Cultivating Consciousness

  By Jakeb Brock The sense of identification with our mind and body is deeply engrained and unconscious.  For this reason, we often lose sight of the perspective that we are actually spiritual beings living temporarily here on the earthly plane.  For better or for worse, we call this plane …

By Dr. Steven Farmer  Men can’t help but be spiritual. The fact of being alive is a spiritual experience, yet many have lost their conscious awareness of this fundamental truth. Gradually over the past several centuries, the rational, logical mind has usurped the creative wisdom of Spirit and the deeper …

  By Jakeb Brock Music is an art form—the art of producing and blending sounds to create harmony.  But this is not a haphazard or arbitrary process;  rather, it is based on mathematical laws that have been in operation since the beginning of time and have never failed.  Therefore, music …

By Debra Landwehr Engle Imagine that a three–year–old says to you, “I’m bad. I don’t deserve to be loved.” How would you respond? Without hesitation, you would scoop up that three–year–old in your arms and say, “Of course, you deserve to be loved. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise!” …

  By Mark Edwards Many readers will associate the word “Toltec” with Don Miguel Ruiz and The Four Agreements or as a Mexican culture buried in history. Without exploring the entire gamut of Mexican history, I’ll briefly explain what “Toltec” means to modern practitioners. The indigenous people who compromised the …

  By Jakeb Brock As you begin reading this, take a moment to tune in to what is going on inside of you.  And remember, we are all basically the same, with the same inner makeup and potentialities. Mind activity (thoughts and emotions) will likely be the first thing of …

By Scott Hilburn Early on in your spiritual journey, did you find yourself to be extreme with the changes you were trying to make? I know I did.  I even went as far as to renounce all pleasures.  You might laugh to know how it went down for me.  Picture …

  By Jakeb Brock Human life, as we now know it, has become largely an exercise in futility and diversion.  Our culture, while at times colorful and intriguing, misses the mark, in that it glorifies our biological functions and completely ignores the spiritual essence of who we are.  It glorifies …

By C. Scot Giles, D.Min., DNGH Most people find themselves troubled by negative thoughts. One of the major missions of the human brain is to keep its owner safe. Therefore, evolution has shaped its responses toward that end. Fear makes a creature cautious. Cautious creatures tend to survive. Creatures that …

By Jakeb Brock We human beings have been given a very great gift. Through our spiritual consciousness, we’ve each been given the ability to self-heal. And this healing is integral, complete, and so thorough that it transcends all of our previous notions of what it means to be healthy. It …