cults
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I want to give you a bit of background. I’ve had this blog for years and I stopped blogging this last year for 2 reasons. 1. I had become so disenfranchised with nearly everything I saw and was experiencing. The chaos of the pandemic and then my move from Santa Monica back to Minnesota, which… Read more
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I look up it is turning fall. Halloween is in the air and here we are mid October. No matter the wish and hope, the world clock turns and the next season looms. Time here moves! Every year in September I go through a mini-depression as my unconscious awareness feels fall and sees winter and… Read more
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I watched the documentary series about Gwen Shamblin on HBO and wow! A women, a church going God fearing woman. She undeniably led a cult and of course, openly and on record said “no, I didn’t”. She called it a Church, a Reformer Church, you know let’s go backwards in our thinking and leave reason… Read more
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We don’t often talk about how hard it can be to live in the northland. Depression can be a really good friend. The cold, the dark, the isolation, all handy to drown yourself in and this year has been especially hard. The winter has been endless and the hope of spring a figment of our… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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During the early years of my spiritual searching, I bumped into a plethora of cult like groups. So many of them were small ego driven cliques, where your participation was allowed as your ability to suspend belief, move common sense and keep your mouth shut. At first these groups so pleased that you can attend,… Read more
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I had the great privilege of spending the bulk of my early adult years in northern Minnesota. And let me say, after 30 some years I do believe these people may just have a cult love for winter. But it’s a true God believing place, because the cold will take the breath from your lungs.… Read more
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