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Fulfilling Your Dreams with the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
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| There are many aspects to success; material wealth
is only one component. Moreover, success is a journey, not a destination.
Material abundance, in all its expressions, happens to be one of
those things that makes the journey more enjoyable. But success
also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling
relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability,
a sense of well-being and peace of mind. Even with the experience
of all these things, we will remain unfulfilled unless we nurture
the seeds of divinity inside us. In reality, we are divinity in
disguise, and the gods and goddesses in embryo that are contained
within us seek to be fully materialized. Although I call the laws
I'm about to discuss The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, they could
easily be called The Seven Spiritual Laws of Life. This is because
they are the same principles that nature uses to create everything
in material existence--everything we can see, hear, smell, taste
or touch. Read more in Share Guide |
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Six Ways to Break Through Fear |
| Need to summon some courage? Ask questions, meet
your neighbors, and other practical tips. 1. Read (and listen) between the lines. What should we do when we read or hear a news story that scares us? "The first question to ask is, 'Who is benefitting from our fear?'" says sociologist Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear. 2. Spend more time in the real world. "If you read the newspaper and watch CNN and the nightly news, you're just freaked out," says Mary Pipher, best-selling author of Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, Another Country, and other books. "It looks like we live in this violent world that is about to destroy itself within the next fifteen minutes. But if you have a life in which you're connected most of the time to real human beings, you're much more optimistic. Real human beings tend to be so much more courageous and noble and decent than the way they're often portrayed on the news." 3. Take a clear-eyed view. "What I've learned from my patients is that hope is the crucible of courage and resilience," says Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of The Anatomy of Hope. "And it comes through stark realism, through a clear-eyed view of what we're facing and then an effort to find a path. Read more in Hope Magazine |
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The Magick of Travel |
| Travel is one of the most mind-blowing experiences for me. Changing
locations helps you change your consciousness; in fact, it forces
you to change consciousness. When I leave my everyday life and routines,
my awareness widens. Many rites of passages and initiation ceremonies
require the initiate to leave the safety of the community, often
to keep vigil in unfamiliar surroundings, such as a cave or mountaintop.
The first time I experienced the magick of travel was many years ago on a business trip to Los Angeles. I thought I was going crazy, seeing and hearing things along my travels that no one else was experiencing. Lately I've been doing even more business travel, and I have noticed patterns. If you are leaving the routines of your daily life behind, you can use your trip to expand your awareness. Look through your psychic eyes to see what lies beneath the surface and partner with the magickal energy of the city or town your visit. Read more in New Witch |
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One House, Many Doors: The Legacy of Sri Ramakrishna |
| Bigotry and intolerance are throwing the planet into an uproar:
Israelis versus Palestinians, Indians versus Pakistanis, the West
against the Near East. Christians are pitched against Muslims, who
struggle against Hindus and Jews. What can we do to quell the surge
of hatred that threatens to engulf our world? It turns out that one of the most respected yogis of our era directly addressed the turmoil between religious cultures and showed how our differences can be resolved. Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886) was witness to the hostility and suspicion between Christians, Muslims, and Hindus that seethed even then in North India. Unlike most of his contemporaries, who believed there could be no peace between these groups, Ramakrishna found a way to reconcile the religions of the world and unite humanity in common spiritual understanding. His words-and more importantly his actions-speak to us today more urgently than ever. Fortunately for us, Swami Saradananda, a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, compiled an epic account of his master's life, and Swami Chetanananda, also of the Ramakrishna Order, has recently given us a superb new translation of that account, called Ramakrishna and His Divine Play. Chetanananda tells us that according to Ramakrishna: "All religions are equally valid. He found a place for each one in his own life. He first realized God by following Hindu practices, and then by following the Christian and Muslim paths. Such a journey is unique in the religious history of the world. Read more in Yoga International |
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Sacred Sexuality |
| May marks the time of fertility and rapid growth.
The flowers open and sing their nectar, the bees and butterflies
respond with long tongues and pollened feet. The days lengthen and
hormones surge as we shake off the last vestiges of the darkness
and isolation of winter. As without, so within. We mirror what is reflected back to us, and as the light grows and the birds and bees play, our bodies begin to open and respond to the increased warmth and growth. Pre Christian Europeans often celebrated Beltane with a May Pole, balancing the earth with the sky in a beautiful dance. After the community May Day celebration, couples would make love in the fields to fertilize the soil and honor the Divine within each other. While we might yearn for those simpler days when we could trustingly honor Spirit for the night through a stranger or well-known lover, these days sex is a much more complicated and even life threatening affair. As is obvious from the reflection of the unconscious through the images and violence in our society, we did not grow up in a culture which values and honors sexuality and its connection to the Divine. Read more on Spirit Weavers |
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Book Review |
| It is one thing to do our own internal work, deal with our mistakes, stay on our life path, etc; it is another to have the world critiquing you as you do it. This second fate is that of the artist. Art & Fear is a "book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art meaning all art not made by Mozart." More specifically Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, or doesn't get made, and the difficulties along the way. Bayles and Orland, both working artists, tackle the fears that art bring up about oneself: pretending, talent, perfection; and fears about others: understanding, acceptance and approval. With humor they speak on issues artists have with the outside world: competition, the institution of art, the academic world; and address issues with the conceptual world: ideas, techniques, craft versus art, new work versus old work, habits and metaphors. Art & Fear dispels myths like: art rests solely on talent which is "randomly built into some people and not into others". Instead, the realities of making art are offered: "artmaking involves skill that can be taught", and "art is made by ordinary people". Making art is an emotionally dangerous and revealing process that can bring up self-doubt as you come to know the distance between what you know you could be and what you fear you might be. Those that continue to make art in the face of all this have, according to the authors, simply "learned how to not quit". Just as knowledge and experience with the materials of art is how the artist's vision becomes a reality, Art & Fear offers knowledge of the emotional and social materials that the artist needs to develop the courage to overcome fear in artmaking. |
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| Table of Contents |
 Fulfilling
Your Dreams |
| Break
Through Fear |
| The
Magick of Travel |
| One
House, Many Doors |
| Sacred
Sexuality |
| Book
Review: Art and Fear |
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