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Are You The One Who Speaks - The Shift

Remember the song, The Sound of Silence? Recently I watched a stunningly beautiful new rendition by the band, Disturbed. The power of the song demanded that I pay attention to the message. After hearing this song for years, I finally realized it spoke of two kinds of silences. The silence of quiet. The silence of […]

Our Renewal Changes The Future - The Shift

We all know we see what we believe. It’s not the other way around. Although we usually live as if it was. So here’s the question. If we want to live the fullest life possible and express the highest idea of ourselves, is it possible to do so by holding on to a past belief […]

The World You Create - The Shift

I’m reading the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. My daughter, Christin, fell in love with the series and got me the first book, The Way Of The Kings so that I could get hooked too. When an author like Sanderson creates a fantasy series, he also has to create a world. A whole world. […]

Sweet, Small, Imbued With Love - The Shift

I was working at my computer in the coffee shop, editing the next book in the Karass series when I overheard a conversation. A stooped older gentleman was leaning over a table of three people. I couldn’t hear what the gentleman said, but one of the women laughed and said, “You must have an understanding […]

Perception Produces Reality - The Shift

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. —William Blake Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if everything you ever thought came true? You could think of true love, and within moments the doorbell would ring, and your personal true love would be […]

You Can Be A Life Artist - The Shift

One day I heard my grandmother talking. Kinda weird since Mimi has been gone for years. Although sometimes I smell cigarette smoke when there is no one around and I think, “Hey, maybe Mimi is watching over me.” But, it was her voice I heard that day. Mimi was amazing in many ways. Full of […]

Can We Live Human Life Gracefully - The Shift

Have you ever asked yourself if it was possible to live human life gracefully? I remember discussing this idea with a friend way back in the early 1970’s. At the time, we both lived on Park Place in Venice, CA. It wasn’t the Park Place of Monopoly; it was the opposite. We were all working […]

Be A Life Gambler - The Shift

The conference was over, and I was standing in line waiting for lunch. I was in a hotel/casino in Las Vegas. In Vegas, gambling is the product. They want you to gamble. They need you to gamble. There is almost nowhere you can go where there are not flashing lights, smoke, noise and lever pulling […]

Stop Listening To That Voice - The Shift

Voice? What Voice? I always find it a bit alarming to know that there are people declared insane because they hear voices. It must be a matter of degree that makes the difference, because we all hear voices. These voices come from many places, and the ones we listen to (perhaps this is the key […]

Because It’s Not Alright - The Shift

John Lennon said, “Everything will be alright in the end, and if it’s not alright it’s not the end.” I could add this to the many things that John Lennon said that reminds us that we have the power, right, imagination, and ability to shift people, places, and things towards good and away from the […]