Awakening Of The Soul

"Awakening the Soul addresses the issue of the loss of soul throughout the world and the loss of meaning and truth in modern life. Michael Meade shows how meaning is essential to the human soul and uses ancient stories and compelling insights to describe how soul can be recovered and people can learn to live in truth. Drawing from dramatic episodes in his own life, Meade shows how the soul tries to awaken at critical times, and how an awakened soul is crucial for finding medicine to treat the ailments and alienation of modern life. What we need now is not a minor repair, but a major transformation of the world that can only start with the awakening of the individual soul."--Amazon.com viewed Aug. 22, 2022.

You know that startling moment of wonder you experience as you gaze at the starry heavens or the vast ocean spread out before you? Or perhaps it is an inner experience of falling in love, sensing God's presence, or seeing a miracle in your life. These rare and treasured moments you share with all creation are reflections of you awakening to your destiny and divine nature as Soul. These moments no longer need to be random and unexpected experiences. When you explore this book—and yourself—you'll learn how to get to this place of wonder and wisdom at will. Take one quote each day from these pages, and contemplate its meaning—its wisdom and inspiration. Choose from such themes as creativity, graceful living, spiritual healing, and Soul's mission. You will experience a fresh, new spirit entering your life. You'll take your next important step in discovering who you are and why you're here. You will open your wings and become the awakening Soul.

This devotional book is intended as a spiritual resource for nurturing your soul. What is truly personal is also truly universal. Where you touch the Holy, it reaches to touch you, and your life will be transformed. If enough of us begin with our own spiritual disciplines, a whole community may be transformed, or a neighborhood or city or nation. --from the Preface In the first daily devotional guide for Unitarian Universalists since the nineteenth-century Day Unto Day (American Unitarian Association), John Morgan has discerningly compiled a unique collection of 365 devotions on prayer, forgiveness, suffering, compassion, social justice, Unitarian Universalist heritage, and many other topics. Mirroring the pluralism in our congregations, the contributions to this book come from many roots--Christian, Buddhist, mystic, Jewish, pagan, humanist, and agnostic.

This fascinating array of thirty original spiritual mini-autobiographies showcases the varied ways that people come to faith -- and what that means -- in today's multi-religious world. Examining their own journeys from belief to disillusionment and from searching to discovery, contributors from many faiths, ages, and backgrounds tell the stories of how they learned to integrate the life of the Spirit into their daily lives, and the remarkable transformations that followed.

Rudolf Steiner said of his mystery dramas--written between 1910 and 1913--that they contain the whole essence of Anthroposophy and that if, through some unlikely chance, only these dramas were to survive, the essential content of Anthroposophy would nevertheless be preserved. Steiner's dramas powerfully portray the complex processes of reincarnation and karma. In them, we are led to inhabit the living landscape of the human soul and spirit, where suprasensory beings weave destinies. Here we find a connection with the spiritual reality of human life itself by following the dramatic interplay of the joy and sorrow, struggle and striving of a group of individuals attempting to apply spiritual knowledge to their practical lives and relationships. To read, watch, or act in these plays is an initiation experience. In The Souls' Awakening--Steiner's fourth mystery drama--an enlightened entrepreneur appoints a scientist, a historian, and an artist to use their spiritual perceptions to transform his business into one that serves spiritual as well as practical needs. A long-standing colleague objects, and a series of conflicts and crises develops. As the plot unfolds, we follow the characters on a journey that moves from business meetings through various states of consciousness, into worlds known before birth and previous lives in Egypt. This classic translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch was revised for this volume by Ruth Pusch. Included is Hans Pusch's "Thoughts on the Seal," in which he discusses the Rosicrucian meaning of the seal represented on the cover. This book is a translation of "Der Seelen Erwachen," published as part four of Vier Mysteriendramen The Four Mystery Dramas), which includes "The Portal of Initiation"; "The Soul's Probation"; "The Guardian of the Threshold"; and "The Souls' Awakening."

"Aminah Raheem's new Soul Lightning reveals the sparks of hope and consciousness hidden in the background of everyday reality and amazing occurrences. Seeking to emphasize that special sense of transcendence and love that is gifted to all of us, she provides new ways of understanding, knowing, and following spiritual experience to enlighten our paths through the cosmos."--Arnold Mindel, Ph.D., originator of Process Work People the world over are awakening to soul consciousness--and that is what this book is about. Soul lightning is the term the author uses to describe this awakening. Through individual stories and anecdotes, we are taken inside the images and feelings of soul lightnings to confirm our own awakenings. Aminah's personal soul journey, and the life work that has evolved from it, bridges the gap between psychology and spirituality. In this book you will find models for your own life, lighting the way for a new way of being, woven from the stuff of your soul. This is essential information for anyone seeking inner wisdom and peace. Soul Lightning corroborates the evolution of spiritual consciousness that is gathering critical mass to transform our planet. Amid the great challenges of our world, this is welcome news and a reminder of the importance of our individual awakening. As one reader expressed it, "This book is a healing and a blessing for everyone."

When I began my spiritual journey twenty-six years ago, I was submerged in the river of life, unable to make sense of its ever-changing currents. I found myself reaching out in desperation, searching for some branch of wisdom to cling to. Wisdom from beyond my perceived reality that would enable me to see existence as it truly is. The Perennial Truth is that branch. Contained within this book is the unchanging truth I discovered on my journey. Just as it rescued me from the roiling waters, it will help you understand who you are and why you are here. It will give you tools to meet life's currents head on, and rise above them. Amid the difficulty and complexity of everyday existence, The Perennial Truth provides context. Context gives rise to understanding. Understanding fosters acceptance. Acceptance leads to trust. And trust leads, ultimately, to the deep appreciation of reality as it is. I cannot show you the truth of the present moment, because a moment's truth is ever-changing. But the Perennial Truth does not change. When you understand it, and begin to apply it to your life experiences, the truth of each moment will be revealed to you with great clarity and joy. In Part 1 of The Perennial Truth I describe the journey that led me to discover the spiritual truth of existence, which is beyond the seasonal truth of life. In Part 2 I share this unchanging truth with the reader, and in Part 3 I guide the reader towards the perennial experience and an understanding of immortal existence. The awakening of the soul.

Open the door to your creative awakening! "Do everything with great love, whether it is painting, writing, dancing, relationships or learning." --Sandra Duran Wilson Sharing your passion is the greatest gift you can give, and the journey to your creative awakening starts with a single step--or a single exercise. You never know what will open the door. This book is for curious souls wanting to find the right spark to jump-start their creativity. Inside, there are 52 chapters with an exercise for each week of the year featuring a step-by-step art, writing or meditation project. Following the flow of the seasons, the exercises are designed to take you from the spring of your intuition, through the summer of personal growth, fall of self-discovery to arrive at the end of your creative cycle refreshed, revived and renewed. Find your voice and vision: • 52 fun and beautiful projects offer a new chance at self-discovery every week for one year--they are not necessarily sequential and can be completed at any time on your journey • Weekly prompts merge art making with universal life challenges to help you open your mind and explore different spiritual and creative philosophies Refill your well, become the light, expand yourself and your story.