Redefined Prayer
How can we possibly pray for everyone who needs it?
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 16–in which everyone seems to need prayer Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, I always note the number of the week in these Notes from the Field letters. Somehow, there’s a seed of insight in the number. We are in the 16th week in…
Read MoreThe strange paradox of freeing your voice
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 4–in which we discover the radical paradox in Free Your Voice hiding in plain sight Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, The first prayer intensive for 2022—the year we learn to listen to love—is about to open. You might well assume that because I’m…
Read MoreHana I Ka Pono requests a new definition of prayer
The year of the body–Week 41 in which prayer reminds me she is the one redefining prayer–and she’s not finished Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I started redefining prayer in 2018. Mind you, I never asked for that job. Who would say, hey, I think I’ll redefine prayer today. No one. Who…
Read MoreHo’oponopono is alive and asking for change
The year of the body–Week 38 in which prayer proves she is ALIVE. Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Prayer is alive. Alive. That means prayer grows and morphs and changes. That means sometimes she steps aside and sometimes she marches onto center stage and bursts into song. I never know what prayer is going…
Read MoreWriting Down Your Soul: When you write, who is writing?
The year of the body–week 27 in which we explore the mystical question: When you write, who is writing? Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Shortly after prayer artist arrived, I had a startling revelation that prayers are really lyrics—lyrics to the love songs of your intimate and rather ecstatic sacred marriage. You and…
Read MoreYour divine voice: learn to hear it OFF the page, too
The year of the body–week 26 in which a giant grasshopper hints at what’s to come Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, For me, deep soul writing started on the page in 1997 and stayed on the page for several years. I was flabbergasted when a voice on the page started responding to my…
Read MoreDancing in the threshold between worlds
I’ve been navigating the threshold between worlds for 24 years. I just didn’t know it. Or rather, I didn’t know that’s the name for what I was doing. But I do now. And having a name, a clear, descriptive, and rather delightful name for dancing in the mystery makes me very happy. I first stumbled upon…
Read MoreTwo gifts for you: “Breathe” and my birthday sale
“I can’t breathe” George Floyd Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, Last Sunday I introduced the first Prayer Vigil with Kahu Lahela Johnson chanting Oli and leading us in Ho‛oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian prayer of forgiveness. I’ve written about how much I love this prayer for several years now. But, like all original ancient prayers that…
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were unleashed?
There is a vital connection between creativity and mysticism. To make art is to make love with the sacred.
Read MoreYour natal chart Moon holds the answers to 3 questions
You know that phrase: When the student is ready, the teacher will come.
Read MoreThe Romance is 10 years old and it just got better
My first book, Writing Down Your Soul came out ten years ago on January 1, 2009. Eleven days later I gave my first public talk at Wings Bookstore in St Petersburg Florida. I had taught a live course on deep soul writer at First Unity in St Pete a few months prior, so I had quite a…
Read MoreTune into December’s Voice with your body
You don’t have to strip your holidays down as radically as I do. To find what’s right for you, tune into your body. If you’lre not excited about something, turn to your gut and see if you really want to do it or if it’s more of an obligation.
Read MoreThe Beloved is Singing a Love Song to Your Body
There is a current of love-energy that flows between Earth below and Sun above. The central channel of your spine is the riverbed. The streaming is as delicate and powerful as the tingling touch of lovers.The Radiance Sutras Dear deep soul explorer, Our bodies respond to the movements of the planets and stars whether we…
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