This year at sundown on December 1, the eight-day observance of Hanukkah begins. The spirit of Hanukkah is the remembrance of a great miracle. Nearly 200 years before the birth of Christ, a Hebrew tribe known as the Maccabees wanted to re-dedicate the temple after driving out the Greeks in a three-year struggle. It was […]
Natural Spirituality: Ways of Reconnecting – Part Two
In last week’s blog article, I discussed how we can arrive at our Source by using transcendental sound vibration and silence. When we are deep within, communing with our Natural Spirituality, we also are communing with God. It is in the silence that we become realigned with God and our own Natural Spirituality, thus watering […]
Natural Spirituality: The Collective
This month in the Ah-Man Newsletter, I spoke of the collective and how the collective does not want us to have our own individuality. The collective wants us to stay a part of them and not to separate. I mentioned a few collectives in my newsletter, and religion is just one of them. Religion is […]
Natural Spirituality: Individuality
There is lots of talk about individuality in today’s world but, ironically enough, that “individuality” is all centered on the ego and self-gratification…how one looks, presents him or her self, finds a career, etc. These are important. We need to live comfortably and must be able to support our families. But all of these endeavors […]
What is Prayer?
In my last blog post, I spoke about prayer. It came to me that prayer may have a negative connotation for those of us who have recovered from some type of trauma or addiction (one day at a time), and even for those of us who didn’t experience trauma or addiction (but who still would […]
Prayer
As I indicated in the October Ah-Man Newsletter, my blog discussions this month focus on expanding/improving our conscious contact with the God of our understanding. Prayer is one of the vehicles that can do just that. As with many things life, prayer took different forms to me as my life changed. Many of us first […]
Commitment
As with any relationship you have in life, once you decide you want to deepen it, you need to invest time and energy on the connection. You have to commit to spending more time than before getting to know that person or situation. If it’s a person, it might involve finding out what they like […]
Meditation
Wow. This is usually a very broad topic, but I’ll try to keep it focused on the main topic of this month’s newsletter: learning to walk in this world spiritually and not be overshadowed by it. The last couple of weeks, I talked about the ways that we are able to come to spiritual acceptance, […]
Agapé Love
Agapé love is totally selfless. It is unconditional love. Agapé love rises above Philo love and Eros love. It’s when a person gives their love to another person even if this act does not benefit her/him in any way. Whether the love given is returned or not, the person continues to love the other without […]
The Nature of Love
The theme of my July newsletter is LOVE and in keeping with that theme, the Ah-Man Blog will focus on love over the next few weeks. I want to start by putting the word into context. Following is the definition of loved as retrieved from Wikipedia: Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal […]
