BY HARV BISHOP Ever notice how you relax when a cat jumps on your lap and starts purring? A cat’s purr is just one of the natural sounds that triggers calm. For some people the experience of hearing a relaxing sound like a cat’s purr is deep and visceral. “I feel like I’m in between the…
The following is excerpted from Mitch Horowitz’s book The Miracle Club (Inner Traditions). BY MITCH HOROWITZ The writer and religion scholar Michael Muhammad Knight saw Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X at age 15 and began his conversion to Islam. “Can a movie,” Mike wondered, “be sacred scripture?” I strongly believe that it can. For me,…
BY HARV BISHOP My “rot in hell” list of people I need to forgive is finally shrinking. It has been a difficult journey of baby steps. First, I was able to release the desire for flesh-eating demons to chow down on the folks on my list. It was sufficient that they could quietly rot their…
BY HARV BISHOP My wife and I are walking into the life of our dreams and yet we have done no formal New Thought affirmative prayer practices for almost two years. We leave for New York and then Europe next month, both long-held bucket list items. Yet this isn’t a one-off, “cross the trip off…
By HARV BISHOP I recently wrote about my addiction to revenge porn: fantasizing about evening the score for wrongs and betrayals. It’s not pretty, but there are people I want to see fail in a major way. Nor do I think I’m alone or not being spiritual when I’m out of sorts toward some people….
