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Healing Gently with Flower Essences Workshop

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July classes in Fairy Online School are up. Some changes happening. Some classes are shorter. Only some being offered for this semester. And a new class!

When I originally made The Fairy Field Guide, it was intuned to who I am and my own mission. I’m a detective or scientist at heart led by my curiosity. I was fascinated with the healing qualities of Nature and flower essences.

My first flower essence experience was rather funny. I had a teacher who had just given me a Reiki treatment. At the time, I was afraid of everything, and the idea of relinguishing any kind of control was not in my vocabulary. I was afraid of doctors, and chemicals, and food, etc. etc. Looking back, it was a time of feeling out of control with my body, so I needed anything touching it to be controlled by me.

This teacher introduced me to my first flower essence. She gave me BUTTERCUP (FES brand) and sent me home with instructions. I stared at the bottle for a week before taking the tiniest drop. Once I did, I was intrigued. I had an immediate uplift of mood and confidence. A few days later, realizations and knowings that showed me where my confidence had been blocked. And finally, a breakthrough on the issues I was having at the time.  What was this liquid in a bottle that helped me so much, yet didn’t interfere or upset my body?

Fast forward to 2005 and losing my joy and spark, and in come the Fairies and flower essences all over again. This time, I wanted to know all I could. My curiosity was on fire. Could I make an essence out of anything? What were the wildflowers in my area and how did they heal? Were they more powerful than a flower essence I ordered from a catalog from far away? Were there some flowers that I needed more? Did I need to make an essence to heal, or could I just sit with a flower? Could I communicate to a tree like I did the animals? Questions burst through me. I recorded my findings in a huge art journal of pages and kept track of the experiments and test subjects in repertory pages. I used my intuition to hear and feel the answers.

I fell in love with the yard again. I had become a giant nature allergy holed-up indoors, when I was more of a tree fairy who needed the forest.

The flower essences were helping me deal with my sensitivity in a gentle way. They were helping my animals and my family. But it was the reconnection to Nature that was healing me the most, and exploring my creativity again by recording my facts creatively, and artistically.

I look back at when I created the classes and that original art journal, and it was such a gift. It brought my new family together, when we had good, happy memories. Connection to hearing spirit and other realms were skills I was developing through this gift. Later, I would meet amazing students along the way as I shared what I learned.

I’m full circle now and gifted with a beau

My new site is up. I’m sure I will be fiddling with it more and adding stuff the next few weeks, but being the impatient fairy that I am, I couldn’t wait to post it. It has a new uplifting energy to it; I do hope you enjoy it. New fairy online classes start again in May with lots of additions. I’ve added my Fairy Goddess Gowns, In the Garden diary and a few other surprises. Enjoy and have fun! GO HERE.

Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com.  In the article below he looks at Senator Barack Obama. Read his previous OUPblogs here.

The talk of town these days is that Senator Barack Obama is either just too cerebral, or refreshingly so.

Assessing the Senator’s weak performance at the Saddleback Faith Forum, Michael Gerson wrote in the Washington Post, “Obama was fluent, cool and cerebral — the qualities that made Adlai Stevenson interesting but did not make him president. ” Yet to others, cerebral is good. “Obama’s cool, cerebral style may be just what we need,” wrote Eleanor Clift of Newsweek.

It has occurred to me that people who agree or disagree with my thesis about The Anti-intellectual Presidency have tended to be divided on the question of whether or not a president’s political judgment should be based on intellection or intuition. This division may appear to some to map crudely along partisan lines: some liberals and Democrats tend to value reliance on the intellect; some conservatives and Republicans prioritize instinct. I think there is more agreement than meets the eye.

Insofar as there is a partisan disagreement, populist Republicans are probably right that as a general political rule, visceral trumps cerebral. The Obama campaign is starting to recognize this, with their choice of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden, someone who speaks with passion and sometimes, apparently, without much prior thought.

But I don’t think many people are against intellection as a method for decision-making. It is surely a strawman argument that President Bush does no thinking and that Karl Rove was the brain behind his decisions. The key is that Bush pulls off the semblance of intellectual diffidence, even though he must do a lot of thinking behind the scenes. Like others have said of President Dwight Eisenhower, President Bush has mastered the highest political art that conceals art itself.

Now, there is still an argument to be made for judgment to be based on intuition rather than intellection, but it is a weak one. “Go with your gut” may be a familiar refrain, but even if intuition is less error-prone than intellection, there is one reason that recommends against its excessive use. Intuition is non-falsifiable. No one can prove what he feels in his or her gut. So when President Bush told us that he looked into Vladamir Putin’s eyes and saw a soul, we could only take his word for it that he saw what he saw. We couldn’t test the claim; we couldn’t even debate it. This can’t be what democracy is about, because democracy is conducted with the deliberation of public reasons, not the unilateral assertion of private emotions.

If I am correct, then no one disagrees with the importance of intellection as a decision-making method, even as there is disagreement on the political utility of projecting or hiding such intellection. The disagreement is about the image, but we can scarcely deny the importance of the process of intellection. Because they have failed to make this distinction between image and process, those who disagree with the appearance of intellection have also wrongly concluded that the process of intellection should have no place in leadership.

Anti-intellectualism is politically powerful, but it is in the end self-defeating. Suppose I feel in my gut that intellection is key to decision-making. How will someone who disagrees with my gut instinct prove my intuition wrong? Only by argument, debate, intellection.

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By Anatoly Liberman

I keep receiving letters and comments on the spelling reform. When I broached this subject more than a month ago, I was aware of the fact that some groups on both sides of the Atlantic still believe in the possibility of the reform. Thanks to several responses, I now know more about their activities. They organize conferences and publish books on simplified spelling. I am full of sympathy for their work, even though their voices are weak and the wilderness is vast. There is no need to repeat the arguments of the opponents, for they, like the arguments of the advocates, have not changed since the middle of the 19th century. I will only dwell on two. (more…)

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