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Wisdom in everyday life

  • Death and the cult

    On the 20th of March, I received a text from my daughter that her cat was dying. Not a surprise, because he was old and had had a nice long life. But the act of physical death makes it a surprise, as it’s not often a quiet or quick process. After a brief phone call, Read more

  • Cult loyalty

    What a world we live in. After all these years and millennia, humans have not taken the idea of evolving seriously at all. It’s a free for all, this place. Filled with take what you want stepping over whom ever you need to, want more land take that too. We are a waring culture, a Read more

  • The in-between

    I became fixated by the notions of cults when Yogi Bhajan first started getting negative press. A very naive response from me was that it couldn’t be true. He himself had taught us not to mess with your students. All through teacher training was this notion that being a kundalini teacher was a spiritual calling Read more

  • When I started my path to yoga I was living in the woods of Northern Minnesota living the life of poverty. It was a difficult time filled with horrors of child custody issues, custody payments and a husband that found working at a job oh so hard…and me, I had an art degree so yeah Read more

  • When I rewatched the Bikram documentary I was number 1, sickened, but then you or I noticed something, the girls who came forward to talk were part of an audience of his students. When he the rapist Bikram, let’s call him what he is, invited someone to see him in his room after regular hours Read more

  • Trauma and cult behavior

    It has taken years for me to understand the level of trauma I was born into. A long story short…My mother was adopted and claimed to not know much about her family of origin, my Dad was a red neck simple angry man, our house was filled with secrets. They both had very public jobs Read more

  • Uggg Bikram!

    I rewatched the Bikram documentary on Netflix and I recommend it especially if you are still wrapped up in the mindset of a devotee. The horror of these teachers coming to our country with its vast differences from their own countries has wrecked havoc on our people. None of the girls raped by Birkam wanted Read more

  • Can a cult be righteous!

    Righteousness is the quality of being right or justifiable, and so we enter the world of Karen and Stan and all the other religion/cults that stand on their righteousness. Who gets to decide? A person who truly believes they are right are almost impossible to reason with, they are in their mind, right! And the Read more

  • Releasing the need to perform at Christmas has taken years. I don’t have to be everything to everybody. A woman’s issue! Then this last few years of dealing with a spiritual system that took another level of adjusting to my thinking, how did this happen to me? How could I have let them inside of Read more

  • Spirituality and Health

    Over and over we can argue what illness does to hinder or help our walk of life but, it must be said that there is an undeniable link between our thinking minds and our health. Most humans are so thick natured that it takes running into the brick wall before a sliver of self responsibility Read more