Articles and Essays

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 writings 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

THREADING THE NEEDLE WITH LOVE
8/2/18
Searching for a middle way between fear driven fight and flight reactions when doing business. Presence in your heart will lead to effective action from love. More...

CHOOSING LIBERATION
5/28/18
You have choices about how to engage, or disengage from old mental/emotional patterns as they arise. Praying to be released from suffering may bring this awareness and the ability to choose, rather than direct release. More...

BODY IS BEING
11/15/17
The body is the temple for our Soul. It is also an aspect of our Self. Learning to communicate and integrate it yields many spiritual and physical benefits. More...

LEARNING CURVES
10/13/17
It's always good to know where you are on the learning curve. Too much is frustrating, as is too little. Strange encounters can also be good teachers. More...

The writings on this page and hundreds more are in the Archive, which is searchable by keyword.

Latest Article

I've been on sabbatical for a while, mainly due to a deep healing dive curtesy of long covid. Resurfacing there should be a more recent article here soonish.
Meanwhile these are still relevant to who I am and what I offer.

Following Natural Magic [© 8/18]
Walking out in nature, open to a conversation of Being and releasing external distractions, I can follow the natural magic in the core of Being.

Essay Archive

Introductory Overviews

Hypnosis and Trance [© 7/05]
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.

Hypnosis as Co-Creation [© 11/10]
Hypnosis as a co-creative process, between different aspects of ourselves with the guidance of the hypnotherapist.

truth, Truth and teaching [© 5/02]
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.

You are welcome to add comments or questions after the articles

Selected Essays

Gateway to Unity Consciousness [© 12/17]
Source creates duality, then uses polarity to manifest. Holding a complete polarity creates a gateway back to Unity Consciousness.

Compassion, Presence, and Resonance [© 04/17]
About energetic resonances in human energy fields and how they are and can be used in the healing arts and teaching.

Riding Geodesics [© 2/17]
Using gravity, martial arts, and other parallels to understand paths, flows and pauses in the context of an unexpected appendectomy.

Duality and Sacred Union [© 01/17]
A discussion of the meaning of Sacred Union, the return to Source. Duality and Unity. A beautiful analogy is found in the physical nature of light.

Courage and Butterflies [© 10/16]
About the courage it takes to embrace the darker aspects of self so that they may transform into the butterflies that are ready to fly forth.

Emotions, Karma, and Freewill [© 07/16]
On how old emotional charges (trauma) becomes karma, and is also physically lodged in the brain. This determines much of our behavior. Learning to recognize and clear these opens the ability to exercise true freewill.

Reducing Resistance [© 04/16]
About energy efficiency. Every other aspect of the universe makes use of energetic optimization, cultivates minimal effort. Perhaps we should too.

Harvesting Life [© 10/15]
The ancestral peoples knew how to sustainably harvest life, rather than mining for resources. We need to remember this, to live in harmony with the Earth.

Listening to Stillness [© 2/15]
On how we can drop into the physical body and through that into the stillness of the Void In the spaces between our physical atoms. Listening there we can hear our Soul's truth.

Internal Relations [© 1/14]
On how we are always whole complete beings, human and Soul, although our awareness is often limited, moment by moment. Our sense of separation is fueled by various fears held by the human self, but they are inherently false.

Question & Answers [© 7/13]
On the importance of questions, how we ask them, and the power they have to carry us through the unknown into what we want.

Being on Your Path [© 7/12]
On how being present (or not) is more important than being "on" or "off" our path. Being connected and present we are on a good path, open to spirit and magic.

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.

Levels of Being and Personal Boundaries [© 3/11] Top 5 Read
On how we are both infinite 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.

Finding Love Within Yourself [© 7/10] Top 5 Read
On connecting to the love that is your Self, owning it and expressing it in the world. The difference between this and "looking for love" in the world.

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.

The Limits of the Ego and the Benefits of a Higher Power [© 11/07] Top 5 Read
On the limits of the egoic mind and the benefits of recognizing and resourcing higher powers, both psychologically and spiritually.

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.

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.