Newsletter
November 2007
As we wind down (or wind up?!) for the end of the year, I am feeling
very aware that life as we know it is changing rapidly - as if there is
something afoot (so to speak) that is pulling the carpet out from
underneath us. I see many people, including myself, being coaxed – in
some cases yanked – out of comfort zones, masks, addictions and
protections upon which we have always depended. I sense that the only
way to move forward on our planet – indeed even to survive – is to
become extremely adaptable in all areas of life – loadshedding gives an
opportunity to test this ;)
I mentioned last time that I am grappling with a response to crime that
I can respect, and as a result I am hosting a discussion evening called
‘An Enlightened Approach to Crime’ next Thursday. Please join us if you
would like to learn or teach something in this regard. Details of this
event, as well as the final Transformation Game Evening of the year, can
be found below.
Thank you to Garrick for a very successful first month of managing my
bookings! He is able to send recordings via email if you have broadband,
which means that international bookings are increasing rapidly. If you
know anyone overseas that would like a distance reading, this is now
easily available. Those of you in Johannesburg, I am available until 21
December for personal readings.
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Much love to all of you
Angela
+27 (0) 83 7430208
An Enlightened Approach to Crime
The recent murder of Lucky Dube really saddened me and felt like the
last straw (of what, I don’t know). I want to use the opportunity to
look more deeply into the issue of crime and violence as it is affecting
our country and ourselves. I invite you to an open conversation and
channelling on ‘An Enlightened Approach to Crime’. I want to make a
space available for people to share ideas, thoughts and experiences with
no blame, and with the aim to come from a place of love and not fear. If
you have something to say in this light, or want to learn from a reading
or simply raise your energies around this issue, do join us.
An Enlightened Approach to Crime
A discussion and channelling evening for those who want to create love
and learning from the crime in our environment
Date: Thursday 22 November
Time: 7.30pm – 9pm
Venue: Northside Lodge, 31 Knox Street, Waverley
Cost: R100.00pp
RSVP: admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Transformation Game Evening
Imagine gaining new personal insights, testing out your intuition and
receiving divine guidance – all while playing a board game! The
Transformation Game was designed at the renowned Findhorn Retreat and is
a wonderful way to play out your life. Garrick and I are offering
facilitated Transformation Game Evenings, which you can join as an
individual or as a group of 2, 3 or 4. It’s personal growth at its most
fun!
Next Game Evening (Johannesburg)
Date: Monday 29 October 2007
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Venue: 19 Gibson Road, Kenilworth
Cost: R100.00pp, includes coffee and cake
RSVP: admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Only 4 places available
Bull’s Eye
November 2007
A Healthy Approach to Being Sick
In the last 6 months we have gone from being a family that hardly dipped
into its medical aid, to one that seems to have hung out a big neon
welcome sign for every germ, bug, virus and infection passing through
the area. You name it, we’ve had it, and probably twice. Of course that
has got me thinking about the nature of illness and its meaning(s). Like
many of you, I have in recent years stopped thinking that sickness
happens ‘to’ us, preferring to understand that our ‘biology is our
biography’ (Caroline Myss) and that illness is a vivid way of
communicating messages to us from our higher, or essential, selves. That
viewpoint allows us to feel responsible as well as empowered,
responsibility’s happy byproduct. So far so good.
What seems to have insidiously crept into that philosophy, however,
(perhaps a hangover from our Calvinist roots) is that the body’s message
is always punitive, or at the very least corrective. In other words,
sickness means that we have been doing something wrong. Clients usually
ask the question ‘what have I not been seeing’, or ‘where am I going
wrong’ when they have readings about being sick or sore. They presume
that when something goes ‘wrong’ with the body it is an indication that
they have also been doing something ‘wrong’, or maybe just not quite
right. I even had a teacher that described any kind of physical illness,
injury or accident as being ‘smashed by the universe’. If we believe
that sickness necessarily shows some kind of displeasure, or correction,
from the soul then we are still attached to a deep-rooted consciousness
of punishment, even if it is couched in more aware, New Agey kind of
language.
Many of us are choosing to live from the belief that love is the source,
centre and destination of everything (John O Donohue), and we are
dissolving the concepts of right and wrong into more nuanced and
compassionate ways of seeing the world. But when it comes to sickness
(and in fact the realm of the body altogether) we are still thinking
like the proverbial caveman who interpreted thunder as the anger of God.
If every time you get a sore throat your first thought is ‘what am I not
saying’, or ‘where am I being untruthful’, then you are part of a whole
bunch of us that has been clinging to a response to sickness that is
outdated and fear-based but, more importantly, that is no longer
working.
I’m all for effectiveness, so if it worked to ask these kinds of
questions, I’d be supporting them wholeheartedly.
‘Mmm, my throat is kinda sore today, that must mean I’m not telling my
truth. Dear Universe/God/Angels, what have I not being saying?’
‘Aha, you felt that did you? We thought you might he he. Now go and tell
your mother in law you actually don’t want to spend Christmas day
watching slides of your husband’s previous girlfriend, the one with the
long legs and the PhD who is doing ambassador work for the UN.’
‘Oh, um, yes. Ok. Sorry about that, I promise I won’t do it again’
[Ping Ping! Sore throat magically disappears.].
Ok, ok, I’m being a tad facetious but that is merely the exaggerated
version of how many of us have been approaching our bodies and our
sickness - if we can just figure out (or consult a channel to tell us)
what the illness is trying to say, and correct it, we can get better and
do away with the irritation or pain or debilitation of disease. Of
course that doesn’t work, at least not fully.
And why doesn’t it work? Because of this very simple equation given
recently in someone’s reading:
• If you call something ‘wrong’, you cannot also be grateful for it.
[Try that out!]
• Until you are grateful for something, you cannot receive the fullness
of its gift.
• Therefore, while you are still calling something wrong, you can’t
experience the fullness of the gift that it brings
Capish? So if we are saying that sickness is wrong, or is the universe’s
way of telling us something is wrong, then we will not be able to
receive the gift of that sickness, which means it will probably hang
around, recur or revisit us in some other way. Not in order to punish
us, but only to move us closer to our real joy. Like everything else in
existence, that is also the purpose of sickness.
In the next Bull’s Eye, I will share some different ways to think about
being sick, and give some practical suggestions for working with our
bodies’ messages. If any of you would like to share a story about
learning to work with your body, please send it to
Angela.
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