A two-part series about ritual.

Part 1 is about “why?” Why have rituals at all? What reasons might we have to hold a ceremony? Our culture has forgotten many things about how important ritual is.

Part 2 is about how you can create ritual. What are the foundational principles behind creating ritual?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

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One more way of trying to say we are almost impossibly stuck inside our own personal views. How can we get loosen the grip of our interpretations of the world and exist more deeply in the actual reality?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!

I imagined a reality TV show where 100,000 people decide together: what should we all do with $10 million?

If you are interested in manifesting this idea, please see the show notes.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!

Definitions:

Physical fears: ultimately of annihilation, based on perceived existential threats to actual physical survival.

Mental fears: ultimately of annihilation, based on perceived threats to the mind's centrality in its self-created realm.

A slow-motion view of mental fear shows it's never about what the mind believes it to be about. But it can feel the exact same as a physical fear. Let's take a look.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!

As a retired hospice nurse, I saw many patients struggle with the process of dying. Many had indeed accepted that they would die. But the slow decline, the gradual loss of abilities, the clear truth that they were not in control: these could be quite difficult to accept.

The Tree Of Acceptance Of Dying is my contribution to help people cultivate acceptance of death and the process of dying.

This is the podcast version of an essay I wrote in 2023.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!

What is happening in your life?

Are you intimately "one," manifesting a unique aspect of this great universe? Are you a separate and existentially lonely individual?

Both?

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!

Creativity is a superpower and we all have it.

Why isn't it easier for all of us to own it? And use it in the midst of our lives?

I explore our ability to dream at night cultivating creativity that flourishes during the day.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!

These aren't really "things:" they are more like conditions we find ourselves in, or perhaps polarities we must manage.

I identified five that are tough for me. I share them here with you.

1) Not Knowing What Size We Are (2:59)

2) Missing Out (6:15)

3) Needing To Be Certain In An Uncertain Universe (11:51)

4) Frontal Lobe Issues (14:16)

5) Fleeting vs Eternal (17:30)

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.

Also: from the podcast's website you can leave me a voice message or send an email. I would love to hear from you!