see it on YouTube 

Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl

 “Sweet Thing”

Van’s eloquent vocal scrawl through distant lyrics, winds ’round
His rumbling, strong rhythm guitar
As it punctuates the melody like his familiar growl.

He conducts with it – with precision of dynamic volume, rhythm, and power
   While Tony Fitzgibbon weaves like a big boxer, dancing with his ecstatic violin,
      climbing heights of bliss

And Van leads us to the mountaintop
   with his intricate melodic poetic chanting
      alongside Richie Buckley’s ringing, bell-like flute
         and Roger Kellaway’s riverine piano.

We shall walk and talk in gardens
Misty wet, misty wet with rain
Darlin’ and I shall never grow so old again . . .

Jay Berliner rocks the cradle of melody, counterpoint, and rhythm on lead guitar,
Until Van guides us out of the garden and into goodbye
With his chugging, train-growling harmonica chants ―
    . . . sugar baby, sugar baby . . .

Happy Birthday Van,
may you live long and strong
and your music last forever.

A thousand years from now,
   hoboes round a campfire
      and masters in their dimensions
will be remembering you
   and yearning to re-create
      this Heaven on Earth.

Your music does not ever leave us!
We will never forget you.

Lyrics © Van Morrison                   text © Denise Schultz 2009

(seeking a better credit line for his copyright,
try www.vanmorrison.com, www.amazon.com  to buy this DVD or album of a lifetime, and look for his upcoming documentary, To Be Born Again, to be released in early 2010)

Sent 4.3.08

To Raphael, who responded to my request for help with Local Sidereal Time conversion errors (I had noticed that the software was not correct because it was returning the same LST for San Francisco and Seattle). LST was being converted because a Palo Alto study showed a much higher % of psychic success (hits) at LST 13:30.

Dear Raphael,

Thank you for responding to my email about the LST conversion software having some possible errors. I would like to summarize my understanding of the LST time, so you can share it with the astronomer, (and possibly the researchers from the original Palo Alto study) and correct me where necessary. [Some of the most fun stuff is at the bottom, so hang in there*] This is what I understand, and when requested explained portions of it to the 60 people whom I helped with their conversions:

Planetary time is based on the rotation of the earth spinning around its axis (the line between the North and South Poles), while it is in orbit around the Sun. So the 24 hour planetary time is in relation to the spinning, which causes night and day as different portions of the planet turn to face the sun every day. And the months of the year are caused by the orbiting around the Sun, while that tilt in the axis (a tilt in relation to the flat plane in which the ellipse of the Earth’s orbit of the Sun occurs) causes the equinoxes and solstices to be opposite above and below the equator. [Last year a friend of mine moved from Mt. Shasta back to Australia in September, getting spring and summer, followed by spring and summer - what a deal!]

LST time is based on the orbit of our Solar System around the center of our galaxy. So the longitude as well as the latitude has to be figured in, because we are not talking about a situation where the Earth axis creates hourly bands of identical time from the North Pole to the South Pole, but a situation where each spot on Earth is centered under the center of the Milky Way along both a ‘vertical’ and a ‘horizontal’ line intersecting on the surface of the Earth, at a certain time of day. [That is why I was sure there was an error in the conversion software when it returned the same answer for the LST in Northern California and Seattle.] The one part I did not get was that the time conversion was for 13:30. My first thought was that it would be a conversion at 12:00 LST. But maybe it is because of the tilt in the axis, that the center of the Milky Way is overhead of a given spot at 13:30 LST? Eeek, not sure. Thanks in advance for checking this with the astronomer and filling me in. Or was it just that 13:30 LST is the time when the tested psychic skills were accentuated, not necessarily that the center of the Milky Way was directly overhead?

It might be something analogous to the difference between the magnetic North Pole and ‘true North’. It seems to me that it is somewhat arbitrary that the biggest hunk of iron inside the Earth is pretty close to true North - it could have been somewhere else, and then it would have taken a lot longer for us to invent a really useful compass (!). So maybe whatever it is (in a physical or energetic sense) which causes psychic skills to be significantly boosted is not necessarily exactly at the center of the Milky Way. (‘Inquiring minds want to know’ ;-)

Since I work as a medical intuitive and animal communicator, this is more than academic curiosity for me.

The really fun part: In terms of physics, in animal communication, and medical intuitive and other psychic work, I believe that slower brain waves (Theta) somehow make it possible to connect with the holographic universal energy field which underlies everything. It is experientially clear to me that the whole universe is contained in each part of this holographic field, and that the whole can be accessed from any part, including from my brain, and/or my consciousness. The whole includes all time and space, though the resolution of my ‘instrument’ is not refined enough to be 100% thorough, precise, or correct. (That fits perfectly with the issue of resolution in any holograph – the smaller the piece, in this case me, the lower the resolution.)

I handle my imprecision or incompleteness by looking for things that stick out. I can afford to ignore normal function or structure (which would be an overwhelming overload of detail). I just look for what needs help. So it would really give me an edge, to know what (accurately converted) LST time would give me more precision. I don’t believe I can achieve an actual higher degree of resolution, since I am still going to be the ‘same-sized piece’ of the holographic energy field of the universe.

As I understand it now, my primary responsibility is to not fill in any detail I don’t see, don’t make any assumptions, just report what I get, and don’t jump to ‘logical’ conclusions. But this is not just an ethical consideration, I believe it is a technical function. At my level of focus (my resolution) presumably I am correct where I don’t extrapolate. But when I begin to do that (and it is typically the logical left brain that extrapolates, because it has not ‘had a turn’, while the intuitive right brain has just finished its ‘turn’) then my accuracy suffers. And it is not that the logical brain is lesser than the intuitive brain, it just has a different focus, scale, and resolution, and when you start mixing information from different orders of magnitude, it gets messy - and inaccurate.

Thanks for knocking some ideas around with me here, and I hope you will forward this to the astronomer and/or Palo Alto psychic researchers, so I can get some clarification too. At least I know the questions I want to ask!

Blessings of the day, Denise Schultz

© Denise Schultz 2008-2009

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Denise’s Marketing Manifesto

I don’t believe in the dualistic thinking of marketing based on competition and scarcity. 

I believe there are enough customers for everyone, and there is enough work for everyone.  I believe there are enough ideas to overcome any roadblocks.  If you lived in Ireland a few hundred years ago, peat moss was the top of your technology for heating, and it was finite.  In other times and places it has been wood, now oil, now wind and solar.  Even if we can’t get by with those, we may learn to harness the power of wave motion in oceans and lakes, or something better will be discovered.  So I release the concept of scarcity, and the competition which it justifies.

I don’t care how many people disagree with me, or who disagrees with me.  I don’t even care if I’m wrong, and competition is the only way to survive and thrive in the marketplace. 

I walk my path in this life intending to contribute not just to the world I do live in, but intending to contribute to the kind of world I want to live in.  I am not going to waste my time trying to support a system whose time is past. 

Do you want to know why we have wars on this planet?  It might be because our entire infrastructure of making a living is based on a war metaphor, dualism, and scarcity. 

Competition = I win, you lose. 

Maybe it is time for us to look beyond this.  I believe we have been in a very long era where it did not matter how much ethics we had, if we did not have power.  I believe we are now moving into an era where it will not matter how much power we have if we do not have ethics. 

If you question this, consider the worst difficulties of both Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.  In both difficulties, their lack of ethics overcomes their enormous power. 

The one part of the business class marketing map which ideally serves a new paradigm, one based on alliance and cooperation, is “My Market Niche”.  We can use our unique features and benefits not only to attract customers to ourselves, but to refer customers to others, in their unique niches, creating a powerful network of allies in business. 

Consider this: did you ever go into a store and they referred you to a ‘competitor’ if they could not serve you?  How did that make you feel?  “The customer is #1,” (not the bottom line).  Did it make you look forward to doing business with them in the future?

Take it one step further.  When you went to their competitor, did you tell them who referred you?  This encourages the network of business allies, rather than suffering in the dog-eat-dog marketplace.  

Competition will not disappear, but cooperation could begin to come forward.  This is not foolishness or weakness.  It is the beginning of a much stronger, more sustainable economy, marketplace, and lifestyle, one which I want to bring forth.

How about you? 

© Denise Schultz 2006 – 2009

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I am here as a loving component of the Divine.

I am open to my I AM presence, and abundance, and prosperity fill every erg, cell, and light of my being.

The Divine lives in me and I live in the Divine.

We swim together in the active ocean of everlasting peace.

I float there, completely relaxed, and Shining!

With Albert’s help, I am releasing all constrictions.

While releasing all past constrictions, indeed releasing all the past, my DNA is restored fully.

I feel my heart beating in the heart of Gaia/God/Source/All That Is.

Each one of us, indeed all of us, are set free, floating in a nourishing vibrant sea of you and me, together in the Divine Heart of All Being.

What flows through one flows through all ― we open our connections to Divine Abundance and Prosperity, and release all our constrictions of poverty, want, need, even ‘need to know’ (and ‘need to no’).

All is full in our being.

Once Abundance and Joy have filled us, and expanded our receiving portal, we have all and enough everlasting.

For the truth is, poverty, scarcity, lack of gratitude, and all lack are made of exactly the same substance as abundance, joy, prosperity, and gratitude. It is only our constriction that creates the difference.

Holy Spirit, I ask for this miracle: that my constrictions are completely relieved, that all Divine flow of Abundance can reach me, right now this minute and everlasting. I ask, intend, receive, allow, and accept this miracle. I am free, in Light, Love, Joy, Safety, and Harmony, now and everlasting.

 Namaste.

(c) Denise Schultz 2006 – 2009

[Albert is another whole story - ask me another day.  For now just go with it!]

These affirmations are crafted to be used with the Yuen Method of chi corrections, taught by Dr. Kam Yuen.  More on this soon. 

This is the free version of my blog – no donation buttons here – so if you wish to see more articles and/or donate, please check my main blog site at www.deniseschultz.com .   I have gone 'off the grid' in a big way in order to create this material. Your secure PayPal $ donations make it possible for me to continue to do this. We can lift each other together, through the power of collective intent and $ donations. From the many to each other, in even a tiny way, can create big shifts. So please share Consider This . . . with anyone else you want to consider these connections and insights.

What about proof? The best proof is for me to work directly with you and your animal. It helps to be open-minded. Being focused on proof is putting the cart before the horse. If you wanted to know if someone could drive a car, no amount of talk­ing about it would prove it to you. You would want to see them do it. Listen to what I hear from your animal first, then decide if it is true. Wondering whether I’m for real or not is taking focus off of the animal. If you can listen to what is coming from them first, and assess that for authenticity, it won’t matter so much what I do. I am not the point here, this is about the connection between you and your animal.

How do you do it? I do it by a practiced form of awareness of physical and energy sensations. This is very much highlighted by using Reiki, a form of energy work. Modern physicists say, and I believe, that there is an underlying holographic field that connects everything. Through the Reiki, I become more sensitive to that field. Because the field is everywhere, I can work over the phone and the animal need not be present with me or you. Then I can share the feelings, thoughts, and sensations the animal wishes to commu­ni­cate. The animal will show me sensations they are feeling, either in my hands or sometimes an ‘echo’ in a specific area in my own body. Because my sensations are so strong, I often start with describing their physical feelings. This gives them a little chance to get used to talking with me, and from there I can work into other areas.

Why should a vet try working with an animal communicator? Most often I work directly with the client and the animal. But there are definite advantages for the vet, even if the report is third hand from the client’s notes of our ses­sion with the animal. Is it possible that a vet’s reliance on only what he or she can personally observe could be a limited picture? After all, that’s why they use standard medical tests, like X-rays and blood tests. The animal com­mu­ni­cates to me what they feel (symptoms). If a report of the symptoms is available, shouldn’t the vet get that report? Even a second hand report from me, which could be inaccurate or incomplete, would be for the vet to assess, just as an MD does with a human patient. It is not necessary for you or the vet to believe in animal communication, telepathy, or clairvoy­ance in order to assess the results. You have all your time with the animal, and the vet has all their training, skills, and experience, to decide if animal communica­tion is help­ful. Why not try it, rather than assuming (without proof) that it is not possible?

Will my animal tell you embarrassing things about me? Usually not. They have a sense of what you are comfortable sharing, because they notice when you get tense. If you do, they tend to avoid that area. Also some things that are embarrassing to you don’t even show up on their radar, so they would never even think to bring it up. They are too busy talking about what matters to them.

How many sessions does it take? Most often we do one session. Within that time, we discuss what might help the physical or behavioral situation. I often give referrals to other practitioners (traditional, alternative, and holistic). If you follow through, it is much more likely to help. I offer a free 10-minute check-in after an hour session (same animal, same issue), in case a brief follow-up will help work things out. Sometimes clients check back with me several times a year, for ongoing support or when new issues arise. In a few cases, usually with very ill or dying animals, I provide more frequent support. At those stressful times, it may be harder than usual for you to hear what they are saying. I work both to support the animal di­rectly, and to let you know where your insight and communication is accurate, so you can trust your own awareness as much as possible.

None of us is small or simple ― we are all enormous and fascinating. ~DS

We are ALL communicators.

Communication is too important to be left to specialists. I want to help you be better able to communicate with your animal family: you are there every day. We can learn to calibrate ourselves to recognize who is saying what. It is good for all of us to get more practice and experience with it, for the enrichment of all our relationships. In matters of serious illness or other problems, it can be good to have a neutral party help with the listening.

How can you even find out one thing? Many people believe that there is a sort of blank nothingness out of which we struggle to get even one piece of information. It is actually the opposite: everything is there, all the information about everything! It is more like trying to pick out one conversation in a crowded, noisy train station. So focus is important.

Why try animal communication? People often consult me about their animals because of:

v mysterious physical issues,

v animals with behavioral difficulties, and

v no-one else has been able to help.

The missing piece is often what the animal knows, believes, or has to say, to you, your vet, other animals in the family, etc. When people find it difficult to communicate with their animals, two reasons stand out: it has served our culture well not to listen to animals; we are trained to block out that direct connection at least part of the time. Also, when you are a stakeholder in an issue, many feelings can get in the way of your understanding what’s being said. As an animal communicator I help you to hear each other.

© Denise Schultz 2009

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Out here, among the stars, we have a lot to ‘consider’. I have been a writer since I was four, so I have fifty years of musings to pour forth for you. I am a generalist who was raised by a generalist. I find specialization to be a toxic wrong turn in the evolution of consciousness. I am trained and inclined to look for the ‘meta level’ of understanding and to deconstruct conventional wisdom in search of a better way.

 More than anything, I seek to present a compelling, magnetic, high level of vibration. I don’t live in a material universe, I live in a vibrational universe. I will be moderating comments with that in mind and heart. Like so many of us, I want to reach the ‘hundredth monkey’ effect of healing our consciousness and our lives, right now, in my own lifetime. I want the thousand years of peace (and longer!) to begin NOW! We are universe-building here. In the past, we have not been in the practice of raising vibration, so much as we have been in the process of exploring whatever was in front of us. This is a sandbox of raising vibration. Come play in a new way!

This is the free version of my blog – no donation buttons here – so if you wish to see more articles and/or donate, please check my main blog site at www.deniseschultz.com .

I have gone 'off the grid' in a big way in order to create this material. Your secure PayPal $ donations make it possible for me to continue to do this. We can lift each other together, through the power of collective intent and $ donations. From the many to each other, in even a tiny way, can create big shifts. So please share Consider This . . . with anyone else you want to consider these connections and insights.