We've moved!

The Philosopher's Guide is now exclusively on Wordpress and Tumblr.

Visit us at www.thephilosophersguidetotheuniverse.wordpress.com or www.tumblr.com/blog/thephilosophersguide

True Words

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” 

- Mary Anne Radmacher 

True Words

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. 

- Kal Menninger 

Quote of the Day

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

True Words

You're never a loser until you quit trying. 

- Mike Ditka

Cut Your Negative Energetic Cords And Move On!

"Ever felt that sometimes long after a relationship has finished, particularly an extremely passionate one, you’re still tied or connected to that person’s energy?

I’m not talking about the emotional ties that come with heartbreak or loss, which as we know, only heals with time and a suitable amount of chocolate – depending on your emotional healing weapon of choice!

What I’m referring to are energetic cords – the transfer of astral and etheric energy between two people. Cords can be positive or negative, and can develop between anyone you’ve had a strong connection with – whether it be a lover, friend or your mother.

A positive cord, for example, between you and a close friend, transfers energy and warmth, acting like an imaginary hug even if you’re on opposite sides of the world. Now that’s some serious positive cosmic energy!

However, turn this situation around to an ex-lover, and to one you had a highly charged sexual relationship with, it’s not surprising that sending or receiving energy after the relationship has ended is detrimental to both parties abilities to move on."

Read the Full Article Here!

Advice From a Tree

True Words

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

- Buddha

Quote of the Day

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. 

- Barbra Johnson

True Words

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. 

- Vince Lombardi

True Words

All glory comes from daring to begin. 

- Alexander Graham Bell

Quote of the Day

Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. 

- Dale Carnegie

True Words

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True Words

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

Money and success don't change people, they merely amplify what is already there. 

- Will Smith

True Words

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. 

- Helen Keller

True Words

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. 

- Dolly Parton

Quote of the Day

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person. A beautiful thing. 

- Mother Teresa

True Words

If you put in the work, results will come. 

- Michael Jordan

True Words

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts. 

- Aristotle

Quote of the Day

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be learned.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True Words

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Henry Thoreau

True Words

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote of the Day

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your freedom or you are accepting your bondage. 

- Robert Adams

True Words

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. 

- Will Rogers

True Words

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. 

- Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

Your mind is a powerful magnet that will attract to you the things you identify yourself with. If you have sad thoughts, you will attract tragedies. If you are a good man, you will attract the company of good people. 

- Alfredo Karras

True Words

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

True Words

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. 

- Tony Robbins

Quote of the Day

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. 

- Sir William Bragg 

True Words

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. 

- M.K. Gandhi

Love is Your Natural State

True Words

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. 

- Walt Disney

The Secret To Being Free

DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO

BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE

LIVE YOUR DREAM

LOVE EVERYONE

THIS IS THE SECRET TO BEING FREE.

Quote of the Day

Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contradicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contradicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire. 

- Esther Hicks

Quote of the Day

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.                         

 - Albert Einstein

True Words

We are not onlookers peering into the unified field of separate, objective reality - we are the unified field.                         

 - Deepak Chopra

True Words

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.                         

 - Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

Duality is not merely a philosophy; it is a physical state of being as well. The very atoms that make up our cells are based on positive and negative charges whose opposition sustains a certain life-form. Lipton has coined the phrase the “biology of consciousness” to summarize the transformational idea that living organisms, including humans, rather than being empirical givens, are actually malleable thought-forms. In other words, adopting a quantum perspective, we are basically waves that only cohere as particles through an act of consciousness. By changing our consciousness, we change our physical form and functioning.             

 - Sol Luckman

True Words

You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being.                         

 - Jane Roberts

True Words

Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are always going to be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and the Law of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do, or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it is a high, high standard.                          

 - Abraham Hicks

Quote of the Day

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.                         

 - Albert Einstein

True Words

Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.                          

 - Rumi

The Only Time is NOW (Right Now)

True Words

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.                         

 - Lao Tzu

Quote of the Day

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Times

     WE ARE        WAKING UP                TO THE FACT THAT   WE ARE ALL CONNECTED                          THAT THE WORLD IS                           JUST A REFLECTIONAND ALL THE NEGATIVE WE SEE            IS A MIRRORED IMAGEOF THAT WHICH WE MUST CHANGE WITHIN              THAT IN EACH OF US LIES              GOD POTENTIAL                  A CREATIVE FORCE SO POWERFUL                      IT CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS                                                              AND PART SEAS

True Words

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.                    

 - Henry Thoreau

Simple Truths

True Words

People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used.                         

 - Unknown

Quote of the Day

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

- Arthur Rubinstein

Product Review: Omharmonics Meditation Audio

“Omharmonics was created out of the need of a modern day alternative to traditional meditation audios. As the first ever meditation audio developed using Multivariate Resonance Technology, it creates a phenomenon in the brain by exploiting binaural beat patterns than can induce an instant state of relaxation and creativity.”

And it sounds beautiful too. Our team here at The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe has tried this meditation audio, and its effect is almost instantaneous. You can actually feel yourself going deeper and deeper into relaxation. When it's over, you “awaken” feeling refreshed and with a clearer mind. Who knows, maybe you'll even return with an idea or two.

To learn more and get your free audio track, visit Omharmonics.com.

True Words

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, then let it come in.                          

 - Morrie Schwartz

Free Your Mind

True Words

You are not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.                          

 - F Perl

Quote of the Day

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

Using Binaural Beats in Your Meditation Practices

Meditation is the practice of maintaining a state of complete mental stillness. It is through this stillness that one becomes a conduit through which inspiration and cosmic knowledge flows. Visionaries, spiritual leaders and gurus all say it – meditation is an essential part of daily life. It provides clarity, improves cognitive abilities, and helps you in remaining calm and stress-free throughout your day. But, if you're like most people, you may find it hard to meditate. The mental chatter or, as some like to call it, “the monkey mind,” is all-consuming, and despite your best efforts to stifle it, it possesses no will to simmer down.
Luckily, for those of you whose thoughts are in a state of perpetual motion, there's a fun alternative that'll finally put the clamps on that monkey's mouth, and allow you to experience all the benefits that meditation has to offer. How? By incorporating binaural beats into your meditation practices.

So what are binaural beats? To put it simply, binaural beats are sounds that synchronize your brainwaves to a certain wavelength: beta, alpha, theta, or delta. Each of these neural oscillations are associated with a different level of consciousness, and different benefits.

If you're awake and walking around, your brain is operating in beta, a frequency of about 13 - 30 Hz. This is our normal, waking brainwave level. It provides for thinking, conversing, and everything else we do when we're awake. Alpha is associated with relaxation and reflection, an inner peace, and hovers around 8 – 12 Hz. It puts you in the “chill-out” zone, like closing your eyes and relaxing while you're awake. People who are able to access alpha are said to experience better results on physical and mental tests.

Theta is a very relaxed state that is associated with meditation and some sleep states, its frequency being at 4 – 7 Hz. It is in theta that we experience extreme relaxation, enhanced creativity and innovation, and vivid mental imagery. When in theta, the human mind is very open to suggestion – so theta binaural beats can be used in self-hypnosis. The next wave oscillation is delta, which is a frequency of 3 Hz and under, and is associated with deep, dreamless sleep. Don't expect to stay awake while listening to a delta binaural beat though – you're almost guaranteed to fall asleep. Even Zen masters can find it difficult to remain conscious.

For binaural beats to work, simply plug in some headphones, listen to the audio, and experience. By synchronizing your brainwaves to alpha, theta, or even delta, you will enter a meditative state induced by the binaural beats. It's quite an interesting feeling your first few times. If you're feeling adventurous, give it a try and let us know how it worked out for you!

Want to know more? Read Get High Now (without drugs) by James Nestor.

Download the “Get High Now” app on the iPhone to experience a number of binaural beats, mind blowing audio loops, and amazing auditory illusions, or use the good old Google to find more ways to listen.

True Words

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to by things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.                          

 - Will Rogers

Be In Love With Your Life

True Words

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.                          

 - Marcel Pagnol

Quote of the Day

Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

Reality

R

E

A

L

I     IS JUST

T    A

Y

MIRROR

       PEOPLE,

                    EVENTS,

          CIRCUMSTANCES

   - THEY'RE ALL
               JUST A

            REFLECTIONOF YOUR INNERMOST

           THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS;

        GIVE YOUR FOCUS OR ATTENTION

                 ONLY TO POSITIVE THINGS

                                                                          AND YOU WILL

                         EXPERIENCE

                                                       ONLY THE POSITIVE.

True Words

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.                          

 - Lao Tzu

True Words

We don't see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.                        

 - Talmud

Quote of the Day

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

- Henry Thoreau

Evolvefest: The New Age Woodstock

Have you been waiting for the next Woodstock to come around? Wait no more! Evolvefest is a four day music and yoga festival in Monticello, NY. You'll enjoy live music and DJ's, art, installations, yoga for days, workshops, galleries, great food, central fire and daily ceremonies, healthy products, performances and more. 

Feel the oneness of humanity through this unique experience, meet interesting, spiritual and inspiring people just like yourself, and forge tight bonds and friendships with people from all different backgrounds and creeds. 

Evolvefest is a camping adventure - and when we say camping, we mean it. It's a completely off-the grid experience. That means no running water. Don't worry though, they'll have port-a-potties and hand-washing stations. The whole off-the- grid aspect is amazing. What better way is there to get in tune with yourself and be fully immersed in the here and now? 

This year's festival is from August 31st to September 4th. The great thing is, tickets for Evolvefest won't break the bank. The price for the four day pass is a total steal of a deal, and if you don't want to go for the full four days, they also have weekend and day passes at affordable prices.

Want to have a completely transcendent experience that'll stay with you for a lifetime? Then Evolvefest is for you.

To learn more and purchase tickets, visit their website at http://evolvefest.com/

True Words

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason - over every idea.

- Latin Proverb

Disease = Dis-Ease

True Words

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

- Sophocles

Quote of the Day

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.                          

 - Frank Loyd Wright

Set Yourself Free With The Energy Mantra

You've all heard the saying, “old habits die hard.” The reason for this is because it's not our conscious mind that holds our habits – it's our subconscious mind. That's why just thinking positive thoughts doesn't always make much of a difference – if your subconscious is yelling “NO!” then no amount of conscious thought will free you of that old habit.

However, there is something more you can do to aid in the releasing of these old habits, called “the Energy Mantra.” Use this technique to release those bad habits for good.

Read more about it here.

The Power of Self-Healing: Unlock Your Natural Healing Potential in 21 Days! by Fabrizio Mancini

Life's Healing Choices: Freedom from Your Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits by John Baker

True Words

Karma is the unfolding of the laws of cause and effect that have created what you are, and that still are effecting you lawfully.

 - Ram Dass

Did you know?

It takes 21 days to change a habit. Take one of your bad habits and eliminate it by using this proven step-by-step process for rapid goal achievement and personal transformation. Find out how your mind plays a key role in the circumstances you're experiencing right now, and learn how to take charge. Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. These negative habits can be changed, and “Psycho-Cybernetics” shows you how.

It's just 21 days to a better life.

Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life by Maxwell Maltz

True Words

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man who has the wrong mental attitude.                          

 - Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tapping: A Sensation That's Sweeping the Nation

Want a simple, fast and effective way to improve your life?

Then you'll be interested in the new phenomena that's sweeping the nation called Tapping, or EFT.

“It's so fast. It's such a powerfully quick process.”- Jack Canfield, Author “Chicken Soup for the Soul”

“The results were...just short of phenomenal."- Joe Vitale, Author “The Attractor Factor”

“What's interesting about EFT is that it is a process that really,

in some sense, engages like 'super-learning.'”- Bruce Lipton, Cellular Biologist and Best-Selling Author

Interested? We thought so. EFT short for “Emotional Freedom Technique,” and is scientifically proven to quickly and effectively improves many areas of your life, like making more money, losing weight, releasing physical pain, creating the perfect relationship, and clearing negative emotions like stress and anxiety.

“This may be the most important new therapy to arrive

in both medicine and psychology for a century.”- Dawson Church, Author and Energy Medicine Expert

So how do you use this technique? Good question. There are many sites out there that talk about EFT and how to do it, which you can find on Google, of course, but we're going to briefly outline a couple here for you. It is highly encouraged that you do some more research for yourself, to get you as excited about the technique as we are, and to watch the documentary, “The Tapping Solution,” which goes really in depth about the whole thing.

EFT Universe: http://www.eftuniverse.com/

This website includes a great how-to video on the home page that gives you all the steps. You can get a free manual here when you sign up for their weekly newsletter, which will give you tips and new information on using EFT.

The Tapping Solution: http://www.thetappingsolution.com/

Here you will find the trailer for the documentary “The Tapping Solution,” which features visionaries and teachers such as Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, Bob Proctor, Dr. Joe Mercola, Bruce Lipton, Dr. Patricia Carrington, Cheryl Richardson, Dr. Norm Shealy and Carol Look

Mercola: http://eft.mercola.com/

Another how-to video! This website also includes everything you'll need to know about EFT in text format, for those of you who would rather not watch a video, or just want more information on the matter. It covers your basic steps, tapping locations and techniques, using EFT's affirmative statements, and more.

Happy Tapping!

Tapping Into Ultimate Success: How to Overcome Any Obstacle and Skyrocket Your Results  by Jack Canfield

The Tapping Cure: A Revolutionary System for Rapid Relief from Phobias, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and More by Roberta Temes

Discover the Power of Meridian Tapping by Patricia Carrington

Product Review: The Silva Life System

Ah, the Silva Method. Out of the many personal development techniques out there, this one is definitely of the top tier. The Silva Method is a program that trains you to consciously improve your mental processes, and therefore your life. It uses guided meditations to help you become a better, more centered, and more successful version of you. Using a program like this, coupled with the exercises and information and articles featured on this blog, will better equip you for the transformation from who you are to who you want to be.

Get it on Amazon today!  

Silva Life System (The Silva Method)

The Philosopher’s Guide Now on Facebook and Twitter!

The Philosopher's Guide to the universe is now on Facebook and Twitter. Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter @philoguide to keep up on the blog's latest news.

Quote of the Day

Do or do not, there is no try.

- Yoda

If you say so, so it is.

Taking Affirmative Action

Now that you've picked and created your visualization tool, it's time to get to work. Work? Yikes! Relax – this isn't dirty work. Think of it as spring cleaning for your habits and behavioral patterns.

That's right. Over our lives we accumulate a lot of different habits, attitudes and behaviors that we learned from our parents, teachers, the media, and just society in general. This excess “noise” can sometimes be negative, and lead limiting beliefs like “I have to work hard to have money,” or “I don't have what it takes to do that,” and “I'm not smart enough or creative enough or resourceful enough to do that.” Yes, it's that little naysayer inside your head that's sabotaging your dreams, the ego.

To put it simply, your personality, your learned habits and behavioral patterns, your mindset and belief systems, are all a part of your ego. It is the “I,” “me,” “my,” “his,” “hers, “theirs” mentality, which compartmentalizes reality, breaks it down and labels it in accordance with your personal belief system, that is to say, your unique perspective. That being said, if your perspective is at the positive end of the spectrum, you will experience a more positive reality. If it's at the negative end, you can expect that your experience will be more negative than positive. We all know what this is like, and it does not feel good.

Good news is, you have a choice.

“Your focus determines your reality.”
- Qui-Gon Jinn

Turns out the Jedi Masters were right (who knew?), and their ways are now being uncovered by modern physics to be scientific fact. This is incredible not only to Star Wars fans, but to the rest of the world as well. It literally means, what we focus on and think about the most, will indeed become our life story. So if you're always looking behind you and dwelling on the past, you're doomed to repeat it. That's why people find themselves reliving the same circumstances over and over.

So this spring cleaning business... If you're not living the life of your dreams right now, then you've got some old habits and behaviors that are keeping you from doing so. In order to clean up your act, so to speak, you don't need to use an extreme amount of brain power in an attempt to figure out “what's wrong with you.” You need only consult your list of goals and life vision and ask yourself, “how would I behave if I were living the life of my dreams?” and then do it.

You can do this throughout your day as you encounter decisions. When faced with a choice, ask yourself, “if I were living the life of my dreams, would still do this?” If the answer is no, or if it's a tad iffy, make another choice that you believe is in line with how the New You would act. This is called taking affirmative action. When you change just a few things about how you are living your life right now, it improves your quality of life noticeably. So if you want good things to come into your life, make room for it. Do the things you'd be doing if you had it already, talk about the lifestyle as if it's already yours. Believe that you have it now.

Your brain doesn't know the difference between reality and fiction – it cannot compute whether or not you're just thinking about something, or if it's actually happening right now. This puts you at a huge advantage for shifting your mindset and creating your ideal life. Basically, old Walt Disney was right when he said, “if you dream, you can create the most wonderful place in the world.” Dare to dream, dare to use your imagination, and the life of your dreams will become your life experience.

Book Review: Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Remember, Be Here Now is a book on spirituality, mediation and yoga, written by Ram Dass (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert). The book contains four sections: 


Journey: The Transformation: Dr. Richard Alpert, PhD. into Baba Ram Dass
A short biography.


From Bindu to Ojas: The Core Book
A fine mix of the spiritual, metaphysical and religious, with beautifully written words, artful typography, and thought-provoking illustrations. 


Cookbook for a Sacred Life: A Manual for Conscious Being
A manual for starting on a spiritual or yogic path, with practices for pranayama, yoga, and meditation, and quotes from well-respected spiritual gurus and visionaries.


Painted Cakes: Books
A list of recommended books on consciousness, spirituality and religion.


If you're on the spiritual path, this book is a must-read. Its words provide the reader with the knowledge necessary to live a fulfilling life, to be calm and have clarity.

Get it at Amazon today!

Quote of the Day

Success is within reach, if you believe that success is already yours. What you imagine is the seed of what you will experience.

- Ramez Sasson

You Are the Dream and the Dreamer