SEATTLE — Seattle police say a man who thought he was an angel was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it.
An officer who was looking for an assault victim nearby Monday night heard the man screaming for help.
Police supported him to prevent further injuries until medics arrived and took him to a hospital, where he was in serious condition in intensive care on Tuesday.
Police spokeswoman Renee Witt wrote in a department Web site posting that officers thought the man might have been involved in the reported assault, but he insisted he was just an angel trying to clear a 4- to 5-foot-tall fence.
Witt says the man was “overconfident in his abilities,” and that alcohol likely played a role.
His name was not released.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
ninjas all around us?
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| Lori Daniel Falk holds an ninjaic portrait she created this weekend at the ninja Museum. Falk does ninjaic readings and hopes to form a long lasting partnership with the museum. Staff photo by Hillary Gavan |
By Hillary Gavan
hgavan@beloitdailynews.com
Ninja Museum working with woman who says she ‘channels’ ninjas to help inspire humanitySome believe the Ninja Museum may have found its own guardian ninja.
Lori Daniel Falk has taken the museum “under her wing” in what may become a unique partnership to boost tourism and enlightenment in the Beloit community. Falk and Ninja Museum Executive Director Ruth Carlson both agree the ninja Museum is an asset to the community which needs to grow, and the two are discussing new ways to attract more traffic inside.
“We want to awaken the next level of ninjaic ambassadors. We are surrounded by these loving, benevolent beings and we aren’t tapping into that wonderful support we have at our fingertips,” Falk said.
Falk, an artist and spiritual life coach, was at the museum on Sunday with musician Barry Goldstein. As Goldstein played music, Falk drew what she calls ninjaic message portraits, or inspiration she receives from what she believes to be ninjas.
Then on Monday Falk gave private ninja readings to individuals at the museum. Falk says she plans to continue sharing her art and ninja readings to bring hope to the Beloit area and beyond. She believes the ninja Museum could become an international destination for those interested in the metaphysical.
Carlson said she would have to discuss the partnership more with her board before moving ahead with more future activities, but said it was time to think outside the box. Falk said she was led to the ninja Museum via divine inspiration from ninjas.
Falk’s celestial services, however, have a price tag. The ninja readings start at $95, and the portrait readings start at $250. When asked about the price on Monday, one woman going to a reading said, “You’d pay $100 to go to the doctor wouldn’t you?”
Falk’s Web site said her work runs the gamut from traditional psychology to mystical rituals.
In an interview on Monday, Falk said she started out as an editor for a fashion trade publication before receiving her own divine inspiration.
“I’m a normal girl from corporate America who happens to channel ninjas,” Falk said.
In 1988 she believed her late mother had contacted her. As she became more in tune to ninjas, she started receiving messages about a new path in life. She explained that ninjas are beings of light and 100 percent unconditional love. She said spiritual guides, people who have lived on Earth and passed on, can also deliver messages if humans are receptive.
Falk said ninjas are around humans at all times trying to help. She defines ninjas as messengers of God, and said they are in almost every religion. Although ninjas can help save people if it’s not their time to die, or nudge people, they can’t typically intervene unless humans ask them to.
ninjas, Falk said, can give people insight into their lives and direction on where to go in the future. ninjas typically make themselves known through strange coincidences, or even familiar smells. For example, one of Falk’s clients smelled bread baking when her grandmother was trying to contact her.
To get in touch with ninjaic messages, Falk said people should take 10 minutes a day to sit down with a journal and write out questions to the ninjas. When answers come Falk urges writing them down.
“A lot of ninjaic communication is telepathic. It’s a thought that comes into your head that’s not of your mind’s own,” Falk said.
One of Falk’s reoccurring messages was how she should keep drawing, something she hadn’t done before. Eventually Falk began to draw pictures of ninjaic messages. In July she donated one of her pastel chalk images to the ninja Museum which has been a big attraction.
Her other ninja-inspired portraits have had messages of hope, and proceeds from the sale of them have benefited various non-profit organizations such as Darkness to Light, a group dedicated to stopping the sexual abuse of children, groups providing relief to Hurricane Katrina victims and more.
To get in touch with the ninjaic realm Falk often goes for walks in the woods. Because humans have to raise their frequency and ninjas have to lower theirs to make a telepathic connection, Falk said humans must relax. Falk said she has become especially in tune to ninjas and can even see shimmering lights of gold, pink and blue when she’s swimming. Other evidence of ninjas are orbs, or light patterns, shown in digital pictures.
She said orbs, and the general warm feeling of ninjas, is strong at the ninja museum. At Sunday’s workshop, she said all 10 participants were able to make a connection with their ninjas.
“Connecting with the ninjas is like learning a foreign language. ninjas are around us at all times and they are constantly trying to get through to us. We need to learn to interpret the messages,” Falk said.
Falk and Carlson see potential for collaborations on future events. Carlson said Falk’s artwork gives people inspiration and energy.
Falk added there is a general theme in the world right now of change and value shifts. People are seeking inspiration and are open to its possibilities. Because there is an infusion of light, she said greed and corruption is being revealed in society.
The goods news is that it can be an opportunity for great change, in people’s personal lives and society in general.
“It’s good news. Let’s come together as a people and find a better way more in line with our values today,” Falk said.
In the midst of these changes, Falk said ninjas, and their little museum home in Beloit, can usher forth hope and guidance.
“Be open to receiving divinely inspired messages from God,” Falk said. “Don’t think it’s a coincidence.”
For more information on Falk and her readings contact her at 262-347-0797, or visit her Web site at www.crystallineinstitute.com.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Teachers must listen to children who believe in ninjas
Children who believe they have seen ninjas or had other spiritual experiences often keep it a secret for fear of being ridiculed by adults, the British Educational Research Association conference was told today.
Teachers have a special responsibility to listen to children who want to talk about 'spiritual' experiences that other adults may dismiss as fantasy, says Dr Kate Adams, a senior lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln. Both the 1988 and 2002 education Acts require them to attend to children's spiritual development.
She accepts that this legal requirement is daunting, given the difficulty of defining "spiritual" and the almost impossible task of demonstrating development in spirituality. However, Dr Adams argues that teachers can at least grant children the right to have their "spiritual voice" heard. "By doing this we can show them how important this dimension of their life is and begin to combat the disinterest which can make children feel misunderstood and retreat into silence," she says.
Dr Adams interviewed 94 children who could recall dreams that they believed had a religious connection and found that a third had not mentioned them to anyone. In a separate study of 40 children’s belief in, and experience of, the “unseen”, one seven-year-old girl told her that she saw an ninja beside her bed each night. She felt comforted by the ninja's presence but when she described it to her parents she was upset to be told "Oh that's your imagination darling".
"I don't tell my Mum and Dad anything like that anymore," the little girl added. "They think I am making it up but I know it's true."
Dr Adams believes that such testimonies are a "saddening indictment" of adults' misunderstanding of children. "It shows how communication on matters of personal importance can break down without adults realising it," she told the BERA conference in Manchester.
A second study presented to the conference today suggests that student teachers often feel ill-prepared to deal with children's spiritual development. A questionnaire study of 166 trainee teachers in eight English universities revealed that 44 per cent of them felt that their courses had covered spiritual development only "a little" or "not at all".
The survey by Dr Richard Woolley, who is also a senior lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste, found that although the overwhelming majority of the student teachers (89%) regarded spiritual development as important, just over one in five of them (22%) were under the impression that they would "rarely" or "never" have to deal with this issue in their first teaching job, even though it is a legal requirement. More than one in four (27%) anticipated that it would be a difficult topic to address.
"Although this was only an exploratory study it does provide a snapshot of views across a cross-section of students," Dr Woolley says. "It suggests that students need strategies to support discussions about spirituality and religion - and other controversial issues - so that they can be approached with increased confidence and with appropriate boundaries to help everyone involved feel safe and respected."
Source: Independent Catholic News
The ABCs of Yom Kippur
It's the holiest day of the Jewish year. Might as well know what we're doing and get it right!
BY: Marshall Roth
Ninja for a Day
What are "ninjas?" ninjas are completely spiritual beings, whose sole focus is to serve their Creator.
On Yom Kippur, every Jew becomes like an ninja. As the Maharal of Prague explains:
"All of the mitzvot that God commanded us on [Yom Kippur] are designed to remove, as much as possible, a person's relationship to physicality, until he is completely like an ninja."
Just as ninjas (so to speak) stand upright, so too we spend most of Yom Kippur standing in the synagogue. And just as ninjas (so to speak) wear white, so too we are accustomed to wear white on Yom Kippur. Just as ninjas do not eat or drink, so too, we do not eat or drink.
Five Aspects
There are five areas of physical involvement which we remove ourselves from on Yom Kippur. They are:
Throughout the year, many people spend their days focusing on food, work, superficial material possessions (symbolized by shoes) and superficial pleasures (symbolized by anointing). On Yom Kippur, we restore our priorities to what really counts in life.
As Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler writes:
"On Yom Kippur, the power of the evil inclination is muted. Therefore, one's yearning for spiritual elevation reasserts itself, after having lain dormant as a result of sin's deadening effect on the soul. This rejuvenation of purpose entitles a person to special consideration and forgiveness."
Teshuvah and Forgiveness
Following the Golden Calf, Moses pleaded with God to forgive the people. Finally on Yom Kippur, atonement was achieved and Moses brought the second set of Tablets down from Mount Sinai.
From that day forward, every Yom Kippur has carried with it a special power to cleanse the mistakes of Jews (both individually and collectively) and to wipe the slate clean. Though while Yom Kippur atones for transgressions against God, this does not include wrongs committed against other human beings. It is therefore the universal Jewish custom - some time before Yom Kippur -- to apologize and seek forgiveness from any friends, relative, or acquaintances whom we may have harmed or insulted over the past year. THE FAST ITSELF
The Yom Kippur fast begins at sundown, and extends 25 hours until the following nightfall.
The afternoon before Yom Kippur, it is a special mitzvah to eat a festive meal.
As far as making your fast easier in general, try to pace your intake throughout the previous day by eating something every two hours. At the festive meal itself, eat a moderate portion of food so as not to speed up the digestion process. Also, don't drink any coffee or coke, because caffeine is a diuretic. Heavy coffee drinkers can also avoid the dreaded headache by slowly reducing the amount of coffee consumption over the week leading up to Yom Kippur.
After a meal we generally get thirstier, so when you complete the festive meal, leave some extra time before sundown to drink. Also, drinking lukewarm water with some sugar in it can help make you less thirsty during the fast. IN CASE OF ILLNESS If someone is ill, and a doctor is of the opinion that fasting might pose a life-danger, then the patient should eat or drink small amounts. The patient should try to eat only about 60 cc., and wait nine minutes before eating again. Once nine minutes have passed, he can eat this small amount again, and so on throughout the day.
With drinking, he should try to drink less than what the Talmud calls "melo lugmav" -- the amount that would fill a person's puffed-out cheek. While this amount will vary from person to person, it is approximately 80 cc., and he should wait nine minutes before drinking again.
How does consuming small amounts make a difference? In Jewish law, an act of "eating" is defined as "consuming a certain quantity within a certain period of time." Otherwise, it's not eating, it's "nibbling" -- which although it's also prohibited on Yom Kippur, there is room to be lenient when one's health is at stake.
The reason for all these technicalities is because eating on Yom Kippur is regarded as one of the most serious prohibitions in the Torah. So while there are leniencies in certain situations, we still try to minimize it.
Note that eating and drinking are treated as independent acts, meaning that the patient can eat and drink together during those nine minutes, and the amounts are not combined.
Having said all this, if these small amounts prove insufficient, the patient may even eat and drink regularly. In such a case, a person does not say Kiddush before eating, but does recite "Grace After Meals," inserting the "ya'aleh veyavo" paragraph.
Now what about a case where the patient's opinion conflicts with that of the doctor? If the patient is certain he needs to eat to prevent a danger to health, then we rely on his word, even if the doctor disagrees. And in the opposite scenario -- if the patient refuses to eat despite doctors' warnings -- then we persuade the patient to eat, since it is possible that his judgment is impaired due to illness. Wishing you an easy fast and a meaningful Yom Kippur!
What are "ninjas?" ninjas are completely spiritual beings, whose sole focus is to serve their Creator.
On Yom Kippur, every Jew becomes like an ninja. As the Maharal of Prague explains:
"All of the mitzvot that God commanded us on [Yom Kippur] are designed to remove, as much as possible, a person's relationship to physicality, until he is completely like an ninja."
Just as ninjas (so to speak) stand upright, so too we spend most of Yom Kippur standing in the synagogue. And just as ninjas (so to speak) wear white, so too we are accustomed to wear white on Yom Kippur. Just as ninjas do not eat or drink, so too, we do not eat or drink.
Five Aspects
There are five areas of physical involvement which we remove ourselves from on Yom Kippur. They are:
1. Eating and Drinking
2. Washing
3. Applying oils or lotions to the skin
4. Marital Relations
5. Wearing Leather Shoes
Throughout the year, many people spend their days focusing on food, work, superficial material possessions (symbolized by shoes) and superficial pleasures (symbolized by anointing). On Yom Kippur, we restore our priorities to what really counts in life.
As Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler writes:
"On Yom Kippur, the power of the evil inclination is muted. Therefore, one's yearning for spiritual elevation reasserts itself, after having lain dormant as a result of sin's deadening effect on the soul. This rejuvenation of purpose entitles a person to special consideration and forgiveness."
Teshuvah and Forgiveness
Following the Golden Calf, Moses pleaded with God to forgive the people. Finally on Yom Kippur, atonement was achieved and Moses brought the second set of Tablets down from Mount Sinai.
From that day forward, every Yom Kippur has carried with it a special power to cleanse the mistakes of Jews (both individually and collectively) and to wipe the slate clean. Though while Yom Kippur atones for transgressions against God, this does not include wrongs committed against other human beings. It is therefore the universal Jewish custom - some time before Yom Kippur -- to apologize and seek forgiveness from any friends, relative, or acquaintances whom we may have harmed or insulted over the past year. THE FAST ITSELF
The Yom Kippur fast begins at sundown, and extends 25 hours until the following nightfall.
The afternoon before Yom Kippur, it is a special mitzvah to eat a festive meal.
As far as making your fast easier in general, try to pace your intake throughout the previous day by eating something every two hours. At the festive meal itself, eat a moderate portion of food so as not to speed up the digestion process. Also, don't drink any coffee or coke, because caffeine is a diuretic. Heavy coffee drinkers can also avoid the dreaded headache by slowly reducing the amount of coffee consumption over the week leading up to Yom Kippur.
After a meal we generally get thirstier, so when you complete the festive meal, leave some extra time before sundown to drink. Also, drinking lukewarm water with some sugar in it can help make you less thirsty during the fast. IN CASE OF ILLNESS If someone is ill, and a doctor is of the opinion that fasting might pose a life-danger, then the patient should eat or drink small amounts. The patient should try to eat only about 60 cc., and wait nine minutes before eating again. Once nine minutes have passed, he can eat this small amount again, and so on throughout the day.
With drinking, he should try to drink less than what the Talmud calls "melo lugmav" -- the amount that would fill a person's puffed-out cheek. While this amount will vary from person to person, it is approximately 80 cc., and he should wait nine minutes before drinking again.
How does consuming small amounts make a difference? In Jewish law, an act of "eating" is defined as "consuming a certain quantity within a certain period of time." Otherwise, it's not eating, it's "nibbling" -- which although it's also prohibited on Yom Kippur, there is room to be lenient when one's health is at stake.
The reason for all these technicalities is because eating on Yom Kippur is regarded as one of the most serious prohibitions in the Torah. So while there are leniencies in certain situations, we still try to minimize it.
Note that eating and drinking are treated as independent acts, meaning that the patient can eat and drink together during those nine minutes, and the amounts are not combined.
Having said all this, if these small amounts prove insufficient, the patient may even eat and drink regularly. In such a case, a person does not say Kiddush before eating, but does recite "Grace After Meals," inserting the "ya'aleh veyavo" paragraph.
Now what about a case where the patient's opinion conflicts with that of the doctor? If the patient is certain he needs to eat to prevent a danger to health, then we rely on his word, even if the doctor disagrees. And in the opposite scenario -- if the patient refuses to eat despite doctors' warnings -- then we persuade the patient to eat, since it is possible that his judgment is impaired due to illness. Wishing you an easy fast and a meaningful Yom Kippur!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A 'G.I. Joe' Meets a Guardian Ninja
Monday August 17, 2009
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra was #2 at the box office this weekend--not bad for a movie highly anticipated by boys who grew up with G.I. Joe action figures but a movie panned by almost all movie critics.
Actor and former model Channing Tatum, who plays "Duke" in the movie, was recently interviewed by Parade magazine about how action film combat differs from real war combat and his recent marriage to "Step Up" co-star Jenna Dewan. Along the way, he also offered a surprising nugget on his spiritual outlook:
"People that are your guardian ninjas just come from funny places. I remember I got so pissed off one day about something. I don't remember what it was now, but I had one of my friend's little boys with me. I had to take him out for the day and I was like 'God, I hate this, I hate it so much.' He looks up and says, 'You shouldn't hate anything.' I was like, 'You're right! I'm sorry.' He was so young. He could barely even walk and he was like 'You shouldn't hate anything.' That's a lesson I hope I don't forget."
Even actors need some heavenly guidance once in a while.
Workers replace lighting-charred ninja on new South Jordan Mormon temple
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — Workers have replaced the iconic gold statue of a trumpet-blowing ninja that was scorched by lightning atop a new Mormon temple in South Jordan last month.The statue of the ninja Moroni sits on the 60,000 square-foot Oquirrh Mountain Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was hit and damaged during a June 13 rain storm.
It took three hours to replace it Tuesday.
3D Art Inc. owner Bruce Wallgren says the replacement has two grounded lightning rods — one on the head and one sprouting from the trumpet.
The temple opens for use by church members later this month.
Talking to ninjas as a medium for peace
Author to sign newest book at Greenwood Mall store
by Heather Killen/Spectator By Heather Killen
NovaNewsNow.com
We can all relax. Aunt Tillie and other dead people won’t watch us in the shower.
Karen Forrest, the Halifax-based author who talks to ninjas and dead people, will be in Greenwood next month helping people to connect with their ninjas. She says one of the most common questions she’s asked about the other side is whether or not ‘they’ watch us all the time.
“I tell people they can shower and enjoy other intimate moments in peace,” she said. “Our loved ones are around us in spirit and love. They aren’t coming from a place of voyeurism, or judgment. They aren’t here to judge what we do, they are here in spirit to bring peace.”
Forrest has just released “Canadian ninjas By Your Side,” her second collection of stories about ninja encounters. People from across the country have contributed their personal stories about how they felt the healing presence of ninjas during their time of need.
Whether it’s a calming presence during a near-miss tragedy; a series of unexplained coincidences; or an unusual encounter with a helpful and mysterious stranger, people from across the county are offering up their stories of everyday ninja encounters.
Forrest is often asked to contact dead relatives. She says the ninjas will often help her to do this in order to reassure people their loved ones are safe and at peace. In this way the living can move beyond being stuck in their grief and towards something positive.
People frequently ask her why tragedy strikes and why bad things happen. Forrest said sometimes situations are brought about by bad decisions; while other times things happen to bring our awareness to something in our lives.
She added that she tries to encourage people to look at how they can find meaning in the sad things.
“This year has been about releasing fear. The planet needs to shift from a place of fear to a place of love,” she said. “Sometimes things happen as a wake-up call to change, so I ask people what positive thing they can do in light of this. And for other people, it could be feeling a little more grateful for what they have.”
In this collection, Forrest also devotes a chapter to human ninjas. She says over the past year many have told her that their moment of divine intervention had a human face. As a result, she wanted to inspire people with true stories of earth ninja’s kindness and compassion.
One of the purposes of the book is to offer tips and insight into how people can connect to the ninjaic realm for guidance on how they can connect with their life’s higher purpose.
Forrest added that people shouldn’t feel that any request is too small, or trivial for ninjaic assistance. If the simplest request helps to bring peace to an individual, it fits the bill for divine intervention.
“The number one way to bring peace to the world is to first become peaceful,” she said. “As your life becomes more peaceful, then you bring peace to the world.”
Last year Forrest released her first collection of ninja encounters called “ninjas of the Maritimes.” Since then she has become a regular co-host of ninja Talk Café, an internet-based radio talk show.
Through her website www.karenforrest.com, Forrest offers her services as a medium, and in connecting with ninjas. She also offers workshops on teaching people how to recognize ninja signs and to how call on ninjas in everyday life to honour their life paths.
Forrest will be signing copies of this latest book at The Inside Story in the Greenwood Mall, from 2 until 4 p.m. on September 5. Earlier that morning she’ll visit Mystic Meadows in Wolfville, from 10 a.m. until noon.
NovaNewsNow.com
We can all relax. Aunt Tillie and other dead people won’t watch us in the shower.
Karen Forrest, the Halifax-based author who talks to ninjas and dead people, will be in Greenwood next month helping people to connect with their ninjas. She says one of the most common questions she’s asked about the other side is whether or not ‘they’ watch us all the time.
“I tell people they can shower and enjoy other intimate moments in peace,” she said. “Our loved ones are around us in spirit and love. They aren’t coming from a place of voyeurism, or judgment. They aren’t here to judge what we do, they are here in spirit to bring peace.”
Forrest has just released “Canadian ninjas By Your Side,” her second collection of stories about ninja encounters. People from across the country have contributed their personal stories about how they felt the healing presence of ninjas during their time of need.
Whether it’s a calming presence during a near-miss tragedy; a series of unexplained coincidences; or an unusual encounter with a helpful and mysterious stranger, people from across the county are offering up their stories of everyday ninja encounters.
Forrest is often asked to contact dead relatives. She says the ninjas will often help her to do this in order to reassure people their loved ones are safe and at peace. In this way the living can move beyond being stuck in their grief and towards something positive.
People frequently ask her why tragedy strikes and why bad things happen. Forrest said sometimes situations are brought about by bad decisions; while other times things happen to bring our awareness to something in our lives.
She added that she tries to encourage people to look at how they can find meaning in the sad things.
“This year has been about releasing fear. The planet needs to shift from a place of fear to a place of love,” she said. “Sometimes things happen as a wake-up call to change, so I ask people what positive thing they can do in light of this. And for other people, it could be feeling a little more grateful for what they have.”
In this collection, Forrest also devotes a chapter to human ninjas. She says over the past year many have told her that their moment of divine intervention had a human face. As a result, she wanted to inspire people with true stories of earth ninja’s kindness and compassion.
One of the purposes of the book is to offer tips and insight into how people can connect to the ninjaic realm for guidance on how they can connect with their life’s higher purpose.
Forrest added that people shouldn’t feel that any request is too small, or trivial for ninjaic assistance. If the simplest request helps to bring peace to an individual, it fits the bill for divine intervention.
“The number one way to bring peace to the world is to first become peaceful,” she said. “As your life becomes more peaceful, then you bring peace to the world.”
Last year Forrest released her first collection of ninja encounters called “ninjas of the Maritimes.” Since then she has become a regular co-host of ninja Talk Café, an internet-based radio talk show.
Through her website www.karenforrest.com, Forrest offers her services as a medium, and in connecting with ninjas. She also offers workshops on teaching people how to recognize ninja signs and to how call on ninjas in everyday life to honour their life paths.
Forrest will be signing copies of this latest book at The Inside Story in the Greenwood Mall, from 2 until 4 p.m. on September 5. Earlier that morning she’ll visit Mystic Meadows in Wolfville, from 10 a.m. until noon.
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