This one is especially for those Star Trek nerds like me: For the rest of you… #makeitso #LauraValeri #startreknextgeneration...

What fascinates me, still now, is what I discovered about the ancient and almost prescient wisdom of Sumerian mystics.  Much of it is...

In the spiritual tradition I follow we talk sometimes about being a mirror for the people we meet, and also how the people we clash with...

The writer of the piece seemed quite frustrated by all the emphasis of Tibetan medicine on chants, magic and astrology.  Phrases from the...

Oh, do I have the event for you! Friday, February the 7th  from 5-7pm Laura Valeri, born in Piombino, Italy, will sign copies of her...

Even though I finished writing a complete and polished draft of my novel The Faithful Son, I’m still reading up a ton on Mesopotamian...

I hear this a lot: “What comes around goes around.” I love saying it. And I love saying, “Bad Karma” and “That’s just karma, dude,” and...

I do so with a little bit of trepidation because this means revealing to the world how much of an optimistic and earnest fool I really am...

I subscribe to several online meditation sites, most of them associated with the Oneness movement, a spiritual group in India that is...

Diwali, the festival of lights.  It helps to have colorful candy and to call your brother, too, as Diwali is a way to welcome luck and...

Buddhism in Bangkok, Thailand (Photo credit: photo-555.com) Years ago I began to realize that I didn’t have to be a lapsed Catholic. More...

I mean everything, from the extra-curricular basketball team that my coach was so happy to accept me into due to my height (approximately...

What we are lacking, in a strict sense, is not consciousness. We know what the problems are; we know what would solve them; even in a...

Recently, I started to collect these sayings, remedies and superstitions, in part because I’m a bit nostalgic for my past, in part...

article today posted by a friend on FaceBook, and I just had to share what I think about this: A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman...

It happens a lot to people: blockages. They start in your mind and move to your body.  The reverse is also true. Usually, I feel really...

Cuneiform TI sign Cuneiform TI or TÌL (Borger 2003 nr. ; U+122FE 𒋾) has the main meaning of “life” when used ideographically. The...

I The film was about a woman philosopher, astronomer and mathematician living in Alexandria, Egypt in 400 A.D.  Her name is Hypatia.  She...

Mata Amritanandamayi is the name of the saint known most popularly as “the hugging saint.”  To her devotees she is merely Amma, a word in...

I’ve finally been getting back to a regular meditation routine.  I didn’t remember how much I had missed it until I finally got back into...