By Brian Luke Seaward Several years ago, while attending a conference on mind-body-spirit healing, I slipped into a breakout session on trauma and cellular memory. The speaker shared a story of one of his patients that had everyone on the edge of their seats, including me. He described a woman who, as a child, had…
Category: States of Consciousness
Reflections on Coherence in Action
by Brian Luke Seaward During the summer of 1993, a remarkable experiment took place in Washington, D.C. In an effort to help reduce crime in the nation’s capital, a group of 4,000 city residents who regularly practice meditation (specifically Transcendental Meditation) were invited to create an atmosphere of tranquility over the city for a six-week…
On Becoming a New Human
By Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D. One semester, while attending graduate school at the University of Maryland, I enrolled in a new course called “Human Potentials.” It was a health class, but one unlike any health class I’d ever taken before. The content included but wasn’t limited to, cultivating intuition, creative problem-solving, energy healing, forgiveness practices,…
Learning That We Are All Connected
by Celia Coates Splendid, splendid, splendid! A book has come my way (not a new book) that is just that – splendid. THE REALITY OF ESP by Russell Targ was published in 2012. The subtitle is “A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities” and Targ has had a long career in physics and in presenting pioneering…
Good Vibes Can Change Our World
by Celia Coates “Prominent designer channels a chic, organic vibe in a new, bayside abode.” That’s what appeared recently in slick marketing magazine. I am not interested in living in an abode. What about you? But I am very interested in “vibes” – vibrations. We’ve been hearing about vibrations for decades (even centuries) but “vibes”…
Of Brain and Mind
By Brian Luke Seaward A few years ago, I was invited to participate in a study of the effects of Cranio-Sacral Therapy on stress and relaxation. My first day in the lab I was fitted with a skull cap with countless electrodes ready to record my brain’s electrical activity. Once fitted, I lay down and…
Light, Love, and Wisdom
By Carolyn Scripps In 1990, on December 24th, I had an experience of awakening, of “seeing the light.” My husband and I lived in Lawrence, Kansas with our toddler and baby. Earlier that day, my young nieces were dropped off to spend the holiday with us. I was ready for our first “Christmas Craft Day”…
The Second “Love All Around”
By Brenda Molloy From Celia: If you have not read Brenda’s two earlier, informative posts about fractals and her art, you might scroll to the end of this third post and link to them now. On November 8th another image of “Love All Around” came in so pure and so quickly that it felt as…
Becoming Beacons of Light
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…
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…
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…