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Essays and Articles

These articles and essays form a good introduction to the conceptual context within which I work with you. They include introductory topics and more in-depth essays exploring selected aspects of metaphysics, energy dynamics, spiritual process, and psychology.

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When I read your writtings I feel inspired, your spirit seems authentically expressed in your words - which in turn allows my spirit to feel directly spoken to. - AK, Boulder CO

Your newsletters are so inspiring. I always look forward to receiving them. It's almost uncanny that what you talk about in your own life is often very similar to what's going on for me. Funny how the universe works that way. - TE, Boulder CO

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Latest Blog Entries Blog Archive LOST IN TRANSITION On how we can lose parts of ourselves, even as we reclaim others, in major life transisitons. Being aware of the internal dynamic of transistions we can use them rather to become whole. More... UNCONDITIONAL GRATITUDE I invite you to call up the feeling of gratitude. Allow yourself to remember a time... More... THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD On how the inner light of Spirit is always shining for us when we look with our heart, just as the stars are always shining in space. More... EDITING EMOTIONS In your life there is always an emotional "sound track" playing under your experiences and under your thoughts. More... SEASONAL RESISTANCE Standing last night on a hillside above Boulder: as the stars came out in the clear autumn sky, smelling the pine trees and noticing the snow from last week's fall, I can remember summer, but am feeling also the approach of winter. More... BEYOND SUCCESS 10/16/11 Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.I'll meet you there. Millions of years of evolution have programed Homo Sapiens for success. More... THE CONNECTED SELF 10/1/11 Take a moment to settle yourself. Give yourself a few deep slow breaths. Feel the seat under you and the sky above. Now set your inner attention for self love. Open to the feeling in your body and being. More... THE INNER GATEKEEPER 9/1/11 Stepping through the threshold to our inner essence is something that can happen in nature or with others. Meeting your inner gatekeeper and stepping through with yourself helps bring this essential energy into everyday life. More... HOLDING EMOTIONS 8/16/11 How holding our emotions rather than being them allows even old, presistant, stuck emotions to complete, move, and transform. More... THE MAGIC OF TREES 7/16/11 When I do readings there is a dark green energy, like the pine trees in the mountains here, that I think of as tree energy. It is calm and grounded, quiet and still. More... BEING YOUR BLISS 7/1/11 Following your bliss is often taken as an external process, but there is a deeper internal aspect that accomplishes even more. More... RITUALS AND MASTERY 6/1/11 About the psychology of rituals, their prevalence in all areas of life, and the balance of how they can help us live in joy and freedom, or limit us in fear and control. More... INNER BALANCE 3/1/11 I did a reading once for a person who...wanted to find balance. ...she had a concept of balance as a single point, a place to stand where she would be balanced once and for all. ...in this manifest world balance is dynamic, constantly moving and changing. More... EASY, EFFORTLESS AND GRACEFUL 12/1/10 If you have worked with me you may have heard me invoke the qualities of Ease, Effortlessness, and Grace for your process. I do that in part to remind you, your Self, and Spirit to take things easy when you are making big changes. More... HYPNOSIS AS CO-CREATION 11/1/10 Just about 5 years ago...I experienced a deeper trance, letting go more than I ever had before, and the process was just happening for me, to me. I was playing with dolphins in the ocean and then out in space and they were laughing as they always do... More... Poem: Into the Gap Between - Ursula K. LeGuin 9/12/08 What do they do, the singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers? They go there with empty hands, into the gap between. More...

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Changing Plans [© 12/11]
On how it is good to practice letting go of our mental planning and control in small things in preparation for the times when life makes us let go in larger things.

Essay Archive

Introductory Overviews

Hypnosis and Trance [© 7/05] Top 5 Read
An overview of my how I view Hypnosis and trance work in general. Covers states of consciousness, levels of trance, passive hypnosis and active (interactive) hypnosis.

Reading and Healing [© 2/02]
An overview of my how I view my role as a reader and spiritual healer.

truth, Truth and teaching [© 5/02] Top 5 Read
An outline of the relationship of personal, social, and absolute truth. Including aspects of perception, the ego, and the manifestation of the physical from spirit. All to set up my suggestion of how to read what I write.

Intro I: the Energy Body [© 5/01]
Intro II: Judgment, the Glue that Binds [© 9/01]
Intro III: The Energetics of Karma [© 12/01]
A three part summary/introduction to my vision of us as energetic beings and the application of that vision to understanding the spiritual journey, "karma", etc.

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Selected Essays

Show Up, Pay Attention [© 9/11]
On how it is useful to constantly challenge ourselves to show up and pay attention, To claim the full richness of being alive as a human we must do this over and over.

Grounding Your Bliss [© 5/11]
On how once we have gone into Spirit and found our individuated Soul essence the Earth will show us how to ground this into the web of life. Not the web of egoic drama we have left, but the web of manifest spirit of which we are meant to be a part.

Looking for Answers [© 4/11]
On how looking for answers from a fearful ego opens us up to invalidation and taking on other people's truth. Standing in our inner soul certainty is a safer place to search from.

Changing Time [© 4/11]
On how as we become aware of both our spiritual and personal selves, together, our experience of time is changing. Each moment is open to all moments, as we hold both the linear time of the ego and the timelessness of spirit.

Levels of Being and Personal Boundaries [© 3/11]
On how we are both infinit spiritual beings and finite physical humans. The rules are different on the two levels and as humans we need to have appropriate boundaries. As we come to consciously operate more on both levels we need to pay attention to the relevant rules.

Beneath Excitement [© 2/11]
On how excitement is often rooted in fear as much as the anxiety that proceeds it, and how dropping deeper into ourselves is a better place to finish our creations from.

Healing Ourselves [© 1/11]
On how our natural tendency is to try to heal the foriegn energy in our space, which we can't, and dump or deny our own stuck energies, which is what we can heal.

Holding Space [© 11/10]
On holding space for healing processes and how a deeper level that is more fundamental to who we are and where we come from has been showing up recently. This makes healing work simpler and more powerful.

Navigation [© 5/10]
A discussion of GPS navigation in cars and with the heart. Trusting that Spirit does know where we are going and will guide us appropriately. Learning the value of being present along the way without skipping steps.

Initiations [© 3/10]
In which we consider why it seems we have to take initiations, say "yes" to Spirit and Self, over and over again. Perhaps it is the result of free will. We also suggest that this can become a source of joy rather than frustration.

Understanding Each Other [© 11/09]
Understanding each other requires intention and attention. Communicating successfully is not as simple as we often assume. We tend to give up or over assume in many cases. When we look beyond the words we can begin to understand each other and ourselves.

Welcome Home [© 7/09]
On how we can call in our essential self, which is always present, and how we have internal fears that limit our ability to do. These fears, that bringing in light will bring us face to face with dark things, are missing the fact that great resources that are available after we call ourselves home.

Life, Death, and Preservation [© 11/08]
On how life is comprised of three part cycles, and how in resisting the final "desruction" part we get stuck in "preservation" to the detriment of "creation" and the over all flow of life itself. Reconsidering our bodies in this context we can open more easily to spirit in ways that nourish and heal them, making them living temples.

On Losing and Finding Our Center [© 12/07]
A piece inspired by a lesson from spirit on a ceremonial evening. About different levels of being lost and found, and how we find meaning in our lives.

On the Emotions of the Heart [© 10/07]
A piece inspired by the joy of opening one's heart and learning to hear it's language and song.

On Nursing Intuition [© 9/07]
A brief outline of energetics behind how healthcare professionals interact with their clients.

Dancing on the Earth [© 8/04]
On how dancing with the Earth yields both grounding and freedom.
Reading clip and recorded meditation available on the Recordings page.

Birth and the Fear of Being Alone [© 6/04] Top 5 Read
On the root fear of separation and being alone, and how we may confuse aspects of the birth and death transitions.

Giving and Receiving in Relationships [© 8/02] Top 5 Read
On how giving and receiving in relationships changes when we change from thinking of ourselves as limited beings to unlimited beings.

The Keys to Your Heart [© 7/02]
On why we often feel we need to "fall in love" with someone else, rather than simply be "in love".
Includes a short meditation.
Listen to it on the Recordings page.

Projection and Power [© 4/02] Top 5 Read
An essay on owning our issues, reclaiming power and healing.
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Last updated January 17, 2011. © Alan McAllister.