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Ashley Olstein

Aired Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 3:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM EST

Join Dr. Kevin and Ashley Olstein for a lively conversation with an artistic bent.

Ashley Olstein, owner of Solstice Intuitive Arts, is an eclectic Psychic Medium, Intuitive Soul Guide, Channeled Artist, Intuitive Tarot and Oracle card reader, Trance Medium and Healer, Reiki Healer/Master using Usui Holy Fire lll, Karuna and Lightarian Reiki, also an Angelic Reiki practitioner.

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A passionate instigator and dynamic problem solver. Doctor Kevin ross Emery, the host of the Doctor Kevin Radio Show. We'll be taking you outside the box, behind the curtain and identifying the load of bs we are fed every day. And now Doctor Kevin. Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the Doctor Kevin Show. It's been a little bit of an absence. I hope you guys haven't missed me too much. I know that my replays have been on for the last few weeks. I apologize for not being present. Sometimes

life happens and you just have to go with that flow. So welcome back for the first live show and over a month for the Doctor Kevin Show. You know, and here on the Doctor Kevin Show, we're always about trying to bring you a different perspective, bringing people that are weaving a web of light in the world, or making change, or just challenging us to think. You know. One of the things that I think that we are not putting enough emphasis today on is this whole idea of teaching people to think,

not what to think, but toothick toothick. And as before I introduce my guests tonight, first of all, I want to remind people that we are a live call in show. You can call in at two O two five seven H seven O five seven. That's two two five seven seven O five seven, or you can always come onto omen times and you can grab the show afterwards. But obviously you don't get to ask any questions, whether it's of me or of the guest, or if you just wanted to share some

site about the topics that we're talking about. We're always welcome to that as long as it's respectful. All we ask is that you be respectful, So feel free to call in. And you know, it's been a while since I've done a hot topic, and I'm kind of setting myself up to do a hot topic. And you know, one of the reasons is, you know, for me, the hot topic is something that either warms the cockles

of my heart or gets to be hot under the collar. And then my poor guest on the fly gets to share whatever insights or thoughts that, in tonight's case, she has about it. And I'm sure that she will have some thoughts and insights. I have great confidence that this gift will not leave us, We will not disappoint. So tonight's hot topic is about thinking.

It is a hot topic of thinking and the importance of thinking, and the importance of critical thinking, and the importance of We want to encourage ourselves and especially our children, to be exposed to a variety of thoughts, not to indoctrinate them. If you want your kids indoctrinated, well, there's a very large list of organizations, many of them churches, that I can recommend for

indoctrination. They do it well and they do it all the time. But if you want your child to ask good questions, to think for themselves, to evolve into a person who makes the world a better place, then we want to teach them how to think. We want to expose them to different things to see what works and what does it work for them. We want

to encourage them to do that. And you know, the thing is is I've been watching this and this is part of the hot under the collar part of it is, you know, we've had places like Targets that have been basically bullied by what is actually a small group of people to move their displays to the back of the store or take things down, or people have backed away because this very small but very loud, vocal angry just hateful group that

misidentify themselves often as Christians, and I do say that seriously misidentify themselves as Christians because there's nothing Christian in any of those actions are just loud enough and just concentrated enough. There have been thousands of book bands in this country this year, and it comes down to a group I believe I read it was eleven that goes back to eleven people who have organized and have sent out to their very fringe as as Papa my father always used to say religious nut cases.

That they fuel them up with the perfect package of how to get the books banned and how to get the people into the school board positions to make sure that we move this to a fascist country called Christian nationalism. But they all cyc a lot of eleven people. Eleven people are affecting millions of children's of education because they're well organized, because people are apathetic, because they're not catching them on. They have these little nifty names that they work through,

like Mums for Liberty and Christian Nationalism. Any really fundamental based religion, any of the fundamentalists of any and every religion think cult they're indoctrinating, and they're occult and they get control by working through these very, very disciplined fanatics to try to impose their view of God and the world and how things should be on everybody else. And they do it by slipping people into school boards and into positions of power in local towns and cities. And but it's it's a

small group. It is not the majority of Americans, and it is certainly not the majority of Christians. Poor Christians. The religion has been taken away from them and turned into something horrible by these loudmouth freaks. And we need to speak up. So why am I hot under the collar? I'm not a Christian, never have been, wasn't raised as one. But I love

a lot of Christians. I know a lot of Christians. I know people who actually act like Christians, and they're beautiful people, and they're getting screwed over by these jokers, and they need to speak up, and we need to speak up that we are not going to let them take away our democracy, our right to read, and our childer's right to be who they are. So that's my hot topic. Nothing heavy, nothing big, nothing.

I'm sure that today's guest won't be able to have some kind of comment at I mean, you know, I just thought i'd start back slowly now that I'm back on air after my small ansence with just a tiny, tiny little issue that's going on today. Today's guest is Ashley Olstein. She's the owner of Solstice Intuitive Arts. She's an eclectic psychic medium, Intuitive soul guide,

channeled artist, intuitive tarot Taro and oracle card reader. She's a trance medium and healer, raiky healer master using Yasue, Holy Fire, three Kruna and literian raiki. Also an angelic racky practitioner. I know Ashley personally, and I always love it when I get to bring on and highlight people that I personally know are doing really good work in the world. Ashley, welcome,

Thank you. Dr Kevin happy to be here. So I know, because we have talked about it, you are not a political person, but this was not actually a political conversation. So any thoughts on the book banning or any of the things I said, I'm sure there's something you must have to add to them. Well, I have a lot of feelings about a lot of it. You know, I'm a mom. I have two daughters, they're adults. But I'm seeing a shift in the schools and even around here,

there's just a little bit of a shift and an intolerance. You know, they have this blanket of tolerance that you know, we understand and everyone's welcome, and I think that that's just this blanket that goes over and in actuality there's a lot of intolerance and judgment. And I'm talking more about the less about the book bands and more about letting kids be who they are and

expressing themselves as who they want to be. Well. And you know, part of it is that there is so much of this thing is being done in a really bullying way. It's really bullying. I mean some if you watch any of these video clips or some of these stuff, they're such bullies. And you know they're going after, you know, drag queens, and they're going after transgender and they're going after minorities, and they're going off this

with a holier than now high and mighty something up there, whatevers. But they're bullies. They're just horrible bullies, and they're horrible examples that just a few years ago we were doing all of these anti bullying campaigns and now we have all of these bullies on school boards and trying to control flash room than all of this stuff. So it does kind of shake me up a little bit that they have gotten so seeded and gotten so much power when they really

are such a minority. But you know, that's what happens. A minority gets in power, and then different powers the majority who are not paying attention, and before you know it, all of the all of the the cards are stacked against you, and people are you know, making voting more difficults and speaking out more difficult and and and everybody's in league with the devil that doesn't agree with them. So speaking about league in league with the devil,

how's your relationship with the devil these days? Actually? Uh, you know, we're doing okay, we're doing okay. I keep he keeps an eye and I keep an eye on him. No, they always say better the devil, you know, than the devil. You don't, right, exactly exactly. I tend not to think about the devil much. Actually, Oh okay, Well you know what can I say? Uh? I kind of uh, I try to. I try to keep my eye on the real

devil and then ignore ignore all of the fake ones. Oh that beyond said, talk to me, so tell me a little bit about where you would like to take our listeners outside the box of anything you want, you know. Uh, I like to open this up to my guests to choose what insight would they like to share with our listeners. Um quintally has a lot to do a clear um. What I love to kind of dive into is how robotic and closed off most people are right now, they're going through the

oceans. Majorities they're kind of not paying attention and the minority gets this chance to this kind of cheap mentality of needing to get to no thought about what's happening in the moment. It's all about getting to the next place, thing the next So you're breaking up a little bit. I don't know if it's me or if it's you. Okay, so I got what you said about

the robotic and just all trying to get to the next place. Did you pick it up from there for yep, and just trying to get to the next saying instead of being in the moment and really just in the present moment, as you know, instead of just moving forward, I'm relocating about breaking up. By the way, Yeah, you are still breaking up a little bit. But we heard you know, you know, about getting to the

next moment. And it's it's interesting because I think that you know so many One of the things that I'm going to tie what you're saying up into what

we were saying before is the bullying. Oftentimes bullies are looking for something that makes somebody unique or different because obviously, especially the way that we socialize, in the way that our current school systems work, fitting in and being part of the right crowd, being popular is everything, and being unique and quirky is a sin unless it's done in just a way where you get to be your own little mini leader. Which is that fine line makes sense? Yes,

I agree so on that. I look at it as the quirky outside of the quirky, you know, it's this robotic, this kind of I want to be part of the in crowd. I want to be part of the light, which means I have to be normal, and we punish the people who aren't normal because they have the nerve to not be normal. So does that make sense? Very much, very much? And you know, another way to look at it as opposed to the nerve to not be normal, but the gumption to not be normal, the brave, the bravery So

are you so you wanted to talk about this? Do you do you have some thoughts about how do we solve this or how did this happen? Or how do we address this? Um? You know, I I think that how it happens. I think that technology, every you know, forward motion that we've made has made us into this mass of movement. We want the next thing. It's always something bigger, better, flash air. So people are always trying to achieve that next step rather than really just enjoy what's right

there in front of them. Um, you know, I think that people should take more time to get quiet with themselves, to really just be right now, because that's all that there really is. They just need to enjoy themselves in that moment. Yeah, and you know when people need to be in the now but also be aware of who they are and how are they experiencing the now? Does that make sense? Yeah? So when we look at that, it sounds like the first step is a commitment to not be

normal fair enough? Is that what I'm hearing you say? Um? Well, what's normal really when you feel that back? But yes, to not be a sheep, to not just want to fit in and be like everybody else to embrace your uniqueness. Well, and so some of them some of like uniqueness. Some of what helps helps us discover our uniqueness. Like, let's say, something that may help us discover that we are really good at doing high coups is to know what a high coup is. Yes, So

that means you have to be exposed to a hi q hi coup. Yes and yeah. And I think in a lot of situations, keep the children and people aren't being exposed to all of the options out there. They're just closed off in a little bubble. So I'm going to run a theory by you, and you are not all obligated ever to agree with me. In fact, I love people who disagree with me, and I love people who agree with me because you know, in general, I just love people.

Is with some notable exceptions that I'm very proud of, anyways, is when we became math and science obsessed, when we downgraded English, and when we started eliminating the arts and creativity as as viable parts of a curriculum. I think that that was the doorway that led to what with the problems we are having today? What do you think? I think that's a really interesting perspective

I hadn't really thought of it in those terms. But as much as I want to disagree with you about something, this isn't it, I would agree with you because it's in creativity that we find our uniqueness. Yeah, And I think that's something that's missing for a lot of younger people. I think that it's it's extinguished in the educations that we're providing right now. Yeah. I mean we've we've we have this thing where now we're trying to limit the

variety of books they can read. Before we were eliminating the creative experiences they could have. And we've never allowed them to be intuitive beings. We've never talked to them about actually being you know, not religion, but being something that is more than the physical body. Right. Yeah, I think it's a big, a big miss there. That's a missed opportunity to be you know, expanded full human beings, less emphasis on the human part, but

on the being's part, to really step into your full self. Well. And also, I mean some of the programs that they're attacking and they're closing down or they're saying are bad, is teaching kids to be empathetic or sensitive like that has no place in the school system. You know, there are there are school systems that have have challenged and thrown those programs out inappropriate to teach kids how to be sensitive and compassionate to discipline in Yeah, so we're

kind of dancing around a lot of topics here. But what I'd like to do now is I'm gonna put this show in reverse for a second, and I'm going to have you share a little of how did you become all of these things I listed at the beginning? How did you become this intuitive soul artist, healer? Wow? What share? Share? How did your spiritual

journey? Unfauld? Oh? Sure, so? I think you know, I come from an intuitive line of women, and when I was younger, I was more tuned in and I actually just embraced what it was, never knowing it was different. Well, it was just kind of what was normal in my family with my mom, my aunt, my grandmother. But then flash forward to becoming an adult and getting married and having children, it became less important and it actually I kind of liken it to going to sleep,

that part of me just an underground for a while. Around midlife. It came back pretty aggressively in a in a insatiable curiosity is how mine began. Where I really just wanted to know everything, and I got so excited by remembering this part of myself that had been shut down for so long. And so this insatiable curiosity just brought me to all kinds of classes, the mentors and workshops, and I really just tried to experience everything and figure out where

felt the most like home. And what I was finding was kind of all of it feels like home. I consider everything that I'm learning to be a tool in my toolbox, and it collectively is becoming who I am and what I enjoy doing well. And it's so interesting because you said the term, you know, remembering, and I always like that coming together of to remember is to put the member back together. And just like when we talk about healing, to heal is to make whole, and there is there is a

very harmonious energy that those concepts overlap. That we're born with an insatiable curiosity to explore our wholeness until at some point that wholeness starts to get chopped into acceptable and unacceptable pieces. Okay, yeah, and so a lot of times

and I'm going to see if this is also your experience. I know in my experience, in my work, a lot of times it is about helping people to remember who they were before it was shut down, stolen, taken away, matt made bad, you know, in their childhood, to bring back that insatiable curiosity to understand who, all at what being all of the needs like, it's a journey to discover that wholeness. That remembering is trying

to put all of those parts of myself together. Yeah, yeah, good, No, I'm sorry, go ahead please, I was just going to say that in my experience as well, that would be almost definitely the majority, almost one hundred percent of the people that I'm working with. It's that remembering, showing them who they really really are when they stripped back all of those parts and pieces that were put on through schooling, education, society, you know, family, all of that. Just peeling that back and really

seeing who's underneath there. Yeah, you know, as you heard me say at the beginning in my hot topic, one of one of my favorite words right now is indoctrination and the amount of indoctrination we get to be other than

who we are, to be fit into somebody else's mold. So I know that you have a couple of different things that are coming up for you, and we're going to talk about those when we come back, and we're going to talk about how they're tying together everything we've been talking about this in the first half of the Doctor Kevin Show. We'll be right back here with Ashley old Steen. Remember live calling two seven five seven. Feel free to hop

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the stuff going on. She is the owner of Solstice Intuitive Arts, an eclectic psychic medium, Intuitive Soul Guide, channel artist, Intuitive touret oracle reader, and blah blah blah blah. I'm not gonna go through the whole thing. Come to Facebook, Come to the Doctor Kevin Show Facebook page and like the page and you can read about it and see the link to find her. And I realize and I write up, we don't have the link of where to find you? So where do people find you? That makes it

tricky? I can be found at www. Dot Solstice intuitive Arts with an

S on the end, dot com okay. I could also be found on Facebook, Instagram, same name solist Intuitive Arts, Thank you great, so and so solsistem Intuitive Arts, Facebook, at Instagram, at dot com it and you will find miss Ashley. So we've we've been talking about some stuff with um, the damage that shows up that creates these robotic people you talked about that are just kind of focused on some kind of oftentimes not authentic goal.

I feel like there's a there's a lack of authenticity when you have been so alienated from being able to explored this, discover, embrace, love, be in relationship with your authentic self because basically it doesn't fit quote unquote the norms of whatever your upbringing and environment in school, indoctrinations of all kinds created would you say that's a fair summary so far. Yeah, I do. So we spot it out a number of different problems, and I know you

have some solutions. So I'd like you to talk about some of the stuff and how it works in to help people step more into this more connected remembered he whole intuitive spiritual being. Tell me about some of what you're doing that leads to that. Sure one of the things that I have been developing with spirit they get more credit than I do. So my spirit team, which you know, spirit guides, loved ones, have kind of nudged me in a different direction than I thought I was going. Um, I was doing

some channeled art for clients and for myself. In that I would meditate and create a piece of art for sitter or the like. It's morphed from there through again nudgets from my team where I would have a sitter or a group

of sitters and I would teach them how to get quiet through meditation. I lead them through meditation, I get them more in the present moment and through that energy that that meant tality or lack of mentality actually, because this is really just checking your conscious mind off to the side and allowing your subconscious and your spirit to shine through in that space. I've encouraged people to create their own paintings, so using color, movement, texture with paints on canvas and

allowing their soul to make a creation. And it's not anything about the outcome of the piece, it's really the process. A lot of people feel like they're going to be judged and a person next to me can paint better than I can, or I've never painted before, and they feel intimidated. The outcome really isn't the important part. It's all about letting your soul express itself

through the paint. And it's been a lot of fun. Well you know one of the other key elements, And of course we were we were laughing. M Ashley and I cross Path last week and my I'm gonna say it, my husband Jeff is so notoriously bad at drawing and sketching that he was he was helping out with a Sunday school class of toddlers and they were doing drawing and he brought his drawing home and proved once again why his family refuses

to have him on a team of fictionary um uh as as as. He quickly informed me that the toddlers had had better drawings than he did, but brought me home the picture and it's very proudly on my refrigerator. I just wanted to be known, and I said, I said, you know, you know, I know that you've got a class coming up, and if somebody is going to have this level of our artistic block, because I know he's artistic, he's creative everywhere else, so I know it's a block.

But if again at this level, can you still help them and can you share what you told me? Oh? Absolutely, he'd be my favorite client because or consider because he has the bravery to show you the picture that he made even though he felt that it wasn't good enough, and so he has it all there. He just needs to take away the feeling of judgment or

criticism because it's it's not about that at all, you know. I think one of the key things I didn't hear you reference that I want to bring out and again, you know, you know, knowing you and have spent time with you in other situations and gatherings and stuff like this is I think one of the key things that has made this class. When you offered and we haven't actually talked about what the class is, because I know you have one of these coming up in July, but is it is a crossover not

only in non judgment, but safety. And I feel that some of the energy that you bring, Ashley is an environment that allows people to feel safe and therefore not only to be vulnerable, but to step into that intuitive channel and flow and feel like this is a place where they can do it and holding that kind of energy. I mean, we've all had a bad teacher in our past. While it's a great teacher, but we've all had the

bad teacher. We've all had the experience where somebody either looked at the drawing or looked at something we did and basically made us feel like we should apologize to the world for ever thinking we could do whatever it was, or that we're stupid or that we have no creativity. And so I think that part of the important thing you do is not only help them connect, but it's the important that you create the safety of the space. Could you talk about

that a little. I'm sure I love how you put that, so thank you. In the workshops that we've been doing, there definitely is this feeling of community because the people that come have a moment, several moments to get to know each other a little bit and just get a little bit more comfortable. And then through the course of the workshop, you know, they really start to feel this lack of criticism. Nobody's looking over their shoulder, and

nobody's judging what they're making. It's just just encouragement and the space. You know, we try to bring the vibration up so that you know, everyone just has this feeling of peace and healing throughout the workshop. So now I know that now you have are a few different versions of this you teach along the way. Correct, Yes, okay, so um, but I know

that you have one coming up in July. Can you tell us a little bit about like what this particular class is the title where like you know and who who that's in our listening audience would go, oh, that's that that would be the class for me of course. So, um, this class is going to be held in Nashville, New Hampshire. Um, it's in July. And for this group, it's the type of people just like your husband, who have a feeling of you know, I'm not a good artist.

I don't want to feel judged. Um, but everybody in their No one's a professional. Everybody is just going for the actual experience of the meditation, which is how we started all raising the vibration, feeling kind of held in the space and secure, safe, peaceful feeling and then allowing their soul

to um to hain't using colors. So this is a pretty um, straightforward workshop that we're going to do in July, where there's there will be more advanced options from there, but this is going to be more of a introduction or a beginner type of workshop where people can really get to feel what it's like the let go of that outcome. Now. So it's in Nashville, New Hampshire, and I find it's interesting that it is actually at a place called Positive Street Arts, So it's actually at an art center, not a

quote unquote spiritual center, but an art center. Correct. So again, what's the name of the sexual workshop? This actual workshop is the it's the Art of letting Go. So um, it's is channeling your soul through art, the art of letting go. So you're allowing yourself to to channel your spirit, your soul through meditation, the art of letting go. I love it, And you said, July, what this one is on July. I don't have my calendar right in front of me, so I don't it's

the bear with me the sixteenth. I didn't want to give you the wrong date. I knew it was in the teens, so July sixteenth. And it's in the middle of the day from twelve to three, so that everyone has time to do their thing in the morning and still get home in time for dinner and family time. It's in a beautiful space. The Positive Street Arts Workshop is a gorgeous space and with lots of beautiful light, so it's

a really peaceful, lovely space to spend some time. So can you You know so now you work both as a psychic intuitive healer, but you're also a professional artist. Is that not true? I don't know if I would call myself a professional artist, but I love that you think that. So yeah, I consider myself an artist. But it's really from my soul, you know. I was. I could draw when I was younger, but the paintings that I do now are I would consider to be child. Okay,

well you have just invited me to have some fun. Oh dear, that's all right. My audience is used to that. You won't be the first guest that I've decided to have some fun with because you know, we all, none of us walk out of this reality without carrying the weight of our you know, again, we're going to use my word of the month or the week of the day of the quarter without using without you know,

being indoctrinated to a certain way. And it's so funny because one of the ways we got indoctrinated actually just really showed up with you and defining the fact that it was intuitive art, which in some ways I think all art has an intuitive quality that somehow it didn't make you a real artist. Huh, that's quay not different to me, very good, I think, you know. And the thing is, we all do it. We all look and say, hey, we were defined certain things were or were not considered artistic.

And one of the things that's so important out there for all my listeners to remember, as I tease my guests, who I'm sure will never come back on the show again after I do this tour, is this whole idea of subjective versus objective. And you know, art is just an expression of creativity where you are, where you are in union with your own divine self, and so you, and you and your own divine self created it. It's art. It counts boys and girls out there. You're right, it

does. I am a work in progress. Sometimes I will sell myself short. That's um one of my limiting self beliefs that I'm trying to work through with art, among other things. Well, and I think that that's another interesting thing. And it's one of the reasons I love what you're doing.

You know, I'm a big fan, and and you know, and part of the reason I'm such a big fan is that we need people that are out there not just doing it, but also being honest about their journey that they too, even now, sometimes can struggle a little bit like, you know, well, it's not like I'm a I'm not like Michael Angelo. I'm not a Rembrand, I'm not a what of her? Well, honey,

that's good. Those roles were taken. You can't have them think it's good to be at Ashley Olstein. But I think it's important for our listeners too. You know, so often teachers, people who put themselves up as teachers put almost almost feel like they have to come across as if they've mastered everything. Instead of saying, hey, I'm on my path of mastery. And in this path of mastery, yeah, I still have my struggles.

There are places I still go yeah, you know, and and but that makes that teacher not only a good teacher, because then people don't feel like they're kind of like, oh, yeah, well, of course it's easy for them. They've got it all figured out. I'm struggling. If you go, hey, you know, the teacher struggles sometimes sometimes the teacher makes stuff like that that the teachers on this journey and they're a place on the journey where I can learn and be on a better place on my journey.

I think anything time you think that you've found a teacher that is perfect it has evolved, you're probably being scammed. Yes, agree, I will be forever learner, for sure. You know, I will never be a complete I learned something every time I work with somebody else, I learned something from them, so and constantly, constantly on that path. And that's what makes

the best teachers. I always say when I go into classes, the difference between the student and the teacher is the student theoretically knows what they're in there to learn, and the teacher never knows what they're in there to learn. That's true, and so I know that every class I've ever taught has something

to teach me. And if I can stay connected and I will even say a word people most don't don't don't usually associated with me, humble humble it um, then with every class I teach, I end up being a better teacher for the next class. That's definitely. So we talked about the problems at the beginning that you took us on about people living in kind of a robotic, disconnected way. We talked about connecting more with their intuitive which you

do through this class, helping them to open up to intuitive flow. Do you feel like you also do that in your practice. Oh yeah, definitely. One thing I wanted to mention also, which kind of just takes one

step backwards, is about working with kids. And that's something that I'm really interested in doing in my next steps, and teaching children the same type of thing to get quiet, to not feel judged or intimidated by any of you know, any creative process they want to endeavor, but to really just learn how to tap into themselves. I'm excited to try that with younger people because

I think that will be kind of an explosion. I think if they can actually touch into that, it will it will grow exponentially very quickly for them, which will be exciting to see well. And I think I think that part of this is about having a better definition that there is a skill that part of art that can be very helpful. As one of my great teachers where she said, and it was you know that also you know that all structure was created to transcend, but one cannot transcend what one does not have.

And I think learning all of the basic skills of art can be very helpful for some kinds of artists, for some not so much. But from

there it's just like with a musician. Some of the most fabulous, you know, intuitive musicians all studied all the classics, you know, all of the absolute ways in which things were done and built on it, and so art is it's it's that what makes one of the things that makes art your art is not developing and perfecting a skill set, but is to take whatever skill set you have and look at art like an interpretive dance, that it's

your interpretation of whatever it is, your drawing, and it's not about the skill set the skill set, it's something you're learning you don't learn. Some people will never have to be able to draw our straight line. Some people will never be able to walk a straight line. Hell, but with a beautiful path that is yeah. But so it is about that fact of taking that and that's why I love you want to work with kids to say, hey, yeah, we can talk about drawing a stick figure and you can

practice all you want, and there's some great things. And here's some body mechanic charts and they're going to tell you how to draw a perfect face or a perfectly aligned stuff. But it doesn't become your art until it becomes interpretive, until it is the unique reference inventation of you. Now. The other thing we talked about was book banning, and I know that you've got some stuff going on with books yourself. You want to talk about that a little

bit. The sure thing. I also have been hosting a monthly book club, and this is a metaphysical book club where will pick a book and dive into it and have you nice discussion about the topic, you know, dujure. So every month has been a different book. Some have been about signs and symbols that you get from spirit. We did Acartoli's The Power of Now, which I found to be really profound. I hadn't read it until recently, which I'm glad I did, and I think that it's helping me with

a lot of the ways. It's actually giving me a definition for the ways that I've been stealing. So he gave me some words to describe vibe how I feel about living in the momentum. And so this month we are doing Mitch Album's book called The Stranger in the Lifeboat. It's a it's a quick read. We figured for this summer it would be nice to do a shorter book and but it's got a lot of content and it will be a very

exciting discussion. I think that it's about the belief of God, and you can exchange the word God for anything that works for you, divine source, Allah, whatever, but just that that higher power, and it's about believing in it wholeheartedly. Well, on this show, we all know my favorite, The Great Pumpkin. I always you know, I thought The Great Pumpkin was kind of like rocking it. So now again and give us Facebook, Yeah, because if they do Facebook, if they do Instagram, if they

do a website, they're going to go where. So if you go to www dot Solstice Intuitive Arts dot com. Uh, they're sign up there for the monthly book club. You can go to New Hampshire Metaphysical on their calendar. That's New Hampshire Metaphysical dot com. There's a sign up there as well, and my Facebook is under Solstice Intuitive Arts and there are links, etc um there so you can get the book of the months. And I do take suggestions. By the way, if anybody has a book they want to

dive into, I would love to hear about it. I would certainly consider it. I also happened to know and I just want to remind people that New Hampshire Metaphysical is nh Metaphysical dot com. That Ashley is going to be a reader at our Psychic Arts fair in July. And now I'm the one with my pants down because I don't have the date off the top of my head. I'm thinking this around the twenty second, but I'm not sure. But if you go to nh Metaphysical dot com you can see and Ashley will

be there offering in person readings all day. That's in Nashville, New Hampshire, and it's actually at the same location. For those of you who may have joined us at our last fair that her workshop is going to be Ashley, thank you for coming. I hope you have enjoyed it. I have. Thank you so much for having me. Okay, we'll be back next week. With his UH planetary Influences was Rob Stewart here on The Doctor Kevin Show

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