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Annelisa MacBean
Jan 12, 20215 min read
Higher Power, Higher Self
What is the Divine, or a Higher Power? Among other things, these terms are commonly used references to "God" when using the word “God”...
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Annelisa MacBean
Jan 8, 20214 min read
Habits
Have you noticed that repeated association of a particular sense object with a particular activity or experience, such as food with...
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Annelisa MacBean
Jan 4, 20213 min read
Understanding Shame
Beneath most experiences of suffering is a persistent and ubiquitous shame, a deep belief that there is something fundamentally wrong...
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Annelisa MacBean
Jan 1, 202135 min read
Extinction and the Revolution of Love
By Charles Eisenstein 1. No demand is big enough Contrary to its self-conception, Extinction Rebellion is not actually about climate...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 31, 20201 min read
Instructions
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. from "Sometimes" by Mary Oliver
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 28, 202010 min read
The Words that Come Before All Else
The Thanksgiving Address A river of words as old as the people themselves, known more accurately in the Onondaga language as The Words...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 24, 20201 min read
The Truth of You
by Osho If you have found truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you....
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 22, 20201 min read
Context for CoVid
Zach Bush MD joins Del Bigtree on The Highwire for an evolutionary discussion on why Coronavirus is here, what it’s trying to tell us,...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 20, 20202 min read
Differentiation
As a child I was in the position of being the emotional caretaker of the adults around me. This was taking place during those early...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 16, 20202 min read
Attention to the Middle
When I’m activated, when personal and collective patterns of shame, rage, and fear are taking over my consciousness – two options...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 12, 20202 min read
Outside, Looking In
In each of us there are a variety of aspects of our human beingness that we resist or deny. It might be selfishness, unacknowledged...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 8, 20201 min read
What God Wants . . .
Your Mother and My Mother by Hafiz Fear is the cheapest room in the house I would like to see you living In better conditions, for your...
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Annelisa MacBean
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Discriminating Defenses
There are times when psychologically defending against certain feelings can be the most skillful way to handle our lives. For example, if...
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Annelisa MacBean
Nov 30, 20203 min read
Choosing Joy
Depression has lowered its heavy weight over me periodically since I was a child, but never has there been a period in my 65 years in...
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Annelisa MacBean
Nov 26, 20203 min read
Remembering to Be Grateful
The sickening feeling of ingratitude creeps into my life slowly and inconspicuously. It manifests in subtle ways, like a feeling of...
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