Spirituality

926. Look! It's Another New Age! By Lois Grant-Holland
     There's nothing new about "the new age" except the attitude of the souls participating in it. I bet every soul who chose to incarnate into this particular historical era shook their little energy heads and said, "Oh, no! Not again!"Spiritual enlightenment is the very purpose of life as thinking, feeling human beings here on the planet Earth. The path to spiritual enlightenment is different for every soul, in every lifetime, depending on what lessons they've already learned in other lifetimes a…



927. Living Life in the Shadow of Death By Sheri Rosenthal
     In the Toltec tradition the angel of death plays a significant role in a warrior’s life. If anyone can be depended upon to set our priorities straight and keep our minds clear, it’s death. Why? Simply because we have a habit of proceeding in our lives as if we have forever to live, acting as if things can wait until tomorrow to be resolved. But this is not truth. We have no idea when our last moment will be.Recently one of my apprentices didn’t show up for a group class that I teach monthly in…



928. Origin of Certain Thoughts (Part I) By Isaac Nwokogba
     We all have spirit guides and we all benefit from their assistance, whether or not we recognize it. Only a few people can hear and exchange verbal communications with their guides, or occasionally see their foggy, ghostly image materialize; some people only sense their guide’s presence; others know the signs that indicate their guide’s presence; and still others do not believe these guides exist, much less assist us.Our relationship with our guide probably represents the highest level of perso…



929. I Count It All Joy By Saundra L. Washington
     A new chapter in my life begins today, the anniversary of my birth. It is therefore necessary that I pause to reflect upon this past year.For me, the intervening year between the last and this one has been a buffet of different experiences. It has consisted of both blessings and burdens, delight and depression, ecstasy and agony, healing and hurt, plenty and poverty, success and failure, triumphs and temptations. But, through it all God has been good to me.After looking back and cataloging my …



930. 100 Steps To Eternity: The Earth's Geography By Terri Emmett
     Scientists believe that the earth was once one huge landmass, which they refer to as Pangaea. There is Biblical reference to support this claim in that the earth was not divided until the days of Peleg (Genesis 10:25), and further evident by the fact that up until that time, the earth also spoke only one language.Scientists also believe that the ancient continents moved away from each other only to collide again at some other location. This, too, allegorically describes the breaking up of th…



931. When is it Right to be Angry? By A H Barbee
     Many of us have been taught that it is wrong to be angry. This thinking weighs heavily in both the sacred and secular domains. Is that thinking right or wrong?Ruby Bayan saw this when she scoured publications seeking statements about anger made by some well-known and anonymous sources. She cites several in her article, “What They Say About Anger.”“Anger is one letter short of danger,” an unknown spokesperson said. Similarly, Thomas Fuller taught that “anger is one of the sinews of the soul…



932. Making Our Self Real By Lois Grant-Holland
     "Self-Actualization" is the process of making our self "actual." Our "real self" is our inner being, and it is only when we have integrated our inner truth into our external personality that we can - actually - express who we are and what we believe in so consistently that it becomes our "visible truth." The growth process through which this integration of inner truth with outer expression takes place is called "self-actualization," and - like every other learning cycle in God's universe - it …



933. Spiritual Healing: In The School of Christ By Jim Lynn
     Spiritual healing of the sick in Christ has many Christians in a kind of spiritual vise. On the one hand they read about spiritual healing in their Bibles. On the other, they hear in pulpits that healing miracles have ceased and are not of today. The net effect is cause for confusion and even loss of faith. What is the truth about spiritual healing in today’s Church?When Jesus first appeared on the scene with His ministry, He was what Broadway show producers today would call a smash hit! As ne…



934. Mankind's Ten Worst Enemies: #2 Arrogance By Saundra L. Washington
     According to H. G. Bosch, the newspaper cartoonist H. T. Webster once amused himself by sending telegrams to 20 of his acquaintances whom he selected at random. Each message contained just one word: “Congratulations.” As far as Webster knew, not one of his friends had done anything special for which to be complimented. Yet, each person was so flattered that he immediately wrote Webster a letter of thanks. All 20 of his friends assumed they had done something worthy of a congratulatory telegram…



935. The Earth Crisis: A Path to Evolving Consciousness By Seth Mullins
     It's easy to feel overwhelmed and hopeless in the face of the myriad problems afflicting our world today. Like the prevalence of war, ecological disaster strains one's faith in humanity; for it often seems that human beings never learn from the errors of the past.Our callous treatment of other forms of life is intimately bound with our beliefs about our relationship with the natural world. We experience ourselves as separate from nature; reason has robbed us of our birthright. When this convic…



936. Everything is Happening for the Good By Syed Feroz Zainvi
     When we feel that something has gone wrong and are very much disappointed then people will console us saying "Probably, there is some good in whatever is happening to you". Here I would like to comment on this saying. Firstly, don't think that people console this way. It is the truth that there is some good in our present situation. The reason behind this is that how can God, our Creator, put us in trouble? It is lack of our faith that we are feeling that wrong has happened to us. Secondly, it…



937. Spiritual Self Worth By Nick Arrizza, M.D.
     What is the root cause of feelings of low self worth? Well when one digs underneath all of the self sabotaging thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are a reflection of the low feelings of self worth one often finds a belief about one's self that says something like "I'm a flawed human being".Now I know that most individuals probably are never even aware that such a belief exists within them let alone that it is masterminding the multitude of negativity that they are hurling at themselves duri…



938. Going Beyond - Freedom from Religious Hierarchy By Tony Cuckson
     In my homeplace of Corrogue there is hierarchy. There is the hierarchy of two becoming one. There is “little me” and the Divine. Two lovers needing each other. Two lovers needing and wanting each other beyond all else. The two becoming the experience of at-one-ment. There is the experience of "little me" coming home to a place I have never left and can never leave. This is the place of the lover.Lovers mistrust the hierarchical. Lovers are their own authority. Lovers do not need clerg…



939. Right Thinking Verses Wrong Thinking By Daniel N. Brown
     I believe we create our own luck, whether it's good or bad. Consciously, or unconsciously, we may have ourselves at some time or another, produced our current conditions, either in our bodily health or other circumstances.Because not much happens by chance, most things, good or bad, comes into our lives as a result of the thoughts we engage in, or by what God ordains to get our attention.It's easy to blame someone, or something outside of ourselves, and make excuses as to why we may be experie…



940. CEROMANCY: The Fine Art of Candle Reading By Samantha Stevens
     Lately, I have been asked a lot of questions in the Psychic Realm chatroom about "ceromancy". That is the fine art of reading a situation by studying the way a candle burns. Are the flames leaping high? Is the wax sizzling and crackling and popping? What does it mean when the flame goes out?Many people in the Realm over the last year have become avid candle-burners and realized quite instinctively that the way a candle is behaving is often a mirror of the situation as it presently exists and i…



941. Should Christians Drink Alcohol? By Michael Tummillo
     Tea-totalling Texans? Them's fightin' words!I live in a small Texas town which is probably not all that different from a small town anywhere else. Lately, much has been reported by the local media and debated at city council meetings regarding liquor licensing. When ever these types of issues are discussed, some self-appointed Christian representatives will speak up, supposedly on behalf of all the rest of us, and heatedly expound upon the awful vice of drinking alcohol and what a demon-magnet…



942. I Think I'll Just Go Fishin' By James Snyder
     I said something last week I haven't said in years. Where it came from, I really don't know. It's funny, you're tooling along minding your own business for weeks, maybe months at a time, and then something you haven't thought about for years pops into your noodle.I don't remember what brought it on, but I blurted out, "I think I'll just quit everything and go fishin'."Where the phrase came from is a mystery because I can't remember the last time I went fishing. It's tragic when a person gets s…



943. Enlightenment From a Writing Site
     Can spiritual awakening be gained from something so simple as a writing site? I believe it is possible, even if that isn't the intention when joining. When I signed up with my favorite writing site and had the opportunity to interact with others like me, I reveled in the joy of that simple act. It increased my writing skills, my editing skills, and brought me to a point of not only discovering new dreams, but fulfilling them. And then, I realized, my spiritual connection to God had grown as we…



944. Intent versus Intention; Is there a difference?
     Intent, rather than intention, is an important aspect of the Toltec philosophy and certainly a challenging subject to talk about. We must use our concepts to discuss something utterly abstract, something that is not conceivable within the rational mind. For Toltec's, Intent is the force that life uses to create our entire universe. Most of us think of Intent as intention, but this is not true from a Toltec viewpoint. An intention is something that we are aiming to do or accomplish. It is an upri…



945. How To Unleash The Power Of Prayer By Saleem Rana
     But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory ~Phil.4:19Today a dear friend of mine could not pay the rent. She was in grief. Yet ironically this same person had acquired a new job and a new lover in only a few weeks when she needed that to happen in her life.I told her to pray and to contact the invisible power that had brought her the previous things that she needed.She doubted that it would work again. Like most people she found it impossible to believe in the impos…



946. Living Outside Yourself By Jennifer Rathmell
     One of the most attractive things about someone is their ability to live outside of themselves. Think about it: We are drawn by those unusual people who give all the money that they win to charity, we are emboldened by the single parent who is literally killing herself with three jobs to give a life to her son that will benefit him. We are riveted by people who risk their lives every day to save the one trapped in a dangerous situation.It’s as if the image of God suddenly becomes more than …



947. The Recipe for Love - Christmas Special By Akeem Shomade
     “This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:12-13) KJVGod is love. It is so important to Jesus that when He was asked to identify the greatest commandment, He said it was to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:30 & Matthew 22:37-40).Through the eye of love, Jesus willingly embraced the Cr…



948. Natural And Not So Natural Disasters: An Alternative Perspective By Sheri Rosenthal
     In the year 2005, Mother Nature has certainly let herself be known; first with a tsunami and then hurricane Katrina in the United States. Whenever these disasters from Mother Nature occur, it’s interesting to watch the reaction of the world and the ensuing drama. Any time there’s devastation in the world it’s a challenge to observe the human suffering that takes place. We can feel the pain and loss of those people and our compassion is huge.The papers fill with articles about whether God exist…



949. The Five Essential Secrets of Managing Your Energy Successfully By Tom Russell
     Inspirational author Vernon Howard wrote, "Would you be worried over a $300 house payment if you had $3,000,000 in the bank? Spiritually, that is the way it can be for you."We can use our energy in one of two ways. We can use it to battle stress and anxiety, or we can use it to awaken MORE energy.Here's proof this is so: When you're having a good day, things don't bother you like they do when you're having a stressful day. The same event can happen on each day, and you react differently.Why is…



950. The Power of God's Love Can Change Your Life By Eunice Coughlin
     Do you want victory in your life? Do you have problems with addiction, relationships, depression? Do you sometimes doubt that you will ever overcome?The key to victory over difficult life circumstances is the power of God’s love!“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the f…



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3. A People in Exile (Part 1) By Saundra L. Washington
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4. Integrity and Spirituality By Nick Arrizza, M.D.
The concept of integrity has arisen often in discussions of spirituality. What do we mean however when we invoke this concept in this context? What is the role of integrity in spirituality? How will we know it when we encounter it? More importantly what will be the consequence to us if we choose to remain ignorant of its crucial importance as a foundation stone to our spiritual enlightenment? Here I intend to address these questions and to give a fresh perspective on how to achieve what I will…