We are ready to believe and follow, giving up freedom for power, justice for security, love for righteousness, allowing culture to become cult.
Great leaders make it a habit to respond in ways that generate the outcomes they want, even during extremely tough experiences or events seemingly beyond their control.
One day back in the 60s, my father, a high-society interior decorator with clients like the Presidents of Cuba and Haiti, suddenly discovered that he could talk to the dead and heal the sick.
This Thanksgiving, when you think about all the things you're grateful for, don't forget to include the person you've been hanging out with, 24/7, for your entire life.
In Jungian Psychology, your negative state of mind is referred to as 'The Shadow.' This aspect of yourself is why much of your life is the way it is. If not recognized it will create and attract harmful situations in life.
Healing comes from the soul, the interior self. "Grace," Myss says, "is what heals." She's right. The soul calls for particular actions to set the stage for healing:
Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.
It is difficult for some of us to say "God thinks each of us into being" without feeling like we're falling back on childhood Sunday school stories.
In our human lives, experiencing this kind of profound emptiness means that like a candle flame gets blown out, our separateness and suffering are blown out.
Here is a step-by-step approach to mindfulness or meditation, the basic practices of quieting the mind.
It takes great courage to face adversity, imagine a better outcome, and then get off your butt and do something about it.
In society, we are taught from a young age to grow up and be the perfect woman. We are expected to do it all and if we can't do it all, there is something wrong with us.
There are many reason we make wrong decisons, but the major culprit is the tendency to listen to the advice of others instead of using the intuitve decision makers that Mother Nature has provided to all of us.
What is it that stops us from being the best we can be, from giving unreservedly, from caring for others more than ourselves?
Science is remarkably close to offering a full naturalistic explanation of individual religious experiences, everything from certain belief to moral indignation to mystical rapture to spiritual transformation.
When Ehrenreich observes, "It's a mistake to try to turn your anger and resentment and sadness or grief into something else," I'm with her all the way.
Stripped of their cultural heritage by the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese seem to be in a headlong rush to what they think they want and need--the material excess of the West.
For me, that is true art. The artist becomes a kind of healer/shaman; and we who finally have access to these miraculous pieces, become initiated into worlds which take us places we have never been before.
I believed, along with all the other adults in my life, that my melancholy and sensitivity were part of my "special" make-up, that they were gifts to celebrate, not neuroses to treat.
Sure, you can blame the advertisements, the TV shows and the greedy bankers if you want, but it still comes down to who drank the Kool-Aid, not who made the Kool-Aid.
Can we create the conditions in which we lead grace-full lives? Is it even possible to expect to live gracefully, with the world in so much chaos? My view is that there has never been a better time.
