Maybe you want to go directly to:
| Connections Galore | A Few Favorite Lists | The Abundancetrek Pbase website (photos) | The Abundancetrek Blog | John A Wilde Blog | Twitter | Facebook | The Abundancetrek Travel Blog |

  • There is always something new on THE ABUNDANCETREK BLOG. Currently I am offering posts on INTERSPIRITUAL MEDITATION.

  • You are invited to join a Facebook group devoted to THE NEW FAITH FOR THE NEW EARTH where you can share ideas and practices for increasing compassion, peace, justice and sustainable abundance for all. You can share on Social Media at #tnfftne



  • HERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL WEBSITES
    FOR SPIRITUAL WISDOM AND PRACTICES

  • SPIRITUAL PATHS
  • SPIRITUALITY & PRACTICE | Facebook Page
  • CHARTER FOR COMPASSION | Facebook Page
  • CONTEMPLATIVE OUTREACH
  • INNER FRONTIER
  • GRATEFULNESS | Facebook Page
  • CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION | Daily Meditations
  • CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE
  • ONE SPIRIT | Facebook Page
  • DAILY ZEN
  • PETER RUSSELL
  • RENOVARE
  • WAHIDUDDINS WEB
  • LOTUS HEART ZEN | Facebook Page
  • ONE POINT MIND | Facebook Page
  • WEAVING HOME | Facebook Page | Facebook Group
  • ST. HILDEGARD'S COMMUNITY | Facebook Page
  •  

    + Let's explore heavenly realms together. Heaven is not a distant place but is here all of the time. The first post, SE 1, explains the process. I offered a Spiritual Explorations post for every day of 2016. You can find them all on The Abundancetrek Blog. Each post has a separate link which you can find on the Spiritual Explorations Posts Access Page.


    WELCOME....

    to a website devoted to building a world community of:

    | ABUNDANCE | JOY | WISDOM |
    | BEAUTY | LOVE | TRUTH |
    | PEACE | JUSTICE | FREEDOM |

    THE NEW FAITH FOR THE NEW EARTH is the way.

    THE NEW FAITH FOR THE NEW EARTH is:
    non-hierarchical, free, open, loving, caring, compassionate, healing, energizing,
    inclusive, humble, non-judgmental, fun, creative, yours, mine.

    Christ never meant for the church to be a closed, hierarchical, authoritarian, nationalistic and denomination-alistic institution. Same for the Faith Communities following The Buddha, Muhammad, Moses, Lao-Tse, and other Great Spiritual Teachers.




    + I love doing these web pages and blogs. I like to call it JOYFUL WANDERING on behalf of THE NEW FAITH FOR THE NEW EARTH which I previously called "The New Church for the New Age."

    Here you will find hundreds of links and quotes and ideas promoting spiritual practices, peace and justice, sustainable abundance and compassion. If you want a far more organized website for spiritual practices and those other things I just mentioned, then please go to the best website in the universe, Spirituality and Practice, created and constantly updated by my friends Mary Ann and Frederic Brussat. The movie reviews alone are worth making it one of your favorite places, maybe even your homepage. Uplifting online courses are offered frequently at very reasonable prices. There is almost always one going on, maybe 2 or 3. GO!

    + Another website I highly recommend is Spiritual Paths, which focuses on the new movement of InterSpirituality. Ed Bastian offers a seven-step process for InterSpiritual meditation which has become a powerful way for people of different religions or no religion to find common ground. He also offers a tool for discerning which spiritual styles and spiritual questions come naturally to you and which you might need to work on.

    + For years, I have focused on the TWELVE SPIRITUAL PRACTICES below. Click on any practice for more information. The idea of connecting these practices with the paths of Mind, Heart, Body and Soul came to me recently as I read THE SEEKER'S GUIDE: MAKING YOUR LIFE A SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE by Elizabeth Lesser, a truly amazing book. She uses these four categories which she calls Landscapes. She offers many practices for each of the landscapes.


    STAGE ONE: THE JOURNEY OF THE MIND STAGE TWO: THE JOURNEY OF THE HEART STAGE THREE: THE JOURNEY OF THE BODY STAGE FOUR: THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
    STILLNESS SILENCE SOLITUDE SIMPLICITY
    DETACHMENT DISCERNMENT DEVOTION DELIGHT
    HUMILITY HEALING HOLINESS HEAVENLINESS

    I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW!

    IN MEMORY OF ANDREW JOSEPH WILDE 1977-1994

    + Breathe deeply. Breathe fully.
    Be still. Be silent.
    Be centered. Be grounded.
    Lighten up. Loosen up.
    Let go. Let God.
    Celebrate. Enjoy.
    Be glad all over.
    Something wonderful is happening.
    This is bliss.

    + We are
    intimately,
    intricately,
    infinitely
    connected
    in a matrix of
    unconditional,
    unlimited,
    uniting
    LOVE
    which is
    miraculous,
    mysterious and
    marvelous.



    + NOVEMBER 12, 2009 was the day that The Charter for Compassion was unveiled.
    You can read it and hopefully decide to affirm it at CharterforCompassion.org. As 2012 began, there were over 80,000 signatures.

    + Spirituality and Practice offers greatly expanded and abundant resources on the practice of compassion


    Excerpt from a post on The Abundancetrek Blog:

    What the world needs now is Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainable Abundance for all. We have a long way to go. But we have come a long way and we can GO THE DISTANCE if we put our mind, heart, body and soul into it, all of us. READ IT ALL.



    THIS WEBSITE IS NOT THE BEST WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.
    THAT WOULD BE:
    SpiritualityandPractice.com
    Please consider making a commitment to use the plentiful resources there at least weekly if not daily. And, if you like it, please contribute financially.



    + Here's a great bumper sticker to buy.
    Click on it and buy it from northernsun.com.

    Click here and buy this bumper sticker at northernsun.com.



    THIS WILL OPEN UP A NEW WINDOW AND TAKE YOU TO A WEBSITE WHICH HELPS PEOPLE GET FOOD DAILY


    [ Yahoo! ]

    options

    CONNECTIONS GALORE! LINKS TO THIS WEBSITE, SPIRITUAL FORMATION WEBSITES, PEACE & JUSTICE WEBSITES, MEDIA and more!

    BACK TO HOME PAGE

    I OFFER MESSAGES FOR THE TREK OFTEN (as of September 2002) IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE AND EQUIP US AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD A GLOBAL VILLAGE SOLIDLY BASED ON LOVE.

    I WROTE THESE GOOD NEWS AMBASSADOR GUIDELINES IN 1986 AND HAVE BEEN GUIDED BY THEM EVER SINCE.  I INVITE YOU TO CONSIDER THEM.

    Open up a new window and read the BIBLE.

    Open up a new window and read the daily scripture selections of the lectionary as translated in the NRSV (New Revised Standard Version).  Scriptures for the Day of the Lord and other holy days are also included.

    Open up a new window & go to a website offering resources on centering prayer, LECTIO DIVINA, and contemplation.

    OPEN UP A NEW WINDOW WITH THE WEBSITE OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)

    OPEN UP A NEW WINDOW WITH A WONDERFUL WEBSITE DEVOTED TO ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

    THIS WILL OPEN A NEW WINDOW WITH A DAILY SOURCE OF ZEN WISDOM.

    OPEN UP A NEW WINDOW WHERE YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE YOUR YAHOO AND INSTANTLY GET UPDATES ON YOUR INTERESTS!



    + Isaiah 42:1-9 + 1 Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; 3 a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. 4 He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his teaching. 5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it: 6 I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, 7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. 8 I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols. 9 See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.


    + Excessive thinking
    Weakens the will.
    The more you know,
    The more your mind
    Is confused.
    A confused mind gives
    Rise to vexation.
    The weakened will obstructs the Tao.
    - Shih Wang Ming (6th century)


    + "You do not need to do anything; you do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You do not even need to listen; just wait. You do not even need to wait; just become still, quiet and solitary and the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." -- Franz Kafka


    + "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting" -- ee cummings


    + "The spirit of liberty is the spirit of not being too sure you are right." -- Learned Hand


    + Read Epiphany: Gift of Light by Metta Zetty. She describes a spontaneous experience of awakening into awareness. She begins: "On the morning of February 5, 1997, my life was changed, at a deep and fundamental level, by a completely unexpected and inexplicable experience." | Read her description



    Click here to enlarge the collage

  • CHECK OUT A COLLAGE COMMEMORATING THE IMMIGRATION OF MY NORWEGIAN GRANDPARENTS TO USA. My cousin, Ellen Bennett, created this. Click HERE or on the picture.


    John@abundancetrek.com


    TOP OF PAGE






  • THANKS FOR VISITING abundancetrek.com.
    Please return often and bookmark a blog or 2.
  • GO TO CONNECTIONS GALORE for links to pages on this website
    and to many other great websites.
  • GO TO THE ABUNDANCETREK BLOG.
  • GO TO THE JOHN A WILDE BLOG.
  • GO TO THE ABUNDANCETREK TRAVEL BLOG.
  • GO TO MY TWITTER PAGE.
  • GO TO MY FACEBOOK PAGE.
    Please tell me a little about yourself if you want to be my Facebook Friend.
  • +++++++

  • Go to The Abundancetrek Blog Archives dating back to 2001.
  • Go to The 9 Attributes of Heaven.
  • Go to The 12 Practices.
  • Go to Connections Galore for links to pages on this website
    and to many other great websites.
  • Go to Good News Ambassador Guidelines.

  • +++++++


    LET'S GO!

    NEW! APRIL 2012: LET'S GO! Join me on an AMAZING JOURNEY, THE ABUNDANCETREK. There is now a growing list of "places" to visit, to explore, to discover. You can even contribute "places" and be a companion on this journey. LET'S GO!