State of Mind – The Science and Art of Personal Transformation
All spiritual development comes by way of embodying and expressing certain qualities that alter our consciousness through employing them, and develop our character accordingly. Qualities are states of mind that form our perceptual lens and alter our vibration as a level of consciousness. Our character, which is the basis...
Choice and Freewill – Our Ability to Self-Create
Man is not only bestowed with a higher level of consciousness through our ability to create internal experiences out of external stimulus as thought, but also through our ability to choose and willfully act out that choice to create our own experiences. These self-created experiences then become our memory,...
Thought, Self-Creation, and the Nature of Karma
Karma is the Habituated State of Mind that Forms all of Our Perceptions Many people believe that karma is something that’s incurred only through actions of some kind, or that it’s okay to think about something as long as you don’t actually “do” anything. Pure thought is subtle...
God, Karma, and the Nature of Free Will
Many of us have been taught to believe that God exists as a created, thinking being that acts willfully in our life to produce outer effects that ultimately either causes our pain and suffering or can alleviate it, forming the idea that we’re somehow being punished or rewarded for...
Soul Evolution – Finding the Lesson in Life Events
Most of us realize that the conditions, circumstances and events of our life contain lessons for us to learn in some way because they act on us to grow and develop us by how we interact and react to them. This usually starts with our initial conditioning which lays...
The Goal of Meditation – Personal Transformation by Becoming One with God
Meditation, as a practice, works off the same principles as trance and hypnosis, and serves the same overall purpose. When we meditate, we completely relax our body while withdrawing all consciousness from it, and we lose awareness of our physical existence. We calm and silence our thoughts and enter...
What Reactive Behaviors are Showing You About Yourself
When You React to Something, it’s Showing you Parts of Yourself that are Operating at an Unconscious and Automatic Level In order to understand this idea, we have to look at the nature of a reaction, and what actually happens when we react, as well as what it means...
The Importance of Working with an Ideal
Creating a Vision for Your Ultimate Development While many of us have been trained to the idea of creating a vision for our life in terms of lifestyle, professional career, relationships, health, etc., few of us embrace the importance of forming a personal ideal of ourselves that we use...
How to Change Bad Habits – Learning How to Operate Your Mind
Using the Power of your Will to Change your Lifestyle Many people seek to change what they’re doing and what practices they engage in that they find enjoyable, gratifying, or pleasurable somehow, and because they don’t realize that the only reason they experience these activities in that way, is...
Karma and the Law of Cause and Effect – Changing Reactive Behaviors
Becoming Self-Aware Karma can probably be most clearly understood as the law of cause and effect, or action that produces an equal or greater reaction. Karma is the fundamental activity of our life, which is either repeating a pattern as a natural tendency or unconscious behaviors, which produces a...