Childlike Wonder

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 [...]

The Woman Under the Shroud

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 [...]

Backyard Enlightenment

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 [...]

Maori Egg Hunt

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 [...]