Charter for Compassion released
About a year ago, I blogged about a project to draft a Charter for Compassion. The world was invited to contribute, especially leaders of faiths. “Later this week millions of Muslims, Christians, and Jews will …
Category: Practice
Perspectives on the Past
Over on The End of Evil, LiberatedSelf asked about past lives. The feedback that emerged is worth sharing, edited for this scenario. “I’m kind of interested (why wouldn’t the ego be?) in getting to know …
Seeing without Believing
There is a famous saying – “seeing is believing“. When it’s our experience, we know it’s true. And this is true on one level. But it is the mechanism of illusion on another – the …
Giving Challenge
I’ve spoken about Gratitude here a number of times. It was a key step in my own cleaning house. It is an excellent preparation for awakening as it helps us to let go of resistance …
Healing Intention
Recently, I wrote about how Intention is key – practices like visualization are based on the creative drive or intention behind it. I’ve written before about Adam, the Dreamhealer. He has recently launched a web …
Guardians
I’ve always enjoyed a cartoon’s ability to capture the essence of a story, idea, or vision. Both word and picture have to be refined to an aphorism. What they call in Sanskrit a sutra, meaning …
Astonishing!
I am still regularly astonished with what happens. Many of us live in resistance to what shows up in our life. Ironically, we can be fighting what we want because it came in the wrong …
Noble Intention
In a recent discussion over on Takuin’s blog, several people talked of not reading spiritual books for a time. Being in a place where such concepts no longer appealed. I went through a similar phase, …
The Evolution of Bliss
While I can’t say there is standard evolution in how we experience bliss, I can suggest some of the broad points. This is because the world is expressed in layers, each a reflection of the …
Artists and the Future
At the end of last year, I wrote an article on the last What the Bleep newsletter. It was dominated by several articles on past lives. One of these lead to my reading and reviewing …
Light Help
Recently, I met a woman named Karen Forrest. She was a military psych nurse for 17 years, so quite grounded. But these days, she offers counseling by “talking to angels and dead people.” She still …
The Good Story
A number of times on this blog, I’ve spoken about the Story, the mental and emotional play we engage that creates and supports the life we live. For many people, the idea that their lives …