Positive Energy Guide

The other day I heard myself comment to a client that his girlfriend had been “metastasizing into your volitional space.” He knew exactly what I meant. She expected him to do something for her, right away, without first greeting him or asking if he was up for it. I might have used the word “encroaching,” […]

“God is an activity of the soul.” ~Murshid SAM Lewis You know the hole. The one almost all of us run from. The hole deep inside, where we experience soul-sucking fear of emptiness, loneliness, gnawing isolation, or the pain of bone-cracking absence of connection. That hole. Some of us try to fill it with multiple […]

The quotes below speak to an interesting dynamic in life. (If the G-word bothers you, use “Source” or “connection with the Universe/Greater Whole.”) “Through motion and change, life become intelligible; we live a life of change, but it is constancy we seek. It is this innate desire of the soul that leads one to God.” […]

A housecleaner was leaving my home after his second visit. At the door, we were conversing about whether or not to reschedule. I said, “To be perfectly frank, I like your work and feel you are reliable, but I need to adjust to you being in the house. You have really big energy, and I […]

My Teacher gave the group several options for solo intensive practice. I chose a practice used to shift any urge toward revenge into allowing the Universe to effect correct karmic balance, paired with a practice to counterbalance the urge with complete forgiveness. As the most challenging of the options, I thought to practice it in […]

“Imagine the broken places inside you are magnets for light.” ~Tawwaba Learning to recognize, resonate with and reproduce different qualities of energy develops inner freedom and awareness, in addition to personal mastery. The next stage of the spiritual retreat worked with paired qualities relating to feeling cast down into shame and humiliation, and being raised up […]

“The heart is a vehicle for the light of the soul to shine through.” ~SAM Lewis Some esoteric schools use the glance to transmit light, or the energy of different states. The glance can also be used for healing—if the practitioner has garnered and refined a great deal of magnetism. Learning from the intersection of […]

I entered one of the two dance circles as they were forming during afternoon practice session. I wanted to stand beside my Teacher—W—but allowed others to enter the circle between us. If one interferes with the natural flow to be close to him, W invariably moves. A few people dropped out of the inner circle […]

“This work can’t be taught—it has to be caught!” SAM Lewis Finding myself having a spiritual Teacher something that happened about a decade after I had given up the search and decided I did not need or want one. The fact that he was indeed my Teacher was unequivocal, and I had both to adjust […]

Continued from previous post: My Teacher told a story about a friend who takes about half an hour to enter a swimming pool. “That’s what we do,” he continued. “We come up on these thresholds. At every threshold of Awakening, there is a resistance at the threshold, and we get across into it and then […]