New movement aims to foster peace and progress globally

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Happy Science's "Fourfold Path to Enlightenment"-- Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Progress -- has come to the United States through a program of guided meditations, fellowship discussions and more, in New York City, and in centers based in Atlanta, Tampa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Based on the Buddhist principles of Enlightenment, Happy Science's new model is designed for the unique challenges in our modern world, with the goal of helping to achieve greater world peace, one … [Read more...]

The Reluctant Guru

Seven years ago I spent a week at a meditation center in the mountains of North Carolina. While walking around the center, I was drawn to a specific flyer announcing that enlightened teacher, Dave Oshana, would be coming to the area. The energy jumped off the flyer and I received this very strong intuitive feeling that I have to meet this guy. It proved more difficult than I thought. The flyer was old and Dave had already returned home to London. I also had a hard time getting through because … [Read more...]

Enlightenment transmission: An interview with Dave Oshana

Dave Oshana will present Enlightenment Transmission September 23 through October 1 in the Twin Cities.

There is a purpose and a timing to everything, like the phone call I received out of the blue from someone named Michael Foley. He told me about his experience being in the presence of a British man named Dave Oshana, who now lives in Finland. And he proceeded to tell me about how his life has changed, about how he saves up to fly to Finland for intensive workshops with this man, and about how fortunate the Twin Cities is to have this enlightened teacher come here at the end of this … [Read more...]

Dave Oshana presenting enlightenment transmission events

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"Enlightenment: Living The Life You Were Born To Live" will be presented in the Twin Cities in late September by Dave Oshana, who started sharing his uniquely effective approach to spirituality after being irrevocably transformed by the Enlightenment Transmission in June 2000. Since then, Oshana has internationally taught thousands of truth-seekers through published articles, email correspondences and live teaching events (including an audience of more than 600 people). Oshana defines … [Read more...]

First Twin Cities Awakening Conference

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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is.'" - Wayne Dyer Enlightenment. Conscious Awakening. Just mention the words and the ears of the spiritual community perk up, only to hear nothing and then fall back asleep. We revere the enlightened gurus and read their books and aspire to be like them, and yet we lose interest when we assume we lack the lifetime of perfection required to get to that level of consciousness. We go to conferences and … [Read more...]

In the Company of the Enlightened

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

What is it like to work for an enlightened being? Few of us will become Realized Masters this time around, but some, like Sheela Rajdev, have the chance to work with one. Sheela works closely with one of this era’s gurus, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Sadhguru’s talks and sathsangs routinely draw more than 300,000 people to his home in the Coimbatore district of India, and he has been called to share his wisdom at places like the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. In addition to … [Read more...]

The Awakening

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I guess it was my time or, rather, God’s time. I was 29 years old. I had a good husband and I was a successful model and dancer. By conventional standards, I had an enviable life and yet I felt somehow empty. Something was haunting me. Then, during a routine check-up, my doctor told me that my uterus had completely dissolved and I would never menstruate again. I would never have any children. I was devastated by the news and was telling a friend about it when she told me about an upcoming … [Read more...]

Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Someone should have told me earlier that the journey toward enlightenment was so fascinating and full of love. I wouldn't have waited so long looking for a light at the end of the tunnel, wallowing in the hopeless well of addiction by drinking my way out of pain. Six (Light) sober years later, I find the path growing brighter each day. My pathway in sobriety is a little unconventional. I went to some AA meetings. I followed a Twelve Steps program. I wrapped myself around Step Three: "Made a … [Read more...]

Getting Better is not Waking Up

This is the second in a series of articles about the awakening journey. It describes both the common myths that stand in its way and real steps available for those brave souls who are truly interested in waking up now. The material is controversial in that it questions and challenges many of the assumptions most people hold dear and asks for each of us to instead examine what is really true. As you look inside yourself, you already have the guidebook for your awakening there. You only need to … [Read more...]

Jesus

An excerpt from the HarperCollins book, from part one: Seeker A horse!" the temple lad cried as he ran in panting for breath. "Quick, come and see.""Why?" I asked without looking up. I was in the middle of writing, which I did every morning. My scribbles never reached anyone outside this dim, falling-down hut, but that's of no matter."Because he's huge. Hurry, or somebody might steal him.""Before you do, you mean?"The boy was so excited that he kept … [Read more...]

Know the Self

An excerpt from the book Codes of Light - The Power of Our BeliefsIn the past 35 years, the spirituality and self-help markets have increased at an alarming rate. As a spiritual teacher and medical intuitive, I have seen many clients strive to change their lives and witnessed only small changes. Why are there are so many healers, and yet the consciousness as a whole doesn't seem to leap forward? Why is lack and poverty, unhappiness and depression still so much a part of daily lives? What is … [Read more...]

A Personal Journey to the True Essence

In a blink of an eye, my mainstream world was turned upside down forever.An allergic reaction to an antibiotic left my world a place of desperation and despair. I was immersed in a world of chaos and confusion. Every aspect of my life had to be examined and redefined. This life-altering event took me to the very core of my inner world to experience the most amazing miracles and gifts of spirit from across the world. I was sent on the most amazing path of discovery of the mystical and magical. I … [Read more...]

An Interview with Isha

What was the most sacred moment you have had in your life? Isha: The most poignant moment in my life destroyed the concept of the sacred for me. When I became enlightened, I realized that everything is the same; that we are all one, we’ve all always been one, and that the only thing that is real is love. I realized that love is the essence of all being; it is the totality. There is nothing special, and nothing that is not special; there is nothing sacred, and nothing that is not. … [Read more...]

Awakening: Part 2 – An interview with Leonard Jacobson

Last of a two-part series Leonard Jacobson has been guiding people on the path of awakening for more than 20 years through three previous books [Words from Silence, Embracing the Present, and Bridging Heaven & Earth] and workshops in the U.S., Europe and his native Australia. In 2007, he brought to us the book Journey Into Now - Clear Guidance on the Path of Spiritual Awakening (Conscious Living Publications) in which he shares the details of his six remarkable awakenings, or peak … [Read more...]

Awakening Part 1: An interview with Leonard Jacobson

First of a two-part series In this age of heightened security, global uncertainty and climatic change, many spiritual teachers and guides continue to lead the human race toward conscious evolution. Leonard Jacobson is one such awakened soul who urges us to temper the desire of the ego for power and control, and to "integrate awakened consciousness into everyday life, enhancing every aspect of life and relationships." Jacobson, 65, has been guiding people on the path of awakening for more … [Read more...]