One Global Bridge

Expansive Ways of Knowing

In high school, throughout college and during my first years as a music therapist, I worked with mentally disabled children and adults, encouraging them to build life skills through the beats and vibrations of music. I always loved being with these ’special needs’ people. They are special indeed. I delighted in how they found joy in the... [Read more of this...]

“You’re not real!” I heard as I delved into non-linear worlds of existence. OK… so I came home with an owl mask once from my Shamanic course. I know, that seemed over the top. But I am very real – it is just another ‘real’ than many of us are led to believe. I began opening mind to these experiences while living... [Read more of this...]

In 2000, a disturbing petition was going around the internet. It explained graphically how women were being beaten, stoned, silenced and mistreated in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The e-mail was a call to sign a petition stating that it was unacceptable for women, anywhere in the world, to be treated as subhuman and calling for peaceful outrage to... [Read more of this...]

Three hours! How can I walk that long? That was my reaction to the assignment from my Masters program in Transpersonal Psychology. “Go outside for at least three hours, if not eight. Have no plan. Just go where your feet take you. Learn to trust your intuition and pay attention to all you experience.” “I don’t go outdoors!” I thought. What... [Read more of this...]

It’s the year 2000 and I am pacing around a hotel room getting ready to go to a bar mitzvah of one of my husband’s colleagues. But I am weak and coughing up tons of phlegm! Thoughts of my two prior bouts of pneumonia – you are only supposed to get that once – are rattling around my brain. I’m desperate. “What are... [Read more of this...]

Years ago I attended a workshop at the Omega Institute in New York titled “Other Ways of Knowing”, led by Jon Broomfield, New Zealander and former head of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Jon showed us a  short film that changed the way I viewed reality. It was film of a Maori elder, (New Zealand indigenous people) walking on the beach... [Read more of this...]