Women across the globe are awakening to the extensive, suffocating effect of patriarchy. For a while, I thought it was just people like me, those I associate with, women (and a few men) who are of compassionate mind and heart, but something happened last week that opened my eyes to see it quite differently. One …
Category Archives: Awareness
The Hidden Premise: Escape
Our world is a world of duality. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be able to experience anything. There wouldn’t be anyone to experience anything. I am because the eventuality of I am not co-exists. That is duality. Evil can be experienced because we compare and contrast it with good, its duality pairing. If there was …
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Warning: this post is about women being silenced, being made invisible. It includes discussion about rape. A 1957 movie, The Incredible Shrinking Man follows Scott Carey, who after exposure to a strange radiation cloud and insecticide, begins to shrink relentlessly. As his size diminishes, everyday objects and creatures become life-threatening, forcing him into a struggle …
Heart Over Mind: Embracing True Aliveness
Living in my heart, leaving the body-mind paradigm behind, feels like insanity. Is stepping away from the old paradigm even possible in this storybook life? Yes. It seems it is and I’m as surprised as you are. It feels like a choice, but it isn’t, not really. The protective layers wrapped around this body have …
Call it Anything You Want … but it’s still Grace
When something lifesaving, financially positive or just wonderful in general happens, people, regardless of religion, tend to thank God for His grace. God saved me. God kept me from losing my home. I give thanks to God for that money appearing. God showed me what to do; it was a sign. God kept me from …
The Quest for Truth: Bye-Bye Seeker
What are you seeking? Most everyone is looking for something: more material stuff, better health or improved looks, a way to get ahead (legally or not), happiness and peace (however you define it), revenge, the fountain of youth, a way to be okay, a way to escape the pains of life, a more humane world, …
Masks of Pain: Unraveling Our Stories of Worth
The Phantom of the Opera is a favorite of mine. I identified, not with Christine, but with the Phantom, with the one who hid pain behind the mask. I didn’t want to see Christine choose a healthy love; I was silently hoping that she would choose the unlovable monster. I guess it isn’t a surprise …
Something Truly Worth Saving
The thing that surprises me (well life surprises me, but this particular one wanted to be written about today) is that 338,000,000 people can’t, or haven’t the will, to oust a man who is obviously and literally destroying the country. We seem content to let the system work, to wait for elections, to trust in …
The Big Tent: the greatest (also the only) show on Earth
It’s all just one big circus tent. Inside the tent is anything you want to experience, whether that want is conscious or not. We are born in the tent and die there. Nothing happens outside of the Big Tent. All experiences are worthy of you, even if others think your life is a waste of …
It Is Time
I am reminded of a vision I was given many years ago. “I saw a woman with a long white braid walking toward a polluted river. Eyes brimming with tears, she bent down on one knee to embrace the earth. I could feel love emanating from her. She leaned over and one single tear fell …
Surfing the Seamless Sameness …
When you realize ‘why’ is irrelevant, that even if it wasn’t, there really is no true answer, that anything you come up with is merely your current best understanding, a thought, a belief that is bound for change … When you’ve seen that ‘how’ will reveal itself in its own good timing, that it isn’t …
Monsters Everywhere / To Come Back to the World Renewed
… a two-part inquiry into the darkness and the light Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite movies. Some people I’ve talked with about it thought it was too violent for them to watch. I get that. It definitely has its darkness, kind of like our world. I decided to watch the two …
A Confluence of Spirituality and Humanity
There is an interesting confluence of spirituality and humanity occurring. I wondered what it would be. Now I see clearly. In the past I have referred to the intersection of divine and human as the center of the cross, the sweet spot where we are what is, where we pour love onto saint and sinner …
The Storyless Story
I am human and even that label is more than suspect. Any label you attach to me is in error. Labels merely point to how you perceive that I am showing up in the moment, how you want me to show up, or how you believe I showed up in what you deem our past. …
An Unstoried Life
There is a deep responsibility for life that lives within each of us. As we move along the spiritual path we learn to surrender, to let life be as it is, for it is as it is whether we let it be or not. Eventually when the surrender is complete, a new understanding dawns: this …
