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10 Ways Rituals Help Us Celebrate Our Lives

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Ritual has its roots in religion, and life's fundamental passages are often traditionally accompanied by religious ritual. But life's great passages are by nature spiritual. They affirm human mystery and mutability, our connection with the universal. Rituals serve as a bridge between our outer and inner worlds, between the profane and the sacred, and between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Rituals: Afford us a sense of belonging. When we engage in the ritual process we are, in … [Read more...]

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Holiday Events at Unity Christ Church

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Unity Christ Church in Golden Valley, MN, has announced the following holiday services: November 30 - December 21 - Journey to Christmas services, Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 - Remembrance Service at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24 - Christmas Eve Candlelight Services at 7 and 11 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 25 - Christmas Day service at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 31 - New Year's Eve Burning Bowl service at 8 p.m. and Meditation service at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 1 - New Year's Day service at 10 … [Read more...]

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Practical Conscious Creation

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The Key to Becoming a Better, Faster Manifestor By now you are no doubt familiar with the principles of Law of Attraction and Conscious Creation, and have seen or read The Secret -- and you are aware of using the power of positively directed thought to improve your life. But let's be honest: How often do you remember to apply these? Maybe once or twice a month? Or when you come across something you really want to manifest -- so you get busy visualizing? Have you really made it a way of … [Read more...]

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Local singer Alison Scott lends her voice to support LHSC

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Perched atop a hill overlooking Lake Harriet, Alison Scott, one of the Twin Cities' most popular voices in the local music scene, will sing her heart out under a silver dome -- all to help out a neighbor in need. Alison Scott and guitarist Kevin Bowe will be performing a fundraiser at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, in the stained-glass sanctuary of Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Southwest Minneapolis. All proceeds will go toward Lake Harriet Spiritual … [Read more...]

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One Step at a Time

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I had always wanted to walk a labyrinth "someday" and my 40th birthday seemed like a perfectly timed "someday" to walk one, taking time to reflect on my life: its past, present and future. So the afternoon of my birthday, with a small amethyst stone in my jeans' front pocket, my husband Gary and I drove northward three hours to a bed-and-breakfast that had a labyrinth on its grounds. As we checked in to the inn, I asked Clara, its owner, "Where can we find your labyrinth?" Grinning widely she … [Read more...]

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The Spiritual Practice of True Community

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Think of each individual as being like a book, composing a life in chapters, writing his or her own history (or "herstory"). Some persons are thicker than others, with more pages, chapters and sections because of past repersonalizations or past lives, while others are thinner due to just beginning to write their story as they live their first-time lives. In looking back at their lives, some may observe that their religious growth was fairly even, with little inner turmoil. Their spiritual … [Read more...]

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Wake Up — Searching for Meaning

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I'm fully aware of how this is all going to sound, but it also happens to be the truth. I woke up one day six years ago to discover that I had inexplicably gained the ability to see and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts. This was not something I was chasing or even really believed in. I was in my early 30s, living in New York City and working the daily grind. I had a string of unsuccessful relationships and was just kind of treading water. As far as any kind of spiritual life -- it could not … [Read more...]

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Interview: A NonBeliever’s Higher Power with author Marya Hornbacher

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Marya Hornbacher, a Pulitzer Prize and Pushcart Prize nominee, has written several books dealing with various mental illnesses, including eating and bipolar disorders. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and are taught as part of coursework at universities and literature programs in the United States and Europe. Marya's previous book, Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps, was written as a guide for those dealing with addictions and mental illness. Her most … [Read more...]

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The Dreamer’s Time

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An Australian Aboriginal sits quietly beside the sacred rock that has been revered by his tribe for an unspeakable length of time. His eyes close and he chants. An observer would believe he has entered another reality, but to the Aboriginal there is only one reality - the Dreamtime. In Aboriginal Dreamtime, there is a Dream in which everyone and everything is being Dreamed, and there is the Dreamer. The connection between the Dream and the Dreamer is the process of Dreaming. We all have the … [Read more...]

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Spirituality & Consciousness

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What does being a spiritually conscious person really mean? Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality, an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being or the deepest values and meanings by which people live. Does being a spiritually conscious person mean we no longer have strong emotions one way or another, positive or negative? Or does it suggest that to be in higher consciousness we are no longer with emotions, regardless of what is … [Read more...]

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Waking to Unity

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Some wake up easily while others need to be jarred out of sleep. New ways of thinking or paradigm shifts work in much the same way. Some take to them easily while others need a much more dramatic event to awaken them to a new idea. The idea of Unity isn't new or New Age. Since the beginning of recorded history, there have been people awake, aware and speaking this truth. The messengers have come from all parts of the world, in every century -- and while some have been revered, many have died … [Read more...]

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Oh God, Oh God, This is my Destiny

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Is our experience of life as a victim or a victor a choice -- or our destiny? In reference to my previously published article in the April 2010 Edge called, "Relationship and Oneness," I would like to re-examine Jeshua's plea, "Oh God, why have you forsaken me," and determine the truth of his experience as he hung dying on the cross, appearing to be a victim of the hatred and ignorance of the people of the world at that time. What is the truth of this apparent victim scenario? Perhaps it is a … [Read more...]

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2012: Moving Toward Evolution By Choice Not Chance

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Evolution is evolving from unconscious chance to conscious choice. We are entering the first Age of Conscious Evolution. Why? Because we obviously affect our own evolution by all the choices we make - from the food we eat, the number of babies we have, the cars we drive, and the weapons we build. Humans have no experience at being responsible for global change at this level. We are facing the possibility of the collapse of our life support system. Or, I believe, the emergence of something … [Read more...]

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Living On The Edge: The Deep Truth of Our Destiny and Our Fate

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During the last years of the Cold War, I had a front row seat as a senior systems designer in the defense industry to one of the most frightening times in the history of the world, and the thinking that led to it. During the 44 years of the most potentially lethal, yet undeclared, war in human history, the super powers of the United States and the former Soviet Union did something that seems unthinkable to any rationally minded person today. They spent the time, energy and human resources to … [Read more...]

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Spiritual Comedy Club

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What's funny about spirituality? Having studied metaphysics since 1982, it's become clear to me that it's all a cosmic joke. As a matter of fact, I've been reminded from the other side that the first thing we hear when we leave these bodies is laughter. The spirit realm, at least the flow that I'm from, sees it as hilarious that we are brilliantly powerful spirits, hiding behind veils of unworthiness, guilt, doubt and fear, groveling like chickens, when we're capable of soaring like … [Read more...]

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