August 20, 2010 - In my experience questing for understanding of spiritual aspects of the human community, I have had occasion to encounter some unusual synchronicities. One such event emerged while perusing a lecture by noted Initiate and spiritual scientist, Rudolf Steiner. 
Marcus Aurelius asked “What am I doing with my soul?” He suggests we interrogate ourselves to find out what inhabits our “so-called” mind and what kind of soul we have right now; that of a child, an adolescent, a predator orits prey? 
August – 20, 2010 - Lucid Dreaming is Conscious Dreaming and is the ability of awareness that you are dreaming. In a nutshell, you are aware that all the occurrences you are experiencing are actually within a dream, while you are dreaming. 
August 20. 2010 - I've been getting a lot of emails to join prayer groups for the healing of the oceans, the forests, the earth; and just when it seems to me that people are starting to actually wake up, I get other emails that say 'the gods are angry', 'the earth is angry', 'these catastrophes are happening in areas where people have been evil for too long and god is teaching a lesson'. They reek of judgment, fear, and projection. 
August 19, 2010 - It’s hard to turn away from spirit, and not become egotistic.
August 17, 2010 - For ages, cultures all over the world have worn and used charms, amulets, and talismans as a way to protect them from harm and other unknown forces. A great common example is the crucifix. 
August 16, 2010 - Everyone wants to get the best out of their lives as life is short and you have millions of things to do in your entire lifetime. Therefore, it is said that enjoy as much as possible because no one knows what is going to happen tomorrow. 
August 16, 2010 - Def: respect; to admire, to place in esteem, to regard, to be considerate of
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Conquering Demons of Fear - By Andrea Connell We are facing a serious pandemic, it threatens our existence and our viability as a race, but it isn’t the swine flu, avian flu, norwalk virus, listeria outbreak or any other contagious disease; it is the quiet stealthy invasion of fear into our mass consciousness. The real pandemic of our time relies on our inability to make good choices when left to our own free will. It will surely bring us to ruination. Fear is a very powerful persuader and is decidedly stronger when we are not prepared to invest the time, resources or energy to find the truth. Fear determines the paradigm of our lives. Our level of fear determines the degree of freedom we live with. Like a heavy invisible fabric weighing down over everything we think and everything we do. It is fear that discolors everything with an ugly shade of grey; that casts the shadow over every bright thought and adds a weight of burden to our already overtaxed lives. It is fear that makes us think irrationally and often opposite to what we would normally consider. Fear shrink-wraps our perceived world. When faced with fear we try to control our environments, so the smaller that environment is the better. With fewer options there are fewer decisions that need to be made. But life isn’t meant to be lived small. Life is dynamic, creative and expansive. We need to learn to be brave in the face of fear, to train ourselves to not give in, give up or play dead. Facing fear is not the same as “making lemonade when life gives you lemons”. Understand that we are getting truckloads of lemons dumped on our doorsteps everyday now, making lemonade is just going to leave us drowning. What we need to do now is make the lemons disappear. Sounds a little trickier, doesn’t it. So let’s start by understanding the nature of fear. The nature of fear is to be insidious, even when our conscious mind shuts down the babbling it continues to lurk in the shadows and coercively threatens our choices, then, once in a while it screams at us with a voice of reason to stuff us back into our comfort zone. Fear is sneaky, pervasive and persuasive. It hides within the tiniest shimmer of doubt and it festers. Its’ voice is often so quiet we can hardly hear it yet we heed it’s every suggestion. We listen to what our fear tells us to do and we obey usually without question. We think we make choices but really it is our fear that chooses for us. But no matter how deep, and real, and scary fear is it can’t come out into the light of day. Fear needs the darkness to survive, the shadows to hide in and the mystery of the unknown to stay powerful. When fear is exposed to the light we see the holes and inconsistency of its’ story. To turn on the light we need to face our fears, let go of our need to judge everything, get informed, be willing to grow without knowing how and laugh. You will literally lighten and brighten up! The Plan
To counter the effects of fear of in our lives we need to turn to the light. Consider light and dark to be the same as knowledge and ignorance. To turn on the light we need to turn up our knowledge of a given situation. Fear thrives on illusion, past experiences, ignorance and negativity. Truth, knowledge and optimism defeat fear every time. Viruses can’t survive in a strong immune system. Just as darkness disappears with the coming of the light so will fear dissipate with the introduction of new knowledge and skills. We need to develop skills of courage and inner strength, intuitive skills, and rebuild our natural immunities. We need to laugh often and love each other. Harboring old grievances and brooding over perceived injustices uses up all that vital energy and further depletes our energy stores. Remember that anger and worry suppress our immune systems leaving us vulnerable to attack. The pandemic at hand is not about the current strain of influenza but the negative frame of mind that currently presides over humanity that creates a perfect host environment for infection and disease in each body. Vaccinate or not, it’s really your choice – but change your personal environment to one of Light – body, mind and soul and let’s end the real threat to our survival.
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July 14, 2010 - Week after week we are inundated with news to fear and worry about. The news media has launched a relentless attack on our good senses and optimism. On a daily basis we hear about the threat of pandemic viruses and their dubious vaccination programs, ongoing war and terrorism, widespread unemployment and personal financial losses, a worldwide failing economy, global warming, growing risks of cancer, heart disease and other life threatening diseases and it goes on and on. And it doesn’t stop when we turn off the TV; fear is coming at us from every direction. We are literally being frightened to death. Most of these issues seem out of our control and we hate being out of control. Never before have I seen so much worry, angst, anger, and fear. Our demons are not just lurking in our own subconscious, they are reflected in the faces and actions of strangers on the street. It is critical that we take a stand against the persuasive power of fear as it settles down around us. It is vital that we learn quickly to cultivate a positive state of mind and stay optimistic, and come to understand ourselves as light beings. As the light around us diminishes we must learn strategies to develop our natural power of being bearers of good tidings and light. This is not a time for white washing everything or for putting on our rose coloured glasses; this is a fight for survival, make no mistake about it.
