Reverend Joan M. Kistler

Synopsis: Hope for Humanity News is a series of three to five-minute weekly podcasts designed to educate, inspire, and comfort listeners during these challenging, but hopeful times.  Hi everyone! Welcome to Hope for Humanity News! I’m Reverend Joan Kistler. Last week, we talked about how waking up can be both pleasant and painful, and one of the pains we will have to face is the pain of loss. We might find that we can no longer relate to dear friends or even family members because we have changed so much. We may no longer wish to join with them behaving in certain ways that no longer feel “right” for us. For example, we may no longer desire to repeat or even listen to racist jokes, gossip about others, or complaints about “the world.” We might experience some social snubbing. Those who operate out of ego-consciousness will not understand why we waste our time meditating or waste our money on organic food or bother to recycle or are stupid enough to forgive people. But what really

Synopsis: Hope for Humanity News is a series of three to five-minute weekly podcasts designed to educate, inspire, and comfort listeners during these challenging, but hopeful times.  Hi everyone! Welcome to Hope for Humanity News! I’m Reverend Joan Kistler. Last week, we talked about how we know we are waking up and suggested that the experience of waking up can be both pleasant and painful. How can it be both? As I said in a previous video, the ego is the cause of all suffering. That’s because it constantly talks to us up in our heads, telling us all about what’s wrong with us, what’s wrong with others, and what’s wrong with life in general. It conjures up solutions to its fake problems and then uses fear to motivate us to act out its solutions. Unless we’re running from a saber-toothed tiger, doing anything out of fear doesn’t work out well. It only creates more problems for the ego to solve. This is how the ego keeps us engaged with it, which is the only thing that makes it seem

Synopsis: Hope for Humanity News is a series of three to five-minute weekly podcasts designed to educate, inspire, and comfort listeners during these challenging, but hopeful times.  Hi everyone! Welcome to Hope for Humanity News! I’m Reverend Joan Kistler. Last week, we talked about how planetary shifts, other changes in the cosmos, and the end of many long cycles of time are giving humanity a golden opportunity to wake up. How do we know we’re waking up? Well, do you currently feel or have you ever felt that life is meaningless? If you have, congratulations! You’re waking up! Life is not meaningless; it’s just that many of the ways in which we have been living our lives have virtually stripped it of its true meaning. That’s what you, and many others, are beginning to realize. We have been taught that a meaningful life is a successful life and that the definition of success is the accumulation of wealth and material possessions. Unfortunately, this kind of “success” doesn’t make u

Synopsis: Hope for Humanity News is a series of three to five-minute weekly podcasts designed to educate, inspire, and comfort listeners during these challenging, but hopeful times.  Hi everyone! Welcome to Hope for Humanity News! I’m Reverend Joan Kistler. Last week, we talked about how humanity is in the process of waking up and entering into Unity Consciousness with the help of the cosmos. What kind of help has the cosmos given us?  Well first, we experienced the Harmonic Convergence in the summer of 1987 where the sun, moon, and six of our planets aligned in what is called a Grand Trine. Astrologers consider this highly beneficial to the human race because the trine indicates harmony, ease, and creativity. Some believe the cosmic energies made available to us by this alignment has been fueling a growth spurt in our consciousness. Then in 2012, we went through what was called the “Shift of the Ages.” This year marked the end of many long cycles of time, the most notable bein

Synopsis: Hope for Humanity News is a series of three to five-minute weekly podcasts designed to educate, inspire, and comfort listeners during these challenging, but hopeful times.  Hi everyone! Welcome to Hope for Humanity News! I’m Reverend Joan Kistler. We’ve been talking about how humanity is in the process of “waking up” – of transcending a lower level of consciousness known as ego-consciousness and entering into a higher level of consciousness we’re calling “Unity Consciousness.” Was the development of ego-consciousness a wrong turn in our evolutionary journey? Well, as Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” We have this brilliant playwright, the Creator, who has created this grand play called “Life.” In order to have a play at all, a playwright has to create a story and characters, and the best plays are the ones with a variety of different characters and many challenges to overcome. Each character may have his or her own st