Clarity Magazine, Health and Healing

Change Your Mental Picture, Change Your Health

Remember, your body changes constantly. If you will change your mental “picture,” the incoming cells will fit themselves to the new pattern.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

The Missing Years of Jesus

Clearly, then, those eighteen years of Jesus’ life must have been deliberately omitted from the official account of Christ’s life.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

Overcome Victim Consciousness

Victim consciousness puts the blame on other people. It’s the kind of thinking that says: “I have these difficulties and problems because of what people did to me.”

Clarity Magazine, Daily Life

Hallucinogenic Drugs: Are They Spiritually Harmful?

Drugs seem to inspire a sort of spiritual self-centeredness, an attachment to experiences, that is the very opposite of self-giving. In the long run, they actually reduce one’s sensitivity to reality as a whole.

Clarity Magazine, Daily Life

The Higher Yugas and the Unfolding of Human Potential

By the end of Dwapara Yuga in 4100 A.D., mankind will conquer the delusion of space and people will be able to go, not only to other planets, but to distant galaxies.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

The Fallen Devotee: Finding the Way Back

“So long as you continue to make the effort,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “God will never let you down.”

Clarity Magazine, Daily Life

The Beauty and Weakness of Human Love

Love, to me, means consciousness reaching out to embrace the universe, not merely a human emotion that confines the heart to one or to a few human beings.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

From Form to Formlessness: Saints, Symbols, and Devas

The ultimate purpose of visualization and of devotional images is to lift the mind into communion with the Absolute. Always, the quest must be for transcendence.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

Delusions That Never Keep Their Promises

All delusions endanger one’s peace of mind, strengthen the ego, and deepen one’s sense of isolation from others and from any sense of support from the universe.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

Does Goodness Beget Goodness?

If people treat us harshly despite our present kindness to them, it is because the seeds of harshness have not been completely erased from our own consciousness.