John Gilmore
D. Min Spirituality, M.Div., BA Psychology, RMT., CMTBW., Grief Facilitator, LMT, Certified Life Coach
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- Alte ative Healing Modalities, Spirituality, Life Coaching, Energy Work on all Levels
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- Workshop Leader, Lecturer, Spiritual Teacher and Life Coach
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Dr. Om Prakash (John W. Gilmore) was ordained as a UU Minister in 1995. During his ministry at UU Church of Manchester he entered a doctoral program at University of Creation Spirituality, a school Wisdom School founded by Ph.D., Rev. Matthew Fox, in Oakland, CA that changed his life. Dr. Gilmore’s dissertation focused on exte al and internal oppression, and how we can remove their lasting effects by using of alte ative methods such as meditation, Tai-Chi, Yoga, Massage, Reiki, Spiritual Life Coaching, and the many other methods used to deal with the fruit of oppression since the beginning of time. In 2001 he received his D. Min. in Reinventing Work and Spirituality.
Soon afteward Dr. Gilmore became engaged in a ministry of wellness and social justice in order to provide tools to individuals that they can use to strengthen their own psyches and lead more prosperous lives. He was student and faculty member at Sat Yoga Institute in CR for one year and is now doing a Sat Yoga Ministry of Healing on all levels, especially internally. Dr. Gilmore worked with the UUA Anti-racism Task-force, the UUA Pilot Programming Team, and the Anti-racist Analysis Team during the formation of UUA Anti-racism programming for more than 10 years as a volunteer. He was an Anti-racism, Anti-oppressio Consultant for one year for DRUUMM, and the Co-Director and then Director of Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community. Dr. Gilmore was working during his later years in the United States and Costa Rica to empower individuals to create new forms of institutions based on relation building, partnership, and applied spirituality, instead of power-over. He was a JUUST UU Consultant working to introduce congregations and other institutions within the denomination to new ways of thinking and ways of integrating their most deeply held beliefs into the work they do in the greater community. Om Prakash has worked as the Director of Racial and Social Justice for the Joseph Priestley District of the Unitarian Universalist Association half time and doing a ministry of healing through meditation, movement, alte ative spiritual direction therapies and Sat Yoga Meditation. He has now retired and is working, full time, to promote healing and spiritual growth through facilitating workshops on spirituality, lecturing, life coaching, and doing book signings and presentation.
He has written several books on practical spirituality and fantasy books, with deeply spiritual lessons as central themes. He is an E-zine Writer on the internet. Om Prakash has been a martial arts teacher, a massage therapist, and a Reiki Master Teacher and a Spiritual Guide. He has narrowed is work down to Life Coching, Body-work and Massage Therapy. He also is a host on blog talk radio at www.blogtalkradio.com/practical-spirituality
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Changing the World Means Changing Oneself
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The Embodiment of Prayer
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and think of the coming day and coming days in general, and I think that I must have been born on the wrong planet. But then I slowly realize that I am just where I am supposed to be. When I realize that all of my fears, worries, and regrets seem to just vanish. I realize that there is not much that I can do to change the world. In order to make great changes the majority of the people must be willing to say yes. They must be willing to exhibit the behaviors that will make things better and put aside their differences and to so.
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Changing for the Better: Correcting at Last
There are several ways to deal with the “normal” hurt and pain that we experience living our lives in the world. This pain, of course, varies from one living situation to the next. In some countries life is just about unbearable. There isn’t enough food or water. There are corrupt government systems where people are being systematically murdered and tortured. When we look at those places we can at least take comfort in the fact that it isn’t happening in our lives, if that is the case, but that is often not good enough. Suffering is very subjective.
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The Secret of Flying
Sometimes the weather gets rough up there. What do I mean by “up there(?),” you may ask. I mean up there--high in the sky when you dare to spread your wings and learn the secret of flying. Sometimes I feel that life is only to teach us how to, “transcend the human condition of the common man,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson would say, so that we can truly fly “on earth as it is in heaven.”
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Celebrate Good Times: They are All You Really Have
I had a friend who held up an object and asked me to concentrate on the object and try to move it. I looked at it, furrowed my brows, and took a beep breath focusing all of my energy on it. He asked, "Why do you have to do that to concentrate? Why not just stay relaxed. Everybody seems to think they need to tense up when they concentrate." I don't know why he did that, but the lesson is something that I have held onto for more than 20 years.
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How Can I Get Rid of My Fears and Doubts
It's easy to have doubts about almost everything nowadays. When we look at the morale of the world in which we live, the economy, the finances, and the functionality of governments we see a picture—a very clear picture, of a bombed out city. How can you stay positive in such a world? There are several ways to do so, but most of them are not helpful. I will discuss five ways below. Four of them correspond with what Shunyamurti, the founder of Sat Yoga Institute of Costa Rica, would call the zombie box. The zombie box consists of for walls governed by sensationalism.
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Breaking Free
The world looks like it is falling apart, but you can have peace within yourself regardless. For centuries and at various times in the past the world has been falling apart. The only fear and suffering about the dissolving of the world, however, is experienced in the ego. If we think that we ...
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Techniques for Stress Reduction Meditation And Enlightenment
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The Truth Shall Set You Free
In almost every city in the world there is a building dedicated to a religion or philosophy that promises to free the human soul from the gates of hell. Hell can be considered anything from miserable way of living, to purgatory where the soul is tried, or to a place where souls go to burn ...
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Karmic Yoga Where You Are
Some people go around the world in order to do something known as Karmic Yoga. Karmic Yoga, like all Yoga, is a way to connect with one´s inner divine self and with God. Through Karmic Yoga one is actually working in the world in a sacred manner to be the embodiment of love, like the One that ...
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Nature As Our Teacher-Who Is God?
There was a Unitarian Christian minister and professor who once said that everyone believes in some type of God, whether they think of God as a big person in the sky, a power, or whatever. He said that when you found what they fought for, argued about, and died for, you had their God. In his ...
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Getting The New Paradigm
n The rainy season is almost over and I am happy that it is. Every-so-often, however, a rain-storm will come to remind us that it´s not quite finished. During the morning it is very warm now, but it is very cool at night—more cool tha I have experienced here. Many people who have ...
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"So our vision brings the melody. Braided voices in perfect harmony. Truth is the song that makes our day brighter, all of the love we've known through troubled days. Deep in your heart is the light that brightens all of the darkness falls in your way."-- EWF
- In truth we are all one. We are all the light and wisdom that issues from the One. If we will cleanse ourselves of the deceptions and fantasies we can return to the source from which we come ad begin to create a whole new world. We human beings have the power. We are the light.
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"Why do you play your games and never really satisfy the loneliness you claim, spending your life in the pouring rain. Forget about those memories driving you insane. You can't hide forever. Just decide to make it better. Turn it into something good. Remember you can choose not to lose find your grove and be a winner. Wake up! Take a step ahead. Wake up to the brighter side."--EWF
- As human beings and divine beings we are creative creatures given the power to make choices and given the power to change the world if we reclaim our power. There are many ways to do this. One can meditate, one can exercise, no matter what one does it is most important to cleanse the mind of the falsity and to wake up, or to become enlightened.
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Om Prakash John Gilmore may be contacted through his webpage at www.dswellness.com, www.philadelphiasatyoga.4t.com, or at johngilmore@dswellness.com.
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Rev., Om Prakash. John Gilmore, D.Min. an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister and a Sat Yoga Minister. He was a student and faculty member at the Sat Yoga Institute of Transformational Spirituality (www.satyogainstitute.org) for one year. Dr. Gilmore is following the mystical teachings and ideals put forward in the tenants of Creation Centered Spirituality and the mystical traditions of all religions including the Sat Yoga Tradition. Dr. Gilmore is a writer, a Certified Reflexologist, a Certified Massage therapist, a Reiki Master Teacher, and a Martial Arts instructor. Dr. Gilmore was raised as a Pentecostal. He began his own spiritual search at the age of 17. Through his studies of psychology, eastern philosophy, martial arts, and earth based religion, he developed a well rounded view of religion and the workings of the human mind and society.
For more than 7 years, after receiving his B.A. in Psychology, Dr. Gilmore was a devout Pentecostal and a Pentecostal Minister and Interfaith missionary. From there he returned to a deep study of meditation and personal spirituality that led him to the pursuit of ministry in the Unitarian Universalist Association after having a kundalini experience. After receiving his M. Div., Dr. Gilmore became a Unitarian Universalist Parish Minister, which provided him the time and flexibility to engage in a search on the mystical path and to complete his doctoral studies at a wisdom university in Oakland, CA. Through his work in anti-racism and anti-oppression, meditation, exercise, reading and debate, Dr. Gilmore came to a deeper spiritual understanding that replaced his religious views. This mystical understanding, the connection with the Divine, became the driving force for the authorship of five books on spirituality and related topics, and the creation of the cyber service and school of spirituality. Spurred on by the openness provided by the Unitarian Universalist faith, Dr. Gilmore moved to take a larger step and share the idea of a truly interfaith spirituality to the spiritual seeker.
Please see our website, www.dswellness.com, to explore his writings more fully. Classes in anti-oppression and reclaiming your identity are available at this cyber school. Please hit the Diana Sarah Wellness School for Inner-Peace tab on our website for more information.
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