It’s only appropriate after blogging about The Path of Pain and Suffering and where feeling bad is unnecessary that I’ll talk about where the spiritual path is uncomfortable. The earlier blog is meant to encourage you to let go of ideas about how difficult spirituality is and about earning something through trials and ordeals. That’s […]
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Most everyone on this planet seems to be walking the path of pain and suffering, so I am imagine this blog will strike a cord with a lot of you. This may be an over-generalization. There are still people who are not lost in the trappings of the mind, playing out old wounds and stories
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I had a request from a student to write about totem animals and shamanic practices. Quite frankly, I’m not sure what “shamanic practices” means with people right now because I’m hearing the term used by more and more people. A variety of different individuals are calling themselves shamanic healers these days, and I think it’s
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I was visiting my parents’ home this last weekend for Mother’s Day among other reasons, and I happened to pick up Yoga Journal magazine. I think it’s one of the few times in the last 6 months that I’ve picked up a magazine. With so much information online, I have less and less interest in
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I like tackling topics around the illusions people have about what spirituality is. One illusion is that you’ll always be positive and happy. There’s this kind of expectation that has been built out of many smiling gurus on postcards and Internet pages, and so people try to always be positive and happy about everything. Now
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