Issue 30-Summer 2008The Newsletter of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing®

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Consider the Possibility of All Possibilities.

Consider the possibility that all of your long-ings will indeed be accomplished. Perhaps notin the timing your ego says but rather in thetiming of your soul. There are no judgmentsabout how such deep work occurs or in whattiming. Some of you have come here with avery deep and painful task. You have taken

on a lot in your lifetime. You have perceived agreat deal of pain and taken it into your ownbody for healing so it is of utmost importance

to understand that it is impossible to com-pare one human being to another, to compare

one task to another.

What is it that you long to create both withinyourself, in your own personal integrity, andthat which you give to the world? The greater

the task, the greater the responsibility, thegreater the integrity needed to accomplish it.

***As you know there is a lot of confusion in

this world today, confusion between so-called“right” and “wrong," confusion between

languages, between cultures, between reli-gions. All of this duplicity has come to thefore in humankind, in this millennium forhealing humanity’s dualistic split. That is

simply in the imaginations of humanity. Thetruth, your truth is not split. Your dualistic

split is in your imagination. It becomes yourbelief that is simply an erroneous belief.

***You experience pain in those areas of yourlife where the duplicity still remains in you.Inner duplicity doesn’t mean that you arebad. It simply means that you have takenthis on for the great healing of humanity

which is indeed needed now.***

With a world becoming one community,humankind takes on the responsibility of

maintaining itself as well as the health of theplanet. You have multiplied, you have spreadall over the earth. Other species are sufferingbecause of you. The greening of the earth is

now top priority. The earth will continue, will you?

From Barbara Brennan

Founder andPresident of BBSH

Congratulations to the 2008Graduating Classes

in the U.S. and Europe!Channeled by Barbara Brennan

to bring that duality into unity?***

This is an ongoing process.A many-lifetimes process as you call it.

Honor this process in you and your personal timing.

There are no judgments about that.***

Each of you has been given the toolsto heal your splits.

Each of you has been giventhe support system to do so. And alumni

will tell you, this process does not stop at graduation.

***Surrender to the spiral path of healing intoyour core, to the path of enlightening, to the

path of moving into deep essence thatis not split, to the path of entering the black

velvet void of aliveness upon which allmanifest life rests.

***Feel this within every cell of your body, in the

air. It is the basis of the entire materialworld. Your basic experience of being;

the foundation of your being issimply aliveness.

***In the black velvet void there is no form, no

thing yet, aliveness exists there as your basicground of being.

It is up to you, the human species, to move steadfastly intowholeness, in order to insure your survival.

***You can see the importance of this everywhere on earth now.The amount of pain being uncovered and revealed globally ismore than ever before. Not that the pain wasn’t there, butbecause of the great communication systems and your glob-al travel, the pain is obvious. The pain continues 24-7 infront of you, no matter where you are. If you are one of

those deeply suffering people in a country without food, youexperience it personally. Those in richer countries see it 24-

7 from a distance. You can always feel it. ***

Thus, you have heard the call and you have answered.

First, the call says, “look within,heal the split within you."Without doing that first,

how can you heal the split around you?It is so difficult to recognize duality

while being in duality.So focus deep within.

In what portion of your beingare you focusing on struggling continued on page 15

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Reflections onthe Past School Year

As I pause to reflect on the past school year at BBSH in Florida, whatcomes through my mind are the images I have of the students asthey made their journey through this amazing past year of training.

I remember being touched by their quiet sincerity as they sharedwith one another during class exercises or after exchanging healings.I also remember the many YR 4 students whom I passed in the hallor shared an elevator with after they had completed their CasePresentation, when they were literally glowing from the deep trans-formational work they had just done. Being with them for thosemoments was being in the presence of, and touched by, their deepand powerful Core Essence.

And, I recall the moments of wonderful sweetness and trust betweenstudents as they hugged after process group, or my coming upon students laughing in the hall, really laughing, and all lit up with lifeforce flowing. So much life and love, challenges and accomplish-ment, all packed into one year–a year that was rich and sacred,helping to bring us all closer to experiencing the full and beautifulbeings that we truly are.

The wonderful teachings of Barbara and Heyoan guided us this yeartoward this greater core presence and core expression, encouragingacceptance and love both for ourselves and for others.

To close the year, the graduation events at school were truly apower-packed expression of these teachings. First the YR4 ceremonywas a beautiful testament to the class’s deep reverence for spirit, and their commitment to unity between individuals, across nationalborders, and for the planet itself–including the scroll they presentedlisting 67 acts of service, world-wide, done in gratitude and honor ofBBSH.

Then in the graduation ceremony the Graduation Address by facultymember John Shordike touched us all with the beautifully spokenand deeply moving life lessons he shared from his personal journeytowards being a healer.

The student graduation speakers were also absolutely inspiring intheir presence and wisdom regarding their journey through BBSH,and the graduating students who wrote and performed songstouched our hearts.

The BBSH graduating class of 2008 is a strong and inspiring groupof new alumni, ready to carry this work out into the world with love

and integrity–Congratulations BBSH Class of 2008!

It has been another beautiful and special year at BBSH, and I feelfortunate to share in this wonderful community on this healing journey.

I would like to also send my Congratulations and love to the BBSHEurope graduating Class of 2008–a wonderful group with goodhearts and a special spirit that I had the pleasure to work with in mytime at BBSHE.

Much love to all, Priscilla

John Shordike,BIW Faculty, BBSHE Year 4Dean

—Priscilla Bright, BBSH School Dean

I didn’t have a clue what I was going to say today, until Irecalled my own graduation day ten years ago. Suddenly my entirebody was awash with the potent cellular memory of that day,when I was sitting where you are, waiting for the speeches to endso that I could cross the stage and collect my diploma. I had grad-uated from difficult and challenging programs before, but I hadnever experienced the vibrant sense of accomplishment, fulfill-ment, and gratitude that I felt that day. It was like warm honey sunshine filling every cell of my body. And how curious that I feltthis way even thought I didn’t have a clue what, if anything, I wasever going to do with my new diploma.

And if you had told me ten years ago that I would be a teacherat the school or standing here today, I would have told you it wastime for you to go back to do some more work on your HighSense Perception.

So I got very curious about why I felt so good ten years ago,and why I am still here at the school today. I reviewed the unlikelychain of events that unfolded into this present moment. I began torecognize a theme running through certain defining moments inmy life, moments that are etched in the emulsion of my cellularmemory. And that is how I stumbled upon my topic for today:

The Clueless Healer.

Or if you prefer, Why Clueless is Cool When You Just StayPresent.

Allow me to illustrate with a few vignettes from my own journey. Each of you has your own version of these stories, so fillin your own blanks as we go.

Halfway through my second year, my small class teacher formally notified me that indeed, I did not have a clue what wasgoing on. She gave me a laundry list of my cluelessness. She wentstraight for the jugular of defenses that I did not even know I had.

After I suffered through a very long night of emotional reaction,transference, blame, and hard pain, I realized three things: First,my teacher had deeply seen me and was absolutely right about mydefenses. Second, I was living my life at a fraction of the availablewattage.

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Third, I had just experienced a crucial moment in my life.Through her superb presence this teacher was the first person I hadallowed to truly penetrate my formidable defenses and masks.

I went back into class the next day having learned that I couldtolerate the consequences of that kind of care and attention, nomatter how uncomfortable it was in the moment, and howannoyed I was at the messenger. It was her impeccable presencethat caused me to start seriously paying attention to how I waspresent, or not so present, for myself and for others.

In one of my fourth year classes I suddenly entered an extremeemotional and spiritual meltdown. A chain of events had piercedmy numbness, and unbeknownst to me I was about to experiencethe deepest existential pain I had ever felt. My best buddy waspresent enough to see what was coming, and he carried me out ofclass to the men’s bathroom. He held me, and held me, and wait-ed. Finally, I let go into the rage and hard pain and blame, whichgave way to cathartic sobs and convulsions and soft pain, whichbecame interspersed with profound and joyful awareness of mygoodness and light and the Divine Plan in it all.

As I was crying and convulsing and laughing in that bathroom, I realized that it was my friend’s accepting, empathic and compas-sionate presence that gave me the container and the mirror andthe safety to go to these places I had never known and never daredto go. On one level it was about me and my process, but in thatmoment I realized that life was somehow much bigger and deeperthan the egoic me. Receiving my friend’s loving presence that dayin the bathroom changed my life forever.

As I kept reviewing my history, I was struck by the impact ofthese moments of presence and cluelessness on every aspect of mylife–my family, my relationships, my work, where I live, every-thing. It was my surrender to these moments of cluelessness, notall my careful planning coming from self-will, fear, and pride, thattransformed the way I live and create in the world. The choice tosurrender to the moment leaves a lasting imprint on the soul.These are the moments that truly change our lives. These are themoments when we come alive.

Becoming present to life, of course, requires becoming presentto death. For me, and perhaps for some of you, this kind of pres-ence does not come easily.

One of my classmates was a beautiful 40-year-old man, andsome months after graduation I visited him and his family for acouple of days. He was vibrant and in his prime, and we hadthose kind of exquisite and profound conversations around thekitchen table that stretch on into the wee hours yet leave youinvigorated rather than tired.

A short time after I left, he was rushed to the emergency roomand diagnosed with the kind of brain tumor that usually kills youwithin 6 months. At the hospital he suffered a massive stroke.Without any warning, my friend who had just been sharing hisintimate and subtle feelings and thoughts and longings had lostmuch of the use of his body, could no longer see clearly, talkcoherently, or even consistently communicate. At times we had noclue what he was aware of, or comprehending.

His family was, of course, devastated, as were we classmates. I had to keep surrendering my own rage, fear, and grief to be present to him in his process, a process that he was physicallyunable to communicate.

For the next six months many of us classmates did regular healing work with him, and his family told us how moved theywere by our consistent, loving presence. One day, three of uswere visiting him in his hospital room. That day he could nottalk and had no facial expression. It was that day that I fully surrendered into the moment. I had no clue what to do, so Ifinally stopped trying to do anything. We just lingered with himin our love and our grief, and waited. Suddenly a songemerged:

Lean on me, when you're not strongAnd I'll be your friendI'll help you carry onFor it won't be long'Til I'm gonna needSomebody to lean on

As we filled the room with our song, the tears were pouringout of his eyes. It was the most affect I had seen in him sincehis stroke. Words cannot convey the healing power of the trans-mission in those shared tears and loving presence. The momentwas so much bigger than any of us.

Not only did this moment of presence forever rewire myconnection to my friend, but it changed my entire relationshipto my own human frailty and mortality. I reorganized my priori-ties in life. The experience allowed me, years later, to be fully present to my mother in her dying process, and to my father inhis dementia. I had no clue that these experiences, in turn,would give me the profound gift of seeing through the veils ofpersonality, defense, and transference into the beautiful essenceof our individual and collective humanity.

Being present requires being clueless about the so-calledfuture. If I am truly present in this moment, I am not alreadyplanning or fearing or speculating or fantasizing about a futuremoment. Nor am I am holding myself hostage to a pastmoment. All I know is what is here now.

My current guru on this subject is my soon-to-be 3-year-olddaughter, who knows nothing but the present moment, and isquick to let me know when I am not fully present in it with her.When I slow down enough to join her and share her perspec-tive, I no longer have a clue about anything else, and am trulyliberated. As we hang out together in the present moment, clueless, all limitations evaporate, all possibilities arise, and allmoments of transformation come into existence.

To a three year old, of any age, Clueless is Cool.

Being in the moment is so simple, but it’s not always easy.Our mind and ego have a vested interest in keeping us in the illusion that surrendering to the moment is dangerous, that risking cluelessness makes us vulnerable. The irony of course isthat to be 100% safe in the world, one has to be 100% vulnera-ble. How else can we fully open to the abundance and grace ofthe sea of life? Surrendering to the moment sometimes feels likejumping into a dangerous surf, or walking off a cliff. But that isexactly what we have to do to discover that there really was nocliff to begin with, and that the ocean currents support andcarry us exactly where we need to go.

I know that many of you want to take your service into theworld and be agents of change. I could tell you many stories ofthe power of presence from my life as a lawyer. Whether withclients, adversaries, judges, or juries, or any other “real world”situation you can imagine from your own life, the same

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principles apply. The transformative moments always seem to arise fromundefended, effortless, grounded presence and the willingness to surren-der the need to be brilliant or right. It is from tolerating and the lingeringin the unknown that unexpected possibilities and new creations arise.

So I now have a better idea why my graduation day ten years ago wasfilled with so much sweetness and gratitude. As I waited for my diploma,I had no clue what was to come. And for the first time in my life I beganto understand that not knowing was a good thing. I had started to learnhow to live my own life in each moment, not in my history or somefeared or desired future. I was practicing being present, with my pain andwith yours. With my heart, and yours. With disappointment, conflict, andtragedy. With living, and with dying. To wait, to tolerate, and to allow theunknown to become known in its own good time. To let go of my illusionof control. And my delusion that it is all about me.

Needless to say, I still spend a good part of each and every day notbeing present to myself or to you or to anyone else. But when I catchmyself, I now know that I have a choice. I can choose to use all of thevery practical and effective multidimensional tools that you and I havelearned at this remarkable school, to tarry awhile in the unfolding now.

So, Class of 2008, and future teachers and BIPs, my wish for you issimple: Wherever your longing and passion takes you, however your callto service expresses itself in the world, whatever you create for yourselfand your loved ones, don’t be in a hurry. Slow down. Savor and linger inthe unfolding moment without fearing it, denying it, or rushing to analyzeor put words on it, or trying to change it.

In other words:

Be Present. Be Clueless. Be a Healer.

Congratulations and God Bless.

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Irene Tobler,Year 1Faculty

I would like to welcome our graduating students, as well as allthe friends, families, fellow students and alumni to this graduationcelebration. For those of you who are graduating today, it is yourturn to be celebrated and to be witnessed in your blossomingbeauty and radiance.

Something brought you here, something inside, a longing, acalling, perhaps. During the past 4 years of school you have beenasked to face many inner and outer challenges, and, I am sure, sohave your families and loved ones who embarked on the journeywith you.

You have polished your physical and energetic containerthrough facing your fears and limiting beliefs about life in order tobe of service to Self and others in a more genuine way. It has beena real privilege to walk the path with you through all your ups anddowns along the way and to see you blossom today.

Joseph Jaworski, the founder of the American LeadershipForum, said, “It is the call for service that most of us deny through-out our whole lives, the call to give ourselves to something largerthan ourselves and to become what we are meant to become.”

When I was asked by Laurie to speak to you today, I was won-dering what I could possibly say that would be of service to you asyou bring your gifts into the world. Some of you will open a practice and work as healers, others will bring what you havelearned to different professions. There are many ways to serve; noone way is better than another.

This is a time of transition for you, as you are about to completethis 4 years’ training, and many of you might wonder how you willbe able to manifest out there what you long for. Transitions arealways powerful events in our lives. Every ending bears within anew beginning. Shortly after my own graduation in 1999 I left myhomeopathic practice in St. Moritz in Switzerland, simply follow-ing an inner call, not knowing what the next step would be. As myold life fell away, I was left with a wide-open space in front of mewhich was both troubling and exciting.

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It made me face all my inner fears which I had so successfullysuppressed into the far reaches of my unconscious mind. What todo next, where to go? I had to simply hold the gap, and hold thegap, committing to the gap for as long as it takes for somethingnew to emerge. One year later, my husband and I moved to Spainand started a new life there, a life which in essence feels largerand more fulfilling than the one I had in St. Moritz. This helpedme to deeply trust. I know that when I will hear the call again, Iwill move on again. What is calling you at this time of transition?

What do you long to create? Let this call lead as you continueyour journey.

Here is what I learned along the way:If you want to create from a new place, suspend what you

know. We can only know what has already happened and wetend to create from our past assumptions about life. Therefore ourcreations are often more of the same. Have you ever noticed?Have you ever asked yourself, how did I end up here again?

We create what we believe. I have learned from my parentsthat one has to work hard to survive and this is what I aminclined to do. Even so, as I manifested a wonderful new life inSpain, I also re-created the same kind of overbooked practicewhich I had left in St. Moritz. I do ask myself sometimes, how didthis happen? This is my growing edge.

What is your growing edge? What kind of beliefs and imagesare you holding on to, as if they were true? So, suspend what youknow and open yourself to the unlimited potential of what isavailable to you out there. When something seems impossible,take it one step at a time. You do not need to know the outcome.Then, surrender, let go. When we are afraid, we want to controlour universe to make it feel safe. Surrender, in this sense, is anactive choice to be open to the unfolding present, moment tomoment. This is when we ask questions like, “Who am I at thismoment? What wants to birth through me, right now?” The truth isthere is only this moment. So, surrender and wait. I like to call thewaiting “holding the gap.” The gap is always a time of uncertainty,a time when the “old” has fallen away and the “new” has notquite manifested yet.

It can be a few minutes when you sit with a client waiting forsomething to arise from the larger whole or it can be a journey ofa few months or years in times of major life-changing transitions.What is of most value during those times is the support of yourcommunity of friends and allies. Out of the still point within thegap a new creation will emerge through you quite naturally, acreation which is usually larger than what you could have envisioned before.

Here are a few skills which are essential to me in my daily lifeand work:

� To keep a beginners Mind. As Suzuki Roshi, a Zen Buddhistteacher, used to say, always keep a beginner's mind. A beginner's mind is open to receive life as it is without any preconceived ideas. Quite honestly speaking, the more we learnthe more we become aware of the fact that we don't know anything. We can become comfortable with not knowing, withresting in uncertainty. Keep an openness to all of life in its unlimited creations and forms. Never cease to see the mystery inlife as well as in the person in front of you.

✲ Cultivate a sense of curiosity and passion for life.Curiosity and passion are the driving forces which motivate usto search, to change and to create. In this sense, when some-thing happens to us we are open to the learning which it bearsfor us, rather than resisting the challenge or being afraid. If youreceive life fully, no matter what it has to offer to you, you willexperience a sense of awe for its many creations, and you willlearn to recognize the synchronicities which come your way.

� Commit to your journey. If you make your journey andyour growth a priority, then your journey will lead you whereyou need to go, both in your personal as well as in your professional life. Then you will not wonder 20 years from now,what happened to my life unlived? What did I miss?

� And most importantly, follow your heart. Phil Lane, anative American teacher once said, “The longest road you willever walk is the sacred journey from your heart to your heart.”Let your heart lead you, knowing that you are not alone, thatyou are part of a greater whole, a collective movement towardawakening. Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist teacher, refers tothis way as “interbeing.”

I would like to close with a quote from the Tao te Ching(Lao-tzu's book of the Way and how it manifests itself in theworld, 551-479 BC):

What is rooted is easy to nourish.What is recent is easy to correct.What is brittle is easy to break.What is small is easy to scatter.Prevent trouble before it arises.Put things in order before they exist.The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout.The journey of a thousand miles Starts from beneath your feet.Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,You ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes action By letting things take their course.He remains as calm At the end as at the beginning.He has nothing,Thus has nothing to lose.What he desires is non-desire,What he learns is to unlearn.He simply reminds people Of who they have always been.He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things.

Many blessings for your journey from the depth of my heart.

Patricia PowellBBSH 2008ClassRepresentative

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Ceremony.

Graduation

Four years ago when we arrived it was our longing that drove us,this glimmer of something that was greater, but also of us. Wewanted to learn how to love ourselves, so there’d be space leftover to love another. We came because we couldn’t figure outhow to forgive or to dissolve grief or how to live with guilt. Wewanted to stop the war inside us, and in our homes. We wantedto stop the suffering we saw in the streets, the hunger on people’sfaces, the hate we saw everyday. We came to learn how to lis-ten, to help others in distress, to fill up the emptiness crawlinginside. Some of us had never known real honest to goodnesspleasure, we’d never known belly-rippling laughter, we’d neverknown pure joy. We came to learn how to trust and how to healourselves. We came because we wanted to know spirit. Wecame simply to learn.

And when we arrived, our baggage loaded up aroundus, the teachers stretched out their arms to greet us. Welcome,Welcome, they cried. And immediately they began to love us,immediately they began to shower us with light.

Oh, how we fought and kicked and pushed and ragedagainst them and against ourselves. And still they loved us. Oh,how we wept and tore at ourselves and turned our skins insideout. And still they loved us. Week after week, rolling up theirsleeves, and tumbling in the mud beside us.

But here we were, we had come, our longing had driven us and they were helping us to learn, they, our belovedteachers, gentle and stern with pink slips in hands, as some of uswere failing, gentle and firm and loving, all in one.

Our families thought we were crazy. You spend all thismoney, they said, so you can cry and feel bad and what? Expand and then have contractions! They shook their heads.They thought we were weird. And didn’t we think so ourselves,the lessons so strange and counter intuitive. I mean, our teacherswanted us to run toward the very thing that made us afraid, theywanted us to embrace it, to be present with it, because insidethat very thing were gifts insurmountable, they said, inside thatvery thing was knowledge and wisdom. And when we finallygathered up enough courage to look at this thing we had beenrunning from all our lives, (for some it was intimacy, it was ourfamily’s rejection of us, it was our terror of the world, it was howunlovable we felt), we saw that indeed our teachers were right.For we found our laughter where before there had been pain, wefound our creative spirit, our edge, our intuition, our wisdom, anamazing inner strength. Our teachers were right after all. Insidethese hard places were gifts insurmountable. And we thankedthem.

Now four years have come and gone. And as we stepinto our lives, our dreams unfurling, ready now to become reality, just know we are invincible. Just know we have theentire kingdom of heaven behind us. Just know we have all theearth beings, and all our ancestors pressing us on. Just know wehave raging strong in our chests an incredible love.

Our professions are many, our dreams impossible tocount, and yet in the end, they all boil down to this one thing -how to heal ourselves, how to heal each other, how to heal theworld. And for sure there’ll be days when disillusion sets in,when the road ahead seems dark, when frustration thwarts ourefforts again and again. But remember those are only a sign foryou to ride the wave. Those are only a sign for you to surrender,a sign to pray and to listen well, and to come back to the centerof your heart. Because at the center waiting patiently for you torenew your commitment once again are your love, your courage,your integrity and your power.

So my dear classmates, as we leave here today, remember to live well, love fully, cry hard, laugh deeply, keephope alive, and always, always come back to self, always comeback to the center of your heart, always come back to love.

I love you. Congratulations. Namaste.

Year 4 projects being presented to the student body

William GardnerBBSH 2008ClassRepresentative

Today marks a significant milestone not only for each member of thegraduating class of 2008, but also for the large network of friends andfamily who have supported us on this journey. Our ability to completethis program has required tremendous personal, emotional and finan-cial sacrifices from many people. On behalf of all of us, I give you ourheartfelt thanks.

I feel truly blessed for having been given this opportunity to repre-sent my fellow classmates, and do so with a feeling of deep gratitudefor the unceasing support I have received from each of you. I so muchappreciated the heartfelt “welcome home” that greeted me upon myreturn after having spent Year 3 at BBSHE. We are a unique group ofbrave, dedicated, talented, powerful and caring people. Without eachof us, and those others who joined with us on various parts of our jour-ney, the experience would have been a different–and lesser–one for usall. Together, we form a perfect whole. Over the past four years, wejointly built a strong, safe container to support each other as we strug-gled, and succeeded, in finding more of ourselves. Although this cere-mony marks the symbolic end of this particular form, we will be forev-er bound to each other and to the greater BBSH community as fellowseekers of the light. We are one.

One of the most perplexing questions that has been put to me overthe past four years has been, “What exactly do you learn at that schoolanyway?” My struggles to give a concise answer to this haven’t comefrom a shortage of material to talk about–but rather from the abun-dance of insights I have gained into who I really am, who I am in theworld, my relationship with Spirit, and my understanding of my uniquehealership. Fortunately, and I guess not so surprisingly, I have finallyfound a good answer in something from Heyoan. On page 19 of Seedsof the Spirit 2006, he described what it is that the school has been upto as follows:

We are teaching you to be lovers.As you learn to become healers, you learn to become lovers,

to accept others as they are and to love them.You become lovers of all humankind,

lovers of all sentient beings,lovers of the earth and the stars and the skies,

lovers of the Divine.

To be a lover is to know love, to be able to give and receive love.Love is expressed in many forms, and there has been no shortage of ithere. I have felt it when I saw Connie dance, heard Kate or Kristjansing, viewed Tessa’s drawings, read Patricia’s words, listened to aprayer by Edrianna, and experienced it in the countless other momentswhen someone has allowed his or her essence to shine through. Wewere here to know love.

Our real journey is, of course, only just beginning. We have the restof our lives to continue to deepen our understanding of love, and aswe do so will become more effective healers of the world in all theways that we will bring our light.

I would like to suggest that as we move forward from this time andplace, we do so with an increased conscious awareness of how we liveour lives in relationship to love so that we may become even betterlovers. To help with this, I would like to borrow some words fromsomeone whom I love–my wife, Laurie Gardner. Inspired in part byScott Peck’s A Road Less Traveled, Laurie has encouraged many of herclients to look closely at how their actions measure up to what they saythey love. She defines “true love”as “the willingness to do whatever isnecessary to enhance physical, spiritual and emotional well-being forone’s self or another.”

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If we can love ourselves and others in a way that is consistentwith this definition, our lives – and the world – will certainly be akinder, gentler and more authentic place. May we all know truelove, with ourselves and with others.

BarbaraBrennanSchool ofHealing Japan

It was a pleasure and honor to walk the Year 1 journey with thefirst class of BBSHJ. The students are amazing. They havesuch beautiful focus and intention tonot only their own learning but alsoto the budding community they arecreating together. They are most certainly ready for Year 2 and themajority have already registered! TheGreat Adventure continues at a newvenue in September, Kazusa

Akademia Park in Chiba, Japan. In addition to serious study, we will finally be able have serious loud expressions.

This year was a year of many firsts and the next program yearwill be too. In September, not only will there be Year 1, Year 2 andTeacher Training 2, we are offering to graduates the AdvancedStudies Brennan Integration Work program (ASBIW). Please checkout the details of this exciting program on the BBSHJ website.

Of course, none of this growth and success would be possiblewithout the template the BBSH/E current students and alumni inJapan set for the school. Some of you worked closely with us byproviding teaching, logistic or language interpretation support.Others came faithfully to the Goddess Healing Meditations,Heyoan channelings or Barbara’s public lectures.I know many also sent prayers for success from afar. I felt them and they were always a welcomed gift. Domo arigato gosimasu forthe support you gave in so many different forms for the success ofBBSHJ, the healing profession and the expansion of consciousnesson our planet. Let’s all continue to IMAGINE BIG for Peace andHealing in abundance.

I am still in need of Japanese dance music suitable for Year 2!Email me at kaheamorgan@aol.com…soon! I am imagining a BIGresponse.

First Year ReflectionsKahea Morgan, BBSHJ School Dean

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Laurie Keene, School DeanAs most of you know, the location of BBSHE is not attached to

one particular venue or country. We go where we can find thevenue that suits BBSHE best. Now, after having enjoyed two wonderful years in Bad Neuenahr, Germany, BBSHE is moving back to Austria. Our new home will be in Bad Ischl, a lovely spatown near Salzburg. Please visit the school’s website for more information.

Other news: The Advanced Studies Brennan Integration WorkProgram (ASBIW) is scheduled to begin this Fall. John Shordike,who for the last two years has held the position of PS4 Dean inBBSHE, will head up this program. This program has just completedits first year in BBSH and has been hugely successful. The studentshave felt the tremendous positive impact that this training offers. We are looking forward to the initiation of this program at BBSHE.And on another note, Alain Grouette, who was the PS4 AssistantDean last year, will replace John as PS4 Dean.

The alumni who visited this past year have been one of the high-lights of each class week. We had about 15 alumni in Class 5. Westarted a peer alumni supervision group that I have been facilitating.It has been insightful, educational and a beautiful way to grow inrelationship. We have covered a whole range of topics from individ-ual cases to the obstacles encountered in establishing a healingpractice. I encourage all alumni to visit us next year.

Finally, summer is upon us. The students and teachers haveworked hard this past year and are now on summer break. Whilethe summer winds blow I hope that all of you pause, breathe, relax,reflect and have some fun!

Until September,Much love,Laurie KeeneBBSHE School Dean

Some of the many alumni who visited for the Florida graduation festivities and thealumni activities:

Front row: Mary Piercy; Guille Martinez de Koehn '00, AS '03; Donnalea Goelz '95,TT '97; Susan Macknin '06; Ann Dionne '98, TT '00

Back row: Steve Crook '06; Janet Wepner '07; John Wepner '06; Jim Suek '07; Tim Christner '07; George Bagby '06; Chuck Cogliandro '07; Javier Ruiz '07

GreetingsFromBBSHE!

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Year 4 ProjectsOnce again, our Year 4 students, now graduates, amaze us with their senior projects, creatively applying BHS in a variety

of healing environments. This year students could choose to pursue their passion and unique interests either via the newly inaugurated service project or the traditional research project. The service project offered the opportunity to develop a vision of their healing service to the world in a practical, step-by-step approach while the research project offered the opportunity to

study a healing question or hypothesis in depth. The fine work presented here by our 2008 graduates helps BHS continue to grow and impact the world as a well recognized and important healing modality.

HEALING ON SAILING SHIPS

by Wibke DrobbeBBSHE ’08 • Groningen, Netherlands

A short meditation to start with:

Become aware of your body. Take a moment to follow your breathinside and connect to the fluidity of your

body, the 70% water your body contains. Keep your focuson the fluidity inside and imagine being at the sea, maybeat the beach or on a ship. Feel the wind striking throughyour hair. Feel the wind on your skin, Take a deep breath ofthe salty clear air. Hear the waves, follow their rhythm. Feelthe sun warming your skin. Take a moment to feel reallyinto it.

I am curious about what the sea and projecting or day-dreaming yourself to the beach does with your energy field,your mind and emotions. The sea brings me to a place ofinner freedom, a safe and peaceful spaciousness that ishealing. When I am sailing I can come into a state ofunity. I started to do a research project about the influenceof being at the sea on the Human Energy Field. I readabout the influence of water and salt in general and themeaning of water on the health of the body. I organized aday trip with some friends to go scuba diving in Hollandand made drawings of their energy fields. Then I joined a5-day trip on a sailing ship. During the trip I toucheddeeply into my wound, and the longing to be at the waterwas so overwhelming that I chose to change to a serviceproject. It felt more important to do research inside.

I had to face my inner terror, which made every move frommy inside a life-threatening happening. As I did not dare tofeel my essence I started to be more aware of the people inmy surroundings than of me. The strong call of the sea I could hear so clearly and intensely was a reflection of myessence, my inner truth to be finally seen. It was a chal-lenging and confusing process. I became aware of the splitin my Hara Line and the images I hold on to. Slowly Icould reconnect my Soul Seat and cleared the image that Ihave no right to exist. It is amazing how much easier mylife is now. I can create pleasure and it becomes more nor-mal to act out of my light. This is the most valuable thingI got out of my project, contact with my essence.

My intention is to create a spiritual workshop on a ship. I worked on traditional sailing ships for 5 years as mate andskipper, sailing with tourists around the Dutch islands. It isamazing how adventurous it feels leaving a harbour, when thewind is blowing in the sails and the ship finds her movementwith the rhythm of the waves. People can be touched by simplybeing on a ship, watching the horizon listening to the waves,feeling the wind on the skin. The ocean is inspiring to makecontact with parts of yourself which are not present in yourdaily life. As I followed the training at BBSHE the idea wasborn to use this wonderful gift of nature, my connections tothe sailing community and the energetic knowledge to supportpeople to connect with their longings and the healer inside.

I love the combination of having fun with sailing, working withthe power of nature while being aware of oneself. It is easy feel-ing your light while watching the sunset with others who havethe longing to find their path to the light.

Wibke at the helm

Chiyomi Yoshida, BBSH Year 4 Dean

HEALING ENDEAVORS TO SHIFT

GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO UNITYAnne Sexton BryanBBSH ’08 • Bozeman, Montana

Humanity faces great challenges today.Gradually, we are realizing our imminent needto balance and unify how we live with eachother on earth. I believe we are all being called

to help humanity now. Using my skills and passion for healingand travel I answered my call, and created an intentional healingendeavor to Africa to support this awakening. My continued serv-ice is to inspire and unify our global community through futurehealing endeavors to Africa and other destinations, my healingpractice, books, educational and collaborative opportunities.

I have traveled all my life. In my profession I led groups of peopleon educational tours around the world for 10 years. I then livedand worked for a safari company in Nairobi and arranged tripsfor large groups traveling to East and South Africa and India foranother 7 years. There was so much struggle and homelessnessand yet I felt so at home and saw great beauty there. My experi-ences in Africa mirrored what I felt inside, a painful separationfrom the Divine.

While working long and stressful days I got sick and needed heal-ing which led me to BBSH. In Year 2 we did a creative artsdream exercise and my dream was to do healing work in Africa.The dream unfolded and in March 2008 I led a group of 12 heal-ers (10 from my Year 4 senior class) on my first healing endeavorto the Cradle of Humanity in Tanzania. I wanted to return hometo soothe the ache of separation and suffering in my soul and inyours too.

This project challenged me to confront my existential terror andmanifest, as well as let go of, control. Another name for the proj-ect was the BBSH Psych-Spiritual and Healing Skills Endeavor:Listen, Ride the Wave, Intention and Hara, Surrender toPleasure, and Return to Core Star. As the plans for the trip andservice project evolved, Margaret Mead’s quote washed away fearand inspired me: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the onlything that ever has.”

In my research, geneticist Spencer Wells’ work on man’s deepancestry and his map of our original ancestors’ immigration fromAfrica 50,000 years ago inspired me. Japanese research of the100th monkey syndrome and about the tipping point explainedthat when enough people change their mind and behavior and

consciousness reaches a certain level, then everyone in thatspecies/area, etc., effortlessly evolves to a higher level of consciousness.

We traveled to the Serengeti in northwestern Tanzania to connectwith the land and animal energies of thegreat wildebeest and zebra migration andwith the wisdom of our DNA. We droveto The Cradle of Humanity beginning atOlduvai Gorge, the renowned archaeo-logical site of our biological ancestors,and then to the adjacent NgorongoroCrater. In ceremonies that we createdon March 6th in Serengeti and March9th in Ngorongoro Crater, we read heal-ing intentions submitted by colleagues,friends and family to anchor a healed, unified template for humanity at the birthplace of our species.These intentions reflected what these participants want to changeand heal in their families, lineages, communities, countries andhumanity. In essence, we asked them to initiate their own heal-ing. Our final day was spent with the indigenous Hadze tribe–oneof the last hunter-gather or tribes on earth and connected withthese relatives who stayed behind long ago. Our Africa group ofhealers was small in number but our intention and reach throughthose participating with us from home was global and powerful.

I created a website to support the trip and let people know whatwe did and how we were answering our call. For more informationabout this trip and future endeavors please visit www.endeavorsforhumanity.com. Please consider what you arebeing called to bring forth and how are you going to answer thecall. Follow what you love and know, and do it now.

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Our flight from Arusha to the Serengeti, Tanzania. From left: MartinaMolloy, Anne Sexton Bryan, Kim LeBlanc, Margo Boileau, Cathy Haggerty,Seema Somaiya, Pilot Joseph, Barbara Milano, Satoe Ogawa, MaryAn Angelic,Carol Hibbert Swegle, Denette Sinclair

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Talking with the Animals, Patty Summers tells the story of Quasar,an abandoned iguana she adopted. Quasar's message to humanscalls me to bring it forth in my quilts:

You have lost your way. Stop and listen–for you walk around discon-nected from our Mother, wandering around grasping at false truthsderived through human arrogance. You cannot hear, due to your ownloud voices. STOP.

Let the energy of life that connects us all flow. Breathe, feeling theenergy rise up your spine, rooting, grounding you.

We are not your “pets”; we are your brothers, your sisters. Onlythrough respect can you gain ours. Only through coming home toyour family, remembering who you and who we are, can you embracewholeness.

The Barbara Brennan School of Healing is the foundation to cre-ate the healing practice of my dreams. Bringing the sacredness ofour animal relationships into my quilts allows me to bring forthmy divine pleasure and core essence into the world.

To my animals, "You'll be in my heart...always."

ANIMAL PORTRAIT QUILTSPhyllis ShipmanBBSH ’08 • Pulaski, Virginia

Many pet owners develop deep lovingrelationships with their animalfriends. The death of a beloved petopens profound emotional pain and

grieving. My service project combines my passion for sewing andlove for dogs to create animal portrait quilts–the representation of apet through the use of fabrics.The animal portrait is a tangible way to stay connected to the petthat has passed into spirit. With my Brennan Healing Scienceskills, I infuse the pet's essence into the quilt during its construc-tion. The unconditional love energy in the quilt has a healing quali-ty for the client.

Animal communication makes this quilt unique. Messages from thedeparted pet are stitched into the quilt. Rosalind McKnight's bookCosmic Journey channels a message from animals regarding the spiri-tual purpose of animal and human relationships."In many cases, the animals go to the earth plane to help teachhuman beings lessons that they might not learn otherwise. Animalscan often teach better because of the pureness of their dedicationand their love. Some humans can relate easier to animals than toother human beings. Animals want to help wherever they can."

My experience over the years after a pet transitioned into spirit isthat an animal communicator provides emotional comfort. Themessages from the departed pet give a broader perspective of therelationship. My dog was not only there for me as my companion,but also as a teacher of unconditional love. Often we have a limitedview of our animals. The animal messages stitched into the quiltchallenge this limiting belief.

Not only are the messages a powerful reminder of unconditionallove and continuing connection, but the colors of fabrics are animportant component as well. The animals tell me they will commu-nicate the fabric colors they want to send to their human friend andthe pet's contribution to the relationship. The quilt is a reflection ofthe pet's personality. Messages from my dog Benji, who recentlypassed into spirit, are examples of messages received and to bestitched into his quilt:

My friend, thank you for giving me a place to live, where I could rest,where I felt I had the opportunity to find my balance once again. Yougave us both the gift of freedom to walk our individual path.

This is what I want to offer my clients. The support and love stilllives on.

Another quilt project is the community quilt, bringing the messageof the interconnectedness of all life forms. In her book

Zebra in Serengeti, Tanzania

Lionness withvery young cubs,Ngorongoro,Tanzania

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THE NOW POINT OF LIFE

The state of your purpose in any one given momentis your intention.

My dear friends, we walk with you from split intentions into clear aligned intentions with each cycle of

healing, as you spiral into your core and into wholeness.

In there is always something new to work on, to bring back into wholeness. What is that for you in this moment?

What is your truth? Find your edge, that very fine point between being in wholeness

or being split. Stop. Rest at that point, that one point of decision, in which you choose the state of your purpose:

the state of your intention.

There is the one point where it splits. It is the point of the now. Where you actually live your entire life.

The more you can hold your conscious awareness at that point, the point of the now, the very point where your intention splits,

the clearer you will become.

This is your cutting edge. It is where you are becoming aware of wholeness.

It is also the point where your pain is. That one point in your life where your aligned holistic intention splits into duality

is the point of pain in your life, in you and in your integrity.

That is the fulcrum, the turning point, the point of most change, the point of most development, the point at which you are capable of

the most surrender, to the hardest thing for you to surrender to.

This is the true challenge of the soul on the spiral path into that deep sense of full selfness.

MEDITATION ON THE NOW POINT

You fluctuate between defense and wholeness, split integrity and wholeintegrity. That, my dear friends, is the point to reflect upon in meditation. It is the point between the timelessness of the nowand your being caught in the structure of time, caught in the

erroneous idea of a past and future. That is the point where you split.

So we challenge you now, for just a few momentsto sit with us in silent focus at the point where your purpose in this

moment moves from wholeness to duality, and then again into wholeness.

Simply be there now.This is the point of the birth of fear.

Split Intention, Split Integrity

What are the foundations of your integrity now that are whole and where are the parts of your beingthat are not yet whole and do not yet live in wholeness, in integrity? Where is your integrity split?

Where do you betray yourself? Where do you betray your life by dishonoring yourself and acting withsplit intention, and split integrity?

MEDITATION TO CONNECT WITH YOUR INTENTION

What then is your desire for your life, for the rest of your life? Canyou recognize that desire, that magnificent obsession, your passion?Where does your passion lie? What do you wish to create in the nextpart of your life? Are your tools all ready (and of course we speak ofinner tools)? Are you ready? What else do you need to prepare your-self? What do you want to do to prepare yourselves for the next sec-tion of your life? Align with your purpose, you may not even knowwhat it is from the mental level, but align with that purpose now.

Your body is your sacred healing vessel manifested in the physicalworld. Honor this beautiful sacred healing vessel in which you reside

for the very brief moments in the physical, that you call life.Remember the precious gift of a physical human body, a brilliant tool,a wonderful tool for enlightenment. So honor this beautiful, physicalbody that you call “You." Honor its purpose in this life, your tool,your own personal tool of enlightenment. Your body is your altar.

Bless these bodies. Bless you. Bless these souls. Honor, bless your-selves for this work, this brilliant, beautiful loving and yes, difficult-

work that you have come here to do. We honor the brave souls that arehere to face the most difficult things for you personally to face. That iswhat it is. It isn’t a difficult thing outside of you. It’s within you andthat which you face here in this training is the most difficult thing foryou to face in your life and heal-to face, to find, to recognize, to face,to embrace and to heal. You have the perfect healing instrument to

do so. Honor it. Honor yourselves and honor your lives forthey are sacred. You are sacred.

Dear graduates, dear friends, dear community, dear communities,what is your longing? Honor your longing by following your guidance,

following your path deep into your core and doing what it takes toheal the splits within. In so doing, you become leaders of humanity.

Where will you lead humanity? What will you teach humanity? Howwill you love humanity and how will you do all of these things first foryourself so that that truth, that integrity, that groundedness into yourbasic foundation of aliveness, will come through in those teachings, in

your professions, in your task?

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2008-9 BBSH Class Dates

BBSH

Miami, Florida

Class 1:Sun. Oct. 12

thruFri. Oct. 17, 2007

Class 2:Mon. Dec. 8

thruFri. Dec. 12, 2008

Class 3:Wed. Feb. 18

thruSun. Feb. 22, 2009

Class 4:Wed. April 22

thruSun. April 26, 2009

Class 5:Wed. June 10

thruSun. June 14, 2009

Class 1:Tue. Sept. 23

thruSun. Sept. 28, 2008

Class 2:Wed. Nov. 26

thruSun. Nov. 30, 2008

Class 3:Sat. Jan. 10

thruWed. Jan. 14, 2009

Class 4:Wed. March 25

thruSun. March 29, 2009

Class 5:Fri. May 15

thruTue. May 19, 2009

BBSH Europe

Bad Ischl, Austria

Class 1:Wed. Sept. 3

thruMon. Sept. 8, 2008

Class 2:Wed. Nov. 12

thruSun. Nov 16, 2008

Class 3:Wed. Jan. 21

thruSun. Jan. 25, 2008

Class 4:Wed. March 11

thruSun. March 15, 2009

Class 5:Wed. May 27

thruSun. May 31, 2009

BBSH Japan

Chiba, Japan