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Imagine self/SELF

As I reflect back over my work over the last 21 years, I recognize the thread that weaves all the counseling, writing, speaking and teaching into a meaningful fabric – supporting each of us in imagining our own individuality. I’ve been discovering and...

The Sense of Ego

The Sense of EgoOf the four mysterious senses of Love, hearing, word, thought and Ego, the Ego sense is the most subtly exquisite (ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [carefully ascertained, precise] ): from Latin exquisit- ‘sought out,’ from the verb exquirere,...

Some thoughts on Evil…

Some thoughts on evil… (This is a long one.) It is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. A good day to think about evil. We need to begin to think maturely about evil, to form a conscious and active relationship to evil. Given that as small children we were not...

The Sense of Thought

The Sense of Thought or MeaningLike the word sense, the sense of thought is difficult to describe and imagine.   I struggled to write this and suspect you will struggle to make sense of it all.  The three “highest” senses of word, thought and...

The Sense of Smell

We perceive over 10000 different odors and an seemingly infinite number of combinations.  And with each breath we smell the  scent combinations of whatever is around us.  Though we don’t notice all the smells, we are making decisions about them all the...

The Sense of Word

The Sense of WordI was with my grandson for a month, a very vocal month.  For a couple of weeks, as he turned six months old, he was delighting in the sounds he could make. From grunts to squeals he was learning how to master the range of his voicebox.  On...

The Sense of Hearing

 I want to begin with saying what the sense of hearing is not! It is not the perception of words or ideas.  Hearing is just the perception of sound waves, acoustic events.  In this message I want to share with you four distinctions I find through my...

The Sense of Warmth

When you touch something you are thrown back into yourself, but you are accompanied by something of the other – the warmth (or coolness) of the other. I experience myself through touch whether I am touching a rock, the bath water, a book, the keys on my...