Intuition & Awareness

Details: Written by: Kim Chestney

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Imagine that you are one of the many seekers and free-spirited adventurers playing your part in the greatest investigation of all time: the quest to understand what we are all doing here in this world.

Details: Written by: Judith Orloff, M.D.

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One of the biggest blocks to empathy is a fear of being vulnerable and then overwhelmed. It either seems too painful or unsafe to lovingly explore your own emotions or that you risk getting burned out by other people’s problems, dramas, and needs.

Details: Written by: Trevor Griffiths

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Imagination may, of course, add great beauty, hope, and inspiration to cultures. But, a mental mode of living, which distorts or oppresses the core values of the social brain, may sadly corrupt and undermine society.

Details: Written by: Nicole Goott

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The five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are easily recognizable as forces existing around us all the time. The five elements exist not only around us in the Natural world but also within us, in both physical and metaphysical terms.

Details: Written by: Rebecca Stephenson, University College Dublin

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The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk – and fastidious medieval monk

Details: Written by: Gregory Ripley

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When we support others, it is important that we aid them by guiding them toward understanding and developing their own strengths rather than providing solutions for them. The first step though is to understand ourselves.

Details: Written by: Cheryl Pallant, PhD

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With direct experience, we set aside concepts, beliefs, habits, and cultural conditioning. We set aside the known in favor of sensing. We feel into What Is. Attention redirects to any of the five senses and to the inner senses.

Details: Written by: Mark Ireland

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Boxed-in thinking is rooted in a materialistic worldview known as “scientism” which dominates much of our society’s vision of reality and progress.

Details: Written by: Bruce Scofield

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Testing astrology is difficult, in part, because of the constantly changing cosmic environment and, consequently, the individual nature of each astrological chart.

Details: Written by: Lisa Campion

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Psychic ability conjures up a lot of different images in people’s minds. Chances are good that we have seen portrayals of psychics on TV and in movies that stick in our minds as truth, but they might actually be more of the Hollywood variety.

Details: Written by: Suzanne Worthley

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We all are feeling beings who have the gift of empathy to be able to connect with other sentient life. Empathy is the ability to share, understand, or feel another’s emotion and what they may be feeling or experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference.

Details: Written by: Paul Levy

I’ve been writing about wetiko in one way or another for over twenty years. I guess you could say that I consider it an important enough topic to devote the rest of my life to trying to capture and elucidate this concept in words.

Details: Written by: Sarah Janes

dream incubation

Dream incubation is any technique or combination of techniques aimed at engendering a desired dream. For our ancestors this would most likely involve seeking out a divine entity or deceased person.

Details: Written by: Anne Cleary, Colorado State University

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Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already happened.

Details: Written by: Barry Vissell

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I have gradually learned to listen to Joyce's intuitive feelings. Sometimes I don't like them, because they go against my desires.

Details: Written by: Lisa Campion

In all the readings that I have done over the years, I have never met anyone that didn’t have a whole team of guides with them.

Details: Written by: Sarah Janes

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I think dreams are in danger, and if dreams are in peril, then so too is our health, on an individual and a collective level.

Details: Written by: Suzanne Worthley

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General empaths may identify with just a few qualities of empathing, as opposed to sensitive empaths or psychic empaths.

Details: Written by: Edward Tick, PhD

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Ancient biblical and Greek cultures through modern analysts like Jung and Hillman affirm that we can receive psycho-spiritually based and nonrational messages, images, prescriptions, or insights for healing and life guidance.

Details: Written by: Bruce Scofield

Many organisms, including humans, undergo developmental changes before reaching adulthood, and these appear to occur in discrete stages on the physical, emotional, and mental dimensions.