Stage 2 – Connecting To Your Needs

Stage 2 – Connecting To Your Needs

A Stage Two exercise in identifying and honoring personal needs across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven categories, with guidance on examining unhealthy needs and revising the list as life and self evolve.

On Religion – Look To The Message, Not The Founder

On Religion – Look To The Message, Not The Founder

A short essay arguing that every religion began with a founder’s genuine insight, that later worship of founders often contradicts their wisdom, and that studying all traditions reveals the same underlying truth beneath them.

Fear Of Missing Out Has Us Missing Out Completely

Fear Of Missing Out Has Us Missing Out Completely

An essay on how social media replaces real connection with shallow validation-seeking, detailing what people publicly share versus privately hide, and arguing that genuine human connection requires self-acceptance and sharing beyond the curated surface.

How Hate Spotlights Your True Beliefs

How Hate Spotlights Your True Beliefs

A reflection arguing that hatred exposes a person’s secret beliefs, that hateful groups and individuals lash out at those they envy while proclaiming the opposite of what they fear, and that self-acceptance dissolves the impulse.

Being Forgotten – Death’s Gift To The Departed

Being Forgotten – Death’s Gift To The Departed

A meditation on mortality and legacy, detailing how each generation is remembered in ever-thinner fragments until forgotten entirely, and reframing being forgotten as a release from the illusion of a permanent self.

Connection Is Not Attachment

Connection Is Not Attachment

A teaching drawing a sharp line between connection, being fully present to another’s truth without needing their presence or approval, and attachment, which needs presence and leads to pain, arguing complete connection can even transcend death.

Complete Connection (Purna Asatti)

Complete Connection (Purna Asatti)

The foundational teaching defining Purna Asatti, or complete connection: connecting fully to self, others, and reality across every aspect of being, mapped to the chakras, and reframing tantra as enlightenment through connection rather than sexuality alone.

Complete Connection To Your Partner

Complete Connection To Your Partner

A chakra-by-chakra guide to building complete connection with a romantic partner, moving from trust and grounding at the root through sexuality, individuality, love, truth, and intuition to shared transcendence at the crown.

Worring About Your Kids – THE Perspective

Worring About Your Kids – THE Perspective

A short essay on releasing worry about one’s children, recognizing that we cannot know another person’s path or future, and that accepting our not-knowing, offering support, and focusing on our own life serves everyone better.

Impulse Versus Compelling – How To Know The Difference

Impulse Versus Compelling – How To Know The Difference

A practical essay on distinguishing an impulse you will later regret from a genuine soul ‘compelling,’ offering rules of thumb, especially that anything rushed or involving spending money is usually impulse rather than intuitive guidance.

Are You Addicted To Worry?

Are You Addicted To Worry?

A short essay examining worry as a habitual, even addictive, negative emotion, distinguishing worry from stress, questioning what payoff it provides, and inviting the reader to notice the mind’s stories and return to the present.

Worring About Your Kids – THE Perspective

How To Stop Letting Worry About Your Kids Dominate Your Life

A guidance essay on releasing anxiety over grown children, arguing that worrying about their choices is futile once they are adults, and advising disciplined self-focus, selective responsiveness, and accepting a child’s right to walk their own path.

Family – When And How To Walk Away Or Reconnect

Family – When And How To Walk Away Or Reconnect

A candid guide to difficult family relationships, covering when to walk away from abusive or harmful relatives, how to exit gracefully by fading out, and when and how to reconnect once both parties have genuinely evolved.

Surgery And Past Trauma

Surgery And Past Trauma

A reflective piece on how the body stores trauma and how surgery — even minor procedures — can reawaken buried grief and past trauma, drawing on the author’s own experience and the idea that healing involves both body and mind.

Religous Discomfort and Rejection

Religous Discomfort and Rejection

A personal essay on the author’s discomfort with religion, growing up between Methodist and Southern Baptist relatives, and how the same texts are used to justify both love and hate — while sensing a shared truth buried beneath historical context.

Accounting For People – How Do YOU Want To Be Remembered?

Accounting For People – How Do YOU Want To Be Remembered?

An essay questioning whether people should be defined by their past mistakes or their contributions, arguing for remembering both, restoring dignity to the forgotten, and judging others only as we ourselves would wish to be judged.

Swimmin’ In My Truth

An upbeat original song, with chords and lyrics, about resilience through hardship — the idea that being rooted in the truth of your soul makes you unshakable, so you can defiantly weather any storm that life brings.

Making The Big Decisions Easy

Making The Big Decisions Easy

A practical teaching essay offering a method for hard decisions: list each option’s reasons, reduce each to its root emotional trigger, and notice whether the pull comes from the human mind — greed, ego, fear — or from the soul’s purpose, service and love.

Shadow Love

Shadow Love

An art photograph of a candlelit statue casting the shadow of a couple on the wall behind it, presented as a study in how outward appearances make it impossible to tell whether a relationship is happy, struggling, or in conflict.

Blurred

Blurred

A digital art piece (2011–2013) using transparent lines to evoke a blurred image just out of focus — a study of the simultaneous frustration and excitement of sensing a reality you cannot quite bring into clear view.

Dandelion

Dandelion

A digital art piece from 2013-2014 that uses natural colors and layered transparency to create a dimensional, dandelion-like close-up image, not a photograph, offered as prints and products on Redbubble.

Green Effects

Green Effects

A digital art piece from 2012 exploring transparency, white space, the absence of color and small areas of fine detail as compositional elements.

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