Hello All and welcome to my first "E-ZINE"

There is so much wonderful stuff going on in Nanaimo, in the province and in the world, that I just have to share it with you monthly!

(The plus for you is then you only get ONE email a month from me instead of 10! lololo)

Just to let you know that this is the last group email that you will get from me. Beginning next month, only those that have signed to receive this e-zine will get updates of what is happening. If you like what you see, You have to do it yourself. I'm sorry, but I can't do it for you, it's law now.
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               What a great time to start! 

             It's February,  the month of LOVE.

 Love is way up there in the vibrational calibration ratings. According to David Hawkins book Power vs. Force, only Joy, Peace and Enlightenment calibrate vibrationally higher than love! Love is really what it's all about, isn't it?  

As the Beatles said, "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!"

I heard an amazing talk last Sunday about how the ancient Greeks actually divided love into 4 categories. They are Eros Love, Phillial Love, Caritas Love, and Agape Love. Wow! For more information on this you will have to come to our workshop on the 18th of February at the German Hall. (click here for more info)

What I would like to talk about a little further right now is Agape Love. I had never heard of it other than from Michael Beckwith, from The Secret, who has a spiritual centre in Los Angeles called The Agape International Spiritual Center, http://www.agapelive.com/ which has over 1500 members. I have heard a few of his talks and there is some pretty incredible energy coming from this man!

"Agape Love." So what is it? It is the most difficult of the four to understand and to live on a daily basis. It's a love that I can only aspire to reach some day at this point in my journey. It's a love that is so emotionally mature, that it is wider than any one relationship and has absolutely no need to possess or control. This love is so rare, that I believe we only ever see it in a select few, and even then we have a hard time to comprehend it.

The person that comes to my mind is the Dalai Lama. I have had the privilege to be in his presence several times now. Recently I saw a movie named Kundun that moved me to the core. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundun The movie is his story from birth to being discovered as the 14th reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama and consequently his appointment to be the Spiritual Leader of Tibet. It ends as he crosses the mountains of Tibet and into exile in India. As he walks to the checkpoint at the border, an Indian guard salutes and inquires: "May I ask, are you the Lord Buddha?" The Dalai Lama replies with the film's final line: "I think that I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I am trying to be a good man, you see yourself."


This movie is amazing and displays this sense of Agape Love to me through a man who has seen so much suffering. He lost his freedom at age 16, and his country at 24. He has been a refugee for over 40 years and has seen immense suffering and atrocities inflicted on his people. He has even received death threats to himself under the oppression of the Chinese. Yet, as I hear him speak, he has absolutely no hatred toward them. I have heard him say that "all sentient beings just want to be happy."  Despite all he has endured, he sets a true example of love, compassion, and joyousness. 

So let's eat our chocolates, drink our wine and be in our Eros Love as we celebrate this month, but let's also aspire to live even a bit in Agape Love as we interact with those we love, and even those that we have an aversion to, knowing that we are all just reflecting back to each other who we really are.  

Warmly, Ev