Today, this New Year’s Day, I’d like to get to the heart of things. I do so with a little bit of trepidation because this means revealing to the world how much of an optimistic and earnest fool I really am at heart and I know how much some of you hate that kind ofContinue reading “In 2014: Break Us Open With Love”
Category Archives: Blue is The Spirit
An Experience of Spiritual Awakening Eloquently Described
I subscribe to several online meditation sites, most of them associated with the Oneness movement, a spiritual group in India that is spearheaded by the spiritual teachers Amma and Bhagavan. Today, Patricia Keel, a former Unity minister and now a Oneness Awakening teacher, talked about her experience of awakening while she was doing a meditationContinue reading “An Experience of Spiritual Awakening Eloquently Described”
Happy Diwali
Tonight, it’s time to clean up the house and light a candle to welcome Diwali, the festival of lights. It helps to have colorful candy and to call your brother, too, as Diwali is a way to welcome luck and prosperity into your home, and also to bring harmony into your household. Traditionally, Diwali isContinue reading “Happy Diwali”
The Fifth Element: the Sanskrit Akasha, String Theory and The Higgs Boson
Years ago I began to realize that I didn’t have to be a lapsed Catholic. More accurately, I began to see that I wasn’t alone in my home-grown theory about what else might be out there in the Universe. It’s just that when you peer out that tiny slit of a window from the brickContinue reading “The Fifth Element: the Sanskrit Akasha, String Theory and The Higgs Boson”
Everything That Matters I Learned From My Tennis Instructor
I’m severely astigmatic, which goes a long way in explaining those traumatic adolescent experiments in sports that my teachers put me through. And I don’t mean just the usual traumatizing gym class so overplayed in teen movies, even though I had plenty of those teen-movie angst moments, like when my American peers thought to welcomeContinue reading “Everything That Matters I Learned From My Tennis Instructor”
Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior
What we are lacking, in a strict sense, is not consciousness. We know what the problems are; we know what would solve them; even in a narrowly technical sense, the solutions are ready to hand. But we have not had the sense or the will to implement them. The world has been more than happyContinue reading “Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior”
Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior
What we are lacking, in a strict sense, is not consciousness. We know what the problems are; we know what would solve them; even in a narrowly technical sense, the solutions are ready to hand. But we have not had the sense or the will to implement them. The world has been more than happyContinue reading “Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior”
The Dead Bring Flowers
Growing up in Italy I learned a lot of “remedies” for anything from the evil eye to attracting a good husband. My mother and grandmother had an interpretation for every event, minor or major, from throwing away a bloody rag without wrapping it properly first (the devil will come and eat it, and then youContinue reading “The Dead Bring Flowers”
Did You Say Witchcraft?
This isn’t in the usual style of my posts for this blog, but I saw this article today posted by a friend on FaceBook, and I just had to share what I think about this: A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds ofContinue reading “Did You Say Witchcraft?”
Make It Beautiful
So, I got a little morose today during yoga. It happens a lot to people: blockages. They start in your mind and move to your body. The reverse is also true. Usually, I feel really good after I do yoga but occasionally I feel like crying. This great emptiness opens inside me and there isContinue reading “Make It Beautiful”
Author | Laura Valeri 