SPIRIT OF THE GRAPE

Posted on Sep 27, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Reflections, Sacred mysteries, Vineyards, Wine Shaman | 0 comments Have you ever wondered why the grape is the only fruit that gives us elixirs so heavenly they are called divine? Why not kiwi or pineapple, apple or date wines? What is so unique about the grape that it has had a cult like following since ancient times? The grape and wine share a history with civilization that may seem coincidental, but is it? Wine has had a place in our history almost as long...
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DNA – the Mystic Ladder

Posted on Sep 24, 2011 in Art and Science, Blog, Cellular shaman, Featured, Sacred mysteries, Spirituality | 0 comments We are not our DNA but without it we wouldn’t exist.   Each set of instructions that tell our cells which proteins to construct is embedded in a 3-lettered code held within the strands of our DNA. Those spiral strands of DNA in one person’s cells, if unwound and stretched out, would measure 123 billion miles long. One person’s genetic information is 123 billion miles long and could...
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Beyond the French Paradox

Posted on Sep 21, 2011 in Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Health, Wine, Wine Shaman | 0 comments The better cardiovascular health among the French people compared to Americans has been a puzzle. Even though the French eat a lot more saturated fat (meat, cheese, butter), smoke more, and exercise less, the French have forty percent fewer heart attacks. Initially, drinking red wine was seen as the principal difference. Though a daily glass of wine is an indispensable part of French and...
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Acknowledging

Posted on Sep 20, 2011 in Blog, Books, Reflections, Secrets of Your Cells | 0 comments When I began writing the acknowledgement page for my new book, it was easy to think of the people I immediately wanted to acknowledge and give thanks to – my kids, my good friends, my obvious teachers, my editor and publisher.   After the first draft, more names came to me – the scientists who laid the groundwork for what I was doing and even my high school chemistry teacher who...
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Secrets of Your Cells: Love

Posted on Sep 12, 2011 in Blog, Cellular Intelligence, Cellular shaman, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells | 0 comments If there were no internal propensity to unite… in the molecule itself it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us.  By rights… we should assume its presence… in everything that is… Teilhard de Chardin ~The Phenomenon of Man Just imagine that you are a single cell looking for another.  You connect, feel safe and merge membranes to become more than your...
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