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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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 [...]
My Pet-Sitting Disaster: What I Lost and What I Found
When you agree to pet-sit for a friend, there are three basic assumptions to be made: 1) You will feed the pet. 2) You will keep the pet safe. 3) You will do your best to keep the pet alive until your friend returns. No problem, right? Piece of cake, right? So why was it [...]
How I Forgot the Most Important Thing. And How I Remembered It Again.
What’s your most important thing? Do you have one? And if so, do you ever forget it? I wish I could say I have my priorities in order and never forget what’s most important to me. But that’s not the case. Claiming that I always remember what’s most important to me would be like saying [...]
Revenge of Big Foot: What My Unusual Physical Attribute Taught Me About Authenticity and Acceptance
Do you have a physical attribute that you hate? Maybe it’s your nose. Or your belly. Or your ankles. Do you often think that if only you didn’t have this dreaded physical feature, everything would be so much better? In my case, it was my feet. I have enormous feet. Like, Big Foot big. Here’s [...]
Speaking of Miracles, Did I Tell You What Happened with My Television Remote?
Everyone says there are Seven Wonders of the World, but I know there are really Eight. The Eighth being my television remote. Sure, it looks like a regular old remote, made of plastic and metal and little rubber buttons, but this remote is special. This remote has been to the Other Side and back. And [...]
7 Reasons Why Being a Goofball is the Fastest Route to Enlightenment
Every day, people stop me on the street and say, “Z, what can being a goofball do for me?” They also ask me, “Do black holes snore?” And “If x + y equals 55, what’s z – 15?” But those are questions for another day. Today we’re talking about goofballs. And given that I’m exhausted [...]
How Elves Can Heal Your Life
Step aside Carl Jung. Step aside Ken Wilbur. There’s a new psycho-spiritual theorist in town and her name is . . . . Dr. Z! It doesn’t matter that I’m not actually a doctor. That didn’t stop me from coming up with a new theory that totally explains the entire scope of human spiritual and [...]
The Worst Thing that Ever Happened to Me on Stage
Have you ever made a mistake? How about a mistake in front of other people? How about a mistake in front of an audience? I don’t know about you, but making a mistake in front of an entire collection of people who have their eyes focused on me is not on the top of my [...]
What a John Deere Tractor Taught Me About God
Have you ever started a project that was beyond the scope of your expertise? A new venture that totally surpassed what you were capable of doing? An endeavor that knocked all your previous endeavors out of the ring and off the planet? If so, I have a few things I’d like to say to you. [...]
My name is Z. I’m the gender-flexible love child of Ram Dass and Lily Tomlin. I live for three things: spiritual growth, silliness, and soul-satisfying acts of creativity. Welcome to my world!
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My Front-Row Ticket to a Miracle
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Forget Butterflies. Dragonflies Have an Ever Better Story!
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How I Survived the Spiritual Retreat from Hell
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How Elves Can Heal Your Life
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Why I Thought I Was Going to Die When I Turned 23. And Why I Was Right. (Part 1)
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My Guru Has a Tail, Episode 3: The Pet Psychic
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The Invisible Spiritual Practice: Are You Doing It?
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Forget Butterflies. Dragonflies Have an Ever Better Story!
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How to Own Your Power – And Keep Your Ears Warm at the Same Time
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Here’s a Little Trick to Keep Your Muse Happy
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Connie: Z, I wonder if Rowdy and Rascal will need physco t...
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Z Egloff: Hi Norma, Taking care of yourself is a noble and ...
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Norma Miller: Very interesting for a non cat owner, I have had c...