A Visitation From Yogananda

A Visitation From Yogananda

Last August I visited Encinitas for the first time to receive Darshan from Pranananda. Darshan is a spiritual blessing from a self-realized master.  I have been blessed to receive Darshan from a number of male and female Masters and I cannot deny that this has helped to accelerate my spiritual growth.

On this occasion I had fasted for two days leading up to the Darshan event in Encinitas which, as many of you know, was once the home of Paramahansa Yogananda.  My Darshan experience was very personal, but the events of the next morning I will share as they contain some insights relevant to anyone on a spiritual path. (more…)

Would Jesus Occupy Wall Street?

Absolutely! — and so would Moses and Muhammad.

A friend recently asked me to comment on the Occupy Wall Street movement, so I tuned in psychically to check it out.  What I felt (in New York at least) was a congregation of protesters longing for community and seeking to step outside the old paradigm structures that get in the way.  The desire for a more heart-centered approach to how we resource humanity is a common ideal, though I did not discern the extent to which this is being articulated in the conversation on the ground.

There is an undercurrent of change moving through many of these protests that is not new but, rather, something ancient that we are only now beginning to align with.  When Jesus drove the money changers and traders out of the temple in Jerusalem he was sowing the seeds of a revolution that is just beginning to arise. (more…)