All Articles Posted By Dan Liss
The Zen of Reiki
The simplicity of Zen contributes to Reiki's power.
By Dan Liss
What is Reiki Like?
Picture yourself lying on a comfortable massage table. You don't have to discuss or analyze anything. You don't have to do anything. You just have to be open to receive the energy. Just relax and know that whatever is bothering you can be aided by the simple loving, kind, compassionate energy that lives all around us and animates the entire universe
By Dan Liss
Old Friends, New Friends
My mother has had some of the same friends her entire life. This fact is not so extraordinary among older generations. You see, my mother has lived in the same house her entire life. She has ventured farther than that to go on vacations. Some of the women she went to grammar school or high school with have also stayed close to home. Yes, my mother has also made new friends along her journey through life.
By Dan Liss
What does your life story read like?
If you were writing your own life story, how would it read? Something like this?
By Dan Liss
Hidden in Plain Sight
Here is an item that almost everyone has in their house, yet it is laden with symbolic significance that most people do not notice. It is invested with significance that is intertwined with another famous (or infamous) item, the Tarot. What is this? A deck of playing cards.
By Dan Liss
Sight & Vision
Every time we see a picture, our mind gets some kind of feeling or message, some flash of intuition. Think about the last time you walked through an art museum or gallery. The pictures you liked, you stopped and looked at for a while. Those pictures communicated something to you. The pictures you didn't like also triggered some kind of thought, memory or feeling in you.
By Dan Liss
Why Care About Life After Death?
One of the enduring mysteries of life is death. Why is it that we care about what happens after we die? Is it that the thought of just a short span on Earth is not enough for us? That we hunger for life so much that we want it to continue even if we have to imagine some other form for it to continue in?
By Dan Liss
Renovated Neighborhoods
For exercise, walking in the older neighborhoods is really invigorating. It seems to me that I can feel the energy in the old neighborhoods that have been renovated recently.
By Dan Liss
Walt Whitman, the American Rumi
Leaves of Grass is one of the original works of American metaphysical literature, equal to the great ecstatic spiritual poetry of Rumi. I often wonder why it has not been used as source material in the same way that Rumi's poetry has inspired the creation of music, or how the Dances of Universal Peace groups have made dances based on his poetry.
By Dan Liss
Nakai, A Renaissance Man
R. Carlos Nakai, the person responsible for making the music of the Native American wooden flute popular, is a true Renaissance man.
By Dan Liss
Is Romance Necessary?
Is Romance Necessary? I think it is. Romance is part of where we find the energies to animate our ideas and power us forward toward our visions.
By Dan Liss
Spiritual But Not Religious
We have all heard the phrase, "I am spiritual, but not religious." Perhaps we have even used that phrase to describe ourselves or our practices. Typically, people attended whatever church or religion their parents chose. Usually they would take us to church with them or send us to schools or Sunday schools operated by their church. It was just expected that we would follow along in this way.
By Dan Liss
The Energy of Election Years
Right now, of course, you cannot turn on your radio, TV or computer without hearing endless chatter about the elections. That is to be expected in an election year.
Notice the energy right now. People who are advocating for their candidates are very intense, and that makes sense too. With an election coming in the midst of a war and economic turmoil, there are real issues at stake.
By Dan Liss
The Secret Power of Rhythm
Some people speculate that church changed the calendars to the Gregorian calendar in 1582 which gave us the uneven count that we have today with some months having 30 or 31 days and one having 28 except for leap year to interrupt the natural rhythms of our lives. When people are off balance, they are easier to control.
By Dan Liss
Who Are Our Spirit Guides?
Who are our spirit guides? There are many possibilities. They can be gods or goddesses, ancestors, angels, fairies, totem animals or birds, friends or relatives who we knew in this lifetime and have already crossed over. Some people have saints that they relate to, and that is the same thing by another name. Spirit guide.
By Dan Liss
Our Migration to Other Planes of Existence
We can see our dream states as a time when other communications come to us, but they could also be when we venture out to them. In other words, do we travel to our dreams or do our dreams travel to us?
By Dan Liss
Migration and Mortality
At this time of year, we see the patterns of birds flying south for the winter. If you live in the north, you mostly see times of year where there is an absence of birds and a time of year when there is an abundance of birds. If you live in the south, there are always many kinds of birds, and sometimes even more varieties.
By Dan Liss
How Past Lives Affect Present Life
In some cases, past life recall may cause you to want to do something different with this life. In other cases, it can be helpful in confirming the path we are already on. In my own case, I had a medical problem at birth. I always wondered why. Later on, I also discovered that certain abilities came to me naturally. And I wondered why this was so.
By Dan Liss
What Would Ansel Adams Do?
While contemplating a few of those vistas today, as people were passing me by, I thought of Ansel Adams, the great photographer, and how he would often stay in one spot for a whole day or longer, just waiting for the sunlight or moonlight to help compose the perfect picture. It was all about the play of light and shadow on the great landscapes that made his photos some of the most popular ever made.
By Dan Liss
Gateways to Communication
One of the things that people new to the study of Tarot have the most difficulty understanding is that although the designers of the cards had meanings in mind when they drew the pictures, that each person who looks at them will get different messages from them.
By Dan Liss
Why Care About Life After Death?
One of the enduring mysteries of life is death. Why is it that we care about what happens after we die? Is it that the thought of just a short span on Earth is not enough for us? That we hunger for life so much that we want it to continue even if we have to imagine some other form for it to continue in?
By Dan Liss
Three Chakras?
Although the concept of seven chakras is known far and wide these days, some old traditions in Europe utilized a system of three energy centers, and those would have been located at the sexual area, heart and third eye.
By Dan Liss
Our Mind's Eye and Our Other Eyes
Imagination is what makes it possible for us to get a feel for what it is like to visit places we have not been, meet people we have not met, and experience things we have not done.
By Dan Liss
End of the World? No, Thanks
Every so often, people will bring up the subject of 2012 because some people say that is the end of the Mayan Calendar and they believe that some phenomenal change will happen that year because of that fact.
By Dan Liss
Imagining the Future
Perhaps one of the real purposes that the really creative writers serve is to imagine possibilities for us before we even get there. They imagine various futures and then inventors, engineers, architects, chemists, electronic marvels such as computer work are then put to the task of creating new worlds.
By Dan Liss
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