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Price: $14.00Tibetan Buddhist chants and prayers, sung in Tibetan & English, and set to very cool World Beat music. Chanting by our good friend, Geshe Gendun Gyatso. This CD will enhance the energy in your room and in your meditations. To listen: www.clearskyproductions.com All sales benefit Geshe Gendun Gyatso’s work in the USA.
John Ananda: An Evening Concert There is no way to express what happened at Dark Star Philosophia the evening John Ananda came with his singing bowls, tingshas, Tibetan gong, and Peruvian Whistling Vessels. But people’s hearts were touched. John’s music takes you to where you can see Truth. He turned our little world into a timeless place, where we sat in other dimensions. John is a vibrational healer combining hands-on work with the Sacred Sounds of many cultures. Many of John’s sound instruments are centuries old. In his hands-on work he combines several different modalities, including Jin Shin Jyutsu and Reiki. Working from a shamanic perspective and his own inner knowing, he intuits what is needed in the moment. John also works with his partner Heather Wolfe, at their Center, Back to Source Healing Arts Gallery, in Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Visit their website www.backtosource.com.
Change in shipping chargeOur charge for shipping and handling on sales from $25.00 to $149.99 has gone down. It was $6.95 - it is now $5.95. Change in prices• • • Earth Echoes Cystals Quartz Point Pendant
• • • Perfection of Wisdom The price has gone up: click for more info Our original copy was a sort-of "demonstration model", with a thin little case. This edition comes as a proper presentation. Our TimesThere is no way I can accomplish all that I need to do. It would take at least 3 people – maybe more. I see a lot of people in the same boat. Many of my friends are killing themselves just trying to keep up. There was a period when I blamed computers for this, the state of our modern world. All of us little people running around trying to keep up with computers. Ridiculous. But my New Age philosophies tell me that the nature of our universe is changing, and I believe it. Time is speeding up. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity tells us that we will not be able to see such a change until we can step outside our own perspective and compare with something else (scientists – help me out here – is that right?). We can sure feel a difference though. Life was never so harried. Even 10 years ago, things were slower. The New Age information is that the nature of time, and of our world, is changing. That new energies are coming in for us all the time. That our vibrations are elevating. So our perspective is changing. What was once most important to our lives drops away and new priorities take over. I do not, however, think that running a rat race is how we are intended to handle these new energies. As we all know, there is nothing new under the sun. The answer lies in taking time out. Time for meditation. Time for oneself. Sarah Ban Breathnach’s book, Simple Abundance, created a delicious sense of what such a life can be like. The ancient teachings of Buddhism, as well as the wisdom of our Native elders and of wise folk the world over, tell us the same. We cannot move forward without respecting the lessons of the past. We cannot speed up without slowing down. We cannot engage in life without stepping outside of it. Whose life is it, anyway? More seriously, I believe the point of all this is for us is, on the esoteric level, to understand much more about the nature of time. And, on the practical level, to learn to manage it. Esoteric understanding is nothing without a practical grounding in reality. If that were not so, what would be the point in us coming into this world in the first place? Rock Your WorldIn this issue of Rock Your World, The Stone Lady has written about Moonstone, one of my very favorite stones. We carry quite a bit of Moonstone at Dark Star Philosophia. This month's Rock Your World suits us to a "T": Rock Your World - Moonstone. • • • Rainbow Moonstone Pendant A
Click to enlarge Dimensions - 1.5 in. x .75 in. (with bail) • • • Rainbow Moonstone Pendant B
Click to enlarge Dimensions - 1.65 in. x .65 in. (with bail) • • • Rainbow Moonstone Earrings
Click to enlarge Dimensions - 1.25 in. x .75 in. The Heart of Cape AnnThe Heart of Cape Ann is Woodlands. They are as dear to me, and to Rockporters, as is the Ocean. You have seen a few pictures in Rockport Through the Seasons. I have written about living on Cape Ann and about our woods in this our newsletter, Supernova (in Issue # 7 and in Issue #8). These woods are now in serious danger. I want you to know about what is happening here on our little island, just in case you are in a position to help. There are lots of individual projects all over Rockport and Gloucester that threaten our natural beauty. This is the single Rockport issue that I hold dearest to my heart – the preservation of that which grows wild. I do not intend to burden you with all our issues in this matter. I just want to tell you about this one project – Woodland Acres – which threatens to destroy woods from the center of Pigeon Cove all the way to the ocean, in Folly Cove (near Halibut Point State Park). The proposal is for 70 house lots. More information (excerpted from the Gloucester Daily Times): Woodland Acres Page. The Great Alcohol Debate
While my heart was in the middle of the woods, the rest of Rockport was very busy deciding whether or not to allow alcohol into Rockport restaurants. This issue created a sort of Civil War in Rockport – neighbor has been pitted against neighbor on this one. The big concern about allowing alcohol to be sold in Rockport is, and always has been, what will happen to our beautiful little town if we legalize selling booze? But now the business community has added a new question: What will happen to our beautiful little town if we don’t? This spring’s election saw the legalization of alcohol in Rockport restaurants. There will be full liquor licenses issued to restaurants with sit-down meals. There will be no bars, and no liquor stores. There is a strong possibility that the mechanisms for this new law will be set into place in time for this summer’s season. So now you will be able to order a drink with your meal in Rockport. (Restaurants that do not apply for licenses may still allow you to bring in your own). A Conversation Between Great FriendsI received the following in an email. I thought I would share it with you: A conversation was taking place between great friends, one a priest and the
other a rabbi. The priest said: "You're a very successful rabbi at a
prominent synagogue, are you satisfied?" AOLAOL is blocking emails from darkstaronline.com. Before I realized what was happening, our aol customers missed one sale and two Dark*Starry*Night announcements (Geshe Gendun returned for a second class, and John Ananda gave a concert with Tibetan Singing Bowls, a gong, chimes, & Pre-Columbian Peruvian Whistling Vessels). I thought this issue had been at least partially resolved – I was wrong. Our AOL customers are in danger of not receiving future newsletters. Please complain to AOL, telling them that you have signed up to receive our newsletter, and that you do want to receive it. (If you talk to them via email, cc a copy to gera@darkstaronline.com). This will be helpful both to you and to us, as we can do nothing to influence aol without your support. You can still get through to me – I have not blocked your email! Meanwhile, may we suggest that you add us (gera@darkstaronline.com & info@darkstaronline.com) to your email address book to be certain you continue to receive email from us? Thank you. ~ gera Rockport Through the SeasonsThis issue sees a wide span of seasonal pictures of Rockport. Summer arrives and then vanishes again. My very good astrologer friend tells me that we will continue to have erratic weather worldwide, because Neptune and Uranus are transposed (each is in the other's natural sign). Both are slow moving planets, and will not move out of the other's sign for a few more years. Well, certainly it's not boring: Rockport Through the Seasons. FinaleThis may be our only newsletter this season – we’ll see. Yours truly seems to have too much on her plate! (Perhaps I need to take time out to do more meditation...) Your comments on our newsletter, Supernova, are always welcome. Send them to info@darkstaronline.com. This concludes the 11th issue of Supernova. Thanks for listening. Namaste. ~ gera   |
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