Category: Spirituality

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff
The Sufi is absent from self and present with God.
-Hujwiri
For the spiritual traveler, one of the most intriguing spiritual practices, through the use of focused prayer, turns free will choice into submission to the higher. In some paths, submission to the higher is the goal and accompanying this level of service is [...]

by Toni Gardner
So, I have this theory.  You know what a mirror ball is, right?  I’m talking about the giant, shiny disco balls you see in dance halls, night clubs and old Travolta flicks.  You know the ones - the spheres covered with all those little square mirrors that bounce back all that funky red, [...]

by Rick Jarow, PhD
The poet Gary Snyder once remarked that the “inner revolution” is the mercy of the East, while the “social revolution” is the mercy of the West. In our contemporary global mandala, East and West (as well as North and South) are no longer separate entities. They interpenetrate, soften, and energize one another [...]

by Marlene Buffa
A Boulangerie is a bakery which sells breads and rolls. A pâtisserie is a French bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets.

My friend Ann and I walk two miles to the nearby gourmet grocery store.  Contained within the store, resides a most decadent Boulangerie.  The bakery also sells pastries and sweets, making it [...]

International Alchemy Conference to Take Place at L.A. Convention Center October 23-25.
Caught in an unprecedented vortex of stress-inducing conditions - economic, health-related, and faith-challenging - individuals are turning every which way for solutions. Some find answers, serenity, and healing in an approach rooted in the ancient tradition of Alchemy.
Beyond the old lead-into-gold legend, though, the [...]

by Barry Vissell
It was Saturday, June 20, 2009, and we had one more week till our daughter Rami’s wedding to her fiancé River. I had no idea that this day would shake my whole world. We worked to get our house and property ready for the anticipated 170 people. Our new refrigerator arrived and I [...]

By Marlene Buffa
A steam engine is a device that converts the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, and converts that to mechanical force.
-About.com
While watching the scrolling banner at the bottom of a major network newscast, I saw an intriguing misspelling.  The brief synopsis discussed hurt feelings and damage to one’s “self of steam.”  [...]

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
*Ask Your MamaTM
The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
by ©Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman
Dear Mama Donna,
For years I have been hearing warnings about Mercury in Retrograde, but I am not sure I understand what that means or why [...]

by Marlene Buffa
“Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
-Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
Rich with sensory perception, our human experience allows us to take in and assimilate the world around us. Unlike [...]

By Susan Scharfman
The Past
I’m hiking alone on a Himalayan mountainside-my companions are back at the Snow View Hotel-when suddenly a wild looking man with a head of matted hair and matching tangled beard appears in my path. Barring my way, he engages in a non-stop, one-way dialogue. Barefoot and naked except for a tattered kaupina [...]

by Mother Clare Watts
Spiritual communities provide benefits we can’t find in other social circles. Throughout known history, people have sought out such communities. And in these communities they revealed the most important and personal developments in their lives. Joys and sorrows, vows and confessions, hopes for a better life beyond life on earth, and fears [...]

Q & A With Author Stuart Wilde
By Peter George
Stuart Wilde is the maverick writer, thought-leader and best-selling author of more than twenty books on empowerment, spirituality, and progressive metaphysics including the popular Miracles, Silent Power, and Sixth Sense. He’s toured with Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Louise Hay and is known for bringing humor and [...]