Tag: spiritual
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Dreaming Awakening
10 years ago I was compelled to write the following story after a mystical experience, something I believe what all religions are written about… Having recently reread this story, and with it being a foggy morning (part 10) and Groundhog’s Day (part 3), I feel compelled to re-share this writing. Possibly more people have the…
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What’s the Teaching, Really? (At the Heart of it All)
A Q&A evening with my teacher’s teacher led us into the Teachings of Silence: the deepest teaching there is. Here’s a glimpse into the evening. Enjoy!
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Deeply Daily Breathwork (A Taoist’s Autumn)
The closest I ever came to labeling myself is right before your eyes: a gluten free yogi. But if I had the nerve to label myself, I would see the term Taoist float to the surface. Since high school, whenever Taoism came my way, I thought, “Yes, I follow something like that. That’s my inner-philosophy.” The…
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Root Control: A Reiki Release
For weeks, everywhere I looked, the word “root” caught my eye. “Hmmm… Interesting,” I thought, as I was well aware that we were shifting from Summer to Autumn. The Late Summer, or Long Summer, as the Taoists refer to this time, is a time to root down into the Earth’s Essence: grounding the fiery heart…
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A Spiritual Journey of Healing
A Spiritual Journey of Healing The following 10 part story is my personal account, rather a documentation, of the transformation I experienced during the year 2012. I had been blindly practicing Present Moment Awareness, picked up a daily yoga habit, and without a direct intention I metamorphosed from a “functioning-cripple” into an extremely Spiritually-in-tune being.…
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“Surrendering Ourselves to His lotus feet”
At times, words cannot describe, photos cannot convey, and video may only share a taste: Maybe the first 40 seconds of this one can help: Currently, I feel blessed, I feel lucky, I even feel lighter having witnessed the manifestation of human intentions, aligned with a divine reality. To build a temple like the one I…
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Emergence See?
What if we could shift our perspective on emergence? A seemingly present moment emergency, could possibly be a present moment emergence, see? This photo is difficult to see, but take notice of the statue emerging and exalting. A molting cicada, complete transformation. Seventeen years underground. In just one moment the cicada melts from it’s ugly, brown skin,…
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Little Chrissy Didn’t Like the Body of Christ
My mother never took us to church. She took us to Sunday school, but I don’t have any clear memories of going to church. However, I have handfuls of memories of my cousin Eddie taking my brother and I. I’d giggle as my brother would whisper to me, “Give us this day, our daily bread,…
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Rumbles & Ripples: What We Create Within, Affects Without
All too often, anymore these days, the situation that is presented in front of me is a complete dichotomy: yin and yang. For example, recently on a very stormy evening, just three people showed up to my class. One wanted a very relaxing yoga session. The other two wanted balls to the wall action. It wasn’t…
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Awaken the Guru Within
“Ask, and you shall receive.” Standing just ten feet within the front door of the nearest “New Age” store, I was amazed to find exactly what I wanted. Even though I did not come to this store for them, there they were, all four of them: Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar Giri, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Just the other week…
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