A few days ago Sensei Kanjin Cederman offered this challenge to us and our practice for the last remaining 100 days of the year. I would like to offer as a companion to this an accompanying meditation to engage in as we make our way out of 2018 and into 2019. If you’ve read my book on The Magic City you will know that I am fond of and engage in a couple of mystical…
In 1971 I was at that time stationed at the Marine Corps base Kaneohe, Hawaii. In that year I had a significant pain and swelling in my knees. It was so bad I could hardly walk at all. I went to the sick bay and they sent me to Trippler Army Hospital on the other side of the island. It was determined after many doctor visits and consultations that I was suffering from significant scar…
Previously I mentioned keeping a journal of your illness experience, a medical journal. In the past I’ve also advocated the benefit of keeping a gratitude journal. Journalling, however you decide to do it whether through words, drawings, collage, completely free form or a mixture has no known harmful effects and only known beneficial effects. Our brain, perhaps our whole being, is programmed to remember bad things more than good things it seems. This may…
In my leisure I read a lot of Science Fiction, Fantasy, General Fiction, and Young Adult literature. If anyone has read anything dealing with magic, or sorcery, or witchcraft and lore one thing that is a constant is the power of a name. In fact mages, witches, sorcerers guard their true name knowing that someone who knows their name has power over them. To know someone’s name is to have a power over them. Think…
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