New Worlds of Body, Mind & Spirit Since 1901
The tremendous wave of interest that followed publication, and then the movie, of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code left a lot of excitement, and some confusion, in its wake. Many readers accept the novel's details as historic fact and want to know more about the Feminine Mysteries and their repression, about Sacred Sexual Rites, the "truth" about Mary Magdalene and Jesus, the extensive use of symbols in architecture and art, the roles of Freemasonry and the Catholic Church, the Illuminati and conspiracies, and the reality of an alternative European spiritual history. From a "factual" point of view, there isn't a lot that can be authenticated. But, the lack of proof doesn't always mean that ...
As a young boy growing up in the Deep South, I experienced at an early age the power of past-life enlightenment when my fear of water was promptly extinguished through a vivid dream of drowning in France during a past lifetime. Little did I know then that I would devote much of my adult life to the study of reincarnation and the empowering possibilities of past-life enlightenment. Reincarnation in the LabAs a psychologist and university professor, I've led numerous laboratory research projects designed to explore the full scope of past-life existence to include three major categories: (1) preexistence, or life before your first lifetime, (2) past lifetimes, and (3) life between ...
In my book, Natural Witchery: Intuitive, Personal & Practical Magick, I define a "Natural Witch" as a practitioner who intuitively senses the magick and the spirit inherent in all things. Natural Witches are practical, down-to-earth, and keep their magick personal by adding a little something extra to the spellwork. What's the little something extra? It's intuition. It's the spark of their own personalities, and a celebration of individuality. Magick is not only the act of working in harmony with the four elements and the natural world; it also involves listening to your intuition. Intuition does not arrive with a swirl of pixie dust and an enchanting chime of harp strings. No, it's ...
Envy is an emotion that everyone in the human race has experienced at one time or another, and so is jealousy. It is hard not to look at someone who is richer than we are, more beautiful or more successful, and not feel envious. At first blush, some people are born into easy, peaceful or extremely charmed lives, and others have to struggle with one obstacle or another. Why one person is born into great wealth and another into dire poverty, or one person is born healthy and another handicapped, is hard to say, even when you take karma into consideration. There doesn't seem to be any real rhyme or reason at times as to how the fates dish out good or bad luck, or more aptly, good or bad ...
