Martina Steiger was our guest speaker for Peace Valley Spirit on April 30, 2023, and she gave a brief introduction to Death Cafe. This was followed by a heartfelt discussion at the next meeting (not recorded). We hope that this presentation is helpful for you. ABOUT MARTINA STEIGER, ThD Martina Steiger is a "life coach, as well as an educator and facilitator, with more than 30 years of education and experience working with individuals and organizations". Martina offers workshops and seminars, and also "provides advance care coaching and facilitates end-of-life conversations". In her role as Spiritual Care Facilitator at Hospice of Waterloo Region, Martina guides reflective workshops on how facing our own mortality invites us to live life more fully. Additionally, Martina facilitates book studies, Death Cafes, wellness workshops and legacy writing circles for staff and volunteers in the field of palliative care as well as the community at large to encourage Death Education. Martina C Steiger, ThD, Professor Emerita at Holos University Graduate Seminary, is a 2013 graduate of the Master of Science program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Website: https://www.martinasteiger.com/ Video channel: https://www.youtube.com/@martinasteiger1208 Martina's profile on Death Cafe: https://deathcafe.com/profile/22763/ ABOUT DEATH CAFE "At a Death Cafe, people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives'. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session." Death Cafe was founded in England by Jon Underwood and his mother Sue Barsky Reid (a psychotherapist). Death Cafes are discussions held in person or online, and are led by volunteers worldwide. Website: https://deathcafe.com/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@underwoodjon/videos AUTHORS, EDUCATORS, COUNSELORS - ON GRIEF AND LOSS, AND PLANNING FOR END OF LIFE See also many authors focused on the spiritual aspects of life and death: Kenneth Ring, Emanuel Swedenborg, PMH Atwater, Mary Neal, Anita Moorjani, Bill and Judy Guggenheim, Gary Schwartz, Ptolemy Tompkins, Michael Newton, Brian Weiss, James Tucker, Matthew Fox, Ian Stevenson, Rupert Sheldrake, Gary Zukav, Stanislav Grof, Edward F. Kelly, & Jeffrey Long. ARNOLDY, FRANCESCA LYNN Website: https://FrancescaLynnArnoldy.com/ BRODY, JANE Website: https://www.janebrody.net/ BUTLER, KATY Website: http://www.katybutler.com/author/ CALLANAN, MAGGIE Books: 'Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for bringing care and comfort at the end of life'; and 'Final Gifts: Understanding the special awareness, needs and communication of the dying' CAMPBELL, COLIN Website: https://ColinCampbellAuthor.com DESPELDER, LYNNE ANN (CO-AUTHOR ALBERT LEE STRICKLAND) Book: 'The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying' (2nd ed) FERSKO-WEISS, HENRY Website: www.HenryFerskoWeiss.com FREEMAN, JAMES DILLET Website: some of his work can be found on www.Unity.org JAMES, JOHN W (AND COAUTHOR RUSSELL FRIEDMAN) Website: www.GriefRecoveryMethod.com KESSLER, DAVID Websites: https://www.davidkesslertraining.com/ and https://Grief.com KUBLER-ROSS, ELISABETH Website: www.EKRfoundation.org/ LEVINE, STEPHEN, AND ONDREA LEVINE Website: https://LevineTalks.com/ MANNIX, KATHRYN Website: https://WithTheEndInMind.co.uk/ MILLER, BJ (COAUTHOR - SHOSHANA BERGER) Website: www.abgtte.com NOWINSKI, JOSEPH (COAUTHOR - BARBARA OKUN) Website: www.josephnowinski.com OSTASESKI, FRANK Websites: https://FiveInvitations.com/ and www.MettaInstitute.org ROE, GARY Website: www.garyroe.com SAMUEL, JULIA Website: https://JuliaSamuel.co.uk/ SCHLITZ, MARILYN Website: https://marilynschlitz.com TISDALE, SALLIE Website: http://sallietisdale.com/ WEBSITES ABOUT GRIEF AND LOSS, PLANNING, AND SPIRITUALITY ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION AND COUNSELING Website: https://www.adec.org/ CENTER FOR LOSS AND LIFE TRANSITION Website: https://www.CenterForLoss.com/ EKR FOUNDATION Website: https://www.EKRfoundation.org/ ETERNEA Website: https://Eternea.org GRIEF RECOVERY METHOD (AKA 'GRIEF RECOVERY INSTITUTE) Website: https://www.GriefRecoveryMethod.com/ LIVING AND DYING CONSCIOUSLY Website: https://www.LivingAndDyingConsciouslyProject.org/ MARIE CURIE Website: www.mariecurie.org.uk OPEN TO HOPE Website: www.OpenToHope.com/ UNITY CHURCH Website: https://www.Unity.org COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Works by others are used in this video under the Fair Use legal doctrine of the Section 107 of the Copyright Act of the USA. These works are shared for nonprofit educational purposes. I do not claim or own the copyright in these other works. MEDICAL AND HEALTH DISCLAIMER The information provided in this video presentation and related content is not to be regarded as medical advice.

We welcome viewers to enjoy our presentation focused on the use of crystals for healing your heart, mind, body and soul! The presentation was given live to members of Peace Valley Spirit on February 11, 2024. Part 1 of this presentation was given by Pamela Richardson, the director since early 2021 of Peace Valley Spirit (a spirituality group in Canada). Part 2 was presented by Karen MacDonald, a holistic nurse who works with energy medicine technology and also with natural health modalities including essential oils. Part 1 offers an overview of crystals: science, vibrational energies, use for protection, and metaphysical properties. Parts 2A and 2B offer an overview of crystals for healing: crystal elixirs, shungite, and EMF protection. PART 2A - BY KAREN MACDONALD - TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS TIME TOPIC 1.19 Pamela Richardson - Welcome and introduction 4.16 Karen MacDonald - Introduction, biographical sketch 4.36 Crystal skulls 5.37 Richway Amethyst Crystal Biomat 6.11 Dan Willis and Marcel Vogel, use of Vogel crystals 6.57 Crystals - for protection, crystal elixirs with essential oils 7.35 Crystals - for information, divination 7.58 Mystical Wares - Nancy Hopkins and Derek Condit re shungite 8.29 EMF protection stickers - by Able Crystals (Michael Stodola), Cosmic Reality (Nancy Hopkins), Biogeometry (Dr. Ibrahim Karim), EMF-X.ca (Kerry Smith) 10.35 Indigenous knowledge of crystals - much knowledge has been lost 11.58 Quantum ChitChat - Karen MacDonald with Michelle Martin 12.13 Crystals - ancient traditions of wearing crystals 12.27 Medicine wheels - Earth grids, leylines, Wanuskewin Medicine Wheel 13.13 Orgonite - Wilhem Reich, vibrational plates, radionic devices, ORMUS, alchemy 18.01 Crystals - mix with essential oils for aromatherapy 18.32 Nancy Hopkins - author of 'Shungite Reality' book 19.01 Melody - author of books on mineralogical and metaphysical aspects of crystals 19.57 Shungite water 20.48 Book series - Anastasia and the Ringing Cedars of Russia 20.59 Shungite water 21.55 Mystical Wares - by Derek Condit, sells shungite products, items by Nancy Hopkins, properties of shungite, shungite honey 23.25 Crystals - Larimar, Amethyst 24.13 Melody - books 'Love is in the Earth' series, especially 'Crystal and Mineral Encyclopedia' 24.49 Crystals - feeling energies, Richard Bartlett of Matrix Energetics, placement of crystals on the body especially on chakras 31.45 Crystals - Moldavite 32.31 Crystals - uses for beauty - rollers for skin, combs for hair 33.31 Crystals - responsive and programmable, cleanse and charge crystals 34.41 Michael Stodola - The Devic Centre (of Saskatchewan, Canada), selection of crystals and other items at Able Crystals, Field Enhancer (for EMF protection), Beamer technology 42.14 Nancy Hopkins - Silver Shungite Rubber products 42.47 Orgonite experiments 43.15 Crystals - crystal caves, crystal children, hot springs with monoatomic minerals 44.53 Michael Stodola - Neutralizer Rings by Able Crystals 47.22 Michael Stodola - Krystalline: Beamer Technology by Able Crystals 48.16 Shungite - test for genuine shungite - by Karelian Heritage 49.49 Dan Willis and Vogel crystals 51.01 Thermochromic liquid crystals (used in Mood Rings) 52.01 Marcel Vogel - Vogel crystals for healing 54.36 Richway Amethyst Crystal Biomat We hope that you find the presentation to be informative, inspiring and uplifting! Thank you for watching! NOTE: PRESENTATION CONTINUED in Part 2B

We offer this video on 'Music for Joy' with the intention to uplift your hearts, to fill you with beauty, to inspire you, and most of all, to help all of us connect to Source. Part 2 (this video) explores the composition format of the fugue, and the complex interplay of melodies in a form that has been popular for centuries. Part 1 (in a separate video) delights in the enchanting and ethereal music of the celeste. ABOUT FUGUES The structure of a fugue is defined with a set of rules and framework. There is still great capacity to be very creative, even humorous, shown by Glenn Gould's 'So you want to write a fugue'. A fugue is structured with an exposition (aka the 'subject') followed by an answer, then development. A fugue can have two, three or four voices (instrumental or vocal). The 'answer' may initially be a simple repetition of the subject, and then will vary. A fugue is different from a canon, where the subject (the melody) is the same, but separated by a few bars. An example of a canon is the well-known 'Frere Jacques'. Contrapuntal music has multiple musical lines, which are played simultaneously with some tension between them, creating texture. Fugue is one of the basic structures of contrapuntal music. Contrapuntal tunes are those that involve multiple musical lines played at the same time during what’s called a counterpoint. Simple genres like country music, for example, involve the main tone with more weight, accompanied by the subtle harmonic texture of lighter weight. On the other hand, contrapuntal compositions involve multiple melodies that are equally important with equivalent weights. refs 1 & 2 ABOUT BACH'S 'The Art of Fugue BWV 1080' Notes from Wikipedia: "The Art of Fugue BWV 1080... is an incomplete musical work of unspecified instrumentation by Johann Sebastian Bach. Written in the last decade of his life, The Art of Fugue is the culmination of Bach's experimentation with monothematic instrumental works." "This work consists of fourteen fugues and four canons in D minor, each using some variation of a single principal subject, and generally ordered to increase in complexity." refs 2 & 3 REFERENCES: 1. https://promusicianhub.com/what-is-fugue-music/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWV_1080 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis VIDEO EXCERPTS SHOWN VIDEO 1: 'Fugue in G-minor BWV 578 - J.S. Bach', 2018, by Charles Brusquini (organ) LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdCuA7SbzaM Show notes: "Recorded in Kristine Kryrka, Falun, Sweden" VIDEO 2: 'J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the glass harp', 2011, by GlassDuo LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDm4IphrlYg Show notes: "GlassDuo have created an exceptional musical instrument from a set of custom made wine glasses." VIDEO 3: 'J.S. Bach The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, Helmut Walcha', (1956) LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4uJug3Ll_w Excerpt shown: 'Contrapunctus IV' Show notes: Played on the "Great Organ by Jacobus Caltus van Hagerbeer of Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, Netherlands" VIDEO 4: 'Bach - The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 - Sato - Netherlands Bach Society', 2022 LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6sUlZa-IrU Excerpt shown: 'Contrapunctus 1' Show notes: "Shunske Sato made his own instrumentation for the Netherlands Bach Society." VIDEO 5: 'Daniil Trifonov – Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 1' LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXnx5NBxiPU Show notes: "Daniil Trifonov is intrigued by Bach’s attempts to base the work on the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, but observes that the result is far more than a scientific experiment: as always with Bach, (Trivonov) managed to make music of indescribable beauty and emotion”. VIDEO 6: 'So You Want to Write a Fugue- Glenn Gould' at Staunton Music Festival, 2019 LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxk4D8XgC8 PR notes: Gould was an absolute master at playing Bach on the piano. This fugue is a parody. VIDEO 7: 'How do you (not) write a fugue?', by Nicholas Ma, 2023 LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcTHENjsenE PR notes: Ma is studying piano and composition at McGill University. This fugue is humorous. VIDEO 8: 'Gustavo Dudamel - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Mvmt 4 (Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar)', 2017 LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDIYqv4gUQ4 PR notes: This was a member request, to conclude our presentation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Works by others are used in this video under the Fair Use legal doctrine of the Section 107 of the Copyright Act of the USA. These works are shared for non-profit educational purposes. I do not claim or own the copyright in these other works. See detailed notice at start of video. MEDICAL AND HEALTH DISCLAIMER The information provided in this video presentation and related content is not to be regarded as medical advice. See detailed notice at start of video.

OASIS FOR THE SOUL: We invite you to join us to create an oasis of peace, and to refresh your souls in a quiet brook of bliss. * Refresh and nourish your soul * Add zing to your zest for life * Sustain your faith and hope in challenging times * Enhance the dance of your daily life * Replenish the wellspring of your loving heart This talk was presented by Pamela Richardson to Peace Valley Spirit group on February 12, 2023, for Part 1A of the 'OASIS FOR THE SOUL' series. Topics in the 'OASIS FOR THE SOUL' series include energy medicine, healing with music, consciousness, and compassionate witnessing. The series is offered to provide refreshment and encouragement for your souls during the current pivotal times on Earth. This video is 'TOPIC 3 - CONSCIOUSNESS', and highlighted the teachings of Gregg Braden. See also the videos for this date for 'TOPIC 1 - ENERGY MEDICINE', and 'TOPIC 2 - HEALING WITH MUSIC'. We hope that you find the presentation inspiring and uplifting! ABOUT GREGG BRADEN "Gregg Braden is a five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, educator and pioneer in the emerging paradigm bridging science, social policy and human potential." "His research resulted in the 2003 discovery of intelligent information encoded into the human genome, and the 2010 application of fractal time to predict future occurrences of past events. Gregg’s work has led to 15 film credits, 12 award-winning books now published in over 40 languages, and numerous awards including Walden Award for New Thought, the Illuminate Award for Conscious Visionaries, and Gregg is listed on the United Kingdom’s Watkins Journal among the top 100 of “the world’s most spiritually influential living people” for the 7th consecutive year." "Gregg is a member of scientific and visionary organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, the Institute of HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative, the Source of Synergy Evolutionary Leadership Circle and The Arlington Institute, as well as an original signatory of the 2017 Fuji Declaration, the international call to collectively catalyze a timely shift in the course of human history." Book discussed: 'The Wisdom Codes' (Braden offers a list of online resources for his books - see link below) Link: https://greggbraden.com/additional-resources-wisdom-codes Recommended books The Wisdom Codes; The Science of Self-Empowerment; Human by Design; Resilience From the Heart; The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes; Deep Truth; Fractal Time; The Spontaneous Healing of Belief; The Divine Matrix; Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer; The God Code; The Isaiah Effect Recommended websites Website 1: https://greggbraden.com/ Website 2 (for resources lists): https://greggbraden.com/additional-resources/ ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST 1. HEARTMATH INSTITUTE Website: https://www.heartmath.org/ Resources: https://www.heartmath.org/resources/downloads/subjects/ (free when subscribed) 2. THE GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT Website 1: https://global-mind.org/ Website 2: https://gcp2.net/ 3. INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES Website: https://noetic.org/ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER This video may contains material protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the Copyright Act, and international copyright, trademark and other laws. All rights reside with the copyright owners. Works by others are used in this video under the Fair Use legal doctrine of the Section 107 of the Copyright Act of the USA. These works are shared for nonprofit educational purposes, including comment, criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Please note that no copyright infringement is intended, & I do not own nor claim to own any of the original works by others which are used in this video. For further information, check the Fair Use Index of the US Copyright Office. WEBSITE: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/ To notify me of a suspected copyright infringement, please contact me by email. EMAIL: PamelaRich88@posteo.net MEDICAL AND HEALTH DISCLAIMER The information provided by Pamela Richardson, Peace Valley Spirit, Pamela Richardson- Adventures in Spirituality & the speakers in this video presentation & related content is not to be regarded as medical advice or diagnostic care, treatment recommendations, or as a recommendation or endorsement of health care products or devices or professionals, related to physical, mental, emotional or spiritual health of humans or animals, or as a recommendation or endorsement of any products or information for any particular circumstances.