Spirituality for Living

Most people keep frustration at a distance in their awareness. They just try to deny the feeling and function anyway. Anyone care to tell me how well this works?
It builds. Yes, because the state is very real and sort of like fragmentation on a hard drive it can have a cumulative effect.
Not well at all [...]

Why do we sand bag ourselves in with beliefs, worries, fears, philosophies? I prefer to leave my space open. I find these things in the world, and move through them. I find faith, and move through it. I find knowing, and move through it. They all relate in a very big and spacious world.
Philosophy is [...]

We are honored to have MaiLe Firehawk share her native Hawaiian culture. She shares tales of Hawaiian values of spirit, mind and body.
Aloha, everyone. Story time at Sukelu this week. Stories, legends. This week, The Wind-Ka Makani, and Kilioe. Something about power over life and death in these.
voices on the wind
are calling us
to tell us [...]

What is meaning?
What is skilful and what is not so skilful.
How can you discredit one thing and credit another?
It depends on the moment.
Meaning is purpose.
Who decides meaning and purpose?
How can anything be right or wrong if it has true meaning?
Because everyone has their own path.
Meaning is nothing, and you decide anyway. That is meaning.
You can’t [...]

The first knowledge is “I don’t know”. The second knowledge is “I can observe”.
I don’t like my state. I want to acquire so much knowledge in life and its never-ending.
How will this knowledge help you after you die?
By knowing I lived a happy life with my knowledge.
Is knowledge necessary? I don’t know, but it’s presence [...]

Weave yourself in a tapestry of light. Guided meditation for relaxation and growth recorded on Reflection Island in Second Life.
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Enjoy friends,
Dragon [...]

A Grace message recorded on Reflection Island in Second Life. Learn about the Grace practice, how to deal with emotion and evolve to a better you.
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Enjoy friends,
Dragon Intuitive
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There are some very good lyrics I have been hearing lately, “I’ll take everything in this life. I’ll join everyone and understand. ‘Cause all men die. ‘Cause all men die.” (James Blunt)
The secret is to learn to be happy first, with whatever you have.
But what you have was acquired first and thought to bring happiness.
To [...]

There is a focus here. The darkness we may be in, or may have insight into.
I recently had the revelation that I am always pointing the finger at others, including a God I supposedly gave up belief in. Rather than turning my thoughts inward and finding the problem, I cast the issue at the feet [...]

We created our Spiritual Darkness discussion group in Second Life to give place to the darker feelings and phases of the spiritual life. Their expression and perhaps some insight.
Everyone on any spiritual/philosophical path has dark moments. In Christian mysticism they refer to them as a “dark night of the soul”. They are actually considered good [...]

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I’m an atheist, but I find religion very interesting. Especially mysticism, druidism, Wicca.
It is, yes. There are so many beliefs that have shaped our world even when we don’t know it.
I’m [...]

The Hawaiian people have what could perhaps be called family gathering spots. The spot is automatically a meeting place between them and the spirits. Many sites like that here, yes. Ancient to present time.
That’s done with the set up of the space, and people also use symbols to define their space. Mandalas, Navajo sand paintings, Voodoo [...]

Anyone have experience with ritual magic? Care to share your experiences?
Kawa ceremony. At heiau, at midnight to 3 am. Kawa is kava. Heiau are our temples. At those hours we follow a protocol so as to invite the spirits of aumakua to come. Chant, share kawa, silence, etc. and for some multiple presences are seen [...]

I won’t be addressing any one style of ceremony, but will speak to styles across the board.
What is ritual magic? It is ceremony. It is performance like song or dance, but not like these things in the conventional sense. There are simple ritual practices that those of organized religion wouldn’t want to acknowledge are magic, [...]

There is not one way and we should all be on it. There are many ways, like many blood vessels in the body. Thank God/nature/providence for that, no?
The best results are the ones I couldn’t have thought up or expected. But you can be in touch with what takes you there. We all can with [...]