Documentary fiend that I am, I found one that followed a couple of Amish women who practiced Braucherei. Don’t ask me how to pronounce that. It’s Dutch, I think. It’s considered by some to be a form of folk healing or faith healing. It’s used for things like pain or warts. There are also some who believe it to be a form of white magic … Continue reading What is Good, What is Evil?
These three terms in my life are sort of interchangeable. They aren’t, of course, but to me, they are all words that define parts of my abilities, skills, training, and experience. The one thing all of these words elicit is the big F. Fear. A friend of mine organizes panels with practitioners to cover different topics. The panel discussing these three topics has been rescheduled … Continue reading Supernatural, Paranormal, and Occult
It fascinates me when people do their best to get something for nothing. I don’t mean getting something on sale. I mean expecting other people to do something or tell them something for free. You don’t get to walk into a grocery store, grab an avocado, and walk out without paying for it. Knowledge may not be as tangible as an avocado, but that doesn’t … Continue reading Avoid Going Into Energy Debt
Now that Summer is officially over, it’s time for us to change with the seasons. Once upon a time, human lives revolved around the seasons. During the Fall, everyone was harvesting and preserving what they could to get them through the winter. It was also bringing them into a time when they stayed indoors with their families, rested, and made plans for the coming year. … Continue reading Fall In
This is not going to be a rant about the unfairness of the world regarding women. I have a few friends who have marched in the streets, shouted slogans, and waved their signs. I’m not interested in standing out in the weather, getting jostled by strangers. Not my thing. What is my thing is energy. Everything is energy. Everything generates and supports energy in some … Continue reading The Energy of Misogyny
I had an interesting conversation this past weekend that got me thinking. I was speaking with a client of mine about the different traditions of shamanism. She had just been through a healing ceremony with a shaman from Bolivia. She had come to see me to see if I could feel the energy of what he had done for her working through her body. I … Continue reading Expanding Your Awareness
Financial issues concern most people in one way or another. As people of power, we are conscious of the kind of energy we send out that attracts prosperity to us. We are concerned not only with our streams of income but also with the energy surrounding our finances. One of the things capable of derailing all of our efforts is a vow of poverty. If … Continue reading Vow Of Poverty – Do You Have One?
Whenever someone cuts us off while we’re driving, some of us wish that person gets what’s coming to them with Karma kicking their butt. Some people don’t believe in Karma. I do. I’ve seen too many things happen to people who have done bad things to others to doubt that she exists. Sometimes she takes her time teaching a lesson, but when it happens, it’s … Continue reading Karmic Debt – What Do I Owe?
We live in a noisy world, constantly bombarded with sights and sounds of whatever others want us to believe are images of what we should want or need. We also contend with our insecurities that tell us we need to be something other than what we are. There is always a sense of constantly striving for something. We think we lack something and are on … Continue reading The Blessing of Silence
We all have moments when it feels like we’re taking two steps forward and one step back. It’s a natural state of ebb and flow. For the most part, though, we should always feel like we are making progress. When we think we’re standing still despite all our efforts, we might have to recognize that we have hit a spiritual brick wall. Athletes sometimes hit … Continue reading Hitting the Spiritual Brick Wall
Hands on Fire 