Category: Life Force

Tom Blaschko

We are connected, one to another, in ways that the physical world can’t explain. We often know when someone is staring at us. Enough children remember previous lives to suggest reincarnation happens sometimes. People see ghosts and angels. Mothers save children by lifting cars off them. St. Teresa of Avila floated in the air in full view of dozens of witnesses. They usually could hold her down, but not always.

It’s not one thing. It’s everything all together that shows that we all have souls. And that’s what this book does — puts everything (well, a lot of things) together to show that souls are the best explanation for what we experience.

The book is not religious. But it suggests how acknowledging we all have souls can help us lead healthier, happier, and more connected lives. It looks at some deep philosophical ideas, including the nature of proof, but it’s written in simple English. It answers important questions, but asks questions, too. It reminds us what we know now and leads us to places where we can learn more.

We All Have Souls is a book that wishes to change the world. It looks at what souls might be and how science and common experiences prove that they exist. It offers a path to more loving and fulfilling relationships.

When you read the book, you can add to the proof that we all have souls.

Tom Blaschko has been interested in souls, soul reality, and reawakening our world since before he was born. In this life he has had experience with ki (chi) in Tsutomu Ohshima’s Shotokan Karate since 1970, a BS in Astronomy from Caltech, and an MS in Psychology from SUNY Buffalo. He has also studied with the Incan shaman Adolfo Ttito Condori, American shamans Betsy Bergstrom and Ana Larramendi, Incarnational Spirituality teacher David Spangler, tree spirits, a Sidhe or two, and other beings, human and not, who are part of soul reality.

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Deborah Bryon

In Lessons of the Inca Shamans, Part 2: Beyond the Veil, Deborah Bryon continues the story of her personal journey which led her to the mountains of Peru to study under the indigenous Inca shamans. Descendants of the original medicine people of the Andes, the shamans are guided by an ancient prophecy to pass on their central teachings of the interconnectedness of all creatures (ordinary and spiritual) and our connection with Pachamama (Mother Earth).

Deborah attempted to analyze her experiences with the Inca shamans from a professional perspective only to learn that the training she received from the shamans goes far beyond what her university teachings prepared her for. She soon discovered that the shamanic way reaches deep into our Hearts as she learned to connect with her teachers and the spirit of community they share. The book includes sacred initiation rites with more than a third being direct quotes from the shamans and the spirits they are in contact with.

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Tom Blaschko

When you read Calculating Soul Connections, you will understand more about yourself and your connections to everyone around you.
This book ties together four important concepts:
1. We all have souls.
2. Souls are divided into parts and each part performs a different function.
3. Beyond the four physical forces, there is a life force.
4. Souls use the life force to power themselves and connect with other souls.
Each of these concepts has been around for a long time. This book combines them to form a powerful new model that revolutionizes the way we think about the world and our place in it.

Tom Blaschko earned a Bachelor’s degree in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology, where he learned something about science. He earned a Master’s degree in developmental psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he learned several seemingly contradictory things about the inner workings of people. He earned a third degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, where he learned about the martial arts aspects of the life force called ki.
He has been interested in paranormal phenomena since grade school and went on his first (unsuccessful) ghost hunt in the 1970s. Scientific influences include research by Rupert Sheldrake on morphic fields, Ian Stevenson’s studies of people who remember past lives, analysis of the effects of Emotional Freedom Techniques and other energy healing, and research on ki by Kuo Kanshin and Shigeru Egami’s group. Beyond the scientific research there are thousands of stories from seemingly credible people who have talked with angels or fairy folk or Apus or djinn, seen ghosts, and lived in Dreamtime. Rather than discredit these reports, Tom asked the question: What needs to be added to Western science to make these observations possible? The answer was a two-item list: souls with chakras and a fifth force called the life force. Both of these are accepted in many cultures, so nothing new was needed.

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Deborah Bryon

The journey began by working with Amaru the powerful snake of the lower world. It continued with Chocachinchi the commanding jaguar of the middle world and Apucheen the great condor of the upper world The Q’ero shamans connect to these beings with soul regions in the Belly, Heart, and Mind.
The Inca shamans have the task of healing their communities and preserving the energy pathways of Pachamama (Mother Earth). They are reaching out to others, including Deborah Bryon, because their spirit journeys have told them that the next set of shamans will come from the modern civilizations of the Western world.
Four years of training, from 2005 to 2009, are included in this book. The book contains Dr. Bryon’s personal journey. Her struggles to live in both the ordinary reality of a day job and the non-ordinary reality of a quest for shamanic understanding are described with clarity, insight, and appropriate amounts of humor. Along with her story, she analyzes her quest in the context of Jungian theory and, at the same time, explains how her journey includes aspects beyond the usual boundaries of Jungian thought.

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Michael Mantz and Tom Muzila

The book is focused toward beginning students of Shotokan—Ohshima Karate. It covers basic history, how to acquire the proper attitude toward practice, and karate’s foundational structure. Proper forms of the hand, striking, kicking, and blocking are addressed. Forms (katas) and sparring or fighting (kumite) are explained at a level appropriate for the beginning student.
All the information educates students on important facets related to a strong understanding of karate fundamentals and the deeper elements of karate’s true nature. It includes not only the practice and training of karate, but also principles that can be directly applied to achieve a more successful life.

Michael Mantz is an adjunct professor in Kinesiology at Del Mar College and Texas A&M University — Corpus Christi, teaching college credit courses in karate. He is a fourth degree (yodan) black belt in Tsutomu Ohshima’s Shotokan Karate of America, training in traditional karate for over 35 years.

Tom Muzila has over 45 years of practicing and teaching martial arts and fitness conditioning. He is a fifth degree (godan) black belt in Tsutomu Ohshima’s Shotokan Karate of America. Tom has established several world marks and long endurance karate records. Tom has also authored Mental Karate: A Warrior’s Guide.

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Joseph Drumheller

The Subconscious, the Divine, and Me provides an honest, accessible, and practical guide into deeply connecting with yourself and the Divine. It’s filled with lots of great exercises to jumpstart your spiritual journey, especially for beginners.
Through six lessons, Joseph Drumheller leads us from the pain we feel to the ability to take action and create better lives.
1. Pain Leads to Suffering
2. Suffering Leads to Awareness
3. Awareness Leads to Healing
4. Healing Leads to Awakening
5. Awakening Leads to Development
6. Development Leads to Action

Joseph D. Drumheller has been practicing the art of healing since 1991. From 2003-11, he worked extensively with cancer patients at the PeaceHealth Cancer Center in Bellingham, WA. His mission lies in helping people overcome all forms of suffering and to learn how to connect to Divine presence. His own relationship to the Divine is expressed as a deep love for the outdoors, which he pursues as an avid whitewater paddler, boat-builder, visual artist, writer, musician, and geologist.

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Caylor Adkins

Caylor Adkins uses three complementary modalities to teach you how to improve your structure, flow, and maneuver in any style of martial arts practice. The bottom line: Hitting harder without power.
Adkins has over 50 years of rigorous training with a bias for studying realistic combat. He has always sought broadly based sources of martial arts understanding for himself and his students beyond his original training in Shotokan Karate. His criterion is that the ideas really work. Some of the sources included in the book include:
* Ball and staff forms from Chinese masters
* Western boxing
* Russian Systema empty arm techniques
* Stick work from Balintawak Cuentada Escrima
* Experts in body structure and connection: medical physiologists, external martial arts styles, Ida Rolf structural integration, and Lu Wen Wei’s four-center (tantien) model
* Chi flow models from internal martial arts styles
The goal of the book is to transmit Adkins’ martial arts understanding to improve the technique and combat ability of his readers. He uses basic techniques, forms, and combat drills in three complementary modalities (iron ball, wooden staff, and empty hands) to explain:
* Structure: integrating the whole body and spirit to hit harder with less wasted power
* Flow: using breathing, chi, and movement initiators to move quickly and efficiently
* Maneuver: defeating a dangerous opponent by understanding focus, critical edge, disruptive techniques, and centering

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Patrick Harpur

A brilliant look at the phenomena the mystify us, bringing together diverse areas such as fairies and UFOs, crop circles and skeptics, devils, angels, shamans, and witches. This is a wonderful book for those of you who are looking for more than another list of haunted houses or mundane ghostly tales.

Harpur says that we do not live in a purely physical reality, as many Western scientist would have us believe. Instead there is another side to our lives that Harpur calls daimonic reality. It makes room for many of the things that we know exist, but choose to ignore because we have been told they are "impossible." Putting the two realities together will make our world whole again and let us move on toward deeper understanding of the events Harpur calls daimonic.

Harpur weaves his thesis with wit and ingenuity, combining ideas of Carl Jung, the Gnostics, the Romantic poets and writers with his own insights to show us what is possible if we allow ourselves to experience our world daimonically.

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