Rites of Initiation Part 2
Principles 2 and 3 I decided to share my musings about the next two principles/realities of rites of passage together as to me they seem so closely related. The second reality is, ‘you are not
Rites of Initiation
I listen to a lot of Richard Rohr podcasts these days, I just love the perspective he and his associates Bree Stoner and Paul Swanson bring to various topics, usually having to do with Richard’s
Gratefulness
We have a fabulous question in the current module of our Integrating Body, Soul and Spirit class series. It has actually transformed my experience of gratitude. Here’s the question and my responses. Discuss the difference
A Gateway
In the height of summer with the magnificence of nature all around us, I take a moment to savour it all and appreciate just how blessed I am to be living where I am and
Holiday from My Life
Time flies when you’re on a holiday from your life. I had a visit from our friendly neighbourhood COVID for the past few days and so the commitments I had were canceled and all the
A Third Way
Well, I guess we didn’t have enough overt divisiveness going on, so we thought we’d add to the pile. Some days it really makes me wonder where this is all going but then after some
Summer Solstice Prayer/Meditation
There seems to be a lot afoot these days in the internal world. I haven't been blogging much for whatever reason, but the process continues. This morning I felt heavy of heart and as I
What I’ve Learned From the Mystics
In one of my classes this session we were talking about Mysticism and the Nature of Reality. It was a very interesting class, and our final assignment was to do a 10-minute presentation either by
Learning and Letting Go
I’ve been in a rather intense period of learning and letting go and learning and letting go and there are a couple of things that really stand out for me about that at this point
Love is Giving
An excerpt from yesterday’s morning pages. (Sometimes when I’m getting close to the end, I run out of things to write so I turn it over to the Beloved which is what I did yesterday)
Spiritual Retreat
One of our spiritual direction training assignments this session was to go on a 24 hour silent retreat. We then had to write a short paper on the experience which I am sharing here. It
The Stuff of Life and Learning
It has been a rather busy couple of weeks particularly with the spiritual direction courses. Our course on mysticism required reading a very academic, intellectual series of 20 lectures from 1901/02. I’ve been working on
The Joy of Shadow Work
It’s been a long time since I posted a blog entry. It’s been a fairly busy time with a few ceremonies and of course ongoing classes and then attending the Unity Canada Conference in Nanaimo
Forgiveness and Freedom
Summer is coming into its final weeks and what a summer it has been. We had our final class of the first year of spiritual direction training last night and all I can say is
The Enneagram and Me
I’ve immersed myself in the Enneagram the past few weeks after years of resisting. For those who don’t know what that is here’s one definition from integrative9.com: “The Enneagram is an archetypal framework that offers
What Is Spiritual Direction?
When I mention I am in training to become a spiritual director I find most people asking me what that is. Even though it has been around for a very long time and has been
Rites of Initiation Part Four
The final day of July and my final post on the Rites of Initiation/Passage. Principle Five You are going to die. Well of course I am… Again, this would seem such an obvious thing yet
Rites of Passage Part Three
Principle Four In our rites of initiation either as a ritual or as life lessons, we come to another rather obvious one that isn’t as obvious as it seems: you aren’t in control. We know