Another podcast from Steve Nobel - Your soul's purpose.

FREE DOWNLOAD - Listen to how you can discover your soul’s purpose in life. Here is a recording called 'Your Soul's Purpose'. It is in English and translated into Italian. Lasts 23 minutes. Enjoy!

The basic idea of this podcast is that you have a soul mission. Your soul mission is about connecting to your unique spirit and expressing that in some unique way in the world. You are not here for the same reason as other people. You are here to celebrate your life in your own way. Most of us do not remember our soul mission in this world.

Our job here is to wake up and remember the true reason why we are here. Your mission is not known by your head or intellect but by your heart. Your mission is connected to your values and dreams. What inspires you and what you feel passionate about. Your mission is about your gifts and talents and your ongoing challenges. Your mission is about the core need you are called to serve in the world.

The main idea of this podcast and 'that each of us has a spiritual mission. Our spiritual mission and 'to connect to our individuality' and to express it in the world. We are not here for the same reasons others. We're here to celebrate life in our own way. Many of us are unaware of their mission in the world. Our task here and 'to awaken and remember the real reason why we incarnate. You can not know your mission ol'intelletto through logic, and the only way 'of the heart. Your mission is' linked to your personal values and your dreams. It 's what inspires you and that you're passionate about. Your mission is your talent and your quality. ' Listen to this podcast discover how your spiritual mission in life. (Use google toolbar to translate page).

Italian/English: http://www.stevenobel-audio.com/DownloadMP3Squeeze.aspx?ID=127

Love Steve

A free podcast with Art Giser - achieve personal and spiritual growth.

My friend, Steve Nobel, has his hands full. He is so creative, talented and very (extremely) giving. He works very hard and really loves what he does and he loves sharing his knowledge with others. What a wonderful teacher and friend. How blessed I am. And me, I love to share to help others. Enjoy!

FREE PODCAST - With Art Giser who has been a NLP trainer and taught energetic transformative work & intuition development for over 23 years. (Runs just under 35 minutes). Art studied with all of the major developers of NLP including Richard Bandler, John Grinder, and Robert Dilts. He has received two "empowerments" directly from the Dali Lama, and has worked with the Brazilian healer John of God for several years. He is the founder of Energetic NLP which combines tsome of the most effective systems on the planet for achieving success & personal and spiritual growth.

On this podcast you will learn how to:
Bridge the worlds of NLP and spiritual healing;
Release "negative" energy from your energy field;
Protect yourself from "negative" energy ;
Open up to your clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience;
Ground using two techniques, one suitable for men and one for women.

http://www.stevenobel-interviews.com/DownloadMP3Squeeze.aspx?ID=129

Some mindfood for thought.

Here is a little food for thought written by my friend, Benjamin Ka-han McAvoy (Healer/Lightworker).

Imagine for a moment that each of us is entrusted at birth with a hope diamond in the rough, a precious and sacred particle of the Divine Will. Through us, the Will of the Creator can enter the material world. We bear the seed, we are the seed, the growing tip of the Universal Will. In a vast and incomprehensible process, the Unconditioned Will gradually spiritualizes the material universe, drawing it more directly into Its service. We may recognize this difficult and uncertain process in ourselves, if we endeavor to cooperate with this Great Work of the spirit. We cut and polish our diamond will, returning it to the service of the Divine Will from which it originates. As with any diamond, our initial roughness is not inherent, but results from our growth within the material world.

Probing this picture we ask a rather complex question: What does service to the Divine Will consist of? In partial response we envision an immense ecology of energies. Within the Earth’s living ecosystem we witness the exchange, transformation, and recycling of the energies of heat, light, and molecular bonds in the food chain. Similarly, the sacred, universal ecosystem harmonizes the exchange and transformation of the energies of sensation, consciousness, and the rest, within the great chain of being. Human beings naturally use, convert, and store energies. The capacity for this can vary tremendously from one person to the next, depending on the state of their soul. Through spiritual practices we directly and powerfully transform energies, raising the quality and quantity of energies at work in us. Serving the Universal Will means, in part, not only conducting our lives creatively in accordance with conscience and kindness, but also transforming energies well.

This Earth depends on us for the higher energies. Through spiritual practice we reach up to transmit those energies, serving our planet, serving life, serving our own soul. People called to this sacred duty in the midst of ordinary life, find unsurpassed meaning and purpose.

A free podcast.

My friend, Steve Nobel, sent this to me and I thought I'd share it with you.

FREE PODCAST - Rosalie Dores is a Yoga and a language teacher. She is studying an MA in Mindfulness Based Approaches at the University of Wales in Bangor. She has been practising a mindfulness approach for the past 15 years and teaches the mindfulness programme based on the pioneering work of John Kabat-Zinn.

On this recording (approx 32 mins) learn: About the applications of mindfulness; how it can help you reduce stress; improve your well-being and quality of life; and help you become more aware of your mental and emotional reponses to life. Feel free to click on the links below:

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Your body, your temple by Benjamin Ka-han McAvoy.

Your Body, YourTemple (written by Benjamin Ka-han McAvoy)

This miraculous body, given to us at birth, requires proper rest, nutritious food, good hygiene, and adequate exercise not only to support our physical health, but also to regulate our vital energies. This sets the best possible bodily stage for spiritual practice. Bodily vigor can translate to an active, energetic approach to the inner life. Furthermore, responsible treatment of our own body forms a crucial part of a responsible attitude toward life as a whole. Responsibility stands as one of the highest spiritual qualities and begins with our own body. To help maximize our spiritual possibilities, we can work to maximize our physical vitality.

Like everything else in human life, care of the body can suffer many aberrations. Hypochondria, fastidiousness, squeamishness, timidity, vanity, lust, gluttony and laziness suggest the wide range of excessive or obsessive attitudes we can have toward our body. These and others arise from self-centered, egoistic views of life. Given its remarkable resilience, we need not fear using our body, making demands of it. Given the fact of our body, we need to accept it as is, adapting to rather than dwelling on its inevitable shortcomings. The fact of our body also argues against taking the false credit of vanity, or being overly concerned about adorning it. A slovenly appearance, though, shows lack of respect for oneself and others.

Illness presents an opportunity to reassess our situation, our goals, our choices. Any illness can serve as a small reminder of our inevitable death, and as such, can stimulate consideration of the legacy we are creating, of the kind of person we are, of the life we are living, of appropriate use of our talents and disposition. Illness can also teach us acceptance and patience. Sometimes in illness, the depletion of our energies weakens our egoism and allows our more essential nature to shine through. An acquaintance, in the process of dying from brain cancer, gradually underwent a remarkable transformation and became a source of love for all around. Even lesser, non-fatal illnesses, can open our being and our heart.

As our body ages, slowly, slowly, its powers wane. New aches, pains, limitations and challenges enter our life, tempting us to dwell on the decline rather than on continued living in the wisdom, dignity, and warmth of heart that aging can bring.

The body offers a fertile arena for inner work. At all ages, instinctive intuition of what our body really needs challenges our perceptions and fixed opinions. Awareness of physical sensations, posture, gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, movement, breathing, eating, and all our myriad physical activities grounds us in the present moment, reveals truths about ourselves, and provides a necessary platform for deeper spirituality. A proper object for our love and respect, a cared-for body repays us with well-being, energy, and a home for building our soul.

Hope this helps, please share as much information as you can.
With Love Light and Blessings to you all
Benjamin

The journey of spiritual awakening by Steve Nobel

Here is a little note written by my friend, Steve Nobel. He just came home from a couple of meetings and felt inspired to write it. It flowed out in about 15 minutes and then he thought he would share it with me and I'm sharing it with you. I hope it speaks to you and your journey.

Hi there, says Steve.

This note is about the journey of spiritual awakening and although everyone's journey is unique I have found that there are common characteristics that may touch us all (I am speaking here of lightworkers rather than beings that are at the stage of exploring material existence only). I have presented this journey as linear with one step following anopther, yet the experience may feel more like different steps happening simultaneoulsy:

The Seeking of the Holy Grail:
First there is the seeking, this may happen from adolescence or even earlier and is the sense of missing something, or knowing that there is more to life than what is being presented. In this period there can be times where the search is released and 'normal' life is embraced. In time this yearning for answers and something more comes back with greater force and intensity. The re-ignition of the search can come thorugh some incident or set of incidents that lead you to question reality. Perhaps there is a spiritual search and a deep questioning about life, self, God and the Universe. Perhaps you seek to know more about areas such as: crop cirecles, UFO's, extra-terrestial life.

The Resistance:
In this search there is a resistance which will manifest either as the internal critic/doubter or as external blocking forces or usually as both. Often people will say that you are crazy and wasting your life. Loved ones can become particularly freaked out by your 'spiritual'tendencies. Perhaps you wonder if you are really weird and everyone else has it right! This is normal and nothing to worry about. It is quite natural to resist what the ego cannot understand.

The Awakening Moment:
There comes a moment in the search where something just clicks. It could arise from a meditation,or visiitng a place, or reading a book or seeing a film, or through a conversation. An inner light goes on and somethng is radically different. perjaps there are a number of small experiences that lead to a bigger experience of the transcendent within. The experience is hard to explain to most other people. Perhaps there is a yearning to connect with people who can understand this experience.

Transformation Level 1:
Perhaps this leads to a spiritual practise, and the integration of this in daily life leads to some very real changes. Both internally in the way you think and feel, and externally in the way you relate with the world.

The Wilderness Period:
At a certain point there may come a yearning to retreat from the world and explore your inner world and with the transcendent. Perhaps there is a sense of connecting with spirit guides or angelic beings. This retreat from the world is necessary for most. This period is about more than just finding space,it is about another deeper level of inner transformation. The ego is being re-aligned with the Higher Self. This period of inner transformation heralds an external transformation in the world. However, the risk for some is in spending too long in this period and in resisting coming back and re-engaging with the world.

Re-connecting with the World:
In time, there is a need to come backto the world. To re-engage in a dififerent way. Perhaps there is a radical shift in your friendships, romantic relationships, work life, or sense of direction and purpose in the world.

Learning to Create Reality:
One of the things we have mostly come here to learn is to influence, create, and dream reality into being from the inside out. For some this is an integralpart of their life mission, for others it is a subsidiary aspectof their mission on earth. Once we know how to create reality from our dreams and intentions we can learn learn how to co-create reality into being with the higher forces in the Universe.

Aligning With Your Mission:
Now you have a better sense of mission and direction and what you have come here on the earth to do. For some this mission is individual and huge, they are the pioneers who come to create a new way. Others have come to support such visions and work together cooperatively to create a new earth.A mission can be about anything from parenting the next star-seed generation, to writing and opening the minds of others, to singing and inspiring the hearts of others, to working energtically to transform a pattern in the mass mind, to working with balancing the male/female dynamic, to transforming the ego-mind, to working to anchor new energies on the earth with angelic/light-beings.

Blessings
Steve Nobel
http://www.stevenobel.com/

Dimensions of Balance in Spiritual Practice.

Dimensions of Balance in Spiritual Practice was sent to me by my friend and fellow lightworker/healer, Benjamin Ka-han McAvoy. Enjoy.

The many facets of our humanity call for balance. In growing up, we need a balanced education and a balance of discipline and love. For physical health we need a balanced diet as well as a balance between activity and repose. For mental health we need a balance between work, leisure, and family. So too, we need a holistic approach toward our inner work for spiritual development.

As complex beings with complex demands placed upon us, for most of us no single method of spiritual practice will prove adequate. An understanding of the variety of methods and their place in the spiritual path serves us well in discovering and filling the gaps in our inner work. Through actual practice we grow familiar with the relationships among the methods and their effect on our being. We acquire a taste for how to balance our inner life. Toward this, we now examine four dimensions of balance in spiritual practice: context, mode, vehicle, and style. Though handed down from ancient times, these were powerfully posed by G.I. Gurdjieff in the twentieth century. An understanding of these dimensions helps guide our steps in the unknown territory of the spirit.

Context

The first dimension of balance concerns the three possible contexts of practice: ourselves, our family and society, and the Ultimate. If we direct our spiritual life only toward ourselves, we risk growing self-absorbed and losing sight of the greater purpose. If our practice centers solely on serving others, we risk losing ourselves, losing the energy and peace of mind we need to serve well. If our practice focuses exclusively on the Divine, we risk losing our footing on this wonderful Earth, losing our ability to relate well. All three together, however, forge a remarkably potent combination. In our spiritual droughts, when we lose contact with one, another will provide a way to reinvigorate the first. Working in all three contexts, we discover a sense of completeness and integrity.

Mode

The second dimension of balance addresses the active, open, and harmonic modes of practice. The great traditions inform us that reality has a threefold nature. The ancient Indian Vedas, for example, instruct us about the three basic elements, the three gunas: rajas, tamas, and sattva. Christianity offers the image of the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life arranges its ten sephirot in three columns and with triadic connections. All these reflect the fact that threefoldness enters the whole of reality, including our inner work, through will.

The active mode of will displays an affirming, directed, outward flowing, effortful quality. The open mode embraces an allowing, accepting, receiving, inward flowing, non-directed, surrendering quality. This second mode can also manifest as passivity, inertia, laziness, and resistance. The harmonic mode brings a creative freedom, a catalyst enabling the other two modes to cooperate in a quite natural, balanced, unforced way. We see this harmonic mode in sports when an athlete is “in the zone,” in effortlessly perfect action. In the spiritual path, we seek to be open to the higher while active toward the more external, in a harmonious, wise, loving, and productive way of life, with will flowing through us from the higher to the lower.

Balance is essential among these three modes, especially as they characterize our spiritual practices. If we always pursue an active practice, we shall have little peace and stillness, and our activity will be confined to the lower rungs of Jacob’s ladder. If openness constitutes our sole choice in modes of practice, we will not gain the strength required to create a viable vessel for our soul. If we only seek harmony, we will fail because that bird cannot fly without the two wings of active and open practices. Working with all three modes, their interaction enlivens us, inspiring and enabling us to reach new and unexpected depths in our spiritual life.

Vehicle

The third dimension of balance operates among the four vehicles of our body, heart, mind, and spirit or I. Here, vehicle means the mechanism through which will acts in us. Our body has the ability to move, to act, and to maintain itself in the material world. In our heart vehicle we have the full range of emotions, which broker our contact with worlds outside and in. In our mind, we have the ability to think, visualize, plan, imagine, daydream, remember, and understand. Most of us tend toward unbalance in terms of these three vehicles. We might live primarily in our thoughts, or in our feelings, or in our physical abilities and appetites. Balanced spiritual work includes developing our neglected vehicles.

Our spirit typically remains hidden. Thus, our practice aims, in part, at reconnecting our daily life with our true spirit, our own “I am,” which alone has the power to unify our body, heart, and mind.

Style

When we think of spiritual practice, we usually think of a formal style of practice: meditation, ritual or communal prayer, chanting, and the like. Such formal practices, repeated at regular intervals, constitute the foundation of the spiritual path. These practices collect and transform energies, exercise our will, and let us delve deeper than would be possible in more ordinary circumstances.

But a completely different genre of spiritual practices stands equal in importance to the formal style: continuous practice sustained throughout our ordinary day. Instead of getting up from meditation or prayer and leaving our spiritual work behind until the next day, we continue to practice awareness of bodily sensation, presence or prayer as much as possible all day long, even as we go about our normal daily activities. The practice that we continue while engaged in our day may not be as deep or as strong as formal practice, but it does enjoy the distinct advantage of having more time available for it. The cumulative effect of continuous practice can be even greater than that of formal practice. If you sustain and renew your inner work at frequent intervals, by the end of the day you may find yourself in a deeply centered and spiritually refined state. Furthermore, change of being means change of our usual state. The more continuously we practice, the more we raise our usual state, and the closer we come to permanent change of being.

Formal and continuous practice support and complement each other. Meditation and prayer can provide the surplus, high quality energy we need to practice more continuously. Work at presence throughout the day strengthens and purifies our will, consolidates our gains from formal practice, and deepens our meditation and prayer.

But formal and continuous do not exhaust the categories of practice. If we look at the continuum from inner to outer, we see that formal practice belongs primarily to the inner whereas continuous practice falls between inner and outer. In the fully outer realm of external manifestations of spirituality we enter the way of right action in the world, the way of responsibility and kindness, creativity and service. These constitute a third major form of spirituality, of equal standing to formal and continuous practice, supporting and complementing both. Our ability to be kind, responsible, or creative grows as our being and will transform. Formal and continuous practice together lead to that transformation. The potential of our own right action in the world, however, gives us a strong reason to pursue formal and continuous spiritual practice. If we wish to serve well, we need to develop our being and purify our will. The way of right action puts the results of our inner work to good use.

Between the styles of formal, continuous and manifested practice, we seek an appropriate balance, attuned to our own propensities and possibilities. Love and light to all.

Patience is a virtue.

A beautiful video about life - patience, faith, being laughed at. It's worth a good look - you may find that you relate to this beautiful lesson.

Please click on the link below to view it and listen to the story.
http://someonebelievesinyou.com/TheMiracleofChineseBambooMovie.aspx

Global One TV

My friend, Eric Allen Bell, has sent out an invitation to check out his online social network and spiritual community at:
 http://www.globalone.tv/

Global One TV is committed to bringing spiritual information, media and illumination to all parts of the world. I invite you to come and join us.

Help with the Mercury retrograde and the feelings accompanied by it.

Here is a message from a lightworker called Dani. I thought it was worth sharing with you:

You may be experiencing physical symptoms of the process such as:  head, back, neck pain, intense nightmares (releasing old stuff!), insomnia (2-4am), psychic ability increased, cleaning closets/clutter, relationships suddenly released (breakups, jobs, friends,etc) which are not based on TRUTH and Integrity, restlessness, need for alone time/seclusion to regroup, sudden sadness-spontaneous crying, sleepiness/taking naps,etc..

You are right where you should be! I know, it's tough to get through..I have it all too..This is (especially because we are in Mercury Retrograde until Jan 15th-but really a week after) a time to RELEASE AND REGROUP. In order to ascend to higher frequency, we NEED to release old stuff and regroup for a new, higher love vibration. Joy is on the way!!

One important fact about this new frequency we're moving into is that it epitomizes JOY, LOVE, PEACE, INNER CHILD, FUN, TRUTH, INTEGRITY. So you would be on track if you're releasing all of the old junk -and it doesn't always feel good for a short time!

The real gift is on it's way and you will start feeling the GOOD things now too...you're intuition will pick up if it hasn't already, including your telepathy, feelings of silliness and fun, truth is emerging, you may be already experiencing waves of peace..the positive aspects of the Ascension will start to last longer than the negative (once you LET GO).. Don't be afraid, it's all normal. you're right on track!

Meditate, get plenty of rest, drink your water, release and regroup..sleep when you need to..We're all going through it together and we will get through it together."

♥ Dani Koreck

A thought to ponder.

Complaining about anything, holds you in the place of refusing to receive the things you've been asking for. Justifying about anything holds you in the place of refusing to let in the very things that you've been asking for. Blaming someone, holds you in the place of refusing to let in the things that you've been asking for. Feeling guilty, feeling angry, it doesn't matter what you call it, it is a refusal. Have you considered that it may not a conscious one? Perhaps it's a defensive one. Remember the Universe is yielding, it must yield. It's a big question, folks: why are you so defensive, why are you so unyielding and unforgiving, what aren't you letting in, do you feel deprived?

The cracked pot.

The wooden bowl.

The Wooden Bowl

I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl whether it be tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. This is a great time to sit somewhere quiet and comfy and do some inner reflecting.

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth. The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess.

'We must do something about father,' said the son. 'I've had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor.' So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. When the family glanced in Grandfather's direction, sometimes he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food.

The four-year-old watched it all in silence. One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, 'What are you making?' Just as sweetly, the boy responded, 'Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in when I grow up.' The four-year-old smiled and went back to work.

The words so struck the parents so that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done. That evening the husband took Grandfather's hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled.

On a positive note, I've learned that, no matter what happens, how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles four things:  a rainy day, the elderly, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as making a 'life..'
I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back
I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you - But, if you focus on your family, your friends, the needs of others, your work and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
I've learned that every day, you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch -- holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
I've learned that you should pass this on to everyone you care about. I just did.

Mercury goes retrograde. What that means to you.

Yep, it's that time again where planet Mercury goes retrograde on April 18. What this means it that it appears that the planet is moving backward. The good news is Mercury is only retrograde until May 11 - only 23 days. So what does this mean? Pretty much means to expect the unexpected. This is a time where Electronic Devices may not work properly, may break, or may malfunction. (Cell phones, cars, machines, appliances, computers, etc). Letter, bills, any communication with people may seem strained, delayed or misinterpreted. Mercury is also a trickster and you'll be amazed over some of the cleverly disguised errors that will happen - like losing something in your car or it falls behind something, and even bills, letters or orders can be sent to wrong addresses. People may be in tense moods and you may find yourself desiring/wanting more solitude. You may experience problems/delays in travel or trips and with meetings and appointments. This is a time where communication and schedules can be compromised. This is not a good time to sign contracts or make big purchases such as a car or appliance, hence things tend to break down or not function properly. People from your past may resurface and memories or past regrets may come from out of nowhere to haunt you.


What to do during this time: Think about your past and how you feel about your current circumstances. Consider if you are happy in your current situation? If not, think of ways to change it. This is a time to rethink, reflect, research, revise and renew. (Keep the RE in mind for the next few weeks). In regards to relationships and partnership matters, our thinking is turned inward. Re-evaluating a partnership and communication style within that relationship is wonderful use of this reflection period.

What not to do during this time: Not a good time for big purchases such as a home, car or electronics. These types of things/items will generally encounter major problems. Don't sign important contracts or paperwork. Try not to get upset over set backs. Expect them so when they happen, you're prepared. Keep cell phone charged, keep a can of fix a flat in the trunk, and don't panic if you leave the directions/invitation with the address on it at home, etc.

If you plan any travels, try to allow for extra time for any problems which might arise. Also, keep your electronic equipment tuned up and working well, and try and take it easy on your nervous system. The nervous system can be on over-drive during the mercury retrograde. So try and allow extra time for sleep and relaxation and why not allow yourself to take some time off from tasks and do some favorite activity you haven’t done in a while.

Mercury retrograde is also a great time to get things done, especially ones that you may have been putting off, like cleaning or organizing and recycling old stuff you no longer need. It’s a time to finish tasks that were started and never went to completion, but it’s usually not a good time for starting new tasks. Brainstorming is easier to do at this time, but generally, things will have an easier time of getting started if you wait until Mercury goes direct.

Brightest blessings for a fun ride!

Remember, be prepared for just about anything. If you find you need a break or an escape, do so. Find your quiet special place and take the time for yourself.

Feel free to let me know your experience - example something breaks or someone comes out of the past from long ago.
Written by L.A.A. Any copying without authors consent is strickly prohobited

What happened to the spiritual foundation?

Here is an article published in the Rome News Tribune, written by Randy Brandon. (Good point, Randy).

The United States gained its independence in 1776. From the time of the first pilgrims through the Revolutionary War men fought and died for their belief in God, and founded our Constitution and Declaration of Independence on these religious beliefs. Our social and government structures were founded on these religious beliefs and this nation was known as a God-fearing, Christian nation.

When we see as we do today the divisions, corruption and moral decline in these predominate structures appear; is it not time to take a closer look at how we have come to develop the current beliefs we hold; as opposed to the teachings of the Bible and the religious beliefs our forefather held when this country was founded?

Would not we be more enriched in our daily lives and have a harmonious social and government structure if we were to adhere t the original beliefs on which our forefathers founded this country? It is shown today that instead of having faith in God, people are letting their pride, greed arrogance and moral decadence permeate their every waking thought.

I am afraid that this nation that I love is fast becoming spiritually bankrupt. God has been taken out of our schools, our public and government because people have become offended. It does not fit into their lives like they want to live it. So where do we really stand? Where is the hope of the country? Why have we forsook the principles and religious beliefs our forefathers had when this great nation was founded

Article link:  http://romenews-tribune.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Return+to+nation%E2%80%99s+spiritual+foundation%20&id=6913225

Australians mix and match religious beliefs.

A poll has revealed that most Australians believe in God or a similar universal spirit, but a majority also believe in miracles, life after death and angels, and many believe in astrology and UFOs. The surprising findings from a Nielsen poll for Fairfax newspapers show Australia is a credulous nation, willing to mix and match religious faith with belief in other phenomena. Although Australians are widely considered to be a secular people, nearly half of the population believe in psychic powers such as extrasensory perception, while 41 per cent believe in astrology.


The research shows that Australians are more religious than we might have thought - 68 per cent of us believe in God or a universal spirit. But atheists and agnostics also had a strong showing in the national survey of 1,000 respondents, taken early this week. Almost one in four Australians (24 per cent) do not believe in either God or a universal spirit, and seven per cent are not sure or say they "don't know".

But God is not the only thing Australians believe in. They place their faith in a range of other phenomena. For example, 63 per cent believe in miracles, and 53 per cent believe in life after death. Angels are also popular, with 51 per cent of respondents saying they believe in them, slightly more than the 49 per cent who hold faith in psychic powers such as ESP. Forty-one per cent of people believe in astrology. Thirty-four per cent of Australians believe in UFOs and 22 per cent think witches exist.

Article was published on:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/australians-believe-in-god-poll-20091219-l62a.html

Americans surprisingly flexible in religion and beliefs.

A new poll finds Americans are doing a tremendous amount of personalizing – picking and choosing from a diverse variety of religious traditions. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, nearly six in 10 Americans from all religions blend their faith with New Age and Eastern beliefs, like astrology, reincarnation, and the spiritual – not just physical – benefits of yoga.

More Americans are folding aspects, rituals of other religions into their faith."What we're really finding here that we haven't known before is how much Americans mix and match their religious beliefs and practices. That is, how often people who are regular churchgoers also believe in things like astrology and reincarnation," said Alan Cooperman of the Pew Forum. "Individual Americans hold within themselves elements of diverse religious traditions. And they practice in many cases, more than one faith."

Rabbi David Ingber was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, but abandoned Judaism in his 20s. He studied Taoism, martial arts and yoga as part of what he calls his "spiritual journey." After a decade away from the faith, he felt called back to Judaism. "When I came back to Judaism, in my early 30s, I brought back my experiences that I had had in my 20s."

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http://abcnews.go.com/WN/pew-study-finds-americans-surprisingly-flexible-faith-religion/story?id=9306080

Palmistry and Astrology-how they relate to each other.

I came across this and found it very interesting. Anuttama does a very good job at explaining palmistry and how it is tied in with astrology. I hope you enjoy.

A psychic faire is coming to town.

What are you into? What strikes your fancy? In case you live in the area, here is an article for you. It's on April 11th and coming to the Bakersfield area. To read more about it, click the link below.

http://bakersfieldexpress.org/2010/04/06/ghost-hunting-belly-dancing-all-part-of-psychic-faire/

Look beyond.

How to see aura's.

Colors of the aura.

Happy Qing Ming to those who celebrate it.

Here is an article written by Stanley Koh in observence of Quin Ming.

TODAY, April 5, is Qing Ming, or All Souls' Day. To Hokkien speakers, it is Cheng Beng. Practising Taoists and Buddhists look forward to it, and Chinese Malaysians mark it by visiting the graves of their ancestors, clearing weeds, touching gravestone inscriptions and offering a variety of food, wine and tea at the grave sites.

It can be celebrated as an elaborate family affair, for Qing Ming also signifies a reunion with ancestors, and some clan associations hold special temple events to commemorate it and honour relatives who have passed on, including their distant ancestors buried in China.
Its history stretches back more than 2,500 years into the time of early Chinese civilisation. Legend has it that the festival originated on Hanshi Day (literally, Cold Food Day), a memorial day for Jie Zitui, one of the many followers of Duke Wen of Jin. He had fed the Duke with his own flesh when the latter was starving from hunger while in exile.

It is said that when Duke Wen came into power again, he searched for Jie and set a forest on fire to force his former servant to come out. However, both Jie and his mother were burnt to death in the fire. After that tragedy, it was decreed that on its anniversary, all peasants were not allowed to heat their food with fire. Hence, the day has been called the “Cold Food Festival”. In another version, the Qing Ming festival was started by the Tang Emperor Xuan Zong in 732. It is said that that the wealthy of the time were so lavish in their spending on ancestor- worship ceremonies that the emperor had to formally declare that they be carried out only on Qing Ming day, on the 104th day after the winter solstice or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox, usually around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar.

Indeed, the Qing Ming festival has many names and meanings. It is also referred to as clear (qing) and bright (ming), or simply as Ancestors’ Day or Tomb Sweeping Day.

New doorsteps

Will this cultural practice ever fade away? Unlikely, even with cremation becoming more widespread. Families whose ancestors were cremated instead of buried replace the cemetery visits with visits to the columbarium. Paying respect to ancestors is a very Confucian practice and inseparable from filial piety. The Chinese race, steeped in folklore, traditional values and superstitions, is unlikely to abandon any cultural practice relating to departed spirits. The very thought of neglected ancestors being angry and harbouring ill-will puts fear into the Chinese mind, which places great importance on health and wealth.

In paying respect to their ancestors, most would seek blessings from their departed souls to ensure more wealth, better career positions and status and good health, usually in that order of priority. Periphery to this traditional practice and the significance of its culturally rooted values, more and more Chinese are beginning to open new doorways to their mindsets to ponder on the riddle of death and reincarnation.

In Chinese mythology, many references are to the galaxy of stars, depicting them as gods and deities. Are these gods and deities an evolutionary process of the human stage progressing onto higher planes or dimensions of spirituality?

Sentimental journey

Surely a great shift in human consciousness, regardless of race, will happen when science discovers the secret of death and reincarnation. If death and reincarnation are one—or opposite sides of the coin of phenomenon—what would be the significance of Qing Ming, since the departed ones are on course to new dimensions and, if reincarnated, will gain new personalities on earth? Should we, as the descendants, continue to depend psychologically on our ancestors for blessings of material wealth and physical wellbeing or should we depend on ourselves as individual spirits in the cultivation of spiritual values?

In the Pleiadian Mission (available on YouTube), a Swiss farmer was supposed to have contacted human forms that are far more spiritually evolved than us (called the Plejerans) from the Orion galaxy of the Pleiades cluster of stars, 500 million light years away. It is an unveiling of the mysteries of life and death. We are advised that ancestor worship will not help us to evolve if we are overtly dependent on our ancestors’ blessings. It is a sentimental journey and an expression of gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. Our ancestors, like us, are on the path of a human evolution. Each of us is embarking on a spiritual journey for which we must take the first step. We cannot piggyback on their backs and nor can our children piggyback on us in a spiritual journey to higher dimensions of existence, a journey that will take some 60 to 80 billion years in our human evolution.

Many of our ancestors could have reincarnated and gone on to new worlds of existence in the natural order of human evolution. “Rebirth (reincarnation) is not merely a speculative, philosophical theory. It is a fact and can be proven through logic,” the Plejerans told Billy Meier in an UFO contact in a Switzerland mountaintop homestead as early as 1975. “All human beings will repeatedly incarnate on earth (regardless of whether one willingly acknowledges this or not), and in their rebirth they will re-enter the precise world they helped shape in the past. “And it matters little whether their assistance in shaping the world was active or passive, destructive or constructive.”

The Plejerans, highly spiritually evolved humans, who first contacted Billy Meier, are from the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters in ancient Chinese astrology dating back to 2,300 BC. This star cluster, consisting of more than 400 mostly faint stars along with 6 to 15 brighter stars in the southern hemisphere, can be seen well with the naked eye when viewing conditions are right.

Three terrific video's worth viewing.

The Departure



The Cosmic Samsara



The ONENESS

This moment.

The living universe.

Creation.

To Be.

Always with you.

The Light of Love.