Spiritual Growth

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Feeding Your Faith Online
Growing spiritually is not only easier online, it can also be more satisfying via the Internet because of the vast array of resources available.

Soul Signs: An Elemental Guide to Your Spiritual Destiny
In Soul Signs, Rosemary reveals basic truths about our souls -- how they came to be, where they go when we die, and, most significant for success in our personal and professional lives, how they interact with other souls during our stay on this earthly plane.

When Faith is Tested
This is a time of monumental transition for our world, and each of our lives is being affected by the larger planetary transformations that are happening. Many of us who are on a spiritual path and living a spiritual life feel dismayed by the great intensity that is manifesting in our lives.

All of Life is Spiritual Life
Your life as you know it, even now is a spiritual life. Even if you spend not one second thinking about God, your existence as a soul is a living testimony to God's love and goodness. You are beloved in God's eyes, even if you have no awareness of God or spiritual life. God's love formed the very DNA of your cells, and created you with purity, love and goodness in your heart.

Man, the Microcosm; Part 3
The Eye of Horus. The capstone of the Pyramid is a symbol of Christ. The function of the etheric body. The 7 chakras. The Third-Eye.

Man, the Microcosm; Part 2
Wastage of personal energy. Dualism--non dualism. The 7 Principles. Threefold man.

The Challenge of Manifesting at this Time
One of the most challenging aspects of spiritual life comes when it comes time to live the spiritual realizations that we've had, in our day to day realities. As we are confronted with the daily tasks, choices, opportunities and challenges of life, many obstacles can appear, seemingly out of nowhere. These obstacles can create discouragement or even despair, especially in those who are new to the spiritual path.

All by the will of God
Some might question how evil can happen by the will of God. Well is it not said that even a leaf cannot move without God’s will? Then can so many so-called evil things happen without his will?

Holy Scriptures : Myth or Reality?
Holy Scriptures like Bhagavad Gita and Bible say that all bodies are embodied by God or the same spirit of God dwells in all the bodies. If this is true then human being is God and not Man or Woman. The Holy Scriptures also say that we can be freed from death and have everlasting life provided we love all equally including our enemies since all beings are forms of God or they are God.

Essential Difference Between Male and Female
A man asked a Sufi, "People talk about male and female, but what is the essential difference between the two?" The Sufi replied, "O man, both are formed of the five elements. The concept of male and female applies to the body. The Artist who created the male and female merely decorated them differently. The body is a cage, a house in which either can dwell, but you are deceived by the decorations.

What is the Connection Between God and Man?
What is the connection between God and man? If God is unseen, how can a connection be established between man and something unseen? How can man see the connection?

Are You Ready To Be Completely Freed From Everything by Elysha
The old paths of humanity's spiritual growth - which includes all of the apparent "new" ones that have flourished over the past twenty or so years - which give you the feel of doing something; give you the feel of working on yourself; give you the feel of going somewhere with your "practices;" give you the feel of attaining the idea of the nothingness that you may intuit in given moments; are all human methods.

Will You Give Up Your Beliefs For Spiritual Enlightenment? by Elysha
You can be who you are but you will never consciously be who you are while you are defending who you think you are. Who you think you are is hoping to be relieved of its own movement while perpetuating its own movement.

What Happens While We Sleep: A Spiritual Perspective
The human body has never truly been separated from the higher realms of light, despite one's waking experience. At night, this body rejoins its higher counterparts that are the non-physical energy bodies, and a more seamless union of different aspects of one's being takes place than can normally occur during daytime functioning.

What Lies Beyond
This is a spiritual poem, based on my personal beliefs. I welcome any comments. Thank you.

When Family Members Drift Apart - A Spiritual Perspective
Relationships that are inherited often feel like they are not chosen. Some are peaceful and loving, but many are embattled or difficult in other ways. Sometimes the reasons for creating distance seem more compelling than the reasons for creating love, yet in all cases it is of benefit to the heart and soul to create a path of return to love.

Dead Is Just a Word
Many people fear the prospect of death, believing in their hearts that it's the end of all existence for them; but how about if there were proof that we only die physically, not spiritually? This comforting short book will certainly help to bring clarity to the strong probability of life after death and will warm your very soul.

Spiritual Gardening
The time when humankind decided to move from silent knowledge to reason was the same time it moved from hunting and gathering to agriculture. However it is possible to apply much silent knowledge to the practice of agriculture – hence these lessons.

Spiritual Cookery
The "spiritual quality of food" is not a metaphor: food contains a light fiber energy which is as important to our sustenance as vitamins and proteins, but which is not susceptible to chemical analysis.

Life is a Journey from I to We
Most of us have known a person or two in our lives who almost always seem content and at peace. People are attracted to them like magnets and their lives are rich and full. Good things seem to effortlessly come their way. Yet oddly, such people generally have little regard for their own welfare and continuously put others first. How do we explain this paradox?

Spiritual Lethargy
Your transitory physical existence is similar to a temporary visitor’s visa. Both are short term and both have an expiry date. When that expiry date appears an unseen burden may materialize, created by not investigating the how and why of the visa.