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Are you a Chef or a Jeff? Spiritual Lessons of The Bear

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My husband and I just finished binging the third season of The Bear on Hulu.* The story of a highly dysfunctional family (you discover just how dysfunctional over the course of the series) trying to run a restaurant is, as all critics will and … [Read more...] about Are you a Chef or a Jeff? Spiritual Lessons of The Bear

Pay Attention to Coincidence

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As the grandchild of a Jungian, I was raised on "synchronicity"--the Jungian term for paying attention to coincidence. My grandmother, Sally Stevens Nichols, author of Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, lived by it, and my mother definitely … [Read more...] about Pay Attention to Coincidence

Sit back and Enjoy the Presidential Election Reality TV Show

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It turns out I've been asking the wrong questions about the presidential candidates in the 2024 U.S. election. For years I've been judging the general American public who seems to think that the best question is who will be the most fun to watch … [Read more...] about Sit back and Enjoy the Presidential Election Reality TV Show

breathe, pray, subscribe: how to deal with this week’s news (whatever it is)

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I'm guessing that a large percentage of our readers are news junkies who (happily or not) consume tons of content from various sources that they are perfectly capable of picking for themselves, thank you very much. An equally large percentage are … [Read more...] about breathe, pray, subscribe: how to deal with this week’s news (whatever it is)

Hit the road mode–ever wonder why we often cut our trips short?

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I do. Have you noticed this phenomenon? Everyone is camping, at a cabin, or visiting someone for a few days. The plan is to drive home, say, late on Monday. Throughout the weekend, people have fun, and there's talk about how they're going to stop at … [Read more...] about Hit the road mode–ever wonder why we often cut our trips short?

What if it your vacation were 100% up to you?

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We get together with a group of longtime friends almost every year at a different rental home on the West Coast of the U.S. A couple of years ago, I confessed to an advisor that I had some anxiety about our activities on the trip because I … [Read more...] about What if it your vacation were 100% up to you?

Which Presidential Election Movie are you projecting?

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Americans love movies, and our favorite genre has to be the one where the good guy beats the bad guy. The problem is that we also project (or are manipulated into projecting) these movies right from our minds onto what we call reality. Right now, the … [Read more...] about Which Presidential Election Movie are you projecting?

How to Know What You Know: access your divine wisdom in your sacred heart

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In Love Without End: Jesus Speaks, Glenda Green captures the words of Jesus, the master teacher, as he sits for a portrait with her in the late 1990s. She says that the Master tells us that each of us has within us a literal physical and spiritual … [Read more...] about How to Know What You Know: access your divine wisdom in your sacred heart

How to Know What You Know: Ask for More, Not Less

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This post is a slight rewrite of a post I published at the beginning of 2020. The wisdom of this principle may be even more important now as we continue to recover from the effects of the worldwide pandemic on our institutions and volunteer-driven … [Read more...] about How to Know What You Know: Ask for More, Not Less

Juggling my new nightstand: Housekeeping, American Psychosis & Autobiography of a Yogi

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For years I piled five to twenty books on my nightstand, only to ignore the next aspirational read to add yet another book to the pile. Until recently, I have tended to toggle between high-quality fiction, political or historical nonfiction (often … [Read more...] about Juggling my new nightstand: Housekeeping, American Psychosis & Autobiography of a Yogi

One of my influential teachers today: Dr. Dain Heer from Access Consciousness

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I speak, I teach, but who speaks to me? who teaches me, that is, in addition to the many New Thought or Science of Mind thinkers who have influenced me (like Ernest Holmes, Joel Goldsmith, Emma Curtis Hopkins, to name but a few) or various … [Read more...] about One of my influential teachers today: Dr. Dain Heer from Access Consciousness