When I was twenty-six years old we had a family crisis on the west coast of British Columbia, so I moved there to take full-time care of my niece until the situation sorted itself out. Two months into my stint, my truck insurance was about to expire, and I mentioned to my sister that I…
By the time I was in my late twenties, I had already been going to psychologists for a decade, had consulted numerous New Age healers, and read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I was still young, but desperate to figure out the root of my unhappiness before it threatened to extinguish…
The social engineering that we are barraged by every day systematically erases the normal healthy boundaries that human animals inherently possess and replaces these with the larger social agenda. In this way we let go of what we want and need, and begin to believe that we want what society tells us we want. In…
In an unusual turn of events, my partner Warren and I are hosting a diving trip to the Cayman Islands this coming May. We realize that the water on this trip won’t be frozen, and that small waves are a distinct possibility. To compensate for this, we chose a resort that boasts the best bar…
Of all the phases that one must go through on a healing journey, forgiveness is the most difficult as well as the one most fraught with misconceptions. To forgive is to “give away” the past, to cease allowing painful events to stay alive in the present. Another way of putting this is that you no…
One of the things that I learned through my decades of depression is that our bodies are like batteries: they are largely comprised of water and salt, and rely on the sun as their exterior energy source. This phenomenon goes a long way in explaining why we feel so energized after a day at the…
A child is born, and in the whirlwind of his parent’s lives he feels isolated and alone. The only time he feels connected to his mother is when he makes her laugh, so he develops his sense of humour and comes to rely on her laughter as his strongest bonding experience. His body grows along…
I can’t fail to notice how events like mass shootings continue to capture the public imagination, as though they come out of nowhere and are one-off occurrences. Nor can I fail to notice how each time one occurs, the masses of the citizenry are more than eager to define the perpetrator of such an event…
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a Butterfly.” – Richard Bach Personal transformation cannot occur while we are busy conforming to a status quo, because deep transformation happens in the wilderness of our psyches, in that place beyond the social programming of our culture. It takes courage to transform,…
At the age of twenty-two I stood at one of the most important crossroads of my life: on the one hand I was being diagnosed manic-depressive by my psychiatrist and offered pharmaceutical drugs to deal with my condition, while on the other hand I had just read a convincing book that stated that my depression…