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SATSANG

2 MEDITATE UPON LIGHT
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Since ages each of us has been trying to find this fundamental Light. All our efforts in life, including confusion, struggles and misunderstandings, are nothing else but trying to find this Light

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10 MIRACLE OF LIGHT AT BUCHENWALD
by Jacques Lusseyran
An amazing account of living and surviving the indescribable.

14 LOVING AWARENESS:
FINDING CONTENTMENT IN THIS MOMENT
by Ram Dass
In Yoga, contentment is a practice to quiet your mind and open your heart.

19 SOUL HEALING FOR OUR WOUNDED WARRIORS
by Edward Tick, Ph.D.
War trauma is a spiritual wound to individuals and to society.

24 CONTEMPLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY:
AN EXPRESSION OF EYE, MIND AND HEART
by Julie Dubose
When we are open and available, we can become visually conscious.

30 UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLES OF
UNIVERSAL JUSTICE
by Guy Finley
A great, invisible justice system already exists to make us forever free

32 THE SHORT PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT
by Jeff Cox
The short path is a joy, opening us to the possibility of immediate awakening.

  36 BARBARA MCCLINTOCK—
THE NATURALIST’S APPROACH
by Stephen Harrod Buhner
A scientist’s wonder and feeling led to astonishing discoveries

41 KUNDALINI:
TEN STEPS TO LIVING WITH TRANSFORMATION
by Bonnie Greenwell, Ph.D.
How to cope with sudden shifts to new levels of consciousness

44 PARAM PARA—ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Learning concentration, opening the heart, loving God. Practices for meditation, witnessing and mantra repetition

50 POETRY
by Monika John
“My soul would be at home, though never leaving where I Am.”

64 AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS
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COVER: Photograph
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SATSANG

2 VEDANTIC SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Within the darkness there is always Light. A smooth, peaceful way to watch your thoughts, overcome fear, grow in faith, and awaken the faculty of insight.

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10 ZEN ELEGANCE: WHEN MIND AND HEART OPEN, SPIRIT FLOWS FREELY
by Maurine Stuart
Waking up to our fundamental Self. Practice brings us there.

13 REINCARNATION AND CREATIVITY
by Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
How does creativity arise and what makes it flower in us?

16 THE TEMPLE:
MEDITATIONS ONTHE SPIRITUAL LIFE
by Nicole Grace
“I had a temple I could visit anytime, regardless of circumstances.”

20 AN ASTRONAUT’S EXPERIENCE OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
by Edgar Mitchell
After his Apollo 14 moonwalk, the ride home was absolutely extraordinary.

25 SEVEN VALLEYS OF THE SOUL’S JOURNEY
by Rasoul Sorkhabi, Ph.D.
A Sufi master’s poetic tale illuminates our spiritual journey.

30 QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE AKASHA:
THE MATRIX OF THE MULTIVERSE
by Ervin Laszlo
Science is rediscovering the fundamental element of the universe.

  32 THE HOLLYHOCK MIRACLES
by Karen Wyatt, MD
A doctor and her hospice patients find a powerful source of healing. 

39 PARAM PARA—ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Understanding ego, mind, intellect and intuition. The purpose of austerities.

42 ARISE, AWAKE, WALK THE AUTHENTIC PATH
by Prem Prakash
Practicing yoga and meditation provides a systematic path for transformation.

44 WATCHING YOUR THOUGHTS IS EASY
by Ellen Wood
This one little trick could change your life forever.

50 MAHA YOGA
by “WHO” Essential qualities for reaching the highest Goal.
His words were living seeds/ held in the heart to flower in time…

64 TRULY PRACTICING
by H.H. The Dalai Lama
Make the teachings of your tradition a real part of your life.

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SATSANG

2 WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE ON EARTH?
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Why are we born? Why do we die? We are responsible for everything we experience in life—by accepting that we begin to control our destiny. Death is a transition into a new life, a new vitality to continue our journey.

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10 THE DIVINE ART OF DYING
by  Karen Speerstra & Herbert Anderson
The turn toward death is a decision to choose life. How to start the conversation.

14 IN THE PRESENCE OF A GREAT MYSTERY
by Eckhart Tolle
Realizing who you are beyond the little conceptualized self.

20 WHAT REALLY MATTERS
by Karen Wyatt, MD
A hospice physician shares an incredible gift.

24 THE DYNAMICS OF KARMA
by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D
True accounts of how karma works and how it can be changed.

28 CAN UNDERSTANDING DEATH CHANGE THE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES?
by Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D.
Healing our fears around death, opening a new global vision.

31 A GOOD DAY TO DIE…OR NOT
by Rivvy Neshama
“Our culture is not too keen about death and dying…neither am I.”

  32 DOCTOR, GRACIAS POR TODO, GOD BLESS
by Paul Edward Kaloostian, MD
A young neurosurgeon, a loving family, and a son’s final message.

37 THE COMING INTERSPIRITUAL AGE
by Kurt Johnson & David Robert Ord
Welcoming the new monasticism emerging in our rapidly evolving world community.

40 I AM AN ETERNAL JOURNEY
by Sri Chinmoy
For seekers of Truth, death is merely a stopping place on the road of Eternity.

42 PARAM PARA—ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH
by Swami Amar Jyoti
What happens to those who die and then return to life? Where is our consciousness between births?

44 LESSONS IN THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
by J. Phillip Jones
How can we graduate from the material schools in which we are entangled?

50 FLOWER HAIKU
by Rebecca Lilly
“Silence dissolves this body, this mind.”

64 THE JOURNEY OF FORGIVENESS
by Desmond M. Tutu & Mpho A. Tutu
Forgiveness is the journey we must take toward becoming whole.

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46 Books, Books for Children, Audio, Video, Spiritual Cinema

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COVER: “Bonsai and
Monk.” Photograph by H. KoppDelaney

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