Shame is the most lowly emotion that a human experiences. There is no benefit in shame - no gain from experiencing it, no opposite to aspire to. Of all the emotions, it is the only one that is purposeless. It is shame from which we drop into absolute recklessness, carelessness and suicide - physically and metaphorically. Being the lowest or basest of the emotions on the rainbow, shame is often identified in the first chakra of the body - in Continue Reading
It Depends … How You Look At Things
It depends how you look at things, what you see. From inside 'me', the vision when I was ten was the first such experience of this lifetime. Yet there had been others which immediately, at the moment of their being an 'event', became relegated to 'forgotten memories'. One of these surfaced in my consciousness many years later. It was a near-death experience, when I was two. My breath was being blocked. I was Continue Reading
Myths, Fairytales, and Humanity
Not unlike technology, myths and fairytales are traces from our past, retained and played out in stories which we call fantasy. (See also “Technology and Humanity” and “Telepathy and Humanity”.) Joseph Campbellhas pioneered the journey into myth. Carl Jungdelved deep into dream interpretation. We still think of fairytales as fantasy, science fiction as imaginative thinking. Though grains of memory may be embellished and Continue Reading
Awakening Instinct and Intuition
A compelling call to compassionate, awakened action - akin to Marianne Williamson's speech for Nelson Mandela first published in A Return to Love - is Awakening Instinct * Running the Gauntlet * Windows Through Time - A Trilogy. A 'bath for the brain', this collection of three astute, inter-woven writings opens the human mind far beyond the reaches of analytical thinking. Inspired by processes of deep intuition, this trilogy Continue Reading