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  • Campfire Capers - All the stories told around the campfire are of course entirely true, or are they? Well, we will leave that up to you. The purpose of this website is to spread the wealth, so to speak, by sharing some hilarious stories all based on fact and yes, indeed, discussed around many a campfire! These stories were written by a campfire veteran who can't resist the teepee stack, Dr. Collin T Wansor, for entertainment purposes only. If you enjoy the stories on this site or you would like to share a story of your own, please Contact Us. Grab a seat around the fire, space is limited and I can tell it's going to be a classic tonight! First you should Meet the Cast, then you can read about how Muskie Finally Catches One!
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 41 ) - Before considering further how devotion to duty helps us in our spiritual progress, let me place before you in a brief compass another aspect of what we in India mean by Karma. In every religion there are three parts: philosophy, mythology, and ritual.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 23 ) - Helping others physically by removing their physical needs, is indeed great, but the help is great according as the need is greater and according as the help is far - reaching. If a man's wants can be removed for an hour, it is helping him indeed;
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 117 ) - Along with this progress of spiritual ideas that I am trying to trace for you, I can only hint to you a little about the other factor in the growth, for that has nothing to do with our subject, therefore I need not enlarge upon it -- the growth of rituals.
  • Reasons Why Women Take Spiritual Retreats - Spiritual retreats for women are a very popular get away from the daily grind of their lives. Many women put their own needs last as they tend to the needs of their spouse, children, and career.
  • The Spiritual Aspect Of The Recovery Process For Women - The setting for a spiritual recovery for women is very different from that of a traditional clinic setting. Most women feel much more at ease with the spiritual process and it allows each woman to apply the learning to the areas of her own life. As a result the woman feels like she is in control of what she takes away from the experience. This can be both empowering and motivating. Many women are able to get to the root of their troubles while attending a spiritual retreat because they feel very safe there. For some women this may be the first time in a very long time that they have felt safe anywhere.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 115 ) - One particular idea is taken as the support,in which everything rests and exists,and that support has become all this. So on with various ideas.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 82 ) - So the only way is to give up all the fruits of work, to be unattached to them. Know that this world is not we, nor are we this world; that we are really not the body; that we really do not work. We are the Self, eternally at rest and at peace. Why should we be bound by anything?
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 85 ) - When I was a boy, this skepticism reached me,and it seemed for a time as if I must give up all hope of religion. But fortunately for me I studied the Christian religion,the Mohammedan,the Buddhistic,and others, and what was my surprise to find that the same foundation principles taught by my religion were also taught by all religions. It appealed to me this way. What is the truth? I asked. Is this world true? Yes. Why? Because I see it. Are the beautiful sounds we just heard (the vocal and instrumental music) true? Yes. Because we heard them. We know that man has a body, eyes, and ears,and he has a spiritual nature which we cannot see.

  • Finding Your Optimum Spiritual Self in Recovery - How can we find our optimum spiritual self in recovery? The answer to that is a process that unfolds before us over a period of years or even decades. Why is it like this? Because everything in recovery is essentially a process. Take, for example, the process of surrender when an addict or alcoholic is first coming to terms with their problem and decides to ask for help.
  • Faith And Spiritual Connection - The idea of calling out to a spiritual force or spiritual forces is a familiar notion. Virtually every person at one time or other has made a plea to an unseen spiritual force or forces for intervention, particularly in times of high stress. This isn't something that should be seen as weak or an act of hypocrisy but instead is an honest response to difficulty. Still, it's likely that most of us typically don't expect our calls for spiritual help to actually be answered. Forms do exist however that take for granted that spiritual interventions can and do take place. Many organized religions believe in the notion of interaction between the spiritual realm and the physical realm where humans reside. Depending upon the religion and the circumstances, this interaction may take the form of worship, punishment, or intervention, or a combination thereof.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 105 ) - I am the universal; stand upon that and ever worship the highest through the highest form, for God is Spirit and should be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Through lower forms of worship, man's material thoughts rise to spiritual worship and the Universal Infinite One is at last worshipped in and through the spirit. That which is limited is material. The Spirit alone is infinite. God is Spirit, is infinite; man is Spirit and, therefore, infinite, and the Infinite alone can worship the Infinite. We will worship the Infinite; that is the highest spiritual worship. The grandeur of realising these ideas,how difficult it is!
  • The light is worth the candle - In the "good" old days coal miners in England and Wales were dirt poor - too poor to even afford candles to light their houses. In a British winter that is a serious problem, because in mid-winter we are lucky to have eight hours of daylight. And those eight hours are often quite dark anyway because of cloudy weather.
  • Why Do Women Relapse After A Spiritual Retreat - Many women attend spiritual retreats in order to get in touch with their religion and with themselves. It is a great way to discover new things about your self, find the motivation to make the right choices in your life, and to rejuvenate. Many women feel refreshed after such a retreat and they are ready to face the world with a new attitude and plenty of determination. However for many women these feelings are short lived because they soon relapse to their old patterns of behavior. There are many different reasons why this happens. The retreats generally only last a couple of days but then the women return to their old ways of life. If they don’t make immediate changes to remove themselves from the environment they were in they have a high rate of relapse.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 59 ) - Thus the man that has practised control over himself cannot be acted upon by anything outside; there is no more slavery for him. His mind has become free. Such a man alone is fit to live well in the world. We generally find men holding two opinions regarding the world. Some are pessimists and say, "How horrible this world is, how wicked!" Some others are optimists and say, "How beautiful this world is, how wonderful!" To those who have not controlled their own minds, the world is either full of evil or at best a mixture of good and evil. This very world will become to us an optimistic world when we become masters of our own minds. Nothing will then work upon us as good or evil;
  • Spiritual Growth and Development - Spiritual growth is the process of evolving our consciousness. What exactly does this mean? We can define spiritual growth in a number of ways: 1) As we grow spiritually, the way that we perceive the world should be changing for the better. For example, in the early stages of our spiritual development, we might take a relatively bad experience that we have and simply chalk it up to being bad luck, and possibly play a victim role in how events unfold.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 84 ) - Through the vistas of the past the voice of the centuries is coming down to us; the voice of the sages of the Himalayas and the recluses of the forest; the voice that came to the Semitic races; the voice that spoke through Buddha and other spiritual giants;
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 90 ) - In the New Testament it is taught, "Our Father who art in heaven"-- god living in the heavens separated from men. We are living on earth and He is living in heaven. Further on we find the teaching that He is a God immanent in nature;
  • I am 50 years young - I recently celebrated my 50th birthday. It was a wonderful day with family, friends, good weather, good food, lots of laughter, reminiscing and loads of love. I was a little bit off balance before the birthday, because for some reason 50 seemed to me the beginning of the end. But then I have wonderful friends that I can discuss these things with, and they helped me to get perspective. My mother died at the age of 53 in very sad circumstances.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 22 ) - So he plunged into the midst of the fire and perished. The guests saw him falling and tried to save him, but he was too quick for them. The little bird's wife saw what her husband did, and she said, "Here are three persons and only one little bird for them to eat. It is not enough;
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 98 ) - On the whole,this shows that the world is expecting a miracle. This expectation never leaves us, and however we may try, we are all running after the miraculous and extraordinary. What is mind but that ceaseless inquiry into the meaning and mystery of life?
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 78 ) - Every period of history has given birth to thousands of men and women who have worked hard to smooth the passage of life for others. And how far have they succeeded? We can only play at driving the ball from one place to another.
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 69 ) - For those who believe in God there is another way, which is much less difficult. They give up the fruits of work unto the Lord; they work and are never attached to the results. Whatever they see, feel, hear, or do, is for Him. For whatever good work we may do, let us not claim any praise or benefit. It is the Lord's; give up the fruits unto Him. Let us stand aside and think that we are only servants obeying the Lord, our Master, and that every impulse for action comes from Him every moment. Whatever thou worshippest, whatever thou perceivest, whatever thou doest, give up all unto Him and be at rest.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 125 ) - Vedantists admit that the Atman or God is not only the efficient cause of this universe, but also the material cause. But they only say so in so many words. They do not really mean it,for they try to escape from their conclusions, in this way: They say there are three existences in this universe -- god, soul, and nature.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 12 ) - Inactivity should be avoided by all means. Activity always means resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical; and when you have succeeded in resisting, then will calmness come.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 10 ) - Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. Therefore, the only alternative remaining to us is to recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.
  • Is Change Ever Easy - In the case of Steve D”Annunzio taking Leslie Fieger”s place as resident spiritual mentor at the Magnetic Freedom Global Community it is. Steve D’Annunzio, is an author, mentor, ordained priest and spiritual teacher at Christ Church Unity in Rochester, New York. He wrote and recorded the highly acclaimed Music for Healing tape series, the Manual for Peaceful Living, The Prosperity Paradigm and now he has taken on the responsibility of being the spiritual mentor in our Global Community. Steve has dedicated his life to serving others and helping them to become spiritually aware of how they are creating their lives. His book, The Prosperity Paradigm, describes each of the natural laws of mission-driven wealth creation.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 116 ) - It is not a very logical argument, as we all know; there is something childish about it, yet it is the only little bit of anything we can know about God from the external world, that this world required a builder. But this is no explanation of the universe. The materials of this world were before Him, and this God wanted all these materials,and the worst objection is that He must be limited by the materials.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 101 ) - The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is this search for freedom and that freedom is the same as God. Necessarily this freedom gives us mastery over all nature and is impossible without knowledge. The more we are knowing, the more we are becoming masters of nature. Mastery alone is making us strong and if there be some being entirely free and master of nature, that being must have a perfect knowledge of nature, must be omnipresent and omniscient.Freedom must go hand in hand with these, and that being alone who has acquired these will be beyond nature.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 76 ) - But, if you come to details, the matter will not be seen to be quite so simple. For instance, environment often makes the details different as I have already mentioned. The same action under one set of circumstances may be unselfish, and under another set quite selfish. So we can give only a general definition, and leave the details to be worked out by taking into consideration the differences in time, place, and circumstances. In one country one kind of conduct is considered moral, and in another the very same is immoral, because the circumstances differ. The goal of all nature is freedom, and freedom is to be attained only by perfect unselfishness; every thought, word, or deed that is unselfish takes us towards the goal, and, as such, is called moral.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 66 ) - What is Karma-Yoga? The knowledge of the secret of work. We see that the whole universe is working. For what? For salvation, for liberty; from the atom to the highest being,working for the one end, liberty for the mind, for the body,for the spirit.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 106 ) - My sins, my sorrows, my actions, good and evil, I will offer unto Thee; do Thou take them and I will never forget." One moment I say, "Thy will be done," and the next moment something comes to try me and I spring up in a rage. The goal of all religions is the same, but the language of the teachers differs. The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 54 ) - However much their systems of philosophy and religion may differ, all mankind stand in reverence and awe before the man who is ready to sacrifice himself for others.
  • All Of Life Is Spiritual Life - Your life as you know it, even now is a spiritual life. Even if you spend not one second thinking about God, your existence as a soul is a living testimony to God's love and goodness. You came from the spiritual realms, to exist here on the Earth in a body, for a specific and sacred purpose that is an integral part of the larger purpose that God has for souls on the Earth at this time. You are beloved in God's eyes, even if you have no awareness of God or spiritual life. God's love formed the very DNA of your cells, and created you with purity, love and goodness in your heart.
  • Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Their Three Most Catastrophic Thoughts and How to Turn Them Around - I have been working with spiritual entrepreneurs for many years. And I am always amazed at just how many of them buy into the concept of poverty consciousness. By believing that they can't be both spiritual and financially prosperous, they end up hindering their spiritual growth and leaving the world without benefit of their contribution. When it comes to creating wealth, spiritual entrepreneurs who think money and spirituality don't mix are headed for business disaster. And I'm here to tell you this: It doesn't have to be this way!
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 70 ) - Karma-Yoga teaches us that the ordinary idea of duty is on the lower plane; nevertheless,all of us have to do our duty. Yet we may see that this peculiar sense of duty is very often a great cause of misery. Duty becomes a disease with us; it drags us ever forward. It catches hold of us and makes our whole life miserable. It is the bane of human life. This duty,this idea of duty is the midday summer sun which scorches the innermost soul of mankind. Look at those poor slaves to duty! Duty leaves them no time to say prayers, no time to bathe. Duty is ever on them. They go out and work. Duty is on them!
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 50 ) - Now comes a very fine and serious question about Karma-Yoga -- namely, that these actions of ours, both good and evil, are intimately connected with each other. We cannot put a line of demarcation and say, this action is entirely good and this entirely evil. There is no action which does not bear good and evil fruits at the same time. To take the nearest example: I am talking to you, and some of you, perhaps,think I am doing good; and at the same time I am, perhaps, killing thousands of microbes in the atmosphere; I am thus doing evil to something else.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 2 ) - We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind, but the object of your study is always your own mind. The falling of an apple gave the suggestion to Newton, and he studied his own mind. He rearranged all the previous links of thought in his mind and discovered a new link among them, which we call the law of gravitation.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 44 ) - Our duty to others means helping others; doing good to the world. Why should we do good to the world? Apparently to help the world, but really to help ourselves. We should always try to help the world, that should be the highest motive in us; but if we consider well, we find that the world does not require our help at all. This world was not made that you or I should come and help it.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 52 ) - Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self- importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the...
  • Definition of love - What is Love? Since the time the English word has been invented to this day, there have been so many explanations about love.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 53 ) - Here are two Sanskrit words. The one is Pravritti, which means revolving towards, and the other is Nivritti, which means revolving away. The "revolving towards" is what we call the world, the "I and mine";
  • Your Good Time Starts Now…. - I am so glad you attended the call on Thursday and took time to write back to me. I want to tell you that i love you from the bottom of my heart and i thank you for being the person who you are. In the next two months we are going to work together and take your life to the next level. When i speak of next level i do not mean just money,health or relationships .
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 83 ) - But Buddha is the only prophet who said, "I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is.
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 68 ) - So Karma-Yoga says, first destroy the tendency to project this tentacle of selfishness, and when you have the power of checking it, hold it in and do not allow the mind to get into the ways of selfishness. Then you may go out into the world and work as much as you can. Mix everywhere, go where you please; you will never be contaminated with evil. There is the lotus leaf in the water; the water cannot touch and adhere to it; so will you be in the world. This is called "Vairagya", dispassion or non - attachment. I believe I have told you that without non - attachment there cannot be any kind of Yoga. Non - attachment is the basis of all the Yogas.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 96 ) - We believe in a God, the Father of the universe, infinite and omnipotent. But if our soul at last becomes perfect, it also must become infinite.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 75 ) - There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of this struggle towards freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that men are the same as their little body. When we see a man doing good work, helping others, it means that he cannot be confined within the limited circle of "me and mine".
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 60 ) - You have first to hear about it and understand what it is; and many things which you do not understand will be made clear to you by constant hearing and thinking.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 16 ) - Then the duty of the man is towards his brothers and sisters, and towards the children of his brothers and sisters, if they are poor, and towards his other relatives, his friends and his servants. Then his duties are towards the people of the same village, and the poor, and any one that comes to him for help. Having sufficient means, if the householder does not take care to give to his relatives and to the poor, know him to be only a brute;
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 36 ) - Even if he is, he must first show that he has done the duty of his own position; and then higher duties will come to him. When we begin to work earnestly in the world, nature gives us blows right and left and soon enables us to find out our position. No man can long occupy satisfactorily a position for which he is not fit. There is no use in grumbling against nature's adjustment.

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