The Sufi Call, Making A Better World

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Nasrudin was now an old man looking back on his life. He sat with his friends in the tea shop telling his story.

“When I was young I was firey-I wanted to awaken everyone. I prayed to Allah to give me the strength to change the world.

In mid-life I awoke one day and realized my life was half over and I had changed no one so I prayed to Allah to give me the strength to change those around me who so much needed it.

Alas, now I am old and my prayer is simpler. ‘Allah,’ I ask, ‘please give me the strength to at least change myself.”  [Posted on Facebook, by Eric Twose, The Caravanserai Page, 7/1/16, 9:51 am.]

Introduction

According to Sufi tradition, man/woman is the meeting point between heaven and earth and is created with a spiritual destiny.  Within each person there is the capacity to create, make decisions and destroy.  These aspects or abilities reflect Higher attributes and man/woman’s birth right is to rule a vast, personal spiritual kingdom. (more…)

Royalty in Unity

By Harold Witkov

When I hear the words, “Royal Family,” I do not think of Prince William, Kate, and young Prince George, and I do not envision the Romanovs of Russia either. When I hear the words, “Royal Family,” I picture myself as a young man in my early twenties, more than forty years ago, sitting on a couch and reading from a book in my living room.

The book I was reading was written by a mystic by the name of Charles Webster Leadbeater.  Back in the early to mid 1970’s, I was a passionate reader of C.W. Leadbeater spiritual texts. And when I read them, I was often moved, focused, and very receptive. That certainly was the case that day on the couch when I came upon the following: (more…)

Messages of the Angels

 “This section collects messages donated by the Angels through channeling channelled by Satya, to accompany us on a Path of awareness, growth and evolution.

The purpose of these Messages is to help us to live happy here and now, in peace, totally free and in harmony with ourselves, with others, with everything around us.

These Messages are collected in books of Satya, disclosed by the Associação Cultural Suoni di Luce”. www.suonidiluce.com/en (more…)

Solving the World/America’s Problems

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Initially I wrote this piece in 2013 (after a mass shooting in Arizona) and offer it again as a beginning solution to the world’s problems. Gun control and gun violence is one aspect of the larger problem. The larger problem: Is how to make better people?

Better people make a better world and collectively, we must work on this together. Solutions are possible and may take a long, long time; but it is time for more action and movement forward. I hope you enjoy this piece and share it with others. Perhaps, then, we can continue our conversation about how to accomplish this goal. (more…)

Hassidic Teachings of Hope and Faith

by Rabbi Allen S. Maller

A growing body of medical evidence indicates that people who are optimistic and trusting, have stronger immune systems and recover more rapidly and fully from major trauma, than those who are skeptical and distrustful. Painful experiences are natural and normal. They usually leave us with an unconscious fear that they will reoccur. This anxiety weakens our resolve to recover when we face new traumas. Even worse, we hesitate to live and love as fully as we should, so that we suffer loss even if nothing bad ever reoccurs.

Religious insights that derive from powerful spiritual experiences can help us overcome these anxieties by directing our attention to new and different ways of seeing things. People who change their perspective and become more hopeful prior to negative situations may even avoid experiencing them.  (more…)

Who is your Angel, how to perceive Him, how to live a relationship with Him

This section collects messages donated by the Angels through channeling channelled by Satya, to accompany us on a Path of awareness, growth and evolution.

The purpose of these Messages is to help us to live happy here and now, in peace, totally free and in harmony with ourselves, with others, with everything around us.

These Messages are collected in books of Satya, disclosed by the Associação Cultural Suoni di Luce”.
www.suonidiluce.com/en

Comment

Dear Luminous Soul, you can perceive your Angel in so many ways and each one of them is beautiful, because in that moment you will perceive His Essence, His Love, and then you are fulfilled.

The scent you may smell will not remind you of any known flower, not of anything else existing known to you.

It is a special perfume, one of a kind, soft and intense, impossible to define.

You might perceive a light breeze through your hair or perceive a light touch by a breath of wind.

Sometimes it appears as a sudden light, and following a heart jump you may perceive His presence.

You may feel like someone is standing next to you, but when you look no one is there.

Angels’ presences can be perceived in such ways and so many others but always in a very sweet, delicate way. That is why one must be very alert, and of course, hold an open heart.

When you ask your Angel for advice, in the beginning it is not easy to intuit the answer or overcome the doubts that it may be some other voice from your heart you hear, however rest assured the answer will come in its own way.

It may come through someone you meet, and while that person is talking of something else or telling you what has just happened to her or him.

There is also a little game you can do.

Choose a book, close your eyes, think intensely of your Angel, picture Him right there in front of you, establish a connection with Him, ask Him advice on what you need right then, and ask Him to give you the answer by means of that book.

Take a deep breath and open the book randomly.

Then open your eyes and read that page ‘with an open heart’. Often through those words you will clearly get His answer. (more…)

Allah's Worlds Are Discovered

by Rabbi Allen S. Maller

Both the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an teach that the One God created the whole universe to be conducive to the universal evolution of life. Recent astrophysical studies discover ever more evidence of the truth of this Biblical and Qur'anic view. (more…)

What I know to be true

by Glinda Hickory

Guess what. We all vibrate. We are always vibrating. These vibrations have been recorded and called "thought waves”, or “brain waves". They are real, they are measurable, and we are transmitting them constantly.

If you know anything about radios, you know that they have an oscillator that must be set to a certain frequency to receive whatever is being broadcast on that frequency. The universal law that allows this is called, “Law of Attraction” and it states, “That which is likened to itself, is drawn”. Everything in the Universe is governed by this Law. The best seller, “Think and Grow Rich”, by Napoleon Hill, was based on this knowledge. Nikola Tesla based many of his incredible inventions on this knowledge. He somehow knew about the limitless energy, freely available that surrounds everything and is part of all that is and was able to focus it, to harness it. Scientists today, through the study of Quantum Physics are proving this to be exactly the case. (more…)

Expectation & Emotion

Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

If you could get rid
Of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets
Would open to you.
The face of the unknown,
Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the
Mirror of your perception.
-Rumi

Each spiritual traveler is born into a world of expectation. Daily, behavior and societal standards are presented by family, friends, co-workers, country, religion and self. (more…)

Plan for Humanity?

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Q:  How can you claim there is a Plan for humanity?  Just look at the mess out there; surely somebody is not doing their job.

A:  Many would assert the world is in chaos and daily we continue to destroy ourselves. Further the idea of a spiritual plan for humanity is absurd; just look at our track record and the growing materialism, addictions, and physical and sexual abuse/exploitation of our young. Additionally, historically, so-called spiritual leaders have been responsible through war and greed for some of our greatest suffering.  In fact today many of the churches continue as some of the richest corporations on earth.

This description of humanity’s self-destructive capacity is true; however it describes only part of the picture. It neglects our higher nature and the unselfish efforts of billions. (more…)