Stories – No Quarter
A short literary story in which an intuitive walker, She Who Sees, and her beloved observe a small town’s rhythms and sense mounting political tension erupt when a neighborhood’s flag is dyed black to signal no quarter.
Lotus Vortex
A 2022 oil-on-canvas painting (24 x 48 in) created for a lotus-themed guest cottage, presenting the lotus through three perspectives — a traditional side view, a top-down view, and an energetic view — as a symbol of the awakening higher self.
The Subconscious Speaks
The project page for the annotated 1932 edition of “The Subconscious Speaks,” a short, practical manual on using the subconscious mind, with added notes comparing its ideas to Joe Dispenza, Esther Hicks, and the philosopher Hermes.
Tiny Grief And Acknowledging Small Emotions
A reflective essay proposing that grief works on a sliding scale, where even small losses and routine life changes trigger a proportionally small but real feeling of loss that dissolves into gratitude when it is acknowledged and given attention.
All Beings Are On A Spiritual Journey Even If They Don’t Express It Or Recognize It
A dream-inspired teaching arguing that every person moves through a spiritual journey of growth across the stages, consciously or not, and that even those who dismiss spirituality still learn, evolve, and give gifts at the level of the soul.
Money In Relationships – Building Your Relationship As You Build Your Spend Plan
A practical essay on how getting finances in order can deepen a partnership, through shared frugality, five-dollar date nights, the trust built by sticking to a spend plan, and the way financial honesty translates into closer intimacy.
Stories – Waldo The Golden Calf
An allegorical story about a golden calf who repeatedly slips through his fence yet keeps returning to the herd, weighing the trade-off between a longer, harder life of freedom and a shorter, comfortable life of complacency.
We Store Emotional Pain In The Body. Why Do We Not Store Joy? And What Is It To Let It All Go?
A reflective essay theorizing that the body stores emotional pain as survival-focused memory while joy lives mainly in the mind, and exploring how intention and energy work can release stored pain without erasing its lessons.
The Farther You Are In Your Journey, The MORE You Need To Guard What You Ingest
A teaching on how the subconscious mind shapes reality through programmed beliefs, and why, as the human and subconscious minds merge later in the journey, one must guard ever more carefully what one reads, watches, and listens to.
Money In Relationships – Unpacking The Budget Baggage
A guide to the emotional baggage that makes budgeting hard, covering renaming the budget a spend plan, balancing the saver and spender within a couple, and releasing fears carried forward from past financial relationships.
Stories – The River, The Van, And The Tortoise
A humorous, observational story about a couple’s country walk interrupted by a van submerged in a river, a fumbled joke to a police officer, and two grandmothers convinced the whole small town is full of meth dealers.
If You Have To Track It, It’s Not Real
A short teaching that anything requiring lists, calendars, or spreadsheets to track is by definition not always present, and therefore not fundamentally real, inviting lighter attachment to tasks, events, and future concerns.
How To Blend Yin and Yang In Every Moment
A practical teaching on balancing yin and yang by blending their qualities within each activity, doing task-oriented work with sacredness and flow while doing creative work with focus and discipline, to find equanimity in every moment.
Money In Relationships – Social Spend Pressure
An examination of social spending pressure in its many forms, from dating, weddings, and divorce to mooching friends, wealthy friends, office parties, and social media, and how each pushes us to spend money we may not have.
Stories – The Boy And The Wolf
An allegorical story in which a boy botches the killing of a wolf, and a seer transfers the wolf’s suffering into his heart so that he must face the karmic weight of the needless pain he caused.
The Bay Vision
An artist’s statement for The Bay Vision, a twelve-by-twenty-four-inch oil-on-canvas painting from 2022 depicting a recurring lifelong inner vision of a protected bay, a small boat, and calm, contemplative exploration.
Using A Super Easy Three Step Method And Meditation To Dominate Tests, Meetings, Projects And Other Stressful Tasks
A practical method combining focus and meditation to reduce performance anxiety, working backward from the hardest problem, fixing attention on a single point like a pencil tip, and keeping key information close at hand.
Yoga Nidra Script
A yoga nidra script adapted for people with language-processing challenges, adding three-second pauses for comfortable processing while guiding awareness through preparation, relaxation, resolve, and a systematic rotation of consciousness through the body.
Money In The World – Feeling Good Versus Doing Good – Charity And Philanthropy
An essay on charitable giving that examines why people donate, the dopamine reward of generosity, why trillions in giving have not solved major problems, and which forms of charity prove most effective per dollar.
Stories – The No-Drama Bus
A tender story about a retired man who lovingly restores a neglected vintage tour bus, and the trust both must summon when the bus is left with strangers for a repair only specialists can perform.
Frustration Is A Form Of Resistance
A teaching essay reframing frustration as resistance to present reality — showing the real block isn’t attachment to an outcome but the inability to understand and accept the NOW, which is what unlocks a workable path forward.
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[Guided Meditation] Seeking Complete Connection
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Eleven task of seeking complete connection, a soul house-cleaning that steps through experiences, needs, others, beliefs, purpose, and the underlying oneness of energy and matter.
Money In The World – Greener Pastures And Geoarbitrage
An essay tracing how faster, cheaper transportation and the internet expanded economic competition to global scale, introducing geoarbitrage, the practice of finding better value for money anywhere in the world, and its risks and opportunities.
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[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Reality – E=mc^2
A guided meditation supporting the Stage Eleven task of connecting to your reality, using physics and the near-total emptiness of atoms to help the mind experience matter and energy as one and the same.
Sacred Copper Tree
An artist’s statement for Sacred Copper Tree, a commissioned copper-wire sculpture roughly fourteen inches tall with 108 strands twisting into leaf-tipped branches, designed with awareness and twisted into life in flow state.