RELATIONSHIPS AND ATTACHMENT

RELATIONSHIPS AND ATTACHMENT Religion and popular culture, as they exploit our trauma-based fear of relational pain, have been programming us to avoid attachments in the name of "spirituality" and "growth" for the longest time. We have all learned to keep people at arms length. Don't let anyone in. Keep relationships shallow and business like. Be...

Demystifying Psychic Awareness of Others

Reading people is normal. Maybe not common, but normal. We are all hardwired from birth to see people beneath their mask and into their subconscious mind. Babies do this. Children are wildly aware of everything. It is not woo to see the depths of people with clarity. We are all connected in spirit; this is...

The Need to Feel We Matter

If we didn't want others to see who we were, we wouldn't use social sites on the internet (i.e. blogs, youtube, social media), and we'd keep everything about ourselves in diaries. Some people love to share recipes, their artwork, their card tricks, their photos, their songs, their bad days, their good days, their job promotion,...

The Humility in Poverty and My Take on Materialism

There was a picture circulating on the internet and it included a picture on the left of a kid crying because she got the wrong iPhone for Christmas and on the right was a boy in an "undeveloped country" with grungy man-made flips flops on. It went viral and this meme caused a lot of...

The Strength in Vulnerability and Learning to Trust Again

In modern-day spiritual communities inspired by eastern religion, it's often said to avoid getting attached to other people. The whole point of this experience, however, might be to attach in the human form. In Spirit, we are already attached and intimately connected to one another since separation is but an illusion. Now, in the physical,...

The Holiness of Paradox

As our souls expand, we might peacefully hold two opposing views in our minds at once. For example, you can hold a view that life is hard and how this planet is hell all the while having a knowing that everything has purpose, everything is perfect and going as it should be. See how those...