| 10 Steps to Full Enlightenment |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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When one who has been enlightened speaks, there are things he can say with relative certainty--as much certainty as is possible while still in a body in this world.
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| What can be said about enlightenment? |
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| Added on 10/ 06/2009 By Al Link |
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Once you have had the enlightenment experience, you have a dilemma. When the experience recedes, you are no longer enlightened. So what do you do then?
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| The Holy Grail |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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From the experience I will draw conclusions and make interpretations of meaning, but I am doing so from memory, albeit memory profoundly affected by the illumination.
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| For the Record |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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For the record, the day of Enlightenment for Two (TM) for Al Link and Pala Copeland was Monday, January 7, 2008.
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| Not Not vs Subject/Object Consciousness |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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When trying to describe enlightenment with language, a different terminology is sometimes used, and this can be confusing to people who have never transcended the separation of subjects and objects.
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| I am nothing; I am everything. |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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I am nothing in relation to the awesomeness of enlightenment, as a candle or 25 watt light bulb is to full sunshine.
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| God is everything; everything is God. |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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In the enlightenment you realize that you are God, because God is everything and you are everything, understanding that everything is only one thing and that one thing is consciousness.
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| You do NOT |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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You are completely and unconditionally free. You are simply required to remember who you really are.
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| Just remember who you are. |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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You serve God in life by remembering God in every action. You offer every action as a meditation to remembering that you are God.
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| The radical shift of consciousness. |
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| Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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In this illuminated awareness all that you perceive, feel and think is not other than yourself, not something your separate self becomes aware of, but rather...
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| Illusion/Maya |
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| Added on 11/ 11/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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The world is real, but it has no substance.
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| Spiritual Questions - What is death? |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Death is the dissolution of that which has no substance, a simple change from one state to another, before and after a storm, a light on or a light off, take the blue suit off and put the black suit on...
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| Conformity, Attachment and Karma |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Acting from conformity (being what others want you to be) will also accumulate karma as will all addictions (e.g., money, power, food, sex, alcohol, drugs-prescription and recreational).
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| Quantum Physics and the Now Moment |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Time and space are the boundaries of the collapsed point, the now moment. This is the edge of creation, being, and becoming.
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| I don't know what I am going to do next. |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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You must fit in with the rest of the totality, whether you want to or not, whether you like that or not.
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| Nothing has changed but everything is different |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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In God-consciousness, nothing changes, but everything is different.
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| Spiritual Practice and Saving the World |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Spiritual practice does not cause enlightenment, although most typically enlightenment does follow after some sustained spiritual practice, but this is not in any way the usual cause and effect relationship.
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| Special Powers |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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The enlightenment was not mystical at all. I had previously believed that enlightenment must be mystical, as my rational mind could conceive of nothing else.
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| Recreational Drugs as a Spiritual Gateway? |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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It is possible to use recreational drugs intelligently, but this is extremely difficult to do. . .
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| Bad Karma |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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When a cloud is polluted, the rain is polluted.
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| Good Karma |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Actions which are normally considered to be moral and selfless do not accumulate bad karma.
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| Selfless Action |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Selfless has an important expanded meaning in the context of enlightenment.
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| Energy Healing to Remove Karma |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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There are a huge number of energetic healing modalities with new ones being created all the time.
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| Karma and Remembering Who You Really Are |
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| Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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The second thing you must learn in order to be free of Karma is how to remember who you really are.
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| Enlightenment for Two(TM) - A Spiritual Path for Couples |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Enlightenment was somehow assumed to be a solution to all the pain and suffering and scarcity in the world, an escape from all that was bad and wrong in the world.
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| Slaying the Ego- working with Daniel Odier |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Odier is an enlightened man and during those 6 days he did pass something to me that has influenced the unfolding of my enlightenment experience, which I believe to be Mahamudra.
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| Enlightenment for Two- Remember Me, Remember You |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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This is Enlightenment for Two(TM). We have demonstrated that sacred sexuality can be a path to enlightenment, but not in any ordinary sense of cause and effect.
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| The Circle of Enlightened Human Beings |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Perhaps a year or more just before the enlightenment experience, I had more or less concluded that the enlightenment was simply not going to be in the cards for me in this lifetime; perhaps I was just too old (born 1945), or simply not worthy (not morally
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| How do the circumstances of your life affect the search for enlightenment? |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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In the days following the enlightenment, I found myself being troubled by a similar question, "What is a real enlightened man supposed to be like?"
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| Do you need a guru? |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Part of the difficulty for seekers, is that they have virtually no way to know what is really relevant to helping or blocking them from realizing the fully enlightened state.
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| Why is enlightenment so rare? |
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| Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Beware of uncritically accepting a message that has been handed down over thousands of years, just because it has been handed down over thousands of years, even if it has been handed down from guru to disciple, one-at-a-time for thousands of years.
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| In Search of the Guru |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Each person's journey to enlightenment will be unique, will likely span decades, and the details of the personal lives of those people will rarely have much in common, other than they arrive at the same destination, the summit of enlightenment.
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| No Order of Difficulty in Healing |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Your past does not have to continue to hold you back, regardless of how serious you may think your flaws to be or how impossibly complex, difficult and sticky your issue may seem to be.
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| Dependence Upon External Authority |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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It just might be that one of the reasons (perhaps the most important reason) why enlightenment is so rare is the mistaken assumption, hardened into belief, that a guru is required.
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| Spiritual Monopoly |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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One of the reasons the belief in the necessity of having a guru is so culturally sticky, is the experience many people have when in the presence of a guru, or anyone in the enlightened state.
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| You are the Buddha! |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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If enlightenment is who you really are, then it would make sense that you could only awaken to your Self, by being yourself, not by trying to be like anyone else.
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| Points of Illumination-Jan Frazier |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Jan Frazier (wife, mother, and writer), currently living in Massachusetts, USA. She had a guru, but not one she spent any continuous time with. In her book, she does not report any active spiritual practice leading up to the enlightenment.
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| Points of Illumination-Jill Bolte Taylor |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Taylor was currently featured on the cover of Time Magazine (May 12, 2008) as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2008.
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| Points of Illumination-John Michael Christian |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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According to John, for over 10 years he was "a recluse Monk and spent his time meditating, praying, and studying spirituality, psychology, metaphysics and various healing modalities. Eventually his quest for enlightenment took him...
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| Enlightenment Threshold-Turn Your Lights On! |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Al's enlightenment, and the enlightenment of those others mentioned above, are some of the early signals alerting us to the fact that we are at an enlightenment threshold.
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| Enlightenment Tipping Point |
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| Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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The human race is ready for a collective leap forward. This is the time of the enlightenment tipping point.
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| Introduction to Carlos Castaneda |
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| Added on 06/ 29/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Carlos Castaneda is one of the five most important mentor authors who have influenced and guided Al’s lifetime spiritual quest.
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| Reality Diagram according to Kashmir Shaivism |
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| Added on 06/ 29/2008 By M. Alan Kazlev |
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Reality Diagram according to Kashmir Shaivism
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| Enlightenment Spotlight: Dr. Martin Luther King |
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| Added on 07/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Always to act from love and compassion was the message of Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela
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| On Becoming Buddha - Bob Thurman |
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| Added on 07/ 02/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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On Becoming Buddha - Bob Thurman
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| How to Live a Remarkable Life in a Conventional World |
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| Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Chris Guillebeau |
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Some very practical advice to those of you who want to stop accumulating and start burning bad karma.
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| A Simple System to Achieve Your Goals |
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| Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Paul Myers |
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A Simple System to Achieve Your Goals
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| Achieve Your Goals Workbook |
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| Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Paul Myers |
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Achieve Your Goals Workbook
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| Randy Pausch - Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams |
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| Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Randy Pausch |
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Randy Pausch - Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. Use death as an adviser? Death has a way of helping us get things sorted out; of making priorities clear.
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| Melissa Etheridge and Enlightenment |
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| Added on 07/ 17/2008 By Al Link |
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In 2004 pop star Melissa Etheridge had a battle with breast cancer and almost died. Death has a way of motivating people to change their priorities.
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