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John Cali

As this new year dawned just a few days ago, our thoughts and heartfelt compassion were directed to all those souls caught up in the earthquake and tsunami. Today (January 4), the Washington Post reported the death toll at 140,000 and climbing. Certainly a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions.

At our discussion group one of our members asked some pretty sobering questions about this event. Questions, I’m sure, that are on the minds of many. Two other of our members responded to her questions.… Read more

John Cali

Well, it’s become a tradition around here, at this holiday time of year, for us to remind our readers about a couple of our more popular newsletters from years back.

In our Thanksgiving message last month, we talked about our Gratitude article. And this month we’re reminding you of our Christmas article, Peace On Earth.

This week, many of our world’s cultures celebrate Christmas. And our thoughts turn to world peace. Or, perhaps, to the lack of it. Spirit’s old message Peace On Earth is not only timely in these trying times, but also timeless.… Read more

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This week we’re continuing our theme from last week: your physical body and its well-being.

A few days ago, I had a long talk with my cousin. We’re exactly the same age, and we grew up next door to each other in rural western New York State. We’ve always had a close, loving sister-brother-type relationship.

She was telling me about a recent health crisis her daughter had — she’d been diagnosed with a deadly tumor.

After the operation, her surgeon told her he’d gotten all of the tumor out, and the prognosis was excellent.… Read more

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About a week ago, on a beautiful early winter day, I was out jogging in the foothills south of my house. The morning air was clear, cold, and crisp, and the deep blue sky was sparkling with golden sunlight. The gentle hills around me, the rugged mountains in the distance, and the valley far below me were covered in a glistening white cloak of new-fallen snow. My kind of day–I love winter, and I was in heaven!

About a mile into my run, my euphoria was suddenly shattered by a sharp stabbing pain in my left ankle.… Read more

John Cali

A member of our discussion group recently wrote me asking if Spirit would talk about Native American spirituality in one of our newsletters. Here’s her letter:

“Hi John,

“I have no clue as to whether this would be an appropriate topic for a future newsletter, but I thought I would share this thought with you anyway.

“I have read a fair amount, but I know I am very ignorant with respect to Native American spirituality. So perhaps sometime Spirit and you could share some of the unique aspects of Native American spirituality.”… Read more

John Cali

Over the years, Spirit has spoken often about gratitude, and the wonders it can create in our lives. In the USA this week we celebrate a day called Thanksgiving. A day of giving thanks for all the blessings in our lives. A day for expressing gratitude.

Though Spirit and I wrote a newsletter article many years ago called Gratitude, it’s never lost its timeliness, especially at this season of the year. And especially at this time in our human and planetary evolution.… Read more

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A member of our discussion group recently asked this question of the other members:

“Have any of you ever tried to go direct to Spirit or any other advanced spirit personally, without (an) intermediary . . . like John who has learned how to listen? ‘Tis a fine line, but one that takes a lot of courage to cross, IMO. I sometimes think I am channeling but at other times I just decide I am really in the groove, creatively.”… Read more

John Cali

Spirit is always reminding us we are all goddesses and gods in human form.

Recently, a good friend of ours, Phyllis Swenson, sent me a letter requesting that Spirit devote an issue of the newsletter to this subject. Because, as she said, she sometimes forgets who she really is.

Don’t we all?

Here’s Phyllis’ letter:

Hi John,

I was wondering if I can make a request to Spirit to speak to us in a future (newsletter) covering the topic of our God/Goddess natures.… Read more

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Some of you know I live in northwestern Wyoming just outside the USA’s Yellowstone National Park. My little town is in the Big Horn Basin, which is actually a huge valley between the Big Horn Mountains on the east and the Absaroka Mountains on the west.

Last Saturday night the weather turned cold, and the famous (or infamous, depending on your viewpoint) Wyoming wind howled all night long. In the morning I awoke to a hushed landscape.

The wind had calmed, and the mountains and valley were covered with a bright and beautiful blanket of freshly fallen snow.… Read more

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We had some interesting comments on last week’s newsletter, Pay Attention To What You’re Paying Attention To. For those of you who didn’t see it, Spirit and I talked about a cooking “accident” I had. It was a kitchen fire which could have easily burned my house down.

Most of the comments were, as usual, supportive and positive. Some were not. Which is fine. I’ve always encouraged your honest feedback, positive or negative.

I don’t do this often, but this week I want to talk about the negative feedback.… Read more

John Cali

Spirit is forever telling me, and others also, to pay attention to what we’re paying attention to. Or, in the case of this particular issue of the newsletter, what we’re not paying attention to.

Since we all create our own realities, if we don’t pay attention to what we’re paying attention to, we’re probably going to create something we don’t really want in our lives.

I had a great personal reminder of that fact of life recently. A most painful reminder.… Read more

John Cali

A few weeks ago, in response to one of our newsletters, we received an interesting letter from one our readers on the question of soul mates. Another one of those “eternal” questions. Here’s the letter:

“Hello John,

“Greetings to you and Spirit.

“Now that Spirit has brought it up in his recent message, what is a true understanding of soul mates?

“What is the divine purpose, if any, of this idea of soul mates? Is the re-uniting of soul mates a necessary stage in one’s return to spiritual re-connectedness?… Read more

John Cali

One recent September morning I was wrestling with a couple of challenges in my personal life. I won’t say I was struggling, but it was pretty close to that.

And yet I know, especially after all these years of working with Spirit, struggle gets us nowhere. Except deeper into exactly what we’re struggling against.

I was feeling stressed and alone. These are feelings I almost never have at this point in my life.

So I gave myself a little pep talk.… Read more

John Cali

As those of you who’ve been with us a while know, the focus of Spirit’s and my work is joy. In fact, Spirit says our primary purpose in life is joy.

Spirit and I are occasionally criticized, sometimes harshly, for taking this approach. But that’s okay. When you put yourself and your words out there for the world to see, the criticism comes with the territory.

I am fortunate enough to have several close friends who live in near-constant physical pain.… Read more

John Cali

There are tons of “new age” gurus out there today. And, of course, many of the more traditional ones also. I suppose Spirit and I could be easily “lumped in” with all the rest.

Many of these gurus and teachers are performing a useful service, and serving a good cause. All are well-intended.

And they draw to themselves those souls needing what they and their guidance are offering, those souls who resonate with their energies.

It’s unfortunate, however, some of these teachers and gurus offer sets of spiritual principles youmust follow if you are ever to become enlightened and evolved.… Read more

John Cali

In last week’s newsletter Spirit said “True peace on earth begins within your own hearts.”

One of the responses to that comment went as follows:

“Now how about a follow-up to Spirit’s wise words of this week that would give us a few hints about how to pursue, capture, and/or enhance that inner peace?”

Spirit

The one, and only, certain key to peace–peace on earth or peace within your own hearts–is allowance.

And so, you might ask, “Just what is allowance, Spirit?”… Read more

John Cali

Wyoming has to be one of the windiest, dustiest places on earth. I love it here, but there are a few challenges to living in such a place.

One of those is keeping your house clean and dust-free. Especially if you open your windows a lot, as I do, even in winter.

In early August I was getting my house cleaned and dusted in preparation for a visit from Suzy, a dear friend of many years from South Africa.… Read more

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Down the road from me, one of the neighbors has a small horse ranch. I drive by it almost every day, and love watching the horses frolicking and playing. There are probably 15 or 20 of them, and they can be pretty lively.

Also living on the ranch is a cute little grey donkey. I’ve taken to calling him Old Muley.

Old Muley shares the horses’ stables and fields. And he’s often out in the fields when the horses are out.… Read more

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Back in my aviation days, another lifetime or two ago it seems, I flew airplanes for a living, and was also a flight instructor.

In those days part of flight training included spin recovery. For many of my students this was the scariest part of learning to fly. When I was a flight student myself, spins scared the hell out of me.

But the US Federal Aviation Agency, as it was called then, thought spin recovery training necessary. After all, many pilots had gotten themselves into spins.… Read more

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Recently I was out jogging on a cold cloudy day. Summers here in Wyoming are usually short, and sometimes punctuated by brief spells of cold weather. And even snow on rare occasions.

Anyway, the darkening clouds hovering above me were threatening rain, at any moment it seemed. I was hoping it wouldn’t start raining until I made it back to my car. But just as I neared the end of my run to begin walking back to the car, it started raining.… Read more

John Cali

I recently spent a day in Yellowstone National Park with a good friend. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Yellowstone is in the northwest corner of Wyoming in the northern Rocky Mountains of the US. Yellowstone, established in 1872 by the US Congress, is the world’s first national park.

Over 90% of Yellowstone is undeveloped wilderness. It’s home to a large and varied animal population. It has 10,000 hot springs, fumaroles, and geysers, more than any other place on the planet.… Read more

John Cali

As some of you know, I live in the northern Rocky Mountains of northwestern Wyoming in the USA.

Wyoming is a huge state, ninth in size among the 50 United States. It’s a vast, sprawling land of rolling prairies stretching beyond the distant horizons, and high rugged mountains reaching far up into the big blue skies.

Wyoming is mostly empty. Despite its size, it has less than half a million people, the smallest population of all 50 states. Which is one of the reasons I love it here.… Read more

John Cali

I rarely pay much attention to the mainstream news media. But I do spend several minutes most Sunday mornings browsing the Washington Post’s headlines at their website. That way I’m not totally ignorant of what’s going on in our world.

Today I was thinking about what is going on in our world, and I remembered a newsletter we did some time ago. I thought it might be a good idea to revisit it this week.

Those of you who were with us several years ago may have already seen it.… Read more

John Cali

I’ve been noticing lately how judgemental and critical we humans can be of one another. Especially in this era of the so-called “war on terror,” and war on practically everything we deem wrong or evil. This extends even to something as bland and benign as someone’s opinion with which we disagree. Or someone’s ethnic background.

Where does that get us? Nowhere. Except deeper and deeper into more of the same.

I have some wonderfully warm childhood memories of a dear cousin, Jeff by name.… Read more