At the same time, we are standing in the shadow cast by a future of which we still know nothing, but which is already somehow anticipated by the unconscious. -Carl Gustav Jung   A number of years ago, I attended a retreat exploring the phenomenon of intuition with about 50 others. One of the events […]

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they’re afraid it might be true. – from Wizards First Rule, by Terry Goodkind   I recently self-published a memoir, Soul Whispers: Encounters with the Unconscious, […]

When I was in my early 20s and in the throes of hippiedom—my hair down to the middle of my back and dressed in hip clothes, a rock and roll drummer, a college dropout earnestly seeking the meaning of my life—my dad confronted me in our living room: “What the hell are you doing with […]

In Soul Whispers, I spend a lot of time writing about my lifelong search for “family,” not my birth family, which presented me with challenges that took years to resolve, but the one thatmade me feel like I was home, like I was with people who mirrored my deepest spiritual longings and values. Do you […]

I was having a conversation the other day with a young man (he is 40 years my junior) about what “Let it flow” has meant over the course of my lifetime. He is newly married—they just had a baby—and is a visionary, a brilliant marketer, a community builder, and a psychonaut who has for years […]

Awakening to a Deeper Truth In my book, Soul Whispers, I recount my experiences of altered states of mind, as well as those of some of my closest friends. Extraordinary as these appear to be, such experiences are not limited to a select few people. As more people are introduced to the possibility that the […]