• SoulCircles


    If you are new, please take your time and look around. I am sure you will find some tasty morsels to munch on. If you are a return visitor, welcome back! We missed you.

    SoulFriends' dream is to be a world community of thinkers and practitioners within a paradigm of the transpersonal. Transpersonal can best be defined as those states of human consciousness, or processes, which include experiencing a deeper awareness of who we are and a better sense of connectedness with others, with nature and/or with spiritual dimensions. The richness of our soulcircle at SoulFriends includes philosophers, practitioners and educators in the fields of consciousness, psychology, spirituality, and religion, who help bring our awareness into greater alignment with something beyond ourselves. It includes change agents, transformational catalysts and intentional communities that guide us on our path toward wholeness and actualization. Most of all, it includes fellow travelers who share the story of our journey.

    Thank you for joining us on this journey!
    Namaste, Joy
    (and the SoulFriends Team)

  • Jessica Ruby

    How to Use Guided Meditations to Awaken and Utilize the Power of Your Mind!



    If you’re ready to take the first steps toward creating a better life, you may want to find someone to walk you through the basics of meditation. This can be in the form of a teacher you meet with in person, or a guided meditation CD. People who have listened to guided meditation CDs have experienced increases in creative problem solving, improved concentration, and reductions in tension and stress. Guided meditation takes you through visualization strengthening exercises that are easy to understand and apply. These exercises help to strengthen your body-mind connection to improve mental focus and acuity. You deserve a better life, and learning to meditate can lead you to peace of mind and a stress-free body.

    If you’re a person who doesn’t believe in the power of the ‘body-mind’ connection then how do you explain what happens to your body while engaging in a sexual fantasy? The mind is so powerful and such a part of our lives that we forget to use it for... read more
    Jessica Ruby 05-10-2012, 08:42 AM

    Categories:

    Self Help 
    Tags: how to  meditation  stress 
    yvonneserocki

    Is It Imagination or Is It Prayer?



    Is it our imagination or is it prayer? It is, (drum roll please), both! The only condition is that both must arise from the deeper, higher, infinite mind of the heart and not the limited mind of the lower nature. The old way of praying was a rote recitation, or mindless repetition of a prayer given to us from an external source, to a separate God outside ourselves. The old way of prayer was asking for material objects, or qualities that were thought to be external to us, that once attained would bring that ever-illusory happiness.

    We prayed for something external to fix something we thought was broken. For the most part we didn’t even know we had an “inside” as our world consisted of only what we could see, feel, taste, hear or experience with our five senses. Prayers were rarely answered and we lost faith, turned away and decided God was a figment of our imagination, a myth or fairy tale. This is the tag line of many atheists today. Prayer has been... read more
    yvonneserocki 04-29-2012, 04:10 PM

    Categories:

    Christianity  Spiritual Emergence  Transformation 
    Tags: imagination  prayer  awareness  higher mind  leap of faith 
    Virginia Lee

    Malidoma Somé: Ambassador of the Ancestors



    Ambassador of the Ancestors
    Malidoma Somé shares a mystical journey inspired by his African ancestors


    by Virginia Lee
    for Common Ground Fall 1996

    CG: Your name, Malidoma, means "to befriend the stranger and the enemy," a destiny which was given to you at birth. Would you tell the story of how you discovered your purpose in life and how you have fulfilled your destiny ?

    MS: One's purpose in life, from a tribal perspective, is not really "discovered" by the individual as modern language seems to indicate. Instead, in the Dagara tribe where I come from, one's individual purpose is something that is already set prior to birth. And it is the task of the living to discover the purpose of an incoming soul before it is born, rather than figuring it out later on. The understanding is that any person who is being born is coming here from the world of the ancestors. There, the individual in spirit... read more
    Virginia Lee 04-09-2012, 04:30 PM
    Tags: malidoma somé  african spirituality  of water and the spirit  virginia lee 
    Virginia Lee

    Andrew Weil: Discovering Your Inner Doctor

    Dr. Andrew Weil explores the phenomenon of spontaneous healing

    for Common Ground Spring 1998

    by Virginia Lee

    Dr. Andrew Weil has almost become a household word. Having graced the covers of magazines like TIME and New Age, having given dozens of TV interviews on everything from CNN to Oprah Winfrey, it's not surprising that Andrew Weil currently has two books on the New York Times bestseller list. Spontaneous Healing has been there since its publication and meteoric rise back in 1995. And his most recent book, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, had no trouble doing the same when it was released in 1997.[/I]

    In addition, Dr. Weil maintains one of the top ten websites on the Internet,"Ask Dr. Weil." During the first week of January 1998, it received over 1.6 million hits, a phenomenon which promises to revolutionize the way medical information is distributed world-wide. As a result, the vitamin vendor at the local health food store... read more
    Virginia Lee 03-31-2012, 08:23 PM

    Categories:

    Consciousness  Integral  Ontology 
    Tags: andrew weil  integrative medicine  natural healing  virginia lee 
    Bertita

    Thoughts on a Burning Bowl Ceremony (inspired by the writings of Ralph Metzner)

    Thoughts on a Burning Bowl Ceremony
    (inspired by the writings of Ralph Metzner)

    A few words about the intent of the ceremony:
    This ceremony, performed as a ritual, offers us the opportunity to leave behind something that no longer serves our life. More precisely it is an act of letting go. The purpose is to release a pattern, belief, emotion or experience that impedes us. We offer our behavior patterns of thought and deed to make room for a new way of being. This ceremony is a request for transformation of something specific we individually wish to let go of, something to be returned to us renewed and in a form that serves and supports our lives in the present.

    Together we ask for the possibility of transforming a negative condition into a positive replacement. The more precisely we articulate our request, the more clearly we can see what needs transforming and where the transformation needs to take place. Together we bind our intention to the... read more
    Bertita 03-30-2012, 01:10 PM
    Tags: burning bowl  ceremony  fire  spirituality 

  • TheBullBuster

    I Never Accomplish Anything

    I recently realized I had gotten into a habit of beating myself up for all the stuff I didn’t get done. I pointed out to myself that I neglected to clean off my dining table, hadn’t gotten very far on designing my website, didn’t make an appointment to get my hair cut…..wow, it’s so damn easy to find all that stuff I didn’t get around to! The...

    TheBullBuster Yesterday 02:03 PM
    Jessica Ruby

    What’s Your Myth?

    What mythologies are you holding onto that are in the way of you getting what you want? What beliefs are tethering you to a reality you no longer feel comfortable living in? Why don’t you just go and do what you say you want to do? I work with victims of domestic violence, and more often than not, when I share that with people, their...

    Jessica Ruby Yesterday 01:56 PM
    Marie

    Energy work on the aura

    Like I said earlier, I always start a session with some work on the aura and chakras. Most of the time, my clients' energy fields are weak or blocked. Their Prana, or Chi, or Life Force does not flow. They feel drained. I think doing energy work on the aura and chakras is the foundation of a strong health. If the aura is depleted or the 7...

    Marie Yesterday 01:45 PM
    Jessica Ruby

    Engaging the Present Moment

    “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” ~ Anais Nin [/URL] “Remember, Be Here Now,” “there’s nothing like the present,” “The Power of Now,” etc., etc….You’ve heard it all: forget the past, don’t mind the future-live in the present moment. “The past is history,...

    Jessica Ruby 05-16-2012 08:55 PM
    TheBullBuster

    My Needs Don’t Matter

    This is a tricky lie of the day! Surely, you are not actively using this thought, or walking around believing that your needs don’t matter. Sadly, this one sits deep underneath our conscious thoughts, so we don’t even know we’re thinking it. It’s the belief that you are supporting every time you make an excuse to not go to the gym, not get your...

    TheBullBuster 05-15-2012 12:28 PM
    Jessica Ruby

    Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Success: How your outlook changes everything

    [/URL] Did you know that the way you choose to look at life can make or break your ability to achieve your dreams? Did you know you have a choice to either keep your eyes on the prize or on the obstacles? Sure, obstacles sometime need our attention in order to overcome them. But by noticing how much attention you’re actually giving those...

    Jessica Ruby 05-15-2012 12:20 PM
    Jessica Ruby

    Guided Meditation Online – Can We Trust The Internet?

    The Internet is, without any doubt, the greatest invention of the millennium. No one can deny the power of this technological medium to bring people together, to create bonds, to stimulate minds, to increase our informational backgrounds, or to teach us different things, such as the guided meditation online. Yes, indeed… This is possible, even...

    Jessica Ruby 05-14-2012 11:43 AM
    Marie

    How to remove "limiting beliefs"?

    What is a limiting belief? It is something that you believe to be true about yourself or a situation, but it is not true at all. Your conscious mind and/or subconscious have created and internalized that belief during your childhood or after repetitive negative experiences. For example, "I am not worthy", "I don't deserve to be...

    Marie 05-13-2012 04:02 PM
    RosieKuhn

    Dilemmas of Being in Business #16: What to Do When There is Nothing to Do!

    A client of mine in Toronto, Frank, is challenged in this moment with an interesting dilemma. His project is stalled due to a number of factors outside his area of responsibility. He’s in a “wait and see” place, and what he’s finding is that he’s experiencing a lack of motivation, a sense of inadequacy and he’s questioning his competence. ...

    RosieKuhn 05-13-2012 03:56 PM
    yvonneserocki

    Ten Steps to Heaven on Earth

    [/URL] The journey to heaven on earth is within the body. It is an inside job. If you seek heaven outside yourself, you will never find it. Only God knows when each will see the kingdom of God manifested in the physical world, because each person must do the work to prepare the way in their own consciousness (in the spiritual body). God...

    yvonneserocki 05-13-2012 03:48 PM