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Intimacy Starvation

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Reflecting on our culture, perhaps it is lack of true intimacy that lies at the root of our blindness and excess. Maybe we are trying to compensate for absence of deep contact, with ourselves and with others, by spending more, working longer hours, playing harder, obsessing about our bodies, abusing the environment out of short-sighted […]

Workshop 5/24/08: Creating the New Earth Now

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

When:      Saturday May 24, 2008 10:30am-4:30 pm
Where:     860 E. 4500 S. Suite 302, Salt Lake City                                                                                                                                                             Tuition:     $120                                                                                                     Preregistration required with Steve 801-631-8426.    $60 nonrefundable deposit to hold your place. Some scholarships may be available.                                        
Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth has become a catalyst for the current shift in human consciousness. Oprah’s ongoing weekly web seminar with him […]

Transforming Pain into Presence

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

In his book A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle describes how the act of bringing Presence, attentive awareness, to a painful situation instead of reacting aggressively or defensively to it starves the pain body (our tendency to indulge in painful emotions) and nourishes one’s capacity to remain present.  The more we are identified with our pain, […]

On the Fascination with Vampires

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Characters like Dracula and others found in vampire novels are perenially popular.  What makes it so thrilling when the heroine surrenders to having her neck bitten and her blood sucked by the seductive creature of the night?  Sure, there’s something sexy about the whole exotic scene, but is there something unique that makes vampires so fascinating compared to other […]

Energy Vampirism and Sexual Abuse

Monday, August 13th, 2007

It is not customary in psychological and psychiatric circles to think of sexual abusers and their victims in energetic terms, yet the neglect of this dimension blinds us to important therapeutic possibilities. The following energetic description of abuse is derived primarily from my training in advanced shamanic healing with Jen Tarchin in Salt Lake City.
Sexual […]