Blogs
Navigating Diet During Spiritual Awakening
It is typical during any type of spiritual awakening for diet to change radically. This is especially true of sudden or intense spiritual awakenings, such as kundalini awakening. There are a few reasons why diet changes during spiritual awakening. The...
Understanding Communal and Interpersonal Healing
Picture whatever emotions or stressors you carry as an energetic ball. The quiet resentments, regrets, and unfulfilled longings locked within your tissues. The grief, anger, despair and self-hatred swallowed down, simmering in the body. Unresolved trauma and the...
The Energetics of Money
This is Part Two of a two-part blog. You can find Part One here… Let’s start with the basic energetics of money… Money is a form of power. A good working definition of “power” is agency; when we have agency we can make conscious decisions regarding our own lives....
The Money Con: Spiritual Materialism and Pyramid Schemes
This will be a two-part blog. Part One is “diagnosing the problem”. We cannot move into health without first looking at the wound and knowing why it came about. Part Two will be a discussion of energetics and money, how money and spirituality intersect, if...
Releasing “Enlightenment”
I have long loved the energetics of words. Each word we utilize has a purpose, an energetic shape and way it weaves into our collective: our community, society, world. Language and words are not static beings; they evolve as we interact and intersect with them. Many...
Encouragement on the Path Part Two (Dark Night and Deep Feeling)
Hi Mary- Are there any additional markers on the path that you believe might be encouraging despite how dark or horrible they feel? For example, allowing oneself to feel deep sorrow and realizing that the depth of that feeling could be progress, despite how awful it...
Encouragement on the Path
Hi Mary- It seems that there's a lot of trauma about, which as I understand it is suffering that was too big for us at the time, and which we push away and disconnect from. It remains in our system affecting all aspects of our lives, until we do what Jung called...
The Two End Points of Spiritual Awakening
When exploring the different thoughts and philosophies when it comes to spiritual awakening it is helpful to understand that there are two basic maps, both with a different “finish line”. The first map suggests that the completion point of spiritual awakening is...
How to Feel (in an Embodied Way)
In my book, The Body Deva, I teach people the skills needed to communicate with their bodies. How to work with everything from emotions to lingering ancestral trauma patterns is covered. Since the time I have published that book, I have realized that many people...
Adoption and Ancestral Work
One of the first spirits that I suggest that people connect to when interested in shamanic and spiritual work is their ancestors. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that ancestors are pretty close to us energetically and so are easier to contact. They...