Cultivating Consciousness

By Joan Ranquet A friend of mine called the other day from Los Angeles and said she wanted to set up a phone consultation for her dog. I said, “You don’t need to”. She said “Why not?” I said “Because I already know what is going on.” (Not that I’m …

  By Judy Wilkins-Smith “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names shall never hurt me,” was an old adage way back in the early 1800s. For over 200 years it soothed and encouraged many a bullied student and adult. But no longer. Today, it seems we are the …

  By Jakeb Brock In today’s world there are vast numbers of spiritual communities, with each one emphasizing a particular practice or doctrine of choice.  For example, one might stress the importance and value of meditation above all else, while another might hold to the teachings and methodologies of yoga.  …

  By Jakeb Brock We talk a good deal about raising or developing or elevating consciousness.  Let us now take a closer look at what this means. First of all, it is not really our consciousness that needs raising; it is our personal, individual state of consciousness.  Consciousness itself needs …

By Jakeb Brock Watch this progression: We have an unconscious thought, which triggers a negative emotion, such as fear, resentment, jealousy, etc., which casts us down into a sense of separateness, which promotes the inclination to fend for ourselves, which puts us on the defensive, which, in turn, puts us …

By Judy Wilkins-Smith If mothers are traditionally considered to be the source of life and flow, fathers are often regarded as the hunters, providers, and the ones who introduce us to the ways of the world.  Times are changing, but the essence of the male energy remains crucial to the …

By Dean Fraser BSYA (BL) Public speaking had already become second nature to me, I felt (and still do) a buzz of excitement of pure joy stood before an audience ready to communicate. This will always be an inherently two-way communication. I know my own story inside out; I prefer …

  By Jakeb Brock All of us who have felt an attraction to the spiritual life and responded to that attraction have actually responded to another subtle dynamic at work in our universe—the call of consciousness.  This is because the divine consciousness that we call God created the universe out …

  By Jakeb Brock We live in a very anxious world.  And so, not surprisingly, one of the most insistent aspects of our upbringing is learning to fend for ourselves and use our human strength to gain the upper hand over uncertain circumstances.  We do this primarily as a hedge …

  By TJ Woodward Forgiveness is a very powerful tool in letting go of the perspectives that keep us in a limited and limiting way of seeing and being. Forgiveness allows us to move more deeply into the truth of who and what we are, to eradicate our stories of …