In this season of giving, I received a gift from poet, Molly Frederick. A Rich Life She loves the things she loves, and nothing and no one can stop her. Sometimes it’s a single pear ripening on a pale green plate. Or two smooth sticks, long and knobby, reminding her of the legs on…
Freeing Ourselves From Fear and Hate
By Brian Luke Seaward Several years ago, while attending a conference on mind-body-spirit healing, I slipped into a breakout session on trauma and cellular memory. The speaker shared a story of one of his patients that had everyone on the edge of their seats, including me. He described a woman who, as a child, had…
Hating the Sinner …
By Celia Coates Hating someone has become very easy. Especially here, in America, these are times of political turmoil and everyone is picking a side to line up with. Battle lines have formed and the strong feelings that rev us up to fight have taken over. It begins with fear and anger and then our…
Seeking, Sharing, Finding Balance – and Giving Thanks
By Celia Coates with Ken Cohen Many years ago, I had a chance to meet and talk with Leon Secatero in New Mexico. He called himself a “Navajo sheepherder” and, although that was true, it left out a great deal of who he was. He taught me a fine lesson: he had been speaking to…
Ancient Wisdom for 2024
(From Celia) In 2002 the Elders of the Hopi Nation in Oraibi, Arizona sent out a message that I read and kept. It felt like important wisdom then and it feels even more important this week. The Hopi Elders Speak – You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you…
Reflections on Coherence in Action
by Brian Luke Seaward During the summer of 1993, a remarkable experiment took place in Washington, D.C. In an effort to help reduce crime in the nation’s capital, a group of 4,000 city residents who regularly practice meditation (specifically Transcendental Meditation) were invited to create an atmosphere of tranquility over the city for a six-week…
How Old Are You ?
By Genevieve Lewis Paulson From Celia: This might have been a discouraging time if you are around 80, or even older. A blaring judgment that we are “too old” has landed harshly on many of us. But, what’s true? How are people in their last decades really doing? What does the research say? It has…
Sound and …. Quiet
There has been a lot of noise in the last couple of weeks here in America. Some voices have been shouting with anger and violence while some have been shouting with joy and caring. When Molly Frederick sent me a poem she had written, I welcomed the peaceful sounds of quiet. Here is that poem:…
Going Forward
by Celia Coates This week I am publishing a post from 2018 again because in America we need to renew our struggle for the common good and to reclaim human freedoms fought for and gained in the past. Here is that old post: A few weeks ago a dear friend told me a story he’d…
On Becoming a New Human
By Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D. One semester, while attending graduate school at the University of Maryland, I enrolled in a new course called “Human Potentials.” It was a health class, but one unlike any health class I’d ever taken before. The content included but wasn’t limited to, cultivating intuition, creative problem-solving, energy healing, forgiveness practices,…
Will We “Never Forget” ?
By Celia Coates Kenneth Trevelyan, (1922 – 1943) Kenneth Trevelyan died fighting Fascism in Europe during the second World War. He was an Englishman, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, whose Kitty Hawk III was shot down over Italy in October soon after he turned 21. He had been in the RAF for three…