Sufficiency means having food, shelter and clothing. Being rich can be defined as having considerably more than enough, both now and indefinitely into the future, without dependency on work or chance.
But humans generally need more than the material basics of food in their belly, a roof overhead, and a shirt on their back. They need to give and receive love, companionship, and a degree of fulfillment/purpose. Being rich is all these things. But can we all be rich? (more…)
Meditation has long been an integral part of Eastern mysticism with the discipline enjoying growing popularity in the West as more people discover its benefits on both mind and body. Meditation can take a variety of forms but essentially involves withdrawing attention from the physical senses while trying to quieten the chattering noise of consciousness.
There has been much interest of late in the subject of abundance, indeed the self-help shelves are chock full of titles on the topic. The principle of abundance says the universe consists of plentiful supply just waiting to be claimed by those who ask.
This meditation combines the mental and physical benefits of an altered state with a training of the mind to promote abundance-attracting behavior. You can either memorize the words, repeating them internally to yourself, or read them onto a tape (changing “I” to “you”) to be listened to at the appropriate time. (more…)
The term schizophrenic is often (wrongly) used to describe people exhibiting multiple personalities. In fact the human psyche is complex and we all house numerous, and often conflicting, traits under the umbrella of a single individual.
The psychologist C G Jung used the term “shadow” to represent our repressed characteristics. He describes it thus: “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” (more…)
by Gabriel of Urantia
Anyone who listens to the news today, or puts gas in their car and tries to put food on the table and pay the utility bills, knows that our planet is in trouble—not just America, but the whole world. People live in fear of natural disasters as well as the threat of a World War III and the threat of total world destruction by nuclear weapons. The prophets of doom are on talk radio, sharing even worse scenarios of the end of the world and the tribulations to come.
With the recent tsunamis and earthquakes, where hundreds of thousands of people are killed in one day, life doesn’t go on in any normal fashion—even if those tragedies didn’t happen to you or your family. The apocalyptic eschatological interpretations by prophets of the book of Revelation are bestsellers, and millions of people believe that we are living in the end times.
For anyone with some sense of spiritual intuitiveness, it is obvious that it very well may be what the Bible describes as the “times of the end of the world†or the “times of tribulation.†But I would like to give humankind—at least those people who haven’t been that much affected by earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters—one last chance of hope.
Gabriel of Urantia is the author of several books: The Divine New Order (his autobiography); The Cosmic Family, Volume I and soon to be published Volume II; The Best of the Film Industry; and Teachings on Healing, From a Spiritual Perspective. He is the co-founder of Global Community Communications Alliance in Sedona and Tubac, Arizona—a church supporting a religious order and EcoVillage comprised of more than 100 members from all over the world; Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch; Global Family Legal Services (Celinas Ruth, Attorney-at-Law); as well as the nonprofits Soulistic Medical Institute & Soulistic Hospice (Coordinators: Dr. Landau Lawrence, M.D. and Dr. Marayeh Cunningham, Clinical Psychologist) and Global Change Multi-Media (recording studio, entertainment venue, video productions, music label). www.AvalonGardens.org
info@GlobalCommunityCommunicationsAlliance.org
by Michaela Sefler
Likeness to eternal forms,
by proximity adulated,
freeing from bondage
are the responses.
Action,
body whole,
in relation to a higher soul
complete.
In final attempts,
coming together
two making complete,
intent coming through
as clear as breeze.
Distance relative,
at each point
yet coming together in finality,
constant in the creative force.
Progress, are initial attempts
holding,
in all areas
at a single point.
More poetry by Michaela Sefler
Michaela Sefler is an metaphysical poet living in Montreal, Canada. Her poetry is spiritual and esoteric and her poems allude to ancient ideals. In her poetry she draws on ancient writings, to convey a message of hope, and survival describing present realities in the light of ancient truths. She has six published compilations of poetry. Still true, A fortress in my heart, The sun is hot, Through the ages, and Seven stars., healing tree.
Michaela’s seventh book To Summon Angels will be out in january with Redlead Press.
Burning Man is an eight-day annual event that takes place in Black Rock City, a temporary city on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in the U.S. state of Nevada, 90 miles (150 km) north-northeast of Reno, ending on the American Labor Day holiday in September.
The event began in 1986 with the burning of an effigy on Baker Beach San Francisco watched by about 20 people. 2007 Burning Man attracted over 47,000 participants. The event is described by organizers as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance and takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. (more…)
What Causes Dreams?
There have been many theories on why we dream and what causes dreams spanning both time and cultures. Theories range from the mind doing it’s filing and ridding itself of garbage through dreams being a window on the subconscious to astral travel and direct communion with the Spirit realm and God. (more…)
Your comfort zone is that set of circumstances and tasks in which you feel completely at ease, ie you are able to operate with little need of conscious thought or will. Essentially you are on autopilot and your mind can continue in its preferred state of slumber. (more…)
by Yacki Raizizun
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Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep. Before we can begin to comprehend or even analyze dreams, whether our dreams are symbolic or otherwise, we must first divert from our mind our materialistic conceptions of what the individual called man really is. The external or physical man, is no more the man than the coat he wears. The physical man is only an instrument of which the real inner man or soul expresses itself in the physical universe. Various materialistic theories have been given in the past, trying to explain the mighty phenomena of dreams, but these theories have always been more or less unsatisfactory. Why? Because the-materialist tries to explain the riddle of human existence without an individual human spirit his explanation will always be unsatisfactory.
Just when you thought reality TV couldn’t sink any lower, so comes along a truly excellent series. Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal features psychic medium Chip Coffey and Columbia University clinical psychologist Associate Professor Lisa Miller.
The series features young people with psychic powers who are struggling to come to terms with their “gift”. In many cases these youngsters are unsure of the reality of their experiences, or feel threatened by the Spirits that draw close. Their confusion and fears are worsened by their reluctance to share their experiences with their peers for fear of ridicule. In some cases, their “abilities” even cause tension with their parents. (more…)