A Time Of New Beginnings
The way of the world has, until now, been categorized as being opposed to the 'way of Spirit', and it has been said, correctly, with reference to the ego and the Spirit, that "ye cannot serve two masters." But the union of the two worlds is rapidly approaching, and in this union there will no longer be two masters to serve, but only one the God within and the God without, for these two are but two parts of one unified whole. The God within is the Divine essence of being that belongs to...
An End To Shame: The Journey Of The Soul
The presence of shame is a reflection of one thing more than any other the loss of connection with the deeper layers of self so that one's self-perception becomes based on something less real rather than on something that is more real.
Shame is an expression of disconnection from the soul. It is an experience of that disconnection. For even if mistakes have been made or behaviors exhibited that were less than what we would presently wish, these behaviors and mistakes do not warrant shame....
Holding The Light: The Present Nature Of Global Purification
Today, we are witnesses to things that seem unexplainable to the heart or conscience - the violence and widespread chaos and death in Iraq being among the most central. We see things being done to human beings through the agency of other human beings that create shock and disbelief. The knowledge of purification at work brings some sense to the picture, but can't entirely ease the heart's pain or the suffering brought about by human decisions in which another way could have been taken....
Living As A Soul: The Experience Of Oneness
For each of us, to be a self means something very personal, very different from every other. And yet there are commonalities. Throughout history, we have defined ourselves in terms of our bodily experiences and the characteristic ways in which we respond to life our most typical thoughts, feelings, and desires. This is what it has meant to be human and to be an I. Now, however, due to the presence of greater spiritual light on the earth, we have the opportunity to begin to think of...
Meditation For Children
All parents and educators know how open children can be to new learning and how receptive when interested. We also know how responsible we must be with respect to what we teach our children and allow them to absorb. When it comes to the values of meditation, we can be put off by the developmental facts of the limited attention span of young children, or their difficulty sitting still for more than a minute at a time. These characteristics often prevent us from seeing the wider potential of...
Negative Campaigning - What Does America Want?
In this presidential election year of 2008, the stakes regarding victory or defeat for each candidate are high; the competition for votes is fierce; and the strategies are abundant on both sides with which to win over the undecided. We, the public, see things happening as part of political life and of campaigning that we do not approve of, that we feel we can do without. But can we? Is negative campaigning something that is being foisted on an unwilling public, or does it correspond to the...
The Art of Being Present - Part II
To truly be present, we need to be available to the moment with our whole self. This requires not only an act of attention but also an act of integration so that we are drawing upon all parts of ourselves to 'be with' another.
When we think in terms of roles in life, we split ourselves up into parts a father role, a mother role, a teacher role, a student role we are not our whole self. Many times, we feel the pressure of social expectations which cause us to believe that we must remain...
The Beliefs We Teach Our Children: The Next Step
"A new study in the scientific journal Child Development, Nov./Dec., 2006, shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
About 100 seventh graders, all doing poorly in math, were randomly assigned to workshops on good study skills. One workshop gave lessons on how to study well. The other group was taught about the expanding nature of intelligence and the brain.
The students in the latter group learned that the brain actually forms...
The Christic Seed
Buried within each individual consciousness is the Christic seed that aspect of the Christ-consciousness that is God's love, fully present within the center of being to be called upon when the embodied self is ready to allow love to expand and separation to be erased from awareness. This seed of truth is the knowledge that all are held within a universal context of infinite love that lies at the heart of Creation. It is based on the disappearance of what has been historically present as...
The Earth Purifies - Earth Changes, Flooding, And Extreme Weather Patterns
It may be difficult for us to imagine how the earth which appears to us to be a solid mass of complexly interrelated parts, can have an intentionality to purify and can be undergoing a process we normally associate with human beings on a spiritual path. And even if it is true of the planetary body, we may well wonder how this happens and how it can affect weather patterns.
The 'Great Purification' of the earth has been spoken of by the Hopi and by other indigenous peoples as the prelude to a...
The Mind And The Heart In America's Political Campaigns
We have, in this country, a tradition of leadership that aims to appeal both to the intelligence of the 'common man', and also to the heart within each person that assesses character and that decides upon voting behavior. For most people, such decisions are not just based on the ideas and issues that candidates present, but also on the integrity, depth, and commitment that a candidate brings to these ideas and issues.
With the increased use of television to create a forum for public debate...
The New Reality Of Energy
We have tended to think of matter as solid and of thoughts and feelings as invisible and insubstantial. More like air than like anything physical. Now, it turns out that both physical matter and our thoughts and feelings are all composed of energy. Indeed, the entire physical reality that we know of is composed of energy, despite the fact that it appears solid to our eyes.
The new interpretation of reality as being based in energy, whether it is outer reality or inner, comes from an...
The Way Of Inner Guidance: Knowing What Is True
For many people, there is a great desire to feel and sense the direction one is being guided in by God and one's higher Self, and yet the inner directive is not always clear, and the path ahead not always discernible. In some cases, this is due to the fact that there is fear involved in listening and in hearing, so that what comes through as the gentle message of the soul is received with doubt and timidity. The doubt acts as a counterforce to the whisper of truth that comes to one's waiting...
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