By Ross Bishop You know the place I am talking about. It is where you keep your sins. It is where you hold the self condemnation for your failures, your mistakes, your errors of judgment. It’s where you keep the pain from the people you’ve hurt and the lies you’ve told. It’s a dark, smelly, unpleasant place. IRead more
Losing Your Mind
by Ross Bishop When you learn chemistry or Spanish, you start with the basics and then add more information (knowledge) as you progress. This is the Western/scientific way of acquiring knowledge, and although this approach is fine for many things, it doesn’t work for spirituality. Spiritual understanding starts like other subjects – you learn basic values from yourRead more
Why is Life so Difficult?
I do not have to describe your place of personal darkness. You know only too well the feeling of that dark place and the influence it can have over you. Whether formed by a powerful trauma or simply the painful struggle of growing up, your “shadow” as shamans call it, has the power to seriously disrupt your life.Read more
What Does It Mean To "Love Everything?"
I am asked this question frequently. People want to know what I mean when I urge them to “Open their hearts,” and “Love everything.” Most of us spend a good part of our days being closed down, and being open can feel pretty threatening. Some people have never really opened their hearts, and they honestly do not knowRead more
Who is Running Your Life?
This may surprise you, but you don’t run your life. You might feel in control because you make the decisions, but what is it that guides and controls your decision making process? Where do all those different voices and influences come from? Are they all yours? And in the larger view, who or what decides what’s going toRead more