Books

  • With a body or without!

    Spiritual Education “Fortunate is the seeker who has not been led away from the straight and narrow path by diversions and popularized attractions. People spend lifetimes searching for authentic teachings and become sidetracked by the seduction of attractive, glamorized aberrations… Continue reading

  • Highest Good of All.

    The Will “The Spiritual Will is not like the ego’s understanding of will as ‘will power’, which means emotional force with clenched teeth of exertion and increased emotionality. The ego-driven will takes energy and is taxing. It could actually be… Continue reading

  • Life with no words?

    I listened to Deepak Chopra talk to John Francis who wrote a book called “The Ragged Edge of Silence”. He didn’t speak for 17 years. Yes, 17 years, but he did journal and he also gave up riding in gas… Continue reading

  • As far as I can tell.

    From David Hawkin’s book, Truth vs Falsehood a chapter called, Spiritual Truth. “While the majority of people in the United States believe in God (90-92%, CNN News, April 2004) and therefore tend to look to established religions for the highest… Continue reading

  • In the Land of Falsehood.

    In David Hawkin’s book “Truth vs Falsehood” he writes, “The Reality of Freedom and Happiness.”“Just as all that is destructive has a common source, so do freedom, success, health and peace have a common source, which is that of spiritual… Continue reading

  • Grace and Courage

    As Alice Miller’s book comes to a close, she encapsulates her thoughts. “In this book (The Body Never Lies) I express hope that , as psychological knowledge grows, the power of the Fourth Commandment will wane in favor of the… Continue reading

  • Elders of the Church

    There are no coincidences in life and the fact that I am learning about more and more sexual abuse in my old church while I am reading Alice Miller is profound. She is literally writing about the hows and the… Continue reading

  • Children will suffer.

    From Alice Miller’s book “The Body Never Lies,” she writes… “My attempts to persuade the Vatican of the importance of early childhood experiences have revealed how impossible it is to arouse feelings of compassion in men and women who right… Continue reading

  • Survivor Self.

    The Drama of the Gifted Child – The search of the true self, by Alice Miller. Here is what she writes on the back cover of the book. “Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide… Continue reading

  • Alice Miller, again. I love her fearlessness.

    Chapter 4 in Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller titled “Why I Reject Psychoanalysis Also as a Therapy Method.” “Following my interview for the April 1987 issue of the German Journal Psychologie heute (Psychology Today), in which I declared my break… Continue reading