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Even Being a Hapless Victim Doesn’t Destroy Hope My youngest daughter turned 23 about a month ago, and decided to take me up on my offer to pick the play she wanted to see at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s annual Shaw Festival, deservedly acclaimed throughout North America. We have gone nearly every year to this idyllic and very …
The Only Real Solution to Conflict and Crisis The only way we solve problems, regain hope and authentic wellbeing, and better empower ourselves is when we can transcend – “get beyond” to a sense of completion and resolution. These are transcendent times that call for new insights, admittance, and unconditionally caring, compassionate, inclusive solutions. The …
Experience the Transformational Power of Shamanic Journeying Saturday, June 27 from 1-4pm Fee: $30.00 Register online via the Lightways Journeys 2015 event calendar Lightways Garden Room and Native America Medicine Wheel Located at 228 Gilmore Road Brockport, NY 14420 Shamanism is the most ancient spiritual healing and development practice we know. Recent decades of archaeological …
The Real Dangers of Prolonged Hopelessness It is the real core killer. It opens the door to addiction and perpetuates it. It sacrifices and separates us from our spirit. Without hope we are truly at risk to not long survive. What Is It, Really? Hopelessness is simply a feeling, a signal, and a sensation, and …
My Absence Me, for one. I have been absent from blogging and sending out Centering Tools email newsletters throughout the holiday season. The reason why I’ve been so absent involves the final, precipitous and untimely absence of my beloved oldest child Anna, who died December 26 at 37 from still-unknown causes after a heartbreaking and …
Are You Willing to Admit? It is not an accident that these are the core elements of the 12 step program founded by AA – admittance and responsibility as ethics. My mother would have said these are the core elements of being a mensch – a person of character. Religions dictate to us if we …
Channeling for Spiritual Healing and Empowerment Classes held at Lightways, 1228 Gilmore road, Brockport, NY 14420 Part I: Wed, Nov 5 Part II: Wed, Nov 12 6:30-9 pm $25 each class, both for $40. (Attendance at both classes is strongly encouraged!) Class I focuses on Channeling for Healing, Class II on Channeling for Development. Handouts …
The Real Meaning and Challenge of Personal Growth So much of my work, I’ve understood from the beginning, involves personal growth as the key to self-healing and empowerment. It really involves becoming greater, which is the only way to overcome challenges and stuckness – and the only way to “match” yourself with the opportunities you …
An Art, Not Just a Science So much is presented these days about the need for self-care – and no wonder! When we experience great stressors and extended responsibilities in our lives, paying central care to ourselves can centrally fly out the window. Self-care, though, is not just a science filled with concrete tasks and …
How Do Miracles Really Occur? What Are The Real Elements That Make Miracles? There have been some miracles happening in my family this year, which I’m just starting to understand and much more clearly view. I’m also feeling some synchronicity with this view and new clarity after having just finished watching Ken Burns’ excellent miniseries …