Higher Knowledge & Spiritual Experience: What to Buy?

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

There are a thousand forms of mind.
-Rumi

The goal of the mystical process is to help complete human evolution.  The Sufi asserts that humanity is evolving to a higher spiritual condition and this evolution is purposeful and directed.  The end result of this process is more complete travelers who are better able to serve themselves and others.  Travelers proceed toward this goal by entering a path to spiritual completion and are guided by a Master. (more…)

Does Immortal Die

By Lt Col R K Langar

Immortality- what does it mean

In common parlance immorality means a living being in the world who is not subject to death. Take the case if a human being who consists of body including mind and intellect and a soul or Atma. As per the Vedantic philosophy or Hinduism, when the man dies it is only the body which perishes but not the Atma which being a fragment of God is not subject to birth or death and is immortal. Hence we can say that a man who identifies with the body alone and not the Atma would say that when the body dies the man dies on the other hand those who are soul conscious would say that I am established in my soul or spirit and hence I am immortal because the Atma is not subject to birth and death. The Atma moves from one worn out body to another new body and this process keeps on repeating itself till the soul is liberated from the cycle of birth and death. (more…)

The Case for Telepathy

by Tom T. Moore - Copyright 2013

How many times have you, your family, or friends began to think of someone, and the phone rings and they’re on the phone?  Coincidence?  That’s what a scientist would say, because they’ve not been able to replicate this under “controlled conditions” in a laboratory.   Or perhaps you or one of your family members suddenly receives a feeling or message that another family member in another city was injured or died?  And how many times have you heard that twins or a couple married for many years can read each other’s thoughts?

All are examples of telepathy, which is defined as the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. (more…)

Spain's Robin Hood mayor and a radical nun speak out against market forces

by Niels Bos

Two Spanish citizens have successfully rallied the voice of the people against government austerity measures that threaten the very fabric of life in Spain.

He is the 57-year-old mayor of an Andalusian town who has been dubbed "the Robin Hood of Spain" for organising anti-austerity marches across the region, occupying banks and supporting a food raid on a supermarket in order to distribute the food to the poor. She is a Benedictine nun, a Harvard-educated theologian and a doctor by training, who has emerged as a leading voice in Spain's "indignant" protest movement against the excesses of capitalism. They both have been making the national and international headlines separately for their outspoken ideas, words and actions.  (more…)

Spirituality & Social Change

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
-Kahlil Gibran

Looking Back

As I sit around watching my grey hair turn whiter, I keep seeing the same social and political problems occurring worldwide that I saw back on television 50 years ago when I was a teenager; of course back then my hair was dark brown. Yes a Lady Clairol dark brown: full head with luxuriant soft yellow highlights from the sun. OK. Maybe I am exaggerating a little about the amount of hair, but once I was young and full of expectation; concerning the possibility that spiritual learning might be the spark that changes this planet and brings us all together, finally. (more…)

Breaking the silence: taking action on cancer and the environment

In an interview, internationally recognized authority Dr. Sandra Steingraber discusses the mounting evidence linking cancer and pollution, and asks how much evidence is needed before action is taken.

Ecologist, author and activist Sandra Steingraber PhD, is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. She is the author of four books, including Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (2013) and Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment (1997, revised 2010). Dr Steingraber holds a doctorate in biology and is a scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Jason Francis interviewed her for Share International. (more…)

The Decoys Of Caligastia To Keep People Away From The Fifth Epochal Revelation

By Gabriel of Urantia

I write this article on some of the deceptions that Caligastia historically has used and continues to use now to discredit both The URANTIA Book and the Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation (found in The Cosmic Family volumes).

Deception through decoy has been a major trick of the fallen Planetary Prince of Urantia (Caligastia) since his fall 200,000 years ago, beginning by aligning with Lucifer’s strategies of discrediting Michael of Nebadon and the finaliters in their universe plan of ascension, ministry, and administration. There are many references to the Lucifer Rebellion and the Caligastia fall throughout The URANTIA Book, with three entire papers focused on this particular system- and planetary-level deviation from the way of the Universal Father. Much deception was presented during the great heavenly debate that occurred in Jerusem in the first seven years after the inception of the Rebellion, which the fallen Planetary Princes took to their worlds. Many of those false concepts are conceptually alive today on Urantia. (more…)

The Secret Teaching: Selected Aspects

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Introduction

Since the beginning of man’s appearance on this planet, there has been a continual succession of spiritual teachers. This mostly, hidden chain of Masters, has protected and shared Spiritual Knowledge with those people who were capable of using it. Throughout the ages, the external form of this Knowledge has changed to meet the shifting needs of different societies and geographical regions, yet, internally all the Great Religious Forms are united in the Light.

Some have called this Way of Knowing, the Perennial Philosophy, the Secret Teaching or the One True Religion. In ages past, it was offered by the Adepts in the Great Pyramid, it was the Gold of Alchemy, and in more modern times, the Wine that the Sufi becomes intoxicated with. Historically some of its exponents have included: Raymond Lully, Roger Bacon, Paraclesus, Geber, Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas  and different Popes such as Pope Silvester II, just too name a few.*

What is this Secret Teaching you ask? It is an inner spiritual knowing or experience of the Divine, and assumes an ever changing and evolving external form so we may understand and grasp it.  For our age, offered below are some of the key aspects of this  life altering elixir. Here take a sip of this wondrous, spiritual wine and may you grow closer to your true, lasting self. (more…)

Knowing Right & Wrong

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

On one level people want simple answers and to be told what to do.  On another, they want freedom to choose and make their own decision. People are multi-level and have the capacity to make their own choices as well as accept direction from others.  Discord sets in when the guidance from others or authority does not fit what the individual wants or feels is right for them. In this case, the individual is in conflict and looks for something else. (more…)

You Must Be the Change in a World Gone Upside Down

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff

Background Story

Some time back, my wife and I stopped at the local diner for some lunch. When we came out of the restaurant, I noticed that another vehicle had hit our car, marking-up and scratching the paint job on the front bumper and left fender. Now we have had this late model car for about 2 months and to us this is our long awaited new car. (more…)