healer Archive

  • Empowering Comfort

    Empowering Comfort

    How to identify healthy forms of emotional support and healers that are empowering rather than disempowering.
  • The Feminine Path Through Suffering

    The Feminine Path Through Suffering

    Archetypal wisdom on how women’s “falling apart” can open the doors to awakening.
  • Why Confront Your Demons?

    Why Confront Your Demons?

    An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
  • Finding Your Power

    Finding Your Power

    The tribal-minded people, like orchids, wither here.  The souls looking for sun and rain on the outside, for a hospitable...
  • Still Luminous

    Still Luminous

    Last night, I was awake all night, while sleeping, enjoying another one of those full nights resting in clear, lucid,...
  • A Long Awaited Apology

    A Long Awaited Apology

    There comes a time when the dark forces in your life step into the light, remove their masks, and reveal...
  • The Holy Fallout

    The Holy Fallout

    Finishing Jan’s book.  And waking up more fully, more deeply.  Dawn taking root.  The holy fallout which I read about...
  • Opening to Apathy

    Opening to Apathy

    One of the most potent forces that can close the heart is another’s apathy.  We invoke apathy in response to...
  • Difficult People

    Difficult People

    An essay by Noel McNaughton on how seemingly difficult people enable us to cultivate true compassion.
  • The Secret Healers

    The Secret Healers

    The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
  • In Search of the Perfect Healer

    In Search of the Perfect Healer

    In times of great suffering, we look for teachers or healers who can show us the way out.  The need...