From Manifesting to Visioning Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week is from Shift Network CEO Stephen Dinan’s interview with Michael Beckwith entitled, “Living in a Visioning State in Your 40s, 50s and Beyond.” “Dinan: … What is it that made you realize that visioning was at the core of a spiritual awake and conscious life?…
Hardwiring Happiness Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week is from Rick Hanson’s TEDxMarin2013 talk on “Hardwiring Happiness.” Hanson is the author of the book, Hardwiring Happiness … grounded in neuroscience to overcome the primitive negative bias of the brain. “So what I want to do here, is share with you a very simple, yet powerful…
Faith Includes Doubt Friends, The excerpt this week is from Richard Rohr’s meditation “An Evolving Faith Includes Doubt.” “In my mind, one of the markers of an evolving faith is an ability to integrate doubt—to hold the tension between what we’ve been taught and what we’ve come to know as true. When grounded in an…
Kali Friends, The excerpt this week is by Annalisa Merellion entitled, “Kali is the feminist icon the world desperately needs.” “Consider Kali, the Hindu goddess. Wild, naked, her tongue sticking out—an uncomfortable, feral image of force, bursting sheer power…. There’s blood—that unsettling substance with which women are intimately familiar—everywhere on and around her:… There lies…
Are You Ready For You? Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week is from Michael Beckwith’s sermon entitled, “Are You Ready For You?” “You are unique…. There’s no one else exactly like you. You’ve got some love to share …some joy to give …some prosperity to circulate …some genius to activate; you’ve got some gifts to…
Defenselessness Friends, The excerpt this week is from ACIM teacher Jon Mundy’s letter entitled “In Defenselessness My Safety Lies” based on Lesson 153 from A Course In Miracles. “… ‘defenses are but foolish guardians of mad illusions. The more grotesque the dream, the fiercer and more powerful its defenses seem to be.’ The Course cautions…
Courage of the Heart Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield’s excerpt entitled “Courage of the Heart,” adapted from his book, “A Path with Heart.” “Very often what nourishes our spirit most is what brings us face to face with our greatest limitations and difficulties. My teacher Ajahn Chah called this…
Energy Report Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt this week is from Lee Harris’ June 2021 Energy Update Report. Harris is an intuitive who takes the pulse on what might show up each month. “Some of the themes this month are: Higher Mind Emergence, which will lead to greater clarity and vision; Group Connection is on…
From Naysayer to Yaysayer Friends, The excerpt this week is from Michael Beckwith’s sermon entitled, “From Naysayer to Yaysayer.” “Just feel the impress of the spirit moving through right now. Just take a deep inhalation and release and allow yourselves to be reminded that you have a symbiotic relationship with the entire cosmos with all…
Syncretism Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Wikipedia on Syncretism. “Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive…