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A Dog Named Love & A Dog Named Fear: Which Are You Feeding?

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Written by: Jim Dreaver

A Dog Named Love & A Dog Named Fear: Which Are You Feeding?I present a radically different approach to transformation — a simple yet revolutionary practice, the essence of which is learning to face your inner conflicts, self-doubt, and fears without any story whatsoever. Here it is...

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The Shift: What Is It? When Is It? What Do We Do?

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Written by: David Ian Cowan

The Shift: What Is It? When Is It? What Do We Do?

There may be concerns about being in the right place for the Shift. Any uncertainty or anxiety about this is coming from fear, and thus from the ego. Begin now to affirm to yourself, "I am always in the right place at the right time" and...

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Opening the Portal: Effects of the New Energy Shift

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Written by: Lisa Barretta

Opening the Portal: Effects of the New Energy Shift

The energy waves coming through the open portal in the Milky Way will put us on the fast track to ascending and evolving as a species. We are moving into the Aquarian age, which will be characterized by advanced scientific breakthroughs, spiritual awakening, and the triumph of the ultimate technology, our own psychic senses.

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What Difference Does It Make Who Created the Earth?

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Written by: Steven Greenebaum

What Difference Does It Make Who Created the Earth?

An all too tragic truth is that much too often we exhaust ourselves arguing and even hating over who or what created the Earth, when we ought to be uniting and acting to stop the Earth's degradation, and the degradation of those who dwell on this amazing planet of ours.

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Awareness & Heart-Centered Consciousness Usher in a Golden Age

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Written by: Stewart Pearce

Awareness & Heart-Centered Consciousness Ushers in A New Golden Age

Awareness calls us far beyond the tangled web of the current geopo­litical, social and financial vicissitudes, as we create a new paradigm by restoring heaven on earth. This means we move to new light as quickly as we move from the deepest slumber to the world of waking by dawn arising.

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Is There a Right Religion? or Is There a Right Way to Behave?

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Written by: Steven Greenebaum

Is There a "Right" Religion? or Is There a Right Way to Behave?The God I believe in may not be the same God you believe in. And the person standing next to you may not believe in God at all. So, shall we divide ourselves and throw stones? For thousands of years the answer seems to have been Yes...

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Too Good to be True? or Good Enough to be True!

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Written by: Alan Cohen

Good Enough to be True by Alan Cohen

When I began to teach classes on spiritual principles, I devoted time at the end of each class to pray for students and their loved ones. One woman asked the group to pray for the continued health of her sister, whose cancer was in remission. At that time...

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Can Angels Make Mistakes? Receiving Help in Difficult Times

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Written by: Joyce Vissell

Can Angels Make Mistakes? (Help in Difficult Times)

Do you ever feel that you are totally alone and unsupported in difficult times in your life? The feeling of isolation can be very painful. I have a story to remind us that we are never really alone and there is a beautiful support that we may not even be aware of.

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Choosing A Spiritual Path -- Overview of World's Great Religions

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Written by: Sarah Stillman

Choosing A Spiritual Path - Overview of World's Great Religions

by Sarah Stillman. What role has religion played in your life up until now? Most of us tend to adhere to the religion of our parents, but some girls choose to venture on their own spiritual paths. I'm not here to advocate any particular faith, but I do think it's important to have a defined set of religious beliefs — even if that means...

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The Life Of The Buddha

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Written by: InnerSelf Staff

The Life Of The Buddha is a BBC documentary on  Buddhism with emphasis on the life of the Buddha. What  is Buddhism and what has made it so popular are some of the questions answered. Unlike the other major religions , Buddhism does not have a supreme being but guide in the Buddha.

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How To Find Yourself: Practicing Zazen

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Written by: Katsuki Sekida

In Buddhist literature, the ox is likened to one's own True Nature. To Find yourself. the search for the ox is to investigate this True Nature.

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Deepak Chopra in No Spin Zone

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Written by: Deepak Chopra

Ours is a time of unprecedented change and complexity.  Never before have so many worldviews, belief systems and ways of engaging reality converged. On one hand, there are abundant instances of conflict and intolerance...

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Buddhism Is Not a Religion

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Written by: InnerSelf Staff

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Buddhism has become very popular in the West, however, the "western" practice of buddhism is no doubt very different from Eastern traditional Buddhism. Yet, as with Christianity which has also evolved through the

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Navratri: 9 Days of the Goddess

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Written by: Satya Kalra

Navratri (Nav-Durga) is a nine-day festival celebrated by Hindus honoring the Mother Goddess. This article answers commonly asked questions about the origins and spiritual significance of this important biannual event including the three stages of an individual's spiritual journey...

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Twin Flames Explained

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Written by: Jayne Chilkes

Twin Flames Explained

Your true Twin Flame is your divine counterpart. Most Twin Flames live in a higher soul position and not in a physical body. The Love that you share in a soul meeting with your beloved is beyond words. To explain such a beautiful meeting of your Twin Flame, it seems that a connection to higher self language through channeling can describe it a little better...

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Stop Bargaining for Your Life

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Written by: Andrea Mathews

Stop Bargaining for Your LifeMost of us have been taught to bargain with life, instead of taking the direct route to receiving our own souls and the abundance that can be found there. Bargains always include an IF and a THEN. The following are just a very few of the bargains we make with life that keep us stuck...

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Meditative Prayer

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Written by: John Selby

I grew up in a Christian prayer tradition that was mainly focused on asking God to do things for me and for people I loved: “Please, God, hear my prayer and do such and such.” I no longer experience a God who does specific favors for me or others simply because I ask him to. I cannot imagine...

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Edgar Cayce's Angel: He Experienced His First Vision at 14 Years of Age

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Written by: Doug Simpson

Probably, all of us have a Guardian Angel. Edgar Cayce, who was destined to become America's legendary mystic, began attending Sunday School classes at age ten, and first saw his Angel at the age of fourteen...

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Understanding Islam & the Qur'an

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Written by: Lex Hixon

The history of Islam is not free from intolerance, injustice, and other chronic distortions of the human spirit. Neither is Christian history free from such distortions. But these sobering facts cannot dim the wonder of twenty centuries of commitment flowing from the inspired life of Jesus, and fourteen centuries of...

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Religion & Spirituality: Same or Different?

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Written by: J. Donald Walters

Religion & Spirituality: Same or Different?

by J. Donald Walters. Everyone in the world is on the spiritual path. By no means everyone, however, is aware of being on a path at all. Most people see their efforts to avoid sorrow and find happiness as episodic, not as the unchanging motivation behind everything they do...

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Who Is Eating the Strawberries?

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Written by: Raphael

The other day, while meditating, I happened to be thinking about the people of Japan and those in the Midwest being affected by the flooding . . . many of these people will have limited access to food and will be hungry. What could I do to help? A thought popped into my head about a very easy way to help which was tied to my past experiences and teachings with the Blackfeet & the Lakota.  Let me explain . . .

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