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A Place Called Hope ~ awakening the flow of our sacred intelligence

Posted by on Aug 9, 2020 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 4 comments

A Place Called Hope ~ awakening the flow of our sacred intelligence

Last week I traveled by road from a small mountain town in the interior of British Columbia back home to Vancouver Island. I drove seven hours through blistering heat to reach the little town of Hope, where I was stopping on the way for the night. I arrived at Hope in the late afternoon, tired, hot and hungry. I was driving down the main street when I heard a loud bell, saw a flashing red light, and the wooden barrier at the train tracks I was about to cross came down right in front of my car....

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Ring the Bells That You Can Ring ~ The Trouble with Normal

Posted by on Apr 1, 2020 in Articles by Shayla, Lifeletters & Articles | 10 comments

Ring the Bells That You Can Ring ~ The Trouble with Normal

In our time of disturbance and radical change, we are crossing a threshold, a portal, or an unseen bridge from one world to another. It could be said that the bridge is either collapsing beneath us, or being made as we walk together, in the long twilight hours when one civilization gives way to another.” ~Geneen Marie Haugen Every evening at seven pm I go out onto my balcony with a golden bell and shout, stomp, whistle, clap and holler my gratitude for the doctors, nurses, clinicians, and...

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Dancing with Mother Kali ~ Strong Medicine for Dangerous Times

Posted by on Dec 10, 2019 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 2 comments

Dancing with Mother Kali ~ Strong Medicine for Dangerous Times

“Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.” (Chogyam Trungpa) As we enter the last part of the year, Kali, the black goddess of destruction and renewal, is dancing wildly in the world. She’s really not that elegant-no-one seems to have taught her any manners. She’s not the blue-eyed goddess we’ve been hoping for. She’s more like the horrible fairy godmother in Sleeping Beauty, the very last one you would ever invite to the party. But she’s here now-looks...

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The River Beneath the River ~ The Soul Journey of Individuation

Posted by on Dec 3, 2019 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 3 comments

The River Beneath the River ~ The Soul Journey of Individuation

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ~Rumi It has taken me a long time to reclaim my inner throne, my true sovereignty. It’s not at all what we imagine when we hear the word ‘sovereignty.’ My throne is not some golden chair up above everyone else. My throne is down in the mud, in the ocean, inside the bloodstream, deep in the bones. I was not taught to live this way. I found my way through...

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The Great Affair ~ The Love Affair with Life

Posted by on Nov 6, 2019 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 0 comments

The Great Affair ~ The Love Affair with Life

Over the last troubled while, I have been moved to explore more thoroughly what our deeper resources are. Resources come in all kinds of forms and flavours, and are found in different places. They can come to us from other people, from animals, from nature, from the invisible realms.

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