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Wayne Dyer – change your thoughts, change your life

Michele Knight — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:32:47 +0000

Do you feel stuck? Do you wish that your life would get moving? Start from the inside out. Change your thoughts and you literally change your life. Spiritual guru Wayne Dyer talks about how he embraced change at the age of 65, giving up everything in his life and embracing the Tao, the book of Ancient Chinese spiritual wisdom.
What thoughts are holding you back? Maybe the first one to challenge is the idea that you can’t change.

Tippi – a glimpse into the life of an indigo child

Michele Knight — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:26:11 +0000

A glimpse into Tippi’s extraordinary childhood shows a child who is able to create astonishing relationships with the people and animals of Africa. This is an amazing peek into the life of someone who has quite literally walked between many different worlds.

Marianne Williamson – the beginning of A Return to Love

Michele Knight — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:44:28 +0000

Spiritual guru Marianne Williamson reads the start of her book Return to Love. In this extract, she talks about her early life and how she stumbled across A Course in Miracles, the workbook for spiritual revolution that she devoured and began teaching before writing A Return to Love based on its teachings.

David Icke on the Law of Attraction

Michele Knight — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:23:51 +0000

David Icke gives his take on the ABCs of the Law of Attraction. Basically, the Law of Attraction tells us that what we get is a mirror of what we put out. If you’re not totally convinced that the outer world mirrors your inner state, try this experiment. Just for today, act as if everyone you deal with is the most amazing, interesting and incredible person you’ve ever met. Act as if everything that happens to you is for your highest good, even if you can’t see how that might be. That includes late buses, bills that need paying and people who are rude. Act as if you live in an abundant universe where miracles happen. You don’t have to believe any of this. Just act as if it is true. And see what happens.

Gaia theory – the world as a living whole

Michele Knight — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:30:06 +0000

David Suzuki talks to James Lovelock about how he arrived at Gaia theory – the idea that the world is a self-regulating whole.

Ted Talk on the quest to understand consciousness by Antonio Damasio

Michele Knight — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:10:30 +0000

Another fabulous Ted Talk on the quest to understand consciousness from Antonio Damasio. Developments in technology, such as fMRI machines, mean that we can now look at the brain in ways that were impossible before. But what has that told us about consciousness – that bit of you that knows you are you?

Terence McKenna – You are a divine being

Michele Knight — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:53:39 +0000

It’s a huge generalisation, but spiritual traditions or philosophies fall into two broad camps. One one side, there are those that say the divine is something outside of us. On the other, there are those that tell us that we are a part of the divine and so divine ourselves. Along with Terence McKenna, I believe that we are all divine. I believe that you have within a spark of the divine. You are a shard of God. That means that you also have the power to create. And, as Terence also, says, it means that you matter, that you are important and needed in this world.

Terence McKenna – Life is an opportunity

Michele Knight — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:41:24 +0000

The amazing Terence McKenna talks about the importance of rising above the limits we all place on our lives and exploring the real nature of the universe in which we live and who we are. You are a unique soul. There is no one like you in the entire universe. The journey of life itself is a a journey of exploration into what makes you unique and who you truly are. Taking that journey means stretching beyond the boundaries of the ideas you have caught from others.

John Hagelin on the nature of consciousness – part two

Michele Knight — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:34:05 +0000

The second part of John Hagelin’s talk on consciousness. It can be a real challenge to step out from beyond any current limitations in the way we see our world, but when we do, we can tap into opportunities and solutions that lie outside of what we currently know. That might sound really difficult, but you’ve actually been doing it without thinking throughout your life. Your perceptions of the world in which you live now are very different from the way you saw things when you were a child. You were designed to grow, learn and change. And it all begins with a shift in your perception.

When you’ve tried everything and nothing works

Michele Knight — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:07:28 +0000

In the The Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Master Yoda takes a despairing Luke Skywalker under his wing and teaches him how to use the force. By learning how to direct his mind, Luke learns how to harness the power within him. The film spawned hundreds of memorable quotes, but this one is good to come back to when you’ve tried everything and nothing works.
I beleive that we are all powerful creators and when we learn how to harness our energy, we can manifest amazing things. This deceptively simple quote is a doorway into a profound understanding of how we harness energy. We can pour it into looking back, what isn’t working, regrets, worry, fear or anything else that literally pulls us out of the present moment. When we pull it back and pour it into what we are doing, what we can do and the present moment, we tap into the abundance within the universe. Just for today, give up trying. Notice only what you are doing or not doing. See for yourself what transformation that brings.