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January 4, 2018 By Admin

Liberate Yourself with Spiritual Energy

Liberate Yourself with Spiritual Energy

Cultivating authentic inner and outer peace is the only way to a happy and good future. Learn to use your spiritual higher self to let go of self-centerednesss, greed, and entitlement. Work to free yourself from the endless grasping for material “things.”  Does it really matter what kind of car you drive, how BIG your house is, or that you just purchased the newest smartphone?  NO! Personal, authentic happiness cannot be bought.  Personal authentic happiness has little to do with being wealthy. Commit to reflect deeply on your action in life, and choose your pure, clear heart to be kind, generous, good, and loving to others. In the end, great kindness and love are far more important than material wealth. These statements are the informed advice of J. M. Bergoglio, that is Pope Francis.  It does not matter if your are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, etc. What matters is that you are a good person, a good person leading a kind and loving life. A person who does not harm others, but instead helps others from the goodness of your heart and soul.

Learn more about your spiritual self by answering the following questions. Your immediate response should be freely associated, that is write down whatever comes to mind without much thinking about it. Then elaborate by deeper contemplation on what you have written. Fine tune your statements about yourself.  Here are the questions.

  1. What is generally in your heart?_____________________________________________________________
  2. How strong is your kindness to others?_____________________________________________________________
  3. How do you show compassion to others?_____________________________________________________________
  4. Are you generally kind-hearted with yourself?_____________________________________________________________
  5. Is there any form of transformative light within you?_____________________________________________________________
  6. When is the last time you directly helped another person?_____________________________________________________________
  7. Do you welcome honest, tears?_____________________________________________________________
  8. If “NO” – why not?________________________________________________
  9. What is your mindset (Latin: forma mentis) about being a good person?_____________________________________________________________
  10. What is the nature of your personal interest in doing good for others?_____________________________________________________________
  11. Are you more concerned with superficial appearances (physical, material, etc.), or do you care more about depth realities – the relative quality of of mind-body-heart-spirit?_____________________________________________________________
  12. What have you learned about yourself here?_____________________________________________________________

For more information refer to Bergoglio, J. M. /Pope Francis (2017). (Trans. O. Stransky). Happiness in this Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence. Rome: Libreria Eidtrice Vaticana/New York: Penguin Random House, pp. 83-109, 159-226.

Anthony R. Quintiliani, PhD., LADC

From the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont and the Home of The Monkton SanghaChiYinYang_EleanorRLiebmanCenter

Author of Mindful Happiness  

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April 20, 2015 By Admin

“Spirit Energies” May Manifest in Our Physical World:

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Our spiritual traditions have many sources of powerful spiritual origination: Shiva, Buddha, Jesus, Saint Francis to note just a few.  The Roman thinker Seneca noted that our most feared day is our last mindfulhappiness-spiritualenergyon earth, but this is also the beginning of our eternity.  As a practicing Buddhist, a secular meditation teacher, and a faculty member in higher education I am a highly spiritual person – but not a highly religious person.  This reality has caused some serious detours on my own Buddhist spiritual path.  I find the deep faith and speculation about past-lives, reincarnation, inter-being, and karmic causes and conditions all very fascinating.  That being said, I also tend to be highly practical in my personal approach to such matters.  In my final analysis, I tend to side with those who believe once you die, it all ends.  My only ongoing conflict in mind, however, is what happens to my electromagnetic energy (required to keep me alive) after I die?  New Physics notes that energy cannot be destroyed, so what happens to it?  Since human perceptual systems are capable of registering only about 5% (some say perhaps as much as 10%) of the various energies waves in the universe – a whole lot is possible well beyond our rational understanding. This scientific question leave the doorway a bit open for other speculations related to the possibility of “the other side.” My neverlettinggo_spirtualenergy-mindfulhappinessrecent read of Mark Anthony’s 2011 book, Never Letting Go: Healing Grief with Help from the Other Side.  Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications presented me with several unexplained realities from grieving my wife, Eleanor’s death over the past four years ago.  In the final ending, we are to experience full acceptance, deep inner peace, less sorrow, while holding onto the wonderful LOVE.  I will review his section about how spirits may present themselves to us in our environments.  I will share some of my own experiences in these very same situations.

1) Seeing the lost person: Sometimes mourning survivors of loss see their lost loved one “as if” real.  This clairvoyance did happen to me.  The day after I traded in my wife’s car I was driving my own car to the dealer’s when across the road (Route 7 south in Shelburne), I saw Ellie driving her car in the opposite direction.  She even looked over at me.  I was shocked, and began to pull over to turn around. Then I realized that even if I caught up to the car, Ellie would not be driving it.  Grieving hallucination or something from beyond?  I will never really know. Pretty real and powerful, however.

2) Hearing the lost person: This clairaudience also happened to me on several occasions. Sometimes in dreams, sometimes in meditations, and sometimes in entirely random situations.  I often speak to her “as if” she is here with me; she seldom responds.

3) Smelling the lost person: Yes, clairscent has happened to me also.  This is more rare for me.  I have experienced scents associated with Ellie several times while in our home in Monkton, Vermont.  This is especially true when I sit in her favorite study looking out over the hill and woods she loved so much. Now the top of that view is home to her sacred ashes.

4) Feeling the touch of the lost person: Oh , yes.  Once while taking our favorite walk but this time without her. I experienced a very strong hand-in-hand experience.  It was a real touch with pressure!  We often held hands on this walk.  So, yes clairsentience has happened to me.

 5) Seeing unexplained visual events:  Yes, I have witnessed this phenomenon in association with Ellie.  I have experienced this – but not as strongly as the other experiences already mentioned.  They usually appear as fleeting, subtle energies moving around from place to place.

6) Visits in dreams: I have experienced this many, many times – almost always highly positive in nature.  Sometimes it is a confused state.

7) Objects out of place: This has happened to me; it is a rare experience for me.

8) Electrical tingling in the body:  Yes, I have experienced this encounter in the past both with Ellie and my loving mother, Lucy.  After Lucy’s death I was packing up all my mother’s clothing up in the attic of her home, as I left the room and reached the bottom step I was “stunned” into a freeze position by strong, cold swirling energy all around my body.  It was a warm Spring day! Freaked me out!  Perhaps she was not yet ready to part with those cherished belongings.  Upon recollecting on how I found Ellie near death in our bedroom after arriving home from work, I experienced a hell-chilling, freezing sensation from the pit of my stomach and lower back to the top of my head.  Very, very painful emotionally.

So, there you have it.  An un-believer has experienced most of the ways lost love objects are suspected to communicate with us in our own physical environment.    Very interesting!

For more information refer to Anthony, M (2011). Never Letting Go: Healing Grief with Help from the Other Side. Woodbury, MN:Llewellyn Publications, pp. 61-83 and 221-261.

By Anthony R. Quintiliani, PhD., LADC

From the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation in Monkton, VermontChiYinYang_EleanorRLiebmanCenter

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