Cosima and Jan's Place

On Sunday, April 7, 2002, we joined for Eternity. Please join us in our finest moment. We had a wonderful time designing the wedding ourselves, including the readings, the format, etc. Dr. Dan did a great job for us, and made it seem fun and effortless. The wedding was held at Jan's cabin in the Jemez Mountains, and attended by family and close friends. A party was held later for all of our other wonderful friends that could not be accommodate in/at my small home.

Cosima and Jan with Dr. Dan

Meet Dr Dan, our Friend and our Minister!

Cosima meet Dr. Dan in Houston at Linda Bedre's healing center, where she attended Dan’s talk and subsequently requested a healing session with him.  She also surrogated a healing session for one of her teachers, Michael Silver Dragon, and watched several sessions of friends and clients that Linda wisely encouraged to participate. 

Before Dr. Dan left Houston, he gave Cosima what is called a "Royal Shield".  Cosima felt positive and healthy after the session, even though she had been feeling rather down and spent.  Since then, Cosima has had numerous additional sessions with Dr. Dan, and she now feels like a new person!

As it turns out, Dr. Dan had a death experience after working out at his parent’s property in Arkansas. He over heated, came inside , and passed out over the couch.  The next thing he remembered, he was going through the "Tunnel of Light".  He met “Light” beings and came back to do what he calls "Holy-Divine Healing".

Dan says: “The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to save your soul.  It does this by shielding your mental body from anguish. This is why you feel physical pain when you are experiencing mental anguish. The physical body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit expresses messages into the physical body through the subconscious part of the nervous system.  The 'Equation of Life' is received by the caregiver, enabling him/her to take the information received and clear the physical body's field of these stored negative responses".

"The human cortex (conscious mind) is programmed by the five senses, and because the 'Equation of Life' is done in five elements (which are your five senses,) the conscious mind elevates.  By removing the negative feeling in all five senses and Divine Presence inducing a positive feeling in its place, the body spontaneously perfects as the soul takes over the consciousness from the ego".

Dr. Dan say’s, “The glory is all Gods.  I am your humble servant, a vessel for the use of God’s work”.

Friendship grew from this beginning.  Dr. Dan came to the Jemez at Cosima's request many times since to help her and her  friends.  Jan became involved as well, and has seen and experienced  Dr. Dan's unique gift!

Dr. Dan's Prelude and Selected Readings

"Today, we bring the friends and family of Cosima and Jan together in order to help them celebrate their fateful union.  These unique individuals found each other in spite of very different backgrounds and life experiences.  They almost immediately realized that they were somehow wondrously right for each other, even though they came from very different earthly worlds…….divine fate appeared to be at work once again!  After over three years of learning from each other, they decided it was time to forge a powerful and lasting union".

"The famous Lebanese poet and philosopher Gibran summed up Cosima and Jan’s feelings about love and marriage.  I would like to read several select passages from his most famous American book....The Prophet."

Gibran on Love

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart;' but rather, "I am in the heart of God."

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To rerun home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Gibran on Marriage

Let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music

Give your, hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Our Vows

Cosima, do you accept this day, and this union, as a symbol of your divine matrimonial commitment to explore and develop joy, companionship, and understanding in all dealings with Jan?

Can you do these things while providing both support and compassion, thus encouraging Jan’s strengths, and helping him to release his weaknesses?

Do you further commit yourself to exploring these options with an understanding and appreciation for Jan’s unique persona, and his need for personal freedom; and can you make these commitments with love and respect?

Can you do these things with truth, honesty, and sincerity?

Finally Cosima, do you promise to love, cherish, and honor Jan with your whole being?

Jan, do you accept this day, and this union, as a symbol of your divine matrimonial commitment to explore and develop joy, companionship, and understanding in all dealings with Cosima?

Can you do these things while providing both support and compassion, thus encouraging Cosima’s strengths, and helping her to release her weaknesses?

Do you further commit yourself to exploring these options with an understanding and appreciation for Cosima’s unique persona, and her need for personal freedom; and can you make these commitments with love and respect?

Can you do these things with truth, honesty, and sincerity?

Finally Jan, do you promise to love, cherish, and honor Cosima with your whole being?

We Do!

 
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