Channelling The Way

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than in any other way.” – Glen Cook Today it feels like I am constantly bombarded by a hundred different forms of propaganda and that I reside in the midst of a dozen always-competing psychological operations. I find it glaringly overt now. There is no subtlety in it anymore, or perhaps there never was. I do not believe there are any real “sides” in all of this, but that it is all just an attempt to get me to take a side and j

“People do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. They prefer to live under some else’s idea of truth, to obey rather than think, to blame rather than act. The real battle is not between good and evil but between cowardice and courage – between those who dare to think for themselves and those who choose to the comfort of chains.”  – Fyodor Dostoevsky   I have found that freedom is man’s greatest exis

“Amor Fati – Love of your fate, which is in fact your life”  – Fredrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche doesn’t pull any punches when he tells it like it is: your fate and your life are the same thing. You can’t find peace by trying to outrun your fate. You’ll run in circles until you go insane—or as Nietzsche might put it, until you go completely insane—because you’re already halfway there. You’re already trying to outrun your suffering and pain by using distractions, compuls

I have been on an intense journey of personal transformation over the past several years. At my starting point I was completely broken, lost, bewildered and desperate, but by Grace, I surrendered. I admitted I was powerless in improving my situation using my current way of thinking and was able to stay open and willing to try a different way. Today, not only has my own life been completely and miraculously transformed but I have worked with hundreds of others, guiding them in

“ The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. ” - Dalai Lama   It was just a few weeks ago my stepson, of four years now, commented that “I am the calmest person he has ever met”.  This statement has had a profound, and deeply reflective impact on me. For starters, there is nothing about the external headwinds that I have faced in my life over the past four years that would lead one to

If you have taken any kind of journey down a spiritual path, you will likely be familiar with the phrase “We are all One” or “Oneness”. It has a nice “love and light” and lets “kumbaya” with each other kind of vibe to it, which lends itself to also being a throw-away and spiritual bypassing statement if it is just being stated and not embodied. But once you begin to embody it, Oneness will completely change the way you related to the world and hence, will change the world   

“One of the benefits of seeing the quantum nature of the universe that can’t be argued with is the feeling of joy, which according to Buddhism is one of the foundations and expressions of waking up to our true nature.” – Paul Levy   I am currently on my fifth reading of Paul Levy’s “The Quantum Revelation - Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality”, and the quote above spoke to me very loudly for the first time. I either had not noticed it before because it was outside my

An inescapable fact of life is that we will all encounter environments that we will psychologically ‘stumble over’. And I don’t mean this in a “bad things happen to good people”, glass half-full kind of way. This isn’t a message about persevering when life gets tough and needing to dig deep, armour up and push through it. I am not talking about those times when we find the grace to resource and activate the best parts of ourselves to overcome the obstacle that stands in our w

Why are you in conflict with everything and everyone? I mean it and I am being very serious here. Have you thought about this? If you really stop and watch it then you will see that you’re in conflict with virtually everything in your life. You want it to be different than it is. You are striving to achieve something and get somewhere else that is not right here and right now. You want others to change and be the way you think they ought to be. That is conflict. You think you

Human beings are made of love and for love. Do you remember that, or have you forgotten? I know I had forgotten but I was reminded by my tears. I had forgotten my humanness and got trapped in my conditioning and lost in the dream. But I travelled an ocean of tears to come home, and I am home.   Human beings are the only animals that shed emotional tears. Other animals can produce tears for eye lubrication, but they do not cry in response to emotions like sadness, grief and jo

" If you think it is important to know about yourself only because I or someone else has told you it is important, then I am afraid all communication between us comes to an end. But if we agree it is vital that we understand ourselves completely, then you and I have quite a different relationship, then we can explore together with a happy, careful, and intelligent inquiry.   I do not demand your faith; I am not setting myself up as an authority. I have nothing to teach you –

“ God money, I'll do anything for you God money, just tell me what you want me to God money, nail me up against the wall God money, don't want everything, he wants it all No, you can't take it No, you can't take it No, you can't take that away from me God money's not looking for the cure God money's not concerned about the sick among the pure God money, let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised God money's not one to choose   No, you can't take it No, you can't take it No,

“Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?” – Anonymous   Several years ago, my own thinking and my own best ideas had taken me to a place of utter despair. From depression to addiction and ultimately psychosis. None of it made any sense to me because this was, in absolute fact, the exact same thinking that had also allowed me to

Mirror mirror on the wall. You hold my answers big and small. When I remember to look inside, And feel the things I want to hide. I find my anger, my grief, my fear And I ride the waves until the murky turns clear. I free myself from the shackles of my past, And find freedom in the here and now at last. ~Jacqueline Wener-Kalbfleisch For the past two years I have been exploring the Presence Process  by Michael Brown.  My time with the process has felt like an initiation into a

Through our thoughts we tell a story to ourselves, about ourselves, that we use to define the way we relate to the world around us. We tell the world a story about ourselves, in how we speak and how we act, and we use this in an attempt to control how the world relates to us. We even collectively agree on stories to define a collective shared reality that regulates how we collectively relate to one another. We call this His-story .    They are all just stories. History is wri

Turn toward me she whispers.  The treasure you are endlessly seeking is right here. I take a breath. I pause. I turn inward. It’s uncomfortable,  I don’t like it here   I feel weak, frightened, irritated, and overwhelmed. Panic takes over. I need to discharge this feeling. I’m practiced at this. I blame! I attack! I defend! I mute! I distract! I escape!   She’s used to this insanity. She’s steadfast.  Turn toward me she whispers again…   When did you forget?   I am your frien

The golden key to finding peace within yourself, and peace with your fellows, is accepting the things you can’t control, taking responsibility for the things you can control and devoting time and energy in developing the intuition to know the difference.  I like emphasizing the idea of peace over happiness because I think, at the end of the day, it is peace our souls are truly seeking. Peace with all of creation.   I relate it to the game of chess where you spend the majority

Something powerful is happening beneath the surface  In the cold of winter there is a stirring   It looks like nothing from the outside because it is hidden from view   It is meant to be   Something precious is remembered in this place   Stripped of our outer adornments like the trees outside we are drawn inward  Called by the sacred to tap into our essence and remember Take a moment to quiet the noise in your mind Drop into your body Feel the gripping, the grasping, the cont

Happy New Year to all of you. It is that time of year again when tradition prompts us to make resolutions or goals for the coming year. The gyms get busy for 30 or 40 days, the liquor stores get a bit slower for a brief period and new routines collectively kick into action across the world. The vast majority of these resolutions will go un-resolved because it is an attempt to drive change from the outside and not the inside. This outside game is usually doomed to failure. Per

My Dearest Little One,  Rest now, in my arms, you are safe and you are held. I see you, I hear you, and I am here with you. I am you. There is no longer a need to be other than you are, or to seek from the outer world what only I have ever been able to truly give you. Breathe, my darling we are one we are whole.   The word inner child has always given me the ‘ugh’s’, it felt fluffy, new agey and somehow a little off. And yet, my work with clients and students has always drawn