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21 Ways to Stay in the Peace

From Byron Katie Compiled by Mary Lynn Hendrix Introduction The following are simple, yet powerful practices that can give you new ways of looking at your life circumstances, and in that, create n read more...

Be-Loved

LOVE – what is it really? The Collins dictionary defines love as "to have great affection for; feel sexual passion for; enjoy something very much". I would venture to say if I asked 200 people, I read more...

Brandon Bays interview

Waking up to who you are and letting go of who you are not. read more...

Developing Spiritual Balance

An interview with Stuart Wilde Q: In your tape series "Loving Relationships" you explain how females have a natural spiritual balance. You also mention that when women figure that out and stop tryin read more...

It's Easy to Listen to A Scotsman

I feel like listening. Deep listening. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, talking, debating on issues and a lot of doing. It’s time to listen. Not just to the people I find interesting and pass read more...

Living As a Free Human Being

Being true to oneself confronts the status quo of our own fear, and whatever external circumstances onto which we project that fear. Only when I am really myself on the deepest, most dignified level read more...

Making sense of this place

No other place evokes my sense of self more than the long, straight line of the horizon. As a child you know where you belong. Your name, address and family ties you to a place and helps define who read more...

Martial Arts: a foundation of life and learning

Martial arts are a wonderful foundation on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. read more...

Nothing but the tooth

The truth excites me. Yet the more I thought and talked about it the more confused I became. I found that I knew nothing about truth. I could write pages on what truth isn’t. It wasn’t so diffic read more...

Ordinary Life

How do you stay in touch with the opening and powerful experiences that can occur in workshop situations or during a session? How do you integrate this experience into ordinary daily life? I believe read more...

Ramesh Balsekar dies

Dear Friends,   It is with the heaviest of hearts I write to tell you of the passing of our beloved Ramesh this morning at 9am in his home in Bombay. His death  was quick and peaceful.  � read more...

Sacred Spiritual Sexuality

What does that have to do with me?   Sex, spirit, sacredness, the divine.  How does it feel to you to put those words together with sex?  Sex, sexuality - is your lust for living, your jui read more...

Stories, stories stories

Believing our own stories. Where would we be without our stories? In silence perhaps, in boredom? Now and again I find myself lost in stories, stories about this one or that, what is happening and w read more...

The Awakening

A time comes in your life when you finally get it - when in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks, and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough read more...

The Dreaming Festival 09

I have just come back from The Dreaming, Australia's international Indigenous festival held over the Queen's birthday weekend in June at the Woodford site in SE Queensland. It was just fabulous hang read more...

The excercise myth

There are lots of myths around exercise and losing weight and much pavement is pounded unnecessarily. Exercising smarter and longer, not harder, is the key to longterm health. read more...

The Five Pathways of Mankind which we all take

1. I walk down the street. I see a deep hole in the footpath. I fall in. I am lost … I am hopeless. It is not my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. 2. I walk down the same street. There is read more...

The Invitation - a challenge thrown down

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you are here for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. read more...

The times they are changing...

I interact with many people each week and in the course of this I have noticed an increasing trend where the reliable constant seems to be change. All over the world we are seeing changes happening read more...

Unveiled: an interview with Anna Davidovitch

Anna Davidovich, the source of the "Unveiled Rite of Initiation", speaks with Mark O'Brien about initiation and how that presents itself within her work, the place of ritual, and the importance of intention. read more...

What is real? The Holy Grail.

Byron Bay is such a spiritual supermarket, with all kinds of people offering truth as an experience, a commodity. “Come and sit in truth”, “Discover the truth of your being”, “Know the tru read more...

World Dharma and Natural Freedom

An interview with Alan Clements read more...