Understanding the Principle of Reciprocity 10 Autumn brings the holiday season to our year. It starts in the early fall with the Jewish holidays, and culminates on January 1 with the beginning of a new year. Many birthdays fall in that time-period in my family, so we’re particularly full of the celebratory spirit. Historically, autumn …

Education in the 21st Century By Chetan Parkyn Born as a human in the early 21st century implies that we have an extensive learning process which lasts our whole life. We are unique as a species, since we have access to a large and complex neocortex which processes and rationalizes the details of our environment. …

Understanding the Principle of Awareness 9 To fully understand the emergence of the principle of Awareness, it’s helpful to look back over the inner focus points of all the Ascending Principles. Placement’s (0) focus is in the natural micro-universes of the earth herself. It’s in those micro-universes that all the seeds (literal and metaphorical) get …

In nature, Spring is a time of rebirth, renewal and new beginnings. Spring cleaning traditionally means a top-to-bottom house cleaning and maybe even the garage and yard get some attention. What about a “financial” cleaning and clearing out of old stuff? It may not be Spring at the moment, but let’s pretend it is and …

We are, each of us, a part of a greater whole. Often we are not aware of the energetic connection joining us to all things, considering ourselves, instead, separate and aloof. From time to time we get shocked back into the reality of our essential unity. It can take an entire lifetime to arrive at a point of realizing our interconnectedness, yet it is also possible, if we allow ourselves a space in time, for it to happen in an instant...

Coming to understand the power of our subconscious mind and how it affects our conscious life and sense of well-being can be a challenge. However, as parents it is a very interesting power to embrace and understand as we help our children establish happy lives. Here are some examples from my own life to help …

I remember seeing a story on the news a few years ago. A young boy had fallen into the gorilla habitat at a zoo. The fall apparently knocked him unconscious. His parents and a crowd gathered round watched, holding their breath as the female gorilla approached the child. To everyone’s amazement, rather than harming him as they feared, she picked him up tenderly, and took him into her living quarters where she tended him until the zoo keepers (with whom she was familiar) came to take him. Who among us watched that story without shedding just a few sweet tears? I wondered, if she hadn’t known and trusted the zoo keepers who came for the boy, would she fiercely have protected him? Did we anthropomorphize the gorilla, projecting human maternal qualities onto her? Or did we simply bear witness to Goodness, emerging in the animal kingdom? I think it was the latter. I think when we see Goodness, it moves us to the core of our being. Perhaps more than any other principle, it reminds us of who we are.

“Beloveds, When you listen for our voices and for the communications we place on your paths, you give us the opportunity to tell you once again how very much we love you. We are here to assist you on your way each moment of your lives. Each and every one of you has been walking …

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson To me, being alive and vibrant at this time in history, at the end of the old and the beginning of a new century, is awe-inspiring. You may or may not have this same view as we move collectively …

Being born into this world brings your spirit consciousness into the realm of living your life in a human body. Over thousands of generations, the human body has proven itself to be incredibly versatile, resilient and capable of amazing feats, but still, it has its physical and biological limits. It is only in fairly recent times that life expectancy has risen significantly, so, to date, the importance of procreation and repopulating the species has been of the greatest importance. Sex has completely affected how the