Linda Sechrist Prior to the new year of 2026, I recalled watching and listening to several podcasts I had discovered that piqued my interest and sparked new ideas. Several of them were interviews with Stephan Schwartz ( StephanASchwartz.com ), who has spent most of his life exploring extraordinary human functioning and how individuals and small groups can—and have—effected social change. An experimentalist in parapsychology, he was also responsible for developing remote viewi

Carol Roberts “What will you do with your one wild and crazy life?”   What if 2026 was to be the last year of your life? What if you lived that way, whether it is or not?   Might life be more authentic, more enjoyable, less stressful?   Why not try it? Have you lived selfishly until now? If you buy into the American culture, you have. Your cell phone contains rare elements mined at risk of life and limb by workers paid less per week than you spend on one cup of coffee. The pa

Douglas Bonar New Beginnings and Renewal: An Evolutionary Perspective New implies a finite and distinct relationship to time. To grok wholeness, we open to the liminal world of nonlocality and nonlinearity. In simpler terms, we understand there is a different way of knowing, an escape from the boundaries of space and time. We’ve been told this by mystics, prophets, and ascended masters for millennium. In going beyond (transcending) linear thinking and the belief that time “fl

Bob Staretz A familiar cliché defines insanity as “doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results”. While the phrase is often used without much contemplation, it captures something profound about the human behavior and ego. The ego, by its very nature, resists change. It clings to familiar patterns of thought and behavior, even when those patterns of behavior no longer serve us well. In ancient times, this tendency to resist change was not a flaw but a sur

By Linda Sechrist In the spirit of Christmas, I find myself returning to the earliest memory of sensing that Consciousness was awakening within me. It was 1994, and I was journaling—simply writing a handwritten account of my day—when suddenly the word LIFE appeared on the page, printed in large capital letters. I hadn’t consciously written it. I remember staring at it for a long time, struck by how odd it looked amid my flowing cursive, how boldly it stood out as if placed th

By Carol Roberts Here’s a confession: I’m a You Tube addict. My favorite shows are the ones about channelers, mediums and other psychics who can do remarkable things. They all claim we can all do this, but someone once told us that our “friend” was “imaginary” and we shut down that possibility. I am always open to the unlikely and the metaphysical, especially when it costs nothing but a little effort to prove or disprove the premise - I am psychic too. ​I have been waking at

Feeding the Homeless Christ Consciousness for the Holidays Note: I use the terms Christ Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness interchangeably. I may even write God(dess), the Buddha Mind, Allah, the quantum field or the noosphere. Groking oneness, wholeness and interbeing allows for such adventures out of a limited worldview and the space time continuum. There is but one. I mostly like to call it Love. An initial experience that I have at the start of the winter holiday s

By Carol Roberts, MD "That the universe is the manifest body of a Divine Being of unimaginable intelligence, compassion, clarity, and power,  That we are all aspects of this Being, never separated from it for a moment,  That we are growing ever more aware of this connection,  That physical reality emerges out of Light and returns to Light continuously,  That Light is our essential nature and our destiny,  That all life moves as One,  That reincarnation is true,  That there is

Wholeness of Timeless Building Design Embracing People and Place in the Web of Nature by Linda Sechrist   There is a process through which the order of a building or a town grows out directly from the inner nature of the people, and the animals, and plants, and matter, which are in it. ~ Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building   According to internationally known architect Christopher Alexander [1936-2022], there is a timeless way of building. It is the same today

Archetype I truly believe that many are awakening and becoming increasingly aware of what’s happening around us, socially, politically, ecologically, and spiritually.  Nobel prize winning physicist Ilya Prigonine writes of dissipative structures and emergence. This is a centerpiece of chaos theory later to be named complexity theory. Things tend to spiral out of control and fall apart.  This may be thought of in terms of the global polycrisis facing humanity, or more simply,

by Douglas Bonar Remember when you were a kid and told your parents that you just wanted to go outside and play for a while longer? “I...

Awakening to the Evolutionary Impulse to Form Community by Linda Sechrist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s suggestion that the next Buddha...

Point / Counterpoint Point What is so disheartening in today’s world is that main-stream media pays little attention to the polycrisis ...

By Linda Sechrist; Natural Awakenings True love is not something reserved exclusively for soulmates, couples, children, friends or...

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