Archive for 2009

Dreaming Up Success in 2010

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Just like dressing for success puts our best foot forward, dreaming for success can help us achieve our biggest goals this year.
Last year I shared 10 great tips for having big winter dreams. But more important than having big dreams is knowing how to work with all the dreams we have. Here’s how to make every [...]

How To Stir a Pot

Friday, December 25th, 2009

One summer in the beginning of the Aughts, I spent an amazing week in Somerset with Donald Engstrom and Sharon Jackson. That is to say, the weather was amazing, the countryside amazing too, the company was fabulous, and the spot we were staying in was perfectly lovely. Our job, on the other hand, was thankless, [...]

Getting Ready…

Monday, December 21st, 2009

We’re all about holidays in this house: Solstice, birthdays, Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve, and Hangover (New Year’s) Day. It’s all good, and all cause to light the house with shiny, colorful things.

Yesterday we headed to Deborah Oak’s place in San Francisco to celebrate the Solstice with old friends and great food. John Sulak [...]

Evolutionary Dreaming

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Back in August I commented in my review of Robert Moss’s new book that,
People are people…
The dirty little secret of the human potential movement is that even if we all develop to our fullest potential, our society will still not be perfect.”
Much to my surprise, I did not get a lot of blowback from that statement. [...]

An Essential Study

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Phillip Zarrilli’s new book may have a title that only a theater critic could love, but the body of his work deserves to be known and practiced by a much wider audience—and in terms of this blog’s readership, I am referring to anybody involved in the expressive or healing arts, ministry, ceremony, or public speaking.

Psychophysical [...]

So Many Blogs, So Little Time

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I have never been a blogger that can whip out short, frequent posts on the day’s most Googled topic, in the race to drive traffic to my site. Instead, I am one of many bloggers who write thoughtful pieces about the things that interest me, in hopes that those who are similarly interested will continue [...]

The Limits of Awareness

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Monday I stood up a friend for brunch. I didn’t mean to, and I certainly didn’t plan on it. I had been looking forward to it just a couple days before, had the meeting written in my book, and the book was with me as I did errands beforehand. Yet so complete was my forgetting [...]

How Time Flies

Monday, September 21st, 2009

What a banner weekend—a heady mix of the new moon, Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, and Autumn Equinox. The air has that piercing clarity of autumn too, with the touch of morning chill that makes the apples and pears so crisp and flavorful. My little apple tree is still too much of a fledgling to bring forth [...]

Sit Down and Be Counted!

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

One of the most interesting studies to come out in the past decade is Voices from the Pagan Census. The book is based on surveys that were circulated from 1993 to 1995, by hand and via magazines and newsletters, but also through the new communications tool called the “internet.” I remember coming across several copies, [...]

The Historicity of Dreaming

Friday, August 21st, 2009

That dreams have been influential in many pivotal episodes in history is accepted as fact in some circles; in other circles it is considered nonsense. Yet for anyone bothering to dig into the archives, it becomes indisputable that many important figures over time and across disciplines have been guided by their nighttime dreams—and have changed [...]