Four Potential Encore Career Paths to Consider

by: Lin Schreiber

You’re ready for a change, want to (or have to) continue to work, but would love to strike out in a new direction. Not a clue where to start or what you think you’d like to do? How about some inspiration in the form of real-life stories about people just like you who are doing something different, and loving it? Here are four great Encore Career paths to consider:

Transform Your Current Work. One Encore Career path that you might not have thought of is taking what you love most about your current work and using that as a stepping off point for what’s next. I always think of Hollywood producer Stephen Simon as a great example of transforming work you love into work you love even more.

Producer of acclaimed films including Academy Award® Winning “What Dreams May Come” starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., the classic “Somewhere In Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and “All the Right Moves” starring Tom Cruise, his dream was always to make meaningful inspirational films. In 2004, he started the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a fabulous outlet for the many visionary films that are made each year but never make it into your local theatre. Each month, members of the Circle receive a DVD with a feature length film or documentary, and numerous short subjects that they get to keep.

Meanwhile, in 2005 Stephen fulfilled an important part of his dream when he directed and produced “Conversations with God” starring Neale Donald Walsch.

Be a Social Innovator. When Michele McRae retired, she wondered what she was going to do. On a whim, she took on a small pilot project and discovered a new passion — helping immigrants from around the world settle into American life.

An influx of refugees from more than 42 countries had changed the demographics of Michele’s hometown of Fargo, ND, creating tremendous challenges. Many people were afraid, but Michele thought if she could get just one retiree at a time to help one refugee learn English, things would improve.

Now as director of the Giving+Learning center where volunteers help refugees learn English — a volunteer operation of more than 500 people – Michele is breaking down barriers across age, culture, race and ethnicity. And, other cities around the country are adapting her model with success.

Become an Entrepreneur. Peg Heglund was bored with retirement, but her beliefs about working and age were definitely limiting her encore career possibilities. A former Registered Nurse, Peg re-assessed her skills and experience and opened a small consignment shop where for the next four years she acquired some good, solid business skills.

Following a conversation with Deborah Russell, AARP Director of 50+ Workforce Issues and a specialist in senior career issues, Peg created her business, Back to Work, a job placement service for people 55 and older.

Peg believes that meaningful work and being of service is life’s greatest gift, and she’s helping other retired people find that for themselves.

Express Yourself Creatively. After 28-years with the same high-tech company, Trish Reynolds jumped at the chance to golden parachute out and has never looked back. Her early retirement bought her the freedom to do what she’d always thought of as her “real” career: writing, which is what she’d been doing quietly all through the high-tech years.

Her first novel, The Doctor and the Witch Book I: A Question of Balance, was published by Dubsar House in Berkeley, CA. What’s your real career? Writing, painting, acting, sculpting, fashion designing, or what?

Remember, these are just four possible directions your Encore Career might take you. Take the time to explore all the possibilities, and don’t forget to follow your heart.

Source

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More On The 8 Senses

BASHAR

“The 8 Senses”

Pasadena, CA

5-15-88

Now our first step towards the understanding of your own innate

abilities is perhaps to clarify a few definitions about who and what you

actually are, even as physiological beings. Many of you now, in what you

call your New Age of awareness have bandied about the notion that you may

have more than five senses. You refer to the idea that you call telepathy

and psychic functioning and ESP and all these ideas as mysterious, perhaps

to some, not so mysterious perhaps to others as the sixth sense. In fact,

you actually have eight senses. One of which is transcendental, seven of

which are physiological so to speak. You are more familiar with your first

five senses because they are more immediately based in electro -chemical

manifestations of physical reality. These of course are what you normally

call your sight and your sound and your taste and your smell and your

touch. The other two physiological senses can colloquially be called,

orientation and vibratory sensitivity or discernment, if you wish.

The idea of orientation is that which is relative to what you call

space-time: the definition of physical reality to begin with. It is in what

you call your sinus cavities and it is based upon the substance that exists

in your sinus cavities called magnetite. This is what the animal

consciousness upon your planet utilizes to navigate, what you may call a

‘homing instinct,’ or as many of you understand as a natural ability to

simply know what direction you are facing and in which direction you must

go to get where you want to go. Your space-time orientation is a true

physical sense and it is one that most of you do not necessarily think

about – in league on the same level in categories with the other five.

The seventh sense is what you usually refer to as the sixth sense

which is vibrational discernment. This is the seventh level because in a

sense it is more refined, more highly accelerated than the actual sixth

sense of physical space-time orientation. The seventh sense of vibrational

discernment is what inter-connects all of you on a mental electro-magnetic

level. Where you are telempathically in touch at every given moment,

whether you are aware of it or not , with every other being, not only on

your own planet but on every other planet on every other dimension of

experience that is connected to electro-magnetic phenomena at all. It is

encased in the very cellular structure of your body — and the point of

orientation, the point of manifestation, the point of ignition for the

physical reality, electro-chemically speaking of the seventh sense of

psychic reality is to some degree contained in the glandular systems of

your body. Specifically the idea you would call the pineal gland and

various centers of activity in the brain. Especially in the center of the

hemispheres, what you would call technically, the corpus-callosum – in the

very center.

These ideas, these membranes are very sensitive to electro-magnetic

vibration and you pick up upon waves and frequencies of electro-magnetic

thought patterns that are radiated by every living being in physical

reality. You are part of a network, part of a web in that sense, and any

string that is plucked /anywhere/ throughout the universe in that electro-

magnetic field, to some degree is accessible to you. Those vibrations

radiate out in various ways. And they not only radiate out in physical

senses at what you would call the speed of light but they also transcend,

in another type of wave length, into the eighth sense – the transcendental

sense of Knowingness itself. Which simply stated means – every single

different thing within creation is actually a manifestation of the same ONE

thing , the All-That-Is, manifesting itself in all the ways that it

possibly can, simultaneously.

So in a sense, as a physical being you are concocted out of seven

particular dimensions of sensory experience with the eighth, the octave

itself the encapsulating one, being the one of your innate knowingness, the

one that is also representative of your origin point so to speak, as a non-

physical being before you ever manifested into the differentiated spectrum

of physical reality. You already, in other words, are in touch with every

single line of communication, every single ability you need to be in touch

with to do anything you want as a fully self-contained and self-empowered

being.

Now this in no way shape or form means that you must act like an

isolated person. That you have to cut yourself off, in that sense. Acting

selfishly and saying, ‘alright, that means its all for me and forget

everyone else’. The idea is to understand that there is a paradox in this

notion – when you know that you are a fully realized being you know you are

connected to the Whole. You know you are a representation of the Whole,

one version of the Whole idea of existence expressing itself /as/ the

individual you are in this focus. As well of course as all the other

individuals /you are/ in every other life or dimension of experience in which

/you/ exist. All these lives, all these experiences exist simultaneously and

you have access to all of them, when and where you need to. But the idea

simply is that once you realize you are a part of the Whole, that you are

the Whole itself, then you can understand quite logically, shall we say,

that the support of the Whole is what will support you as well, most easily

and most effortlessly.

If you think of yourself as isolated, truly cut off from the Whole,

that is what creates resistance in your lives and difficulties in your

lives and makes the things that you desire to have in your life take a long

time. When you allow yourself to know that you can flow, as your version

of the Whole, that the Whole of creation flows through you then you can

radiate that Love, radiate that connective feeling outward. Be of

assistance, be supportive, be loving to all reflections of yourself around

you, which is what all other individuals are in reality – reflections of

you. Reflecting, echoing back to you, all the different ideas that you

need to look at to become who you want to be. And in supporting all those

reflections, in supporting the total idea, you then are effortlessly and

automatically supported in return. Rather than having to work at it as you

say, struggle at it, strive for it, from an individualized point of view.

Now the idea of knowing you are the Whole, in no way, shape or form -

paradox again – removes the individuality that you are. It actually

strengthens it because the stronger an individual you are the stronger

version of the Whole you are, and therefore the more easy it is for you to

support any other version of the Whole because you understand that all

versions are equal to you. Just as valid because they are after all,

reflections, of the same ONE Whole reality of which you are also a

reflection of.

Source

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Four Potential Encore Career Paths to Consider

by: Lin Schreiber

You’re ready for a change, want to (or have to) continue to work, but would love to strike out in a new direction. Not a clue where to start or what you think you’d like to do? How about some inspiration in the form of real-life stories about people just like you who are doing something different, and loving it? Here are four great Encore Career paths to consider:

Transform Your Current Work. One Encore Career path that you might not have thought of is taking what you love most about your current work and using that as a stepping off point for what’s next. I always think of Hollywood producer Stephen Simon as a great example of transforming work you love into work you love even more.

Producer of acclaimed films including Academy Award® Winning “What Dreams May Come” starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., the classic “Somewhere In Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and “All the Right Moves” starring Tom Cruise, his dream was always to make meaningful inspirational films. In 2004, he started the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a fabulous outlet for the many visionary films that are made each year but never make it into your local theatre. Each month, members of the Circle receive a DVD with a feature length film or documentary, and numerous short subjects that they get to keep.

Meanwhile, in 2005 Stephen fulfilled an important part of his dream when he directed and produced “Conversations with God” starring Neale Donald Walsch.

Be a Social Innovator. When Michele McRae retired, she wondered what she was going to do. On a whim, she took on a small pilot project and discovered a new passion — helping immigrants from around the world settle into American life.

An influx of refugees from more than 42 countries had changed the demographics of Michele’s hometown of Fargo, ND, creating tremendous challenges. Many people were afraid, but Michele thought if she could get just one retiree at a time to help one refugee learn English, things would improve.

Now as director of the Giving+Learning center where volunteers help refugees learn English — a volunteer operation of more than 500 people – Michele is breaking down barriers across age, culture, race and ethnicity. And, other cities around the country are adapting her model with success.

Become an Entrepreneur. Peg Heglund was bored with retirement, but her beliefs about working and age were definitely limiting her encore career possibilities. A former Registered Nurse, Peg re-assessed her skills and experience and opened a small consignment shop where for the next four years she acquired some good, solid business skills.

Following a conversation with Deborah Russell, AARP Director of 50+ Workforce Issues and a specialist in senior career issues, Peg created her business, Back to Work, a job placement service for people 55 and older.

Peg believes that meaningful work and being of service is life’s greatest gift, and she’s helping other retired people find that for themselves.

Express Yourself Creatively. After 28-years with the same high-tech company, Trish Reynolds jumped at the chance to golden parachute out and has never looked back. Her early retirement bought her the freedom to do what she’d always thought of as her “real” career: writing, which is what she’d been doing quietly all through the high-tech years.

Her first novel, The Doctor and the Witch Book I: A Question of Balance, was published by Dubsar House in Berkeley, CA. What’s your real career? Writing, painting, acting, sculpting, fashion designing, or what?

Remember, these are just four possible directions your Encore Career might take you. Take the time to explore all the possibilities, and don’t forget to follow your heart.

Source

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• Do You Love the Work That You Do?


• Who Are “The Neutrals?”


• More On The 8 Senses


• Florida Pythons Targeting Humans Next?


• Fostering A Positive Attitude


• Broken Teams

The post Four Potential Encore Career Paths to Consider appeared first on Robert JR Graham.

More On The 8 Senses

BASHAR

“The 8 Senses”

Pasadena, CA

5-15-88

Now our first step towards the understanding of your own innate

abilities is perhaps to clarify a few definitions about who and what you

actually are, even as physiological beings. Many of you now, in what you

call your New Age of awareness have bandied about the notion that you may

have more than five senses. You refer to the idea that you call telepathy

and psychic functioning and ESP and all these ideas as mysterious, perhaps

to some, not so mysterious perhaps to others as the sixth sense. In fact,

you actually have eight senses. One of which is transcendental, seven of

which are physiological so to speak. You are more familiar with your first

five senses because they are more immediately based in electro -chemical

manifestations of physical reality. These of course are what you normally

call your sight and your sound and your taste and your smell and your

touch. The other two physiological senses can colloquially be called,

orientation and vibratory sensitivity or discernment, if you wish.

The idea of orientation is that which is relative to what you call

space-time: the definition of physical reality to begin with. It is in what

you call your sinus cavities and it is based upon the substance that exists

in your sinus cavities called magnetite. This is what the animal

consciousness upon your planet utilizes to navigate, what you may call a

‘homing instinct,’ or as many of you understand as a natural ability to

simply know what direction you are facing and in which direction you must

go to get where you want to go. Your space-time orientation is a true

physical sense and it is one that most of you do not necessarily think

about – in league on the same level in categories with the other five.

The seventh sense is what you usually refer to as the sixth sense

which is vibrational discernment. This is the seventh level because in a

sense it is more refined, more highly accelerated than the actual sixth

sense of physical space-time orientation. The seventh sense of vibrational

discernment is what inter-connects all of you on a mental electro-magnetic

level. Where you are telempathically in touch at every given moment,

whether you are aware of it or not , with every other being, not only on

your own planet but on every other planet on every other dimension of

experience that is connected to electro-magnetic phenomena at all. It is

encased in the very cellular structure of your body — and the point of

orientation, the point of manifestation, the point of ignition for the

physical reality, electro-chemically speaking of the seventh sense of

psychic reality is to some degree contained in the glandular systems of

your body. Specifically the idea you would call the pineal gland and

various centers of activity in the brain. Especially in the center of the

hemispheres, what you would call technically, the corpus-callosum – in the

very center.

These ideas, these membranes are very sensitive to electro-magnetic

vibration and you pick up upon waves and frequencies of electro-magnetic

thought patterns that are radiated by every living being in physical

reality. You are part of a network, part of a web in that sense, and any

string that is plucked /anywhere/ throughout the universe in that electro-

magnetic field, to some degree is accessible to you. Those vibrations

radiate out in various ways. And they not only radiate out in physical

senses at what you would call the speed of light but they also transcend,

in another type of wave length, into the eighth sense – the transcendental

sense of Knowingness itself. Which simply stated means – every single

different thing within creation is actually a manifestation of the same ONE

thing , the All-That-Is, manifesting itself in all the ways that it

possibly can, simultaneously.

So in a sense, as a physical being you are concocted out of seven

particular dimensions of sensory experience with the eighth, the octave

itself the encapsulating one, being the one of your innate knowingness, the

one that is also representative of your origin point so to speak, as a non-

physical being before you ever manifested into the differentiated spectrum

of physical reality. You already, in other words, are in touch with every

single line of communication, every single ability you need to be in touch

with to do anything you want as a fully self-contained and self-empowered

being.

Now this in no way shape or form means that you must act like an

isolated person. That you have to cut yourself off, in that sense. Acting

selfishly and saying, ‘alright, that means its all for me and forget

everyone else’. The idea is to understand that there is a paradox in this

notion – when you know that you are a fully realized being you know you are

connected to the Whole. You know you are a representation of the Whole,

one version of the Whole idea of existence expressing itself /as/ the

individual you are in this focus. As well of course as all the other

individuals /you are/ in every other life or dimension of experience in which

/you/ exist. All these lives, all these experiences exist simultaneously and

you have access to all of them, when and where you need to. But the idea

simply is that once you realize you are a part of the Whole, that you are

the Whole itself, then you can understand quite logically, shall we say,

that the support of the Whole is what will support you as well, most easily

and most effortlessly.

If you think of yourself as isolated, truly cut off from the Whole,

that is what creates resistance in your lives and difficulties in your

lives and makes the things that you desire to have in your life take a long

time. When you allow yourself to know that you can flow, as your version

of the Whole, that the Whole of creation flows through you then you can

radiate that Love, radiate that connective feeling outward. Be of

assistance, be supportive, be loving to all reflections of yourself around

you, which is what all other individuals are in reality – reflections of

you. Reflecting, echoing back to you, all the different ideas that you

need to look at to become who you want to be. And in supporting all those

reflections, in supporting the total idea, you then are effortlessly and

automatically supported in return. Rather than having to work at it as you

say, struggle at it, strive for it, from an individualized point of view.

Now the idea of knowing you are the Whole, in no way, shape or form -

paradox again – removes the individuality that you are. It actually

strengthens it because the stronger an individual you are the stronger

version of the Whole you are, and therefore the more easy it is for you to

support any other version of the Whole because you understand that all

versions are equal to you. Just as valid because they are after all,

reflections, of the same ONE Whole reality of which you are also a

reflection of.

Source

More On The 8 Senses

BASHAR

“The 8 Senses”

Pasadena, CA

5-15-88

Now our first step towards the understanding of your own innate

abilities is perhaps to clarify a few definitions about who and what you

actually are, even as physiological beings. Many of you now, in what you

call your New Age of awareness have bandied about the notion that you may

have more than five senses. You refer to the idea that you call telepathy

and psychic functioning and ESP and all these ideas as mysterious, perhaps

to some, not so mysterious perhaps to others as the sixth sense. In fact,

you actually have eight senses. One of which is transcendental, seven of

which are physiological so to speak. You are more familiar with your first

five senses because they are more immediately based in electro -chemical

manifestations of physical reality. These of course are what you normally

call your sight and your sound and your taste and your smell and your

touch. The other two physiological senses can colloquially be called,

orientation and vibratory sensitivity or discernment, if you wish.

The idea of orientation is that which is relative to what you call

space-time: the definition of physical reality to begin with. It is in what

you call your sinus cavities and it is based upon the substance that exists

in your sinus cavities called magnetite. This is what the animal

consciousness upon your planet utilizes to navigate, what you may call a

‘homing instinct,’ or as many of you understand as a natural ability to

simply know what direction you are facing and in which direction you must

go to get where you want to go. Your space-time orientation is a true

physical sense and it is one that most of you do not necessarily think

about – in league on the same level in categories with the other five.

The seventh sense is what you usually refer to as the sixth sense

which is vibrational discernment. This is the seventh level because in a

sense it is more refined, more highly accelerated than the actual sixth

sense of physical space-time orientation. The seventh sense of vibrational

discernment is what inter-connects all of you on a mental electro-magnetic

level. Where you are telempathically in touch at every given moment,

whether you are aware of it or not , with every other being, not only on

your own planet but on every other planet on every other dimension of

experience that is connected to electro-magnetic phenomena at all. It is

encased in the very cellular structure of your body — and the point of

orientation, the point of manifestation, the point of ignition for the

physical reality, electro-chemically speaking of the seventh sense of

psychic reality is to some degree contained in the glandular systems of

your body. Specifically the idea you would call the pineal gland and

various centers of activity in the brain. Especially in the center of the

hemispheres, what you would call technically, the corpus-callosum – in the

very center.

These ideas, these membranes are very sensitive to electro-magnetic

vibration and you pick up upon waves and frequencies of electro-magnetic

thought patterns that are radiated by every living being in physical

reality. You are part of a network, part of a web in that sense, and any

string that is plucked /anywhere/ throughout the universe in that electro-

magnetic field, to some degree is accessible to you. Those vibrations

radiate out in various ways. And they not only radiate out in physical

senses at what you would call the speed of light but they also transcend,

in another type of wave length, into the eighth sense – the transcendental

sense of Knowingness itself. Which simply stated means – every single

different thing within creation is actually a manifestation of the same ONE

thing , the All-That-Is, manifesting itself in all the ways that it

possibly can, simultaneously.

So in a sense, as a physical being you are concocted out of seven

particular dimensions of sensory experience with the eighth, the octave

itself the encapsulating one, being the one of your innate knowingness, the

one that is also representative of your origin point so to speak, as a non-

physical being before you ever manifested into the differentiated spectrum

of physical reality. You already, in other words, are in touch with every

single line of communication, every single ability you need to be in touch

with to do anything you want as a fully self-contained and self-empowered

being.

Now this in no way shape or form means that you must act like an

isolated person. That you have to cut yourself off, in that sense. Acting

selfishly and saying, ‘alright, that means its all for me and forget

everyone else’. The idea is to understand that there is a paradox in this

notion – when you know that you are a fully realized being you know you are

connected to the Whole. You know you are a representation of the Whole,

one version of the Whole idea of existence expressing itself /as/ the

individual you are in this focus. As well of course as all the other

individuals /you are/ in every other life or dimension of experience in which

/you/ exist. All these lives, all these experiences exist simultaneously and

you have access to all of them, when and where you need to. But the idea

simply is that once you realize you are a part of the Whole, that you are

the Whole itself, then you can understand quite logically, shall we say,

that the support of the Whole is what will support you as well, most easily

and most effortlessly.

If you think of yourself as isolated, truly cut off from the Whole,

that is what creates resistance in your lives and difficulties in your

lives and makes the things that you desire to have in your life take a long

time. When you allow yourself to know that you can flow, as your version

of the Whole, that the Whole of creation flows through you then you can

radiate that Love, radiate that connective feeling outward. Be of

assistance, be supportive, be loving to all reflections of yourself around

you, which is what all other individuals are in reality – reflections of

you. Reflecting, echoing back to you, all the different ideas that you

need to look at to become who you want to be. And in supporting all those

reflections, in supporting the total idea, you then are effortlessly and

automatically supported in return. Rather than having to work at it as you

say, struggle at it, strive for it, from an individualized point of view.

Now the idea of knowing you are the Whole, in no way, shape or form -

paradox again – removes the individuality that you are. It actually

strengthens it because the stronger an individual you are the stronger

version of the Whole you are, and therefore the more easy it is for you to

support any other version of the Whole because you understand that all

versions are equal to you. Just as valid because they are after all,

reflections, of the same ONE Whole reality of which you are also a

reflection of.

Source

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• Who Are “The Neutrals?”


• Psi Balls And Energy


• How Anyone Can Learn Remote Viewing


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Four Potential Encore Career Paths to Consider

by: Lin Schreiber

You’re ready for a change, want to (or have to) continue to work, but would love to strike out in a new direction. Not a clue where to start or what you think you’d like to do? How about some inspiration in the form of real-life stories about people just like you who are doing something different, and loving it? Here are four great Encore Career paths to consider:

Transform Your Current Work. One Encore Career path that you might not have thought of is taking what you love most about your current work and using that as a stepping off point for what’s next. I always think of Hollywood producer Stephen Simon as a great example of transforming work you love into work you love even more.

Producer of acclaimed films including Academy Award® Winning “What Dreams May Come” starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., the classic “Somewhere In Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and “All the Right Moves” starring Tom Cruise, his dream was always to make meaningful inspirational films. In 2004, he started the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a fabulous outlet for the many visionary films that are made each year but never make it into your local theatre. Each month, members of the Circle receive a DVD with a feature length film or documentary, and numerous short subjects that they get to keep.

Meanwhile, in 2005 Stephen fulfilled an important part of his dream when he directed and produced “Conversations with God” starring Neale Donald Walsch.

Be a Social Innovator. When Michele McRae retired, she wondered what she was going to do. On a whim, she took on a small pilot project and discovered a new passion — helping immigrants from around the world settle into American life.

An influx of refugees from more than 42 countries had changed the demographics of Michele’s hometown of Fargo, ND, creating tremendous challenges. Many people were afraid, but Michele thought if she could get just one retiree at a time to help one refugee learn English, things would improve.

Now as director of the Giving+Learning center where volunteers help refugees learn English — a volunteer operation of more than 500 people – Michele is breaking down barriers across age, culture, race and ethnicity. And, other cities around the country are adapting her model with success.

Become an Entrepreneur. Peg Heglund was bored with retirement, but her beliefs about working and age were definitely limiting her encore career possibilities. A former Registered Nurse, Peg re-assessed her skills and experience and opened a small consignment shop where for the next four years she acquired some good, solid business skills.

Following a conversation with Deborah Russell, AARP Director of 50+ Workforce Issues and a specialist in senior career issues, Peg created her business, Back to Work, a job placement service for people 55 and older.

Peg believes that meaningful work and being of service is life’s greatest gift, and she’s helping other retired people find that for themselves.

Express Yourself Creatively. After 28-years with the same high-tech company, Trish Reynolds jumped at the chance to golden parachute out and has never looked back. Her early retirement bought her the freedom to do what she’d always thought of as her “real” career: writing, which is what she’d been doing quietly all through the high-tech years.

Her first novel, The Doctor and the Witch Book I: A Question of Balance, was published by Dubsar House in Berkeley, CA. What’s your real career? Writing, painting, acting, sculpting, fashion designing, or what?

Remember, these are just four possible directions your Encore Career might take you. Take the time to explore all the possibilities, and don’t forget to follow your heart.

Source

Robert Recommends...

• Do You Love the Work That You Do?


• Who Are “The Neutrals?”


• More On The 8 Senses


• Florida Pythons Targeting Humans Next?


• Fostering A Positive Attitude


• Broken Teams

Four Potential Encore Career Paths to Consider

by: Lin Schreiber

You’re ready for a change, want to (or have to) continue to work, but would love to strike out in a new direction. Not a clue where to start or what you think you’d like to do? How about some inspiration in the form of real-life stories about people just like you who are doing something different, and loving it? Here are four great Encore Career paths to consider:

Transform Your Current Work. One Encore Career path that you might not have thought of is taking what you love most about your current work and using that as a stepping off point for what’s next. I always think of Hollywood producer Stephen Simon as a great example of transforming work you love into work you love even more.

Producer of acclaimed films including Academy Award® Winning “What Dreams May Come” starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., the classic “Somewhere In Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and “All the Right Moves” starring Tom Cruise, his dream was always to make meaningful inspirational films. In 2004, he started the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a fabulous outlet for the many visionary films that are made each year but never make it into your local theatre. Each month, members of the Circle receive a DVD with a feature length film or documentary, and numerous short subjects that they get to keep.

Meanwhile, in 2005 Stephen fulfilled an important part of his dream when he directed and produced “Conversations with God” starring Neale Donald Walsch.

Be a Social Innovator. When Michele McRae retired, she wondered what she was going to do. On a whim, she took on a small pilot project and discovered a new passion — helping immigrants from around the world settle into American life.

An influx of refugees from more than 42 countries had changed the demographics of Michele’s hometown of Fargo, ND, creating tremendous challenges. Many people were afraid, but Michele thought if she could get just one retiree at a time to help one refugee learn English, things would improve.

Now as director of the Giving+Learning center where volunteers help refugees learn English — a volunteer operation of more than 500 people – Michele is breaking down barriers across age, culture, race and ethnicity. And, other cities around the country are adapting her model with success.

Become an Entrepreneur. Peg Heglund was bored with retirement, but her beliefs about working and age were definitely limiting her encore career possibilities. A former Registered Nurse, Peg re-assessed her skills and experience and opened a small consignment shop where for the next four years she acquired some good, solid business skills.

Following a conversation with Deborah Russell, AARP Director of 50+ Workforce Issues and a specialist in senior career issues, Peg created her business, Back to Work, a job placement service for people 55 and older.

Peg believes that meaningful work and being of service is life’s greatest gift, and she’s helping other retired people find that for themselves.

Express Yourself Creatively. After 28-years with the same high-tech company, Trish Reynolds jumped at the chance to golden parachute out and has never looked back. Her early retirement bought her the freedom to do what she’d always thought of as her “real” career: writing, which is what she’d been doing quietly all through the high-tech years.

Her first novel, The Doctor and the Witch Book I: A Question of Balance, was published by Dubsar House in Berkeley, CA. What’s your real career? Writing, painting, acting, sculpting, fashion designing, or what?

Remember, these are just four possible directions your Encore Career might take you. Take the time to explore all the possibilities, and don’t forget to follow your heart.

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More On The 8 Senses

BASHAR

“The 8 Senses”

Pasadena, CA

5-15-88

Now our first step towards the understanding of your own innate

abilities is perhaps to clarify a few definitions about who and what you

actually are, even as physiological beings. Many of you now, in what you

call your New Age of awareness have bandied about the notion that you may

have more than five senses. You refer to the idea that you call telepathy

and psychic functioning and ESP and all these ideas as mysterious, perhaps

to some, not so mysterious perhaps to others as the sixth sense. In fact,

you actually have eight senses. One of which is transcendental, seven of

which are physiological so to speak. You are more familiar with your first

five senses because they are more immediately based in electro -chemical

manifestations of physical reality. These of course are what you normally

call your sight and your sound and your taste and your smell and your

touch. The other two physiological senses can colloquially be called,

orientation and vibratory sensitivity or discernment, if you wish.

The idea of orientation is that which is relative to what you call

space-time: the definition of physical reality to begin with. It is in what

you call your sinus cavities and it is based upon the substance that exists

in your sinus cavities called magnetite. This is what the animal

consciousness upon your planet utilizes to navigate, what you may call a

‘homing instinct,’ or as many of you understand as a natural ability to

simply know what direction you are facing and in which direction you must

go to get where you want to go. Your space-time orientation is a true

physical sense and it is one that most of you do not necessarily think

about – in league on the same level in categories with the other five.

The seventh sense is what you usually refer to as the sixth sense

which is vibrational discernment. This is the seventh level because in a

sense it is more refined, more highly accelerated than the actual sixth

sense of physical space-time orientation. The seventh sense of vibrational

discernment is what inter-connects all of you on a mental electro-magnetic

level. Where you are telempathically in touch at every given moment,

whether you are aware of it or not , with every other being, not only on

your own planet but on every other planet on every other dimension of

experience that is connected to electro-magnetic phenomena at all. It is

encased in the very cellular structure of your body — and the point of

orientation, the point of manifestation, the point of ignition for the

physical reality, electro-chemically speaking of the seventh sense of

psychic reality is to some degree contained in the glandular systems of

your body. Specifically the idea you would call the pineal gland and

various centers of activity in the brain. Especially in the center of the

hemispheres, what you would call technically, the corpus-callosum – in the

very center.

These ideas, these membranes are very sensitive to electro-magnetic

vibration and you pick up upon waves and frequencies of electro-magnetic

thought patterns that are radiated by every living being in physical

reality. You are part of a network, part of a web in that sense, and any

string that is plucked /anywhere/ throughout the universe in that electro-

magnetic field, to some degree is accessible to you. Those vibrations

radiate out in various ways. And they not only radiate out in physical

senses at what you would call the speed of light but they also transcend,

in another type of wave length, into the eighth sense – the transcendental

sense of Knowingness itself. Which simply stated means – every single

different thing within creation is actually a manifestation of the same ONE

thing , the All-That-Is, manifesting itself in all the ways that it

possibly can, simultaneously.

So in a sense, as a physical being you are concocted out of seven

particular dimensions of sensory experience with the eighth, the octave

itself the encapsulating one, being the one of your innate knowingness, the

one that is also representative of your origin point so to speak, as a non-

physical being before you ever manifested into the differentiated spectrum

of physical reality. You already, in other words, are in touch with every

single line of communication, every single ability you need to be in touch

with to do anything you want as a fully self-contained and self-empowered

being.

Now this in no way shape or form means that you must act like an

isolated person. That you have to cut yourself off, in that sense. Acting

selfishly and saying, ‘alright, that means its all for me and forget

everyone else’. The idea is to understand that there is a paradox in this

notion – when you know that you are a fully realized being you know you are

connected to the Whole. You know you are a representation of the Whole,

one version of the Whole idea of existence expressing itself /as/ the

individual you are in this focus. As well of course as all the other

individuals /you are/ in every other life or dimension of experience in which

/you/ exist. All these lives, all these experiences exist simultaneously and

you have access to all of them, when and where you need to. But the idea

simply is that once you realize you are a part of the Whole, that you are

the Whole itself, then you can understand quite logically, shall we say,

that the support of the Whole is what will support you as well, most easily

and most effortlessly.

If you think of yourself as isolated, truly cut off from the Whole,

that is what creates resistance in your lives and difficulties in your

lives and makes the things that you desire to have in your life take a long

time. When you allow yourself to know that you can flow, as your version

of the Whole, that the Whole of creation flows through you then you can

radiate that Love, radiate that connective feeling outward. Be of

assistance, be supportive, be loving to all reflections of yourself around

you, which is what all other individuals are in reality – reflections of

you. Reflecting, echoing back to you, all the different ideas that you

need to look at to become who you want to be. And in supporting all those

reflections, in supporting the total idea, you then are effortlessly and

automatically supported in return. Rather than having to work at it as you

say, struggle at it, strive for it, from an individualized point of view.

Now the idea of knowing you are the Whole, in no way, shape or form -

paradox again – removes the individuality that you are. It actually

strengthens it because the stronger an individual you are the stronger

version of the Whole you are, and therefore the more easy it is for you to

support any other version of the Whole because you understand that all

versions are equal to you. Just as valid because they are after all,

reflections, of the same ONE Whole reality of which you are also a

reflection of.

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