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Stephen Austen is an international Clairvoyant Medium, Medical Intuitive and Healer, Deep-trance Channel, Author and Metaphysician. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, Canada having emigrated to Canada in 2001 from England, his native

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Health & Fitness > Nutrition (Other) Reasons to be a vegetarian: 3 of 22

I gave up eating meat at the age of 19. At the time, that included fish also, and I was a strict vegetarian for 20 years. I still do not eat any meat or meat products, my age being 49 at the time of writing this article. For about the last ten years my diet has also included some fish about once a week which no longer makes ...
Religion & Spirituality > New Age Concepts What is reincarnation?: 4 of 15

Most people are familiar with the concept that the soul returns to the physical world again and again in a cycle of incarnations. We call this cyclic life of the soul in an Earth body reincarnation, i.e. that the soul being in a physical body is incarnate and the act of returning to the material plane is re-incarnation. But ...
Religion & Spirituality > Theories of Spirituality Logical conclusions about life after death: 7 of 22

Logical conclusions about life after death For as long as humans have existed upon planet Earth mankind has pondered the question of human mortality and immortality. Every religion that ever existed has explored the question and most philosophies have done so also. In this article, I am going to try to present a logical case...
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Is there hidden symbolism in the Christian cross?: 4 of 12

Is there hidden symbolism in the Christian cross? There are countless debates regarding the symbolic meaning of the Crucifixion and other symbolism hidden within Christianity in general; many of the concepts put forward are valid and founded upon much evidence which roots Christianity in other ancient religions including cer...
Politics, News & Issues > US Politics (Other) Should our politicians be held to a higher moral standard?: 50 of 113

In the modern age of politics it seems that as long as a politician or even a President or Prime Minister appears to be getting on with the job in hand he or she may act with moral impunity as much as possible as long as those moral lapses do not interfere with the running of government. Bill Clinton was forgiven for lying t...
Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center What are the best ways to engage young people in family planning?: 25 of 37

It is something of a remarkable era in human history that with all our technological advances and the ever-increasing interconnectedness of human beings, that we still have not solved the issue of global over-population. This issue should be considered the single most pressing concern of world stability and yet it has been i...
Health & Fitness > Pilates & Yoga What is yoga?: 15 of 18

What Is Yoga? The word "yoga" has become so familiar to us today that I suspect for the vast majority of people, including those who attend yoga classes, the term has lost its meaning. For myself, on the one hand I applaud the great interest in Eastern mysticism that has been spreading rapidly throughout the western hemisphe...
Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing What is meditation?: 14 of 14

What is Meditation? My own quest to understand the theory and practice of meditation began at the age of 16 and now at 48 years old I find that I am still learning and experiencing ever deeper layers of the meaning of meditation, as it unfolds, lotus like, revealing more of its true essence. Meditation for me therefore is no...