Spiritual Attunement through Meditation

Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation, episode #45: Dealing With Anger and Negative Energy Today we’ll be reading from Kathleen Mc Donald’s 1984 book, How to Meditate, A Practical Guide. We'll specifically focus on chapter 8 which speaks to the challenges of negative energy and anger. As always, we will include the preparatory meditation attunement techniques suggested in the Edgar Cayce reading...

Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation, episode #44: Our Infinite Potential Today we’ll be reading from the 1971 book, Where There is Light, Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life’s Challenges, by The incredible teacher and founder of the Self Realization Fellowship. “The ideal of love for God and service to humanity, found full expression in the life of Paramahansa Yogananda. He takes his plac...

Today we’ll be reading from the 1972 book titled Edgar Cayce‘s story of Attitudes and Emotions, A work book concerned with self understanding, self examination, self-reconstruction, and paradoxically, finally, self-elimination. We’ll begin with a section that speaks to what love is, but also to what love is not. As always, we will include the preparatory meditation attunement techniques suggested...

Today we’ll be reading from the beautiful 1957 book entitled Morning Light on the Spiritual Path. This book contains information from White Eagle, through the mediumship of Grace Cook. The White Eagle Lodge, based in England, exists to this day and continues the spiritual teachings so gently and lovingly given by White Eagle. As always, we will include the preparatory meditation attunement techniq...

Today we’ll be reading from Shirley McLean’s 1989 book entitled Going Within, a Guide for Inner Transformation. We will be focusing on chapter 6 entitled the New Age and Rational Thought. This chapter speaks to the slowly developing connection between Eastern and Western thought, and the evolving realization of a connection between the concept of a God source and science. As always, we will includ...

Today we will be reading from A Search for God, book one, chapter 7, entitled Patience. To anyone who is unfamiliar with the Search for God books, this two volume set, published in 1942, contains information put together by Study Group #1, which was a gathering of spiritual seekers that formed around Edgar Cayce in 1931 and who asked him to do readings specifically related to spiritual growth. It...

Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation, episode #39: Inter-Being. Today we will be looking at Elizabeth Lesser's 1999 book entitled The Seeker's Guide. In Chapter 15, entitled Inter-Being, she speaks to the incredible interconnected Oneness that continually exists in our midst. We sometimes forget that we are all eternal beings. Our thoughts, our actions and our words matter. They create vibratio...

Today we will be looking at Lama Surya Das’s 2007 book entitled Buddha is as Buddha Does. In chapter 9, Higher Accomplishments, the Lama actually speaks about the life of Edgar Cayce and references the manifestation of Mr. Cayce’s unique abilities which were utilized in loving service to humanity. He is an example of someone who sought their higher self and then took these unusual accomplishments...

Today we will be looking at the 1983 book entitled Meditations From the Tantras by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, focusing on why what we think is so important to the direction of our lives. As always, we will include the preparatory meditation attunement techniques suggested in the Edgar Cayce readings which will then be followed by a few minutes of meditative silence. https://www.edgarcaycenyc.org...

Today we’ll be looking at Diane Dreher’s 1990 book The Tao of Inner Peace. Seekers for centuries have found inner peace by following the Tao Te Ching. Translated more than any book but the Bible, Lao Tzu’s volume of 5000 words has helped people live through turbulent times by revealing the deep source of peace within. Lao Tzu wrote the Tao over 25 centuries ago as a handbook for leaders. In ancien...

Today we’ll be returning to the Search for God Books, published in 1942 by Study Group #1 of the Association for Research and Enlightenment. In 1931, Edgar Cayce agreed to help a group of people grow spiritually, with one condition: They would have to "live' the precepts. It took the group eleven years to apply and compile the twenty-four lessons that became A Search for God, Books I and II. This...

Today we’ll be returning to the beautiful information from the channeled entity called White Eagle, originally given through the transmission of Grace Cook from the 1930’s until her passing in 1979. The book we will look at today is entitled The Gentle Brother originally published in 1968 by the White Eagle Publishing Trust. As always, we will include the preparatory meditation attunement techniqu...

Today we’ll be looking at Paramahansa Yogananda's 1988 book, Where There is Light and how to bring about the best within us. Then, in the Edgar Cayce readings, there are many references to what are referred to as Ideals. Everyone is encouraged to know what their own personal Ideal is. What is our motivating guidance? What is it that we are living for or to? Knowing our ideal is essentially lik...

Today we’ll be looking at Jon Kabat-Zinn’s 1994 classic called Wherever You Go There You Are, mindfulness meditation in every day life. Mindfulness is considered the heart of Buddhist meditation, but its essence is universal and of deep practical benefit to all. In essence, mindfulness is about wakefulness. Our minds are such that we are often more asleep than awake to the unique beauty and possib...

Today we’ll be looking at the concept of cooperation and its importance in living our best life on this planet. In A Search for God, book one, it is the very first chapter. It’s a foundational concept in the Cayce material. The A Search for God books one and two were put together by Study Group #1, the small group that worked with Edgar Cayce in 1931 to compile a guide based on the readings to hel...

Today we’ll be looking at David Lynch’s 2007 book called, Catching the Big Fish. Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. Mr. Lynch works specifically with transcendental meditation, but as Edgar Cayce points out, there are many ways to meditate and many paths to transcend. The majority of us don’t fully realize that we have vast untapped levels of consciousness within reach and readily availabl...

Today we’ll be returning once again to the Search for God books which were put together in 1931 by study group number one and based on readings that Edgar Cayce did specifically on the subject of spiritual growth. Today we’ll read from book one, chapter 2, Know Thyself, the section entitled Self in Relation to Others. A critical topic in the divided world we currently live in. As always, we will i...

Today we’ll once again be looking at information from the book, The Door of Everything, written by Ruby Nelson in 1965. This is a book that has been so important to me over the years and one that I think most sincere spiritual seekers would find fascinating. A free online version of this book is found at the link in the show notes. In chapter 7 of this book, the author speaks about what she terms...

Today we’ll be looking at information from the book, Meditation and the Mind of Man. Based on the the Edgar Cayce Readings and written by Herbert B. Puryear and Mark A. Thurston. Published by the A.R.E. Press in 1975. Also mentioned in the text is the book The Secret of the Golden Flower, a classic Taoist text that speaks about a method of mystical meditation. As always, we will include the prepar...

Today we’ll be looking at information from the book, Meditation, the Complete Guide written by Patricia Monaghan and Eleanor G. Viereck, published in 1999 by The New World Library. We’ll also give the instructions for Metta Lovingkindness Meditation from the Metta Institute: May you be happy. May you be well. May you be safe. May you be peaceful and at ease. As always, we will include the preparat...

Today we’ll be reading from the 1999 book Going Home, Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, written by Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh, published by Riverhead Books. The concept that we are already home is a comfort to me. To finally realize that wherever we are, we have the innate ability to seek our own truth, to be at home with ourselves, our God, our teachers, be they Jesus or Buddha, and to follo...

Today we’ll be focusing on A Search For God, book ll, chapter 11, entitled Happiness. This is our second episode focusing on happiness, this time from the Edgar Cayce perspective. Happiness is not found where many people think it is. In the end, genuine happiness is found in simple compassion, kindness, and service to others. We will also include preparatory meditation attunement techniques sugges...

Today we'll be returning once again to one of my all time favorite books, The Door of Everything, written by Ruby Nelson in 1963 and published by DeVorss Publications. In Chapter 4, The Sacred Seed, we hear God speaking to us. We will also include preparatory meditation attunement techniques suggested in the Edgar Cayce readings which will then be followed by a few minutes of meditative silence. —...

Today I’ll be reading selections from John Van Auken’s 1992 book, Toward a Deeper Meditation, published by the ARE Press. The concept of the body as a sacred temple that can be used as a doorway and conduit to the Divine is made quite clear here. This is not a new concept and has been given for thousands of years in many spiritual traditions from Hinduism, to Buddhism, to Christianity. We are invi...

Today I’ll be reading selections from Eckhart Tolle’s famous and highly recommended 1999 book The Power of Now, a Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. Try to spend some time this week with a simple awareness your inner self. Just being and sensing your true energy and aliveness. Cayce often said that 1/2 to a minute of sitting in what he called The Silence can make a huge difference in one’s state of...