We are all in crisis! It’s the end of days! Everything is in Dire Straits! Things are broken! We need help! - but wait, do we? Looking back through history, evolution happens through change. The energies change, the rules change, cause-and-effect allows for new experiences, and then those dwelling here have a choice: change or leave this great life. This isn’t a bad thing. It’s quite beautiful, even if it is a bit jarring while living it. The Earth has changed. The rules of engagement have...

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Isn’t that the old saying? And while it is fundamentally true, it doesn’t always hold true in the metaphorical. So many things are on fire and burning in our world, making life hazy and hard to see clearly from all the smoke clouding our eyes. Perceptions are skewed, as if the smoke only gives us a single path for our individual understanding. As if your idea is the only idea. As if your path is the one true path. As if your truth is the only real...

How do we heal what the world doesn’t want to look at? As a society, especially in the US, we are conditioned to believe that our emotions rule or dictate our experience. We believe there are good emotions and bad emotions. We are taught that there are things that are acceptable, and things we must hide and pretend don’t exist. We say things like “focus on the happy” and “all you need is love”, but we also believe “pleasure is shameful”. “It’s OK to not be OK”, but “don’t be sad”. Because of...