From appetizer to dessert follow the trail each day to a scrumptious, compassionate Vegan Thanksgiving Feast!  Each day this week we’ll offer you another recipe or two to add to your holiday menu plan.  Make this a Thanksgiving to remember with recipes from  Vegan Fusion World Cuisine …recipes that will tantalize your taste buds, stimulate your senses and just plain make you feel good!

Vegan Holiday Menu

( new links will be added each day)

Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms ( Monday )
Organic Mixed Green Salad with Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette
Blue Corn Crusted Tempeh with Shiitake Mushroom Gravy ( Wednesday )
Acorn Squash with Wild Rice Pilaf ( Thursday )
Cranberry Sauce ( Thursday )
Pumpkin Pie with Dairy-free Maple Whip ( Friday )

Organic Mixed Green Salad with Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette

Pecan Vinaigrette

20 minutes / 3 ½ cups
1 C Water
1 C Pecans, toasted
½ C Safflower or sunflower oil
1 Tbl Maple syrup or agave nectar
5 tsp Apple cider vinegar, raw
1 Tbl Soy sauce, or to taste
¼ tsp Garlic, minced (optional)

1. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

Serve with a large organic mixed green salad with all of your favorite veggies such as tomato, cucumber, grated carrots, red onion slices, olives and more.

Tomorrow we will share the recipe for Blue Corn Crusted Tempeh with Shiitake Mushroom Gravy.

Recipe from Mark Reinfeld, Author, Vegan Fusion World Cuisine: Healing Recipes and Timeless Wisdom from our Hearts to Yours & The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw

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Please tune in November 12th, Wednesday, at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to www.healthylife.net when I present “The Healing Sounds Show”. My guests for this show will be Joshua Leeds.

Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher, educator, and music producer. He specializes in the field of psychoacoustics-the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system, and bioacoustics- how human sound affects other living beings. He is the author of Through A Dog’s Ear (2008), The Power of Sound (2001), and Sonic Alchemy (1997). His 30+ psychoacoustically designed recordings are used in homes, clinics, classrooms, and animal shelters around the world. Joshua teaches the therapeutic applications of music and sound to musicians, healthcare and education professionals around the world. Recent positions include New York Open Center and San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies. He resides in Ashland, Oregon. For further info online – JoshuaLeeds.com

Joshua has been a colleague and a friend for many years. I know this will be a most interesting and enjoyable show you won’t want to miss.

In addition, please join us for the December 10th Healing Sounds show when our guest will be Marcia Feldman, who will share her work using sound in hospice.

If you have a question and would like to be “live” on the air with us on the Healing Sounds show, here’s the audience call in telephone number: 800 – 555 – 5453

Please tune in to this Internet Radio Show Wednesday, November 12th, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net[ad#ad-1]

Guest post by Kay Snow-Davis: author of  Point of Power: A Relationship with Your Soul and  Wheel of Life Cycles: The Power of Love to Heal Your Life

America is an experiment, consciously or unconsciously generated. Can we really be a united nation of global citizens?

This question has generated movement, crisis, change, transformation, slavery, human rights issues, indigenous massacre, continental expansion, conscious evolution and immense questions.

Primarily, the question remains the same to this day; can we really be a united nation of global citizens? Now add the next factor, and can we create sustainable living, in this nation and on this home planet.

There is no force as great as an idea whose time has come.

Teilhard de Chardin,

The time has come for the next era/destiny of America to be demonstrated on this planet.

What might that look like? How will that manifest in America? In the world?

Let’s explore this together through the window of Soul Purpose Astrology.

First, let’s look at the cycles of Pluto, the planet and energy that works with the collective unconscious.

What does that mean? The movement of this energy is so slow that it is almost immeasurable until years later. We have to “look back” and see the wake of this penetration into the field of human consciousness; like the wake of the boat breaking the water in its forward movement.

The influence of this planet is so deep and subtle that the conscious minds, of most humans, other than our young children, do not associate with this movement. Yet the movement of Pluto on the unconscious field is like the deep currents of the ocean, always moving, discernable or not.

Let’s take a look at Pluto, starting from 1912 – 1938, when it was in the sign of Cancer. This is a WATER sign, ruled by the Moon. Water is the primary conductor of vibration/energy through thought, emotion and movement in any form. The ocean is always moving, in relationship to the Moon, subtle, powerful and variable.

During these years, when Pluto was in the sign of Cancer, most of the emotions of that generation were hidden/suppressed and held in place by guilt, shame, judgment and blame.

Now the Universal law on this planet is movement and change. What gets suppressed will get expressed, somewhere, some how.

Notice from 1912 – 1938, World War I started, the Great Depression came into expression and the seeds of World War II were planted. The whole world was influenced by the suppression/expression of emotions; generations paid the price, and still are emotionally, for that unnatural minimization and limitation.

From 1938 – 1958, Pluto moved into the FIRE sign of Leo, ruled by the Sun. All life seeks the LIGHT- the light of the Sun in our solar system. This was the era for expression: resist suppression, gain independent expression, “break free from the rules of society”, challenge the war, turn the women loose, – from their bras and the corporate glass ceiling, follow your passion……

Balance is the key in life. Pluto in Cancer was the breath IN….held and suppressed. Pluto in Leo became the breath OUT….no limits – with great passion for freedom of expression. Now that Pluto in Cancer and Pluto in Leo have been released from suppression through powerful expression – and a full breath in life is possible, balanced living is a potential, consciously unknown to humanity, and NOW is the time.

The next generation, born from 1958 – 1970, with Pluto in Virgo, is an EARTH sign ruled by Mercury, the messenger of the Gods.

Mercury has the ability to listen through the heart and receive the messages from the Universe and consciously actualize them as ideas and co-creation in daily life. This power is extremely accentuated during Mercury in retrograde. Does that answer your question why your mind can’t make all of the decision without some heart/emotional consideration during Mercury in retrograde?

Pluto in Virgo is a generation committed to use the potential for balance and create new structures and systems through compassion, cooperation and co-creation. This generation is committed to sustainable global living. They are born with an innate sense of cooperation and the need to apply that in relationship with all life.

Their visions and desires are centered on practical application of new systems and structures that will generate and promote sustainable global living on a local and international basis.

It will be about 246 years before Pluto returns to the same cycle in any sign it has been in. It takes that many years to complete a journey around the Zodiac. We have been witness to, or lived through some rare moments, since 1912, and are entering a new era of life on EARTH.

It is time to pass the torch of acquired wisdom from the Pluto in Cancer and Pluto in Leo generation, whether that is “what to do or what not to do” for the future generations. The majority of national leaders internationally are male and Pluto in Leo or a few Pluto in Cancer.

That torch must be pasted to the Pluto in Virgo generation to generate the new systems and structures necessary to facilitate sustainable global living. Our life, as a species, depends on these changes.

So we are back to our original question: Can we really be a united nation of global citizens?

Not only do I believe we can, I believe we must. As a “united nation” of global citizens emigrated from every nation in the world, if we cannot pull this off in this country called America, where else is this principle going to be practiced?

This is a BIG experiment and we are at a critical point of choice. Living together as a global family, sharing our HOME planet is a reality, not an option, unless you know of another planet that you intend to migrate to.

Have we grown up enough as a nation to recognize and fulfill our destiny/opportunity to practice sustainable global living, right here at home? To practice unifying our lives, instead of fighting for separation and exclusivity based on a myriad of illusions and delusions. To create new systems and structures that will promote and support sustainable global living.

Pluto just entered Capricorn in January 26 of 2008 and will be in that EARTH sign until 2024. Now WHAT???? Saturn, the stabilizer for our human experience, rules this EARTH sign. Saturn sustains us energetically in our Soul commitments and agreements, personally and collectively.

What are our Soul level commitments and agreements as a global family living on this HOME planet?

Very simple – live in harmony with all our relations on the only HOME we have, planet Earth.

Humans are the ONLY species living in disharmony on this HOME planet. We are guests on this beautiful, abundant EARTH. We are NOT part of the food chain, and our ONLY contribution to life on this planet is consciousness when aligned with the resonance of all life on this EARTH.

It appears with Pluto in Capricorn until 2024, we get 16 years to practice, Waking Up and Aligning with the planet that provides our breath, food and water.

Will you say YES, I CAN make a difference? Will you say YES to our children? Will you say YES to our HOME Planet and strive to consciously live and grow a sustainable global life style, locally and internationally that honors all life?

OUR FUTURE AND OUR LIFE DEPENDS ON SAYING YES TO ALL LIFE

THROUGH SUSTAINABLE LIVING!!!

Kay’s website: Global Family Education
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Everything is energy and encoded information and from an astrological viewpoint, there is a phenomena going on in America.

When we are born each one of us has an encoded Soul Purpose for coming to this Earth. We also have a generational commitment; each generation has a special encoded contribution for the evolution of human kind.

Pluto, Neptune and Uranus, the outer planets that influence the collective unconscious, and thus our evolutionary patterns, primarily determine the Generational Cycles; this influence is not consciously recognized by the frontal lobe of our brain or what we commonly refer to as our conscious mind.

For our exploration let’s look at the Pluto influence and start with the Pluto in Cancer Generation.

Now remember, in the law of physics, energy suppressed must in turn be expressed; for every action there is a reaction. more

This is an excerpt of the full article. Read the entire article at the Global Family Education site.

Come and join me in an international toning event on July 24th at the Temple of Sacred Sound.

JOIN US VIA THE INTERNET

Take Part in The Healing Sounds Intensive

DAY OF TONING

Visit www.TempleofSacredSound.org

July 24, 2008

Each year in July the Jonathan Goldman Healing Sounds Intensive takes place in Colorado. One of the highlights of this 9 day Intensive is the DAY OF TONING, a wonderful and profoundly transformational time for planetary healing. As the name implies, it is a day in which the Intensive partipants tone together for planetary peace.

This year, we are extending a special invitation for you to join us VIA THE INTERNET at the TEMPLE OF SACRED SOUND. Simply click on this link Temple of Sacred Sound on July 24th and sound along with us anytime during this day.

The Day of Toning is a time when those of us at the Healing Sounds Intensive find ourselves in a physical sound temple complete with sacred geometry and ritual. This year, as part of a Global Healings Sounds Experiment, we will have the sounds from the “AH Toning Chamber” of the Temple of Sacred Sound playing gently in the room. Our voices at the Intensive will interface with this energy and it will be glorious.

We invite you either individually or in groups, to join us during any time on July 24th to resonate with us in the process of Global Harmonization; bringing peace and harmony to the planet.

All you need do is journey to www.TempleofSacredSound.org, follow the protocols and resonate with us and all others throughout the planet who are joining us at the “AH Toning Chamber” on July 24, 2008.

Please, if appropriate, let others know about this Global Healing Sounds Experience by forwarding this email. For further information on this event, please click on this link: Day of Toning

Sending Blessings of Light & Love through Sound

Peter Russell has been at the forefront of sharing the idea that the earth is one large, interconnected, living system. The Gaia Hypothesis shares the vision of earth as a super micro organism.

We were fortunate to hear Peter Russell speak at the Gaia Film Festival last night. It was a thought and heart provoking evening, connecting us all and bringing us together in community. Peter shared a message of awakening and awareness to our own inner understanding and a message of waking up to our inter connectedness and the connection we all share with the planet we live on. I left the evening inspired by the beautiful opportunity we have to participate in the growing consciousness and community movements, living more from our hearts and less from our heads. What it all comes down to is conscious alignment with ourselves and our greater world.

I hope you enjoy part 1 of the Global Brain video.

Stop.  Take the time to listen.  To really listen to each other.  To be in relationship with someone beyond ourselves, beyond the stuff and to the real beings at the center of our hopes and dreams.  Here is a great article about listening and connection from Ode Magazine.

Listening is the best medicine against violence

Tijn Touber | April 2003 issueHow can we save the world from growing intolerance, how can we stop the spiral of violence? ‘Silence is often the best answer,’ says the Dalai Lama. More and more experts are admitting he is right. This is not the time for analyses, reports and threats. We now need to stop and take the time to really listen to one another. Of course, listening is not always easy, but a growing number of initiatives are aiming to help people master this difficult art. The International Listening Association declared March to be International Awareness Month. As part of their campaign they gave tips on how to listen. ‘Count to three when the person you are speaking with has finished talking. That person will often take this to be a signal to go on talking. You will be surprised at how much extra information you get. If you are interrupted, do not get irritated, do not attack and do not lecture, but simply say: “Please listen for a moment, I am not finished yet.”‘

One of the most experienced experts in the field of listening and speaking is Margaret Wheatley. In her book Turning to One Another (Berret-Koehler Publishers, 2002) she claims that people have become more and more isolated from each other – each of us seems to be alone in the world: ‘We no longer seek consolation from one another, but in material goods. The whole world is heading with lightning speed, as if hypnotised, in the wrong direction, away from each other, towards more belongings. We promise ourselves all kinds of things, except each other. We have forgotten the true source of peace and contentment.’ Wheatley sees only one remedy: listening to each other’s stories, needs, fears and dreams, even to those we have come to call ‘the enemy’. And not just at the negotiation table, but also at the kitchen table or leaning against a fencepost.

Because it is not always easy to find the right words, Nancy Guilmartin wrote Healing Conversations (Jossey-Bass, 2002). Its focus: what to say when you do not know what to say. For example, what do you say to a colleague who learns he has cancer, to a child whose pet is dying, to a friend whose support you need, to your best friend who is getting a divorce, or to the relatives of the deceased at a funeral? In many cases Guilmartin reaches the conclusion that listening and ‘being there’ are more important than finding solutions and pronouncing well-phrased sentences. She warns: ‘Conversations that are meant to heal are messy by definition – the disease will come to the surface.’ Guilmartin also warns the reader not to expect any quick, simple solutions. Healing takes time. ‘Only if you take time for each other will you finally feel safe enough to let your hair down. You have to feel safe enough to be emotional or irrational one day, and to know you still have a friend the next. It takes courage to show your despair, numbness, apathy, anger or confusion. Friends listen, unconditionally.’

The following is a excerpt from an article about the slow movement.

(CNN) — Edgar S. Cahn is fighting for your right to be lazy.

The slow movement backs random acts of slowness, such as turning off the BlackBerry or spending time with friends.

Other activists might devote their time to reversing global warming or saving the whales. But the 73-year-old attorney is battling to preserve a commodity that he says is more fragile than the environment and more precious than oil — time.

Cahn is a leader in the “slow movement,” a national campaign that claims that speed kills. Its leaders say that Americans are so starved for time, our need for speed is destroying our health, families and communities.

They say we live in a culture in which being overworked has become a status symbol. Cahn created TimeBanks USA, a nonprofit group that treats time as money, to put the brakes on people’s high-velocity lifestyles.

TimeBanks members barter blocks of time known as “time dollars.” One member may, for example, buy groceries for a stranger in exchange for someone else walking their dog.

“Time is the most precious thing we have,” he says. “Every hour you live, you never get back.”

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Living simply is about living in community, as a whole, spiritually aware human being.  Caring for oneself, the Earth and others. Its about “mindful living”, in alignment with mind, body and spirit, following your conscious awareness, living lightly, with less distractions and burdens, letting go of anything that gets in the way of integrity in your life.

Here are some lifestyle practices of people who life simply:

• Limit material possessions to what is needed and / or cherished
• Engage in meaningful work for 30 hours a week or less, paid or not, with a short commute.
• Enjoy quality relationships with friends and family.
• Participate in joyful and pleasurable leisure activities.
• Have a conscious and comfortable relationship with money.
• Connect with the community, although not necessarily via formal organizations.
• Practice sustainable consumption.
• Incorporate healthy living practices in the areas of exercise, sleep and food.
• Focus on their growth and spiritual life.
• Regularly spend time in nature.
• Live in a beautiful environment.
• Live in harmony with values.

source: Linda Breen Pierce

Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World

Below is the information on the upcoming interview direct from Jonathan Goldman

The 7 Secrets of Sound Healing: Includes a FREE Sound Healing CD! (Book & CD)

Tune in Wednesday, May 14th at 12 noon US Eastern Time, to www.healthylife.net for the “The Healing Sounds Show”. This is going to be a very special show in which I will be interviewed about my brand new book THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING.

It will be my great pleasure to present the show with my wife Andi Goldman, holistic psychotherapist and sound healer, who co-authored our award winning book Tantra of Sound with me. Andi is going to co-host the show and interview me about THE 7 SECRECTS OF SOUND HEALING. This important new book, released in March, reached #1 on the amazon.com Healing category. This is a wonderful indication of how sound healing is truly beginning to manifest into mainstream consciousness.

I’ve been personally doing a lot of radio show with regard to talking about THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING and realized that it would be a great oversight not to discuss this important and innovative book with the audience of The Healing Sounds Show. Thus, the decision was made to bring Andi in to facilitate the role of interviewer on this show this month.

I’ll be discussing many of the different principles– the”7 Secrets”–that I have found within the arena of sound healing. I trust you’ll find it a most interesting and illuminating show. And also a lot of fun.

Incidentally, if you’d like to get the book, you can get it here by clicking on this link: THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING.

If you have a question and would like to be “live” on the air with us on the Healing Sounds show, here’s the audience call in telephone number: 800 – 555 – 5453

Please tune in to this Internet Radio Show Wednesday, May 14, at 12 noon Eastern Time to healthylife.net

Harmonically Yours,

Jonathan Goldman
www.healingsounds.com

~ Dr. Carl Hammerslag