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The Healing Sound of Music: Sammie’s Song

On February 2, 2024

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Inner Guidance, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

My head throbbed and my throat hurt so badly I could hardly swallow. The high fever sapped all my energy and made my world so blurred I could hardly make anything out. I was so sick that the rash that came with the fever was just a mild disturbance. Even though I wasn’t in school yet, my sister had brought home the rubella virus that was going around.

I laid on the couch in the living room, drifting in and out of sleep, wondering how long this was going to last or how long I could last. I was tired of being in this sick body and wanted to go back “Home”, the wonderful place I had come from before getting this body.

Sharing the “HU”

By Michael Avery

On January 24, 2024

In Animals, Divine Love, Guest Posts, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

While attending a retreat at a remote location in the Oregon Coast Range, I had a unique opportunity to share the sacred mantra of “HU.” I had gotten up a dawn to take a walk before breakfast and hiked up a gravel road, in the early morning rain. The road wound its way along a creek for a half a mile before starting up a steep ridge. I noticed a variety of wildlife along the creek. Canadian geese, a duck, many birds and even a blacktail deer. A little later I saw an elk, feeding on the early spring grass along the brushy bank.

A Most Wonderful and Mysterious Gift

By Michael Avery

On January 8, 2024

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by Jim Jackson

In late April of 2023, I received a phone call from Marlo Rees, the wife of one of my very best friends and decade-long senior doubles tennis partner. They had sold their home in Portland and moved to Santa Barbara in mid-2021. Frank Rees had suddenly passed on shortly thereafter.

Marlo told me she had been able to have contact with Frank since his transition, and was sure I would want to know. She also called to thank me for the “wonderful gift.” I had no idea what she was talking about, so I listened on.

“The Drop”

By Michael Avery

On January 3, 2024

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Riley Carson

Rumi was a renowned Sufi scholar, mystic, and poet (1207-1273) . His writings weave a mystic’s viewpoint with scenes from daily life into thought-provoking (sometimes thought stopping) ways. My poem was inspired by the following passage by Rumi, which captures a mind-bending viewpoint, and in a way that relates to some of my own mystical adventures. Rumi wrote: “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop!”

In Search of the Golden Road

By Michael Avery

On December 11, 2023

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by RJ McBride

“In Search of the Golden Road” is my term for the Journey of Soul as It works Its way through countless lifetimes of trials, tests, pitfalls and snares. Yet for all the hardships, wrong turns, and trial runs I’ve encountered throughout these past 81 years of my existence, the Sound Current of HU (the Music of Life Itself) has never been as clear, the Light of Soul never brighter or filled with Divine Love more than in this moment.

My Near-Death Experience

By Michael Avery

On November 24, 2023

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Jim Jackson

In the summer of 2023, I had a memorable experience that was both frightening and uplifting. This took place a few days after my positive Covid test in the Marquis Newberg Rehab facility where I was undergoing treatment for my knee.

Can Singing “HU” Protect You from Harm?

By Michael Avery

On October 23, 2023

In Animals, Divine Love, Guest Posts, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

Have you ever believed something but weren’t really sure how much you believed it? Tests are a natural part of life. They give us a chance to put our beliefs on the line and see if they really have meaning.

For a few years before my beliefs were tested, I had practiced singing a sacred mantra called HU, an ancient word for God. I often sang it in contemplation or when problems came my way. I had read accounts of the HU doing phenomenal things for others, and I believed in its power, or at least I thought I did. It’s funny how easy it is to say you believe in the HU and casually practice it, and how difficult it is to totally rely upon it for survival.

“Seeds of Love”

By Michael Avery

On October 18, 2023

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: < 1 minute

Guest Post by RJ McBride

For forty some years I’d wandered in a half-awake, half-slumber state of consciousness all the while wondering why life had to be so hard and unjust. Over time, my collective experiences had left me a few grains of understanding.

Today, I’ve accumulated enough grains of knowledge to maybe fill a small bucket. And who knows, come tomorrow I may need a larger container. But simply storing these grains of wisdom does little good unless sharing what has been learned by one’s endeavors. And yet, for all that such renderings invoke, there are moments when only the poetic voice speaks to what is truly in one’s heart and Soul.

SEEDS OF LOVE, a poem by RJ McBride

What is Life?

By Michael Avery

On October 9, 2023

In Divine Love, Guest Posts, Inspirational Quotes, Love & Relationships, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Riley Carson

“What is life? Is life the seeds of grass, drifting aimlessly, at times multiplying then dying, while at other times being swept into the vast expanse of the heavens?”

—Inspired by various passages in the chapter “What is Life” in the book Dialogues with the Master by Paul Twitchell, 1983 edition.

How Divine Intervention Saved My Life

By Pichaya Avery

On September 15, 2023

In Divine Love, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Pichaya Avery

“Don’t go to work today,” my Inner Teacher whispered in his gentle voice one morning during contemplation as I sang my love song to God—HU. The date was June 14th, 1995. It could have been my last day on earth if not for divine intervention.

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