Be Here Now
I was sitting on the floor in the spirituality section at my local Borders bookstore when I saw it—the purple spine caught my eye. It was probably 20 years ago now, but I remember the moment well. I spent many hours in that exact spot,…
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Ocean As Mother
Rachel Carson has forever changed the way I see the ocean, and I’m not sure how she did it. I was planning to give you some passages depicting the ocean as a mother: who unceasingly circulates her bodily currents across distant shores and open seas,…
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Why Aren’t We All Wanting to Be Babaji?
“The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of maya, the principle of relativity and duality.”
Autobiography of a Yogi is a powerful, life-changing book. It’s a modern-day account of the spiritual masters of India, written by… -
A More Dignified Way of Life
For weeks after I read this book, I couldn’t speak about it without crying. Not because I was sad about what we did to the Native American people—I was, but that’s not why. I felt personally devastated that I hadn’t…
This is Part 5 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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Where Did the Goddess Go?
It seems she was usurped by the written word. The Great Goddess reigned supreme for 30,000 years of documented human existence, she lived in the hearts of both men and women—they worshiped her as…
This is Part 4 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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The Great Mother and the Fall
If you’re born into a system, and so are those who raise you and live around you, it’s very difficult to recognize the system—until someone finds all the research on the time before the system existed, and then…
This is Part 3 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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The Master and His Emissary
Years of spiritual work and meditation had left me with one burning question: How do I move beyond the ego, so I can live from my soul—know it, hear it, follow it? Much to my surprise, I didn’t find the answer to my…
This is Part 2 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
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Tree People
When Peter Wohlleben went to forestry school, he learned that trees are resources to be managed for maximum commercial value. The forestry industry likes them tall, straight, and regularly spaced—easy to cut and easy to sell. In the professional forester’s eyes, every forest is destined…
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Left Brain v. Right Brain
“Oh, now I see… that’s the left brain.”
I had just finished one of the exercises in Betty Edwards’ classic drawing book. Her instructions were to take a Picasso drawing, turn it upside down, and then copy it….This is Part 1 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
