Have you ever noticed how expectations affect your life during the holidays? Thinking about what may or may not happen as the holidays approach-with our family, other people or the possibility of being alone when we'd rather not be-pulls us into confusion as thoughts circle around our history, creating both hopes and fears. Living with awareness, we can find other ways to be with expectation. Acknowledging the presence of our hopes and fears, we can let them pass through the mind. Letting hopes … [Read more...]

Most of us believe that we are living life at a pace that is far too frenetic and that the stress this causes is part of the price of living in modern times. It is sometimes hard to see that the hectic pace of the life that we lead is not simply a choice, rather it is a symptom of something far more endemic to humanity. We are all seeking to acquire more material possessions and an ideal lifestyle with less resources and less time. As a result of this constantly increasing compression, we … [Read more...]

It is a love story that began in 1953, when Andy Baltins and Nancy Jean Solstad were each eight years old. They grew up, fell in love and were married. They lived full lives, raising an academically talented daughter and a son who was born with Down's Syndrome. Nancy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Surgeries followed. Chemotherapy at the Mayo Clinic. The ride home from Rochester to Minneapolis, when Nancy said she wanted to stop the chemo, when she spoke of not fighting death, but accepting … [Read more...]

"Dr. Sunray is one of the few old masters who has the knowledge and connection to the higher realms necessary for the journey ahead-the journey of the mind into the final frontier. Her instruction is "akami," channeled from the highest dimension." - Pila of Hawaii, author, seer and teacher of the Ancient Wisdom Paula was born in Arkansas and grew up in Indiana. She attended Oberlin College and studied in Europe at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She received her Master's … [Read more...]

The spiritual journey is riddled with the lure of false prophets and deceptive practices. Where does a true seeker go to reconnect with divine purpose?Belief, especially when cloaked in the mantle of faith, may be a source of solace and hope for many, but I consider it the lowest form of processing information. My beef with belief is that people deeply invested in a belief system typically become so averse to shifting their point of view, that what they see never changes. And they think this is … [Read more...]

When I saw the popular movie The Secret, I felt a strong sense of deja vu. Long long ago in Lemurian and Atlantean times, this philosophy was popular. You simply had to focus on what you want, believe in it with all your heart, and voila, you manifested your heart's desire. It led those cultures into deep catastrophic trouble. And it can lead us down the wrong path today. For it is the power of love, rather than the love of power, that brings us happiness.I believe that we each hold a spark of … [Read more...]

Sacred Contract with AmericaA leading voice in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness, Caroline Myss turns her attention to our connection with America’s original vision of freedom and power in The Sacred Contract with America ($29.95, Sounds True). A spiritual experiment since its inception, the U.S. has the potential to do much more, as we learn in this four-disc audio CD. www.soundstrue.comBlending East and WestTwo new titles compiled from Paramahansa Yogananda’s … [Read more...]

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the book Happiness Now (Hay House), available at all bookstores or online at www.hayhouse.com. Picture the following scene: I am at my friend Jane's house. It is mid-afternoon, and we are having tea. Jane and I are engaged in a deep and meaningful conversation when her two boys run into the room. They're young, full of energy, lively and noisy. Tom is 4 years old, and Ben is 3. Ben follows Tom everywhere. Jane and I continue to talk, but soon we can't … [Read more...]

"Prosperity and poverty are dependent on the mindset of the individual. If your thinking is defective, it will result in failure and disorder. People who worship poverty and have a wrong understanding of detachment ruin their lives. A spiritual person is often supposed to be otherworldly and is expected to express contempt for money and material prosperity. Let me tell you: to create wealth and to succeed, by itself, is a spiritual sadhana, given that it needs a focused mind, creativity and … [Read more...]

Have you heard the saying "when you love someone, be prepared to embrace their whole family?" That's because we all carry conscious and unconscious patterns of family behavior with us, things like: attitudes, belief systems, opinions, diseases, addictions, child-rearing approaches, bonding capacities, even political affiliations.According to Bert Hellinger, a noted German family therapist, "about 70 percent of all issues worked on in counseling can't be solved there, because … [Read more...]

Why do the hopes and dreams of many people turn out to be forlorn, plunging them into feelings of inadequacy and even hopelessness? Sometimes their lives even move in the opposite direction to where they want them to go. The answer lies in one of the most subtle dimensions of consciousness, the hara line. This is the level of intentionality. It lies a quantum-level deeper than the Human Energy Field. In the model of consciousness I have taught for many years, the hara line is the earliest … [Read more...]

Editor's note: The following excerpt is taken from the book Your Soul's Compass: What is Spiritual Guidance, by Joan Borysenko & Gordon Dveirin (Hay House). It was the summer of 2004, on a surpassingly beautiful day in Barcelona, Spain. We were privileged to be attending the Parliament of the World's Religions, where I (Joan)-as a scientist interested in consciousness studies-had been invited to participate on a panel about prayer. Perhaps the most fascinating session we attended at the … [Read more...]

The Sun, traveling through Scorpio this month, seduces us into deeper places as we sense the meaninglessness of superficiality...until it enters Sagittarius on 11/22 and we come forward to share our philosophical views in new ways. Scorpio energy will express itself one way or another and we can create a healthier world by owning the truth of our perceptions and feelings more consciously. Shutting ourselves down is dangerous. All we have to do is look around us at the world we have created to … [Read more...]

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