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  • A Ministers Wish

    Posted February 4, 2010 by Rev. James Spotts

    My only wish now is to be one of Gods children and do his bidding. And through me help others to learn the way of Christ. The lord knows that i've had a rough life and through him and him only will i be healed of my short comings.           ...

  • Be Merciful

    Posted February 4, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      Be Merciful Finding Peace Publish Date: 01/12/2010 Job Reflections Then Elihu said, "Hear my words, you wise men. Listen to me, you who know. For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food. Let us choose for ourselves what is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. For Job h...

  • Standing Alone: Vision Creed

    Posted February 4, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      Standing Alone: Vision Creed   The Feminist Standpoint: Material life (class position in Marxist theory) not only structures but sets limits on the understanding of social relations. The vision of the ruling class (or gender) structures the material relations in which all parties are ...

  • 10 US Baptists charged with child kidnap

    Posted February 4, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

                   By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Writer ...

  • Why Is This Happening To Me Again?

    Posted February 4, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        Last night the Mindshifters group watched the first half of the lecture, "Why Is This Happening To Me Again?" by Dr. Michael Ryce. The points that jumped out at me during this viewing were the following: 1) In the period of time that it takes for my brain to fire 10,000 units ...

  • Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

    Posted February 4, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

                   Judaism and Islam are known as "Abrahamic religions" The first Abrahamic religion was Judaism as practiced in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula subsequent to the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt and continuing a...

  • Terrorism is not confined to Islam

    Posted February 3, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

                  The Jewish Defense League (JDL) founded in 1969 by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City, with the declared purpose of protecting Jews from harassment and antisemitism. FBI statistics show that, from 1980 to 1985, 15 terrori...

  • On Helping Or Hindering Christian Faith.

    Posted February 2, 2010 by Daniel Arendt

    Some Christian religious have a penchant for swaggering in the name of Jesus without concern for the feelings or rights of others (or for prudence), and without regard for how it makes their own or all religious look...sometimes such religious are part of a dualistic philosophy so they can remain cl...

  • Excessive desire

    Posted February 2, 2010 by Jizo Hodo Thompson

    Excessive desires lead us to put our own interests before thoses of others.                   They drain our goodness,                ...

  • The Vagina

    Posted February 1, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      The Vagina Women issues are on the rise in handling the environment.  Our environment is dying because women’s issues are being ignored.  The extinction of species is happening because we have misplaced our desires to care for the women species in our global process of access and ...

  • Ancient Text Supports Early Origin of the Bible

    Posted January 31, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

                      An ancient text, discovered recently near the Elah Valley in Israel, is the oldest Hebrew text thus far found and supports the notion that the Bible, and specifically certain key books of the Old T...

  • Right To Support LBGT Rights.

    Posted January 30, 2010 by Daniel Arendt

    John Money as a psychologist criticized the view that categories of mental disorder are only a codification of social morals; his research appears to have indicated that paraphilia occurs among both straight and LBGT people, a paraphilia being some thing (e.g., one type of clothing) or some other is...

  • Who says T.V. Warps your brain?

    Posted January 30, 2010 by Brian Percival

    Lately, I've been presented with things and situations that have made me angry and that I disliked. I won't delve into the details as they're really not relevant but what is relevant is what I actually learned from a T.V. drama show. One character mentioned to another that he is reall...

  • Egyptian/Kemetic

    Posted January 30, 2010 by Matthew James

    I am a follower of the Kemetic faith and a Priest to the God Sokar. The faith to which I ascribe to is one that is rooted over six thousand years.  The God Sokar is most commonly known to be the God of the Underworld.  Though he is also worshipped by craftmen, fishermen, and those of ...

  • The Nature of Reality

    Posted January 29, 2010 by Michael Schaffer

     This is the most far-out thing I will place here, but it all makes logical sense.  To begin to know how we can incorporate the five essential values, we have to understand our self and its relation to the universe in a scientific sense. Here is a brief primer on essential terms.  M...

  • Universal Fairness

    Posted January 29, 2010 by Michael Schaffer

     Let's say there are two tribes in my over-simplified example.  Tribe Alfa and Tribe Bravo live next door to each other, and a member of Tribe Alfa has killed a stray member of Tribe Bravo because he's a stranger, and, well, that's what you did back then.  After a lot o...

  • An Introduction

    Posted January 29, 2010 by Michael Schaffer

     I write novels under a different name, and so I present a great deal of my theological opinion under that name.  These works can also be found at www.ikesethics.webs.com for those who want to see more work connected with this ministry.  Thank you to all who read, to all who...

  • Dirty Laundry: Exposing the Truth One Panty at a Time

    Posted January 28, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      (Disclaimer) Beware very thought provoking perspective and reflection. Andrea Smith develops an argument relating sexual violence to genocide.  Carefully explain her argument and situate it in relation to the framework of the Incite!  Anthropology.  Why/How does she link thes...

  • Where is Heaven?

    Posted January 28, 2010 by Sean Snarr-Jones

      Where is Heaven? posted by Deepak Chopra Jan 28, 2010 7:01 am filed under: Deepak Chopra's Tips, Spirituality, heaven, religious seeking Heaven is imagined as a place free from the bonds of earthly life where gravity no longer holds down the body. In heaven there are no care...

  • The Living Matrix

    Posted January 27, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

      Last night the Mindshifters group did something we have only done one other time in the last four years. We watched a movie which was not one of Dr. Michael Ryce's lectures. We watched the movie, The Living Matrix, which talks about the integration of the science of Quantum Physics into...

  • Just a thought

    Posted January 27, 2010 by Jizo Hodo Thompson

      Caring begins with one simple question.              Was my thought unkind?

  • The Son Of Jesus

    Posted January 27, 2010 by Seer Ashlamaz

    Lo! During the very same honeymoon where the marriage was consummated Mary Magdalene, daughter of Manaham and Zarulla, became pregnant. 2.And when the time for delivery came she gave birth to a son, and they called his name Simon. 3. Simon bar/ of Jesus, is the bar/ of Jesus of Acts. He's ment...

  • On Defining "Do The Right Thing".

    Posted January 26, 2010 by Daniel Arendt

    In the early 20th Century, John Broadus Watson (“Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It”, ‘Psychological Review’, 1913, 20:158-177; “Behavior: an Introduction to Comparative Psychology”, 1914) declared all behavior is environmentally derived and can’t be explained by appeals to heredity, instincts, ...

  • the image of god

    Posted January 26, 2010 by BAYLEN CLARKE

     I am the judgment   In the name of god the bountiful In the name of god have they vision in the image that they build of there own desire   Have they not seen there own faces in what they put before there god  Have the way of the seer sent before you to guid...

  • GOD'S MIRACLES

    Posted January 26, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

        GOD'S MIRACLES  IN HAITI            A young Haitian man, Wismond Exantus, was rescued live from the rubble of a Port-Au-Prince hotel by British firefighters after being buried alive for an incredible 11-days after a...

  • Lt Gov Bauer's Idea of helping the poor

    Posted January 25, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

          I am shocked, if not surprised that in a recent speech, South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer compared people whose children receive free and reduced-price school lunches to "stray animals that are fed handouts."    Last Friday, Bauer said giving...

  • Posessions and Love

    Posted January 25, 2010 by Rev.Jesse Bravo

    Recently I was having hard feelings for a relationship I've had for over 20yrs. To me I had wrote it off and ready for it to end horribly one day. That was until another psychic friend who I respect gave me a grim message about my relationship. At that moment my prespective changed and my heart...

  • Seldom Do I Cry: Speak Your Cry

    Posted January 24, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      Adolescence: Vulnerability, Fertility, Sex Trafficking, HIV/Aids Seldom Do I Cry: Speak Your Cry   It is in the youth that change must come. (Murray, p. 83) In the inhumane and degrading treatment of a child, we as a culture face with the challenges of what are we going to do wit...

  • Orthopraxy of ULC Monastery Makes It Real Faith.

    Posted January 24, 2010 by Daniel Arendt

      Whenever I hear someone allege ULC cannot be a true religion on basis it has no complex orthodoxy, and is a nondenominational comparative religion exercise, it strikes me how many have forgotten the other equally important term that signifies a faith as well as religion; that philosophically...

  • "Addiction" Fact or Crutch ??

    Posted January 24, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

     No single factor can predict whether or not a person will become addicted to drugs. Risk for addiction is influenced by a person’s biology, social environment, and age or stage of development. The more risk factors an individual has, the greater the chance that taking drugs can lead to addic...

  • New Begin has start part 4

    Posted January 24, 2010 by Rev.Mike Allen

    Just got the  phone with tommy good news Tommy pass his test for the railroad as condoctor  tommy told  me that  the test was hard but i made it  told him when come back to calif  their job waitting for him told  be end of next week  be moveing in with me ...

  • We The People

    Posted January 24, 2010 by Mark Todd

          My question: Do you practice the Golden Rule in your daily life.   A command based on words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” The Mosaic Law contains a parallel commandment: “What...

  • Supreme Court made a BAD decision

    Posted January 23, 2010 by Rev. Dr. Dean And Rev. Barbara Rose

    The U.S. Supreme Court, headed by a republican who Bush Jr. appointed, and four other republicans just handed the country over to the corporations when they struck down critical important laws regulating corporation's influence on election and public policy. This ends our democracy. We are now ...

  • life's lessons

    Posted January 22, 2010 by Peggy Androes

    A few days ago, my mother called me and told me that she was terrified for her life.  My step father is not only 4 years older than I am, but also a convicted murderer, and also a heavy marijuana smoker.  He has been getting it from people he works with.  Mom has stated in the past th...

  • Faith? Spirituality? Truth? Ones own Perception of the truth?

    Posted January 22, 2010 by Cathy Brookes

    I used to be a Reader Many years ago, and now am comming back into it. Left because of the Church and was told I was going to hell because of my choice's of Tarot card, palmistry, mediumship. Now I didn't/don't choose to do magic of any sort white or black, and ALWAYS Believed/Belie...

  • Coming out of Churchianity

    Posted January 22, 2010 by Paul Jones

     We must always be sure to distinguish between the Lord's invisible, universal, spiritual Church (the Ecclesia) and the non-profit religious organization that meets in a building with a steeple on top. The difference is incalculable, and we dare not make the mistake of confusing the tw...

  • Holy War or Just Madness

    Posted January 22, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

    It should be pointed out that Muslims and Christians are not responsible for this war.           In certain mosques and churches around the world we are hearing that this is a Holy war, this is in fact not the case.       &...

  • Alcoholism in Family

    Posted January 22, 2010 by Nick Brown

    Tonight was a very taxing night. I was getting up from a nap due to this week being excessively stressful to find that my mother was drinking and trying to hide it from everyone. My mother has had a problem with alcohol from my knowledge since I was 6 years old. She is very tied to her anger and her...

  • The Rainbow OF Life

    Posted January 21, 2010 by Rev.Jesse Bravo

    It occurs to me the many different people and beliefs in life. Many wonder why there is so much diferences and does it help in causing strife. I feel there differences is in only preception of how to understand and incorporate belife into peoples lives. Whether the idea is God, Love, knowledge in th...

  • Reincarnation or was it?

    Posted January 21, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

    Excellent question and in some theological circles a very emotional topic           As for myself, I do not believe that every soul hops from one life to another as some do. I do believe depending on ones interpretation of the scripture that there may ha...

  • Something to think about as you go through your day.

    Posted January 21, 2010 by Jizo Hodo Thompson

           Better                                      than trying to control others i...

  • Angelic Work

    Posted January 21, 2010 by Nick Brown

    Lately I have been very much into the communication and active working with the angelic powers, I find it fascinating because it came at a time when I thought I was really going to lose it do to circumstances that were completely out of my control. I had been going through a major personal shift in ...

  • What is forgiveness?

    Posted January 20, 2010 by Sierra Moses-Orr

    What is forgiveness but a smile on the face While the heart is still bleeding? What is acceptance but an understanding voice While the tears still fall? What is deliverence but a type of truth While the reality crushes? What is forgiveness buta smile on the face While the heart is still bleed...

  • New Begin has start part 3

    Posted January 20, 2010 by Rev.Mike Allen

    Well got good news tell you tommy past his third  and last week  on sunday  is the big test  i have good feeling that  he going  pass the the test with flying color the test start at 7am i dont know how long it well be intill get   test back if  he pass d...

  • Killing with "Jesus Rifles" ???????

    Posted January 20, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

         For a very brief time this morning on The AP News was a story on the Jesus rifles and the company Trijicon which produces them for the military.           Trijicon has been putting the Bible Reference codes at the end of its...

  • powerless

    Posted January 20, 2010 by Melanie Rodgers

    after my dad died 5 yrs ago,i started drinking:HEAVILY.iv realized,after tonite,that i need to stop.i say,& do,very hurtfull things to thoses i love.although iv been sober for 41/2 days,[til tonite]& that i shoulda NEVER opened that bottle,[dont know WHY i did]that i TRULY AM,"POWERLESS"!!!!...

  • On The Soul Of Annual January Abortion Protests.

    Posted January 19, 2010 by Daniel Arendt

      As a number of Christian groups gear up for the annual January 22 walk against abortion, specifically protesting the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision almost 40 years old, there are some interesting ephemera emerging about what adopting the current USA Catholic clergy’s notions on the soul...

  • This is a Global operation. A Spiritual Conspiracy.

    Posted January 18, 2010 by Michael Valoppi

    http://thinkingin4d.blogspot.com/2010/01/global-operation-spiritual-conspiracy.html#more

  • I'm going to be performing a marriage soon!!

    Posted January 17, 2010 by Reverend Brandon Box

    Pretty soon I'm going to be officiating at the wedding of one of my best friends in the world! It's the first time I've done so and it's a same-sex marriage so I have no experience at all. Because such marriages are illegal in the state of Alabama, it's going to be held so...

  • Evangelist, are we sure?

    Posted January 16, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

    There are in fact evangelist doing God's work with total dedication and a pure heart, unfortunately there are and have been those that are not.           I have seen them go on national tv and claim that God spoke to them and if they did not raise s...

  • Persoanl and Abundance Affirmation

    Posted January 16, 2010 by Troy Cleveland

    ** The truth keeps me poised and confident and the truth is this: GOD is in charge of my life and all is well. ** I am safe. ** I always remember who I am....God's child * I have released my ENTIRE past to God. It is complete and I am free. * I am at peace with the Universe and myself. *...

  • Two quotes I like a lot.

    Posted January 15, 2010 by Jizo Hodo Thompson

     Buddhism seeks not to overcome pain but to become one with it so that the pain is no long a stranger, an enemy. -Bonnie Myotai- The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but rather that their suffering might be like his. -George Macdonald-   Namo Amitabha St...

  • Prayer for Peaceful Resolution

    Posted January 15, 2010 by Nick Brown

    Dear Mother and Father God. You who created the heavens and the Earth. I call thee and ask for your blessings and divine peace to come over all of this situation. Let the fighting and the anger stop. Let the peace of the divine fill all of us in every way. Let us accept that which we have done wrong...

  • A new awakening

    Posted January 14, 2010 by Retha Hills

      my view of god!!!!!         I'm posting this blog to let all see through my eyes what god has shown me.  The bible is a book of stories in which we all guide our life. But a sign from god to me has let me know that the book was viewed through the eye...

  • Story for the ages!!

    Posted January 14, 2010 by Christl Buskohl

    I received this in an email from a friend of mine.  The message is so clear and important, I wanted to share it with as many as possible.    The Pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The Pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again and it ...

  • Contentment

    Posted January 14, 2010 by Jizo Hodo Thompson

              Contentment                      is not the fulfillment of what we want             ...

  • God in a Box

    Posted January 14, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

      In the scriptures when Moses ask God whom he should say sent him? God answers; Tell them I AM. The scriptures tell us that he is Alpha and Omega, They tell us there is no male, no female in heaven. It tells us he is with us always, that he is on his throne, that he is omnipotent.   ...

  • Power within US

    Posted January 13, 2010 by Troy Cleveland

    THE POWER WE HAVE WITHIN US. WE have within us a power that is greater than anything that we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life. Mind, all Mind is ri...

  • Earthquake in Haiti

    Posted January 13, 2010 by Jeff Austin

    Please say a prayer for all those affected by the Haitian earthquake disaster and for those trying to assist people there that are in such need.

  • change

    Posted January 13, 2010 by BAYLEN CLARKE

     "Each man has ... all the wisdom and power of the world in Himself; he possesses one kind of knowledge as much as another, And he who does not find that which is in him cannot truly say That he does not possess it, but only that he was not capable of  Successfully seeking for it, Paracels...

  • work in progress

    Posted January 13, 2010 by BAYLEN CLARKE

     YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN CALLED TO FOUND A CHURCH START A SCHOOL OR GATHER PEOPLE TOGETHER YOU TO GAIN PRESTIGE. I HAVE BEEN CALLED FOR ONE PURPOSE TO ALERT THE ELECT OF GOD SO THEY CAN BE AWARE. IT MAY BE CALLOUS ON MY PART TO ESTABLISH MY SELF AS SUCH BUT I DON’T ...

  • Really dumbfounded and lost

    Posted January 13, 2010 by Jennifer Banks

     Hello,  I am in tons of pain right now and confused at the same time.   My husband of 10 years and father of 4 great children told me he wants a divorce.  He is not happy with our relationship or himself.  I love him with all my heart and I don't want this at all. ...

  • Wentzville Revelations Church

    Posted January 12, 2010 by Reverend Ernest Miller

    I am currently in the process of starting my church Wentzville Revelations Church.  I truly believe within the next 7 years Jesus will return to collect his and begin Armegeddon.  Any help would be appreciated.

  • How to easily recognize reverse programming

    Posted January 12, 2010 by Seer Ashlamaz

      The most important thing we can do for ourselves today is delete the old programs. Within us are operating, actual programs from what we've heard, seen and entertained all of our lives. With the shift of the earth's polarity raising our vibrations of consciousness, we find oursel...

  • Reflections of Women Issues

    Posted January 12, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

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  • Dealing with Hatred and Evil People

    Posted January 12, 2010 by Nick Brown

    I am kind of surprised  I am having to write this on the ULC Networker but honestly I think that if something is evil who better to deal with it then those that are truly in God's service. I have noticed lately that a lot of people have become so polarized in their beliefs and thinkin...

  • In the Beginning, The Dragons were with Me.

    Posted January 12, 2010 by Thaenrathi Druat-Ti Jim (Athauliz Dragons Eye Firestorm), Tol-Ensha, sal Da DruatTi, zhae Mata-an, Sahr-thae-Sha, Zhan sathe Nae

    Let there be the breath of Life, from the Darkness and the Light. Be-eth the Blessings of the Father and the Mother that all Creation takes form. From out of the chaotic mists of the seas of energy and formlessness, be thou born of the Cosmos by Divine Will and Consciousness. Be thou of many forms, ...

  • Lost in Christian Translations…

    Posted January 11, 2010 by Dr. Anthony ADRIAN

    Lost in Christian Translations… I believe everything must have balance to function correctly. Anything new must be broken in. About 2k years ago…this new and edgy religion called Christianity came to be, which has spread like wild fire both in population and new denominations. The on...

  • Outrage? Courgae? Where Do We Go Now?

    Posted January 11, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      The reason why I like this book “From Outrage to Courage” because as a black woman, I understand the outrage, I have been categorized as angry and outraged when I walk, talk and sometimes misunderstood.  I understand now more my sub consciousness.   These two chapters allowed ...

  • Please someone help me with this. Details.

    Posted January 11, 2010 by Rev.Terry L. Henry. USA Honor Society

    Please someone help me with this. I will explain simply. OK on this hill side there are around 300 houses. At the top of the hill there was a chemical spill. The chemicals ran into the ground and down the side of the hill. At the bottom of the hill is the towns water supply. The chemical...

  • Right or Wrong

    Posted January 11, 2010 by Rev Robert Fuller

       I would have to agree with others that it is not our place to be disrespectful to others regardless of their opinion or belief.          The wonderful thing about this site is that it gives one a forum in which we can discuss, research, and learn...

  • Bible story movies

    Posted January 11, 2010 by Pastor Tyler Odell

    TBN has been playing a lot of the older movies on bible stories. Stories on Ruth, Jacob, Abram, Joseph, Noah and others. I have noticed they don't always follow the bible accounts accurately. In some of the movies about Abraham Sarah & Hagar, some put more blame on Sarah & others on Ha...

  • new updates to "quantum physics and spirituality" group

    Posted January 10, 2010 by Rev. Dr. Dean And Rev. Barbara Rose

    I have updated discussions and added much new information. Come take a look. More to come.

  • Contemplating On Inner Truth given by our Creator

    Posted January 10, 2010 by Penny Ragan

               It seems everyday I learn new things from this world the universe whatever. Things come to me answers come to me and later somehow someway proven. That’s how I know that the answers that came to me came from something or someone greater than me...

  • Weddings in Calif.

    Posted January 10, 2010 by Fe S

    Hi All, Can I ask all of you who have performed marriages in Cali, how many you have officiated?

  • Born Again?

    Posted January 9, 2010 by Billy Stokes

    Addition: It was my hope to provoke the reader to exam not so much as the definition of a word, but the end manifestation or lack thereof of the implied word.    The importance of Faith / Trust in the word or God (his Christ) is pivotal to the Born Again scenario.   Obedience to ...

  • New Begin has start part 2

    Posted January 9, 2010 by Rev.Mike Allen

    I got call from tommy and i can tell hw was happy   he told on the phone  that he has pass  rules and reg and the the safe  told  thats great news they were in class for 8hours  for this last  two hours was a test  and past  thes test   , N...

  • Sex Roels: Women Sexuality

    Posted January 8, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      It is in our righteous opportunity to create, and access to that opportunity is our investment that will lead us into eternal life.                 This women’s work by Maxwell is hard on a man is the lyrics of this ...

  • Systems Of Oppression: Work of Liberation

    Posted January 8, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

                            I am passionate about the work of liberation because oppression is in need for rest.  She has done her work well, and now she needs to go to bed for awhile.  The baby ...

  • Multicultural Love Affairs

    Posted January 8, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      Multicultural Love Affairs Keisha Merchant                 What in the world happened? Yes, the melting pot has not only begun, but exploded. In our age we find the old wise sayings slowly disappearing tha...

  • Commercial Sex Work/Global Market

    Posted January 8, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      I have come to the conclusions that commercial sex work needs reform in our social and civic laws because who pays for women to be just women? Men have that opportunity, and women are not given that privilege or power to equally progress financially in their own strengths sexually as me...

  • been sick i,m back

    Posted January 7, 2010 by Eric Kelly

    i 'm sorry that there has not been any new entrys. i have been sick  not able to do much. but i'm back not all of onehundred %but trying to get well .praying on it . God Bless You All. Rev Eric Kelly

  • intolernece...

    Posted January 7, 2010 by Azri LittleHawk

           today my sister helped me  get  groceries. my vehicle is  out of commission due to a recent  car accident. I decided to show her my  "Ministers" wallet  card & proof  of my  ability, in the eyes of the state to solemniz...

  • Getting The Stress You Need

    Posted January 7, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        The Mindshifters group watched the second half of the lecture, Getting The Stress You Need, by Dr. Michael Ryce. (www.whyagain.com) One of the primary messages of this lecture is that once the human mind sets a goal, it remains set and active, even if unconscious, until the...

  • Joy, Sadness and Worry!

    Posted January 7, 2010 by Philip Rose

    It is with great joy that I can now call myself Reverend!   I had promised to do the marriage ceremony for a dear friend of mine come the end of what is turning out to be a cold, bitter winter January. This ceremony, however, is a union of love between two as well as a gathering of old friend...

  • Before or After?

    Posted January 7, 2010 by Rev. S Givhan

      Hypothetical Question   If God asked you to choose one, Before or After. Which would you choose?   Many years ago while at the dentist the doctor posed this same question, I say as a way to reduce my anxiety. You are not allowed to ask any questions especially, before...

  • My thoughts on life

    Posted January 6, 2010 by Popette Aeris Sky Ritalee Shotts

    Good evening all, i want to discuss with you my thoughts on everyday life. life is a gift and some say life sucks and others say life doesnt suck and to live life to the fullest. then there is some who think life sucks because there naibor won the lotto and there jelious or something happened to som...

  • The Power of Forgiveness

    Posted January 5, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        The core tool of Dr. Michael Ryce's work is The Reality Management Worksheet, and the process he refers to as Forgiveness. The definition of Forgiveness in this work is very different from the definition I grew up with. I was raised to believe that to forgive someone m...

  • All Miracles are the Gifts of Grace

    Posted January 5, 2010 by Corrina Ballanger

    All Miracles are the Gift of Grace:   All Miracles contain the Gift of Grace, for it is given and received as One... What We receive so do our Brothers and Sisters, of the Light Workers... And thus it illustrates the Law of Truth that this world does not obey, and fail to understand th...

  • Building New Brain Cells - An Example/Analogy

    Posted January 4, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        So, we have discussed the idea of needing to question whatever it is we think we know, in order to be open to learning new things. We discussed how the lecture on A Course In Miracles makes a major point about how it is our limited perception which causes most of the pain, suffer...

  • Building New Brain Cells - The Eyes To See and The Ears To Hear

    Posted January 4, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        When we finished watching the lecture, "Introduction to A Course In Miracles - With Advanced Understanding" by Dr. Ryce ( www.whyagain.com ) and the thing that struck me the most as I watched this lecture, yet again, was the level of understanding that I received on several key p...

  • Yay

    Posted January 4, 2010 by Druidess Of Green Oak Rebecca Carver

    Yay...I have made a really cool site for Druid/pagan kids, teens and parents. I have put my heart and soul into it and hope that it will become what I want it to be. If anyone reading this would like to check it out then here is the URL druidkids.webs.com My 11 year old daughter has already jo...

  • HOUSES OF WORSHIP AND SEGREGATION

    Posted January 3, 2010 by Deleted Member

    This morning I attended a Lutheran church around the corner where I have been only sporadically over the past year. As in the past in so many settings I unfortunately encountered someone who made an insensitive comment that " Jewish people have all the money you know" then didn't know what to s...

  • Healing Through Relationships - Dr. Michael Ryce

    Posted January 3, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        Last night our Mindshifters group watched the first half of the Dr. Ryce lecture titled, Healing Through Relationships. The things which jumped out at me were Dr. Ryce's definition of a Bias, as being "unperceived brain cell energy". He went on to say that any Bias becomes the...

  • Reflections of Esther

    Posted January 2, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      Reflections of Esther   As I watch Drum Line, I see these strong actors and actresses play roles of culture.  It is amazing how we can use movies, music and experiences in our society to explain or be illustrations of unknown realities and sub consciousness messages.  I watc...

  • 2010 Irish Basphamy Laws

    Posted January 2, 2010 by Sage David Rosman

    Please read the following blog: http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist-ireland-publishes-25-blasphemous-quotes/ Ireland is seeking to instill greater religious restriction by removing frreom of speech rules concerning religion, speficially Chritianity, though Islam is included. Nonbelievers, atheis...

  • What Makes This Fair?

    Posted January 1, 2010 by Dr. Richard Carver Druid Of Green Oaks

    Ok the other day me and my wife was driving down the road and saw this S.U.V. and on the side it had a sign that read,"Sams Souvenirs" and under it it said they have indian artifacts....We decided to go look to see what he was selling and it made us ill, he had old jewelry, arrowheads, and other thi...

  • Brother's Keeper Ministries

    Posted January 1, 2010 by Rev. J. Keith Sowell

    Happy New Year to everyone and I hope God will bless you and myself in the comming year. My year ended with something I never would have believed. My Brother Slick was ordained by ULC. I mearly mentioned to him that I was ordianed and he said that he had been thinking about his own salvation an...

  • Reflections of Nehemiah

    Posted January 1, 2010 by Keisha Merchant

      Reflections of Nehemiah   Building the wall is a symbol of protection and security.  What is the meditation for today?  I sit in my corner thinking and praying about my fast in how is our life without the Lord?  Sometimes, we live without believing because we find ourse...

  • Mindshifters - The Shadow Effect and Codependence to Interdependence

    Posted January 1, 2010 by Timothy Hayes

        Last week the Mindshifters group was without our usual DVD collection and a member brought in the DVD The Shadow Effect from Debbie Ford. While this movie makes several of the same points that Dr. Ryce makes in his lectures, the whole tone of the movie was dark and rather pessimist...