I was in my mid-30s when I began to ask the kind of questions that many of us get to at some point in our lifetimes. I often think fondly of ?What?s It All About, Alfie?? the first line for the Sixties hit written by?Burt Bacharach?and?Hal David and sung most notably by Dionne Warwick. A …
Over my years of listening, I have recognized there are many who feel like an ?outsider.? For some, it has been a source of suffering as they never seem to fit in or ?belong.? In Psychology and Kabbalah, ?Z’Ev Ben Shimon?Halevi speaks of the outsider on pages 106 and 229. I remember when I read …
Talking with a fellow traveler,?I brought into the conversation our experience with the blue light. He then mentioned he had recently watched a “Charlie Rose Show” interview with the screenwriter, director, and two actors in ?The Butler??Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. I took the opportunity to view the episode.?At approximately 50:27 into the interview, Rose …
Gregg Braden, in his book, Walking Between The Worlds, The Science of Compassion, writes, ?If we are seeing our mirrors, then they are current patterns happening now. The mirror becomes our moment of opportunity. Once recognized, the pattern may be healed in a heartbeat. It can happen that quickly. To recognize the pattern is the …
Back in the mid ?90s, the teacher of a Morphology class I was attending introduced?me to Meditation on the Tarot, A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Valentin Tomberg . I went to see him privately and, after some conversation, he gave me a copy of the first ?Letter? (or chapter), ?The Magician,? and said, ?read …
This morning, in feeling the movement of August into September?s harvest time, I remembered this writing from November, 2007. Have you seen the harvest light? it reflects itself in the golden colors of the season it has tinges of the unusual especially before the fullness of the sun fills the sky What is this harvest …
The following comes from Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov?s book, Angels and Other Mysteries of the Tree of Life: ?When I speak of journeying through the universe it is not a question simply of exploring it with rockets and spacecraft. It is a question of using all the means that the Creator has given us in order …
This morning I read the 2013 Leo New Moon by Dale Osadchuk (reprinted below in its entirety with Dale?s contact information) and thought it would be an opportunity to refer to the 52 mental states/factors as taught in A Manual of Abhidhamma by Narada Maha Thera, which I mentioned in a post last week. The …
In a Reiki gathering recently, one of the group members asked about the third Reiki symbol HSZSN as it related to retrieving childhood memories for healing. For those who are Okuden certified, you are familiar with the three symbols that are taught in this level. This enquiry on retrieval of childhood memories resulted in a …