Retreat Musings June 12, 2024

Retreat Musings June 12, 2024

Today is the last day of this retreat with Barbara Brodsky and John Orr. I was blessed to stay in the guest quarters at the home of my dear friends, Delcy and Tom Kuhlman.

The title of this week is “Living Our True Nature as Love: Vipassana, […]

I Am Made of You

It is this disinterested but completely allowing contemplation of the body in the world that the body loses its ‘me-ness’ and the world loses its ‘not-me-ness.’ In this way bodily sensations no longer cry out ‘I am separate, I am exclusively you” and perceptions of the world no longer cry out, ‘I am separate, […]

Killdeer Babies: Know Where to Look

When you cease to relate to the darkness as something separate or other than the light, this invites the darkness into its sacred expression. In its highest expression it comes as teacher — perhaps not pleasant, but as teacher. Pain, fear, grief — not separate from the light. ~ Aaron

On Tuesday evening at the […]

Birds at Oakwood

The 8-day silent meditation retreat will take more than one Yellow Brick Road to share with readers. Day One included 22-month old, Jackson, our great grandson, being air-lifted from the hospital in Chattanooga to Vanderbilt after he had a seizure in the parking garage following discharge.

Day Eight is complete with nurse Linda diagnosing […]

Good Can Come From This

This post was started on October 17, 2022. Today is now ten days later. I cannot explain fully what derailed my completing the entry, but, say only, a lot has changed during this interim. The post began with this:

On Sunday, October 16, this loving blessing came through Barbara Brodsky:

The Mother to Debra […]

Drama Triangle Revisited Again and Again

Lately, almost EVERYTHING I read or see or hear or feel reminds me of The Drama Triangle Revisited, one of the more infamous SCS/NLP offerings.

A key awareness of Healing with Language is built on the Drama Triangle, developed by Steve Karpman. The main roles of the Drama Triangle—Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer—are well-known, but […]

Outside of the Lines

“If a wild animal like a cheetah can be tamed into forgetting her power, forgetting her majesty, forgetting her wild — then so can a woman.”

~ Glennon Doyle Melton

I watched an interview in which Glennon Doyle Melton reported an experience of going to the zoo and watching the “cheetah run” with her […]

Treasure this Day

If what I say resonates with you, it’s because we are both branches of the same tree.

~ W. B. Yeats

I’m not a “follower” of astrology, but MANY years ago something occurred that led me to respect the wisdom there.

Decades ago now, driving home on a snowy day, the roads were glare […]

The Practice of Life

Last evening’s Group 2 was only five of us out of thirteen. I am not sure what qualifies as a quorum, but I am sure all thirteen of us were actively involved in the practice of LIFE.

Our meeting times were set at the first of the year but the evening before our meeting […]

He/She/They Have The Whole World in His/Her/Their Hands

From my journal entry of an exercise during class on mediumship with Barbara Brodsky:

You need not teach anything, Dear One, just live as your own consciousness evolves. You have been here before — but not exactly!

Think for a moment about the park you live in now. “Separate” homes are owned and lived in […]