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DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY (DVD)

By David Finkelstein | April 2013

The workshops have clearly opened a door for these people to find levels of reality that are normally closed to us, and they find the experience thrilling and liberating…

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DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY (DVD)

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