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Featured Books of the Month - April 2001

"Ultimate Journey - Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment"
by Richard Bernstein.

Richard Bernstein's story of his long journey through Asia is at once a memoir of adventurous travel and a record of cultural discovery and spiritual quest.
In the year 629, a greatly revered Chinese Buddhist monk, Hsuan Tsang, set out across Asia in search of the Buddhist Truth, to settle what he called the "perplexities of my mind." Nearly a millennium and a half later, Richard Bernstein retraces the monk's steps: from the Tang dynasty capital at Xian through ancient Silk Road oases, over forbidding mountain passes to Tashkent, Samarkand, and the Amu-Darya River, across Pakistan to the holiest cities of India--and back.
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"Return from Heaven - Beloved Relatives Reincarnated Within Your Family"
by Carol Bowman

Return from Heaven presents startling and convincing evidence that loved ones who die can be reborn into the same family. This is the first book to demonstrate that it is possible to be reunited with a deceased loved one--not in heaven or via mediums or psychics, or in dreams, but right here and now through a baby (re)born into your own family. Case after case of this type of reincarnation is documented, cases in which children have remembered so many specifics of their previous lives that the identity of the former incarnation could be positively named, and all the facts of the memories verified. This book takes a brand new look at reincarnation, and will fascinate readers.
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"Finding Your Own North Star - Claiming the Life You Were
 Meant to Live"
by Martha Nibley Beck

As the creator of Life Designs, Inc., Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star and figure out how to fulfill their potential and create joyful lives through her lectures, seminars, and one-on-one counseling. In her new book, she shares her step-by-step program that will guide you to fulfill your own potential. You'll start by learning how to read the internal compasses already built into your brain and body -- and why you may have spent your life ignoring their signals. As you become reacquainted with your own deepest desires, you'll identify and repair any unconscious beliefs or unhealed emotional wounds that may be blocking your progress. This will change your life, but don't worry -- although every life is unique, major transformations have common elements, and Beck provides a map that will guide you through your own life changes. You'll learn how to navigate every stage, from the first flickering appearance of a new dream to the planning and implementation of your own ideal life.
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The Way of Healing and Light - Part V
Developing Positive Resources

Continued from SpiritNews March 2001

The way into light and into freedom can be walked only if we are ready and willing to work on ourselves relentlessly. Watch how a person changes the moment he realizes his true inner purpose of life, the moment he makes peace with his enemies, the moment he radiates love, the moment he recognizes and nurtures his connection with his Divine Self. It takes work and effort to do all this.

There are many ways to master the difficulties of life. One of the most effective ways is to educate the Personal Self to follow the direction of the Divine Self. On this path the most important virtues to cultivate is love and kindness towards our environment, as is taught by the sages of all ages. Cultivating these virtues leads away from our Personal Self and opens us towards the world and the goal to be a true 'citizen of the world' who devotes his Personal Self to the Divine Laws, thereby finding his True Divine Self.

As we transit into the New  Age or Light Age, negative forces try to gain influence to prevent the new order of the Light Age from being established. It is therefore all the more important that all of us Light Workers keep a positive attitude at all times and constantly connect with the Divine Light, even and all the more when there are chaos and negative forces around us. 

Here is a simple and effective exercise to connect to the Divine Light (you can do this exercise anywhere at any time when you encounter an unbalanced situation).

Find a quiet spot and make sure you are undisturbed for the next 5 minutes.

Feel how radiant white light fills every cell of your body and say:

I am a child of the Light
I love the Light
I live in the Light
I am being cared for, looked after 
and supported by the Light
I bless the Light 

Our conscience is our inner advisor, and we should pay attention to it at all times. But sometimes it is inconvenient to listen to our the advice our conscience gives us and we prefer to suppress it or to drown with the noise of our daily life. As a result many people simply do not know any more how to listen to their conscience and their deeds are accordingly. 

We have to nurture our relationship with our conscience, so that it can knock on our door without risking not being heard when we face the danger of doing something that is not in accordance with the Light. We need to be aware of this great help our conscience is offering us, even it sometimes bears inconveniences for us. This should not prevent us from practicing kindness and love at all times. 

Practicing the constant connection with the Light will help us on this path. Wherever there light there is no place for imperfection. Wherever there is light there is no room for shadows. The radiant light is life itself.

We will continue The Way of Light & Healing in the next SpiritNews.

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You Are My Sun

The sun is the nurturing mother of life.
Her rays give warmth to a whole existence
and it is by her light that we can see all the beauty of our planet.

Like the sun, you give warmth to my heart and illuminate me.
You can show me the way even in the dark.

You are my sun and I am the light for you.
I warm you and I am your sanctuary 
whenever you need me to be.

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 The Void: Where the change process stops us  

By John Robson

To significantly change our lives, there must be changes in our subconscious minds and our belief systems. As these changes occur, we find ourselves in a transition zone, a place of the unknown, the lull, the fog, the void, the dead space. It is like being between first and second base on unsafe and vulnerable ground. It is uncomfortable, new and often scary. Often we get fearful and go back to the old safe place on first base. And that's O.K., but at some point, we may want to leave the rut that was not working for us.

Change requires a letting go and trust that there is a second and third base and that I can make it there. It is about trusting myself and God and the universal laws to unfold a new reality for me. It is knowing that my vision, prayers, visualizations, affirmations and wishes will come true.

Too often the test is right to the eleventh hour, where I must totally give up and let in the new. To make it worse, everything seems to go wrong at the same time. This is a place where my life turns upside down. It’s a place that calls for surrender and faith, knowing that my beliefs are being changed at a deep level.

When I was in the consulting business, my heart wanted to move into the personal development and education field. As I was planning this process, my client offered me a phenomenal opportunity, with substantial equity in a company in the personal development field. It was like falling in love--the infatuation, the fantasy, the excitement. My mind was full of ideas.

After a few days, I sat down with myself and analyzed it more closely. Something was saying it wasn't the right move. But I kept the door open on the opportunity and was getting pressure for a commitment.

During this time, my mind was in a fog. It seemed like I couldn't think or even add 2 + 2. I was torn between what looked like the offer of a lifetime and what my heart wanted to do--my own programs, not someone else's. And I did not want to let my friends down.

This fog brought on tears (yes, men can cry). It was scary to be unable to break out of my stuck thinking patterns. My mind seemed dead to new ideas and everything in my life was going wrong or stopped flowing. Finally, I had to make my stand. I did not join their group.

Making the decision relieved some of the fog, but it was a few weeks before the dust settled and I was fully functional mentally. During that time, I was gentle with myself, not creating too many pressures or new decisions. I soon realized a new level of commitment to creating and delivering my own programs and taking control of my life.

Now, when I sense I am in this fog or transition zone, I work to just be there and identify with it. I step back and watch myself, careful to avoid overreacting to situations. I keep my focus on the results I want, and I act as though they are already in place. I stay open to opportunity. I'm glad I've learned how it feels to be in transition, because as I grow and change, there will be more of them, and I want to become a master at navigating through the fog into my next vital stage in life. 

John Robson helps people think in different ways using powerful personal and spiritual journaling tools.

His web site, Higher Awareness, offers multiple workbooks on goal setting, creativity, life purpose and intuition; numerous resource lists, daily smart questions and inspiration and a free personal growth newsletter. 

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Let's be inspired - Our Weekly Inspiration

There is an art of study. We were told in youth to study. 

We were never told properly how to study, or, in other words, how to get ideas. Committing to memory words, sentences, and rules is not getting ideas. It is simply memorizing. It is simply using, exercising and training that part of the mind which learns to remember sounds.

If you commit to memory a great many words and sentences, you are simply overstraining a part or function of your mind. You are putting on it a burden to carry. As, if you gave every tack in your carpet a name, and thought it your duty to remember every tack by its name, would you have the time or strength to think of much else?

Words are not ideas. They are only the signs by means of which, through the senses of sight or sound, a printed word or a spoken word may represent an idea to a mind. A world or sentence full of meaning or though to one person may mean nothing to another.

The memory is useful only to hold what is grasped by the spirit. No amount of 'book-learning' can teach a man to sail a boat well. He must educate himself. When he learns, through practice and many failures, that the rudder must be kept in a certain position to counteract the force of the wind against the sail, his memory at last holds what such practice has taught him.

Committing all the proper directions to memory, will not help him a particle. On the contrary, if he endeavors, while learning this art, to recollect the directions, his mind and strength are put upon a sentence instead of the business in hand, and his learning will be retarded instead of advanced. 

The remembrance of what memory holds through exercise teaches people how to drive, to shoot, to row, to swim, to skate, to dance, to paint, to carve, to weave, to sew, to do all things. But nothing is learned when you are taught rules before practice.

If you would learn any art, learn it your own way. Learn in the manner your inspiration suggests to you. don't mind what is said to you about the necessity of being 'well grounded' in certain rules which must be taught you by others. It is true that you must so be 'well grounded'. But that is exactly what your spirit can best and quickest teach you. 

The spirit will make its own rules. Left to itself, it will strike out new and original methods. Rules already made never taught Shakespeare, Byron or Burns. They trusted to their interior power, the interior suggestions concerning methods. 

When astonishing results are attained, men call it 'genius', and then go straightway to work to frame from the method adopted by genius a new set of shackles to impose on all successors in the same art. Genius may use a certain method as we may a crutch. When it has served a purpose, we throw it away for something better to walk by. The methods of genius are ever changing.

Prentice Mulford

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