The Entirety of Self
On your spiritual journey, learning about the entirety and the wholeness of self is the most powerful experience.
For Body Mind Heart & Soul
Answers Now
In times of stress, worry, fear, there is often the feeling that if I could just get Answers Now I could take care of whatever the problem might be. This demand for Answers Now comes from many sources, primarily fear and frustration. Energetically frustration comes from a sense of strain, obstacles, resistance, and unmet expectations. …
Balance and Resistance
Balance Is. From the perspective of All That Is, looking from Non-Physical Reality, Balance is always. Balance describes the natural state of energy within its motion, intention and knowing. Balance is manifested from these three characteristics and is the result of energy and its flow. Balance is the intention All That Is holds for all …
Flora and Jasper
Recently I have been on a mission to catalog all of my writing. The goal is moving toward more flexibility in how I write and create and to yield a more bountiful offering in my publishing venues. This mission, so far, has had several unexpected consequences. First, I have been amazed. I have created quite …
Fear Released is Trust
F E A R Fear is always about the future. The anticipation of what might happen when, if. Because of what happened before that might happen tomorrow or the next moment. Fear yanks you from the present moment. In this moment is where your power emerges in strength. In this moment is where you are …
The Energetics of Being and Becoming
In the flow of All That Is, everything is energy and all energy is always in motion. Thus, the experience of life is both a Being and a Becoming. Being is existence, a moment of now, an instance in the experience of energy as both potential and form. Becoming is a claiming of the potential …
Five Steps of Your Spiritual Journey
Five Steps of Your Spiritual Journey describes the rhythm and cycles of your journey. The five steps which make up the spiritual journey help you find a practical way to make sense of the ebb and flow of your journey and your life. These five steps repeat over and over again in each moment, in …
You’re a Different Person Today!
You’re a Different Person Today! This is a short reflection on my awareness from a conversation.
Naught but Me
I stand at the threshold in the midst of the boundlessness. Depending on my frame of reference, I see the cosmic nebula of creative impulse. In tighter focus: a grain of sand and the smile of my beloved. In the luminous of this liminal awareness, I sense both motion and stillness, pause and thought, love …
Here in the Dark
Here I sit in the dark. The sun has set and the only light is from my computer screen. I am here, now, feeling the edge of my new life emerging from the unknown and the unexpected. Love fills my heart and I am full of light from the love of friends and family and …
Dirty, Dusty, and Drained
Dirty, Dusty, and Drained describes a the challenges of a hike. In fact, it is the challenge of the trail which I enjoy the most about hiking. It’s been a month since my feet have hit a trail. A month filled with shift. A month that seemed to move a mountain within me. A month …
The Beauty of All People
I will confess: I’m a talker. I love to tell stories, share information, and connect with others through the spoken word. I like how understanding sparks within them and within me, creating a moment of shared awareness. The stories I tell are neither fiction or non-fiction, rather whispers of the heart and murmurs of the …
Serenity Beyond Fear
Serenity beyond fear is based on these two ideas: Create and express through all aspects of the known, unknown, and unknowable. Chaos and fear are simply the old interpretations of what we do not know. Inner preparation is necessary as the failing model of patriarchal, authoritarian dominance gives way to a new vision of integration …
Defiance to Failure: All but Defiance
Defiance to Failure: All but Defiance is one of a series I wrote about training to climb a 5000 foot mountain. A year ago, I took on a challenge: ten training hikes of continually more intensive distance and mileage in preparation for the last hike. Number ten, the highest point in the Columbia Gorge and …
The Loom of My Life
I’ve been on a new journey the last couple of months. As I look back, it is hard in this moment to see all that it’s been about. Many moments which have yet to integrate. Many moments which feel like their own separate strands of experience and exploration. I feel like my life has moved …
Trail Guides
This is a story about my trail guides. East of Portland, where I live, beyond the conifer and deciduous forests which bestow their presence on both sides of the Columbia Gorge of Oregon and Washington are the buttes and cliffs and hills adorned simply in grass and wildflower and oak at creek side. No majestic …
Lessons of Greed
I’ve been thinking, as the solar calendar begins again, about lessons of greed. The global energy is confused by the narcissistic tendencies of a few who would love their agenda of greed to keep them wealthy and powerful. This is not a lesson that any with money are corrupt. This is a lesson that those …
Me & Truth & Self-Responsibility
Me & Truth & Self-Responsibility describes a situation that easy to get into when a friend recommends a practitioner. Not everyone is for everyone. Making sure this is the form of assistance you need is your responsibility. I made a mistake this past Monday: I let a friend’s recommendation of a health practitioner override the …
Saved by Determination
Saved by Determination is about the time that I literally slid down a mountain and almost fell off a cliff. There are moments in life which are unforgettable because you witness a family member or friend achieve a milestone. There are other moments which are unforgettable because you yourself achieve a milestone. I’m not sure …
Losing Self
In my church, growing up, we often sang a lovely song with these lyrics: When I’m on my journeyThere is no one there but me. At the time, I was a little puzzled because I didn’t feel alone, yet I sang the song often, and still do, because I like the tune and the rhythm. …