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Sharing Our Light In Service to Others and, In Turn, Ourselves

By Anita Neilson

Sharing Your Light, Service to Others. Photograph of hand and sky by Billy Pasco

Simple suggestions for sharing your light with others physically, emotionally and spiritually — Solstice Light Lush green grass Spun by nature’s wheel Trembles in dawn’s eager light. Solstice embers Of days remembered Fizzle out under … [Read more...]

The Gifts of Spontaneity and Listening to Your Intuition

By Indira Abby Heijnen

Spontaneity, Intuition, photograph of man jumping by Caleb Woods

Heeding our intuition vs. our ego frees us to experience joyful spontaneity — and vice versa — Spontaneity: carefree freedom from constraint  synonym: abandon, ease, light heartedness, naturalness, unconstraint, uninhibitedness.   I did … [Read more...]

Yogananda & Me: The Human Story of a Spiritual Guru

By Philip Goldberg

Paramahansa Yogananda and me, by Philip Goldberg, photograph of Buddha by Benjamin Balazs

Philip Goldberg writes the human story of the spiritual guru Paramahansa Yogananda — As an idealistic, inquisitive student in the 1960s, I made what seemed like a radical shift from Marxist, atheist, anti-religious, political activist to questing … [Read more...]

Lessons from Beyond: How the Death of My Son Taught Me To Live

By Leo Galland

Lessons from beyond, death of my son, by Leo Galland, M.D., photograph of ballon by Bruno Ramos Lara

When a doctor cannot logically explain the communication he receives from his son after his tragic death, he relearns how to live life — The death of my son, Christopher, at the age of 22, changed everything I thought I knew, in ways I never … [Read more...]

Stories in Motion: Oracles for the Modern Seeker

By Colette Baron-Reid

Oracles, by Colette Baron-Reid, photograph of storm clouds by Danel Olah

A highly sensitive child who could sense the emotions and stories of others, learns to express her true gifts and powers via oracles — Growing up as a highly sensitive person, given to knowing things about everyone around me (without permission), I … [Read more...]

Taking Charge: The Key To Our Aliveness

By Anodea Judith

How one woman’s search for deeper meaning and connection reveals a key energetic ingredient that she calls CHARGE — What makes us truly alive? Ever since I was a small child, I’ve been asking some form of that question. What is it that makes … [Read more...]

Art Born of Energy and Inspired by Nature: A Fusion of Mind, Body & Spirit

By Susan Wahlrab

Susan Wahlrab’s mixed media art merges her own mindful practices with nature’s transcendent energy — My grandmother shared with me a long time ago that from my very early childhood, when coming home from any event out in the world, I would go to my … [Read more...]

To Be a Man: Fully Facing Rape and Awakening to True Masculine Power

By Robert Augustus Masters, PhD

Photograph by Naqi Shahid

Redefining true masculine power opens the floodgates to healing men and society as a whole — When the floodgate of sexual harassment and rape allegations against powerful men in media and politics opened this past Fall 2017, it sparked a long … [Read more...]

The Ripple: How Intuitive Writing Can Change the World, One Word at a Time

By Laura Di Franco

The Ripple, Intuitive Writing, by Laura Di Franco, photograph of journals by Simson Petrol

A woman’s journey through intuitive writing connects us all to a process for healing the pain of the past — On Christmas Eve I pressed send on a 65,000-word memoir, Love in a Nightmare, detailing the wounds of my childhood. It was attached to an … [Read more...]

Was it Luck or Was it…You?

By Sara Fabian

Your successes and good fortune have nothing to do with luck — I have always considered myself lucky because of the many gifts I’ve gotten in life: a loving husband, a loving family, great friends (not many, but true ones), a healthy body, a … [Read more...]

The Art of De-Cluttering: A Tiny House Creates A Surprising Catalyst for Expansion

By Kerri Richardson

Downsizing to a tiny house brings consciousness to how de-cluttering your life in all aspects creates space for healing, expansion and new paradigms — When I tell people I sold a 2,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bathroom house (as well as … [Read more...]

More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us

By Steve Leder

More Beautiful than Before, how suffering transforms us, by Steve Leder

  A rabbi’s story of the redemptive power of pain — how suffering can provide a window of transformation — There is a crack in everything. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Every one of us sooner or later walks through hell. The hell of being hurt or … [Read more...]

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