Fifty Times-Plus Reads for The Lord of the Rings I have a confession to make. I have read The Lord of the Rings by J. R. Tolkien more than 50 times over the past thirty-two years beginning with a course requirement while in my last year of undergraduate school, many lifetimes, it seems, ago. I’ve just …

Imagination is Everything Imagination, says Einstein, is everything.  Our imagination is how we envision.  When we know how to access our inner vision we are able to connect with our core, and our true spiritual essence is free to inspire and greatly touch us.  How can we do that?  The Road to Envision The following …

The New Cardinal Sin – Take A Break More and more I hear from my clients what seems to be fast becoming an impossible wish in our culture – to take a break from being perpetually “plugged in” to a seemingly endless “to do” list. This implied societal sin has occurred thanks, in part, to …

Sometimes I like to reflect, in as many meaningful dimensions that I can consider, the emerging themes that seem to present themselves in the course of a day-evening working with clients. Today this is what emerged, in the order in which it now presents itself to me: Shame is a “lock-in” that forces us to …

  When we are moved to take spiritual stock, we are naturally moved to ask for and be open to receive blessings.  We are then further stimulated to seek to give and, in our heart of hearts, trust and honor our power to share. An Inner Journey Here is an inner journey that you can …

Honor By The Wayside I want to begin by saying the very first word in the title above is not used much these days – hasn’t been for a long time. It was pretty extensively used, and hugely popular for millennia through the 19th century – then it kind of fell by the wayside into …

Can You Unconditionally, Attentively Stay Present with Your Feelings?  How able you are to unconditionally, attentively stay present with your feelings extends to how easily you can channel your intuition for any higher purpose. We live in a culture that has critically conditioned us for thousands of years to run from our feelings; and, in …

Opening Your Power to Receive With great love, affection, and heartfelt wishes to correspondingly receive, as you seize your own authentic power to experience and create, all that composes intimate connecting with your spirit, here is my love letter to you: Do we know the meaning of the word “intimacy” in our culture? Do we …