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NEWS & LINKS (updated 10/23/2000)

by Annalisa & Giampiero Cara

Free Buddha Postcards

Among the services that offer free postcards to send to friends all around the world, Rose and Peaches at http://www.roseandpeaches.com stands out for its originality. It offers free, daily, colorful Buddha cards built around an image of the Buddha and spiritual messages like "Love is the candle that lets you see in the dark" or "Between you and what is meant for you, there's only time." Why the Buddha? Palma O'Sullivan, the site's owner and artist, is not a buddhist, although she embraces the principles of buddhist philosophy. "I chose the Buddha as a mere symbol of universal values," she says. "The Buddha is an invitation to go inside oneself and take responsibility for our own reality. It's about developing love and compassion. I just wanted to create some art using this concept."

Global Group Mind Meditations

On the second and fourth Sunday of every month, the World Mind Society, a progressive no-profit organization for the expansion of consciousness founded by Matthew Webb (click here to read his article on BLISS), coordinates Global Group Mind Meditations. "They represent a growing effort by people around the world to focus their prayers and meditations together, for the mutual expansion of consciousness," Webb says. "Through this simultaneous focus, we are aligning our awareness together on a psychic basis. Through this alignment our ever-expanding world group is using INTENT, to elevate the spiritual intensity of all involved. At the same time our Intent is also to uplift the World Mind, or collective consciousness of humanity, and to heal the Earth, (Gaia) of stresses and imbalances." This spiritual effort is founded upon the Group Mind Principle, and other principles of Natural Law. The Group Mind Principle states that, "the resulting force generated from the combining of like minds, is geometrically greater than the sum of its parts". To participate, just go to the WMS web site, or e-mail to Matthew Webb visionquest@eoni.com

New Age Magic

Angel Voice Tarot Readings, Tarotscopes, Petscopes, in addition to more traditional Tarot Card Readings and Weekly Horoscopes. You can find all this and much more at http://www.arcanamatrix.com, in the beautiful and extremely rich site of the Arcana New Age Center, directed by Zsuzsana, the famous Canadian Tarot Reader and psychic who generously offers angel readings to BLISS readers (click here to read her article on BLISS). Besides high-quality divinatory offerings, this site also features very interesting, well-written and inspirational New Age articles and five free newsletters, including the very popular Tarotscope, which is being read daily by over 66.000 people.

Circles of Light

Another very interesting site with much content and many services is the weekly internet magazine Circles of Light at http://www.circlesoflight.com. The site's owner is the expert net astrologer and author Jeri Noble (click here to read her article on BLISS, and to know about her SPECIAL OFFER TO BLISS READERS) who rewards her visitors with, among other things, articles on metaphysics, astrology and alchemy, personal astrology readings, free past life readings, forums, channeled information, and even a prosperity course.

Diversity Works

Diversity Works is an entertaining and educational cultural card came, featuring questions from 60 cultures in ten catagories. It is also an entertaining way to build knowledge and appreciation for all who share this planet. Designed to foster teamwork as well as fun, this game makes everyone a winner. In fact, if you don't know the answer, you've still learned about a culture whose traditions were unfamiliar to you before. A family game, as well as an educational tool, Diversity Works features topics like traditions, etiquette, holidays, religion and music. Give yourself or a friend the gift of knowledge - and learn to appreciate the divirsity of this planet. For information on ordering Diversity Works, visit http://www.cultural-concepts.com and click the Product tab.

The Secrets of Atlantis

Phoenix Returns is the title of a very interesting and well written book by the English medium Sheelagh Donnelly. It is a telepathic transcription of the records of Atlantis, which have been stored on the spiritual plane. According to the author, they are revealed now to guide us through a period of dramatic change on our planet. As the great psychic Edgar Cayce said in his readings, before Atlantis was destroyed, the Records of its knowledge were preserved for posterity and scattered around the world. The book claims to contain the "master copy" of these Records, reuniting the fragments of Atlantean knowledge, which have survived in myth and architecture. It tells of hidden artefacts (also showing them through the author's drawings) that, if found, should prove the truth of the Atlantean legacy and its connections with Egypt. It teaches the esoteric knowledge necessary for survival without technology, and outlines both techniques for Earth healing and principles for a spiritual understanding of the Universe. The book's web site at http://www.atlantiswisdom.com contains, among other things, pages written after the completion of Phoenix Returns. The writings deal mainly with instructions for the many healing and mediumistic groups already established around the planet. There are also further revelations regarding structures at the Giza plateau plus expansions on topics mentioned in the book.

Beyond Philanthropy: Responsible Wealth (source: Share International Magazine)

American activist Tracy Gary founded in Boston Responsible Wealth, a new organization that encourages wealthy people to go beyond philanthropy and work toward making changes in corporate and public policies that disproportionately benefit the rich. Its 400 or so members (the top five per cent of wealth holders in America, with more than $650,000 in assets) hail from a variety of backgrounds and political persuasions, yet they all are alarmed at the increasing concentration of wealth in America - the top one per cent now controls more wealth than the bottom 95 per cent — and they believe this vast inequality threatens social cohesion and stability. Gary and co-chair of Responsible Wealth Bob Burnett, a founder of the computer corporation Cisco Systems, believe that developing a critical mass of wealthy people who are aware of and concerned about social issues is a first step toward creating real change. Economic inequality "is the great national problem nobody talks about," said Burnett. With the chasm between rich and poor growing ever wider, Burnett, Gary and other Responsible Wealth members believe it is time to begin talking.

A Look Within - Inspirations of Love - Here's a site that offers free downloadable books by the late Indian spiritual master Dadaji (1906-1992). Challenging old notions of spirituality and religion, Dadaji (which means Elder Brother) reminds you God is within, and therefore no guru can lead you to Him. Looking within is easy and natural. You don't have to torture your mind or body to find God. Just doing your best in your daily life is rough enough.

Sacred Travel - If you would be interested in the possibility of a spiritual retreat in Italy or in Indonesia, this site contains useful information for you.

Liquid Light Center - Check out this site for dream interpretations, meditations techniques, spiritual counseling and more. It centers around the work of Sharon Shane (click here to read her article on BLISS), author of the inspiring book In the Garden of the Goddess, available through Amazon.com by clicking on its title.

Planetary Awakening Network

The Planetary Awakening Network (PAN) was established in 1998 as an international emergency alert system to link up world serves so that we might work together to bring healing to world crisis situations. Since that time it has become a major networking vehicle for those who are working toward a more peaceful, just, prosperous and conscious planet. The association now has over 550 independent internet based networks in 47 countries and continues to grow steadily at the rate of 15 to 20 a month. There is no cost and you can participate with a network as small as five people. For more information, go to http://www.n2012.com/pan.htm

Clean, free energy: Dream or Reality?

The current rise in oil prices practically everywhere has made the issue of alternative energy sources more topical than ever. Are they reliable and affordable? Are scientists and governments conducting serious research on them? If you want to find documented answers to these questions, and to know more about cold fusion, hydrogen gas cells, magnetic motors and other devices capable of producing energy without polluting and depriving our planet, we invite you to visit Stephen Kaplan's page at http://www.connexion.org/kaplan . Throughout the Nineties Mr. Kaplan -- a member of the Catalyst Institute, a newly formed non-profit organization that is supporting scientists working on the frontiers of research concerning health and the environment -- has been a strong and often ostracized advocate of alternative energy sources, and he is currently working on new energy research and development. The precious information he offers here are intended to raise our awareness on the subject, so that we can at least send our conscious energy to a dream worth dreaming together.

God/dess's Power

To recognize the power of God/dess -- i.e. the feminine aspect of divinity -- within all people, regardless of gender, color, politics or sexual lifestyle. It is the declared purpose of The Fifth Goddess, a website created around Staci Backauskas's (click here to read her article) spiritual novel of the same title (click here to order the book through Amazon.com), which is about four Goddesses overseeing an ordinary woman's path of self discovery. In fact, this interesting website does more than just promoting a book and some related products. In it, you will find useful articles and informations on the female side of spirituality, recommended weekly rituals, Staci's inspiring weekly messages and even Goddess Trivia Questions. You can visit it at http://www.fifthgoddess.com .

A World Network of Conscious Thinking

"No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively," wrote Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the great French philosopher in his 1947 book The Formation of the Noosphere.

Today, a vision of the Noosphere as the emerging web of global consciousness inspired Stephen Bate - a computer software engineer with a profound interest in spirituality, who already created great New Age sites like the famous Sun Angel Innovations - to dedicate an entire links page of his new site Technoetic (http://www.technoetic.com) to many articles related to the Noosphere and Teilhard de Chardin. "In these articles - says Bate - "the conceptualization of the Noosphere ranges from simply 'the Internet' and computing technology... to Cyberspace... to the global mind... to next step in humankind's and the Earth's evolution". Just follow the links, for a mind-expanding cyber-reading experience.

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