This is your cue to sit up, wondering what a “lifebot” is. Hint: think “life robot”. A lifebot is a well-intentioned person (like pretty much all of us) who wants to improve a significant aspect of life; a person who has the self-awareness to recognize that something is missing, or out of whack, or plain unhealthy; and whose solution is … Read More
Tweaking Healing : reluctance to heal vs. effortless joy
Two lines stay with me from the movie “Crash.” You probably didn’t see it. Overall, it was a downer, with painful scenes and a non-Hollywood ending, offering worthy observations of the malaise of modern life. The lines I remember were “The only way we meet people these days is to crash into them” (the character was reflecting on her recent … Read More
Conversation with a magnolia tree
I’m in a light meditation, reaching out for other consciousnesses. There’s a magnolia tree outside the window. It’s the nearest large consciousness. I wonder how it feels about me pruning it. I feel a physical sensation at the top of my skull, which is… If it were stronger I’d call it pain. A tightness which causes me to focus my … Read More
Two Paths — Diverging and Converging
Part 2 of 2: the fork to the path of Mysticism (Please note: this introduction is very similar to the one in my post of two weeks ago on the Shamanic path) Imagine yourself standing at a fork in the road of life. Ahead are the beginnings of two spiritual pathways that lead up a mountain, to a top not … Read More
A Sprinkling of Poems
Poems have been sprinkled everywhere. Some catch the sun in drops of rain, or bits of glass or tin. Some on the ground make shapes or tracks; I bend my head to read the tale they tell. Others, hues and shades that fill my eyes. Often they move, and I must dance with them. Grand verses compass sky and earth … Read More
Full Circle: Brightness to the Dark Night and back – a spiritual journey
I came to my path not through academic study, but through my own reading, listening and above all, personal experience. I am deeply grateful for the contributions of others, those on whose shoulders I stand, that enable me to have an appreciation for the importance, validity, and context of what I’ve seen. If I am to make a contribution it … Read More
The Worst Moment of Your Life
You can’t remember it because it happens before you’re even born, and it echoes through the rest of your life Photo by Evelyn Semenyuk on Unsplash Conception, gestation, and birth; you’ve been there, or you wouldn’t be reading this. You wouldn’t exist. Every human goes through these events, but our experience of them is uniquely our own. The most terrifying moment of life … Read More
Healing Prenatal Trauma, Part 3: The Environment of the Womb
Conception, gestation, and birth; you’ve been there, or you wouldn’t be reading this. You wouldn’t exist. Every human goes through these events, but how we experience them is uniquely our own. This series of articles is about my experience. If you read it and resonate with it, or if you find it affecting you deeply, I invite you to understand … Read More