As a child, a member of my family would frequently burst into rage. He had bouts of anger so destructive and extreme, he became like a raging inferno. I learnt early on that you cannot reason with emotion. You cannot try to reason with senseless outbursts, or violence. You cannot try to think your way…

I stand before you naked, revealing, strong in my own truth. I am alive with the desire to be myself, to be fully animated and express myself in the world we share. I have clung to limitation so many times in my life, and released so many layers of healing. Have I become a cliche,…

    “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” ~ Max Planck We are all agents of consciousness. In Australian Aboriginal tradition, one of the oldest religious beliefs still practised today, Dreamtime…

Dharma is like karma…it’s unavoidable. The moment you’re born, you’re given an identity—a sex and a gender, a race, a name, a nationality, a religion. You’re even given a surname and status based on the family you’re born into. In the birthing process preceding this moment, you may have been exposed to brutality via well-meaning…

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