By Elana Hernon It is in our culture and ideas in Western medicine that if something is a problem, if you can, you can cut it out. This thinking is also applied to many areas of our lives. For instance, think about ego. It is common to think that ego comes between yourself and God …
My Experience with Enlightenment
By Pauline H I happily and gratefully turned 50 years young last year. For many years I didn't even believe I deserved to be here. I struggled and perservered through the darkness to find that we all are love and light, nothing less. Since my enlightenment experience I have personally experienced a profound life-changing miracle, …
Avoidance
I know all the tricks. All the ways we hide. The ways we put off inspiration--that desire to paint, to dance, to exercise--by cleaning that pile of papers in the corner or by hitting next on Netflix. Maybe you don't know who you really are or why you're here. Maybe the world sometimes feels so …
How Do Old Patterns Hold Us Back?
Many years ago, I woke up one night at 4 am with the realization that I felt an incredible sense of abandonment. I started scanning back and back through my life, trying to figure out when it first manifested itself, and I felt myself going back to being a newborn. I have never had conscious …
Who Cares?
There’s a line in a song that I have always remembered—it goes, “Mother, I’m cut at the root like a weed ‘cause there’s no-one to hear my small story.” For me, that sums up a feeling that’s haunted me for years, of being small and of needing to shout in order to make myself heard …
Putting it All Together
The last two weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about my life, the choices I’ve made and why everything has come together as it has. A conversation a week ago drove it all home: showed me that all the events I’ve lived, all the people I’ve come into contact with and the relationships that have …
