Well over 100 years ago, the great spiritual teacher and literary genius Oscar Wilde, after visiting America, wrote, "Americans know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Oscar Wilde's wisdom, insight and penchant for truth are as accurate and sobering now as they were over 10 decades...

Post-modern American culture is not famous for embracing spiritual values. And you thought that outer space is the only thing that operates in a vacuum. Welcome to our world -- a high-tech spiritual wasteland. If it cannot be measured, weighed, separated in a particle accelerator, or grown in a Petrie...

Ever ask yourself, "Where does consciousness come from?" Or, "Can consciousness come from an absence of consciousness?" Albeit, not the subject of your everyday discourse, these are still interesting and relevant questions. When inquiring about consciousness a valid qualifying question might be, "What type of consciousness are we talking about?"...

We call it "the afterlife". But from everything we know about it, we really should be calling it "the life", and calling what we are experiencing now "the before life". There has been so much documented and recorded about what happens after we die, that its mere existence is indisputable....

I never met Hal in person; we only spoke over the phone. My publicity people introduced us via email and thought we would be kindred spirits. There were times over the next four to five years when Hal and I might talk almost every day. And then, due my traveling...

Whenever I share the life and wisdom of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) with my radio show listeners, the people who read my books and magazine articles, or with those who attend my many classes and lectures, I always start out by introducing him as "my boyfriend." That introduction accomplishes a couple...

Tolerance and compassion, like love, are words that have gotten a lot of mileage lately. It is both Buddhist and politically correct to advocate for T and C. But what do we really know about the power behind these words? Tolerance and compassion are not merely intellectual states of mind....

Everything is energy. Atoms vibrating at different frequencies form matter. In the physical world the only thing separating a chair from a rock is their rate of vibration. Even non-physical entities such as thoughts, memories, feelings, love and fear are forms of energy with their own frequency and magnetic signature...

Ever notice how so many of the bumper sticker messages out there are simple yet profound? I saw a great one recently that said "Life Is the Classroom. Love Is the Lesson." That pretty much says it all. How is it that all the great spiritual sayings can fit on...

Some people have found themselves heavily influenced by such iconic philosophical figures as Socrates, Plato, Kierkegaard, Kant or Thoreau. Others find comfort in the words of Emerson, Gandhi or Lao Tzu. For me there has been only one personality over the years that has remained transfixed in sheer perfection, one...

Next to the notions that one can achieve a body without cellulite and a life without suffering, the greatest mistaken belief is that there is one diet, one type of oil, one form of exercise, one hormone supplement, one mantra or prayer, one rigid organizational life structure or one medication...

Today we have to pay attention to a wide spectrum of politically correct agendas -- our PC-sensitive etiquette realities. Do you still say "handicapped" as the parking placards state, or do you say "physically challenged"? God forbid you refer to an airline employee as a "stewardess." The last stewardess retired...

Wouldn't it be great if life came with an owner's manual and a warranty with a double-your-money-back guarantee of complete satisfaction? That would be the ideal fantasy -- no suffering, no fuss, no muss, no headaches, no assembly required. However, life does not come with any legally binding contracts of...

Some people have found themselves heavily influenced by such iconic philosophical figures as Socrates, Plato, Kierkegaard, Kant or Thoreau. Others find comfort in the words of Emerson, Gandhi or Lao Tzu. For me there has been only one personality over the years that has remained transfixed in sheer perfection, one...

Recently there has been so much time and energy given to the topic of building a mosque near the site of the Twin Towers, that it would be a shame to allow the opportunity for greater understanding to pass by without further examination.

It has been argued...

Guest Contribution by Eric Gross

Vaishali

Lucid dreaming is a state of consciousness where the dreamers are fully aware that they are asleep, and that what they are experiencing is a state of reality completely manufactured by the dreaming mind. Just about everyone has experienced a flash of lucid recognition during a dream --...

I have always looked to comedians as disseminators of sage wisdom. I have written about both Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce as spiritual teachers disguised as stand-up comics. So it didn't surprise me when I was up late one night, turned on the tube, and there in...

Whatever happened to our immunity to verbal weaponry? In our youth, armed with the mantra "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," off we went into the real world. But we soon returned shaken and crying when someone called us a name.

Maybe the...

Some people have found themselves influenced heavily by such iconic religious figures as Jesus of Nazareth, or the historical Buddha. Others find comfort in the words of Gandhi or Lao Tzu. For me there has been only one personality over the years that has remained transfixed in sheer perfection; one...