28/05/2017

They always reveal themselves over time

Pay attention to a person’s actions, pay attention to a corporation or government body’s overall actions, and follow the trail to the hidden motivation. It is there that their real intentions can be observed. Generally on this planet we can follow the money and see where it leads, from the destruction it wields. The imposter cannot hide themselves 100 percent of the time, they always reveal themselves over time.

22/05/2017

Lament singing: An ancient tradition that helps people cope with trauma in the modern world

In Finland, lament singing is experiencing a revival, one sad song at a time.

Lament singing: An ancient tradition that helps people cope with trauma in the modern world -- Science of the Spirit -- 

To the people of Karelia,

souls and spirits born in beauty:

Through the windows were your green fields,

in the blue skies larks were singing,

saints and icons stood in silence,

watching over wooden log homes.

Kanteles echoed in the dark rooms,

and the stars blinked in the night sky,

but your thoughts were wrapped in darkness:

iron hail rained on your rooftops

09/05/2017

What is appropriate and what is not?

Growth is not measured by what one accomplishes (in life) but rather by (our realization of) inner truths. These inner truths are always available from within. There is no greater help than what you carry within yourself. Hear your own song so that you may learn to sing…

Hale Makua

08/05/2017

The common welfare

Dickens' The Christmas Carol has a profound message for us regarding our agenda.

Marley's Spirit has learned "on the other side" that:

Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

04/05/2017

Creation is conducive to the particular lessons

Each and every soul, depending on their past lives and depending on their evolutionary intention for this life will create a family, a religion, and a belief system that is conducive to the particular lessons that they are seeking learn in this lifetime.
Timelines offer various choices for our collective experience, and infinite possibilities for our individual experience...
To me that says that there is a certain amount of subjectivity to the truth, that God is evolving, creator is evolving and as each one of us expands our consciousness, we are expanding as the leading edge of the universe and god is creating and expanding with and through us and is so experiencing itself in new ways. There are natural laws and also specific subjective truths that we each need in order to learn and to develop certain soul aspects in each specific incarnation.
Kaypacha Astrology for the Soul May 3, 2017

01/05/2017

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

The truth is not arbitrary or a matter of opinion, but can be investigated, and those who earnestly search for the truth will find It. The truth is hidden to the blind, but he who has the mental eye sees the Truth.
- Buddha - The Three Personalities of Buddha, XCVIII

30/04/2017

The benefits of solitude: Balm for the harried urban soul

The benefits of solitude: Balm for the harried urban soul -- Science of the Spirit

...Participants walking in urban environments had markedly higher instances of "rumination"—a brooding and self-criticism the researchers correlated with the onset of depression. And, just as parts of the brain associated with rumination lit up on urban walks, they calmed down during nature walks.

Photos of nature will increase your sense of affection and playfulness. A quick trip into the woods, known as "forest bathing" in Japan, reduces cortisol levels and boosts the immune system. Whether rich or poor, students perform better with access to green space. And a simple view of greenery can insulate us from stress and increase our resilience to adversity. Time in nature even boosts, in a very concrete way, our ability to smell, see, and hear.

To walk out of our houses and beyond our city limits is to shuck off the pretense and assumptions that we otherwise live by. This is how we open ourselves to brave new notions or independent attitudes. This is how we come to know our own minds.