Awakening Our True Potential

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By RICHARD SMOLEY — Man is born an unfinished creature. He cannot walk or talk or feed himself. Long years of care are required to bring him to even the most minimal levels of self-sufficiency. And yet even after the typical person has reached the stage of functioning that we call adulthood, something still seems [...]

The Secret of the Moon & the Nature of War

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By ROBERT BLACK— What is war? It is the result of planetary influence. Somewhere up there two or three planets have approached too near each other: tension results… here, on the Earth, people begin to slaughter one another… They fail to realise to what extent they are pawns in the game… it must be understood [...]

The Mysterious Kybalion

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By RICHARD SMOLEY — People who have spent time grazing in metaphysical bookshops may have come across a mysterious volume called The Kybalion, written by “Three Initiates” and first issued by the Yogi Publication Society of Chicago in 1908. The most familiar edition is a plain volume bound in blue cloth and stamped with gold, [...]

One Soul, Many Bodies: The Case for Reincarnation

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By J. ALLAN DANELEK — What happens to us when we die? It’s a question everyone eventually asks themselves at some point in their life. It transcends racial, social, political, economic and gender lines, making it the one question common to all human beings whether we like it or not. Yet ever since the first [...]

Cheating the Ferryman: A New Paradigm of Existence?

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By ANTHONY PEAKE — What happens when we die? This is the ultimate question and one that we still have no real answer. From the first few moments that man became a self-aware being he has pondered upon this mystery. Every culture has attempted an explanation, and it is reasonable to conclude that all religions [...]

Symbols & Psyche: Exploring Gateways to Realms of Knowledge, Power & Understanding

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By JAMES WASSERMAN — The Muggle world is filled with symbols. From Coke cans to McDonald’s arches, IBM computers to Apple Macintoshs, from flags to emblems and medals, to the endless variety of product packaging, modern culture is brimming with images. Open the Yellow Pages of your phone book – with the emblematic pair of [...]

Intuition: Delusion or Perception? Toward a Scientific Explanation of the Akashic Experience

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By ERVIN LASZLO — The intuitions reported by mystics, poets, artists, ordinary people, even scientists, often go beyond the range of sensory perception. In the reductionist culture inspired by classical science, they are dismissed as mere delusion – classical empiricism claims that there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the eye. [...]

The Power of the Mind

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By BRUCE H. LIPTON, Ph.D. — Living in the world under your skin is a bustling metropolis of 50 trillion cells, each of which is biologically and functionally equivalent to a miniature human. Current popular opinion holds that the fate and behaviour of our internal cellular citizens are preprogrammed in their genes. Since Watson and [...]

The Real Secret of The Secret

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By RICHARD SMOLEY — The latest in the blockbusters of alternative spirituality is The Secret, now both a film and a book. Both have been huge successes. The film version has sold 1.5 million copies in DVD format, while at this writing in early June 2007, the book version of The Secret has been on [...]

Satsang: The Power of Spiritual Presence

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By STEVE TAYLOR — Enlightened people are like spiritual dynamos: they have a very strong presence which touches the people they come into contact with, transmitting something of their enlightenment to them. Even people who aren’t at all “spiritual” usually feel a sense of well-being in their presence, and so feel attracted to them without [...]