A Spirit on the Winds

Dr. Felicitas Goodman, author of a book called Where the Spirits Ride the Wind and founder and director of the Cuyamungue Institute in New Mexico. Her work, since then, has had a major influence on how I have seen meditation, and more importantly, how I have seen religion as a whole.

Keeping Your Practice Simple, In Complicated Environments

That is the entirety of what I recommend in a very bare bones practice. One can scale it back to where (as I’ve mentioned previously) it is all conducted within the imagination, where even the space has been created you wish to work in. Or you can expand the scope of course. If there is interest I will cover imaginal creation of tools and space in a future posting. May the Ancestors and powers you work with… be with you!

Hope and Hunger

Whether in healing or transforming, inspiring or creating, we focus so much on stories like the Hero’s Journey, on battling our pain, on efforting our way into being. What would it be like to soften? To make the space in which virtue may happen- a space we might call Grace*?