Despair Gives Rise to Empowering Awareness...
In response to people's need for more meaning and understanding in their lives, especially during these uncertain times, we have launched www.insightlite.com.
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA November 01, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 'After publishing Australia's leading spiritual lifestyle magazine for over 11 years, I realised the need to bring Insight Magazine's content to a wider audience, especially during these times of global uncertainty. When our lives are faced with challenges, we tend to turn inward and look for more meaning. Insight has always prided itself on its editorial content and commitment to bringing informative reading to people who like to make informed decisions.
In response to people's need for more meaning and understanding in their lives, especially during these uncertain times, we have launched www.insightlite.com _http://www.insightlite.com_. This will enable people all over the world to have quick access to empowering and informative material.' Cameron Johnston, Founder and Publisher, Insight Publishing.
'Spiritual experiences are overwhelmingly positive experiences. They are experiences of rapture in which we perceive reality at a heightened intensity, feel a powerful sense of inner well-being, experience a sense of oneness with our surroundings and become aware of a force of benevolence and harmony which pervades the cosmos. It seems almost paradoxical then, that the experiences are frequently induced by states of intense despair, depression or mental turmoil.
Perhaps the key to understanding the experiences is the concept of attachment. Normally, as human beings, we are psychologically attached to a large number of constructs, such as hopes and ambitions for the future, beliefs and ideas concerning life and the world, the knowledge we have accumulated and our sense of status or of our appearance...These are the building blocks of the ego...and make us feel that we are 'someone'.
However, in states of despair and depression these psychological attachments are broken...Hopes and beliefs are revealed as illusions; your possessions and status have been taken away, your friends or lovers have rejected you. As a result you feel naked and lost...but at this very point you are, paradoxically, close to a state of liberation. You are in a state of detachment. In an instant, therefore, the pain of despair and desolation can switch into a state of freedom and joy.' Steve Taylor, Author and Teacher, England.
About Cameron Johnston: Publisher and Founder of Insight Publishing, he started the magazine in his spare room at home in 1997, using his experience with advertising sales and marketing. Through his own search for spirituality, he realised the need to offer respectful forums for the education and empowerment of all people. Cameron lives in Brisbane, Queensland with his wife and young family.
About Steve Taylor: Author and Teacher, his main interests are anthropology, psychology and spirituality. He has published several books, numerous articles and essays, which have been widely publicised in the media; teaches personal development courses and gives talks and lectures. Steve lives in Manchester, England with his wife and young children.
For more information or interviews with Cameron Johnston or Steve Taylor, please contact: Birri O'Dea, Insight Publishing, birriodea@insightpublishing.com.au. Phone: +61 7 3630 1388.
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