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Issue# 95 January 21, 2008
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| Quotation of the Week
Inspirational words to ponder.....
It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough
to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.
--- Patrice Gifford
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| Kindred Spirits Member News
If you ever forget your Member's password, please send Anne Marie an email by replying to this message.
New E-Book- Do you have your copy of the newest SoulCollage e-book yet? It's called:
A Year of SoulCollage Challenges: 52 Challenges to Deepen & Inspire your SoulCollage Practice, and it's in your Members Only Shop right now, at your 50% Members Only discount.
Upcoming Tele-Classes 
February Embracing the Mystery
of the Shadow
presented by special guest Karen Mann,
SoulCollage Facilitator in Australia
and Anne Marie Bennett,
SoulCollage Facilitator in Massachusetts
We all have aspects of ourselves that we wish we could hide and pretend that they don't exist. Some of the shadowy parts of self may include the jealous self, angry self, guilty self, lazy self, the victim, the liar, the addict, the opinionated one, the judgmental one, the impatient one etc Often these parts of self may seem broken, disgusting or weak and we try to suppress them because they seem unacceptable and do not fit in with the 'norms' in society. In this SoulCollage tele-class, we will approach our shadow aspects as a mystery to be explored, rather than a problem to be solved or an illness to be cured. You will learn to see each shadowy aspect as only one piece of you and not as your whole being. Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time:
9:00 pm Eastern, 8:00 pm Central, 7:00 pm Mountain,
6:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Hawaiian,
Tuesday 2 a.m. in London,
Tuesday 3 a.m. in Rome, Friday 1 p.m. Australia
and Friday 3 p.m. in New ZealandSave the date now. All of our tele-classes are FR*EE for members, always! And remember, don't worry if you can't attend... we'll be recording them and you can listen to them anytime in your
Member's Only Audio Library.
Upcoming SoulCollage Retreats/Trainings
with Anne Marie Bennett
New England SoulCollage Facilitator Training- August 8-10, 2008 in westernMassachusetts. Registration is open now! If you've been longing to take your SoulCollage practice out into the world professionally by becoming an "official" Facilitator, then please join us for a beautiful summer weekend at Spirit Fire Retreat Center. Registration will officially begin in January, but in the meantime.. There's more information on this KaleidoSoul page .
 All Things Bright & Beautiful- April 10-13, 2008 in Essex,MA. A very special weekend retreat focusing soul-ly on the SoulCollage Animal Companions Suit. If you're longing to bring the wisdom of the Animals and the Chakras into your life in a creative way within the personal safety of SoulCollage.... please join us!
There are only 7 spaces left, which means the Retreat is half full already. If you've been thinking about experiencing the joy of SoulCollage for a full weekend, why not just go ahead and give yourself this very special gift now.
As a Kindred Spirits Member, you have the cost-effective benefit of paying in 3 smaller payments instead of all at once. Also, you save $50.
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| SoulCollage Challenge
Inspiring You To Look At SoulCollage® In New Ways
 Images from Oprah Magazine
Let's all use images from the February issue of Oprah Magazine (on newsstands now) to make a SoulCollage card this month. It will be interesting to see the many expressions of self that we'll come up with, from the same images. This challenge states that you use images from this magazine and this magazine only. Please post your cards on the KaleidoSoul SoulCollage Yahoo Group so we can compare! And thank you to Kindred Spirit Mary inMassachusetts for this great idea.
NOTE: There are more SoulCollage Challenges on the KaleidoSoul Blog, Inner Surprises. Simply click on "SoulCollage Challenges" in the upper right side of the screen, in the lavender column.
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| Soul Nourishment
 Resources to support your inner work
as you dive deeper into your beautiful soul
Books:
Dream Power, by Cynthia Richmond. Subtitled How To Use Your Night Dreams to Change Your Life, this book comes highly recommended by SoulCollage Facilitator Diane Trowbridge who led our July 2007 tele-class on using SoulCollage and Dreamwork together. It's broken down into 31 short, manageable and highly readable chapters covering important topics such as: Why We Dream, How to Remember Your Dreams, How To Interpret Your Dreams, Stress Management Through Dreams, Recurring Dreams, Nightmares, Healing Dreams, and more. There's also a special section called Dreams Have Two Gates which contains ideas about what different kinds of dreams might possibly mean in your life. These include dreams of: flying, celebrities, departed loved ones, relationships, pregnancy, house & home, teeth & hair, elevators, disaster, animals, school and tests, as well as receiving spiritual guidance in your dreams. And you'll love the image on the cover too!
The Way to Love, by Anthony De Mello. This small-sized book is full of very big thoughts on love and loving. This is De Mello's last book. He was the director of the Sadhana Institute of Pastoral Counseling inIndia and the author of several spiritual books. Each short essay begins with a quote from Scripture, but the ideas contained within go beyond religious parameters.
The Tao of Watercolor, by Jeanne Carbonetti. Aside from being informative and inspiring, this book is full of delicious, full color paintings by thisVermont artist/author. Imaging approaching the beauty of watercolor painting from the perspective of the 5 Zen precepts of: Centering, Balance, Deliberateness, Playfulness, and Flow. Also included are chapters on: The Spirit of Partnership, The Spirit of Effortless Effort, and The Sacred Mystery.
Pilate's Wife, by Antoinette May. This fascinating, breathtaking novel puts a "provocative spin" on the "greatest story ever told." A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire in the world, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her nighttime dreams often come true. Based on fact, but with all the lovely mystery that draws us into good solid fiction, Pilate's Wife will deepen your curiosity and hold you entranced. I read it recently during a trans-Atlantic flight and hardly noticed the time "flying" by!
Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality, by Thomas Moore. Woodcuts by Joan Hanley. The 50 meditations in this lovely book offer fresh interpretations on living with originality rather than conformity, presenting portraits of the creative self and many different angles from which you can tap into your primal emotions and possibilities.
Movies:
Snow Cake, featuring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver. 2006. If you enjoy character films about real people and real feelings, you'll love this heartfelt drama. Rickman plays a man haunted by a fatal accident and forced to confront his past. On his emotional journey, he meets an autistic woman (played by Weaver) who is the mother of the girl who was killed in the accident. Even though she is going through an unimaginable loss, it is she who helps Alex find his life again.
Music: Deeper Still, by Beth Nielson Chapman. The words to these songs are exquisite and the music itself is transporting and will gently rock you into a world of self-acceptance and grace. In the liner notes, Chapman talks about the songs as "amazing journey... angels, detours, side trips through purgatory, bursts of grace and gratefulness...." Listen and hear/feel for yourself the beauty of this music.
Websites: Animal Power Energies- Scroll down on this page to see a long list of spiritual meanings of animal energies. Is one of your animal totems there?
Exploring Women's Creativity- Very informative and helpful site about getting in touch with your creativity. Lots of helpful articles.
Painted Journeys- Lovely series of online art galleries: the sacred meaning of bowls, love, and more. Click "next" at the bottom right of the screen to continue to each next gallery.
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| More Resources
Ongoing resources that our Kindred Spirit Members
find helpful
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| Final Gems
Soul Treasures is brought to you by KaleidoSoul, Spinning the fragments of your world into wholeness and beauty through SoulCollage.
SoulCollage® cards are made either from one's own art or from images found in materials which have been bought by or given to the SoulCollage card maker.
These collaged cards are used only for the cardmaker's own inner exploration. SoulCollage cards are not sold, traded, bartered, or copied (except as a back-up for the cardmakers own use) as is stated in the Principles of SoulCollage®.
Where SoulCollage cards are available to be seen by others,
it is for the purposes either of demonstrating the SoulCollage process
or of sharing the cardmakers' inner process in the context of community.
SoulCollage® is grateful to the artists and photographers
who make this deep awakening process possible
and in all ways SoulCollage® seeks to be respectful of their rights.
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and Anne Marie Bennett.
Please do not reproduce or forward this newsletter in any way.
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