Our Future Depends on a Both/And, Not an Either/Or Last year a colleague accused me of “bypassing” the important work of orienting people to the polycrisis work that was needed. “The world is “tough” and we should be focused on solutions that are primarily actions to remedy these problems,” he suggested. “There need to be more “activists,” he decried…

One of the greatest challenges of our (post) modern world is to reconcile that the “bad” or challenging things that happen to us are typically just mirrors for what we need to see about ourselves in order to grow to the next version of who we’re becoming. Blaming the “others”…

When I was young, my family took a lot of summer road trips. Initially we’d go in a sedan, then later a station wagon, and later, when drawing virtual lines in the middle of the back seat no longer worked, my family upgraded to a van that often pulled a…

As part of a recent solo journey, I witnessed myself oscillating back and forth between the encompassing and utterly blissful state of Oneness with Source (aka god, the cosmos, the All) and the stark and absolute loneliness of disconnection. In this trance-like state, there were only extremes. In the warmth…

Having grown up with a dad who was a former Navy officer on an Admiral’s ship in the Korean War, and who later earned his license as a credentialed Ship Captain so he could safely pilot his own sailboats, I learned early the importance of navigating in troubled waters. My…

I had no idea what to expect as I watched the Hungarian archers hoist their wooden bows and cast their flaming arrows into a 12-foot bonfire stack. As each arrow ignited the tinder, I had this primeval awareness that something significant was about to happen. The fire ceremony was an…

“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” Rumi It was unusual to receive a phone call from my daughter at 3:35p on a Friday afternoon. I was supposed to see her the next day, and thought maybe she…

“I’m stuck in a weird place….like there’s a wall blocking me,” he uttered as he stared blankly at me. His eyes and throat seemed especially devoid of moisture… like the very marrow had been sucked out of his bones. Even though Lance (a pseudonym) had been very successful as a…

You’ve heard the term “shadow” work… which basically reflects all that you don’t know about yourself. What’s hidden in the dark, or “shadows” of your psychic experience. What you can’t see. Yet it’s not some strange, dark, dank place where demons hang out. Shadow is just what hasn’t been exposed…