Crowrider: What balloon are you holding?
I heard a wonderful parable the other day, told by a member of the spiritual center that I have been attending regularly, and I’d like to share it with you: A man gives one red balloon each to five children. The children stand together holding their identical red balloons, but their experience is not the same. The first child, as he holds his red balloon thinks to himself, “I don’t really deserve this balloon.” The second child holds his balloon protectively, looking over his shoulder with a scowl worried that someone will come and take his red balloon. The third child feels sad and...
Read MoreCrowrider: The Broken Bridge
I have discovered a key to crowlaborating with the great mystery, and aligning with our ephemeral human range of experience, is to locate yourself in your own mythic story. As a great lover and student of myth, and an innately symbolic thinker, asking for an image that helps me establish my place in the greater story of my life is something that has always been natural and helpful to me. When I can see that I am winding, blindly through the labyrinth, or on a quest for the hidden well, battling the demons at the gate of my longing, or reuniting with my lost love, these mythic images give my...
Read MoreCrow Consideration: Nature is Everywhere
After I received my vision of the Crowrider, many years ago, (see previous blogpost) I started to have daily, overwhelming, numerous, fascinating encounters with crows. Suddenly, they were everywhere. They cawed at me when I stepped out of my front door, they camped out in my back yard, they chased me home, they showed up in my dreams and once I came upon a dead crow on a hike right in the middle of my path. I buried that crow as an offering – as an act of commitment. Once a hundred crows seemingly flew out of my friend’s head as a murder of them stormed from the branches of the large...
Read MoreWords from a Crowrider, Crowriter, & Crowlabborator
I was talking with a client the other day and together we were acknowledging the real gritty truth of living an awakened life. We all, at some time in our lives, in one-way or another, receive a calling to engage our inner life: we get dragged to a meditation class by our trippy friend, undergo a tremendous loss or change in our lives, an inner restlessness drives us to reflect, we find the latest Eckhart Tolle book on the BART train, etc. However we arrive at the identity of ‘seeker’ and initiate our personal heroic journey, for many of us the first steps on the path can enliven feelings...
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