The Evolution of Perception
Jason Gregory – The spiritual seeker and esoteric student travel through three planes of growth.
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The Mandala and the Tao: Imagining the Unimaginable
Peter Patrick Barreda – The mandala is a visual lesson in the ungraspable totality of reality; its inherent variability is the unattainable truth of the Tao.
How to Connect With Your Inner-Guide and Why it Matters
David James Lees – Never doubt that you have a powerful, creative, supremely wise and resourceful Inner-Guide within.
The 3 Lies That Block The Flow of Love
David James Lees – Love is your natural state of being. Love is the energy that is all around you. It is the vibration and essence of every part of the Cosmos and every living thing.
A Powerful Mindfulness Meditation for a Spiritually Positive New Year
David James Lees – As we usher in the New Year I’d like to share with you a powerful spiritual coaching method and mindfulness meditation that will rebalance, harmonise and empower you for the year ahead.
The Hidden History of China’s Secret Societies
Mehmet Sabeheddin – Audiences around the world have been entertained by wild and colourful portrayals of Chinese secret societies…
How to Develop the Four Primary Skills of All Meditation
Paul Cavel – “You cannot fully and completely develop one aspect of meditation, in body, mind or energy, without all other skills being developed in tandem.”
You Are God: The True Teachings of Jesus
Brandon West – “Truly great spiritual teachers never practiced religion, they practiced love, and sought universal truth…”
The Hidden Meanings of Yin and Yang
Video – Why we all contain the spirit of yin and yang — and how we can achieve a balance of both in our lives.
Turning Adversity Into Alchemy
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times “All adversities are here to help you. They can become instruments of your progress.” ~ Swami Rama Would you return a really expensive gift from a friend that you’ve coveted for ages? What about the opportunity to uncover one of your own personal assets, long hidden by years of accumulated …
Spiritual Freedom in the West: Are We Drifting Into a Culture of Suppression?
David Gardner, Guest Waking Times Increasingly in the West practitioners of alternative spirituality are subjected to discrimination and censorship. It’s sobering to look at the possible outcomes of living in a society where spiritual freedoms are heavily restricted. This article looks at the Chinese government’s oppression of spirituality as an example, to illustrate why we …
Arrested Development: How Sexual Progress Has Been Hijacked in the Modern Milieu
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci What has happened in the western world and the countries influenced by a soulless agenda is akin …
The Metaphysics of World Collapse
V. Susan Ferguson, Contributor Waking Times “…movement and change are actually prized for their own sake…outward action…fleeting…dispersion…a tendency toward instantaneity, have for its limit a state of pure disequilibrium, which…would coincide with the final dissolution of this world; and this too is one of the clearest signs that the final phase of the Kali Yuga …
The Tao of Love and Relationships
David James Lees, Guest Waking Times I’d like to focus on the three main areas of ‘emotional misunderstanding’ that I encounter when dealing with love and relationship issues with my clients and offer my practical Wu Wei Wisdom to help you with these situations. Many of you will have experienced the wonderful sensation of being in love and …
Tao Teaching: Your Cosmic Connection and Spiritual Contract
David James Lees, Guest Waking Times ‘The sun will always set whether you watch it or not’… This is a wonderful spiritual teaching that I received from my wise Taoist Master in China on the ‘Tao’ or ‘Way’ of the Cosmos and its fundamental relationship and interaction with all our lives. The teaching serves as …
The Five Animals of Tai Chi, Hsing-I, and Bagua
Hal Mosher, Guest Waking Times Animals are an integral part of our lives as they serve as reminders of our deep connection to nature. The animal mind has not been tainted by societal conventions, and more importantly neither has its instincts. In martial arts practice, we try to cultivate the sense of ourselves we had …
When Does the Kali Yuga End?
Joscelyn Godwin, New Dawn Waking Times The widespread belief that an age is ending and a new one dawning is part of a cyclical concept of time common to most philosophical cultures. The best known versions are the Four Ages of Greek mythology and the Hindu myth of the Four Yugas. The purpose of this …
The 3 Stages of Awakening
Richard Harvey, Therapy & Spirituality Waking Times Editor’s Note: Richard Harvey. psychotherapist, author and spiritual teacher, answers questions about the threefold model of human awakening. You speak of a threefold model of human awakening through deepening levels of awareness. The first level is what we usually think of as personal therapy, the second is a …
The Way of the Tao
Paul Cavel, Contributor Waking Times Taoists Have Trained In Nature throughout the Ages Human beings, with all our complexity and potential, have diversified, populated and thrived around the globe. Since the breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution, we have spent 200 years becoming specialists in manipulating our environment and making radical changes to the way in …
Wu Wei is… Loving and Managing Your Ego – Part III
David James Lees, Guest Waking Times Note: This is the final of a series of 3 articles. Please read Part I here, and Part II here. This is my final article in a short a series on my Taoist spiritual and professional interpretation of the ‘Ego’. In my previous post I explained how the Ego, though well meaning, …