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I stand before you naked, revealing, strong in my own truth. I am alive with the desire to be myself, to be fully animated and express myself in the world we share. I have clung to limitation so many times in my life, and released so many layers of healing. Have I become a cliche,…

We all face hardship and suffering. The idea that we can make a change, an internal shift and in some way transform or transmute our inner experiences, is in itself inspiring. The support we can get from practising visualisation or meditation is deep-rooted. The Transformation Meditation below offers a possibility to shift one’s perspective and…

We glimpse a small moment of time. An eternal flame flickers for an out-breath of the Divine – a flutter of an eyelid in history – and then we are gone. Will this now-moment be filled with abundant light, connection and love – or pain, heart-ache and suffering? Will we chase shadows and face the…

“Spiritual bypassing,” as coined by American author and psychologist, John Welwood, is a “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks.” (John Welwood) Spirituality’s shadow is more common than one may think, considering the popularity and expansion of spiritual philosophies (particularly Eastern…

What is the meaning of “Aloha?” Aloha is a traditional Hawaiian greeting for hello and goodbye. The word, aloha is made up of “alo” meaning presence or face, and “ha” meaning breath. Aloha is translated into the “breath of life” or the “presence of breath.” The meaning of aloha brings an essential message in terms…

    “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” ~ Max Planck We are all agents of consciousness. In Australian Aboriginal tradition, one of the oldest religious beliefs still practised today, Dreamtime…

Another day, another massacre. An explosion of innocence, as fear spreads to the collective, and darkness falls—there is little escape from the maelstrom. Whether gay, Jewish, Hindu, Western, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or secular, there is always a new target and justification for unjustifiable violence. How can we dance when the sky is burning? Why do…

The mind projects the universe onto the screen of awareness that is consciousness. The mind is a filter of this consciousness, allowing us access to our soul knowledge and higher knowledge of the realms beyond. The sequencing mechanism is the brain and central nervous system.The brain is a physical component of the body whereas the…

Dharma is like karma…it’s unavoidable. The moment you’re born, you’re given an identity—a sex and a gender, a race, a name, a nationality, a religion. You’re even given a surname and status based on the family you’re born into. In the birthing process preceding this moment, you may have been exposed to brutality via well-meaning…

Billions of individual stories have brought us here. There must surely be a pattern, a common thread that ties all of humanity together. If we could unlock an implicate order or system for living, it would show us a method to understand our lives better. Was Kierkegaard mistaken when he posited, “Life must be lived forwards but…
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