Groups

  • Art, Healing, and Transformation
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    Art, Healing, and Transformation
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is about using art as a means to healing and transformation on both the individual and global levels. Please share your art and your stories, thoughts, and feelings. How has art -- in the broadest sense of the term -- influenced your life, either as creator or consumer?
  • From Meds to Moodswings...
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    From Meds to Moodswings...
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a depression group for all! From meds to moodswings if you need to talk heres the place. Please feel free to talk openly. I ask only one thing, please no judgements here. This is a support group.
  • Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
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    Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
    Status: Member
    Description: Discussion forum for members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), or those interested.
  • Beyond Blue
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    Beyond Blue
    Category: Support Group
    Status: Member
    Description: This group serves as an extension of the popular "Beyond Blue" blog (http://www.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/) and will provide an opportunity for readers to get to know each other better. My hope is that, like my blog, it will become a supportive network for those suffering from depression or any other mental illness.
  • 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.
  • Meditation
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    Meditation
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is for guidance and encouragement for cultivating meditation skills and to increase understanding of the full richness of the practice of meditation and what it offers us. Get to know other people who are interested in meditation, and share and reflect on how it can help us experience greater clarity and balance in our lives.
  • Be the Next Beliefnet Blogger
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    Be the Next Beliefnet Blogger
    Category: General Discussion
    Status: Member
    Description: Welcome to our exciting new contest - to be the next Beliefnet Blogger! Throughout July we will be seeking writers that create interesting journal posts that will engage our readers. The contest will start on July 1st and applicants must write to JanaDale (this group's creator) to let her know that they are in the contest. They must create at least 15 journal posts throughout the month of July. The posts must fall under only one of the following categories: News & Politics, Faith, Hope & Inspiration, Entertainment, or Health & Holistic Spirituality. Writers may create journal entries up to July 31st. Our guest judges will be two Beliefnet editors and three current Beliefnet Bloggers. The guest judging will end on August 12. The five finalists will be announced on August 17. The Beliefnet Community will be able to vote for the final winner until August 31, and finally the winner will be announced on August 31st at 5pm EST. Best of luck to all candidates!
  • The Library
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    The Library
    Category: Arts & Literature
    Status: Member
    Description:

    Join us in The Library to discuss books you are reading, books you are writing, and to start up discussions that generate Book Studies. Feel free to discuss Sacred Texts; the Apocrypha; any Religious Studies you are involved in; World Travel; Classic Literature, Interior Design; Architectural works; and any Recipe Books that have captured your attention. Be creative and innovative in "The Library" ~ This is an OPEN Group, soon to be filled with many interesting people of various backgrounds. ALL are welcome to join ~ Come on in!


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