Get Outlook for Android Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of our healed heart was hovering over the surface of the waters. And our healed Heart said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.And our healed Heart saw Read more
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”—Jiddu Krishnamurti Powerlessness and silence go together. We … should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world’s reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It Read more
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Route 66 Santa Fe New Mexico to Holbrook Arizona Saw some old towns and great off freeway scenery. Much of original 66 is in disrepair or replaced by other newer roads, but it was a worthy effort. Petrified Forest was amazing. 200 million year old trees, many remnants looking like Read more
Day 12: Joshua Tree to Old Town Temecula ( uncensored version)
Route 66 has ended for us, alas, yet we get to connect with family in Temecula.
Joshua Tree National Park is amazing, to say the least, so that I will. Chet King, fellow ” laughing cholla”, photo number 6 is for you! A cactus called the cholla decided to jump onto my calf. Akiko supplied the gloves, and Sharon White had the pleasure of separating my calf from an unfriendly, painful hitchhiker.
On to dinner in Old Town, with Sharon’s number one son, and now only child (Brad is over 50 years old, I guess that he is not a child anymore, eh?), his wife Dawn, and our number 3 grandson Tony.
Some family members continue to travel on the infamous Route 666. I will not participate in any family conspiracy of silence, where dishonesty is a treasured value. Our number 2 grandson, who is quite ” damaged” is also not so mysteriously connected with a missing daughter, who, not coincidentally, is incredibly damaged goods, as well. Each has a potentially fatal problem with knowing and telling the truth, and acting with honesty and integrity in their affairs. As they say ” in the Program”, at the end of Route 666 is either death, insanity, and/or jail, and they are both living into those nightmares, and have normalized their own stupidity over the courses of their lives
Sad..Families are like our planet Earth, they can’t be healed by taking a torch to them. No one heals by sacrificing another in the flames of one’s own hatred and ignorance. We have been the sacrificial lambs in the past, but now we wear spiritual kevlar.,
May they both find healing and peace, FAR AWAY FROM US!
I believe everybody has the right to try something new without being ridiculed-—William Hung, of American Idol fame When I first saw a rocket ship take off into the heavens, I became hooked on the possibility of becoming an astronaut as an adult. My reading focus became both fictionalized historical Read more
The greatest trauma to the human soul is the early damage to our sense of self that causes poor self-esteem, and all of the compensating behavior that occurs downstream from the wounding. Without even knowing it, we traumatize others with variations of our own original trauma. If our trauma created Read more
We must first lose our mind, with its historical accumulation of knowledge and questionable theories and memories, to find theTruth underlying all of Life–Elisha Scott This is a bifurcation point, where the curious, and the attuned, divurge from the well worn path of the disinterested reader, No shame to the Read more
You are not going to like what comes after America . . . ” ——Leonard Cohen “We were told that we would see America come and go. In a sense, America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions of how to live on earth. It’s the Hopi belief, Read more
There are no images, videos, or sound bites in our brains. There are only patterns of synapses firing. Everything our senses see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is converted into these patterns. This is the one and only way we know the world. The sight, warmth, and flavor of our Read more
It is no measure of good health to be well adapted to a sick society.”-—Jiddhu Krishnamurti Our civilized world has been built upon the backs of an unconscious, overachieving, traumatized humanity. . Do we remain in the conspiracy of silence and inaction, or do we confront our resistance to the Read more
(Melinda will probably perform extreme edit, or eliminate, much of the following material. so read at your own risk) My father grew up in an abusive home, and had a troubled relationship with his parents. When he returned from WWII duty in the navy, my father attended the University of Read more
When I first experienced the “spiritual presence” in 1987, I found many new fellow travelers on the path to truth, and a few new teachers, as well. I was primarily attracted to three teachers, Jack Boland, Joel Goldsmith and Jiddhu Krishnamurti. These three teachers came at the experience of truth Read more
Melinda will be amending this one much further. Anyway, part of book #8. Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able Read more
If you were a real “GOD”, and your life was characterized by ultimate self-awareness, would you not want to create everything that is in your image as the best possible manifestation that it could possibly be? And, if you were the creation of this “ultimate creation energy”, would Read more
“Oh, Elisha, dare you lift yourself unto me?”—heard in a November 1987 mediation Elisha was an ancient Jewish prophet. He served under Elijah, one of the Jewish traditions most famous, and murderous, prophets. Elijah was swept up into the heaven by a tornado at the end of his life, which Read more
We’ll know if we are, by the way, if that self-blame has curdled into self-hate. If it’s blackened into depression. If ywe never feel good enough anymore, around our friends and loved ones. If we constantly feel a sense of desolation and littleness. These are almost sure signs we’re blaming Read more
Chapter : Empathy, and The Mystery of the Path Between You And Me Life’s journey is forever like a dotted line pathway. It is the quality of our connections with each other that fills in the space between the dots. Empathy is the major vehicle for our consciousness to Read more