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au revoir Leonard Orr For those that may not know, Leonard Orr left his body on 5th September 2019.

Thank you Leonard for having the courage to step out of the madding crowd and follow your

own path.

Thank you Leonard for bringing the wonderful technique of rebirthing to the world. Thank you

Leonard for teaching us the value of elemental purification for cleaning our energy bodies.

Thank you Leonard for doing so much feeling into the subject of senility and helping us

realise senility is something that can be passed through rather than died from.

Thank you Leonard for helping us to focus on the value of life and teaching us about the

death urge.

Thank you Leonard for being brave enough to question the thought that physical death is

inevitable.

Thank you Leonard for being such a gentle person.

Thank you Leonard for being so close to Babaji and making it so easy for people to have

contact with Babaji in your presence.

Thank you Leonard for all the people you healed and all the people you have trained to be

healers.

Thank you Leonard for showing us how to contact our own selves more deeply by means of

our breath.

Thank you Leonard for reminding us that thought is creative

My Daughter Spirit by Leonard Orr An excerpt from The New Rebirthing Book by Leonard Orr (Chapter - My Daughter Spirit)

There have been two previous underwater births at Campbell Hot Springs. One in 1979 and one in 1983. I have

discouraged everyone who wanted to do it here to test their courage. It does take courage. Everyone tried to discourage

us. Everyone is full of fear about birth. Everyone discouraged us from doing it alone – just Katarzyna and me – no doctor,

no midwife, no friends, and no relatives. It was a private affair and neither she nor I had ever seen a birth before.

I read a book review about a book called “Birth and the dialogue of Love” by Marilyn Maran early during our pregnancy

that confirmed my natural desire to do it this way. She says ‘Birth should be a private intimate matter between husband

and wife as a consummation of their marriage and no one should watch or assist this experience’. I was very clear about

it, but Katarzyna went nuts about the idea of us doing it alone for six months. It was only during the last month that she

surrendered to the idea. Actually it was medical people who convinced her to do it this way. Every medical person we

met, and we met the best, revealed so much insensitivity and incompetence that she realised that we couldn’t possibly

do worse by ourselves than they could.

When we started interviewing O.B.’s and midwives, I got very clear during about the third month of pregnancy that I was

not going to have anyone in the tub with us- no professionals, no friends and no relatives. Coming from a Communist

country, born in Poland, Katarzyna was raised with the idea that “they” take care of everything. I was not included in

“they”. We had many fights about this. During which I had to drop all my belief systems about underwater birth and be

totally willing for her to have this baby in a hospital.

Tonight, she said how important it is to have had all the educational experiences about birth that I created for her.

Movies, books, interviewing professionals, other rebirthers who had underwater and various births. God planned many of

our experiences and people showed up at perfect moments to deliver perfect messages. We have a perfect baby

sleeping peacefully between us right now. We had a perfect underwater birth today done by us only. Katarzyna is also

very glad we did it this way. She is very proud of herself. But all the fights we had were necessary to prepare us for today.

Of course, most doctors and midwives would feel useless by this philosophy. They feel they have to do something for

their fee. I would rather pay them to stay out of the way. We did have Donni Lumsden, a nurse, come to C.V. – C.H.S.

(Consciousness Village -Campbell Hot Springs) and stay here for a few weeks before and after the birth as our

consultant.

Back to the birth story of our little Spirit. Today was a very full day.

Although the contractions were heavy at 7am Katarzyna was taking them easy. By 10 however, she was tired and wanted

to go to the hospital, take drugs, or do anything to get it over with. This, of course is when her rebirth started. She had

gotten lazy and was breathing through her mouth too much. I got her back to nose breathing and she was able to

integrate successfully and go much more relaxed and higher between contractions. There was a very important role

played with mouth breathing also during the whole delivery, but the organism cannot integrate the energy without

proper relaxed nose breathing also. So you must constantly experiment, moving back and forth from nose to mouth

breathing.

Since this is the first birthing, except for my own, that I have been at, it was a total validation of my rebirthing work. To

me, it was no different. Birthing and rebirthing are exactly the same, if you do enough of them.

Actually the birth was very easy. The difficult part was rebirthing Katarzyna during labour. In spite of my experience

however, I felt terror at four instants during the birth.

1. When Katarzyna lost it and would not follow my instructions. It is important to have absolutely no belief system

during birthing as well as rebirthing. To be always open to the energy flow and to intuitive wisdom. When she

asked me to take her to the hospital, I looked carefully to see if I should – no terror. When she asked for drugs –

no terror. But at one point her breathing closed down and I felt her go unconscious under the fear and pain – I

felt terror. But after her momentary collapse, she had nothing to do but follow my instructions – like in

rebirthing often- and it got easier and easier. She had survived her stubbornness.

2. When the baby was coming out in the sac, I felt her with my hand and it felt like Katarzyna’s whole womb was

coming out – I felt terror – caused by my ignorance. I was only feeling the sac.

3. The sac broke just before the baby’s head came completely out and a big burst of blood shot out. An

obstetrician told us just before the birth that Katarzyna’s blood was low in iron and she might bleed to death.

The blood spurted with such abundance that I thought he might be right. But then the baby’ head came

completely out and no more blood. The blood that came out immediately disappeared down the drain. Spirit

came the rest of the way out and looked so healthy and strong she blew my mind.

4. Although I read the book and saw movies about underwater birth, I was totally unprepared form my strong and

active little girl opening her eyes and mouth under the water, and especially waving her arms and legs, and

yelling. She opened totally under the water, but I misinterpreted her facial expression. It was stress, but not

because of being under the water. She just got out. She was confused. In my rational mind I knew she wasn’t

drowning, but to see another human being kicking her legs and moving her arms looking up at me with fear in

her wide open eyes, just seemed unnatural. It was the most natural thing in the world. But you just have to see

more than one underwater birth to believe it is possible emotionally. She came out of the womb still

underwater and it looked like she took a big breath of water.

Although it didn’t cause me to make any foolish mistakes, I have to admit that for a second I felt terror and had trouble

relaxing. She was under water five to ten minutes after being out of the womb, but could have relaxed more if it was

two or three times this long. I’ve heard about babies staying down over an hour during underwater birth.

During the last hour or so of labour Katarzyna was pushing like a trooper – too hard I thought. But this underwater

birth was perfect. The sac broke on the final crowning. It was a normal healthy birth. Not a trace of my terrible birth

trauma showed, until afterwards.

The cutting of my cord too soon produced a lifetime of psychophysical misery, and I might add, business trauma. As an

aside, financially, this week was the best week of the year for CV-CHS. Our income was over $3,600. Liberation for me

as well as my child. If it continues, I can afford to stay here.

Just the idea of cutting my kid’s cord freaked me out, I had read stories

that leaving the placenta attached for days was OK. So I had no urgency

about it. About four hours after the birth however, hanging out in the

tub with the placenta I noticed the placenta suddenly started to bleed. I

instantly had the thought that the placenta was the “Alien” and was

draining my kid’s blood out of her body. I found out quick from Donni

how to cut the cord and although it felt very strange I tied it off with a

string and cut it.

When the baby came out, she had unbelievable skin colour – perfect – a

healthy red glow. I think she was whiter when the placenta started

bleeding and she cried at this moment. Whether she was reflecting my

paranoia for seeing the Alien movie, or my cord trauma, or her own is a

good question. Perhaps the placenta should be kept higher than the

baby. I concluded that there is a right time to cut the cord. I think I

should have cut it one hour earlier – three hours after birth.

Our girl’s skin colour was perfectly normal and beautiful again soon after

cutting the cord so if I did make a mistake it has been totally repaired.

I stayed in the tub with our little Spirit for about five hours after the

birth. After about two hours Katarzyna needed a break. She wanted us to

get out and go to bed with her. When we didn’t like this idea she said,

“Now I’m no longer needed by anyone” and she went to the Lodge

crying and angry. She needed a break. She hasn’t had the experience of

rebirthing thousands of people like I have. I spent hundreds of days

rebirthing in tubs around the world 10 to 20 hours per day in the first

two years of rebirthing. The birth gave me a little stress but it was mostly

pleasure for me.

I saw our daughter go through five to ten rebirths while being in the tub

with her for five hours after the birth. The first two hours were the most

important. After she relaxed which took about half an hour, she tried

sucking on Katarzyna’s breast, but wasn’t interested. The she slept in the

water. It was while she was sleeping that her breath opened totally. She

began breathing fully and freely like rebirthers breathe.

I feel that these two hours in the water after the birth are as important as

the underwater birth. With normal people, I recommend that they each

take a break and let each other be alone with the child. When Katarzyna

came back after her break she was totally blissed out by what she saw –

our girl sleeping peacefully, breathing fully and freely in my arms, me

loving our beautiful healthy girl.

Call for contributions Leonard for US president. Did you know that in the early 1990s Leonard filed papers along with thousands of dollars to get on the ballot? His campaign headquarters were at inspiration University bookstore in Chico California. Did you know that one of Leonard's favourite, yoga was driving his ditch digger looking for water at Sierra Springs then CV-CHS. Did you know that he loved speeding down the slopes with his daughter on his shoulders? Leonard loved driving a speedboat and giving Munirah, Har Govind and Raghuvir a ride in his white Ford convertible. And there is so much more that many people experienced with him. So I have an idea that would be wonderful. An account of joy and wonder! Who wants to compile a book? Each chapter could be written by someone who spent several years with him. This book can focus on Leonard's generosity, joyful nature and even his Wildness! We already have books about his teachings but not Leonard "The Man" .Proceeds to RBI and a great karma yoga Om Namaha Shivaya. Please send your chapters to Sara Dawn at sweetblissings@gmail.com This will be so beautiful, a work of pure love and inspiration!

Yasoda

Feel the Divine Presence

Many times the Divine Peace has been given to you and as often as not you have lost it because your surrender was not total and unconditional. Your ego exerted its presence. True peace and happiness can only come from TOTAL SURRENDER to the Divine.

Babaji From Haidakhan Babaji Speaks, courtesy leonardorrbooks.com

Attributes of Air Element BASIC NATURE: Air represents the mind and intelligence, logic and reasoning communication, telepathy,

Expansion, psychic powers, inspiration, imagination, ideas, knowledge, dreams and wishes. It represents the conception or perception of a new idea, the seed of knowledge, and the freedom to choose which direction to move. An active element, Air circulates and so cleanses. Wonder of childhood

DIRECTION: East

TYPE OF ENERGY: projective/ masculine

COLOURS: Yellow, white,crimson

PLACES: mountain tops, windy places

STONES: Topaz, pumice, rainbow stones, crystals, amethyst, alexandrite

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Flute, wind instruments, bells

Air is also associated with music. Sound is transmitted through airwaves and Air provides the songs of the wind rustling in the trees. Of all the songbirds. Of flutes and whistles. Of our own voices raised in song. Air is the element of that first creative urge to create beautiful sounds... CREATURES: Birds: Eagles, Hawks, Nightingales, Larks, Hummingbirds, Wrens, Chickadees, Sparrows, etc.

Insects: Butterflies, Dragonflies, Bees, Ladybugs Flying Creatures from Myth: Air Dragons, Fairies, flying horses

SEASON: Springtime

TIME OF DAY: dawn

SENSE: Smell, hearing,

NATURAL SYMBOLS: sound, wind breezes clouds, Sky, wind, breezes, clouds, feathers, breath, vibrations,

smoke, plants, herbs, trees, flowers

GODDESSES: Aradia, Arianrhod, Cardea, Nuit, Urania

GODS: Enlil, Kheoheva, Merawrim, Shu, Thoth

SYMBOL:

PLANETS: Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Uranus

ASTROLOGY: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

TAROT: Suit of Swords, Major Arcana – Magician, Justice, the Wheel of Fortune, Temperance, and the Star in the

Tarot. ELEMENTAL: Sylphs - These are among the easiest elementals to see, especially as a flash from the corner of

your eye. They look like small winged creatures in pastel colors who ride the airwaves...often they are called fairies. They tend to be attracted to those who are quick thinking and quick moving. They can be mischievous...blowing things about...rustling through your hair...making sounds that distract you. Angels are also associated with Air, although there are angels specifically associated with each of the elements. The Archangel often called as Guardian of the Air is Raphael. PLANTS: Acacia chicory dock lavender, parsley pistachio, clover, pecan, rice, dandelion, mistletoe, pine, celery,

mulberry, senna

GIFT : Air - offers the gift of clarity...the ability to perceive what is relevant and useful in a given situation.

CYCLE OF LIFE: Infancy

Breathing through our Pores

Sofia Waapiti Ra Third dimensional consciousness is what most humans are living and its rigid. It’s like living inside a brick house all the time, believing in linear time, believing in past present and future, believing in duality that there is such a thing as right and wrong, having beliefs, believing in beliefs, whether you would believe they’re good or bad, all beliefs are limitations, all of them. And obviously the belief about needing to eat and drink to survive is one of the strongest beliefs in the collective consciousness and it’s a myth it’s a complete myth. It’s just a belief. If enough people believe in something it becomes a truth and over time it became a truth that people need to eat and drink to live, to maintain the physical body. Because humans have been doing it for so long they’ve forgotten what it was like, you know, when humans lived without ingesting animals and plants and minerals. It’s just a belief it’s no more than that and my understanding even though this might sound radical to some of you is that we’re all, all of us we’re all living on energy or Prana we just exchange energy with our environment. All humans are living this way without food and without water it’s just that they don’t realise because you are eating and you think you need the food but part of this expansion in consciousness is that we are getting our memories back. We don’t learn anything we just remember. How I see it is that, what we call the planet, this being that we live on. This being has moved and all the other beings within her family. Let’s say in this star system, in this galaxy. All these planets have moved their position, in the universe, in the cosmos. And because of where all these planets have moved to we’ve moved into a higher state of consciousness. And as we have moved into this new environment, new atmosphere, we’re starting to get our memories back of how we used to be able to live in our future. Because we live simultaneously in parallel lives. Some people call it past and future lives, but actually we live in parallel lives in a multi-dimensional fashion. So many of us are starting to remember this and that’s why we’re remembering living a lifestyle without food. Because in fifth dimensional consciousness our bodies change and we move into our light bodies. I’m sure many of you have heard of light bodies or maybe already living in your light bodies. And light bodies simply don’t need food. Don’t need anything from the outside world. So part of our transformation is that we’re moving into our light bodies remembering ourselves as fifth dimensional beings and therefore not needing and remembering that we don’t need food. It’s more about remembering than anything else. All of the earthlings on the planet are already living this way but it’s just the programming and belief systems that tells you, you need this many vitamins, this many minerals, this many calories. You need to have these vitamins. So this programming has led people to believe that they need to eat. But eating is not necessary, neither is drinking. Everything, how we actually get our life force energy is we just exchange energy with our environment, so if you can imagine that it’s like what we breathe we don’t even really breathe, we don’t even need the breath. Because we actually don’t breathe through the nose into the lungs we breathe through all of our pores. And our pores opening and closing is how we exchange energy and this happens unconsciously just like the breath.

Sofia

So my experience of it, is that when I inhale all the pores in my entire body open and stretch out on my inhale, they go out, out, out. And as they go out my whole body starts to break down, starts to break down, starts to break down and I give all my energy including my body out into my environment completely so I disappear on the inhale. Then on the exhale I draw all the energy from the entire cosmos back in through all my pores, into the smallest part of my being. Tiny little black dot, let’s say. And this is the process. This is what’s continually happening with all of you. It’s happening. You’re all doing it. I’m consciously aware of it but we’re all doing it and this is actually where we get our life force energy. This is part of it, it’s not all of it, this is where we get most of our life force energy from the different levels of energy or Chi. There is different kinds of energy there’s different kinds of Chi, but this is a simplified version to explain to you now, rather than go into details. So on the inhale every single cell and your entire body goes out sending out all of our energy, all my energy until they get lighter and lighter, until I disappear. So I give myself over completely, I surrender. And on the inhale I bring the whole entire cosmos back into myself, the smallest part of my being. And this is the process of how we get lifeforce energy. We just exchange with our environment, we don’t take from the environment. So we’re not taking the animals and killing them and eating dead flesh. We’re not taking the plants, killing them and eating dead plants. And eating the minerals, not eating dead minerals. Because really when we eat it’s pretty challenging on the physical body, eating and the whole process of eating. Digesting is one of the most exhausting things that the human body does is the whole digestive system. It’s exhausting, it uses up most of our energy. And also what we’re putting in, if you think about it, is just, you know, rotting flesh, rotting whether it’s plant flesh or animal flesh. It’s dead, unless you literally go down on your hands and knees and start eating the grass then there is some life in it. But otherwise most of us have been eating dead rotting flesh and putting that into our bodies and then trying to digest it. So it’s actually challenging for the physical body. But what I learned from not ingesting food and drinks is that when we, I can’t remember exactly when, but when we do stop eating food, the whole body goes through a massive transformation. So it goes through upgrades let’s say. And the system that we call the digestive system transforms into a system for energy. So it’s the small intestine where we actually cultivate and store energy. It has nothing to do with digesting food. So our whole system is about gathering cultivating and storing energy. So I’d say my body has been doing this for about a year, it started two years ago. Adapted from a talk given by Sofia Waapiti Ra at the 2018 Pranic World Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-t_oK31Je8

Caesarean births linked to developmental delays in primary school children, scientists find By Claire Slattery and Mandie Sami Children born by caesarean section could have developmental delays in their grammar, numeracy, reading and writing later in life compared with children born by vaginal delivery, a study has found. Using NAPLAN test results of 5,000 year 3 students, researchers from the University of Melbourne found the delays were equivalent to a child missing about 35 days of a school year. Melbourne University's Cain Polidano described the findings as relatively small but significant. "There is already a bit of evidence that shows that caesarean birth is related to a number of negative childhood health outcomes, including risks of ADHD, autism and also asthma", Dr Polidano said. "So our research speaks to that literature which shows that there's a link, but what we do now is look at impacts on another outcome, which is child development." Dr Polidano said at this stage the link is "only correlational" as "it's very difficult to establish causation because you can't do randomised, controlled trials, which is the gold standard." "We've gone some way down the path of trying to establish causal relationships, we've still got a lot more work to do." Those behind the study cannot yet explain why caesarean section births might cause cognitive delays later in life, but they do have their theories. Professor of physiology Joel Bornstein said it was possible gut bacteria picked up in the birth canal by babies born by vaginal delivery may give them a distinct developmental advantage down the track. "Caesarean birth is associated with a different colonisation of the gut by the bacteria that form a large ecosystem inside the gastrointestinal tract," Professor Bornstein said. "Immediately after caesarean birth, the bacteria present are different from those that are present after a vaginal birth. There's quite a lot of data now indicating that the gut bacteria influence the nervous system. "So we believe, although there's no way of proving it at this point, that this may be the difference that leads to the cognitive changes later on in life." Professor Ian Hickie, the co-director at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, has urged caution when it comes to reaching these types of conclusions. "I think there is a real danger here of this going out to the public and saying that we have shown a direct association… when really it jumps to some pretty interesting conclusions that this might be due to changes in the gut microbiology, that it might be related to breast feeding or not," Professor Hickie said. "Lots of other very speculative considerations have been used in the data. "At this stage what we know is that the appropriate use of caesarean births saves lives, maternal and child. Also that caesareans are associated with high risk pregnancies … because it was a pregnancy at risk in the first place." Caesareans often unnecessarily requested Roughly 30 per cent of all births in Australia are by caesarean section, much higher than the 15 per cent rate recommended by the World Health Organisation for developed countries. There is concern among some health professionals that caesarean births are too often recommended or requested in cases where there are no health concerns, because they are seen as more convenient or less risky.

about the evidence so far.

The rise of early planned births Over the past two decades there has been a major change in birth practices that has resulted in a silent but steady shift towards women giving birth before 40 weeks. "While we think that there's nothing wrong with mums having greater agency of choice over mode of delivery, we also think it's really important that they have the best information available," Dr Polidano said. But Professor Bornstein acknowledged the findings of the research may be controversial. "I think [the findings] are going to be disturbing to quite a number of people," he said. "Certainly people will feel that they've done things in the best all possible knowledge at the time and now we're saying, 'Well, maybe that's not quite so good'," he said. The Melbourne University researchers now want to test their findings on a larger cohort of children and examine whether the correlation exists in an older age group. "One thing we do know is that these effects are not going to be as large as the difference that mum and dads can make by providing and stimulating and supportive environment," he said. "That's certainly going to be more important than whether they had a C-section." Professor Hickie agreed there needs to be more research into this area. "It's important work but I think we need to be really cautious when we're having the dialogue with the wider public that this sort of associational finding does not show causation," Professor Hickie said. "I think this is one of these things that unfortunately, if taken at face value, without an understanding of the complex methodology that was at stake and the limitations of the data that are in the study — will scare people and upset people unnecessarily."

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