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Expanding awareness through conscious travelling, meditation, insight practice, and authentic relationships. Philosophical musings from sojourns across the world.
…or are we being chosen? Indeed perhaps a further philosophical post is warranted, but at least for now ponder that What we seem to choose is at the same time choosing us We can come up with all sorts of reasons and justifications for why we like a certain animal. For this post I ask […]
A few years ago I earned the nickname “Celestial Wayfarer” among my peer group of Qigong practitioners. I had freshly read “Opening the Dragon’s Gate” where all the Daoist Masters of the Lineage had badass titles to go with their specialties. My fellow skilled healers and I then reflected on what we saw each other’s […]
Recently I’ve been wanting to write on things more practical and focused, and also been doing a lot of soul searching on the topic of Freedom and Purpose. Ikigai has been written on extensively, but if you’ve never heard of it this sums it up quite beautifully: This flower is a wonderful way of taking […]
I recently picked up a copy of Ted Andrew’s Animal Wise- the extended edition that has a lot more species of animals and lesser known archetypes. For those unfamiliar with Shamanic healing work, I talk about Animal medicine here: Core Shamanism This book includes mythical animals, such as the Dragon, Unicorn, and Phoenix-as powerful archetypes. […]
Yesterday at the Kadampa Center, Geshe Sangpo’s teaching was about Joyful Effort. He told the story of Asanga (http://www.three-vajras.com/asanga) who was in search of Maitreya Buddha, and went into a cave to meet with this Buddha. He would give up every 3 years, and out in the world something would inspire him to return to […]
I’ve had a whirlwind of adventures the past two weeks, from Terre Haute Indiana to the NationaL Qi Gong Association’s yearly conference in Asheville. I enjoyed countless insights, immigration, and sharing deeply with my qi gong family. I learned a lot about Chinese herbalism with budding master Ben Rosenthorn, and enjoyed the Sunrises of Lake […]
“It is not enough to open our minds to new dimensions… behind and beyond all that there must be someway of brining it all to Earth. Of Grounding it.”- Alan Watts The unique approach of Healcyon is that we focus not only on the endeavor of transformation of consciousness and all the mystical adventures that […]
To go along with our first New Moon Newletter, I want to write deeper on what I mean when I talk about the Spiral path of growth, non-linear growth, and the flux associated with the Moon cycles. As a heads up: I do not claim either approach is better than the other. They both […]
I return to Rio under the Full Moon, and it hasn’t quite hit me yet that my brother is gone. Our heroine Kelly returns. and I realize a new depth to her Daoist mastery: on her back is a crescent white moon within her gold fur, and within her white underbelly is a gold patch. […]
The largest city in the Western Hemisphere. That’s what drew my brother to check this place out, and I was happy to tag along and meet a cousin of mine that also appreciates motorcycles. We arrived at 6am and had one hell of a day. After meeting my cousin and having breakfast, we were told […]