What does going to church on Sunday have to do with going to a baseball game? If you get rid of the trappings unique to each, at the core they are rituals meant to comfort and sustain us. While churchgoers can rely on the priest walking to the altar and following a liturgy that has …
Honesty is not the best policy – it is the only policy. Whether we believe in the laws governing karma or not, or get ourselves wrapped up in the popular concepts of the Law of Attraction, truth is always there ready to hand out consequences to us. It is truth and truth alone that judges …
Following a spiritual path can enrich life in many ways. One principal way is through healing. Immersing yourself in a spiritual practice is a time-honored method of healing emotional wounds. While there are many ways to overcome the damage done, distance helps along the process. Sidestepping negativity has many benefits. Staying close to a lousy …
The concept of guardian angels is a common one. People tend to attribute lucky events both minor and great to the presence of a guardian angel — everything from spotting a dollar bill on the sidewalk to narrowly escaping injury in a serious car accident. Are guardian angels truly responsible for the moments of good …
Forgiveness isn’t just an altruistic attribute designed to make you feel good about yourself – it’s a prescription for breaking those karmic chains that have been wound around you for many lifetimes. We’ve heard all the platitudes about the consequences of not forgiving – it hurts only ourselves, it can make us physically ill – …
Although our world has come a long way since the Dark Ages, we live in times that can be quite uncomfortable or even frightening. The weather is acting strangely. Horrific events, natural and man-made, seem to occur with increasing frequency. It is as if the world is letting out a psychic cry for help or …
As you move along your path toward peace and enlightenment, you can balance your loftier pursuits by also putting equal attention on the physical plane of existence. Much of our faith based exercises occur outside the realm of the material world, but in reality we spend every moment of our lives in our physical bodies. …
With the stock market dropping and ordinary people desperate for work of any kind, problems with the economy can have a major impact on your basic enjoyment of life. It is tough to stay spiritually conscious when day-to-day struggles dominate your reality. Here are some things to do to stay happy with what you have …
Dreams demonstrate that there are few limitations on what we can perceive through the subconscious’s psychic powers. Through dreams, we can predict the future, communicate with someone on another continent, and experience events that may affect our world. Every night, our dreaming body (astral body) escapes the conscious world’s confines and enters a dimension where …
Imagine that you are on welfare. Every week you buy a lottery ticket for one dollar. Each week when you do your bookkeeping, you make entries indicating that for every ticket you bought, you won the lottery prize for that week. At the end of the year, your income, according to your balance sheet using …
