Making Friends with the Unconscious
Have you ever considered yourself lucky—even privileged—to live at a time that many people consider the most troubled and difficult period of human history with its upheaval of near extinction events, a period of chaos, and unending contest between good and evil? Each one of us has to find the answer for himself. In that response to what already could be considered a cataclysmic event, we find ourselves moved by fear and joy. These polar opposites characterize where people are emotionally. With nearly everyone interested in and having had a...
read moreHave you ever seen soft lightening?
It’s Always Time After reading a short paragraph this morning by Andrew Harvey in his book The Hope, A Guide to Sacred Activism,1 I was really thrilled and deeply moved about the way he talked about Nelson Mandela and wanted to share this. The story he tells about his experience with Nelson Mandela is breathtaking. Harvey was invited to a gathering in Paris where Nelson Mandela was the guest of honor. Knowing that Mandela had been in prison for 27 years, one of the many guests present asked the octogenarian what he had learned in his life....
read moreThe Soul of Great Relationships
Let’s Be Best Friends: The Soul of Great Relationships There are a few lasting stories about going to the supermarket that linger in mind as a choice expression of the best that’s in us. Here’s what happened to me on one shopping trip. Readers outside the United States may not be familiar with the way an American supermarket is laid out with many long aisles running parallel to each other with shelves stacked high with food items on each side of an aisle, but I found myself like a salmon about to spawn as I was going the opposite direction...
read moreWriting about the Great Invocation
Writing about The Great Invocation As we live more deeply into the ancient wisdom tradition there remains a thirst for a time to know how the personality became involved. Why did the personality go through with this most peculiar of assignments? Really it doesn’t matter but the human in us wonders. At the age of nine the Tibetan came to visit as my mother read to me a few passages from A Treatise on White Magic. I was just an ordinary kid and at that age had no idea what it was about or why she wanted to read it to me. What she read me in...
read moreSeeds and Devas
“What is your fascination with seeds all about anyway?” They come in such odd shapes and sizes, even in an array of colors which are usually subtle as each seed dresses differently. Seeds represent life and the great potential of life itself. Did you know that in a spiritual sense, the plant kingdom is the most advanced when compared to the mineral, animal and human kingdoms? The seed for the giant redwood tree continually gives pause. Each seed starts encased in a very small redwood cone. It falls to the ground and dries up. As the cone...
read more1914 Christmas Cease-fire and Whisper of Silence
The hidden effects of the World Wars continue. Few are yet alive who remember Christmas in 1914. Yet what happened there cannot be forgotten because it set a tone for our time and day. There was a brief break in the battle between the Germans and the Allies whose battle lines ranged from Belgium into France. The First World War was fought in trenches and a dreary heavily laden somberness held tight, like a claw to the war-torn area between the belligerents. In that eerie death space no warrior’s will was present. The wounded and the dead were...
read moreMass incarceration: my eyes needed to be opened!
Supporting the African-American Soul Reading Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, has literally changed my life! Totally ignorant of mass incarceration, my eyes needed to be opened. It is appalling that 25% of African-American males languish for years in US prisons often for minor and drug-related offenses. So many are caught in the impossible situation of having to live in unbearable poverty and the white-American society has seemingly found a way to keep them out of sight and out of mind. Yet many white Americans, especially the...
read moreThe Unheard Cry of Nations
The Unheard Cry of Nations Nations march to a fundamental beat slightly different from the individuals who inhabit them because so many persons make up a nation. The unheard cry coming from many nations is the desire to build right human relations with other countries. Some lands create foreign policy that puts integrity, reverence for life and quality relationship with other nations as high priorities. With every passing day more people yearn for leadership that can and will make quality relations with other countries a primary goal of...
read moreOccupy Wall Street – Where Are the Occupiers?
Where Are the Occupiers? Only a few years ago steadfast members of Occupy Wall Street burst with the warmth of goodwill around the world. What happened to them? Where are they now? Thom Hartman said that the Occupy Movement is deeply and profoundly spiritual. Whether in New York, Sydney or London, Occupiers were focused on their mission. Many of them made huge sacrifices to gather together and make a protest where it counted. Their goal was to eradicate economic and political inequities. They saw that large corporations controlled the...
read moreBest Use of Atomic Energy
Best Use of Atomic Energy Even though more than a half century has gone by since the revolutionary discovery of releasing the energy of the atom, humanity still knows little about the scope and magnitude of these energies. Each kind of atom is different from all the rest. Oxygen is different from phosphorous and nickel is far different from carbon. The substance that makes up the earth contains many different elements and each has its own pattern, force and energetic quality. According to the Tibetan the keynote of the New Age is the...
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