Happy New Year's Eve Day!

It is New Year's Eve Day and it is a good time to reflect. Often, people make resolutions that are not kept through January. I like to make plans. Plans sound more firm and active then resolutions. This year I plan to live joyously and notice when I spend more time planning than doing.

One of my favorite quotes: You have lost a whole week making those drawings. Why don't you make the machine! - Thomas Edison to my great-grandfather in the book Beloved Scientist.

That is my plan for the new year. To notice, and do.

Have an ectoplasmic day!

Another magazine I love is Spirit Of Change. It is the largest holistic magazine published in New England. You can get it for free at stores like Whole Foods and New Age stores. Or, you can save a tree and read it online. You can subscribe for free to the digital edition. Some of the articles are posted on the home page. When you click on the article title it will come up with really small print. Click again on the article text and the font size will increase. This magazine has lots of great articles about conscious living, holistic health, and healing modalities.

Have an ectoplasmic day!

Posting on the blog

I have changed the setting of the blog so that it is now easier to post comments. Before, you had to have a google account or have a blog to sign in. Now, anyone can post without logging in with a password. You will still have to type in a phrase, so that the blog system knows that you are a human being and not a spamming machine, and I will moderate and release comments, as a secondary precaution against spamming the blog forum. Contribute your knowledge!

Have an ectoplasmic day!

Shirley MacLaine Shows Her Chakras To Johnny Carson

Naropa University Consciousness Laboratory

Naropa University, in Boulder, CO is an accredited school with degrees in many contemplative disciplines. Under the direction of Dr. Peter Grossenberger, the university offers a Consciousness Laboratory. The department is Contemplative Psychology. According to the departmental website, the Consciousness Lab provides a unique synergy between modern psychological science and ancient contemplative approaches to understanding mind and spirit. A web search found that several colleges and universities have departments dedicated to the study or neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality.

Check out the college website and the department site links. It looks like a very interesting place to study. Appears to be well-funded and donors are from recognizable foundations. The college atmosphere is very spiritual and peaceful. Very different than the very large state university I attended!

I will post more colleges, universities, and studies in this discipline as I find them on the web.

Have an ectoplasmic day!

Hark! the herald angels sing

The lyrics of this traditional Christmas carol got me thinking. This is the version in the 1982 Episcopal hymnal and I was surprised to notice that the word Sun, not Son, is written. This verse is really about universality, continuous life, and healing as Natural Law.

Vs.3

Mild he lays his glory by
born that we no more may die
born to raise us from the earth
born to give us second birth
Risen with healing in his wings
light and life to all he brings
hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
hail, the heaven-born prince of peace

Spirituality & Health Magazine has evolving website

I love reading magazines online. It is lighter on the planet and lighter on my budget. Spiritiuality & Health Magazine, with the tag line soul/body connection, is in the process of archiving articles on its website. For recent editions they are up to May 2008. The archives section goes back to 1998!

This magazine covers many topics that interest me. Some recent articles included spirituality and healing in the operating room, another about spirituality(not religion but rather your personal outlook) in the workplace. I will add a link to the magazine to the list on the right.

Have an ectoplasmic day!