The Pulse of Spirit

Yesterday, I gave a workshop at the Arise Music and Camping Festival with Ahva Lenay: Heart-Connected Relationships. We led a simple exercise in which one person told another that they were glad they were present. Some participants readily admitted that

For those of you who are not familiar with Martin Cecil, he led Sunrise Ranch and Emissaries of Divine Light from 1954 to his passing in 1988. For some of us, he was our teacher, our leader, and someone who

There have been periods of great creativity in the history of humankind. The Golden Age of Greece was a period of exploding creativity of all kinds—the emergence of democracy, of philosophy, of drama and the arts, science and architecture. Likewise

If we define ourselves merely as citizens of the world as we know it, we dumb ourselves down. We are not just citizens of the world around us. We are citizens of another world, another reality which we don’t fully

We are eternal Beings entering a field of space and time as we enter the field of human experience. We are doing it all the time. And yet for most human beings there’s so much cultural storytelling going on—so much

Do you consider yourself a patriot? A patriot of the United States, or whatever is your native country? I notice that the word has a masculine root. So perhaps you are a “matriot.” The word implies a sense of loyalty,

As you look out upon the world and consider all that’s transpiring, the world seems like a frightening place. Not that we should be frightened by it, but realistically speaking it has the ability to frighten people—and certainly it is

The Pope has called for a revolution of tenderness. The Dalai Lama, when asked about the remedy for the contempt that’s present in our politics across the globe, answered very simply: “Warm-heartedness.” It wasn’t a sophisticated answer, it wasn’t eloquent

What creates a thriving community? That community could be a family, an organization, a town or a nation. What are the core principles and ideas that allow a community, of whatever kind, to thrive? There is a fabulous interview of

Are you ready to change the world? I am. There’s so much going on in the world in which we live. This week the president of the United States backed out of the Paris Climate Accord and, in so doing,