Spiritual Teachings

Anna Davidovich, the source of the "Unveiled Rite of Initiation", speaks with Mark O'Brien about initiation and how that presents itself within her work, the place of ritual, and the importance of...

The followiing is an interview conducted for the Here & Nowmagazine with Israeli-born enlightened teacher, Tyohar, in Byron Bay circa 1999. Tyohar does not fit the usual guru sterotype - he is young, handsome, funny, a techno DJ (which Israeli...

I interact with many people each week and in the course of this I have noticed an increasing trend where the reliable constant seems to be change. All over the world we are seeing changes happening on all levels; economic, political, scientific,...

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you are here for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for...

The Five Pathways Of Mankind Which We All Take by Sogyal Rinpoche 1. I walk down the street. I see a deep hole in the footpath. I fall in. I am lost … I am hopeless. It is not my fault. It takes forever to find a way...

Question for Stuart Wilde: In your tape series "Loving Relationships" you explain how females have a natural spiritual balance. You also mention that when women figure that out and stop trying to compete with male energies, they will begin to know...

Brandon Bays: I had been in the alternative field for about 15 years and had been trained and thought I’d experienced just about everything. I was a vegetarian, living by the sea, breathing fresh sea air, and travelling with Tony Robbins, giving...

Who is......? Why would you want to know the truth of who you are? An interview with Avikal Costantino, facilitator of Satori retreats worldwide, and founder of the Integral Being Institute by Mark O'Brien. Satori is without doubt the most brilliant...

Alan Clements was the first American to pioneer the dharma from the Buddhist country of Burma, where he lived in a monastery during the 1970s and 80s, five years of which he spent as a monk. During this time he trained in Buddhist psychology and...

Finding the courage to trust. What does that mean? When we say we trust someone, or we ask to be trusted, what exactly are we saying? Osho spoke often about trust, and of course he managed to say diametrically opposed things, or at least that is...