Toward a World that Works for Everyone
I will be away Nov. 2 through 4. Suzi is sitting in for me. Some statements are so right on, they stop you in your tracks. The Arcturian Group said recently: “Compassion, service, and a growing awareness of the problems of others are the beginning steps that eventually lead every individual to a state of […]
When I think of Ascension as a journey up a mountain, I weep. Because for me, that’s how it’s seemed. I could have said pulling myself out of a swamp. Or crossing a desert. These are just images, but I feel so tired looking at the journey from this vantage point. It’s been a long […]
Nice. When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was: – Do you believe in God? And he always answered: – I believe in the God of Spinoza. Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes. […]
Why is awareness so important? Why not love? Why not good works? Well, of course those are also very important. But awareness – which is also called discernment and discrimination in some religions – is of ultimate importance. Why? By now I should be able to ask “What is the purpose of life?” and a […]
I need to set the stage for a discussion of values for a New Earth. I need to talk about the old paradigm first. That old paradigm had three features: (1) social Darwinism, (2) empirical materialism, and (3) ethnocentrism or race supremacy. I’ll explain these schools of thought as we go. I repost the next […]
I was recovering from three days spent re-experiencing humiliation (1) and I lay on the couch and asked Michael: What was the most important thing for me to know after all that? What would ground me? Inspire me? Show me where to go next? And I lay there. And eventually the words formed in my […]
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The point I wanted to make however is: what do we do in the face of this constant change to maintain our equilibrium, our balance? Things are going faster than I can keep up with. What do we do? I can only say what I do, which I’ve been doing […]
If we were to see the ending of the careers of corrupt politicians, of big business’s control over the finances of the world, of the military-industrial complex’s grip on the world, etc., I think we could all agree that we’d be in a time of terrific, even revolutionary change. We may be saying to ourselves, […]
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As a warm-up to International Women’s Day tomorrow, I wanted to post a radio interview with the original of the Divine Feminine – the Divine Mother – from Spring 2012. To a cross-cultural spiritual student like myself, this interview is one of the most valuable statements the Divine Mother has ever made that I’m aware […]
One thing all spiritual paths share is that they all lead to awareness – awareness of who we are – Self-Realization, Self-Knowledge, Self-Recognition, etc. It’s no secret. I can say it: Who we are is God. But, as far as we’re concerned, that may remain an idea, something intellectually known. As such it doesn’t ring […]
Guest Writer Who is God? Nancy Badger “The body is the temple of God; in everybody, God is installed whether the owner of the body recognizes it or not. It is God that inspires you to good acts, that warns you against the bad. Listen to that voice. Obey that voice, and you will not […]
A great deal depends on the level at which we pitch our arguments. When I talk about about a true and false positivity, I’m pitching my argument at the everyday level, presuming that, for the vast majority of us on the planet at this time, that would be the Third or Fourth Dimension. But I’ll […]
Again I’d like to look at some of the elements of spirituality that provide a solid foundation for us to build Nova Earth on. We listened to terrestrial sages recently on oneness. (1) What is the basis of our oneness? Let’s listen as our galactic and celestial sources tell us what it is. The basis […]
Yesterday I found my stash of Paramahansa Yogananda Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) monthly lessons from decades ago. I now have access again to the documents which are the source of the equation of “Om” with the “Holy Spirit.” Each of these fundamental statements is of immense value to the spiritual student. To me, they’re like a […]
