Following are the results of last month's
poll:
What do your dreams mean to you?
1) An important tool for gaining insight
28%
2) Another way of meditating
3%
3) A means for predicting future events
6%
4) A way of digesting daily events and experiences 0%
5) Expressions of the subconscious
18%
6) I believe dreams are important and wish I knew
more about dreamwork and how to remember dreams 40%
7) Nothing specific
3%
**This month's poll:
What is the most important aspect of spirituality
in daily life?
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*** Featured Books of the Month -
July 2000 ***
Below you can read a short description of each of this month's
featured books.
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"Dream
Power: How to Use Your Night Dreams to Change Your Life "
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By Cynthia Richmond
Ever since the first person woke up yawning and stretching from the
first sleep, dreams have intrigued humankind. At some point all
of us have been mystified or terrified or delighted by a vivid dream,
and we all wonder - what do our dreams mean? In her inspiring book,
Dream Power, Los Angeles Times dream columnist Cynthia Richmond draws
on her experience as a therapist and dream counselor to show us how
to harness the power of our dreams and make our life goals come true.
Understanding our dreams can give us a huge advantage in all facets
of life, Richmond demonstrates - in work, love, health, and
spirituality. "By listening to what your subconscious mind and
your
spirit tell you through your dreams," she predicts, "you
will have all
the tools you need to achieve the life you want."
But before we can interpret our dreams - and change our lives - we
need
to learn how to remember them, and so Dream Power begins with a simple
tutorial in the art of recall. After providing us with practical,
step-by-step techniques for gaining access to our dream lives,
Richmond then charts the landscape of dream themes and their rich,
perplexing meanings.
"The
Train of the Fifth Era: A Quest for a More Spiritual Life"
By D. Patrick Georges
The book's sub-title makes one leafing hastily through this book
notice such disparate elements as a cosmopolitan atmosphere, romance
in deluxe hotels, some efficacious dialogues, some intriguing
philosophical thoughts, doses of Far Eastern wisdom with
interposition of allegories, myths with implied nuggets of
wisdom and certain philosophical precepts about life. Quite
a few contrasts for the smooth reading of a book that at first
sight seems uncomplicated as it purports to narrate an adventure
from California and New Mexico to Bangkok in pursuit of the elusive
spiritual secret to life. In this unusual book, the author manages
to combine spirituality with an Introduction by a prominent US
businessman and four poems dealing with some of life's dramas
and pleasures. The author introduces some little known concepts
and topics such as "mindbody," myth of failure, Mystery
Spot,
Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Timeline, Reiki, choice of
poverty, "soulsmiths," spirit of Omega. Although they
may be
unknown to the uninitiated they are intelligible. For the
initiates, however, they are analyzed and so become clearly
understood, consolidated and energized. The seekers leave
Bangkok convinced they are ready to meet the challenges
and opportunities of the 21st Century.
"Animals
As Guides for the Soul: Stories of Life-Changing Encounters"
By Susan Chernak McElroy
In her New York Times bestseller "Animals as Teachers and
Healers",
Susan Chernak McElroy movingly explored the wide and enriching
horizons of human relationships with animals. In this new volume
of reflections and true animal stories, she invites us to
broaden and deepen that relationship. While living with her
husband and animals on a farm in Oregon, McElroy pondered the
ancient bonds that connect humans and animals: the healing gifts
of animals, the genius of people who talk to them, and the power
of animal messengers. She also asked herself the tough questions
that engage every true animal lover. How can we soothe our
anguish and guilt when a loved animal suffers or dies? How do
we atone for our mistakes? When are animals prisoners and when
are they fulfilled? Is it moral to eat other beings? And how can
we go about transforming our relationship with animals?
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* Where You Travel When
You Sleep - Prentice Mulford
Prentice Mulford teaches us that dreamwork,
and growing
spiritually through our dreams, really starts with our daily
thought...
"You travel when your body is in the state called sleep. The real
"you" is not your body; it is an unseen organization, your
spirit.
It has senses like those of the body, but far superior. It can see
forms and hear voices miles away from the body. Your spirit is not
in your body. It never was wholly in it; it acts on it and uses it
as an instrument. It is a power which can make itself felt miles from
your body.
One-half of our life is a blank to us; that is, the life of our
spirit when it leaves the body at night. It goes then to countries
far distant, and sees people we have never known in the flesh.
The spirit is weak at night, because its forces have in thought
been sent in so many different directions during the day that it
cannot call them together. Every thought is one of these forces,
and a part of your spirit. Every thought, though unspoken, is
something which goes to that person, thing, or locality on which
it is placed.
Your spirit, then, has during the day been so sent in a thousand,
perhaps ten thousand, different directions. When you think, you work.
Every thought represents an outlay of force. So sending out force
for sixteen or eighteen hours, there is not at night sufficient
left in or near the body to use it.
The body therefore falls into the condition of insensibility we call
sleep. During this condition the spirit collects its scattered forces,
its thoughts which have been sent far and wide; it returns with its
powers so concentrated to the body, and again possesses it with its
full strength. It is when scattered as so many scattered rills of
water trickling in many directions. Pull all these together in a
single volume,and you have the power that turns the mill-wheel.
Your spirit can, and does frequently, go from your body to other
places during sleep. it is then still connected with it by a thread
of exceedingly fine element. This can be drawn out to a great
distance.
It is as an expanding or contracting electric wire connecting your
spirit
with the instrument it operates, your body.
This power of the spirit so to leave the body accounts for the
phenomenon
of persons being seen in two places far distant at the same time. It
is
the spirit that is seen by some clairvoyant eye.
Sleeplessness comes of the difficulty of the spirit to bring itself to
a center and collect its forces. The permanent cure for sleeplessness
must commence in the daytime. You must drill your mind to put its
whole
thought on the act you are now doing. If you tie your shoe, think shoe
and nothing else. Then you bring yourself to a center, and collect
your
forces.
If you tie your shoe and think of what you are going to buy the next
hour,
you are sending needlessly half of your force from yourself. You are
in a
reality trying to do two things at once. You do neither well.
You are
scattering your spirit on as many things as you think of while tying
the
shoe. You are cultivating the bad habit of scattering your force,
until
such habit becomes involuntary.
You are making it more and more difficult for the spirit to return
with
strength to its body in the morning, or to leave it at night. You can
get
no healthy sleep at night unless your spirit does withdraw from its
body.
Sleeplessness means simply that your spirit cannot leave its body.
What you call dreams are realities. Your spirit away from your body at
night goes to and sees persons and places. To some of these you may
have
never gone with your body. You remember on the body's awakening very
little of what you have seen.
What you do remember is mixed pell-mell together. That is because your
memory of the body can hold but a little of what is grasped by the
memory
of your spirit. You have two memories, one trained and adapted to the
life of your body, the other of your spirit.
Had you know of the life and power of your spirit from infancy, and
recognized it as a reality, the memory of your spirit would have been
so trained that it would remember all of its own life and bring it
back
to you on the awakening of the body. But as you have been taught to
regard even your spirit as a myth, so you make of its memory a myth.
You must build your "mansion in the skies" yourself. You can
commence
consciously building it here in the body to greater advantage than to
commence after you lose your body. That you must build it yourself is
the law of nature. It is not because any individuality, however wise
and powerful in any of the advanced stages of existence, says you
must.
All of these, up to order of mind beyond our power to comprehend, have
been and are now the builders of their temples (themselves).
What most they want of us is to build in like manner our own and with
some blissful results. Because such building is simply the building
of our own individual happiness into grander, broader, and
ever-broadening proportions.
Your first error on passing from the body in the state known as sleep
lies in thinking that you are moving about your physical body. You
must educate yourself out of this mistake. You must fix it in your
mind before going to sleep that if you wake up in what you call a
dream you are not then using your physical body. You will fix in
your mind before going to sleep, so far as you can, your conception
of yourself as a spirit - or, rather, as the unseen organization
which during the day uses your body.
The last thought before going to sleep is the one most likely to
remain with you on leaving the body. If persisted in, you will
find it mingling itself with what you call your dreams. That is,
it will be the first clew towards the recognition of your real
self when you are away from your body.
Keep this fact then, this recognition of yourself as spirit, in
your mind, and it will be a great help to your unseen friends
in the other life to get near you and waken you to the knowledge
of your real self.
The wiser and more powerful order of spirits, who may be able
to give you much of their thought in the daytime, or while you
are using the body, may not be able to give you so much of it
during your escape from the body, owing to the condition above
spoken of. Instead, therefore, of going into a higher region of
thought at night, you descend, through blindness and mere force
of habit, into a lower one.
You want to give your powerful unseen friends a clew by which,
on passing from the body, they can come nearer to you and help
you to wake up, find your real self, and go where you belong. The
thought of yourself as a spirit, as a being distinct and apart
from your body, will serve as this clew.
A thought is as real a thing as a telegraph-wire. It will be the
telegraph-wire 'twixt you and them, because they will not stay
permanently with you in your groupings on the cruder stratum of
life. They could if they wished; but they want to draw you up to
their abodes, - their country, their realm, - where all is more
beautiful and fairy-like than ever pen or picture realized here;
where, in part, at least, you may now belong.
To bring back of this the remembrance to the daytime while your
spirit uses the body, would be to bring the celestial life to earth.
It would be a temptation in the right direction to leave off the
coarser pleasures for the sake of realizing and living in the higher.
As persistently you fix on going to sleep this idea in your mind,
that you are no longer using the body's senses, you will after a
time, in what you have called the dream, find yourself recalling
this fact. You will find yourself saying, "This is as real as my
body or day life. I am only in a different state of existence."
Could you get a start in the right direction toward the upper
and superior regions of thought, - could you ascend through the
current of dark and crude thought, which everywhere surrounds
you, - you would find yourself in a land of beauty, sunshine,
and flowers; of grand scenery and fairy landscape. You would
associate there with people you most wish to see, and to whom
you in spirit belong to.
You would repose in a luxurious languor, yet still be able to
note scenes of indescribably charm by the eye. You would be
conscious of life, and still be at rest. You would drink in
life with every breath. You would return with this life to your
body in the morning. Your night of bliss would be both as a
rest in thought and a healthy stimulation to your life and body."
The full article "Where you travel when you sleep" can be
found
here
**** Ancient Wisdom *****
*** Discover Who We Really Are - Reflection on Dreams***
By Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
who was not only a brilliant philosopher, but also a renowned
mathematician and physicist, who had mastered "Euclid's
Elements" by the age of 12. He invented the first calculating
machine in 1645. In 1654, he had a profound mystical
experience, as a result of which he went to live in a monastery
for the rest of his life. His famous work "pensees"
(thoughts)
is an inspiring and fascinating collection of 924 reflections
on humanity, spirituality and faith.
"People always think: "Once I have overcome this or that
difficulty, I will attain the happiness I don't have right
now." And they induce themselves in believing that at that
point they will be able to open the door to a life in
harmony. And like this, their whole life passes.
We never live in the presence. We are anticipating the future,
as if it came too slowly, as if we wanted to speed it up; or
we are remembering the past, as if trying to stop it because
it is passing too fast. We try to take the present for the future
and delude ourselves that one day which we don't even know
we will see, we will have things that are not even in our
power to possess.
Like this we never live but merely hope to live at a later
stage, making it inevitable that despite our willingness
to be happy, in the end we never are.
This is true all the more as we are not even sure if we are
sleeping or awake. It is a known fact that while asleep we
unshakably believe that we are awake. We perceive space,
forms and movement, we feel the time pass, measuring it, and
in the end we don't act differently than in the waking state.
If we pass half of our lives sleeping, without any perception
of the truth, it is a only logical to conclude that nobody can
know if during the other half of our life when we think we
are awake we are still in another dream state.
And isn't life itself some kind of dream, considering that
often times we dream that we are dreaming, building one
dream on another - a dream from which we awake only
the moment we die? A dream in which we know as little about
the principles of the true and the good as in our natural
sleep? And maybe even the thoughts on which we are
reflecting here are a mere illusion, similar to the flying
of time and the deluding schemes of our dreams?"
*** We
are the New Civilization ***
We are here.
We are waking up now, out of the past, to dream a bigger dream.
We are friends and equals, we are diverse and unique, and
we're united for something bigger than our differences.
We believe in freedom and cooperation, abundance and harmony.
We are a culture emerging, a renaissance of the essence of humanity.
We find our own guidance, and we discern our own truth.
We go in many directions, and yet we refuse to disperse.
We have many names, we speak many languages.
We are local, we are global.
We are in all regions of the world, we're everywhere in the air.
We are universe being aware of itself, we are the wave of evolution.
We are in every child's eyes, we face the unknown with wonder
and excitement.
We are messengers from the future, living in the present.
We come from silence, and we speak our truth
We cannot be quieted, because our voice is within everyone.
We have no enemies, no boundaries can hold us.
We respect the cycles and expressions of nature,
because we are nature.
We don't play to win, we play to live and learn.
We act out of inspiration, love and integrity.
We explore, we discover, we feel, and we laugh.
We are building a world that works for everyone.
We endeavor to live our lives to their fullest potential.
We are independent, self-sufficient and responsible.
We relate to each other in peace, with compassion and respect,
we unite in community.
We celebrate the wholeness within and around us all.
We dance to the rhythm of creation.
We weave the threads of the new times.
We are the new civilization.
The Aumara Light & Healing Circle is a member of the
New Civilization Network:
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***Let's Be Inspired - Our Weekly
Inspiration***
Spirituality is not living in dreams, or living in the clouds,
or having a pale face and languid air, as if the things of this
earth were beneath one's consideration, and were rather endured
than enjoyed.
Spirituality means the greatest acuteness of intellect, the
greatest foresight, the greatest amount of spirit or power
gathered in a person, and the wisest expenditure of that power.
It means the greatest governmental ability, be that ability
exercise in the small empire of a household, or the larger
empire of a nation. Spiritual gifts mean all talents,
all powers, and all methods of using those powers.
That is a spiritual gift which finds out healing properties
in plants, roots, and herbs. All nature expressed in substance,
seen of the physical eye, is an expression also of mind or force;
and every plant has its peculiar kind or quality of that force,
and this, when applied, can help the individual spirit to drive
out disease.
But all seen things are expressions of the lower or relatively
cruder from of mind or spirit, and therefore have a limited power;
and, when any material remedy is applied, the main dependence
should not be on that remedy, but on the power of mind, and above
all things, one's own mind or force, to put the body above the
reach of disease.
I apply clothing to my body, as an external application of wool
or cotton to protect that body from cold. But I believe in the
power to mind to resist cold, and be comfortable, with much less
clothing than the average wear. Your spirit can by degrees attain
such power. That is no reason why I should lesson the amount of
clothing in cold weather, before I have grown to or gathered that
amount of force which shall so resist cold.
If I think a medicine will aid what force I have to cure the body,
or, in other words, to add its peculiar spiritual strength to my
own spiritual strength, to act on the body, I think it better to
take it. But for that reason, I should not fly to a pill or a
stimulant at the first sign of pain or weakness, but turn on first
my spiritual and mental, and in any case rely first and last on that.
The gift of thought healing is a spiritual gift. it belongs to
all in proportion as their permanent flow of thought is pure,
cheerful, determined, vigorous, decided and abounding in good-will
to others. that order of thought sent to a sick person is a real
element or force, and has power to give that person strength.
If you give strength from so healthy a source as healthy thought,
you drive out disease, or lack of ease to the body.
Prentice Mulford
~ Your Forces and How to Use Them ~
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