John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

I am open to receiving the generous gifts of Spirit.
I hold no expectations or demands on the form, the timing,
or the color of the wrapping on the bountiful gifts of Spirit
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY! Have a great day. You are ALL blessed.

There is a shift that is occurring; there are galactic offerings that are triggering the resurgence of the frequency codes that have been labeled feminine. In order for the light to fully be anchored and expressed, the honoring of the feminine qualities within each human must be acknowledged and expressed by all.

It is these attributes, the essence of the receptive intuitive instincts partnered with action that will reconnect humanity with the gifts and energy of nature. It is the holistic nurturing coupled with logic that will bring about modalities for healing of the physical body. The honoring of the feminine is the key to the healing of humanity and your planet.

--Feminine Lineage by Peggy Black and the ‘team’
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

I want you to check out this wonderful video below.

This video was part of a special Quarterly Gathering, held at a very interesting store in Santa Monica called the KATHMANDU BOUTIQUE. Anyway, their next Quarterly Gathering is this Saturday, June 15th, and I'm gonna be there. This will be my first time, so I don't have any personal experiences about this event that I can share with you... so I'll let the info from Facebook below tell you all about it.

Kathmandu Boutique Quarterly Gathering Saturday JUNE 15th

It's that wonderful time again where we come together as a community to celebrate LIFE, FRIENDSHIP, FOOD and MUSIC at our quarterly open house gathering! Saturday June 15th we will be serving up delicious home cooked NEPALESE vegan food, extra special NEPALESE chia (tea) hot cider, amazing music from local artists, healing massage and henna tattoos just in time for Summer! As you know this is a great place to meet many like minded, conscious soulful beings like yourself!

SO BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

15% to 50% OFF EVERYTHING STORE WIDE!
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WE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE COLLECTING LOVE DONATIONS FOR SELP HELP GROUP FOR CEREBRAL PALSY NEPAL, NON PROFIT FOUNDAITON WHICH I CO-FOUNDED IN 1987 TO HELP AND EDUCATE TO MORE THEN 1500 HUNDRED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES!

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KATHMANDU BOUTIQUE WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE TO GO GREEN WITH YOUR HELP TO REDUCE, REUSE AND RECYCLE DURING THIS GATHERING THEREFORE I REQUEST EACH ONE OF YOU TO PLEASE PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN WATER CONTAINER PLATES AND UTENSILS IF POSSIBLE, ALSO WE WOULD BE COLLECTING YOUR USED T-SHIRTS TO MAKE INTO SHOPPING BAGS. THAT WOULD BE A GREATEST GIFT THAT YOU ALL COULD GIVE IT TO ME AND I WOULD BE THE MOST HAPPIEST PERSON ~ LOVE PEACE JOY ~
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DAYTIME ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDES:
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Govindacharya Ramanuja Dasan - 11:30am - 12:30 Graciouspujari Vaishnava priest or priest to Vishnu.Govindacharya has been meditating and doing puja for more than twenty years and studying the Vedas, Upanishads and Yoga sutra for 17 years. He has been assisting the Head Priests at the Malibu temple for six year. He is the head priest and regular priest at the rose temple. He goes to Hrishikesh India to do Sadhana or daily spiritual practices and Tapasya or austerities once a year and performs Vedantic meditation and the higher aspects of Ashtanga yoga
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Henna Tattoo ~ by very talented artists PAWAN TULACHAN (Artist accepts LOVE donations)
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Carlos Pamplona ~ (Love donations)
H2o Massage Pros will be providing massages.
https://www.facebook.com/H2oMassagePros
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Manohar Gurung ~ multi talented Himalayan drummer percussionist Manohar will perform suffi hindusthani fusion to get your inner beat thumping. Please bring your talents and instrument of your choice to jam and be part of the fun all day long.
www.soundcloud.com/manohargurung
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EVENING ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDES:
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Stephanie Lallouz ~ 4:00pm ~ 5:00pm

Stephanie plays percussion, guitar and sings in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, and English. Born in Montreal, Canada with a compelling musical and artistic upbringing. Stephanie is performing, writing music, and poetry since her youth. Shares the stage with many accomplished & great talents and now resides in California. She was nick-named “HunnyBunch” by a San Francisco Radio Personality.
http://www.StephanieLallouz.com/
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Hubie Vine ~ 5:00pm ~ 6:00pm

Hubie Vine is a multi-instrumentalist who has mastered such instruments as the piano, vibraphone, flute, tablas, and various other percussion's in a variety of different styles, including Jazz, Reggae, Pop, Rock, Indian, and others. Hubie has worked extensively in Europe as a studio musician, songwriter, and composer and has made frequent appearances on French and Swiss television, as well as worked on four albums with Graeme Alright, a notable rock musician and lyricist of Europe.
http://www.hubieyou.com/bio.html
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Jacqueline Angelica ~ 6:00pm ~ 7:00pm

Beautiful Jacqueline Fuentes is a singer songwriter. Her musical creation has South American roots, containing colors and structures that come from classical music as well as a combination of folkloric and popular music. Her inspirations have been Mercedes Sosa, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Milton Nascimento, Silvio Rodriguez and Joni Mitchell. http://jacquelinefuentes.tumblr.com/
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Andres Salcedo ~ 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Join our brother Andres and his friend's magical adventure into the bliss of Kirtan! Be prepared to open your heart and free your mind with an amazing David Harbol and Emily!!
www.powersoulyoga.com
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Danni El - 8:00pm ~ 9:00pm

Singer/Songwriter Danni El was born in Tampa, Florida, a
Developing style from her Peruvian roots, as well as her time spent in Brazil, Danni El shares her enriching and enchanting heart songs in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. She has a deeply soulful, bluesy voice, with hints of Native Peruvian influence that that will have your hair standing on end, and your soul swaying along in rhythm!

In her own words: " I believe in the healing powers of music, and I try to always channel that vibration to share with everyone. My goal is to travel the world, and bring healing sounds to the children, and plant love seeds within them, because they are the future."
http://Youtube.com/DanniElmusic
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Stephen Day ~ 9:00pm ~ 10:00pm

Born in California and brought up in Canada and France, Stephen Day has enjoyed varied life as a composer, songwriter, instrumentalist, vocalist and teacher.

After studying sarod with world-renowned sarod player Ustad Amjad Ali Khan in India for three years, Stephen embarked on concert tours throughout Europe, Asia and North America. He recorded two albums with the Global music firm Boosey and Hawkes in London before moving to Los Angeles. Stephen works in multiple genres including Western classical, Indian classical, jazz, folk, and rock music. His credit range from scoring portion of the film formula 51, staring Samuel L. Jackson, to founding the non-profit organization Ombience, which supports artistic ventures that explore the creative connection between art and spiritually. Stephen has played in major concerts venues including Town Hall, United Nations Headquarters, Kodak Theater and Wiltern Theater in LA. His music has been played on major networks (MTV, NBC, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, BBC) and has been features in various shows including America's Top Model, Animal Planet and Rich Girls. http://stephendaymusic.com/Bio.html
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DHANYABAAD (THANK YOU)
With Love, Reena Gauchan
reena@kathmanduboutique.com
Tweeter @kathmandu2005

Now like I said, I've never been there before, so this is gonna be TOTALLY NEW for me. But I like trying new things, and this promises to be a very special way to spend a Saturday. So if any of you are out in the LA area this Saturday, come check it out!

Here's another little taste of what you're going to see at this gathering:

For more information about the Kathmandu Boutique, check out their website at http://www.kathmanduboutique.com.

Now, as always, I want to end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world, a song I can only describe as PURE LOVE.

This beautiful song is wriiten and performed by the amazing DANNI EL, who will be playing at the gathering this Saturday. I hope she performs it...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

(Creator of the Universe)...I love you just the way you are, and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

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