The Anne Report brings you up to date with Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, The Easy Chair Universe, gives some new insights about how we all got here. The Healthy Living article, Food Fatigue, gives tips on how to deal with food facts when the news seems to be overwhelming. In the Anne Talk, An Alternative to Saying You Are Fine When You Are Not, Anne suggests an appropriate answer to “I’m fine.”. In today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video, It’s Easy, Fun, and Safe to Have More Money in my Life, Anne reminds us to make it easier for ourselves to accept receiving money into our life. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's 5 Books. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

The EZ Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.” -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, July 30, 2019
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Dear ,

I returned Sunday night from back to back conferences on Theosophy. They are held in Wheaton, Illinois. After years of going to the conference, I’ve never visited Chicago, but I’ve met a lot of interesting foreign drivers in the hour’s drive from the airport to the Olcott Campus.

This year the conference skipped my favorite part, the talent show. There’s only once a year that I can use my creative goofiness – at the annual summer conference. I was initially disappointed that I didn’t get my star moment, but I quickly “got over it” while attending riveting lectures and participating in deep philosophical conversations. The Universe prevails; it would have been too much, given my other duties at the conference. The conferences provided information and transformation. Mealtimes were expansive, and even though I worked in the kitchen for five days, and served as a receptionist the rest of my stay, there was always a little time for a riveting conversation on science, philosophy, and spirituality. There are not many places where one can find a conversation on ET’s, book clubs, and Krishnamurti taking place at one table.

I was privileged to befriend a group from the Netherlands, along with a smattering of people from other countries. It’s refreshing to spend time with people from different cultures. We came in many colors and sizes, cultures and accents, but there was always one heart, beating in unison, that glued us together, making us one human family. We were the epitome of unity in diversity.

The big news in the life of this grandmother is that my grandsons attended their first movie: The Lion King. Though I was not with them, my daughter said that this was the most excited she had ever seen the boys about anything. They were prepared for the loudness of the theater. Mom and Dad brought noise canceling headphones and they were familiar with the story, so they would get afraid, and they loved it. Sorry I missed the moment. Now if we can just get our home sold, so we can move to the Charleston area.

Sending hugs to you and wanting for you more EZ, less suffering, and a cool breeze. That’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

The Easy Chair Universe

I’ve just returned from two Theosophical conferences. Something unseen happens to the heart when a group of people get together, year after year, to support the evolution of human consciousness. Through a cornucopia of information and goodwill, there arises a deep compassion and an insight into the unseen. This group intention brings the infinite and finite into view, in a marriage of possibility. We are finite, but our boundaries are permeable, and they reach from sky to sky, in an expansion of love. While speaking of love can sound airy fairy (believe me, I’ve fled from some zappy, syrupy expressions of love), there is a wordless experience of this all permeating presence that is palpable when we get together. It guides us with precision, bringing with it awakening.

Barbra Streisand might croon, “Love, soft as an easy chair,” and, although love has its soft sides, it is the movement in and of all creation. Love is the ultimate power. While scientists have long pointed to a big bang or an explosion as the genesis of the universe, that hypothesis is seriously questioned by current scientists.

“The words ‘Big Bang Theory’ came from the mind of astrophysicist Fred Hoyle as a joke. In actuality, Hoyle did not believe in the theory, but believed that everything existed just because it once existed before. That may seem confusing, but it simply means that the universe, according to Hoyle, was an endless loop – no beginning/no end.”

Scientists think that the big bang theory is as plausible as any other theory, but there’s no confirmation of how we were formed. Anyone who has experienced a greater view of the Universe knows of the bliss and unity of the whole. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, is credited with saying, “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” Mitchell’s realization came when he viewed the world as one tiny part on a whole universe. (This quote is sometimes attributed to an interview in People Magazine, though my search for the source led me down the rabbit hole.)

While I did not fly to the moon this past week, I felt like Edgar Mitchell. Our gathering gave rise to a way of seeing the whole in its beauty. My theory, which is no more or less provable by current scientific consensus, suggests that love didn’t come in with a bang. If there was a beginning, it was easy-chair soft. It flowed from particle to wave, in a symphony that danced us into creation, and when I say “us,” I mean every bit of form. We are the atom and the giraffe, the mitochondria and the moon dust. Separation is a tool of the One: it facilitates Lila/Leela. Lila/Leela is the play, sport, spontaneity, or drama of consciousness, and consciousness loves to express.

I’m never attached to any theory, and, given my open-mindedness, not to be confused with confusion itself, therefore, in addition to my easy chair theory, the theory that there was no beginning of or ending to the universe or the multiverse, has mass appeal. The Universe operates in an endless, continually moving loop. That means that love is infinite, unchangeable, and immutable. It has always been and always will be.

Unfortunately, we believe ourselves to be separate and cut off from love, but in a trusted community, we can reunite with the pleasure of Being. While theories abounded in the Theosophical conference, it was the magic between the participants that was the true reason we gathered. We were bhakti in action. There was a devotion and love for the One that ignited genius, insight, and community. While some serve at the pleasure of the president or whatever authority they choose, I serve at the pleasure of the Universe, and when I meet with others of like mind, I remember. I hear an ancient call that brings harmony and peace. That’s why I am willing to be sleep deprived, to forego my daily exercise routine, to stay engaged for 17 hours a day, to use my resources, and to see through differences of opinion. It’s the call; it’s the Mumukshutva, that intense longing or burning desire for liberation, freedom, and self-realization, that impassions and gives me the circumstances, courage, and strength to join with others who stand together, on tippy toes, to see what lies beyond the known. From Socrates to Blavatsky, humans answered the call. It’s a universal call that gets lost in the complication and chaos of daily life, but when we move together, when we wipe each other’s tears, and feel the unity of all, we can’t miss the call, and when we do, everything becomes, EZier and EZier.

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  Dr. Money’s Prosperity Videos

It’s Easy, Fun, and Safe to Have More Money in my Life

Today’s Dr. Money’s Prosperity Video is It’s Easy, Fun, and Safe to Have More Money in my Life. Anne reminds us to make it easier for ourselves to accept receiving money into our life. Time: 9:53

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  Healthy Living

Food Fatigue

I am a foodie. I love to cook and eat, and I enjoy keeping up with current health trends. I get excited when I find someone who enjoys the food game and always pick up some useful information. My foodies and I speak of healthy recipes, food contamination, fasting, veganism, and research.

But sometimes there comes a point in the conversation when I glaze over. The ability to deal with a maze of food possibilities, the enormity of the dysfunction in our agricultural systems, and keeping up with the latest research, overwhelms me. After all, the soy we thought would end world hunger, brings with it a host of other problems. And I used to be a soy junkie! I get food fatigue. My changing internal reaction could have to do with a difference of opinion or because I deep dive into a vat of hopelessness.

I read Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, years ago. It scared the begeebers out of me. I became a believer in clean food. It was a no-brainer, poisoned food or non-poisoned food. Unfortunately, there are more pesticides now than ever, and foods that are concocted resemble rocket fuel. Our food systems are a mess, and talking about them at length gives me the same sinking feeling I get when I talk about politics or health care. I feel doomed. No one wants to spread doom and gloom, but the doom and gloom is already here.

Now what? Optimism does not mean denying the ugly truths of contemporary human existence. It reminds us that the bad, the bazaar, and the ugly are balanced by the good, the intriguing, and the beautiful. Should I be food optimistic? Maybe my fastidious interaction with and reaction to food is too much, but I think not.

I’ve decided to keep my beliefs and my food fetishes. When I start feeling overwhelmed in a conversation, I can change the direction of the discussion or I can be frank, “I’m getting overwhelmed about this. I’m feeling like I can never do enough or learn enough. Maybe we could go in a more positive direction.” Looking for healthier foods, cooking healthy, and talking about aspects of clean living is important to me; therefore, I will continue to have wholesome and informative discussions about food. My job is to stay aware of when food fatigue sets in, so I can continue to have a productive conversation. There’s no need to throw away something I’m passionate about because I can go to the dark side on the topic. Any conversation can go awry, and I’ve decided not to penalize myself for not being fully alert and conscious all the time. So, if you are having a conversation with me about food, watch out, it might be a roller coaster ride.

If you have any healthy living tips for the newsletter, send them to me at anne@annegillis.com.

  Anne Talk

An Alternative to Saying You Are Fine When You Are Not

Today's Anne Talk is An Alternative to Saying You Are Fine When You Are Not. Anne suggests an appropriate answer to “I’m fine.” Time: 2:20

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