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In every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul's search for the Beloved, the seeker's yearning for the divine. This holy longing is a secret feeling with many disguises, leading us to pursue a higher union in spiritual practice, religious discipleship, even romantic embrace. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences. But it also can go awry if we misplace it onto food, alcohol, drugs, or sex. Or if we project it onto an...
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The existence of suffering and evil has puzzled Western theologians and philosophers since the beginning of recorded history. The premise normally assumed is that "good" is natural, while evil is a perversion of the natural. Theosophical literature presents an alternative picture in which spirit and matter, positive and negative, good and evil, are twin aspects of the One Reality. This more organic view of the cosmos acknowledges that both light and...
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Like Oscar Wilde's character Dorian Gray, each of us seeks to show a beautiful face to the world. So, unknowingly, we banish those qualities that don't fit the image into a dark cavern of the mind. Then, like Dorian's painting, these qualities take on a life of their own, which appears abruptly like an unwanted stranger--a critic, an addict, a victim, a tyrant, a liar, a cheater. This stranger, known as the shadow, is us, yet is not us. We are invited...
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Creativity is a mystery, appearing to most of us a unique or inherent capacity for only a few, and a sporadic occurrence at best. Yet the reverse is quite true: without exception we all possess access to that sublime spark of light--if only we realize ourselves to be the obstacle to that access. Similarly most of us remain blind to objects of art and their means to help us see beyond the obvious. The key to this blindness is, again, our self. We will...
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While the term "darkness" is normally related to the idea of evil, Christian mystics have frequently used it to refer to the highest aspect of God. Coincidentally, the secret Stanzas of Dzyan that Blavatsky published in her masterpiece, The Secret Doctrine, refer to the ultimate reality as "the Darkness." The seemingly paradoxical use of this term is not just an odd poetic license. It has an important meaning, both as a metaphysical concept and as...
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Based on his books The divine feminine, Embracing the divine feminine, and Love of eternal wisdom, Rabbi Rami explores the nature and power of the Sacred Feminine (Mary, Kali, Shechinah, Chochmah, Sophia, Shakti, Tara, Tao, Mother, etc.) exposing her gift of radical liberation, and the ability to enter into the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine.
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Based on his books The divine feminine, Embracing the divine feminine, and Love of eternal wisdom, Rabbi Rami explores the nature and power of the Sacred Feminine (Mary, Kali, Shechinah, Chochmah, Sophia, Shakti, Tara, Tao, Mother, etc.) exposing her gift of radical liberation, and the ability to enter into the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine.
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Based on his books "The Divine Feminine," "Embracing the Divine Feminine," and "Love of Eternal Wisdom," Rabbi Rami Shapiro explores the nature and power of the Sacred Feminine (Mary, Kali, Shechinah, Chochmah, Sophia, Shakti, Tara, Tao, Mother, etc.), exposing her gift of radical liberation, and the ability to enter into the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine.