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The Victim Voice's Addiction To Pain
About thirteen years ago, I was in a transition period. As I had time on my hands, I decided I would do what I had wanted to do for years: volunteer to work with the dying. I went to my local hospice organization and was ready to be of service in any...
Obama And The Mayan Calendar
I haven't talked about the election of a few weeks ago.I was overjoyed. When Obama got elected, for some reason I flashed on things I've read about the Mayan Calendar and how we were supposed to really start feeling the effects of the 2012 shift duri...
Perspectives
Isn't it amazing how nothing means anything outside the meaning we give it?I love finding pennies when I walk. Years ago, I walked regularly along a route that, for whatever reason, had tons of pennies. I would play manifestation games, seeing them a...
Aha Moment #428.7
I'm reading "The Diving Matrix" by Gregg Braden. I read "The Isaiah Effect" yearsyears ago. Man, his stuff excites me!! It's all about the interface of Spirituality and Physics.As I was reading, I flashed on how science continues to "prove" the Ancie...
Question Of The Week
How do I reconcile1) Abraham's teachings that struggle can only lead to more struggle...no joy...and if things don't flow, they aren't "meant to be"with2)The concept of the hero's journey of being tested and struggling through the challenges to an ul...
Security
For many years people told me that while they longed to work for themselves, they couldn't because they needed the security of a job. For many years, the people surrounding me saved, saved, saved to ensure security in their older years.I wondered how...
My Mom
Mom has been popping in lots lately. No...not over for a chat and tea. In my brain.Next year it will be 20 years since she died.She was 55.I am 52. At age 52, she was just coming out of a dismal period with my father who had been having multiple hear...
New Project?
I have decided to start a new movement...may even try and get it started as a nonprofit organization (seriously).I thought of it on my walk this morning after reading about a program begun in Gambia and Sierra Leone for teen peer education around hea...
The Dark, The Light, Jesus, Osho And Me
I'm always a tad taken aback when people are surprised/shocked or judge that spiritual people get angry, have doubts, worry, whine or aren't always little positive, peaceful, balls of unconditional love and light. I've met lots of Teachers and a smat...
Nature And Nurture
I was watching a baby the other day. His thighs were the fattest I'd ever seen, truly one of the stars of what I call "Deprived Child Syndrome" or "Michelin Man Syndrome" that healthy breastfed babies get. He was happy, bubbling bubbles, totally fasc...
Father Issues
I'm not one to try and dig up all sorts of history to focus on in my healing. Being an actional person, I tend to think that rehashing old stories is counter-productive in the long run, serving only to keep me stuck in Victim Mode.I do, however, thi...
Trust
I'm asking again (and it feels really wonderful to be here).If it's manifested, clear, no question as to what is or is to be created...then is is Trust? Isn't Trust when we have nothing to back up our perceptions on the outer world?When it looks like...
"What If God Was One Of Us?"
That song by Joan Osborne often runs through my mind when I walk through the streets of Los Angeles. Today I saw a woman, probably in her 70's, with a wizened face pulling a small cart filled with junk. She was getting up from a bus stop bench. I h...
Today I'm thinking of....
...a dearly loved friend who is undergoing open heart surgery as I write. We trust all will be well, that this is a good thing and that he will come out the other side healthier than before he went in. We know will soon be playing in our grand style...
Words
And these last few weeks ponderings on the meaning of words.Another one of those paradoxes I so love:Words mean nothing...it's action that counts.Words are extremely powerful tools of the psyche in both creating and interpreting the world. I have ton...
Questing
I recently read a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert called "Eat. Pray. Love." What a lovely book! It's about a woman's yearlong spiritual quest after a painful "wakeup call" divorce, where she goes to live in Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali) for four mont...
I Really Thought....
...that I'd be posting more, after the 30 day journey. Really had intended to start covering other topics that interest me. But life got busy and then I had a new thing come up in sessions that made me go internal to writing here in public.The image...
Paradox
In trying to explain my worldview on here, I've focused, so far on the stuff that impacts lives in a very personal way- how we walk in the world, how we operate, live, create, find happiness. It's how I experience Spirit in every day life. This is th...
The Bubbling Cauldron Times
I know these times are important. Words escape me, nothing calls to be written. I feel no particular direction calling me, no passionate creativity pulling me forward. I try, look, search, desire direction. But I have learned from past experience tha...
The Measure Of Success
In days of yore, I was always focused on the end. I didn't understand it when people said that it wasn't the destination, it was the journey that was important. It was a total "huh?" disconnect for me.In the business world, success is defined by "res...
Poweful Living - The Victim
This is the first in a three part series on how I came to live powerfully...or at least what I consider powerfully for me. Karen, over at Live The Power is having her Blog Birthday and having fun celebrations for it. Go check it out along with the r...
Powerfully Living Heroes
My Sweet Friend Karen over at Live the Power is having a superduper celebration for her Blog's first birthday. She's got games, incentives and lots of fun prizes she's giving away in her monthlong party/fest. If you have a blog and want to play along...
Mayan Calendar and 2012
A few days ago, my good friend, Adrienne told me she'd read an article by Charles Berner. He developed a Spiritual Process she's into around Dyad Meditations. This article, or series of articles, was about "The End Times." We talked about the Mayan C...
Momentous Feelings
My emotions always flow, one into the other, never constant, always shifting, changing. One minute I can be fine, the next, some sadness may come in. I believe they are one of my greatest gifts. They tell me what I want, what I don't want, who I thin...
Flower Friends
While walking this morning, I passed a flower garden and got happy just looking at it. It seemed the flowers were screaming "HappyHappy" to me as I walked by. They beckon me to look at and remember the abundance that's all around me. They stand tall,...
Our Brain, Sex, And Spirit
My last year of college I did a senior project on trying to find the etiology of why the devil is correlated with sex. It was a ridiculously large endeavor that had no business trying to fit in a 40 page paper. For the project, I did parallel resear...
My Dance With Addictions*
What, exactly, is an addiction? Is it a biochemical thing, something that enters the body and inevitably causes us to have a set of responses? Are we victims of substances or cravings?Did you know that there is a recovery center for people addicted t...
Addiction As Teacher 1
I pretty much take myself wherever I go. And just as I see Ego and Anger as being Teachers and allies to conscious discovery of the Self, I see Addiction in the same way. Addictions are merely a window to the inner soul, no more, no less. The only p...
Yes, I Get Angry
It doesn't happen too often that I lose it. It takes lots to get me the point where one of my buttons gets pushed that far. But it does happen. It's happened twice now in the last seven months. Once was a personal fight, one was online when I felt pr...
Observations On Spiritual Blogland
As I've noted a few times on here, this arena in Blogland is new to me. I've been enjoying reading about people's interpretations on spirituality. I notice:...that very very few people mention sex, alluding it no more than once on their blogs, if th...
