“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.”
~Eleanor Holmes Norton

Here is a very short but personally moving experience that I had a couple of weeks ago…..
I was getting ready to fall asleep when I found myself in a dark, cold […]

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In the autumn of 2004 I was working diligently on my Masters thesis and in the throes of all that academic pressure I became aware of an energy spending a great deal of time around me.
I tried hard to ignore this rather insistent energy and to focus on the writing and research that I was […]

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Someone says “Meditation.”
Do you think “Om?”
No fault there, most of us think of sitting quietly in the sun next to a placid lake when we hear about meditation. This is normal considering the big bucks that go into the “Feel good and escape the rat race” industry nowadays.
They want you to believe […]

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The experience of Father’s Day just this past weekend brought home for me a point that I have had to learn over and over again throughout the past few years on my spiritual journey.
I was scheduled to go to a cookout with a couple of friends and had even bought tickets to the event (as […]

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I want to thank Jen of Goodness Gracious for tagging me with her new idea. A challenge to subvert the naysayers and dream of what is possible for us all. A future vision of positive intentions for focusing the energy of this human community……
I see a place filled with mindfulness and acceptance of […]

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I am a flower, scorching under the southern sun. In me resides the stomp of the majestic elephant. I swim the ocean depths in a school of fish. A human strokes me as I purr. I peck the corn from the ground beneath my coop. Cool breezes lift my wings toward […]

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What is Spiritual Hermit Syndrome, a.k.a. Buddha on the Mountaintop? It is a psychological disorder similar to agoraphobia which some spiritual seekers, mystics, prophets and gurus can develop. It sneaks up on you and you don’t realize that you’ve developed such a bad case of it until it becomes a serious problem.
It is […]

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