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As we grow as human beings we move through different levels of consciousness. Piaget’s developmental psychology described moving from the concrete operational stage with black-and-white thinking to the formal operational stage with gray thinking. This is moving from one level of cons...
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Many of the Aboriginal and Native American cultures have some concept of a spiritual gift that you offer your people. It might be called your medicine in Native American cultures or your dreaming in the Aboriginal people of Australia. Your medicine is your spiritual gift that makes t...
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When we're not consciously choosing what we do and how we move through life, we act from our old patterns, belief systems, and conditioning. So if we're not conscious and aware of something, chances are we're on automatic pilot and being governed by our old belief system.
And even w...
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The summer solstice, also known as the first day of summer, happens this Wednesday, June 21st. The summer solstice is a big deal in earth-based, aboriginal cultures. It marks the time that the dynamic energy of summertime and long days hit their peak.
I like to talk about summer sol...
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When we go through a significant change in our lives our spiritual orientation changes. What I mean by spiritual orientation is where we see the world from and what part of our mind and being are we using to navigate the world.
An example includes moving from an intellectual, percep...
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A couple of weeks ago I talked about receiving your vision for the new cycle of your life and last week about offering an intention to initiate it. When you offer your intention, it creates a partnership with life or Spirit, and then Spirit will open doorways for something new. But h...
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I was at a spiritual retreat given by the spiritual teacher, Adyashanti about five years ago. Somehow when you're in retreat, the spiritual truths get in at a deeper level. Somewhere around day three or four Adyashanti spoke about all spiritual teachings being either ascending or des...
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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 thing that gets...
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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 what our paren...
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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 shows is ...
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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 thing that...
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This Thursday, September 22nd is the Fall Equinox and also the first day of fall. In many spiritual traditions, especially aboriginal, earth-based traditions, this is celebrated as a really powerful time to tune into yourself and the earth.
One way to talk about the Fall Equinox is ...
