Unplugging

My partner and I led a yoga retreat recently in the North Cascades. The retreat was attended mostly by women, which is normal for yoga and other healing arts. Nationwide, about 80% of the estimated 35 million people doing yoga are women. What started as a male...

Just Say No … to Big Pharma

Drug Pushers, June 28, 17 What do you think of when you hear the words, Just say no, and perhaps the words, “Drug war”? Do you feel there are some contradictions and deception going on? To me, the war is being fought against our very citizens, by the Pharmaceutical...

True Freedom

As always, I am escaping the noise and fireworks of the 4th of July and backpacking out into the quiet of the woods. Often, on the 4th of July I gripe about how we are not truly free or independent, that our minds are trapped by programing, patterns, fear and...

Let Food Be Thy Medicine

I have a question for you to ponder. After thousands and thousands of years on Earth, why is that we suddenly need pharmaceuticals drugs to get by? Many of us are convinced that relying on drugs is simply a fact of life. But is this true? Some might say that these are...

Shift Happens: Hidden Truths

Today let’s get conspiratorial. Have you heard the story of two bulls being led to the slaughter house, when one of them suddenly stops, and turns to the other and says, “Hey, I just had an intuitive insight. They are going to make hot dogs out of us.” The other bull...

How to Reclaim Genuine Free Will

In past commentaries, I have claimed that most of us in truth have no free will, that we here in the land of the free are anything but free. I have said that 4th of July is really just a distraction, or hope of genuine freedom, as most of us are prisoners of our own...

SOS: Survival Overdrive Syndrome

SOS: Survival Overdrive Syndrome It seems like every week we come up with a new disease or illness, such is the nature of our world. Often it is the pharmaceutical companies wanting to invent a disease and then sell us the cure, a drug of course. They rarely point out...

Adjusting to Regime Change

Today let me offer some practical tips for handing the shift in administration. Whether or not you like the incoming person, and whether or not it is Donald Duck or Donald Trump, today let’s focus on what can each of us do. As always, regardless of who is President,...

Post-Election Thoughts

I’ve been traveling, and procrastinating talking about the election until I could get some space, clear my mind, and now it’s time to weigh in with this commentary. First, I was wrong. Like many of us, if someone told me a year ago that our next President would be...

Mary Magdalene and other Shifts for Women

Shift continues to arise out of the Catholic Church. Now Mary Magdalene has been lifted up in the eyes of the Catholic Church, basically to the level of the Apostles. The recent Decree stated that Mary Magdalen “can now rightly be taken by the faithful as a model of...