Groups

  • Heart Centered Self-Directed Personal Growth
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    Heart Centered Self-Directed Personal Growth
    Status: Member
    Description: ...Is To Be Served As Little As Possible And To Serve Others As Much As Possible -Tolstoy This DG is dedicated to Tolstoy's words. Expect the unexpected. If your heart hurts for what you have lost, let it rejoice for what you have found. Be gentle with yourself and others for this creates an inner landscape of life lived in love, contentment and joy. The energy of all will be appreciated and validated. Questions and feedback in this DG will be posed respectfully. This is the only guideline. With gentleness, respect and love, we will address a multitude of subjects while guarding those of us who, for whatever reason might seem in a fog. May today be the day we realize where our real securities lie. Let today's blessings be acknowledged as the new ones begin.
  • Astrological Musings
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    Astrological Musings
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is an extension of the Astrological Musings blog, and an opportunity for discussions on all things astrological. We'll be talking about real astrology here - not sun sign horoscopes! The art of astrology is a sacred one that has come down to us in various forms over 5,000 years. This genuine astrology shares little with the sun sign horoscopes you'll read in your paper, and a more modern and enlightened astrological interpretation takes us out of the superstitious model helps us to transform our lives and empower ourselves as individuals. You can ask questions about your own chart, and learn more about all things astrological. Whether you're a beginner or an expert professional, there's a place here for you! Your guide on the journey is Lynn Hayes, who has been a practicing astrologer since 1983. Visit her on the web at www.astrodynamics.net, and visit Astrological Musings here on Belief Net: http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings.
  • What If?
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    What If?
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is for discussion regarding beliefs. You don't have too agree with everyone, but, you must respect others beliefs.
  • Koan Meditation
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    Koan Meditation
    Status: Member
    Description: The koan has been used as a tool to enlightenment by Buddhists for centuries. Buddhists know that the ultimate mystery cannot be explained in words. Spirit transcends language, our rational mind, our cultural understandings. The koan, sometimes seeming meaningless, can convey reality directly. Meditation on the meaning of the koan can bring deep and profound understanding. We think that we might study these together, attempting to put the meaning into words. Together we are smarter than each. Together we are ONE. We are ONE in SPIRIT.
  • God-o-Meter Politics
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    God-o-Meter Politics
    Status: Member
    Description: Did Mitt Romney's "Mormon speech" change minds? Is Barack Obama adopting George W. Bush's church-based organizing tactics? Will evangelicals sit the election out if Rudy Giuliani is the Republican nominee--or does Hillary Clinton's standing ovation at Saddleback mean she'll win more evangelicals than James Dobson would care to admit? God-o-Meter Politics is the place for discussion and debate about the role religion is playing in the 2008 presidential race, moderated by Beliefnet Politics Editor and God-o-Meter blogger Dan Gilgoff.
  • Beliefnet Circle of Reason
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    Beliefnet Circle of Reason
    Category: General Discussion
    Status: Member
    Description: Beliefnet Circle of Reason (BCOR) is a virtual "local circle" of The Circle of Reason (www.circleofreason.org) -- a fellowship of the religious and non-religious who believe communal commitment to reason will transform the world. We are a truly ecumenical site to find, recruit, converse with and encourage -- from all walks of life, all biologies, all beliefs, all societies -- those who are your own kinsmen and kinswomen - the reasoning kind!
  • Being Ourself
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    Being Ourself
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a group for people who recognize in a profoundly personal way that we are all actually facets of one whole interacting with itself, or more accurately, Ourself. It is a place for peer discussion and exploration as we move through the challenges and insights we encounter while participating in the awakening of ourselves to our common fundamental identity, Ourself. As indivisible aspects of the single, infinitely diverse entity of everything/reality/creation we all have an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen humankind's awareness of Ourself, and to enrich our language with new terminology/ideas to more accurately portray that which truly is. We want to support each other as we discover wholeness while living in a society that defines everything (including God) as separate when in fact the creator and creation (including all people, animals, plants, minerals, and seen and unseen forces of spirit) are not in any actual way separate. So don't be shy... your vantage point of the whole is completely unique, and is just as valid and important as anybody elses. Enlightenment is the recognition of the wholeness, which by its very all-inclusive nature negates the validity of any kind of exclusive spiritual authority or guru. To allow ourselves to truly feel and be aware of ourselves as part of the great wholeness we need to stop putting others on a pedestal as a way of avoiding being accountable for shining our own light. Let's get the orchestra of the wholeness playing diversely, brilliantly, and powerfully enough to wake up humankind from the illusion of separateness. We can only accomplish this as a community of distinct voices and insights singing out in the harmony of the whole, and not by silencing our own special voice because we have decided some other "enlightened" teacher has a monopoly on authenticity! So sing out your insights, your questions... cry out your pains and frustrations... and love your neighbor as yourself because in truth they are; we are all precious dimensions of one whole. Let's respectfully, gently, and lovingly be Ourself together.