Maran Banta

I came to the planet to tell stories and to listen from my heart to the stories of others. There is healing in sharing our stories.

I am a Coach at FoggWorts Academy, the School for NetWork Marketing Magic.

You really need to ask me more about that ;-)

The path that brought me to this fabulous place in my life included a 30 month apprenticeship  where I have worked and studied with my good friend and mentor John Milton Fogg.

My apprenticeship included an intensive focus on listening and shipbuilding.

Learning to listen has been exhilerating!
Making my receiving mind a blank canvas, stepping away from any sense of agree or disagree.

People show up as pretty amazing and exciting when they are listened to in that way.
Miracles are the natural consequence.

Education - once I realized that my History Major was going to qualify me to be a great waitress and trivia champion I decided to study what I really love, and it was on to Art School.

Started with being a Fiction Major at Columbia College in Chicago.

Totally fun.

Went on to study Photography at the School of Fine Art - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Income Tax Practitioner since 1971 Specializing in Home Based Business Returns - of course!

Portrait and Fine Art Photography has paid the rent for the past 20 years.

My spiritual practice has always played a major role in my life.

Raised in a mainline church, that practice simply stopped working for me in my early twenties.

That started a wintery period and I knew that I had to look for what truth was to me.

Prayer and study are a daily part of my life and have been on a consistent basis since June 10, 1984. That is the day I received Gojukai, or took Buddhist vows.

I grew up taking so many things for granted.
I thought I knew how to breathe until I was in my mid-twenties and actually learned how.
So simple, so basic, allow the lungs to fill and expand fully and then allow all of the breath to expell.
Breathing properly makes such a huge difference!
So does the water we drink.
I know that when I am breathing consciously, slowly, deeply and drinking enough good, clean water I feel better, less stressed, mentally sharper, so I like to encourage others to adopt these simple habits.

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Comments

[moonchildiva]

Maran, how I loved that phrase "wintery period" - you sound full of wisdom to me, and your life is totally interesting!

[Mary K]

MARAN -- You are magnificent because you ARE, indeed, a "sun-kissed" Diva --

AND it's really not 'ADD'...it's 'AOD' (attention over-drive) :-)

Who you are is Magnificent!

love,

~~Mary K

[Patricia Vernor]

Great,so refreshing

[Mary K]

Ahhhhhhhh...my adored 'StoryCatcher' --

I speak boldly for myself and the entire Universe when I say...

ROCK ON, Beautiful Maran...ROCK ON!!!!!

There IS MORE than Much Love for you here!! :-)

--Mary K

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"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
~~Peter Pan

[Bruno Matle]

G'day Maran:

Seasons Greetings and abundant magnificence to you, ambassador or hope and change :) I have never met you, just got here from a magical link in an email ? Box.
I have to say you sound totally on your path and very empowered, Its great to have been able to "meet" you , even though only through this medium, I still get a very powerful feeling of growth , focus, and clarity from you. I am very glad to you to have followed your dreams and goals to become the amazing *You* that you are.
Seasons Greetings
Have a Great Day
Bruno
Live Free, Be Life

[Hosain]

I thought you have a great collection of photos, which really is interesting to see, Maran Banta

[Rel]

Hey Maran,
Just stopped by to wish you Happy Holidays and a Wonderful New Year!!!

You deserve it!

Peace and Love,
Rel

[nejh]

You are Magnificent because every molecule, every air particle and every wonderous combination known to mankind has been forever changed and transformed by your capacity of your heart to open up with love and kindness. Just be sharing yourself and your innermost desires you stir up the cosmos to slowly trickle down into the atmosphere sweet vanilla and chocolate kisses loaded with coconut sprinkles full of love, joy and compassion.

Peace

Nejh

[Mary K]

Well THAT was such FUN!!! I KNEW it was
you, I knew it was you....Accomplishment, Beauty, Talent, and an ASS-KICKIN Laugh!!!!

Who else COULD it be?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Shiny YOU!!!!

Love ya,

--Mary K

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[Scott]

Hey Maran, so we meet again ;-) It's been such a long long time since you were my call partner and I see much has changed for you, and yet much is the same. I do recognize though that there has been great growth and even more wisdom than before. The comUnity has grown and surely spread it's wings and I'm sure many will be pleased to have met you and shared with you. Thank you for all that you've given me. Even though much time has passed I often recall the breakthroughs you helped me achieve. I am complete ;-)

[Mary K]

Ah my beautiful Coach --

Learning to listen IS being exhilirating...
thanks for modeling through your BEing....
such Magnificence!! :-)

much love,

--Mary K

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[Mary K]

"I came to the planet to tell stories and to listen from my heart to the stories of others. There is healing in sharing our stories."

You did...You do...and I'm so deeply grateful for the healing in sharing with you Maran ~~

You ARE Magnificent!

love,
--Mary K

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[Diva Carla]

Maran you are magnificent because you can turn Hurricanes! And we'll know in the next couple of days just what way you turned Frances...

away from Florida?

Into a party!

Into a Magnificence-fest of helping folks who just couldn't get out of her way...

Take care, stay dry, and write when the coast is clear!

love,
Carla

[Val White]

Happy Happy Magnificant Day - Dear Delightful Goddess of the Universe!

Your smile reigns sunshine and love on all who chance to be in the moment with it and you.

Love and Thanks for your friendship along
the journey of being human :).

Hugs,

Val

[Mary K Weinhagen]

Ooohh Maran....

Still showing up as Magnificent!!!

I adore that about you :-)

--Mary K

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Celebrating Abundance!!!

[Nejh]

Hi Maran

Congratulations on your new house. I affirm and witness your abundance to create a new house of warmth and beauty where all God's creatures can have a home. Well maybe not all God's creatures (smile).

Peace, Joy and Love
Nejh

[Diva Carla]

Hi Diva maran!

Where are the pictures of your house? Closing soon? Best wishes, and I do owe you a house blessing. Are you making the tiles yourself?

Best wishes!
You are magnificent because you are manifesting a smooth move (oops!)and you are asking your friends to share, and that is inspiring!

Carla

[Mary K Weinhagen]

Whoo Hoo!!!! And the house is BEAUTIFUL!!!!

I'm dancing in celebration of Banta Abundance! :-)

Rock on...my sparkling Friend...

You are sooooooooooooo Magnificent! Blazing the
trail just to prove it's attainable ~~~

Thank you with Love --

~~Mary K

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[Velma Gallant]

Here's my blessing to you.

May your life be continually filled with Abundant Love.

Here's some from me to you...Love you dearly!

Velma

[Hosain]

Hi Dear Maran

I see your beautiful face, extand beyond your big heart. I appreciate your indefatigable efforts throughout your life. Your eyes betray your deep heart.I also have read some of your allusions in MDi's thread, and smiled. I hope we will be reliable friends in building and living.
Thank you for all.

With Love

Hosain

[Velma Gallant]

Beautiful Maran...

Your beauty extends beyond your lovely face.

Your eyes are beautiful, for they see things that others don't...but you allow us to see them by taking a picture. You share your beautiful eyes.

Your heart is beautiful, for it sees things that other's don't...but you allow us to see them by taking a picture. You share your beautiful heart.

My dearest Maran, you are magnificent, because you...and every inch of you...are so beautiful!

Hugs,

Velma

[Allen Smith]

Hello. Allen Smith here of Rainbow Didge Music.

I'd like to tell you how much I love you, admire you, miss you, feel your worthiness and all of that……..; but I can't. Not in the sense that the "you" I'm talking about here is your personality self or what I'd call the "little you." It's similar to "mini-me."
You see, I don't know your "mini-me" self. I've never met the part of you that has agreed to pretend to be infinitely limited or separate from the rest of "YOU."
I really have no personal attachment to the "little you" or even a clue as to whether I would even like you or resonate with you at all or agree with the things you do or choose. Until now, you have not even been in my personal "story" and did not matter to me in the least. Get it? No matter. (meaning, you did not "materialize" in my world.)
I love some of the characters in my world, I like some, I dislike some, I'm afraid of some and I feel many things for others in my world. But if they are in my world, they all "matter" to me. Until now. You did not.

There is however, a connection between us. You see I know the "complete you." I've met what I call the "Big You." A couple other labels I have for this total package of you is the "Mighty You" or, in personal grammar, "The Big Me." I'm into "Big-a-Me." Or Mighty Me. So there is THE BIG ME & the mini me.
From this "BIG" perspective, I know YOU because I know ME, that is, the me that is you. Which really, is all of it. So now that I'm done having fun with myself (you), I can get to our point.
I LOVE YOU WITHOUT LIMIT. I SEE YOU, I KNOW YOU. I YEARN FOR YOU, I REFLECT EVERYTHING I AM TO YOU & YOU TO ME. The EYE of me that is the total YOU gives you complete permission to take up space in any creative reality that we choose. But a reminder to the mini-me aspects of ourselves; - You are not Free from anything for there is nothing to be free from; or of. There is the ONE. The "ISness." You have no choice separate from the one. Not one nanosecond or Pico meter squared exists outside the ONE. Yet as the one, we have complete choice, complete free form, complete responsibility (ability to respond) over every aspect of the one. We are the center of our own universe. We exist in complete seeming paradox. Yet there is none. If any part of us thinks that our mini-selves are in charge, well, that will eventually be straightened out and put into proper perspective. But our mini selves in alignment with our "MIGHTY" selves is pure truth, pure awareness, nirvana, in the zone, elightenment, fathomless satisfaction, infinite orgasm, beyond plausible peace. And yet, in my own imaginations of the limitless limits, I find nothing more amazing than existing in what appears to be limited form in a limited world with limited rules. Ahhhhh, the mini-me of ME. Making our way back to the Big ME. Bending then breaking the rules, seeing each others limited perspectives then going beyond. The ecstatic nature of the internal/eternal lava lamp of self re-creation. Of play.

So again, My BIG self loves you as there is no other. YOU are truly marvelous. However, my mini-me sometimes wonders if I am worthy to play with all the other mini-me's in the sandbox. Some might not like me. What if I don't like them? Do I deserve to take up space in this game? Does society want me or you? Do we fit in? Will you love me? Do I love you? Can anything be trusted to be abiding from "within" the game perspective? My Big ME perspective says "trust in the abiding emaculate beloved creator of the game and enjoy the play." Yet we are so good in the pretending I see we still get lost in the parts. Big Me says "All is as ordered."
So welcome to my sandbox fellow mini-me. I still only know of you through colored pixels on a computer monitor. I play in imagination and draw from expectations, patterns & memories to piece together my picture of you. What a game! For truly, I already know you. From the Big perspective I have already seen your face. No kidding. In a lucid dream I once had in the game of time years ago, I asked spirit, "Who am I?" It answered in a wordless wry smile from one of my dream characters that quickly hid around a corner then peaked out suddenly as a different face. Then hid again. Then peaked again as another different face. It went faster & faster & faster into a cosmic blur of remembered faces. Pure soul satisfaction and infinite gratitude filled my being as I faded back into my prevailing resident game experience.
Inlakesh. I believe it means "I am another you or You are another me." Amazing. Just amazing. Peace. Allen (Clarion)

[Diva Carla]

Welcome to the spotlight Magnificence Ambassador!

You are magnificent because you have enthusiasm! Enthusiasm is a big basket word that holds passion, fun, action, commitment, openness and so very much more, and then spills it out, sprinkles it like pixie dust all over every one (ok, only on the ones that believe in fairies!)

And you know what we do when we get a little pixie dust on us? We FLY!

Thanks Maran for your magnificence!

Diva Carla ( heading to a dinner date in Albuquerque on Wednesday!)

[Hosain]

Hi

MaranBanta I saw your pages, saw some of your pictures, read your poems. I hope you will guide me to build my site.

Best Regards

Hosain

[Mary K]

Maran the Magnificent!!!

Ah, my magical friend and coach...

You dazzle with your dancing eyes

...and the world sings along!

...Naturally :-)

So of course I find you here as a
Magnificence Ambassador -- and I delight
in the healing as I read your story.

Thank you with LoVe --

--Mary K

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