Ya'll I am so sick I can't even think of my own illness related title, I had to steal that one from Cynthia Heimel. I am feeling better though and wanted to send you a few thoughts on 2011. This is going to be an interesting year… An interesting next few years in fact, but certainly not all bad.

The biggest cautions I have received about 2011 are about the economy and housing. I have been predicting a second dip for the economy in 2011, but this is not the Big One! Don't panic, sell low and move into a yurt, unless you really want to. The stock market will bounce back from this one.

The housing market hasn't bottomed out yet.

Birth rates are going to be high this year, there are a lot of souls who want in on the coming changes. These are going to be highly sensitive and psychic souls, I wish all of their parents a hearty GOOD LUCK!

Grow your own! Food and water issues, safety and reliability, will be growing in the coming years. The more control you can have over what you eat and drink the better off you will be! Now is the time to learn to garden and cook, if you wait for a disaster to start your garden, or begin preserving, or raising livestock (Chickens!) you will have waited too long. The garden catalogues have already started to arrive and I'm already disappearing into next year's garden.

Forget about resolutions! Set a few goals for the next year and then just do the work.  I'm working on mine right now and ruminating on the ones I missed in 2010.  A good plan, and one of my ongoing ones, is to be just a bit more healthy every day. No huge changes or impossible goals, just get a bit of exercise, stretch, meditate, don't eat anything that makes you feel awful, and go play outside. One of the most common recommendations I get in my readings is "Go play outside." It helps you get grounded, improves your mood, and makes you feel alive!

What I keep getting over and over in my readings and dreams is that this is the time to do the work and prepare for the coming changes. The future is not set in stone and our actions and attitudes can alter the path of History.

It is up to us as Light Workers to do the hard work of bringing light to the world and carrying light with us and within us as we walk in dark places. I know it can feel impossible some days, I get bleak and moody myself, but those are the times to go play outside, talk to a friend, or get on the yoga mat and work it out.

Day to day life is what brings us up and gets us down, but what matters is for us to do the work and change the World.

"When individuals have taken thought of others they have kept the world intact. Where there were ten just persons, even, many a city, many a nation, has been saved from destruction." Cayce 3976-11 Report*

*You can gain access to all the Edgar Cayce Readings and reports as well as all sorts of other cool stuff by joining the A.R.E. for as little as $30 per year. Well worth it.

Ok ya'll, I don't get political in this space very often, but please get out and vote this year.  Vote for the libraries, vote for the schools, vote for the firemen so they can keep putting out those nice calendars and vote for candidates you believe in.  If you hate everyone running in your local election, write in the Dali Lama or Elvis or Bugs Bunny.  I know it sounds crazy, but even writing in a candidate helps improve the system.  When there is a small voter turnout it allows the candidates and pundits to ignore the bigger picture and issues of the nation and focus on the smaller issues that divide and anger us.  If even 75% of the nation voted in an election, any election, it would be a game changer and the game needs to be changed.

On a lighter note, imagine what would happen if thousands of people wrote in Bugs Bunny.  Can't you just imagine Christine O'Donnell in a bunny suite telling us she's not a witch, she's just like Bugs?

Even though I no longer make massage oils and beauty products I still get recipes and recommendations in my readings and I have started posting them over at BlueDragonBeauty.com  You can find recipes for massage oils, and in the coming months I will be adding some old favorites from Blue Dragon Beauty as well as links to some of the great products I've been using.

It's been a beautiful fall here in Youngstown and I have been traveling around to fairs, giving readings and lecturing.  November will continue to be a busy month and I look forward to seeing you when I'm out on the road.

If you miss me when I'm out on the road you can always book a phone reading or arrange a class in your area at JohnMichaelThornton.com

Take care, stay warm, and vote.
John Michael Thornton

My Long Awaited Meditation CD is finally here and available for sale online and at select retail locations.  It came out Awsome and I am so excfited to be able to share this with all of you!

 

 

Walking the Sacred Stair - a Chakra Meditation for Guidance

 

It's taken me a few weeks to get my thoughts in order about my first Psychic Intensive Workshop "Your Spiritual Toolkit."  For the longest time I just wanted to say, "OMG they were Awesome!  Great class!"  But I realize that is less than helpful or descriptive.

They were a fantastic first class and I feel incredibly blessed that I could work with this group of people.  I am doubly blessed that my first psychic development class went so very well. 

Planning a six-week class in northeastern Ohio in January is a gamble, but I've had great success with January classes and Spirit said unto me, "Why are you stalling?"  So I ignored my inner Saboteur and scheduled the class.  We only had to reschedule once for weather - which was great considering I had people driving nearly an hour each way.

I knew what I needed to cover the first three weeks, but I felt the need to keep the last three sessions loose and unscheduled so we could work with the needs and talents of the class.  That's also why I insisted everyone receive a reading before the first class; I wanted to make sure we would cover what was needed.

The first night everyone gave a reading and everyone got a reading – no fooling around, right into the deep end for my students.  Let me stress this again, Everyone gave a reading that first night.  After that, it was all about theory, practice, and technique – everyone gave a reading that first night.

Over the six classes we talked to our spirit guides, looked at auras, felt chakras, saw the future, talked about the past, waltzed, laughed, and had innumerable lectures on ethics and technique.  Every night I felt we could have talked long into the morning. 

One thing I stressed over and over, there is no set path – so we worked with all sorts of techniques.  No specialization in my class.  We are energy beings in mortal shells and while we will all have specialties we can all be general practitioners.  That is what I want to teach, how to be a GP of the psychic realm.  If you need a specialist, you can call one in, but all of my students learn the basics of every type of psychic work I can think of and fit into six nights.

The realm of metaphysics and psychic development is huge.  No one can know everything and there is infinite space for specialists, but there is always a need for the generalist.  The reader who has enough knowledge and confidence to cover most issues and send clients to a specialist when needed.

I told Spirit I wanted to teach a class on how to be a psychic and I was given that and so much more.  I feel so incredibly proud of what I know these eight people are going to bring to the world, because I know each of them has learned the most important lesion of the class – they can do the work.

The first night, after every single one of them had given a reading, I had a few students giving the woe and sadness routine that they didn't feel 100% the first time out and I said:  The western world, science, and mainstream America says what you just did is impossible.  No one can see the future, or read minds, or see illness, or be psychic.  You just did the impossible.  You did the amazing and Never let anyone tell you otherwise.  You did the impossible.  Amazing.

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I am so ready to teach the next class.  I wanted to start another session the very next day, but it's taken me a few weeks to get my thoughts together.  I am now looking for those interested in the next session and I'm trying to decide when we will have it.  Wednesday nights were ok, but I know some people who couldn't do the weeknight.  E-mail or call me if you are interested and when you will be available.

This next session will be recorded with the recordings available only to that classes students, but the transcripts will be incorporated into the next manual.  As the class is still developing, second session will only be $200 for six weeks.

Do something impossible every day – be a psychic!

To register for the next session, and to register your preference for when it will be, e-mail or call me today.  Next session will start in May!

Note:  I seem to have forgotten to take a class picture or anything like that so we have nature pictures instead.