Tag: clearing and release
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Energy Movement through Time: Part 1
A well-known therapist turned healer, Daniel Foor, speaks extensively about honoring our ancestors and speaking with them. In a recent lecture last year he said that we can’t reduce them to “merely an energy” and emphasized the need to acknowledge the otherworld as an actual place. I agree with this statement in spirit, but I…
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Timeline Hopping: Part 2
In late spring I found myself shifting towards exploring more about general topics, after a long stretch of more personal writing. If I’m being honest I guess I started wondering if it was interesting or if people want/benefit from hearing dispatches from my various astral travels. Or maybe as I started struggling out of this…
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Physical Movement and Energy Movement
It’s an artificial distinction, to separate the physical and the energetic. Or the emotional and the energetic.Most of us are heavily socialized to ignore the energetics of our experience, focusing on the more tangible or the “rhyme and reason.” I write often here about the energetics of the emotional experience and the ego/psyche/“self.” But we…
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Energetic Mediumship
A couple months ago I shared about my experience reconnecting to mediumship.There are many beginnings to this story, one of which is told here, but another beginning starts with completing my second level of Reiki training. I was fortunate that I connected with a great teacher who was willing to personalize the experience, and bring her…
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Shedding self-doubt (is not easy)
This year has been…a lot On the larger global level it has held a lot of tragedy, sometimes in such rapid succession that there was no time to process before the next awful event. There’s a sense of intensity alternating with numbness. On a personal level, there were huge openings for me, and with that…
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Stagnation isn’t always a bad thing
Not long after a giving a psychic reading with themes of fruit, decay and seeds, and just a couple hours after sending out the last newsletter, I was walking in Prospect Park following a night of rain. After a long summer drought we had finally gotten some real precipitation a few days in the week. The…
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The space between (worlds)
There are so many ways that we refer to this place. Liminal spaces, the Void, life between lives, edge dwelling, shadow work, transitions, shedding and transformation, the Bardo… if a “world” is a place with a concrete location, the space between is somehow beyond location. It is everywhere, it is the connective tissues of our…
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Dissociation and finding balance in cycles
The idea for this essay started as I was reading a Pitchfork article about dissociation and music, that was a surprisingly nuanced and interesting take on dissociation in the cultural zeitgeist in general and songwriting more specifically. It tied together and stimulated some thoughts I’ve been mulling over about this particular cultural moment, and the influence of…
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Clearing and Protecting your energy
For those who engage in ritual work, spellwork, or even physical forms of detox and clearing, this may also be familiar to you. As I’ve been writing the Reiki Master Training Manual I’ve been reflecting more on some of the topics that increasingly arise in Level 2 classes and advanced workshops. Usually it’s something along…
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Making peace with The Void 🌑
The Void: cosmic waiting room, interior of a cocoon and its liquified contents, generative space of “everythingness” and “nothingness,” the darkness of being submerged in the earth, ego death and rebirth… the key to transformation and sometimes a frightening place to be. An integral part of all cycles. I started this with just the title…
Inward Vision 