Souls, Groups, and Flames
An interesting discussion came up in a forum and I thought it useful to touch on a few things around souls and soul connections. Not a topic I’d want to over-emphasize, but it’s useful to …
Emotions and Energy
When I read about Non-Violent Communication (NVC) in the past, I saw it as a way to help resolve conflict between groups. I hadn’t seen it as a healing tool, especially not for self-talk. But …
Non-Violent Communication
Much of our emotional pain and struggles in life are due to unmet needs. These have developed through resistance and denial of what is and being trained that some emotions are unacceptable. This is most …
How Many Dimensions?
In a recent interview I watched, they described finer values of existence using the term “dimension.” This is a common error I’ve seen even physics PhD’s make. For example, say we call astral the 4th …
Life Purpose in 5 Minutes
Here’s an interesting TEDx talk by Adam Leipzig on “How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVsXO9brK7M He skims over the profundity of some things like Know Thyself, which can make further answers …
Healing Perfection
I’ve noted that people’s life passion often arises out of what they had to overcome or heal. In a sense our mission may be fueled by what we don’t want or what we want to …
Feeling is Believing
Recently, I did another workshop on working with your energy centres with Nancy Shipley Rubin. It was part 2 of the “solution field” process we learned last fall. While the workshop covered all chakras, I’ll …
The Curious Nature of Awakening
There are some curious paradoxes around spiritual awakening. Some cannot really be met by the mind. We say it happened through grace or the mystery or by “accident.” But some aspects we can address. For …
The Gap Trap
Models of human development can be very useful on the journey. They give context to our experiences and help us open to the new and unexpected. They give language to our unfolding experience. However, if …
Bits of Time
Time is a very curious thing. Some say it’s an illusion but I’d suggest it’s better to understand it as an experiential effect. Fundamentally, the seed of time arises in the initial dynamics of creation. …
Some Quotes
Ran into a small stash of good quotes today “Even after seeing the pain and sorrow of people, merely saying, “I am the Self. I am beyond all this,” instead of trying to console and …