FROM THE Nth POWER: A Path to Rational Spirituality

Let's be honest, love is - and never should be - about keeping score. But let's play with that anyway because sometimes we don't know what we know (or don't) about love. For me, consciously, LOVE is doing/being/becoming what you love. LOVE is everywhere all the time. LOVE is living in abundant manifestation. The (imaginary AND creative) scorekeeping system of LOVE I present here is creative food f...

Opinions these days are rampant. Even as I watch highly intelligent, sought-after speakers, authors and experts voice what is meant to be open-minded and tolerant, I hear the voice of opinion. Why is this? Because to be truly open-minded, it takes being completely in the experience of now and deciding how you're being. When one lives in the intellectual space too long and too exclusively, there is...

You're on the precipice of change and the fear and discomfort you're experiencing will prompt questions that you don't know how to answer. It's when WTF will be in your face that you'll have to seek solutions from a place of greater power. When you start to seek those answers, you may have a level of perfectionistic denial that makes it hard to see yourself. Your need for security actually prevent...

It's been said that Autonomy is a $$million-dollar$$ word. More clearly, it's invaluable to your self-esteem and overall well-being. If you weren't taught - or aren't cultivating - a powerful way of making up your OWN mind and evaluating what's happening to you without layers of stuck conditioning, then you're not truly free. You are, effectively, not yourself. Autonomous people have integrity. Th...

There is a distinction between religion and faith. In this episode, and this subjective explanation, I'm speaking of a faith from inside and with acknowledgment of the greatest powers of all time. When the idea of a power greater than me was introduced to me as a way to make my life better, I was perplexed and afraid that I would become boring. I was certain that the end of my creativity and passi...

Many people would say they are searching for meaning. At the very least, most are asking questions having to do with superficial meaning, such as "What does that mean ?" or "What I meant to say was_______" What this tells us is that even though meaning is crucial to connection and understanding, once we travel deeper inward, meaning becomes very individual. So if meaning is perceptual and experien...

Your dreams never were about mediocrity, but if you've been ignoring them, then your life probably is. When you sit in stuckness, you'll blame others for your lack of energy. When you fear risk and forget what you came here to be in this life, you learn to accept less. Somewhere along the way, life, the world, your family, etc. taught you to play it safe and forget about the higher heights of livi...

I equate blaming others and attacking things outside of you to "change the world" to trying to get rid of a stye. It has a process that is beyond what I think should be happening. Trying to force things to change - especially when you have your own mental blindness and  limitations (aka "mental styes") - is like holding someone down with your foot and not letting them up until they submit to what...

Some of you are so steeped in discord that it's become a way of life. Worse yet, you certainly cannot figure your own way out. Has it occurred to you that even though this state began with valid feelings, you don't realize that you do things to make sure that it continues to make you miserable? Your fear and your ego are dead-set on making sure your monthly mortgage is paid for this comfortable, d...

There are things you've been struggling with that you want to work on. Maybe, though, you've been learning that even though this doesn't serve you, you can't seem to get rid of it. Some aspects of your personality won't budge in the face of persistence. If this happens and you're  unknowingly seeking perfection, your frustration will increase. Then you'll get out the BIG guns. But it's not about t...

People who have contentment of being are in touch with their minds and bodies at the same time . They LIVE from a knowing that is a marriage of all the nuances of being. Their intuitive connectedness has changed their attitude and their lives. This marriage is a development of finding self in what you think AND feel. The greater life that develops from this marriage lets go of limitations and then...

It seems amazing to me to continue - over many years - to hear the cries of unfairness and powerlessness again and again from women. There is much power to be gained by women participating in and changing things (like business) - but it can't be done before the greater need of self-change and inner focus. I fear that women still don't know how to find true purpose because their intuitions are stil...

What does it mean to "stand"? It doesn't mean to do nothing, it means you just don't have to fight everything. Change what you can (you have power over only yourself), and then create a new experience and world through your own growth and actions. It takes courage to stand in principles that are fluid. Living according to "rules" (some of whih are only in your head) keeps you stuck and can make yo...

What is it that makes one person like someone, and another NOT like that same person or thing? How much of our likes and dislikes - who or what we follow - is determined consciously in the moment, or by things within that we don't even question? Is your ability to make decisions solely from your own resources and autonomy, or have you become an unwillful follower of the "norm" instead of your own...

How do you know if your feelings are facts? I mean, if you "feel" them should you necessarily believe them? Is it possible that some of your feelings are attached to perceptions you've formed from denial or dishonesty? The world divides are currently being fueled by the "feelings are facts" and "your feelings don't matter" camps. There is truth in the middle of camp - around the fire where we brea...

Remember the debate team where teams argued sides and HAD to win... Some of us are still acting like conversations where we disagree are about winning. You don't need to be right and you don't need to win. In fact, by focusing on changing another's point of view - especially when they can't or don't want to change, or hear you, will only create loss. Conflict is still communication and healthy com...

The search for deeper meaning will come...it's inevitable unless you fight it. If you trust the natural process of conscious creation you don't have to fight for anything. It's all already there. So why are changes and challenges so difficult? Because the best and most intelligent of us subscribe to the God of the outer. Highly intellectual people live by the power of the brain and material things...

Light is change that comes from your inner energy and belief in your own POWER. The lowest power is about your patterns of thinking and feeling that are prone to lack and ugliness. The highest power is about focusing your mind on expecting your most beautiful expression and vision. Whatever conditioning you have that makes you feel like you don't have light - or that darkness follows you - is abou...

We say we want peace, but are we creating it? Are we building a peaceful life from within? Are we willing to forego argument and dissension for the sake of more calm? Peace can be hard to find sometimes. Most think peace is a state of the world, but it's truly an internal state of mind and emotion. Can you handle more peace? What do you do when you have no drama and chaos? Are you able to sit and...

Pain cannot be avoided, so when you try to fight it, it becomes more painful. Happiness should be pursued, but happiness is elusive. The return of pain - due to life, to you, to others - is inevitable. It is a part of life. If you face pain, it will evaporate (not instantaneously, but over time). If you avoid pain, it will return to bite you. Why is this? Because change is the supreme surrender. W...

Simple daily interactions that provoke strong emotional reactions can be intimidating. It is, quite frankly, EASY to blame another person's actions or attitudes, for there is certainly lack of awareness in the world around us - and INSIDE of us too. In the realm of personal responsibility, there is, however, an education from the seeking within, one where the learning is always about YOU. So when...

We all do things that we want - and make excuses as to why. This is not because one is being negligent, it is becuase people, even the best of them, are motivated by self. Self, in and of itself, is not bad. It is a part of our entire wholistic being. The point is not to be full of self, or selfish, but to understand your own self-serving and self-preserving motivations. When you do this, you can...

Yep - THAT subject. Sex. So personal. So secretive. Or, worse yet, shunned or, these days capitalized with an openness that is being portrayed as ideal. But IS it? How can we be truly open and free about sex if we attach so much shame to it. As we move out of a deadly flu virus, I would purport that the virus of sexual shame can also be as deadly - to our self-esteem, to our connections and to our...

We've made such advances in our emotional and spiritual evolution and yet, when someone asked me during Women's History Month, what still concerned me for women, I said, "low self-esteem", which is another expression to describe Lack. Lack is in our conditioning - it's why some people succeed and others do not. Yet the world will tell you you haven't or can't succeed because someone or something w...

Feeling successful is about coming to terms with where you are, who you are and what's happened in your life to get you to this place - both good and bad. Without the necesary acceptance of life's circumstances and a strong belief in the power of good and love, your life will probably seem empty and you will feel stuck, no matter how much success you achieve. That's because your experience - how y...