http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Edwin+Spina Self Help Edwin Spina Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=33579&ca=Self+Help Last week, a friend of mine gave me a best-selling business book that forecast the rise of the right brain thinker and the demise of the left-brain thinker. Scientists have identified the right brain as the emotional, empathic, artistic side and the left-brain as the side of logic, intellect and lan... Religion Edwin Spina Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=33580&ca=Religion Yesterday, a marketing guru asked me a question that left me speechless. I had retained Bob to review the copy on my Mystic Warrior website from a sales perspective. He asked about reader reactions. As we talked, I told him how some readers felt compelled, while in the midst of my book, to put it do... Religion Edwin Spina Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=33581&ca=Religion At a recent lecture on Belief Systems, a student asked, "Is mysticism a religion?" Mysticism is a spiritual discipline aiming at direct communion with God or the ultimate truth. It is not a religion and, in fact, all religions have mystics. There are Christian mystics, Jewish mystics (Kabbalists), I... Self Help Edwin Spina Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=32823&ca=Self+Help The universe just conspired to remind me of a valuable lesson. Last night, before retiring, I was trying to think of a marketing promotion for Mystic Warrior, something that would emphasize the overwhelmingly positive response I've received from readers. Out of thousands of readers, not a single per... Self Help Edwin Spina Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=32829&ca=Self+Help Almost everyone has had experiences where they think of something and "coincidentally" it appears: a person you hadn't seen in years shows up unexpectedly, a trial issue of a magazine is delivered to your home with just the information you needed, or you flip on the car radio to hear the lyrics of a... Self Help Edwin Spina Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=32830&ca=Self+Help "I changed my mind." These are four of the most powerful words in the English language. They can prevent you from being manipulated into an undesirable outcome and launch you on the road to personal and spiritual growth. Depriving yourself of the freedom to change your mind will lock you into a rigi... Self Help Edwin Spina Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=20239&ca=Self+Help Recently I had the opportunity to meet a long term mystic. During a lecture he was presenting on a mystic's role in society, he uttered the words "inner warrior," while looking directly at me. I had never met him and wondered if he knew I was the author of Mystic Warrior. His lecture was fascinating... Self Help Edwin Spina Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=20240&ca=Self+Help Almost everyone knows someone that professes to "know everything." These people are never wrong, seldom accept advice and once they stake out a position, they will do anything to defend it. At best, they are perfectionists. At worst, they can become delusional as they fight to avoid being wrong by r... Writing Edwin Spina Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=20237&ca=Writing Creativity for the mystic has special meaning. In the world of the mystic all is one. This means that there's only one Creator. Your job as an artist, painter or writer is simply to attune with this One source of all creation, listen and report on what you're told. This is the essence of divine insp... Self Help Edwin Spina Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13294&ca=Self+Help Back in the Middle Ages alchemists sought to transform base metal into gold. They searched for an elusive substance, the philosopher's stone, which would bring about this conversion, known as alchemy. But to initiates of the ancient mystery schools, alchemy was primarily an allegory for the real wor...