Chattering Mind

In the coming monthsOmega Institute will provide live web broadcasts of three major workshops. For a fee that ranges from $65 to $100, you’ll be able to experience retreats broadcast live from Rhinebeck, New York, from the comfort of your own meditation cushion or yoga mat. Then, for 90 days you can review any webcast…

Below, a request from CM readers researching a spiritual pet book: – Do you consider your relationship to your pets(s) sacred and spiritual? – Do you count furry, fishy, or flying friends as part of the family? – Are there any family events, experiences, prayers or blessings that you share with your animals? – Is…

“Movie Mom” Nell Minow, my favorite online film critic, recently wrote a great piece for the Chicago Tribune about her reaction to seeing parents plop a DVD player in front of their daughter so the youngster could watch a Disney film while they all dined in a restaurant. Check it out here.

Much as I’d like to say, “My kids play their cellos every morning and are partial to Bach,” they actually play computer games on Saturdays, Sundays, and some vacation days. I held off on these until the oldest Chattering felt socially stigmatized, two years ago at the age of nine. We gave him a game…

“One lamp–thy mother’s love–amid the starsShall lift its pure flame changeless, and beforeThe throne of God, burn through eternity–Holy–as it was lit and lent thee here.” —Nathaniel Parker Willis

CM reader Paul has a dilemma. He writes: “I’m in a relationship with a woman who, over dinner, continues to bring up incidents with grown children (who’ve moved away), and an ex-husband (who has remarried). She does not understand why I am not sympathetic. I believe that what is over and done only gets in…

Great thoughts from you on money too! Chanteuse writes: “I value my time more highly and my money less so, so I take less care of it while I focus on getting kids to various activities and on arranging a few for myself–the joy of experiences and social connections. “However, I sometimes wonder if there…

Thanks for your posts! Keep writing! I got some good ones on how to speak to the dead. A reader named Mary said that she talks to her deceased Mom all the time. “I ask her for guidance. She helps me find things. Now, it is sometimes not clear whether I am talking to my…

After blogging last week on James Van Praagh’s views of the afterlife, I was asked by reader Azmina how she might contact her deceased husband. I have my own ideas, but on this I decided to consult my pal Sarvananda Bluestone, an author and psychic with considerable experience. Bluestone says Azmina could locate a small…

“Leave behind all regrets about the past, let us not make the path to the future difficult for ourselves. The very mistakes of the past must not fix attention upon themselves. Striving into the future must be so strong that the light will not grow dim in eyes which are not directed backwards. Let us…

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