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We tend to think of ourselves as a single coherent personality, and expect the other to be a single coherent personality as well. But a single human being can support many personalities. The dramatic example is Multiple Personality Disorder, which is extremely rare. The familiar example, which is anything but rare, is how different we…

Resources do matter, but they have always fluctuated, and that fluctuation occurs with need as well as want resources. A good strategy is to learn how to thrive, or at least work with, the resources currently available. That’s the two-sentence version, which may or may not be a sufficient resource. For those willing to read…

It is not unusual for a conscious, individualized person to feel like a stranger in a strange land. There is much in the Babylon Matrix that is strange and disaffecting. Recognize the feelings, have compassion for them, but face them like a Warrior. If we can avoid self-pity there is much to learn from being…

The blurred boundary situation can be one of life’s greatest challenges. So many things can cause us to be confused about where we leave off and another person begins, and other people can have the same confusion about us. The most dramatic example of blurred boundaries occurs when someone lights up in our Eros as…

Journeying is an archetypal human experience. I often feel the call to adventure as Winter turns to Spring, the urge to get out of the house and experience home on the road. Staying in one place for too long so easily and inevitably becomes a stagnant routine. Emerson said: “The problem with traveling is you…

The Babylon Matrix is set up to undervalue one of the greatest treasures you could possibly give or receive — compassionate, healing empathy. Empathy is a treasure that often enriches the giver even more than the one who receives it. The opposite of empathy is an exclusive focus on “internal considering”: — what you are…

Human incarnation is intense, and it is not surprising that we should feel the intensity of it sometimes. We feel it in the uneasy balance of light and dark in ourselves, our lives, our world, the feelings of possibility and of loss, the battles of will and inertia, metamorphosis and stagnation. The intensity of aliveness…

There are times when the anguish and disorder of life seems to predominate in our awareness. Life seems messy and unpleasant, there is the chill of a nameless dread, and we feel ourselves an inadequate, neglectful part of the messy unpleasantness, a flimsy plastic shopping bag overstuffed with worry and unlived life, ready to come…

Think of the cosmos as your suggestion box. You are part of a species that suggests manifestations, which, for better or worse, often become actualities. If the matrix is not as you would like it to be, it is up to you to make suggestions. According to some magical traditions the most potent way to…

This is a propitious time to face down your fears. Don’t run from them, run them down. Use the energy of fear as energy to do your best. Feel the fear and keep taking constructive action anyway. You can take it. As FDR said, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”