It’s a common issue with scientific exploration to withhold judgement or truth claims until you can be sure you understand the nature of the thing you are studying. So much of the wrangling in scientific communities is not about the data (although that’s a thing. There’s a current scandal going on because a major study…
The general public has been taught to be thrilled and or scared by the Death card and to a lesser extent the Tower. These are harbingers of powerful changes and transformations having just passed, in process, or heading their way. However, there are other cards which are far more prosaic and more problematic. The Four…
Plenty of people feel stuck in their lives not only because they don’t know how to get out of the situations they’ve managed to get themselves into over the years, but also because they don’t know what they would do once they were out. They have no idea what they want to do, what they…
How “New Age” can something be when poets were writing about it in 1807? Sometimes life just catches my funny bone. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 5 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And…
Media has bombarded us for not just decades but hundreds of years of message and media telling us that this or that thing will inspire us, fulfill us, and make our lives the dream we’ve always dreamed. I see this all the time in the spiritual community. Just follow this program, take this workshop, get…
When people say “Life’s a dance” they are usually referring to partner dancing where two people hold hands and try not to step on each other’s feet. You know “sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow.” But sometimes life’s a dance like a ballet teacher trying to get 5 year olds to perform for the first…
People tend to listen to their bodies when the message is so loud that it drowns out everything else or when the body decides to taken everything offline and stop the car. Injuries, chronic illness, chronic pain, repeated issues like migraines, we listen to that. Anything else the body has to say is steadfastly ignored. …
You’ve heard of rose-colored glasses. They tint everything with a rosy glow so that it all looks positive and upbeat. I’m all for it other than the fact that it’s a false experience of reality and it hides as much as it enhances. Personally I’d rather have the technicolor truth in all its gritty gloriousness…
I don’t know if this happens to other people, but as a writer when I’m working on (or through) a project I sometimes find myself swimming in a flow of themes that are all converging. Right now I’m starting to write out the section of my Kabbalah class which talks about Shekinah, the indwelling human…
There is so much shouting going on. You know how the more people you add to a space, the louder the conversations get because each person is trying to be heard. The sound will crescendo until it’s uncomfortable or annoying or someone draws everyone’s attention to it. Then the volume goes down but it will…