We just finished watching these Peter Santenello videos of the devastation and cleanup going on still, nearly 8 months after hurricane Helene ravaged parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The scale and scope of the destruction is staggering.
There are multiple perspectives within this multifaceted story:
Peter Santenello talks with a variety of locals, as well as volunteers and contractors who have been helping cleanup after hurricane Helene.
Peter Santenello – continues talking with anyone and everyone still recovering after hurricane Helene.
Hurricanes
We lived through many hurricanes and tropical storms in the nearly 40 years Richard and I lived in Florida. We never experienced this kind of devastation. We give Peter props for interviewing as many as he could during his time in North Carolina.
People who have never experienced a flood should watch his videos and consider whether they could survive one.
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Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
As I have written previously, I am of English, Irish, Dutch, German, and Native American lineage (Cherokee tribe). And my grandmother was persecuted for being Native American. Recently, friend and fellow blogger, Michael of 80sMetalMan and Peaceful Rampage reminded me of an old book, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle (1988). I’d begun reading this book years ago and had put it down for a time when I had a bit more control over my emotions. And now seems like a good time to finish reading it.
I’m thinking about reading some of the book aloud and presenting it on my YouTube channel. Would anyone be interested in watching or listening to something like that? Let me know in the comments.
Here’s a few pages of interest from my initial read of the book. I’ve got a few more chapters to read of it before I can say that I’ve completed it. I pick it up and put it down because some of the stories are a bit hard for me to process emotionally. Aww! Y’all know I’m sensitive.
The book, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Book cover of Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle,Book page image: Noting the purchase of most of Kentucky and central Tennessee from the Cherokees against some British proclamation, Daniel Boone, and “Possession is nine-tenths of the law” statement, which seems to come from British law.Book page image: Noting President George Washington’s belief that American Indians could be inculcated through “the white man’s knowledge of cultivation and the arts.”Book page image: Displaying how I mark up many of the pages within the book when I find something very interesting/fascinating.Book page image: Noting more about the Moravians and whiskey.Book page displaying an image. There are several pictures within the book that are fascinating to see.
Yours in expanding, revolving, doing-my-egoless-best, limitless, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
Many of the vaccine-injured in this movie, made a choice to be injected because they believed they were doing something for the betterment of ALL.
Follow the Silenced Official movie
Let’s not let them down.
See them. Hear them. Believe them.
Yours in expanding, revolving, doing-my-egoless-best, limitless, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
If you never question your government, doctors (who receive kickbacks from Big Pharma), the following stories might surprise you (or even conjure the term ‘Conspiracy Theory.’ But alas, here we are, facing some hard truths.
Don’t look up
My husband and I have both been questioning what the hell has been going on in our skies for more than twenty years. My darling husband even walked away when the subject of chemtrails came up and a double-degreed flight engineer wanted to argue with us during a happy-hour discussion that veered into the subject. The engineer was adamant that the streaks above our heads were simple condensation from high-flying jets.
I reached for neutrality on the topic, trying to leave it with a “maybe/what if” statement, but the engineer wanted to battle about it. That’s when Richard admonished me to leave and walked away. I stayed for another minute or so, but feeling the strong resistance from the engineer, I gave up and walked away too.
Now, the facts seem to be supporting Richard and my views on the subject:
Now, you can bury your head in the sand if you want to, I work with people often who are burned out from all the rhetoric and arguing over the whole COVID debacle, whether to vaccinate or mask or not, etc. and I get it. I always say it’s better for us, for our mind-body harmony (and whole body homeostasis), when we can reach for the next better feeling thought… but I think we need to continue to pay attention to what’s going on and the evidence that presents itself on the subject of HEALTH.
You may not want to advise people about what to do or not to do, and I don’t either, I educate and inform because I’m not a doctor. But I follow MANY doctors! And here’s one of the best, Dr. Suzanne Humphries:
Yours in expanding, revolving, doing-my-egoless-best, limitless, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
My daughter and I had a long conversation last night.
She talked with me about trauma and I intently listened. She told me about a great Gabor Mate and Mel Robbins YouTube video she’d watched.
I told her about the three year old Shawn Ryan podcast I’d just finally watched (with Lee Strobel as Shawn’s guest).
We talked about Elon. And I went on a short rant about how Elon Musk was the Left’s darling when he was a Democrat and did business in California (we still see Teslas in many of the TV shows and movies we watch–they used to LOVE him!), but they cast him aside and encouraged people to throw Molotov cocktails at Teslas and Tesla dealerships when Elon joined forces with Trump and set out to uncover government waste and abuse with DOGE).
We talked about Pharma. And I brought up the chat I’d had with a fellow blogger, which I wrap up later in this blog article. I explained Homeopathy and how Pharma pushed it aside and took over health, much like the whole pyramid scheme Insurance industry has convinced people that they must pay them for “peace of mind.” (And I have called BS on THAT for decades! My parents didn’t believe in paying for insurance either, after my mom worked as a fire/property casualty insurance agent for several years when I was young.)
We talked about when my dad, my children’s papaw, and how after he passed away I never really grieved for him (as I thought I would) because I’d had that vision of his soul departing (https://sheilamurrey.net/2019/04/19/a-surreal-vision-of-soul-departing/). That vision changed my whole world view about death, though granted, it had been changing a lot prior to, which I wrote about in Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. (Find links for my books at the end of this blog article.)
After our conversation, a few thoughts on the past (past events) came up for me:
I was bulled from the time I was young, perhaps 4 or 5–before Kindergarten, by a neighbor girl whose mother said, “She plays hard/rough with her cousins.” We were both only children and the same age, so my mom almost didn’t believe I was getting beat on, bitten, hair pulled, etc. until I came in with marks on me! Then the two moms had to agree that the girl and I couldn’t play together anymore. But we lived just a few houses apart from each other, so it made things challenging for a few years as she’d try to get other kids to play on her side and that upset me. I have always taken up for the “underdog.” And yes, sometimes that’s come back to bite me, because the person I thought was an underdog was really a bully (in disguise or because they hadn’t fully healed their own wounds).
My mission now is to untangle as much as I can on the topic of “the need to Control” (which I maintain is the opposite of Freedom), so our three granddaughters don’t suffer bullying–two have already told me they’ve been bullied, which makes me mad and sad.
Many years (from the time I was in my late twenties to mid thirties), I attracted a bully/drug-addict husband who hit me and even once fired a gun at me! (I never pressed charges but did get a restraining order when he got into my secured office building after hours one day and started screaming all through the building to find me in my bosses office working over time. I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I made a plan to leave and got out as soon as I could. I had two children from my first husband so it made leaving that second one even more challenging. I still feel guilty for putting my children through the experience of living with that man for several years.
I believe much of this boils down to people feeling the need to Control–EVERYTHING. And when people feel out of Control internally, they try to Control everything externally, that is outside of themselves in their external environment. And that’s when the problem began.
From chats and comments
Certain words still challenge/trigger me. I’m a work in progress. I’m not perfect (nobody is). I’m human. I am an introvert by nature and is probably why Buddhism attracts me, but over the years, due to having to work full-time to support two children (mostly as a single parent, even when I was married), I had to learn how to talk with people, actively listen, engage, earn trust, elicit responses, even speak in public (though I learned to sing in front of an audience at an early age in school and in church).
I prefer nature to man-made anything. When I hear words like MISINFORMATION, I tend to go on a rant. Sorry. Not sorry. It’s who I am.
The following are last two comments I made on a fellow blogger’s article:
Searching on the phrase, “Nurse authors in Aromatherapy,” offers a great source of information. I hear you about not wanting to complete an Aromatherapy course/certification at this point in life. And not giving advice out of one’s depth.
I wrote my holistic health book from personal experience, one’s anecdotal evidence of how I continued to uncover and experiment to find solutions to several health issues. I doubted whether it would sell and experienced procrastination for years while writing it and still bump up against the psychological pitfalls or syndromes that it won’t sell, but as a writer and analyst, I wanted to document my journey to support the few others, or my family, who might be so inclined to take it upon themselves to relieve any suffering. Perhaps it was my way of Paying it Forward in service to humanity. I don’t know.
I am now embarking on writing a thesis kind of metaphysical book that challenges my mind each time I read research for it, much less choose what to include or remove from the manuscript. It’s quite an ambitious undertaking! I hope it sells, but even if it doesn’t, I will have stretched myself in untold ways—and it’s definitely more inspiring than knitting or working a puzzle to engage my aging brain! Ha!
I don’t want to go back to school either, as I am way too good at challenging myself these days without some professor beating me over the head.
The last comment on this subject I wrote to the same fellow blogger:
Now, if we could only get the doctors and other health professionals who guide governments to follow the leanings you have so aptly expressed. Look at the harm ‘they’ have caused!
But yes, I hear you. I state many times in my book that I am not a doctor and believe in interviewing any and all health professionals we hire to work on our bodies to ensure they “do no harm” as the Hippocratic Oath dictates. Oh, for a brain trust of doctors like Dr. McCullough who are actual practicing doctors, i.e. The Frontline Doctors, and those who signed The Great Barrington Declaration to lead political health directives instead of a talking head (Fauxi) who never treated one Covid patient, to guide us during any other pandemic! I agree. Books are time capsules. (That’s why I prefer writing blogs I can update, versus writing books.) Science progresses. We need real-time critical information and egoless thinking next time around.
While I hope my holistic health book helps at least one person, I wrote it primarily to expand people’s belief in their body’s ability to heal. So many have forgotten that (until they cut their finger).
Thank you again for this discourse. You can tell how passionate I am about healing. ❤️🩹
And your gentleness does help me balance when I rant. OM
At this point I felt our comment/chat conversation had gone “full circle.” I haven’t heard back and hope he’s okay. I so enjoy our chats.
In closing
Separately, and to close this particular blog post article, I will say that as for some Democrats (because I know not all of them are bullies, sore losers, or the like), I feel this post sums them up, regarding some of the more crazy insane antics they’ve pulled recently:
Yours in expanding, revolving, doing-my-egoless-best, limitless, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
I thought I’d share a quick post to capture some comments I just made to a fellow blogger, on what led me to write the book, Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally, and why I love nature’s way of healing using herbs! (And yes, Richard got me pronouncing ‘herbs’ with the H sound at the beginning as I’d always learned/heard it pronounced ‘erbs.’ but that’s why stay ‘open to receive’ new knowledge all the time. Ha!
From chats and comments
When things like this come up during my social media chats/comments, I capture them, but I have sooo many, that I don’t often take the time to turn them into a blog post. Today’s an exception. I thought this was important to share since many of us are just now getting back outside and planting a garden or flowers.
If you’re scared of nature, it can feel intimidating, I know. But I’m teaching our twin 8 year old granddaughters to embrace, not fear, nature. Yes, things can happen, like bee stings, and they’ve happened to me too, but there are natural cures! Nature always provides a way!
The beginning of our chat, when I speak of Frankie Fella, a very curious cat who seems to love bees while outside in the garden.This discussion about Frankie and the bees led to my recall of a time I was once stung by a wasp!Since I can’t use the word, ‘cure’ in my book or marketing it, I sometimes use it in comments or conversation. It definitely packs more of a punch than ‘reversing’ asthma. I usually don’t go into this much of my history, but this comment is with a longtime blogger pal, so there’s that.When the subject of anaphylactic shock came up, I thought I would acknowledge that it’s quite serious, while other stings can be gently remedied in the moment we’re out in nature. Obviously, now that some of us have developed such intense allergies, due to our toxic environment, medical treatment is advised.
A few of my favorite healing herbs
At the time of my commenting/chatting (as in the preceding screen captures), I was reading this article and choosing some herb seeds to plant:
Dandelion. I don’t have to plant this herb. It grows wild in our backyard and since we use no pesticides or herbicides, etc. I can eat it and make tea with it often. See the article at The Sacred Science site: https://www.thesacredscience.com/backyard-medicineStinging Nettle. I love this tea. I won’t grow it though. It’s too tricky for me to harvest. See the article at The Sacred Science site: https://www.thesacredscience.com/backyard-medicineYarrow. I grew this herb when we lived in Florida. It grew very well for me. And I needed it at that time. I used to harvest it and make a salve out of it with coconut oil. I used it for bug bites and skin rashes. I love it and will attempt to grow it in a pot here in New Hampshire though now I have cleared the issue that had once caused me to have skin rashes. Yes, sometimes it takes YEARS to clear physical issues in the body. See the article at The Sacred Science site: https://www.thesacredscience.com/backyard-medicine
Yours in expanding, revolving, doing-my-egoless-best, limitless, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
An Open Letter to Those Who Think AI Art Isn’t Human Art
By Richard Murrey, a Songwriter, Artist, and Storyteller Who’s Seen It All
I’ve spent over 50 years creating.
Songs. Paintings. Stories.
But because there was something in me that needed to be shared with the world.
Not for fame. Not for fortune.
Today, I hear a lot of talk—especially from legal voices and internet critics—that “AI art isn’t real art,” that “you can’t copyright AI-generated work,” because, they say, it wasn’t made by a human.
To that, I say: You’ve missed the point entirely.
Yes, I use AI tools. I write songs with them. I bring old dreams to life with them.
But I don’t just press a button and walk away. I craft. I sculpt. I prompt.
And here’s what you don’t understand unless you’ve done it yourself:
The prompt is not a command—it’s a vision.
It’s a carefully chosen string of words, informed by a lifetime of experience.
It’s storytelling.
It’s composition.
It’s intention.
It’s authorship.
When I write a prompt, I’m not automating creativity—I’m collaborating with a tool. Just like a painter uses brushes. Just like a songwriter uses a guitar.
The brush doesn’t paint the picture.
The guitar doesn’t write the song.
And the AI doesn’t dream the dream.
I do.
Every prompt I write carries my voice. My style. My soul.
If you’ve never felt the rush of getting just the right tone, the right image, the right line from an AI that you guided into shape—then I understand why you might think it’s magic.
But let me assure you—it’s not magic. It’s craft.
And if copyright law doesn’t recognize that?
Well, then maybe it’s not the art that needs redefining.
Maybe it’s the law.
Richard Murrey
A creator who’s still evolving
Still dreaming
Still writing
Even if the skies have turned to brass
Written by the man behind 704 original tunes, 711 videos, and not done yet.
Art and music can help
It don’t have to rhyme. —Richard Murrey
Yours in expanding, revolving, limitless, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY!
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs).
How often do you purge your computer files? While I’ve been laid up with a chest cold I’ve been purging some digital stuff, documents, photos, etc. I’ve also been clearing my chakras. And I think the purging has aided me in that process. I even took some notes and turned them into a song. I won’t promote the song though, as it really is just a release for me (of course if you subscribe to my YouTube channel you’ll see/hear it). In fact, I’ve got a couple more songs coming out this week that are also a bit of shadow work getting cleared. It might surprise a few of you.
The way I figure it, I could either just delete this stuff, or go ahead and turn it into songs in case anyone might use it to help them clear their chakras as well. I know from all the kaleidoscope and mirror ball work I do (and teach), that everything works for good, eventually. Maybe not all at the same time though. And it’s okay. You remember the Indian saying, right? It will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end. Or something like that. And no worries, the sauna is helping me clear the chest cold. I’m also taking a great homeopathic remedy, loading up on fluids and vitamins, and have even laid under a PEMF, red light heating pad for a while. I follow quite the regimen! Ha!
Temporary placements of latest art pieces
These are a couple of the last art pieces I purchased from Linda Lewis before she closes down her Etsy shop and moves to Thailand. I already sent her the photos via email, but thought I’d share them with you all too, since my spa room is still a work in progress (and probably always will be).
Screen capture: From Linda’s Etsy account when the app let me know what I’d ordered and that they were being shipped.Linda’s painting, “No rain, no flowers” on an 8×10 canvas board. As you can imagine, the blue blocks of clouds and the saying are what drew me into this painting. It sits on the chair rail for now. I’ll get a frame and hang it next to my sauna at some point. For now, it’s happy under photos of my husband and me, and next to pictures of our eldest granddaughter when she was a baby.For now, Linda’s wood-burned owl sits on the chair rail under the skull that usually hangs outside in October, and under my dragonfly painting and butterfly fabric wall hanging that a friend in Florida made. At any rate, the skull doesn’t really belong here because I want this wall to represent flying things (butterfly, dragonfly, and owl). I just haven’t felt good enough to fix a hangar onto the owl.
Latest music videos
As I said, the surprise video is on YouTube but I’m not promoting it. Here are the two most recent music videos prior to it though:
I’ve updated the Connect with us section below, so keep scrolling…
Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story
Yes, Everything Happens for a Reason in the multiverse and Everything Resolves to Gratitude. Knowing that each of us (as fractals) uplifts my mind and allows me to view life as a lively kaleidoscope grand design that moves about in an ever-expanding, revolving, melodious, consciousness. Even if we have to disconnect from some people, for a time.
Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!
Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
About us
Richard and I play at the intersection of Energy, Spirituality, Health, and Music, to let FREEDOM ring for ALL! We’re down to earth (even if we are conspiracy theorists), yet not in the ground! We’re just dancing around in rhythm with the mystifying Multiverse… all humble like. But we’re always thinking, onward and upwards, so we keep exploring and creating!
My husband of 20 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs).
All of our 400+ original songs are available for song placement in TV, film, games, etc. Video content creators, filmmakers, podcasters, production companies, deejays, Vloggers, YouTubers, and more can use our original music and songs in movies, TV shows, video intros, and such. We’re also seeking bands to play our songs. If you know of any up and coming musical artist, please forward this blog article to them.
Sheila’s books on Amazon
My meme: Books by Sheila –Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
Connect with us
The social channels where I am most active (after thoroughly testing out others in 2024, I’ve dropped a few. My stats revealed almost no one opened my blog posts from Substack, Locals, or Instagram. I still have accounts there but I won’t be posting to those anymore):
Integrating the Spirals 