Spooky Spirituality: Serpents, UFOs and Alien Encounters

Last updated on: October 29, 2019 at 11:09 am By Tom Rapsas

There’s a slightly darker side to spirituality, a place where it’s not about light energy or guardian angels or conversations with God, but darker encounters with animals and entities that seem to have wisdom for us. It’s an area I like to call spooky spirituality. In Supernatural, Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, Graham Hancock writes about the powerful plant hallucinogen ayahuasca and its use by Indian shamans in South America as part of a sacred ritual. It’s a practice... Read more

How to Deal with Angry People—in 3 Steps

Last updated on: October 24, 2019 at 6:57 am By Tom Rapsas

It’s easy to be centered and spiritually-aware when you’re in the comforts of your own home, or in a friendly environment surrounded by like-minded people. The real test of our spiritual maturity comes when we’re out in the world and faced with a real conflict. No one likes conflict and we understandably do our best to avoid it. But the fact is, unless you live in a monastery and have cut yourself off from the world, you’re going to occasionally... Read more

Can “Radical Jesus” Lead Us to a Better World?

Last updated on: October 16, 2019 at 4:27 am By Tom Rapsas

What’s your responsibility to the world? When you hear about the plight of refugees or the growing epidemic of homelessness or the rampant corruption of our political leaders, do you sit back and shrug your shoulders in dismay? Or do you step up and take action? If you’re like me, you fall into a category that might best be labeled “concerned but inactive.” I am alternately angry, troubled, bewildered and angst-ridden by the state of our world circa October, 2019.... Read more

7 Spiritual Lessons from Justin Bieber (Really)

Last updated on: October 7, 2019 at 3:01 pm By Tom Rapsas

What do you do if you’re an ultra-rich, celebrity pop star and you realize your life is off track? What if you’ve begun to sense that, for all your money and fame, there’s a huge void in the center of your life? Where do you turn? Well, like anyone facing an existential crisis, the best option may be to look inward, to the place where your soul and God meet. The best thing to do may be to lean on... Read more

The Field of Honor: 9 Keys to Being a Person of Integrity

Last updated on: September 30, 2019 at 7:58 pm By Tom Rapsas

What do you do when the world isn’t right around you? When you see a friend or stranger being mistreated or a person in authority behaving badly? Do you assist and defend those being persecuted? Do you call out the person in power and try to hold them accountable? Be the change you want to see in the world. ~Gandhi While there are many national and global problems that are seemingly out of our control, there are things we can... Read more

Are You Giving Your Soul What It Wants?

Last updated on: September 23, 2019 at 1:42 pm By Tom Rapsas

Do you live life in touch with your innermost feelings—or do you live strictly through your head, letting your mind call the shots? If you’ve been feeling a bit adrift lately, either empty, down or directionless, you may have lost touch with a vital part of your self—the soul. The first thing to do is recognize the soul, what it is and the role it plays in your life. I like to think of the body as a figurative home.... Read more

9 Powerful Spiritual Truths—from the Mindful Lawyer

Last updated on: September 16, 2019 at 7:41 pm By Tom Rapsas

Sometimes you can find spiritual guidance in the strangest places. Like the ABA Journal, an online publication for the law profession. That’s where I stumbled upon an article titled Mindfulness and Spirituality for Lawyers. I know what you may be thinking. Lawyers? They perennially rate as one of the least admired professions in our society, a notch above car salespeople and members of Congress. But the fellow who wrote the aforementioned article, James Gray Robinson, is not your typical lawyer.... Read more

How to Make the Most of “The Second Half” of Life

Last updated on: September 10, 2019 at 4:58 am By Tom Rapsas

Every once in a while, I meet a person who radiates joy. These are people who seem to glow with an inner light. They are kind, tranquil, delighted by small pleasures, and grateful for the large ones…they live for others, and not for themselves. They know why they were put on this earth and derive a deep satisfaction from doing what they have been called to do. Did you read the paragraph above and think, hey, I’d like to be... Read more

When God Talks, Do You Listen?

Last updated on: September 2, 2019 at 6:07 am By Tom Rapsas

“Let us be silent, and we may hear the whispers of the Gods.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson What if someone told you that they regularly talked to God, had a give and take, where they asked God a question and got an answer in return. Would you think they were nuts? Or would you think they had tapped into a secret wisdom that you didn’t know about? In a Daily Beast story titled “We Talk with God: What Evangelical Christians Hear,” anthropologist... Read more

6 Ways to Wake Up and Reconnect with Life

Last updated on: August 27, 2019 at 1:30 pm By Tom Rapsas

Do you ever find yourself disconnected from life, more concerned with your to-do list or personal issues than the people and environment around you? Or perhaps you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through your smartphone just a little too often, tuning out the real world in the process. There’s an exercise for that, or make that 6 exercises. Think of them as ways to wake up your consciousness and stay better connected to the world around you. I stumbled upon them while... Read more