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Spring is an exciting time of year. Trees and gardens sprout new growth. Students catch spring fever and play hooky. The rest of us go into a frenzy of springcleaning. Like our parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents before us, we clear out closets, pack winter clothes away, clean windows and contemplate the garage. We get […]
Each spring we have a new opportunity to get ourselves in synch with nature. So much pain and suffering has come from viewing ourselves as separate from the natural world, and each year a cleansing season offers us the perfect opportunity to realign! Our bodies are always striving to keep us as safe and healthy […]
Earlier this year, a phrase was trending because Bari Weiss used it on a talk show: “I’m done with Covid.” Many people cheered simply because the subject has been the source of vast oppression for billions of people for two years. There are two ways to be over Covid. One way is to do what […]
The truth shall upset you free — Swami Beyondananda If we are to believe the mainstream media, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., author of a new book, The Real Anthony Fauci, is a “anti-vaxxer, science-denier, and conspiracy theorist” – and up to no good. Having taken the time to read his book, I say he is […]
While there are plenty of reasons to start your own garden, housing pests usually isn’t one of them. Once you discover uninvited pests in your lawn, garden, or even your home, your first thought might be to call a local pest control company. However, harsh pesticides can be dangerous to pets, children, and the atmosphere […]
She would wake on those Sunday mornings, uneasy, knowing, dreading what was to be. Another dinner with his family; narrow-minded, judgmental, opinionated, bigots. The last supper. And like the sacrificial lamb, at the day that she knew would lie ahead, she would bear the cross upon her shoulders of his own guilt, shame, fear, frustration […]
I’ll never forget one of my first really cool experiences with my personal angels. I’d been feeling one around me. She was female but she wouldn’t give me a name through anyone else, and I wasn’t getting it yet. I was too “Type A.” I was too analytical. I thought too much and surrendered too […]
Destructive patterns will repeat themselves over and over again until we resolve to look inward with keen and curious self-awareness and courageous honesty. For me, it was during medical school after the second of two serious car accidents, lying exhausted and injured in a hospital bed, that I made the commitment to myself to tackle […]
Wherever you are and whoever you’re in a relationship with at this moment, is your spiritual practice. This is your doorway to connecting with life, letting go of loneliness and separation, becoming whole once again. There Is Always Companionship Waiting We don’t only practice when we’re sitting quietly by ourselves or with our selected community. […]
Tantra is known as a path that worships Devi: Sanskrit for Goddess, she who is heavenly. It is a path that honors the divine feminine in all her manifestations. While meditating on this, I realized that one of Tantra’s main precepts of self-acceptance is totally in line with the motherly quality of unconditional love. That deep […]
