Kicking And Screaming — Direction Heaven. “Kicking and Screaming” is the expression. Your child just won’t stop bike riding even though it is too dark outside, so you feel you need to pick her up and carry her “kicking and screaming,” if need be, into the safety of the house. We children, as in “Be …
Behold The Darkness — Behold The Light. Darkness takes on many different forms and fortunately or unfortunately, some of the forms are our own. This is mostly fortunate, as we can change ourselves. Moreover, we have no other choice than to change and uplift ourselves. We are here to learn to react with love always. …
Slet Us Survive And Then Thrive Midst The World’s Madness When events ‘conspire’ to create extreme potential for stress, anxiety and, in fact, fear, what actions can we take to protect ourselves? First, if the magnitude of such events—political, environmental, financial, to name a few— greatly compromises our ability to effect change, or feels like …
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Faith And Our Higher Selves Faith says you know, you just know, that you are protected, that worst case scenarios will not manifest, that you can live without the constraints of fear, anxiety and stress. At times faith may relate to experience and be ‘time-tested,’ if you will. If the Divine has emerged into your …
Not 1, Not 2, Not 3, Not 4 — It’s The 5-fold Path THE FIVE tools around which Homa Psychotherapy revolves sometimes seem to concentrate so much on Agnihotra that the other 4 can get little or no attention if care isn’t taken. Homa Psychotherapy, like the Fivefold Path, has five tools—Yajnya (Agnihotra), Daan, Tapa, …
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Kingdom Of Heaven Is Near At Hand Okay, it may be darkest before the dawn and okay, there may be light at the end of the tunnel, and okay, a ceasefire in Gaza is in place, but to buy into the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven is Near at Hand may be a bit …
Whoever expected the spiritual path—Fivefold Path or otherwise—to be a trajectory always going upward had best take an extra dose of reality or ‘get real-ness.’ Whoever assumed that happiness, bliss, or God-consciousness automatically meant an absence of pain, dissonance or disturbance, likewise best stand in line and get vaccinated against Polyanna-ish, Peter Pan-ish veils covering …
The opportunities to serve are endless in today’s world. The multitudes who yearn for lives having at least the bare necessities to survive cry out for help. Not only can we help on the material level, but we have the tools and the vision to offer roads to dignity and fulfilment When we teach Agnihotra …
If we discount (for a few moments) the saboteur matrix—that humans have an archetype characteristic of engaging in selfsabotage at times, we might realize that at our core, we don’t wish to exert pain upon ourselves or others. We really do seek comfort, balance, perspective, peace & serenity.How all of this exists in consonance with …
LAZINESS AND THE LAW OF KARMA It might be said that one positive result of the pandemic is that we are much more aware that we cannot be lazy when it comes to our health—both from preventative and curative aspects. Vigilance is not a luxury right now. It is totally required. Those who wish we …
