My article, Six Steps to Transforming Self-Quarantine into a Spiritual Retreat, appeared on Balance, Buddha Groove's blog. I hope that it brings you some peace. Feel free to share.
Category: New Age
Angel in the Architecture
Photo © Barry Fahrer 2020
Faith that Works
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do …
I died. Then I went to Starbucks.
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.” ― Franz Kafka On Saturday, March 2, Kadam Morten Clausen, Resident Teacher at at Kadampa Meditation Center New York City taught a couple hundred people, including yours truly, how to die. Oh, yeah! Those Buddhists sure know how to have a good time! As if …
I’m giving my new book away for free!
I am delighted to announce that my book, Faith without Labels: a Guide to Eclectic Spirituality, is now available as a Kindle ebook! Faith without Labels: a Guide to Eclectic Spirituality is a self-help book and workbook designed to introduce spiritual “Seekers” to eclectic spirituality, "A highly individualized spiritual belief system composed of selected elements …
A Message from the Dalai Lama
In my last post, 2017 Post-Mortem Review, I reflected on what I accomplished -- and what I didn't -- from my 2017 vision board. Today, I'd like to encourage my readers to revisit their 2017 and 2018 intentions again based on the Dalai Lama's refreshingly simple and direct guidelines. During his 2018 New Year's day …
2017 Post-Mortem Review
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. -- Neil Gaiman Last year, instead of …
Who was I?
Nobody knows whether there is reincarnation, and equally one does not know that there is none. Buddha himself was convinced of reincarnation, but he himself on being asked twice by his disciples about it, left it quite open whether there is a continuity of your personality or not. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 103-104.| …
Rethinking Swedenborg
The Search for Life After Death is one of my favorite blogs. Jenn, its author, researches her posts thoroughly and manages to write about such topics as reincarnation and near-death experiences in a manner that comes across as scholarly rather than "woo woo." I heartily recommend perusing her site and, if you like what you …
Everyday Mindfulness
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the …
Eclectic Spirituality 