Awakening -- April Idea of the Month

If you are a regular visitor to the main Conscious Kernels website, hopefully you have run across our Idea of the Month page.

Each month, I throw out an idea for discussion, pondering and embodying.
The lastest idea is Awakening and Consciousness in the context of Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" book.

I have been downloading the audio files of Oprah's 10 week class with Eckhart (as well as reading the book, of course). And much discussion has been about our true identity as Consciousness.

He has many ways of describing consciousness, one of which is awakening.

I particularly liked the discussion of Life being the Dancer and us being the Dance. It is Life living through us. God expressing and creating through us. The animating power animating us.

So what do you think of that? Are you being danced?

Post your comments here.

Until next time,
Namaste

New Multi-Media Program now launched

We are happy to announce that our first multi-media program is now available and the first topic we are exploring indepth is Prosperity. It's called "Building Your Prosperity Consciousness".

A challenge for many and any area of life that nearly everyone feels can be improved!

Just go to the product page to see all the components of this incredible program. There's ebooks and study guides, audio seminars and affirmations, and a 30-day e-course.

We've thrown in some exciting freebie items as well.

So if the lack of prosperity is an issue in your life, if you just can't seem to get a handle on your finances, if there always seems to be some emergency that requires cash, then I urge you to get this program. You will develop a whole new relationship with money. You will discover there is much more to prosperity than just money and things. Learn the truth behind the spiritual quality of prosperity. Yes, I said spiritual!

Our new Programs line is designed to really give you a comprehensive, encompassing experience in the chosen topic. Not just one book or audio file, but many different resources to immerse yourself in a learning and LIFE-CHANGING experience.

Now get on with changing your life!
I wish you well.

Until next time, Namaste

We are Kindle-izing

I was thrilled to discover that Amazon believes enough in the ebook revolution that it developed and built an ebook reading device called Kindle. Kindle's launch was so successful, that it completely sold out. Amazon is now scrambling to manufacture more. You actually buy and download your ebook purchases wirelessly through the Kindle device.

We are supporting the Kindle format by beginning to offer our ebooks in the Kindle format. Just go to our website, choose the titles you want to purchase and click on the Kindle format link. You will be taken to the Amazon website where the Kindle version can be purchased and downloaded. www.consciouskernels.com

There are some limitations to Kindle. It's screen is only black and white. Book pages cannot be layed out as a normal page is layed out. It is more of a flowing text where you can change text size to your own liking. But Kindle's display is supposed to be near paper-quality in its sharpness which is great news to prevent eye fatigue.

So if you have a Kindle, you can now start getting Conscious Kernels titles on your Kindle. We will continue to phase in Kindle versions of all our titles. (This is subject to Amazon's approval. Amazon also has the final say in the pricing.)

So re-Kindle you love of books with Kindle!

Podcasts Launched!

Happy New Year to all! And in keeping with doing something new in this New Year, we are posting the first feed of our first podcast.

Just a little background. In a survey we did of our website visitors, a number of suggestions came up for a podcast as a way to help fulfill the Conscious Kernels goal of encouraging, enhancing and advancing your personal spiritual growth. I had been thinking about starting a podcast also. Not surprising, as there is only One Mind!

So this is a dry run. We may be tweaking the delivery as I learn more about actual podcast feeds and other technical stuff. We are all learning here, right?

Right now, you can access our podcast in two ways:
the first one is just to click on the link that is the main head of this post (Podcasts Launched!!). This should take you to where the mp3 file is residing. You can then listen to it right on your computer or download it to listen at another time, or listen to it again, or to load onto your mp3 player.

The other way is to subscribe to the podcast feed. You will need some sort of podcatcher for this. Just look to the top of the right hand column and there is a link for the feed. Depending on what podcatcher you are using, it may automatically "catch" this link for you or you may have to copy the link and add it to your url list in your podcatcher.

The advantage of using a podcatcher is that each time you launch it, it will scan the internet for any new podcasts you have subscribed to and automatically download them for you! You don't have to go see if there are any new episodes.

Give our podcast a listen. Let me know if you have any comments on the material or how you were able to access it.

We intend to make this a weekly feature -- but let's see how this first one goes!

Thanks for listening!

2008 Electronic Pop Up Calendars

I am so excited to be offering 2 electronic daily pop up calendars for this coming year.

We will have our perennial favorite: the Daily Affirmation Calendar -- available very soon.

And new for this year a Daily Quotations Calendar. This calendar contains profound and life-changing quotes from the great minds who pioneered and founded the New Thought movement.

Such as Ernest Holmes, Thomas Troward, Wallace Wattles, and Nona Brooks.

But here's the great thing about the new Quotes Calendar. It features photos of my two cats, Thelma and Louise!

Move over Geena Davis and Susan Sarandan! There's a new Thelma and Louise duo on the scene!

I live with two stars, two Divas, soon to become international sensations and world-reknown personalities.

Here are my babies:

Thelma is on the far left.

They are just a hoot as any cat owner will tell you. Louise actually sits still for her portraits better than Thelma. Thelma is not very camera-aware!

They are sisters. Litter-mates, who, as little kittens, were inseparable, so I took them both. There was a third kitten in their litter, a boy, and he was adopted by someone else. Unfortunately, he died a short time later. They did not have a close bond with their brother. But wherever one girl was, the other was sure to be around and vice versa.

They still get along well for being stuck with each other for 14 years!

So with the release of the 2008 Quotes & Cats Calendar, they are bound to become media darlings and then there really won't be any living with them!

More than 15 photos were used in the creation of the calendar. You should check them out!

Here's to a great, Catty 2008!

December Idea of the Month

I've asked for comments and thoughts on this month's Idea of the Month, as well as the feature article in the monthly Conscious Kernels eNewsletter.
(if you would like to sign up for the free monthly newsetter, click here.)

The subject: Materialism in this season of holiday gift giving. Also giving and receiving. I personally have never seen so many ads for sales etc. as I have seen this year. At least they waited until Thanksgiving for the onslaught. There is nothing worse than seeing Christmas stuff before Halloween.

So if you have read my Idea of the Month or the featured article, you will know that I put forth the argument that there is no such thing as what we call "Materialism" and its negative connotations.

If you look at things from a spiritual perspective, there is only the One. The one includes everything, including what we call material possessions. Material things are only the physical manifestation of spiritual ideas, thoughts, consciousness.

So if we stay in that mindset of spiritual vs. material, we are not understanding the very nature of God, Spirit, the Universe or how it works.

To say that these two concepts are opposed to each other is to not know the nature of Spirit. Spirit must express as physical things.

But enough from me. You know where Ernest Holmes and I stand.

What do you think? Respond to this post.

Taking time is no luxury

Many people believe taking time to just sit and think is a luxury they cannot afford to take. Everybody is so busy doing and going, that to actually have them take some time to stop and think about all the doing and going does not even occur to them.

"The unexamined life is not worth living" is the famous quote. Taking the time to think about where your life is, is not a luxury. If you don't take time to think about where your life is, you will have no control over where it is going. And before you know it, years will have gone by.

I am taking some time right now to think about the direction I want Conscious Kernels to take in 2008. I am setting my priorities. I am setting my goals. I have several lists of where I would like to see Conscious Kernels move in the coming year. Will I get to all of them? I'm not sure. But I have a road map, and I am setting out on the journey, and I know where I am going.
(The Law of the Universe likes definite-ness!!)

Taking time for your spiritual growth is no different. Where are you going with your personal connection to spirit? Are you drifting around? Take the time to figure out what spiritual growth looks like to you. Are you getting there? Have you really started the journey? Ask for Divine Guidance.

Before I started writing down the goals for Conscious Kernels in 2008, I took the time to quiet myself, connect with Spirit in treatment and asked for Divine Guidance and the understanding to see that Divine Guidance in my life. I did not want to unknowingly miss it!! I want to make sure I recognize Divine Guidance when it happens.

Taking time can be a few minutes in a day. It can be a week-end. It can be a week. The actual length does not matter. It is the quality of the time taken.

"Be still and know that ye are Gods."

Until next time.
Namaste.