THREE 3-HOUR FASTING PREP SESSIONS WITH BARBARA

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If we want to create a better world, we have to become better people. We have the prescription: prayer, meditation, and fasting. The accelerating decline of the current social order, and the growing need for constructive processes that will lead to the emergence of a new world society, are daily more evident. So important is meditation that we are told that "one hour's reflection is preferable to seventy years of pious worship." Special spiritual gifts are offered during the Fasting season that are not offered as abundantly during any other time of the year.

"The fasting period, which lasts nineteen days starting as a rule from the second of March every year and ending on the twentieth of the same month, involves complete abstention from food and drink from sunrise till sunset. It is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul. Its significance and purpose are, therefore, fundamentally spiritual in character. Fasting is symbolic, and a reminder of abstinence from selfish and carnal desires."
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, January 10, 1936)