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March/April 2005 NW Newsmakers
Community News

Recycle your Ink Cartridges and help rehabilitate prisoners

Almost every household today has at least one printer or fax machine in their home or office. STOP throwing your empty ink cartridges into a landfill and let C.A.C. volunteers take them off your hands today.

Convict Amend Coalition (C.A.C.) is a newly established non-profit organization servicing the community by helping convicted felons become honest and productive members of society. We accomplish this by providing vocational services, housing resources, counseling resources, skill building workshops and other fundamental services, significantly lowering the possibility of an offender re-offending.

We help fund our cause by collecting and recycling empty ink cartridges. We accept every type of ink/toner cartridge so there is no reason to keep on throwing them into landfills. Please note that 100% of monies earned go straight to our cause. You can schedule your ink pick-up by visiting our website and clicking on the "Got Ink?" link. Please ask your friends, neighbors, employers, family members and anyone else you may think of to help support our cause. You will not only be helping the work of C.A.C., you will be helping the environment.

If you are interested in supporting our program please visit our website at www.makinitright.org or call Rustie Jouni at 503-522-2588 to schedule a pick-up of your contribution. Thank you for your support!

Remote Viewing Training Comes to Portland

Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) Training, as originally developed and taught in the U.S. military to a once top secret cadre of psychic spies, will be offered on May 5th – May 8th at the training center of A Positive Change, 037 SW Hamilton St., Suite 1, in Portland, Oregon. Teaching the course is Talia Shafir, an experienced remote viewer who studied and worked with several former members of the government-trained team.

Remote Viewing is an organized, systematic method of collecting information beyond time and space that was developed in a scientific laboratory in Palo Alto, California during the spy vs. spy days of the 70s. Spearheaded by paranormal researcher and artist Ingo Swann, and scientists Russell Targ and Hal Putoff, Remote Viewing represented a collaborative effort of psychics, scientists, military officers and government officials to keep up with Soviet military paranormal research.

"Nowadays," says Talia, "we can thank them for handing us a ticket to one of the most incredibly fun-filled adventures you can have! Remote Viewing has changed the lives of so many people. Each story is more amazing than the next – from the mundane locating of lost objects to the discovery of revolutionary technology, healing and the solving of crime. And the good news is that it uses a natural ability we all possess."

"My mission", says Talia, "is to reveal and promote the great gift of light underlying what many people still confuse with Remote Viewing’s military roots. It’s a wonderful way to quite literally expand your consciousness. It is the quintessential teaching of staying on the path, letting go of the outcome and getting out of your own way. Whether you are a novice or professional psychic, it will truly change how you view yourself and the world at large."

Talia Shafir holds a master’s degree from Columbia University. Her background in psycholinguistics combined with her specialized training in sensorimotor psychotherapy for trauma and post traumatic stress provides a unique contribution to the field.

To meet with Talia and hear about the training or to register, contact Cat Wilson at 503-525-0595 or email info@apositivechange.com for specific dates and locations. There are a limited number of places still available. Talia Shafir can be contacted at 707-235-6341 or talia@soulview.com.

Spiritual Healing – key to tomorrows health?

Bruno Gröning was a spiritual healer who had great impact in Germany and around the world in the early 20th century. In recent years Gröning’s teachings have been revived, and Circles of Friends have come together around the world to channel healing energies (Heilstrom). Many extraordinary results have been reported and verified by a Medical Scientific Group of Specialists (MWF) that systematically registers and documents spiritual healings to prove beyond doubt that even chronic organic diseases can be permanently healed. The physicians in this group voluntarily travel to over 60 countries giving lectures and demonstrating this simple practice.

No medical examinations, diagnoses, or therapies are carried out by the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends or the Medical Scientific Group of Specialists. Medicines are neither recommended, prescribed nor administered, and no one is advised against seeing doctors, taking medicine, or undergoing therapies or operations.

The lectures will take place on April 6th & 7thth at Unity World Healing Center, 366 3rd Street, Lake Oswego, Oregon at 7 pm. For more information go to: www.bruno-groening.org

Sri Shivarudra Balayogi Maharaj, Master of Meditation

Meditation, says Shivarudra Balayogi, will help you achieve the balance and harmony in life that we are all seeking. This much loved Yogi from the foothills of the Himalayas will be in the Portland-Hood River, Oregon area from May 19-June 3, freely offering people the fruits of his life of inner exploration.

In May, this Self-Realized Master, better known as Babaji, will be making his second visit to the Northwest and holding a series of free public programs where he will teach the technique of "Dhyan" meditation. This technique, if practised regularly, Babaji says, will help us gain inner peace, better health, reduce stress levels, improve our concentration, gain balance in all areas of our lives and, eventually, experience enlightenment itself.

Babaji was proclaimed a Self-Realized Master after a five year practice of "Tapas", deep meditation for12 hours to 21 hours per day, in which the meditator's consciousness first touches and then merges with the infinite and unbounded Self. He now travels throughout the world offering comfort, healing and enlightenment to all through the gift of the same meditation that was first given to him by his guru Shivarudra Balayogi Maharaj.

Babaji offers instruction and initiation into the practice of Dhyan Meditation in the programs to be held in Hood River, Portland and Seattle this May 19-June 3. People will be given the chance to meditate in Babaji's presence, which makes the process a lot easier. Babaji, who speaks fluent English, also will answer seekers' questions on spiritual topics with his characteristic humor and patience.

Babaji is known as a "Yogi", someone who has fulfilled the path of Yoga and merged into union with Divine Consciousness. As a "Yogi" or truly enlightened, realised being, he speaks with the authority of direct experience. There is never a charge for Baba's instruction and guidance. All are welcome. Both the beginner in meditation and those who have been on the spiritual path for years will find new inspiration sitting with Baba Shivarudra Balayogi. For more information, go to www.shivarudrabalayogi.com or call (509-493-5209.

Goddess Tribe Network

Human beings were made to create and connect. The Goddess Tribe Network is a community created to motivate, support and inspire one another. Through the Internet, local villages, and regional events the network draws together like-minded individuals to manifest the world we dream of. Goddess Tribe Network’s goal is to bring together not only women, but men also, to build self-esteem, empower and help manifest each other’s dreams. The Network currently hosts monthly events and is creating a website with a directory of products, service, gifts and events at www.goddesstribenetwork.com. Contact them at (503-939-8452 or info@goddesstribenetwork.com.