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• Our Malibu

I want to begin by thanking everyone who sent Christmas cards and millenium messages. They were appreciated. We spent Christmas and New Years in Malibu, and although we always enjoy a Southwestern holiday (our tree lights are red chili peppers) this year even our Christmas dinner was Mexican -- a variety of tamales with refried beans and all the fixings. Instead of wine, we served south-of-the-border beer in the bottle with a slice of lime in the neck.

Scott Sutphen was horrified and brought his own turkey, but the rest of our family and friends seemed to enjoy every bite. Don Tinling and Andre Burke  were among the friends who joined us. Many of you remember Don from his days of working with us at the Sedona Psychic Seminar. Today, he is attending art school, learning to create tantalizing Websites.

Patrick Smith, our Irish psychic friend, came to visit for a few days over the holidays. Richard, Hunter, Cheyenne and I took him to a Michael Martin Murphy Christmas show. (Remember the songs "Wildfire" and "Geronimo's Cadillac"?) We wanted Patrick to take an American cowboy experience back with him to Ireland. We'll post a picture Jason took of us at the office.

The American Board of Hypnotherapy convention is February 16-23 in Costa Mesa, California. This is a gathering of 400 to 500 professional hypnotists from all over the world. For the seventh year, Richard will give a keynote speech to open the convention. He'll share some of our latest research and electronic-hypnosis experiments. This year, he has a new audio concept he's been exploring -- a weird combination of theta waves combined with a delta pulse that he calls "The Zapper." I've never experienced anything quite like it.

My husband will also conduct a workshop titled "Zen Processing Techniques" at the convention on the 17th. Valley of the Sun will have a product booth. For more information about the convention, you can call, 800-634-9766.

Debra Zotti, Lindy Raesz and Don Tuft have all sent me photos from various retreats and seminars they attended in 1999. Thank you. I'll post some of the best and/or funniest.

Richard and Lindy Raesz

Redrock Crossing in Sedona. That’s one of the vortex areas in the background. Photo by Debra Zotti.

Steve Piccus, Debra Zotti and Richard outside the seminar meeting room.

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