The True Deep State Sorry to disappoint, but this post isn’t about that psychopathic underbelly of world governments and twisted corruption of unelected elites and their attempts to control the world and all of its resources, including you. But it is about the metaphor of what has become known as “The Deep State”. It’s a […]
The Self-Improvement Juggernaut
The Self-Improvement Juggernaut There was a time in my life, as there is in many lives who grow up submersed in the Western cultural values of striving and “being better”, that I was obsessed with self-improvement. I read all the books about “how to be a better this” and “how to be better at that”. […]
8 – Death & Dying: Helping a Loved One
A straight-forward series of posts on the delicate topic of Death and Dying Over the last several posts, I’ve shared what I have understood of my recent exposure to the Tibetan Bardos teachings. Today, I present some of the ways we can support those we love who are in transition or who have already passed. […]
7 – On Death: Two More Chances
A straight-forward series of posts on Death and Dying Last time, I wrote about the most auspicious opportunity to awaken that comes to us in the Emptiness Bardo. The last two means by which one can awaken along the Bardo journey I now present to you here. Though my wish for all sentient beings is that we […]
6 – On Death: Dharmakaya – Precious Seconds to Awaken
A straight-forward series of posts on Death and Dying According to the Tibetan Bardo teachings, there are three opportunities for full enlightenment after one dies. Dharmakaya is the first and most precious of these, and is considered the ultimate or absolute body, beyond form, substance, concept and even the ideas of existence and nonexistence. This […]
5 – On Death: Inner Death
A straight-forward series of posts on the delicate topic of Death and Dying Last time, I posted about death as we tend to think of it — a gross physical process. Today, we’ll encounter two additional stages that appear in the Tibetan Bardo teachings. These next two stages of death are perhaps a little harder […]
4 – On Death: Outer Death
A straight-forward series of posts on the delicate topic of Death and Dying Over the next couple of posts, I’ll be going over what I understand to be the three types of death—outer, inner and secret— as reported in the Tibetan Bardo teachings, and more specifically today, the outer death. Outer death is the death […]
3 – On Death: Into and Out of Existence
Welcome to the 3rd installment of writings on the Tibetan teachings of the Bardos. You can find the 1st installment HERE and the 2nd HERE. Coming Into Existence Today, I will be sharing the Tibetan view on how we come into being. This is important to understand because when we die, we take the reverse […]
2 – On Death: When You’re Dead, You’re Dead (or Are You?)
A straight-forward series of posts on the delicate topic of Death and Dying Welcome to another installment on Death & Dying. In this post, we begin our dive into the Tibetan Bardo teachings. Most would assume that once you die, you’re dead. The Tibetan, however, have a different perspective. They believe first of all that […]
1 – On Death – Are You Ready to Die?
A straight-forward series of posts on the delicate topic of Death and Dying I know. I know. It’s everybody’s favorite topic to avoid. Forget the fact that we’re all dying the minute we’re born. Forget the fact that everyone we know now will be dead in, at best, 100 years. Forget the fact that life […]
Death is a Constant
Introducing a straight-forward series of posts on the delicate topic of Death and Dying. I doubt anyone on this globe hasn’t been thinking of their own mortality. If fears of some disease taking hold and killing you and your loved ones didn’t get you, then the life-abolishing threat of nuclear war may very well have. […]
The Meditation Solution
PROBLEM: You name it. SOLUTION: Meditation. The Meditation Solution to Every Problem The other day, my husband asked me the common question, “How are you today?” I noticed my mind start to parse through my experience in order to answer that question. In an instant, my mind went to the challenges […]
What Makes Selfcare Selfcare?
What Makes Selfcare Selfcare? Selfcare is a buzzword and often a marketing ploy to get you to buy some product or service (even mine!). But selfcare isn’t something that comes from outside of you by its very definition. Selfcare, real selfcare, is an inside job. So it’s not about what you might buy, or where […]
The Shadow-Side Qualities
The Shadow-Side Qualities Last post, I spent time defining the qualities of Divine Self Care. I mentioned that these symbols can be corrupted by the ego into shadow-side qualities and keep us trapped in our fearful, restrictive, egoic identity. We could say that each quality has a shadow, in other words, a very low frequency […]
Qualities of Divine Self-Care
There are qualities of Divine Self-care that help us live that way of life. I’ve written about the differences between little s and capital s selfcare in previous posts which included touched upon those qualities. Though capital S Self-care is not something we ourselves do but, rather, a mysterious process to which we submit, the following […]
Capital S Self-Care Defined
In my last post, I wrote about redefining self-care in the most common use of the term. I touched upon the distinction between little s and capital S self-care. Today’s post is about that capital S Self-care. Our True Nature The Self (capital S) is our highest, truest nature (whereas the little s self is […]
Self-care Redefined
Self-care. It’s a word that, like everything else, means different things to different people. Since Divine Me Time is about capital s Self-care as a way of life, I thought I would share with you how I define it. Perhaps the best way to go about this is to first define what Self-care isn’t, which […]
Mandalas & the Avadhuta Gita
Welcome to the Sacred Geometry of the Mandala combined with the Avadhuta Gita! The Avadhuta Gita (Song of the Free Soul or Hymn of the Holy Fool) is a thousands-of-years-old ancient wisdom script attributed to Dattatreya (teacher to Patanjali said to be the “father of yoga”) that speaks to the non-dual nature of reality. The […]
Working with Deconstructed Mandalas
What is a Mandala? Mandalas are a language of the Universal Whole. The geometric mandalas that I create are a communication from and conversation with color and light. A person could watch and look at them, even thinking, ‘Cool!” but without really seeing or hearing the message conveyed. So as you do watch, please contemplate […]
Embracing the Power of “And”
Today’s world. Not many would argue it’s bizarre. It seems that everyone is trying so hard to distinguish themselves today. We are in an instagram “look at me” revolution. It seems to me, we’ve been glorifying our differences for far too long, and that it is contributing to our breakdown. Granted there are populations, mostly […]