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Dear Friends,

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WHAT’S NEW? Dealing with purchasing a car! This month my car lease was over and I had to go car shopping. This was the first time I leased and honestly – I didn’t enjoy it. I’ve been thinking a lot about our spending habits in general, and I couldn’t justify having a car for 3 years and then giving it back. My last car I drove for 11 years – and I think I received my money’s worth from it! I imagine there are accounting reasons that might make it better to lease – but are those reasons ones that benefit our planet, or just our taxes? I don’t have an answer to that, but I do have questions.

In addition, it turns out that my new car is made in Europe with a clean diesel engine that gets 50 mpg! Yet in the USA, I can only purchase this car with a gas engine that receives 30 mpg. What is going on in this country?! In light of Earth Day, I’m curious what you think about all this – do post a comment at the bottom of the newsletter!

~TIME TO REGISTER FOR:~

SANTA FE, NM: Healthy, Spiritual & Conscious Relationships – June 17-22nd
Sign up by May 15th – the price is going up!

NORTH DAKOTA: Vision Quest into the Badlands – July 2-12th

KENYA, AFRICA: A Woman’s Safari for the Mind, Body & Spirit! – Oct 3-15th REGISTER EARLY!

Need a special trip for you or your family? Let Ales in Custom Travel design something for you!

Blessings and love, Sheri Rosenthal Connect with me: Email | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter

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OUR FEATURED JOURNEY/RETREAT:

SANTA FE, NM: Healthy, Spiritual & Conscious Relationships – June 17-22nd

  • Create healthy, nourishing human connections and conscious partnerships!
  • Move past the blocks and limitations preventing you from having the juiciest relationships!
  • Put the concepts from The Mastery of Love into action in your life!
  • Explore Santa Fe, one of the most culturally interesting, artistically diverse, and spiritually heart-felt destinations!

Santa Fe Spiritual Retreat

Join author Sheri Rosenthal as she shares how every relationship is an artistic co-creation based on the level of integrity each person is operating from. If we come filled with love and the desire to give generously, unconditionally and openly – magic unfolds. If we come from the energy of lack and need, hoping that someone is going to complete us or love what we dislike most in ourselves – suffering is inevitable. When our relationship with our SELF is healthy, filled with self-acceptance and self-esteem, this creates a solid foundation for any relationship to flourish. Trip cost: $1125.00 USD per person double occupancy (early-bird special!).
Sign-up by May 1st – the trip price is going up to $1295.00!! Details for Santa Fe here!
If you haven’t been to Santa Fe, watch the video on the right! –>

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EVENTS & WORKSHOPS

OUR UPCOMING FREE TELECLASSES!

Want to go Deeper into Yeshua’s Original Aramaic Teachings?

♥Join Dale Allen Hoffman and I – Thurs, May 12th at 8:30 pm eastern, 5:30 pacific time (he’s the facilitator for our Sedona – Sept 22-27th) retreat.

We’ll be chatting about: 5 Keys to Awakening the Aramaic Breath of Life Within! and the 3 vital relationship keys that can transform your greatest “sticking points” and challenges into spiritual strengths. He will also chat about what he will be sharing on his upcoming retreat! Sign up NOW!

Dale is considered by many to be one of the world’s leading authorities on the direct, practical application of the ancient Aramaic teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) and how we can utilize these insights to radically transform our spiritual awareness almost instantaneously.

Calling all Wild Women & World Explorers!

♥Join Melinda Johnson and I – Tuesday, May 24th at 8:30 pm eastern, 5:30 pacific time (we are both facilitating the Kenya – Oct 3-15th) retreat.

Ladies, we’ll be chatting about: Discovering Your Integrity, Purpose, Peace, & Passion! and what are the necessary tools and perspectives we need to to step ahead in our lives fully in our feminine power.  We’ll also be sharing what will be happening on their upcoming retreat! Sign up NOW!

Together Sheri and Melinda will share important information on how to step back and look at your life with new eyes so you can identify what aspects are not aligning with your integrity so you can start in a new direction – one filled with passion and light which follows your greater purpose. Truly we have the most joy in life when we know we are leading meaningful, stress-free, inspired lives.

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FEATURED ARTICLE

The Secret Life of the Spiritual Rebel

Recently I had an experience that almost every one of us has had to deal with – having one’s email account hacked.  My luck, it happened while I was out and unaware, so by the end of the day every human I know received a wonderful link from me to a Viagra website – complements of someone who I imagine has too much time on their hands!

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The whole event in and of itself was no big deal, and I set out to apologize to as many people as I could (sorry if you were one of those folks!). However, what surprised me was the number of extremely nasty notes from people. Not from the people I know well – they realized what had happened and that I would never do such a thing knowingly. But my email account is filled with hundreds of people who have written me for advice over the years, or to comment about one of my books, or simply to vent something stressful in their lives  – who do not know me well.

The largest number of folks in my email account have come to me through my connection to don Miguel Ruiz having read and enjoyed The Four Agreements. So I know that they are aware of the First Agreement: Be Impeccable With Your Word, and the Second Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally. But that doesn’t mean anything – what we say we believe and how we actually translate those beliefs into our lives is a totally different story.

No matter what path you study, it’s one thing to resonate with your spiritual teachings and another thing to put them in into practice. It’s amazing how often people will recite The Four Agreements and then justify with all their personal power why they have the right to be angry, curse, project onto others, and be disrespectful. That’s when the spiritual teachings are great in theory but somehow don’t apply to “their life or situation.”

So it was for the people who felt it was acceptable to curse at me and send me flaming emails for something I never perpetrated upon them. And even if I did – there is still no reason to take anything personally. Either you believe this agreement is truth and will bring you happiness or you don’t – but you cannot agree with it when it suits you and then not agree with it when you feel like being pissed off!

That’s what I call the secret life of the spiritual rebel. It’s the person who looks all nice and spiritual on the outside but is still justifying their right to live as a victim, still secretly enjoying their righteous indignation, and still exercising their ability to blame others.

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Truly I understand – I was one of those people too in the past. I loved to share all the wonderful new ideas I was learning on my spiritual path – but look at me the wrong way – and forgiveness, compassion and not taking you personally were out of sight and out of mind faster than you could blink.

Having been a spiritual rebel myself, I can say with all my heart that there is no excuse for treating others in a less than godly way. It doesn’t matter what happened, what the story was or the outcome, how hurt you were, or inconvenienced – there is no excuse, period. There is understanding: yes, unconditional love: yes, forgiveness: yes, but condoning – no.

So today I challenge you to look deeply inside and see if a spiritual rebel exists within you. Ask yourself if you justify falling back on old ways when you think you have been wronged. Do you allow all your spiritual truths to fly out the window in the need to be right? I’m curious what you think. Do post below and let me know what comes to mind!

With all my love & best wishes, Sheri
Picture of woman complements of Amy Elyse & Picture of hands complements of Todd Baker
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OUR MENU OF UPCOMING FABULOUS ADVENTURES!

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR EARLY BIRD SPECIALS!

~GENTLE JUNE JOURNEYS~

SANTA FE, NM: Healthy, Spiritual & Conscious Relationships
Trip Leader: Sheri Rosenthal
June 17-22nd, 2011 (price goes up May 1st!)

~GLORIOUS JULY JAUNTS~

NORTH DAKOTA: Vision Quest into the Badlands
Trip Leader: Samvedam Randles
July 2-14th, 2011

~AUDACIOUS AUGUST ADVENTURES~

PERU & MACHU PICCHU: Spiritual Mysteries of the Incas
Trip Leader: Romulo Castilla & Carrie Plocher
August 17-29th, 2011 (price goes up June 1st!)

~SOUL-STIRRING SEPTEMBER SOJOURNS~

ZION NATIONAL PARK: Art & Spirit Painting Retreat
Trip Leader: Linda Jacobson
Sept 14-18th, 2011 (price goes up July 1st!)

HAVASUPAI FALLS GRAND CANYON: Living Fearlessly
Trip Leader: Sheri Rosenthal
Sept 20-26th, 2011 (price goes up July 1st!)

SEDONA: The Aramaic Breath of Life: Awakening in the Desert
Trip Leader: Dale Allen Hoffman
Sept 22-27th, 2011 (price goes up July 1st!)

DOLORES, CO: Revolution! Intuitive Awareness & Communication Retreat
Trip Leader: Kathy Knowles & Joy Valenti Kochmer
Sept 24-28th, 2011 (price goes up June 21st!)

TEPOZTLÁN, MEXICO: Creating Divine Partnerships 
Trip Leaders: Greg & Tamara Montana
September 24-30th (price goes up July 1st!)

~BOLD OCTOBER EXPEDITIONS~

KENYA, AFRICA: A Woman’s Safari for the Mind, Body & Spirit! REGISTER EARLY!
Trip Leader: Sheri Rosenthal & Melinda Johnson
Oct 3-15th, 2011 (price goes up June 1st!)

PERU & MACHU PICCHU: The Heart & Soul of Pachamama
Trip Leader: Carol Rydell & Romulo Castilla
October 13-23rd – Lake Titicaca extension Oct 23-25th (price goes up Aug 1st!)

SANTORINI, GREECE: Inspire Your Creative Soul!
Trip Leader: Linda Jacobson
October 14-21st, 2011 (price goes up July 1st!)

DAY OF THE DEAD: Oaxaca Mexico: A Celebration of Life!
Trip Leader: Sheri Rosenthal
Oct 29th-Nov 6th, 2011 (price goes up Sept 1st!)

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