ABUNDANCETREK: CREATING THE NEW FAITH FOR THE NEW EARTH - the new, fantastic, glorious realm of ABUNDANCE, JOY, WISDOM, BEAUTY, LOVE, TRUTH, PEACE, JUSTICE and FREEDOM.

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

Beginning on April 5, 2023 Spiritual Paths is offering live zoom sessions on Mandala: Creating an Authentic Spiritual Path: An InterSpiritual Process and will continue for 8 weeks. This has been a very informative, illuminating and inspiring experience for me and for many over the past decade. I have done this course several times and there's always more to learn about our InterSpiritual wisdom and practices. As in Ed's book, the course focuses on 12 important spiritual styles, 12 important spiritual questions and 12 important wisdom traditions. Please consider signing up. Go to Spiritual Paths.

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:

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.

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+ 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

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

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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!