Imagining Forgiveness

I recently posted this proposed Forgiveness Ritual on a site for a group I am involved in at interspiritualwisdom.org, as it was requested of us to contribute something utilizing Ed Bastian’s conceptualizations around interspiritual meditation, ritual,  and/or other practices. I thought I would post it here as well. Enjoy! A Proposed Interspiritual Ritual for Working […]

Tags: Interspiritual

Blessings to you on this day of gratitude!

Forgiveness during the Holidays This morning I had the good fortune of being a guest on Dr. Leon Dickerson’s radio show called Mental Health for Better Living on WHCR-90.3FM in New York (9 to 9:30am EST). The radio show focuses on family life, spiritual life, and the community and we spoke about forgiveness and its importance, […]

Tags: Family, Forgiveness, Holidays

    Please come to a reception called Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist as Artist on November 1, 2014 in Los Angeles.        You are Cordially invited        To attend   Mirrors of the Mind 3: The Psychotherapist        As Artist November 1-November 8, 2014   A juried exhibition of visual arts […]

This photo was taken on a Santa Barbara beach at sunset. It makes me think of the integration of opposites, pairing of shadow and light,  earth and sky and all of the elements in a beautiful, alchemical dance. The bird looks like the image of an angel, with the way the light shines off to either […]

  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 […]

“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

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 […]

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words