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Psychic Attorney Donita King Discusses Psychic Development & Dreamwork!

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I had a truly wonderful time talking to psychic Donita King last night on Spirit Talk and couldn't wait to share this wonderful interview on the blog!<br />
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Donita is an amazing woman - a practicing attorney, natural intuitve, A.R.E. Wayshower, tested psychic and certified dream guide mentor.  She has so much to share on these topics and more - with a special emphasis on how our psychic abilities can empower us in our daily life - and I feel so fortunate to have had the chance to talk to her.<br />
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I also have great news!  Donita has agreed to come back and talk to us in more depth about how we can improve our life through dreamwork a bit later in the year!</div>
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Psychic Attorney Donita King Discusses Psychic Development & Dreamwork!

I had a truly wonderful time talking to psychic Donita King last night on Spirit Talk and couldn't wait to share this wonderful inter...

Creating Sanctuary: My Newly Renovated Home Office!

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We began our new home search in late 2011 following the last flood evacuation I resolved to ever participate in.  We did not have a lot of money - far less than any house meeting our criteria was likely to cost but we found one anyway.  The downside was that it needed loads of work!  We moved in in 2012 with only the bedrooms and den finished (and the downstairs bathroom in progress) and wrapped up the living room and loads of odds and ends after we had settled in. </div>
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Delayed by other (really big) projects, we have just finished our home office and are now starting the kitchen.  As is so often the case my attention is focused on what remains to be done (front hall, upstairs bath, kitchen, and assorted bits and pieces) instead of what all we have accomplished.  So I wanted to take a moment to remember the work that has been done here.  Current pics of our home office follow with a shot of the original room at the end of this post. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of sun! Everything is in place -except for my stained glass heron suncatcher.  I'll post that when I get it hung!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ice on the window sill and a bit of the woods behind the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My grandfather's old glass fronted book shelf and my grandmother's rocker.  Broken auction lamp awaited repair.  The door here was salvaged.  This room like many in the house, had no door when we moved in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More ice and if you look very closely you can see the eastern sky above the next mountain. My view of sunrise.  </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still more ice.  High ground and the patch of woods at the top of our little mountain.  Elevation: 776 feet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My seat and the laptop on which I write these posts.  Two Ollie's Bargain Mart desk chairs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My grandmother's rocker and the rug from my partner's family home.  This is where my meditation corner will be!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My collection of oracle cards and tarot.  Old Underwood typewriter to remind me of what I'm here to do!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old wardrobe - picked up at the Salvation Army for $17 and refinished for office supplies.  Auction house carpet in need of vacuuming :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side yard and hedges and the view such as it is.  When I'm sitting down I mostly see sky.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of our desk.  A thirty-five .dollar steal at the local Salvation Army!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original space - a one time 2nd floor apartment kitchen.  Chopped up for plumbing, this was the only wood floor we couldn't restore.  I installed the new floor myself.  Not easy but not impossible either!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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For more pics and the story of the house, please see the following posts:</div>
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<li><a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2013/07/your-hearts-desire-courage-to-carry-on.html" target="_blank">Finding Your Heart's Desire & With it - The Courage to Carry On</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2012/05/before-pictures-my-new-house.html" target="_blank">Before Pictures: My New House  </a></li>
<li><a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2012/05/status-update-creating-sanctuary-from.html" target="_blank">Status Update: Creating Sanctuary from the Ground Up</a> </li>
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Update:  Sadly I had to cancel Sunday's visit to the Spirit Education Center and Sanctuary Psychomanteum due to the dreaded wintry mix!  I have rescheduled however for spring and will be sure to update everyone on my experience then!</div>

Creating Sanctuary: My Newly Renovated Home Office!

We began our new home search in late 2011 following the last flood evacuation I resolved to ever participate in. We did not have a lot of ...

Robert Moss's "Five Ways to Break a Dream Drought" from "Active Dreaming!"

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The "Five Ways to Break a Dream Drought" provided by Robert Moss in his wonderful book "Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom" have worked for me and this is saying a lot.  </div>
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While I am an active dreamer having had some wonderful dreams, these dreams (or rather the remembering of them) is rare.  And I do try very hard to remember them!</div>
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Working with the first method Moss gives, I was able to recall two very important <a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2014/01/active-dreaming-following-my-path-in.html" target="_blank">dreams</a> earlier this week and am very eager to apply the other principles offered throughout the book. </div>
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The "Five Ways" follow  and they are very effective. I will add however that using another of Moss's suggestions (I believe it was a suggestion given in his audio book <span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> "</span>Dream Gates" which I currently listening to) helped as well.  The suggestion is simple and it does work.  It is - allow yourself to wake up naturally.  Not always easy but something most of us can do, at least some of the time.</div>
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The "Five Ways to Break a Dream Drought" follow, paraphrased and in summary:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Be ready to receive the dream. </i> Setting the intention is important, of course, but having the means to record your dream is important to.  This means you must have what Moss calls the most important dream book you will ever read - your own dream journal - at hand as well as a pen (I find that a good pen with a good flow is essential here) or a recorder.  He also suggests that you record something when you wake up and that if you need to visit the bathroom that you take your journal and pen along with you.  Not maybe the nicest place to write but a technique that does work!</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Be kind to the dream fragments you receive.  </i>This means that even if you wake up (either in the morning or in the middle of the night) with a wisp of a dream memory or, as I have found, even a wisp of an emotion or feeling, stay as still as you can and began to write it down.  For me, Stephen LaBerge's technique of asking "what came before that?" works well.  I am finding that I often wake up thinking I remember nothing or very little and that as I write loads of information comes back.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><i>If you don't immediately remember a dream don't give up!  </i>Allow yourself to relax in bed or try assuming the posture you were in when you were asleep.  Don't (I have found) allow yourself to start thinking about your to-do list or running through the concerns of the day!  If you don't remember a dream, Moss advises, write something down anyway.  This should be whatever is in your awareness, including emotion and physical sensations.  This my trigger a memory at this time or later or simply help us subconsciously later on in our day.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Remember that you can have dream experience even when you are awake. </i>This advice as I understand it is about synchronicistic events which are signs very like dream symbols that we may encounter later in our ordinary waking reality.   To my mind, these events provide very meaningful advice from spirit.  An early example for me was once when I was driving my boys somewhere years and years ago.  They were acting up and I wasn't happy and I was telling them so in no uncertain terms.  Pulling up behind a car at a light I saw a bumper sticker.  "Mean People Suck" it said.  I took the hint.</li>
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I am really so excited about "Active Dreaming" and <span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">"</span>Dream Gates" and Moss's methods in general. Please check back to learn more on my progress!</div>
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Please note that I will be reviewing Debra Katz's wonderful book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738705926/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0738705926&linkCode=as2&tag=mystictea-20">You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading & Healing</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mystictea-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0738705926" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
" next week AND covering my experiences in her 12 week International School of Clairvoyance telecourse "Clairvoyance I" beginning in February!!! So please do check back!</div>
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To read about the first two dreams I experienced (after an extended dream drought) by utilizing Robert Moss's "Five Ways" please see the following post: "<a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2014/01/active-dreaming-following-my-path-in.html" target="_blank">Active Dreaming: Following My Path in Spirit Through the New Year</a>."</div>
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Robert Moss's "Five Ways to Break a Dream Drought" from "Active Dreaming!"

Colleen Wallace Nungari, "Dreamtime Sisters" The "Five Ways to Break a Dream Drought" provided by Robert Moss in ...

Active Dreaming: Following My Path in Spirit Through the New Year

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I'm currently reading "Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom<img alt="" border="0" class="awnudxxttkcrpthznbep" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mystictea-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1577319648" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
" by author, teacher and active dreamer Robert Moss while at the same time listening to his audio book "Dream Gates<img alt="" border="0" class="awnudxxttkcrpthznbep" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mystictea-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1591794897" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />."  Why both at once?  Because I am captivated by the material and the audio book allows me to listen even when I'm working on the house, which is how I spend a large chunk of my time!</div>
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It's my belief that, in spirit, timing is everything and this has been the case for me with Moss's work on a couple of levels.  I read  his beautiful and comprehensive 1996 book "Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life<img alt="" border="0" class="awnudxxttkcrpthznbep" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mystictea-20&l=as2&o=1&a=051788710X" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />"

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Then, as now, I was impressed by the author's wonderful knack for storytelling and the deep yet lyrical  content he shared.  But I ignored what was perhaps the most important part of the book - the instruction on how to have your own compelling dream experiences.  </div>
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I have changed however in the last couple of years.  My pursuit of spirit is now highly experiential.  And so the techniques described in "Active Dreaming" began to work for me almost immediately.  </div>
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I  have always been an erratic but nonetheless active dreamer with several very compelling dreams to my credit.  Having said that, I haven't been recalling many dreams lately and those I do remember are brief and fragmented.  So I was quite interested to find "Five Ways to End a Dream Drought" very near the beginning of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577319648/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1577319648&linkCode=as2&tag=mystictea-20" target="_blank">Active Dreaming.</a>"  Applying the advice given on dream incubation I posed an important life path question last Sunday night.  "What should I do?" I wrote down in my dream journal just before I fell asleep, as in what should I do in a life mission sense.  My answer was a dream I did not particularly want - but I remembered it anyway.  </div>
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In the dream, myself and a friend were delivering holiday care packages of decorative dog biscuits to domestic dogs in need.  We entered one home to find a neglected but friendly Labrador Retriever locked up in an undersized kennel.  The owners were at work or away and the dog was lonely and hungry.  We petted and talked to him and gave him some of the biscuits from our package.  We left the remainder of the basket on the kitchen counter with a note for the owners.  In the note we asked them to please give their pet better care on all levels and reminded them that strangers should not need to come in and do this for them.  Writing the note was quite emotional for me and I felt a great sense of frustration in knowing that we could not legally take the dog away.</div>
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I wrote my dream down in my dream journal when I woke up.  And, to be honest, I was not thrilled with it.  In fact, it was not the sort of dream I wanted at all.  I wanted a dream about writing or mediumship or direct communication with spirit.  Not that I don't love animals - I do.  I'm almost entirely vegan (though I do very occasionally consume food with trace amounts of dairy).  My  entire family is vegetarian and only very rarely consume any dairy at all.  I donate to animal charities as I am able.  I sign petitions whenever they seem to have merit.  Our dog is a rescue of sorts and one of the reasons we adopted our cat was because his prospects were poor.  Additionally - I write as many highly impassioned blog post on animals rights as I feel a New Age focused blog will allow.  </div>
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I don't want to be an activist however and I don't want to dedicate a book to animal rights.  Not that either of these things are bad things.  They are just not part of my plan and as proof of this plan I have another very important <a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2010/08/most-remarkable-dream.html" target="_blank">dream</a> to back me.  One that was all about spirit and reaching the other side and returning to share that - with people.</div>
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But I do admit that I find the plight of animal moving.  So much so that a friend once asked me if I cared more for animals rights than I did for those of human beings.  I answered correctly, I think, that it was not a matter of more or less but that - even though human rights violations exist world wide - the awareness that humans do indeed have rights is mostly acknowledged in most places at this point in time.  Animal rights on the other hand, (particularly of those animals who are tortured to provide us with meat and milk) are not even on the radar of huge numbers of apparently good, even spiritual, people.  This to me is a very serious problem.</div>
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As I talked to my friend, however, I knew that there was more to it than this.  He wasn't wrong.  The plight of animals did affect me to a far greater degree than it did most.  And right there in the middle of our conversation it occurred to me that the things we sent here to do are supposed to move us.  I saw clearly that this incredible passion,  this emotional cord which is so easily struck, is nothing less than a sign from our own sacred guiding light - our soul.  </div>
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In the wake of this realization, I had thought a bit about my online promotion of animals rights.  It did not seem like much of a contribution.  I wondering if my soul might want more than facebook petitions and blog entries and then I reminded myself that I was not cut out for activism - real out in the world activism anyway. My experience of putting myself out there in the fight against fracking had been disappointing and a little destabilizing.  And it was not something I felt eager to experience again. </div>
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A few weeks after I talked to my friend, however, I was hit on the head with the issue a second time when my middle boy asked me, why I didn't care about animals enough to volunteer to improve their condition.  Having already thought about it,I had a ready answer and it was easy to tell him that I was not particularly well suited to activism.  But even as I said it, I knew it was a weak answer and it felt weak and it hung at the kitchen table between us for sometime before we could forget just how weak it was.</div>
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Sunday's dream, the one I had asked for but not been especially happy to receive, brought all of that back.  It occurred to me that this dream (since I had after all asked) could well be the answer to my question about my life path but I had no intention of accepting an answer I didn't want without a fight.  I decided that the  dream could well be a simple coincidence and that if it was not coincidental  it should stand up to a test.   </div>
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On Monday night, I tried again.  I asked "Where is my path in Spirit leading?"  And then counting my son's question as a possible first sign and the dream of the previous night as a second, I said something I suspected I might regret.  "If you give me a third sign, I'll do it." </div>
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My dream that night was simple but clear.  In it, I saw the work "animals" spelled out against a dark field in bright blue light bulbs.  I woke up sometime before dawn and wrote the dream down.  Later on in the kitchen I told it to my son.  He laughed.  "So you asked for a sign," he said, "and you literally got one?"  "Yes," I said feeling a little annoyed.  "I guess that I did."</div>
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I realized that, in the true nature of true spiritual sign, this one could be looked from more than one angle. Blue is my color - the one that I sought and was shown in the amazing <a href="http://thenewagereview.blogspot.com/2010/08/most-remarkable-dream.html" target="_blank">dream of spirit</a> that changed the entire trajectory of my life.  I find blue symbolic of communication and spirit and the messages given to me by my guides.  The other elements felt symbolic as well.  Light is a word I use for the work we do here.  For want of a better understanding, it is the stuff of spirit and the spark that makes us who we are.   Animals touch my soul and move me to tears.  And the single word answer, like every other answer spirit has ever given me, is not a full answer.  Instead it is just the next step.  But I have learned that this step - our next one - is fundamentally and eternally the most important step we can take.  </div>
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Is it my mission to be an activist or to write about animal rights?  Is it a merely a part of mission?  A task on the list?  A piece of my karma?  Or is it what I have been sent here to do?</div>
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I can't answer those questions but I can make the call.  By the end of the week, I will find out what I can do to volunteer.  This is the next step on my path for reasons I don't quite understand.  I don't know where it will take me and I don't know how far.  But it is the step, as I am given it, and there is one thing I know for sure:  We take the steps spirit gives us one by one, yard by yard and mile by mile until we end up just exactly where we need to be.</div>
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Wishing everyone clarity and the clear guidance of spirit in the coming year.</div>
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Love & Light,</div>
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Barbara<br />
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To read about Moss's Five Ways to Break a Dream Drought please check out my next post!</div>

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