April 2013 Blog Posts (11)

Jackie Lapin

The Art of Conscious Creation : How You Can  Transform The World

(Charleston, SC: Elevate, 2007, 210pp.)

 

 

            There is a Zen story in which the student asks the master “What is the secret of enlightenment?”  The master writes on his board “attention”.  The student asks again “Is that all?  The master writes “Attention, attention.”

 

            Attention-awareness is at the heart of conscious creation.  In awareness…

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Ray Grasse

Signs of the Times: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events

(Chartottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2002, 297pp.)

 

 

            Each major writer who analyses the transition from the Piscean period to the Age of Aquarius does so by looking at what he feels are the key signs of transition but also in terms of the ideas and discipline with which he is most at home.  C.G. Jung’s important analysis Aion stresses psychological…

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Rudolf Steiner’s Legacy Today

Rene Wadlow

 

            2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the spiritual and esoteric teacher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).  Although his key book is titled Theosophy, and he was secretary-general of the German branch of the Theosophical Society from 1902 to about 1913 when he left to start the Anthroposophical Society(1)  I would normally have left to others who are part of…

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William Bloom

The Power of the New Spirituality

(Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2012)

 

William Bloom who combines a long-standing interest in New Age approaches to spirituality with an identity focus in international relations (1), has written “We are in changing times. Our culture and technology are continually transforming, and the intellectual certainties of the last few hundred years are no longer secure…It is our need to find a new authenticity in our spiritual…

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The seeing soul perceives the folly of praising other than the creator.

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The self is a servant in His cavalcade;

reason a new boy in His school.

What is reason in this guesthouse

but a crooked scrawling of God's handwriting?

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Had he not shown himself how should we have known him?

Unless he shows us the way, how can we know him?

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We tried reasoning our way to him: it didn't work;

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I am realizing when people — like us being with each other — is like at a soul level — the peace & warm love feeling seems to be common meeting place for souls — which is eternal — i see that it is possible here in our human lives to experience this. 

I once had a dream where i looked thru many eyes — since this dream long ago — i practice this looking and it has stayed with me — it helps me understand compassion too.

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Religion –the Dharma, in context of adopting goodness, as it is the real meaning and purpose of it, or in perspective of discharging one’s duty by her or his righteous acts, or in the form of an injunction, the Shasana, is eventually committed to harmony. It is, in fact, the essence of religion –the Dharma. 

All religions established or developed on this planet, from time-to-time, by making harmony as the nuclei of their foremost fundamentals, in one way or the…

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Child disability is, in fact, a serious and challenging problem of the world. In India approximately one of every ten children is disabled. Among two crores twenty lakhs declared disabled in the whole population of the country, 35. 29 percent are children. The same situation stands at the global level. In the whole world more than sixty five crores people are disabled and among them approximately 40 percent are children. This state categorically reveals the seriousness of the…

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