Penney,
I'm reading E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful. In
the introduction, Theodore Roszak says something that made me
think right away of your teachings (all cap emphasis mine):
"For
more than two decades, Schumacher has been weaving his economics
out of this off-beat constellation of interests and commitments
and giving his ideas away from the platforms of peace, social
justice, do-good, and third world organizations all over Europe.
With few exceptions, the principal forums for his writing have
been those LITTLE, INTENSELY ALIVE, PATHFINDING journals (like
MANAS in America and Resurgence in England) which MORE THAN
MAKE UP FOR THEIR LIMITED AUDIENCE BY BEING TEN YEARS AHEAD
OF THE FIELD IN THE QUALITY OF THEIR THOUGHT."
In
my observation, this is what you are doing vs. some of the "mass
appeal" teachers publishing for larger audiences. Thank
you.
—Colleen
Cayes, President
www.HealthyBuildingsMadeEasy.com
Santa Fe, NM
My
dear Penney,
I'm so glad if you can understand my English, (I speak only
Italian and Romanian languages, but now I start to learn English,
please forgive my mistakes) because I want to tell you how important
for me it is the moment when I found the answers to important
questions; you give me a possibility to live like a free person,
no past, no future, it is only the present moment, this magic
moment. I was studying for years, I had a great desire to understand
who I am, why I am born, what it is purpose of my life. I'm
like a chameleon of your book — I felt emotions, thoughts
of the friends, parents. And now, thanks to your book, I'm start
to work with me! To stay in me with me. For this gift I tell
you thank you! I know I have work to do, but you gave me a key.
I find my soul, my body and my mind; how wonderful it is!
— DM, Italy
Penney,
I must say alot has been shifting in my life recently. I went
to a women's wellness conference and upon coming home, realized
that the term psychic hadn't fit me for awhile (I've been doing
readings for about 30 years now) and "intuitive" flowed
into my consciousness, and I felt the burning need to explore
and found you on the internet. Since then, I HAD to have The
Intuitive Way and have been savoring and processing at
a deeper level than I have experienced so far. Since then a
pet project of mine is about to take off and daily shifts are
occurring.
I
got a kick out of your email when you were talking about how
your work had slowed down, but the process is becoming so profound
for both yourself and your clients... I had gone through a dry
time readings-wise, and as much as I didn't want to take it
personally, I was wondering what was going on, and then I realized
I was crying for a rest, and lo and behold I got it, and then
I was whining because I wasn't working enough. So now, in the
process of reading your book, I am paying more attention to
what I am creating every day. In all the reading with both your
book and website, one thing that feels right is that with all
the "high falooting" and "bait-and-switch"
I have seen out there, I know the "real deal" when
I feel it and I want to thank you for your slant and the truth
you are sharing with the world.
—Raven Merrill
www.ravenstar.com
South Paris, ME
Dear
Miss Peirce,
I am a man of the age of 23. I live in Holland and study communication
at the high school in the Haqeu. I have a deeply interest for
intuition and I want to know how to use it effectively. I have
read your book "The way to inner wisdom" twice and
I am very impressed how you explain to use intuition in a proper
way. I admire you for your skills and have respect for what
you are doing to help people like me. I try to do different
exercises every week. The reason that I sent you this email
is probably because I have listen to my inner voice. Best regards,
—RC, Holland
I
am not an intuitive, although I have finally learned to listen
to my self. My self has lately been with me and afraid for the
world and her future. Your recent newsletter, when it spoke
of the dark feminine and the great shifting, I too feel it emerging.
As a woman, I believe it will be up to the most courageous of
us to bring peace after this great shift has settled. Thank
you for your peaceful words and prayers.
—Vanessa
Hi,
Penney—
I found your articles at a time when my paradigm as a very conservative
Christian minister was just beginning to crack. And what I found
was very helpful, very reassuring, and made a lot of sense. A
lot more than the party line of fear coming from the church. I
want to thank you for the work you have placed before us to teach
and inspire. I enjoyed your blog, too. There is so much good material
to read, and yours is among the good stuff, the interesting stuff.
I could get a lot of reading and no work done very easily...
I have just created (I've been a professional cartoonist for
over 20 years) a new web-based metaphysical comic strip, called
Sacred Cows. It deals with the movement of consciousness as
our planet is changing, and the dynamics of that change. I just
wanted to share it with you by way of thanks. If I can give
you back a few smiles in return for the gift your work was to
me when I needed it, I will be very pleased.
—SpiritPainter
www.sacredcowsonline.com
Hi
Penney,
I always love to receive your wisdom letter but this one was
priceless. All of these feelings/thoughts/experiences that I've
been having all spelled out in one place with such clarity of
thought! Thank you so much for your wonderful giving self. Love
and gratitude,
— Judy
Penney,
Thank you. I had meant to write you a thank you note for how inspiring
your web site is. I lost 4 people close to me in various forms,
including my Mom which was extremely difficult, between November
and January. On January 18, I was swept up in a wind storm and
two angels came to my side and prevented me from being hit by
a car. The surrender and trust I gave them was at a level I have
never known in my life. So my journey at present is to come into
that level of intuition and trust you can find in your hips and
pelvis, which is where I had the greatest injury. To heal all
this will teach me trust. I think for now, I see butterflies as
symbol of creation of beauty and awakening that is an opening
that so many want in their lives right now.
To
add to this, Dana Reeves recently passed away of lung cancer.
This represents a real turning point for me. When asked at the
beginning of her illness how she found hope, she stated simply,
"I had a husband who never gave up hope." When I freeze
myself from progress, I think of Christopher Reeve and this quote
of his, which is in my draft book:
"You know what's interesting to me is that being
physically paralyzed for eight years, I get pretty impatient when
people are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons,
and I'm going, 'Come on, come on, go for it.' …It took being
in a chair to realize that. And so my recommendation is don't
break your neck to find out that you need to fulfill your potential."
Penney, bless you and your writing.
—Lavinia
Weissman
www.workecology.com/redesign2
Dear
Penney,
Thanks for your newsletter highlights. Extremely interesting.
The effects of technology are so apparent—people more isolated
from their own feelings and communities, becoming less civil,
more rude and frustrated. One never speaks to a real person on
the phone due to electronic menues, nobody returns messages, etc.
I have lost at least five close or old friends since November
of 2005, so I found your comment quite fascinating and wonder
why? The most recent death was that of my dear old musician friend,
Hamza El Din, perhaps you knew his music? Hope your work goes
well and that life is fulfilling.
—Tamara
Hill,
San Francisco, CA
http://tamarahillstudio.com/home.htm
exotic jewelry/photography
Penney,
When I went to your website I was called to read your blog section
(I've never read blogs before). I was so moved by the readings.
Thank you for your contribution to our wild & what at times
seem like a crazy world we live in. I've been in a bit of a low
grade depression and have needed lots of alone time lately. Your
thoughts reminded me that I'm not alone and even these low grade
feelings can hold value. God bless you for your depth, wisdom
and insights.
With much appreciation,
—Cheryl Oed, Baltimore, MD
Feng Shui Consultant, Instructor, Speaker
www.TouchAlchemy.com
Dear
Penney:
I bought The Intuitive Way four years ago and it still
proves to be the absolute best book on intuitive practice I have
read. Period. You also inspired me to leave the corporate world
and openly pursue my passion—to be a practicing intuitive.
Receive
my blessing and gratitude, as the message in your editorial
on "Soul-Crafting" was sent an hour before I experienced
a surrender of life-proportionate magnitude while vacationing
in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The article is absolutely
appropriate to what I was and am walking through. Again, I invite
you to step into the blessing that I have created for you. I
do a lot of reading and studying. I still find that you are
the most gifted and rich practitioner and author in your content
that I have come across. Thank you.
—Mary R. Schechter, PhD
Principal, Next Step Consultants
www.lifeworknow.com
Penney,
As always, you pick up on the "global mind/heart." Your
newsletter was so right on for what has been going on in my life
that I cannot believe it. My mom died on June 1st. The same night
my mom passed away my oldest and last uncle passed away. He died
30 minutes after mom and in a different hospital but the same
town. Earlier this year in February my mother in law died after
a long struggle with bone cancer. At the end of June the wife
of my cousin died after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. In my
office of about 30 people 7 of us have lost parents or close family
members in the last 6 months. I feel completely empty and full
at the same time.
I
have been talking to my mother lately and asked her what it's
like in heaven. She said it is the "peaceful state of connectedness
with all things." It's like never having to want anything
because everything is already there. Never needing anything
and never feeling separated from God/Universe/Creation. When
I tell her how much I miss her she says she is closer to me
now than ever because she is part of my cellular structure now
and all I ever have to do is just ask her anything. She lives
inside me now.
I know that the Universe is bringing us to this place of an
exponential increase to our heart chakra because it's the only
way to the Light. Whew. Thank you so much for all you do to
bring clarity to all of us and to the world. It is so reassuring
to actually revel in the synchronicities of being.
—Jan Edgerton
San Jose, CA
Dear
Penney,
I just read your 12th issue of Visionary Times, about soul-crafting.
It was eerie as I read about you and John—his life seemed
so much like mine. I too was fired by passions of bringing changes
in many areas of our living—our disconnection with nature,
education system and child-rearing, the way we sleep-walk through
life, ignoring our gifts. . . But recently, I am feeling that
my passions need to, and are, changing to com-passion. That there
is nothing needed to be done to change; everything is perfect.
All that is required is to love, to create a space of love around
and in our lives. And that's what I want to do. Why waste time
showing people their weaknesses and THEN showing them how great
they really are, when the same thing can be achieved by just loving
them and creating a safe space of love around all of us?!
And yet, life is becoming more difficult—not only challenging.
There is so much pain that seems to come from no particular place
or particular reason. And it pulls me into my old patterns of
thinking/habits/behaviours (here, John was far ahead than me)
and I lose that sense of connection and oneness. But, I see (thanks
also to this message from you) that things are moving—whether
I sense it or not. Like you (both), I had this sense that spirituality
was so joyful an experience. I would experience such bliss when
I somehow touched that essence of our connectedness, oneness.
And now, I thirst for such experiences—and there are none.
It's just pure pain and struggle and suffering. And yet, I sense
something inside has become so large that I can't even get a handle
on it. Sometimes it seems so foreign and 'not-me.' Probably, like
John said, I may be INSIDE the spirituality, one with it. I would
like to believe that.
Sometimes I feel I could just go back to my old ways of blind-living.
But I know: this is a one-way street. And the progress will happen
with or without my co-operation. I know, you will understand this,
and me, completely. Love—beyond
any definition we know as humans,
—Biren
Shah,
India
Hi
Penney,
It is so good to hear from you again, to feel your energy and
experience your gift of writing. You express yourself so beautifully.
Your picture on the newsletter radiates the peace and abundance
you must feel in your life—you appear gentle and innocent
as a child with the shining glory of a true goddess. Congratulations!
I am experiencing letting go of the past and marching forward
into the next phase of my life with great confidence and gratitude—in
a way I could never have imagined for a woman who has just turned
60. There is absolutely no glass ceiling, and there are many
opportunities to leverage my age, wisdom and experience into
the powerful global changing times. Whew! We are on the crest
of massive change at every level. This is the time to be centered
within yourself so that you can maintain your balance as you
navigate the unsheltered territory that is unfolding every day.
As the dinosaurs became obsolete, so is conventional wisdom.
The collaborative greed has created an empire of irresponsibility
that has betrayed our very souls. We have become victims of
our own agreement to accept the propaganda we have been fed.
Our moral compass has been broken, and we are suffering as a
result. We have lost the ability to trust our own judgment because
we have turned to technology to find the answers for us. Power
vs. leadership, ownership vs. relationship. The roar of mother
nature will determine who is resourceful, who is creative and
innovative in their thinking.
So my friend, your work is necessary and very timely for us
all. We need your grounding to give us wings. May happiness,
like the beauty of nature surround you always.
—Schuyler
Morgan, Principal
www.takugroup.com
Achieving Sustainable Global Wellness
