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Rumi! Sacred Online Poetry

I just had this float across my Facebook from the wonderful people at Spirituality and Practice. They are partnering with the Threshold Society and The Mevlevi order of Sufis, to present a 7-week online course studying the transformative poetry of Rumi and led by Sufi elders.

Today's Entirely Satisfying Chapter's Visit

It is always a good day when I can walk into a bookstore, walk out with a mitt-ful of books, not have paid a cent, AND not have committed a crime.

Today was definitely one of those days. After missing the 9 p.m. closing time on Saturday - I swear it used to be open until 10 p.m. on weekends! - I dropped in today and picked up four new books.

Difference between 'hear', 'listen' and 'receive'

In Tomorrow's GodTomorrow's God by NDW, there was a line - right at the beginning that piqued my interest. He wrote that the book invites us to not merely 'hear' the wisdom again, but to 'receive' it (x).

It got me thinking about the difference between 'hearing' something and 'receiving' it. And whether either of those words has much, if anything, to do with 'listening'. So I thought I'd do a little research. Here's what I found.

Walsch: Four Levels of Consciousness

Chapter's Four to Eight of Tomorrow's GodTomorrow's God also cover the four levels of creation and consciousness. These are the subconscious, conscious, super-conscious and supra-conscious.

This week's buying spree – the ones I didn't get

For me, going to Chapter's (or any other great book store - if only there were one in Newmarket) is a religious experience. I open the heavy wooden doors and enter the cavernous space - full of questions and searching, searching for the answers. Walking up to the shiny white computers, I nervously type in the keywords - author, title, topic - hoping against hope that they will actually have what I am looking for. Not this one, not that one. On and on it goes.

Today's buying spree – the winners!

Heavily influenced by the GPC Economic Summit I was at this weekend, my new additions are mostly climate change, environment and politics themed.

CBC's Canada Reads 2010 has a winner!

And I have two more books to add to my reading list - but these two are novels.

Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love the movie!

Seriously. I'm not sure how much me-joy they could have packed into one trailer.

Fox/Sheldrake: I want this movie!

The description from amazon:

Science and spirituality collide when biologist Rupert Sheldrake and postmodern theologian Matthew Fox, explore the practical aspects of mysticism and the attainment of higher levels of consciousness...