Sacred Stories

Your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapters 10 and 11 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story. In this second segment of the series, “Press Pause with Anamika,” Janis Harper reads in the voice of the psychic teacher Anamika, from the chapters where she is giving her teachings and offering activities to her students as a way to bring her teachings home. You’ll discover ways to engage with your own body’s healing, your past lives, your relationships, and other intriguing areas of self-exploration.

Anamika says that your life is like a novel or movie, and to truly understand what’s going on in it, on a deep level, you can interpret it just like you would a movie or novel. After her talk, she takes you through a short but powerful expressive arts activity that will help you to explore your life in this way. If you choose to participate, all you need is pen and paper for writing and drawing.

Press pause in your day, in your life, and listen in to yourself. There are worlds waiting to be discovered.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

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Meet the Guru D as your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapter 9 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story.

Jonas is in the meditation hall, gathered in satsang with the others on retreat at Mt. Arunachala, in South India. Jonas hasn’t met his non-dualist guru D personally yet, and even though he wants nothing more than to begin the student-teacher relationship with him, he struggles with his fears about doing so. In this episode, we see what happens when Jonas meets D for the first time.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

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Meet the psychic teacher Anamika as your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapter 3 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story, in this “Meet the Characters” segment of the series.

Before Anamika became who she is in India, she lived in Vancouver BC, Canada, and was Anna. On the brink of adolescence, Anna began having nightmares—night terrors, really—that opened her to an unusual understanding of reality. And she spent the next years trying to live in the world with this new understanding, this access to knowledge, mainly by finding ways to hide what she knows. In this episode, we glimpse Anamika’s past and what brought her to India.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

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Meet Jonas as your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapters 1 and 2 of her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story, in this “Meet the Characters” segment of the series.

Jonas is trying to meditate in the meditation hall on retreat at Mt. Arunachala, in South India, but finds it difficult: thoughts about how poorly he has been treated in his past occupy his mind, and these thoughts mutate into questions about victimization, betrayal, and why bad things happen. The narrative then changes to an earlier time and a surprising internal event that rocked his world and, eventually, brought him to India.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

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"The #1 cause for suicide and depression is believing that life is meaningless." ~ Dr. Sunita Punjabi

On this episode of The Sacral Circle Dr. Sunita Punjabi, a psychologist and licensed therapist specializing in neurofeedback and neuro-integration, shares with host Janie Terrazas the importance of addressing our traumas holistically.

They discuss how childhood trauma shapes our brain, impacts our health, impedes our joy and dictates our perception of reality. You'll hear about the empowering Japanese life concept Ikigai, as well as the self care practices and the latest technologies that are helping rewire and strengthen brains.

We can redefine our narrative and design our life deliberately. Dr. Sunita had to overcome her own traumas in order to be where she is today personally and professionally. "I used my trauma as an access to my calling". She's dedicated her life to helping others view their trauma in a new way, so they can take back their sense of wholeness and worthiness.

Dr. Sunita Punjabi, the founder of Brain Coach LLC, is an expert trainer in neuro-feedback, using therapeutic methods from the fast growing field of neuroplasticity Sunita is able to guide people towards finding their best life. Based on her research, helping people to find a sense of life purpose ignites the brain while reversing or slowing brain degeneration. Through her doctorate work with the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and her professional work in the community, she teaches individuals proven strategies to uncover and break barriers to living a life that they love. Sunita brings her Eastern heritage to modern day science in order to assist people to intentionally create meaning and find a cause worthy of their lives.

For more on host Janie Terrazas visit https://www.janieterrazas.com

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Dr. Glen Martin, author of The Earth Constitution Solution discusses with Nina Meyerhof the principle that we must move from “I to we to one.” This is the course of conscious evolution in which each person is first and foremost responsible for his or her own growth from I to we to one. Secondly, we are all the same, deeply the same in spite of individual uniqueness, and we must actualize and live according to that sameness.

The crisis of our age they state is that we resist this movement from I to we to one. The change will come from the ground up—people are rapidly changing—and yet changing the institutions will itself help in the process of moving to planetary oneness. Top down and bottom up must have this kind of reciprocity. That is why we need the Earth Constitution which is the planetary “gold standard” for what we are trying to achieve.

Nina Meyerhof has made a life of advocating for children and youth. As her vocation, she served as the Special Education Coordinator for a ten–school district in southern Vermont. Dr. Meyerhof has extensive background in the needs of all children, with Master of Arts degrees in both Special Education and in Counseling and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Psychology. She also holds a doctorate in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration from the University of Massachusetts, where she developed a self-esteem model to be used in schools. A co-author of Conscious Education: The Bridge to Freedom, she is recognized as an innovative educator committed to global responsibility through authentic learning. Having received many awards for her work from The Mother Theresa Award to the Citizen’s Department of Peace Award to the International Educators Award for Peace, Nina continues daily to focus on altering world views for creating a better future.

Dr. Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

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Dr. Glen Martin, author of The Earth Constitution Solution discusses with Rev. Laura M. George, J.D. our planetary crisis through the lens of Spiral Dynamics. They state that people around the world are operating at different levels of consciousness from very primitive power and authority based consciousness to “pluralistic” consciousness in which they are advanced beyond ethnocentric narrowness but still not advanced to a “second tier” consciousness capable of seeing the dynamics of the whole and advancing its own evolution consciously.

It may be that an advanced consciousness of only 10% of the world’s population will be sufficient to make the great transition—a transition that must and should include ratification of the Earth Constitution.

Rev. Laura M. George, J.D. is a retired attorney and Executive Director of The Oracle Institute, a 501(c)(3) educational charity. She received her undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia, her law degree from Boston University, and her ministerial training through the interfaith Order of Melchizedek.

The Oracle Institute serves as an “Advocate for Peace and a Vanguard for Conscious Evolution,” and its formal mission statement is Thomas Jefferson’s Act for Religious Freedom. Oracle operates as a spiritual think-tank and studies the nexus between religion, politics, human rights, and conscious evolution. Rev. George often writes about the “Trickle-Down Deity Theory,” which posits that humanity’s view of the Godhead necessarily defines all cultural experience. She is the author of the award-winning Oracle Trilogy: The Truth, The Love, and The Light. www.TheOracleInstitute.org.

At the Peace Pentagon in Independence, Virginia, Rev. George oversees Oracle’s award-winning publishing house, multi-faith spirituality school, and international peacebuilding practice. www.PeacePentagon.net. The Peace Pentagon is a training and retreat center for progressive and pluralistic programs, such as the Building the New World Conferences. www.BTNW.world. The Peace Pentagon also serves as the U.S. headquarters for the Earth Constitution Institute, the heart of the Valley of Light community, and the soul of Oracle Temple, an esoteric church founded by Rev. George.

Dr. Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

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Dr. Glen Martin, author of The Earth Constitution Solution discusses with David Gallup, President and General Counsel of the World Service Authority the development of world law by developing customs and traditions that embody an emerging sense of democratic world law applying to everyone.

The World Service Authority that David heads issues identity papers to people around the world that give them a legal status they otherwise would lack, yet the WSA is not a government but one dimension of emerging world law. The same reasoning applies to those operating under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

David Gallup specializes in human rights, world citizenship and world law education. He is President and General Counsel of the World Service Authority®, Washington, DC, a global public service human rights organization founded in 1954. He is also a Board Member of Citizens for Global Solutions, CGS Team Leader of the Peace and Youth Outreach Program, and Convenor of the World Court of Human Rights Coalition.

Gallup has been interviewed by media, such as BBC, PRI, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy He was interviewed for A Beautiful Mind by biographer Sylvia Nasar and for Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, senior editor at The Nation. Gallup received a J.D. from the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, DC and an A.B. in French and an A.B. in History from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Dr. Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

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On this episode of The Sacral Circle Angel Santiago, a Transformational Coach and Spiritual Teacher, opens up to host Janie Terrazas about the unconscious sexual childhood wounds that impacted his identity and masculinity. He shares insights on emotional incest, a parental wound that is rarely talked about and has deep ties to codependency symptoms.

Janie and Angel cover why parental wounds will continue to show up in relationships until they are resolved at their core. "Nothing happening to you is coming to destroy you. Everything is coming to grow you."

Angel is someone who has fully stepped into his wholeness and continues to inspire others to do the same. His life's work is dedicated to healing and elevating the hearts and minds of humanity, so they can experience more peace, vitality and prosperity. Check out his podcast iEvolve.

Angel Santiago is a catalyst for transformational change. He helps people turn their personal conflicts into personal growth through the exploration and balancing of the emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of life. Angel  provides integrative and transformative healing solutions that lead to a healthier, happier and more successful life. His goal is that every person finds a sense of peace within themselves, realize their truth and become self-actualized.

Certified Coach, Speaker, & Trainer at The John Maxwell Team, Personal Leadership/Mindset Coach at Freedom Practice Coaching and Steering Committee Member at Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis @LifeCoachAngel

For more on host Janie Terrazas visit https://www.janieterrazas.com

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A fascinating conversation with Dr. Glen T. Martin on what The Earth Constitution is and what it is not. Dr. Martin debunks the common misconceptions on the Earth Constitution as pointing to a One World Order and explains how it is about a World Democracy that works for all.

DR. GLEN T. MARTIN is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

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