Topic: Magick & Spirituality

"Taking life personally is the ego dancing with Maya - a dance of shadows, unaware of their true nature. It's extremely difficult, maybe impossible, for the ego to fathom this, because the ego imagines itself as real. That is its nature. However, in reality it is at one with Maya and is an illusory identity."

"It's Not Personal, Really"
or Beyond the Walls of the Individual and Collective Personality

by Michael the LightLounge Guy

"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end." Marcus Fabius Quintilian (35 CE -100 CE)

Marcus Quintilian was born about 600 years after the Buddha, but he came to the same conclusion as the Enlightened One. Buddha said it a little differently — that all forms pass — but the meaning is the same. Until recently, most people agreed with this, except they thought that the stars and the soul were eternal. Now we know that stars are born, live, and die just like the rest of us. Whether the soul is eternal is still debatable.

Readers report enhanced intuition, release of limiting beliefs and increased feelings of well-being - just from reading the visionary, Nautilus and IPPY award-winning thriller "Mystic Warrior: A Novel Beyond Time and Space."

Mystic Warrior: A Novel Beyond Time and Space has been selected as a Silver Winner in the 2008 Nautilus Book Awards in the Fiction/Visionary Fiction - Adult category, and has moved to the final round, where the Gold Winner will be selected.

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After the Spanich Conquest, the Spaniards tried to suppress cultivation of sunflowers because of their association with solar religion and warfare.

Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived, according to a team of researchers that includes Florida State University anthropologist Mary D. Pohl.

Born in India 2.600 years ago Buddhism was only noted by the West over the past century and as its ideas spread a new form of Buddhism, the West Buddhism, is emerging leading people to ask what these old ideas can offer to the western men and women of the 21st century.

Since 560 BC Buddhism, currently the faith of 400 million people, spread from India to Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and Japan, giving birth to new forms of Buddhism as it absorbed the local culture. But in the last century we are seeing a new move as Buddhism travels west. The so-called West Buddhism (or Western Buddhism) is taking shape as westerners abandon the prevailing ritual aspects of oriental Buddhism and shift the focus to its philosophical and ethical principles.

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Perhaps no Eastern concept is more important than the concept of "mindfulness." However, remaining mindful is not easy. Author Sue Patton Thoele offers suggestions to help keep you focused.

Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. Well-known mindfulness teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, defines it this way Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. I also like to think of mindfulness as the art of inhabiting your own life with kindness and acceptance.

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A former prosecutor will release his book that undermines religion's claims of any just god. Analyzing myths, the Bible, the Koran and Anglo-American law, Geoff J. Henley writes a critique of scripture and organized religion.

This May a former Texas prosecutor will release a book meant to shake the foundations of religion. Just as 9/11 has raised questions about Islam and science has challenged Creationism, Geoff J. Henley explains that he believes that common legal principles show no just God exists in Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Lawyer's Case for Disbelief in God.

The eye in the pyramid has been a part of our culture for so long that it's become a part of our collective unconscious. However, few of us know what it means.

If after watching one of Disney’s National Treasure films, you surfed the web for “hidden meanings in American symbols,” you might be shocked at what you found. Most other writers, beside myself, who are speculating on American symbolism say that the nefarious Illuminati-Mason Satan-worshipers are in control of world events. If you’ve seen their compelling slideshows where they flip through hundreds of corporate logos resembling the eye in the triangle over the pyramid, you can imagine how gullible people everywhere now believe America’s Founding Fathers were Satanists.

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Reverse of the Great Seal of the United States

"Dixon-Cooper reveals what every astrologer knows but none has ever dared say. (She) takes us on a seriously humorous ride through the land of truth and consequences. I highly recommend it." ~ Suzanne White

Friends on a Rotten Day explores the supportive, uproarious, and sometimes complex, relationships between girlfriends through an in-depth astrological analysis of each Sun sign. Dixon-Cooper shows readers what makes their friend tick on a soul level, revealing each friend's inner character, friendship style, love style (including what to do or not do if a pal picks a loser), and party style. She offers suggestions on the best gifts to buy your friend, how to calm her down, cheer her up, and return the unconditional support and love that she gives you. She teaches readers how to cope when a girlfriend is wired, weird, or just plain moody, and she helps them to identify the "frenemies" - those phony "friends" with a sign-by-sign description of backstabbing behaviors.

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According to Sean Bradley, many New Age healers could learn a valuable lesson from Jesus' words in the Bible - if only they'd listen.

How many times in our life have we been faced with the words, "Physician Heal Thyself?" Yes, these are challenging words for all who embrace truth, but none more so than the healer or holistic therapist who engages in spiritual healing or holistic therapies with their client groups.

We all love a good story about a boy and his dog, like "Old Yeller," and we certainly love a good good horse story, like "Black Beauty." Well, here's a dog story and a horse story - with a twist. It's also a ghost story. The writer swears it's true...

Growing up in the south int the U.S.thirty or more years ago I, like most all kids of that time and place, had a swing in the yard. The one I had was not a metal swing set, but was a true old rope swing hung from a tree branch. I spent a lot of time playing on that old swing and in the field behind our house, which had once been a horse pasture many years before we had moved there.