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Category: My Core Mythologies

Favorite essays…

Death for Life Ritual

9 Jul 2026July 9, 2026
I’m downloading photos of houses being consumed in flames — huge wild oranges and yellows screaming in the black of the night.  I wanna burn this shit to the ground. …
Eventful stories…

Dragon Veil

17 Jun 2026July 9, 2026
Summer, 2014. I am camped at Bunny Flats on Mt. Shasta in northern California.  This is one of the great volcanoes of the “ring of fire” around the Pacific ocean. …
Moments…

Nudged Back to Myself

16 Sep 2020
Feeling a stuck grieving of unknown details, and having enough presence and capacity, I turn to ceremonial Cacao for assistance. I pull out the precious block I got in Costa…
Healing stories…

Is It Shitting or Lost with Hard Weather?

14 Sep 2020
No More “Cleaning up my shit:” A major reframing. One of my usual phrases is a variant of “clean up my shit.” As in change my behaviors and heal my…
Moments…

A sampling of echos in the hologram.

10 Sep 2020September 16, 2020
Just for fun :) Years and years ago I was telling my Mom about the time I went to Venice Beach. In the middle of the story, a text came…
Micro Memoir…

My Multidimensional Being

5 Aug 2020July 7, 2026
I know myself as a multidimensional collection of beings that are different aspects of my Self and Experience.  I have moments when I feel myself in these other aspects.  I…
My Core Mythologies…

Insight Card Readings

4 Aug 2020October 29, 2021
Tarot, Oracle and Meditation card readings from Divination Decks. Self Knowledge. Self Knowledge in Context. Expanding one’s playground. Talking to yourself in another way. Connecting beyond your familiar world. Connecting…
Moments…

A Precious Walk

27 Jun 2020September 16, 2020
I was exhausted and ready for bed. But. I wanted to go for a walk! It felt like I had not been outside all day even though I was. I…
Eventful stories…

An Arranged Exchange

27 Jun 2020September 16, 2020
"And I thought you were just helping me with my tent. I guess this was no accident."As I walked back from the bathroom at the campground I had spent all…
Eventful stories…

A Ritual Emerges

2 Jun 2020September 11, 2020
As I sat under the trees and moonlight, with my fingers in the dirt, tapping in and being a mycelium fruiting body, I was made aware that I needed to do a…
Healing stories…

The curtain falls.

3 May 2020July 6, 2026
May 3, 2020 Trigger warning for brief, non-detailed references to child sexual abuse, demons and trauma. For the last six years, which feels more like 15, I've been getting a…
Healing stories…

The Dropped Pathpoints

2 May 2020July 8, 2026
For the last eight or nine months I've been on a journey uncovering some of what happened when I was a small child that has been subconscious and wreaking havoc…
Eventful stories…

Rebirth #1: First Steps

5 Apr 2020September 14, 2020
This picks up where My Backstory ends. My 44th birthday exit from a near dead life. The moment I drove away from the house, my physical and mental health started…
Eventful stories…

My Backstory

5 Apr 2020July 8, 2026
Let me give you a tiny glimpse of the “before” portrait of myself.  My 44th birthday was essentially a major rebirth into how I relate to myself and Life now. …
Eventful stories…

Meeting my Beloved

11 Apr 2019July 8, 2026
Baiona, Spain, February 2018 Driving through the hills trying to find my way somewhere, I pull over to look at the map. I notice the forest here has been partially…

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