Parents

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By Heather Williams, H.W., M. (with permission)

What did you learn from your parents?

PARENT: one that brings forth offspring; a mother or father; a person that brings up and cares for another; the source from which something is derived

QUESTION: What did you learn from your parents?

STORY: We all have stories of our parents. When I was born, mom was 35 and dad was 26. Mom was Republican. Dad was a Democrat. Mom was Lutheran. Dad was agnostic – though raised Catholic. Mom and dad were different people and though they loved each other – their marriage was not meant to endure forever. They married in 1943 and divorced in 1961. Mom was quite fearful while dad was curious about the world around him. Mom inherited money from her father’s big dairy business and was able to live quite well without dad. Dad had a day job but didn’t make much money. My mom taught me to take care of my money. My dad taught me to be curious. Thank you mom and dad.

QUOTES

“It would be wonderful if every child was raised by loving, cheerful, wise parents but the truth is we are all on a sacred journey of coming to know our higher identity as Consciousness and interestingly, parents are a big part of the journey.” ~ Heather Williams

“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” ~ Ewan McGregor

“The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” ~ Steven Hawking

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” ~ Oscar Wilde

EXERCISE

STOP.

Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath.

Sit calmly and imagine that your parents are sitting before you. Gently ask each one a question. Open your heart and listen to their response.

Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing something that you learned in this dialogue with each of them.

Move forward into your day feeling yourself parenting something that wants to be born through you.

I Learn to Choose Another Point of View

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by John Atwater, H.W.

It was just after Christmas and I was enjoying one of my gifts. It was a book called Life on Earth. It had a green and yellow cover. It had all the different types of life with chapters about all the different life forms. It had lots of pictures. I looked at mostly the animals. It had whales and all sizes of fish. It had tigers, wolves, foxes, deer and rabbits. I enjoyed the pictures and reading about the different creatures. After a while, I realized that the predators were killing and eating many of the animals. Small fish got eaten by the medium fish and in turn, were done in by larger fish. I just started thinking of all the killing, bloodshed, and carnage. I got a bit upset and sad about it all. I went and told my mom I did not like the book so much anymore and explained why. Just so much killing, blood, and death.

She listened and thought quietly for a bit. She said “It is true that all things that live also die. But everything is born, grows up, and lives many, many days. One day they die or are killed, but that is just one day or just one moment. They all live so many, many days and die on just one. There is so much more life than death if you see it that way! The world is filled with life!”

I sat and thought about what she said. It made sense. I felt so much better for all the creatures. I felt so much better about life and the world. I was no longer a bit sad or upset. I felt better myself. It was so weird that you could see things in a different way and that had a huge result on your feelings. I liked the book again. This is the first time I can remember that as I changed my way of looking, so much changed. I realized you have to be thoughtful about the way you look, and that there just might be a better way of looking at the world than your first perspective. Thanks, Mom!

Morgan Richard Olivier on whose you are

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“You know who you are and whose you are.”
― Morgan Richard Olivier, The Tears That Taught Me

Morgan Richard Olivier is an American author, advocate, wife, and speaker. With a passion for writing that serves as a form of therapy for both herself and her audience, Morgan’s outlet for expression fosters and supports conversations that are needed to stop stigmas and support healing, self-acceptance, and personal growth. Since publishing her first book Questions, Christ, and the Quarter-Life Crisis in 2020 and her poetry and prose collection Blooming Bare in 2021, Morgan has become a source of encouragement and empowerment to men and women worldwide. Through empathy and wisdom from lessons learned, she enlightens and inspires others to find the greater purpose in life’s pains and pressures. Morgan’s goal is to crush the image and pursuit of perfection by captivating the raw beauty of sincere progress.

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Richard Tarnas Part II: From Harvard to Esalen

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Jung and the World Podcast 29 Part II of this conversation with Richard Tarnas we go more into his story, and in particular how he got from in Harvard to Esalen, his studies in Depth Psychology(Freud and Jung) at Harvard from 1968- 1972 and getting an introduction into the hotbed of the Sixties counter-culture, the influence of Ram Dass(Richard Alport), Alan Watts and others, finding his way to Esalen and working with Stan Grof, Joseph Campbell, Hillman, Houston Smith and others. The Death/Rebirth Mystery, and ‘Anima Mundi’ and the ‘Çosmos’. Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he has recently become Emeritus Professor. Born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents, he grew up in Michigan, where he received a classical Jesuit education. In 1968 he entered Harvard, where he studied Western intellectual and cultural history and depth psychology, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. For ten years he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Stanislav Grof, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, and James Hillman, later serving as Esalen’s director of programs and education

Link to Part I: https://youtu.be/BiekLyLfabY?si=MOX_wMSZ8sFqJJ-2

A New Covenant: Jeremiah 31: 31-34

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King James version:

31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

New International Version:

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
    and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
    I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
    though I was a husband to[d] them,[e]”
declares the Lord.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
    and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more.”

New Living Translation:

31 “The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 32 This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord.

33 “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”

Psychological and Spiritual Blindspots with Patricia Sun

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