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Wisdom of Ovid

Ovid (circa 43 BC), was a Roman poet whose lyrical verses have transcended time, offering profound insights into love, change, and the human spirit. His works like Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, and Tristia offer timeless truths. Ovid’s ability to capture universal experiences makes his words as poignant today as they were in ancient Rome. Below we list some words of wisdom from Ovid. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.”

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5 Unique Tips for Singles to Stay Afloat in the Sea of Love

Whether you are single, involved, or somewhere in-between, your love life has no doubt caused you to experience a whole gamut of emotions. It’s part of the human experience and one of the most important vehicles by which you learn your lessons. With a spiritual approach, you will be able to rise above the sorrow and make the most of your love life. When single and dating, instead of allowing your hopes and dreams to rule, step back, take a breath, relax, and consider the following:

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2022 Astrological and Numerological Excerpts

Hermes Trismegistus, the author named in the text of the enigmatic Emerald Tablet, said, “That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that is below.” According to the Hermetic tradition, occult sciences such as astrology and numerology symbolize events and circumstances in your life. Notice the quote above states “…is like…” instead of “makes happen.” The microcosm reflects the macrocosm, and the macrocosm reflects the microcosm.

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Wisdom of Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza (November 24, 1632–February 21, 1677), born in Amsterdam, was a Portuguese-Jewish philosopher and one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment. He is known as one of the most original and radical philosophers of the seventeenth century. Below we list some words of wisdom from Baruch Spinoza. “The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.” “If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

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“There is Nothing After This Life,” or is There?

A family member recently told us, “When you’re dead, you’re dead. There’s nothing after this life.” Everyone has their own opinion, but that surprised us considering all we’ve written about the subject, and since she hadn’t told us her true views before. We strive for impartiality, so maybe we need to consider her viewpoint further. After all, there is so much confusion surrounding the issue of life after death.

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Wise Words of Socrates

Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher and one of the originators of Western philosophy. He is most known for the Socratic method, which involves repeatedly asking questions instead of relaying information. Due to his unconventional style and outspoken pursuit of the truth, he was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. Below we list some words of wisdom from Socrates.

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Wise Words of Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828—November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer and is recognized as one of the greatest authors of all time. War and Peace is widely considered his best work. Below we list some words of wisdom from Leo Tolstoy. “The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.” “Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.” “Boredom: the desire for desires.” “Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.”

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New Age Terminology: The Authentic Definition of Predestined, Karma, and more

On your quest for spiritual truth, the last thing you need is misinformation. Unfortunately, today’s New Age market is full of dead ends. We list below the definitions of key spiritual terms, according to our empirical research since the 1980s, to help you cut through the cosmic debris and follow the most authentic spiritual path possible. Fate: Here’s a word that is often distorted beyond recognition. It actually means the same as destiny. You’ve likely heard the phrase, “You can’t cheat fate.” We can’t emphasize enough how true we’ve found this to be, always.

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Caution: 6 Types of Demons

Do demons exist and if so, are there different kinds of demons? We've been clearing people and places of dark energy for over 13 years and we believe the answer is yes to both questions. We've learned that while there exists "good" and "bad" energies due to the polarity of the universe, there seems to be different types of dark energy or demons too. Certain demons flock to certain types of people and situations, and their influence can be anywhere from subtle to disastrous. Political demons

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Wisdom of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817¬–May 6, 1862) was an American philosopher and writer. He is best known as an advocate of transcendentalism. He also believed in reinca ation. His book Walden is about life in the woods, an experiment on self-sufficiency. His essay, Civil Disobedience, influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. In it, he wrote, "I heartily accept the motto—'That government is best which governs least’…” Below we list some words of wisdom from Henry David Thoreau. “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

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Money and Past Lives: 7 Occurrences That Make You Rich or Poor Today

According to the theory of reinca ation, your past life behavior has a lot to do with the current state of your finances today. Most people are acquainted with the basic concept of karma: whatever you do now will come back to you in the future, though our findings show it’s more likely to come back to you in a future life. Anti-prosperity thoughts and actions from past lives have much more of an impact on life circumstances than most people realize.

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Past Lives, Karma & Transvestites – How Spirit Attachment or Possession Can Make an Impact

The desire to cross-dress or change sexes can be duento many different reasons. Based on our experience withnmetaphysics and past life regression, we’ve noticed twonmain spiritual reasons. The first is that the person was thenopposite gender in many of their past lives and feels morencomfortable ...

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Forgiveness Affirmations: Do it For Yourself

Affirmations are powerful and can help transform any area of life if you use them correctly. Can they buck fate, erase karma or help you create anything, no matter how ambitious the goal? We don’t believe so; we’ve found through our empirical research that many of the major events and people in your life are fated.

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Demon Worship Group Targets President Trump

Numerous self-proclaimed spiritual groups are targeting the President of the United States with black magic. This suggests significant parts of the metaphysical community either lack understanding of the law of karma, or don’t care about the consequences. Will they ever learn? Anyone who actively intends harm on another individual is evil, not spiritual, no matter how they justify it.

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Spirit Possession: From Mild to Severe

Spirit possession has become a more popular topic in recent years due to it being featured in popular media, including TV shows and movies. Although extreme cases make for more potent entertainment, they aren't very common in the real world. Below we describe the other levels of possession so you know what to watch out for. 1) Mild possession includes the phenomena of spirit attachment, and ghosts, which are not technically possession but are related and can still cause problems.

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Psychics Deserve Respect

We remember many years ago a psychic predicting A old Schwarzenegger would be on a sitcom late in his life playing a grumpy old man. Fast-forward to today, and A old isn't staring in a sitcom. However, there's a 2019 video clip of him promoting the most recent installment of the Terminator. In the video he’s sitting on a stage with another cast member in front of a live audience, jokingly putting down those who give excuses for not going to the gym: “You have no time? Then get up earlier!”

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Why You Should Love These Spiritual Laws

Everyone has heard about the law of attraction, but there are other spiritual laws about which you should be more excited. Embracing these spiritual laws will help you get the most out of your life by minimizing negative circumstances and generating peace of mind and satisfaction. Our long-term empirical findings indicate everyone is bound to specific spiritual laws, just like heavenly bodies are bound to Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion, which outline how they orbit the Sun. Below we list our favorite spiritual laws.

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Busting 5 Myths About Demonic Possession

Due to several movies in recent years about demonic possession and exorcisms, the subjects have gained in popularity. Are they fictitious notions, merely part of a scary Hollywood storyline? 25 years ago, we thought so and naively assumed that in terms of spiritual energy, only God and positive energy existed.

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These Five Things Seem Ungodly But Are Really Spiritual

You may wonder sometimes what is spiritual and what isn’t. According to New Age and religious standards, ”spiritual” has to do partly with worship, meditation, compassion, and grace. We agree that regular prayers, meditation, and other devout and paranormal activities are spiritual. But many things that seem non-spiritual aren’t. Below we list five things that seem ungodly but are really spiritual.

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Crime and Fate Q and A

Question: “Isn’t there always deliberation involved with behavior? Wouldn’t you say that an individual who deliberates is free to commit a crime or not, which would indicate most crimes even fraud or murder aren’t fated?” Answer: We would like to believe that life’s unpleasantness is avoidable, that bad behavior can be prevented, but our long-term findings tell us otherwise. Unique personal adversity, including myriad unavoidable life events and circumstances appear to be part of the predetermined human experience. Impulse Control

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How to Tell if Someone is Possessed

How can you tell if someone is possessed? Does possession really happen, or is it a myth? When we mention possession most people express skepticism or fear. Thanks to scary movies and novels, demonic and spirit possession seem like either science fiction, or something one has no control over. We’ve found in over 20 years of empirical research that demonic and spirit possession is neither of these things once you understand the concepts, and it’s far more common than most people realize.

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Spirituality and Sex--How to Escape Feeling Guilty

Sex can be spiritual, though it’s all too common to forget and feel guilty about sex, and much of the guilt is hidden in your subconscious mind. We’d like to help you escape the baseless sexual guilt trap. It’s detrimental to your emotional, spiritual, and mental health to possess baseless guilt about sex. Additionally, false fear and guilt about sex prohibits you from experiencing the spiritual and healing benefits of good sex. How to Escape Feeling Guilty About Sex

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Wise Reminders From Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and helped draft the United States Declaration of Independence. He was also the first United States postmaster general, founder of many civic organizations, and a printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, writer, and diplomat. Below we list some words of wisdom by Benjamin Franklin. "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking." "Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."

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Wise Reminders From Hermann Karl Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) was a German-Swiss novelist and poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings focused on spirituality and the search for self-understanding. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity influenced him the most, but he believed, "for different people, there are different ways to God." Below we list some words of wisdom from Hermann Karl Hesse. “Every experience has its element of magic.” “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

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Wise words from Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (June 19th,1623 – August 19th,1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, writer, philosopher, child prodigy, and inventor of the mechanical calculator. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry at the age of 16. He also heavily influenced the development of modern economics and social science. Below we list words of wisdom by Blaise Pascal. "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it." "Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years."

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Surprising Scientific Findings on Meditation

One of the best ways to get centered is through meditation. The feel-good state of meditation directly combats stress and anxiety, and helps to improve your overall outlook on life. Besides the many scientifically documented benefits (some of which we document below), meditation helps you flow with the currents of life and avoid false starts and dead-ends. For regular meditators, it’s common to receive a signal in meditation to try an alte ate path, and realize later it saved them time or money. Below we list several scientific studies highlighting the benefits of meditation.

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Old Soul Quiz: Find Out How You’re Progressing Spiritually

Are you an old soul? The term is commonly used to describe someone mature beyond their years, or spiritually defined as someone who has lived many, many lives. However, our many years of past life regression research has shown us that there are younger souls who are just as or more spiritually aware as the so-called older souls; being an older soul could be, in many cases, that it’s taken them a lot longer to learn their lessons. Just because you’ve gone through the motions of attending class and enduring exams doesn’t mean you’ve done well in school.

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Wise words from Baron de Montesquieu

Baron de Montesquieu (January 18, 1689 – February 10 1755), was a French historian, judge, and political philosopher. He originated the theory of separation of powers, fought against despotism, and greatly influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He was the most frequently quoted authority on politics and government in pre-revolutionary British America, cited more by the Founding Fathers than any other source, besides the Bible. One of Montesquieu’s main philosophies was "government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another."

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Astrology in its Modern Form: a Rotten Shell of its Original State

Astrologers enamored with modern methods claim that astrology must "...promote human freedom..." and that ancient astrology “...is not aligned with modern times...” Instead, our findings tell us this: modern astrology’s psycho-speak, trippy subjectivity and softened-up-reality-to-the-point-of-distortion drives you to cloud and misjudge reality and tells you what you want to hear. The escapist and fly-in-the-face-of-truth inspirational babble of modern astrology makes it easier to sell books and drawn-out counseling sessions through its exclusive application.

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Wise words from Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, and anthropologist. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” yet his concept of evolution included ethical human progression. In the late 1800s he was one of the most influential European intellectuals and is one of the only philosophers to sell over a million copies of his works during his own lifetime. Below we list some words of wisdom from Herbert Spencer. “The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”

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Attention Spiritually Sensitive People and Empaths: 9 Things You Must do to Feel Better

An empath is a highly sensitive person who can feel the emotional and physical states of people around them. This, of course, can be problematic for the individual while walking through crowds or being around people who are in a negative state of mind. They also have the ability, if they set aside any bias or emotional attachment, to sense truth and the motives of others.

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What You Need to Know About Mediation

It seems that the truth about meditation is absolutely shrouded in mystery, based on the feedback we typically get from everyday acquaintances upon mentioning that we meditate regularly. You would think the truth about meditation has to do with flighty cosmonauts wasting time chasing rainbows and unico s, sitting in silence waiting for something magical to happen, like children waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Some people even assume that people who meditate are just not very intelligent, or that they are delusional.

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Spiritual Laws: Law of Attraction is But One

The most commonly known spiritual law today seems to be the law of attraction. However, our findings tell us that other spiritual laws are just as important. “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” Leonardo da Vinci

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Wisdom of Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker (November 8th,1847 – April 20th, 1912), known by his pen name Bram Stoker was the Irish author of Dracula, published in 1897. He became regarded by many as the father of vampire fiction. Stoker wrote twelve mystery and horror novels. Dracula was one of the best-selling works of vampire fiction since the early 20th century and Count Dracula is one of the well-known fictional figures of the Victorian era. There have been more than 700 adaptations of the character.

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Your Enemies and Reinca ation: End That Karmic Cycle Forever

Our long-term findings firmly support the theories of reinca ation and karma. Until we prove them invalid, we will continue to accept them as viable Explanations for some of life’s “mysteries.” Related to the theory of reinca ation is the notion that there are no accidents in life and that you are born into the conditions and key life circumstances (and innate abilities and inclinations) that you have earned through many lifetimes.

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Handwriting Analysis as a Personality Assessment Tool Yields Amazingly Accurate Results

Skeptics of handwriting analysis say they want statistics on the validity of handwriting analysis, such as those involving published medical studies. Yet time and time again the outcomes of such scientific studies are proved unreliable due to bias (e.g., the study that found the drug superior ...

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