Gem Bowls and Denise
I’ve mentioned Denise Hagan here a few times. She’s a remarkable singer of Irish descent who’s settled locally. Not only is her singing profoundly moving but has healing qualities. She calls on angels or what …
Category: Heart
The Middle Way
Spiritual experiences are an interesting animal. Some of them are way outside our usual experience of the world. They can also be accompanied by both purification and feelings of peace, connection, and so forth. When …
Specialness
An interesting discussion in another forum brought together some points discussed here before. I’ve talked about the 3-layer nature of the ego: the mental concept of a me, the emotional/energetic drivers of that, and the …
The Flower of the Heart
There are a number of ways we might experience the heart. The feeling of love or the more profound flow of divine love. As an open space. As a flame. As containing a being the …
Food as False Protection
There’s an interesting dynamic with food that’s come up several times recently. How people will use excess food as a protection or suppression technique, usually unconsciously. Some practices explore the beliefs behind what is motivating …
Layers and Gates
Our energy system is a complex and many-layered thing. The specific combinations of open, developed, and blocked channels are unique to each person. This also means each of us experience it differently. What we’re willing …
Nancy Shipley Rubin
Nancy Shipley Rubin is a psychic intuitive and counselor. Twice a year, she and her husband Errol come out of paradise in Hawaii to do a tour of the west coast, offering workshops and personal …
Asking Well
On this blog, I’ve written articles about intention and about prayer. In intention, we’re directing our attention in a specific direction, often for a specific result or goal. In prayer, I’ve talked about how we …
The Dark Night(s)
Reading the spiritual literature in most traditions, you’re sure to run into some references to an emotionally difficult patch or spiritual crisis. Recently, St. John’s term “Dark Night of the Soul” has come to be …
The Personal
In How to Know God, I talked about the Personal mode of experiencing. Lets explore that a little more deeply. In the west the majority of people believe in angels. Yet if someone were to …
How to Know God
In a discussion group, someone was asking how to have a relationship with God without the experience. In our western culture, we don’t have the common devotional examples they have in the east. In traditional …
Why Do We Have A Karmic Backlog?
In a forum discussion, the following point arose I thought worth sharing: Why do we end up with such a backlog of karma? Before we explore the answer, it would be good to review the …