Heartfulness

Interest in meditation has introduced many in the West to an extremely valuable spiritual practice – mindfulness. However, there is a closely related, but less well known, practice that I think is at least as important. I call it heartfulness.

Spirituality, AwakeningDr. David G. BennerDecember 9, 2020 Comments

Beyond Belief

Recently someone contacted me asking if I was the David Benner who was a spiritual teacher. I told her that people sometimes describe me that way but I wondered why she asked. She responded by asking what beliefs I taught. I told her that I have never taught beliefs because my calling is to help people walk the transformational path associated with the awakening of the heart and transformation of consciousness.

Wisdom, TransformationDr. David G. BennerNovember 16, 2020 Comment

Knowing and Being Yourself

Socrates famously declared that the unexamined life was not worth living. Asked to sum up the wisdom of Ancient Greece, he replied, “Know yourself.” This affirmation of the importance of knowing oneself was unchallenged by the church Fathers and Mothers, although from the earliest days of church history, knowing of self and God began to be linked.

Wisdom, Psychology, SpiritualityDr. David G. BennerOctober 8, 2020Comment

True Wisdom

I wonder if you, like me, recognize the crucial importance of wisdom at this point in your life and our life together on earth.

Recently, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries signed what they called “A Warning to Humanity” that was published in the Oxford University Press journal, Bioscience.

Wisdom, PsychologyDr. David G. BennerSeptember 9, 2020Comment

COVID-19 As A Wisdom Teacher

There is no question that the enforced isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for many people. Think of the abused women and children who have been trapped in their homes with their abusers and have no possibility of escape. Or of those separated from loved ones who are in hospitals and other care facilities that are closed to all visitors.

Wisdom, SpiritualityDr. David G. BennerAugust 31, 2020 Comments

Ancient Spiritual Wisdom

I have always been drawn to the big-picture view of things. If some people climb mountains simply because they are there, I am always pulled toward summits by the promise of an ever expanding vista. There is simply nothing like a macro perspective on life to help me live it on the micro level at which it comes at me.

Interspiritual, Wisdom, TransformationDr. David G. BennerAugust 15, 2020 Comments

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