The way I see it, what we are witnessing right now is nothing short of humanity’s collective shadow being unveiled. This is a good thing, because it shines the light of day on what has so far been kept in the closet and hidden in the sand. It is a necessary step if we are…
One of the most powerful tools I used to transform my life was to stop seeing myself as a victim and instead believing that I had created every challenge in my life as part of my spiritual journey. In this way, the very things that threatened to destroy me were used as stepping stones toward…
Capacity is defined as “the ability to receive, hold, or absorb; the maximum amount that can be contained.” For the first four decades of my life, I was completely self-absorbed in that all of my resources were put toward the goal of keeping myself as emotionally stable as I possibly could. And this was a…
The greatest thing about people thinking you’re crazy is that you get to say crazy things without destroying your reputation. But “crazy” is only that which the mainstream masses cannot conceptualize, cannot believe is in their midst. In other words, it is something that does not fit into their version of a bedtime story. Lucky…
I have long maintained that you can learn more about how the global economy works if you study organized crime than you can by reading mainstream media. It would be more accurate to say that the world is being run as a criminal enterprise than it would be to say that we live in a…
The hockey world is reeling from some major blows lately, including the deaths of three of their enforcers. Amid the myriad reports from within the league that claim to be “looking into the problem”, there is one article with a level of insight that stands out. In the September 8th edition of the Globe and…
Just when we think the experts have come up with every known way to relieve us of personal responsibility, we get the results of another study. The American Society of Addiction Medicine has come up with a new slant on addictive behaviour, one that reclassifies it as a primary illness i.e. it is biological and…
There is a lot of talk in the media right now about the war on drugs, a war that was originally declared by Nixon just over forty years ago. The authors of these articles claim that it has been a huge failure, but I couldn’t disagree more. Whether it has been a failure or a…
I believe that we are destroying the wilderness of the planet at the exact rate, and to the same extent, that we are destroying the wilderness inside our own psyches. The human being and the natural environment are inseparable: what we do to one we also do to the other. There are many things that…
My uncle Bob was a priest who ministered at the bedside of the dying for the last thirty years of his career. I once asked him if there was any one theme that came up more than any other. He told me that by far the biggest theme was women who were bitter and angry…