Did You Say You Want Censorship, Sarah Palin?

Many years ago, in the early 80's I moved to the town of Wilson, NC. As a teacher of metaphysics and an advocate of free speech, I went to the local library to see what books were available on metaphysics. What I found did not shock me - there was not a single book on metaphysics in the entire library. Nothing to give an inquisitive mind anything to chew on, or to raise questions about the universe. Nothing to offer any viewpoints outside of the bible.

I went home and picked out about eight books with various perceptions about the bodies of man, and the universes, mansions or planes of existence other than the physical realm. I took these books to the local librarian, wishing to donate them.

The librarian looked at the books and then at me, and then said essentially; "We do not take books like these."

To say I was horrified would be an understatement - but being a metaphysician, I did not allow that to cause me discomfort. I took the books home and that night I shifted my consciousness to a higher level where I entered the library and asked to speak with the librarian. An angel stood beside me. As the librarian stood before me, I read her the Bill of Rights. I explained to her how important it is for libraries to be centers of freedom of speech, places where all opinions can be heard. I expounded that to censor books is to cut off the rights of Americans to know, and to destroy the purpose of these centers of knowledge.

When I had finished, she said nothing but I felt her awareness had shifted.

The next day, I went back to the library with the same books for donation. I walked up to the same librarian and offered the same books. I made no reference to the day before. The librarian looked at the books, took them and said thank you.

I am sharing this to open your mind to other ways to work with people, and also to help you realize how very important a free, open library system is to me.

Libraries must be free states of consciousness. Places where minds can find similar, as well as, opposing views. We cannot grow in knowledge if we do not think through opposing views.

To remove the opposition is to kill the ability to expand consciousness. One does not have to follow opposing thought but should always consider it. To blindly follow is no better than assuming one is right. And I need not go into where assuming will take you.

So to Sarah Palin - possible Vice President - and thus possible President of the most powerful democratic country in the free world, I want you to think deeply about who this woman is and what she wants for America. Her actions since she became mayor of Wasilla in 1996 speak volumes. Forget her "Come and test me attitude!" And look at the facts.

Here is a link to a site titled Librarians Against Palin. On it you will find a clip from an ABC investigation into Sarah Palin's attempt to censor her local library.
http://librariansagainstpalin.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/abc-investigates/

Please think deeply before you vote. This president will take us into 2012. If you wonder what that means, I will elucidate one piece of it here.

What you have seen in terms of earth disasters is only the beginning. There will be many. You will see escalation of these earth changes this Fall. What we need to focus on, as I stated back in the early 90s, is to repair the infrastructure of America. We need a president who will take our trillions, and invest them in this country, not in war. We are very late in that process, very late.

So late in fact, that I do not believe either candidate can fix America. But if one, at the very least stops the war, and starts investing in this nation, we will save millions of lives.

I do not want to scare anyone, I just want you to look at the facts. What I have stated for years has become a reality around us. From bridges collapsing to dams and dikes breaking, we do not have the current funds to help our people. So why would anyone with any common sense want to spend our funds to fight a war, which has raged for thousands of years, which is based on religion, and which we cannot resolve.

Bring our troops home, stop the war, start investing in this nation because it is collapsing around us. You have just witnessed the biggest buy out of a financial institution in U.S. history.

It will not be the last. We are on the verge of the greatest depression in our history, and McCain and Palin say nothing about how they intend to fix it.

Please review the facts.

News - I have been elected NCPA President

Hi Everyone,

I have a new post and a new resolution. So much has happened in the last two months, I have been remiss in reporting it to you.

Well here is a quick update and the latest news.

As for GreeHee Publishing, we are embarking on the audio book in two versions. One read by me, the author (I am working on acting skills to make sure you will enjoy the read) and the one I am really excited about - a full theatrical production by actors. Hopefully both will be available by late summer, or early Fall.

Trading card news, my artists are still hard at work getting these done, we now have an image of the malevolent Tana! I will post that soon.

We have gotten the TalesofTamoor.com website revamped, and created a variety of merchandise for GreeHee fans at Zazzle. On the board is optimizing the website so it will get traffic, and also creating a newsletter to go out every month to GreeHee's hundreds of fans.

Also under construction is the a variety of free games for GreeHee fans. Right now you can find two free downloads on TalesofTamoor under the Goodies Link, right side, click under Free Stuff for Puzzles & Games.

Potemkin and GreeHee have begun their second journey and Book Two is well underway, we are planning an early 2009 release. Keep your fingers crossed, lots of new characters and more intrigue.

Both GreeHee The Journey of Five - Tales of Tamoor Book One (Tales of Tamoor, and Potemkin Search For The Manuscript - Tales of Tamoor Book Two are on their way to Seoul, Korea for the International Publishers Conference in mid-May. They will also be seen at International Titles Booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in Frankfurt, Germany in October.

GreeHee Publishing has added Follett to their list of distributors and we are finally making some headway in the creation of study guides for Book One. We are planning two different study guides, one for teachers and parents. The other for metaphysical/church groups.

Here is my final piece of news.

As you may or may not know, GreeHee Publishing is a member of PMA (Independent Book Publishers Association) SPAN (Small Publishers Association of North America), COVR (Coalition Of Visionary Resources), and NCPA (Northern California Publisher & Authors).

Last weekend, NCPA held our annual awards dinner and Pride in Publishing Conference.
At the awards dinner, I was elected President. My position takes effect on May 10th.

The conference by the way was outstanding with talks by Dan Poynter, author of
Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual, 16th Edition: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (Self Publishing Manual), and literary agents: Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, authors of
Building Bridges: The 2008 San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology
How to Get a Literary Agent

Excellent speaker, author and entrepreneur, Stephanie Chandler exuded information on the how to market your book. Stephanie's latest book sold out at the conference.
From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with books, E-Books and Information Products

Karl Palachuk ran the conference with the precision of an experienced executive. Timing never flagged, each speaker's presentation allowed for questions and answers, handouts will keep me busy for quite a while - all excellent, information and filled with invaluable tips.

Karl also gave an excellent workshop on expanding your sales through spin-off products. He is a sales trainer and author of numerous books including
Relax Focus Succeed

Other speakers included Bud Gardner, who spoke on 'Breathing Life Into Your Writing.' He co-authored with Jack Canfield
Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers


Clint Greenleaf of Greenleaf Distributing, who elucidated the difficulties and blackmail issues of getting books shelves by major retail book chains.

Naida West spoke on succeeding with fiction. She is the author of several historical mysteries, including Murder on the Middle Fork

And Pete Masterson, gave his audience insight into Designing a Great Book. He is the author of
Book Design and Production


I invite anyone who has ever considered authoring a book, ebook, paper-book or other digital format, to join NCPA and plan to attend our conference in April 2009 in Sacramento.

After this amazing conference, I have made a new resolution. I will update this blog every week from now on. I am posting a time each week on my calendar to be here for you. If you have any questions on metaphysics, astrology, spiritual laws, the art of manifestation, dreams, EFT, emotional freedom technique, publishing, authoring, or anything that you feel needs a new perspective, feel free to comment or email me. I will answer here.

Best always,
Michele

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What is a Metaphysical Minister?

You ask what is a Metaphysical Minister, I will do my best to explain. Please ask further questions once you have read this, so I add more clarification in future blogs.

A metaphysical minister is one who lives by the Spiritual Laws and counsels others so they can attain clear thinking in their lives.

Frequently emotional issues and confusing situations are the result of a dis-connection between one's heart (soul center) and the mind. Then the mind takes over with fears and others opinions creating confusion and disharmony in the body. A Metaphsycial Minister helps one sort that out and rediscover or reconnect with the true self - soul.

It does not have anything to do with dogma or religion. Thus it honors everyone's path knowing that every path is valuable and that each individual aligns themselves in the most harmonious way (at least that is what we hope for - though often the choice of path is fostered upon the individual through parentage or peer pressure)

You may ask what exactly is metaphysics, or what are the Spiritual Laws? Both valid and excellent questions.

Metaphyscis - is a combinations of Greek words - Meta meaning beyond and physics - things relating to, or part of the physical world. In todays world metaphysics loosely means subjects that relate to things beyond the physical world.

A Metaphysician is a person who studies and works with subjects beyond this world. This of course would include the Spiritual Laws - the laws of creation, manifestation, and karma.

When we understand and live by the Spiritual Laws, we live in harmony with life, maintaining balance. This alignment creates what I call, 'Right Thinking.'

That of course may sound like there is an opposite, 'Wrong Thinking,' but actually that would not be quite correct. Instead the proper term would be, 'imbalanced Thinking.'

An example of this would be, when an individual personalizes what another says to them.

When we take words in and find ourselves lacking we do harm to ourselves. We need to learn to listen to the other individual with an open mind, and to ask questions in a way that honors the others opinions before falling into a personalized posture, which will result in either folding into ourselves feeling a sense of failure, or taking the opposite approach of striking out in defense.

This is what a Metaphysical Minister does. They help an individual unravel experiences and offer techniques the individual can use to create a more balanced, harmonious life.