This past Sunday, I assisted with Sunday Service as I often do at my spiritual center. As this was the 4th of July weekend, and the day before we celebrated our independence day, the topic of the Sunday talk was very appropriately titled.“Free to be Who You Are”. Each week, the talks are inspirational, as an interfaith spiritual center, we seek to find the balance between living a human life with all of its flaws, and embracing the divine love and energy that is all around us

Is there any hope that we as a planet will ever know the true meaning of peace? Is it possible to live one's life without fear of what others will think? Will being gay one day no longer be an issue? Can the religions of the world ever come together and understand that we walk different paths with the same ultimate destination? These are questions that I ask myself often though the answer never seems to come. I find myself trolling Twitter and Facebook, reading the stories an

Many years back in a land far away from where I sit tonight, I was a teenage boy who struggled with more demons than I thought I could face. I saw virtually no foreseeable future, zero happiness with no reason to live. I was tortured by feelings I did not understand, desires I wanted to suppress and a fear that I had been born in the wrong time and perhaps maybe the wrong place. In my book “Crossing the Rubicon”, I talked about these dark days in great details. Building even