When Ramanaha Maharshi sought to explain life, he used the analogy of a movie. He described life as happening on a movie screen – fleeting, transient images that were not “real,” but gave the appearance of reality. “Reality,” he maintained, took place somewhere else. I want to expand a bit on Maharshi’s analogy. But instead of a movie,Read more
beliefs
Paradigms
Franciscan author Richard Rohr writes of people of various religious beliefs as frequently being in conceptual “boxes” that prevent them from seeing other’s points of view. George Bernard Shaw once described the situation as, “One religion, a thousand variations.” It isn’t just religious people who suffer from the blindness of belief. In various ways we all do. We allRead more
Your Energy Field
You live in an energy bubble. You cannot see it, you won’t even notice that it is there. It is different from your aura or the energy of your chakras. This bubble has one purpose: to create separation between you and the hurts and slights of the world. It monitors, edits, filters, distorts and otherwise manipulates everything thatRead more
Giving Blessings
By Ross Bishop You’ve read about gratitude – it’s big on the coaching circuit these days. But blessing takes things to a whole other dimension. The Bible tells us that the first thing God did after creating Adam and Eve was to bless them. (Genesis 1:28) And in that same way, we are all indeed blessed: The LordRead more
Your Thoughts
You are probably familiar with the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, the Japanese scientist who found that water reacts to our thoughts and emotions. Emoto would expose water to a thought and then take a picture of a single ice crystal of that water. And as I say, he learned that the water reacted to the thought,Read more