He found his love of entertainment at an early age and spent his
formative years honing his craft, which eventually lead him to act, direct and produce productions of all kinds throughout the world. His historical novel In Search of Heaven was released internationally in May 2006 to massive media coverage. He is currently preparing to release three new novels, IN SEARCH OF LOVE, BABA, and IN SEARCH OF PEACE.

Anytime Ata was saddened or impressed by events surrounding him he used to express his feeling through a poem. But he never kept any of the poems or gave them away. Recently, at the suggestions of his friends, Ata decided to release some of his poem. So he complete and release his latest poetry book entitled
“I Am a Lotus”. That Ata wishes all proceeds to be donated to help and teach love to children of the world, through his children foundation he found; “THE LOTUS LIGHT”.

If you wish to join him in
this important mission please write or go to;
ata@thelotuslight.org. www.the loyuslight.org. www.sennapictures.com

#AtaServati

The post Ata Servati, Poet. A Playwright, Novelist, Filmmaker and Actor discusses Iran appeared first on Good News!.

The post David Young – A Portal Between Heaven & Earth appeared first on Good News!.

Biography

In 1948 a little girl 7 years old came to America with her mother and father on the Queen Mary with hundreds of other refugees. Nearing the shores of New York, she saw a tiny statue in the water. Everyone on the boat became very quiet and started softly singing prayers of gratitude, kneeling down to kiss the ground. The little girl couldn’t stop looking at the beautiful statue. As they got closer and closer, it seemed as if this beautiful woman with a wand so tall and strong was smiling at her and was saying something good to her. It reminded her of when her father threw her over the barbwire fence in 1944 at the Swiss border, looking up to the heavens he said, “Save my daughter and she will always serve you.” This little girl always knew in her heart her destiny had been chosen. Believing fervently that we are all connected, visionary Cantor Estherleon, for many years, has been bringing all faiths and cultures together for a deeper understanding of each other.

Poverty has a particularly strong meaning to Estherleon. A child Holocaust survivor, she has endured the poverty of food, shelter, safety and thoughts when she was on the run from the Nazi’s for the first 4 years of her life finally escaping in 1944 to Switzerland. Sheltered by nuns in convents through parts of this period, she didn’t realize until now that the DNA of the church music would ultimately play a big role in the Jewish music she sings as a cantor. Her gifted and compassionate voice has been chronicled in numerous testimonials.

Life’s challenges saw her rise from welfare to riches, which she gave up, after a family tragedy. She became a Cantor, a female in a male’s world. She survived that, then decided “Against all odds” (CCN News) to take her administering to the people, founding 3 storefront spiritual reading rooms for all people, religions and cultures, in the process creating Beth Shirah (House of Song). She has always seen challenges as a gift to the higher spirit echoing the survival of her earliest years. She is now welcomed by the Buddhist at the Hsi Lai Temple, the Baha’i Faith the Braille Institute and healing centers. She tirelessly administers to the sick through her voice, as a volunteer Para-Chaplain at a renowned hospital in Los Angeles. Voices of Hope is her dedication to the immense insurmountable challenges to see the end of poverty in her lifetime. Her music, and poetry will bring people into the fold of caring, through nurturing and compassion. Her determination is unshakable.

The children are our future, what better way to receive than to give them life through our deepest caring. Their poverty is our poverty, and our shame. We have to listen to their voices of hope.

Mission

I am very grateful to have the honor of fulfilling my father’s prophesy in 1944 at the Swiss border when the Nazis were chasing us. I was 4 years old and when he threw me over the barbed wire fence he said, “Save my daughter and she will serve you forever.” It has been a painful, tiring yet inspirational journey in reaching my goal to have a deeper understanding of myself, my purpose in life, in relationship to the world around me. One thing I always hung on to were my father’s words of serving, so I “hung out” with God, asked for guidance, tried to have patience and faith which gave me hope and wisdon to understand that everything is in divine time. You are my voice of hope on earth to ensure that no human being goes to bed hungry, has a warm bed to sleep in, medicine, education, a fruitful and meaningful life, and a way to peace – in a peaceful way. Together, and with God’s blessings…everything is possible.

Cantor Estherleon Schwartz

Services

INTERFAITH CEREMONIES

PERFORMING ALL LIFE CYCLES

HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITS

HIGH HOLY DAYS, PASSOVER AND SHABBATS

#EstherleonSchwartz #GoodShabbos

The post Rabbi Cantor Estherleon Schwartz has a book signing at the Grove in LA on appeared first on Good News!.

But let there be spaces in

your togetherness and let

the winds of the heavens

dance between you.  Love

one another but make not a

bond of love: let it rather be

a moving sea between the

shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

#thoughtfortheday #khalilgibran #heaven #love #souls #dance #wind

The post Thought for the day 3/27/2023 appeared first on Good News!.

There was a bird who lived in a desert, very sick, no feathers, nothing to eat and drink, no shelter to live in. One day a dove was passing by, so the sick unhappy bird stopped the dove and inquired “where are you going?” it replied ” I am going to heaven”.

So the sick bird said “please find out for me, when my suffering will come to an end?” The dove said, “sure, I will.” and bid a good bye to the sick bird. The dove reached heaven and shared the message of the sick bird with the angel incharge at the entrance gate.

The angel said, “For the next seven years of its life the bird has to suffer like this, no happiness till then.”

The dove said, “When the sick bird hears this he will get disheartened. could you suggest any solution for this.”

The Angel replied, “Tell him to recite this verse *”Thank you God for everything.”* The dove on meeting the sick bird again, delivered the message of the angel to it .

After seven days the dove was again passing by and saw that bird was very happy, feathers grew on his body, a small plant grew up in the desert area, a small pond of water was also there, the bird was singing and dancing cheerfully. The dove was astonished. The Angel had said that there would be no happiness for the bird for the next seven years. With this question in mind the dove went to visit the angel at heaven’s gate.

The dove put forth his query to the Angel. The Angel replied, “yes it is true there was no happiness for the bird for seven years but because the bird was reciting the verse *”THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”* in every situation, his life changed.

When the bird fell down on the hot sand it said *”THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”*

When it could not fly it said, *”THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”*

When it was thirsty and there was no water around, it said, *”THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”*

Whatever the situation, the bird kept on repeating, *”THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”* and therefore the seven years got dissolved in seven days.

When I heard this story, I felt a tremendous shift in my way of feeling, thinking, accepting and viewing life

I adopted this verse in my life. WHATEVER the situation I faced I started reciting this verse *”THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”.* It helped me to shift my view from what I did not have to what I have in my life.

For instance; if my head aches I THANK GOD that the rest of my body is completely fine and healthy and I notice that the headache does not bother me at all.

In the same manner I started using this verse in my relationships (whether family, friends, neighbors, colleagues ) finances, social life, business and everything with which I can relate. I shared this story with everyone I came in touch with and it brought a great shift in their behaviour too.

This simple verse really had a deep impact on my life, I started feeling how blessed I am, how happy I am, how good life is.

The purpose of sharing this message is to make all of us aware of how powerful the *“ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE”* is. It can reshape our lives…!!!

Lets recite this verse continuously to experience the shift in our life.

So be grateful, and see the change in your attitude.

_*Be humble, and you will never stumble.*_

*- REMEMBER! “THANK YOU GOD FOR EVERYTHING”*

LOVE ALL……. SERVE ALL

#gratitude #heaven #angel #gate #god #attitude #thank #you #stumble #love #family #friends #neighbors #colleagues #relationships

The post Thought for the Day…06/07/22 appeared first on Good News!.

Sunday May 22, 2022 Your invitation to New York’s “The Inevitable Release Party” featuring the Katelyn Richards Band at ‘Heaven Can Wait’ formally East Berlin -169 Avenue A New York, NY -Doors 6:30pm -VIP Admission $15.00 Advanced tickets on sale here: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/katelyn-richards-kelley-swindall-lucy-heaven-can-wait-tickets/11962295?pl=CIB

Katelyn’s Promotional Video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JYRfzlG_pIFn5ZXVlced7nyRqGK-jPF8/view

Celebrate with us the record release of Katelyn Richards latest 9 song album to be available on all major streaming platforms. Produced by Matt Chiaravalle. Also performances by Kelley Swindall, Lucy and the Goosettes , Chromoplast, Growing up in Boston and inspired by Alanis Morrissette and Jenny Lewis, Katelyn Richards embraces life experiences and personal struggles to write songs with meaning and easily relatable feelings.

#katelynrichards #earthday #everyday #timessquare #inevitable #heavencanwait #169avenuea #kelleyswindall #lucyandthegoosettes #boston #ny #newyork #alanismorrisette #jennylewis #embraceslife #personalstruggles #feelings

The post KATELYN RICHARDS RECAP OF UPCOMING PERFORMANCE appeared first on Good News!.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

RN Tagore.

The post India’s Republic Day appeared first on Good News!.

Some say the metaverse is a virtual world. Some say the metaverse is a blockchain. Some say the metaverse is an algorithm ……
It’s all a phenomenon. What is the essence?

Today in the courtyard of Prof. Li Jianjun’s home in ergonomics, the California sun shines, the birds sing, the pool is sparkling, and heaven and earth are in harmony. Several partners produced a collision of thoughts in a smooth conversation with their skills. A professor with great wisdom, an Iranian prince, a mathematician, a life water development team, a Hollywood producer, and the founder of the American University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, chatting about the meta-universe. Thanks to this wonderful day, I wrote this reflection on the meta-universe like a fountain of thought.

How did the metaverse come into being? Virtual space is the vehicle of expression, technology is just a tool, and the purpose is to allow people to experience a new sense of a more multidimensional world. What is the essence?
In general research, there is a consensus that the “metaverse” is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates multiple new technologies.

The metaverse has existed for a long time, but the term “metaverse” has only recently become popular. In the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, human beings live in a three-dimensional virtual world through “Avatar” (digital avatar), which the author called “Metaverse”, or “metaverse”. With the epidemic isolation, remote social networking, virtual reality, other lifestyle changes, and rapid technology development, even Facebook caught the pulse of the times and changed its name to Metaverse. The world has to start paying attention.

In Chinese, “Yu” is space, “Zu” is time. The universe is composed of time and space. The world we live in is three-dimensional space plus time, that is, four dimensions. Moreover, the meta-universe has broken through the four dimensions. In the original universe, each person has a small world, and each person’s small world can be linked together without the limitation of time and space. Humans create the “metaverse”, but humans do not create it. It is also a cosmic train driven by human technology, human civilization, earth’s nurture, the laws of the universe, and even unknown forces. We are coming infinitely closer to the universe, to an infinitely expanding universe.

The universe is called the universe because of its great dimensionality, its breadth of inclusion, its infinite information, and the fact that it contains everything. The meta-universe is called the universe because it contains human beings’ life and spiritual carriers. In the spiritual world of human beings, they can travel to outer space. They can travel through time and space. They can travel to parallel universes …… Everything is possible. In other words, the meta-universe is where the unlimited potential of human beings is developed.

In this metaverse era, everyone is a creator, driver, and innovator, and everyone is building the content and meaning of the metaverse. The meta-universe is a new universe in the human dictionary, but it is not a universe created out of thin air but a spiritual world created by the masses throughout human civilization and wisdom.

Freud believed that dreams express man’s unfulfilled desires, and the meta-universe is the booster of dreams. The torrent of the times will wash away the way you dream.

In the meta-universe, you can lie on the sofa and lead a thousand armies to fight; you can view your dream lover is deep in love with you; you can lie in a hospital bed and ride a motorcycle and police race; you can occupy the land and money in a rented house that makes you rich; you can take potato chips and put on VR eyes to view yourself eating an entire banquet. People can travel to the ends of the earth without leaving home, to experience all kinds of things on earth.

Technology has pushed the way and convenience of human life, but technology is only a tool. Numerous technology companies have taken advantage of the winds of the meta-universe to fly into the sky and make a fortune. So what is the next wave?

Let’s imagine the future of the metaverse again, like a city where no one is visible, but people exist, in the form of information, everywhere. All people’s minds, life experiences, crystallized wisdom, and knowledge base, can be stored in the cloud and everything becomes transparent. The speed of information transfer, the change to rapidity, and the authenticity of the experience make all countries, cultures, religions, ethnicities, and people groups on the planet, no longer separated. The idea of money first is slowly being eliminated, and the prosperity of the spiritual world becomes the new wind of the future. Whoever can lead the spiritual world will hold the future. Furthermore, in the spiritual world, whoever can master the ultimate law of the universe can dominate the universe.

Some people say the spiritual world is firewood. Some say the spiritual world is trying to get money, some say the spiritual world is dream imagination, some say the spiritual world is communicating with ghosts and gods, and some say the spiritual world is saving the world. It’s like the blind man feeling the elephant, and in the end ,feeling the whole picture pieced together – everyone sees the original face of the elephant, from the smallest to the collective subconscious of humankind, to the collective subconscious of the universe. The meta-universe is still just a fragment, and you and I are all cutters.

People have gone so far in the earthly world that they almost forget that our spirit can be as bright as the stars, our potential can be as constant as the sun, our senses can be aware of everything in heaven and earth, we can penetrate the past, present and future, and we can travel through space at will. Human beings were originally one, human beings and the earth were initially in harmony, and human beings and the universe were so close that everything is in the meta-universe. The meta-universe does not belong to human beings, but human beings see a silhouette of the universe from the meta-universe.

The metaverse is the ultimate point of life experience pursued by human beings, and the spirit is in search of the origin of the universe’s wisdom.
We hope that in the era of the metaverse, no one will be hungry, no one will not be misunderstood, no one will be deceitful, everyone will help each other, share, win together, and advance towards a higher civilization.

How big can this universe be? None of us knows …… However, we are creating it together.

The post The eEssence of the Meta-Universe is the Spiritual World of the Masses going back to its Roots appeared first on Good News!.

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

-Thomas Aquinas

Submitted By:

Cheryl Switzer, Marc Huschke

Dear Friends and Members,

What is FAITH to you? In Yiddish we say something was BESHERT, that something was meant to be. I live in FAITH, that the glass is more than half full. I believe with breath we are blessed, as we were before birth and will be in the after-life.

Thanks Cheryl and Marc for sharing our Thought for the Day.

With this in mind, take a vacation, ASAP, whether it is away or in your own neighborhood. This year our STRESS LEVEL has been off the charts. MONTAUK is a wonderful place to go right now, with very low rates and heavenly weather and nature. Let me know if you want to go.

Here are some scenery videos from Montauk.

http://goodnewsplanet.com/sunset-at-montauk-manor/

http://goodnewsplanet.com/montauk-heaven-on-earth-montauk-water-and-nature-is-peace/

Additional Good News comes from The US ARMY new animated series, the Calling.

http://goodnewsplanet.com/u-s-armys-new-animated-youtube-series-embraces-humanity-of-soldiers-to-reach-gen-z/

and new technology UVAngel to clean the air where you live, work, go out…call me if interested, as NY State just suggested to pursue ways to keep safe…YOU CAN MAKE MONEY AND DO GOOD$$$

http://goodnewsplanet.com/uv-angel-announces-manufacturing-services/

and lastly its not to late to become a Reflexologist, but call today and I will give details from our Reflexology Expert Laura Norman…

http://goodnewsplanet.com/laura-norman-holistic-reflexology-centers-good-news-speaks-to-our-friend-laura/

Thanks for everything and have FAITH.

Reverend Paul Sladkus

All Faiths and Spiritual call if I can help you. friends, family or strangers…212 647 1212

www.peacedayparty.org

September 21 events.

DONATIONS NONPROFIT: Thanks Gina Green, Alisa Farina Maynard and Sheila Hill in memory of her daughter Rebecca for your most generous Good News donations.

The post GoodNewsLetter. WHAT IS FAITH TO YOU? appeared first on Good News!.

The post Montauk Heaven on Earth…Montauk Water and Nature is PEACE appeared first on Good News!.