Over 12 years ago I first started reading the book called Urantia and attended several study groups so I could ask questions and attempt to understand where the book came from, why it was written, by whom, and why more people weren’t reading it? One of the answers that had meaning to me was that it matters not why or who the book was written by but rather how I felt about reading it? and what impact the message would have on me?
Without having read a single page of the Urantia for over 8 years I can say still that it’s amongst the most profoundly effecting things that I’ve ever read, it’s so profound that most people who read it feel no compulsion to promote it afterwards, rather just let new readers find it when they’re meant to.
Author: Aaron
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Mind Altering
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Body of Evidence
My writing assignment today is to write something suitable for this Blog’s category “body” and since I’m not feeling inclined to write about my own body, which is getting fitter but fatter, I’ll save that for another article. So I ran a search in Yahoo News of the word “health” and read a round-up of the days news stories related to health. The 2 stories which were news-worthy to me, and relevant to “body” were about Bird-Flu reaching Canada and another article about substance abuse and painkillers in USA.
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Embu das Artes
Rarely I travel in Sao Paulo alone and usually never more than I have to but there’s a place about 45 minutes from my home that I thoroughly enjoy visiting. It’s a little town called Embu das Artes or just plain Embu. We have some good friends living there and they have a house on a 5 acre lot, both of which are prime but the combination is nothing short of exceptional. Getting to the house is challenging because of the many very poor neighborhoods I need to drive across on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, however the destination is worth the risk.
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Invest Offshore
Today marks the beginning of a new project, as an affiliate to the world’s largest Independent Financial Advisory group, specializing in the offshore marketplace and operating in more than 30 countries around the globe. The website Invest Offshore has been slated for a re-design and now with the distinct purpose of promoting information for and about investing offshore with deVere & Partners.
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Sovereign Lifestyle Guide
Since the early 90’s I’ve been involved in publishing information about offshore banking and investing. In 1995 I attended my first major conference of offshore service providers, at the El San Juan Hotel in San Juan Puerto Rico. In attendance there were experts from almost every Caribbean Country, as most of these countries offer no-tax, or very low-tax investing and banking to foreigners that use the financial services of these so-called “tax havens”.
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The Four Agreements
The Four Agreements:
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
(A Toltec Wisdom Book)
The four agreements are these:- Be impeccable with your word.
- Don’t take anything personally.
- Don’t make assumptions.
- Always do your best.
It’s the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering.
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Open Source Web Design
Looking for a new design or some great design ideas? check out the largest resource of free, easy to download web design templates on the Net. It’s known as OSWD.org, which stands for “Open Source Web Design“. Often times the original designer requests that you leave a link back to them when you publish pages using their design, however since these designs are “open source” you’re free to modify, edit or improve upon the design but in all fairness it’s not a good idea to attempt to sell them to others.
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Cyber Estate Developer
Silicon Palms was incorporated in Florida on 9.9.99 and has always been the culmination of my desire to become financially independent from the proceeds of web design, development, and marketing. My first company OffshoreNet was the precursor of the dream but the company name was misleading and stereotyped me too much. To this day OffshoreNet is one of my favorite projects and a component of the Silicon Palms cyber estate developer network.
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Soul of U2
Today I came across a brilliant article by a columnist in UPI, about U2 by a writer named Margaret Benefiel. She’s promoting a new book called Soul at Work and also has an interesting website called Executive Soul. I’m going to share an excerpt from the article that caught my eye and then I’m going to post a description of her new book and I highly suggest checking out the work of Margaret Benefiel, I know I will.
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Brazilian Patriots
With only a few days left till the first match of the World Cup the excitement is building and the flags are being hoisted, pasted, adorned and displayed on cars, houses, businesses,buildings and people. Of the previous 2 World Cups, both times I was living in South Florida where there are over 100,000 Brazilians living and making presence known during the largest sporting event in the world but nothing compares to being in the country for this historic event, although the craziest sports fans in the world will be out in force in Germany.