Are Herniated Spinal Disks Related to a Past Life Trauma?
This post answers a question for The Council from a reader named, Michele, who says she’s in a great deal of discomfort from a neck injury. I’ve followed Edgar Cayce’s advice on using castor oil packs to relieve the pain, but this didn’t help. I also tried physical therapy and chiropractic care, but these made little difference. I believe my neck injury is related to a trauma I experienced in a past life. I had a past life regression, but had difficulty seeing any of my past lives. Can The Council let me know if my neck injury is related to past life trauma?
The Council sees a past life trauma that Michele created in a life in the late 1300s in the land of the Incan people and the physical trauma you carry in your neck was created in that lifetime. You were chosen as a human sacrifice during that life. You were suspended between two poles with your arms tied slightly back, a rope tied around your head and neck and pulled back, fixed in the ground to hold your head in that position.
For a day you were left hanging there while people from your tribe would cut parts of your body so you’d shed blood, which was supposed to bring a blessing to each of these people. Then you were taken to the top of a pyramid, blessed, and then thrown off the pyramid and you died.
In your current life you wanted to try and bring in some sort of ailment that would help you heal your body. Massaging the neck and upper chest will provide muscle tone and relax the muscles that were pulled back in this Incan life. Craniosacral therapy will then be helpful. Working on the occiput, the parietals, the jaw, the temporomandibular joint, and the frontal bones will provide the relief you seek. Your muscles need to relax and the body needs to remember the position it needs to be in to feel good again and heal.
You say these injured disks aren’t healable and we’d say yes they are. When you consider the past life and what you brought forward to heal, this understanding will help your body to realize what it went through and it is healable when you get the suggested treatments. This terrible time you’re going through will heal itself. Even if the disks don’t go completely back into alignment, the pain will lessen and then disappear.
Find out about your past lives. Just about everyone here is carrying memories from past lives they’re choosing to heal. That’s why so many people ask about past lives. They need this information because just trying to heal the body and not the memories that come with you from past lives make it difficult to do this.
Read as much as you can about past lives and how they affect your body in your current life and why you’d bring the results of trauma from a past life to your current life. Any of the books by Michael Newton will be helpful. You can find about different lifetimes, your time in between lifetimes, why you set up your current life the way you did, and the understanding will come.
You should drink a lot of water because there was the hanging and dying of thirst in that past life. This affects the throat, which is the front of the neck. Drinking lots of water will help you heal. Information will come to you one step at a time. Start by reading up on past lives.
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How Can I Stop this Ringing in My Ears?
This post answers a question for The Council from a reader named, Christine, who has a loud tinnitus (ringing in her ears) for over three months and it’s driving her crazy. The noise never stops. I’ve been to a doctor and an audiologist and they can find nothing wrong. I’ve had many Chiropractic, Osteopathic, and Craniosacral Therapy sessions to little avail. What’s causing this noise and how can I heal it? I long to hear silence again.
The Council says you should continue getting Chiropractic adjustments. Your TMJ (temporomandibular joint) in your jaw also needs to be worked on, which is causing this problem. Learn to massage your TMJ inside and outside your mouth to get relief. Also listening to soft music as often as possible and focusing your attention on this will help.
This tinnitus is coming from a past life during World War II when you transitioned out of that life during a bombing. You heard the whining sound a bomb makes when it’s dropped. That’s the last thing you remember. You brought this memory forward into this life and your screaming as you transitioned affected your TMJ. You’ve brought this into your current life to heal your tinnitus and to find out about your past life.
The Council suggests reading about past lives, researching about World War II, and as more information comes through you’ll notice the tinnitus will slowly begin to disappear. It’s also good to use the Edgar Cayce castor oil pack around your entire neck and have it reach up to behind your ears. This will help your cells readjust and begin to heal.
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Connecting with Yourself in Another Lifetime
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, LilyDaisy, about what she’s come to call her dissociation, but she doesn’t think that’s an accurate description of what she’s experiencing.
When I was young I’d sometimes look into a mirror and my consciousness would somehow be different for a few seconds. As I got older I could look in a mirror and induce this change in consciousness. In early adulthood I no longer needed a mirror to induce this change. At this point I craved this experience and tried to bring it about more, often by looking into a mirror.
Now this has grown to be my waking state most or all of the time. I suppose this could be scary, but I just go with it. No matter how I try to describe these experiences I feel it’s not accurate. Can The Council help me understand what’s going on here or give me some terms I can research?
What The Council sees is a linking between you in your current lifetime and you in a previous life in Tuscany, Italy. As a young boy in that life you spent most of your time playing in the fields. In that life you always wondered who you were. Where do I come from? What happens to you after you die? In that life you always wanted to see what happens to you after that lifetime ended.
When you finished that life you brought that wish with you into spirit and when you set up your current life you wanted to somehow connect with the person you were in that life in Tuscany. What is happening is the part of you that lived in that past life is reaching out and connecting with the part of you living in your current life. These are both parts of the larger part of who you are.
In your current life you’re allowing that child from your past life to connect with you. That means that child can peak into your current life and see what’s going on and he’d experience it as a dream, or day dreams, or his imagination. That is what’s happening to you in what you describe as your dissociation. What you’re experiencing is who you were in that past life as well as who you still are, because that lifetime still exists in another reality along side your current reality.
The Council says to more effectively connect with this other part of yourself in that other lifetime you can read up on past lives to gain more understanding and you can meditate. What LilyDaisy is experiencing is not a dissociation – it’s a linking. It’s you connecting to another part of you in another lifetime.
The Council recommends LilyDaisy look into Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, the readings he’s done, and his books he’s written. As you become more familiar with this material it’ll become easier to connect and to even talk to the person you were in that lifetime.
This connection is a wonderful thing that you’ve allowed. It was such a strong wish from that past lifetime that a connection was made – the connection between you and you. You allowed it to come into your current life because you wanted to learn from it. The more you find out about past lives, the more you can call in information from that past life in your dreams and meditations. Begin to have a conversation with this other part of yourself.
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How Can I Heal My Sore Lips After Freezing Off a Pre-cancerous Area?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Karen, who says: I recently had a pre-cancerous area on my lip frozen off and now my lips are somewhat inflamed, sore, very dry, and red. Should I use a castor oil pack on this or what do you suggest?
The Council definitely recommends using the Edgar Cayce castor oil pack on Karen’s lips, but not to heat the castor oil as is sometimes recommended. Don’t just put some castor oil on the wool flannel. Soak the wool flannel in the castor oil and apply it to your lips. The castor oil pack helps spirit concentrate on what needs to be healed.
While you’re applying the castor oil pack for 15-20 minutes a day, think of this area healing. Think of your higher self taking over and reminding the cells in this area they can rebuild themselves. Do this especially while you have the castor oil pack on your lips, but it’s good to think about anytime.
It’s good for you to take Vitamin B and it’s also good to take Lysine for a short time, maybe two weeks. Don’t put any heavy grease, oil, or gel on your lips. Eating lots of greens would be good for you, avoid citrus and carbonated drinks, and drink lots and lots of water.
Use the castor oil pack for a week, then stop for a week, then resume for a week, and so on. Do this for a month and you should notice an improvement. Then you can rest a couple weeks and repeat this procedure if the lips aren’t totally healed. Don’t do anything drastic with your eating habits and don’t put anything else on your lips. Your lips are in shock. The area is dormant and not doing anything to heal. Prayer, meditation, and talking gently to your lips that it’s safe to regenerate will help. As Edgar Cayce said, mind is the builder.
Karen asks if diluted cider vinegar is good for her lips along with honey and coconut oil. The Council says don’t use cider vinegar. They advise putting honey in your tea because honey has many healing qualities. Karen says she was putting a vaseline-type cream on her lips and The Council says definitely not to use this cream on her lips. Karen asks if she needs to go on a fast and The Council says no.
The Council closes by recommending the use of the castor oil pack just before bedtime, or if it’s done during the day not to eat for at least an hour after the treatment.
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How Can I Get Rid of This Hip Pain?
This post answers a question for The Council from a reader named, Pam, who says for some months now I’ve been dealing with hip pain that no amount of acupuncture, massage, or chiropractic treatment has been able to fix other than temporarily. I feel like this stuck energy has something to do with my mother who is now in spirit. Do you have any insight on how I can move this old energy out of my body and into the light?
The Council begins by saying Pam’s hip pain has nothing to do with her mother, but an understanding of why she’s having this pain will help her heal it.
In another lifetime as a young boy in the middle 1800s in London you were born with one leg shorter than the other, which gave you a limp and constant hip pain. You were a very advanced thinker for that time, you had a lot of faith and hope, and you believed somehow in your mind you could speak to your body and heal your pain because you had done healing in other lifetimes. Unfortunately you died around the age of 15 and didn’t have a chance to heal yourself.
Coming into your current lifetime you said let me continue this again and find out how the mind works with the body and what I can do to implement that healing. The pain in your hip that nothing else is helping is from that other lifetime. Ask for information in your dreams or meditations on this other lifetime.
The Council suggests taking the Edgar Cayce castor oil pack and wrapping it completely around both hips. Do it every day for 20-30 minutes for a week then take a week off. While you’re doing this you should be speaking to the cells in your body and letting them know your body is able to heal and to release this memory from this other life.
Do this for a month then stop doing it for around three weeks, but during this rest period stretch your hamstring muscles in your legs. When the three week rest period is finished go back to the castor oil packs and repeat this process until you see a great deal of improvement. Once you begin to see this improvement your mind will take over and heal your body.
The Council also recommends doing chakra breathing for all seven chakras. Pam can refer to our post, Meditations to Balance and Align Your Chakras, for instructions on chakra breathing. The meditation in that post and its symbols isn’t meant to be used daily, but you can use use the colors in the chakras whenever you feel like it.
Pam wanted to bring this hip pain back into her current lifetime so she could release the past and heal it with the castor oil packs and speaking to her body with her mind. Your body knows how to heal. Allow your inner physician to take over.
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Have I Lived Any Noteworthy Lifetimes in Atlantis?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Brock, who wants to know if they’ve lived any lifetimes in Atlantis.
The Council says Brock had a lifetime in Atlantis where he worked with energy and vibration to bring about physical healing. You created rooms in one of the temples where you’d increase the lighting in the room where color was used for healing. You used energy and crystals, and it was important to have pools of water filled with crystals to help people heal.
In another lifetime as a young boy you learned how to write the history of Atlantis and to keep daily records of what happened there. There are many of the records you created that are still to be discovered.
Brock says he’s been trying to find information on Atlantis from various sources in the spiritual community including hypnosis and channelings and he’s noticed some different and contradictory information coming through. The Council says the most accurate information on Atlantis was channeled by Edgar Cayce and he has books on this subject. If you become a member of the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) you can read thousands of Edgar Cayce readings on different subjects.
Brock asks when Atlantis began – some people say thousands of years ago and some say millions of years. The Council says Atlantis began in our physical reality in approximately 50,000 BC. They add that Atlantis existed in a non-physical reality before this. The minds of the Atlanteans were able to create it so that Atlantis would manifest in our physical reality because they thought everyone was ready for it.
When Atlantis came into being there were many discoveries. There was great research done into medicine, into healings, and how you could create and change physical forms of things, for example. Unfortunately as more and more information was discovered and Atlantis grew in knowledge, the Atlanteans began to change. There was a fight for power. The crystal energy that was used for healing began to be used in a way where it imploded and began the first of three sinkings of the Atlantis landmass.
During the early stages of this sinking people had time to leave Atlantis and would flee to many different areas on Earth. Many came to the Americas and many went to Greece and Egypt. The destruction of Atlantis was due to the crystal machines the Atlanteans used that got out of control and the sinking began.
Brock asks what Atlantean technology was like. Some people say they had airships, others say they used levitation. The Council says both airships and levitation were in use in Atlantis. There were machines that looked like ships that could go across water, but not be in the water. The minds of the Atlantean people were very advanced.
Brock asks why such disagreements exist on Atlantis in the spiritual community. The Council says based on what people found underwater and along the shores they formed different ideas about when Atlantis existed. Plato wrote about Atlantis, which many people thought was a myth. Part of Atlantis was near Cuba and the Bimini Islands and The Council feels in time more will be discovered in this area.
The Council finishes up this session by saying Brock should have crystals around.
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How Can I Think Differently to Stop My Dermatitis?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader who goes by the name, Vibrationally Aware, who says they have a skin rash called dermatitis and they’ve used every homeopathic and prescription treatment imaginable. They’re aware that beliefs are the underlying cause for all physical ailments and they’d like The Council to tell them which belief they’re holding on to that’s causing the dermatitis, and how they can think differently so they can move past this disease.
The Council feels the first step is to use Edgar Cayce’s remedy of castor oil on flannel and laying it across the entire abdominal area, which will help the liver remove toxins from your body. The Council also suggests putting the Palma Christi castor oil on the bottom of your feet to continue the drawing out of toxins process.
On another level The Council sees that you and others in your soul group have created your current lives in a way that you’d experience this skin issue because it was a way of looking at and accepting yourself the way you are. This comes from a lifetime in ancient Greece where you and your soul group were stage actors who believed you were better than the people you performed for because you were able to become whoever you wanted to become in the roles you played. In your current life you and members of your soul group have put yourselves in a single body with a single role to see if you can now accept who you are and show yourself to others?
The dermatitis will automatically heal for each person in your family as they become comfortable within themselves. They wouldn’t play a role to get others to approve of you and you wouldn’t think you’re not as good as other people because of the way you look. There is the belief that what wants to be healed by spirit from all of you in this group sharing the experience of this dermatitis together, is acceptance of one’s self and acceptance of each other, and not being afraid of talking about that you have dermatitis.
The dermatitis isn’t something that needs to be hidden and there’s no reason to feel shameful or less than other people. The reason your soul group created the dermatitis is to enable all of you to get past this in your current lifetime and learn there’s more to you than how you appear. You don’t need to become other people and have different personalities for different people you’re around. You wanted to be completely in your current body, accepting yourself and each other, and feeling good about showing yourself the way you are to the people around you.
The combination of the inner work of self-acceptance and the use of Edgar Cayce’s castor oil treatment will enable the dermatitis to heal. As you use these castor oil packs for 20-30 minutes at a time, meditate and picture the castor oil removing toxins from your body. As you realize the castor oil is helping you heal, you’re putting yourself in a higher vibration of not only healing the physical body, but also healing the emotional body.
Castor Oil Healing Process
Once a day, 20-30 minutes, for 1 week.
Stop for a week.
Again once a day, 20-30 minutes, for another week.
Stop for a week.
Then for 2 weeks in a row, once a day, 20-30 minutes.
Then stop for 2 weeks.
Then 2 weeks in a row again, once a day, 20-30 minutes.
Stop for 2 weeks.
In your third month as you begin to see a change you can go back to once a day, 20-30 minutes, for 1 week and repeat the frequency you used for the first and second month in the third and forth month.
Always concentrate on the healing that is taking place and doing the inner work to learn about yourself.
Vibrationally Aware says their mother, their son, and several nieces and nephews have dermatitis and asks if this is a case of inherited beliefs? The Council says it’s a case of others in your soul group coming together and saying, “Let’s try to heal this together. We lived one life together, and now lets live this other life together to heal it.”
The Council says dermatitis runs in your family because it was chosen by all involved to have it run in the family. In the lifetime in ancient Greece, many in the soul group who were actors would laugh and with poor judgement look down on others who were just one person because they thought how boring that is while they have the freedom to be whatever they like. Now their spirit says let me go into that sort of life. Let me see what it feels like, and learn from it, and heal it.
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How Do I Interpret My Recent Dreams and Enhance My Psychic Gifts?
This post answers questions by a reader who goes by the name, SoulSeekingPeace, who asks The Council to interpret a dream they had where a wolf wants to get into their house, but SoulSeekingPeace is afraid and the wolf runs away. The Council says the wolf represents the teacher, and their higher self has sent this dream to open new doors and to teach them new ways.
A couple days later SoulSeekingPeace had another dream where they heard the words, “Everything is energy.” The Council says this voice and the wolf from their previous dream is to help SoulSeekingPeace become aware of energy by hearing it, feel it, and possibly even tasting it.
Even though SoulSeekingPeace hasn’t mentioned anything in their Comment about hands on healing, which The Council says is there for them if they think they’d like that, The Council suggests they read the book, Hands of Light, by Barbara Brennan. If they read this book it can put them more in touch with how energy works, how they can see and feel it, and this book will help to bring SoulSeekingPeace along their path.
SoulSeekingPeace asks what they should do to get rid of the fear they have of energy and psychic knowledge they feel coming from other lifetimes? The Council says these fears usually means that in a past life you misused these gifts in some way. You regretted this misuse and wish to have another chance in your current lifetime to work with energy and psychic knowledge in a positive way.
The Council advises SoulSeekingPeace to learn as much as they can about the chakras and experience different types of energy healing until you can feel what you’re drawn to. They specifically mention Polarity, Reiki, Reconnection, and Acupuncture as a starting point.
SoulSeekingPeace says they think they’re telepathic and empathic, and The Council says these gifts are definitely there. As you progress along the path The Council recommends, you’ll see how you’re able to pick up other people’s energy, which you’re already able to do to some extent. And you’ll become more psychic with meditation.
They suggest learning the meditation taught by the famous psychic, Edgar Cayce, with the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE). It would be good to join the ARE and search their records on energy, healing, and almost any subject you can think of. This is how you can advance in your psychic work in a positive way. This is happening in your life right now because you’re ready to experience this.
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Suggested Reading on Atlantis and Lemuria
This post answers a question for The Council by a long time reader named, Jan, who was interested in our post, Why Am I Constantly Stuck in Negative Situations? In that post The Council recommends the questioner read about ancient cultures she’s been part of in past lives, but The Council isn’t specific about what to read. Jan follows up on that post by asking if The Council can recommend any specific reading material on Atlantis, Lemuria, and other ancient civilizations?
The Council begins by recommending the books: Fingerprints of the Gods, by Graham Hancock, and the novel, Atlantis Found, by Clive Cussler.
But The Council says the most profound information you can find is in the readings of the trance channel, Edgar Cayce, on the lost city of Atlantis, which can be read by joining Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment. There you’ll be able to find information on Atlantis and Lemuria.
The Council says Edgar Cayce has channeled the information in these readings from spirit, and they also believe he was in one or both places in former lifetimes. To get the most correct information The Council recommends starting with the Cayce material.
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Asking for Guidance to Remove Marks on Their Face
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader who goes by the name, LookingForAdvice, who’d like to know about the marks on their face that have been increasing lately. LookingForAdvice has been to a doctor who says there’s no medicine to reduce these marks, and they ask The Council if there’s any product that might help them with this and make sure they don’t come back as often. LookingForAdvice says they’re a big believer that all body-related issues are trying to tell us something, but in this particular case they don’t understand the issue.
The Council says this particular problem is an emotional one for LookingForAdvice and it will take a lot of inner work on their part to reduce these facial marks. Your body is trying to get you to look at yourself. You’ve created these marks because on some level you’ve learned not to like yourself.
Meditate and begin to appreciate yourself and what you’ve accomplished. When you can do this, your face will become free of these marks. Identify with who you truly are as a spiritual being and discover what is going on in your life. Are there people around you that hold you back? Are there people that irritate or upset you and you’re not dealing with this? This can create symptoms that show as marks on your face. You may think you love yourself, but go deeper.
In the meantime, learn about the fifth, sixth, and seventh chakras. These chakras control the energy to your face. If you learn how to work the energy in these chakras you’ll see improvement.
And you can help yourself with the Edgar Cayce pack, which is flannel or pure cotton and castor oil. Soak the flannel or cotton in the castor oil and place it on the marks on your face. Castor oil is known to heal the cells of the body on a deep spiritual level and remind the cells they are part of God, spirit, and love. While you work on your emotions and begin to love yourself more, you can also work with castor oil and with the fifth through seventh chakras.
Always begin by looking in the present for ways to love yourself more, but also look back at your life. Was there a sibling who was appreciated more than you? Do you feel like you haven’t done enough with your life? Do you feel you aren’t pretty or handsome enough or you aren’t intelligent enough? These marks are on your face and your face is how you show yourself to the world. Look at your emotions around this to learn how to heal these marks.
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Discovery of Records from Ancient Civilizations
During a recent session to answer a reader’s question about spirit’s intention for the roles of men and women, The Council casually made the following comments about historical records that will be discovered and bring to light many things not currently known about gender roles in earlier times.
“In Jesus’ time many many of the great healers and great teachers…were women, and so many records from that time will come forward, where many women were great leaders, where the women were the rule makers.”
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Regarding the current perception of male dominance throughout most of history:
“With the knowledge that has been accepted, with the documents that have been found, and yet there is more that will be found, where we will learn more of the interchangeable roles of men and women.”
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“In the times where Jesus walked the Earth, one of his greatest teachers was a woman named Judith, and so much of what he learned as a child came from her. And yet very little is known of this at this time, but there is much to be discovered.”
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“Judith was also a teacher and friend of his mother, Mary. And she taught many of the women in that time to be great healers. The men at that particular time in history were not the healers until Jesus came to the forefront, and so that will be discovered also.”
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Cynthia is able to communicate with a group of five non-physical spirit guides in a manner similar to the way Esther Hicks communicates with and speaks for the spirit guides, Abraham, and Jane Roberts communicated and spoke for the spirit guide, Seth. I (Bob) basically interview The Council as they speak through Cynthia during what we refer to as a session. Sessions generally last 5-15 minutes and are usually audio recorded. During the session Cynthia is aware of what The Council is saying and she also receives visual impressions and other types of telepathic communication from them.
The Council’s Basic Guidance
Since we began these sessions with The Council around 2009 they consistently emphasize a few basic ideas that we attempt to summarize here:
1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.
You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.
Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.
Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.
2) You are the creator of all that you experience.
As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.
If you’re used to thinking of yourself in a more limited sense, the idea that you are the creator of your experience may be difficult to understand. Our post, What About This Idea That We Create Whatever We Desire, offers insights into this idea.
3) You are here to expand the love you are into physical reality.
You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.
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The left-hand column on the Home page contain a long chronological series of posts with the most recent on top. Each post begins with a title. Clicking on a post title will take you to a blog page dedicated to that particular post. Following each post is a Like button where you can indicate to us and other readers if you like the post.
The footer section of each post identifies the date the post was published, the Categories the post has been assigned to, the keyword/keyphrase Tags assigned to the post, and a Comment link. If readers comments on a post, the Comments link will indicate the number of comments. If a post has no comments yet, the Comment link text appears as “Leave a Comment”.
Clicking on the Comments link takes you to a Comment text box on a post page dedicated to that post. Here you can type a comment in the text box and click the Post Comment button to have your comment displayed just below the text box. If you are replying to someone else’s comment, your comment will appear indented underneath the comment you are replying to.
At the bottom of the left column on the Home page is a ‘Previous Entries’ link that will take you to a page with a list of earlier posts.
Blog Features
The right-hand column of most blog pages contains this Welcome message. Below the Welcome message in the right-hand column are some useful features:
Email Subscription: Use this to subscribe to blog posts. You will receive an email notification with a link back to the blog each time a new post is published.
Search: Type a keyword or phrase and click the Search button to get a list of posts in the left column that contain the keyword or phrase.
Archives: The Archives list indicates the number of posts for each month listed. Clicking on the link for a month will display in the left column of the page a list of the posts published that month.
Categories: This is a list of keywords used to categorize posts. Posts can be included in more than one category, if applicable. Clicking on a category link will display in the left column a list of posts assigned to the category you selected.
Navigation Bar
The Navigation Bar at the top of each page contains a link to the blog Home page and links to the following additional pages:
Welcome: A link that displays this Welcome message in the left column (and the right column). At the bottom of the Welcome message is a Comment box where you can post a general comment about the blog or ask The Council a question.
Questions & Answers: Use this link to display a list of introductions to our longer posts, most of which are responses to reader questions. This is an easy way to check out these more in-depth posts. They are listed in chronological order with the most recent post on top. Clicking on the post title will take you to the page where you can read the complete post.
Contact Us: The Contact Us page contains a contact form similar to the Comment form mentioned above. The difference between the Contact Us form and the Comment forms is that the Contact Us form is a private message to us (Cynthia and Bob). It is not posted on the blog. Comments appear on the post page where the comment is posted. The Contact Us form can be used for communicating with us about private sessions or other private matters you think aren’t appropriate for posting in a public Comment.
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