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What is 'Eco Spiritual Travel'?Is it possible to support our Eco Sphere, to co-exist peacefully and co-operatively with the animal and plant kingdoms we share our planet with? All while enjoying, thriving, having fun and spiritually enriching our lives, our selves and the world around us?
We believe it is- And that is the concept behind 'Eco Spiritual Travel'
Have you ever wanted to swim with wild Dolphins? Or walk with truly Wild Horses? How about letting a Wolf play with you? Or swim with a Manatee & her baby in a Crystal Clear Spring?| Well, you can - easily, enjoyably, and at the same time have personal-spiritual growth for yourself while financially supporting sanctuaries for these animals and these pristine natural places. | |
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SpiriTravel.com is dedicated to bringing these once in a lifetime experiences to reality for our guests while having fun, bringing personal & spiritual growth to participants and supporting sanctuaries for these animals - all at the same time. Why not make your next Vacation an Eco Spiritual Vacation! The Best of all worlds.
Let's use the Power of Money for Good, For Growth, for Spiritual Awakening
Money is the common denominator that is the most powerful form of exchange between people, exchange between cultures. It is one of the strongest motivators for most of us on the planet today.
Let's have $ work for healing our souls, for healing our Spirits, for healing our bodies, for the saving/healing of the Eco Sphere, for safe sanctuaries for animals, for the bringing of equality, justice, fairness for all peoples. The old idea that it has to somehow hurt the environment or animals if travel/tourism gets involved is not necessarily so. When done with forethought & care it can benefit all sides- Money and motivation for local people to save natural eco systems and animals & Truly pristine & spiritually enhancing experiences for people going on the adventures.
There are multitudes of ways that travelers can thoroughly enjoy and spiritually benefit while animals and the ecosphere also simultaneously benefit. This is the premise behind the concept of Eco Spiritual Travel - animal sanctuaries, nature preserves, supporting animal rescue, supporting the larger ecosphere of the planet etc goes hand in hand with spiritual enrichment and fulfilling travel experiences for individuals.
All Gain & No Pain - in Pleasure we find our Treasure!No more of the 'No Pain, No Gain' model - it's outdated, old, tired...(it just made us 'old & tired' anyway.)
There is a deeply ingrained model-mind program of 'survival of the fittest' of 'the early bird gets the worm', of 'dog eat dog', of 'there's no free lunch', of 'it's not personal, it's just business', of 'business is war', of 'nice guys finish last', 'In sweat and toil shalt thou earn thy bread.' etc. This is the old model, the old way that is not working anymore. This model creates pain for everyone - for the 'workers' and the 'owners'. Most 'successful' people have a short season of enjoying their 'success' and then back to their personal problems and miseries.
There's a deep feeling in many humans still of 'it has to painful to be gainful'. It has to be 'hard work' to accomplish anything. Whenever the TV news has a 'success' story on it, the 'successful' person always say the same thing 'Hard work, Hard work, Hard work... But is that really true? Why do bankers hardly work at all? We even call it 'bankers hours'? The Bank owners simply live off interest that others pay them on money? Is it that the real people with power & money want everyone else to 'Work Hard' so they themselves can just lend them more money to make more interest off? Something's 'off' with this model don't you think? Some may say our 'toil and sweat' can be traced back to Calvinists, religionist Protestants with dour faces, the white 'protestant' work ethic (why are we still 'protesting' & what are we 'fighting against' anyway?) Aren't we tired of being 'crusaders' and fighting, fighting, fighting? Against everything? The War on Drugs, The War on Fat, The War on teenage pregnancies, The War on drunk driving, The War on smoking, The War on Everything? Aren't we tired of War - ring with everything...including our Selves?
I know I am. What are we fighting against? Why can't we relax? Watch the cars on a freeway sometime - see all the cars manically 'driving' somewhere, pushing somewhere -- and then a few hours later the same cars pushing-driving-striving in the other direction to go back 'home'. What's the real difference between that and the hamster in the wheel? 
There's a story of Carl Jung speaking with an Indian Chief -
'A Pueblo Indian chief Ochwia Biano said: - 'Look, at the white people and see how cruel they seem. Their lips are thin,
their noses are tapering, their faces are lined and disfigured with wrinkles.
Their eyes has a stiff look, they are always seeking something. What
are they seeking? The white people always want something, they
are always worried and restless. We don't know what they want ? We
don't understand them? We think that they are crazy." Jung asked
why he thought that white people were crazy. Chief Ochwia
Biano replied - The white people say that they are thinking with
the head. - Of course answered Jung. Where do you think then. - We
are thinking here, he replied and pointed at his heart.'
The way this deep rooted model of 'in toil and sweat shalt thou earn thy bread' or 'No Pain, No Gain' manifested itself in the 'vacation' world is we had our vacations to 'get away from it all' - to 'vacate', 'empty out' all the accumulated stress, worry, 'pain' we were using in order to get out 'gain'. No wonder if 'life is a battle' all the time that then of course we'd want to get away from IT all. So we took our vacations and 'did nothing', the proverbial beach with an umbrella and a drink! Our vacations were to 'Vacate' to 'empty out' all the 'stuff', the 'soul tartar buildup' from stressing ourselves. Look at the Corona beer commercials still- perfect, nothing to do except to 'drink our troubles away'. Except of course we all know - that doesn't work- except for just a little while.
But we realized that just drinking and sitting on the beach wasn't really 'productive' so we've developed 'adventure travel' & 'volunteer vacations',
Love as a Physical & Powerful Energy ForceOn a recent walk here in Sedona, I was asking God-Spirit about an incident where what I had thought was 'love' that I sent to another person - was perceived as a personal insult or 'attack' of some sort. It had hurt my heart that what I had said and felt with love in a playful manner I thought had been 'misunderstood'. As I was walking along the beautiful path along the mountainside - it 'hit me', I stopped in place as if I was hit by a beam of something, and God-Spirit (it felt like God's 'assistants' bringing the message) shared with me, showed me how the energy of 'love' that I had sent towards the other person, 'went right into' the other person. I was being shown the 'spiritual physics' of how energy works - in this case heart-love. I had directed the energy directly towards the other person- and I 'saw' how that 'directed' focused targeted energy went right into the other person. It was a like a beam of light that had started to penetrate them. Here's an important part-lesson for me: If that person is not open or ready to receive that energy at that moment - they have to block it to protect themselves from it. How do we block 'Love'? With reacting towards it. With retaliating with it's opposite 'hate' or 'anger'. Have you ever had someone 'block' your love or caring? Didn't they have to 'shut off' or 'shut down' or 'shut out' that love by a block of negative feelings towards you? Well, I 'saw' how this spiritual energy physics worked on a deeper level than I'd ever seen before. I asked Spirit what would be a better way to work with the energy of love in that case - and Spirit suggested to simply feel the love, and express it if you want, but don't direct it into another person, but simply express it outward around you and then other people can choose or not choose freely to feel or not feel that energy of love. Only when directed by your heart, God-Spirit, and the other persons heart, is it 'safe' or 'mutual' to share love with others in a penetrating-direct way. Ah...thank you...that will allow me to be open with my love when I want but not 'push' it on anyone else who may not want to feel that at that time. A couple of weeks later I was walking again along the same path - this time on the way out from the canyon. There was no one else around except I could see about 100 yards ahead a man and his dog. I had the thought of 'sending love' to the dog. I checked with my heart and it felt intuitively safe and ok with the dog. So I simply sent directly 'into' the dog my 'love', my heart feelings. I just did this a little bit, for a few steps. When I reached the place where the man and his dog were he said to me: "She just had to see you. I don't know why - She must think she knows you or something. She just wouldn't leave until she had seen you and she's never done that before." - and he shook his head like he couldn't understand the way his dog was acting this way.
I said: "Well maybe she does know me, or maybe she thought I was someone else." - I didn't want to say anything about my little 'experiment'. I petted her and we exchanged some more 'love'. Later I realized that the dog had stood and waited for me on the exact spot on the path where a couple of weeks earlier I had received the 'hit' - the understanding from Spirit about how the spiritual energy physics of 'love' works.  | Here's a dog that knows how to use 'love' to make friends!! Click Here or on picture for full story |
A Moment of Intention Truth Comes Back Into the World Whatever your concept of a Higher Power, Cosmic Intelligence, God or just plain Common Sense and ‘doing the right thing’ is, or if you don’t have a ‘god’ you believe in, But you believe you yourself have consciousness-awareness-intelligence Take a moment during the day and appeal to this Higher Intelligence- Source – God – Cosmic Intelligence to bring Truth more fully back onto our earth. Real Truth, Real Higher Intelligence, ‘Common Sense’, The Truths we hold to be ‘Self Evident’. Intend, with your will, your Intention your Brain Intelligence That this ‘Truth’, whatever it may be, will become more present, More obvious to all of us on the planet. You have the Power! – from the comfort of your living room couch or in front of your computer YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE towards WHAT YOU WANT! Many of us feel powerless today- This method I am sharing with you now - This is the real ‘Power of the People’, by the People for the People, purest form of Individual Freedom available anywhere. Nothing can stop this power. Thought-Intention is the root of everything you see around you. Something, some intelligence, someone first THOUGHT about it before it manifested. And the more powerful the Intention, the more likely the manifestation of the Thought. And the more ‘minds’ (people) get behind the idea, the more collective momentum the idea will have. Maybe we can’t agree about the specifics about what is ‘true’, how the universe was made, if there is a ‘God’ or not but… Maybe we can all agree that we want more Truth to come and manifest in our civilization on our planet. Whatever "the truth" is. All we need is the courage to let go into allowing, Intending, praying for, asking for, seeing- visualizing that real ‘Truth’ operate more fully on the Earth. If you are not willing to ask for this – Does that not mean that you may not really want ‘The Truth’ to come and become more apparent (a Parent) to us all? Why would anyone hesitate to ask for more ‘Truth’ on the planet? We’re not talking about any one individuals’ private little truth, but the big TRUTH, the TRUTH that created our bodies, the ‘TRUTH’ that created the process of thought itself, that created the Sun, the turning of the Earth, a leaf on a tree, snow, spiders – whatever ‘Intelligence’ created the whole thing we see around us. You could say it was ‘God’ the way I/we/my group see ‘him’ or ‘her’ or ‘it’. That’s fine. Please participate and ask/ intend/ pray for/ that this ‘TRUTH’ come more fully onto the earth. If your ‘God’ is the true God and is the ‘TRUTH’ then he/she/ it will be able to more fully reveal themselves and help us all. And you’ll be able to help spread the ‘true message’ of your God this way. If you don’t believe in a ‘God’ or Cosmic Intelligence, but just believe in human sentience, human ability to reason, to critically think and evaluate – then please lend your Intention arrived at through rational deduction. And through this that it would be good for all of us to intend, think about that real ‘TRUTH’ become more prevalent in our global civilization. Obviously (self evidently) we must believe in human ‘reason’ and ability to think or we wouldn’t be able to read this! Or think about it like you are right now! So please also participate in lending your ‘intention – thoughts’ to this bringing more ‘TRUTH’ onto the planet. Einstein proved that energy and matter are the same – interchangeable forms of something- E=mc2, so obviously thoughts are things that influence the world around us. So very simply - ask for the ‘TRUTH’ to come and manifest more fully on our planet and in the doings of the humans on the planet. We may differ about what or who God is, or if there is a God, or a Higher Consciousness that guides our Universe. But perhaps we can agree that we would like to have more Truth manifest on earth, in our civilization and in our individual lives, for our own well being now, for our children’s futures. Science is proving today that we are electromagnetic beings. There are electromagnetic energy fields around our bodies that can be measured, "bio-electric" fields. These, we are learning, play a crucial role in our being able to heal. The U.S. and former Soviet governments have admitted to using something called "remote viewing" in spying on each other. This is the ability to with the power of the mind be able to see over great distances or even see backwards and forwards in time. Governments have spent millions of dollars developing this mind-technology and admit that it works. There are books being published every day that talk about people's personal encounters with "miracles" or the "supernatural". Angels appearing, being able to talk with departed loved ones, near death experiences of the other side, psychic abilities of everyday people are becoming common place. There is an explosion in knowledge about the spiritual and in our understanding of ourselves as spiritual beings and the abilities that have been dormant in us. We have no difficulty believing in radio and television electromagnetic waves traveling through the air and then being somehow magically received and projected on our TV's or through our radios. Every soul is a receiver/sender as well. Or if you believe we are only bio-electric machines we still have this power to receive and send electromagnetic energy waves. Our thoughts and feelings are being broadcast all the time on our frequencies. The "reality" manifesting on earth is the sum of all our collective thoughts and feelings. We are all creating this current reality. The good news is we can change "reality" on earth!! We have the power to affect what's happening on earth. Our thoughts and intentions literally manifest our collective reality on earth today. If we can get thousands of us, (maybe only 144,000 as has been predicted) to participate in intending/believing/ willing that Truth come more fully onto the Earth, we will with our electromagnetic fields intending "Truth" affect the current reality into something more just, more fun, less painful, no wars, no strife, no disease, no food shortages, etc. It only takes a small percentage to trigger the whole. It can be likened to making yogurt, you only need a little starter "culture" and it will convert the whole batch to yogurt. This requires no "work", no pain, no effort, no struggle – it is easy, simple, even enjoyable --...simply taking a moment during our days to "Be still" and intend with our wills for a more Truthful world. You can do it on the subway, at a stop light, in the bathroom, before a meal, in bed before you go to sleep, as you wake up. Science is proving that this willing/intending/praying works and believers of all faiths have always known it. This can be done simply, easily, in your private moments and you will know that thousands of others are doing the same thing and the results are guaranteed. There is no way that this electromagnetic force of thousands of people's intentions will not have an effect. It has to, it is a physical law. Imagine the possibility of a shift into a more harmonious, peaceful, caring, ‘plenty for all’, no disease, no wars, no injustice, world. What have you got to lose? It won't take any energy away from you, this Moment of Intention will calm your nerves, your system, de-stress you, and if that is all it does you have at least gained something, less stress on your body and mind. Imagine a shift in awareness and caring for each other being able to happen easily with the intention of 1000's of souls manifesting it and a Higher Intelligence participating in fulfilling our intentions. I appeal to your heart, your humanity, for more personal enjoyment of our world, for a more ‘common sense’ world, for a better world for all our children, to participate in this. All it takes is a Moment of Intention. May we suggest you do it now. “I intend for real Truth to manifest more fully on Earth.” Simple…just intend that for a Moment. You’re done! --------------------------------------------------------------
Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, "There is no use asking anyone 'What's the matter with
you,' we might just as well say, 'Who's the matter with you?'
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will
harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train
are endless ills.
I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having
eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied, "Oh, no, the oyster was
harmless, you poisoned the oyster. Who's the matter with you?"
She answered, "Oh about nineteen people." She had quarreled with
nineteen people and had become so inharmonious that she attracted
the wrong oyster.
Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental
inharmony. "As the within, so the without."
Man's only enemies are within himself.
- by Florence Scovel Shinn in her 1925 book, "The Game of Life
and How to Play It"
Artist Corner 
'Buddha Hand' from www.Sati.org & 'Century Plant - Sedona' by Tobias Lars Photos
 | TOBIAS LARS JONSSON B.S., MBA, Mensa—is a spiritual teacher, business consultant and musician from Sedona, AZ. Over the past 25 years he’s been a partner of two international trading firms, a yoga teacher, national spiritual seminar leader, poet, musician and is the author of the book -“Listening to The Sun”. |
He can be contacted at tobiaslars@soulcounseling.com or www.sedonasoulCounseling.com & www.SpiriTravel.com Copyright © 2008 Tobias Lars Jonsson
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