Reclaiming the Outer Guru

Rather frequently I hear from clients and students that they believe, or have heard, that they do not need to have an outer spiritual teacher or guru figure to guide them. That by looking within they will find their inner guru, or that all outer spiritual teachers are...

Five Favorite Individualist (Spiritual) Books

I have a passion for non-fiction spiritual writers who are individualists. They bring in new thoughts, different perspective, and they are often soul-baring, allowing access for a paltry sum to their decades of consideration and experience. Our response to...

Reading as Soul-Making (the Animist Book)

Like many, my love of books began as a small child. In books I found a deep source of sustaining connection and realization that brought me, again and again, into the recesses of liminal space and the imagination.  In such books I saw myself, I saw the realities...

What is Spiritual Healing?

In this blog I will be discussing the “four bodies” model to understand what spiritual healing is. We have a physical form. It is the densest of our energies, and what we agree upon as “reality”. It is our materialist world, our organs and muscles and tissues and...