One day many years ago, I was driving to my office in the Washington, DC suburbs. I had stopped at a red traffic light. When it turned green, I started to pull into the intersection. Just then, a car on my right ran through the red light and nearly hit my car.
A bit shaken, I waited a few seconds, and then started through the intersection again, the green light still in my favor. At that moment, a loud, clear voice shouted, “Stop!… Read more
Richard Wagamese was a revered and prolific Canadian indigenous writer. Here’s his definition of God/Creator:
Remember that Creator is the wind on my face, the rain in my hair, the sun that warms me. Creator is the trees, rocks, grasses, the majesty of the sky and the intense mystery of the universe. Creator is the infant who giggles at me…the beggar who reminds me how rich I really am….
Spirit
In your upside-down world today, many humans are confused and lost.… Read more
On one of the popular social discussion websites, a user asked what comes next after death. The answers varied all over the place. Here are a few of the more interesting ones:
So what really does happen to us after we die physically?
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Many of your religious and spiritual traditions tell you death is nothing to fear. And yet humans, nearly without exception, fear death.… Read more
In today’s world, it’s often tempting to believe humanity has gone to hell in a big way. But there is much kindness and caring out there that never makes it into the mainstream news media.
Spirit
Your world is so obsessed with the illusion of separation. And it’s making you feel more separate than you could ever be.
In face, you’re not separate at all, except in your minds. And your minds have been brainwashed into seeing what is not there.… Read more
A few weeks ago, Berna and Spirit had a discussion about the question of what is real, and what is illusion.
Berna and Spirit
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On the subject of reality and illusion, I thought I really had it clear with all the reading I have done. But recently I’m confused about it again. So what is really real in the material world we see? I know our perception forms the illusion—the idea we are separate is an illusion.
But the material world itself, like the trees and the mountains and the chairs we make, and the bicycles, the material stuff—is that all real or is it also an illusion?… Read more
Some folks I know get depressed as our days grow darker in December with the approaching winter solstice. (In the northern hemisphere.) Ironically, this time of year is actually my favorite, which leads some to think there’s something wrong with me. 🙂
So many feel a sense of fear and dread as darkness descends. But the darkest days also herald the end of the darkness. Each day grows lighter as the darkness fades.
So why do so many suffer through this annual misery?… Read more
Today, as you know, the Christian world celebrates Christmas, the birth of its savior, Jesus Christ. But what is a “savior?” Do you consider yourself a savior? Probably not.
“Only the voice of ego would see a difference of being the savior of the world and a street sweeper.” The Way of the Heart by Jayem
A few years ago we wrote a post about a real-life street sweeper, a man I knew from my childhood.
Spirit
Every one of you reading this—no exceptions—was born to be a savior of the world.… Read more
We’ve talked about time several times over the years—what it is, what it is not, how we can better understand and use it.
Here, in no particular order, are some of Spirit’s thoughts on the magic and mystery of time.
Steven Charleston is an Episcopal bishop and a member of the Choctaw Native American Tribe. His religious practices are a blend of his Christian faith and Native American spirituality.
Reverend Charleston practices what’s been called “laying on of hands.” He’s also an environmental activist.
He has invited all people to join him in a healing ceremony for our Mother Earth. In the ceremony, as he lays his hands on the earth, he says “Thank you, Mother, for all you have given us.… Read more
In today’s world it’s often tempting to believe humanity has gone to hell in a big way. But there is much kindness and caring out there that never makes it into the mainstream news.
Spirit
We realize it can be challenging for humans to believe there is much kindness and caring in your modern world.
One glance at your mainstream news media will convince you, as Johnny says, your world has gone to hell. And each morning you can see more “evidence” of that.… Read more
On May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 took off from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. As the plane rolled down the runway, its left engine broke off.
The aircraft crashed less than a mile from the runway, killing all 258 passengers, 13 crew, and 2 people on the ground.
At the time I was a commercial pilot and, naturally, was riveted by this tragic event.
There was a trailer park near the crash site. Immediately after the crash, trailer park residents started reporting strange events.… Read more
I don’t pay much attention to the mainstream news media. Therefore, when a reader sent us a question about spike proteins, I didn’t know what they were. So we researched it.
Here’s the question:
What does Spirit say about how to protect ourselves who have not been (vaccinated) from the “shedding” of spike proteins from those that have been (vaccinated)?
Spirit
The simple answer to our reader’s question is you do not need protection.
You are eternally safe in the arms of your Father/Mother God.… Read more
In our modern world there is, arguably, more anger on many fronts than in recent memory.
A reader sent us these thoughts:
“I ask as I struggle, after being wronged by others, to let go of anger and move on to focusing on the joy/challenge of living the rest of my life. How do you deal with injustice and find peace?
You have never been “wronged” by anyone. Every relationship, every circumstance you have ever experienced in this or any other lifetime is purely a co-creation when it involves others.… Read more
Spirit and Berna had a recent conversation about intention. Her question to them was Can you tell us more about the concept of intention?
Spirit
It is a powerful concept, a powerful tool in your spiritual toolbox. Your intention is everything, because with your intention you can literally change the path of your life. Nothing can be achieved without intention, a clear and powerful intention.
Any time you form an intention (for example, if you want to heal your body of something) you first form the intention to accomplish the healing.… Read more
Wildfires are usually highly destructive forces. This is obvious these days in the American state of California, and other parts of the American and Canadian West.
What do wildfires have to do with spirituality?
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Fire can be a very destructive force. That’s obvious in what’s going on today with the wildfires. But fire is also a cleansing and healing force.
Part of the reason these so-called natural disasters happen is to counteract or to cleanse, the effects of harmful human energies on the planet today.… Read more
We adapted this week’s post from a piece we wrote many years ago. As often happens, the subject is as timely now as it was when we wrote the piece.
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These are times of momentous changes on your planet. At one moment, you are enjoying the roses of summer. Then the roses fade and their petals fall to the earth. The trees change colors and their leaves fall to the earth. Your brothers and sisters, the animals of the earth, begin to hibernate.… Read more
Michelantonio “Tony” Vaccaro was a World War 2 United States Army soldier and photographer. He survived the horrors of that war and is now 98 years old.
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, speaks eloquently of war’s insanity and inhumanity. Accompanying his graphic photo of a German soldier his army unit had just killed, he had this to say:
It reminds me of the tragedy of mankind. He’s not a German. He’s a human being….We are humans. And nothing else.
As Tony says, “We are humans.… Read more
Nothing you can ever do or say – or even think – can be done in a vacuum, if you will. Everything – and every thing – you do, say, or think affects the entire planet, quite literally – and even goes beyond the boundaries of your planet.
Each of you is connected to all that is. That is not simply a hypothetical concept or theory. It’s a fact – even when you are feeling lost, alone, isolated you are still intimately connected to all that is.… Read more
Well, here we go again with another of our weird titles.
Many years ago, my fourth grade teacher had us do a brief experiment for her science class.
Two students stood facing each other. One closed her eyes. The other held a strong-smelling bar of soap under the nose of the student with the closed eyes.
The teacher instructed the student with the closed eyes to let the class know when the other student had removed the bar of soap.
After a minute or so, she said it had been removed.… Read more
My spirit guides often say nothing you do, say, or think is done in a vacuum. It all ripples out to the whole world and touches many lives, whether you’re aware of it or not.
Spirit
You have often heard us say you are all connected. It can never be otherwise.
However, you live in the illusion of separation. You see this person here, another there, and so on—all separate, even distant from you.
You chose to physically incarnate, or reincarnate, into this world of illusion many times over many years.… Read more
Our title today is taken from a story my son John wrote many years ago, when he was only 8 years old.
Even though many of you are aware of the magic of Christmas, you’ve pretty much lost sight of the real Christmas. It’s become a commercialized farce, a parody of the real Christmas spirit.
Copyright © 2020 by John Cali and Berna Copray
Edited by Berna Copray
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This 2-minute video features an old song, The Real Meaning of Christmas, by Ray Coniff.… Read more
Many years ago when I was a young, inexperienced pilot I had a terrifying experience I’ll never forget.
It was a sunny Sunday morning in early spring. A friend of mine wanted to go for a plane ride. So we decided to fly from our home near Dunkirk, New York southwest to Youngstown, Ohio. He had family in Youngstown he wanted to visit.
On the return to Dunkirk late that afternoon, the weather turned foggy. I did not yet have an instrument rating.… Read more
After our Death and Euthanasia post a few weeks ago, several of our readers asked us to talk about euthanasia as related to animals.
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One of our readers commented, “Please talk about euthanizing pets. Most of us can’t tell what the animal would want.”
Another added “Please do address thJ8Fcx4Mfd32ssnev@x9G7ske topic when pets/animals go through physical suffering and how we can be of better assistance to them. Thanks again for doing such a great service for all of us!”… Read more
Back in my aviation days as a flight instructor, we had an expression, “Under the hood.” That was how we trained student pilots — we put them under a hood.
It was literally a hood they wore over their heads. The hood allowed them to see only straight ahead to the airplane’s instrument panel. It blocked out their peripheral vision. The only visual clues they had were the plane’s instruments. They were literally flying blind.
It was often the hardest part of any student pilot’s training.… Read more
We realize death and euthanasia are are grim-sounding title. But Spirit’s words today are uplifting and joyful, despite the subject.
Someone Berna and I know died recently. He’d been sick a long time, and was in terrible pain. Voluntary euthanasia is legal where he lived. He chose to end his life.
We have long been advocates for euthanasia. That’s alienated some of my family—and perhaps also some of our readers.
Spirit has talked about death, dying, and euthanasia many times over the years.… Read more