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Is This Blocking Your Next Spiritual Breakthrough? I have watched people give years to their inner work and end up further from themselves than when they began. Not because the work was false. The retreats happened, the insights were real, the openings were real. But somewhere along the way the…

It’s Not the Molecule nor the Brain State I heard something recently that stopped me, because it was almost exactly in my own words. A neuroscientist, talking about how people actually change, said: “It’s not the molecule.” Next, he finished his statement, and it went somewhere I hear a lot:…

What Is Actually Mine A client told me last winter that she’d spent four days on an email that was two sentences long. She had to let a colleague know she couldn’t take on a file he’d asked her to cover, and the draft had been finished since Tuesday morning.…

What the Ceremony Cannot Do for Us I have had the night everyone hopes for. More than once. I have also struggled in ceremony in ways I have not since childhood, been met by presences I could not explain and did not wish to, and come to the end of…

What hypnosis reveals about where healing actually lives In January 2024, a team at Stanford published something in Nature Mental Health that should have been bigger news than it was. They recruited eighty people living with fibromyalgia, screened them for hypnotic ability, and deliberately excluded the naturally gifted, keeping only…

The Distance We Mistake for Healing Let me concede the ground where the critique is right, because everything after it depends on that concession. There are relationships a person should leave. Where there is violence, ongoing abuse, addiction that pulls everyone near it under, manipulation that rewrites your sense of…