A lot has happened since I first published The Way The World Works sixteen years ago. Many more people have now come to realize that there’s more to life than we can see with our eyes—there’s also an unseen, inner support system that can increase our awareness and enhance our experiences as we go through life. While the pull of earthly gravity keeps us close to the ground, there’s also a spiritual gravity that is pulling us toward the Infinite. We don’t see either one, but they’re both clearly present all the time.

This book is about the latter, the one that is rarely discussed out loud. Many people have said that it has helped to strengthen them through any challenges they’ve been facing, and others have simply said it’s reassured them that they’re not just imagining some of the new realizations that have come their way.

Some will hotly deny that such a revolutionary inner experience could possibly be true, but those who have ridden the wave of this enlightening inner process know full well that we are all on a trajectory toward a greater wisdom, enriched by a greater love.

When I first published this book, I had already experienced five years of a life-changing meditation practice. This enlightening process opened my eyes to the rich complexity of the way the world works. In addition, I had studied many teachings from ancient sages, both religious and others, as well as those of psychology, sociology, and spirituality, which confirmed and expanded my understanding of it all. When people asked me to share the insights I had gained, I incorporated many of my realizations into the original content of this book. Now, after experiencing more than twenty years in this process, I’ve re-edited this ebook edition to add more clarity to the original text.

Copies are available through amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and itunes.apple.com

When we come to understand that everything is interconnected with everything else, it seems incongruous that there is evil in the world. Where is the “oneness” in all of this?

According to the kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, the entire world has light—evil is really the absence of that light.

When we discover this light within our own self, it has the capacity to illuminate our way in life. It can make us realize the consequences of our actions and guide us in our decision making so that we can achieve what we’ve set out to do.

A lack of light means a lack of love—a lack of compassion, respect, and understanding. Without light we could cause harm unintentionally and bring an experience of darkness to another human being. When we make a conscious decision in the way we approach our life, by choosing to nurture the light within and be attentive to express it in our actions we can, one by one, make progress in dissolving darkness. It would be extremely naive to expect this to happen overnight, but like a stream of water that wears away a stone day by day, consistently focusing our attention toward a lightness of being has a way of lifting our spirit and clearing the air around us.

When we look at the acts that are considered evil in the present day, we can see that evil is not a thing in itself, but a belief in the hearts of the perpetrators that life—even their own—is of no value. In their tragic acts of violence they have projected that lack of light on to the rest of humanity, creating fear and suffering with their actions. Their lack of light is clearly their lack of appreciation for the great responsibility that comes to all of us with the gift of being able to choose. Sadly, their choice has been to damage the light.

We each have the capacity to eventually eradicate darkness in the world through our determination to consciously create an abundance of light. In the same way that even one small light can illuminate a room that has been filled with darkness, when we take on the responsibility to live in a compassionate way that is in partnership with the light from within, and support those who wish to do the same, we can create such an abundance of light that ultimately evil will not have a space to exist.

In elevating our own consciousness we don’t just create our internal peace—we also expand our ability to transmit this peace to others, and have a healing effect on those around us. In this way we can eventually transform any darkness into light.

Adapted from “Awakening Love: A Spiritual Quest Into Judaism” by Myra Estelle. www.myraestelle.com

Within everyone’s heart is the ability to love. No matter what our background–whether it was experienced as loving and safe or maybe harmful in some way–we each have within us a compassionate love that wants to be in harmony, in coordination, with everyone and everything else on the planet. When we learn to reach within to this precious part of our own self, we can find a sense of joy that’s not easy to describe.

It is this healing process that will eventually nurture all of humanity back to health and strength. Only this deep, abiding love can carry us through to peaceful, joyful coexistence with every other being on earth.

When we sing together, we awaken this love.

You can listen to a chant on the “downloads” page at www.myraestelle.com.

Beneath all of life, supporting every effort to survive, is an empowering force, a brilliant consciousness, an invisible wisdom that not only allows us to exist, but definitively wants us to succeed along our life path.

Our world works within a structure of consciousness that supports us as we live each day of our lives. When we understand its guideposts, we can develop the ability to live in harmony with all that exists. Then we can find that our life flows in a more rewarding way, with more joy and more love than we could ever imagine.

This is the gift of life that creates the joy—the happiness—we all seek. It’s always available for us when we’re ready to receive it. It takes commitment and practice to be able to recognize it, but it’s always present for those ready to make the investigation to discover it.

I was recently invited by film director, Jennifer Fox, to co-host a screening of her latest film called “My Reincarnation”. The audience asked some great questions at the post-screening discussion with co-host Naomi Zeitz.  We talked about similarities and differences between Buddhism and Judaism. Both perspectives agree that only consciousness exists in the universe, but there is a big difference in their belief systems of how it exists. Also, both views consider that each individual has the potential to reach the deep nature of consciousness from within one’s own self. Some of the discussion can be seen in the short video in the post above and at www.facebook.com/myraestelle.

My book, “Awakening Love: A Spiritual Quest Into Judaism,” explores the deep spiritual process of life, and reveals the loving guidance to be found in Judaism. Each chapter gives nurturance and support for a journey toward inner peace. It’s available in ebook from all major distributors*, and in paperback from www.myraestelle.com.

“Awakening Love: A Spiritual Quest Into Judaism” by Myra Estelle

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I’ve been invited to co-host again! This time it’s in the evening, 8.15pm on Wednesday, December 28th. I hope you can come.
You are invited to join us for a film screening of the wonderful film “My Reincarnation.” After the film Myra Estelle will join with a member of the director’s team to lead a discussion with the audience comparing the spiritual process in Buddhism with that of Judaism. Please post and share this information with your friends.

HELD OVER 9th Smash Week at Cinema Village in NYC!
Opening Across the USA! See the Film Critics are Raving About!

“REMARKABLE!”– New York Times

“GRACEFUL AND DEEPLY HUMAN!–Tricycle Magazine

“COMPELLING!”–New York Magazine

“SUBTLE & CONTEMPLATIVE!”–LA Times

Special Screening & Discussion Wednesday December 28th, 8:15pm Show Co-Hosted by Teacher/Author, Myra Estelle
Post Screening Discussion on: “The Spiritual Process:
A Comparison of Judaism & Buddhism”

SEE THE FILM + SHARE YOUR STORY
VISIT THE WEBSITE www.myreincarnationfilm.com
WATCH THE TRAILER: www.myreincarnationfilm.com/film/trailer/

For tickets and show times www.cinemavillage.com or 212.924.3363

Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox, MY REINCARNATION chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan Master allowed such complete access to his private life and it is doubtful that another ever will. With her signature intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny.

Myra Estelle is a teacher, author, and architect, who has spent more than two decades studying the intricacies of consciousness. She teaches about the spiritual process from a very psychological, experiential point of view. Her latest book, Awakening Love: A Spiritual Quest Into Judaism, explores the spiritual aspect of her family’s faith from a meditator’s perspective.

I’ve been invited by Jennifer Fox, the director of this wonderful film, to co-host a screening on Tuesday, December 13th, at 5.30 pm, at Cinema Village, 22 E12th Street, NYC. After the film I will join with a member of the director’s team to lead a discussion with the audience comparing the spiritual process of Judaism with that of Buddhism. You can post and share this information with your friends.
Please join us.

“MY REINCARNATION”
HELD OVER 7th Smash Week at Cinema Village in NYC!
Opening Across the USA! See the Film Critics are Raving About!

Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street in New York
www.cinemavillage.com
Or 212.924.3363 For tickets and show times

Special Screening & Discussion Tuesday, December 13, 5:30 PM Show Co-Hosted by Myra Estelle, Teacher/Architect/Author of “Awakening Love: A Spiritual Quest Into Judaism” Post Screening Discussion on:
“The Spiritual Process: A Comparison of Judaism & Buddhism”

VISIT THE WEBSITE www.myreincarnationfilm.com
WATCH THE TRAILER: http://myreincarnationfilm.com/film/trailer

Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox, MY REINCARNATION chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan Master allowed such complete access to his private life and it is doubtful that another ever will. With her signature intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny.

While we’re all so busy finding out what’s going on in the world through the internet, and connecting with our friends on facebook, we’re missing out on a brilliant invention that’s been available for a multitude of years before the web came into being.

There’s a much grander way of connecting with each other and experiencing the world at large. There’s a greater internet that we haven’t tuned into yet, even though its life enhancing ways could resolve so many of our problems and ease our troubled lives.

I’m speaking about the Divine Internet. This is the deeper sense of ourselves that can tune us into a more comprehensive view of how to integrate our lives with that of the whole planet; of how we can find an easier way to travel our life path and find that sometimes elusive feeling of happiness.

Every human being, no matter what shape, size, skin shade, or religion, is born with a connection to this Divine Internet. We carry our modem, our means of connection, in our mind and in our heart, with simply the need to turn our attention toward it to get it started. We’ve already got the connection – it just needs us to take the time to turn it on.

What we’ll find, in this facebook of the cosmos, is a new, clearer way of connecting with everyone we know, and even those we have yet to know. It can reveal the true meaning of our individual reason for existence, and give us clearer insight into the love we can each discover from within. Then every friendship can be enhanced by our deeper understanding of life and we can flourish in the profound experience of joy that’s waiting for us.

While we’re busy doing things to fill in time, we have no time left for our inner self. When we turn the attention of our mind toward our heart, we can find inner peace more easily. Take the time to tune into the Divine Internet. Join the facebook of the cosmos and meditate on the peace within.

I’m delighted to have my new website up and running. The picture at the top of the page is my sister’s beautiful English country garden, which she cares for so lovingly. Thank you, Ruth, for allowing me to share in this wonderful space when I visit you.