After seeing this Four Winds Society (Alberto Villoldo) https://thefourwinds.com/ image posted this morning shortly after I’d just read an email of shamanic classes posted by a friend who conducts her version of them herself, it stirred some memories of my own explorations in that field of study a couple decades ago during my two-year ShamanContinue reading “The Evolution Process: On Shamanism”
Category Archives: archetypes
Considering Alternate Realities
(Art by 7th Dimension Energy ) I like the image above as representing the concept of alternate realities: where from the central core of our soul we spiral out spokes of infinite branches that develop their own version of potential lives. This consideration that alternate realities exist is hard to get your head around; andContinue reading “Considering Alternate Realities”
Highlights and Shadows
As a longtime artist, I know my way around tools of the trade: from drawings with pencils/pens/charcoal to painting with watercolor, acrylics and oil. In college I was primarily a woodworker with woodcuts and sculpture, but I leaned toward functionality over pure aesthetics, which meant more of a useful framed construction and practical creations, likeContinue reading “Highlights and Shadows”
I Want Peace
Sometimes I run across a new posting that catches my eye enough to explore it further and then share it here. This one from Sister, I am with you had me at “..I also want Mexican food, but you know….” It takes a decent sense of humor to survive through this strange ‘living-experience’ thing thatContinue reading “I Want Peace”
Being Human
“This being human is a guest house—every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful forContinue reading “Being Human”
Expectations and Disappointments
Hey, don’t we all have certain expectations on all aspects of our lives, and then feel the subsequent disappointments that naturally accompany those unmet expectations whether they were realistic or not? Maybe we expected our lives to turn out as some fantasized version of happiness and prosperity, but it just didn’t happen for us. OrContinue reading “Expectations and Disappointments”
Memory As Such
If I could only remember everything I’ve read throughout my life, what wisdom I could spout now. Unfortunately my memory spits and sputters like an asthmatic lawnmower engine proving it has just enough spark to announce important potential to the situation at hand, but not enough cranking power to keep the entire thought moving forwardContinue reading “Memory As Such”
Freedom of Response
If you haven’t yet read Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, I suggest you soon do so. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist whose entire family was taken and eventually deported to Auschwitz, the World War II German prisoner of war labor camp for captured Jews. He was one of the few who survived afterContinue reading “Freedom of Response”
Sitting in Your Soul
NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine) offers Facebook image blurbs to encourage healthy living and enhanced mental resilience; plus occasionally offering online classes and speaker summits that I’ve participated in previously. Today’s image above is focused on the importance of MINDFULNESS with the Ram Dass quote: “When you are down hereContinue reading “Sitting in Your Soul”
Standing in the Stream
During summer’s heat, if you don’t mind getting your feet wet you’ve likely stood at least one time in a gentle stream and allowed the cool running water to casually flow over and around your feet and lower legs. There where the current is mild with water tickling your ankles and calves as it envelopsContinue reading “Standing in the Stream”
Sense the Tender Soul
“To sense joy in the purest form is to sense the tender soul, for a wealth of abundance lies in your deep, calling you to come and claim it. There the river of fragrance flows through you, Drinking from the cup of silence you enter the kingdom of light….” ….’Song of Eternity’…Excerpt Jayita Bhattacharjee InspirationContinue reading “Sense the Tender Soul”
Acknowledging Ourselves
We exist. We ARE. We live and die, and somewhere in-between the two, we learn. WHAT we learn depends on so many factors such as our living environments, our support teams on earth and beyond who protect us and nurture our growth, and that soul spark within us that drives us forward toward some unseenContinue reading “Acknowledging Ourselves”
FINDING YOUR TRUTH 