In this article we present a collection of local "superstitions" in Indonesia regarding everyday life and the meanings of the omens of Nature. Avoid sweeping the house at night as this would make it difficult to attract luck. Avoid sewing a button o...

Fasting and asceticism are essential practices in Javanese Kejawen and shamanism--especially Indonesian shamanism. Most of the unusual and unique powers acquired in Indonesian occultism are dependent upon the mastery of these disciplines with their many f...

Knowing one's true SELF We often identify ourselves with our physical body, with our emotions, and with our mind. These three principles represent our personality. We are often led to believe that the personality is the Self, whereas it is simply a per...

In metaphysics we are taught that the mind plays an important role in determining one's reality. The combination of all our belief structures, attitudes, expectations, hopes, feelings, and subconscious imprints build up the "reality" that we experience. T...

Victims of the 2004 tsunami, these children currently sleep on the floor of a small rental home. They’ve lost everything...their families and homes, all food and provisions, their entire community and way of life. But Project Save a Child is offering...

The story written by Laurie Goodstein broke in The New York Times Politics Blog June 23, 2008 and has garnered blog responses from around the nation. Keller who operates a live daily broadcast from St. Petersburg Florida and delivers a detailed daily devo...

It doesn’t matter what part of the world you come from or what religious faith you belong to, people all over the world are fascinated with death and the possibility of an afterlife. Most live in hope of “something” after this life. Some claim to ha...

Finding a hot Muslim girl as a date or a life partner is the wish of most Islamic singles these days. The reasons why they all want these pretty Muslim dating women are in...

I must admit that for whatever reason, this week has me feeling as if I am in a ‘funk’. I am not sure if it is all the dopey way people have been acting and/or thinking lately, or if I’m just coming down with something. Either way, and none the less...

The Bible is a tapestry of God-inspired stories, parables and thoughts that can be taken literally. To those who do not have the Holy Spirit living inside them, though, this can be confusing. If we do have the Holy Spirit, He will lead us into th...

If you subscribe to virtually any religious or spiritual belief you've likely heard about tithing. Whether or not you are actually tithing is another thing. Tithing can be a very emotionally charged activity. It has been said that what you put out your...

The highly respected Dr. Tony Evans teaches that "committed Christians may fall into sin, but a carnal Christian bathes in." Evans continues, "He has the mindset, motivation and methodology of sin." Believers bathing in sin? Some may not think i...

Average Americans are not fully aware of the machinations of their own political system so when it comes to European politics they are largely in the dark. Admittedly most Europeans feel they are in the dark now too since the Irish vote to ratify the Lisb...

Last year, about this time, something Cecil Murphy said hit home. He said, “I stopped looking for work and started letting God find me work.” I’m paraphrasing big time, but the jest of his talk was that when he let go and let God, everything just fe...

Becoming a psychic is not an easy task, because it obtains and contains a lot of processes which are discussed as under. • Before becoming a psychic, you will have to show such a kind of unique self-belief moving towards the followings and teachings ...