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Jim Ballard, an admirer of the Hindu guru Paramahansa Yogananda and other Eastern teachers, is the author of a small, illustrated book, Little Wave and Old Swell: A Fable Of Life […]

First published in Midwest Outreach Christian Journal, Fall 2008; title and article modified for CANA website   On March 3rd, 2008, Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle began an online class with […]

  From Oprah Winfrey’s Television Show, April 9, 2008: A woman in the audience says that even before she read Tolle, she had come to believe that Christianity is about […]

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”   The focus of this book is on following a dream, with the idea that this […]

[Note: Most of this article is an excerpt of the longer CANA article, “The Piscean Jesus.”] Many claim Jesus was a prophet, teacher, spiritually enlightened master, an avatar, a man who […]

            I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s […]

[If we look at how the serpent is portrayed in the Hebrew Scriptures in relation to the serpent’s symbology in Egypt, and if we investigate the statement by Jesus about […]

For many astrologers, who believe that humanity is now shifting from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age, Jesus was the Avatar of the Age of Pisces; he represented that […]

Quote on Perennial Wisdom

Perennial Wisdom, also known as the Perennial Philosophy, the Perennial Tradition, or even the Wisdom Tradition, is a belief surfacing in the church although rarely under that name. Perennial Wisdom […]

New Thought

  “Thoughts are things.” “Believe it and receive it.” “Think positive.”   What do Helen Keller, “Queen of Affirmations” Louise Hay, Dr. Oz, Oprah, the editors of the Chicken Soup […]