Towards a World Spirituality built on Integral values
At first, I saw no reason that I should link to this blog post by a pseudonymous blogger who calls himself Orac. He claims to be a surgeon/scientist, and I have little doubt that he is. He is skeptical about all complementary/alternative medicine, which he likens to The Secret and New Age woo-woo nonsense. At [...]
“Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity … Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom …. love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. True love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or [...]
Fear may be the opposite of Love, arising on all levels of reality as a shadowy impulse towards annihilation or xenophobia, as the philosophy of some Integral Thinkers says, but it is also a feeling. And it may be a feeling that could be almost eradicted. A post on Big Think reports the results of [...]
In “The Heart of Addiction,” published in Psychology Today, Lance Dodes, M.D., argues that awareness and self-awareness are the keys to overcoming addictive behavior. In World Spirituality as I see it, attention is a form of Love, a way of embracing our nature at a causal level. Attention works, Dodes suggests, because paying attention to [...]
Face of the Day: National Bravery Award winner Om Prakash Yadav attends a press conference held to announce the awardees on January 18, 2012 in New Delhi, India. The eleven year old saved the lives of eight students, despite seriously burnt himself, when their CNG van caught fire and the driver escaped from the scene… [...]
Joe Perez's Awake, Alive & Aware is committed to practicing and advocating integral ways of living as conscious beings in an evolving universe. Our vision is to be a source and reflection of God's Light and Love, exploring how to live life to the fullest with inquisitive minds and open hearts. We are grounded in World Spirituality built on Integral principles. I … [MORE...]
Sri Aurobindo, with the shining light of a truly enlightened being, revolutionizing the Vedic tradition with evolutionary conciousness, writes of the … [MORE...]
Kevin, a reader of Awake, Alive & Aware, writes: Spirituality? Questions? Who am I? Yes. Yes. And yes. I would add the search for meaning and a … [MORE...]
Spiritual power is not an oxymoron. Watkins Books, a British magazine publisher, has begun to rank spiritually influential people. In a new list for … [MORE...]
"Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity ... Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom .... love as the will to extend … [MORE...]
Today my home state of Washington becomes the seventh state in the USA to legalize same-sex marriage. I am grateful for the wisdom and discernment of … [MORE...]