Most Westerners are familiar with the story of Jesus Christ—perhaps the greatest moral teacher of all time. While the gospels devote many pages to his life, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection, the accounts of what happened to him after that are mi...

At its highest level, spirituality is consciously communing with Spirit—that magnificent, incomprehensible creative force that we call God. It is about transcending the ego-induced illusion of separation and experiencing ourselves as integral parts of ...

By now half the country has seen, read or heard about The Secret, the movie and companion book that reveals the supposed age-old secret of manifesting what we want in life. In a nutshell, it’s all about intention and visualization—identifying exactly...

We humans don’t have the mental capacity to conceive of something as expansive and magnificent as God. But we want to have some divine concept to grasp on to so we’ve done the best we could—we’ve created our ideas and mental images of God. And ...

It is ironic that one of the key processes enabling human evolution—normalization—also holds it back. Normalization is the tendency of the human mind to gradually turn new and fascinating phenomena into the normal and humdrum. While it serves a ...

Two people earn $50,000 annually. One needs $70,000 to live on. The other needs only $30,000. They both earn the same amount--who is wealthier? And why? Recently I watched Larry King interviewing Chris Angel, the amazing illusionist, on TV. If you...

I once watched a television show about the Holocaust involving a panel discussion of three people, one of whom was an elderly Jewish rabbi. When the moderator asked him the question, “How do you reconcile the notion of a loving God with something as ho...

It’s commonly accepted that God is omnipresent—God exists everywhere at all times. It’s also commonly accepted that there exist many realms, some of which we can detect with our five senses and others of which we’re unaware. When physicists tal...

Mel Gibson is going to heaven. His wife, an Episcopalian who is a “much better personâ€� than he is, is going to hell. How do we know? Mel told us so. The producer and director of the sadistic, controversial and therefore highly profitable film, â...

My wife and 15 year-old daughter are shopping addicts. It’s unquestionably their favorite way of mother-daughter bonding. By comparison, a request from me to my daughter to go for a hike, my favorite way of father-daughter bonding, is met with rolling...

Posted all around the ashram of the great Indian saint, Sai Baba, are little signs displaying spiritual aphorisms, reminding visitors of the reason they are there. One sign reads 'Life is a Journey from I to We.' That message impressed me like no other...

Most people, even if they're not Christians, acknowledge that an exceptional spiritual master named Jesus lived and died 2,000 years ago. The story of his life and teachings are chronicled in the four gospels of the New Testament and they have captivate...

One Saturday morning I was sipping my coffee and reading the newspaper when the doorbell rang. This was an unusual occurrence as we lived in a somewhat isolated log cabin in the mountains outside Denver. At the door stood two attractive college-age gir...