This past weekend I was on a train with my wife, and we heard a sound I first thought was someone’s very unusual laughing, but it didn’t quite sound right. A few seats ahead of us, a young woman slumped against her boyfriend. He called her name a few times. She was having a seizure. …
Love Really IS All We Have (and It’s Enough)
Recently a friend of mine called me, upset that her daughter was getting divorced. She wanted to try to talk the couple into working it out somehow. Based on the comments she ascribed to both husband and wife, it was pretty clear to me as an impartial listener that this particular marriage was over, dead …
This Is Not A Blog Post But…
…this coming Sunday, September 30th, 2012, from Noon to 6pm, I will be co-hosting another of the ongoing Practical Mysticism Expos here in NYC at One on One Casting, 34 West 27th Street, 11th Floor, NY NY. There will be lectures, a séance/message circle, and available readings from astrologers, psychics, tarot card readers and mediums. …
Reiki & Me
I am a very physical person. I like to be able to touch and hold things. The more I have involved myself in the concepts of the mystic and the occult, the more I run into the idea that the physical world is an illusion and time does not exist, and the more I am …
Natural Guilt and Artificial Guilt
Many people seem to doubt themselves, seem to believe something is wrong with them, somehow. It is such a strong feeling, that people who appear confident and certain often impress us. And yet, just as often, when those very same confident people write their autobiographies, or sit for in-depth interviews, they end up admitting to …