I realize that in my quest to be “open” I have lacked necessary personal boundaries.  As I begin to see the necessity for certain boundaries it feels like a deep belief that I have in “openness” as a value is at the risk of being lost. It troubles me.  It feels like the loss of a treasure.  Can I compare it to a loss of innocence? Can you speak to the value of each, openness and having boundaries, to the conflict of the two, or to whatever else you hear me saying? 

I have the CD Akasha – Yoga Spirit and one of the pieces is called Om Purnamada….I have looked online to try and decipher the meaning…can you help.

It seems like accepting paradox is the key to enlightenment and to our own peace of mind.  It seems that we are both a loving God/Oneness and individual “souls”.  And it seems that God is the same: someone we can pray to as well as being our own ultimate identity.  When Buddhists speak of “emptiness”, is this what they are alluding to?  Are we both individual souls and also NOT individual souls because our ultimate identity is God who is being us?

I am 36 years old and I’m a single mother of two children (girl 16 and boy 7). Although I’m still in the process of learning, right now I consider that I have actually reached a higher level of consciousness, based on what I knew 7 years ago.  I feel the need of helping my children to become aware of the difference between religion and spiritual awareness/enlightenment… please excuse my grammar, I’m from Venezuela and my English is not that good, I hope that I’m expressing exactly what I mean to ask…

My daughter is often invited by her friends to go to church, most of them being from the Christian denomination.  I don’t believe in religion/church as an institution. I’d like to know what is the best way to start introducing children to our believes? It is hard for me because I don’t belong to any church. It’s hard to talk about God to them, because my opinion differs from what they often hear outside. My seven year old boy, goes to a Christian church during his dad’s visitation.  Could you give me an advice?

Every meditation class or Reiki session I have attended, people always talk about spirit guides. I have always understood (or felt) that my guidance came from my own soul whose source was the collective soul. I understand archetypes and often use these in meditation but cannot fathom spirit guides. Are they archetypes? Are they other souls helping us? Why does everyone have an American Indian guide? Friends have even had theirs drawn by an artist, not sure how I feel about this. Where do you stand?