T.W.I.S.E.R.N.!
THE WORLD IS SO EXCITING RIGHT NOW!
The Beth Lapides Newsletter
"Did I Wake You? Haikus For Modern Living"
events I'd love to see you at
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Friday, November 18 - 7:30 PM - Borders Westwood - "Published, Produced or on their way"
Thursday, November 30 7PM -
Book Soup
Friday, December 1 - 8PM -
'Say the Word' Monday, December 4 7PM - PARTY! - Not Tuesday Dec 4, which is what I said in the last newsletter. I apologize for any confusion. My fact checking elves were out that day.
Tuesday, December 5 - The Groundlings - Scratch It - Reading night hosted by Cathy Shambly - Groundlings Teacher, UnCab Labber, benefit for Lollipop Theatre Children
Friday, December 1 - 8PM - Un-Cabaret
My guests will be Moon Zappa, Dana Gould, Greg Fitzsimons.

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DNA!
sisters are activating it for themselves

I'm going to be on the Satellite Sisters this Wednesday November 15, at 10:30 AM, XM Satellite Radio Take Five Channel 155. I love the Satellite Sisters - real sisters who believe that 'not every conversation will change your life, but any conversation can' - and not just because they said this nice thing about my book:"Our hilarious Satellite Sister, Beth Lapides returns! This time with her funny, surprising, inspirational, world-conscious, and deeply personal new book: Did I Wake You? ö Haikus for Modern Living! Beth tells all on her highly entertaining haiku collection ö she manages to dust poetry off and plug it in, making it exciting and relevant to the world today!"

I love that they have made me an honorary Satellite Sister because I don't have any genetic sisters of my own and I'm a big believer in honorary family members, and adopted families, extended families, family friends, work families, chosen families.

Of course it may turn out we are all more related than we thought. that we really are all "one". There is a lot of really exciting stuff going on with DNA that makes me say this! DNA discoveries are one of the most exciting of the exciting things in the world right now! It gives me hope, fills me with anticipation of the future we are creating with every thought. And makes me laugh too.

The funniest part is our so called "junk" DNA. They called it junk because it's the DNA they didn't know what it is for. Which is so the most know it all thing I've ever heard. We don't know what it is for, so it must be junk. And there is A LOT of it. I've read everything between 95% and 98.5%.

Now the experiments and theories begin. Why is it there? What evolutionary purpose does it serve? Some smarty pants posit that the "non-coding" DNA, which is interspersed with the "coding" DNA, makes elbow room for the "real" DNA to make mistakes. There is some evidence that there's a language buried in the junk, and this totally appeals to me in a Raiders of the Lost Ark, DaVinci Code, Egyptology way. Then again, I love shopping in thrift stores.

One thing they do know is that "the junk" is actually useful to geneticists for analyzing lineage and phylology. Could it be that that's its actual function? Or maybe it's function is to contol some ability that we aren't even really aware of yet? Something that's more important than making the building blocks. Maybe that's where love resides. So far we haven't been able to pinpoint that. Even though we know where fear lives. Maybe the "junk" is a kind of antennae? Maybe it is used for something subtle and wonderful and exciting! They really do not know.

But there are healers that are not waiting for scientists to know. There are healers who are doing something called DNA activation. I've had it done by an energy healer named Virginia Shirazzi, (thesecrethideaways.com 805-496-5175) She's done amazing work on some more obvious parts of me, back pain, sore throats etc. So I trust her. Plus when she's working on me, even over the phone I can totally feel my hands heat up and energy moving through me. Everything is energy. She says the DNA she activates is responsible for youth, vitality, immunity. I can't tell you for sure that it worked but here I am telling you it worked. Maybe that means it worked? I met a woman at a Sisterhood lunch where i was reading (yes! I'm available to speak and read at luncheons!) and she just emailed me to tell me that her DNA activation was amazingly energizing. Sisters are activating for themselves!

Finally, there's a guy named Gregg Braden who is very big on the Now Age circuit, whose written a book called The God Code . He claims to prove that God's name is written in our DNA. I saw him speak once. In Vegas, just before I had a psychic dagger removed (more on this another time) and I was weeping in joy, right there on a folding chair in a crappy lecture hall in the Venetian Hotel. There are lots of people who say it is psuedo science. They are probably right. And his pants are quite ill fitting. But there I was sobbing at the oneness of us all. And there's nothing junky about that feeling.

junk DNA according to someone who knows more than me
UNCAB LAB
We're doing two one day workshops this fall.

Sunday November 19th & Sunday Dec 10th. 2-5 PM.

You can do them as a matched set of light and brightness, a perfect one-two punch to kick your creativity into gear during these dark days ($150). Or either one, and be "in one" one day, before the year is done. ($100) Lab-curious? Audit! ($25)

$150 for both.


 

 

registration and more info

Let me know how I can help. Battling the fear machine. Living in the here and now even when the now is uncomfortable and the here kind of sucks. Breathing.

Peace, love, namaste, blessings and all that good stuff. xoxo Beth


phone: 323-993-3305
BRING A FRIEND FREE

These are times when it it is best to stay connected. Forward this email to five friends and then bring one of them to see "What Did You Get?" at the Skirball Cultural Center for free. Don't bother printing out this coupon or trying to prove you did the emails. Just email me that you're coming and I'll put you on the "plus one on beth" list. It's going to be an awesome show. Joining me will be my friends: Cindy Chupak (Sex & The City), Brian Finkelstein (The Moth and Cindy's friend), Kevin Nealon (Weeds), and one other TBD.

WIN A SIGNED BOOK OR AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF BETH ART

Log onto myspace.com/bethlapides and leave me a comment about your state of consciousness. Wide awake? Non- cognitive? Fully activated? Day-dreaming? Eyes wide shut? Desperate? Enlightened? Robotic? All of the above in a multi-tiered assemblage? Two others in a sharkskin like motif?

The winner will be picked by me, using my Bethian standards. My art is available for viewing at ghettogloss.com and can be rented for productions through them (you may have seen it on Nip/Tuck and it's going to be in the next Spiderman movie).