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Receiving the Ancestors
Our ancestors continue to live within us, deep in the somatic unconscious, the shards of their unlived lives emerging-into-now by way of...
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Mar 30, 20242 min read
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Holy Water
Tending to grief is an essential task (if not THE essential task) of the alchemist/healer. Providing a sanctuary and safe passage for its...
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Mar 26, 20242 min read
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The Alchemy of Tears
Rumi says . . . “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they...
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Mar 23, 20242 min read
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The Love Dimension
Love Dimension by Beautiful Chorus https://open.spotify.com/track/19KSp74blKCq3Busay80hW?si=9acfa8ab62bd43db https://youtu.be/LkTOxyoKHTk...
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Mar 18, 20241 min read
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Letting Go
By David Whyte At the end things pass away into a hard won perspective. The sepia photographs of childhood like twilight encounters with...
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Mar 14, 20241 min read
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Unraveling Resistance
On a conscious level, of course, we very genuinely want to heal and fully step into a life of deep intimacy, creativity, and aliveness....
annelisamacbeanphd
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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Renewal
At times, our everyday reference points will fall away, revealing a shimmering, pregnant, dark void. What we were so clear about just...
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Mar 6, 20242 min read
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The Fire of Attention
When doing psychological or spiritual work, the alchemists remind us that we must apply the proper heat to the material arising within...
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Mar 2, 20242 min read
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Now
Sometimes we might wonder how to feel, in our bodies and hearts, what really matters. Perhaps we look out into the starry night sky and...
annelisamacbeanphd
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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Inner Family
You may wish to consider honoring the role that various aspects of your inner self or psyche, your "inner family", have played in your...
annelisamacbeanphd
Feb 24, 20242 min read
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Not Knowing
Perhaps you've noticed a collective fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives. And if we do not then this is evidence...
annelisamacbeanphd
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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The Ultimate Medicine
Coming into relationship with the parts of our inner world that harbor and identify with unworthiness, shame, narcissism, and...
annelisamacbeanphd
Feb 16, 20242 min read
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I Really Wanna Know You
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KZodeWxqxd88F9wY1cqgs?si=e9be31bd6d8c4010 https://youtu.be/6wHBsMoHFWs?si=A_1_8H1ed89ZrqF9 My Sweet Lord...
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Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Perspective
By Rainer Maria Rilke You are the future, the immense morning sky turning red over the prairies of eternity. You are the rooster-crow...
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Feb 8, 20241 min read
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Self / Selflessness
Teachings on “no-self” or selflessness can be misunderstood and potentially damaging in contemporary psychology and spirituality,...
annelisamacbeanphd
Feb 4, 20242 min read
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