"The ARC of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." The newly-minted Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) recently held its inaugural conference in London, UK. The brainchild of Dr. Jordan Peterson, more than 1000 of the world's cutting-edge thinkers gathered to reconsider how else we might choose to create a future for ourselves, ... Continue Reading >>
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Wendy McGean: In Conversation with Louise
What a delightful opportunity that was! I got to spend time in conversation with a woman who is deeply committed to her own journey of discovery. Without imposition of any particular direction, the stream-of-consciousness led the way, for us both. Wendy McGean is a Certified CODE Model Coach™. Her new podcast is a dive into exploring: "How else might ... Continue Reading >>
Sheila Winter Wallace: ‘Decloaking’ 5-day on ZOOM – Oct. 1 to 5
"A virtual, small-group, WEL-Systems® intensive for entrepreneurial women, intended to shift your perspective about how you see your world and your place in it, so that you stop playing second fiddle to your own life and confidently reclaim the required and essential position of first violin. You know what the ‘status quo’ experience feels like in your ... Continue Reading >>
Leadership
How can you tell you're in the presence of leadership? Something inside you awakens and calls you forward into a better version of yourself. By that measure, how are you feeling about the leaders in our world, today? Perhaps it is your time... ... Continue Reading >>
The 30-Second Pause: Pivot for Potential
At some point, each of us must decide: from which side of the dotted line (Quantum Biological Human™) do we choose to engage? Do we choose to live from habit and repetition or do we choose to live from potential? The outcome of that choice determines whether we live IN ’the muck’ or whether we live FROM possibility. Lately, I have been in frequent ... Continue Reading >>
Jennifer Hatt: The Power of Salty Surrender
Fresh from a 5-day Decloaking and Living Authentically transformational intensive with Stela Murrizi in Dartmouth, NS, a new wave of insight emerges to become the courage to engage! It is not by accident that post-tropical storm Lee was drawn to where the action was. :) Here is a taste of discovery, from Jennifer's new blog post: "I have spent much of ... Continue Reading >>
The Bigger Picture: Richard Dolan and Paul Wallis
In the world of human evolution, willingness makes room for ability to unfold. Without willingness - and regardless of skill level - nothing changes. If you are not yet familiar with the work of Richard Dolan and/or Paul Wallis, you may find it meaningful to explore and discover. ... Continue Reading >>
AI: A future of even greater manipulation?
Were you to make the time to explore recent conversations with those on the cutting edge of AI, you may find yourself numbed by the potential for 'reality' to disappear into a bubbling stew of newly-created 'truths' for you to absorb. How will you be able to tell what will contribute to your own intentions? How will you define those intentions for ... Continue Reading >>
“Decloaking and Living Authentically” coming to Dartmouth, NS!
An opportunity not to be missed! Join Stela Murrizi - Certified CODE Model Coach™ and WEL-Systems® Educator : September 8 - 12, 2023, in Dartmouth, NS Discover a powerful process for becoming both willing and able to create your meaningful Life. Beyond will power and determination; beyond struggle and mindless repetition, you'll explore how you got to ... Continue Reading >>
Navigating Chaos: Layers of Loss
Today brings the third and final sound clip from a recent Navigating Chaos experience. This one explores the many layers of the process of loss, encouraging discovery of the unexamined and often unclaimed, unique insights that loss can provoke. Too often, habits and history limit who we can become from embracing loss as the invitation to create, ... Continue Reading >>
Jennifer Hatt: Feeding Ourselves in the New Millennium
"Nourishment for a healthy life goes way beyond proteins and vitamins and dietary fibre. The food we choose to consume is part of nourishment that keeps our body healthy and we as divine godforce engaged with our human experience here on Earth. Our body also needs nourishment of other sources. We need information that challenges, invites, and creates ... Continue Reading >>
Jennifer Hatt: Tap Dancing in the Minefield of the Heart
"It’s a conversation that’s been a long time coming. On the outside things look fine; on the inside something is missing, feels off, irritates or just plain hurts. For years, explaining things away, rationalizing that things are great, good enough, okay, as much as we deserve since others have it a lot worse. Until either the body gives out or refuses to ... Continue Reading >>
Navigating Chaos: Emerging Species
I think it is both fair and accurate to say that 'overwhelm' is an internal state with which many can identify. To accept overwhelm as a part of today's currency is a wise decision - to succumb to it is a recipe for enslavement at many levels of our 'being'. In our recent 'Navigating Chaos' exploration, the topic was that of moving through loss. In ... Continue Reading >>
Overwhelm
It’s not that overwhelm is a bad thing. However, the tools we choose to engage while in that state of overwhelm will determine how resourceful we are able to remain. ... Continue Reading >>
What does ChatGPT have to say about WEL-Systems®
Recently, one of my colleagues decided to find out what ChatGPT had to say about WEL-Systems®. Here is what she found out... right from the cutting edge of AI. ======================= WEL-Systems® is a transformative approach to personal and professional development that focuses on empowering individuals to create meaningful and sustainable change in ... Continue Reading >>
Sheila Winter Wallace: Money and Uncertainty
"Hind sight is easy. Over the years, I have been approached by so many women who worked hard, looked good, were smart, savvy, and took their responsibilities with others seriously. Somehow, they forgot themselves; they forgot that they matter. All of these conversations were had privately or in small groups of women in safe spaces. And sometimes, it took ... Continue Reading >>
Navigating Chaos: Who will you choose to be?
And the beat goes on... and on... and on..... The drums of war - of war with ideas and concepts; with ourselves and each other; and perhaps, worst of all, with our own inner truth - are moving from a distant drone to a vibration in the chest, as they move closer to home. Decision time. No longer something 'out there' to be observed and dismissed as not ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: How then shall I live?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I originally wrote this July 29, 2020. Almost three years ago... and yet, at some level, feels like a lifetime ago. Stop, for a moment, and consider what has unfolded in your life... your reality... over these last three years. And sadly, it's not over, yet - there is much more to come. Despite ... Continue Reading >>
Navigating Chaos: finding stability in the absurd
So... have been spending my time watching and listening and pondering and exploring. Noticing patterns, repeating. Not just listening TO but listening FOR the language that is the wave of intelligence seeking compliance through fear. Sadly, I have not had to search very hard nor for very long to have more than my fill. I've also been intentionally ... Continue Reading >>
Act now! Starts May 21st: year-long with Stela Murrizi
"The conversations we are in determine the quality of our lives. So stop wasting your life on conversations that are meaningless and unfulfilling. Embrace becoming, instead. BUT … How could you become massive when you keep your conversations small? How could you become mindful when you choose habituated and familiar conversations? How could ... Continue Reading >>
Resourceful and Resilient
Sometimes, we forget we're up for it... with 'it' being an intentional outcome of our own choosing. Just because 'the world' (out there) is not yet designed to facilitate it, does not mean that its facilitation is not possible. In the face of what seems to be the impossible, consider that its presence is really the provocation to consider: "How badly do ... Continue Reading >>
All the things we don’t want to know…..
After opening remarks, the first two presenters are David Martin and Nick Hudson, both of whom I have posted here, in the past. These particular offerings are succinct, substantiated and likely deeply disturbing to all - jabbed and unjabbed, alike. In Canada, that is estimated to be over 80% of the population. Globally, in excess of 5.5 billion ... Continue Reading >>
Desperate times demand daring intentions
In my most recent post, I shared with you a sound clip from a gathering of women seeking to explore what it takes to manifest their meaningful world. That first full day of conversation was greatly enriched by the depth and breadth of both willingness and ability of the women who were there. Each had many hours of living in and from a very different ... Continue Reading >>
Quality of Life
The life that we live is shaped by our perceptions of the life that we can live. ... Continue Reading >>
Grace
Grace. Much authenticity and ’truth’ can ride on the flow of Grace as it leaves your body into the Space that surrounds you. There is much power in Grace. Power to invite and allow; to attract and compel; to awaken and soothe. Grace allows for an authentic (yet, possibly jarring) expression to be able to be heard. A difficult, challenging truth can be ... Continue Reading >>
Unstoppable emergence
Ah yes… the unstoppable power of emergence; of that natural and essential state of Being that demands constant and perpetual movement… and change… and evolution. That is the essence of who we are. In other words: we are not intended to ever be fully baked; to ever be ‘done’; to ever think that there is any end-state to which we can/must aspire… and all else ... Continue Reading >>
Selective truth of mind-share
The longer I live, the shorter my attention span becomes. It now takes a lot for me to be drawn to engage. The conversation is the key: how big, how far and how deep can it go? At this time in my own evolution, the desire to continue to evolve and become is greater than it has ever been. As more and more, science challenges our long-held thinking on who ... Continue Reading >>
Parenting: for good instead of evil
The process of parenting is the delivery mechanism for culture. Not good/bad, right/wrong... just the way it is. How mindful are we - as parents and parental surrogates - of the power of our influence to shape reality for developing, young minds? How directed are we, in that process, to ensure compliance rather than exploration and discovery? Consider ... Continue Reading >>
Making it matter…
We become what we talk about. Choose intentionally whose company you keep and what conversations shape your moments. Someday, you just may look back and wish you had told the truth. ... Continue Reading >>
Time
Your time is your life. Where you spend your time, how you spend your time and with whom you spend your time becomes the quality of your life, lived. Choose your moments mindfully and the rest will take care of itself. ... Continue Reading >>
Becoming Unglued
Constantly feeding the Fear Machine is essential. Without that undercurrent of fear, we become willing to slow down... and pause… and examine what becomes evident beyond our desperation for strategies to escape the moment we're in. With the passage of time, data accumulate that reveal the popcorn trail of where we have been. Bits and pieces begin to ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems® Body of Knowledge
The WEL-Systems® body of knowledge is a road map - not a destination. It does not seek to define us. It offers us a gateway to a paradigm and a process which, when engaged, make it possible for us to redefine ourselves. ... Continue Reading >>
Imagining Your Life
I recently had an email exchange with a delightful young woman I have come to cherish. As I read her words, it occurred to me that the past continued to be the context within which the ability to choose had become 'frozen' in the face of imagined consequences. So, with that awareness in mind, I offered her a different perspective from which to consider ... Continue Reading >>
How, then, shall you choose?
In the last month or so, I’ve written about the relationship between choice and intention; and about the underpinnings of truth and its deep roots in the mind-shaping process of parenting (and its surrogates) who fly the flag of our best interests and keeping us safe. The pull to simply capitulate and abdicate to ‘the voice of (a caring) authority’ is a ... Continue Reading >>
Truth: the elusive Unicorn in our current reality
Brace for impact: incoming rant…. What is truth? Where does truth live? How do we know when we’ve found it? Like everyone else on the planet, I grew up believing that what I was told by those who tended to me on a daily basis (inside the family circle, i.e. parents/grandparents/older siblings) and their chosen surrogates (those outside the family ... Continue Reading >>
Performance vs Meaningful Life
The threat of fear, shame and humiliation may provoke an increase in performance but they will never provoke the creation of a meaningful life. ... Continue Reading >>
Noticing the Joy
This time.... on the heels of the insanity of the last two years and in the throes of the cultural press to do/be/spend more than we can graciously embrace... let the Holiday Season just BE. Let go of the stories we tell ourselves about what is necessary and expected. Let this be the moment to test-drive a different context for this time to unfold. Slow ... Continue Reading >>
Fear
The arrival of fear drives us to seek certainty, as its antidote. ... Continue Reading >>
Overwhelm….
Overwhelm can make you sick and crazy. Maybe. For the last five weeks, or so, I have been ’sick’ (which, for me, is a very rare occurrence). Supposedly, I ‘had’ the dreaded you-know-what. Seems that having two little grandchildren under five - both of whom are in the presence of many others through daycare and school; and a son in law-enforcement who is ... Continue Reading >>
Before you reach for your mask….
Yet again, murmurings of a required return to masks in public places in Ontario. Yet again, useless-yet-damaging theatre to reinforce both fear and control in an uneducated populace. Before you capitulate to some authority just because you're trained to do that, consider the following. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is the ... Continue Reading >>
Unique Life
Your desire for your own unique Life must be greater than your need for approval. ... Continue Reading >>
The Quest for Open Science: Nick Hudson/PANDA
Some are more courageous than others. Nick Hudson has been one, amongst many, from the start. The truth really does set us free. Are we willing to hear it? ... Continue Reading >>
Pandemic… of Shame
I know of no one who has been spared the drama and its attending impact from the last three years of constant pressure to capitulate and conform. To do what you're told. To not question. To be silent if not in agreement. To trust external authorities rather than your own internal cues. Over and over... day after day... pummelled by the talking heads, ... Continue Reading >>
Authenticity as Boundary
Over time and in many ways, the idea of establishing boundaries has been explored. Typically, it is done by way of identifying things to do; behaviours to change; new strategies to put into play that will prevent your being pressed... bullied.. cajoled, shamed or provoked... into choices that are no longer a choice and have become the imperative of another, ... Continue Reading >>
Intentional Evolution: provocation for a life worth living
So much in today's world seeks to highjack your attention and redirect... away from your own inner rumblings and toward the nails-on-a-chalk-board screech of yet another reason to be afraid; another reason to look outside of yourself for someone (anyone!) to save you; another reason for you to capitulate to your weenie-ness and inability to figure it out for ... Continue Reading >>
A Foot in the Door: You cannot have my children!
For the last soon-to-be three years, I have watched in grief and shock at the reprehensible and intentional 'disappearing' of a way of life, in my own country, that I never dreamed would be so easily surrendered. The mouth of one becomes a channel for the voice of another. What is presented turns out to have been but a cloak of deception for what continues ... Continue Reading >>
Reclaiming the Power of Your Mind
Fundamental to all that I have developed over the last 30 years - as well as how I choose to live my life - is the construct of the structure of thought. This is a way of exploring how a human being thinks…. exploring the process of thought, itself… and discovering how to become more effective in connecting with an existing thought process and expanding it ... Continue Reading >>
What is truth?
The battle rages as we struggle to make our way through the constant press for mind-share. Talking heads everywhere. The familiar, synchronized droning from ‘official channels’ and the jarring interruptions from the upstart ‘radicals’ who refuse to be silent. Experts in government trashing highly credentialed other experts, in an effort to own the winning ... Continue Reading >>
Choosing from the edge…
The world has changed - and so have I. My taste for retirement has soured. My willingness to sit on the sidelines? A faded memory of a time past when I trusted my ‘reality’ to simply keep trundling along. Those days are long gone… barely a hint remaining at the not-so-far horizon of the ‘great reset’ that seeks to impose itself upon any and all. I am ... Continue Reading >>
A Tribute: Sheila Winter Wallace
Sheila and I have been friends almost half of my life. Paths crossing long ago through shared professional interests led us to become fast friends and eventually, colleagues... deeply committed to the ongoing evolution of women - including ourselves. With a diverse background that led to the accumulation of her exceptional skills and abilities in ... Continue Reading >>
Endings and New Beginnings
Times have changed - and so have I. Although words have long flowed easily for me, in this moment of seeking to share a ’shift’ with all of you, I find myself bereft of any ease in its expression. Not because I don’t know what I know about myself - I simply do not yet have any words to make sense of it. Surely, an indication that what I am experiencing is ... Continue Reading >>
Evolution
Evolution, for its own sake, is not imposed on us through cultural conditioning - it can only be chosen by us at the edge of surrender. ... Continue Reading >>
Talking to Ourselves
Think of the WEL-Systems® body of knowledge as offering a new language for the fine art of Being more effective in our lives. Life is shaped from the inside, out. Our choices define and design the ‘reality’ that we will either celebrate and cherish or regret and seek to escape. ‘Educate, educate, educate!” has long been the mantra for this school of ... Continue Reading >>
Power of Language
You are not the flesh, speaking the words - you are the words in flesh, having been spoken. ... Continue Reading >>
Guest Post: Erika Lucivero ~ Get Out of Jail Free
I call this one 'get out of jail free', because there isn't a jail big enough to constrain a GodForce. It's about being easy on yourself and thinking easy. "Don't be so hard on yourself." I've heard this just in the last month from three separate people with whom I deeply respect. So by the third person it was enough for me to look at what this means ... Continue Reading >>
Sheila Winter Wallace: Futility of Saviour Politics
‘Saviour’ has been rumbling around in my awareness for sometime. I choose to live unequivocally and intentionally for evolution of Self for it’s own sake; my chosen way of living is not a side hobby to peruse at my leisure, separate from living in the delusional world that is external to me. Everything is a metaphor for everything else, in my life. (Sheila ... Continue Reading >>
Beyond solving a problem to transforming a life…
There is an unapologetic ferocity to how Stela chooses to live her life. Annoying? For some. Provocative? For many! Compelling and life-giving? Always! ™™™ Perhaps her greatest gift lies in the unrelenting press for us to notice: how it once was, no longer is. Our world has already changed and we seem to be in no great hurry to notice and/or do ... Continue Reading >>
Parenting: What it takes to let go….
A conversation for the time we’re in! In this moment, the trance of the last 100 years is deeply disturbed. The next steps we take will determine if we are entrained into a new trance… or if we give our children what they need to create a future outside of trance. It really is up to us! ============================ "My son is part of this world ... Continue Reading >>
Kathleen Bulger: Art of Expansion Cards
"This is the card I pulled. Who are you surrounding yourself with was the first question that popped into my mind? Are they people with an innate curiosity willing to explore what might come up for them in both thoughts, feelings, and experiences? Who in my circle is courageous? ….and are they courageous enough to stand alone if they need to?…. Am ... Continue Reading >>
Stela-Shakti: Courage
"It takes great courage to step out of the comfort zone and try something that feels real and true. It takes courage to leave the shallow and the shell and dive head first into the deep and the dark. " It Takes Great Courage ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Biodigital Convergence and the Canadian Government
Buckle up!!! This blog post is not for everyone. Its depth and expanse will produce deep agitations in naming that which is already known… at some level… in the bodies of any and all who are conscious and engaged. Perhaps it will present as some kind of confusion or state of inner turmoil. Perhaps it will present as an expression of distrust at any and all ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: What Darkness Reveals…
"There is nowhere to hide, no need to hide, and now increasingly more…no desire to hide. I seek, and I find. The darkness reveals. Infinitely. My only “goal”: stay deeply, profoundly, intentionally curious. It is only from that space of divine curiosity that I not only discover or create, but live. I need not always have something to say. I simply be, and ... Continue Reading >>
Sheila Winter Wallace: Owning it All !
We live in a world - at a time - when 'truth' has become fluid. No longer easily identifiable as a touchstone to remind us or a guide-stone to show us the way, we wander in the desert of contradictions, fabrications and outright deceptions. Without sense of any destination, we are left with the deeply-uprooted consequences of our daily struggle to find ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Murrizi: with Poetry of Predicament Podcast
Collective change is the byproduct of the individuals within the collective experiencing individual change. There is no way around it: it always comes back to the individual. To The One that each of us, is. To me. And to you. Owning that takes courage. Are you up for it? ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Women and Sovereignty
"Every time a woman consciously chooses to embody her sovereignty, the energy field transforms. In that, more women are given permission to tap into that and become more themSelves. Nourish yourself in Sisterhood and simply relax into the cues of your body, listen with your whole being, and express only if it’s meaningful for you to express… in this small ... Continue Reading >>
Neil Oliver: A People and Their Government
Nothing to add..... ... Continue Reading >>
The Silent Deep
Valentines Day - February 14, 2022 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes the Emergencies Act. Inside…. where I live…. has gone silent. Words cannot be found to allow that which writhes through me to emerge and find expression in an outer world that ... Continue Reading >>
February 1: Denmark Ends All Covid Restrictions
These are not now - and have not been for almost two years - easy times. We are being pressed into coming to grips with an ultimate and final choice: who owns my mind? Who owns my choice? Who owns my life? Our historical and traditional sources of information are corrupted and now deeply rooted in the intentional claiming of mind-share. If we are not ... Continue Reading >>
Guest Post: Sheila Winter Wallace
"Maybe, now having reached the ripe old age of 76 years wise has invited me to really sit with the question of ‘What is the worst that could happen?’. I lived my life running away from that question. Really, the very worst that could happen is that I would betray my own Self, then beat myself up for it, continually with no reprieve. LOL, that is so ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Own Your Mind
One of the many things I appreciate and value about Stela's way of moving through her world is her unbound willingness to allow her own internal chaos to be a visible and living part of her evolution. We are all - many times in our lives - 'caught' in the death-struggle of internal vs external cues. Rather than struggle, we can discover how to make it a ... Continue Reading >>
Guest Post : Lisa LeBrun – Embracing All of Me
It takes all of us to weave a new tapestry of Being that can bring warmth and comfort to an often fragile and tentative emergence of Self. And for us all: yet another authentic and strong Voice of emergent Being. You can connect with Lisa directly at: lisalebrun17@gmail.com ====================== I woke this a.m. feeling much movement. ... Continue Reading >>
Lex Fridman: Statement Against Lockdowns
Long ago, it stopped being about a virus and became about compliance and control. It became about a needle in every arm. It became about: When I say jump, you say 'how high?'. With millions now double and triple (and for some, quadruple) jabbed, how can a collective reality shift when so many will need to continue to be right about the one we've got? ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Create with Intention
"I move forward in my life now knowing that we have entered an era that we won’t go back from. We have entered the era of post-truth, massformation, and the noble lie. A world of increasingly more concentrated wealth and power. A world where disagreement is met with censorship and violence. A world where a group of people is openly and unapologetically ... Continue Reading >>
Choosing Your Own Path
The last two years have been very difficult, for everyone. Cut off from so much that had formed a part of our lives that we rarely thought about, we now find ourselves longing for what is no longer available even if/when we’re not quite sure what that might be. It has been two years of being bullied and deprived of the most fundamental freedoms of ... Continue Reading >>
Invitation: A Deep Dive Conversation
This conversation is for you… If you have noticed something feels “wrong” with what’s going on and you want a safe space to exhale the truth of your experience, judgment-free. If you have noticed the contradictory nature of the messages “out there” and you want a safe, supportive space to express that. If you are looking for a powerful ... Continue Reading >>
Triggering Life Choices: What is QuantumTLC™ ?
QuantumTLC™ (QTLC) is an essential part of the perpetually-evolving body of knowledge known as WEL-Systems®. For more than two decades, this profound and life-expanding experience has been at the very core of my own evolution; and a critical aspect in assisting others in embracing a richer, fuller and more meaningful, creative and authentic way of Being, in ... Continue Reading >>
New Program with Stela Murrizi: January 2022
In the midst of it all, it is imperative that we not lose faith... in ourselves. Your body knows the vibration of 'truth', just like it knows the vibration of 'deception'. Perhaps the first step for each of us is to recognize the difference and stop betraying ourselves! Explore what a deep and life-altering dive into your own potential can look/feel ... Continue Reading >>
Losing Your Mind…..
We were told that the risk was that we would lose our lives. We discovered that the risk is that we are losing our freedoms. The danger looms that we are at risk of losing our minds. Mind is the ground from which reality emerges and takes shape. Whoever owns my mind… owns me. Who owns your mind? ... Continue Reading >>
Covid Pandemic: A Retrospective
Month after month, filled with fear and anger and deep distrust. Intentional divisions and alienations. Lives and the quality of lives, victims to directives and policies that have now shown themselves to have been deeply flawed and vastly harmful. We now have enough passage-of-time and captured details to be able to look back and wonder: how else might ... Continue Reading >>
Charles Eisenstein: The Rehearsal is Over
"Many people trust the authorities and willingly comply with their rules. They face no dilemma, no initiatory moment, no self-defining world-creating choice point, not yet. But as the authorities’ narratives devolve into absurdity and their rules devolve into oppression, more and more of us face this choice: To live your truth out loud, or To live by ... Continue Reading >>
Follow-up: Neil Oliver goes Viral
Yet again, Neil Oliver finds the words to express what so many are thinking. Mind control is nothing new amongst our global populations. We are subjected to it every day and at every turn. The worst part about it - and what makes it all so powerfully effective - is that most of us don't have a clue it's even going on! Consider a more recent offering ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Part 2 – Warrior!
"In this type of mind, then, compliance is seen as the golden standard. Compliance to the narrative I have held as true since longer than I can remember. I believe the underlying logic of needing desperately to be right goes something like this: If I am right about my life, then I am good. If I am good, and I do everything right, then I am safe. This type of ... Continue Reading >>
“Nudge Units”
I can't think of a single thing to add. ... Continue Reading >>
The Bigger Picture
It doesn't matter what conclusion you come to - what matters is how you come to it. In a world of technology, sound bytes and break-neck speed in all areas of our lives, we are no longer known for our deep thinking and ability to tolerate the unknown to remain so, for long. We have lost our appetite for letting discomfort stew and in its resulting ... Continue Reading >>
In the Gap Between Gratitude and Grief
I have a lot for which to be thankful. No doubt, there were times that challenged my sense of equilibrium in my world however, I am blessed with selective memory when it comes to moving forward in my life. Lingering long over past hurts and old wounds contributes little to a meaningful life, long lived. At now 70+, I can look back with a deep sense of ... Continue Reading >>
The House of my Mind
I spent many years travelling to Hawaii. Beyond the embrace of the physical space - the experience of being on a tiny dot of land in the middle of the majestic Pacific Ocean, 2500 miles from anywhere else, in any direction... all of which were breathtaking moments in time - I came to recognize that what kept calling me back to this ancient place was the ... Continue Reading >>
Storytellers, Trust and Reality
From the moment of our conception, the stories begin. As cells divide and begin to form what will become our bodies, the vibrations of sound echo inside our tiny chamber as our mother speaks to herself or any other. Over time, we develop the sensory capacity to make distinctions… noticing the vibrations of sounds and the often-rapidly changing chemical ... Continue Reading >>
Erosion of Individual Choice
Now officially a septuagenerian, I am mindful that I have cast many mindless votes in my lifetime. At the beginning of this democratic timeline, my vote was heavily influenced by the ’tribal elders’ who had shaped my world. The idea was to perpetuate the lineage of the 'anointed one' - the one that the older generation imprinted on the obligations of the ... Continue Reading >>
Accountability for Individual Choice
It is never about the choice - it is always about The One doing the choosing. There will be no needle in this arm. How far am I willing to go with that? I don’t know… .but I’m sure I will soon find out. More and more, the rhetoric is inflamed and directed at germinating constant fear and deep loathing of one slice of the population for another. Having ... Continue Reading >>
Stela Shakti: Sovereignty and consciousness
"How you see the world depends on your perceptual filters. Those filters shape: How you read the data. Which media you follow. Which voices you trust. Which institutions you allow to guide your behaviour. All reinforce the mindset you’ve already got." (Stela Shakti) Another compelling challenge to the habituated (and mindless, devoid-of-effort) ... Continue Reading >>