Posted in Essay on Jul 19th, 2010
“We only use a fraction of our brain’s true potential. Now in a dream, our mind can do almost anything.” “Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” Dom Cobb Don’t worry. No spoilers here. I will leave it to the many wowed [...]
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Posted in Essay on May 26th, 2010
“This is the place that you all made together so that you could find one another. The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people. That’s why all of you are here. Nobody does it alone, Jack. You needed all of them, and they needed you.” Christian Shepard, [...]
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Posted in Essay on May 5th, 2010
This week I was invited to guest blog at Author Exposure, in honor of Paranormal Day. Extraordinary Everyday ~Kelley Harrell For intuitives and sensitives, Paranormal Day is everyday. The thing is, we don’t often get to talk about this way of being, so the fact that real people are out there having extraordinary experiences round [...]
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Posted in Essay on Mar 26th, 2010
“Rivers know this; there is no hurry, we shall get there some day.” – Winnie the Pooh “Too many times we confuse motion with progress.” – Albert Einstein A growing pain in the maturation of neoshamanism is the instinct to heal everything, that where there is energy imbalance it must balanced. Imbalance can occur in [...]
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Posted in Essay on Mar 1st, 2010
“It’s hard to put in words the deep connection the People have to the forest. They see a network of energy that flows through all living things. They know that all energy is only borrowed… and one day you have to give it back.” ~Jake Sully I frequently hear people say that the Goddess is [...]
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Posted in Essay on Jan 26th, 2010
Given the relative number of times I’ve encountered the observation, “She never spoke to me in school, why does she think I want to be friends on Facebook?” the karmic threads of Facebook and its effect on the collective conscious are compelling. Apparently a culture-wide blast-from-the-past sentiment, that question has been crooned, so to speak, [...]
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Posted in Essay, Memoir on Dec 14th, 2009
“Be Impeccable With Your Word.” Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements “Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can’t bless it, get ready to make it new.” Marge Piercy, What are Big Girls Made of? Bless your heart. It’s a Southern staple, old and rife with colorful implications. Although commonly [...]
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Posted in Essay, Q&A on Sep 22nd, 2009
I’ve observed that the Universe seems to send out memos on topics, as I will go ages without an inquiry about a particular theme then receive several at once. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve encountered people curious about shamanism. On the whole people do not stumble into shamanism, whether that is feeling led [...]
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Posted in Essay, Q&A on Sep 3rd, 2009
“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” ~Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness” I recently featured Chödrön’s quote as my Twitter update while I was penning a response to a client regarding soulmates. The two seemed so related that the quote [...]
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Posted in Essay, Q&A on Aug 17th, 2009
Kelley–I don’t know if this is particularly shamanic, but I’m an avid dreamer, though rarely can I figure out what my dreams mean. Can you recommend a good guide to dream analysis? Thanks! Compass-less. Thanks for your note, C. One of my first observations that I was on a different path was in the depths [...]
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