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M. Scott Peck has an interesting definition of love: “I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” Someone once said that, “Love is cool, it is not hot.” It is crucial to distinguish love from passion, infatuation, codependence and sentimentality. It is…

One of the greatest gifts you can give the world is mindful attention. A central witness personality within yourself lessens the ever-present possibility of acting out your destructive unconscious aspects in the outer world. It can also mitigate the power of destructive inner voices and subpersonalities that might otherwise seize power unnoticed. Mindful witnessing of…

Warily, intuitively, shrewdly sensing the path just up ahead. Coyotes are famous as tricksters, and adaptation right now might require that you be a positive trickster. Use your intuition to find a way around the walls that block you. Sniff out situations and people before they get too close. Sense what’s going to happen before…

“ELE” is an acronym for “Extinction Level Event,” and this is meant metaphorically as a need for punctuated equilibrium or shock for you or some other system or process. Shock (which can be a surprisingly good thing) relates to the I Ching hexagram #51 entitled “Shock.” Shock was recognized by the ancient Chinese as such…

Some paths are inherently self-defeating. The I Ching very succinctly describes one of the most classic dead-end paths this way: “He who seeks nourishment that does not nourish reels from desire to gratification and in gratification craves desire. Mad pursuit of pleasure for the satisfaction of the senses never brings one to the goal. One…

“I Stood Upon a High Place” I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” — Stephen Crane (1871-1900) There is no such thing in nature as an H-Bomb, that is all man’s doing. We are the great danger.…

You need to express your mutant abilities, The world needs individual expression, and the repression of individual expression is one of the worst evils we know. But freedom of expression is not a license to indulge every impulse; for expression to be individual, and free of compulsion, it needs to be conscious. Free self-expression in…

There is a spectrum of energies available to you, from the divine to the mundane and inferior. Often it is a question of what you choose to tune into. The internet is a familiar example. There are a million porno sites you could have visited, but instead you chose to interact with an oracle. You…

“I Stood Upon a High Place” I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” — Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Be aware of the darker side of your self and of life and know what it is saying to you.…

Journaling and oracle consultation can be empowering and developmental. The unconscious person usually requires tragic shocks to learn and to punctuate his stagnant equilibrium. But the conscious person can learn through the subtle shocks provided by oracles, dreams, synchronicities and intuitions. Never underestimate journal writing as a powerful practice and form of inner journey. Among…