Articles & Essays

Petty Tyrants – Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them

I first came across the term “Petty Tyrant” in a Carlos Castenada book. When I was in High School, in the mid 70’s, my little sister had a summer job cleaning dormitories at Knox College and brought home a boxed set of the first four volumes of “The Teachings of Don Juan”, that someone had

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The Magician and the Mask

Have you ever considered the identities you have created for yourself? ‘The Good Son’, ‘The Doting Father’, ‘The Loving Mother’, ‘The Supporting Wife’, ‘The Rescuing Hero’ or the ‘Stupid Clown’. You get the idea, there are hundreds of these mythic, archetypal thought forms, (masks) out there. Which ones are imprisoning you? How many different manifestations

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Us vs. Us

Humans love to build fences and walls. We make everything “Us vs. Them”; Religion, Gender, Nationality, Politics, Race, Age, even Sports Teams. It must be part of our early training, our indoctrination, a toxic belief that takes up residence and never leaves. It is understandable I suppose, as evolution has historically occurred in small groups,

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Spring Cleaning

To grow and evolve you need to push the edge of the envelope, stretch your limits and challenge your personal belief system. As you evolve, stretch, and grow, it creates stress. Be patient and attentive. Determine the best spot to apply pressure, which relieves the stress. Often the action that is required is letting go,

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Blizzard

◆ a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. ◆ a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area. There was a big one last night. It has been quite awhile since I’ve experienced one. I believe the last one was here too, on the High Planes about a decade ago. We

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Snow Moon

The February Moon has traditionally been called the Snow Moon due to the heavy snowfall typical of the season. The National Weather Service corroborates that, showing on average, February is the snowiest month for the U.S. Other names used by the Native Tribes were Hunger and Bone Moon. There was so little food that the

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Battling Addiction

Addiction [uh-dik-shuh n] the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” ― Carl Gustav Jung We’re all dealing with addiction in one form or another and how, (or should I

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