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Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So last week I spoke about community, and I want to continue that discussion- specifically as it relates to spirituality and spiritual purpose. The best illustration of this is in the Aboriginal cultures- the Native American cultures of North and South America, the aboriginals, and the quote, primitive cultures. These shamanistic spiritualities really have this down. And you have to think about it- they were living in clans, and so their spi

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to start with a story. So the spiritual tradition that I've been a part of for most of my life always had summer solstice gatherings. We used to do spring Equinox gatherings as well. Initially, we used to have circles in different cities- one in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Dallas, and Santa Barbara. The Summer Solstice was a time when all those circles gathered together to do high ceremony, and we would do various ceremonies. Those

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to explore personal power and sometimes what I call standing in our power. But first of all, I want to look at some of the common conceptions about power culturally and how we think about power. So when I speak of personal power, I'm talking about a natural power, the power of our being. It naturally emanates from us when we have our heart open, when we're speaking our truth, and when we're acting in accordance to our truth and our

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): One of the things that I've really been looking at in myself and with my clients and friends is that when things were not getting what we want in a connection with another human being. It could be a relationship, friendship, business partnership, or interaction. It's usually because the two different people are wanting different things. I do a lot of relationship work with people, and when a relationship is not working or at the end of a rel

VVideo Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I'm hearing a lot in spirituality these days about being present, having clear intention, and being empathetic and connected. And while these are all really powerful things, when we enter an experience, I think we often discount or even deny some of the most immediate, obvious, and basic information. And that has to do with what we're feeling, and along with that, what we want. What we really want to happen or what we're really drawn to

ideo Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to venture a little deeper into what actually may happen when we offer an intention. So say there's something that I want for myself, and I offer up an intention. That creates a partnership with Life (Spirit, God, the universe). So when you offer that intention, you're collaborating with Life. So now what you get from this type of partnership intention (rather than doing this goal attainment intention where you just envision the thi

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): Someone asked an excellent question in last week's Sharing Circle, and it had to do with the pure masculine energy. And just to be clear, when I say the pure masculine or the pure feminine, it's about an energy that exists in all of us, regardless of the body we're in. There's this pure energy that we can tap into. I think the key to understanding the pure masculine is in terms of intention. If I had to pick one word, you know, to describe t

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I think many of the people watching this video have awakened some spiritual gifts. And one of these gifts that I think many of you likely have awakened is the gift of vision, the gift of perception, and being a visionary, if you will. And what I mean by this specifically is the ability to see possibilities. When you're with other people and in situations, you see the possibility of there being greater depth, collaboration, or support. It

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I want to contrast and explore two different ways that we come to understand things or even make important decisions about things. And I'm gonna simplify it by talking about using our heads and using our hearts. So I wanna start with our head, because that's probably what we're a little more used to, it's what we were taught. And what that includes (for this talk anyway) is our intellect, our ability to think, to imagine, to conceptualize

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So I was doing this guided meditation the other day. It was actually a friend of mine named Anne Coughlin who does these really cool guided meditations. And the idea is to inquire with spirit and get wisdom from your spirit guides and from spirit. And so I was talking about understanding. I was saying, “It doesn't seem like people understand me. And I think that's maybe why I feel lonely sometimes.” And it was really interesting what I got b

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): So there's this really cool teaching in Buddhism, and I'm gonna try to talk about it here. So it really applies to using a Buddhist teaching, really any spiritual teaching for that matter, and it uses this metaphor of a finger pointing to the moon. You may have heard it. And the teaching is not to mistake the finger for the moon. So metaphorically, the finger is the spiritual teaching, and the moon is the truth. And so a teacher's role is re

Video Blog Transcription: (00:00): At one point, when I was studying with my teacher, I’d been studying with him for quite a while, and one day he presented me with a hawk feather. And it was beautiful. He had wrapped the shaft in these different colored threads. And I was blown away. It was a big deal because he was a strict teacher, and he didn't just give out stuff like this very often. In a sense, you kind of had to, I wouldn't say earn it, but you had to show some devoti