We are participating in an explosion of new age teaching, interest in Eastern religion, and a general curiosity about the usefulness of everyday spiritual practice. When you turn on the television, it seems just about every talk show host is discussing how to maximize human potential and help viewers become a more advanced version of self. In our effort to reach higher, spirituality is a major interest in the books we read, the classes we take and the inner peace we want to find. … [Read more...]
Six Sure-Fire Diet Boosters
It's no secret that the key to successful weight-loss and healthy weight maintenance is to keep that metabolism revving, fueled by energy and nutrition-rich foods, dietary supplements and an active lifestyle. A little strategy can go a long way toward keeping a diet and weight-loss initiative on track - particularly when the going gets tough.The following diet tips are sure to kick your metabolism into high gear and keep those temptations in check:• Eat mostly vegetables with lean protein: … [Read more...]
Charting the Heavens in December
The Sun, traveling through Sagittarius this month, calls us to expand more fully into our own lives, until it enters Capricorn on 12/21 marking the Winter Solstice. Sagittarius energy is where we exist in our philosophical seats, the place from which we share what we have learned through deeply personal explorations. The full moon on 12/12 in Gemini reminds us that it is through being open to life and to the differences in others that we come to embrace the very experiences that we learn … [Read more...]
How to Have a Meaningful Christmas
Have you felt that your Christmas celebrations are lacking in real meaning in recent years? Have you wondered what Christmas is really about or why it matters? And have you wished for a more meaningful way to celebrate this coming Christmas? One option that might bring you a significant and rewarding experience this holiday season is to approach Christmas from the mystical perspective. Every world religion has its own mystics. They share a common preference for direct and real experiences of … [Read more...]
Election Night Conversations with Wisdom
Every election day I see a smaller than usual turn-out for my Tuesday night class, what with people's time and attention so taken up with the political process at hand. In the historic election of 2008, I decided the best way to get any turn-out at all would be to hold an after-voting event aimed at envisioning healing for our world and its leaders.But as class was about to start, I was distracted and agitated. I wished I had just cancelled for the evening, because all I wanted was to glue … [Read more...]
The Cancer Answer?
In the dark days of December 2002, Bruce Hendry viewed his terminal cancer diagnosis as anything but a gift. Today, six years later and cancer free, he considers it a blessing. Indeed, Hendry's brush with mortality not only brought more joy to his life, it may prove to be a lifesaver for countless other terminally ill patients. Hendry learned he had cancer a week before Christmas. A few days later, tests confirmed the worst-case scenario - it was stage-four mantle cell lymphoma. Then, on … [Read more...]
Environment-friendly Holiday Gifts are Available
Dear EarthTalk: Can you recommend some sources for toys and other holiday gifts that are both safe and not harmful to the environment? - Tracy Gately, Marblehead, MAGiven the massive recall of toys contaminated with lead last year, let alone all the other bad news about chemicals seeping out of just about every other conceivable type of consumer item, it's no wonder that people are nervous about what might be inside the wrapping paper this next holiday season. Luckily, growing environmental … [Read more...]
An Edge Life Expo Survey
My heart. Everything is from the heart - and I seek to operate from the heart. I use my heart and my gut as a way of determining where I am. I don't care how bad things are, when I have a heart feeling, I know I am okay. I don't care how good things are, when I have a gut feeling, I know something's wrong. And the stronger the feeling, I know I better deal with it right then. The trick is to know when I'm in my head. When I'm in my head, I'm running on programs that are not from me but from the … [Read more...]
On Spiritual Practices and Perspectives
I consider myself to be a fairly spiritual person. I had a strong religious upbringing both at home and in school. I was active in my church and had a regular prayer life. So when I became depressed after my retirement, I sought peace in prayer and meditation. But for the first time in my life, it didn't seem to be working. Life wasn't getting any better. Then fate, or maybe divine intervention, led me to a spiritual director at Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality where the experience of … [Read more...]
Creative Visualization
An excerpt from the 30th Anniversary edition of her classic work Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Life Creative Visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life. There is nothing at all new, strange or unusual about creative visualization. You are already using it every day, every minute, in fact. It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe, which you use … [Read more...]
A Christmas Message
At this time of year many people remember the birth and life of Jesus. Was the world he was born into really that much different from our own? Was there not the same need for peace and stability then as now? What does Jesus's life truly represent to the world today? What if Jesus wanted his followers - and us - to reach the same unity with God that he had reached? By following the young seeker from Nazareth on his path to Christhood, I've laid out a map of enlightenment. It wasn't necessary to … [Read more...]
The Importance of Spiritual Development in my Life
My spiritual teacher always says live one day at a time, ask God for your daily bread and focus on the now. These are the things I find most important to remember in these trying times. They are so simple and a good reminder that spiritual development doesn't have to be hard or confusing. If we can just learn to step out of the mess and see the bigger picture, we will all have an easier time facing what is right in front of us.It is so important for us right now as human beings to help each … [Read more...]
News from the Edge for Dec 2008
HOLIDAY EVENTSLake Harriet Spiritual Community www.lakeharrietspiritualcommunity.org"Rhythm of the Earth - Winter Solstice Yuletide Celebration" will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in Minneapolis. LHSC's seasonal Earth Ritual, co-created by current and former ministerial guides, will be blended with "The Rhythm of Love" Drum Jam led by Gary Chisholm. "Honoring the rhythm of Mother Earth, and aligning our being with her … [Read more...]
A Christmas Message: A Cradle for the Christ of Everywhere
The following excerpt is from the new paperback edition of The Second Coming of Christ During this coming Christmas season, open a new portal of sublime devotion so that the Christ Omnipresence will be able to come anew within your consciousness. Every day, every hour, every golden second, Christ has been knocking at your dark gates of ignorance. Now, in this august sacred dawn, Christ is especially coming in answer to your inner call, to awaken his Christ Consciousness Omnipresence within … [Read more...]
Time to Imagine
I am writing this on the eve of the 2008 elections, knowing that by the time this article is read, the elections will be just a memory. I know who I hope will win. I even know who I predict will win. Whether or not I am right, though, life, by the time you read this, will have changed for our country.The thing about being a psychic is that people expect me to know more than I really do. Prediction is uncertain at best, especially when it involves global events. Still, it is the end of the year … [Read more...]
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