Self knowledge

How many times have you faced challenges that, in retrospect, handed you the keys to the greatest gift of all: understanding yourself?  For it's easy to be kind, positive, compassionate and centered when everything is flowing along nicely, isn't it?  But it's the challenges in life that really show us our own strengths and limitations.

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Crisis of Consciousness

Every challenge we encounter, would be improved by increased consciousness.  Every relationship, every decision, every creation, is so much sweeter when it comes from expanded consciousness and love.

Lest you think this is a vast generalization, just imagine what life could be if we were more awake, more loving, more generous, more kind.  Imagine!

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Insight…

Many years ago, I sat with Terence McKenna after a magic mushroom conference, and he urged me to put all my consciousness explorations and psychonautic visions into my songs.  I listened… and his advise changed everything.  My songs became both more mystical and more authentic.  Because of Terence, many things expanded into the work I share with you today.

He also inspired my counseling work, which touched even more people.  What a gift he gave me in that conversation.  I am eternally grateful.

Embracing a visionary lifestyle, divine feminine, compassion, love, curiosity & creativity makes a life ever more magickal, does it not?

This Terence quote made me laugh:

“Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.”

~Terence McKenna

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Illusions…

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions,
that they exist in the present,
which is what there is and all there is. ~ Alan Watts

Kindness

Kindness is never wasted. It flows out from you and touches others, who then pass that kindness on.

And after a lifetime of growth and introspection and expansion... at the end of this lifetime, you know what we realize?
That compassion, love & kindness are the only things that really mattered.

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