It’s not unusual to associate the new year with a newborn baby. We instinctively know that this new beginning is like a new birth. It offers potential. There is a whole year, like a whole lifetime, of the unknown awaiting us. What is less often acknowledged is that every new beginning is like a birth […]
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Birth, Ghosts, and Messages from Mother Earth
As I write this, a major international meeting to address climate change is beginning. We all know that too many forests are burning. Too many floods are destroying too many homes and lives. Mother Earth is screaming. She needs our attention now! After years of motherly encouragement has been largely ignored, the question looms as […]
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Embryo as Context
As an embryo, you faced many challenges. You survived each one, or you wouldn’t be here now reading this! How easy or difficult it was to meet each challenge depended on the context you found yourself in, as is also true now. Little ones in the womb are completely dependent on their mother for their […]
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Still Coming into Form
As a little embryo or fetus in the womb, you faced many challenges. As you met them, your form changed accordingly. I have learned from spiritual embryologist Jaap van der Wal that we are functional human beings perfectly adapted to our environment from the very beginning. As our conditions change, we also change our form. […]
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PERHAPS YOU ARE LIKE ME: WHEN TRAUMA NEEDS TO BE MET
Perhaps you are like me. These days I cry reading the news. Too many (what wouldn’t be too many?) people dying from COVID. People dying from unheard of high temperatures. Buildings falling down in the middle of the night due to lack of care. People being murdered, raped, and otherwise abused, often by those who […]
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