“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King Jr. We need to remember these wise words now in our age of wildly out-of-balance individualism. I believe that centuries of…
Year: 2017
This Season of Gifts
Of course this week gifts have been on my mind, and it’s been about more than just nicely wrapped packages. My reaction to the endless stream of “asks” from a wide variety of organizations that need money has been to feel discouraged. So much is needed and I have only just so much to give….
The After-Life States of Consciousness
I highly recommend a book that is an easy read about a difficult subject – death. Robert Kopecky, an Emmy-nominated art director, has written HOW TO SURVIVE LIFE (AND DEATH): A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond. He does not dwell on the drama of his three near-death experiences but focuses instead on…
About Biofeedback and ADHD
“I know a kid with ADHD – how can we get Jean’s biofeedback light sculpture?” Questions like that came from last week’s post about the life of Jean Millay and her wonderful story about using the device she developed with Timothy Scully to change the life of a boy who had been unable to be…
A Brilliant Life
Word has just arrived of the death of Jean Millay, a splendid pioneer who worked with states of consciousness, healing, and subtle energies. Jean died in August at the age of 88. Her cousin Edna St. Vincent Millay’s lines can be used to describe Jean’s energetic brilliance, “My candle burns at both ends; It will…
With Thanks
“We come into the world needing others. Then we are told it’s braver to go it alone. That independence is the way to accomplish. But there’s another way to live. A way that sees the only path to fulfillment – is through others. That our time here can be deep beyond measure. No one who…
A Skeptic, and Yet …
Most of the books and articles about the paranormal by authors who are rigid skeptics hold little interest for me. These are the people who are so sure that they are right in their fixed disbelief about many of the topics WINN explores, that they will not even look at the research. But I do…
Catching Kindness
At the grocery store I picked up the two things I needed to buy and joined the short line, the one marked “15 Items or Less.” I was in a hurry and I was hungry. I’d just resisted picking up one of the $1.69 medium-sized bags of potato chips. Then, when I glanced at the…
The Boat Of Eternal Return
By Stephanie Rayner Boats are like Shamans – they move between worlds. Being of neither world they glide over the taut membranes that separate the Opposites Throughout time and disparate cultures it is the boat that has provided mytho-religious passage across the dark straits that separate the living from the dead Being gently rocked by…
Wondering
I’m still wondering about something I saw many years ago during a psychotherapy hour. My client was an artist who created beautiful photographs with his very fine sense of landscape, line, and color. He had been working with me on his struggles with loss and limitations. During this hour we had been using imagery –…
Fear of Ridicule
Often when I meet somebody for the first time and they ask that ordinary question “What do you do?” – I hesitate. What’s safe to say? Is this someone who will hear that I’ve created WINN, a small magazine that publishes information about experiences and experiments about the non-material dimensions of reality, and think I’m…
Intuition Is For Everyone
By Carol Ann Liaros Many years ago, in the midst of some personal challenges and questions about my life’s direction, I went to see a psychic who had been recommended to me by a friend. Although I believed in the existence of intuition, I was certain that only a few individuals had access to psychic…