When we have bad thoughts in our belief system we have bad feelings and when we have good thoughts we have good feelings. Regardless if the thoughts are good or bad we can choose one of three ways to respond to the mental event. We can choose to focus on the bad, or the good, or remain indifferent.  By the power of our choice we determine how we feel. Negative emotional energy will most likely reduce our energy levels as it requires a tremendous amount of emotions to maintain a negative…

Early on in life I knew that a spiritual quality affected me. I have had several OBE’s and One NDE. On several occasion I was visited by the spirit of a love one. As a result of these experiences I became interested in Meditation and spent thirty eight years making a quality effort to meditate. During this period I began to have off and on OBE’s where I would visit places that I can only describe as other worldly.

 At the age of fifty two at two thirty AM one morning I awoke briefly…

In the OT, the temple was considered the place of God’s presence, whether this was expressed as the place where God himself dwelled or the place where his name or his glory dwelled. The latter two concepts were attempts to safeguard the divine transcendence, to avoid localizing God in a particular spot on earth. The temple in Jerusalem was the unique place where Israel could encounter the deity and offer sacrifice. According to John, the divine presence is found in a heaven, in the…

If you are someone who has inquired into the nature of consciousness, it has probably occurred to you that our sensorial impressions of the external world, such as color, visual scenes, sounds and smells, are phenomena going on inside our minds.  Our sensory apparatuses are affected by external stimuli such as photons and air vibrations.  They in turn send neural signals into our brains, and--voila, we are conscious of the external world. 

            Have you given much thought to…