Two Hearts Entwined

Sitting on my little mossy green meditation cushion giving thanks for all the blessings in my life, I’ve noticed recently the most beautiful things keep passing by my windows.  I live on the 28th floor of an uptown Manhattan apartment building, so my normal neighbors up here are helicopters, blimps and the odd seagull surfing…

A Ten Trillionth of ‘The World’

It is one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever heard. American neuroscientist David Eagleman says humans typically perceive less than one ten trillionth of what is going on around us. In other words, we are stumbling through life largely unaware of what is happening right next to us. There could be other life forms,…

Hello 2016!

Happy 2016!  Judging by my local Goodwill, it is that time of year to create new space and energy in our lives by letting go of old stuff.  Last weekend there was a mini Everest of donations blocking the entrance to the Goodwill.  As I stood gawping at the door, more and more people arrived…

Dream Time

Every morning I wash up on the shore of my pillows in a different state. The night has taken me on a long and often extraordinary adventure, and sometimes I wake feeling exhausted as if I have bobbed all night in a sea of tangle that threatens to drown me; other times I travel to fictional towns with…

Connecting with the Departed

Here’s Abraham Hicks explaining what it feels like to connect to a departed loved one’s spirit.  Note – you usually you need to meditate first and be in a positive frame of mind (not depressed or grieving): ‘It will seem odd at first. You will think you are making it up. But you won’t be….

Our Purpose?

‘You are an extension of source energy.  You are eternal beings that have come forth from broader non-physical consciousness to experience life, deliberately creating on this leading edge.’   – Abraham Hicks

On Kindness

‘When I was young I admired clever people.  Now that I am old I admire kind people’ – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Kitchen Aid

My cooking has gotten a noticeable fillip since Laura died.  I suspect she is in the kitchen giving me a hand.  I am serious.  I’ve cooked all my life (3 meals a day) But since Laura passed, everything comes out much better, even when I am not looking.  I taught Laura my few tricks in…

Happiness

‘You seem stronger, happier, more your self than ever before,’ my sister said recently.  It is the strangest paradox. I get whiplash trying to understand how this is possible. How do great loss and happiness go together. It is not even 18 months since I lost the person I loved most in the world; my…

In Praise of the Monkey Mind

I feel very conflicted when I hear meditators diss our chatter box left-brain, or ‘monkey mind’.  Sure our right brain is the place of oneness, unity and selfless serenity. It’s the goody two shoes side of us, the saint, the sufi, the place of silence and repose. In other words, it is our spiritual side….

Inspired by Kathleen

Kathleen Blake is one of the most altruistic people I’ve met. She healed from thyroid cancer 28 years ago doing the Gerson Therapy and even though she is retired now and could be relaxing in her Sedona garden with her lovely Westie, Toby, she spends most days manning the Facebook Gerson Therapy Support Group page,…

Learning to Fly

My higher spirit was right. I really do learn through pain. I wish there was an easier route, but pain really gets my attention. And after wrenching my back before Xmas (see the post Crash), I was in the kind of pain where swearing a lot helped release some of the agony. So I did…