“While our dramas are insignificant blips on the cosmic radar, we’re still acting in them, and if we don’t play our roles responsibly, actual human beings suffer.” Rev. Monica McIntyre presents an article by Philip Goldberg on our response to the recent elections.

In order to be close, we must also be open, and in order to be open, we must risk allowing another to see our vulnerabilities. Rev. Monica McIntyre presents the topic of Intimacy with an article by John Amodeo PhD, MFT.

Since we have had nothing but bad news recently, I want to share this wonderful piece by Jeff Foster: Some very good news! 1. You don’t need all the answers right now. The true guru is within. Right here, right now, in this moment, you don’t have to ‘figure out’ the rest of your life,

This has been a very strange week following the election on Tuesday. Those who know me well know that I am vehemently opposed to mixing church and state and I abhor any religious institution that endeavors to influence the congregation with political rhetoric. Rather, I believe that any spiritual organization should be focused on encouraging

“One of the greatest distractions to becoming a liberated expression of spirit in form is an innocent tendency to put all of your hope into a healing modality instead of learning how to trust the transformation already under way.” Monica McIntyre offers insight from Matt Kahn up for discussion.

“Any pathway toward remembering our belonging to this world alleviates the trance of separation and unworthiness.” We review Tara Brach’s article on unworthiness.

[Test your self acceptance with the “Self Acceptance Test” using the Download button above. When you are done download the scoring sheet here] I would like to continue with the discussion we have been having about self love, self esteem and self approval with an article from 2001 by the Buddhist teacher, Tara Brach, entitled,

By offering yourself and others the verbal gifts of heart-centered support, you are no longer held emotionally hostage, waiting for others to say the very words that you have the power to provide yourself.

Last week we discussed the Hawkins Map of Consciousness and the different frequency levels of different emotions. All of the more negative traits such as fear, shame, guilt, and, the lowest of the low, apathy fall below 200, while the more positive traits, reason, acceptance, willingness, are above 200 and the more spiritual values, love,

What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream.