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Healing Journeys

by Students & Staff
This article is about two different types of healing journeys. One is the journey to see John of God (Joao de Deus) in Brazil like Juli just led. The other is the journey within, searching deep...
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Energy, Traffic & Cars - oh my!

by Students & Staff
We all spend a lot of time in our cars, driving from place to place, dealing with traffic and our own thoughts at the same time. Have you ever noticed already being at your next destination, making...
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The Commitment Conspiracy

by Students & Staff
Where is your loyalty? Take a commitment check and find out! That’s what I did recently and was quite shocked at the results. How many institutions and beliefs do we blindly pledge our allegiance...
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I Am An Eternal Spirit, Experiencing Life In a Human Body

by Students & Staff
Being in the Minister Training here at the center has been an amazing journey! For me it has been a transformative experience, a lot like the phoenix rising out of the ashes of illusion.  I...
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Rebirth

by Students & Staff
Spring is in the air!!! Birds are singing in the morning, trees are blooming, and my tulips are about to burst open. As the outdoors is coming alive spring is also a time for inner renewal. I had a...
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Wake Up Calls

by Students & Staff
My Wake-Up Call FORE!! This is not what a golfer wants to hear.  An errant inbound shot is cause to immediately duck and cover.  A wake up call for one’s life is cause to scramble as well...
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Spirit in a Baby Body

by Stacia Synnestvedt
“It’s a true gift to have a body” is something that I have often heard over the years.  Even though I could grasp the concept of coming here as a spirit to have physical experiences, often...
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Growth in The Darkness

by Juli Somers
At a recent Sunday service the topic was ‘Planting Your Garden’. Reverends’ Sherry and Celia did a terrific job of guiding all of us to become more aware of the inner garden we were nurturing...
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Times, They are-a-Changing!

by Juli Somers
“We seek not rest but transformation” - RumiWhat an exhilarating time to be alive! If you are paying a little bit of attention you are probably noticing things getting shaken up a bit personally...
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When Things Fall Apart - It's Good!

by Juli Somers
I was recently at a seminar where the presenter asked us if we felt like things were falling apart in our lives. After reminding us that it is a natural occurrence on the road to greater awareness...
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Transforming Judgment

by Juli Somers
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."  Friedrich NietzscheI’ve been reflecting lately on the energy of judgment. This...
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Mistakes vs. Choices

by Juli Somers
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma GandhiThe other day a friend was asking me about a comment I made where I said I don’t have a lot of rules...
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The Law of Attraction

by Juli Somers
I recently taught a Law of Attraction Workshop.  In it, I had the attendees look at an early time in life when some experience they had led to a decision that they were powerless in their lives...
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Embracing Change

by Juli Somers
Change.  It appears to be a simple word but when faced with it in our lives, there is often an inner resistance that only wants things to stay the same.  We decide who we are and how life...
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Consciously Creating Your Life

by Juli Somers
“Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes, if I were always closed or always stretched open, it would be paralyzed.” -RumiAs summer slowly makes its descent into fall, I notice the...
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Living the Spiritual Journey

by Juli Somers
Isn’t it easy to get sidetracked in life?  So many responsibilities, all the programming that wants you to think that you are the body, and ferris wheel of pleasure and pain that daily life...
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Commiting to Change

by Juli Somers
Change is not always an easy thing to embrace.  Though we may really want to improve certain aspects of our lives or ourselves, often we resist the process that change sometimes demands of us...
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You Are Psychic

by Juli Somers
I was speaking with someone recently about what we teach at the Center.  In response to my saying we train people in how to use their clairvoyant abilities, she expressed doubt.  “Isn’t...
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Beginner's Mind

by Juli Somers
“Just look into your heart, my friend, it will be the return to yourself, the return to innocence.”In the classes we teach at the Center, we say that we are in “psychic kindergarten”. ...
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Peace, Compassion & Connection

by Juli Somers
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop” KABIR    I have been watching myself struggle lately. With all the tools I have and...
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Self-Healing Meditation

by Juli Somers
“Know thyself, and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and the universe”    SocratesI walked into yoga class today and overheard a woman saying that she is a double...
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What You Focus on Increases

by Juli Somers
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.""I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an...
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Power of Intention

by Juli Somers
“I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me only not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give what I...
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Every Moment a Healing Moment

by Juli Somers
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.”One of my personal mantras is to make every moment a healing moment. No matter what is happening in life, one...
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Transcending Fear

by Juli Somers
“When nothing is sure, anything is possible”  AnonymousI read a wonderful story in a book by Richard Bach last year about overcoming fear. In his childhood, he was extremely frightened of...
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Focusing on the Positive

by Juli Somers
“Frodo Lost. Bush Has The Ring.”Just today I saw this funny bumper sticker on someone’s car. Isn’t it hard at times to believe in good when things appear to be so bad? I, too, often find...
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