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I want to talk about authority in the sense of where we look for direction in our life. Where do we look for decisions and how to live our lives? My observation is that we tend to look for authority outside of ourselves. In our culture, authority is often a relational...
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You’ve probably experienced both sides of judgment: judging others and being judged. Today I want to focus on us judging others. Judgment, in the context of this video, is projecting something that you're not able to accept about yourself or the world onto a person,...
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Individuation is a concept that Carl Jung brought to us. Here I’m using individuation to refer to when we're making something ours. During the development of the independent personality which begins at six or seven years old, we're primarily learning things by watching...
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I want to talk about personal ethics. My premise is that our ethics are personal in that they're specific to us. And not only that, they're specific to how we are right now. My ethics are different now than they were 20 years ago, or even five years ago.
The first way this...
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I think everyone in one sense or another has had dreams in their life that they were really passionate about. It could have been when you were a little kid wanting to be an astronaut or a princess. It could be later in adolescence, in college, or early twenties.
It's this...
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One of the things I prescribe to my clients in sharing circles, sessions, and retreats is a practice I call matching investment. The idea is to naturally interact with someone, notice the level of energy and investment that comes back from them, and then match it.
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I just gave a talk on the Aboriginal Dreamtime, shamanic ceremony, and the spring equinox. It was a free introduction on Zoom for the Spring Equinox retreat that I'm going to facilitate in the Ashland, Oregon area, March 23rd through the 26th here in a couple of months.
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Intuitive learning is the learning of the body. This becomes useful as we start going through life with an open heart allowing ourselves to feel and trust our intuition. With intuitive learning, the body is learning by getting a feel for it rather than learning with our...
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Another aspect of this time of introspection over the winter is that it's a really opportune time for healing. When our heart is open and we're allowing energy in, we may get triggered or spun out. We go into our stuff. We get may get angry, scared, reactionary, or judgmental....
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About 30 years ago we gathered to do ceremony during the Summer Solstice. We often begin such retreats sitting around the fire doing a sharing circle pondering such questions as, What's in your heart? What have you been experiencing? Or, What are you hoping to awaken during...
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I want to share a spiritual inquiry that I've been working with. Spiritual inquiry or self-inquiry is when we ask a question to our higher self, spirit, inner consciousness, or intuition, and then wait for an answer. When we allow the answer to come to us we might...
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In my tradition, coyote medicine shows us the things we don't want to look at and the things we don't want to accept in ourselves. The coyote is the trickster in that he tricks us into seeing things we are not wanting to see in ourselves.
So why would we not want to accept...
