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Friday, January 18, 2008



Hoping you all had a wonderful festive season, holiday season, christmas! Best Wishes for the New Year...may it be one of joy, peace and infinite light.


The Global Spiritual Network has progressed in the last week with many changes made to the layout and style. We are hoping that people will find it easier to navigate and find specific areas.


Thank you to all who took the time to complete the survey! Receiving your feedback was great and is a good guide to us when considering further development and activities for our community. This is YOUR community and your feedback is important!


Just wish to officially welcome all the new members who have joined us. Thank you all for taking the time to join our community. We hope you enjoy the great energy and atmosphere on site. Looking forward to your participation, sharing, learning and growing !


We have new groups available, please take time to check them out, join if it resonates!




Web of Knowledge- A combination of resources for enhancing knowledge in spirituality and esoteric themes.

GSN Attunements- Group for those interested in giving or recieving attunements to different healing modalities.


Native Knowing- A group to explore Native American spirtuality.


Meaningful Meditation- A group for sharing and undertaking meditation for increased awareness, relaxation and self purpose.


Circle of Love-We gather in Circles of Love to strengthen our connection with ourselves, with each other, and with all around us through giving and receiving heartfelt love.


Natural Healing- Dedicated to sharing and learning methods of healing using ingredients from Mother nature.




Many new activities are in the pipeline, more interactivity, more classes and group sessions! Keep your eyes out for announcements.



We now have a live chat facility which can be found on the right side of each page. It's a great opportunity to get to know everyone!



There are new pages..."Pages" is a place to find exercises for inner development, finding your inner being. Global Spiritual News is where you can find the latest news, a newsletter of sorts.


New music has been added to the music player...lovely inspiring lyrics to enhance the flow of energy.


The forum has been organised under topic headings. Articles on specific topics should be much easier to find.



So as you can see it's been busy, busy , busy!











UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
by Dr. Guy Pettit

It is the exploration of what this might be that we do from now on in this seminar - and in life after the seminar! Its mystery and depth cannot be explained. Yet we all recognize its presence and its magic. It reveals itself through joy, which can even increase in adversity. We can learn to see ourselves as moving towards becoming able to express it ever more fully. We can learn the steps in developing this quality, which is still in the process of evolving or revealing itself.
Unconditional love is enlarging the self, and an act of will. It is not a feeling or an emotional reaction. Think of the difference between falling in love, and growing in love through all difficulties and conflicts. Unconditional love is an act of mental and spiritual will, it cannot and does not take place upon the emotional level, which is where the problems first register. Unconditional love is extending oneself in the service of the spiritual growth of oneself and/or another, independently of reward or the behavior of others.
To truly love in this way could include:
· To call forth a sense of responsibility, and a capacity to make wise choices.
· To point out weaknesses people have, - but very caringly so that the best in the person is drawn forth in response, rather than resistance.
· To challenge people to strive and attain, and discover their true selves..
· To help people work on their habits and weaknesses so that they become stronger. To show them how to use their will correctly.
· To help people learn to cooperate, and thus to overcome their little egos.
· To engage people in working for humanity.
· To teach people how to overcome their prejudices, resentments, separative tendencies, vanities, illusions, and other blocks to their own joy.
To truly love in this way does NOT mean:
· To surrender to weakness.
· To accept things that are harmful.
· To encourage weakness or irresponsibility.
· To accept dirt or ugliness in thought, feeling or action.
· To exploit or use people.
· To put people into sleep.
· To tolerate laziness.
Unconditional love causes you to see what has really caused a situation and to see through the outer appearances to the true needs or yourself and others, without criticism of yourself or others . It causes you to see the basic good in yourself and other(s).
Unconditionally loving people see their own errors and joyfully self-correct them .
They love themselves, others and the Source of Life, and therefore the whole of life. In particular, they are inclusive, and can maintain love and goodwill towards both the apparent "victim" and "oppressor" in a situation.
They seek to radiate their inner harmony and joy, peace and healing into any situation - without conditions or expectation of reward, and independently of the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others.
They are group conscious and do not react by immediately taking sides.
They serve the cause of peace and goodwill, and can often find ways to a fair solution of conflict that are not available to emotionally charged people. Gandhi taught the use of ahimsa and satyagraha, which is the willingness to cooperate harmlessly with the good intentions of the other for the true benefit of both.
The Forgiveness Process can be seen to be a process which moves us towards this goal of unconditional love.






"Peace on earth will come
when the love of power
is replaced by
the power of love."
Sri Chinnoy








Spiritual Principles

- There is a Divine Creative Source whose essence is unconditional Love and Wisdom.
- This Divine Source shows itself through humanity as universal Spirit.
- The human mind can be perceived symbolically in the world of Nature.
- Outward appearances are often illusory, veiling a deeper spiritual reality.
- We are spiritual as well as physical beings and ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ are two contrary states of life
that lie within us.
- The Bible and other sacred scriptures also reflect the Divine Source and the inner ‘heaven and
hell’ in symbolic images and language.
- We are the recipients of beneficial angelic influences in our lives.
- Life does not end with the death of the physical body, but continues without end to develop
spiritually.





In Love and Light Always...


Jodie and Niki

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