Category: Personal Growth

by Tobias Lars
My father passed away last year. He was a ‘karmic’ lesson for me. We had different approaches to life, he was a nuclear physicist scientist. We were angry with each other…and of course there was love-respect underneath that. But we were ‘good adversaries’ in this lifetime.
“A good adversary is a gift to find.” [...]

By Christopher R. Edgar
I have a friend whose business, in his view, has failed. He’s been trying to start a hedge fund, but he hasn’t attracted the investor interest he wanted. The saddest part of the experience for him is what happens every day when he leaves his apartment building. There’s another [...]

Understanding Lucid Dreaming
by David L. Kahn
Whether we remember or not, we all have several dreams each night. Isn’t it a shame that most people simply “misplace” this part of their lives? If you had an extra few hours during the day, I’m sure you would put that time to good use. You [...]

by Dave Graham
The realisation that we have all lived before can be a hugely liberating experience for many of us. In accepting reincarnation as a natural part of the way in which life works can lead to an expanding of the mind and an acceleration of our spiritual development. It can also be a great [...]

by Marlene Buffa
We hear slogans and clichés such as “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” or “My whole world is falling apart.” We associate a decline in circumstance with falling, tripping, or disintegrating. Instead of using figurative gravity to describe a “downfall,” let’s explore ways to redirect our spiritual position from the [...]

By Keith Varnum
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Before the now famous CD The Secret came Napoleon Hill’s 1937 motivational revelation Think and Grow Rich. The classic began the explosion of personal empowerment that continues unabated to this day. Hill prefigures the “Prosperity Consciousness” of present-day New Age [...]

Slow Time: Recovering the Natural Rhythm of Life
by Waverly Fitzgerald
Priestess of Swords Press, 2007
184 pps, $19.95

Three words for Waverly Fitzgerald’s Slow Time: Recovering the Natural Rhythms of Life: It’s about time! I say this not to just make bad puns, but as a long-time follower of Fitzgerald’s School of the Seasons, I had read [...]

by Michael Lewin
Our lives can change for the better – we have to recognize this. We have to acknowledge, trust and work for this to achieve a deepening personal growth. A growth that can expand to benefit everyone.
Our lives can change for the better - we have to believe this. We have to think, feel [...]

By Lisa Rickwood
What do Valentine’s Day, Christmas, dating, dinner and a movie and marriage have in common? Rituals. A ritual is defined as ‘any method of doing something in which the details are always faithfully repeated.’
Rituals give life meaning and help us celebrate milestones in our lives. They offer security, stability and routine and a [...]

by Marlene Buffa
Stuck in traffic with vehicles in the lanes on both sides of me moving slowly but consistently, I read a sign on the back of the truck ahead of me.
“Inside height 110″ from nose to rear”
Sometimes, on morning drives to work, I find a lane and stay put. Almost driving on auto-pilot this [...]

5 Hypnosis Myths Exploded
OVER the years, hypnosis has picked up all sorts of weird associations from stage hypnotists, the media and superstition. This is a great shame, because in reality, hypnosis is your single most effective tool for change. Hypnosis is your birthright, and you should know how to use it so it doesn't use [...]

by Robert Rabbin
I have been fortunate to meet several people who taught me about wisdom and in whose presence I traveled deeper and farther into the world of wonderment, beauty, grace, and Silence. Huston Smith is one such person, and it is about an encounter with him that I wish to write.
Huston Smith is, to [...]