Hello URLight Friends, As we prepare in Canada for Thanksgiving this weekend, I am reflecting with much gratitude. This year, for the second time in my life, my husband and I have participated in a CSA – Community Supported Agriculture. Simply put, earlier this spring we purchased shares in a farmers’ summer crop. Each week we’ve received a ‘surprise’ variety of freshly picked produce. We’ve met the farmers themselves and socialized with Continue Reading
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Gandhi – Self-Reflection as a Way of Leading (Part 2)
In 1992, when I returned to my then-home of Vancouver, Canada following my participation in the UN Earth Summit’s Global Forum, I began meeting a quick succession of highly influential people – people who were leaders and initiators of powerful movements. One afternoon I was sitting in a quiet seniors learning centre by the sea (a beautiful heritage building), having tea with one of the founders of the Vancouver Peace March – one Continue Reading
Gandhi – Self-Reflection as a Way of Leading (Part 1)
What’s so intriguing about Gandhi is how he transformed himself. One of the most influential people of all time, he didn’t lead a nation of 400 million Indians to freedom and self-government as the man he was when he began this epic journey. He led it as the man he was committed to becoming. Gandhi’s story – and his incredible and timely / timeless example to us – is that if something isn’t working, we must become what can allow Continue Reading
Who Am I? Why Am I Here?
These are the most definitive, valuable questions we can ever ask. When we are asking these questions, who are we asking? Who are we directing these questions to? If we have a question, and we don't know the answer, then obviously we are opening our self to access wisdom beyond our self. These questions connect us directly to our spirit. Who Am I? Who is Continue Reading
The Gauntlet
What is the gauntlet? To be able to see it – to recognize it, to lift the white sheet that protects it, to reveal it – perhaps we must first identify what it is that it impedes us from. Who – or what – is the 'prince or princess' for whom we run through it? Regardless of whether our own belief system holds e-volution or de-volution to be 'the truth' of our trajectory, we can all acknowledge that each of us is Continue Reading
The Ego and The Soul
What I want to be writing is a book about how humanity awakens its intelligence to recognize its co-creative capacity. And how with this, it chooses to let fear dissolve into nothingness whilst it opens its gates to what it has only ever dreamed of: love and joy, safety and community, sharing and exuberance, and recognition that we all, at our core, want the same things: trust, fulfillment of our true potential, outlets to share our unique and Continue Reading
Emotional Intelligence
Why is ‘Emotional Intelligence’ so important in ‘piercing the veil’? We are cohesive systems. Our physical sensations and muscular holding patterns, our feelings and emotions, and our thoughts are all perfect mirrors of each other. If – as in “Piercing the Veil” – it is true that most of humanity, throughout much of Time, has focused its mind – its ‘thinking’ – ‘beneath the horizon’ (thinking thoughts about the Continue Reading
Let Spirit Speak
I’ve always been an intuitive and insightful person. Even as a child, I’ve innately trusted what has ‘come to me’, internally, via intuition and insight.[1] I remember the first time – in grade school – when an essay was assigned to the class. We were all – together at the same time – given the title and the due date of our ‘assignment’. I remember watching the classmates around me franticly clicking into gear, Continue Reading
De-volution and E-volution
Vedic mystics speak of human de-volution - that we are essentially spiritual beings having devolved or 'stepped down' from the Gods. Darwinian contemporary science promotes the idea of human evolution - that we have evolved or 'stepped up' from simpler, purely biological life forms. As a young child I knew, without discussion with older, 'wiser' adults, that we - we humans - arrive into this lifetime with direct access to all Continue Reading
Dis-Ease … or ‘Feeling Groovy’?
There seems to be a ready assumption in our culture that feeling unwell requires ‘medication’. In my view, we’d do ourselves – and the planet – a huge service to understand the simplicity of what ‘dis-ease’ is, and what we can do ourselves – simply and effectively – to shift it into ‘feeling groovy’*. How do you know when you’re experiencing Continue Reading