BY VAISHALI – Ever notice how so many of the bumper sticker messages out there are simple yet profound? I saw a great one recently that said Life is the Classroom. Love is the Lesson. That pretty much says it all.

How is it that all the great spiritual sayings can fit on a bumper sticker or T-shirt? The reason is that Universal truth is simple and straightforward. Anytime I’m looking at a spiritual point of view that is pedantically over complicated, I know the essence of the truth has gotten lost in the shuffle. Here are some of my favorite bite-sized nuggets of truth:

The great 18th century scientist/mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1682-1772), voted by Stanford University to be one of the wisest people to have ever lived, describes the human experience as coming with a built-in, self-corrective guidance system. It is better known as the nervous system, or what I like to call the “keep it real arena.”

When you give your attention to seeing yourself as something more limited than love, you feel it immediately. There is no confusion here in the planet Earth classroom. When you see yourself as the person who does not have enough money, time or opportunity, you feel that limitation right away. When you give your attention to seeing yourself as connected to the source of all abundance and wellbeing, that is what you feel.

The job description of every sentient being is to learn and grow. Whatever lesson you sign up for depends on what you give your attention to.  Swedenborg wrote a great deal about this. If I were to simplify his volumes of wisdom into a bumper sticker, it would be: You are Consciousness; it is Not a Possession.

Consciousness is love. You do not have to spend your life trying to earn love. Life has never been about working to be deserving and worthy enough. How do you prove you are worthy of something you already are?

Anytime I pick up a book and the author is telling me I have to ask myself ten or more different questions in response to every life situation or relationship, I immediately become apprehensive. It wouldn’t fit on a bumper sticker. Or if I sign up for a self-improvement class and the curriculum involves taking a string of other classes in order to achieve clarity, my gut feeling is to walk away immediately.

Learning about yourself is easier and more direct than performing a never-ending series of stupid human tricks. You come direct from the manufacturer equipped with everything you need to know about what you are, why you are here and what you are choosing to learn from.

Is your inner narrative making your life feel hellishly limited? Stop. You have free will. You can choose something else. As another sticker says, Pain is inevitable, Misery is optional.

The trickier part is asking yourself these questions:

How much of my life is run on autopilot? How much of what I give my attention to is grossly repetitive and not consciously examined and updated? Am I repeatedly self-inflicting some critical or harsh words someone else put into motion? Do I still see myself through the filter of a parent’s or teacher’s opinion that defines me as incapable of doing anything right? Do I constantly tell myself I am ugly and unlovable, because this idea was solidified when I was a teenager or going through an awkward stage of development?

The purpose of life is to grow beyond anything that separates you from the truth about your identity as love. And let’s face it, life offers us many creative and “up close and personal” opportunities to do just that.

What I have learned from bumper stickers

- You are love. I can’t add anything to that.

- Love: it’s your spiritual identity. And it is experienced as consciousness, as awareness.

- What we think we become. When you give something your attention, you are giving it your love, because you are not separate from love.

- You are what you love & you love whatever you give your attention to.

- Who feels it knows it. When you give attention to limited things, you feel limited. When you focus on the unlimited, how does that make you feel?

- A day without sunshine is like, night. If what you are giving your attention to is not setting you free, you have not seen the truth yet. Keep looking.

All of this wisdom can fit on a subcompact. How good is that?! Maybe this is why bumper sticker philosophy compels us to speed up and get close enough to read it… because the truth is often simply stated and right in front of us.

So the next time you are stuck in traffic, use it as a learning experience by checking out the wisdom on the cars around you. Happy motoring!

Vaishali is the author of Wisdom Rising http://tinyurl.com/WisdomRising and You Are What You Love http://tinyurl.com/Your-Are-Love. She is also a national health & wellness speaker and radio host of “You Are What You Love” on heard weekly at www.purplev.com Sunday 11-pm  PST  worldwide and on Contact Talk Radio Fridays 1pm-2pm PST.  Vaishali learned to transform her life from the threat of two terminal disease diagnoses, domestic abuse and financial devastation. Completely recovered, she shares her wisdom @ www.purplev.com or email press@purplev.com Join Vaishali June 17-19^th at The Omega Institute http://eomega.org/omega/workshops/42497d6c3932bc64c0dde41525b4b105/

Why rely on the administration of drugs — or the Obama administration — to cure diseases if you can avoid getting sick in the first place? The worst culprits, including heart disease and many forms of cancer, are preventable with some basic self-care.

BY VAISHALI — The largest generation in history, the post-WWII Baby Boomers (76 million people in the U.S., alone), are entering their peak need for care. And those of us affected by a U.S. health-care reform led by President Obama may end up (or not) at the government’s mercy to nurse what ails us. In the name of self-preservation, here are six highly-effective, do-it-yourself tips to keep the doctor away, and aging at bay.

Six ways to enhance your health and vitality

1. Cut out the junk. Food is your first wave of medicine. Your diet does affect the clarity of your thoughts in the same way that it affects your body’s overall well-being. Refined white sugar, white flour, saturated and trans fats are not foods that will protect your brain or memory or any other part of the body for that matter. These health-sabotaging foods will also decrease overall mental focus and create a sense of physical agitation or downright moodiness. If you want to improve your mood and keep your mind primed, cut out the junk food. A calm mind is a focused mind.

2. Do not deprive yourself of sleep and rest. A tired or fatigued brain is a brain that is neither regenerating nor restoring its energy. When you miss getting adequate rest your performance level suffers and moodiness sets in. The longer the deprivation, the greater and more rapid the mental decay. Studies indicate that when people have been sleep deprived for too long they begin to hallucinate and display signs of madness. The good news is that with quality uninterrupted re-cooperative sleep, the fatigue goes away rather quickly and you return to your right mind.

3. Eat brain-boosting foods. The best foods for the brain are also great for the nervous system, immune system and skin. Brain friendly foods include wild caught salmon, blueberries, leafy green vegetables, avocados, and sprouted nuts. If you do not have the cleanest of diets, know that cacao beans are high on the list of brain friendly foods. Look for dark chocolate made with 70% or more cacao and, of course, organic is the best choice for any foods you consume.

4. Try a Cold Laser Treatment. This boosts the lymphatic system, supports drainage and keeps the fluid moving. Cold laser sessions are completely painless and oftentimes yield immediate results. They are a safe treatment option for the very old or very young or those already weakened by drugs or chronic illness. Acupuncturists, chiropractors and other alternative health practitioners may offer cold laser treatments in conjunction with their ongoing health care packages.  Or check for cold laser treatment centers in your area.

5. Avoid cold beverages and food. Avoid ingesting iced beverages and foods straight from the refrigerator. The greatest sea of lymphatic tissue is in the digestive system. The body functions best at a temperature of 98.6 degrees. Healthy lymph feels like oily water and is pumped throughout the body primarily by the skeletal muscles. It needs this warm environment to remain in a healthy fluid-like state. When you eat or drink cold foods and liquids, it stuns the lymph system causing the oily water lymph to congeal into a more jello-like consistency impeding its free flowing movement throughout the body.

6. Release toxins through massage. Lymphatic drainage massage specifically targets the lymph system. It aids in breaking up congestion within the lymph system, tones and supports the lymph nodes as well as facilitates the fluid’s movement throughout the body. Massage works directly on the entire digestive system and is a powerful technique for lymphatic care. You can learn techniques such as Chi Nei Tsang, which is designed to be self-administered.  Once you learn how to do it, you have a lifetime of free treatments. A deep-tissue massage is also effective in the release of stored toxins.

Vaishali learned to transform her life after she had two terminal disease diagnoses.

She is completely recovered and shares her wisdom. She is a health a columnist for the Huffington Post and an international health and wellness speaker who has appeared on The Dr. Oz Radio Show and Oprah.com.  Join Vaishali June 17-19^th at The Omega Institute http://eomega.org/omega/workshops/42497d6c3932bc64c0dde41525b4b105/

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GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — Most people think of the digestive process as something limited to the foods and liquids that we stuff into our mouths daily. However, digestion is best understood as a metaphor for life.

According to Eastern systems of self-healing, our entire body is an aggregate of different types of digestive intelligences. For example, our eyes digest light waves, so that we can make perceptual sense of our world. Our ears digest sound waves so that we may enjoy our favorite music, (or get indigestion from listening to our windows vibrate from the secondhand rap blaring from a car three blocks away). When we touch one another, our hands digest intimate contact through the tactile feeling feedback system. There is a reason for this conglomerate of digestive efforts. And that is because, as Eastern philosophies say, everything we encounter is a form of food; Divine Love and Wisdom has accessorized our human experience with a myriad of assorted digestive skills, so that we might get the most from the nurturing sustenance of life as it is offered to us in its entirety. We are literally digesting our lives.

What digesting your life means, in practical everyday terms, is that every thought, feeling, experience, emotion, etc. that touches our lives, is a form of food (since “Man does not live by bread alone”). So let’s eat! The first thing we have to be able to do with our food is…. we have to be able to swallow it. Then we need to be able to stomach it. Once we’ve got it down, we need to pull from these forms of food what enhances us, makes us stronger, wiser, more loving, healthier, balanced people. Finally, we need to be able to let the rest go – to recognize and release the waste in our lives, for what it is.

Now that we have the food part down, let’s move on to the main course, the meaty metaphor. The Eastern self-healing philosophies really want you to understand that your thoughts, emotions, perceptions and experiences travel through your digestive tract in the identical fashion as the physical food you eat… because IT IS a form of food – a non-physical form of food. If you take something in, mentally or emotionally, and you do not release whatever part of that process contains the waste, the useless, that you are still carrying that around in your body, and you will continue to do so, until you take it to your metaphorical poop chute and let it go!

So, how much of what we give our attention to, and how much of what we feel about life, can we really swallow, stomach, and convert into life sustaining energy?? Metaphorically speaking, some things can be really hard to swallow, and even harder to stomach.

Do we ever consider, in our movement through life, if there is anything useful in what we take in, that our bodies – physically, emotionally or energetically – can assimilate, or do we just ingest whatever is put in front of us? Are we simply eating crap, thinking there is something of value in it for us? Well, we must be. Isn’t that where the phrase “sh*t eating grin” comes from? Maybe if we use some seasoning, and disguise the taste, our bodies won’t notice. Ha! Think again. If what we give our attention to is limiting, then there’s nothing there that is useful for us. So how do we assure there is value in the food we eat? And, if we do become bloated and constipated by overindulgence in toxic waste, how do we find the emotional, psychological, experiential and perceptual release to inspire us to let go of our toxicity? This is the toughest part of the entire human experience – recognizing the useless in our lives and discarding it completely, instead of clinging to it, thinking it has some place or value. So how do we do it? How do we get rid of what is not serving to us and move on?

We do it with our awareness. When we find ourselves giving our attention to worry, or to some other inner dialogue about how we do not have enough time, love, money or opportunity, do we ever question that food? Do we consider its nutrient to waste ratio, or do we just shove it down our mouths like a 99¢ taco? Do we stop and ask ourselves, “Is that really what we want to feed ourselves? Did we come to planet Earth and take a body just so we could swallow that garbage?” What is the Divine plan behind feeding ourselves a daily critical diet of “didn’t do it right” and “not good enough” tasteless morsels? Bet you can’t eat just one! In other words, how much of the time, when we find ourselves giving our attention to limiting things, do we realize we are actually feeding ourselves refuse, and how much of the time are we just mindlessly taking it in as something that has value and legitimate meaning in our lives?

The best way to not partake of the crap, is to ask yourself if what you are giving your attention to looks, sounds, tastes, smells or feels limiting. If the answer is, “yes”! The thought that I will never be happy, and that nothing is going to work out for me is across-the- board limiting,” then the healthy digestive answer would be to take that item off your diet. Do not give what is limiting your attention, unless you want to feed yourself noxious, meaningless, mean cuisine. If you want to poison your body with what is pointless, bon appetit! This digestive metaphor thing brings a whole new meaning to “junk food”. (It’s not just the nitrites in hot dogs any more.)

If you find yourself consuming mass quantities of negativity, in the same way that the Coneheads consumed beer and chips, there is a digestive remedy. Stop! Recognize what you are giving your attention to, and choose something else. Giving your attention to what is unlimiting will always purify the poison. When you give your attention to what is unlimiting, the emotional, mental and physical bodies will immediately recognize what needs to be discarded from what needs to be taken deeper to sustain life.

Ever wonder why the body holds on to some forms of waste and toxins and releases others? What’s up with that? Ever wonder why some people can eat foods that make others ill? How can that happen? The truth is, digestion is a metaphor, as well as a physically based reality. How well our body is (or is not) digesting food is a reflection of the bigger picture: how well are we digesting our lives – our thoughts, emotions, experiences and perceptions. What toxic energy are we holding onto perceptually and emotionally, that our bodies, by way of disease and illness, are reflecting back to us? What are we inviting ourselves to let go of internally – both psychologically, as well as, physiologically? What is it that our bodies cannot separate from, because the mind has formed an attachment to? In the flow of life, what are we holding onto, because we do not understand what is enhancing and what is diminishing? What are we eating, versus what is eating us? What are we mindlessly consuming, and what are we consuming mindfully?

We can become aware of what our unconscious issues are by examining what the digestive process is reflecting back to us, forcing us to feel the limitation of it. Where in your body do you feel you have stuffed something you do not trust mentally or emotionally? Is it in your gut? Could it be… because IT IS in your gut! Remember, digestion is a metaphor for how well are we swallowing, stomaching and nurturing our human experience with all of the universal food we consume on a moment-to-moment basis.

In the West, we define digestion as starting with the mouth, chewing and mixing with saliva, then swallowing. The Eastern systems of self-healing find that laughable. The Eastern philosophies say that digestion starts when you see the food, when you smell the food, when you touch it with your fingers. How many times have you told yourself while driving home that you were not hungry, only to open the front door, smell dinner cooking, and have your stomach start to rumble? How many times have you driven to the grocery store when you were not hungry, then, as you walked up and down the isles, touching the fruits and veggies, you found yourself ready to eat everything in your shopping cart, along with all the impulse items at checkout? And let’s not forget about Pavlov’s dogs! How many of you were not hungry until you heard the dinner bell – as in the sound of bacon frying, bagels popping out of a toaster, dinner plates clanging?

You can clearly see from this part of the metaphor, that digestion starts not only at a perceptual level, but also at any level that involves the five senses. That is why digestion of life happens when you give something your attention, when you touch something, or when you experience something with any or all of your senses. You start digesting your day even before you smell the coffee brewing. Speaking of smelling the coffee, have you ever noticed that the olfactory part of digestion is always the most satisfying? How many times have you walked into an establishment, smelled freshly ground coffee that made your legs weak, only to find it tasted so bitter you couldn’t drink it?

In the same way that the brain digests our thoughts and beliefs, and the nervous system digests what we feel on a tactile level, our internal organs, in addition to having a physical food-related function, also digest our emotions. According the Eastern system of medicine, each internal organ has a specific emotional food digestive/transformative process. For example, the spleen, stomach and pancreas digest anxiety, worry, and nervousness. That is why we get “butterflies” in the stomach when anticipating or perceiving something involving stress. The liver and gallbladder take on anger, rage, envy, and frustration. The heart and small intestines digest impatience, and the kidneys and bladder deal with fear and terror. The lungs and large intestines have the task of breaking down loneliness, sadness and grief, as well as low self-esteem issues and feeling of worthlessness.

This is how one can begin to unravel the unresolved unconscious issues in life. Look at the body’s health. What organs are stressed? Where is the weak link in the chain? It is there you will discover the undigested systemic problems in your life. No wonder Socrates felt the unexamined life was not worth living. Why would anyone want to live a life filled with unconsciously driven pain and undigested emotional angst?

However, digestion does not stop there. To the Eastern systems of self- healing, respiration is one of our most profound digestive functions. Yes, that’s right; you read that correctly. Breathing is a powerful form of digestion. I know, you are all thinking… breathing… whaaat? How can that be? The breath goes in, the breath goes out. What could be so complicated about that?

Well, for starters, most of you out there are not breathing the way your body was designed! Breathing is how we digest our emotions. How you breathe determines whether or not you are holding onto emotional toxic energy in your life or releasing it.

Ever watch how babies breathe? Their lower abdomen expands on the inhale, their chest moves last and moves the least. When a baby has an emotional moment, they experience it, then they let it go. A baby can go from crying to laughing in 60 seconds flat. Babies digest the emotion, experience, and perception, release it, and find themselves available for the next round. Ever examine how you are breathing? I bet dollars to donuts, no food pun intended (and no disrespect to Homer Simpson), that your chest moves first and most dramatically, and your lower abdomen moves last and least. Do you ever experience something and cannot seem to let it go? You find yourself internally reliving that charge over and over again? How you breathe is playing a part in this digestive Groundhog Day scenario.

If babies are breathing the way we are designed to, then how come we start out functioning correctly, and end up all ass backwards? The answer: the diaphragm. The diaphragm is a large muscle that literally cuts your body into two halves at the lower rib cage. When the diaphragm moves down on the inhale, the emotional digestive mechanism is turned on, just as we see in babies. When the diaphragm moves up on the inhale, the exact opposite to how we are designed to function, it causes the chest to move first, and the emotional digestive mechanism gets turned off.

Babies breathe the way we are all designed to, because they do not give their attention to limiting ideas about themselves or life. Babies gradually learn to do that from the world around them. Babies watch the people around them not digesting their lives. Babies witness others not breathing correctly. Babies watch, learn and mimic; they take it all in, for better or worse. As the child learns to give their attention to limited things, as they progress in repressing their emotions and fears, the diaphragm gradually inverts its natural movement and, viola, the accumulation of undigested life begins!

This is one of the many reasons Eastern forms of meditation have you focus on the breath. Breathing only happens in the present moment; you cannot breathe in the past, or breathe in the future. Breathing correctly and deeply detoxifies you physically, emotionally, psychologically and Spiritually. And you thought breathing was a no brainier! Well guess what? Correct breathing is not just for babies anymore!

Digesting our lives involves a deep connection to our awareness. What are we giving our attention to? Is it something unlimited, something we can swallow and stomach on every level? Or are we feeding ourselves unpasteurized, intellectual and perceptual toxins? Consider what you feed yourself. Consider and weigh every aspect and implication of that question. Examine if you are breathing completely and deeply enough to activate your emotional digestive system, or if your breathing never progresses beyond a shallow chest involvement, stopping at the heart, creating emotional denial and suppression – truly a superficial digestive engagement.

So the next time your find yourself hungry for any aspect of life, take a deep breath; focus on what is most life enhancing; only eat at fine dining establishments, and be sure and read the menu first. Assess your choices, and most of all… try not to eat what’s sitting out back in the garbage cans. But if you do, learn to let it go! Happy releasing!

First of two parts – NEXT: “Vaishali’s Seven Ayurvedic dining tips”

These experiences have shaped Vaishali’s book, You Are What You Love
It is also the name of her weekly radio show on Clear Channel, which you can hear in webcast at this link.

BY VAISHALI LOVE: After being diagnosed terminal from an illness — and then again ten years later from an injury — there is one thing I truly understand as a result of piecing my health back together and studying the Eastern healing sciences.

What I want to share with you is the physical dynamics of emotions — how emotions travel through the body, what emotions stress and undermine which organs, and how unresolved emotional experiences can literally get trapped inside the body.

Emotions are a form of energy, and like all forms of energies they have a certain vibrational signature frequency. That vibrational frequency difference is what separates anger from fear, and sadness and grief from impatience.

Our internal organs, also being forms of energy, vibrate at difference frequencies. That is what makes the liver, the liver, and not the lung or the foot.

When we have an emotional experience, that frequency moves through the body like waves move through water or sound moves through air. Our internal organs have the ability to register and digest those emotional frequencies. Different organs digest different emotions.

The biology of emotions

Here is a short schema that connects the dots between clusters of organs and the metabolizing of emotions. It is based on my experience of healing myself from two life-ending diagnoses, as well as my lifelong study of ayurvedic medicine.

Lungs and respiratory system

The lungs and related airway passages are designed to digest the signature frequency of sadness and grief. That’s why we sigh or cry. When that organ has digested that emotion, it has taken the emotion in, then pulled from it what is needed, and last and most importantly, let the rest go for the recognized waste that it is.

The natural post-digestive emotional by-products of sadness and grief are courage, self-confidence and self-assurance. These emotions are then absorbed internally and ultimately embodied.

 Liver and gall bladder

Emotions they digest: danger, rage, jealousy, frustration, irritation and the like.

Healing results: Once these heated emotions are digested and the waste released, your body helps strengthen your spirit with the qualities of wisdom, understanding and self-awareness.

Spleen, stomach and pancreas

Emotions they digest: worry, anxiety, and feelings of being un-supported. That is why people get “butterflies” in the stomach when nervous; that emotion is literally being “stomached” in that exact location within the body.

Heart and small intestines

Emotions they absorb: the vibrations triggered by impatience and feelings of not enough.

Healing results of release: joy and inspiration.

Kidneys, uterus and bladder — Emotions they break down: fear and horror and other cold, paralyzing energies.

Healing results: expansive and unlimited creativity

Each vibrational frequency contains within it the seeds for a healthy, balanced and successful life. The challenge is to take the emotion in without judging it or the process. Let whatever is serving to you — whatever makes you a better, stronger, wiser person — travel to the deeper levels of your human experience. Now here comes the trickiest part.

The greater wisdom here is that there really is no “bad” emotion

Take an emotion that passes through you: Worry. Recognize whatever is not adding to your wisdom in that emotion for the waste that it is, and permit it to pass through. Fear. Allow the black mass to bring you the ability to create a fear-free existence, and do not hold on to the memory of feeling powerless.

Fear is about being overwhelmed by the past. Anyone having a human emotional experience knows that being in right relationship with the digestive process of emotions is much easier said than done.

Good thing we have a lifetime to practice. As difficult as properly digesting highly-charged emotions can be, it does explain a lot. Could there be unresolved and unreleased sadness and grief behind that bronchitis that shows up every year?

Are you consuming so much worry that you just cannot stomach it anymore, and that is what is really bothering your gut?

All provocative and meaningful questions. The next time you visit your acupuncturist, and she tells you the liver meridian is weak or stressed, try using that information as a productive opportunity to share what is happening in your emotional life with your doctor. You may find yourself talking about and revealing the exact emotionally irritating energy vampire underlying the condition.

Ayurvedic practitioners and doctors of Oriental medicine have a vast knowledge of how to manage your physical issues. Most of them are eager to have their clients express a pro-active interest in what can done to achieve greater balance and health in the management of the physical body’s energy systems.

For example, do not hesitate to ask them how to support the heart in releasing impatience. And when driving to that next appointment remember, as you are stuck on the freeway screaming at the traffic, “You’re making me late!” that you are assaulting your heart and small intestines.

The things to which you give your attention are where you are sending your power

My specialty these days is a bit different. I have, by necessity, spent most of my life releasing and growing beyond the dysfunctional digestion of emotions. My strength and greatest skill is in understanding the power of what I give my attention to, and how that relationship determines how well I am or am not digesting the rest of my life. Presently, I help people understand and resolve the psycho-spiritual underpinnings of any limitation life may be throwing their way, be it psychical, emotional, relational, spiritual or concerning their life purpose.

Every Sunday from 11-12pm on KTLK 1150AM people call in asking for more information on how to move forward and grow with grace and dignity. Suffering is such a universal human experience, and it never ceases to amaze me how talking to one person about understanding what is holding their suffering together, helps so many other people. I also provide one-on-one sessions with people who would like more in-depth information than what I can reasonably provide on my weekly call-in radio show.

The purpose of life is to grow beyond any limitation, while sharing more love, joy, compassion and wisdom. Of course, while you have a body you will want to do that while swallowing, stomaching and absorbing the nutrients and releasing the waste of your physical and emotion life. The good news is your human experience already comes with every form of digestive intelligence you need to get the job done.

Vaishali is the author of Wisdom Rising and You Are What You Love. She is also a national health and wellness speaker and radio host of “You Are What You Love” on heard weekly on KTLK 1150am Sunday 11-noon PST in greater LA.

Visit Vaishali’s site at www.purplev.com.

Soul’s Code has sung the praises of female mystics and spiritual teachers since our inception —  meet our inspirations, Pamela Wilson, Byron Katie, Caroline Myss, Katie Davis, Vaishali Love and Karen McPhee

Test your S-factor, as in, the measure of the soul:

1.  According to transpersonal psych studies, women have an edge when it comes to remembering, understanding and relaying their mystical experiences. Why is that?

A.  Women are smarter than men.
B.  Women have better communication between the left and right sides of the brain.
C.  Men have fewer mystical experiences than women.
D.  Men censor themselves more than women, and will not admit to having mystical experiences.

2.  Who believes (or believed) in the “spiritual goodness of poverty?”

A.  Joan of Arc
B.  Marianne Williamson
C.  Mother Teresa
D.  Kim Eng

3.  Who has been known to provide lectures and workshops free of charge?

A.  Byron Katie (pictured at right)
B.  Kim Eng
C.  Caroline Myss
D.  Pamela Wilson

4.  Eckhart Tolle’s work heavily influenced which mystic, who is also his friend?

A.  Vaishali Love
B.  Catherine Ingram
C.  Katie Davis
D.  Marianne Williamson

5.  Who said, “Keep your honor code between you and God,  you don’t break that, no matter who’s not looking. God is.”

A.  Mother Teresa
B.  Caroline Myss
C.  Byron Katie
D.  St. Teresa of Avila

6.  How many people is Hindu spiritual leader Amma reported to have hugged over the past 30 years?

A.  50,000
B.  1 million
C.  21 million
D.  30 million

7.  How much will it cost you to buy a Caroline Myss “Myss hat?”

A.  $15
B.  $20
C.  $30
D. Free with proof of a donation to a charity of your choice.

8.  Who released a child’s book called Tiger-Tiger Is It Time in November 2009?

A.  Kim Eng
B.  Byron Katie
C.  Amma
D.  Karen McPhee

The answers you seek: 1. B, 2. C, 3. A, 4. C, 5. B, 6. D, 7. A, 8. B.