From DAILY OM: Respecting Wildlife; Open and Listening

When in nature we often forget we are moving into another realm, one that asks us to drop our baggage and surrender.

For better or worse, much of the world we experience is dominated and controlled by human beings. We spend our days in houses, cars, and buildings, and inside these structures, we are in control. We assert our wills and manipulate our environment. Within the context of the human world, this is natural. However, we often carry this attitude with us into the world of nature. We forget as we enter the forest, or sit on the edge of a pond, that we are moving into another realm, one that asks us to drop our baggage and surrender to a different sense of order and meaning.

Mystery of Dead Sea Scroll Authors Possibly Solved –by Owen Jarus; LiveScience.com

A two thousand-year-old fragment from the Book of Tobit from the Dead Sea Scrolls

(Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the religious texts had been stored.

Scholars are divided about who authored the Dead Sea Scrolls and how the texts got to Qumran, and so the new finding could help clear up this long-standing mystery.

George Anderson & John Edward Explain How Messages Come Through

George Anderson

John Edward



Moon of Longing --by Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW

Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW

Because of a wet, cold spring, because everything went out too early, we didn't have bounty this year. But - and I don't really know why - we did have corn. And here is the marvel: our Blue Hopi corn, child of the desert, grew the best of all.

Corn, the faithful teacher, starts its towering life indestinguishable from grass, and it teetered this year on the edge of every too cold, too hot, too wet, too dry day. It's first emerald feathers made straight for the sky, tongueing as the young of every made thing does the starry, sunny udder in hopes that the old sky mother would let her milk rain fall. Against the odds the plants grew a foot, and then two. Gravity doesn't explain this, but soon thereafter, when the corn seemed certain it would make it, those same adamant leaves began bending to the ground, all but the topmost. As the summer went on the proud male of the corn went twelve feet and higher, but beneath it all the leave tips bent themselves groundward.   

Istvan Fazekas presents The Three Pillars of Enlightened Consciousness

Several of our group were fortunate to share time with Istvan Fazekas during the A.R.E. Retreat this weekend.  We will be working to bring him to Nashville for a public talk in the near future.  He is a dynamic presenter.  In the meantime enjoy this teaching from Ish in 2009.  Simply click on the link below his photo.
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ISTVAN FAZEKAS has studied with yogis and Buddhist teachers for over sixteen years, melding Christian mysticism with Eastern traditions, somatic sciences, and energetic principles. This video is an excerpt from his presentation The Three Pillars of Enlightened Consciousness: Ancient Wisdom & the Body Temple recorded at the 2009 Ancient Mysteries Conference at Edgar Cayces A.R.E. in Virginia Beach.

He is the author of Edgar Cayce and the Yoga Sutra which brings classical ancient Eastern teachings together with modern metaphysical Western tradition and includes the wisdom from the Edgar Cayce readings, and The Alkalizing Diet on achieving the acid/alkaline balance that is ideal for keeping the body more energetic and much more resistant to viruses. Both are available at www.ARECatalog.com.

He is a popular speaker for A.R.E. conferences across America. To learn more, visit

www.EdgarCayce.org/conferences