Born in India, Kalidas moved to America at the age of five. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and spent the next ten years working in spiritual communities in the Southwest, mainly from the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. He has created three CDs based on his experiences with sacred chant. ” Bhakti yoga consists of channeling all of one’s energy to the Divine. The theory is simple: by thinking of the Divine, by contemplating the Divine , we can become Divine…In this tradition, all are embraced. Every one of us has the seed of divinity, no matter how deeply it may be buried.” Kalidas

“Experiencing and knowing the being has been called enlightenment, self-realization, awakening, liberation, and union with God. I call it healing into consciousness. Healing into consciousness includes both the search and the sudden moment of awakening to the truth that “I am what I have been searching for.” Like the phoenix that is reborn out of its own ashes, we are healed into consciousness through the fire of our destroyed ego-mind.”

Every animal lover has felt it: the numbing pain and dreadful sense of loss when a beloved animal dies. Veteran writers and long time animal lovers Allen and Linda Anderson take on the task of walking readers through their pain and sorrow. They also offer comfort and guidance for planning an appropriate memory ceremony, dealing with grief, and getting past the depression.

Ernest’s classes are dynamic, athletic, & challenging as he reveals the principles of “core stability.” Based on the dynamics of strength and flexibility, his class is a powerful advancement of Pilates. The hour-long Mat Class is accommodating to both beginners and advanced students. Through integration of mind and body, you achieve in-depth access, becoming your body’s author rather than it’s victim.

A series of intimate conversations with a wise guru is a compelling idea. How many times have each of us wished for answers to life’s deep questions? In Midnights with the Mystic, Cheryl Simone relates her personal experience of learning at the feet of Sadhguru Vasudev, India’s most sought-after mystic. As we share in her profound experiences, we are challenged to embrace the possibility that to each of us is available a higher realm of reality, a peak of consciousness, an entrée into the realm of freedom and bliss.

In this transformational double CD of teachings and attunements, Jude Currivan PhD shares an inspiring and above all practical path to wholeness. In these momentous times, we are each undergoing an unprecedented journey of self-discovery that is a vital part of a collective shift of consciousness. As the shift gathers pace, we can energise the higher compassion of our hearts, the heightened clarity of our minds and the empowered commitment of our purpose on Earth to co-create a new cosmic age.

The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex mathematical number – the first ten digits of pi – and even astrophysicists admit they find it “mind-boggling”. The circular pattern was created in a barley field near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, earlier this month. Measuring around 46m (150ft) in diameter, it has had crop circle enthusiasts and experts stumped.

Happy July! This month Merlian News brings you a podcast with Carole Hart, articles by Annamaria Hemingway and Lorrie Kazan, a book review of Michael Brown, an article on the diabetic charity Fight-It as well as an article on Angel Gate Creations, the website of the month and more! Please stop by and read the most recent publications!

“Active Imagination is a life-transforming process pioneered by famed psychoanalyst, Dr. Carl Jung. It is a powerful tool to gain access into one’s own interior life. With practice, it offers intuitives an added doorway to experience areas of psychic functioning… While psychologists advise us not to take this into practices of telepathy, for instance, but to remain with the psychological, I believe that once you are strong enough in yourself, you can extend this process into areas that provide greater psychic and intuitive understanding. For this article I asked my fantasy version of Carl Jung what he would like you to know. His response: Everyone can do it and everyone should.”