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Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" in 1886. The central theme of the story is of two very different men who inhabit the same body. His characterization of the respectable Dr Jekyll, who turns into the ugly and deformed Mr Hyde has so griped the collective ... Views: 2365
All people are plugged into the binary computer technology by virtue of the presence of that system on the planet. How does this affect the world? Well in order to understand the consciousness necessary for the invention of quantum computing and the information highway the observer must ... Views: 2205
What does it mean to "raise your vibration?" In these challenging times, you can sink into gloom or you can rise into personal power and self realization. The energy of the times supports your transformation into a being of higher self-knowledge and love. Everything is energy, and everything ... Views: 2004
Question: What is the battle between good and evil all about? Why is it necessary?
Answer: Originally, there was no force of evil, because Jehovah God Almighty did not create anything evil. Evil was created only after a great angel rebelled against God.
Jehovah created countless number of ... Views: 3156
“Baby Steps” to Manifesting
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! – Jonathen Winters
Learning to manifest our intentions in the beginning takes time, patience, and practice.
Often times, people need to start out small with their intentions to really get a feel for the ... Views: 1951
Can the principles of the secret and the law of attraction coexist with astrological principles? There is a seemingly contradiction between astrology and the laws of attraction. If we indeed are the author of our own reality and can attract and create the life we want then how is it that our ... Views: 6225
Even though we all know we will turn 50 one day, yet for various reasons, this knowledge remains scary and unsettling for many people.
If you're undecided about the course of your life at this point or you want to change something in your life but find yourself hesitating. Don't panic. ... Views: 1104
Hi there everyone!!
Mark my words; this movie will change the destiny of our humanity:
http://www.ordinarywords.com/humanity
I've never been so passionate, so I am using strong language in this article. Know that every word is said with love.
At age fifteen, I found myself at the ... Views: 4158
The most frequently asked questions of the FAQ's is "who needs you?" Or, in more simple terms, "why can't I heal myself without EMC²'s help? Frankly, I'd be amazed if anyone didn't think about that question.
The most short and obvious answer is, you don't need us, all you need is you. In ... Views: 641
PART 1 - THE "SHIFT": WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT'S HAPPENING
We’ve been hearing about “The Shift” for so long, it’s hard to believe that it’s finally here! But what precisely is shifting? What are we moving from? What are we moving toward? And – more importantly – what difference is it really ... Views: 1011
Some of us may have striking resemblances with another family member or even a close friend - whether in looks, mannerisms, or tastes. Sometimes we enjoy sharing these traits with another and other times we do not. The times we do not are the times we've judged a certain quality as non ... Views: 821
We live in a time of new beginnings. It is a new time of rights and freedom for women and for spirituality. However our society based on a patriarchal (or male) focus has no understanding or framework for women's wisdom or the Feminine Divine.
As women we are beginning to rebuild our ... Views: 1524
A Lesson in Patience
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
—Greg Anderson
“Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.”
—Arthur Robert ... Views: 1338
So what is detachment? To me personally, detachment is all about giving up control of an outcome, and to ‘let go’ and allow the higher purpose to come though. Remember, everything does happen for a reason – and letting go of your own personal outcome can give space for a much better universal ... Views: 3029
The Larger Perspective
A guided meditation from the Carriers of Light
Find a comfortable place and lie there resting for a moment. Now, begin to concentrate. See if you can find out just who it is who is lying there inside this body. See if there is a place within you that feels more like ... Views: 1282
Notes to Myself
This year totally sucked for me. Okay, that's not a very spiritual way of defining things. So much for the sarcasm….I'll try again. This has been a year rich in opportunity to grow in strength and wisdom, through various challenging situations. I have come to some major ... Views: 1207
The word honor in the Greek means to highly value, to esteem, or to ascribe worth. On the other hand, dishonor describes a state of lost honor or value. In the West, we have dishonored many races as well as Native Americans and African Americans. Dishonor extends to the past inquisition of ... Views: 1648
Article Title: The State of the World and How to CHANGE it?...
but How can a mere 'I' Make Any Difference ?
Author: Craig Lock
Category/Subject: the world, world issues, social and political issues/problems
Web sites: http://craiglock.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs and ... Views: 755
The Wellness Industry is a growing powerhouse of New Age books, music, meditations, seminars, techniques and products. Coming from someone who has been involved with alternative healing and new consciousness way before it was popular...it warms my heart to see the increasing awareness and ... Views: 1144
COPING WITH THE NOW
DIANA MOORE
Does it seem like you are under more stress than usual? Does it seem like time is speeding up, leaving you with less hours in a day to accomplish the things you need to do?
If you answered “yes,” you are not alone. I myself feel like I am living with ... Views: 1313
Cycle of Growth
Allowing it to Grow
It starts with a spark of inspiration - an idea or thought. If deemed appropriate, we firmly plant this thoughtform into our psyche. While part of us would like instantaneous, ever expansive results, we know this thoughtform needs time to grow and ... Views: 656
The first time I ever paddle out on my board and sat waiting 15 minutes for a wave to come along, I knew I had found a place of peace, tranquillity, healing and oneness, just like I experience when practising yoga.
Nothing else exists when I’m in that place. It is if I’ve made a special ... Views: 1422
How do you cope with a world filled with foreclosures, job losses, natural disasters, and social changes? A famous line from the movie “The Karate Kid” says it all: “Balance is key.” Here are ten ways to maintain your sense of balance in a chaotic world.
1) Breathe!
When we are stressed ... Views: 3194
Two thoughts – two hearts, joined aspiration,
Unite for beautiful creation,
For God’s and our joyful contemplation!
To a future world, to a world-with-God,
We take a step – right here, not beyond
May all our planet and our world
On every single plane of Being
Begin to shine with Dreams of ... Views: 1923
War. The economy. Politics. What are the issues that get under your skin? These, and many other issues, can distract us from living the way we'd really prefer to live. Fear, doubt, confusion, worry are all nagging concerns that seduce us from how most of us really want to show up in the ... Views: 714
This is one of my favorite stories about the Buddha’s travels in India. I hope you like it.
In the countryside of India the Buddha is giving a talk on Dharma. Whenever the Buddha talks people gather from all around to listen to his wisdom. On this particular occasion there is a heckler in ... Views: 1781
If the truth shall set you free, then the lies can imprison you in guilt, burden and regret. They come as small as the occasional white lies friends tell each other to as big as the whopper of a lie governments tell their citizens. No matter the size, lies are intended to purposely deceive one ... Views: 1724
We are all souls on a journey. We all have fears and insecurities. But we also have the tools within us to transform those fears into a positive source of fulfillment.
Like your body, your soul is built from many different parts.
Each part of your soul has its powers, and the way you use ... Views: 1157
CREATING CHANGE TO PROSPERITY
Moving from one level to another, or shifting from one perspective to another, requires a period of chaos in between. In the area of financial prosperity, we have imbedded doubts. Prosperity requires change. Change requires collapse of the existing pattern and ... Views: 1322
The Mystery of the Solar Plexus
For many years I have seen various charts and books written on the subject of the chakras. There seems to be some general confusion as to the location and spiritual function of the solar plexus. I have seen some charts put its location as low in the body as the ... Views: 2798
S.E.L.F. or “Self-Explore and Learn through Feedback” is a complete system for awareness-raising, transformation, self-healing and for raising human potential. Its operation is based on a new “Science of Consciousness” paradigm that utilizes theories and practices that regard the subjective, ... Views: 1686
On my way up the mountain carrying some roofing materials I stopped to catch my breath, and as I unconsciously gazed at a scrub cedar tree that I had trimmed a month before to make the trail, an insight popped up. They happen at random like this, and seldom have anything to do with the thinking ... Views: 1582
Halloween brings to light our memories and our apprehensions and enlivens our imagination. Each year we honestly portray ourselves as something other than who we are, and venture out into the night fearlessly asking for what we want from strangers and friends. The chant, “Trick or Treat!” ... Views: 1483
Hi Each and Every One of You!!
This is why I’m a visionary.
Being a computer hacker at age thirteen, I resonated with this community’s manifesto which articulated my own consciousness concisely as follows:
“We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you ... Views: 3013
Today our civilization is disintegrating before our eyes. In addition to chaos in our money systems, governments, corporations and families, we are seeing a decrease in potable water, food shortages and increased environmental contamination from many sources. Efforts to curtail these health ... Views: 1371
Does this sound like you? You rush from one meeting to another, deal with demanding customers, handle employees' concerns, put out the latest "fire" at the office or at home, return phone calls and wade through a knee-deep pile of emails. With a day like that, it can be so easy to get caught up ... Views: 1546
We often focus on the question: "Do you believe in God?" Yet we seldom go on to the crucial question: "Why is it important to KNOW God?"
Why do we desire or need to identify that there is a Creator? Why is it important to know Him?
We have the longing and the duty to know the one and only ... Views: 5690
There is a pain that feels good. Now, I know that sounds contradictory… and no, I'm not into S&M. But, let's take the metaphor of exercise, where we've stretched beyond what we are accustomed to.
Let's take the metaphor which I am familiar with, of weightlifting-where we enter a new area, ... Views: 934
The 3rd Chakra and the Spiritual Purpose of Power
Americans love power. It is our god. Well, ok, money and power. The American Dream is based on a certain level of self-sufficiency and freedom. Empowerment and the liberation of the spirit have been characteristics of many of the original and ... Views: 1510
Today, many people are very familiar with the Law of Attraction. For anyone who watched “The Secret,” the Law of Attraction, and its principles were communicated very clearly. This universal law became conceptually familiar to people desiring healthier lifestyles, more money, and/or a soul mate. ... Views: 1392
Living consciously is, perhaps, nigh on impossible in today's digital age. It's hard not to notice that technology has advanced tremendously in the past 100 years or so.
Since entering into the 21st century almost a decade ago, the age of communication has risen phenomenally and has, at the ... Views: 1116
My husband and I were vacationing with some friends in Florida. One overcast morning we decided to take a sightseeing tour in their car for the sake of something to do to. Leaving the raw, magnificent ocean that fronted the property of their gated community behind, we ventured forth to the ... Views: 1099
The Truth is that you are a vast, limitless being who chose to come to earth and be in a body. During the process of trying to squish this vastness into a small body you needed to choose some limitations in order to fit into a human form. It is all a grand game and you decided which limitations ... Views: 1652
Pegasus & Tiny People: An Essay on a Dream Group Experience
by Deborah DeNicola www/intuitivegateways.com
I first encountered Robert Bosnak’s dream methods at the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston and was later invited in to a private dream group that met in his home in the western suburbs ... Views: 2253
October is here and with it are opportunities and influences that
you can use to empower yourself.
The main theme for October 2009 is Preparation.
Below are excerpts from a monthly commentary by Lena and
Jose Stevens, Ph.D, founders of an international school and
consulting firm ... Views: 915
One of the quickest ways out of stress is to learn how to fully experience the present moment - that’s the one that is happening right now!
Most stress that people feel in their body is generated from a thought about something that has either already happened and is now over, or something ... Views: 1590
It’s one-thirty in the morning and a single mother frets anxiously for her seventeen-year-old daughter to come home, anger building. Mother falls asleep on the sofa. The next day, daughter leaves for work before mother awakens. Upon returning home from work at 2:00 p.m., mother speaks her ... Views: 1516
Just what is Emotional Energy Mastery? Simply put, energy
management is feeling management. It's the system of building new beliefs that
are so powerful and empowering that, no matter what happens to you,
you have the power to be, do and have whatever it is you want!
Like many people, ... Views: 2114
I have heard it said over and over in the personal growth world that in order to reach your potential, you must “embrace your dark side,” or “shadow.” What the heck does this mean? I thought for years. What dark side?
Little by little I would step a toe into what I thought was my “dark side,” ... Views: 1372
I never knew when Mama Lee was born and I don't remember the exact day in 1995 when she died, but I knew and loved Mama Lee during the ten years she was a homeless Vietnam veteran living on the streets of Santa Monica, California. Born in Texas, Mama Lee was a full-blooded Comanche Indian whose ... Views: 906