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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[SharonRae]

I Called you and left a message, for the First Time, on Sunday 21 March 2004.

I Saw your face, for the First Time, when I clicked on that 'magical' question mark.

You looked so much like me and my Mother that I fell in Like with you, for the First Time, ever.

I have yet to Meet you, for the First Time, but I think quite highly of you, already.

How Fitting that all this wonderousness should Happen, for the First Time, on the very First day of Spring!

I Trust we shall Be...come great friends, for All Time...

...and I Thank you for Be...ing You, for the Rest of Time...!!!