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AUGUST 2011


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Dear Fellow Travellers T


his issue of the magazine leaves ‘42’ for dead in the race for “the answer to the ultimate question of


life, the universe and everything” (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). One of the most vexing


questions to us all must be that of duality – whether we are separate


from the Creator or part and parcel of the Divine. There can be quite a divide between the ‘dualists’ and the ‘nondualists’. Ages ago I read in a Jason Shulman book, ‘The Instruction Manual for Receiving God’, words to the effect that, because we are in a physical incarnation, there are times when it is comforting to feel that there is a God outside us, someone to supplicate to. Yet, at other times, when we are feeling more like our true soul selves, we can equally know that we are one with God. However, even that notion has the nondualists shaking their heads. So it was with great delight that I tell you that


Spirit provided me with not one but three articles in this one issue which address this thorny topic. Yes, that sounds dualist, to say that Spirit provided them for me, but it suits me quite often to think of Spirit outside of me because then I have someone to wag my finger at ;-) See, there’s the physical form lording it over the soul. These three articles treating of duality are John


Ptacek’s ‘You don’t exist, ‘Fear = drowning in the space where love doesn’t exist’ by Tony Samara, and the one that really nails it, in my opinion, is ‘Finding the gift in every situation’, by Andrea Mathews. Some of the Reader Round Table contributions deal


with Duality too. In fact RRT contributions are dotted through the local pages, and follow the veins running through this whole issue – short bon mots to have with a cuppa perhaps – have a browse through all the states’ pages to find these treasures. Speaking of the states’ pages, how do you like the


fact that we have divided Ripple News items up into national and then local pages? It’s clearer for you to be able to find people in your own state, and it’s also much cheaper for the advertisers to promote themselves in their own pages. And what do you think of Ripple not being upside down now? We had 20 months of having an upside down magazine, but, while some really liked it, gradually there was mounting evidence from people that they would have preferred it all in the one magazine – so we got the message. The design – what do you think of the fabulous


new design? I just love it and want to thank my two wonderful designers, Keely Atkins, who redesigned the LivingNow front cover and story pages, and Belynda Simpson, who redesigned the Ripple News pages. Hey – while I am thanking the staff, I want to thank


two more people leaving now. First my daughter Emma. She’s worked part time on and off since she was a teenager and the magazine a baby and provided


Free Wednesday Webinars www.livingnow.com.au


huge support. She’s now gone overseas again – Central America this time – where she will strengthen her Spanish and hopes to find a job teaching English. She will be back on Boxing Day, but I have the feeling that she will have found a new interest in her life by then and may not ever rejoin the magazine as an employee. Sally Dalton is the other person to thank. She’s


worked for us for about three years now and has been a stalwart employee. Many of you will know her by phone – her bright, bubbly Southern accent and helpful demeanour is loved by all. Behind the scenes will be harder without her. Indeed, the two of us are sitting here in our PJs while I write. When the magazine is nearing completion, if we are running behind, we work late – very late sometimes. We pull out the spare mattresses. In the morning of the day we go to print, if we know we still have too much to do, we just splash water on our faces and go to our computers in our flannel PJs. So if you are an advertiser, take pity on us, and get


your ads in early and then we won’t have so many late pressures ;-) Actually, I cannot possibly ask Sally’s replacement to do the same – imagine that on the job description! Yes, Sally is rather unique and will be missed. Circling back to the articles again – the other thorny


issue for many of us is that of self-love or self-worth, and that is covered or at least touched on in every article in this issue – except of course for the article on TV and its adverse effects on our kids, a very important topic, and the one on the dangers of mobile phones. So, while having a smart phone may be seen as an outer substitute for lack of inner self-worth, the mobile phone article was not written to tell us about that aspect, but about the dangers of radiation – a huge topic which we ought to be aware of for fear of repercussions in the future. ‘Why me?’, we often ask. The gift in adversity is


sometimes hard to find. However, if you read Michael Lewin’s article on p.16 you’ll get some hints on how to deal with overcoming the struggle of life, and he offers five stages of healing which, he says, are more than a system for healing – a system for living, a certain roadmap. Andrea Mathews’ article also tackles this question head-on – a life-changing article really. By the way, Andrea is my guest on the Wednesday


webinar on 24th August, 7.30p.m. – go to our website, www.livingnow.com.au, and follow the link – the webinars are free. See more details of the webinars on p.31 too.


With love,


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