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Scott Vighi on Rousing the Dragon
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Sedona Temple Flood Relief Call for Donations
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009For Immediate Release
Contact:
Seva Khalsa +01 (928) 282-8511
seva@sedonatemple.com
CASH DONATIONS IDEAL FOR SEDONA FLASH FLOOD DAMAGES
(SEDONA AZ USA) – The Sedona Temple announced today that a donations link has been set up to help recovery efforts to the Sedona School of the Temple Arts after the devastating flash flood on Sept 10, 2009. “The most appropriate way to help at this time is by sending a cash donation to assist in clean-up, materials replacement, remodeling and landscaping,” said Baba Dez Nichols, Founder of the Sedona Temple and School of Temple Arts. Cash donations can be put to immediate use and provide the flexibility to professional relief organizations to purchase what is most urgently needed by disaster victims, Nichols explained.
Donors should make contributions payable to Sedona Temple, a tax-exempt organization, and earmark the gift for an intended use, if it is to be restricted. Participants in the relief effort can donate at http://www.sedonatemple.com/donations.php.
Those wishing to volunteer their time, goods and/or services when they are needed should call the Donations Management Hot Line at +01 (928) 282-8511. Donors will be asked to provide a contact name, address and phone number as well as a description of available goods/services. Volunteers will be contacted only when a need for specific goods or services is identified.
“The love and generosity of the people of Arizona and our global spiritual network is overwhelming,” said Nichols. “However, in the interest of public safety and efficient emergency management, we ask that people do not send or bring any unsolicited donated goods directly to the disaster site and to schedule any visits ahead of time. We plan to be partially operational by the end of September and back to normal by the end of the quarter.”
About Sedona Temple
The Sedona Temple and The School of Temple Arts is a collective of experienced healers for those seeking deep transformation and wholeness through the practice of Sacred Sexuality and other healing modalities. We are a tax exempt church and school, a network of Tantra Teachers, Dakas/Dakinis, Tantrikas, Shamans, Healers, Sex Educators, Body workers and Spiritual Practitioners. We offer support for people who are willing to make a commitment to a path that can bring Embodied Bliss into their lives. http://twitter.com/sedonatemple http://facebook.com/pages/Sedona-Temple/153186715907
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Tantra defined
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Tantra is the practice and study of the life force energy as it is perceived and expressed through the human body, both individually and as experienced with others. The concept of a life force energy is nearly universal, Chi in the Chinese, Ka in Egypt, Ki in Japan (the root of Reiki), Prana in India, Eros in Greek (where the whole concept of Tantra can be understood in a clear light), and Animus in the Latin.
It would be hard to dispense with the idea of a life force energy. We know via the limited understandings and vocabulary of quantum physics, that everything in our world, animate or not, is composed of particles, space, and energy. The reason your world looks solid is that relatively few particles are moving so fast that we experience them in millions of places at once (due to the slow speed of our perception).
The life force is a different sort of energy, hence referred to as mystical and magical earlier, as it animates material forms and adds the element of consciousness or awareness to existence. For more discussion on this definition go to the World Association of Tantra Porfessionals http://watp.org/definition.html
Just Do It – More Sex = Less Stress
Sunday, July 5th, 2009End Abstinence-only Sex Education
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Consider reaching out
to heal America’s distorted view of sexuality
Dear activist,
Tell the Labor, HHS Subcommittee: End Abstinence-Only Funding Now!
And call Subcommittee and Call Chairman David Obey, (D-WI-7), at 202-225-3365 and tell him that failed abstinence- only sex education programs must not be included in the FY 2010 spending bill for Labor HHS.
On July 8, the House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor HHS) will be considering funding for FY 2010. Email the Labor HHS Subcommittee and Call Chairman David Obey, (D-WI-7), at 202-225-3365 and tell them that failed abstinence-only sex education programs must not be included in the FY 2010 spending bill for Labor HHS.
The evidence is irrefutable that spending for abstinence-only sex education is not only wasteful, but the programs put young women’s health at risk. Study after study documents the failure of these programs. A 2004 study by the House Committee on Government Reform, conducted at the request of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-30-CA) found that over 80% of the curricula used in the largest federally funded abstinence-only programs contained “false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health.”
The latest report, just released by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Guttmacher Institute, reflects a rise in teen pregnancy rates in 2006 and 2007 and fewer teens are using contraception. These appalling statistics should not come as a surprise. During this same time period, millions of dollars that could have been used to provide guidance based on age appropriate sex education in our schools and communities has been diverted for ideological reasons to failed abstinence-only programs.
We must tell Chairman Obey and the Members of the Labor HHS Subcommittee that now is the time to stop funding for these programs that are destructive to our young women and men. Email them today and please call Obey’s office at 202-225- 3365.
For Equality,
Eleanor Smeal
President Norma Gattsek
Government Relations Director
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801, Arlington, VA 22209 | 703.522.2214 | femmaj@feminist.org