When we came into 2021 over 10 months ago, now, it seems we had a fantasy that it would be a new year with new hope, since 2020 was behind us. 2021 has proved to be an extension of 2020, blowing our fantasy.
COVID still lurks, with the Delta variant creating more ambiguity about how […]
I was out with two friends not long ago at an outdoor dance performance. The venue was packed and the air was celebratory. As with numerous, if not most, concerts and performances, this event was cancelled last year due to COVID. The majority of attendees, including myself, were not wearing masks. Oh, the freedom […]
I just finished reading one of the best books I have read in a long time, maybe ever: The Choice, Embrace the Possible, by Dr. Edith Eva Eger. This is her memoir, beginning with her young life, her journey of surviving Auschwitz and gaining her freedom to live her life to the fullest. She is […]
Dear Reader,
2020 has been quite the rough year for many of us. According to some astrologers, as of December 21, 2020, we are entering the Age of Aquarius. Both Saturn and Jupiter will be entering Aquarius, coming together in what is known as the Great Conjunction. This is visible in the night sky. Saturn and […]
Dear Reader,
I was listening to a podcast by an Ayurvedic doctor who is also an astrologer this week. He said that according to Vedic astrology, this time of the US election combined with COVID is a time of extreme transformation, like we haven’t seen in 600 years. He said that it’s a time of turning […]
Dear Reader,
We are now approaching the seventh month of COVID 19 with little hope of coming out of it anytime soon. At first, after the apocalyptic fear passed and people stocked up on toilet paper, it was novel. It gave us permission to not have to go anywhere. Many of us slept better. We became […]
I’ve been reading Jen Sincero’s wonderful book You are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth. There is a chapter entitled “Faith and Gratitudinal Gold” that reminds me of my big career change, almost 20 years ago, now.
Let me back up a bit to the years before I jumped off the cliff […]
As a seeker my entire life, in search of my own healing and evolution, I have walked two parallel paths: psychotherapy and spirituality. I have had the great fortune of studying with several master teachers in both realms.
My path with psychotherapy began over 35 years ago, when I fell into a dark, suicidal depression. In […]
I recently returned from the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where I attended an intensive study of the Tantra of the Inner Shrine, given by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, the spiritual head of the Institute.
The essence of this intensive was about accessing our authentic, true nature—the inner shrine residing in our bodies—and embracing the divinity residing […]
Did you set any New Year’s resolutions, and are you following through? How many of us set them and then fail to follow-through?
I prefer the idea of setting an intention, or in yogic terms, sankalpa. There is a big difference between a mere intention and a sankalpa. Breaking down the word, “kalpa” means a […]