Eight Special Features

The Q-and-A Club

Join people around the world who like to ask questions of themselves and others. Explore questions for expanding your horizons, increasing your self-understanding, strengthening friendship and relationships, exploring social and political issues, and deepening faith and spirituality. The Q-and-A Club: Community of the Curious and Courageous tells why the program was founded and how the free program can make a different in the world.

Explaining a Spiritual Experience

Have you ever had a spiritual or peak experience and tried to explain to others what it felt like? This three-minute presentation of Explaining a Spiritual Experience illustrates the most important thing about such experiences. There is also a text version if you wish to only read this piece.

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Affirmations for Everyone

Affirmations for Everyone: Words of Encouragement is a four-minute presentation of how affirmations appropriate to each period of growth is the best way to navigate developmental cycles.

As you examine the legacy given to you by your parents and grandparents, you may discover strengths you underestimated. You may also realize you didn't hear important affirmations you would benefit from today. But it's never too late to learn what you may have missed.

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Why I Believe I am Connected to God or Spirit

Just as it is difficult to explain a spiritual experience (see above), it can often be difficult to explain to others why one believes in God or Spirit. This self-directed slide show of Why I Believe I am Connected to God or Spirit illustrates how the images of meditation open a person's heart so we become touched by "something" that is beyond the ego and beyond the rational mind. There is also a text version.

The Nature Connection

Here is a technique for pondering life's mysteries, working through conundrums, solving problems and deepening spirituality. Begin with an article describing our connection to nature and our need for peace and quiet contemplation

Then take a self-directed Walk in the Woods that uses photographs to help you get in touch with the power of nature — even if you've run out of vacation time, your in-basket is over-flowing, and you can't drive out to a wilderness area.

I Still Remember Them

In the weeks and months after someone you loved has died (or has been taken from you for another reason), it's not surprising that you can be going about your ordinary business when suddenly a thought of that person will break into your consciousness. Much later, however, you continue to remember this person, as shown in this poem of memories of a loved one. An illustrated poem for slower connections and an illustrated poem for faster connections expresses the experience of recovery from loss of someone from whom you've learned much and shared many adventures.

When I Am Gone . . .

If we view our lives as part of the entire sweep of history, we will realize that death has always been, and will always be, an integral part of the sweep of humankind. We will also realize that it is not how long we live that matters, but how we live. Thus this poem about the world we will leave behind reminds us of our obligation to future generations. The poem is also illustrated for slower connections and for faster connections.

Stepping Into Pictures

Imagine what it would be like if you and another person could enter this scene and discuss a problem you have. This technique has often worked to bring new ideas to old problems. See Stepping Into a Picture to learn more.

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