New Age Journal

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
Ask Your Mama, The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
First let me say that I have great respect and gratitude for the work that you do. As a long time organizer [...]

by Susan Scharfman
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses, and it ain’t names. And it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars … everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that ‘something’ has to do with human beings.
—The Stage Manager from Act 3 of Thornton Wilder’s “Our [...]

Have you ever wondered why we attract positive experiences sometimes and negative ones at other times?  Well, scientists and philosophers have an explanation. They attribute these changes to our personal vibration or vibrational frequency.
Vibrational frequency is the constant rate of electrical flow that is measurable between two points. Quantum physics has shown that we are [...]

Re-Creating Your Self By Christopher Stone
Last time, we explored how my own search for all of the tools for personal change eventually led me to the subject area of dreams. I admitted that I once held false and self-limiting beliefs about the benefits and value of dreams. After an extensive re-examination and re-evaluation of the [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Once a year the Sun conjuncts catalytic Uranus, shifts our gears and pushes us out of our safety zone. Get ready to rock and roll next week as the Sun, Mercury and Uranus conjunct.
But first these planets align around the Pisces New Moon. Pisces draws us inward to restore our spirit, heart [...]

From the time of the Crusades to the modern day, war refugees have struggled to integrate into their new communities.  They are often economically impoverished and socially isolated, which results in increased conflict, systematic violence and warfare, within and between communities as the new immigrants interact with and compete with the previously established inhabitants. Now, [...]

The latest release from A.R.E. Press, Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah: A Resource for Soulful Living by John Van Auken, is the first of its kind in addressing wisdom from the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce as it relates to the spiritual teachings of the Kabbalah. Van Auken combines his love of Kabbalah with his [...]

As a human species we are truly incredible. Although we understand only a fraction of the complexities of our nature, the human body appears to be a hologram. This means that the whole is seen in its parts. Some examples of this are reflexology, where the health of the organ is mirrored in the soles [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins

As the weekend begins we may still feel awash in slushy weather or sloshing feelings, tired of feeling needy, under the weather, or at the mercy of the fates.  Over the last few weeks complex and thoughtful dreamy aspects have encouraged us to chew over our life and dream of possibilities. These [...]

Anyone who has traveled through a traditional village in India has seen Tulsi tea, because nearly every family grows it in their home garden, traditionally in an earthenware pot. For more than five millennia, it has been regarded to be one of the most sacred herbs because of its legendary spiritual and healing powers.
Also called [...]

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone
In my quest to discover all of the tools available for re-creating my self, I was led - though reluctantly - to reexamine my beliefs about the value of dreams. I say reluctantly because I’d been raised to believe that dreams are meaningless, mysterious and uncontrollable experiences without any practical [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.”
Norman Cousins
This is a week to dream actively rather than obsess on our fears. We need to take responsibility for where our thoughts wander and direct an over-active imagination and unusually sensitive intuition with [...]