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
Bow Drill Fire
Loved by the sun, a tree receives warm summer light, makes wood: sun’s heat held year by counted year within its rings In your calloused grasp you take the unformed fragrant wood An edge of sharpened metal in your hand you offer ancient gratitude to those who kept and taught these ways for we who hunger still to know. Wood … Read More
Healing Prenatal Trauma, Part 2: Your Own Conception
Conception, gestation, and birth; you’ve been there, or you wouldn’t be reading this. You wouldn’t exist. Every human goes through them, 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 that … Read More
Counting Time
My years are not marked by seasons’ graceful turn from white to green and white again, nor is my month reckoned by the changing moon, she who makes the tides. I do not measure days as light to dark to light, sun’s faithfulness across the depth of sky; and least of all, the minutes and the hours: they do not move … Read More
Healing Prenatal Trauma – Part 1: Guinea Pig Number Two
All of us experience distress before we are even born. The events of conception, gestation, and delivery, and our emotional and physical experiences in our mother’s womb, are all absolutely necessary preparation for life after birth; yet if their effects are strong enough they can be traumatizing, holding us back later without our having any consciousness of the source of … Read More