By Gretchen Krivoshia It has always been the time to cultivate loving kindness but given the turmoil in our world, it is needed now more than ever. We need to do what we can to increase compassion and caring – for ourselves and others – to become the beacons of light that we are capable…
Healing With Nature
By Brian Luke Seaward When the winds blows, this is my medicine. When it rains, this is my medicine. When it hails, this is my medicine. When the skies clear after a storm, this is my medicine. -Native American Prayer One semester, while serving on the faculty of the American University, I invited a Lakota…
More Than One Ecosystem
By Celia Coates In this week filled with terrible news, a welcome email came from Dean Radin, the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. It included these words: “Crisis is an evolutionary driver. Crisis signals to organisms that incremental change will no longer suffice to survive. The materialistic world view that has led…
The Healing Work and Legacy of Daniel Benor, M.D.
The family and colleagues of Daniel Benor sent word this week that his work and legacy will remain accessible through his website (www.DanielBenor.com) and the continuation of his International Journal of Healing and Caring now under the editorship of Judith Swack, PhD. There were two WINN posts about Dr. Benor and his pioneering work that…
Listening
By Celia Coates This will be a short WINN – just a small story and an opinion. The story involves something that has been happening for years, something that I now call listening to downloads. In the early quiet of the morning when I go from sleep to waking, there are times when words or…
Reflections on Miracles
By Brian Luke Seaward When Matt was 16 years old, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. As you can imagine, the diagnosis left Matt and his entire family devastated. His father, Jack, was a physician who became especially involved – and concerned – with the medical treatment. One day after an exchange with…
A Poem for Today
Meditation by Molly Frederick With open hands, I wait. For no enlightenment. Prolonged each moment, then the next. And the next. No one told me it would take so long. Until it comes to me, That this is just a kind of reaching — Like a daffodil tilting toward a slow silent sweep of sunlight…
June 2016
The first WINN stories were published in June of 2016, and there are now 250 posts on the website http://www.winnpost.org. (It seems the links to the oldest ones no longer work.) The next WINN posts will not appear on the first and third Fridays of each month as they have for quite a while, but…
Three Aspects of Time
By Genevieve Paulson Genevieve Paulson is a profound and practical spiritual teacher, author, and great, great, grandmother. This excerpt is from her fifth book, JOURNEY INTO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, which has the subtitle – Through Reincarnation, Time and Space, Inner and Outer Worlds, Universal Laws, Spirit, Nature, and many other energies along the way. Before trying…
Sharing
By Celia Coates One of the reasons we enjoy stories is that they often allow us to see beyond our own lives. We can envision events and characters that are different from what’s familiar and imagine new possibilities for how things might be. We can get these glimpses without plowing through dense texts or attending…
Lessons From Dr. Gladys
By Celia Coates If an author chooses to honor a special person or to dedicate their book to those who have supported their work, there are several ways this can be done. Sometimes it’s just by adding a set of initials after the word “For” on one of the first pages. Sometimes it’s a long…
Reflections on After-Life Communication
By Lucia Thornton After my son David died, I was desperate to communicate with him and perhaps he felt the same way. David had come to me quite unexpectedly on several occasions. Sometimes he appeared in dreams. Sometimes I could hear him talking and we carried on conversations “in my head”. And on one occasion…