Photoshoot with Musician Denya LeVine

Denya LeVine is a Cape Cod musician and WOMR Deejay from The Fiddle and the Harp. She plays an eclectic mix of music including Klezmer, Celtic and The Beachboys. Denya's traveled extensively in the Middle East and Europe. She spent time living in Afghanstan in the 1960s, a true troubadour.

Tick Larvae May Carry Illness

Tick larvae which are about half the size of a period, may carry an illness more severe than Lyme disease, but which is caused by a similar bacterium. The medical community is still divided on the existence of chronic Lyme. Chronic Lyme is characterized by bouts of fatigue, fever, stiffness, and joint pain. The rare few have experienced severe Lupus-like or Alzheimer's-like symptoms. You can read the article on borrelia-miyamotoi here.. We shouldn't all go around worrying about things we can barely control, but misting ourselves with lemongrass, lavender, or cedarwood essential oils and drinking astragalus tea can't hurt. A friend of mine has a theory that astragalus prevents the transmission of Lyme. It's just a wild theory I won't try to explain. Astragalus pieces are used in Chinese cooking to flavor rice. It's woodsy and very mild.

"Known symptoms of miyamotoi infection include neurological disease, disorientation and memory loss as well as loss of appetite and loss of coordination."

With the rise in tick populations we have also been seeing a rise in Alzheimer's diagnoses. That in itself doesn't mean much at all, but read about their correlation from a leading pathologist. Article Here.

Pandora's Jukebox Sunday Night

Tune in tomorrow night from 9pm to midnight for Pandora's Jukebox on WOMR, where I'll be spinning such unlikely combinations as Mae West and The Pet Shop Boys. We will venture into the mouth of the beast with Devo, tightrope walk the line of good taste with a tune from The Frogs and zoom around in a clown car with Abba in addition to the usually intergalactic madness.

White Noise and Vintage Noise

Had an epic dream about tracking down and interviewing author Don DeLillo who was mooonlighting as a preacher and patiently building a model village of Victorian England on the edge of a swampland, shingle by shingle.

Looky what I found: Steppenwolf Does DeLillo

Look what else I found: me and some others at the Provincetown International Film Festival's HBO Audience Awards suffering from Saki's bad audio and a whole second delay.

VINTAGE TROUBLE is coming to Provincetown Town Hall, Friday July 11th in a benefit for WOMR! Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents opening! ALL info and tickets right here: http://womr.org/vintage-trouble/! Don't miss it! As seen on Letterman, The Tonight Show, and on stages at sold out stadiums.

Lots of great angel work this week, bunches of transcripts to type up, teas to make, protocols to deliver, but this weekend I gotta write, bitch, write. As much as I love working for the people, I also must fulfill my dream to live in a symbiotic harmony with the Universal Intelligence...or it will cannibalize me I'm quite certain.

Shaman author Serge Kahili King, PHD on Healing Wisdom

My interview with shaman author Serge Kahili King, Ph.D. airs tomorrow morning at 9am EST. He talks with me about his work, from organizing community aid projects in Senegal to the philosophy behind the Hawaiian healing tradition. Serge Kahili King has published the world's largest selection of books and tapes on Huna, the Polynesian philosophy and practice of effective living, and on the spirit of Aloha, the attitude of love and peace for which the Hawaiian Islands are so famous. He shares extensively on Hawaiian culture through his fiction, nonfiction, his audio tapes, and his articles. Tune in to WOMR 92.1 fm Provincetown, WFMR 91.3 fm Orleans or streaming globally at http://womr.org!

In the next several months, we have Joan Rivers, John Waters, David Sedaris AND Amy Goodman doing benefits for Cape Cod's Outermost Radio WOMR! Pretty freaking amazing. I love these people. And honestly, I'd love to do dueling Billie Holiday impressions with David Sedaris. We shall see, we shall see.

We're All Channeling the Phantom, We Just Don't Know it Yet

Ate the first wild strawberries of the season on a hike this morning with my beloved husband. Enjoyed our small son's first very cinéma vérité "film short" about cops and robbers, called, "Timothy Jepson and the Chase". Looking forward to channeling some family members who have passed on for my clients today. It's a week of readings, mind-body-spirit herbal consultations, a photoshoot with Cape Cod musician Denya LeVine, writing about the sacred feminine, and I'm topping it off with Pandora's Jukebox streaming online at womr.org this Sunday night from 9 to midnight. Another night of smokin' hot vinyl.

I'm a very happy woman. I enjoyed dancing at the closing party for the Provincetown International Film Festival. Happily, unknown forces of the universe and my subsequent pushiness allowed me to take a more active role in the evening, than as planned. Although, being an assistant is pretty dignified, more so with a French accent. Sadly, the background noise made it impossible for me to be an effective co-host. There was in fact a full second delay, between what was said in the mic and what was heard on the sound system. Couldn't hear what DJ Matty Dread was saying two feet away from me, let alone hear what I was saying. I found no sweet spot on the mic, and there was too much distortion. Makes me appreciate the sound clarity at The Station even more. Reverb is disorienting, but the delay is worse. I have dealt with bad reverb before in what I found to be more painful situations. Sound wise, this is what the ghosts of the Titanic must have felt like, when they discovered their instruments were harder to play underwater, and from a disembodied vantage point.

PIFF is such a wonderful festival, because it underscores documentaries, non-commercial enterprises, the work of female directors, and honors the spectrum of sexuality. Cape Cod has impressed me so much with its salt-of-the-earth attitude. There were also many gorgeous women and men there. Which was nice! Moving from Los Angeles, I've found it absolutely refreshing and emotionally cathartic on the deepest of levels. Should have been more schmoozey with all of the lovely folks kind folks, but in a way I'm a music geek who just loves to dance. Didn't even think to get one photo of me there. Perhaps, my extrasensory perception has its handicaps, because to me it seemed like everyone and their (dead) mother and spirit guide were there. Let's face it, gay spirit guides are even chattier. And, perhaps more significantly, I gotta dance! Another thing I can blame my father for. [Side note: (He left his PHD-in-Philosophy track at Oxford shortly after receiving his MS, even though his professors were EXCITED, ENTHUSIASTIC about him taking residence as professor there. Why, you ask? So he could pursue an education in ballet, of course! Gotta Dance! I could blame his first encounter with those crazy marijuana cigarettes, but I blame Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Please, someone teach me to tap dance, because most of the time I feel like a tap-dancing fool anyway.]

My Interview with Multiple Grammy Winner Sharon Isbin

Hear my interview with Multiple Grammy Award Winning guitarist Sharon Isbin here: Sharon!! She is the subject of a new documentary being screened at The Old School House WOMR's Davis Space this Friday at 2:15pm and at the Water's Edge Cinema on Sunday at 4:45pm in Provincetown as part of the Provincetown International Film Festival. Sharon Isbin: Troubadour is a one-hour documentary produced by Susan Dangel. The film includes appearances from Michelle Obama, Joan Baez, Steve Vai, Garrison Keillor, David Hyde Pierce, Janis Ian, Lesley Gore, and more, with Isbin’s performances showcased from international concert stages to the GRAMMYs and White House.

My interview with prolific author and eminent shaman Serge Kahili King, PHD, will air the following Thursday morning.

The Condor and the Eagle Will Again Fly Together

My husband and I wrote a screenplay about a guy who goes home to get his mom off prescription drugs. The first version was a bit epic with Big Pharma villains. It's essentially the origin stories of a shamanic superhero who begins to expose the shadowy underbellies of various institutions using indigenous wisdom and superpowers. (Yes, everything I write incorporates shamans, ancient prophecies, mythology, and indigenous people. Go figure.) Subsequent drafts were more romantic-comedy. It made it through some rounds of screenplay contests. Along the way we got helpful coverage, perhaps some of it was, unintentionally so. In any case, I get pangs of missing those characters unlike other ones in other screenplays we've written, because I so want to see my kids come to life. Most especially the girl, because she's a pet-psychic and orinthologist who is a predatory bird specialist at the zoo and cares for a very special condor. We're keeping the shaman spirit guide too, I don't care what the naysayers may think. These people might as well already exist in some parallel dimension somewhere, as far as I'm concerned. And even though we took out her beekeeping scene, she's a freaking beekeeper too, dammit. And an avid reader and her house is fucking nuts, like a bird hotel because she has to keep her avian clientele overnight for observation.

During our class meditation tonight (I like to do the guided meditation myself as I facilitate), I came away with some very interesting insights in the human psyche I think. Also, during my past life journey* tonight I was living inside other people's heads, kinda Being John Malkovich style. Holy shit! I thought. No wonder I have such strong telepathy with some people. What if that film resonated with so many people because it's a cosmic joke to our collective unconscious mind? Energy is never created or destroyed. What if the same amount of people have always been alive, we just had fewer bodies between us back then. Now as our global population has grown, we have a smaller slice of god consciousness (a fragment of understanding which needs to join forces to bring a raised awareness and vibration). Maybe this is why we've become so individuated and separate from a feeling of oneness, so much so that we've collectively lost our compassion and empathy to the point that we've nearly destroyed the earth.

For about ten years, I've toyed with the idea that maybe people shared souls in the past, meaning that two or three individual people in this life, may have inhabited one body with one higher self/over-soul. Maybe those three people weren't individuals, (like some creepy three headed beast), but their consciousness was just woven together? What if our current level of individuation is relatively new to human consciousness and human experience? What if at one time, we could FEEL everyone and THINK communicate with everyone no matter where they were in the world? Could this account for simultaneous art work and inventions created by isolated tribes in early history? It certainly would be helpful to feel the ground rumbling as a troupe of warriors approaches your camp before daybreak, or to sense where the wild deer roam before a hunt. But that's just my inner rebel talking. Questioning our basic understanding of reality. What is happening on the planet for the most part isn't working, and pretty much all of it defies logic (the exploitation, the justification of violence, the derision, the obfuscation, the exploitation, the criminality and cruelty of corporate greed and war profiteering.... The way modern people have become attached to pointless, meaningless, non-earth based, non-heart-based, non-spiritual methods, ideas, and approaches to life is for the birds. Scratch that, birds deserve more respect.

*Past lives can also be seen as cosmic collective storylines and archetypes which feed our personal psyches.

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program...

Heating up around the globe:
the icecaps are melting making for better jet skiing over and around what remains of the K2 peak; children are going into puberty earlier than ever before causing a peculiar jump in google image searches for "sexy toothfairy selfie"; GMOs are morphing human DNA causing pro-lifers to become bug rights activists; and a jump in bee casualties is causing the cosmetic industry to tap into this formerly unexploited resource in a new campaign challenging junior high scientists across the country to make safe and effective bee venom Botox alternatives.

Feel Good Animal Story!!>>> Rumor has it that the runaway Provincetown Bear may make a surprise appearance at the Provincetown International Film Festival to present an award for Best ForBEARance in Hollywood. Locals and out-of-towners alike can rejoice whether the famed bear returns or not, knowing that there will be sure to be oodles of pumped up and dapper Ptown bears on this side of town regardless. Har har har. Sorry folks, I just watched Marc Maron's one man show, Thinky Pain, last night.

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This Sunday night from 9 to midnight, Pandora's Jukebox will not air on WOMR, due to our live coverage of the Provincetown International Film Festival closing party/ HBO Awards Ceremony. WOMR's deejay Matty Dread of the Soul Funky Train will be hosting. I'll be greeting and mingling with folks as a WOMR deejay/talk host. I may or may not wind up babysitting people's kids, being mistaken for Lady Gaga, or channeling someone's dead grandmother. I'm sure to feel a bit Dada with my lack of familiarity with who's who...so I'll just use my radar to chat with heartfelt people.

Ptown is all ablush in the summer sun. I'll be back the following Sunday June 29th with Pandora's Jukebox, channeling intergalactic music straight from the cosmos. We will venture through interstellar dimensions of shamanic rock, leap through portals of electroswing, hip hop through supernovas of alien frequencies and swim globally in new wave surf, dressed in our indie alternative midnight soul suits. Tune in globally on http://womr.ORG for sonic solutions, melodic prophesies, and raging rhapsodies. You will likely hear lil' ditties like this.

Dream Rendezvous

I love dreaming. So much insight into your own psyche, relationships, and your unique soul purpose can be gained from analyzing dreams. This is especially true when you consciously ask messages or guidance right before you drift off to sleep. Something to be aware of though, is that people in your dreams are often symbolic, and represent an aspect of yourself. In my opinion, it's not often that people are actually visiting you in the spirit world, and when they are more often they are visiting you as a soul, rather than a personality. People in your dreams may be people with whom you connect on a soul level, but not so much on a mental or egoic level in this lifetime. Sometimes clients tell me that they are confused by their dreams, because they'll get the ozone from someone in the physical world, but have profound communications in the dream world. Although, the dreams have validity, I caution against being attached to living people who are non-communicative. Dreams can help process emotions, speak to deep metaphorical truths, or bring resolution to matters that cannot or will not be resolved in the corporeal world.

Dreams can teach us so much about what is happening in our subconscious. What marvelous gifts. Guided meditation can have the same effect, but can bring even more into conscious awareness. For that reason, I LOVE facilitating guided meditation with my students.They often lay down for 5-10 minutes afterward processing their deep inward spirit journeys.

Father's Day

My husband is an amazing father to our little boy. I'm grateful my son has such a wonderful loving dad.

He's decided to start eating healthier as he draws one year nearer to a special birthday. Yesterday, Raven was dismayed about some extra hair in my hair brush. He doesn't have his own brush, lest he's tempted to brush his hair, although sometimes brushing proves necessary, like it did this morning. He's concerned about over-stimulating his follicles, especially after two seasons of daily hat-wearing. I think this is a common fear people have when they lose hair. From my perspective, massaging the scalp and tapping with a brush can help encourage blood flow beneath the surface. That's why topical applications of cayenne pepper which acts as a rubafacient, stimulating blood flow beneath the surface, have helped grow hair with some of my clients. Brushing also clears away dead skin covering emerging follicles.

This picture was taken 14 years ago. Raven looks pretty much the same, younger perhaps. I think all of the ho shou wu root over the years has done a lot of good. It's easy to forget what works when you get out of the habit. I said, "Can I tell you what I'd tell my clients? Add several drops of rosemary essential oil into a couple tablespoons of olive oil and couple of rub into your scalp, drink a smoothie with barley grass and powdered alfalfa, and start juicing greens like kale, dandelion greens, and Swiss chard every day. I asked him if he could give up acidifying foods like wheat, coffee and red meat. I wrote him a special grocery list for his new diet, and he was off. He's been inspired by his vegan friend and Weird Al Yankovic.

My Huitaca coffee substitute made a fabulous iced beverage all day long. It grows hair, builds muscle, cleanses the blood, seems to reverse wrinkles, and cleanses the liver and kidneys. It's also delicious. It has ho shou wu (polygonium multiflorum), roasted dandelion root, roasted chicory, cooked rehmannia and some secret ingredients. He's still eating fish and some cheese, but is limiting dairy. We're drinking hemp milk, coconut milk and the like. We had salmon salad with feta, kale and lentils last night. Hero loved it.

For breakfast, I made both a raw and cooked version of improvisational mushroom-onion-walnut-cheddar-and-zuchini croquettes. He wound up eating five raw ones and three cooked ones. I didn't have quite enough rice flour, and so the cooked eggy ones turned out crumbly. I made a spicy garlic-cauliflower-lime-hummus with red bell pepper and served it with garlic-honey cucumber 'chips', avocado slices, more bell pepper, tomatoes, and feta. I made rosemary french fries for the kid, which we all ate. And we enjoyed a nice lemon-and-limeade with blueberries and ice sweetened with honey.

For lunch I made, my Satin Skin beetslaw (with beet, apple, broccoli, carrot, raisins, walnuts, lemon, honey, apple cider vinegar, mayonnaise, fresh ginger and garlic) and a Quinoa Risotto with finely chopped fennel bulb, purple onion, mushroom, coconut milk, cow milk, and cheddar cheese.

My husband has always been very loving and supportive of my various forms of self-expression. It's things like that which were good clues as to what kind of kind, supportive and open-minded dad he would later become. W

Mission: Dessert

Family Food Mission: Wonder Woman 's Rocket Pops. Overcame dearth in shredded coconut, wheat germ, carob bar, cow milk, and peanuts with coconut milk, raw sesame seed, 85% cacao bar, raw walnuts, raw almonds, and organic raspberries. Bananas were involved too. I love following recipes, but using substitutions and varying the proportions.