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Featured Books of the Month - July 2001

"Barefoot on Holy Ground - Twelve Lessons in Spiritual Craftsmanship"
by Gloria D. Karpinksi

Spiritual seekers in the 21st century take many forms, from the visionary and futurist to the social activist and rebel. Yet whatever your inner calling, writes internationally renowned teacher Gloria Karpinski, you can benefit from the practical guidance of other seekers on how best to manifest your spiritual intentions in the nitty-gritty reality of everyday life. A new companion for traveling purposefully on the path, Barefoot on Holy Ground helps you learn how to call forth the good in every circumstance and use it to further your mission and consciousness. Through numerous enjoyable, effective exercises and meditations, you will learn how to integrate your inner and outer resources of mind, body, emotions, finances, and careers into your personal practice. This will free you to become a disciple–in the modern sense–to your own higher calling and service to the world.

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"Past Lives, Future Healing - A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health and Great Relationships"
by Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison

With the unique understanding, sensitivity, and profound insight that distinguished her previous books, Browne gives us an unprecedented look at the way so many of our health and relationship problems have their roots in our unresolved past lives: from unexplained illnesses to bizarre phobias, from irrational anxieties and fears to the partners and lovers we choose. Even birthmarks and recurring dreams can be traced directly back to these past existences. In the friendly, no-nonsense style that her fans adore, Browne shares amazing and inspiring real-life stories of people who have transformed their lives through understanding their previous existences. Past Lives, Future Healing takes readers on another fascinating odyssey into The Other Side. And like her earlier books, this will illuminate a hitherto unknown path to overcoming many of the most frustrating and devastating physical and emotional problems that can occur in life.

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"Mysteries of the Sacred Universe"
by Richard L. Thompson
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From the flat earth to the suns chariot, traditional spiritual texts often seem wedded to outmoded cosmologies that show, at best, the scientific limitations of their authors. The Bhagavata Purana, one of the classical scriptures of Hinduism, seems, at first glance, to be no exception. However, a closer examination of this text reveals unexpected depths of knowledge in ancient cosmology. Mysteries of the Sacred Universe shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical, geographical, and spiritual world models. By viewing the text in the light of modern astronomy, Richard Thompson shows how ancient scientists expressed exact knowledge in apparently mytho-logical terms. Comparison with the ancient traditions of Egypt and the Near East shows early cultural connections between India and these regions-including a surprisingly advanced science. However, quantitative science is only part of the picture. Mysteries of the Sacred Universe also offers a clear understanding of how the spiritual dimension was integrated into ancient Indian cosmology.

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The Way of Healing and Light - Part VIII
True Inner Beauty

Continued from SpiritNews June 2001

The true inner beauty of a person becomes visible only when we look at their aura with our inner eye, when we notice their true potential of inner light. The true and the good is always beautiful, and when the inner beauty is strong and firm enough, then it will make also the outer appearance radiate and shine. Outward beauty and appearance, however, does not tell us anything about the inner qualities of a person. It is only the harmonious balance between the inner and the outer reflection that evoke within us the paradigm of a whole and spiritually evolved person, a person others are attracted to and want to spend time with.

It is the aim of the disciple of light to become such a person, and the path will lead towards this aim, no matter how long it takes. It will take time to abandon those characteristics that are not in harmony with our spiritual development, but the more we realize that these characteristics are points of contact with low vibrations which have the potential to harm us, the more strength we gather to overcome them and instead cultivate the harmonious living together with the people in our lives. As a chain reaction, this attracts pure light forces, which in return make you look more beautiful and radiant. The outer self gradually reflects the inner beauty.

Nobody on this earthly plane is capable to always stay above all things in daily life, but with perseverance and constant excercise of consciousness, we constantly come closer to our goal of true inner beauty.

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Why Self-Help Doesn't Work For Everyone - And What You Can Do To Improve The Results You Get

By Robert Scheinfeld

Our libraries, bookstores, mail order catalogs, the Internet, and the speeches of our public speakers and trainers are filled with suggestions, formulas and techniques you can use to change your life, get more of what you want and become more successful. Unfortunately, most of them fail to produce lasting results.

As a participant, trainer and designer of self-help programs for more than two decades, I have uncovered two "myths" that explain why so many self-help approaches fail to produce lasting results.

I've also developed many strategies you can use to improve the results you get from using self-help techniques. I discuss these subjects on my web site and offer the following insights for your immediate consideration.

Myth #1: "You Have Unlimited Power And
Can Create Anything You Want"

Most self-help systems communicate a similar message:

"You have unlimited power and can create anything you want if you just use 'X' technique."

Then you're told you can change or create anything you want by using techniques like goal setting, visualization, affirmations, NLP, meditation,  prayer, etc.

If you look closely, those theories cannot be supported by your actual day-to-day experiences - no matter how good it sounds, how many people say it, or how much you want to believe it.

First of all, if you really created your own reality - consciously - and your thoughts, beliefs and expectations actually manifested (or even just the ones you focused on), you would be miserable and your life would be total chaos - especially when you consider how little we know about ourselves and the people around us, how fast the world changes, and how often we change our minds about things.

Secondly, if you look closely, track everything and measure it scientifically, (which I've done), it becomes clear that even the most successful people achieve very few of the goals they set and receive very few of the things they "ask for" using self-help techniques.

If the techniques are so foolproof, why is that the case?

From my experience, we don't usually know - consciously - what will make us happy. We just think we do. Therefore, what you think you want in any given moment (from the limited perspective of your conscious mind) and what you really want (to fulfill your life purpose) are often worlds apart.

You came into this life to experience something special - to fulfill a unique life purpose. As a result, another part of you, an unconscious part I compare to the Director of a movie, was assigned the task of managing your daily experiences and filtering the "requests" you make from behind the scenes. That brings order to the chaos and ensures that you fulfill your life purpose.

It's important to understand that the director part of you is running the show, not your conscious mind. The key to success in life is to uncover what your life purpose is, build a good working relationship with your Director, and learn how to be as clear as possible about what you really want in any given situation.

Myth #2: "One Size Fits All"

Most self-help approaches offer what I call "cookie cutter techniques and strategies that are supposed to work for everyone. More than two decades of experience has shown me that there are no self-help techniques, approaches or systems that work for everyone.

We're all too different. We all came here with different life purposes to fulfill.  And to get what we really want in life, we must learn how to develop and apply approaches, techniques and strategies that are customized to who we are as unique individuals.

The surest path to success is to consider other people's opinions as possible routes to success only--no matter how smart or "successful" someone is, how much "proof" you're given, how much you trust or respect someone, or how logical something seems. Make every self-help approach, technique or strategy you discover your own. Shape it, mold it, tweak it, change it. Experiment with an open mind, use what works for you, and discard the rest.

Why? Because ultimately, the path that leads to what you define as success will be unique to you.

What To Do When Self-Help Fails To Produce
 The Results You Want

1. Give yourself a break, be gentle with yourself and know that you didn't do anything "wrong."
   

2. Remember that your conscious mind is not running the show, so what you think you want and what you really want may be worlds apart.
   

3. Rather than pushing yourself to follow someone else's path, find comfort in the knowledge that you came here to carve out your own unique path to success.
   

4. Realize that every self-help approach is just a possible pathway to success. Experiment with an open mind, use what works for you, and discard the rest.
   

5. Continue to ask for everything you think you want and flow with what you feel strongly motivated to do in response.
   

6. Trust that your "Director" is taking care of you from behind the scenes and you will either get what you asked for-or something even better that is more in alignment with the "real you" and your unique life purpose.

Robert Scheinfeld has dedicated more than two decades of his adult life to personal growth. He is a  pioneer in the field of psychospirituality, which blends the best of psychology and  spirituality.

Visit his "Invisible Path to Success" web site and enroll in his free 5 lesson class to discover the "missing link" in self-help.

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Let's be inspired - Our Weekly Inspiration

In normal times we generally live our lives quite happily, giving as much attention as is necessary to our daily run of duties. We have our fixed principles and fixed ideas, and with them we keep our balance of mind. We are not disturbed by anything whatsoever, and so we go on smoothly with our normal course, with the result that peace and happiness is ever flowing in our mind. As long as we are following our ordinary course of living, we never expect any change in our circumstances that might disturb our mental equipoise.

But no. It is simply our blindness to World-nature. Anything may happen to us at any time quite unexpectedly. Abnormal circumstances come to us at times and we are thrown out from our seats. We become helpless and have to succumb to such overwhelming force from the external.

The result is that our peace of mind is disturbed and so we lose our previous position. All our structures in the form of routines and principles tumble down and we are thrown into a state which is new and foreign to us. What happens? We generally get stupefied and cannot easily recover our mental balance. We come like fish out of water ... What do we do?

We try to regain our previous position, thinking that this is the only course left open to us in order to preserve that peace of mind we were enjoying previously. Here, we are mistaken. We overlook the fact that our effort to regain our previous status is quite futile because in this ever-changing world what has happened will never return.

Instead, if we are wise we should try to adjust ourselves to the new status in which we find ourselves. New schemes and projects we must introduce which are adaptable to the present conditions and build anew. To look back and bemoan the loss of our previous status is death to us.

The Shivapura Baba
1826-1963

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