Fragrance Free!
Important for anyone who likes to breathe!
Links to helpful resources are below.
Do you remember when smoking cigarettes was accepted and allowed? In the workplace, airplanes, restaurants - ?! Seems unimaginable today. Slowly the public learned of the dangers of smoking - of directly inhaling, and of second-hand smoke. Then it was revealed that tobacco companies had known of the dangers of smoking for a good long time, but continued to manufacture and market tobacco products, making as much…
ONE CITIZEN An Alternate Form of Governance
The premise: All people will experience greater safety, health, purposefulness, security, happiness, and overall well-being when all people are supported in discovering and expressing their best individual self.
One Citizen governance addresses many current issues. Most immediate and pressing are:
Citizen apathy. People don’t see the point of making an effort to get involved when it seems as if any effort will be absolutely pointless.
Gross inequities, unfairness, and an almost unending litany of…
VISUALIZING HEALING Connect & Glow for Vibrant Well-being and Peace
VISUALIZING HEALING
Connect & Glow for Vibrant Well-being and Peace
Final project for master of Spiritual Studies Degree, Emerson Theological Institute
NB: go here for a PDF of this paper with footnotes.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Connect the Dots
Everything Is Energy
Being Glow
Working With the Energy
Releasing Anxiety
All Heart
Hoku Pa'a (Guiding Star)
Simply Being
Spring Cleaning
Ho'oponopono
What Is Healing?
Karma
Evolution
Summary: Abiding Peace
Appendix
Releasing Anxiety…
(Artificial) Fragrance Free (please)
(Skip down for links to informative articles, or you can go straight to Environmental Working Group for the good stuff - lists of products, the good, the bad, and the extremely bad.)
Do you remember when smoking cigarettes was accepted and allowed? In the work place, airplanes, restaurants - ? Seems unimaginable today. Slowly the public learned of the dangers of smoking - of directly inhaling, and of second-hand smoke. And then it was revealed that tobacco companies had known of the dangers for a good long…
Read moreThank You
Thank you for pink in the sky
this bare branch morning.
Thank you for robin egg blue sliver on the horizon,
for muffled evergreen sketched in charcoal and mist
on a steely lavender shadow of island.
The First Lesson
The First Lesson
Music is my religion
Chocolate, the communion.
Pain is my guru
“No thoughts necessary,” the mantra.
Kindness is the catechism
and beauty is the gospel.
As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be,
World without end,
Amen.
Relax, and take a nice deep breath...
Relax, and take a nice, deep breath....
There is a reason that nearly all meditation exercises begin with slow, intentional breathing: deep breaths activate the relaxation response, one of the functions of the parasympathetic aspect of the autonomic nervous system. From Wikipedia: “The parasympathetic nervous system is one of the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the other being the sympathetic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is responsible for regulating the body's unconscious…
Read moreJust Past Arbuckle - Notes From the Road
Just Past Arbuckle
Just past Arbuckle
telephone poles list
in tandem.
Shadows cross-hatch
at exit five-five-nine
County Line
and orchard rows swirl
in a mesmerizing polka.
Young branches raised kalani,
a nut tree halau
in graceful undulation.
On a distant hill a vineyard is laid
like a dotted swiss picnic cloth.
I-5 snakes south
shedding its skin
to become
The Five.
The Seeker
In 1984 I had been in recovery for a couple of years; I was doing well in college, and enjoying working in my garden. I lived in a lovely two-story red-shingled Craftsman house in Sebastopol, California. Two palm trees graced the front yard; a barn owl lived in one of them. I often found regurgitated rodent skeletons on the lawn under its perch. Two large picture windows flanked the southeast corner of the living room, bathing my baby grand piano in filtered light. When I practiced Chopin’s Military…
Read moreSteiner on Nature
Randomly opened to the following passage in Rudolph Steiner's "How to Know Higher Worlds":
"The ideal situation would be to pursue our esoteric training among green plants and sunny mountains, surrounded by the loveliness of nature’s simplicity. This would produce harmony in our inner organs that would never be possible in modern cities. In other words, a person who has grown up surrounded by fragrant pines, snowy peaks, and the quiet bustle of forest animals and insects is better prepared for esoteric…
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