Ascend Academy.. The Introduction Welcome Spirit Scientists! I’m so excited to introduce you all to an incredible series by Ryan Boyd that explores in depth the infinitely profound and often overwhelmingly complex realm of the spirit world and our place...

Our world of apparent duality offers a wealth of disguised enrichment opportunities. Consider: A cyber buddy who currently lives creatively without residence wondered why a stranger would open her home and heart to her. She emailed, “I don’t understand why...

Forming new habits can be both tough and exciting. Many factors play a key role when you want to create a habit but motivation and self-discipline are at the top of the list. Both of them will get you through...

“Hope and Memory have one daughter, and her name is Art.” ~ William Butler Yeats One day a cashier at my local organic foods co-op asked if I’d like to enter a contest to determine “The Most Beautiful Question.” The...

Photo: “Superman Buddha, Force Within” by Elisa Insua BY MUSHIM PATRICIA IKEDA The following is a summary of the many vital points that were struck in the author’s article. You can read the full article here. SUMMARY This article speaks to many...

As we move into the next phase of our global renaissance, copious creativity is the axis on which our elevation will turn. How deeply are we willing to tap our inner reservoirs? Can we expand our perception of what constitutes...

One of the reasons why there is so much mystery and confusion around grasping what the meridians actually are is most likely due to their association with Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Meridians can be best understood as pathways for the circulation of Ki (Chi), or...

Shamatha (serenity, concentration) is Established This is a transcription of an audio lecture that you can download for free:. Most spiritual people drift from day to day in their efforts to be “spiritual,” and have no sense of where they...

Today we are going to talk about specific obstacles that the beginner faces in Meditation practice. There are many obstacles to Meditation, and in the previous lectures we pointed out some of the most fundamental ones: Not knowing what the...

The beginning stages of concentration This is a transcription of an audio lecture: As people who are interested in Meditation, we want serenity.  In most cases, when someone is attracted to studying Meditation or spirituality, it is because some suffering...

In recent times we may have felt like stand-ins in our own lives: understudies playing a role on short notice while waiting for our “real” selves to return. That’s not going to happen. We’ve been in dress rehearsal for the...

This is a transcription of an audio lecture, modified for article format: Meditation is a state of Consciousness; it is a state of being. In that sense, it is something that is natural and inherent to all living things. It...

This is a transcription of an audio lecture, modified in rticle format: To understand today’s topic, which is energy, we need to remember that in the previous lecture we talked extensively about Consciousness. Consciousness is that which gives us being...

This is a transcription of an audio lecture: I was talking with a man a couple of days ago who said, “Meditation is the hardest thing you can do.” This is a perspective shared by a lot of people. Yet...

The purpose of Meditation is to bring about change and to address our fundamental problems. Real Meditation is based on facts, and focused on facts. Meditation is not really useful if it is just about beliefs and theories. When we...

“If I could tell the world one thing It would be that we’re all OK And not to worry ’cause worry is wasteful And useless in times like these I won’t be made useless I won’t be idle with despair”...

With two eyes, we are born SUPRFl$CAL. A generation of horses and torches, equally wicked and wise. The truth lies in dualities. Can you SEE? Timothy Yanick Hunter (SUPERFI$CAL) Timothy Yanick Hunter is a young Toronto artist making his mark in the...

We live in a time of accelerated change and transformation. There are many names for this time period. Some call it, The Great Awakening, The Rebirth, New Earth, The Second Coming, The Golden Age, The End Times, The New Millennium...