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I want to talk about a tendency to externalize our beauty and our love by projecting it onto people, experiences, and things outside of us. We no longer see it as our love which can cause problems spiritually and emotionally.
An excellent example of this is when we fall in love. Wha...
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A transition that happens as we evolve spiritually is that we move from trusting our mind’s intelligence to trusting divine intelligence. We access this intelligence of the universe through our hearts.
Relying on our mind’s intelligence is a product of being conditioned to rely on o...
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I want to talk about two different ways of interacting. The first one includes predatory interactions in which a person can only benefit at someone else's expense. You can only gain when someone else is losing. This is based on a view of limited resources. It's a zero-sum game in tha...
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I want to contrast two different intentions for doing something. The first of these is more strategic in that we're doing something because it's productive and brings value to our lives. For example, we take a job because it's going to bring more abundance to our family, or we go to ...
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When we go into new experiences, we tend to focus on the thing that we're familiar with. We focus like a photograph that uses a focused SLR camera where part of the photograph is in perfect focus, and then as you move away from that it starts to get blurry.
I'm really interested in ...
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When people don't work or contribute, they no longer feel like they're part of their community. When we were back in clans of a hundred people, everybody had their part. Everybody did something; hunted, gathered berries, made lodges, or worked with the children.
When you worked, tha...
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This coming Sunday, March 20th, will be the Spring Equinox, also known as the first day of spring. My favorite way to talk about Spring Equinox is with the Medicine Wheel or wheel of life. The idea of the Medicine Wheel is that whatever is going on with the earth is also going on ins...
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So I want to talk about engaging people for the purpose of connection. By engaging, I mean reaching out to them and initiating an interaction with them. It’s being vulnerable and saying, “Hey, how's it going?”
People are generally wary when someone reaches out to them. They’re often...
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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...
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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...
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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 natu...
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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...
