I came down with the Swine Flu last week, two days before Thanksgiving. Now I understand why a friend of mine, who had the flu a months ago, calls it The Pig of Transformation.

Here’s what happened. My first inclination that something was amiss came when I bent over to get something out of [...]

This business of divination, or tuning into one’s own innate knowing, doesn’t happen in a vacuum, of course. It happens in the context of the sum total of absolutely everything that is going on in our world. Ultimately, it happens in the context of the evolution of consciousness on a collective level. What began [...]

In my first two blogs, I made the assertion that the ultimate divination tool is really the human being, itself, with our three main centers of knowing: the third eye; the heart; and the guts. Man made divination tools like the I Ching can help us improve and refine our access to these inborn [...]

In my last blog, while exploring the topic of inspiration, I asked the Rumi-inspired question: Who thinks thoughts with my brain? I could just as well have asked: Who feels  emotions with my heart? or Who experiences instincts with my guts? In my experience, these three areas, the third eye, heart and guts, [...]

Thoughts often get a bad rap in spiritual circles, and rightly so. This is because a great many of them fall into the egocentric and/or neurotic category. But there is another category of thought that deserves our respectful attention: those that are so sublime they are worthy of the name inspiration.

There’s a line [...]