Blind Leading the Blind

Blind Leading the Blind
by Anagarika Eddie Rock
If we become involved in preaching to others or teaching religion before experiencing Ultimate Truth first hand for ourselves, we teach from ego and not true compassion. Only when we personally touch Ultimate Truth with all its subtleties does universal love replace ambition. Then, our only concern is the [...]

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Spiritual Center in the Garden

Spiritual Center in the Garden
By Irwin Myers
Among the beautiful flowers and healthy vegetables you can grow in a home garden, you can also help to cultivate your spiritual center. With the reward of having beautiful plants, you can also use the garden space for meditating. With the proper planning, well-chosen plants and attentive care, your [...]

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The Power of Divine Feminine and the Great Awakening

By: Kiernan Antares
Are you hearing talk of 2012 and wondering what all the hype is about? Are we on the verge of Armageddon as doomsday sayers are spouting? 2012 movies are starting to come out and many of them will support this theory to strike fear in the hearts of many or just for [...]

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IF YOU DON’T LOVE IT, SHOVE IT! – FENG SHUI

FENG SHUI BY FISHGIRL
William Morris, England’s most famous designer / craftsman who inspired the Arts & Crafts Movement in the mid 1800’s said “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Whether he knew it or not, Willam Morris was practicing Feng Shui.
One of the [...]

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What is Kabbalah?

By Dr. Jennifer Howard
The word Kabbalah means “to receive” and flows out of the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalah systematically breaks reality down into a clear understanding and a potential path to wholeness. Most religions have a mystical tradition, but they don’t necessarily break it down into bite size concepts. By “mystical” we [...]

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Post-Rational Leadership, Lao Tzu, and the Tao Te Ching

“Post-Rational Leadership, Lao Tzu,
and the Tao Te Ching“
From: THE WAY OF LEADING PEOPLE: UNLOCKING YOUR INTEGRAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS WITH THE TAO TE CHING
by Patrick Warneka and Timothy H. Warneka
http://www.wayofleadingpeople.com
Lao Tzu, or Master Lao as we in the West would call him, was a Chinese sage who lived around 600 B.C. and whose life story has [...]

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Making Smaller Footprints

by Anagarika Eddie Rock
On my way up the mountain carrying some roofing materials I stopped to catch my breath, and as I unconsciously gazed at a scrub cedar tree that I had trimmed a month before to make the trail, an insight popped up. They happen at random like this, and seldom have anything [...]

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Apples and Oranges: The Comparison Game

By: Rabbi Simcha Weinberg
“Why can’t you be like other kids who behave perfectly?” is a refrain I often hear parents complaining to their children. Yes, there were and are certainly moments when I wish my children were as “perfect” as other kids, but those moments are rare. I am more than happy for my [...]

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Why natural is not necessarily good but you are sacred

By: Andy Pakula
Before I became a Unitarian minister, I was a scientist – a Ph.D. biologist. Ministry and science is an interesting combination – two fields that sometimes conflict and sometimes make for the most wonderful of synergies. I know a great deal about how living things work – about the chemistry and mechanics [...]

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Where did meditation originate?

By: Christopher Lloyd Clarke
Like many researchers, I believe that meditation has been a part of human life since the very beginning of human existence. Since man first became self aware, that is to say, when he first became conscious of himself as a being that can think, that can act out of conscience, that [...]

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