The New Age

O the Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need, the sun, the rain, and the apple-seed. The Lord is good to me. And every seed that grows will grow into a tree. And one day soon there’ll be apples there, for everyone in the …

Unlike many of the other Biblical people with whom Israel had to deal, like the Hittites, Philistines, Egypt, Assyria and Babylon, the Amalekites were never a kingdom nor an empire. They were a tribe who populated the area to the south of Israel and were basically nomadic. Who were they? Amalek, their original tribal chief …

I recently read about an amazing story of the power of the placebo effect. It was recorded in 1957 and demonstrates just how powerful the human mind can be. A patient had advanced cancer of the lymph nodes (lymphoma) and was told that he had no more than a few weeks to live. He couldn’t …

When we first moved here, we obviously had no idea how to get around. Thankfully Erik Sandstrom had left behind a map book in the van and we used it any time we went anywhere. A few months later we got a Sat-Nav device, but over time it became a point of pride when we …

(The following article was forwarded for inclusion in The New Age. It is thought-provoking and touching on many people’s concerns. It is by Hal Rosner who does Logopraxis in America and is undertaking the Certificate Course with the Australian New Church College. It was his final assignment in the Life of Swedenborg course.) To many …

I have a long-standing fascination with fractals. They are defined as “… infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop.” (What are Fractals) In other words, when you zoom in and look at a fractal closely, you see …