We all know that the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go awry, so we shouldn’t be surprised when the best laid lifeplans go awry, too. What “looks good on paper” doesn’t always look as good when it comes up in your life, especially if – like so many of our learning experiences – the person or the situation that we’re dealing with proves to be less than a positive experience…

Stepping Into the Darkness

One of the “loopholes” in my philosophical belief system when I was younger (and at this point in my life, that means “almost middle-aged”! ) was whether or not there was an evil force in the universe equal to God who served as man’s adversary. He was the original “bad guy,” and the human race seemed to be caught between these two invisible forces – one of good and one of evil. People, as the pawns in this universal power play, followed either Jesus or Satan.

Getting Back to the Basics of Truth

Anyone who has invested time, energy and effort into finding their own truth knows that ignorance is NOT bliss. Understanding the religious environment that we grew up in should be the natural first step towards defining our own belief system. All too often, we grow up getting bits and pieces of religion, but never take the time to look at the bigger picture…

The Tess Syndrome

There’s a lot of talk about angels these days. They’re getting some pretty good press…

You May Be A Ghost-Host

Do you hear unexplained noises? Whether subtle or loud enough to wake the dead, if you hear the sound of footsteps, knocking, banging, rapping, scratching at the walls or floors, or the sound of some invisible something being dropped, you may be a ghost-host…

Law to the Nth Degree

Most of us know that the universe – God’s universe – operates on an independent structure called Universal Law. The laws of the universe – God’s laws – are an invisible influence that gently force the natural order under which the universe operates to be maintained. We can’t fully understand ‘karma’ without understanding how it works, and why it works that way, and how the way it works affects our lives on a daily basis – without first understanding the laws that support it…

Universal Law Primer

Universal Law is an invisible influence in every individual’s life, whether we realize it or not. It is invisible because we cannot see it anymore than we can see the God who created it. We can see only the evidence of its existence by recognizing its effect on our lives. Universal Law is an expanding and contracting vibration, always in motion. Every soul on every life level is responsible for its own interpretation of the law and chooses if and how the law will be applied within a current lifetime…

Two Halves Don’t Always Make A Whole

I waited all my life for my soul mate. I always knew, somewhere deep down inside myself, that the perfect mate was out there somewhere, waiting for me just like I was waiting for him. His absence had been noticeable for as long as I could remember; it was always as though a part of me was missing…

Snowflakes

The human race had their beginning, and I had mine – in this lifetime, anyway. Growing up in a cultural melting pot like Chicago set a great foundation for my different drummer to build on. I grew up in a town with six million people; every one of them was different from the next…

Looking Back With A Pained Expression

Anyone who tells you that the path to self-actualization is an easy one has never walked it. Along the way, we meet – head on! – the skeletons in our personal closets, and the process of coming to terms with our past and al that it brought into our lives is a long and solitary one. It’s such a dark and lonely space that many people give up the journey, deciding that the “present moment self” – as imperfect as it may be! – will just have to suffice in this lifetime…

Seeing the Big Picture

Sometimes, in traveling a path, we discover a short-cut, and we reach our destination in less time—and with less effort than we thought, when we began the journey, would be required of us. On the path to self-awareness, however, there are no short-cuts. Personal growth awareness of the person we are in every present moment-is an ongoing lifetime process. The end of one learning cycle is always the beginning of the next…

Anam Cara – Making Sense of Life

In Corrogue I am coming to my senses. This morning it is a wet and windy Sunday morning. Each Sunday morning is an extended morning of rest. It is a morning of practice. I practice slowly coming to my senses. It is a morning in which I practice deep caring for the body and the soul. This is a practice of awareness of the sensationalism of life moment to moment. We are beings of the senses.