Martin Luther King, Jr. I could not think of a better way to conclude this series of Guest Posts on “All Traditions, All Faiths, All Cultures”, or to prepare the way for our “Celebration of Spiritual and Religious Unity, Wisdom and Friendship” that begins here tomorrow, than with a tribute to Dr. King. This extraordinary statement about human…
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Sacred Sex
The Universal Experience of Suffering and its Universal Remedy; The Secret Teachings of Jesus and Moses; The Tree of Life: Kabbalah; The Tree of Knowledge: Alchemy-Daath-Tantra; The Duality of the Serpent: Kundalini and Kundabuffer. Temptation. The serpent. The expulsion from Paradise. Archetypal stories that have moved millions of human beings: but who has understood their…
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Prayers for Peace
By Carol Parrish (Excerpt from The New Dictionary of Spiritual Thought) THE BAHA’ I PRAYER FOR PEACE Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness and a home for the stranger. Be eyes to the blind,…
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What is Alchemy?
from The Alchemy Conference The Alchemists tried not merely to change base metals into gold, but much more importantly to rejuvenate their bodies, integrate their personalities, and perfect the very essence of our souls. Although they spoke of retorts, furnaces, and chemicals, they were really talking about synchronous transformation taking place in their own bodies, minds,…
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Harmonies of Healing: The Vibrations of Forgiveness
by Lauren Lane Powell When we talk about personal and global evolution, when we speak of awakening to our Spiritual potential, when we dialogue about healing our body, “forgiveness” comes up – front and center. In order to truly transcend, forgiveness is essential. All great Masters teach that forgiveness is the key to…
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What Christian Dogma Can Still Say to Us
by John Backman Does Christian dogma still have value in a world that bears the scars of its misuse? In too many cases, this dogma has been used to distinguish “us” from “them,” faithful from heretic, giving license to exclusion, hostility, and sometimes violence. Even the church’s most fundamental statements of faith, like the Nicene…
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“Effortless Wellbeing”: Meditation as Everyday Life
by Bob Weisenberg Of all the meditation approaches I’ve experienced and studied, the one I keep coming back to in the end is a little out-of-the-mainstream book called Effortless Wellbeing, by Evan Finer. Evan set out to discover and distill the essential elements of meditation that can affect our everyday sense of wellbeing. Eventually he…
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Evidence of a Designer’s Purpose
by David Klinghoffer Most of us find it annoying to be forced into a false dilemma. In a false dilemma, alternatives and gradations of belief are arbitrarily excluded as a technique of manipulation. Accept my version of orthodoxy or you’re a heretic! Jews and Christians employ this argumentative strategy, not least when conversation turns to…
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Meditation as Prayer
by Kathi Casey, ERYT, CPI In today’s fast paced society, many of the people I meet or work with are finding it difficult to bring prayer back into their lives. As children, we went as a family to religious services once a week, perhaps said grace before meals together, or gave a family blessing before…
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Joscelyn Godwin on Edgar Cayce and Atlantis
by Joscelyn Godwin (Note: Joscelyn Godwin is the author of numerous excellent books on spiritual and occult traditions. This is an excerpt from “Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations” – Andrew Cort) The gentle Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) was a fundamentalist when he began his trance channeling in 1901, and…
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Writing With Infinite Spirit
Dr. Carol S. Batey “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men generously and without reproaching.” James 1:5 (KJV) As a teacher and book writing coach for others, the one question that I am asked most is, “How do you write your projects with Infinite Spirit?” The next…
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A Peace Tour Through the Religious Community
by Andrew Bowen In June of 2006, then Senator Barak Obama gave a speech entitled “Call to Renewal” in which he points out that, “[W]e are no longer a Christian nation, at least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation…
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“Let Today Be the Day We Celebrate Love”
Mystical Love Poetry from Zayra Yves A Heart Soliloquy Only in my dreams do you appear as a figure who comes from other times delivering our love as it reaches across all lines out past the span of infinity to touch us. My heart keeps our love in secretuntil my poems are donethen I will give my body overlike an…
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The Coming of the Divine Child of Humankind
by Kell Kearns One way of interpreting “The Son of Man”, Jesus’ enigmatic description of himself (in the singular) and the New Humanity he heralds (in the plural) that occurs over 80 times in the canon of New Testament scripture, is “The Divine Child of Humankind”. I’ve reflected much on this phrase. I explore it…
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“I ask you to believe nothing you cannot verify for yourself” – G. I. Gurdjieff
G.I. Gurdjieff was born in Alexandropol, close to the frontiers of Russia and Turkey, circa 1866. Finding that neither science nor religion answered his questions about the meaning of man’s life, he became convinced that an ancient knowledge must exist and could still be found on Earth. After twenty years of search in remote parts…
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Islam: A Religion of Peace?
by Saleem Ahmed People ask, “How can Islam be a religion of peace?”, when the Qur’an requires Muslims to kill “unbelievers” and promises paradise to Muslims who die “killing unbelievers”; when suicide bombers go about killing innocent people indiscriminately; and when it seems we rarely hear moderate Muslim speaking out against their extremist fellow-religionists. But…
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Why Can’t You Kids Just Get Along?
by Wes Hopper One of the urban legends that’s very popular these days is the one about the endless battle between Science and Religion. The two are completely incompatible, we’re told, and the true believers are locked into a fight to the death over who’s right. Well, that’s pretty dramatic, but not completely true. I’ve…
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