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…
Learning That We Are All Connected
by Celia Coates Splendid, splendid, splendid! A book has come my way (not a new book) that is just that – splendid. THE REALITY OF ESP by Russell Targ was published in 2012. The subtitle is “A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities” and Targ has had a long career in physics and in presenting pioneering…
Good Vibes Can Change Our World
by Celia Coates “Prominent designer channels a chic, organic vibe in a new, bayside abode.” That’s what appeared recently in slick marketing magazine. I am not interested in living in an abode. What about you? But I am very interested in “vibes” – vibrations. We’ve been hearing about vibrations for decades (even centuries) but “vibes”…
The Power of Community
By Celia Coates My sister Judy, who has a fine sense of humor, sent me a gift subscription to HARPER’S BAZAAR, a very glossy women’s fashion magazine. High fashion is near the bottom of my list of interests, although this banner statement on one of the articles did catch my eye, “Spring’s BOLDEST LOOKS play…
Facing Fear
by Celia Coates “Vehemently disturbed” – that was the woman’s immediate answer this week when the reporter asked her how she was feeling about what’s happening in this country. Her words caught my attention. She was not just mentioning feeling fear about the current state of things (a feeling that is painfully common these days)…
Learning About Love
by Celia Coates In the last WINN, the one about love and the meaning of life, I wrote that we need to begin with loving ourselves and that that would be a subject for a future post. It surprised me when the future arrived quickly and became this week and this post. I’ve been clearing…
Love and Fear, Community and Cult
by Celia Coates A few weeks ago, I headed for my favorite grocery store and I was not feeling peaceful – I was a little edgy. As I wandered down the well-stocked aisles, one of the cheerful staff approached and asked me what I was looking for. Flippantly I answered, “The meaning of life.” Without…
Of Brain and Mind
By Brian Luke Seaward A few years ago, I was invited to participate in a study of the effects of Cranio-Sacral Therapy on stress and relaxation. My first day in the lab I was fitted with a skull cap with countless electrodes ready to record my brain’s electrical activity. Once fitted, I lay down and…
Light, Love, and Wisdom
By Carolyn Scripps In 1990, on December 24th, I had an experience of awakening, of “seeing the light.” My husband and I lived in Lawrence, Kansas with our toddler and baby. Earlier that day, my young nieces were dropped off to spend the holiday with us. I was ready for our first “Christmas Craft Day”…