Journey into the depths of my soul
The journey home to myself began with childhood sexual and emotional abuse and is culminating in a magnificent celebration of who I have become. From that wounding, and the subsequent acting out through sexual...
T’ai Chi’s Deeper Connections
When I think about the experience of connecting and reconnecting deeply, the Chinese discipline of t'ai chi comes immediately come to mind. As befits something so rooted in yin-yang ideas, there are two aspects...
Enlightenment transmission: An interview with Dave Oshana
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...
Dave Oshana presenting enlightenment transmission events
"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...
New Releases [music + books]
WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU, by Gary Stroutsos with special guest David Lanz (CD recording), White Swan Records, 9 tracks, 63:25 minutes, $16.98, listen: http://tinyurl.com/stroutsos
When George Harrison's song "Within You Without You" made its debut...
An interview with Sondra Ray
Sondra Ray, known as one of the most eclectic spiritual leaders of the day, blends ancient wisdom with practical training to transform relationships to a more divine level. Recognized as a spiritual teacher, author,...
Interfaith Seminar on Peace : Himalayan Tradition Yoga Congress
This July, representatives from ten different faith traditions will gather together to discuss the significance of peace from within their spiritual frameworks. Experts in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, Christianity and the Himalayan Yoga tradition...
Embracing the Present: A Moment with Leonard Jacobson
"To be present is to awaken into that dimension of your self and that dimension of life which is transcendent of the thinking mind. You are silent and you are fully present with what...
2012: Doomsday or the Dawning of a New Age?
A debate is raging over whether December 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, heralds a doomsday of apocalyptic proportions or the dawning of a golden age in consciousness. In the new documentary...
Preeminent Spiritual Leader to head Song of Silence Yoga Congress
Swami Veda Bharati, founder and spiritual director of The Meditation Center in Northeast Minneapolis, will lead the 2009 Himalayan Yoga Tradition Congress at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul from July 17...
Movie on History of Theosophical movement in Pershing Park
MINNEAPOLIS - The Theosophical Society will show an illustrated history of the Theosophical movement from the 19th to 21st centuries at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 20, at Pershing Park Neighborhood Center, 3523 W. 48th...
In the Presence of your True Self
The struggle to get better, the struggle to correct things about ourselves that we judge or don't like, the effort to push up against perceived bad traits or laziness in ourselves and perceived "others,"...
How to Find a Spiritual Community
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...
On Transparency And The Wizard Of Oz
A writer recently contacted me about a book he was putting together of truthful stories about the challenges of the spiritual path. He said that he was tired of all the teachings that suggested...
Yoga In Minnesota: Eighty Years Young
It was September 1927, and Paramahansa Yogananda was electrifying Twin Cities audiences with a novel but soul-rousing message. Clad in orange robe, with long hair and golden brown skin, he lectured nightly to sold...
Stepping up our Evolution
In the latter half of the second millennium, science came of age, answering many of our "how" questions but leaving the "why" questions to the theologians. Perhaps now the time is ripe for us...
