Imagining Forgiveness

  I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago when I awoke at 3:30am and stepped outside to view the blood moon. I cropped this photo so that the moon could be seen more clearly as it peeked through the branches of the tree. It looks like a fresh peach hanging from a […]

      May our hearts be illuminated

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”                                                                             Mary Oliver

To all the mothers of this earth To Mother Earth To all of those who “mother” others, regardless of biological relation To the compassionate mothering of ourselves as each and every one us engages in self-care practices To our spiritual mothers who grace all of the many spiritual traditions of our shared world To the […]

Santa Barbara IONS Community Group Institute of Noetic Sciences Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 pm Guided Visualization and the Noetic With Juliet Rohde-Brown, PhD Non-local consciousness has always been the major area of inquiry for IONS. How we make choices around what we visualize can have a crucial impact on our overall health […]

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”                                                                                                                        William Shakespeare On a contemplative walk through the gardens at Mercy Center last fall, I took a photograph of a rose with my cell phone camera. My husband, James, then painted his impression of it. How wonderful […]

MLK by James Paul Brown   “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King Jr.

    As you enter 2014 and make some resolutions for the new year , I highly recommend a book by Stephen Levine entitled Becoming Kuan Yin as an anchor for being called to your true nature. Here are a few quotes from the book that I would like to share as a New Year’s […]

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