Becoming Enlightened
My number one New Year’s resolution is to become enlightened. Do you think this is a worthy goal? Do you think this is possible? Can you tell me what enlightenment is and how I might get enlightened?
RABBI RAMI: I do think enlightenment is a worthy goal, and like my perennial New Year’s resolution—losing 20 pounds—it is possible, just not for me. Simply put, enlightenment is (1) the realization that you and all life are a manifesting of nondual Aliveness called by many names: Mother, Kali, God, Brahman, Allah, Tao, YHVH, Aliveness, Nature, Great Spirit, etc., and (2) embodying this realization by acting godly, which is to say justly and with compassion. As to how you might get enlightened, I suggest you start by acting godly. That way, even if you never realize you are God, no one will care, not even you.
I admit to watching too much television news, and the America I see is an America steeped in fear. Is this my country?
Yes, it is, but there is more to America than fear; there is also an America of love. It is just that you won’t see that America on television because fear sells more pillows than love. The aim of television isn’t to keep you informed but to keep you consuming. If you want to see all of America, turn offthe television and talk with people.
I find so much wisdom in religion. I can’t limit myself to just one, so I’m put offby Jesus in John 14:6: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.” Was Jesus such a narcissist?
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ONE WORD TO BEAT WINTER BLUES: BIOMIMICRY
CREATURELY REFLECTIONS
THINKING ABOUT RESTITUTION
THE HEART OF HAPPINESS
WAITING IN LINE
OUR WALK IN THE WORLD
ENTER THE SAUNA
Journalist Emily O’Kelly shares some uplifting research on the benefits of sweat bathing, a global healing practice not just limited to Northern climes.
the trail of ATONEMENT
One Ashkenazi Jewish family escaped pogroms in Russia and then flourished in South Dakota, but the “free land” of their new homestead had been unfairly taken from the Lakota by the United States. Generations later, a celebrated investigative journalist set out to tell the truth of the Lakota and her family, calculate The Cost of Free Land—and pay it back.
STALKING YOUR Mind
Stalking the Mind is part of an ancient Indigenous American Medicine Way to tame your guilt, fears, and shame. What we’re “stalking” are our thought patterns and beliefs that seem to create the opposite of happiness and wellbeing. It’s a powerful psychotherapeutic journey of healing without the diagnosis or labels.
LEAVING MESA VERDE
After 21 years of service at Mesa Verde National Park, RANGER DAVID FRANKS recently guided his last tour of the pueblos and cliff dwellings. He says he was fortunate to assist the archeologists with a variety of work and never lost his amazement with their ability to figure out how and when things happened. The question he still wrestles with is much deeper: Why they left?
BECOMING YOUR OWN LEAD RESEARCHER IN HEALTHCARE
PEGGY LA CERRA, PHD, downloaded a health app to aggregate her medical records and was stunned to see the phrase \"aortic atherosclerosis.\" What she did next is a helpful model for all of us.
ARCHETYPAL ASTROLOGY
\"Is astrology true?\" is the wrong question, writes RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO. He suggests that the truth is out there, but out there is really in here.
WELLNESS IN THE WILD
Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS takes the [cold] plunge at Mohonk Mountain House.
