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The Curious Case of February 29: Leap Year Explained

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Written by: Rebecca Stephenson, University College Dublin

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The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk – and fastidious medieval monk

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To Transform All Beings: Helping Others to Use Their Strengths

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Written by: Gregory Ripley

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When we support others, it is important that we aid them by guiding them toward understanding and developing their own strengths rather than providing solutions for them. The first step though is to understand ourselves.

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Letting Ourselves Happen: Guided by Our Body's Intelligence

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Written by: Cheryl Pallant, PhD

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With direct experience, we set aside concepts, beliefs, habits, and cultural conditioning. We set aside the known in favor of sensing. We feel into What Is. Attention redirects to any of the five senses and to the inner senses.

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Seeing Things Differently: Stepping Away from Boxed-In Thinking

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Written by: Mark Ireland

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Boxed-in thinking is rooted in a materialistic worldview known as “scientism” which dominates much of our society’s vision of reality and progress.

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Testing the Validity of Astrology: Can It Be Done?

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Written by: Bruce Scofield

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Testing astrology is difficult, in part, because of the constantly changing cosmic environment and, consequently, the individual nature of each astrological chart.

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Your Natural Psychic Abilities

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Written by: Lisa Campion

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Psychic ability conjures up a lot of different images in people’s minds. Chances are good that we have seen portrayals of psychics on TV and in movies that stick in our minds as truth, but they might actually be more of the Hollywood variety.

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The Gifts of Cognitive, Emotional, or Compassionate Empathy

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Written by: Suzanne Worthley

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We all are feeling beings who have the gift of empathy to be able to connect with other sentient life. Empathy is the ability to share, understand, or feel another’s emotion and what they may be feeling or experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference.

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A Thumbnail Sketch of Wetiko: A Case of Mistaken Identity

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Written by: Paul Levy

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I’ve been writing about wetiko in one way or another for over twenty years. I guess you could say that I consider it an important enough topic to devote the rest of my life to trying to capture and elucidate this concept in words.

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From Sacred Rituals to Modern Insights: The Evolution of Dream Incubation

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Written by: Sarah Janes

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Dream incubation is any technique or combination of techniques aimed at engendering a desired dream. For our ancestors this would most likely involve seeking out a divine entity or deceased person. 

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What Is Déjà Vu? Psychologists Are Exploring This Other-Worldly Feeling

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Written by: Anne Cleary, Colorado State University

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Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already happened.

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Listening to Your Partner's Premonitions: Another VW Van Misadventure

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Written by: Barry Vissell

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I have gradually learned to listen to Joyce's intuitive feelings. Sometimes I don't like them, because they go against my desires.

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How to Work With and Increase Your Connection to Your Guides

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Written by: Lisa Campion

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In all the readings that I have done over the years, I have never met anyone that didn’t have a whole team of guides with them.

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Dreaming Is In Danger: Optimal Dream and Sleep Hygiene Practices

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Written by: Sarah Janes

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I think dreams are in danger, and if dreams are in peril, then so too is our health, on an individual and a collective level.

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What Is an Empath? Are You or Any of Your Friends Empaths?

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Written by: Suzanne Worthley

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General empaths may identify with just a few qualities of empathing, as opposed to sensitive empaths or psychic empaths.

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The Forgotten Language of Dreams, Visions and Oracles

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Written by: Edward Tick, PhD

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Ancient biblical and Greek cultures through modern analysts like Jung and Hillman affirm that we can receive psycho-spiritually based and nonrational messages, images, prescriptions, or insights for healing and life guidance.

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Planetary Cycles and the Four Human Development Stages

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Written by: Bruce Scofield

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Many organisms, including humans, undergo developmental changes before reaching adulthood, and these appear to occur in discrete stages on the physical, emotional, and mental dimensions.

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Learn to Trust Your Psychic Ability by Working with a Pendulum

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Written by: Lisa Campion

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One way to learn how to trust our psychic hits is by using a pendulum. Pendulums are great tools for confirming or denying a psychic hit.

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Slowing Down the Need for Immediate Gratification

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Written by: Brian Smith

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We are bombarded with a need to immediately react or complete tasks—sometimes consciously but more often sub­consciously.

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Science and Astrology: Experiments at Home

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Written by: Bruce Scofield

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For most people today, the zodiac is all there is to astrology and your “sign” (Sun-sign) is your “horoscope.” Of course, a delineation for your Sun sign is not a horoscope...

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Pluto in Aquarius: Transforming Society, Empowering Progress

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Written by: Pam Younghans

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Dwarf planet Pluto left the sign of Capricorn and entered Aquarius on March 23, 2023. Pluto's sign changes are always significant, auguring a major shift and the start of a new phase in our individual and collective evolutionary process.

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Time Is a Loop and a Reunion with the Past, Present, and Future

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Written by: Carol Day

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The act of recalling memories or dreaming into the future is an intimate relationship with longing.

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