Category Archives: Guidance

A Glance Back at My Shamanic Path

I feel it’s all coming together for me, here near the end of my life, although not in a way that I had foreseen.

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Distracted?

Or Terrified Beyond Words? I feel good about what I wrote in the first six posts of this year. And then I stopped. I feel good about that, too.My emotional life, my intellectual understanding, are part of a larger flow … Continue reading

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Synchronicity, Serendipity, Epiphany & Apophenia

I started my March 30 post with the familiar ironic trope, “just a coincidence…” There, the reader could believe that I think it is more than a coincidence, while not needing to take a position herself. Now I want to address … Continue reading

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Stephen Jenkinson on Our Dying Culture, pt. 2 & 3

So this is my journey, at this point. Paul Gilding has inspired me not to feel marginalized. Not to slink around as if I was carrying a bunch of crazy ideas, rather than having a partial grasp of what will … Continue reading

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Working with the Invisible World

(It’s almost exactly a year since my last post. It’s good to be back. Being Clerk of TCFM is done, and it went well, despite significant challenges. I couldn’t have done it without Anne S. Now, on to the current … Continue reading

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Sinned?

I’m doing hard work. I want to give myself credit for that. Seeing myself as less than who I believed myself to be. Working not to let the pain get in the way, too much. Working to breathe into my … Continue reading

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An Awakening Calm

Calm has entered my life. Not that my life is completely calm but, sometime in the last few days, a tightly-stretched band of anxiety let go. Thinking of it as I write this, I breathe a sigh of relief. While … Continue reading

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Summary for May-Mid-June, `07

Ah, how to not lose focus on my core mission when an acquaintance is in trouble and asks me for help? I don’t have an answer to this question, but part of the answer is “Don’t give up,” and I’m … Continue reading

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What IS Gaia exactly?

Prospect Hill Friends Meeting has invited me to present to them this Sunday. Lyn and I agreed on the topic, “What IS Gaia exactly?” Here are my current thoughts, in preparation. Today I say: Vision is an active and constructive … Continue reading

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Accepting the Darkness

OK, so I’m in a funk. That’s probably the right place for me to be. And I guess I’m going to write about it. Industrial Civilization is going to be in a funk, too, in my humble opinion, and I’m … Continue reading

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