http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com Religion to the mature adult is as dinosaurs are to a three-year-old. Both are created by a maturing mind that lives in uncertainty times and fear. The one thing that parenting should have taught us is that kids go through stages of maturity or evol... http://www.a1articles.com/article_683431_41.html 05th November 2008 Is religion an addiction? What is the definition of addiction and if religion is an addiction; how does it work? What causes sane, intelligent people to succumb to the power of religion? What aspect of religion keeps people in the faith when their intelle... http://www.a1articles.com/article_671626_41.html 21st October 2008 If you take pride in being normal and thinking like everyone else; what do you have to be proud of? If you are thinking normal and are amongst the 90% of the world's population that does not share the wealth; what are you so proud of? If you t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_658360_41.html 07th October 2008 In the Christian Bible, Jesus taught that you should teach a man to fish so that he could feed himself. Giving a man a fish makes him dependent on you and he is vulnerable to exploitation and becomes disempowered through your generosity. This philos... http://www.a1articles.com/article_637531_24.html 15th September 2008 What is it that influences your enemy the most? Why do your enemies act the way they do and why are they shooting at you; trying to kill you? Your enemy was born innocent, but something happened and he has been turned against you. He is a person just like... http://www.a1articles.com/article_628625_24.html 08th September 2008 Imagine waking up every day to a world of model citizens, where crime and poverty don't exist and everyone is devoted to a better lifestyle and to improving there experience of it. How great would that be? I don't think it would be desirable for an... http://www.a1articles.com/article_614886_24.html 02nd September 2008 Have you ever wished for or wanted something because it would make you happy? When you got it, were you happy and for how long? If what you did or received didn't bring you the happiness you anticipated - why? I first met him in grade school; Brian ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_611345_24.html 28th August 2008 We are all spirit by nature; therefore all that we do is spiritual. However, being spiritual is a lifestyle that we create while we experience the physical world. Getting back to nature and being one with all things is spiritual for some, while chan... http://www.a1articles.com/article_605493_24.html 21st August 2008 Thirty Five year old Corky Barrington is a presence in his community. He is known and loved by most people who come in contact with him. Easy going and full of energy, he fills the room when he walks in the door and strangely enough his energy remains whe... http://www.a1articles.com/article_599447_24.html 15th August 2008 Who are those people that you associate yourself with every day? Why do you get involved with them and how do they fit into your life? It is the purpose of life to find itself and to experience itself in the physical world. Life does not need to lea... http://www.a1articles.com/article_592596_24.html 29th July 2008 It has been a popular opinion for centuries that we are here to learn something – life’s lessons. I don’t believe that is what our purpose is, and in the time of mankind we really haven’t learned anything at all spiritually, so learning can’t be... http://www.a1articles.com/article_589602_24.html 24th July 2008 As humanity in our quest to be more spiritual; we have not performed well. We create institutions and teachers to teach us the ways of spirituality and we get down on our knees to beg for it and we reject it when it comes to us. Is this being spiritual? ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_568013_24.html 01st July 2008 In this world there are deserving people and there are less deserving people. Those who deserve have access to other people and places that you do not. And for the ones who deserve they will not accept you as an equal and will try and keep you out of thei... http://www.a1articles.com/article_563974_24.html 26th June 2008 Years ago if someone had declared themselves God; I would have wanted proof. Now I know that it is a very enlightened declaration of spiritual reality. In fact I can now fully appreciate the fact that I am God having a human experience as is everyone else... http://www.a1articles.com/article_554390_24.html 11th June 2008 Illness exists in the conscious mind. In order for one to be ill they have to know that they are. One’s illness will also be present in the minds of those who know you as sick and if you know someone as being sick then you are unwittingly supporting the... http://www.a1articles.com/article_547087_24.html 25th May 2008 What is this illusive thing that people go looking for called Spirituality? Spirit is 1/3 of the individualized entity; the body or ego that we know ourselves as being alive. By our very nature we are already spiritual and everything that we do is spiritu... http://www.a1articles.com/article_537976_24.html 15th May 2008 There are not many who give a lot of attention to their spirit; giving most of their attention to the human body and the ego. Just as most people do not think much about their feet, yet are concerned with the condition of their hands. The individual... http://www.a1articles.com/article_532963_24.html 08th May 2008 "Spirit Space" the documentary has just been released and I reviewed the DVD last night. If you have seen "The Secret" then you will have a pretty good feel for this DVD as the format is very similar. On the evolutionary highway, I would have released... http://www.a1articles.com/article_528166_24.html 01st May 2008 I get it all the time when I tell people that I am a writer and published author. They tell me, "I wish I could write a book," or "I thought about writing a book," or "Some day I'm going to write a book" - so when are you going to start? Then I he... http://www.a1articles.com/article_523068_24.html 25th April 2008 There is no way of knowing exactly how long man has been on this earth. Many hypothesize that he has existed for tens of thousands of years. And there is evidence to show that he may have been here for millions of years. There is also speculation that in ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_517782_24.html 16th April 2008 I often write about the personal power that every one of us has access to. Because we are God manifested in the human body, our power is limitless, yet we seldom demonstrate that power - why is that? The power that we are is really controlled by person... http://www.a1articles.com/article_512446_24.html 07th April 2008 When you enter into an argument with another, what is it that you hope to gain? If you enter into a heated debate with someone else, you must realize that there are more than the two entities involved. There are the two participating in the verbal exch... http://www.a1articles.com/article_503322_24.html 02nd April 2008 Fine dining and the roll of a great chef are inspirational and accurately reflect the purpose of the spirit within. A valuable lesson can be learned by understanding the purpose of a chef and what he/she does. I have been spending far too much time on the... http://www.a1articles.com/article_496705_24.html 27th March 2008 Anxious to move on to my next step in my own evolution and an experience of the physical life that embraces it, I am sometimes brought back to the reality of my own existence by my emotions or what someone has written or said. All of us including myself e... http://www.a1articles.com/article_493593_24.html 25th March 2008 It would seem preposterous to talk about the next step in evolution while 84% of the world's population is stuck in archaic religions and have been for thousands of years. In the course of its history humanity has not moved very far from worshipping trees... http://www.a1articles.com/article_481313_24.html 25th February 2008 I have over 15,000 pages of "spiritual wisdom" on my main web site. The title of my web site is "Spiritual New Age Wisdom, but it never occurred to me to write about what "spiritual wisdom" is, until I received a posting in my guest book asking about it. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477573_24.html 20th February 2008 New Age philosophy may be the vehicle to move people from the dark ages to the next step, but it to does not go far enough - it's just another stepping stone that is moving very slowly and is destined to box itself in. There were centuries of life o... http://www.a1articles.com/article_468608_24.html 06th February 2008 Although the movie "The Secret" was a huge success, it was more or less just another money maker for those involved. For many viewers it is just too good to be true. It is full of hype and promises that are unrealistic for our current stage of human devel... http://www.a1articles.com/article_463793_24.html 30th January 2008 The opportunities for illness are all around us, twenty four hours a day. So why isn't everyone sick all the time, why do some people never get sick? Your home is a buffet of germs, bacteria, and viruses and has some of the worst air to breath that you ca... http://www.a1articles.com/article_458933_24.html 23rd January 2008 "Healing the universe is an Inside Job" is a quote that was printed at the bottom of an email send to me by my good friend Tajuana. When I first read it, I thought "Wow" what a great line - I'll have to use it somewhere. After thinking about it for a few ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_250997_24.html 18th January 2008 All those things we should have done that were within our grasp fuels our thoughts of what could have been. How would my life have been different if I had continued with my guitar lessons? This morning while I was making a pot of tea, I was thinking... http://www.a1articles.com/article_250948_24.html 18th January 2008 Life on this planet is like living on the "holodeck." You can program the holodeck to experience anything that you desire without fear of harm because there are safety protocols built right in that guaranty your safety. For those who do no... http://www.a1articles.com/article_247145_24.html 14th November 2007 As a child, Christmas was definitely a great time. Presents, presents, and more presents - the words were interchangeable. We had our little duty to perform on Christmas Eve and that was the midnight service at church. Other than that we wer... http://www.a1articles.com/article_246964_24.html 14th November 2007 Sometimes I have to remind myself that things have changed and I have to get over what has passed. What happened to the $.10 coffee? Getting ready to go to work this morning, I opened up my wallet to check out the cash flow. Gees… there wa... http://www.a1articles.com/article_242923_24.html 08th November 2007 It is ironic that in a world of God worshippers, none of them would recognize God if they seen him/her, eyeball to eyeball. In fact in our present state of evolution if we did recognize him, we would probably stick him up on a cross or make ceramic dolls ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_233510_24.html 30th October 2007 The one undeniable aspect of the "Law of Attraction" is that you always get what you are thinking about. Knowing this is the key to making it work for you. I have been working with the "Law of Manifesting" for the last seven years and discov... http://www.a1articles.com/article_226751_3.html 12th October 2007 From my experience, I have noticed that many of us are just too wimpy with our expectations of what we want from the universe. For most of us, we just take what is handed out. Knowing you have what you want is the fastest way to experience w... http://www.a1articles.com/article_216016_24.html 20th September 2007 The "Oneness Blessing" continues but for how long. Have we received any benefit from them? Where do we go next? My sister and I have now received eight Deekshas. Our friend Kathy who usually accompanies us has received six. None of us are walking on... http://www.a1articles.com/article_208462_24.html 29th August 2007 I personally do not do affirmations-for a well disciplined mind, affirmations are the slow way to get what you desire. I am not saying I have this kind of mind. On the contrary, I am a slow thinker, my mind wonders, and I need time to think out of the box... http://www.a1articles.com/article_205252_51.html 22nd August 2007 Feeling mostly insulted by what is on the TV-I have severely limited my time and relationship with the tube. I have restricted my connection to its programming to the Food Channel and my daily dose of Voyager. Even with this limited access I have fo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_200217_51.html 10th August 2007 My scheduled Deeksha occurred last Sunday as usual. This was Deeksha number five. Nothing unusual happened during the almost two hours my sister, her friend and I attended the meeting. Much of the time was spent bonding with the practitioners, Angel... http://www.a1articles.com/article_198543_51.html 07th August 2007 Along with my sister and her friend, I attended my fifth Deeksha or Oneness Blessing today—one week following my fourth Deeksha. The past week has been an emotionally, physically and intellectually challenging period as I was at a rare all-time lo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_198379_51.html 07th August 2007 Two weeks ago I wrote my first article on the "Oneness Blessing" or Deeksha, and I said I would keep you up-to-date on my own experiences with it. Last week I invited my sister to attend a Deeksha and we made arrangements to receive it from a local co... http://www.a1articles.com/article_196550_51.html 02nd August 2007 Recently a friend of mine submitted an article to me she wrote about helping out in nature. After reading the article I was so excited about how well it was done and the message it conveyed, that I was inspired to write an article about her. I immed... http://www.a1articles.com/article_196010_51.html 02nd August 2007 If you haven't heard about the Oneness Blessing or Deeksha, you have now, and there will be more to come. I received a book by author Arjuna Ardagh, in the mail a couple of weeks ago from the Oneness University called Awakening into Oneness, publish... http://www.a1articles.com/article_182647_51.html 03rd July 2007 It is within the nature of the human being to help themselves--most of us believe we can do it ourselves and we place little value on help that requires change. This philosophy has never worked well for us. An author friend of mine has spent many... http://www.a1articles.com/article_179051_51.html 29th June 2007 As a self styled phenomenologist I like to break things down to their smallest part. In my day job I also have a natural desire and policy to do less and earn more. I semi retired seven years ago at the age of 52. I owned a very successful business ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_175923_51.html 18th June 2007 Your greatest hope for survival in this spiritual creation and the next will be in your ability to think outside the box. What you know as your truth now is limited. All things change-you, those around you, the environment, and the sky. Life in a b... http://www.a1articles.com/article_173093_51.html 15th June 2007 Being spiritual or not spiritual isn't an option-you were born spiritual and everything you do is spiritual. So what is the deal with trying to be spiritual-trying to find your path of enlightenment? I believe we are programmed to believe we ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_172818_51.html 11th June 2007 Twenty or more years ago I took several evening courses in an effort to meet other people and especially women. One of the courses I took for about a year was Tai Chi. The major benefit of the course was to learn about balance. The instructor demons... http://www.a1articles.com/article_171392_81.html 07th June 2007