Tag Archives: Consciousness

I first found out about The Path of the Spiritual Sun: Celebrating the Solstices and Equinoxes as a result of an inquiry of my own regarding the spiritual significance of the summer solstice. Most people are familiar with Stonehenge and other similar sites around the world, built by the ancients …

Dr. Baker’s book is an excellent course on The Theory and Practice of Meditation, gleaned from many decades of personal practice. It not only gives excellent material for the beginner to commence meditation practice. There is much deep wisdom for the extremely experienced practitioner too. Yet, all is explained in …

276 pages Published by Conari Press. This is a book for our times. Hectic, pressured, unclear about the future, all of us need to STOP. This book is not about slowing down, adjusting our pace. It is about Stopping. This means doing nothing at all for a period of time …

 “Why is everything unfair and unjust in this world?…” It’s a question a lot of people have on their minds. Frankly, it’s a very big question too. Philosophers and mystics have pondered this for as long as humans have been on this earth. Hence, it’s impossible to give a definitive …

Karma is explored in this video from the point of view of it being a universal law of Nature, namely the Law of Cause & Effect. The Law of Karma’s relationship to the Law of Attraction ( a favorite new age self help topic) is also briefly discussed. Far from …

We start to gain access to this inner body guidance when we simply begin to develop awareness; to go within and pay attention to what our inner being is trying to tell us through the medium of the physical body. If you have never paid heed to your body and its messages to you, but simply regard it as a vehicle to get you around in life, then you are not only closed to ANY form of guidance from this direction whatsoever, but you are also at grave risk of ignoring critical messages that the body is trying to communicate to you about your physical health. Illness is most often a manifestation of inattention to the needs of your physical, mental and spiritual being. If you cannot even receive THESE critical messages, then you are definitely closed to the infinitely more subtle refined messages that are available all the time.

Image via Wikipedia In Buddhist teachings, there is a critically important concept called Mindfulness. Put simply, it means that we carry a meditative state of awareness throughout our day, not simply when we are sitting (or walking) in meditation. Thus, the whole of our day and consequently our lives becomes …