I have been to this several times - great art and music and interesting people.

Playa del Fuego is Burning Man festival in Delaware - a celebration of 
the spirit of radical self-expression, community, and participation. And 
plenty of music and fire art! Playa del Fuego is the burning event of 
the Mid-Atlantic Region.  The Fall 2009 event will take place this 
October Columbus Day weekend,(10/08-10/12) from Thursday 5 pm through 
Monday noon. Tickets are $35 for 4 days (what a deal!) for camping. The 
cut off for online tickets is Tuesday, Sept. 8th at 9pm. FYI Tickets often sell out with in 10 minutes of the posting time 9pm. 

More info at
http://www.playadelfuego.org/

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I will be teaching a Shamballa unconditional love healing workshop on Saturday 9/12/09 and Sunday 9/13/09.

Shamballa is a healing and ascension method. It clears blocks in our heart and other charkas so that more love energy can flow. This lets you doing healing work more powerfully and to feel connected to source more easily.

The main purpose of these clearings and initiations are for your own evolutionary development. As you evolve, you make it easier for the rest of humanity to follow in your footsteps. You help the collective consciousness—and unconsciousness—of humanity to expand and grow into the consciousness of Love. As a by-product, you may call upon the Shamballa energies to help facilitate healing, both your own and that of others.

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I will be doing a Shamballa unconditional love healing meditation at the Matrix practice group on Sunday 9/23/09. It is a free event.

Shamballa is a healing and ascension method that adds to your Matrix abilities. It clears blocks in our heart and other charkas so that more love energy can flow. This lets you doing healing work more powerfully and to feel connected to source more easily.

The main purpose of these clearings and initiations are for your own evolutionary development. As you evolve, you make it easier for the rest of humanity to follow in your footsteps. You help the collective consciousness—and unconsciousness—of humanity to expand and grow into the consciousness of Love. As a by-product, you may call upon the Shamballa energies to help facilitate healing, both your own and that of others.

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This workshop has been rescheduled to 4/17/10

Tantra is an ancient form of Yoga and is unlike most forms of Yoga today it is non-postural yet it activates, clears and balances the Chakras (energy centers) of the body.  When these centers are balanced, you feel more alive; you look more attractive and sexy, you manifest what you desire.

Tantra originates from 6000 year old Egyptian, Indian, and Tibetan practices that teach us what our bodies are capable of: more pleasure, agelessness.

Wouldn’t you want these benefits if you found the practices quick and easy?

Learn something new and transform your life.  

9/20 - Bliss Beginner’s Tantra Intensive – Baltimore/DC area

Times: Sunday 10am-7pm

Cost: $260 (this includes Cobra breath, DVD, handouts and online egroup). Special offer-2-for the price of 1 with purchase of Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy book.           

Location: Home of Michael Smith in Rockville – address given when you register

To register call: (202) 686-7440 or for more info www.butterflyworkshops.com

Laurie Handlers is a spiritual leader and dynamic speaker.  She holds a Masters degree in Education and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology.  She has taught Butterfly Tantra workshops for women, men, couples and singles since 1999.  She is an international presenter and workshop leader and has been featured in articles, on radio and TV in the United States and abroad. You can order her Shamanic Release & Latihan CD her Bliss: Beginner’s Tantra DVD or her new book Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy on her website below. You can catch pod casts of her radio show at www.tantracafe.com.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Laurie's Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy book:

• “If I could distill all my advice about Tantra and sex into one sentence, that sentence would be, Make love in the unknown. In answer to all your fears and doubts about sex, I’d simply say to you, bring back your beginner’s mind. Come to the bedroom with no expectation. Come with openness in your heart for whatever happens.”
•  “In Tantra you'll feel more peaceful, more tolerant, more aware of the world that has nothing to do with doing; everything to do with being.”
• “Intimacy with another requires first and foremost coming to peace with your own emotional and physical needs.”
• "Through Tantra, the power of sexual energy is able to render transformation."

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The hugging saint Amma will be in DC 7/12-13/09 this year. I have been to the event last years. It is free - I think about 10,000 people come over the two days for hugs. Each person gets an individual hug. A hug
you might ask - what is all the fuss? For me it was a transformative experience of unconditional love that has lasted ever since. All lots of cool people, Indian CDs, jewerly and clothing. Vegan food is served at low prices.

More info at
http://www.ammadc.org/

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The Philadelphia Experiment (PEX) 7/3/09- 7/5/09 takes place at Camp Ramblewood. $110 before May 31st. Some similarities to Burning Man or PDF with some cool workshops.
http://pexsummerfestival.com/

What the site says:

"The PEX Summer Festival is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional music and arts celebration! This will be a place for harmony amongst joyful adventurers in self-exploration. On July 4th weekend, we are looking forward to our largest collaborative effort to date in the gathering of like minds and compassionate spirits. We will be uniting for three days and nights of amazing music, art, education, dance, participatory shared experience and conscious connection on 200 acres of private land, just one hour south of Philadelphia.

Some of the workshops:

Andrew Newberg, M.D.
Creativity, Spirituality, and the Brain, Talk     Angela Boltz
The Yoga Trimurti, Workshop     Carlos Izaguirre.
Drumming, Workshop
      
Chad Benett
Staff & Poi, Workshops     Chad Doberstein
Boundaries & Pleasure Palace, Workshops     Conway Jennings.
Poi, Workshops
      
Daniel Pinchbeck
Beyond 2012, Talk     Denise Denise
Fire Performance Safety, Workshop     Eron Lloyd
Sustainable Economics, Talk
      
Gabrielle Casella
Yin & Yang Yoga/Chi-Kung, Yo-Fu, Workshops     Helene Finizio
Creativity, Spirituality, and the Brain, Talk     James Oroc
God in the Entheogenic Movement, Talk
      
Jen Alvarez
Hoop Dance, Workshops     Justicia
Thai Yoga Therapeutics, Workshop     Liana Cameris
Chi-MEETS-Prana, Workshop
      
Lina Luv
Cultivating the Gift of Fire, Workshop     Lucas Boyd
Double Staff & Poi, Workshops     Lucky
Staff, Workshops
      
Sandhi Ferreira
Workshop     Veronica Bound
Bondage & Spanking, Workshops     Xande Cruz.
Drumming, Workshop

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The GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL of Trance Dance, Drumming and cool Hippie friend stuff you might only find at Rainbow Gathering - Thursday, June 11th to Sunday, June 14th, 2009 is also at Camp Ramblewood. If you are going to FSG this is the weekend before FSG.
http://gaian-mind.com/2009/04/21/gaian-mind-summer-festival-thursday-june-11th-to-sunday-june-14th-2009-darlington-md-usa/

Join us for four days and three nights of Transcendental Dance in the open air – truly, a magical event which has established itself as the annual summer tradition for the global Trance Tribes! Currently in its eighth year, the Gaian Mind Summer Festival has hosted the world’s leading international talent from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, plus the finest national and regional talent from the USA, becoming the premier destination for hundreds of dancers from all over the world. The gathering includes a full weekend of spiritual dancing, tribal drumming, lectures and workshops, yoga, sweat lodge, swimming, relaxation, and much more at our spectacular, new location, Ramblewood!

MUSICAL:

GAIAN STAGE: Psytrance & Progressive Trance

VIBRASPHERE (Tribal Vision Records / Cloud 99 Music - Sweden) Live! Trance & Chillout Sets!
HALTYA (Exogenic Records / Planetaria Recordings – Finland) Live! First USA Appearance!
HEADROOM (Nano Records – South Africa) Live! First USA Appearance!
FLIP-FLOP (Alchemy Records – UK) Live! First USA Appearance!
HIGHPERSONIC WHOMEN (Exogenic Records / Planetaria Recordings – Finland) Live! First USA Appearance!
REV (Doof Records - Netherlands) Live & DJ! First USA Appearance!
HEMI-SYNC (Nano Records – UK) Live! First USA Appearance!
CHRIS HANSON (Alchemy Records - UK)
ADAM METCALFE (Nano Records - South Africa)
NIKI (Mighty Quinn Records - Japan)
ARAHAT (PsyCircle Records - San Diego)
MUKTI (Onetribe / Metameme - Denver)
DJane LONGSTOCKING (SyzygyArt / Godizus / Moonsun Records - Montreal)
KIFE (OmniTribe - NYC)
TANGLED LYSERGIC PUDDLES ON CELESTIAL THREADS (Warp Brain Records - Red Bank, NJ) Live!
EG~BOT (Gaian Mind / PSI - Philadelphia)
EITAN (Gaian Mind / Brain Busters - Japan)
KARMAKANIK (Gaian Mind / PSI - Philadelphia)
SOLOMOON (Gaian Mind / Metameme / Ultimae Records - Denver)
STEVE-O (Gaian Mind / GoaBabies - NYC)

MIND STAGE: Downtempo & Chillout

ANDROCELL (Celestial Dragon Records – CO) Live!
DISTANT SYSTEM (Celestial Dragon Records – CO) Live!
NAASKO (Interchill Records / COZ&FX – Nelson, BC) Chillout & A/V Trance Sets!
KILOWATTS (Gaian Mind / Native State Records – Philadelphia) Live!
ANIMALTEK (Elektrotribe Records / Living Records - NYC) Live!
ALIGNING MINDS (88 / Aleph Zero – DC) Live!
GRAINS OF SOUND (AlterCulture Records – Baltimore) Live!
PSYLAB (Sonic Beating / Circle Collective – Boston) Live!
NYXYSS (Church - NYC) Live!
BUDDHA BOMB (KGNU Radio / Family Moons / Onetribe / Rhythm Sanctuary - Boulder)
PAPA LEGBA (Celestial Dragon Records - Paducah, KY) Live & DJ!
NOD (TOUCH Samadhi / Those People / ATLPSY – Granite Falls, NC)
METAFORM & T.OM (TOUCH Samadhi / Onetribe - CO)
PROGRESS (AntiShanti Records - NYC) Live!
DAN COVAN (ELF’s – NYC) Live!
INDRA (Alphatrance / Omnitribe / Integral Yoga - NYC)
PRIMATE (COSM - NYC)
ANDREW LIGHT (Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
DEET (Gaian Mind - Philadelphia)
LAURYN (Gaian Mind / Peak Records - Philadelphia)
ORBICLES (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia)
TRITTON (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia)

VISUAL:

Visual Artists:
COZ&FX (Interchill Records - Nelson, BC)
PETER PARKER (Gaian Mind / Parkerism – Philadelphia)
GUI”AUM”ETRIX (Gaian Mind - NYC)
VOSTEK (Overmind Works – Tucson)
VJ EXERIS (AlterCulture Records - NYC / Baltimore)
BLIZZART (Omnitribe - NYC)
LEVITATION THEORY (Awake - CT)
ALCHEMISM (psyNY - NYC)

Deco Artists:
JULIEN S.L. (Pixie Dust – Montreal)
SONIC BEATING DECO (Sonic Beating - Boston)

CULTURAL:

Lectures & Workshops Featuring:
Evolver Salon featuring CHARLES EISENSTEIN
The Dance of Liberation by PARASHAKTI
History of Electronic Music by BUDDHA BOMB
What On Earth Is Happening? by MARK PASSIO
Interactive Art Party by PANADELPHIA
Morning & Evening Yoga Sessions
Poi, Hooping & Circus Arts
Alternative Energy, Mayan Calendar, and more!!!

Performances Featuring:
Blacklight Archetypal Dance Performance by ARCHEDREAM FOR HUMANKIND
Poetry Jam hosted by PLUMDRAGONESS & THE ELEMENTS
Ceremony & Performance by SEPHIROTH DANCE
Fire Performance, Live Painting, and more!!!

Plus:
Psy_Cinema 2.0
The Magic Theatre
Visionary Art Gallery
Community Altar

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Some folks have asked what the Death Urge is. (I mentioned it in my newsletter that I sent out yesterday and it is part of the Sandbox presentation on 4/1/09
http://abundantmichael.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/18/Wednesday-Gathering-in-Rockville--More-AlivePhyscial-Immortality-4109

We have a lot of subconscious beliefs or programming - from our parents, schools, churches, TV, radio, commercials and society in general. A lot of these believes hold us in a state of fear and victimhood. One of the beliefs is that we age, get sick and die. The belief that death is inevitable and beyond our control kills more people than all other causes of death combined. In fact, it kills approximately 2 % of the entire population on the planet every year.  Sigmund Freud wrote an essay on the unconscious death urge called Beyond the Pleasure Principle  and the founder rebirthing Leonard Orr's wrote a book "Breaking the Death Habit".

The Death Urge is similar in concept to the nocebo effect (the negative of the placebo effect - see http://skepdic.com/nocebo.html for more info). When a doctor or another trusted source tells someone that they will get sick or die the person will often do exactly that. If that sounds like Witch Doctors curing some one with vodoo that is because I think it works the same way - the physical body reacts to messages that we believe. If you are interested in the science behind this check out "The Biology of Belief" by Dr Bruce Lipton or the books by Candice Pert.

The flipside is that if we remove the negative programming we can be healthier and live longer. An extreme example of this is the study of breast cancer patient who were split into two groups. Each received the same medical treatment but the first group also joined a support group. The ones getting support (and I imagine helping in believing that the treatment would work) lived on average twice as long as the women in the other group.

What can we do about the Death Urge? The secret is in removing the death programming. There are many ways of releasing unconscious beliefs so that you can live a totally vibrant and joyful life without end. We will learn about some of them at the talk.

What messages I have noticed with a death urge message - ads on TV "selling" various diseases. Yes I know that they are advertising their medicines but to me the ads seem to be saying "Hey got this symptom? Then you have XYZ disease - go see your doctor and get our pills". Another one I have heard a friend say is "This job is killing me". What messages have you noticed either in ads or from friends talking?

BTW I have heard several reasons for folks coming to this event that I want to share with the group:

1. Physical immortality is possible now and investing an evening of time will pay off with an infinite return of happy and healthy years of life
2. Not sure if immortality is possible but it would be cool to live happily and healthy into my old age instead of being grumpy and sick.
3. Learning how to let of of negative thoughts, depression and suicidal thoughts would be great
4. Skeptical but at least I get to meet some interesting people
5. Anything that Laurie Handlers (Butterfly Tantra workshops) is into is mostly likely interesting and life changing

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on January 29th through 31st, Mark Perlstein, a Nutritional Consultant and Live Blood Microscopist, will be having appointments right here at my house to do the actual Live Blood Cell Analysis for YOU.  Does your blood look like

THIS:

OR THIS:

You can find out by making your appointment.  The charge is a minimal $50 which is very low compared to other testing facilities.  I had Mark test my blood last , and was amazed at what I saw under the microscope!

"Nutritional Cleansing is the safe, effective way of shedding unwanted impurities from the body.  Since the body stores fat to protect itself from these impurities, it can then eliminate the excess fat and lose the unwanted pounds and inches very quickly, within days in most cases.  These systems also work well with athletes, lean people, and anyone who is under stress, no matter their age."

Appointment slots are limited, so please don't delay, in securing yours.  Scheduling is being done by Glorie Magram on a first come - first served basis.  Please contact her at OGlorieGirl (at) aol.com and provide your e-mail address and phone number.

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Last year I had a great time at Playa del Fuego - this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9BZCVEnuW4&feature=related

shows what happens at PDF. Lots of free expression and art! I am in the video at about 1:25 minutes into in reading Green Eggs and Ham at the Cat in the Hat bus.

Playa del Fuego is Burning Man festival in Delaware - a celebration of the spirit of radical self-expression, community, and participation. And plenty of music and fire art! Playa del Fuego is the burning event of the Mid-Atlantic Region.  The Fall event will take place this October Columbus Day weekend,(10/9-10/13/08) from Thursday 5 pm through Monday noon. Tickets are $35 for 4 days (what a deal!) for camping. The cut off for online tickets is Friday, Sept. 14th at 9pm, but I believe you can still get them at the door.
More info at
http://www.playadelfuego.org/

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