My recent Facebook post: "Never underestimate the power of synchronicity--Connections made without thought or weighing or measuring brought you and I to amazing opportunities to grow, to learn and most of all, to express love. In gratitude, Elke"
Synchronicity--Carl Jung coined the term, scientists ...
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8 months ago, It all began with a thought: What if we could create a life where we can joyfully bring our work to the world, live in community, and live in a home that brings us joy on a daily basis? It was ...
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Life’s journey is not, I repeat, not straightforward or straight up or straight anything. Nope. We are too complicated, and life is too. Plus there are too many synchronicities for the Universe to coordinate, and all that coordinating of meeting the person who made all the difference, or having the experience that changed our lives, or the one time when it all came togehter in a big aha, or, or, or…all those ors are designed using some kind of crazy formula or algorithm, or….
I think that life’s journey is designed as a labyrinth.
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On the road, we’ve made new lifetime friends—we call them soul family. We’ve participated in ceremonies, classes, healings, movie premiers (Charlie’s Scars and Thrive), 11-11-11 activities, Native American Day at a local Veteran’s administration hospital, new moons, full moons, drum circles, dancing, laughing, and lots and lots of potluck dinners. But nowhere has there been a place to call home, even though we both have enjoyed certain places enough to want to return.
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Now back to our regularly scheduled program....or not.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled life, to bring you these instances of healing...
* After the soul retrieval, she lay on the massage table, eyes moist from the tears, now shed with happiness. Her formerly aching body felt relaxed, ...
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We're in an entirely new season from the time we left the West coast on June 1: Well into October, we've finally arrived at the other Great Ocean that unites us all as a planetary body: The Atlantic Ocean greeted us with still-warm breezes, ...
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of rendering an aura portrait for a Native elder, hospital chaplain, airforce veteran Fleming Otey, aka Holy Eagle. A leader of a seven-tribe council here in North Carolina, he is one busy soul! Here is a picture of Fleming and his corresponding aura portrait:
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I am sitting in the relative cool of my dad and his wife's home patio in north central Florida. Patios are great in hot climes: the screen keeps out the bugs but lets in an occasional cute gecko, so one can be both indoors ...
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For several weeks, I will admit I have had doubts of the sanity of this whole thing. Also, for weeks now, I have consistently brought my self back from the brink of giving up all together: giving up on the dream of a new home; a new community, and new ways to share the Friendly Universe work. And how did I do this?
I took a breath, and then another one. I got present. The subtitle of Book One is Your Presence is Requested. No better words for us all right now.
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There's power in traveling through unfamiliar territory, a chance to uncover patterns I am so used to, I don't even know they are in operation in my life. Good and bad habitsĀ come out of the gloom of life's ruts, and into the broad ...
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