Women of High Spiritual Attainment

by Catherine Auman

Today we are blessed with a plethora of contemporary women spiritual teachers: Marianne Williamson, Pema Chodron, Gangaji, Gurumayi, Ammachi, Sylvia Boorstein and her many Buddhist colleagues. Accredited graduate programs in Women’s Spirituality have opened, and everywhere women are being ordained as ministers and rabbis.

Such abundance wasn’t available when I started on my spiritual path. All the persons of spiritual attainment offered for study or emulation were men. In fact, many teachers declared that women cannot become enlightened, that we will have to wait to be reborn as men. The so-called “perennial philosophy” and Ken Wilbur’s interpretations privileged male ways of being and worshipping, while placing non-rational, emotional and intuitive spiritual paths at the bottom of their hierarchies. (more…)

Educating child to make Good Human Being

By Lt Col R K Langar

Some time back I read a news item in Times Of India(TOI) newspaper under the heading- ‘Role of educators, the way forward’. It was emphasized in this write up that a child’s education should be such that after completing the education, the child passes out as a good human being. I liked this write up immensely since it focused on the inner personality of a child. Today if there is anything which is in acute short supply in India, it is the availability of good human beings. Our newspapers today are telling us that how corruption, murders and rapes have spread in our country since our people lack goodness which is the first hallmark of a human being. Therefore before we become anything else, we must first become good human beings. We are inclined to believe that those who are occupying high posts in the society are good human beings. This is not so. Capability and goodness are two different things. Professional efficiency can take you on top of the ladder even if you lack good inner qualities. A good person is always good from inside wherever he may be. (more…)

How A Local Psychic Can Help You Lead a Problem-Free Life

What if there was this magical key to solve all your life’s problems? What if there was a way to know what hinders your life, discover it and cast it away for good? If you are an average human being, you have probably wondered about your life on more occasions than you can imagine. Who are you? What is your purpose? What are your virtues and vices? How can you lead a better, more successful life? There are ways to gain deep insight into your life, and there is more than one way in which a true psychic reading can help you: (more…)

Riding a Shining Star

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Sometimes life makes you laugh and just shake your head. Sometimes it just kicks you in the butt or in this case, lower back.

For example, last week when I thought events were going badly with my health- un-expectantly another dimension was added. I was bending over to pick-up a leaf on our property and my lower back went out; doctor said probably slipped a disc. Besides the pain and discomfort involved I simply cannot get around as well as I should. Stacking this problem beside my other medical issues, this one jumped right to the head of the line. Sometimes when you think things cannot possibly get worse, think again . . . (more…)

Karma & Slow Moving Lines

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Today, I saw the Law of Karma operating right in front of me. Fortunately, I did not have to wait another lifetime to work my issue.

While paying for medical prescriptions at the local pharmacy, I kept hitting incorrect display prompts on the credit card monitor.  This display monitor asks multiple questions and requires signatures at various points. My errors necessitated that I start over several times; rushing and fumbling about I could sense the growing line behind me.  Clearly I was slowing-up the works and customers had to wait longer than they expected.

Suddenly, I had a flash back to when I stood in this same line, behind an elderly fellow who was having even more problems than I navigating the credit system. (more…)

Free to be Peace

by Michelle Sullivan

Forward: Dedicated to Sarah, with all my love.

Wherever you are is perfect for you. I share because not sharing feels like witholding the cure for cancer, such is the difference in my quality of life before compared to after my experience of God's peace.

I hope with all my heart this writing helps you as you allow God’s peace inside. What you do with this is entirely up to you, from "this is crazy" to "I already know all this."

Who we truly are came to me/was one with me for one eternal moment after I entirely let go of my own struggling over knowing why/what we are, my first and biggest experience of God's all-encompassing peace that enters after letting go of my struggle. I've attempted to describe what that experience taught me and how I've lived that experience, best I can, ever since. (more…)

Stunned By Angelic Help with Health

by Jennifer Underwood

I have been working with Angels for months now. I first learned about it in 2007 from a woman that claimed she was an Earth Angel. I found it weird at the time, but did not question it. She slipped out of my life, and years later, because of her, I started to talk to Angels. Problem was, I did not beckon them correctly, and ended up with bad, evil, fake entities that pretend to be Angels. So truly for years, I suffered thinking the Angels did not want to help me. Recently, I read that Archangel Raphael can help you with your health if you call him and imagine he is standing over your head with his amazing green light healing you from top to bottom. (more…)

Peace Chaplain

Chapter 13 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway

RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from antiwar activists, the true stories of their efforts to change our warrior culture. A seminarian contributed this chapter about learning to love her enemies. Because of her activism, she prefers to remain anonymous.

To celebrate Armed Forces Day the military base near my seminary held an open house, a public relations extravaganza to improve their image and boost recruiting. They invited the public in for a marching band parade, a precision flying show, and a sky diving demonstration. They even offered free lemonade and cookies.

A subversive seminarian, namely me, decided to disrupt the festivities and remind people that the military's job is murder. (more…)

Waiting for the Beloved

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

I have come to the end of the road;
Having climbed many a hill
And walked across many a valley.
Always there was a burning,
Yearning in my soul to continue,
Climb and experience.

At the end of this trail
I have learned that only 2 things
Really matter: those I loved and the Beloved.
Everything else was part of the journey;
Keeping me going until I reached this point.

What lies on the other side of this hill?
Who can say: it is unchartered
And I am exhausted by the climb.
When tomorrow dawns
Perhaps there will be another adventure
And more things to go and do?

Or perhaps I will just sit here
In the sun and rain-
Waiting for the Beloved
To lead me by my hand?

-SB

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Why Don’t We Remember Past Lives?

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

The book of your life
Is filled with many blank pages;
You are free to write on them
Whatever you choose.

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People do not remember past lives for several different reasons. (more…)