Christmas is upon us. Which means a raft of activities all this month leading up to the grand holiday itself. Not only is there decorating and shopping and holiday parties and school events, plus church events and volunteering and charity work and that extra toy for the toy drive….Ok, that’s just one part of it. …
“You don’t have to be a chicken to make an omelette.” One of my more favorite quotes and very, very true. There are many ways to learn and personal experience is only one of them. But in a world that has moved from agrarian conservatism where tradition is survival because trying something new can get…
I’ve been there myself and I see it all the time in friends, acquaintances, and clients. We want something so bad that we ignore all the facts and evidence around us that we aren’t going to get it and can’t have it. And we seek out any piece of information that supports our desire to…
Sacred places turn our assumptions on their heads. In such places it is impressed upon us viscerally that the notion of people as owners of the land and shepherds of creatures is not the case. Our temples and churches and monuments appear shallow echoes of timeless forms when contrasted with sacred places that have existed…
America, like many other countries colonized by immigrants, is a nation of dueling cultural perspectives on sacrality and the sacred nature of nature in particular. In the past 300 years America has acted with colonial fervor to replace the previous existing culture, the Native American tribes, and to exert control and ownership of the land,…
When speaking about sacred places, many people confuse them with edifices that are exposed to the weather and whose originating cultures no longer exist in a form that utilizes or even remembers the function of the site. Places such as Easter Island, Stonehenge, the Serpent Mound of Ohio, and the Cerne Abbas Giant of Dorset…
Each soul has a genesis, a point of creation, a time of beginning. One moment we are not and then we are. From that moment we begin the journey of our existence which is ‘to be’, to experience life, to learn, to become, for which there is no end. Some have made the assumption that…
Each of us is a being of light. We are unique individuals whose lives help create and sustain the wonder and the majesty that is the universe we know and all of it that we don’t. Our existence is a fundamental part of everything and the numinous would be lessened if we did not exist. …
Something has happened that has hurt you to the core. Someone who is close to you, someone you care about and who cares about you, or you suppose cares about you, has done something that has hurt you so much that you can’t think about anything else. It’s like a knife you’ve been stabbed with…
We have been taught, throughout millennia, that beings, angels, spirits, and higher powers watch over us, peering down on us from some other plane or walk with us physically monitoring our every move. And this is partially true. We are monitored by our teachers and support team very closely. But it is rarely done on…