When conducting a workshop, if there is one topic guaranteed to snap a room to attention, it is the issue of parenting. No one, it seems is comfortable with their ability to parent and everyone feels pretty vulnerable about it. It is a shame that we don’t teach parenting in schools because you’re certain to need it moreRead more
Parents and Children
We assume that a child comes into the world with a clean slate. That’s both true and not. In a child’s conscious awareness, everything is new. His or her immediate circle is a world of wonder, newness and exploration. There is little conscious awareness of anything outside his or her world. But at another level, The Universe isRead more
Your Family
(Excerpted from “A Shaman’s Path To Inner Peace,” a fourteen part video series to help you heal yourself.) There is a good chance you’ll spend some time with your family over the holidays. Will that be a good experience or something to survive? What is it about families that can make them so darned stressful? Ram Dass said, “IfRead more
Making The Other An “It”
Hassidic philosopher Martin Buber wrote that people have two kinds of relationships. Buber defined these as either ”I : it,” or “I : You.” The difference is that in “I : it” the other person becomes a thing, an object, whereas in “I : you,” they retain their essential humanity. Since in “I : it,” the other has lostRead more
Relationships – Our Greatest Teacher
The most telling thing about a person’s spiritual development is the nature of their relationships. Relationships can be open and loving and sharing, heartfelt and filled with joy, or they can be dismal prisons of stress, discouragement and failure. What would it look like to hold love with another person, without all the garbage? Jesus loved in aRead more