Blogs

Recently a student asked me about the prevalence of “dark energies”, and showed me some varying blog articles and so forth from people claiming that everything we do is as a result of (evil archons, ET’s, demonic forces, sorcery, occult black magic, possessing...

On my Facebook page a while ago I posted a description of what Energy Vampires are. Most of us are aware of the basic definition, or can sort of suss it out by the label– they are people whom we walk away from, whether in person, online, or through other forms of...

I recently opened up my Facebook page to ask what questions people may have that would make a good blog. I received this email (heavily paraphrased, any identifying info taken out): Hi Mary! I loved your Managing Psychic Abilities book. It was the first book that I...

I recently opened my Facebook page to hear from people what they might want for me to talk about in a blog. One of the questions that I got via email was basically asking what the biggest misconception on the spiritual path is. My answer is that unless you are...

We are continually creating myths regarding ourselves. In The Spiritual Awakening Guide I talk about how our mythic and archetypal selves are the last constructed level of our being– myth and symbol being a bridge between the truly ineffable (pure spirit) and the...

It is the tendency of our culture to mistake what is dark within ourselves for what is wounded, rather than seeing darkness as its own kingdom, and carrying its own beauty. It has been a long path for me to separate my rather dark tendencies from what was wounded...

One of the more common illusions of the spiritual path is that it will get easier as one progresses on it. The belief that the spiritual path is about transcendence means that people often create subsuquent beliefs that if only they tried hard enough, or were...

Lately I have seen the term “person” or “personhood” being used in an animist context to introduce the concept that we should be considering other intelligences as vitally alive and of having a soul. Anything that supports people picking their heads up and actually...

I have a new book coming out called The Body Deva: Working with the Spiritual Consciousness of the Body. It is available now, next week, or next month, depending on when you are reading this blog. You can find it through the Inner Traditions website, and major...

I had a student ask me for a working definition of animism the other day and I realized that much of the talk regarding animism, or an animistic perspective, is sort of quartered in the Spiritual Ecology section of the bookstore, and doesn’t get the consideration and...