Category: Spirituality

Wide awake, every night for over a month. Every time just around 3 am. I had never had trouble sleeping before so I began to wonder why this was happening? If you’d ask a psychologist why you’ve been waking up at 3 am they’ll tell you that it could be because of stress, anxiety, insomnia, disturbance, thirst or night terrors. ...

I was visiting Varanasi in India a few years ago, a deeply spiritual place charged with positive energies and healing waters. While taking a stroll along the holy Ganges, I observed hundreds of saints or ‘sadhus’ with matted unkempt hair.  I realized later that their fuzzy hairstyles were nothing but the modern-day dreadlocks with an underlying spiritual meaning. But what...

Blue jays are songbirds with beautiful crests of blue, white, and black plumage.  They are highly adaptable and very intelligent. Fairly social, blue jays are popular for their noisy presence and excellent imitations of hawk calls.  The universe puts signs and symbols in our path. For those of us who believe that they carry a message for us, we will...

What is the spiritual meaning and significance of a woodpecker? I remember watching Woody and Winnie Woodpecker in the famous Knock, Knock cartoons as a child. Even back then, I found the woodpecker to be an idiosyncratic bird, a true marvel of nature. But beyond its jackhammer-beak, red crest, and colorful feathers, I made no inference of its numinous meaning....