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Your Glorious Self

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"May there be peace within and without. May it begin with you and spread by your healing touch and laughter. May you know deep in your heart that you are exactly where you are meant to be right now as you receive my gratitude for all you mean to me. May you be reminded by each morning's light of the possibilities that grow out of love for yourself. May the natural gifts you were born with, and the skills and virtues you developed by your persistence, be seen by others so they are uplifted by … [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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New movement aims to foster peace and progress globally

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Happy Science's "Fourfold Path to Enlightenment"-- Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Progress -- has come to the United States through a program of guided meditations, fellowship discussions and more, in New York City, and in centers based in Atlanta, Tampa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Based on the Buddhist principles of Enlightenment, Happy Science's new model is designed for the unique challenges in our modern world, with the goal of helping to achieve greater world peace, one … [Read more...]

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Peace through Filmmaking

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"We are infants before each other, are we not, so vulnerable to each other's words and movements. A school I sat in cured me of hurting others." -- Rabia, the female Sufi poet who inspired Rumi My interest in Arab cultures started about 15 years ago. It led to my living and teaching in Egypt and Morocco, making two documentaries there, and to my current teaching of Arab film and literature at the University of St. Thomas. Making cross-cultural documentaries is a way of searching, and it is … [Read more...]

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2011 International World Peace and Prayer Day

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The public is invited this summer solstice to the 2011 International World Peace and Prayer Day (WPPD), hosted by the Dakota / Lakota / Nakota communities, on June 21 at Fort Snelling State Park in the Twin Cities -- Bdote, the spot believed by the Dakota to be the Center of the World and the equivalent of the Garden of Eden for their people. The event's intention is to promote a mass awareness of "All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer" to encourage everyone to take time on June 21 and join in … [Read more...]

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Peace: More than just perception in Minnesota

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From the editor Minnesotans have pride in their state, and a new statistical index backs up their instinctual love for the place they call home. The inaugural U.S. Peace Index, created by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), ranks the Gopher State the fourth most peaceful in the nation. Did you know Minnesota leads the nation in the percentage of its population engaged in the workforce and having access to basic services? It has the lowest percentage of the population with diabetes … [Read more...]

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Creative Stress: An Interview with James O’Dea

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James O'Dea has a unique perspective on stress and consciousness and the way forward out of the perceived chaos of the world. The immediate past president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, O'Dea (pronounced o-DEE) champions what he calls "Creative Stress," and as he writes in his book of the same title, it is about not resisting that which confronts us, but dancing with the energy to create opportunity and possibility as opposed to crisis and suffering. He will speak at the annual … [Read more...]

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Finding Hope in Trying Times

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Growing up, as a child of the '60s, peace, love and harmony were the words being chanted by the hippies, flower children and all who questioned authority and were against the Vietnam War. I remember thinking how I couldn't wait to grow up. I knew in my young mind, it was only a matter of time before these youthful rebels would age and mature and eventually be able to take their place in the world of politics and public opinion. With it, they would be able to change all the things they saw wrong … [Read more...]

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The Light Collective: Time is an illusion

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This is the third in a series of eight articles based on The Eight Principles of Inner Peace as channeled by the Light Collective through renowned intuitive Kathryn Harwig. These principles are simple, yet profound, and apply to all beings in the cosmos. The essence of all eight principles is inner peace, and personal empowerment - the powerful ability of humans to create the world of their choosing. The third principle is: Time is an illusion. The Light Collective explains that time is … [Read more...]

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We Are All One

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This is the first in a series of eight articles based on The Eight Principles of Inner Peace as channeled by the Light Collective through Kathryn Harwig. These principles are simple, yet profound, and they apply to all beings in the cosmos. The essence of all eight principles is inner peace and personal empowerment - the powerful ability of humans to create the world of their choosing. The Light Collective is a group of light beings from another dimension. Because they have the ability to … [Read more...]

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