Topic: Magick & Spirituality

Even though most people won't be able to raise their body temperature without years of meditation training, simple meditation techniques can help them master their bodies. According to Laurie Desjardins, this mind-body mastery could help reduce stress and strengthen immune systems.

Scientists studying Tibetan monks found that by using an advanced yoga and meditation technique called Tum-mo, the monks can actually raise their body temperature.

Astrology, of course, is much more than your sun sign as printed in the daily newspaper. In this article, Mohan Potukuchi explains how to incorporate birthstones into astrology.

Gems have been used from times immemorial for luck and as good omens.Kings and queens are reported to be craving for the possession and pursuit of beautiful gems and stones. Our forefathers have used them to ward off evil spirits, to bring luck and favor as well as to prolong their longevity. Some astrologers prescribe wearing of appropriate gemstones or birthstones as they are commonly called as remedial measures for mitigating the malefic effects of some planets. This is akin to a doctor prescribing medicines to a patient.

Phillip Gardiner reveals how Ian Fleming included special codes within the James Bond novels to re-create ancient sacred tales.

With Ian Flemings 100th Birthday celebrations and the release of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, looming, a new story emerges that throws a completely new light on the whole world of James Bond.

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"Taking life personally is the ego dancing with Maya - a dance of shadows, unaware of their true nature. It's extremely difficult, maybe impossible, for the ego to fathom this, because the ego imagines itself as real. That is its nature. However, in reality it is at one with Maya and is an illusory identity."

"It's Not Personal, Really"
or Beyond the Walls of the Individual and Collective Personality

by Michael the LightLounge Guy

"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end." Marcus Fabius Quintilian (35 CE -100 CE)

Marcus Quintilian was born about 600 years after the Buddha, but he came to the same conclusion as the Enlightened One. Buddha said it a little differently — that all forms pass — but the meaning is the same. Until recently, most people agreed with this, except they thought that the stars and the soul were eternal. Now we know that stars are born, live, and die just like the rest of us. Whether the soul is eternal is still debatable.

Readers report enhanced intuition, release of limiting beliefs and increased feelings of well-being - just from reading the visionary, Nautilus and IPPY award-winning thriller "Mystic Warrior: A Novel Beyond Time and Space."

Mystic Warrior: A Novel Beyond Time and Space has been selected as a Silver Winner in the 2008 Nautilus Book Awards in the Fiction/Visionary Fiction - Adult category, and has moved to the final round, where the Gold Winner will be selected.

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After the Spanich Conquest, the Spaniards tried to suppress cultivation of sunflowers because of their association with solar religion and warfare.

Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived, according to a team of researchers that includes Florida State University anthropologist Mary D. Pohl.

Born in India 2.600 years ago Buddhism was only noted by the West over the past century and as its ideas spread a new form of Buddhism, the West Buddhism, is emerging leading people to ask what these old ideas can offer to the western men and women of the 21st century.

Since 560 BC Buddhism, currently the faith of 400 million people, spread from India to Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and Japan, giving birth to new forms of Buddhism as it absorbed the local culture. But in the last century we are seeing a new move as Buddhism travels west. The so-called West Buddhism (or Western Buddhism) is taking shape as westerners abandon the prevailing ritual aspects of oriental Buddhism and shift the focus to its philosophical and ethical principles.

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Perhaps no Eastern concept is more important than the concept of "mindfulness." However, remaining mindful is not easy. Author Sue Patton Thoele offers suggestions to help keep you focused.

Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. Well-known mindfulness teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn, defines it this way Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. I also like to think of mindfulness as the art of inhabiting your own life with kindness and acceptance.

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A former prosecutor will release his book that undermines religion's claims of any just god. Analyzing myths, the Bible, the Koran and Anglo-American law, Geoff J. Henley writes a critique of scripture and organized religion.

This May a former Texas prosecutor will release a book meant to shake the foundations of religion. Just as 9/11 has raised questions about Islam and science has challenged Creationism, Geoff J. Henley explains that he believes that common legal principles show no just God exists in Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Lawyer's Case for Disbelief in God.

The eye in the pyramid has been a part of our culture for so long that it's become a part of our collective unconscious. However, few of us know what it means.

If after watching one of Disney’s National Treasure films, you surfed the web for “hidden meanings in American symbols,” you might be shocked at what you found. Most other writers, beside myself, who are speculating on American symbolism say that the nefarious Illuminati-Mason Satan-worshipers are in control of world events. If you’ve seen their compelling slideshows where they flip through hundreds of corporate logos resembling the eye in the triangle over the pyramid, you can imagine how gullible people everywhere now believe America’s Founding Fathers were Satanists.

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Reverse of the Great Seal of the United States