There are many types of healing that are received at The Casa, including physical and emotional (which could include a mental healing), and there are also excisions and spiritual healing. Not everyone walks away healed in the way they wanted to be healed. Sometimes the body is going through exactly what it has to go […]

In life we will come upon negative situations. Not absorbing or reflecting the negativity is our way of helping the situation. These past two weeks, I have been in Brazil at the Casa and working with John of God. While walking to The Casa by myself one afternoon, I passed by one of our favorite […]

In the 12-Step programs, the 10th step is all about self-inventory. 10th Step: Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it. In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, it says; This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right […]

Just like everything in life, there are two sides to "resistance." The resistance I am speaking of in this context is the resistance to change; a change that could bring about a better life…in other words, if something is not working, having the willingness to be open to other possibilities. I’ve heard it said many […]

Change is one of those things in life that is guaranteed. How we see it and move through it is an indicator of how we move through the world, including the people we associate with and, to a large extent, our health and our financial situation. In the 12-Step programs, there is a saying about […]

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen" In my last blog post, I spoke about the first part of this piece of the prayer, and how tempting the world can be. The world is God’s creation; His toy. […]

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen" I am going to break this piece of The Lord’s Prayer into two sections: The first part: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. And the second […]

“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” The word “Debts” has much more then monetary implications here. In the Vedas, our debts are our karma. For every action, there is a reaction. This is the law of Karma, as well a law of Physics. We are responsible for not only our actions, […]

“Give us this day our daily bread.” Some of us take this line literally, thinking we are praying for something material, e.g., bread…food…something that we need to sustain our life. But what we are praying for is not material; it has a deeper meaning. In the context of The Lord’s Prayer, our daily bread means […]

Thank you for joining me as we review The Lord's Prayer line by line, in order to get a deeper, spiritual and more practical understanding of this teaching. Last week I spoke about the depth of the meaning of "Thy Kingdom come." This week, I’ll cover "Thy will be done on earth." Thy will be […]