and I thank any of you who feel safe enough with me and this online community to entrust such a story to us.