Category Archives: General
Anger – 3
In writing this, my third post on Bert Hellinger’s seven-forms of anger, I am reminded that anger is a messy topic. I know of no one who is free from feeling and expressing their own, or experiencing another’s anger. No one wants to be regarded as an angry person, nor is it pleasant to be [...]
Anger – 2
In my last post, Anger – 1, I wrote of a positive strengthening and enabling anger: In itself, it exists without emotion. It is an energetic force accessible to assist us. Generally, and unfortunately, this positive anger is mixed, contaminated, with forms of problematic anger: those which conscript our attention and emotion. Therefore, we rarely [...]
Anger – 1
This post is the first in a series on anger: Anger that works and strengthens a person; and, that which renders one immobile. Anger seems pervasive. We are affected by it daily whether we ourselves are experiencing and expressing it, or in the presence of another’s expression. The prompt for this series occurred a few [...]
Flexibility
“We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are our marching orders.”~ Noam Chomsky We are living in a time when great care and patience are called for. Our understanding of our individual and collective circumstances are so wholly impoverished that we often hasten to act from fear and caprice when relaxation and [...]
Becoming Your Own Priest [or Priestess]
In these times, we may be well served to look to poets for their mystical insight and prescient wisdom. Look for example to the American poet Walt Whitman: “Soon there will be no more priests, their time is done. Everyone will be his [or her] own priest.” This is the imperative of our time; this time, not tomorrow, [...]
Compassion and Love
Twenty years ago while stopped in traffic in Portland, Oregon’s downtown district, I looked to my left and watched an elderly homeless man stumble from the hold he had on his shopping cart of belongings: He fell to the ground. In an instant, a man jumped from his truck and assisted the old one to [...]
Joy Irrespective
About fourteen years ago I was sitting in Bert Hellinger’s audience in San Francisco. At that time he had been coming to the States for a few months introducing his family constellations. These are methods for clearing ancestral and systemic impediments in a life. As a consequence of this work, one more easily accesses personal [...]
A Friend Leaves the Planet
Maestro Bill Warren On September 29, 2011, General Aviation lost a stellar, yet, unspoken hero. So too did the communities who loved him. Though insufficiently acknowledged, Bill Warren was the chief diplomat, emissary and envoy of the Spirit of Flight. He was born in Port Angeles, Washington on October 13, 1946. His family’s farm was [...]