Sex, Boys & You: Be Your Own Best Girlfriend

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Sex, Boys & You is a book for women-children: girls age 11 to 19 on their way to being strong, kind, giving, powerful grownups. Author Joni Arredia wants her young readers to learn to use their muliebrity: the power of womanhood. After she found her muliebrity, Joni shared her journey with the world in her first book Muliebrity: Qualities of a Woman. Now she wants to pass her wisdom down to a new generation of women. If 12-year-olds can find their muliebrity now, instead of in their 30s, how bright the world would be from their glowing smiles. Sex, Boys & You shows girls how to combine their own unique inner strengths, with a strong healthy package to carry out their wildest and most profound dreams. It addresses issues all teens are thinking about: sex, dating, feeling fat, feeling ugly, fearing loneliness. And a few that might surprise like spirituality, exercise, and posture. Sex, Boys & You seeks to teach and prepare, but more than that, it is about inspiring the energy to take a dream and turn it into reality. Joni talks about fighting the forces and people that can damage or destroy dreams, and how girls can pick up the pieces if they've been hurt. Joni's gentle, cradling style gets right to the heart of the matter - without getting "in your face." Her voice is a beacon of hope to all women, even those still in training. You can hear her ever-present smile on every page.

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Excellent!.......2005-12-14

I happened on this book by accident and was thrilled. The title is somewhat deceiving because sex is only a part of it. The main theme of this book is female empowerment, which involves making good decisions and being true to yourself. This book touches on all aspects of any woman's life and I got as much out of it as they will. Hopefully it will inspire my girls to realize the importance of a strong, smart woman and aspire to be her.

every mother needs to share this with their daughter.......2002-01-30

Not only did this book give me a chance to look at my self, it gave me a better perspective on what my daughter is going though and ways to help her deal with being a teen. Even if she won't addmit she got something out of this book, I can see it by the way she has changed her out look on life, friends and BOYS. I would reccomend this book to any one who knows a girl. Wheather it be your own, a niece, a friend or even a stranger. This book is easy to read and understand.

best book i have read.......2000-03-26

this a great read. I recomend it to any teenage girl. it talks about a look of important things in a girls life, and i sugesset you buy it.

Counseling Adolescent Girls (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling)

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Recognizing the Unique Needs of Girls

Counseling Adolescent Girls (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling)
Patricia, H Davis
Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Recognizing the Unique Needs of Girls.......2000-03-07

Patricia H. Davis does a masterful job of presenting the unique problems and needs of adolescent girls. Especially at this age, girls are trying to find their place in the world as women, and discovering that society's expectations for them are very different from expectations for their brothers.

Davis shows that the crises of adolescence are very different for most girls than for most boys, and that the basic adolescent task of separation and differentiation from the parents can often be difficult, because the daughter identifies more closely with the mother than does a son with the father. Adolescent girls need to be heard, need to have permission to see themselves as powerful and competent, need to feel loved for themselves. They especially need this support from fathers and male role models.

This book will be extraordinarily helpful to anyone who deals with this age group in the church, especially male pastors and youth group leaders. Without being strident, Davis makes the case that growing up female is very different from growing up male, and that we cannot simply generalize knowledge from boys to girls, especially in this age group. Girls combat low self-esteem differently than boys, more often turning to self-destructive behaviors than acting out aggressively, for example.

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This book is great!It answers all of a teens questions!.......1999-05-23

I absolutly love this book! It answered all of my questions about becoming a woman and about how to be safe under pressure. It has different sections about different thing that girls want to know. It even has a section on how men feel about the things that their daughters are going through. I recomend this book to anybody who has questions about being older.

Great book for teens and women of all ages.......1999-01-24

Girls to Women, Women to Girls is an excellent collection of thoughts, stories, and poems from girls and women around the globe. I love it, and have read it like, ten times. It talks about things like what it is to be a female, peer pressure and cliques, teen crisis, and sex and virginity. I found it very inspirational and encouraging. It doesn't even really confine to teens and pre-teens either. It is, in my opinion, a great book for all ages. it's a book that grows with you. I VERY stronly recommend this book.

an authentic celebration of women.......1999-01-04

In appearance this is a very colorfull book which did not prepare me for its very serious content. It is wonderfully rich in the experience and wisdom of many women gained through living productively, if not always happily, while searching for meaning in their lives. More, they tell their stories with very little, if any, rancor towards men. A major strength. In this it is almost a pure celebration of womanhood, a concept still struggling for widespread acceptance in American society. While there has been some editing, the stories these women tell are essentially in their own words which only adds to the volumne's credibility. It also suggests the notion that people have a need to tell their stories, to be heard, and to be acknowledged. In an age when so much of our lives are dictated by forces beyond our control, this, in and of itself is no small accomplishment. In short, this is a book I would recommend for my mother, sister, daughter and grand-daughter. I'm waiting for someone to produce the male version.

An AWESOME book for any girl or woman!!!!!!.......1998-11-17

I am twelve years old, and have probably read hundreds of books in my lifetime, but this is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is full of GREAT stories written by girls and women ages 9-98. (There's even a great chapter with some amazing stories written by fathers!) My favorite chapter in the book is the one about peers and friends. When the authors were collecting writings, I submitted a story that eventually made it into the book. All of my friends (and their mothers) own at least one copy of it, and they have all said wonderful things about Girls to Women, Women to Girls. No matter what their age, girls and women all over the world are sure to enjoy this book.

Stars to steer by.......1998-11-09

I had the privilege to attend a reading from this book, given by many of its contributors. The stories are powerful and familiar, in that they bring to mind my stories of coming of age. If you know an adolescent girl, I would recommend that you buy a copy for her. And buy one for yourself, too. For those of us who worry about how our daughters will navigate the shoals of adolescence, this book offers stars to steer by.

Mom, I Got a Tattoo!: The Survival Guide to Raising a Teenage Daughter

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Mom, I Got a Tattoo!: The Survival Guide to Raising a Teenage Daughter
Janet Irwin , and Susanna De Vries
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With clarity, insight and straightforward talk, Mom, I Got a Tattoo answers parents' questions about teenage girls' behavior. From tattoos and piercing to sexuality, cliques, drug and alcohol abuse and more, this book helps parents and teenage daughters face serious issues together.

Career counseling is personal counseling: a constructivist approach to nurturing the development of gifted female adolescents.: An article from: Career Development Quarterly

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Career counseling is personal counseling: a constructivist approach to nurturing the development of gifted female adolescents.: An article from: Career Development Quarterly
Millie Maxwell
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This digital document is an article from Career Development Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 9745 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Career counseling is personal counseling: a constructivist approach to nurturing the development of gifted female adolescents.
Author: Millie Maxwell
Publication: Career Development Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Page: 206(19)

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Counseling adolescent girls for body image resilience: strategies for school counselors.: An article from: Professional School Counseling

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Counseling adolescent girls for body image resilience: strategies for school counselors.: An article from: Professional School Counseling
Laura Hensley Choate
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000X1F1VO
Release Date: 2007-10-10

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This digital document is an article from Professional School Counseling, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 8116 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Counseling adolescent girls for body image resilience: strategies for school counselors.
Author: Laura Hensley Choate
Publication: Professional School Counseling (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
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Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Page: 317(10)

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RAP with teens to prevent psychological problems.(Mental Health)(Resourceful Adolescents Project ) : An article from: Family Practice News

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RAP with teens to prevent psychological problems.(Mental Health)(Resourceful Adolescents Project ) : An article from: Family Practice News
Michele G. Sullivan
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000E6EQ5K
Release Date: 2006-01-12

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on December 15, 2005. The length of the article is 592 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: RAP with teens to prevent psychological problems.(Mental Health)(Resourceful Adolescents Project )
Author: Michele G. Sullivan
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 15, 2005
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Volume: 35 Issue: 24 Page: 35(1)

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Trauma Group Psychotherapy for the Adolescent Female Client.: An article from: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

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Trauma Group Psychotherapy for the Adolescent Female Client.: An article from: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
Debra Ellensweig-Tepper
Manufacturer: Nursecom, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008GXOJ0
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, published by Nursecom, Inc. on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 6665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Trauma Group Psychotherapy for the Adolescent Female Client.
Author: Debra Ellensweig-Tepper
Publication: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Nursecom, Inc.
Volume: 13 Issue: 1 Page: 17

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Two rites of passage in a sexual abuse survivor group for residential adolescent girls.: An article from: Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association

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Two rites of passage in a sexual abuse survivor group for residential adolescent girls.: An article from: Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association
Everett K. Spees
Manufacturer: American Psychotherapy Association
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ASIN: B0008IIHRC
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, published by American Psychotherapy Association on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3499 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Two rites of passage in a sexual abuse survivor group for residential adolescent girls.
Author: Everett K. Spees
Publication: Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: American Psychotherapy Association
Volume: 4 Issue: 6 Page: 9(4)

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Alternate plan paper / Mankato State University. Counseling and Student Personnel

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Alternate plan paper / Mankato State University. Counseling and Student Personnel
Jane Held
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After practicing law for several years in St. Louis, Basil Wilson Duke (1838-1916) enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 and was elected first lieutenant of John Hunt Morgan's legendary cavalry unit. As second in command, he was, Morgan recorded, "wise in counsel, gallant in the field," and always "the right man in the right place." Duke was twice wounded in battle and was captured during Morgan's Great Raid and held prisoner for over a year. When Morgan, who was also Duke's brother-in-law, was killed in 1864, Duke was promoted to brigadier general and appointed commander of Morgan's men. Moving to join forces with those of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army in North Carolina, he was assigned to the force escorting Jefferson Davis in his retreat from Richmond at the close of the war.

Duke later opened a law office in Louisville and was elected as a Democrat to the Kentucky House, where he served until 1870. He was counsel and chief lobbyist for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for over twenty years and a founder of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville. An avid amateur historian, Duke published several books, including A History of Morgan's Cavalry.

Basil Wilson Duke, CSA, the definitive biography of this important but often overlooked figure in Civil War history, establishes that Duke was in fact the brilliant tactician behind much of the success of Morgan's cavalry. Author Gary Robert Matthews not only offers an in-depth study of Duke's celebrated Civil War exploits but also traces his varied postwar literary, legal, and political careers.

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Basil Wilson Duke,CSA: The Right man in the Right Place.......2007-02-12

This is not so much a personal biography of the Kentucky general as an account of his influence on John Hunt Morgan. Civil War buffs will appreciate the details that fill in previous blanks in other accounts of Morgan's Raiders and the role of Kentuckians in the War Between the States.

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I've just learned of this book, see below........1999-02-20

I am personnally a decendant of Juan Nepomuceno and would appreciate thoughts about this book. send comments to SRC_ME @ Yahoo.com. i have just learned of this book and a few others listed on this site and plan to review them all. Check back for future reviews by myself.

Boobies, Iguanas & Other Critters: Nature's Story in the Galapagos (Biosphere Reserve Series)
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Boobies, Iguanas & Other Critters: Nature's Story in the Galapagos (Biosphere Reserve Series)
Linda Lambert Litteral
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“I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book.” -- from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose

As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy is the vivid, true story of their fight for survival as the tables of power turned and, for reasons Wolfgang was too young to understand, his broken family suffered arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger, and constant fear.

Because his father was off fighting the war as a Luftwaffe officer, young Wolfgang was forced to become the head of his household, scavenging for provisions and scraps with which to feed his family. Despite his best efforts, his mother still found herself forced to do the unthinkable to survive, and her sacrifices became Wolfgang’s worst nightmares. Somehow, with the resilience only children can muster, he maintained his youth and innocence in little ways–making friends with other young refugees, playing games with shrapnel, delighting in the planes flown by the Americans and the candies the GIs brought. In the end, the Samuels begin life anew in America, and Wolfgang eventually goes on to a thirty-year career in the U.S. Air Force.

Bringing fresh insight to the dark history of Nazi Germany and the horror left in its wake, German Boy records the valuable recollections of an innocent’s incredible journey.

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A compulsive pageturner.......2007-09-06

The author, who was 10 years old and living in eastern Germany when WWII came to an end, has an amazing memory for telling details and an irresistibly engaging personality. His memoir of that dreadful time is framed as a tribute to his mother, who certainly deserves it, and an unforgettable lesson in history as it is really lived. Once you start reading this book, you will be unable to put it down and you will never forget it.

Should be Required Reading for All Youths.......2007-07-18

This harrowing memoir should be required reading for all children. Perhaps, as adults, they will think hard and deeply before embarking on war. The description of life at the end of WWII and postwar Germany are harrowing. The reader cannot help but wonder how he or she would or could cope in the same situation.

I found the comparison among the American, British and Russian zones in postwar Germany to be fascinating. I hope that the friendliness and genorosity which have historically characterized Americans have not been lost in our recent imperialist adventurism and immoral acts.

GERMAN BOY.......2007-06-24

I learned of this author and his saga through the Berlin Airlift Association. I am WWII vintage, first landed in Berlin during the Pottsdam Conference- July '45. I was later stationed in Germany on three different occasions and flew on the Berlin Airlift in '48 as a pilot. I read and thoroughly enjoyed Wolfgang's story and went through the book in a matter of hours- a rarity for me. It was a compelling story, so well crafted. The author has a real gift for a superb journalistic format and style. I can relete to so much of the trauma he went through, not in his boots, so to speak, but as an observer of the terrible situation confronting the civilian population. I am a WWII history buff & have a large collection of books from that period. German Boy is certainly a keeper in this time frame and setting. I so enjoyed the flow of the story and the easy to read style. His descriptions are vivid, alive and enticing. I immediately bought the sequel, Coming To Colorado and it is equally fine reading. As the author of a book, TOP STICK, I realize the undertakings involved in writing a good story. Wolfgang does a superb job and he is to be congratulated for his fine work. Buy and read this book. You will be most pleased that you did, and I'd wage that you'll buy more of his work. HAROLD A.JACOBS, LT COL. USAF ret.

German Boy.......2007-06-04

My friend living in London, England, read this book and suggested it to me. It is the story of a young boy growing up in war torn and defeated Germany. He later comes to America and become an Air Force officer. It is a worthwhile and fascinating study in overcoming hardship. It focuses on a part of war that most accounts of war fail to do: the civilian population and the wars effect on them. But the book is more than that. It is a highly personal account of survival and hardship in growing up. It is a story that had to be told.

Excellent book, a must read!.......2007-05-24

I bought this book to give me some more insight into the world my mother saw in Germany as a teenager during and after the war. The book's descriptions of the conditions of the housing, food shortages, black market, and other parts of daily life are almost exactly some of the stories I heard from my mother - especially when the writer recounts going into already-harvested potato fields to find the small, deeply buried ones that were missed. This book is full of vivid detail like that- you are transported to a darker, sadder part of history that is almost forgotten.
Interestingly, the book also gave me some insight into my Father's life - in poor rural Alabama during the Depression. A world away, but the same poverty, hunger, and in him a desire (like the writer of the book) for something better.
My Father met my Mother in Germany, just before this book ends. It is a story about an incredible journey, and a desire for a better life.

German Boy : A Child in War (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)

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Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
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German Boy : A Child in War [BOUND GALLEY]

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Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
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The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics, Fourth Edition
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The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics, Fourth Edition

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The most comprehensive reader available for courses in American government, The Enduring Debate, Fourth Edition, balances classic and contemporary selections from a variety of scholarly and popular sources. In addition, each chapter presents at least two readings in debate-style format, encouraging students to read critically and to explore the different sides of an issue.

Classic Readings and Contemporary Debates in International Relations

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Classic Readings and Contemporary Debates in International Relations
Phil Williams , Donald M. Goldstein , and Jay M. Shafritz
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CLASSIC READINGS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS helps you develop an understanding of the diversity of approaches to the study of international relations and an appreciation of the key concepts and frameworks. Familiar themes of peace and war, conflict and cooperation, independence and interdependence, order and disorder, anarchy and society, sovereignty and intervention, power and hierarchy organize the readings while introductions in each section provide an overview and guide and provide assessment and analysis by the author.

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For the spiritual and energetic purification and revitalization of the subtle systems of a place or a natural or urban landscape, it is possible to use the healing vibrations of sound, color, dance and guided imagery, amongst other techniques, as well as the art of lithopuncture.

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Outstanding!.......2005-09-01

Providing insight into the world supporting physical reality, Pogacnik is a true genius. His profound perceptions and straightforward explanations reveal a true and clear heart-mind. A must have for anyone working with the earth or interested in raising consciousness.

Poweerful & Profound.......2000-09-26

JUST AS THE HUMAN BODY IS PREY TO VIOLENCE AND trauma (both physical and psychological), and manifests that trauma through illnesses in certain parts of the body; and just as it is possible to heal that trauma by releasing the blocked energy locked inside the area where the violence has manifested itself-so the Earth's body has sites where human violence (both to the Earth itself, other human beings, and other animals) has led to trauma that needs to be healed. The knowledge of the Earth's bodily energies is present in Asian cultures through feng shui-a science where objects are located to harmonize with the natural energy patterns of the environment around them. In the West, this knowledge is expressed through the practice of geomancy-a wisdom tradition that argues that our planet is crisscrossed with energy lines. At the nodal points of these lines, human beings have constructed sacred sites (such as Stonehenge, the Pyramids, and Sedona, Arizona) that reflect the powerful energies that meet there. Marko is a Slovenian artist and healer who specializes in visiting sacred sites and places where enormous suffering has taken place, and trying to heal the wounds. He does this by what he calls "lithopuncture." Just like acupuncture, which recognizes that the body is an interconnected network of energy channels called meridians and tries to release the energy blocked by trauma or illness, so lithopuncture involves placing monoliths-effectively large acupuncture needles-in key places to release the blocked energy of the Earth and revitalize the environment, both human and natural. "To the inner vision," writes Marko in his book, Healing the Heart of the Earth, "an acupuncture point looks like a sort of energy vortex penetrating vertically into the earth. Within itself it collects information on the properties of the specific subtle phenomenon with which it resonates. These points can be detected at very specific spots on the ground. There they hand over the information they hold to whomever attunes to their focal point." Marko has performed lithopuncture in Northern Ireland, where in 1992 he was invited by the county council of Derry-scene of some of the most violent encounters between Catholics and Protestants in the ongoing 30-year conflict-to revitalize certain places that the council felt had continuous problems. He placed an acupuncture bronze plate in the sidewalk of a Derry street and a lithopuncture stone on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Sometimes lithopuncture is neither suitable nor possible. When this is the case, Marko uses human beings-both residents and visitors-literally to harmonize the natural environment. Groups gather in a circle and sing certain notes, which vibrate with the natural harmonies of the landscape and retune the discordant wavelengths of the area. "Musical sound has a strong power for breaking through and enabling access to a place, no matter how heavily blocked and suppressed it is," Marko writes. "Music can serve to cleanse and revitalize power points and also to regenerate a space completely. In the same way that spring revitalizes the forces of nature, music too carries within itself the energy that reawakens life; therefore, sound can bring a place that has, for example, been put to sleep by destruction, oblivion and the like back to vibrating, awakening, and reactivation. Its pulse beings to beat again, its currents to flow." Marko used singing when he visited the site of the former Berlin Wall. "When viewing the site with my inner vision," he says, "I noticed to my surprise, a deep black canal inside the no-man's-land where two energy lines run alongside each other, a thicker yellow one and a thinner red one. As my intuition interpreted it, this was a `rope' made of two `strands' with the help of which West Berlin was to be choked on an energetic level." "Our work consisted of two kinds of acupunctural singing," he continues, "coupled with color visualization and guided imagery. From what the participants related to us afterwards we were able to reconstruct the whole grueling process of `alchemically' transforming the Wall's energies at that place." The result was startling: instead of a black tunnel, Pogaĉnik saw a white band at the same place on the surface of the earth, which reflected the colors of the rainbow. This was a sign that the transformation had been successful. Marko confirms the descriptions given in detail by Rudolf Steiner of the elemental world and its main beings - gnomes, undines, sylphs and salamanders, discussed by Rudolf Steiner in his book "Man as Symphony of the Creative Word" Marko feels that more and more people are going to awake to the sensitivity of the Earth and what should take place on it. Pogaĉnik echoes James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis in arguing that the Earth is a living organism, an organism we have to be responsible for. In both his works, including his first book Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature, Marko suggests that we all have to wake up to what this planet really is, and act on what we can do to make sure it is healthy. ¨

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