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My Guru Has a Tail, Episode 3: The Pet Psychic

Have you ever been to a psychic? Even though I’m thoroughly woo-woo, I’ve only been to one psychic in my life, and that was in my twenties. The psychic told me some things that were totally right-on, and other things that were way off. I can be extremely impressionable, and I’ve found it’s better for [...]

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The Invisible Spiritual Practice: Are You Doing It?

What’s your spiritual practice? Do you meditate? Do you pray or say affirmations? Do you spend time in nature, absorbing the beauty of the Divine? My spiritual home is the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa. At our Center, we have five practices that help us align with the Divine. They are as follows: 1. [...]

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Forget Butterflies. Dragonflies Have an Ever Better Story!

How many times have you heard the story of the butterfly emerging from its cocoon? Maybe fifteen hundred billion times? Don’t get me wrong, I love a good butterfly story. It’s a great metaphor for growth and transformation. I especially like hearing about how, when they’re in the cocoon stage, they’re relegated to total mush. [...]

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How to Own Your Power – And Keep Your Ears Warm at the Same Time

Have you ever given your power away? There are so many ways it can happen: You let someone else take the lead on a project because you think they’re smarter than you. You defer to your partner’s ideas about where you should go for dinner because you don’t feel like arguing. You pull over to [...]

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Here’s a Little Trick to Keep Your Muse Happy

How do you get your inspiration? By reading your favorite books or listening to your favorite music? By spending time in nature? Or does your inspiration come randomly, out of the blue? Or maybe you think you’re the kind of person who doesn’t get inspired, someone who falls outside the bounds of creativity. For those [...]

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i got the magic in me

The ­­3 Styles of Manifestation – Good, Better and Best

What’s the best way to get something done? Visualize it? Or forge ahead and make it happen? Just to be clear, this post is not for people who are only interested in the latter. Yes, you can accomplish a lot by focusing solely on physical reality, but things get a lot more interesting when you [...]

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The Dalai Lama’s Big Little Secret

What’s your favorite thing about the Dalai Lama? His cute little smile? His snappy outfits? His unrelenting efforts in the areas of human rights and world peace? Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for world peace. But I just discovered something about the Dalai Lama that’s more amazing than that. Check it out: I recently [...]

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­­­The Power of Rogue Affirmations

What’s your favorite affirmation? Even if you don’t do affirmations, I’ll bet you still have one. Like when you’re having a great day and you say to yourself, My life is amazing. Or when you accomplish something significant and you think, I am awesome. And I keep getting awesomer. One of my favorite baseline affirmations [...]

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Goofball Rap: Big Bang (Biggity Bang)

Mp3 available here! The story behind this video: In the spring of 2012, I took a class at Holmes Institute called Metaphysical Bible. For our final project, our instructor, Rev. Robin Davidson asked us to come up with a presentation that reconciled the Old Testament, fire-and-brimstone God with the New Age, touchy-feely God. She encouraged [...]

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­­­The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me On Stage, Part 2

Have you ever had contact with something Bigger than yourself? And I’m not talking about a phone call with the I.R.S. Or an offer to join the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. I’m talking about Something so big, so vast, it takes your breath away. Something that reminds you who you are, and what you’re made of. [...]

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