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Born and raised in Michigan, I knew the move to Phoenix would bring profound changes to my life. Accustomed my whole life to a state with beautiful lakes and lush landscapes, I learned to live with the native insects and wondered about the types of critter life I'd find in the southwest desert.

Many of us wonder why tragedies happen. Lately the question has been asked much more frequently due to the earthquakes, tsunamis, and wars occurring all over the world.

The energy of change is upon us. So much has occurred in recent times, yet in many ways things look very much the same. It's as if we are looking through the corners of our eyes and can see glimpses from the past as well as what is to come, snapshots into the future.

In response to the question of how long a man's legs should be, Abraham Lincoln reportedly answered, "Long enough to reach the ground."

Spring is on the way. With seemingly everything else falling away from life as we have known it, there is a deep and gratifying sense of relief within me that I can still sense and feel the stirring of new life emerging after a long, cold, dark winter here in the Northern Hemisphere.

In April 2005 I first traveled to the town of Visoko, twenty miles northwest from Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. My attention was caught by two regularly shaped hills, which I later named the Bosnian Pyramids of the Sun and Moon.

Since it is true that we were taught to face reality before we were taught that we create reality, it is also true that we were taught that a vortex exists as something outside of ourselves before we were taught that it is something that exists within us as well.

Who is your higher self? You thought you were your only self. How many selves do you have? Your higher self is who you really are; it is how you came into the world. It is called by many names—spirit, soul, consciousness, and so on—but it's who you are.

Lyman Frank Baum wrote many books, the most popular and endearing of which we all know as The Wizard of Oz.