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Evolutionary Pagan: What are you waiting for?

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From a very young age I was taught about meditation, visualization, crystals, tarot cards, psychic powers and spirit guides. By the time I was 10, I had reviewed my astrological birth chart, knew my numerology and was informed of what psychics had predicted before I was born. All the signs pointed towards becoming a spiritual teacher or leader. That was my life path and purpose. When I was 14, my father handed me a book on Wicca and we began to study it together as a family. It seemed as … [Read more...]

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No U in Love

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Love is where you are not. It would bomb as a pick up line, but it's a concept of love worth pondering. They are the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a renowned spiritual teacher who traveled the world in the 20th century extolling the merits of self-inquiry. At first the statement comes across like one of those "if-a-tree-falls-in-the-woods" Zen mindbenders, but spend a few moments with it and it may dissolve into a valuable insight. Tug on the word "you" and the statement begins to … [Read more...]

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Just Press Delete

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When I listed a property for sale on Craigslist, I received a few bona fide inquiries along with lots of replies from scammers. At first I took the scammers seriously and engaged with them until it was obvious their inquiry was illicit. After a while it was easy to distinguish between honest people and con men. One day I received a scam inquiry that was unusually long and complicated. The supposed buyer wove a lengthy tale about why I should turn the property over to him before he paid, and … [Read more...]

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Self Esteem, or Self-Importance?

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Ego is an important aspect of a healthy consciousness. It helps us to know and honor our own personal truth in life. It helps us to move through life with a positive sense of ourselves and our place in the world that is grounded in the greater well-being of all. If you have a healthy ego, you don't take it personally when things go wrong in your world. Instead, you focus on fixing what is yours to fix, asking for help when you need it and giving help wherever you can, and you trust that there … [Read more...]

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The Addict Must Die

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Who or what is reading this article? Everything going on in your mind is filtered through a lens that uses thoughts, perceptions and analysis to comprehend these words. It does little but interfere, deaden and intellectualize all you come into contact with. For your ego-mind has developed infinite ways to categorize whatever you encounter to ensure that your identity or world view remain intact. Its mission is to protect your identity (how you project yourself to the world), with your full … [Read more...]

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The Voice of Fate vs. the Voice of Destiny

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It's human instinct to reach for the familiar, but the soul is here for experience, not security. A life without risk, loss, death and pain is hardly vitalized. The more we resist the call to adventure, the more we fate ourselves to suffering of the worst kind. In such cases, the Universe will often deliver increasingly drastic events until we finally give up the ego's hold on our soul's schedule and allow the next chapter of our purpose - our Destiny - to unfold. It's at this juncture of … [Read more...]

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Leaving the Illusion: An interview with Paula Sunray

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Paula Sunray, like most of us, has been both in touch with God and out of touch with the divine throughout her life. Now, having just released her fourth book, Life Skills for the New Millennium, this spiritual teacher and guide is committed to helping others break free from the illusion that separates humankind from God’s love. Sunray, of St. Paul, Minn., published three smaller books with limited distribution: Metaphysics Made Easy, The Enchanted Garden: Seven Stepping Stones for … [Read more...]

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The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life: An interview with Thomas Moore

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Somewhere along the way to three cars in every garage, American society lost or misplaced something important: its enchantment with life and the world. Such a loss threatens an even greater loss-that of the soul. In his first two bestsellers, Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, author Thomas Moore dished out a large dose of preventative medicine for the preservation of our individual and collective souls. Moore's latest book, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life (Harper Collins, 1996), leads the … [Read more...]

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No Need to Clutch, It’s an Automatic Shift

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I have spent hours starting this article over several times. Sheets of legal paper surround me with dozens of outrageously brilliant thoughts that I was so cleverly going to weave together into a poignant, yet gracefully written piece of art. However, it's just not happening that way. My energy is requiring something more like a blurt-it-right-out-there approach. Here goes. It's kind of nice writing for the readers of this publication. I can skip so many preliminaries about shifts, changes, … [Read more...]

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