When I was training to become a sign language interpreter one of the concepts that really struck me was the fact that to interpret you have separate the meaning from the words used so that you can put the meaning back out in another language. And while you’re stripping out the meaning from the words,…
Finding out that someone you know has died creates a liminal moment. Whether that person died after a long illness or through a sudden event like a car accident just the fact that they are no longer alive stops time. It shocks us out of the metal, emotional, and physical routines we live by, jumps…
I’m still confused by what people mean by that. Or by the vague, “I got this information in the Akashics.” Well, from whom? From where in the Akashics? The Akashics is not a who, but a place, and it doesn’t spit out random bits of information to people who drop into a meditative state. It’s…
There is truth in the reality that taking that first step towards achieving something you’ve always wanted is better than not taking that step. Exercise mavens chant this mantra all the time. ‘Just move’, ‘get off the couch’, ‘any effort is a good start’…. But after that first effort it takes a bit more. There…
We build our identities through our experiences and the meaning we make from them. And we assume…we decide….that the meaning we have made out of those experiences are like gravity. They are the absolute truth and can be depended on in every case. But our experiences are limited, they are finite, they are influenced by…
I’m commonly asked what a client’s life plan is or what they should do next. They want to know what the next step is, what their spiritual goals are, to see everything laid out ahead of them. And that would be comforting, in a way, because it takes the weight of responsibility off of us…
In physical life contracts are structured, formal ties between people or entities. They are that way because we humans are full of free will, limited in our ability to see far into the cause and effect future that will come from our decisions now, and fluid in our decision making process so our minds change…
We a taught in school and even preschool that creating is a definable thing we do. It’s a moment in time where we create a something like a picture or a clay animal or an ashtray or a popsicle person. And then we go on to do something else. We are taught that creativity has…
We so very much want cause and effect to be linear and immediate and simple. Flora Bowley gets comments all the time how amazing it is that she’s become an instant success. Luckily she’s a good sport and laughs at the misunderstanding. She’s been working as an artist for over 18 years and it has…
When talking about living a spiritual life and walking a medicine path, I’m reminded that it’s not necessarily a gradual thing. Some people can transition their lives gently over time and look back wondering how they got from point A to point Z, but others get confronted with aspects of it as if someone had…