Imagine being transported from your everyday life to another world filled with magic and mystery. There are places in the world that offer that type of experience – Machu Picchu in Peru, Jerusalem, the pyramids of Eqypt, places loaded with spiritual and religious history. While I have yet to visit those places, I consider myself fortunate because I don’t have to go far to get a similar experience.
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Journey into Spirit Time with the Hugging Saint
August 24, 2008 By 4 Comments
Night Terrors | Awakening to another reality?
June 12, 2008 By 5 Comments
It’s night time, and your young child is in bed, asleep. Suddenly you hear crying, or maybe even a scream. You rush to the room to see your child sitting up in bed crying as if she awoke from a frightening dream. You ask what’s wrong, but she doesn’t seem to be aware of your presence and continues crying despite your efforts to console her.
She is having a night terror.
Social Change seen in Gay Marriage in California
May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Once again, California shows itself to be among the progressive states as the Supreme Court takes a stand for social change.
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What do Synchronicities Teach Us?
November 19, 2007 By 7 Comments
We all experience them – those strange coincidences or synchronicities that make us take note and think “wow, now what are the odds of that happening!” Sometimes they mark a significant change in the direction of our lives, but others times there doesn’t seem to be any meaning or point to them at all.
What do you make of those moments?
How to Fight Poverty – with Kiva.org
October 21, 2007 By 4 Comments
Ever thought you’d like to contribute something to others in developing nations, but weren’t sure you trusted how the money would be handled, or how much of it would actually reach those in need? Maybe you aren’t sure that just giving someone money to feed them for a day is the best way to help.
Well, there is another option – and it’s based on the same idea that helped win Muhammad Yuman and the Grameen Bank the Nobel Peace prize in 2006.
Is Salvia Divinorum Really a Teacher Plant?
October 16, 2007 By 36 Comments
The Mazatec Indians use it in their spiritual rituals for healing and to gain answers. Modern-day shamans also use the plant called salvia divinorum in their quests for spiritual answers. No wonder it’s known as a teacher plant.
It is indeed incredibly unique in terms of its place in human culture, and it has risen from an enigmatic past to a place of controversy in modern culture. So does it have anything to offer the modern seeker? I believe that it does.
The Unjustified War on Salvia Divinorum
July 29, 2007 By 23 Comments
It’s being called “a dangerous new drug that is sweeping the country.”
One by one, news sources are jumping on the bandwagon and joining in the media campaign against an herb that has been used for centuries by Mexican shamans – known by science as salvia divinorum. And it is a classic example of alarmist misinformation.
