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The Philip Pullman Trilogy are a fantastic treat for young minded readers.
In 'Northern Lights' a willful young girl, Lyra, first hears about dust.  She receives the alethiometer and tries to figure out what all the symbols mean: the dolphin; globe; lute; compass; candle; thunderbolt; horse and so on...Her daemon Pan watches the needle swing on the truth device, and he transforms himself into the tiniest, meekest creature.  He's tagged to her and they begin the first steps on her journey into...

Opening the door into a new world. 'The Subtle Knife' gives Lyra a new relationship with a seeker called Will.  Together they experience challenges to their recognition of existence and fall between thought and action.

The perspective through 'The Amber Spyglass' is overarching and clear.  But Lyra sees enough devastation, she hates the spectre eaten adults and the children running wild and is lead safely into wisdom and independence.

Her final dreams for the future seem perfectly real to me.

Once again, but in a new location, Scotland, the big European nations are staging the scene to discuss world poverty.  The facts headline every NGO website - £58bn debts,  crippling farm subsidies, disease epidemics and a total absence of basic infrastructure, including sanitation, schools and protected ecology. And whilst corporate development are gathering speed and riding on the back on children's health, literacy, opportunities, and values, the European nations are arguing over a £3bn rebate for Britain.  Because Germany has huge issues with 5 million unemployed workers.  

So it looks like the power mongerers are going to ruin the momentum for the LED countries and muffle their chance to be heard on the big stage.  It's a good job we can all go to a concert afterwards...

And the band played on!

What are peoples' attitudes to energy blockages?  

Can blockages be alleviated easily through meditation?  Do they require a partner, a group or a teacher?  As most people here speak individually, to what extent has group energy development been used in your experiences?  Direct experience is essential mostly is it not?

From here, when I first attempted to direct energy raising to specific areas of my energy body, i experienced strong shaking, discomfort around the neck and sometimes a feeling of nausea.   My bones crack and snap like nobody's business!  Other times I started to worry if my head would fall off, seriously it's not funny.   Sometimes, I have heat marks on my limbs and my skin changes which shows the overwork of some of my energy meridians.  So, would these be imbalances like stagnation, overwork or am I in trouble and under psychic attack?

I think I am right in saying that strong vibrations can be tuned through breath control so that they can become higher or lower, which will affect the corresponding organs, functions and manifestions.   But this doesn't help me to project out of my body?  What did I forget please?

So, if my energy vibrations are drawn from my chakras how do I know if they are 'blocked' or if I am actually in development when I am not sure?  Also, if I raise my energy, shouldn't it be shut down afterwards, I don't have a voluminous and voluptuous form!

Is it possible to open doorways that release atmospheric odours, and if so, how can you clear the space responsibly?  Sometimes I am noticing particular smells, like extreme bitterness, or a dirty stale smell from places i have visited years ago.   On other occasions I can smell pleasant smells, flowers or scents etc.  Does anybody else notice this?

Hello!  I am finally writing about myself because it didn't cross my mind to talk before now...hmm.  I am a trainee teacher and I live in the UK having lived here all my life speaking English and studying language.

There are so many things that interest me that I confess to you secretly now that I am totally talentless but pretty enthusiastic! My true weakness is getting bored and picking up on teen attitude so taoita is a personal reminder to me that what is true cannot be spoken.

I have been putting my foot in it and focusing my awareness on movement and mediaattention, sorry meditation, for about 10 years and since that time I have made absolutely no social progress at all - I mean really!  I have very few friends with similar interests to me so i am a very contradictory personality with strange aptitudes and abilities.

Recently, I started on the magnum opus Mastering Astral Projection - (awful book cover) which I thought would fast track me into astral awareness and yepp, I am still making tracks...YAY!

Thanks for your help sincerely...taoitax