The Winter season is upon us! Get away from all the hustle and bustle out in the cold to take a break with a cup of hot cocoa and the latest edition of Discerning Minds. You’ll be glad you did!

Winter 2018 - 2019 issue content:

The Human Condition –– Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being, dream analysis, synchronicity.

Articles:

  • The Great Imposter
  • The Path
  • Face Peel
  • Earth School and the Accountability Report Card
  • Charitable Interference

A Matter of Spirit – Esotericism, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, reincarnation, meditation, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

Articles:

  • And Thus Spirit
  • Black Soul
  • Older and Wiser?
  • Where the Heart is – A Song of Life
  • Individual Negativity and the Soul

Body Temple – Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods, auras.

Articles:

  • Breath of the Dragoi
  • Precious Stones and Healing
  • Arcturian Healing
  • Astro Signs and Wand Healing
  • RELAX – Meditative Mantra

Phenomena Files – Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs, curses.

Articles:

  • Silent Night of the Dead
  • Shraap
  • Kallikantzaroi
  • The Haunted Ornament
  • Protective Colors

Arcanus Obscurum – Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism, hermetics, alchemy, visions, Kamea, divination and methodology, angels and daemons.

Articles:

  • Dream Sending
  • Starlore and Magick
  • Magus
  • Sorcerer’s Desk Reference - Auguries
  • Rune Messages

Sacred Sciences - Metaphysical, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology,   Astrotheology, Numerology, Palmistry, Runes, prophecy, pendulum, Enneagram, crystals, OBE, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, psychism, codes and cyphers, conspiracy theories, meta-history, secret societies.

Articles:

  • Prophet of Doom
  • The Complete St. Germain
  • The “Lie” of the Land
  • Cosmic Laws
  • The Law of Psychic Phenomena

Creative Musings – Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

Poetry and Art:

  • A Fanfare to Angst
  • So You Think You Are an Über God
  • Trip Morris Art Gallery
  • Kerry Hensen Art Gallery
  • Steve Kane Art Gallery

Odd-vant Guarde – Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns. Quirkology.

Articles:

  • The Legend of Pranky the Elf
  • The Art and Science of Bullshit
  • What the DMT Showed Me
  • One of Our Planets Is Missing
  • Cosmoscope

 

Put away your Margaritas and scuba gear and get ready for a crackling fire and the Fall TV season. What’s that you say? You’re not a couch potato and you’re too busy rummaging through your Aunt Tilly’s attic trunk for a Halloween costume. Take some time out and challenge your mind with the latest issue of Discerning Minds … you’ll be glad you did!

Fall 2018 issue content:

The Human Condition –– Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being, dream analysis, synchronicity.

Articles:

  • The Mill Wheel: Understanding the Psyche using Imagery
  • I Am 0
  • Be Nice or Not
  • The Puzzle of Life
  • Is The Occult Evil?

 

A Matter of Spirit – Esotericism, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, reincarnation, meditation, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

Articles:

  • Es Muss Gott Gewesen Sein – It Must Have Been God
  • The Sun Took Our Angels Home
  • Paying it forward at the Big Chicken
  • Self-Imposed Karma
  • None of Them

 

Body Temple – Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods, auras.

Articles:

GONG!

  • The Seven Flames of Healing
  • The Journey within – Accessing Past Lives
  • Astro-Quantum Healing
  • Daimon

 

Phenomena Files – Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs, curses.

Articles:

  • Sinister of Sin Halloween Greeting
  • The Enigma in the Mirror
  • Red Energy
  • The Ghost Who Liked to Read
  • A Thanksgiving Day Haunt
  • The Reaper Awaits

Arcanus Obscurum – Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism, hermetics, alchemy, visions, Kamea, divination and methodology, angels and daemons.

Articles:

  • A Crystal Scrying Possibility
  • Witch or Wonder?
  • CROW
  • Daily Animal Totems
  • The Book

Sacred Sciences - – Metaphysical, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology, Astrotheology, Numerology, Palmistry, Runes, I-Ching, Pendulum, Enneagram, crystals, OBE, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, psychism, codes and cyphers, conspiracy theories, meta-history, secret societies.

Articles:

  • The Truth about Albert
  • 22 and 14
  • Healthy Spaces – House Clearing
  • Composite Chiron in Relationships
  • Haunting at 159

Creative Musings – Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

Poetry and Art:

  • Scale
  • Jeff Church Art Gallery
  • Andy Gill Art Gallery
  • Krista Eaton Art Gallery
  • Mer Mandala Art Gallery

Odd-vant Guarde – Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns. Quirkology.

Articles:

  • Defying the Law of Gravity
  • Sanada of Clarion
  • King of the Pile
  • Understanding the Law of Psychic Protection
  • Halloweenie

 

It’s summertime and the living is easy but that is no reason for your brain to go soft. Go find the hammock or a cozy place and enjoy some summer fare – oh, and don’t forget your sunblock!

The Human Condition – Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being, dream analysis, synchronicity.

Articles:

  • Suck Ups
  • Thrown Under the Bus
  • Evolution
  • In Your Mind’s Eye
  • Line in the Sand

A Matter of Spirit – Esotericism, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, reincarnation, meditation, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

  • How Would You Feel?
  • Living in the Now
  • Spirit Speaks
  • The Jewels of Life
  • Are You a Pagan Christian?
  • STD

Body Temple – Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods, auras.

  • Changing Your Inner Tuning
  • Christ Light Sigil for Reiki and Magic Healing
  • Astrological Guide to Cell Salts
  • Crystal Color Sending Healing Meditation
  • Colors

Phenomena Files – Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs, curses.

  • Sam I Am
  • UFOs are Paranormal Too
  • Dealing with those who have been subjugated by Negative Entities
  • Who’s calling?
  • A Lingering Glance

Arcanus Obscurum – Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism,

  • Crystal Kamea Magic
  • The Three Mothers
  • Runes and Magic
  • Pendulum Scrying
  • Rhetoric and Spin: Are They Forms of Glamour Magic?

Sacred Sciences – Metaphysical, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology,   Astrotheology, Numerology, Palmistry, Runes, I-Ching, Pendulum, Enneagram, crystals, OBE, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, psychism, codes and cyphers, conspiracy theories, meta-history, secret societies.

  • The Universe Isn’t That Stupid
  • Mind over Matter – An Interview with the Amazing Kreskin
  • Let’s Get Meta-Mental
  • Truth Questing
  • What Really Happened At Hanging Rock?

Creative Musings – Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

  • Ali Jamil Poetry Gallery
  • Bonnie McGee Poetry Gallery
  • Mikey Pierog Poetry Gallery
  • Marino Art Gallery
  • Fouts Art Gallery

Odd-vant Guarde – Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns. Quirkology.

  • The Fickle Finger of Fate
  • Elfology 101
  • My Name is Zandor
  • Star Light, Star Bright
  • The Tao of Meow

 

 

Ah spring… that most glorious time of the year which promises new beginnings and new knowledge! This season’s Discerning Minds is no exception to that rule so get ready to read some great articles by our writer’s guild and guest contributors. Variety is the spice of life in this garden so grab your spiritual spade and dig in …


The Human Condition – Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being, dream analysis, synchronicity.

Articles:

  • Bed of Thorns
  • Relationships, Metaphysics and Magnetic Polarity – Do We Click?
  • An Appearance of Truth
  • Learning to See
  • Soulless Eyes


A Matter of Spirit – Metaphysical, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, reincarnation, meditation, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

Articles:

  • A Righteous Imagination
  • Ego – Easing Good Out or Exercising Good Outwardly?
  • Choices and True Motivations
  • How Closely Are We Connected?
  • Enthusiasm


Body Temple – Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods, auras.

Articles:

  • Elective Health Astrology – Timing Procedures
  • Healing With Gems, Stones and the Seven Rays
  • Telluric Nwyfre Exercise
  • Psychic Vocabulary
  • Let There Be Balance


Phenomena Files – Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs, curses.

Articles:

  • Benjamin
  • The Owl Curse
  • Object Hauntings
  • Out in the Woods
  • Forensic Astrology and the Paranormal


Arcanus Obscurum – Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism, hermetics, alchemy, divination and methodology, angels and daemons.

Articles:

  • A Witch’s Garden – By the Light of the Moon
  • The Test
  • Is There a Dark Brotherhood?
  • Magic, Stars and a Touch of Alchemy
  • Some Underlying Truths about Religion and Magic


Sacred Sciences – Esotericism, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology, Numerology, Palmistry, Runes, I-Ching, Pendulum, Kamea, Enneagram, crystals, OBE, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, psychism, codes and cyphers.

Articles:

  • The Halls of Heaven
  • A Glimpse of Cosmobiological Thought
  • Metaphysics without God – Is there a Purpose?
  • Psychic Prey
  • Interview with a Knights Templar Commander


Creative Musings – Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

Articles:

  • The Garden of Stone
  • Pierce Art Gallery
  • Jenner Art Gallery
  •  Kane Art Gallery
  •  Rosenfield Art Gallery

Odd-vant Guarde – Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns.

Articles:

  • Yolks
  • Besmirchers, Clowns and Ratfinks
  • What is your Number of Fortune?
  • A Full Figure Analogy
  • The Truth about Merlin

The winter season is upon us all! Whether you are celebrating traditional holidays or simply taking time to complete life tasks during the Earth’s renewal time join us in some entertaining literary mind expansion … it will be worth the effort!

The Human Condition – Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being, dream analysis, synchronicity.

Articles:

  • Ho-Ho-Ho!
  • Contemplating Frosty the Snowman
  • You Suck!
  • Only Human Nature
  • Actors and Politics – A Not So Unique Perspective

A Matter of Spirit – Metaphysical, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, reincarnation, meditation, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

Articles:

  • Do You Want to Know a Secret?
  • Unique Minus Critique
  • Is There Reincarnation?
  • Meditation for Rediscovering the Green
  • The Nine Question Contemplation

Body Temple – Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods, auras.

Articles:

  • The History of Stellar Healing
  • Interview with Dr. Bernie Siegel
  • Self-Imaging
  • Cosmic Healing Timetable
  • The Lunar Diet Guide

Phenomena Files – Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs, curses.

Articles:

  • Wintertide
  • The Séance
  • Bah Humbug
  • Battle
  • What the Cat Dragged In 

Arcanus Obscurum – Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism, hermetics, alchemy, divination and methodology, angels and daemons.

Articles:

  • Thirteen is the Master
  • The Four Prerequisites to Entering the Mystery
  • Pendulum Divination to Test Food
  • Picatrix
  • Anahata Nadam Exercise

Sacred Sciences – Esotericism, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology, Numerology, Palmistry, Runes, I-Ching, Pendulum, Kamea, Enneagram, crystals, OBE, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, psychism, codes and cyphers.

Articles:

  • A Number is just a Number … or is it?
  • Valentine Express – Made for each Other
  • Fear Not the Void of Course Moon
  • Raed Waen
  • Trinity Rosary of Protection

Creative Musings – Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

Articles:

  • The Poet
  • Natural Path
  • Art Gallery 1
  • Art Gallery 2
  • Art Gallery 3

Odd-vant Guarde – Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns.

Articles:

  • The Ascent
  • The Pros and Cons of Elves
  • Klatuu Barata Nikto
  • Xeno’s Lenses
  • Re-SOUL-tions

Welcome back faithful readers and curiosity seekers. Are you ready to be tricked and treated as you partake of the spiritual fare in our autumn issue? Let your mind travel from the caverns of the supernatural to the outskirts of the universe to the land of the odd and the mazes of the psyche. It should prove to be a fun trip as you expand your consciousness and test your discernment.

Choose your route from the following offerings and be ready for a few surprises:

The Human Condition – Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being, dream analysis, synchronicity.

A Matter of Spirit – Metaphysical, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, meditation, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

Body Temple – Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods, auras.

Phenomena Files – Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs, curses.

Arcanus Obscurum – Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism, hermetics, alchemy, divination and methodology, angels and daemons.

Sacred Sciences – Esotericism, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology, Numerology, Palmistry, Runes, I-Ching, Pendulum, Kamea, Enneagram, crystals, OBE, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, psychism, codes and cyphers.

Creative Musings – Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

Odd-vant Guarde – Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns.

Never judge a book by its cover but from what you uncover ...

May your perusal be rewarding!

Are you ready for some abstract challenges that will stimulate both your intellect and spiritual mettle? This season's issue will take you from the outskirts of the Cosmos to the depths of the human psyche to the world of art, the land of the quirky, and the realm of the supernatural. Jump on board the metaphysical train. You never know who you might meet - perhaps even yourself.

What's your perspective? Are you ready to engage the challenge?

Welcome to Discerning Minds Metaphysical Quarterly for the Abstract Enthusiast. Our Premiere issue features a plethora of mind challenging original subjects - everything from the metaphysical to the arcane to the paranormal.

Get ready to take aim at this selection of sections:

The Human Condition

Serious or humorous narratives, or prose about life, emotions and empathy based in life experiences, psychology of being.

A Matter of Spirit 

Metaphysical, Higher Mind, Karma/Dharma, meditation, quantum, symbolic or religious/spiritual metaphoric accounts.

Body Temple

Alternative health, holistics, ancient and new healing, mind methods.

Phenomena Files

Paranormal, extranormal, ultra-normal and unexplained experiences, Parapsychology, cryptids, UFOs.

Arcanus Obscurum

Ancient theories, magical arts, sagery and magery, shamanism, hermetics, alchemy, divination and methodology, angels and daemons.

Sacred Sciences

Esotericism, Mastership, Astrology, Cosmobiology, Numerology, Runes, I-Ching, Gematria, Kamea, Enneagram, crystals, Qabalah, Tarot, quantum, codes and cyphers.

Creative Musings

Original artwork, poetry, prose, fantasy tales, stories with morals or messages.

Odd-vant Guarde

Atypical, curious, paradox, eccentric or uncanny chronicles and yarns.

Don't judge a book by its cover rather by what you uncover.

 

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