3 X 5's: Index Card Wisdom from Best of Books

OPEN TO THE INFINITE Stephan Schwartz (2007). Opening to the infinite: The art and                                                       science of nonlocal awareness. Schwartz is one of my heroes...he is data driven and uses sound scientific methodologies to back up his claims. Through nonlocal awareness, one experiences a connection to a greater whole and is able to remote view as a kind of knowing in a timeless time according to particular protocols outlined in the book. While i usually like to offer a practice based on the book, this time, you need to follow the systematic protocols outlined in the book for a practice...i cannot provide sufficient details here, but i can give you a taste of what the process of remote viewing is like....quiet oneself, have paper, pencil, and an intention (include time--going back, real time, or forward in time--a...

LAMA HAPPINESS Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler (1998). The Art of Happiness:                                                               A Handbook for Living. Culter, a psychiatrist, asked the Dalai Lama about happiness in several personal interviews, and together with other Dalai Lama books, integrate the Dalai Lama's teachings on happiness.  To summarize the Dalai Lama's teachings on happiness as filtered through Cutler (and me): The purpose of human life is the seek happiness. Our approach to personal relationships can be to see others like us...we all have the same needs, so we are more alike than different. We do well to accept suffering as a natural part of human life, take the long view of suffering, attempt to find something positive, perhaps something to learn, some opportunity for growth... There are many concret...

NEAR DEATH Penny Satori & Kelly Walsh (2017). The transformative power of                                                                 near death experiences: How                                                                 the messages of NDEs                                                                           positively impacts the world. Penny is a nurse, and through her clinical work with patients having near death experiences decided to complete a PhD diss...

POOH WISDOM A.A. Milne (1926). Winne-the-Pooh. The dedication of the book left me teary-eyed: To her...hand in hand we come/Christopher Robin and I/to lay this book in your lap/say you're surprised?/say you like it?/say it's just what you wanted?/because it's yours--/ because we love you. While the story is a simple one about a bear and a boy and the adventures they go on in a make believe world, the story carries much "pooh wisdom" such as:  when someone asks you a question, pause and think before you speak when you have a difficulty, sit down and "have a think" before you act listen to your body as pooh listens to his tummy for signs that he needs honey--the body has a wisdom of its own and will tell you what you need let's pretend to go on an expedition every now and then just for the fun of it Two of my favorite sayings: 1) Discerning life priorities Piglet addressing Pooh: when you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you say to yours...

CONTEMPLATIVE JOURNEY Anthony Padovano (1995). A Retreat with Thomas Merton:                                              Becoming Who We Are Padovano is a Catholic priest that studied, researched, wrote, and gave retreats on the life of Thomas Merton. This short book is one in a series of books by various authors that encourage lay people to "go on retreat." The retreat is very flexible in form...i chose to do one day a week for 7 days in a row on summer vacation, reading and reflecting in the afternoons in July of 2022. One message that struck me: we only need to BE WHO WE TRULY ARE, to honor our calling in this life, to grow into the unique person we are meant to be...and to do this we look inward and connect with our divine source through contemplation that opens the door to discovering and becoming our authentic self. Merton's journey is one of childhood tragedies (e.g...

TRANSFORMATION Stephan A. Schwartz (2015). The 8 Laws of Change: How to be an                                                   Agent of Personal and Social                                                                 Transformation. Lasting positive personal and social transformation begins with one person holding a  compassionate and life-affirming intention and acting on it...the individual, group, and community of people that arises from this one individual's intent must, according to Schwartz's research, follow 8 laws to effect positive and lasting personal and social transformation: 1) share common intention (positive, compassionate, and life-affirming) 2) have goals but not cherishe...

  AURAS Susan Shumsky (2014). The Power of Auras: Tap into your Energy                                             Field for Clarity, Peace of Mind, and Well-                                             being. Shumsky spent 20 years in an ashram, then 20 more years of self-study.  The aura  consists of multiple energy bodies made of (in yogic terms) sheaths that include color, light, frequencies, and characteristics that we can experience, measure, evaluate, cleanse, and strengthen...thus we exist simultaneously in multiple dimensions or layers of our auric fields.  For our physical aura we can imagine being filled with light and extending this light past our bodies...breathing in we can visualize this energy and consciously direct it ANYW...