The Path and Art of Being

EarthJennifer Hoffman – If someone asks us who we are we often respond with a description of what we do-we’re an artist, writer, musician, teacher, parent, counselor, etc.

It’s very hard, if not impossible, to describe ourselves without including something about what we do in the world because this is how people can connect to and understand us. It’s also how we connect with and understand ourselves because we know ourselves as humans by what we do. Continue reading

The Catastrophic Death of Fairness

The Catastrophic Death of FairnessJ.B. Shurk – Some social psychologists believe that humans are biologically wired to seek “fair” relationships with others.  Some theologians believe that the soul’s capacity for distinguishing right from wrong leads a moral person toward the same result.  Whether genetically or spiritually inclined to prefer fair outcomes, we humans are not comfortable around those who cheat and prosper from duplicity.  Cheating is ugly and therefore despised.

Systemic cheating, however, now dominates Western life.  Elevating “diversity for diversity’s sake” over all other metrics for gauging achievement has reduced merit and hard work to second-class virtues. Continue reading

You Do Make A Difference

danamrkich2As you look out into the world, there are multiple realities existing simultaneously. Don’t let the existence of the lower aspects of society and humanity, or even your own self, make you doubt the existence of the higher aspects. When you see the lower end of a see-saw you don’t say “See, the see-saw is down, I have trouble believing a higher end even exists. I give up!” Continue reading

Inconvenient truths

integrityLorna Bevan – All this week and right through October, Mercury is flying back and forth between the upper world and the underworld with important communications from the Gods of Change. On September 27th the Guide of Souls stations at his most Tricksterish to turn retrograde at 25° Libra until October 18th.

The winged Messenger is in cahoots with both Pluto and Disruptor Eris until the beginning of October. This is absolutely not the time to dodge or fudge important issues or avoid difficult conversations – Pluto is relentless in revealing inconvenient truths, working under the radar and bringing revelations, corruption and secrets into the bright light of day. Continue reading

‘It is our fault,’ Admits El Salvador’s President [Video]

wholenessAlexandra Bruce – When we point to what’s wrong in the world, we’re pointing to ruptures in the wholeness, to the integrity and to the coherence of things. We complain, because we want integrity, we want equilibrium, we want wholeness.

There has been no wholeness or integrity in the discourse about the crisis at the southern border. Every aspect of it has screamed of irresponsibility – until yesterday, when the BBC released a video of El Salvador’s 37-year-old Millennial president, Nayib Bukele, who threw the DNC narrative under the bus, when admitted on camera that his country is at fault for the deaths of the young father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande while attempting to enter the US illegally. Continue reading