Category: Spirituality

by Stewart Bitkoff That which is permanent is seldom known to the five senses. It must be perceived by another capacity. Until this capacity or organ of perception is awakened, we are like children playing with fire. Sooner or later our actions create problems for us. The completed individual, or enlightened one, is able to [...]

By Keith Varnum “The aborigines of Australia believe everything exists on the planet for a reason. Everything in Oneness has a purpose. There are no freaks, misfits, or accidents. There are only things that humans do not understand. There are only misunderstandings and mysteries not yet revealed to mortal man.” Marlo Morgan, an American anthropologist, [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff The whole world is a marketplace for Love, For naught that is, from Love remains remote. The Eternal Wisdom made all things in Love. On Love they all depend, to Love all turn. The earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars The center of their orbit find in Love. [...]

by Sherrie Dillard M.Div. More and more people are feeling the presence of the divine feminine as she reemerges in the collective unconscious. For centuries patriarchal dominance has hidden, repressed and dismissed the importance of the feminine. Now, within our heart, mind and soul she is stirring and making her influence felt. The divine masculine [...]

Job deadlines – or job searching – has begun anew, and the stresses of bills, kids in school again, and the sometimes endless treadmill of daily life can make us forget those New Year’s resolutions we made not so very long ago. Physician and healer Amnon Goldstein, who has earned an international reputation for his [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff You will not be a mystic until you are like the earth- both the righteous and the sinner tread upon it- and until you are like the clouds- they shade all things- and until you are like the rain- it waters all things, whether it loves them or not. – Bayazid [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff Each traveler is a unique being and as such has an individual learning sequence.  All travelers are on the path to completion.  This is the Divine Command and the mission for which each soul was created and sent out into the universe.  Each soul is to travel and return more complete [...]

by Joyce and Barry Vissell Ever since seeing the Franco Zeffirelli movie, “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” when first released in 1973, Joyce and I have been fascinated by Saint Francis of Assisi. Never before or since have I been so affected by a movie. When I left the movie theater, I felt ready to give [...]

By: Dr. Michael T. Gamble So much sound and fury over the Higgs Boson, signifying what? A complete understanding of the fundamental constituents of the world in which we live? Of the universe of which we are an integral part? No — and yes. High-energy physicists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, announced [...]

by Joyce and Barry Vissell Barry and I have just returned from Assisi, Italy, where we led our second week long retreat with musician and friend, Charley Thweatt. Similar to last year, the retreat in Assisi was life-changing for both of us. Assisi, the home of St. Francis and St. Clare, is a very inspiring [...]

by Niánn Emerson Chase Think of each individual as being like a book, composing a life in chapters, writing his or her own history (or “herstory”). Some persons are thicker than others, with more pages, chapters, and sections because of past repersonalizations or past lives while others are thinner due to just beginning to write [...]

By Robert K.C. Forman, Ph.D. Many millions of seekers have been disillusioned by spiritual teachers who don’t live up to their lofty self-portraits:  from the east Muktananda, Rimpoche, Eido-Roshi; and in the West men like Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Colorado Evangelist Ted Haggard and countless Catholic Priests.  How do we make sense of their failure [...]