Unclutter Your Life by Elizabeth Erenberger Ideally, our homes are spaces where we can nourish ourselves, both body and mind. We come home after an often busy or chaotic day and retire into the tranquility of our humble abode. It is here we undress, we loosen the belt and we let down our hair. [...]
Once upon a time, about 2000 years ago in the village of Magdala, Palestine, a girl was born who would captivate the world. She was Mary Magdalene. We will explore her life and her soul in this metaphysical course of study to gain a deeper understanding of the woman who has been [...]
Why a course on Creative Writing in the metaphysical field? How can it help you as a metaphysical practitioner? Your goals in Metaphysics may not seem to gel at all with a need for a course in creative writing skills. But, whether you become a minister, an educator, a motivational speaker or [...]
The Maya occupied a vast territory in Central America that included the present Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and eastern Chiapas, as well as parts of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Theirs was a “stone age” type of agricultural civilization based on the raising of crops such as corn, cocoa [...]
Feng Shui is a very old Chinese system of understanding the relationship between humans and the forces of the cosmos. The literal translation of Feng Shui is “wind and water.” The meaning has to do with the forces of the universe that are in motion, in constant change and flux. Wind and [...]
When you hear the word forgiveness what do you think of? There are many forms of forgiveness. It can be an art and a gift to both ourselves and others. Forgiveness can bring us great peace, joy, and freedom. Imagine feeling that no one can truly do us “wrong,” that at the [...]
Gender and sexual orientation nonconformity have been reported throughout history, although the manner in which these dispositions and identities are understood varies with era and culture. Western religious traditions, predominantly founded in Abrahamic faith, have usually expressed aversion toward any diversion from a bonding model limited to one man and one (or more) [...]
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”—John Muir, provided by quotegarden.com Let us begin this course by stepping into the world of herbs through our imagination. Allow yourself to pause and take a few [...]
When you think of life purpose what comes to mind? Do you think about what you have learned in life or what you have done? Do you think of your career or your family? Allow yourself to pause from reading for a moment and explore your associations with life purpose. Now let [...]
Wouldn’t you want to be healed if you were a ghost? After all, we will all eventually experience leaving this physical world, and it does take some time to adjust to being non‐physical. What if you didn’t realize you had passed on, and you were trying to carry out your normal duties? [...]
The Metaphysical Nature of the Universe or Beyond The Crossing Point of Light “Thinkest thyself a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?” —Ancient Sufi tradition Dolores Cannon is adamant with other UFO researchers that until the metaphysical principles upon which the universe operates are understood, we will never understand the [...]
Vibrational Medicine: Past, Present and Future “When all your energies are brought into harmony, your body flourishes. And when your body flourishes, your soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world. These are the ultimate reasons for energy medicine—to prepare the soil and nurture the blossom.” —Donna Eden, [...]
Reiki is a Japanese word that means sacred or spiritual energy. Ki is that life energy or universal energy that is cultivated and used in the art of Reiki. The term “universal” is not just the energy in this solar system but, as Bronwen and Frans Stiene wrote in The Japanese Art [...]
What is an astral projection? Many of you have most likely heard this term tossed about in metaphysical circles and communities, but do you really know what it is? Perhaps you have even had an astral projection and didn’t know that was what it was! Almost everyone has had an astral projection [...]
Purification of the Emotions ...Purification is a twofold process that clarifies the emotions, or astral body, and the mind, or mental body. Since emotional problems lead to mental confusion, the emotions must be purified first. Many of us experienced traumas in childhood that have crippled us emotionally. Since a rationalist paradigm currently [...]
Awakening to the True Self is the path home for each of us. It is the path of leaving behind illusions of separation and identification with the mind, body, and emotions for true knowledge of our oneness with the Divine. To awaken to the True Self is to know the divine truth [...]
In recent years the scientific community has taken a strong interest in studying the effects of meditation. Because of the links found between stress and disease, and the interest in relaxation as a preventative model, scientists are earnestly studying the physiological and psychological effects of meditation. The society we live in has [...]
Emotions have a lot to do with breathing. When a person is relaxed and happy, diaphragmatic breathing is a natural result. When people are angry, fearful or otherwise “tight,” they mostly use thoracic or clavicular breathing. Some people don’t even realize that they freeze between breaths, stopping the breathing process altogether. This [...]
Numerology Just think of what a single day in your life would be like if you did not use any numbers at all. You would not be able to use your cell phone, banks would close, schools, hospitals and airports, would all cease to operate. Basically, life as we know it would [...]
Mind over Matter I: Psychic Powers In 1882, a group of eminent thinkers formed the British Society for Psychical Research to investigate paranormal phenomena, in the form of telepathy, mediumship, séances and apparitions. In Alternate Realities (1976) we read that the researchers “spent decades in tightening their experimental designs” and found that [...]
Dreams have long been a source of intrigue and mystery to humankind since the beginning of time. When was the first dream? It is speculated by scientists that dreams began 130 million years ago. This theory was explored by observing animals with varying levels of nervous system development. Observation was done by [...]
“And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?”—Kahlil Gibran Children are so amazingly beautiful and wise. If you take the time to be with a child, you are automatically taking on these qualities of being in the present. Another profound quality children [...]
The aim of anger management is to construct a means to dismantle the automatic anger reflex by introducing conscious awareness of how and why we react, and to develop acceptable alternative behaviors to destructive expressions of anger. The goal of the information herein, is to assemble, as practically and as possible, a [...]
Early humanity forever searched for order in the chaotic world, an order the gentleness of the night sky provided. In the heavens, the cycle of the Milky Way's starry inhabitants recurred. The Babylonians and Egyptians charted the many cyclic recurrences, charting the planets and certain comets. We today have these same configurations. [...]
In order to enter into the world of indigenous, Earth centered people, it is first necessary to try to begin to understand the ways of perceiving and understanding of the First People of this land. We must be like children, with open hearts and minds, a flexible and malleable belief system, and [...]