An Interesting Blog Post on Beliefnet the largest Religion and Spirituality online community
I found the demographics interesting especially the age range.
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Debra Mason, director of the Center for Religion and the Professions at MU, mentioned that the center has a presence on the virtual reality Web site.
Rebecca Phillips, vice president of social networking for Beliefnet, spoke about how social networking sites have changed religious communities. With 3 million users, Beliefnet is the largest religion and spirituality Web site in the country. Phillips said Beliefnet has a liberal definition of social networking.
“It’s not just about users connecting to other users, but users connecting to the content,” she said. “If you want to express yourself on a page, that’s social networking.”
Phillips said Beliefnet allows members to connect to people with similar beliefs using message boards, blogs and prayer circles. Prayer circles allow users to request prayers for loved ones or share their thoughts with people who have posted prayers.
“On Beliefnet, a lot of our users are lost socially,” she said. “They can find members of the same community. I’ve been astounded by the amount of real friendships that start on Beliefnet.”
Phillips also debunked some of the myths concerning social networking, particularly that all users are teenagers or young adults. She noted that the demographic of Beliefnet users is typically 30- to 50-year-old women.
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Phillips also highlighted the active political discuss on the Beliefnet Community. She noted that some of the posts are heated opinions and not always in best taste. However, the Web site doesn’t have to do a lot of policing of offensive posts because the most dedicated users handle most situations within the online community.
Phillips said that some of the site’s members expressed concern over the recent acquisition of Beliefnet by News Corp, which incorporated the site into the Fox division. The site provided a forum for members to discuss their response to the acquisition.
About Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret
From a Boston Red Sox Baseball Team blog on the benefits of the Law of Attraction as described in The Secret:
Ramirez has been reading Rhonda Byrne’s self-motivational bestseller “The Secret” in the clubhouse, highlighting various passages. … From Publishers Weekly, via Amazon:
Supporters will hail this New Age self-help book on the law of attraction as a groundbreaking and life-changing work, finding validation in its thesis that one’s positive thoughts are powerful magnets that attract wealth, health, happiness … and did we mention wealth? Detractors will be appalled by this as well as when the book argues that fleeting negative thoughts are powerful enough to create terminal illness, poverty and even widespread disasters.
I love The Secret too and have benefited from applying the suggestions in it.
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Continue readingNew Movie "The Moses Code"
James Twyman, the for-peace troubadour is at it again. He did a movie on the Indigo Children, and the next one is called, “The Moses Code.” It is directed by Drew Heriot, director of “The Secret.” Sounds good.
Continue readingThere is a kingdom being built by certain living luminaries such as Marianne Williamson, Michael Beckwith and Eckhart Tolle along with many other names that are becoming more and more intrinsically linked. They along with others who are like minded, are expecting a “Shift in Action” for a new world! One of the main people behind the movie called “The Moses Code” is James Twyman.
Animals and Saints
I loved this quote from Christine Valters Paintner PhD’s blog. It brought to mind one of the animals I have a special connection with.
In ancient times, one sign of the holiness of mystics and Saints was a special connection to animals. Animals have their own wisdom that comes in part from their otherness, they open a window to dimensions of God we might not otherwise see.
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A semi-wild feline who allows me to feed him, I can pet him as long as we stay outside. He’s a rather serious fellow who has a number of fields to patrol for foxes and raccoons. He also has a sense of responsibility when it comes to the numbers of voles in the garden.
When I go for my daily walk, I often see him in a dry ditch along the road. I like that he greets me with a meow.
I named him Valcor because he looks like the Luck Dragon in the Never Ending Story.
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Continue readingYour Own Personal Spiritual Life Coach
    When people discover that I first met my husband in a dream—he is literally the man of my dreams—they want to know, “How did you do that? Can I do it too?”
    When they read my first book, When We Were Gods, or attend one of my seminars, or hear me interviewed on talk radio, they ask, “Were you doing something special to make that happen?”
    Of course I was doing something special beforehand. I’ve been keeping a dream journal for years. And, I was doing a lot more than working with my dreams.
    I’ve been living a life of unfolding intimacy with my soul. For years, I have integrated short routines into my everyday life that let spirit know I want its guidance.
    People say to me, “Tell us what you do.”  So, in answer to their requests, I’ve been working on my next book, tentatively entitled, Your Own Personal Spiritual Life Coach. It describes the little things I do to help me understand my dreams, remember past lives, and know some things ahead of time.
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