It sounds so simple when said this way: develop your dreaming body on the asleep side first, which by of its own volition will begin to come out to roam in the physical world when you are asleep in the dreamscape. A simultaneous inversion of sorts. Over there and over here become only one field without a ...
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Abiword HTML Document I was 16 years old and struggling with music, nothing seemed to work, everything was difficult. The art form demanded more of me and I was not prepared to agree to that so I quit. I told my piano teacher that I was quitting piano. She said "okay, but I will see you back again". In my teenage mind I took that as a ...
In 2006 I stopped the world. I quit my job, packed up personal objects & mementos I wanted to keep into a six trunks to store at my parents. Then, armed with two suitcases, I moved to another continent with a primary intent of meeting working and practicing with shamans who were energetically similar, the other to ...
I awoke that morning to the sound of people talking in the other room..... Opening my eyes I think how beautiful the mountains are in the distance, all purplish in the early golden light. Wait, there aren't any mountains near. I blink and the normal view is framed by the window. Well, whatever. Smelling that wonderful aroma of freshly brewed coffee...
I have never been to a shrink. I've talked things out with friends, with my Maker teachers as I went through my years of intensive healing and needed to talk things out, but my only exposure to psychology has been through books that have referred to certain clinical therapeutic approaches. For example, in one book in healing personal trauma, I lear...
I waited for him in the hotel lobby. No sense denying it, this woman was very nervous. I had never met a Shaman before, let alone one called a Maker. How does one prepare for such an auspicious occasion? The only way possible, by being myself, a person over the brink with questions, in the grips of attempting to understand by any means necess...
Sometimes I wonder if every human alive has a "hole in their heart". Where did it come from, why is it there? Too many differing reasons and views on that and it's not the concern here. What is of concern is a particular pair of intertwined expectations that are used in an attempt to fill that hole, creating havoc and mayhem, misinterpretation...
'Tis the season and what a season it is. Expectations coupled with emotions all cozied up with traditions. Gatherings, traveling, meeting up with family, friends, and acquaintances, inducing excitement or anxiety. Either way, high spirits often mask what's lurking just beneath the surface - the past. You know, the holiday persona that comes out of ...
Here I am sitting in front of the white page again, this time choosing my moment instead of waiting for that elusive instant where I have something to say or share. Why not conjuring it instead? Freedom is the price to pay when living as a maker and you pay it in sweat and pain, those currencies your will and intent bring out of you in order to cha...
When was the last time you were moved to tears? Overwhelming emotion attached to nothing specific other than the exquisiteness in the perfection of the moment, bringing a tear to your eye? "Can't remember". "Not really, no". "Ummmm, maybe …" Came across a curiosity from my past yesterday. A list entitled, "Things I love", numbered t...
