barry, Author at Personality & Spirituality

Personality quiz: discover your soul type

08 Feb 201525 Jul 2009 by barry

Discover Your Soul Type

Which of the seven soul types are you?

Try my simple questionnaire over at Quibblo.com and find out. Over 50,000 people have done so already!

It’s interesting to compare the results so far with what we should expect. According to the Michael teachings, the population looks like this:

Servers = 25%
Artisans = 21%
Warriors = 18%
Scholars = 14%
Sages = 11%
Priests = 7%
Kings = 4%

The results of my test so far look like this:

So if the test is accurate, we are getting rather a lot of Priests doing it and not quite as many Warriors as would be expected.

If you do the test, how about leaving a comment back here to let me know how you got on? Cheers!

– barry

All You Need Is Love (book review)

18 Feb 201613 Jul 2009 by barry

This captivating book describes a Canadian woman’s discovery of a past life in 17th century England.

John Lennon – the reincarnation of Branwell Brontë?

24 Dec 201110 Jul 2009 by barry

A reincarnational case study featuring two notable personalities.

I have just read the wonderful autobiographical past-life book All You Need Is Loveby Canadian Jewelle St. James. I have reviewed the whole book in a separate post, but here I want to focus on a particular insight.

10 things everyone should know about reincarnation

21 Nov 201610 Jul 2009 by barry

Around the world, many people—perhaps the majority overall—accept a belief in reincarnation as part of their religion.

Not many people in the West believe in it, though. In fact, many scoff at the very idea and regard it as nonsense.

This is largely because in the West we are enamored with the benefits of scientific knowledge and increasingly sceptical of the old religions—rightly so, in my view. The knowledge science provides can be systematically checked to ensure that it is valid and reliable. This is why it is of such great value.

But it is not necessarily the only source of knowledge that is valid and reliable.

Michael Jackson – the reincarnation of Mozart?

14 Jan 201229 Jun 2009 by barry

In a book written in the 1970s, it was stated matter-of-factly that the young pop star Michael Jackson was the reincarnation of the musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And it now seems that MJ himself may have believed this to be the case. Could it be true? If so, then it appears that this soul has for some reason relived a very similar life pattern.

Astrology and personality: a study of animal behaviour

06 Nov 201118 Jun 2009 by barry

puppies

Currently in the news:

New Book Describes Remarkable Connection Between Puppies in Paris and Traditional Astrological Concepts

I know nothing about astrology so don’t feel qualified to comment, but I’m very intrigued by this research.

Reincarnated World War II American fighter pilot

06 Nov 201111 Jun 2009 by barry

Short link to this post: http://wp.me/pvdM6-5D

James Leininger picture — A typical drawing by James Leininger as a young boy

The story of a boy in Louisiana who had memories of being a US Navy fighter pilot in the Second World War is possibly the best documented case of reincarnation in the West.

The Personality’s Place in Spiritual Practice (a review)

06 Nov 201102 May 2009 by barry

The websites Channel Higher Self and Satsang with the Self feature videos by a young spiritual teacher from Sedona, Arizona, called Lincoln. The videos are channelled teachings, and what Lincoln channels he refers to simply as Higher Self.

I haven’t even begun to go through all 199 videos. I was struck, however, by the title of this particular session: The Personality’s Place in Spiritual Practice. The synopsis poses a number of questions:

My first enlightenment experience

02 Nov 201128 Apr 2009 by barry

When I first saw an ad for an Enlightenment Intensive back in 1991, I was pretty sceptical. “An opportunity to experience the change in state of consciousness traditionally known as enlightenment” it said—and in just three days? There had to be a catch! I thought it was supposed to take decades, lifetimes even, to reach such a state.

Self and no-self: the personality crisis of a Zen master

06 Nov 201128 Apr 2009 by barry

Someone pointed me to this fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine (23 April). It’s about a 63-year old academic who has spent much of his life as a dedicated Zen practitioner – now a Zen master – but who has in recent years undergone a personality crisis. He went into therapy with Jeffrey Rubin, author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration, and had a breakthrough.

Basically, he realised that he had used the Buddhist concept of no-self to evade his inner process and unconscious traumas. All his ‘stuff’ came back to him, and with his owning it came a joyful rediscovery of self.