Notre Dame, Our Lady, is burning. We are burning with her. The cultural symbol of devotion, freedom, and fortitude goes up in a flash before our eyes. This treasure has endured revolutions, invasion, vandalism, and two world wars. It has been the heartbeat of Paris for over eight hundred years. She captures our love and imagination. Losing this historic structure compels us to feel, to see, and to know the importance of monuments as place holders, not just of history, but of energy. Not only is it the central place of worship for the French Catholic Church, but it houses … [read more]
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All The Wonders of Egypt
To wander through Egypt, experiencing ancient and miraculous sites of architectural technology unparalleled by any society can strike awe in anyone. This one aspect alone offers information about an advanced civilization knowledgable in sacred geometry, geodesy, the Golden Mean, Pythagorean philosophy of number, and our relation to time, space and dimension. It can make one dizzy. Just to be in it and around it elicits wonder and curiosity. My fascination with Egypt has increased more than I thought possible after my recent trip, and I leave the country with more questions than answers. This was the second trip to Egypt … [read more]
Slaves To Technology
We are driven to keep up with an ungodly pace as we become more and more enmeshed in technology. If not careful, it can suck us up and spit us out very quickly. We have become slaves to technology in ways that are extremely unhealthy. Perhaps the greatest conundrum will be to figure out how to use technology without becoming engulfed or controlled by it. Our time is not spent more efficiently these days, but rather learning how to keep up with more and more information. It reminds me of how hard it was to resist putting my kids in … [read more]
The Pranic Tube
My previous article on the emotional body brought attention to something I referred to as the pranic tube. Both are energetic bodies that are rarely understood as energy in direct life experience. The pranic tube is a baseline fundamental area to strengthen. All types of breath work in spiritual practices develop the pranic tube. Whether it is meditation, chanting, pranayama yoga, or anything having to do with conscious breath, these practices strengthen the pranic tube. Breath carries finer substances which can feed your consciousness if you can become aware of its subtlety. There are many meditation exercises working with more … [read more]
The Emotional Body
The emotional body is something we can study by observing how we live in the world through our feelings. It is an energetic body that steers an important function in us. When this body is not fortified through the proper channels, it wreaks havoc on our system. There is much to be said about emotions, false emotions, reactivity, and actual feeling. Observing what is deeply enmeshed with thought becomes a means by which we allow our emotional body to resonate at its proper frequency. This body can become an important tool and portal through which our higher centers can be … [read more]
Receiving Help
The last in my series on transformation falls into a unique category called receiving help. J.G. Bennett delineated this as the fourth source. How do we actually receive? What is defined as help? We have to put ourselves in the pathway of help; whether that is help from above, help from colleagues and friends, help by striving to evolve into elevated consciousness. We cannot receive help if we don’t think we deserve it. Putting ourselves in the pathway requires knowing how to ask and how to receive. We may only sit and pray when we are desperate, when life has … [read more]