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A Gift of Connection

As a reminder, my book Connecting with the One Consciousness is still free to download on Amazon through tomorrow, November 18.An image of the book cover of Connecting with the One Consciousness by Sheida White.I invite you to download the e-book if you haven’t already and/or share its link with someone who might find comfort or inspiration in its pages. 🌿Download for free: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHXK8V85No Kindle device needed — just download the e-book from Amazon (it will show $0.00) and read via read.amazon.com or via the free Kindle app on your phone, tablet, or computer.

Anniversary Gift — From My Heart to Yours

Anniversary Gift — From My Heart to YoursImage featuring the cover of my book, Connecting with the One Consciousness.This month marks the anniversary of the launch of my spiritual book, Connecting with the One Consciousness. In celebration, you can download the e-book free on Amazon between November 14 and November 18.No Kindle device needed — just download the book from Amazon (it will show $0.00) and read via http://www.read.amazon.com or via the free Kindle app on your phone, tablet, or computer.Please share this email or the link with someone who might resonate with its message of hope and connection. 🌿Download for free: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634895657

The Observer and the Game

There’s a mysterious state of awareness where we are both fully in life and quietly watching it unfold. We’re playing the game — grieving, striving, reacting — while also witnessing the play from a still place within. This “split awareness” is not detachment; it’s wisdom.Who is the witness?The witness is the silent, yet alert essence within us that observes all thoughts, emotions, and actions without judgment or attachment. It is not the ego or the mind, but the innermost essence that lies behind them — what I’ve variously called awareness, wisdom, presence, universal consciousness, or divine intelligence.In this state of witnessing, we move beyond the illusion of separation and connect with the One Consciousness, the Source that animates all life in the universe — revealing the love and harmony inherent in all existence.The witness expresses that love and harmony naturally and automatically. Without the divine aware

The sacred wellspring of love

The struggle between “hate” and “compassion” is an enduring theme of our human condition in this bipolar world. There never was and never will be a time when we all are equally happy so long as these opposites exist.There will always be those who hate others, and there will always be those who choose the opposite — people who are moved to compassion without self-righteous feelings of pride in their good-heartedness.The goal is NOT to rid the world of suffering or evil inherent in our planet, but to choose how we respond when those things happen.Getting in touch with our true essence — the perennial wellspring for love — will help cultivate self-compassion in our darkest moments.Self-compassion arising from connection with our true essence will serve as a healer. Not only that, it will — without any effort on our part — help uproot the hate caused by distinctions of religion, race, politics, nationality, and the rest.L

Our Inescapable Network of Mutuality

“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.”Martin Luther KingThe “inescapable network of mutuality tied into a single garment of destiny” that King is referring to is precisely our true essence — a One Consciousness.Separateness from this “network of mutuality” is what our ego, the antagonist, is trying to do by fostering a sense of superiority — the key underlying factor in today’s political division, violence across the globe, and climate change.When amplified by charismatic individuals or through mainstream and social media, the ego creates group identity — marked by willingness to ignore facts that challenge the group’s narrative — propelling the “us versus them” belief, or worse, “us versus the enemy” rhetoric.”We may contain the ego by learning to recognize it, u

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional

“Every storm the beloved [God] unfolds,Permits the sea to scatter pearls.”RumiHere, Rumi reminds us that by accepting our own personal “storm,” we can live through it and even learn some lessons (“pearls”).Pain is an integral aspect of the human experience. So long as we are preoccupied with “me” and “mine,” we are likely to take advantage of our power to justify any act, including inflicting pain on others.But while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.Rather than resisting pain, we may surrender to it. We do that by “observing” the pain without being overwhelmed by it.By surrendering to the pain, we naturally tap into our essence and connect with a deeper, divine reality. That connection, in turn, cultivates a sense of inner peace because it transcends the ego’s attachment to the illusion of a perfectly healthy body and an ideal life.And so, we can transform personal pain into

“Be a lamp.Or a lifeboat.Or a ladder.Heal someone’s soul.Walk out of your house like a Shepherd.”-RumiI’m still genuinely amazed that I survived my upbringing in Iran and was able to build a new life for myself in America. None of it would have happened without encounters with caring people.Using Rumi’s metaphoric language, they walked out of their house like a shepherd to be my lamp illuminating my lifeboat so that it could see opportunities and hidden risks.I am grateful to be in a place now where I can — in some small ways — — be someone else’s ladder and propel them to new heights.That sense of unity and cooperation is needed now more than ever given our collective vulnerability.Each positive pulse that emanates from a positive thought and goodwill can influence the entire universe, because the universal consciousness is unconstrained by time and space.

The Sudden Collapse of NCES: A Devastating Blow to U.S. Education

I barely slept last night trying to process what just happened: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a key arm of the U.S. Department of Education, has been shut down.Yesterday, after work hours, my former colleagues — all PhDs from top universities, brilliant statisticians who dedicated 10, 20, or even 30 years to ensuring accurate educational data — were notified by email that they were terminated. I am not directly affected but watching them lose their jobs so abruptly is devastating!How did poor test scores — nationally and internationally — lead to the elimination of a statistical agency that merely reports the data? NCES didn’t dictate policy or curriculum. It didn’t govern schools, states, teachers, or parents. It simply provided an objective picture of our students’ performance in reading, math, and other subjects.The implications are far-reaching and deeply concerning:Students, especially the most vulnerable, will

The physical world and consciousness

The simplest way to explain the difference between the physical world and universal consciousness may be this. Think of the universe as having two separate but complementary dimensions. One dimension is the material world of existence — the physical world. Our five senses, for example, give us ample information.The other dimension, the universal consciousness, is beyond our five senses and everything else that is confined within our secular dimension, including intellectual, psychological, and emotional.Like an AI global server, the universal consciousness stores vast information; processes incoming requests; provides answers to anyone, from everywhere, at any time; and it does all of that in a fraction of a second.Affirming the understanding that the universe is intelligent, purposeful, and whole need not oppose what science tells us about the nature of reality. As a scientist myself, I have great respect for science.At the same time, the astonishing richness of the un

Climate existential crisis

Author Sheida White is pictured as a college student, walking across green grass with lush green trees in the background.This picture was taken in my first year of college. I could not get over how green and beautiful America was! This awareness of nature’s beauty has since propelled me to treat not only all living things but also our climate and our environment with tender respect.When I carelessly burn too much fossil fuel, especially when I travel by plane which releases massive carbon dioxide into the air, I am within the field of ill will. That’s because carbon dioxide causes global warming (among other things) resulting in rising sea levels. Rising sea levels threaten human and animal communities, pushing them into poverty — thereby increasing income inequality within and between countries.I view climate change as an expression of a deeper condition, a manifestation of a spiritual crisis. I use the term spiritual crisis to encompass the feelings of those wh

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