Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Over the years, I’ve regarded “positive thinking” as naive and simplistic. I’ve seen it as papering over reality, confining spontaneity, etc. I’ve preferred such things as “truth” and “authenticity” to it. However, recently, having had a vasana go off related to long bank lineups, I delved more deeply. I began to see that my support […]
As I said yesterday, every Christmas, I feel loneliness. Today, out of “being with” the vasana (or core issue) overnight, I refined the name of the emotion I feel. I now see it as dismay. (1) A vasana (2) is a complex of thoughts, feelings, and behavior, usually born of an original traumatic incident, which […]
I’m writing about and sharing my recent experiences of “miracles.” I call them “miracles” because, in our past, we didn’t think of our own creative power as real, and so these miraculous things that appeared in our lives were attributed to luck, fate, karma, or something else outside of ourselves. As we awaken and embrace […]
Nick Santonastasso was born with Hanhart syndrome, a genetic disorder so rare that it only affected 12 people in the world at the time of his birth, eight of whom have passed away. Doctors only gave him a 30 percent chance to live at the time, and now he’s living to the fullest. Santonastasso […]
Responsibility begins with the willingness to take the stand that one is cause in the matter of one’s life. It is a declaration not an assertion, that is, it is a context from which one chooses to live. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation […]
Ram Dass is ready to die. David Marchese, New York Times, Sept. 1, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/y53tzcjf Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya For more than 50 years, Ram Dass has watched as other nontraditional spiritual leaders have come and gone while he has remained. He has been active since the early 1960s, back when he was still known […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca John was able to free himself from his past views and ways. It reminded me of a reading I had with Archangel Michael on December 11, 2012, through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, on not returning to the views and ways of the Third once we’ve pulled away from them. Here’s […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Recently, I was told about an “Iboga Retreat” in Costa Rica. Iboga is a root medicine native to Central West Africa used by the Bwiti people for thousands of years. I then went looking on the Internet and found an account of “John’s” experience at a similar retreat. Just to be very clear, neither […]
First posted in 2017. Once Sold Into Prostitution, These Girls Became Lawyers To Bring Justice To Others Like Them Keshav Khanna, Indianwomenblog.org, Aug. 17, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/yxkxja6e Survivors of the crime of Commercial Exploitation of Children (CEC) are today aiming to become top-notch lawyers. They have different stories. Some were child brides sold into prostitution by […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Marianne Willliamson with Vishen Lakhiani, Founder of Mindvalley, May 4, 2019 (Transcript/Notes) Every public issue will ultimately get to your private door. . . there’s no religious or spiritual path that gives us a pass on addressing the suffering of other sentient beings.. . . the world is too connected. So when you’re living […]
I continue with my Ascension ethnography. One of the things I’m noticeing is that, when I considered any matter from the perspective of being a CEO of a large corporation, in the past, I always felt mixed emotions. My mind was divided. I had reservations. I was a house divided against itself. We have many […]
(Continued from Part 2/3.) Back to the question of whether to pay attention to what’s happening here or not to…. It’s a totally individual choice. I delve as deeply as I want to, and sometimes further than I want when a picture pops up that I wish I never saw. We seem to be growing […]
I’m seeing that a happy life requires us to eliminate our patterns that don’t work and refuse from then on to harm ourselves or other people. As we peel back the layers of the onion, we uncover our basic happiness and innocence, always there but hidden. That’s why the love in our hearts is so […]
(Continued from Part 1/3.) Spirit always has a way to get our attention, though, and if we ignore the tap on the shoulder, maybe next time it’ll be a more urgent reminder. Best be receptive to the nudges, in my experience. And I wonder if ignoring the outer world we live in might also eventually […]
Whenever I feel guilt or shame or dismay, I can say with certainty that my Wounded Child is in the driver’s seat. I can say this with certainty because of what I saw and felt in a meditation I did at Xenia Retreat Center on Sept. 18, 2018. I saw the Self in the depths […]
