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We’re on Facebook! Be a part of the Greater Boston A.R.E. community, no matter where you are. You can friend us (or become a fan, I forget which) in two ways: by a link or by keyword search. For the direct link, go here: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126683747575&ref=ts (if you haven’t already, you’ll need to sign up for a Facebook account). To find us by keyword search, from within Facebook search for Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Greater Boston.

P.S. Our official web site is at www.are-northeast.org/boston, where you can find all local events, study group information, and more.

November Retreat: Surfing the Waves of Change

Wisdom House (map)
229 East Litchfield Rd.
Litchfield, CT 06759
Friday, Nov. 6 – Sunday, Nov. 8
$100, including meals and lodging

The practical, profound teachings of Judith Pennington, integrating science and spirituality, have awakened thousands of people to an inner certainty of higher awareness. An internationally published journalist, author, speaker, singer, and coast-to-coast teacher of meditation and consciousness expansion, she is known for her warmth, sensitivity, inclusiveness, and clear communication. Ms. Pennington is a popular A.R.E. speaker from Virginia Beach. You may have heard her speak and play guitar at a previous all-day A.R.E. conference in Lexington, MA.

Please sign up early! This will help us with planning.

(Registration prices: ONLY $100 for weekend, including delicious meals (was $170); $50 for Saturday-only, with lunch (was $70); Saturday dinner $16. Event takes place at Wisdom House in Connecticut. Register by contacting Win Howie at cayce-northeast [at] comcast.net or 1-781-878-3828. Leave a message and your phone number and your call will be returned. Mail check made out to “A.R.E. of CT, Inc.” to A.R.E.-Northeast Region, 9 Bramble Circle, Rockland, MA 02370.)

Local Boston-area events calendar at www.are-northeast.org/boston/cayce-calendar.html.

Report on Congress 2009 - Win Howie

Report on Congress 2009

SACRED MYSTERY: Coming Home to Self

Dear Friends

This is a brief summary of the good news I personally came away with from Congress this year. I’m sure full reports will be forthcoming in Venture Inward and on the Edgar Cayce home page. But here is my nutshell version.

· Despite a tumultuous year with financial shortfalls necessitating cutbacks, staff spirit remains strong and focused. There is a lean machine in place to carry the Work into the future.

· Extreme gratitude was expressed to me by Charles Thomas and others for the generous support of Ned Hauptner (Milton, Massachusetts) whose gift will fund a video on how to “reach out” including how to from a study group. The Ned Hauptner Fund for Spiritual Study will be a permanent fund, its interest being used to support small group study and local activities.

· Atlantic University will now offer online CEUs (continuing education credits) to professionals in many health and wellness fields. Professionals require periodic classes to maintain their certification. For a fee, certificates can be earned by reading, watching lectures, and then passing an online test. Earned certificates can be downloaded and printed immediately…an attractive feature.

· Cayce-Reilly School of Massotherapy has been approved by the Federal Government to offer federal financial aid to would-be students. This is a real boon because in the past many could not attend this highly praised and award winning school because they could not afford the tuition.

· Members can now download circulating files directly from the Edgar Cayce web page in the members-only section. Check out the list. More files are being digitized and added on an ongoing basis….dependent on funding, of course.

· Ownership of the Houston ARE center has been officially turned over to Virginia Beach. Soon all the programs and services available in Virginia Beach will also be made available in Houston. Eventually (way down the road) the goal is for similar centers in California and the Northeast.

· In Egypt, permission has been granted to excavate beneath the sphinx. A chamber filled with water has been discovered. We know that the Source told Edgar that records from Atlantis are located by the paw of the sphinx. ARE together with a generous ARE benefactor have stepped forward with funding enabling researchers and the Egyptian government to precede.

· In Bimini, exciting underwater excavation is being carried out as I write this. Mapping has been completed the next step with be to blow away sand. Who knows, Atlantis may be discovered in our lifetime.

· On the Region level, hopes are high that study groups, small programs and retreats will continue. Cyber-space, busy life-styles, a “graying” membership and the economy…. are seriously challenging the way the ARE has functioned in the past. It appears that an awareness of this challenge, prayer and openness to making changes will be required of all the regions. To this end, the Northeast region is planning a special RETREAT in Litchfield, CT on November 6,7,8, with a talented and gifted visionary…JUDITH PENNINGTON entitled “SURFING THE WAVES OF CHANGE”. Judith was at Congress and she is looking forward to our retreat and is offering her special assistance with the planning.

· Finally, we paid a gracious tribute to Helen Ruth Schroeder, a dedicated Cayce volunteer, mentor, teacher and region coordinator. After viewing a memorial brick inscribed with her name prominently placed in the labyrinth and watching a video tribute prepared by her son, we gathered in the meditation garden and with flute music softly playing we scattered her ashes as was her wish.

I close with a quote from Helen Ruth Schroeder.

“Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself”

In Service,

Win Howie, Contact

Edgar Cayce’s ARE--Northeast

Greater Boston area A.R.E. flyer available

A flyer for and about our local A.R.E. region is available online. Please feel free to share it with anyone who’s interested! You can find it on our local website, www.are-northeast.org/boston, and here’s the direct link.

Download our flyer (PDF, 2 pages, 340K)

Black and white copies are also available at Aantre’s during Malcolm Smith’s visit.

72 Names of G-D

http://www.ajudaica.com/guide_kabbalah_names.php

... via Penny. Thanks!

List of Universal Laws

List of universal Laws as compiled by

Bruce McArthur in his book

Your Life

(in the order in which they are presented in his book)

• Like Begets like
• As you sow so shall you reap
• The spirit of your actions multiplies the results
• Like attracts like
• Opposites repel
• As you seek, you attract and are attracted to that which will fulfill your search
• As you seek, you repel and are repelled by that which will not fulfill your search
• For every effect there is a cause
• There is nothing by chance
• Nothing happens by chance; there is a purpose to everything that happens
• As thought and purpose and aim and desire are set in motion by minds, their effect is as a condition that is
• Know the truth and the truth shall make you free
• God is
• As you honor, respect, and love your own unique individuality, so you honor, respect, and love the individuality of others
• Your true needs, wants, desires, hopes, dreams, wishes and their fulfillment are as important as those of any other soul in existence
• You must first 'save' self if you would 'save' another
• As you put the God within first in your life, so you manifest the God you are
• As you become master of your lower self, so all things, conditions, and elements become subject unto you
• Spirit is the life, mind is the builder, physical is the result
• Life is the experience of your choices
• If you will be my people, I will be your God
• Seek first the Spirit within and all things shall be added you have need of
• Seek first the Spirit within and you will find
• Ask the Spirit, with faith, and you will receive
• Knock, with faith in Spirit, and the door will be opened
• All exchanges balance
• As you believe, so it becomes for you
• Whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith
• Love transforms
• True giving manifests love
• As you give so it is measured to you again
• As you give you gain in understanding

Thanks to Edgar Cayce Australia… http://www.cayce.egympie.com.au

... much appreciated, mates!

New Cayce Internet Radio Program

Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. is pleased to announce our new Internet radio program Reflections: The Wisdom of Edgar Cayce. The program will feature show host personality Jon Michael Zapf and include expert guest speakers and authors. Debuting on May 3, with Kevin Todeschi, the Executive Director and CEO of A.R.E., each program will delve deeply into concepts from the Edgar Cayce readings including ancient mysteries, perspectives on the afterlife, reincarnation, personal health, intuition, psychic development, and much, much more. The show will broadcast Sundays from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. EST, on the CBS Psychic Radio network (PsychicOnair.com), which is dedicated to worldwide news and information regarding all things mind, body, and spirit.

The mission statement of the program is to introduce listeners to the vast array of information from the Cayce readings, which complements the overall mission of our nonprofit organization to provide individuals from all walks of life, levels of education, and religious backgrounds with tools for personal empowerment and healing at all levels — body, mind, and spirit. Upcoming featured guests include Edgar Cayce's son and grandson, Edgar Evans and Charles Thomas, family friend June Bro, popular speaker John Van Auken, and special guests like singer/songwriter Helen Reddy, among others. To learn more, visit EdgarCayce.org/radio.

How do I read a blog?

A blog is like a journal. Instead of an author writing in a journal, they post to the blog. A blog is structured differently than a web site. Here’s a general overview of how to get around.

HOW A BLOG PAGE IS ORGANIZED
Posts are listed by date, with the most recent at the top of the web page. As you read down the page you go back in time. Generally only a limited number of posts appear on each page. To read older ones, go to the bottom of any page and click our Older Posts link. Sometimes a Newer Posts link also appears, and clicking it takes you to a page of more recently written stories. You can click back and forward in time using these two links, you time traveler, you.

READ BY SUBJECT
If you want to see posts written on a specific topic, look at the right-hand column on any page and, under Topics, click a link. (Topics links are on all our blog’s pages.) For instance, clicking on Quotations takes you to a page with only stories that the author has specified are quotations. The page might have one post or it might have a bunch, but they’ll all be related to quotes.

READ BY MONTH
You could look at all stories that were written in a month by looking in the right-hand column on any page and, under Our Archives, clicking the link for, for instance, “February.” (Archives links are on all our blog’s pages.)

SEARCH THIS BLOG
You can search within our blog. In the upper left corner of all pages is a white search box. Type your keyword(s) and click the button to the right that says Search Blog.

WHAT’S A COMMENT?
A comment is something you add to a post; literally, a comment. Please make ’em! It’s a way of sharing what you think and know with others and with the author of the post. (Keep in mind that comments are public.) At the bottom of each post is a link. It reads 0 comments or 3 comments or something such. Click it. You’ll get a screen containing an empty rectangle. Type your comments into the rectangle and click Post Comment. (If you’d like to double-check what you wrote first, click the Preview button instead.) If you’re prompted to enter a password or something, follow the on-screen directions.

Have further questions? Ask Alan or Paula.

With a little practice you’ll be comfortable navigating your way around a blog. And remember, should you become misplaced, click your web browser’s Back arrow button to return to someplace safe. Happy clicking!

We're live!

(Note: This is reposted from Alan’s message.) As we go along, we can add to the site with relevant info and links, such as upcoming events, related groups, etc.

Week by week, please do add your comments, especially as they may relate to our week's discussion -- thoughts you found particularly interesting, books to recommend, etc. Let's not let all of these wonderful details disappear into the dusty back rooms of memory! Over time we can categorize them for easier reference...

Also please add anything else you feel would be of interest to the group. This is a great bunch of people, with lots to share, so... let's share!