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Quotation of the Week
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction.
I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, "Don't mess with me." ---Glenn Close   Inner Journeys with Anne Marie Bennett Integrating the Practice of SoulCollage® Into Our Daily Lives Don't Mess With Me When I told my husband I was using the quotation above as part of my SoulCollage® writing, he raised an eyebrow in amusement, but didn't say anything. Perhaps Glenn Close's husband did the same thing when she hung the knife in their kitchen.  The
knife from the film, Fatal Attraction. Now that invokes a
strong image in my mind. Can you see it? Heavy silver metal.
Dark wooden handle. Stained with blood. What if we each had something like that hung in our own kitchens? A visceral, shocking symbol that reminded us of that part of ourselves that says, "Don't mess with me" (and means it). Maybe it doesn't have to be as gruesome as a bloody knife. Maybe it could be a picture of a mother bear protecting her cubs. Or a shield with a warrior painted on it. Maybe your "Fatal Attraction Knife" is a small bow and arrow set, or a toy ax, or a picture of a mother with her arms tightly around her child. Whatever it is, remember its message is protection, not destruction. Find a way to honor that fierce Warrior who lives inside of you and whose mission is to say, "Don't mess with me" to anyone who tries to hurt you in any way. Reflection Activities: How does your Inner Warrior protect you? Do you have a SoulCollage® card for this powerful part of you? Make a commitment to look for images that represent him or her, create a new card for your Deck, and let it speak to you. Revel in its presence. Allow it to protect you.  SoulCollage®
ExpressionsIdeas and Challenges to Spice Up Your SoulCollage® Practice Challenge of the Week Write a dialog between the Council Death Neter and one of your Committee members who is afraid of death. 
Kindred Spirits Member NewsMaking the Most of Your KaleidoSoul Membership It's really easy to get to your Members' Home Page: 1. Go to KaleidoSoul.com and click on the "Members Log In Here" Logo on the left, under the lavender menu buttons. 2. Type in your Member's Password and press the Enter Key. . 3. If you've forgotten your Members' Password, please send a reply to this email and request that we re-send it to you. 4. Voila! You're on your Kindred Spirits Home Page! From here, you can access the Discount Shop, The Audio Library, all back issues of Soul Treasures and everything else. |
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Our Next Tele-Class Spicing Up the Soul of Life: Random Play with Your SoulCollage® Deck Presented by Laurel Aston, Creativity Coach, Artist, and SoulCollage® Facilitator and in California  Join
Laurel as she guides us to discover ways to use play and random ideas to
rejuvenate our relationships to our SoulCollage® decks. Sometimes we
just don't have time or energy to do a full-fledged reading with just
the right question, but we'd like a little interaction with our cards.
Sometimes we may just want to juice things up. These little exercises
will catalyze you to use your intuitive nudges on the fly, and you'll be
surprised at the renewed excitement you have about the Neters you get to
know better. Please bring with you to the call:
Time: 6:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Central, 4:00 pm Mountain, 3:00 pm Pacific, noon Hawaiian, 11 pm in London, midnight in Rome, Monday 8 a.m. in Melbourne Australia and Monday 10 a.m. in New Zealand
Save 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 it and you can listen to it anytime in your Member's Only Audio Library. We will give you the phone number and access code to call in that week's issue of Soul Treasures. Upcoming Tele-Classes and Presenters: May 15, 2009 (Friday, 8 pm Eastern) ? Using the Wisdom of the Medicine Wheel in your SoulCollage® Journey, with Alexa Singer-Telles, LMFT, SoulCollage® Facilitator in California. The Native American Medicine Wheel offers us a sacred container to honor the wisdom of the seasons and cycles of life, the elemental qualities, and the guidance of animals and archetypal energies. We will imagine ourselves sitting in the center of our own medicine wheel, inviting in the elements of the four directions in relation to the four SoulCollage® suits as a gift of support. We will work with the guidance of the Visionary, Healer, Teacher, and Warrior as they represent the energies of the four directions. Our time together will be experiential, with lots of time for questions and sharing. Alexa has led women's rituals including rites of passage for over twenty years using the medicine wheel as the sacred container to hold the experience. She has been actively engaged in the use of dreamwork, movement, and expressive artwork (both personally and therapeutically) as a process for guidance and healing. June 14, 2009 (Sunday, 5pm Eastern) - Meditation and SoulCollage®: How Each Enhances the Other, with Marti Beddoe, Meditation Teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator in Illinois. For new as well as experienced mediators. Marti will share with us some ways that her SoulCollage® practice has benefited her meditation practice, and vice versa. If you are looking to deepen your SoulCollage® work, this is the class for you! July, 2009 - SoulCollage® and the Art of Sacred Listening, with Laura Hegfield, SoulCollage® Facilitator in New Hampshire. Consider allowing silence to be the container that holds your SoulCollage® practice. I believe that silence can open us to a more intimate listening experience, ultimately allowing us to drink a more satisfying cup of the sweet wisdom our cards have to offer. During this tele-class, Laura will offer some practical tips for incorporating more silence into your life and your SoulCollage® practice (alone, with friends or as a facilitator in workshops). Laura is a SoulCollage® Facilitator, Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, Yoga & Jewish Spirituality Teacher, Artist, Blogger, Wife and Mom practicing the sacred art of "life" in Southern NH. Please visit her blog, Shine the Divine to get to know her better before the call. (Date and time to be announced, please stay tuned.)
Kindred Spirits SoulCollage®
Retreat
Come As You Are:Nurturing Self-Acceptance with SoulCollage®, A Weekend Retreat June 25-28, 2009 Rolling Ridge Retreat Center Andover, Massachusetts There are only TWO spaces left.... is one of them for you? Everything you need to know is on this KaleidoSoul page. |
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The Mission, featuring Robert De Niro. This story is set
in 18th century South America where the Jesuits have
established missions to the Guarani Indians. Mendoza, a
former mercenary and slave trader, experiences a release
from the sins of his past when he comes to work with the
Indians he has hunted. He and the other priests later
discover the difficulty of modeling a life of love and
forgiveness. The survival of the missions is threatened
by the pragmatic needs of their religious order, the
predatory racisms of European settlers, and political
pressures form the colonial powers. Eventually the
priests must make choices of conscience in a world not
unlike our own. ---from Spiritual Rx, Prescriptions
for Living a Meaningful Life, by Frederic and Mary Ann
Brussat 
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by C.S. Richardson. This is such a thin, small novel
that you won't believe that this entire plot could
happen in this many pages. But it can, and it does, and
beautifully. Ambrose Zephyr lives happily in a
book-strewn Victorian with his lovely wife Zappora
Ashkenazi. When he is 50, Ambrose is told that he has
only a month to live. What follows then is a whirlwind
journey to the places he has always loved, or always
wanted to visit… 26 places, from A to Z, Amsterdam to
Zanzibar. Honest, loving, intense, breathtaking in its
simplicity. I can't say enough about this beautiful
little (but huge) work of fiction. 