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Shinto Harmony
Shintoism is very concerned with purity, but this purity is not the moral concept we think of. They believe that by doing, or being associated with disharmonious things, you pick up a spiritual stain. You aren’t a bad person, nor will you necessarily be damned, but it is seen to be in your best interests…
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Power Is Not Force
Power. It’s a very complicated topic in a way, and yet not as complicated as people make it. Perhaps first an important distinction: Power is not force, and most people who are attempting to show power are actually showing force. Force is not powerful. It’s just forceful, and rigid. What is power actually? Control? Hmm,…
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Logistics of Spirit
Power is the logistics of spirit. Where does it come from and reside? The cycles, the memory, the creative potential energy. It could be seen as the ground of all other energies. The grand unified field of physics. Power is lost when we break it into pieces as our minds so love to do? Basically, yes. …
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Life Driven Power
Sometimes the power of science can cut through myth? Sometimes the power of science creates its own myths. Scientific egotism really needs a reality check. A big piece of our medical knowledge is actually recycled shamanism, but not the profit motive. But the point is, any observation regardless of ascription, looks at the universe and…
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Power In Life
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You Are Power
In Hawaiian culture, they acknowledge all forms of life as family, and they aren’t being abstract about it. So my power is the power of the piece of pizza I ate this morning, should I declare myself to be pizza? Sometimes when you’re hungry you feel your strength coming back by every bite. Indeed, and…
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Dynamic Peace
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Rainbow of Magic
You have probably heard the terms “white magic” and “black magic.” What are your thoughts on that? Doesn’t the black and white model seem really off? The conventional notion is that white is good, and black is bad. It’s in all the fairy tales. Yes, this is in the modern telling. The older stories aren’t that…
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Color of Magic
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Feeling Disconnection
Many spiritual groups don’t welcome dark feelings or dark sentiments in their functions. We don’t have this prejudice on Reflection Island, and our Spiritual Darkness class is to give that its place in our awareness. I would like to start by offering the floor to anyone who would like to share some element of darkness…
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Essence of Relationship
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Intimacy With Others
Some people do enter into intimacy in their relationships, and they do change as a new relationship begins. If you are conscious you choose differently. You become conscious of your patterns by allowing your feelings fully. You can’t experience what you won’t let yourself have. If you’re busy flipping the light switch what will you see…
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Opening Up