Pride is where many nations - including America - are snagged. Healthy pride gives us a sense of our accomplishments - of our inherent good. Entrenched pride obscures our vision and holds us captive to our ego. It justifies our actions and holds us in a self-named place of 'hero'. Healthy pride gives us a sense of confidence and a consistent glow in our inner furnace enabling us to carry on with our upward spiral movement. It signals to us Continue Reading
3 Ground Rules for Moving Anger – #3
3. Don't hurt anything else. This is my personal value system. I know that everything is consciousness. If this fits for you, own this 3rd Rule. Nature is dying, quite literally, for us to release our pent up anger, pain and sorrow. As we do, She knows we'll be refreshed. Our Vision will be clear. Our Hearts will be open. We will awaken - as if from a long dream, a nightmare - and remember that we love each other - Continue Reading
The Wright Brothers
One of my favorite stories of ‘leadership’ and of ‘change’ is of the Wright Brothers. I’m an abstract storyteller, so please forgive me if the ‘details’ of this story are not historically absolutely precise! Imagine yourself … As if you were alive, in the town where the Wright Brothers lived, when they began publicly expressing their ‘visions’ that a silver bird could fly. Ha! Most people surely mocked them, Continue Reading
Living a Yogic Life – Part 1
I’m meeting more and more people who are expressing their yearning to live a life of deeper meaning. Dissatisfied with their day-to-day rhythms, and the emptiness they are beginning to recognize, they are wanting more. The challenge is this: Firstly, as a species we have ‘temporarily lost’ – like a muscle, we have let atrophy – our ability to vision alternate futures. We are conditioned – modeled by the majority of Continue Reading
Getting Out of The Way
There comes a time in the creation of anything when we need to Get Out of The Way – we need to allow the Non-Physical its power to create. John Randolph Price articulates brilliantly this process of attuning our focus from our fixation on the Physical to a gleeful awareness of our Non-Physical Self. In fact it is our Non-Physical Self that channels or flows into our Physical experience anything we desire which is not yet in our Continue Reading
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way – Part 2
This is the apparent opposite of how we in our culture currently live. We cannot survive without the infrastructures of our society and the skills of countless other people. At the same time so many of us feel disenfranchised and purposeless. How can we remedy this? Begin to rediscover your survival skills: Learn how to garden, how to build a fire, how to create a natural shelter, how to collect fresh water, how to bury Continue Reading
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way – Part 1
When I was a young child, I had many insights. I still do. One of my earliest insights arose from a deep, embodied discomfort with how the world is. Before I knew language to describe adult systems I knew that, "It doesn't have to be this way." One of my early childhood Visions / Knowings was this: We would experience complete global harmony if everyone contributed their gifts. And in exchange for everyone Continue Reading
Re-Awakening Our Ability to Vision
It was after my participation in the United Nations Earth Summit that I realized that we have lost (temporarily) our ability to 'Vision'. Somewhere along the path of humanity's development, we lost our spiritual ability to see alternate realities. We lost our ability to perceive possible futures. Without our ability to Vision, we have lost our map. We are continuing along a flowing river wherever it takes us Continue Reading
Activism with Heart
In the ensuing months following the UN Earth Summit I enjoyed a wave of direct contact with activists in many fields, including the environment, human rights, women's issues and more. To me, these were all spokes of the very same wheel. I had not worked directly with activists before. This was at the height of the road blockades in various old-growth forests in British Columbia - richly bio-diverse terrain which was being Continue Reading
The Most Precious Gift
I realized as a child that perhaps the most precious 'gift' we can receive at a young age is the gift of someone who believes in us. I recognized that life – what a person's life becomes – is very much a reflection of whether we were supported or chastised as a child. If we had the good fortune of having positive experiences – ones in which we felt good about ourselves and/or for which we received adoration and praise – we are Continue Reading