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2012



Does Spiritual Knowledge Lead to Happiness?

I often travel beyond the veil during meditation to meet my spirit friends. He-who-answers-my-questions is one of these friends. During a recent meditation, I found myself sitting with he-who-answers on the rooftop terrace of his magnificent sandstone home. As always, I wanted to discuss something with him...


What Is My Life Purpose?: An Encounter With the Spirit Being Who Answers My Questions

I met the spirit being who-answers-my-questions for the first time during meditation in December 2011. That first encounter was unexpected, and I don't recall what he and I discussed. But I have met him in meditation several times since. And each time, we meet, he answers any questions I may have...


Spirit Quest's Third Anniversary: Your Spiritual Growth

Spirit Quest celebrated its third anniversary as a spiritual discussion group when we met on January 11, 2012. At this meeting, we reviewed our activities during 2011. In addition, we discussed our spiritual progress as individuals during the year...


How a Spirit Guide Helped Me Deal With Depression

"You already know the origin of your unhappiness and depression, don't you?" he asked. "No I don't," I protested, looking directly at him. "I don't know where it comes from. It just overwhelms me."



2011


How I Experienced Divine Grace During Meditation

For me, visualization meditation has become an essential spiritual practice. Recently in such a meditation, I found myself standing on a hillside. Thousands of other souls stood there with me. We were waiting, quietly, blissfully, in anticipation...

An Encounter  With Two New Spirit Friends On "The Other Side"

Lately I’ve been wondering why Spirit would wish to speak to me. So I decided to go to “the other side” to ask about this in a recent meditation.



Why in Heaven's Name Would Spirit Want to Talk to Us?

Why, you may wonder, would Spirit have any reason or desire to talk to us? After all, we are mere mortals, aren’t we?
 Recently, I have been wondering about this. So I have discussed it with my spirit guides in my journeys to “the other side” during meditation. Here is what I have learned...


The Veil That Separates Us From the Spirit Realms

We can benefit enormously when we are able to penetrate the veil separating us from Spirit. Here are some of the specific ways we can benefit
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How I Learned About My Job in Heaven

Today I did workbook lesson 199 of A Course in Miracles. This lesson says: "I am not a body. I am free." Inspired by the lesson, I decided to take it with me into meditation in order to discuss it with my spirit guide. Little did I know what I would learn...

The Spiritual Significance of Panama

Panama has always been a financial and commercial vortex. But within the past five or six years it has become a spiritual vortex as well...


How A Course in Miracles Changed My Spiritual View of the World

I don’t know when I first heard of A Course in Miracles. I do know that I purchased the book in March 2009 because I wrote the date inside the cover...


How to Overcome the Ego's Demands and Achieve Spiritual Growth

Wouldn't you like to overcome the ego's grip on you in order to accelerate your spiritual growth in this lifetime? You can, according to Dr. David R. Hawkins.


Ten Things I Learned at the Spiritual Awakening Conference

I recently attended the 2011 Spiritual Awakening Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I have attended many similar conferences. As always, I learned a lot during this weekend event. But I also had more fun than ever! It was an experience that was both uplifting and joyous.


Do You Want to Change the World and Your Life?

Politics. War. Conspiracy theories. Terrorism. Global catastrophes. Collapsing financial systems. Crime. Disease. Environmental destruction. Violence in every form... Isn’t it astounding how many people still enjoy thinking and talking about these kinds of negative things?!...


What Am I? What Are We?

I am on a spiritual journey through the physical universe. So are you. On this journey of many lifetimes, I have finally discovered what I really am...



The Nine Insights -- A Path to Spiritual Awakening

At a recent Spirit Quest meeting, we discussed the nine insights presented to us in The Celestine Prophecy. This best-selling book by James Redfield tells us that we will soon experience a global spiritual awakening. The nine insights explain how this awakening will happen...


It's Time to Awaken From Our Spiritual Sleep!

How long have we been spiritually asleep? Probably since the so-called "fall of man." Now it's time to awaken...


We Are Multidimensional Spiritual Beings!

Most people still believe we are physical bodies. But for me, the truth is this...



What Do We Do in Heaven?

Have you ever wondered what we do on the other side of the veil in that place often called Heaven? I certainly have...


Why Are We Here in Earth School?

Have you ever asked yourself: Why am I here? Why did I choose to return to earth school once again? Here’s an answer that resonates with me...



2010


Have You Ever Had a Spiritual Experience?

A spiritual experience almost always precipitates an increase in our level of consciousness and a lifelong desire for further spiritual growth.



Are You a Spiritual Seeker Like Me?

Do you ever wonder why some of us become spiritual seekers, while the rest of humanity continues to languish in darkness?



Why is Time Accelerating?

Time, it seems to me, is accelerating. And this apparent acceleration of time has been having a profound impact on us.


The Ten Most Important Things I've Learned on My Spiritual Journey This Year

My spiritual awakening began in the year 2000. Since then, I have learned incredible things every year. This year has been no exception. Here are the ten most important things I've learned on my spiritual journey in 2010...


Where is My Real Home?

I am, and always will be, just a simple country boy from the hills of Pennsylvania. Certainly it's as close as I can get to Heaven while still here on earth. But is Pennsylvania my real home?


What is a Mystic?

Many people still think that a mystic is someone who engages in occult practices, renounces the world, and goes to live alone on a mountaintop. But you could be a mystic. I could be. What qualifies us as mystics? Or mystics-to-be?


The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

In his book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra says that even if we achieve material success in life, we may still remain unfulfilled unless we also nurture the divinity within us. This is so because, in reality, we are divine beings who have disguised ourselves as human beings.


What is ACIM?

A Course in Miracles is a unique, spiritual curriculum designed to gently help you remember what you really are and what the true nature is of your relationship with God.



The Teachings of A Course in Miracles

Ten years ago, in the year 2000, I experienced an awakening which launched me on a quest for spiritual knowledge and wisdom. And now, my participation in an ACIM study group and learning the teachings contained in ACIM have brought me a profound sense of joy and bliss.



2008


Practical Spirituality

Some people might argue that spirituality is "airy-fairy" and not very practical. I disagree completely.