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There were six of us around a fire doing 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 her...
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Warrior energy is pure dynamic energy. It is active, yang energy. Sometimes it may be referred to as pure masculine energy which works if it describes the energy independent of the male gender.
Warrior energy was developed in tribal cultures such as the Samurai and the Native Americ...
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I woke up this morning to four inches of snow here in Ashland, Oregon. It was extremely quiet and still. It set the tone for the time of introspection in the north on the Medicine Wheel. This introspective energy peaks on the Winter Solstice around December 21st, but it's busy and fe...
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I want to talk about what I think is one of the most frustrating and misunderstood parts of spirituality and making change. I'm referring to making a change in the way you see myself and the world. So you’re changing your reality, or what it sometimes call, moving from one level of c...
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Several blogs ago I talked about the different levels of consciousness that human beings reside in. I spoke about the challenge of relating to someone who is in a different level of consciousness than you because you're essentially in different realities and experiencing the world ve...
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We're taught from a young age about how to accomplish something. It's often an intellectual, memorization-based approach that gets indoctrinated in school. You learn about something and take a test to prove that you've learned it.
Then when we get into the work world, we have projec...
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There's a practice in my tradition of shamanism and spirituality that I refer to as “I am nothing. I know nothing.” It is a way to go beyond your preconceptions and intellectual knowledge about what's going to happen in the experience you are approaching.
You may have heard the expr...
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Today I want to talk about spiritual discipline, as you would have in a spiritual practice. If you've been studying spirituality for a while, at some point a spiritual or meditation teacher, yoga instructor, or book may have suggested having a spiritual practice.
I have found this t...
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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 experience it in a ...
