Institute for Philosophy & the Arts'
Salon on the Spiritually Creative Life

Carol Soucek King
[Photography by Nathaniel Taylor]

THE SALON ON THE SPIRITUALLY CREATIVE LIFE

Our 28th Year Continues
... still on Zoom!

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Please join Carol Soucek King virtually on
Sunday, March 10, 2024 Via Zoom

To discuss one of God's essential aspects
illuminated throughout her book
Under the Bridges at Arroyo del Rey

Possibility

 

With Main Presentation

Intuitive Mind/Body Healer
Aneetha "Anee" Rajan

Possibility
Letting God into the Driver's Seat

[Dying to Accept a New Possibility]

 

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Morning's Agenda
Speakers Bio
Zoom Info
Today's Lyrics and Commentary
2024 Salon Dates/Themes

 

9:30 am Pacific Standard Time
Zoom Room Arrivals and
Himalayan Singing Bowls by Healing Arts Practitioner
Janet Martorello

 

10 am until noon – Program

  

Meditation
with

Nan Rae

Artist/Teacher/Author

Nan Rae's New Book - now available on Amazon --
Walk with Me... In the Garden of Our Friendship
includes many of Nan’s Meditations for
The Salon on the Spiritually Creative Life

 

Opening Song and Commentary
"One Family"
written and sung by
Dean LeGrand Carlston, DDS
Composer/Singer/Instrumentalist

Dean welcomes us to listen to and download his music at no charge by accessing his personal website: deancarlston.com

 

Salute to Birthdays
with
Graham Lance Richardson
Retired Westside Realtor after 35 years.
Licensed Plumber & Gas Fitter.
Certified Welder to 100%.

 

Main Presentation:

Aneetha "Anee" Rajan

Letting God into the Driver's Seat
[Dying to Accept a New Possibility]

Letting God into the Driver's Seat

After contracting an antibiotic-resistant viral infection in 2021, Anee healed herself by praying to GOD-SOURCE, who instructed her to begin fasting and 40 days of no technology. Thus began a journey of deconstruction of what Anee had thought possible alongside a beautiful self-discovery of the Divine Presence within - what Anee calls the “Spark of GOD” - which she says is present within every human just waiting to be awakened. This process of awakening and activation is what she now teaches via meditation and private coaching. She is a powerful healer and intuitive who can connect to Source/GOD/The Universe - and can teach others how to do the same. In her journey she learned the expansion of possibility when she released control and let GOD into the driver’s seat of her human vehicle (the body) and to update the computer running it (the mind).

 

Music Interlude
by
Douglas Decker
Recording Engineer/Musician
"The Circle Game"
by Joni Mitchell

 

Poetry Reading
with
Patricia Ferber
Sculptor/Painter/Educator/Curator/Poet
"Possibility"

 

Followed by Discussion

Opening the Discussion will be
Nino Wong, designer/business leader/Volunteer
Chairman of the Chinese Garden Docents, Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens.

All are invited to continue sharing thoughts on Possibility.

 

until noontime

 

Finale
"More I Cannot Wish You"
by Frank Loesser
Susie Katharine Shaw
Actress/Vocalist

 

To conclude Susie will lead us in Richard King's favorite
Native American Prayer

 

 


About Our Speaker 

Aneetha (Anee) RajanAneetha (Anee) Rajan

Aneetha (Anee) Rajan has enjoyed a distinguished career in non-fiction television and film for 20 years before her career took a divine detour into the healing arts. In film and television she has worked on the Oscar Award Winning film about gun culture in America, “Bowling For Columbine” and several other award winning films. She produced “Proud To Serve” a documentary hosted by the late Walter Cronkite about America’s Military Culture, and traveled the world producing programming for The History Channel. In 2012 after documenting one of the last matriarchal societies in the Chinese Himalayas, she was moved to study eastern healing and received certification in energy healing from The Sun Institute outside Sedona Arizona. Anee has also received certified training in energy medicine with Donna Eden, bioenergetics with Dr. Sue Morter, RTT hypnotherapy with Marissa Peer, Spiritual and Psychic Development with THEO [a collective of twelve archangels channelled by Sheila Gillette] and Sheila Gillette. Anee has been instructed in Pranic Healing by renowned Master Steven Cho and most recently completed her certification in Energy Mastery with Sheevaun Moran. Anee hopes to fuse her passion for storytelling with her passion for integrative healing dynamics with a biographical series she has created around a famous psychic who was also once a registered trauma nurse, successfully using her intuitive gift coupled with science to save lives.

Contact Anee
emailanee@gmail.com
310-896-8173


For the time being, the Salon will continue to meet on Zoom. When appropriate, we will meet in person once again at Arroyo del Rey.


For access to the Salon on Zoom:

This meeting is being hosted by Zoom.
There is no charge to use this service.

Before the Salon on Sunday:
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email Curtis McElhinney at Curtis@curtisvision.com


Lyrics & Commentary

 

One Family
by Dean Legrand Carlston © June 29,2018

Earth is an oasis in a Celestial embrace
A fragile pearl suspended in its own special place
We must create our own destiny,
in truth Earth’s destiny too
We can create peace and unity;
our future depends on me and you
So, let’s all come together creating our own mandate
Effective change will free us from prejudice and hate
Begin as individuals reaching our arms open wide
We will make the difference working together side by side
We humans hold dominion over
earth’s creatures large and small
Earth’s great wealth and beauty must be accessible to us all
We with all our differences truly hold the key
Unity will never come until we all agree
To see beyond our differences,
which make us each unique
To love and protect each other
and leave the rest to God’s critique
When greed and envy are cast aside,
when love and caring take their place
We’ll create a united family for the entire human race


 

The Message Behind the Song: One Family

When we look out into the Universe through the Hubble telescope, we see billions of planets, millions of light years away. And when the telescope swings around toward earth, we see a tiny blue pearl that for many, seems like an oasis among otherwise barren, dry spheres. Many believe there is life on other planets; but so far there is no proof that human life exists anywhere except upon this tiny little sphere called earth.

Is it unreasonable then, that we should learn to accept each of earth’s inhabitants as one Family? Should we not be looking out for each other’s welfare? Should we really attempt to live here in the United States as isolationists?

It is my belief that we are all sisters and brothers essentially from the same source; while our differences are greatly influenced by genetics and climate. Of course, there are various belief systems that make us all quite different in many ways. However, when our thoughts and beliefs are noble and do not harm others, should we not embrace these differences as valuable uniqueness, that adds spice to life on earth?

While I believe at least 95% of our earthly sisters and brothers wish for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for each-and-every member of our earthly family, there will always be that purulent 5% or so who would corrupt, stifle and even eliminate the inalienable rights we are all meant to possess from birth. Just consider our earthly family members who are being enslaved by totalitarian governments in several countries throughout the world…. And what about the children who are being held in sexual bondage by the sick and demented? Is it too much for us to go beyond a simple shoulder shrug and move forward with a proactive agenda for liberating each-and-every one of our family members?

One major problem that must be addressed is the fact that scum tends to rise to the top. Scum seeks self-aggrandizement, and has no conscience when stealing truth away from the populous. Speaking in half-truths is the same as lying by omission; and is evil. Yet we are bombarded daily by the main stream media pundits with half-truths from both sides of the political spectrum attempting to manipulate us into their way of thinking. The news we are exposed to is being controlled by probably less than a dozen puppet masters. These days, truth seekers must learn to search the Web for information….of course there is plenty of falsehood lurking there also; but we have the spirit of discernment if we will but open our hearts to it. The mind has a trap door in it; and when it slams shut we stop receiving enlightenment and the ability to discern truth. An open mind and heart are key to us being able to advance the message of inclusion and love and support and protection to our Earthly Family.

Fomenters must be shunned. We know who they are. They parse and twist half-truths to push their narrative. These fringe puppets on the far right and far left of our societal norms/customs/laws/mores/traditions cannot be part of calm debate. They simply foment and attempt to force their loud ignorant narrative on the rest of us; however, if we maintain a strong democracy, the majority will prevail. Intelligent calm minds will hold discourse and eventually find and implement the solutions that will best support society-as-a-whole. We will always have variant opinions; but Democratic process allows us to govern by majority rule; so if our motives are unselfish and the 95% truly become involved, we can always implement and enforce laws and policies that adequately support the individual right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which should be ours from birth.

When common people become involved instead of allowing greed-based evil schemers to float from the bottom of moral decay to the top of leadership, we can use the ballot to rid ourselves of this prejudice and hate.

One problem is that the evil forces that would control our individuality know full well that they can’t allow us to be exposed to the whole-truth. Some governments use tyranny to stifle and destroy individual expression. Other governments under the guise of democratic principles, parse the truth to manipulate the citizenry. Again…half-truths are lies of omission…cunning and evil attempts to control us for their greed based evil intents. Governments have been abusing their citizenry for centuries. They would like nothing better than to have one body of government controlling all the individuals on this entire planet!

God forbid us losing our sovereignty to the callous scum that so often rises to positions of leadership in government and business.

The governments of the world can be likened to the community contained within a hive of honey bees. When we study the systems within the society of the honey bee, it doesn’t take much of a stretch to realize that if the worker bees resist and don’t cooperate, the entire community either fails, or must undertake serious change.

We worker bees possess much more power than we know……

-- Dean LeGrand Carlston 7/8/2018   deancarlston.com

 

"The Circle Game"
by Joni Mitchell

Verse 1
Yesterday a child came out to wander
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

Chorus
And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game

Verse 2
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, "When you're older" must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams

Chorus

Verse 3
16 springs and 16 summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town
And they tell him, "Take your time, it won't be long now
'Til you drag your feet to slow the circles down"

Chorus

Verse 4
So the years spin by and now the boy is 20
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through

Chorus

 

"More I Cannot Wish You"
by Frank Loesser

Velvet I can wish you for the collar of your coat
and fortune smiling all along your way.
But more I cannot wish you than to wish you find your love,
your own true love this day.
Mansions I can wish you,
seven footmen all in red and calling cards upon a silver tray.
But more I cannot wish you than to wish
you find your love, your own true love this day.
Music I can wish you, merry music while you’re young,
and wisdom when your hair has turned to gray.
But more I cannot wish you than to wish you find your love,
your own true love this day,
And the strong arms to carry you away.

 


All 2024 Salon dates and themes

STABILITY
Sunday, January 14, 2024

GROWTH
Sunday, February 11, 2024

POSSIBILITY
Sunday, March 10, 2024

FAITH
Sunday, April 14, 2024

GRATITUDE
Sunday, May 12, 2024

HUMOR
Sunday, June 9, 2024

UNDERSTANDING
Sunday, July 14, 2024

KINDNESS
Sunday, August 11, 2024

HARMONY
Sunday, September 8, 2024

LOVE
Sunday, October 13, 2024

HEALING
Sunday, November 10, 2024

SPIRITUALITY
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Please let us know which salons you can attend by calling (626) 449-1238.


With all loving thoughts and hoping to see you soon!

Carol Soucek King, M.F.A., Ph. D.
Email: KingCarol@aol.com  
 


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