The Jig is Up!

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Religion and culture as art are beautiful. Religion and culture as truth are dangerous. Both religion and culture rely heavily on our shared mythology, dramatic tales of heroic accomplishments, ancient teachers and powerful gods. These stories are an answer to a subconscious stirring within all humankind. They are a poetic representation of the dream and the hero's journey within each one of us. The archetypes that we have created throughout history are representations of our internal … [Read more...]

The Rabbit Hole

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Little did I know the significance of watching Bugs Bunny as a child or reading Alice in Wonderland, nor the depth that I would somehow glean from these archetypes. Then a couple of years ago I used to joke that my power animal was the bunny - only to find that the place I ended up living has a giant bronze bunny outside of it. And that right before I moved here, seemingly unknowingly, I created an online group called "Down The Rabbit Hole," well before the movie came out. And as many of you … [Read more...]

The Looking Glass

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A child is lifted up and its mother says, into the mirror, "That's you honey," and the child takes that information in, relative to itself and its mom. But is that image really the child? Are you what you think that you see in the mirror and what someone tells you that you are? Is that image in the mirror the you that you have chosen or the one that was given to you? Do you question it or do you just believe it? I don't believe in anything, not in me or the reflection that I am seeing. The … [Read more...]

Embracing The Darkness

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The Void, The Nothing, The Womb, The Great Mother, The Sublime Feminine, The Great Mystery, The Tao, The Yin. This is the True Darkness...get over it. It is part of who we are; it is the source of who we are. We have been misguided for thousands of years to fear the dark. In many ways, this was a diversion so that we wouldn't question that which occurred in the light. In so many religions and aspects of spirituality, when we question the motives and actions of authority we are told that it is … [Read more...]

Excavation: Clearing from the depth of self

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"I can't believe that this has come up again. I thought that I had worked through this." Lightworkers often seem surprised about personal issues that keep popping up. This is because much of the work around inner issues is ritualistic at best, meaning that it is only representative of what actually must be done. Or a person may ask another to go in and do it for them or psych it out of them, like asking someone to yank out a tooth. Or they may even attempt to pray it away. But this I must … [Read more...]

What is Within?

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We hear the word "within" used a lot to describe an experience that we should be having but, what does it really mean and, for that matter, where exactly is it? Obviously, the body is made up many things -- skin, cells, bones, blood, organs, etc. Then you have the brain, an even more complex operating system of bio-electrical pathways, tissue, muscle, etc. And we are supposedly somewhere in here or around here. In most cases "within" refers to the experiential essence. So, what is that? Is … [Read more...]

The Quintessential Warrior

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You can not become any kind of warrior in a weekend period. Warriorship is based on lifelong consistency. A true warrior learns to harness the mind, body, spirit, soul and essence; ergo The Quintessential Warrior. There are truly no external battles; war is waged and settled within. If you conquer the self, you conquer the illusions of the world. The application of actual physical combat, if necessary, is swift and effective. Warriorship is an internal quest for personal excellence. You may … [Read more...]

Sedona Tragedy: The Quick and The Dead – The James Arthur Ray Investigation

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I started on my path at the age of 5; 42 years later, I know of no way to short cut it! It is hard and consistent work. Notice that I didn't say "Spiritual Path" or "Way to Enlightenment," because I don't even feel that those are where we are going or what we are doing. I certainly don't feel that you can attain it in a Weekend Spiritual Warrior Workshop. What James Arthur Ray did was an irresponsible and manipulative travesty! At this time in human development, you can not tell people what … [Read more...]

Nothing At All!

I have moved myself through the things that they speak of The mind and refined it to the point of uselessness The body; I have found its use as a space ship to traverse this The spirit to the attention of the inner workings of nature to hear it And the soul if I be so bold....that which to let go They ask me "How can you live without a soul?" And I say "Like so..........." If I am alive and abide by these things what then am I; a human being? As I watch it all crumbling Realizing that I … [Read more...]

What is This?

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The undeniable pull to exit from the construct The inevitable influx of the shifting paradigm Where do you stand? In any of this The disguise of freedom is masked with overlays Of purpose and cause, reason and rhyme Do you really want to be part of this flurry of distractions? Are the layers apparent? The thickness of it Its density... Escape Wipe it off Release...let it go...walk away Detach from.... Create the new model w/o the glue What is any of this anyway? Whose idea was … [Read more...]