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Other Ways of Being

In his first chapter in The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo writes that we should be grateful for our human life because we could have been born a plant or an animal or even mineral. That is true; indeed, some traditions believe we have lived millions of lives, accruing the positive karma necessary to live even a single human life. Despite that gratitude and awe for my life, I sometimes I look at plants, animals, the wind, the rain, and the trees, and I marvel at the fact that they do not ask th...

You Will Never Have All the Answers

The moment you think you have all the answers, is the moment when you most clearly do not. All you have done is to make your world so small that you believe you’ve figured it all out. Look to where you have closed yourself off and open again to the possibility of new experiences and new knowledge. The universe is infinitely more vast and full of unanswered questions than you can imagine.

Awakening to the First Thought of the Day

The path to awakening to who you really are begins, quite literally, with the moment of awakening. As we rise from slumber, the very first thought that emerges into consciousness indicates the focus of our mind. What drives you in that split second as you leave the world of dreams and reemerge into the body? It sets the tone of your entire day, for it speaks to where your mind is at unconsciously, at every waking moment. Perhaps your very first thought is about your body, whether it feels res...

Every Day is a New Year

“Each day is a fresh start, just as each second is a fresh start, each day, each second.” – Seeds of Light (p. 124)We imbue the first day of a new year with symbolic power: the courage to start anew, to begin again, and to embrace change. At the start of a new year, we cherish the thought that we do not have to continue to be that which we once were. Today, then, is often regarded as a new beginning.What do the words “beginning” and “change” mean to you? Do they inspire new energy or invoke f...

The Practice of Being Held: A Meditation on Feeling Supported

Some times, perhaps many times, we need some sense that we are being supported in the world. Perhaps we feel alone or adrift and need someone to lean on. Perhaps we feel the universe doesn't have our back and want some sign that our hopes and dreams will come to fruition.  And while one way to relate to the need for support is to explore it, with curiosity, as to why you feel this way, sometimes you just need to cultivate that feeling. Whatever the source of your need for support, I offer her...

Ghosting on the Spiritual Path

In our everyday relationships, human beings can sometimes treat each other really poorly. I'm not talking about physical or emotional abuse or violence, which clearly inflicts great harm to others and accrues large amounts of negative karma. I'm talking about the small ways in which we undermine each other's worth. One of the ways that people harm each other is through silence, such as when you decide not to respond to someone's email, texts or phone calls. The most extreme version of this gh...

Happiness is the Present Moment

February 28, 2017This is a channeling about time and happiness, and how you all relate to happiness and to time together, and that these are functions of one another for you.  That is, you relate to time through happiness, and happiness through time.  You’re happy now, but not yesterday, or you will be happy in the future when . . .And most of you are defined by this state, where happiness is a state that is deferred, in the future, and you are in perpetual pursuit.  And you are looking to ob...

The Global Release of Negativity

The following is an excerpt from a second book of channeled wisdom, currently titledBending Time, that will come out sometime this summer. The book examines the Christ Consciousness as part of how each of us relates to each other and to the structures of identity and family that govern our lives. This particular installment was channeled on June 25, 2016. I was guided to share it now, given all that is transpiring currently in the United States. Admittedly, it does not offer a solution, only...

As Darkness Descends

At the end of November 2017, I finished channeling my third book of spiritual wisdom, which focuses on the state of consciousness known as the Christ Consciousness -- a state of unity with all life; it might be more commonly understood as "enlightenment." The third volume is all about how we transform our society, and it will be out some time in late 2017/early 2018 (the first volume is due out in a month or so, followed by the second volume in mid-2017). As I was finishing cleaning up the th...

Why You Can't Be Present and Patient at the Same Time

[This is an excerpt of my forthcoming book, Seeds of Light.]What is patience? If patience is not being in the present moment but looking ahead to something that’s not in the present, you are in a state of lack. Your mind isfocused on negation, what’s missing, what’s not here, and not on what’s here, what’s right before your very eyes at this very moment in time. You are not present when you are not patient. And patience is a kind of a impossibility, yes, impossibility because if you are patie...