In the blog article entitled Paying the Price I discussed my disgust with people who think they are exempt from paying for the services of spiritual workers. I tell my friends that the few people who never charged me were the gypsy women of Boston’s South End. When their fortune…

I was shocked today. Someone asked if I knew a person with specific spiritual abilities who could help them. The required person had to be able to perform exacting mystical tasks. As it happened, what the person requested was a form of spiritual work I had executed many times over…

Our lives are filled with possibilities. That includes our inner lives. Where do we begin? Which of our many options are we going to take first? Let’s start with something basic. Many times in many settings I have heard it said that religious people are not always spiritual. True, just…

My spiritual sister and dear friend Ronda Del Boccio told me she recently finished a course on sound healing. Not that she needed it. Ronda has long used sound in her spiritual work in general and healing in particular. A number of musical tones help us to heal people or…

In an online spirituality meeting this morning a friend said she has to have a clear channel to God to be really alive. To get her spiritual channel unblocked she has to clear away all anger, any possible resentments, anything of any kind that might clog up her spiritual works…

Keep your eyes open. One day a spirituality/mysticism/psychic writer will say something about the way the world is heading. Five minutes later you’ll be reading someone with a totally different view who has exactly the same information. …

The other day a friend sent me pictures of the Survivor Tree in the World Trade Center Plaza. A beautiful Callery pear tree, it was only eight feet tall on 9/11. …

Many people I know have experienced the death of someone near to them in recent months. They may have lost one or more relatives or friends. At the same time, some of that same group and still others are expecting someone to die who is in ill health. Some of…

There is a West African proverb best known in America because of its use by Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Then there is the saying of the nineteenth century French author Emile Zola: If you ask me what I came into this…