Category: Applied Spirituality

Dogen’s Instructions to the Gardener

Posted by Karen Maezen Miller | Oct 10, 2024 | Applied Spirituality, Featured |

The natural world fulfilled me as nothing I’d done while stuck at a desk. What made it so? If I only pay attention, a garden tells me what to do.

Hum

Posted by Alfred K. LaMotte | Jun 26, 2024 | Applied Spirituality, Editor's Picks, Featured |

Om is too stuffy, just Hum like a bee. Hum beyond thinking, shattering the chrysalis of your intellect. Hum through every atom of your body, every photon of your light.

Your Mystical Powers

Posted by Alfred K. LaMotte | Feb 6, 2024 | Applied Spirituality, Featured |

I have attained three supreme mystical powers. I am going to teach them to you, if you are ready

Mapping A Path To The Divine

Posted by Marya Summers | Sep 27, 2023 | Applied Spirituality, Editor's Picks, Featured, Personal Journeys |

I like to explore the spiritual terrain of religions and even set up camp and learn their practices, but I have never settled on one. If anything I draw on all I’ve experienced in mapping my own route to the divine.

How Prayer Changes Your Brain

Posted by Robin Fasano | Aug 15, 2023 | Applied Spirituality, Editor's Picks, Featured, Spiritual Practice |

Prayer rituals and meditation can help us reach those higher, more advanced levels of self-awareness and consciousness—and literally change our brain.

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The Braided Way

The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.