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The edge of our consciousness is where Life is trying to communicate with us, helping us understand new things about ourselves and life.

Video Summary: There was a drastic change in the weather here in Ashland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest about three weeks ago. It went from being 55 degrees, cloudy, and rainy to being about 80 degrees and sunny. I called it instant summer, and you could really see its effect on people. When the weather shifts abruptly, you can see the shifts of energy and nature. The Medicine Wheel illustrates how different energies and resources are available to us at different times of

Video Summary: I recently got a hotel on the beach in Crescent City with a balcony looking out over the ocean. I poured a glass of wine and said to myself, “Life is good.” Until… I got on my laptop and noticed the internet was not working. After calling the front desk, it became evident that the internet was just not going to work. I felt disappointed because apparently, I had some expectations for my evening. While sitting on the balcony overlooking the ocean, I was going to

Video Summary: The best intentions are lofty and ambitious. You’re asking for something that you've never allowed yourself to have or even to consider. It may be the relationship, true purpose, or spiritual community you've always dreamed of. You’ve stretched yourself to even say you want this thing. These best intentions often have some karmic issues attached to them. When you consider allowing that much beauty into your life, you naturally bump into fears, self-worth issues

Video Summary: One of our greatest emotional and spiritual needs is for people to accept us for who and what we are. This functions when we're authentic, vulnerable, and exploring an unconscious aspect of ourselves, and there are people who are able to accept that part of us. The good news is that there are people who can do that. The not-as-great news is that it may not be the people that you think it should be. Sometimes we expect family members, friends, significant others

Video Summary: There were six of us around a fire doing a ceremony in Cardiff Fork, Utah, approximately 37 years ago. One of the participants asked my spiritual teacher, “What’s the difference between you and me?” I suspect she wanted to understand the difference between his state of awareness and hers. I was surprised by his answer. He simply replied, “Trust.” He continued that he trusts himself, Spirit, and the universe at an extremely deep level. And that was the only diff

Video Summary: I've been seeing a pattern in the clients, coworkers, and people I bump into of seeking things from people, communities, and organizations that are not able to provide them. The things being sought include being appreciated, loved, understood, accepted, or validated. The pattern includes a tendency to choose and reach out to people and organizations that just aren't able to provide those things. Many people may want to provide those things, and some even promis

Video Summary: Happy spring. I want to contrast two ways of creating the life we would have for ourselves in this coming year: inside-out creating and outside-in creating. I'll start with outside-in because it’s the primary way we were taught to create things in our culture. With outside-in creating, we start with a specific goal that our mind can clearly identify and then work with things outside of us to create that goal. This brings the thing we wanted to create into our l

Video Summary: We are approaching the first day of spring and the Spring Equinox. It’s a time of new beginnings on the Medicine Wheel. Spring Equinox ceremonies often revolve around creating an intention to offer to Spirit to co-create something that you would like to awaken and unfold in your life. Intention is where our creative power really lies. Now's the time to create our lives through intention. The Medicine Wheel is an intentional wheel of life. We're deliberately doi

Video Summary: Welcome to March. We're now in the month of the first day of spring and the Spring Equinox. On the Medicine Wheel or Wheel of Life, it's a time we give birth to and awaken a new cycle of our lives. This includes the new things that we want to awaken, manifest, and create in our lives. So it's a great time to clear our life paths. That is to clear any residual things that may be blocking or obstructing our ability to bring these new things into our lives. This i