Who says they’re in opposition? After all, at their extremes they absolutely converge, don’t they? (e.g. Nazism and Communism). ‘Right-wingers’ and ‘left-wingers’ need to embrace and harmonize instead of discrediting each other. The healthy Right-winger stands uncompromisingly firm on Truth. The healthy Left-winger lives life with deep caring and compassion. Our spiritual evolution requires of […]
Inspiration and encouragement for all lovers of both Peace and Truth. This is no rhetoric! After an excellent review of the various theories explaining the scourge of terrorism in today’s world, Rabbi New opens our minds, eyes and hearts to the deeply relevant truths documented in the ancient Jewish sacred texts. Both illuminating and empowering. Thank […]
Listen to my interview on ChaiFM radio (28 May 2014). It was broadcast during the seventh and final week of the Counting of the Sephirah in the Jewish calendar and focuses on the element of Malchut (Majesty) within the mystical Tree Of Life described in the wisdom of the Kabbalah. Click to listen: The Sephirah of […]
My dialogue with a medical doctor: do conventional medical practice and energy healing techniques (like EFT) conflict or complement each other?
“Let go, or be dragged.” Zen Proverb
According to psychotherapist and author Eugene Gendlin PhD, traumatic experiences are stored in the body. In fact, all your accumulated life experiences, including traumatic events whether large or small, are held in various parts of your physical body and re-accessed through what he calls the ‘felt sense’. Unconscious factors affecting the body keep the traumatized […]
The photograph on the right is of an insect relaxing on the wall of our recently rented overnight chalet in a Free State nature reserve. It was an exquisitely peaceful creature, with transparent wings like a dragonfly but had the form of a very large moth when it opened them. It’s now late on Saturday […]
You are influenced by your personality, but you have a choice not to be controlled by it. What could you accomplish if you stretched beyond the limits of your natural tendencies?
The deepest meaning of Chanukah is not that we transform the world by bringing light into the darkness. We transform ourselves by seeing the Light that is within the darkness. Suddenly the world is different.
This is the beautiful Chinese character for ‘Mindfulness’. The roof-like part at the top means ‘now’ or ‘this’ – in other words ‘presence’. The bottom portion means ‘heart’. This tells us that the seat of consciousness is not in the head, rather it’s in the heart! Isn’t it true that we mistake ‘thought’ for consciousness? […]