The last two mornings have been too powerful to not write about. This is about my dreams and the shape shifting experience. There has been a lot of news about the orcas: the dead baby being carried for over two weeks; the plight of the J-Pod; and the sickness and probable death of J-50. We in our group have had sightings of whales on multiple ferry crossings to San Juan Island, retreat home of The Awareness School. The energy of the orcas is pervasive in the San Juan Islands in general. When all of these things came together in my … [read more]
Presence
Our Work Serves A Greater Purpose
We have everything to gain from our inner work and it also serves a greater purpose. This may give some of us hope and meaning where there wasn’t any. We know things are off. Things feel frenetic and chaotic in the collective. We all share this but there are few who are willing to admit it. We see rampant war, greed, and soaring anti-depressant, anti-anxiety and opioid use. Seventy percent of the US population is on some kind of prescription drug. We are numbed out, doped out, or pepped up so that we can no longer feel. I welcome any … [read more]
A Portal Of Understanding
The present moment is a portal of Understanding, ripe with possibility and potential. Through it, I can enter a world of hazard in the form of pure potentiality and access what was previously inaccessible. In other words,the present moment brings about choice. Divine Will enters through choice. If the true ability to choose facilitates Will entering my world as action, then I work to enter into those present moments of understanding in order for that to happen. The present moment allows me to see my own conditioning, and gives me the opportunity to act in advance of the take over … [read more]
The Rigid Energetic Pattern
The rigid energetic pattern is a coping mechanism resulting from the stage of development between six and eight years old, when our will begins to come in contact with the outer world. Children learn about the rules of social conduct, and roles that people play. This is the time when we develop a sense of external form, so the person with a predominant rigid pattern internalized the message that following the rules was more important than how they felt about the situation. This stage of development can result in rigidity, so I am pointing out the energetic qualities and … [read more]
Energetic Coping Mechanisms
How is it possible that we could harbor unconscious beliefs that question our basic rights of human existence? We have the right to be here, to be loved, to have our own space, to feel safe, and to feel. If those rights do not get met in early childhood, we develop energetic coping mechanisms. Each one of those has a different look and feel. Learning to read these energetic patterns within ourselves and others is life changing. I will be covering each one in my upcoming articles. The energetic coping mechanisms correspond roughly to developmental stages in response to our … [read more]
Stages In The Work of Self-Transformation
When work on oneself takes hold, things start happening that we perhaps thought were not possible. It is almost as if our efforts do not bear fruit until the energies shift. All of a sudden, we start spontaneously waking up and noticing with a new found awareness. We may be working for some time without those results. I often hear people say they don’t get it and nothing is happening. Until it does… That is why people attracted to the work of presence and spiritual freedom have a sense that there is something in the teaching without really knowing. … [read more]