Shamanic Practitioner | Poet | Philosopher
I awoke Solstice morning to an artful sunrise. The sky was radiant and the colors diffusing through Gaia’s atmosphere were angelic. I have been working with the angelic energies that are present during this season. Let me backtrack a bit. My spiritual teacher Norma Tringali taught that during the season we call the holidays, the… Read More
As I mentioned in post I of this series, we were fortunate to have been able to take our cruise in Alaska during the Autumnal Equinox and to experience incredible weather with brilliant seasonal sunshine. We intentionally booked a cruise that went to Sawyer Glacier via the Tracy Arm, which is an ancient fjord that… Read More
We were fortunate to have been in Alaska during the Autumnal Equinox, that point in the Western hemisphere which marks the seasonal change from summer to autumn. This is the time when light gives way to dark as the days get shorter, and what has blossomed begins its descent into decay. Both these elements were… Read More
This is a picture of a totem we took at the Totem Bight State Historical Park, which is north of Ketchikan in Alaska. It is one of my favorite places. The environment is a rain forest so it is full of awesome trees. Like this one. Besides the great trees and plants, the park is… Read More
Isn’t this a beautiful photo of a snow covered peak in Alaska? Looks like something from Nat Geo, doesn’t it? And because it is so awesome, so insurmountable, so foreign, it is almost too hard to make sense of personally because we feel disconnected from it. This formidable land seemingly has nothing to do with… Read More
I passed my dissertation defense on March 3, 2017 and I walked graduation ceremony on May 20, 2017. I never thought the end of my graduate school journey would ever come. But remarkably it did! Both were good days. My graduate work, like all transformative processes, was both elating and arduous, and really made me… Read More
Update 10.27.17: I have run across a video in which syncretic philosopher Santos Bonacci explains the origins of the legal system that enslaves us and how it is related to the inquisitions, the church, the corporations, and the banking cabal that owns all the wealth in world. In my research of the inquisitions and the… Read More
This is the aft view from the Norwegian cruise ship Jewel as we sail north to Alaska. I spent hours out here living with the sounds, the smells, and the constantly shifting waters of the living Pacific ocean. It is just mind-blowing to be on the open sea. Sawyer Glacier Alaska — It’s alive frozen… Read More
Well it’s Spring 2016, and as the outdated modes of thinking and being are dying an undignified death, and as those who hold on to them in the public arena are increasingly being exposed as the distorted clown car demons that they are, let us take this opportunity to make a leap in consciousness powered… Read More
Writing a dissertation is a strange initiatory journey. You kinda don’t really understand what you are writing about until you are writing it. One thought leads to many others. It has been hard to rein in the many trajectories; one realization leads to another entire landscape of thought. It seems though that my focus has… Read More