Wisdom

Fear of Becoming

There is a myth that we teach each other which says if we are doing the work then we are on a straight path that will lead us to our goal. It’s a myth that equates doing with success and is “one size fits all.”… Details

No new Podcast today

There’s no new podcast today. I’m on the road doing more filming for my Youtube channel. So here’s a picture of my cat garden…ahem…rose garden. These aren’t mine, but they like to pretend to be… … Details

Leading With Connection

It’s woven into our origin stories, our desire to define things. Our minds are our greatest asset and weapon. In naming something we feel we know it. In labeling it we confine and control it. We lead with the mind and therefore create dominion over our environment.… Details

New Video Meditation

I’ve uploaded a new video Akashic meditation to my Youtube channel.  It’s called The Tor. The journey is a passage from Ancestors of Avalon by Diana Paxon and the footage is of Maryhill Stonehenge in Goldendale, WA. The heroine is a priestess who has dedicated her life to a prescribed path and yet is reminded time and again how she doesn’t fit with its needs and strictures.… Details

It’s Not a Detour

In spirituality we tend to try and braid three different aspects of ourselves into a holistic life: mundane/regular life, spiritual path, personal spiritual practice. It’s fairly common for people whose spiritual path is to be in service somehow to go through and initial healing phase or “Come to Jesus” moment where those things we’ve been living with and waiting to Get a Round Tuit become front and center.… Details

Power Dysmorphia

It is unfortunately common for individuals to give up their personal power. It’s a weird twist where our need to associate and connect at the individual and group level which worked to create families, tribes, villages, and people, now serves to set us up for consumerism, manipulation, and on going life struggles.… Details

Choose

Stories are full of that dramatic moment. The one moment, that pause between the ending of everything that went before and the beginning of everything that comes after. The moment when they choose. In a drama we’re pretty sure they are going to choose the right way, be the hero or the anti-hero, choose to learn and transform, and everything is going to be all right.… Details