Getting Through the Dark Night of the Soul(IMPORTANT read, as everyone experiences this) |

Getting Through the Dark Night of the Soul(IMPORTANT read, as everyone experiences this) |: The dark night of the soul is a process many�spiritual�seekers go through at some point in their lives, I being one of them.��The�dark night is not mentioned that much in�spiritual�texts and teachings.���A lot of the times, we are being told to be happy, raise your vibration, look to the light,�but none of this will be lasting until you have loved the dark.�

The Myth of the Great Spirit

The Myth of the Great Spirit: At some point in the distant past, and well after European efforts to eradicate native Americans in the Western hemisphere had begun, the idea that tribal people worshipped something generally referred to as the Great Spirit entered the field of discourse in the few and widely scattered efforts anyone of European descent made to understand, then communicate, what native people believed about the nature of the world.

12 Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening

12 Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening: 1.�Spiritual awakening often manifests as various body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back.�This is�the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the “Christ seed” awakens within. This too shall pass.

Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion | Video on TED.com

Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion | Video on TED.com

The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word.

About Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "Being" (formerly "Speaking of Faith"), which takes up the great animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we…

Council on Renewal | Spirituality, Psychology, Economics

Council on Renewal | Spirituality, Psychology, Economics: "t’s worth stepping back on occasion to consider the progress that has been witnessed in particular academic fields. Astronomy took a giant step forward centuries ago when it finally realized the sun was at the center of the solar system. Geology adapted to the fact of a round earth. The continuous evolution of Physics boggles the mind. Engineering perpetually pushes into new frontiers."

Spirituality

"There is a part of every living thing that wants to become itself--the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, the damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality." Ellen Bass