At some point in life, if we are very, very lucky, we meet an individual who not only teaches us the personal and relationship lessons we need to learn on our path, but who also moves us forward by showing how and why the game of life is worth living. Read more
We are born with two basic emotions: fear and love. Fear inner-directed becomes anxiety/depression; fear outer-directed becomes anger or even rage. Love inner-directed becomes self-esteem; and love outer-directed becomes compassion. All of these then combine and permute to create all of the other vices and virtues. Read more
The answers to four critical questions are the basis for the development of a personal cosmology, an ‘examined life’ without which incarnation is a waste of a ‘spacesuit’. Let’s examine these questions together. Read more
Some of us may know a person with Alzheimer's disease. Some of us may even be caregivers for one. But how much do we really know about what is going on in the mind of that individual who day by day is losing both memory and sense of self? Read more
Language is such a common medium for understanding and navigating the world that it is easy to lose sight of the distinction between reality itself and the language used to describe and understand it. Words and phrases are merely symbols that point to particular experiences in reality rather than being reality itself. Read more
The foundation of most self- misperception is the notion of “me." There’s a reason that the first two letters of the word, “memory” spell “me”, because the essence of the sense of self is the archive that attracts all new experiences to the flypaper of past memories. Read more
We start each year with the same excitement, re-boot our resolutions and tell ourselves that this is THE YEAR, when we’ll "get it right.” Yet, as each year comes to an end, I wonder, if perhaps what I really need is to add a healthy dose of humility and surrender to my resolutions. Read more
The human journey, I believe, is an unfolding drama that begins in innocence which, in the early teenage years, morphs either into naïveté or idealism. Later on, in our 40’s perhaps, idealism bifurcates again, either into greed and cynicism or compassion and wisdom. What factors influence the path we choose? Read more
Noah’s Ark - aka Planet Earth - has, once again, been fatally wounded; its ability to safely and lovingly carry its precious cargo of life has been seriously compromised. This time, however, it is not the Elohim (the “Lofty Ones”) who have created the flood. Read more
Even though I had known about reincarnation, from Hinduism and Buddhism, from Celtic and other mythologies, and had lived among the Kalenjin peoples of East Africa for 14 years, who believed the ancestors were reborn within the family, I regarded all of these as interesting but unscientific and, therefore, unfounded. Read more
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