The Seven Steps of Effective Prayer

There’s no time like the present, and nothing like our present time that urges us to pray for the healing of our world. So much suffering, so many forces beyond our control, sometimes prayer is our only way to send our intention out to the powers that be. At least it’s one form that is always available.

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Imaginal Cells and the Body Politic

Artwork by Will Zero

Story for Our Times

When a caterpillar nears its transformation time, it begins to eat ravenously, consuming everything in sight. (It is interesting to note that individuals are often called “consumers” and one of the largest manufacturers of heavy construction machinery is called “Caterpillar,” Inc.) The caterpillar body then becomes heavy, outgrowing its own skin many times, until it is too bloated to move. Attaching to a branch (upside down, we might add, where everything is turned on its head) it forms a chrysalis—an enclosing shell that limits the caterpillar’s freedom for the duration of the transformation.

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Teilhard de Chardin and the Concept of the Noosphere

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this endeavor he became absolutely enthralled with the possibilities for humankind, which he saw as heading for an exciting convergence of systems, an “Omega point” where the coalescence of consciousness will lead us to a new state of peace and planetary unity.

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Sri Aurobindo: A Remarkable Teacher

Sri Aurobindo was a political activist, Indian Yogi, and spiritual master, who first came to prominence in India’s struggle for independence from the British, in an extremist nationalist movement in 1908. He was convinced that any political freedom must be imbued with spiritual elements and thus created a new vision of India, in which her independence was grounded in the necessity of preserving the great teachings of Indian religion, which he predicted would be essential to saving our global humanity at some future point in history. This revolution would occur collectively through a critical mass of enlightened individuals.

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What is a Kin-dom?

In the old model of civilization kingdoms were an area of land inhabited by people who were ruled by a king. Kingdoms were what people knew, how they identified themselves. Kingdoms had a top-down organizing principle that began with the king and trickled down hierarchically to the common people, who were of unequal status.

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Sacred Center’s Mission Statement

Sacred Centers is a teaching organization founded by Anodea Judith in 1999 to promote Sacred knowledge for the transformation of individuals and culture. The name, Sacred Centers, refers to the divine center within each one of us, to the seven major energy centers known as chakras, and to the need to be centered in the sacred in our daily life.

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