Archive for March, 2010

Creating Your Own Tribe

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Talented and amazing psychic and medium Maria Last – who recently twice appeared on The 7PM Project on Channel 10 here in Australia – commented on my article Love Is Truth posted on March 10, saying that we all have to ‘create our own tribe.’

Separating ourselves from the tribe,  so that we are then free to create our own tribe, is one of the hardest things we will ever do. If we listen to our educators, our bosses, the media – to say nothing of the water cooler/locker room/cocktail or dinner party chat – the most important thing we do in life will be what we achieve in our careers as a crucial indicator of how much money and social status we will be able to acquire, and thus how ’successful’ we can consider ourselves to be. Tough that this all is, it pales in comparison to marching to the beat of your own drum. (more…)

What Is Love?

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

At book club last night the question was asked: what is love? Our book for this month was Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed (the long awaited sequel to international bestseller Eat Pray Love) which is basically a treatise on the history and nature of marriage. Thus the question asked related to romantic love – what the Ancient Greeks called Eros (as opposed to Agape, or non-sexual love).

The discussion that followed tended to be more towards how romantic love is expressed or manifested. The ideas ran along the line of respect for the other, putting up with the other’s shortcomings, the ability to make the other laugh. These describe what love can look like but doesn’t go to what love is. There is something far more fundamental, an essential element, an intangible power that underlies all life and lies at the heart of all our dreams and desires. Love is what we’re all looking for; that which we cannot be without . (more…)

Self-Love is Not Nice

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

The trouble with actively living and speaking your own truth, which is the natural extension of loving yourself,  is that not everyone likes what you say or do. Our natural reaction is to try and avoid the uncomfortable feeling we get when we know we are not ‘pleasing’ other people.

This can take various forms but it usually means anything that will make others feel less threatened, more comfortable, and thus more in control. Often we go to amazing lengths to stroke their ego feathers and be nice. (more…)

Love Is Truth

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Being able to love ourselves truly and authentically requires us to silence the voices that have come from ‘out there’ and that now play in our heads, telling us how things are and how they must be. From our first breath we have absorbed, both consciously and unconsciously, the world views of the people around us. Because many of these people have authority, and because we were too young to do otherwise, we accepted what they said.

Experience soon teaches us that a lot of what has been conveyed to us as truth is actually not true for us. That many of the opinions, beliefs, attitudes, prejudices, stereotypes, mores, customs, traditions, habits, and even rules, laws and ‘commandments’ (including the entrenched Biblical variety) are nothing more than that, and they do not in fact constitute truth. (more…)

Self-Love, Intuition and True Power

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

A friend recently emailed me asking how he could increase his intuition. He said that he felt he was quite intuitive, that recent events had confirmed for him that his intuition was both active and accurate, and he was wondering how he could develop this faculty further.

In fact, everyone has totally 100 percent effective intuition. It is the voice of our true self that we all come into this life with. It is our indestructible link with the Divine Eternal, which can never be diminished or drowned out ,and which ensures that we are always safe, and never alone. It is the means of communication with the immutable wisdom of the Divine, enabling us to know whatever we need to know to be safe and at peace. (more…)