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  • Bullying1

    The neighborhood bully

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    I hate bullies. I have no tolerance for them whatsoever. I have neither time nor patience for them and I am not willing to make any space for them in my life. One of the most powerful, and relatively recent, discoveries in my spiritual journey …

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  • Stonehengewinter

    Markers

    I sat down to write a blog tonight thinking, “this will be the last blog I write before we hit the solstice. The next time I sit down to write, the earth will have started back towards the center of that peculiar little wobble that …

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    Sharpening

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    “Sharpening” and “softening” are two opposite techniques we can use to steer psychodynamic forces within groups. Both techniques can be applied skillfully or unskillfully to influence or manipulate behavior and experience. “Sharpening” is accomplished by intentionally exaggerating individual differences while minimizing or ignoring what we have …

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    Disappointing Me

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    Sometimes I find myself disappointing, and most of the time, I deal with that by not paying much attention to it. But in the spirit of Touch Practice (breathe, lean into the edge, accept all the parts of your experience) I decided to lean into …

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  • Memories

    Memory, Fantasy, Reality, and Time

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    Eckhart Tolle’s brilliant book The Power of Now argues compellingly that the only thing that really exists, at all, is the thing we experience as “right now,” this moment. I think this book is insightful, and on one level I completely agree with him. The power of being …

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  • Wedding Rings70

    Marriage as a Weapon

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    This was an interesting week in politics. President Obama shares in an interview that he feels personally supportive of the idea that all people, regardless of gender, should be able to marry. A few days later, Rick Santorum urges Mitt Romney to “step up and …

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  • Manhug

    Walks between Worlds

    I have learned everything I know about Touch Practice by practicing, by holding men. Hundreds of men. Hundreds of different men. Very, very different men. Some of the men I hold are conservative Republicans. Some are liberal Democrats. Some of the men I hold are …

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  • Ritual San Juan1

    Ritual As a Container for Experience

    The power of a cup of coffee in the morning (specifically, the caffeine it contains) doesn’t work quite the way many of us assume it does. In a non-habitual drinker, the caffeine in a cup of coffee certainly has a powerful physiological effect, raising blood …

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    Body Language

    One of the ways we defend ourselves against hurt is by taking things we experience in the body and intellectualizing them, turning them into thinking, stories, or talking, so that we can get away from the discomfort of feeling them. One of the techniques we …

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  • HerosJourney4c

    The Descent into Hell

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    Now there’s a catchy little title for a Spring blog. Got your attention? I’m mindful this weekend that it’s Easter. I am struck by one version of the resurrection story (enshrined in later revisions of what is now known as the Apostles’ Creed) that in …

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