(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
Childhood Wounding
Having Hurt Feelings
OK, so your partner said something hurtful and it stung! You are wounded, angry and you feel betrayed. Inside, you feel like you have leprosy. No one likes being in these situations, even though we all end up there from time to time. When something like this happens we usually get caught up in the drama and feelingRead more
A Modern Fable
In this story you are an infant. One of your parents, let’s say your mother, is holding you. (In a classic fairy tale you would be a golden haired princess and you would be being held prisoner by an evil witch, but we’re on a budget, so we’ll do the common person’s fairy tale.) Your mother is strugglingRead more
Violence
Violence has always been part of the landscape, but recent events have brought it more to the forefront. We will probably fuss about it, blame minorities for it and then once again, turn our backs to the people in society who really need our help. Like prejudice, we view violence as an external thing – someone hurting someoneRead more
The Origins of Violence
By Ross Bishop This article is something of a departure. There is a good deal of violence in our world and little meaningful response to it. I am going to address the root causes of two kinds of violence – crime and terrorism. They come from the same sources. Tragically, we are not predisposed to address their causesRead more