Category: Spirituality

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 [...]

by Marcus T. Anthony, PhD Synchronicity weaves together your vision, your mind, and the world. The messages are often profound. When many spiritually minded folk think of synchronicity they tend to think of fun and playful discovery. But sometimes a synchronicity can be blunt, pointing out something dark, hidden within ourselves. The implicit meaning of [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. – Kahlil Gibran Looking Back As I sit around watching my grey hairs turn whiter, also I keep watching the same social and political problems occurring [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff O my God, what irony it is That we are at the bottom of hell, And yet are afraid of immortality. -Rumi Recently, I had a conversation with a colleague about why there isn’t much offered in the spiritual literature, by advanced spiritual travelers, concerning their trials, physical aches and pains [...]

by Joyce and Barry Vissell Once in a while, a person will have a defining moment — an experience — a bit of wisdom or inspiration that pops into their heads and hearts and changes their lives.  I had one of those moments recently on the Rogue River in Oregon. It helped to change in [...]

by Gina Charles The age old quest of knowing oneself feels necessary and essential. Some think it a process or a journey worth taking, regardless of what it may entail. Well, of course we would. The self loves self. It loves the idea of itself. It loves the description and labels. It loves the perpetual [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff You yourself are under your own veil. – Hafiz The following is taken from “A Commuter’s Guide to Enlightenment” and offers an exercise that will help expand your capacity to experience and share the Light. Try it for 5 days, see what happens, be cautious and don’t over do it. Remember, [...]