Must the Spiritual Path Be Difficult?

Many people get seduced into thinking that by walking a spiritual path they will obtain some sort of divine protection from anything that is too difficult and too painful. The fact is, the spiritual path is difficult. No matter how you slice it, it comes up difficult.

It’s good to know this from the [...]

The Economics of Change

By Jennie Marlow

It’s been two years, and yet I am still receiving podcast requests from those who attended the chat that I and Peter Matthies, Founder of the Conscious Business Institute, gave in March 2008, before the economy collapsed. In this chat, I offered an historical context for economic systems and propose a practical, [...]

HDN FEAR

By Rebecca Traver

“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” — Seneca

A couple of afternoons ago as I was getting into my car I noticed that a jeep in the space ahead of me had a license plate [...]

Embracing Uncertainty

By Euphrasia Carroll

My interest in overcoming fear feelings around massive uncertainty (both real and imagined)… this is what prompted me to study, practice, and apply this model. When I say “this model,” I am referring to the evolving work of a group of guides who channel through Jennie Marlow, the most grounded channel I [...]

What Is Fear?

By Jennie Marlow

Question: Help me with the word fear. For me, the word has come to mean awe. Or a verb, an arrow pointing me to the unknown, a place of resistance sometimes, and a trusting that an opening will occur.

Fear is a painful emotion caused by our perception that something bad is about [...]

Taking a Lesson from Monty Python

By Jennie Marlow

How we deal with life can look a lot like that old Monty Python sketch called, “The Fish Slapping Dance.” We really do think we are so clever as we dance around our fears and issues, playing at confronting them, prancing to-and-fro, kidding ourselves into thinking we are really doing something—really getting [...]

Are the terms ‘unconscious’ and ‘unaware’ synonymous?

By Jennie Marlow

The term unaware can be used to describe something unconscious, however, unaware can also mean that we simply do not have the means to know something. For example (while not strictly true), we could say that before 1492, people were unaware that the Earth is round, but you wouldn’t say they were unconscious of it. [...]

The Body Human

By Rebecca Traver

Lately, I’ve been noticing that my attention has been gravitating to pondering the physical aspect of being human. Like many, I have been influenced by the recent political and corporate debates over health care and insurance reform. Out of that conversation, I am conducting a personal inquiry about what it means to [...]

Cosmic & Personal Evolution & Transformation

By Diana Caughell

We marvel at how perfectly synchronized and in harmony everything is on this planet we call Earth. After the growth period of spring and summer, she is retracting into the dormant period of autumn and winter. Without our doing, every year nature is following its natural cycle of birth, life, death and [...]

Being

By Jennie Marlow

Relax into your being? What’s that? As a work-a-holic doer, I must admit that being is something I tend to view the way I might an arcane subject like the derivatives market or string theory. It seems such a basic thing, to rest, rejuvenate and relax. To be. Like everything else one [...]