Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you all know that new episodes of SCTV are now up! Epsiode 1 of the Meditation series as well as Spotlight with Nicole Noles can all be found at Starchild: Your Sanctuary for Inner Wisdom !
Nicole Noles is taking your questions on Air! If you have questions on Feng Shui please e-mail them to contactstarchild@aol.com and include your name and location and they may be answered by Nicole in one of her segments!
More great shows coming soon!
July 08, 2009
July 01, 2009
What do you want to see?
In our ever growing store we are always looking for new items, ideas, classes and special guests to bring to Starchild. One of the ways we can do this is by talking with all of you and getting your ideas of what you would like to see at Starchild!
E-mail us with anything that you would like to see in the upcoming year! Workshops, Readings, Special Guests, Merchandise, anything!
You can contact us at: contactstarchild@aol.com
We look forward to hearing from you, and you never know what suggestions we may bring in next!
E-mail us with anything that you would like to see in the upcoming year! Workshops, Readings, Special Guests, Merchandise, anything!
You can contact us at: contactstarchild@aol.com
We look forward to hearing from you, and you never know what suggestions we may bring in next!
June 30, 2009
Starchild- Inner Wisdom Television and Spotlight are Here!!
Ok, you asked for it and so we have done it! Starchild is proud to introduce SCTV (Starchild TV) Inner Wisdom Television and Starchild Spotlight!
These two shows are very wonderful and very different!
Spotlight is an informative interview with Readers and Special Guests to Starchild. Here you can learn a little bit about them in their own words as well as a little bit about what they do!
SCTV are a series of different informative classes ranging through many topics of the New Age world. They are short, no longer than 10 minutes but are packed full of information to inspire and educate!
Here are the first Episodes of Spotlight- Featuring Charles Filius and SCTV - Featuring Nicole Noles on Feng Shui for Abundance
SCTV
Spotlight
These two shows are very wonderful and very different!
Spotlight is an informative interview with Readers and Special Guests to Starchild. Here you can learn a little bit about them in their own words as well as a little bit about what they do!
SCTV are a series of different informative classes ranging through many topics of the New Age world. They are short, no longer than 10 minutes but are packed full of information to inspire and educate!
Here are the first Episodes of Spotlight- Featuring Charles Filius and SCTV - Featuring Nicole Noles on Feng Shui for Abundance
SCTV
Spotlight
Starchild's 1 Year Anniversary!
Greetings everyone!
On July 1st 2009 Starchild will be 1 year old! It has been 1 full year since John Culbertson has taken over Starchild and so many great things have happened in that time!
We would like to give a special thanks to all of our Guest Speakers, Teachers and Authors that have come to visit us over the past year. Thanks to you, we are more capable of serving our customers and the community in a variety of ways. The knowledge, wisdom, love and support that you have shown to Starchild is greatly appreciated and we look forward to having you all return during our second year!
We would also like to thank you, our clients and customers. With your continuing search for knowledge and your fulfilling support of Starchild we have been able to bring you many new and better things in order to keep your wisdom growing! We look forward to next year and to bringing you even more to make your lives as spiritually fulfilling as possible!
Finally we would like to thank Starchild. Her 13 years in existance gave us a foundation to build upon in order to make things better and to bring new life into the store! She has stood by us through thick and thin and we look forward to making her even greater in the future!
If you are local and want to celebrate with us you can join us for our 1 year celebration the third saturday of July. Information of the 1 year anniversary event can be seen by following this link:
Starchild's 1 Year Anniversary Spectacular!
Specials will include:
Guest Medium: Martin Jordan
Peace River Ghost Trackers- E.V.P. Workshop
Sunday Healing Fair
Only Love is Real Concert - Connie and Martin Jordan
Book Signing with: Sandy Anastasi
As always for more information give us a call at 941-743-0800 or visit our brand new website at www.starchildbooks.com!
Thank you all for all of your support and we look forward to bigger and better things to come next year! See you soon!
With Blessings for Love and Peace Profound,
-Starchild, Your Sanctuary for Inner Wisdom-
On July 1st 2009 Starchild will be 1 year old! It has been 1 full year since John Culbertson has taken over Starchild and so many great things have happened in that time!
We would like to give a special thanks to all of our Guest Speakers, Teachers and Authors that have come to visit us over the past year. Thanks to you, we are more capable of serving our customers and the community in a variety of ways. The knowledge, wisdom, love and support that you have shown to Starchild is greatly appreciated and we look forward to having you all return during our second year!
We would also like to thank you, our clients and customers. With your continuing search for knowledge and your fulfilling support of Starchild we have been able to bring you many new and better things in order to keep your wisdom growing! We look forward to next year and to bringing you even more to make your lives as spiritually fulfilling as possible!
Finally we would like to thank Starchild. Her 13 years in existance gave us a foundation to build upon in order to make things better and to bring new life into the store! She has stood by us through thick and thin and we look forward to making her even greater in the future!
If you are local and want to celebrate with us you can join us for our 1 year celebration the third saturday of July. Information of the 1 year anniversary event can be seen by following this link:
Starchild's 1 Year Anniversary Spectacular!
Specials will include:
Guest Medium: Martin Jordan
Peace River Ghost Trackers- E.V.P. Workshop
Sunday Healing Fair
Only Love is Real Concert - Connie and Martin Jordan
Book Signing with: Sandy Anastasi
As always for more information give us a call at 941-743-0800 or visit our brand new website at www.starchildbooks.com!
Thank you all for all of your support and we look forward to bigger and better things to come next year! See you soon!
With Blessings for Love and Peace Profound,
-Starchild, Your Sanctuary for Inner Wisdom-
May 30, 2009
Tolerance and the Human Spirit by: John Culbertson
Tolerance And The Human Spirit by John Culbertson
What does the term 'tolerance' mean to you? To many people it seems that it is synonymous with phrases such as 'to put up with', often harking back to classroom scenarios of the teacher informing noisome students that he will not tolerate such behaviour. Certainly it would often seem to be the case that the word 'tolerate' is associated with negativity, and that to tolerate something is to put up with a situation which may engender negative or unwelcome feelings.
Yet often we are advised that toleration is a skill which is increasingly necessary in an increasingly diverse society. The word is that a society which is tolerant is more peaceful, and harmonious.
Putting these two concepts together, on the one hand the common association of tolerance with something that might otherwise be discouraged, with the expectation that such behaviour would give rise to a more integrated and understanding society, does raise some questions, and would not appear to be sitting at ease together.
If the tolerant individual is one who puts up with the fact that other people are different, whether through skin colour, race, creed, religious belief, moral belief or political persuasion, then is that individual one who can be said to be a catalyst for cultural diversity and acceptance? Certainly if we accept the commonly held stigmatism of tolerance as harbouring negative thoughts and feelings, then it would suggest not.
But let us consider the nature of society, and in particular, the society that the intolerant individual may prefer. Since toleration implies differences which can encourage resentment, suspicion and doubt as far as individual differences are concerned, perhaps the intolerant society would be one where everybody is the same?
Prejudice has found more ways to manifest itself than one might imagine. Whether prejudice rises as a result of gender differences - and not merely the simple classification of male and female, or through skin colour, hair colour, religious beliefs, dietary beliefs, size, dress preferences or political beliefs, the one thing that is clear is that within any social group of almost any size, there will be opportunities for prejudice. This is simply due to the basic and most fundamental fact of being human - that we are all different.
So if being human is to be different, unique, individual in our collective choices and heritage, then being human is also by definition, to be subject , at least potentially, to prejudice.
Toleration is either the 'putting up with' differences, or perhaps it should be considered more as the acceptance of those differences. Taking this idea further, we could consider the radical idea that to be human must necessarily to be tolerant - since we have to accept that we are all different in one way or another, and that to deny this, or be repelled at the thought if the concept, is to refuse to accept the most fundamental aspect of our humanity. Difference.
One of the biggest challenges we have is perhaps to try to change the general perception of the world toleration. The fact that it is so closely paired to the word prejudice, and necessarily has negative connotations presents us with a dilemma. Separating tolerance from prejudice, and seeing the skill of being tolerant as something which is not merely positive, but embraces the human dimension, the human need for individualism and diversity.
No society, regardless of size, could ever flourish or survive if there was no diversity. Even a torrent of seemingly identical ants furtively darting through the cracks in our patio are diverse - they have to be to survive. Some ants have enormous front pincers for fighting and defending the nest, and in fact their mandibles are so big they can't even feed themselves, and so other ants smaller than they are help the colony by feeding those who cannot feed themselves. The queen cannot move, whilst others are adept at building the nest around her. The very survival of a colony of ants depends upon their diversity, and the balance that they manage to create through that variation in size, structure and skill.
How much more diverse and rich is our own culture than that of the ants? Yet it sometimes seems that we look at our diversity as a problem to be tackled, and tolerance is the lesson that we should preach to help to accept such diversity. Yet, just as with the ants, if we lacked that diversity, our society, indeed our human heritage, would dry up, and eventually lead to stagnation and even cultural extinction.
The skill of being a tolerant individual therefore is not merely the ability to put to one side any prejudices we may be tempted to harbour, but the far greater and more meaningful ability to accept and realize that to be human is to be unique, and tolerance is therefore nothing less than our ability to embrace both our own humanity, and humanity as a whole. It is perhaps the most fundamental skill of all, and one that is crucial to our very survival as a species, as countless wars across the eons have taught us.
John Culbertson is a new age teacher, speaker and lecturer. He teaches and speaks on psychic development (a six-month course), psychic protection, numerology, astrology, angels, tarot and almost anything else relative to the new age field.
He is available for private psychic channeled, reiki, and spiritual coaching sessions through his web site www.mysticjohnculbertson.com
He owns the new age store Starchild: www.starchildbooks.com
He also enjoys ghost writing.
What does the term 'tolerance' mean to you? To many people it seems that it is synonymous with phrases such as 'to put up with', often harking back to classroom scenarios of the teacher informing noisome students that he will not tolerate such behaviour. Certainly it would often seem to be the case that the word 'tolerate' is associated with negativity, and that to tolerate something is to put up with a situation which may engender negative or unwelcome feelings.
Yet often we are advised that toleration is a skill which is increasingly necessary in an increasingly diverse society. The word is that a society which is tolerant is more peaceful, and harmonious.
Putting these two concepts together, on the one hand the common association of tolerance with something that might otherwise be discouraged, with the expectation that such behaviour would give rise to a more integrated and understanding society, does raise some questions, and would not appear to be sitting at ease together.
If the tolerant individual is one who puts up with the fact that other people are different, whether through skin colour, race, creed, religious belief, moral belief or political persuasion, then is that individual one who can be said to be a catalyst for cultural diversity and acceptance? Certainly if we accept the commonly held stigmatism of tolerance as harbouring negative thoughts and feelings, then it would suggest not.
But let us consider the nature of society, and in particular, the society that the intolerant individual may prefer. Since toleration implies differences which can encourage resentment, suspicion and doubt as far as individual differences are concerned, perhaps the intolerant society would be one where everybody is the same?
Prejudice has found more ways to manifest itself than one might imagine. Whether prejudice rises as a result of gender differences - and not merely the simple classification of male and female, or through skin colour, hair colour, religious beliefs, dietary beliefs, size, dress preferences or political beliefs, the one thing that is clear is that within any social group of almost any size, there will be opportunities for prejudice. This is simply due to the basic and most fundamental fact of being human - that we are all different.
So if being human is to be different, unique, individual in our collective choices and heritage, then being human is also by definition, to be subject , at least potentially, to prejudice.
Toleration is either the 'putting up with' differences, or perhaps it should be considered more as the acceptance of those differences. Taking this idea further, we could consider the radical idea that to be human must necessarily to be tolerant - since we have to accept that we are all different in one way or another, and that to deny this, or be repelled at the thought if the concept, is to refuse to accept the most fundamental aspect of our humanity. Difference.
One of the biggest challenges we have is perhaps to try to change the general perception of the world toleration. The fact that it is so closely paired to the word prejudice, and necessarily has negative connotations presents us with a dilemma. Separating tolerance from prejudice, and seeing the skill of being tolerant as something which is not merely positive, but embraces the human dimension, the human need for individualism and diversity.
No society, regardless of size, could ever flourish or survive if there was no diversity. Even a torrent of seemingly identical ants furtively darting through the cracks in our patio are diverse - they have to be to survive. Some ants have enormous front pincers for fighting and defending the nest, and in fact their mandibles are so big they can't even feed themselves, and so other ants smaller than they are help the colony by feeding those who cannot feed themselves. The queen cannot move, whilst others are adept at building the nest around her. The very survival of a colony of ants depends upon their diversity, and the balance that they manage to create through that variation in size, structure and skill.
How much more diverse and rich is our own culture than that of the ants? Yet it sometimes seems that we look at our diversity as a problem to be tackled, and tolerance is the lesson that we should preach to help to accept such diversity. Yet, just as with the ants, if we lacked that diversity, our society, indeed our human heritage, would dry up, and eventually lead to stagnation and even cultural extinction.
The skill of being a tolerant individual therefore is not merely the ability to put to one side any prejudices we may be tempted to harbour, but the far greater and more meaningful ability to accept and realize that to be human is to be unique, and tolerance is therefore nothing less than our ability to embrace both our own humanity, and humanity as a whole. It is perhaps the most fundamental skill of all, and one that is crucial to our very survival as a species, as countless wars across the eons have taught us.
John Culbertson is a new age teacher, speaker and lecturer. He teaches and speaks on psychic development (a six-month course), psychic protection, numerology, astrology, angels, tarot and almost anything else relative to the new age field.
He is available for private psychic channeled, reiki, and spiritual coaching sessions through his web site www.mysticjohnculbertson.com
He owns the new age store Starchild: www.starchildbooks.com
He also enjoys ghost writing.
May 29, 2009
New to the Online Store
Express yourself on your Car with Bumper Stickers!
Educate and Learn with NEW DVD's!
Enter a world of Fantasy with these Fantasy inspired Statues!
Other great NEW items as well. Visit Starchild Online Store!
**Register as a member on our site and use the code NewPerson in order to get a discount on your total purchase!! Don't wait this offer ends soon!**
What is Starchild?
A question that we hear quite often is "What is Starchild?"
This next paragraph will explain to you what Starchild is and what we aim to do.
We are one of the leading New Age and Fantasy Book and Gift stores in the United States, with a constantly growing selection of New Age and Fantasy merchandise to choose from.
By using the Wisdom Teachings of old we aim to enlighten people and help them to go within to find answers that lead to life improvement and understanding. This is accomplished by helping to align them on the physical, emotional, mental, intuitive, and spiritual levels. We are also proud and grateful for the guest speakers, authors, and teacher that continue to offer their energy, wisdom, and insights to both our customers and the community.
Additionally, our personal staff of Intuitive Psychic Readers, Mediums and Healers are some of the most professional, accurate, compassionate, honest, and ethical in this field. With a focus of always placing the clients best interest first, they create a truly positive, uplifting, insightful, and inspiring experience.
We are Starchild and we are Your Sanctuary for Inner Wisdom!
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