Whatever you meet in life, your approach to it is important. Whether it is a dream, a religion or a discipline, what you bring to it brings either an open way or a shut door. Approaches to being is about the spiritual paths and dicsciplines that can lead to a fuller life. I have tried here to show a...

Opening to the Spirit

I know some aspects of spirituality are said to be about living a good life; about being kind, charitable and loving to others. Well, there may be truth in that, but I do believe that unless one achieves some level of awareness of one’s own internal nature through whatever path one takes, there haMore

The Secret Bible – The Kabbalah

Simple stories can hold within them enormous depths of meaning and wisdom. In our heritage of such stories, we could find some of the deepest commentaries on life’s meaning and human existence, if only we would look, or had the key. Take the story of Adam and Eve for instance: is that a primitive More

Unfortunatley, our western culture often sees the body as a purely material thing. In doing so it overlooks the forces and wisdom that has grown you from a tiny seed, and continues to offer you that wisdom form your core self. In fact, our body, like everything else in nature, is linked with every a...

Secrets the Body Knows

 Liberating the Body Chapter One The Beginnings of Inner-Directed Movement Life is movement and is the sign that you are alive, and you already know of how to relax enough to allow the beginnings of […]More

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I started writing Dream Dictionary in 1970. It has been a lifelong work to add to it in length and quality. And remember it is constantly upgraded and given new entries. So if there is something you do not understand or is missing, tell me. ...

Exploring your dreams – Steps in Deeper Understanding

Many people see dreams as nothing more than fanciful, but dreams are more than dreams. If you think of dreams as similar to an icon on your computer desktop, you can arrive at a fuller insight. This is because each dream image holds enormous data, emotional response, and created patterns of behaviouMore

The work and effort of years of exploration are shown in these many features. Everything from archetypes to the magic dream machine. ...

Native American Dream Beliefs

In considering the beliefs of the Native American peoples, there is not a single belief system. Each tribe developed their own relationship with their inner life as it connected with and contributed to their external environment and needs. In looking at the fairly pure statements of traditional AmeMore

Ancient Greece – Dream Beliefs

. Prior to sleep the participats were led in evening payers to the god, and thus creating an atmosphere in which dreams of healing were induced. In the morning the patients were asked their dream, and it was expected they would dream an answer to their illness or problem. There are many attestationsMore

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Considering that I was born two months premature and was given up as dead by the doctor; and considering that this was prior to intensive care; and considering being born is a shit thing to happen to one so young, I have learned a lot about survival. Some of what I learned was to not take shit from ...

Migraine – Self Help

During my fifties I suffered the most excruciating migraine headaches. When they occurred I was completely unable to work properly, and felt both as if I were going to vomit and have diarrhoea. Sometimes the migraines would occur as often as twice a week.More

Back Pain and Its Cure

For years I suffered paralysing back pain that re-occurred about every four to six weeks. At those times it was very difficult to move around, and getting in and out of a car took a very long time. Because I had worked for many years in the building industry I thought there was no possibility of curMore

The I Ching intrigued me, not so much because it is a very ancient book, the culmination of many great minds and a great culture, but because it was largely couched in symbols. My work with dreams and the way people use imagery in thinking and expression, made me want to tackle the I Ching. I wanted...

Introduction to the I Ching

Apart from being a book of wisdom in the ancient Chinese tradition, the I Ching was also consulted on questions of state, warfare and personal decision making. It is this aspect of it which is […]More

I Ching Example one – Len

Len was very encouraged by the result and it aided his confidence in finding the courage to positively work through the many phone calls and interviews needed. As Len had only just, at 23, found the self-reliance to leave home and begin to attempt independence and an active life outside his own mindMore

I used to think I was like a ‘brick shit house’, without feelings. Then, out of desperation because of the misery I was leaving in my choldren, I found the key to an amazing door. The door was opened partly through dreams, and largely by learning to be nothing and letting Life show me the way. W...

The Enlightenment Intensive

During the explosion of new or improved self-help techniques that emerged in the 1960’s, Charles Berner started teaching a modification of an age old form of Eastern meditation. The approach was very well known, and Kipling describes it in his book Kim. It was also the method recommended by the sMore

People are, after all, the most fascinating; especially when they are like the people I have written about – Super Minds ...

From Black Slave to Genius – Superminds 14

The Man Who Talked With Flowers In 1860 a baby boy was born to a black slave woman living on a plantation in Missouri. The child was weak, and while still tiny slave raiders attacked […]More

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My poems have come from extraordinay passions. I suppose I am a passionate person. I cry, laugh, swear and feel pain and happiness all in the same breath. I find the life within me is hungry for experience in any form. So I have not avoided pain or the wonders of pleasure that have lifted me to the ...

Lumpkin and the Magic Pouch

Lumpkin is a figure who appeared to me in a dream. Since then he has grown in importance for me. Now here is a full description of how he came into my life and the changes he wrought.More

Remembering

‘In the beginning’ you were there, unremembered though you may be. And remembering who and what you are is a long journey and a wonderous story. You were there beyond time, and moved into time and place. But take the journey for yourself, or read my view of it.More

As a mother or father, you are the gateway for the future to enter and transform the world. Like a temple to the highest, keep your being clean and beautiful. Reach out to the highest when you conceive. And feed that new life not only with nature’s good substance, but with ideas, music, storie...

The Near Birth Experience: Talking with Jerry Bongard

Jerry Bongard's new book, The Near-Birth Experience: A Journey to the Center of Self, may be the one finally to engage "middle America." It presents the concept of pre-existence and the possibility of reincarnation, in user-friendly terms that yet fully reveal the transcendent nature of the self.More

During my life I have experienced so much anguish and emotional pain in connection with sexual relationship, and have found so much healing, I wanted to write about things I have learned. Having emerge from the pain connected with love and sex I wrote such features as Beware of Love, and Tune into t...

Sexercises

Making love to our partner can be just as much of an old habit as going to the corner table when the telephone rings a week after it has been moved to a new site. When my second wife and I started our relationship we decided we would try not to live out the mistakes we made in our first marriages. SMore

Beware of Love

Okay, so it’s a strange title, but it’s true. When somebody says they love you they are usually telling a big lie. What they really mean is, “I will be nice to you and share myself with you as long as you do exactly what I want you to do.”More

Stories are wonderful things. They come to me with the spontaneity and sparkle of dreams. ...

Ghoulygars

It was ages and ages before Joyce met the Bear in real life again. Of course she would often sit and talk to it on the floor, but it never replied; didn’t even twinkle its eyes. She told it all the things she thought about, even the very unlikely things, or things she could hardly believe herselfMore

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I threw myself into yoga at an early age. I didn’t go to classes or seek and guru in the East, but found several within me, who spoke and taught. I was desperate to find the experience of enlightenment, so I wasn’t interested in what I call ‘class yoga’. So I did some very strage things, lik...

Shaktipat- The Indian Way to Enlightenment

The Sanscrit word ‘shakti’ means energy, bio-energy, or more correctly, bio- cosmic energy. Shaktipat is a practice which is described as the loosening of this energy by a guru from the way it may be blocked in us. When this shakti energy is loosened and no longer tightly bound by the control ofMore