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<description><![CDATA[Cheryl A. Chatfield, Ph.D. is a spiritual writer and a spiritual teacher. Her non profit organization, The Nottingham Institute, promotes material for people who are searching for spiritual answers not found in organized religions. Her booklet, Do It Yourself Guide to Spirituality: Seven Simple Steps; her novel, The Lost Principles; and the Practical Spirituality Newsletter can be viewed online at her website. She can be contacted through her website about speaking engagements.]]></description>
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<title>Deep Truth: Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate by Gregg Braden</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Braden clearly summarizes our current position in the world and suggests how we can improve our future for 2012 and beyond. He presents Six Deep Truths that solve personal and world problems if we accept them and states Five Major Crises confronting us.]]></description>
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<title>Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:29:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The story of Esther, living in Jerusalem in the early 1900s, takes us into the lives of the Jewish people adhering to strict rules at a time when the plight of the women was to have as many children as possible to provide more Jews to populate the area. Esther rebels against such a future, wanting to be an artist after realizing her talent.]]></description>
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<title>Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:41:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I am impressed with Hearne's knowledge of magic. As with the first book in this series, Hounded, this fantasy, is intriguing as the hero, a 2000 year old Druid living in present day Arizona, fights evil forces.]]></description>
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<title>The Mayan Prophecies: 2012 - The Message and The Vision by Gerald Benedict</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:11:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This book describes the 21 Prophecies that Benedict has drawn from a variety of sources, mainly from the Chilam Balam Books. I will comment on the ones most relevant to 2012. Please note that these Prophecies do not predict the end of the world.]]></description>
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<title>An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of an Authentic Life by Mary Johnson</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:59:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mother Teresa is such an intriguing and mystifying figure who suffered with self-doubts, as revealed in recent books, so the idea of finding out more about her from a sister of her Missionaries of Charity is appealing. The book was not disappointing, as Mother Teresa is seen as perhaps a more real person than in other books. She is not diminished in this view; she only seems more larger than life and holy.]]></description>
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<title>Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secret of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012 by C. Barrios</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Barrios is a member of the Guatemalan Elders Council and a Mayan Priest. He writes of his experiences with two Mayan leaders: Don Pascual - a leader of the Eagle clan and Don Isidro - a Mayan ruler. According to Barrios, 2012 is the beginning of a change of consciousness, a time when peace and harmony can exist during this next stage of evolution. The Mayan view is that we have forgotten what is most important in our lives: to balance the material and spiritual.]]></description>
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<title>The Mayas and the Significance of 2012</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:00:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As we approach 2012, we care about the Mayas because 1) they predicted that the sunrise of the solstice sun on December 21, 2012 marks the end of a cycle of precession at which time an alignment of the Sun and the center of the Milky Way occurs; this happens only every 26,000 years, and 2) their Long Count calendar ends on that same date, which some people interpret as the end of the world; the Mayas, however, did not predict such an ending. Precession and the Long Count Precession...]]></description>
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<title>Jesus Potter Harry Christ: The Fascinating Parallels Between Two Literary Figures by Derek Murphy</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:11:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The author spends more time promoting the facts of Jesus as a literary figure than discussing Harry Potter, but he clearly makes his point. Both Jesus Christ and Harry Potter had miraculous births, childhood miracles, and miraculous powers; battled with evil; were sacrificed in death with a rebirth or resurrection; and dealt with the symbolism of seven, Jesus in the Seven Seals of the Book of Revelation and Harry with his seven magical tasks in Books 6 and 7.]]></description>
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<title>Healing Through the Akashic Records by Linda Howe</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:33:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is as important a book to read as Howe's first book How To Read the Akashic Records. While her discussion on healing sacred wounds is important, I will focus my comments on the three main keys she suggests in the last part of her book: Gratitude, Grace and Generosity.]]></description>
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<title>The Superbeings by John Randall Price</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:59:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Price suggests we are here as humans for one purpose: to find our way back to God. He provides ways to do this. This is a classic in the spirituality/metaphysical library, a book as relevant today as when it was published in 1981. I continue to be amazed, and I guess I shouldn't, that we knew so much over 20 years ago. While new information comes to light each year, and we find new tools to help, there is a validity and truth in this book.]]></description>
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<title>Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth by Patrick Harpur</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:50:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ambiguity is the real story here. Alchemy's history is provided, but what I most responded to was the entrance into a world where nothing is as it seems, where all is uncertain and unclear. The "marriage of heaven and earth" relates to the union of the above and below, as in the universal, "As above, so below."]]></description>
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<title>Entangled: The Eaters of Souls by Graham Hancock</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:33:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a bloody and brutal story but exciting. Two main female characters' lives are intertwined - Leoni in the 21st century and Ria in prehistoric Spain of 24,000 years ago. As Leoni experiments with drugs, she is drawn into the world of Ria who is fighting for her life and that of her tribe. Enter the world of other dimensions and of one's of one's past.]]></description>
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<title>Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:32:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this book, Hancock is asking us to see with different eyes. From cave art to fairies to shamanic activities to UFOs, he presents an intriguing possibility that other dimensions may exist and that the beings encountered are, as suggested in his subtitle, not physical beings but ancient teachers helping in our spiritual evolution.]]></description>
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<title>Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:01:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What if there were civilizations much earlier than any previously recorded, ones preceding the flooding and before the Ice Age melt down. Hancock discusses the current history of human civilizations, but he also provides much evidence to show that new discoveries may deviate from the standard accepted facts.]]></description>
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<title>The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy for Mankind by Graham Hancock and R Bauval</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:43:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is the message of the Sphinx? The statue remains a mystery, but a puzzle with new insights. Is the statue older than the conventional wisdom of about 2500 BCE? Could it have been gazing at the sky as early as 10,500 BCE, which was the time of the Age of Leo and when the statue faced directly east at the constellation of Leo and when the pyramids of Giza form a precise map of the three stars in Orion's Belt?]]></description>
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<title>One: Enhancing Life and Illuminating Your Spirit by Kimble Greene, PhD</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:16:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Greene also presents a mental health aspect that I found intriguing, and new to me - the idea that defensive mechanisms in a young child, or an adult, may be healthy ones providing a positive way of dealing with a trauma in life. Isn't it interesting that, in many arenas, old ideas have value?]]></description>
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<title>The Children of the Law of One and The Lost Teachings of Atlantis by Jon Peniel</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:02:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is a Spiritual Path? A spiritual path leads to Universal Consciousness and Unselfish Love and has a spiritual, not material, focus.]]></description>
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<title>Advanced Energy Anatomy by Caroline Myss</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:48:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Caroline Myss is a great storyteller, irreverent with no sympathy for those who wallow in self-pity. Perhaps we can listen to her advice that forces us to see ourselves and our lives clearly with no excuses.]]></description>
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<title>The Shack by William P Young</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:31:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The story is riveting in parts but, despite my strong spiritual leaning, I thought the personification of God as a character named "Papa" was overly sentimental, inappropriate and hard to believe, even in a novel. The main character is a man whose daughter is kidnapped by a serial killer and relays his journey coming to terms with that horrific loss.]]></description>
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<title>Walking Through Walls: A Memoir by Philip Smith</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:35:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Philip Smith's father, Lew Smith, was a healer and psychic in Miami in the 1980s. This memoir reminds us of some of the unusual activities that happen to real people. Among other things, Lew Smith healed people using techniques that he developed, often using the pendulum. We forget how many very talented people exist with such unusual healing and otherworldly abilities.]]></description>
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<title>Journey of the White Robes: An Aquarian Adventure by Fred Jenning Rogers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:22:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is story of visiting other dimensions by a young couple who is being trained to help back on earth. They learn to orb and travel, assuming any shape while becoming comfortable on other levels.]]></description>
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<title>Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:05:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I read this book because I was interested in the Olmecs in Central American, who were the forerunners of the Maya and Aztec. There is evidence that this tribe, in fact, had the calendar of the Long Count before the Mayans, but there is no evidence that either of these peoples were sophisticated enough to have invented this calendar with the technical knowledge required. This calendar that predicts the world to end in 2012 is, obviously, receiving a great deal of attention today. I expect we will get closer to the truth of the message, which is probably not foretelling the end of the world.]]></description>
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<title>Initiation by Elizabeth Haich - Remembering Priestess Initiations</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:57:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is an autobiographical novel, published in 1965, based on the life of Elizabeth Haich who was a well-known European yoga teacher. This is an account of her life in this century interspersed with her recollections of her life as a young priestess in Egypt.]]></description>
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<title>The Tenth Insight - Holding the Vision by James Redfield</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:26:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this sequel to his novel, The Celestine Prophecy in which he presents 9 insights, Redfield suggests that we need to visualize the future we want; then we can know what to pray for, what to expect. We have the choice to see the world crumbling, or we can see the future of us progressing. ]]></description>
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<title>The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield - Another Look at This Classic</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:07:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why revisit a novel published in 1993? Because the message only gets stronger in time. I'm amazed as I reread this book how much I have forgotten that was so influential. Part of the message is that we are always running in search of new material when, in fact, we have most of what we need already in our minds, and/or in our libraries to help remind us.]]></description>
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<title>The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4365518</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 16:40:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gladwell states that ideas products, messages and behavior spread like viruses do - as epidemics. He poses three agents of change.]]></description>
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<title>The Real Or the Ideal - Where Should We Place Our Focus in the Quest For Spirituality?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:52:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We know we are body, mind and spirit. Part of accepting balance in our lives is accepting all three without negating any one part. We strive for improvement. We work out to get our bodies in shape. We read self-help and inspirational books to develop emotionally and mentally. The same caution applies to our quest for spirituality.]]></description>
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<title>What is Another View of Sex Attraction?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 09:21:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On the physical level, sex attraction refers to the sexual activity of a male and female. On the mental level, however, this refers to the activity of the masculine and feminine within in order to create. Sex attraction is the coming together of the male and female.]]></description>
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<title>The Polarity in Our Lives - How to Find the Control</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:19:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is polarity in our lives, the world and the universe. Everything has an opposite. This is the rule of existence. The two opposites are an aspect of the same thing; they are not separate or distinct. We have control in our lives and in the world. That power is in our balance.]]></description>
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<title>What Can We Know About Our Evolutionary Leap?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:22:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are we currently experiencing the beginning of our next evolutionary step? Is there something further for us to do?]]></description>
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<title>The RA Material - An Ancient Astronaut Speaks by D Elkins, C Rueckert and JA McCarty, Part II</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:14:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the things I was reminded when I reread this book, published in 1984, is that we continue to have so much fear about beings from other dimensions, other planes and/or other planets. While there are some negative entities out there, why is it so hard for us to believe that we are being helped? Why is it so hard for us to believe in a kindly God but not one who supplies others to assist our growth? Why is it so hard for us to let go of the feeling that this is the only reality?]]></description>
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<title>The RA Material - An Ancient Astronaut Speaks by D Elkins, C Rueckert and J A McCarty</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 10:43:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the significant concepts in this book is that we have two main choices in life. We are here to choose service to self or service to others. This is the Law of One that is discussed throughout the work. As humans, we have free will, leaving us the decision. All options are honored, without judgment. The positive alternative, however, is service to others.]]></description>
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<title>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - A Spiritual View</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 17:22:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This novel was popular in the 60 and 70s. I loved it then and I love it just as much now. Funny, but what we knew in our 20s was a surprising wisdom. Sure, we tend to be smarter as the years go on, but when it comes to knowing who we are and what is really important, we knew much in our 20s. Maybe it is time to remember.]]></description>
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<title>Deer Hunting With Jesus - Dispatches From America's Class War by Joe Bageant</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:28:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An eye-catching title with a message, Bageant's book claims that many liberals, especially those on the east and west coasts, do not understand "beer-loving, Nascar-loving, church-going, gun-owning" Americans. Urban America: meet your working-class heartland neighbors.]]></description>
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<title>The Physics of Miracles - Tapping Into the Field of Consciousness Potential by R Bartlett, DC, ND</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 11:46:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bartlett teaches Matrix Energetics, showing people how to heal by reading the energies of others. His book, however, discusses the larger issue of understanding that we can have anything we want in life as soon as we stop controlling. If we let go and allow the right things to happen, they will. The heart, not head, should be in charge. He discusses the need for "knowing," not "thinking" to be the main activity. Ask, and the answers will appear.]]></description>
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<title>What to Do When You Can't Decide - Useful Tools For Finding the Answers Within by Meg Lundstrom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 07:56:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This book describes divining, which is asking for and receiving guidance. There are three practical and easy tools that can be used by anyone: kinesiology, the pendulum, and the chits. Each of these is a way to tap into the universal knowledge or databank.]]></description>
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<title>7 Spiritual Lessons I Learned</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:03:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is not the only reality. This world and death are not the only options.]]></description>
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<title>Live More and Consume Less</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:43:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Now is the time to define ourselves. Now is the time to figure out our purpose and what we want our future to look like. Now is the time to ask: What is right with our lives? What must we change?]]></description>
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<title>Forbidden Religion - Suppressed Heresies of the West - Edited by J Douglas Kenyon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:54:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This book is a collection of articles on a variety of topics such as resurrection, astrological implications of the Star of Bethlehem, the Templars, and Newton and the Bible. Many of the articles discuss extreme views, but others reinforce current research. ]]></description>
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<title>First Things First by Stephen Covey, Merrill and Merrill - Remember This One</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This book includes significant information about communicating with others. Dealing with people is not a new art; the basics have been around for a long time. One idea in particular, Covey's three-step communication process, deserves another look as we remember what we need to do to get along better with others.]]></description>
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<title>What is Sacred Activism and How Do We Do It?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:14:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sacred Activism is the combining of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice to help and nurture every living thing. It is not enough to feel the presence of God, or whatever name one calls our Creator; we must act on that feeling. It is not enough to protest in the world; we must temper that with the inner peace of God.]]></description>
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<title>Learning to Trust Others Again - Listening is the First Step in This Spiritual Quest</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 08:57:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all have seemingly valid reasons to distrust certain, if not most, other individuals. No discussion is going to convince someone to all of a sudden start trusting another. There needs to be some way for us to begin this process. Trusting others, as in trusting oneself, must start with acceptance. Accepting others can only happen if we understand them. How do we practice our spirituality in light of strongly-held differing beliefs?]]></description>
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<title>Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse - Time to Read This Classic Again</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 11:56:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I am amazed how powerful this work is for me today, 30 years after I originally read it. Steppenwolf speaks to our duality, that part of us we call "human" and the part the novel describes as "wolf," or the shadow side we try to hide. But, as the book suggests, we are more than these two limitations.]]></description>
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<title>Lessons From Our Prisons - Accept Your Shadow Side</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:35:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We have to pay the price for our transgressions, whether it be the small price of a fine or a reprimand, or a large price of years in prison. That is the free choice we have in this country. We must accept that we all make mistakes, many minor ones and some major. We must be responsible for these actions. We think that if we lock away the "bad guys," our own "bad side" won't appear.]]></description>
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<title>The Last Place on Earth - Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole by Roland Huntford</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:16:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An English naval officer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and a Norwegian former medical doctor, Roald Amundsen, each hoped to be the first man to reach the South Pole. They left their respective countries in 1910. The significance of this story is not who succeeded, but how and why the race was won. ]]></description>
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<title>3 Steps to Reach a Spiritual State of Awareness</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:57:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Feeling at one with Universe and knowing that one is not separate but a part of all describe a State of Awareness. This is being surrounded by and encompassed in love, that feeling of connecting with the Divine. Three steps can help us achieve this goal.]]></description>
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<title>Three Simple Steps to Solve Our Daily and Our Larger Problems</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:02:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How can we solve the small challenges in our daily lives while not ignoring larger problems in our nation and the world? The answers are surprisingly simple and involve a higher, or spiritual, view of life as well as a more detailed one:]]></description>
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<title>Simple Tools to Assist in Learning and Remembering New Spiritual Material</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:08:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether we are learning at work, at school, or on our spiritual quest, common understandings are important to acquiring new material. The more background information we have, the more easily we can assimilate new data. ]]></description>
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<title>What is Your Best Way to Become More Connected to the Spiritual?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 15:14:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We each have a way that is easiest for us to process new information. Auditory learners prefer spoken words. Visual learners prefer written material or images, and kinesthetic learners prefer movement. This preference, however, is not how we create or become more contemplative. The sense, either visual, auditory or kinesthetic, that is our least strong one is the sense that helps us meditate and connect with our Source. Here is an easy way to determine that.]]></description>
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<title>5 Spiritual Powers - The Foundation of Real Happiness</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:35:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are five spiritual powers that provide for a happiness that transcends any external success. These five allow you to be happy in the present with an inner strength. The Powers are: The Power of Faith, the Power of Diligence, The Power of Mindfulness, The Power of Concentration, and the Power of Insight.]]></description>
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<title>The Wonder of Boys - What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys Into Men by M Gurian</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 09:57:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One reason that women and men do not always talk and act the same is that our brains operate differently. The distinction is in the function of the left and right brain, but it is not as simple as the left brain being masculine and the right brain being feminine.]]></description>
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<title>What Are the Akashic Records and What Do They Do?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:29:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Akashic Records are a universal storage area of our life's events. They include all past lives, all present lifetime experiences, including the past, present and future, and all future incarnations. Accessing this Hall of Records is possible. There are two ways to do this: use a trained Reader to open your Records or learn to access the Records yourself.]]></description>
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<title>Power Vs Force - The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R Hawkins, MD, PhD</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:16:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hawkins' convincing research on kinesiology and his calibrated scale serve to reinforce the larger message of using power, not force in our lives. He describes force as that which is experienced through our senses, while power is recognized internally. Inner awareness is the answer. The world relies on force in the form of war, taxation, rules and regulations. Kinesiology provides a tool to transcend the use of force and focus on inner power.]]></description>
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<title>The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 08:52:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Power is usually viewed by society as money, fame, political clout, and other external successes. Thich Nhat Hanh suggests a great power, one in which we are happy in the moment without worry, fear or any other negative emotion.]]></description>
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<title>Finding That Divine Spark Within - Creativity and Spirituality</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:05:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too often we think of creativity as the same thing as genius. Creativity, unlike genius, can be encouraged, and a process can be taught. We are all creative. We are not all geniuses. Creativity involves a new way of looking at old information, a way of connecting with our spirituality.]]></description>
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<title>Three Keys to Successful Spiritual Relationships</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:02:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In our spiritual growth, we strive to improve our personal relationships, a component of our spirituality. There are three keys to successful spiritual relationships: A Strong Foundation Takes Time, Relationships Require Attention, and Value is Exchanged in Relationships. ]]></description>
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<title>The Power of Four - Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse By Joseph M Marshall III</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:15:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I love this small book of four powerful leadership teachings. While "Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse" may seem, initially, as less than appropriate, read on. Yes, Crazy Horse was one of the Indian military leaders that helped defeat Custer at Little Bighorn in 1876. But he was also an "inspirational and effective leader." What is surprising is that his lessons are just as useful today.]]></description>
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<title>The Voice of the Pyramid - A Blueprint For the Coming Age by Cathy Evans</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:09:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Evans message may be summed up as recognizing the balance of the masculine and feminine. Yet this is a simple statement of her more complex views. She talks about the importance of the masculine in our world and not dismissing that as we acknowledge the feminine.]]></description>
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<title>Eyes Wide Open - Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path by Mariana Caplan, PhD</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:14:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are two significant points to this book: 1) the importance of dealing with the psychological as well as spiritual aspects of our lives and 2) the need, or not, of having a spiritual teacher. There are two significant points to this book: 1) the importance of dealing with the psychological as well as spiritual aspects of our lives and 2) the need, or not, of having a spiritual teacher. We cannot ignore our psychological hang-ups.]]></description>
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<title>Beyond the Pyramids - Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:22:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I read this book just after I read Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, not realizing the close connection of some of the material. I assume Brown knew of Knight and Butler's research, since they mention that he used some of their work in his previous novel, The Da Vinci Code. Whether he did or not does not detract from either work, nor is the focus the same. What is striking, however, are the similarities of both books seeing the importance of Washington DC and some of the buildings within that city.]]></description>
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<title>The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:18:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is an exciting read, a hard-to-put-down book that I enjoyed even more than Brown's previous novel, The Da Vinci Code. There is one significant aspect, however, that transcends the intrigue of the story. The research that one of the characters is doing is more important than the tale itself. This is the practical spiritual message of the book.]]></description>
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<title>3 Spiritual Rules to Live By - Fear Not, Judge Not, Resist Not</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:52:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Think about life. What if we had no fear of the future, no judgment about others or ourselves, and no resistance to new experiences. Wouldn't that be a great world?]]></description>
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<title>Death, Suicide and Spirituality</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:08:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When life runs smoothly it is easy to avoid dealing with spirituality. When life falls apart, it is impossible to do so. Something occurred that further forced me to question life and search for new answers. Years ago, my 23 year old niece tried to kill herself and was in a coma at the hospital with little chance of survival. She died two days later.]]></description>
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<title>A Spiritual Aspect to the Chaos Theory - How it Affects Our Lives</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3024737</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:16:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is exciting to be living in a time of transition and experiencing many significant changes firsthand. This is true in our spiritual lives, as well as in other aspects of our lives. One such innovation is the Chaos Theory, which is still being defined. The gap between science and spirituality is closing as new information, such as this Theory, is discovered.]]></description>
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<title>A Night in Jail - Part of a Personal, Spiritual Journey</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3018279</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:49:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One aspect of my spiritual growth occurred in an unlikely place. Not everyone has a dramatic or traumatic event, but many of us experience a negative occurrence that forces us to reevaluate our lives and recommit to a spiritual path. Mine was a conviction and night in jail.]]></description>
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<title>What is Your Practical Spiritual Trust Factor?</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2980724</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:15:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eight basic values determine our spiritual lives: Compassion, Unity, Truthfulness, Fairness, Tolerance, Responsibility, Respect, and Service. These are the common principles taught by most religions and spiritual paths. These same principles define trust. The concepts are not new. Many of us just lost track of them as we find ourselves in a complex and confusing world.
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<title>Are You an Entrepreneurial Spirit? Take the Quiz and Find Out</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:15:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurial refers to more than just starting one's own business. The term also means taking control of life by making ideas happen. An entrepreneurial spirit is a person who is spiritually independent and not locked into any one set of dogmatic beliefs. An entrepreneurial spirit is a person who recognizes the importance of creating a better spiritual life.]]></description>
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<title>The Eight Values That Define Our Spiritual Lives</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:01:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What defines "you?" What are those ideals or values most important in your life? Are they things such as honesty, loyalty and/or respect for others? We know not to lie, steal or cheat, but what other values do we honor? Eight concepts define our ethical and spiritual beliefs: Compassion, Unity, Truthfulness, Fairness, Tolerance, Respect, and Service.]]></description>
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<title>Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh - A New Spiritual Look From an Old Favorite Book</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:50:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lindbergh has a quiet determination in her writing. Perhaps this helps explain how she survived being the wife of the world's famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh, and the kidnapping and death of her son. She focuses on creativity and women, solitude, and relationships. Her words remind me of the wisdom of my Mom's generation. We can learn much from our elders if we are willing to listen.]]></description>
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<title>How to Read the Akashic Records - Accessing the Archive of the Soul and Its Journey by Linda Howe</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:34:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I think of the Akashic Records as the "universal library in the sky" or the record of all of our past, present, and future selves. A new book, How To Read the Akashic Records: Accessing The Archive of The Soul and It's Journey by Linda Howe explains that the Records contain, "everything that every soul has ever thought, said and done over the course of existence, as well as its future possibilities." I love her analogy of the Records being the "cosmic internet" and we can "Google" specific information from them.]]></description>
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<title>Living Spiritually and Trusting Abundance in Our Lives and in the World - A New View</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2803881</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2803881</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:29:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Living spiritually is accepting abundance. A review of our financial system clarifies this belief. While books such as The Secret talk of attracting what we want, here is a view reflecting a practical spirituality that looks at the current material reality.]]></description>
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<title>Mouches Volantes by Floco Tausin - Eye Floaters As Shining Structure of Consciousness</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reminiscent of Carlos Castenada's The Teachings of Don Juan, Mary Summer Rain's No Eyes and Lynn Andrews' Medicine Woman, this book is based on a true story. The author refers to the "shining structure of consciousness," or the altered states of consciousness, the idea that there is a connection between eye floaters and another reality. Even if one has never experienced eye floaters, the book provides the challenge of balancing the physical world with another perception.]]></description>
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<title>Origins of the Seven Cosmic Principles</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 11:18:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are Seven Cosmic Principles that can be traced back to the beginning of known time, to the earliest philosophies and beliefs. These reflect ideas from the Hermetists of Alexandria, Plato, the Gnostics, ancient Greeks, ancient Egyptians, and the Sumerians, among others.]]></description>
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<title>A Memorial Day, and Every Other Day, Pledge</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2367315</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2367315</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 15:46:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too often when we protest war, we forget to honor the brave men and women who are fighting for our country. They are doing their job. They are not responsible for the actions of the war itself. On a larger scale, I am worried that we don't understand the Universal Law that Everything is Connected and that the war, and all that we do, influences us.]]></description>
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<title>Practical Spirituality in the Current Chaos of the Financial Markets</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2313413</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2313413</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 13:09:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have been fascinated with the workings of the market since I was a stock broker in the "penny stocks" in Denver in the 1980s. Now I view the market from a more spiritual perspective, but this is a practical spirituality that recognizes the need for an understanding of the financial world. I recently read an article in the Washington Post that reminds us that everything in life is connected, which relates to the current problems in the stock market and the banks.]]></description>
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<title>Still Alice by Lisa Genova - A Novel About Alzheimer's Disease</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2283092</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:13:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I continue to search for books on the spiritual aspect of Alzheimer's Disease since my mother suffers from the malady. This is the best novel I have read on the subject; most of what I read is nonfiction. Written from the perspective of a women diagnosed with early Alzheimer's, the story shows the emotional toll on the patient and the family. Alice, a college professor, tries to keep some control of her life as she finds her memory slipping away.]]></description>
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<title>Nothing Bad Happens Because Only the Right Events Occur in Our Lives</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2197926</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:23:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is a reason for everything. Nothing "bad" happens; only the "right" things occur in the world and in our lives. As difficult as that is to accept at times, this is the rule. This is life. This is what we learn from spiritual concepts.]]></description>
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<title>The Development by John Barth</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:29:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At first, this doesn't seem like a spiritual work, yet the stories remind me that great authors pose spiritual questions. John Barth doesn't disappoint; he questions our right to choose when we want to die, even if we're not ill.]]></description>
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<title>The Freedom of Our Limitations - An Aspect of Our Practical Spirituality</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2100811</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2100811</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:38:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our lives have a pattern with limits. That pattern is a circle. Think of the death and rebirth cycles of nature and history. Seasons occur each year; nations rise and fall; and civilizations flourish and vanish. There is movement or growth within the patterns, however. We progress physically, mentally and spiritually; that is part of our practical spirituality.]]></description>
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<title>Our Lives Have a Pattern and Rhythm - Within Those Confines, We Can Accomplish Whatever We Choose</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2077414</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2077414</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:05:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The universe, the world, our bodies and our lives are in constant motion, yet that motion is not random. We move in a pattern or rhythm, which provides comfort to the idea of constant change. This is part of understanding a practical spirituality, one aspect of which is knowing that the universe is an orderly place.]]></description>
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<title>Spiritual Journaling - Three Books to Assist Your Quest</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:48:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remembering who we are is important, especially in times when we may be losing many of our possessions or assets that we thought defined us. They don't. We need to know, however, what it is that identifies us. Writing a personal spiritual journal, or a personal memoir, may help.]]></description>
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<title>Will a Spiritual Approach Help Create a Better Future?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2033899</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2033899</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the 70s and then again prior to the turn of this new millennium, many people worried about "earth changes" and "end times" and prepared for survival, expecting a disastrous occurrence. While that hasn't happened, many still fear and project such an event. What if there is no terrible incident? We need to be open to any of the potential scenarios, some that we may not even be able to imagine. We need to define our spirituality to help us create a different future.]]></description>
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<title>The End of Days - Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return by Zecharia Sitchin</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2023925</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:04:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When will the "end of days" occur? Sitchin does not believe it is 2012, the common end date of the Mayan Calendar. His information supports a return before the end of the Age of Pisces. As he points out, however, that might be any time now or it may be hundreds of years away, depending on the data one uses. What is important is that we begin to delve into the ancient past and see our origins, our world, and our universe differently.]]></description>
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<title>Practical Spirituality - Change Our Thoughts to Change Our Lives</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2024089</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2024089</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:49:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A practical spirituality teaches us that we can't cling to old ideas or patterns that are no longer useful or positive. We can think better thoughts. We can think higher thoughts. This will change our lives.]]></description>
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<title>Return to the Sacred - Ancient Pathways to Spiritual Awakening by Jonathan H Ellerby, PhD</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2009697</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:32:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In his insistence that we have a spiritual practice, Dr. Ellerby is not dogmatic about how that practice should look. He simply advises that we choose a path that is right for us. Permission to choose is comforting and part of a practical spirituality that deviates from traditional dogma. This flexibility does not justify lack of action, but allows us to define our own way to the Sacred.]]></description>
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<title>Return to the Sacred - Ancient Pathways to Spiritual Awakening by Jonathan H Ellerby, PhD -  Part II</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2009720</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:54:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of my review of Return to the Sacred: Ancient Pathways to Spiritual Awakening by Jonathan Ellerby. In an earlier ezine article, I commented on Dr. Ellerby's belief that a spiritual practice is necessary for spiritual growth. He presents 12 Master Paths, or different types of spiritual practices. Each has an ancient past, and while most are known to us in some form, his clear presentation and grouping of them is unique.]]></description>
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<title>We Are Connected to the World and Each Other - We Are All One</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1986624</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1986624</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:47:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What if we realized that no matter how down we felt, we were assured that we are not alone, not separate, not all by ourselves, but part of something larger? While that might not provide any immediate or definable solace, the idea promotes a long term sense of security, a sense that whatever happens, we are never disconnected. We are never really alone.]]></description>
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<title>Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1986686</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:32:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I write about spiritual books, or books that provide a connection to the divine without being religious. I find spirituality in Erdrich's characters: in the commitment to themselves, to each other, and to the returning home to their past. This is a practical spirituality, a belief in something greater than ourselves. Spirituality is not about naming a God or a Higher Being; it is living as if such an entity or belief exists and matters.]]></description>
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<title>Is it Time to Revise Our Definition of God to Include a More Encompassing View?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:25:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Perhaps we believe in God even if, or because, our definition and understanding of that entity have changed. Perhaps it is time to evolve from the controlling view of a Supreme Power to a more encompassing, integral God that represents everything.]]></description>
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<title>What is Spirituality? A Common Experience With Different Views and Beliefs</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:06:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Body, mind and spirit. We are a combination of all three. Spirituality, or the study of that third aspect of our lives, is all-inclusive and not limited to any one set of beliefs. Spirituality includes all religions, religious views and spiritual beliefs.]]></description>
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<title>The Biology of Belief - Unleashing the Power of Consciousness by Bruce H Lipton</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:58:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We know the world is energy. Now, science is beginning to prove that we can use positive thinking to change our lives. Enter the new world that science is opening up. Dr. Lipton explains that in addition to DNA passing on hereditary traits, the environment also modifies our genes. Imagine the implications of this information: nutrition, emotions, and stress influence our cells and our lives.]]></description>
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<title>On God - An Uncommon Conversation By Norman Mailer With Michael Lennon</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:03:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Norman Mailer, in his last book before his death, discusses his views on Spirituality. He suggests that God as the Creator is still evolving, just as we are. He believes that as humans, we are "not finished," as if we were a story being written. He makes the concept of "Creator" real, as an artist molding his creations as He Himself changes.]]></description>
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<title>The Mayan Code - Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind by Barbara Hand Clow</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:38:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clow believes that earth was quarantined from the rest of the Universe after 9500 BCE. She sees the end of the Mayan calendar as the end of that quarantine, not as destruction. She discusses the time accelertion as a quickening of the energy we have felt since 1998. She is optimistic about our future, if we can clear out our old toxins.]]></description>
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<title>The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:51:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a spiritual/metaphysical classic book that deserves to be reread. The volume is a treasure of many of the ideas we have read before but need to hear again. If you have not read Vernon Howard before, choose this as a beginning primer into your spiritual search.]]></description>
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<title>Spiritual Quest - Top Seven Books to Guide You in 2009</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:09:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remember that we are body, mind and spirit. We exercise our body and develop our mind, but what are we doing for our spirit? If you are looking for direction for you spirit in 2009, here are seven books to assist.]]></description>
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<title>Seven Spiritual Principles That Shape Our Lives</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:41:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What if there were seven spiritual principles that encompassed all religions, had ancient origins, were readily available and became simple steps toward a personal spiritual answer? Might they provide a greater sense of security, encourage peace of mind and make us happier?]]></description>
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<title>No More Words - A Journal of My Mother Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:23:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone caring for with an aging parent knows the emotion and challenge of that task. Reeve Lindbergh, whose mother is Anne Morrow Lindbergh, shares the loving and sad journey of her mother's decline, providing an inspiration for all of us.]]></description>
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<title>The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:45:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chopra states, "When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities...This is 'synchrodensity,' in which it becomes possible to achieve the spontaneous fulfillment of our every desire." To achieve his synchrodensity, we must go inward to tap the deep recesses of our spirit as well as outward to accept the coincidences of the physical world.]]></description>
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