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Tanis Helliwell’s poetry evokes the mystery of spirit in its beautiful forms—be it lovers, beloved friends, nature, or God. A term sometimes used to describe this kind of poetry is ‘sacred poetry’ because it contains teaching lessons that assist us in our spiritual transformation.

Reminiscent of the witty and intimate teachings of Hafiz and Rumi and the celebration of love and life found in the words of Pablo Neruda and Mary Oliver, Embraced by Love urges us to wake up and love in all the forms that love takes. Each poem breathes life into our heart, soul and mind and calls us to open closed doors and embrace all life – beautiful just as it is.

“Tanis Helliwell’s poems are pearls distilled from over twenty-five years of her journey of heart and spirit. Each nugget is naked and true and worthy of contemplation. … Ann Mortifee, singer-composer, recipient of The Order of Canada.

“Embraced by Love is the work of a tender heart committed to the deeper journey. Beautiful.”… Paul Horn, legendary flutist-composer of Inside the Taj Mahal.

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Author and Artist Review

with J.B. York

Embraced by Love – Poems by Tanis Helliwell seems, at first, to be a book of simple love poems but then the depth of spirit intoned by these simple words begins to work in the subconscious and soon you find yourself wanting more. Once you realize that these poems are small slices – ‘morsels’ of the author’s soul, it becomes difficult to put the book down.

It can be said that poetry is the art of using words to elicit an emotional response. One might think that whent he subject matter is as universal as ‘Love’, it would be an easy task to write a poem about it but one would be wrong. The author’s willingness and ability to expose herself in such a naked and brutally honest fashion is ultimately the reason why the emotional responses that these poems elicit are so powerful.

The book is set out in three distinct sections based on the three types of love. The first is Eros – thelove of the physical body, the heat and the passion. “Womanhood Reclaimed – Love in middle-age, juices flowing suddenly again. Caught me by surprise being fifteen a second time, shy, nervous and yearning.” The honesty in these words triggers an empathetic response, and then throws a spotlight on the reader’s own unfulfilled and fulfilled needs and desires.

The second form of love is Philia – the love we feel for our family and close friends, the love of the heart – not the gonads. “Grieving Your Absence – Sharing a glass of wine, sitting together for dinner, chats on the sofa, holding your hand: these memories I treasure. But best of all was your kiss goodnight.” Suddenly we are transported back to our childhood and to memories of our own mothers and fathers.

The third kind of love is Agape which is the love that God, The Creator, The Beloved has for us and for all life. “Do You Want This? – Beyond the door nothing. Nothing to speak. Nothing to hear. Nothing to touch nor taste Beyond the door Peace Stillness Silence All that is wanted and all that is not.”

Embraced by Love – Poems by Tanis Helliwell is a gem. A book of poetry that is easy to read but hard to forget.

J.B. York was a professional musician before starting his writing career in 2001. His articles have appeared in various Canadian publications. He has been the Book and CD Reviewer for Synchronicity Magazine since February, 2005.

Elementals and Nature Spirits DVD

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Learn to work and play with elementals, also called nature spirits, in this informative and engaging DVD with real images of elementals. Tanis Helliwell, well-known for her work with elementals, also called nature spirits, brings us easily into her world. Her new DVD is informative while being entertaining. With the good-humoured spirit akin to an Irish story-teller she brings us on a journey to learn more about elementals.

Tanis’ DVD has real images of fairies and lovely visuals that create a warm, natural environment that enhance her words. Viewers, who are both new to elementals, and those that have read a great deal, and even those who have encountered nature spirits, will find this DVD engaging.

Some of the topics which are covered are:

• Purpose of Elementals
• The Body Elemental
• The Four Elements
• Meeting Elementals
• Learning from Elementals
• Birth of the New Earth

You will come away from this DVD with an appreciation of the beings with whom humans share this planet as well as tools to work with them. You will understand why it is essential that humans learn to co-create with natural and spiritual laws in order to become guardians of the Earth-which is our purpose. This timely DVD assists us to more fully embrace all consciousness on Earth and to take responsibility for our place in the plan.

Available at Amazon.com and CreateSpace.

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The Elemental and Nature Spirits DVD is a wonderful companion to her newly published Summer with the Leprechauns: The authorized edition.

Praise for Summer with the Leprechauns:

• “This delightful book is not only great fun to read, but makes most interesting and intelligent suggestions about the reality and work of this particular branch of the nature world. It can help us open our minds to fascinating dimensions that do exist on the planet.” Dorothy MacLean, co-founder of Findhorn and author of “To Hear the Angels Sing.”
• “Opening this book opens a door in the imagination. Whether you take it as fact or fiction, this book carries a message of planetary priorities.” Julia Cameron, author of “An Artist’s Way.”
• “This is a magical and important book, one that deserves to become a cherished classic.” Ann Mortifee, author of “In Love with the Mystery.”

Tanis Helliwell’s book Pilgrimage with the Leprechauns: a true story of a mystical tour of Ireland is a romp to the sacred sites of Ireland accompanied by a leprechaun who is helping her and her thirty fellow pilgrims face their blind spots. They have a topsy-turvy encounter with the mischievous, wise humour that the Irish call “The Craic.”

“The Craic cannot be pinned down and, when you try to do so, it joggles you out of your comfort zone and laughs at you. It is both the great cosmic joke and cosmic joker. The Craic is magic. The Craic comes, whenever it wants, and does, whatever it can, to move us into deeper knowing and truth. The only approach a sane person can take towards the Craic is to surrender to it, as any resistance is futile. ” from the Preface

In addition to being an amusing story, Helliwell’s book is chock fun of information about nature spirits or elementals, as they like to call themselves. The trolls, elves, goblins, and brownies are as real for the reader as the various humans whom they partner. For anyone planning a trip to the sacred sites of Ireland, or to Ireland itself for that matter, this book abounds in nuggets as precious as the pot of gold that the Leprechaun holds at the end of the rainbow.

“As a master storyteller of today, Tanis brings her characters to life on a truly remarkable journey with a leprechaun as a tour guide.” Jeff Frank, founder Nature Lyceum of New York

Available at Amazon.com, CreateSpace and fine bookstores.

Publication Date: Mar 17 2010
ISBN/EAN13: 0980903327 / 9780980903324
Page Count: 190
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.5″ x 8.5″
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit / Gaia & Earth Energies

Decoding Your Destiny by Tanis Helliwell

Should you find yourself marooned on a desert isle where your e-reader won’t work, there would be no better book to find tucked in with your travel gear than Decoding Your Destiny, Tanis Helliwell’s slim volume of “Keys to Humanity’s Spiritual Transformation.” It has more guideposts packed into it than the average big-city baseyard. If you cannot ferret out your divine purpose on that maddening desert isle with the help of this mini-encyclopedia of wisdom gleaned from the four corners of the earth (wherever they are), well, there’s probably no hope for your soul’s growth.

In five sections, Helliwell covers human and animal evolution, the history of humanity’s “way-showers”, and the next step in planetary evolution. Along the way, exercises help the reader become in various ways, from exploring one’s relationship with plants, animals and crystals to meeting your guardian angel.

Not every reader will share a belief in Helliwell’s statements about spiritual and religious history and development. Focusing always on what traditions and prophets have in common, however, the author presents her findings in so engaging and forthright a manner that readers feel they have permission to meld them with their own belief systems, thus enhancing their spiritual lives.

This is a dense, fact-packed book that deserves a permanent place on your Mind/Body/Spirit bookshelf, certainly if you are someone who wants a complete grasp of how today’s spiritual leaders view the next step in human evolution.

The lesson of the next cycle is to learn partnership and co-creation. Our guardians have been witnessing human experiments with creation for thousands of years. When we work with higher spiritual principles, we receive energy from our guardians to further our development. This energy, or prana, is a kind of food that feeds and grows our higher spiritual bodies. Through this process we have evolved to the point where we are young adults ready to be employed in our first job as world servers on Earth.

Our life theme will become co-creation with divine law on Earth. Humans will become conscious guardians for lower evolutions—the mineral, plant, fish, bird, and animal kingdoms. We will be safe, having overcome the dangers of destroying others and ourselves through greed, fear, and other negative emotions. Consequently, the ring-pass-not that separates Earth from other planets and solar systems will be removed. This will allow us to communicate with beings from the stars, some of which have been observing our progress and even helping us. The rise in interest in channelling, astrology, altered states of consciousness, UFOs, as well as science fiction and fantasy in literature and film, are harbingers of meeting these others.

This does not mean that humans will be perfect. We will still be learning many lessons. For example, learning how to shepherd other Earth species will not be easy. It will be tempting to do things “for their own good.” We might think that we know better than them, and some of us will have to learn not to blow dry the budding flowers to make them bloom faster. Another challenge will be to surrender attachment to our racial, national, and religious identities. Why is this necessary? Because it’s the first step in becoming world citizens. Having accomplished this, the next step is to overcome our identification with our planet so we can become galactic citizens.

Many themes of the next cycle are emerging even today. Sustainability in all forms will be key. Alternative energy systems based on wind, water, and solar power will replace the use of oil and gas. Organic food, composting, nurturing the soil will replace the use of insecticides, pesticides, and steroids, and we will consume less meat and more fish, fruit, and grains. We will begin living from the energy of the sun and this will increase in later cycles of our evolution. Healing will be less invasive as we move from cut and stitch to prevention of illness. We will use plants and homeopathic remedies to restore balance as opposed to the heavy use of numbing pharmaceuticals that we used during the last cycle that we are leaving.

Based on knowledge found in subatomic quantum physics, the ruling paradigm will become an awareness that we create our own reality. The primary way of altering our world will be by changing our values, which will change our thoughts, behaviour and therefore reality. This process will happen on all levels, with individuals, groups, and large governing systems. With this change in thinking individuals will no longer believe in scarcity and those with more will give to those who have less. This means there will no longer be the poverty and starvation that we have seen in earlier cycles.
In the last cycle we learned what not to do, and in the emerging cycle humanity will learn what to do in order to create with divine laws. Leaders in this next cycle will be those whose values do not conform to the dominant paradigm in today’s world. Those who have the power today will find it most difficult to change, as they might feel they will lose everything they have gained. Yet individuals do change when the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing.

The next cycle will complete a certain state in human evolution. It will link the third dimensional reality of the material world to the fourth dimension and other realities. As our mental, emotional, physical and etheric bodies develop, we assume more responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions. We have less room for error and are more accountable because we are more conscious of how we affect others. Development through the cycles has led hundreds of thousands of individuals to the brink of full spiritual transformation. During the next two thousand years humanity will make a quantum leap in consciousness as more people awaken. We will then all live in accordance with divine law.

During this transitional period, it will become more obvious that there are two, and not one, prevailing value systems. The first is the dominant law of our nation, which is the lower law of our personality that makes us safe in our relationships with others. Once we learn these laws, we enter a period of questioning to ascertain if these laws are in accordance with divine law and our soul’s purpose in life. A time of inner and even outer conflict might arise as we decide to follow higher spiritual laws and not national laws that disagree with higher ones.

Gandhi displayed these difficulties when he chose not to pay the British salt tax and encouraged others to do the same. This action was against the law of his country and yet, it was in accordance with a higher law of home rule. It resulted in the end of colonialism in India. We see examples of people living by higher laws demonstrated in every walk of life today. Many are antiwar demonstrators, animal rights activists, environmental advocates, and spokespeople for equal rights for all races, genders and ages. Some people might be imprisoned for their actions as they are illegal by their country’s standards, and yet they are the vanguard of where our world will move during this next, seventh cycle.

(Excerpted from Tanis Helliwell’s latest book, Decoding Your Destiny: Keys to humanity’s transformation)

Inside:

- Video on Astral Travel

- Upcoming Workshops in Europe

- Review of Decoding Your Destiny

- Feature Article: Enlightened Humans

- And more

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Laura Harris is a graduating student with Tanis Helliwell M.Ed.,founder of the International Institute for Transformation. Skilled and trained in adult learning and movement, Laura has a Masters degree in Physical Education and a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. Laura’s mission is bringing wellness into people’s lives.

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Inside:

• Book Release: Decoding Your Destiny
• Upcoming Book Launch at Banyen Books
• Companion DVD Spiritual Transformation
• Summer with the Leprechauns
• Article: Why it is Necessary to Raise Our Vibration