Celestial Reflections

I get the sense that logic isn't Pastor Worley...

2012-05-24T13:33:10.486-04:00

I get the sense that logic isn't Pastor Worley's long suit. His parishioners, it would seem, suffer from a similar disability.

His proposed genocide is flawed. Same sex couples...

2012-05-24T12:20:19.150-04:00

His proposed genocide is flawed. Same sex couples have NEVER been able to reproduce. Where exactly did this moron think gay people originated from? Homosexuals are born from straight couples. Now what's he gonna do?
This man makes me angry.

Interesting. I took another look this morning and ...

2012-05-02T07:08:52.583-04:00

Interesting. I took another look this morning and found that my comment was again showing as being in moderation. Curiouser and curiouser. I have to admit this whole thing has taken on a darkly fascinating quality.

@ Mixelle, Yeah, my back is killin' me. It kee...

2012-03-26T17:45:44.322-04:00

@ Mixelle, Yeah, my back is killin' me. It keeps going into spasm. And the sun is way too bright and it makes my head all mushy.

Another set of earthquakes off the coast in Mexico, too, today. It looks like a 6.0 and couple of aftershocks around 5.0. Crazy world. Someone oughta sell tickets.

This morning I felt like i got hit by a truck. As ...

2012-03-26T13:41:35.884-04:00

This morning I felt like i got hit by a truck. As well as just feeling off and unusually emotional & agitated. My back, all the way up my spine is just a mess. I was doing some very light yoga, and the thought came to me that there must be some kind of major earth shift going on and you popped into my mind, wondering if you were feeling the same thing. If you were glued to your heating pad as well. And then on go on the the computer and there's an article by you. hehe..

Super interesting interview. I'm so buying thi...

2012-03-23T18:34:24.561-04:00

Super interesting interview. I'm so buying this book.

Massive solar flare hitting today. I'll just t...

2012-03-08T07:33:53.473-05:00

Massive solar flare hitting today. I'll just throw this here:

"A massive solar flare that erupted from the sun late Tuesday (March 6) is unleashing one of the most powerful solar storms in more than five years, a solar tempest that may potentially interfere with satellites in orbit and power grids when it reaches Earth."

@Kingkok, I hadn't heard about the thing in Af...

2012-03-05T07:23:08.825-05:00

@Kingkok, I hadn't heard about the thing in Africa. Geez Louise. It cut off access in 6 countries. That's a pretty big hole in the swiss cheese. And then there's this:

"There are claims that the cable was intentionally sliced as three other cables were also cut in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti just days beforehand."

Thanks for the info. (more here)

Great and informative post. It has succinctly orga...

2012-03-05T00:05:01.289-05:00

Great and informative post. It has succinctly organized all my thoughts I've been having and researching about 2012. (by the way, you write "20012" by accident in your post).

I can't wait to see what the data gap may be, and unfortunately so, have been neglecting my day to day duties in order to keep up with everything that is going on in the world today.

I hope that the internet cables that were cut by the ship in Africa is not a precursor to the eventual shutdown of the internet. If it is, I will finally stop feeling as though I am crazy or "conspiracist", and if nothing happens I still have plan B. Signs are pointing to it though. Anonymous, FBI, NASA all talking about some sort of outage of some sort—electric grid, trojan.

"Beware the Ides of March" — Shakespeare in the play of Julius Cesar (In context, Julius Cesar was told he would die sometime in the middle of march, but he was so proud he did not believe that it would come true).

@daveyboy... aka Druff, Censoring dissent? No. Rem...

2011-12-12T20:33:20.435-05:00

@daveyboy... aka Druff, Censoring dissent? No. Removing content-free, name-calling spew? Bet on it.

lol deleting comments, censoring dissent? So you c...

2011-12-12T19:47:53.563-05:00

lol deleting comments, censoring dissent? So you can target scammers but others cannot target you as a scammer?

@Lee Kuan, And you apparently don't think it&#...

2011-12-12T16:38:23.185-05:00

@Lee Kuan, And you apparently don't think it's worth your time to read what I've already written on James Ray and this case. It's over a hundred posts and does address every specious argument you can invent. But you are not interested in anyone else's reasoning. You don't listen. You only talk.

Your style is very recognizable as is your relentless focus on the Hamiltons. Further repetitive posts will be deleted.

But it is worth your time to accuse me of being so...

2011-12-12T15:29:12.634-05:00

But it is worth your time to accuse me of being someone else. You don't have an answer, period, because Angel Valley had NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER for not doing more to help those people when THEY KNEW Mr Ray wanted the sweat lodge hotter than ever before. What special precautions did Angel Valley take? NONE WHATSOEVER!!!! The owners of Angel Valley should be in jail with James Arthur Ray!!!

@Lee Kuan: "Hey, point out the flaws in my r...

2011-12-12T14:15:26.081-05:00

@Lee Kuan:

"Hey, point out the flaws in my reasoning..."

I already have, in pages and pages of analysis of the trial and the attendant issues. I'm not going to waste my time repeating myself in a dialog with your endlessly repetitive self.

"The dishonorable simply will not agree with me."

Wow... Why not say what you mean: Those who disagree with you are dishonorable.

No. Definitely not worth my time.

Angel Valley owner Mr Hamilton KNEW many of the th...

2011-12-12T11:30:41.949-05:00

Angel Valley owner Mr Hamilton KNEW many of the things in Connie Joy's book; IF NOT ALL OF THEM! So someone tell us what possible excuse Mr Hamilton could have for not making ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN his sweat lodge was being used properly. What excuse does he have for not having emergency personnel on hand for those two hours? Connie Joy would not answer this question and NEITHER WILL YOU! If there were signs by the third round that things were going badly the people of Angel Valley should have taken action RIGHT THEN!!! Instead they waited and three people died. Mr Ray was no sweat lodge expert. Why didn't Angel Valley have a REAL sweat lodge expert and emergency personnel on duty for those two hours? What was so important that Angel Valley owner Mr Hamilton didn't even bother to go down to the sweat lodge for the entire event? What was more important than making absolutely certain everything was okay at the sweat lodge? Valid questions YOU should be asking, people!

Hey, point out the flaws in my reasoning and I wil...

2011-12-12T11:23:35.070-05:00

Hey, point out the flaws in my reasoning and I will change it. How about you? Are we equals? Will you change your reasoning if it is proven to be flawed? I doubt it. The dishonorable simply will not agree with me. That's just the way it is.

@SamStone aka Sarah Connor, aka Lee Kuan... This n...

2011-12-11T21:25:37.263-05:00

@SamStone aka Sarah Connor, aka Lee Kuan... This new line of reasoning of yours was specious when you posted it here and it's specious now. Get. A. Life.

Okay, for a moment, lets pretend that the families...

2011-12-11T19:45:28.902-05:00

Okay, for a moment, lets pretend that the families of the three who died are all scam artists who wanted to take James Arthur Ray for every penny they could get? Just for a moment let's pretend this is the absolute truth. If they were scam artists how would they go about taking Mr Ray for every penny they could get?
BY DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID!!!
That's how
On the one hand they would have you believe those three were GREAT WARRIORS and at the very same time they want you to believe they should have been treated like irresponsible children who can't decide for themselves and, here's the thing, the suckers fell for it!
Make no mistake about this: When truly GREAT WARRIORS say they are going to take full responsibility for their actions at ANY EVENT that is what they do and they don't need to sign any agreement to keep that promise. By breaking the agreement those three supposed "warriors" made with Mr Ray they have proven them to be lying phonies who were always ready to break ANY PROMISES if they felt they could make a lot of money by doing so.

Sean's disturbing cop-out answer to my private...

2011-12-08T11:23:01.043-05:00

Sean's disturbing cop-out answer to my private email with question above-

'God bless everyone involved.

Be well,
Sean'

Hello Sean Stephenson, I am curious to know your o...

2011-12-06T22:27:27.848-05:00

Hello Sean Stephenson,
I am curious to know your opinion on James Ray's handling of the sweatlodge ordeal. We have learned through witness testimony-
'They did say “She’s passed out, she’s passed out, I don’t know if she’s breathing” and he said “The door has now closed and this round has begun, we’ll deal with that at the end of this round.”
We also learned that after the ceremony as two people lay dead, one dying, and 15 more injured, that James proceeded to go take a shower and eat a sandwich. When the police came to question him, his response was "Right now?" Also, apparently, besides the one conference call with the participants, we learned that that was the end of his communications with them. He did not contact any of the families of those dead or injured.

I'm also curious to know your opinion of the deadly conditions of the sweatlodge, i.e.; the plastic tarps, the extreme heat, his encouraging people to stay in when they wanted to leave, which is all contrary to Native American ways..which, even though he was offered guidance by them on the proper ways to conduct a sweat, he turned them down.

And of course, we know that Colleen Conway's death was swept right under the carpet, and her family was left to discover on their own that she had committed suicide.

I realize that you are close friends with him, I understand that you believe in God (so do I). That aside, I would like to hear your earnest opinion of his handling of these situations.

@Fake “Dr” Sean Stephenson, This looks like a rer...

2011-12-05T16:33:47.195-05:00

@Fake “Dr” Sean Stephenson,

This looks like a rerun of the exchange I heard about between you and a few others on face book. Is it true that you finished up deleting a whole lot of your abusive comments there? You probably wish you could delete them from here too, as all you did was highlight some more fakery on your website and show that you can't justify your support for James Ray.

You have clearly demonstrated that you consider it perfectly in order for a teacher to cook people to death and try and evade the consequences, and that it is perfectly in order to hound a participant their death and then cover it up by lying to police, lying to other participants and lying to medical staff.

Further, Ray's own defense based largely on the idea that James Ray was unfit to be leading the ceremony, and was under no obligation to provide the services he was paid for.

Those are the professional standards that you endorsed in court, “Dr” Stephenson. Thank you for making that so clear about yourself.

Also, on my reading, what LaVaughn offered you was not “feedback” on how you “present your credentials on your website”. Rather, she caught you lying about your credentials. And you will not be “making changes” due to this “feedback”; rather you will be retracting a lie after you got caught out. What is NLP-speak for “getting your butt kicked”?

You should print a clear retraction notice on your site and a shamefaced link to this article as the source of the correction you failed to make yourself.

Incidentally, you shouldn't be surprised if you face criticism for supporting a four time killer. And if you can't justify that support and have even been exposed as a liar yourself, you are not really in the position to lecture people on forgiveness.

Wow. Thanks for exposing yet another smarmy fraud,...

2011-12-05T16:10:50.022-05:00

Wow. Thanks for exposing yet another smarmy fraud, LaVaughn, and one so publicly at that. I find it interesting (if not really sad) that you got him rattled enough to engage in this sad public defense that you utterly eviscerate with fact. Thank you, and thank you.

(Jeffrey Hammond, husband of Kristina Bivins)

@Sean, A couple of things: "When you find an...

2011-12-05T14:35:52.942-05:00

@Sean, A couple of things:

"When you find an accredited University that gives an accredited degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy, you let me know. But for now, the traditional institutions that you believe are the ALL POWERFUL in "deeming legitimacy" are not caught up to speed on the healing properties of hypnosis."

There is no such entity. That's my point. And, I repeat, if you had simply presented yourself as a hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, I'd have no problem with it. The problem is that you present yourself as having a doctorate. You present yourself as having credentials you can't claim in the United States and can't legally claim in a number of states, including Illinois.

"I find it interesting you keep putting me under the microscope when I don't see any of your credentials clearly posted on what you do? A "Psychic Intuitive," and you're worried about what I do? Find me an institution in the Federal Government that deems that you are licensed, board certified, or any other fancy title that is legitimate for your career."

The difference is this: Nowhere have I claimed to have a degree in any of it because there are no degrees to be had. I'm completely transparent about what training I've had and it's up to people to decide whether that's meaningful to them. Obviously, there are no certifying bodies for a psychic intuitive and I've never implied in any way that there are.

As for the revisions, check back next week Monday....

2011-12-05T13:05:26.724-05:00

As for the revisions, check back next week Monday.

That reporter in the Washington Post was accurate, at the time I was pursuing a PhD, and then switched my degree program years later to a DCH. So at the time it was accurate. But it will be a good idea for me to put an * next to that quote with more detail. Thank you for that heads up.

When you find an accredited University that gives an accredited degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy, you let me know. But for now, the traditional institutions that you believe are the ALL POWERFUL in "deeming legitimacy" are not caught up to speed on the healing properties of hypnosis.

I find it interesting you keep putting me under the microscope when I don't see any of your credentials clearly posted on what you do? A "Psychic Intuitive," and you're worried about what I do? Find me an institution in the Federal Government that deems that you are licensed, board certified, or any other fancy title that is legitimate for your career.

Currently the states I practice hypnotherapy don't even have a licensing process, if they did...I'd be pursuing that. Again, I'm not your target. I appreciate your need to keep people transparent, and I will continue to strive to offer the general populous the best records and qualifications needed to do what I do.

If I wanted to I could call myself a Life Coach. I've considered it to avoid the obnoxious run-around I occasionally encounter (referring to you). However what I do is legal, legitimate, and I am helping millions of people (through TV, the net, my office visits, books, and video programs). I've lived a clean, moral, and ethical life to the best of my abilities and yet there are still many who can't sleep until they find something to pick on. Such is life.

Here's the funny part about this all, I'm interested in your field, Psychic Intuitive. I would probably enjoy conversing with you, and would appreciate a friendship with you. Sadly you only wanted to spread bashing remarks about me and my credentials. Have you not studied compassion, love, or human relations at all? If you had, you'd put your effort on healing the planet from the trajedy in Sedona. You'd post comments and blogs on forgiveness, on releasing the ego from judging your enemy, and seeing the other side. Ah well. My guess is I could produce every shred of evidence you request and it still would never be enough. You're mad at me for being a friend of James, and sharing my experience of him. And I understand that. I do hope that my comments have made some positive impact on your concerns.

Be well,
Sean

So you're NOT going "discuss" or &qu...

2011-12-05T12:17:34.665-05:00

So you're NOT going "discuss" or "answer" my questions and concerns and you're deflecting the responsibility for that onto me. For the record, I'm not any "war-path" and I have no interest in "silencing" anyone. I believe far too strongly in the First Amendment for that. That's a pretty wild assumption on your part... or a straw man. Take your pick. I've also never said you weren't qualified to help people. But the people who choose to work with you deserve transparency about what your actual training and credentials are. If you called yourself a hypnotherapist and an NLP practitioner, I, for one, would have nothing to say about it -- the deceptive practices of Bennett/Stellar aside. But when you call yourself a Doctor and a psychotherapist and let people -- like a reporter from the Washington Post, for instance -- misconstrue your credentials, it looks an awful lot like fraud to me. And, not for nothin', but if you were going to "bust [your] rear" for a doctorate, why not go to a legitimate school instead of one that's a punchline? Why not go the normal route? You know, get a masters degree like you're supposed to and then a get a doctorate... from accredited schools. Because when people see Dr. in front of someone's name, they assume that's what they've done... but I think you know that.

Anyway... I'm not surprised that you would have preferred to address my "concerns" privately, via email. But I prefer to address publicly available information posted by people I don't know publicly. Besides. I suspect you would have deflected and obfuscated via email just as you've done here, if you'd answered me at all.

I look forward to seeing your revisions. Do you have an ETA on that?