The Starseed Transmissions

 The Starseed Transmissions is a seminal work in New Age literature, written by Ken Carey and first published in 1982. It is presented as a "channeled" text—information received by Carey from a higher intelligence during a period of quiet meditation while he was living a back-to-the-land lifestyle in the Ozarks.

Since you were just asking about egregores, this book offers a fascinating "other side of the coin" perspective on how collective consciousness operates.

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HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

 

When you mention "Heaven is for Real," it usually points to the 2010 best-selling book and subsequent 2014 film based on the story of Colton Burpo, a four-year-old boy who claimed to have visited Heaven during emergency surgery.

In the context of Angelology, Colton’s descriptions provided a modern, "child's-eye view" of the celestial hierarchy that fascinated both believers and skeptics.

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1. The Angelic Descriptions in Colton's Account

Colton’s account includes specific details that align—and sometimes contrast—with traditional Angelology:

• Size and Wings: Colton described angels as appearing in different sizes and having wings. While modern Angelology often views angels as pure spirit (without physical bodies), Colton’s description fits the iconographic tradition used to help humans process spiritual beings.

• The Archangel Gabriel: Interestingly, Colton described Gabriel as being "kind of like God" because he sits on a throne next to God's throne.

• Celestial Light: He mentioned that it never gets dark in Heaven because God and Jesus provide the light, a detail that mirrors descriptions in the Book of Revelation.

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How 3 Buddhist Teachers Work with Difficult Emotions; A Guide to Buddhist Mudras; A Loving-Kindness Meditation to Heal Your Inner Child

 

06.02.2026 How 3 Buddhist Teachers Work with Difficult Emotions Working with difficult emotions is a lifelong practice. Susan Piver, Karen Maezen Miller, and Norman Fischer open up about their own struggles. Join our June resident teacher Susan Piver every Wednesday this month for a free, live meditation on Zoom. View details to join here. READ MORE Hands of Wisdom: A Guide to Buddhist Mudras What are Buddhism’s most iconic mudras, what do they mean, and how can understanding them enrich your practice? In this expansive guide, Barry Boyce explores these questions and more. READ MORE A Loving-Kindness Meditation to Heal Your Inner Child Peggy Rowe Ward and the late Larry Ward share how to give the wounded child inside you the love and compassion they deserve. READ MORE ADVERTISEMENT Great Compassion Takes Form Karen Greenspan takes us to Kathmandu to witness the immersive, nine-day Avalokiteshvara Drupchen ceremony. Featuring photos courtesy of the Drukpa Nuns and photos and video by the author. READ MORE What Is a Feast Offering? Mariana Restrepo invites us into the rich, communal world of tsok, where pleasure and aversion dissolve into sacred offering. READ MORE Featured Workshop Nocturnal Meditations Andrew Holecek, sleep researcher and longtime dream yoga practitioner, introduces the five nocturnal meditations: liminal dreaming, lucid dreaming, dream yoga, sleep yoga, and bardo yoga. VIEW DETAILS

 

05.22.2026 Let Go of Perfection A few years ago, I took my first pottery class. The serene sight of a clay vessel gracefully twirling on the pottery wheel mesmerized me like no other art form ever had. After my first class, I was hooked, enrolling in more classes and workshops and eventually setting up a home studio with my own tiny wheel. When I first started learning how to throw pottery on the wheel, I was thrilled. It felt magical to turn a lump of clay into… something! Anything! But as with any skill, I soon started to feel the weight of my own expectations. I wanted my pots to be exact – the shapes tall, uniform, and smooth. I soon found myself squashing the clay and starting again whenever something didn’t turn out as I’d envisioned. I knew I was still learning and growing, but my perfectionism and self-criticism were getting in the way of truly enjoying myself and the process. When these thoughts start to creep in, I try to remind myself of the Zen philosophy of wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi has many translations, but is often characterized by the beauty of imperfection. Embracing the essence of wabi-sabi, I recognized that my art, like myself, was inherently flawed. My aim was never to produce something perfect, but rather to just enjoy the journey of exploration and creativity. I’ve since learned to appreciate the imperfections of the clay in my hands. I even feel proud at the unique bend of a wonky mug handle, or the fingerprints in my pinch pots.  The three pieces below highlight the concept of wabi-sabi in art and how it can translate into our daily lives. Whether in our artistic endeavors, homes, workplaces, or relationships, I invite you to embrace the wisdom of wabi-sabi this weekend, allowing imperfections to be celebrated rather than criticized. —Martine Panzica, Assistant Digital Editor, Lion’s Roar Wabi-Sabi For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers An excerpt from Leonard Koren’s gem, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, considered a classic statement on this Japanese aesthetic. Like many of my contemporaries, I first learned of wabi-sabi during my youthful spiritual quest in the late 1960’s. At that time, the traditional culture of Japan beckoned with profound “answers” to life’s toughest questions. Wabi-sabi seemed to me a nature-based aesthetic paradigm that restored a measure of sanity and proportion to the art of living. Wabi-sabi resolved my artistic dilemma about how to create beautiful things without getting caught up in the dispiriting materialism that usually surrounds such creative acts. Wabi-sabi—deep, multidimensional, elusive—appeared the perfect antidote to the pervasively slick, saccharine, corporate style of beauty that I felt was desensitizing American society. ADVERTISEMENT Wabi Sabi Is Imperfect Beauty Wabi sabi — a philosophy with roots in Zen tea ceremonies — posits that beauty lies in what is flawed. In promoting the humble, the irregular, the accidental, the timeworn, the ambiguous, and the awkward, wabi sabi prizes qualities that many, even now, consider ugly. Like modernism, wabi sabi values use, but its take on use is wholly different. Where modernism employs a mechanistic view of utility—the house is a machine for living, the library a machine for storing books—wabi sabi takes a more open-hearted view, where “use” means accommodating the whole human, body and dreaming soul. And where modernism imposes the perverse demand that form should both follow function and remain untouched by it, wabi sabi values the wear, aging, and deterioration that attend use. Who Was Otagaki Rengetsu? Grace Schireson on the life, art, and poetics of the Zen nun Otagaki Rengetsu, a woman “humbled by life’s blows as well as its beauty.” Her pottery, inscribed with her poems, has a down-to-earth appeal coupled with a sublime beauty. Her elegant calligraphy, done in the curvaceous women’s script known as hiragana—more emotionally accessible than classical Chinese characters—touches us through its simplicity. But it is Rengetsu herself, her vulnerability and ability to express her enlightenment in very human terms, that has kept people connected to her art, and her dharma, for more than one hundred and fifty years.

What to Do When You Can't Sleep; 59 Ways to Turn Your Mind Around; Guided Zazen Meditation

 

05.26.2026 What to Do When You Can’t Sleep Meditation and mindfulness can help you get the shut-eye you need. Joseph Emet on how to feel more rested. READ MORE 59 Ways to Turn Your Mind Around The way to bodhicitta, the mind of compassion, is marked by the fifty-nine lojong slogans. Gaylon Ferguson points us in the right direction. Join Gaylon Ferguson in our new course, “Awakening the Boundless Heart,” beginning June 1. READ MORE Guided Zazen Meditation with Karen Maezen Miller In this practice excerpted from “How to Cultivate Awareness Through Zen Meditation,” a five-part workshop for Lion’s Roar members, Karen Maezen Miller shares instructions for zazen, guiding us to count the breath as a living mantra. By becoming a Lion’s Roar member, you gain access to new workshops and classes added each month. WATCH ADVERTISEMENT “Facing the Mirror” What we perceive as the faults of others are simply a reflection of our own. A commentary on two verses of the Dhammapada by the late Ayya Khema. READ MORE Buddhism A-Z: The Eight Consciousnesses Mahayana Buddhism’s Eight Consciousnesses are a framework for understanding samsara and the path to enlightenment. READ MORE Featured Workshop Shamatha Meditation for Well-Being Meditation teacher Gullu Singh teaches you how and why to do shamatha (or “calm-abiding”) meditation for more calm and clarity. VIEW DETAILS