I am Persian. 43 yrs ago I was sent to Vienna to study music., after winning an award among schools in Teheran-by chance. I never wanted to study music, I never-not even 5 min.- did I want to stay in Austria. I had vowed with 10/11 yrs-after reading holocaust stories in magazines-I would never in my life go to fascist German-speaking countries. After 3 years I stopped studying music and chose randomly Theatre Sciences, German Literature (in order to be able to teach something at the Teheran Univ.!?) and Philosophy.

My preference would have been Persian Lit and Sanskrit. Every moment was painful. Upon returning home, I met my future ex-husband and married quite quickly as the upcoming Mullah-regime didn’t allow friendships between unmarried people. Due to the situation and Gulf-war we were lucky to be able to leave Iran due to my connections in Austria. I tried to escape “Austria/ns” by leaving to England, Canada and a short time in the US with my beautiful, very talented son for almost 7 years. But I had to return in 1992 and live here. I started meditating 20 yrs ago, following your teachings, practicing many self help materials (Seth, Abraham, etc..) which were quite helpful. BUT I don’t seem to be able to successfully eradicate the hate and my dismay and dislike of these people. German is the language I have best command of, but I hate to listen or read even one word!

I so much desired to take the vow of ahimsa on your homepage. I’ve always suffered because of these negative feelings, especially because I’m spiritual and caring and peace-loving. And believe me, I’ve tried anything I can think of! My question: How can I get rid of these negative feelings in order to be able to live a loving, peaceful, creative and active life in service of others?
I can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve done. Being able to contact you online is just heavenly! With my deepest respect, gratitude and love,

Do you think that becoming spiritually can make you devoid of human emotion and somewhat impact your interpersonal relationships? I ask because my husband has always been very spiritual and meditates often. I am now reading The Third Jesus which made me think of this because it somewhat reminds me of Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now, which my husband read and gave to me. (more…)

After 40 something years, I’m now aware of my own negative thoughts that have kept me from not succeeding. I’m a singer, writer, producer, mother, wife, student, minister, and all of these gifts I’m not doing anything with any one of them. I have desires to start a Law of Attraction Training Center along with a Spirit Center, based on prayer and faith and emotional healing and living your dreams. But I have not accomplished that yet.  What must I do, to get started?

I have been meditating for about 6 months, and I use your cd that moves one through the chakras.  I usually meditate in the dark in front of a mirror, because the first time I meditated, I happened to glance in a mirror, and I saw wondrous colors.  The colors, mostly red but also dark blue, orange and yellow, appear as bright points or watery shapes or patches, and they appear randomly around my face and upper body.  I cannot find any comments on seeing colors in this way in any reading I have found.  Can you place this experience in some kind of perspective for me?  Thank you so much.

I am not sure whether this is a general question or a medical one.  Several months ago I was outside in my beautiful backyard just standing around enjoying the plants and watching the birds; doing nothing out of the ordinary. In that moment, I experienced what I can only describe as pure joy.  It really has no name to me because I have never experienced these sensations before.  The air was clearer; the light was different and I felt intensely happy and hopeful.  It struck and then it went away.  I have thought about it often since and want to be able to repeat the experience but I do not know how.  Do you know what it was?  Can you help?  I look forward to hearing from you.