The new age movement is awash with ideas of creating a new you. Words like growing, learning, expanding, creating, and co-creating are all the rage. But there’s something very shallow about creating something that can be re-created again and again. It points to the non-reality of it all.
Canadians are Drugging Unhappiness
… if its not a drug solution, it’s a surgery solution. It is said that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Medical doctors do not put enough emphasis on other alternatives, mostly because they don’t know about them, are not trained in them, and it’s not their job. So each person has to educate themselves and become their own health advocate because as the article points out, there are a lot of perils to drug use for mood management.
Scary Thoughts
…thoughts have no direct association with reality. They come out of thin air, hang in thin air, and mysteriously disappear into thin air. I can think and speak the thought that the stove is hot, when it’s not. Or that it’s cold, when it’s hot.
Ottawa Deadly Train Crash: Driver may not have seen it coming
Psychologists: “…it’s possible to see an object clearly without realizing it’s there.” On September 18th the driver of an Ottawa double-decker bus ran into a train, killing six people and injuring thirty. The safety barricade and systems were fully operating, and the train was driving relatively slowly. Investigators have found no cause for the collision so far. The driver was only seen trying to brake in the last few seconds before impact. One news article the Ottawa Citizen says, Psychologists say it’s possible for drivers to see an object clearly without realizing it’s there.” I found that to be a stunning expert statement for our society at this time, and very close to my experience of not seeing a man’s face …
How do you find happiness?
How do you find happiness? How does that question feel, good or bad? It’s an unhappy, needing, wanting, dissatisfied thought-feeling itself, right? But only when you put your attention on it. What is assumed within that question? That happiness has been somehow “lost”. Misplaced. Out of reach, here and now. The only thing keeping you from happiness is this false thought knowledge that happiness has been lost. Rubbish. So the first thing to do it to throw out the trash.
It’s a Question of Life and Death
It’s a Question of Life and Death The real reason why I urge people to seek joy… Recently someone unsubscribed from my newsletter, politely and usefully leaving the comment that they are “beyond” what I offer. It made me wonder, did they know what is truly available and offered? Is Alchemy really only about a warm fuzzy feeling? No. There is a purpose with far more value beyond that mere band aid.
Homeless But Not Hopeless
There’s something not quite right about the crooked set of his jaw, but unless he told you it was built of titanium you’d never know it…I must have walked past him and the kitten three or four times that weekend…This time I stopped, happy to be still and rest. I sat on the cardboard “help” sign in front of her, scratched her white and orange chin, tossed some coins into her bed, and asked James where she came from. That started a conversation that changed my life forever.
We are not in control
We only appear to make plans, choices, or decisions–when really we are merely responding to what is. When you know that, then there is no struggle when things do not go as planned. Only adventure. Only unlimited possibilities.
How to Change Your Thoughts
“Everything you are running away from is in your head.” It caught my interest because it is both true and funny. Everything we try to run away from is in our heads, and so what we are trying to do is impossible. It also points out that there is no thing to run from. The problem is, that thought is also in your head. So how do you change your thoughts? Until you are free, everything you feel is based upon a thought, but it is also true that everything you think is based upon a feeling.
Cosmic Pathways Alchemy Audio
Wow, what an intense day at the Cosmic Healing Fair Sunday! Back-to-back, condensed Alchemy sessions, during which every participant realized powerful shifts. Thanks for playing and supporting the charities :-). Here’s a participant’s comment, plus the audio recording of my presentation.