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Where Do I GO When I Dream?
Where Do I Go When I Dream? Each night I lay my head down with a simple prayer: protect my family, send love to the Universe. Then I set an intention — a single, quiet wish to explore a slice of my life, a question I want to visit, a scene I want to understand.
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Touch The Earth Through My Eyes
Touch The Earth opened a door in me that had been quietly ajar for years, revealing a history threaded through my own family. This lineage carried both the resilience of the Cherokee people and the deep wounds of displacement, erasure, and control. Growing up, I knew only fragments: a petite grandmother with brown hair and
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Comparing the Circle of Life To Myself
The Circle of Life text spoke to me because it echoes the spiritual practices and daily methods I hold dear — a seamless blend of inner knowing, physical care, and relationship with the natural world. At its heart is the idea that we live simultaneously on three levels: the supernatural (spirit/ether), the natural (body/mind), and
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Discovering The Puzzle of Life Together
Forty, maybe fifty years feels both a lifetime and the blink between heartbeats. I remember the first gatherings in Washington State like scenes from a film that ground me: the hum of crowds at the Seattle Center, booths draped with colorful cloth, the smell of incense and coffee braided together. It was there, among speakers
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My Australian Experience in the 1980’s
We spent several months in Australia in the 1980s as a family—Larry, my husband; Jason, our eldest, ten; Tonya, our adopted Korean daughter, seven; and Jennifer, our youngest, five. The trip was meant to be a chance to reconnect and reestablish our life together. What we found instead was a mosaic of experiences that taught
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My Valentine Universal Love
Valentine’s Day, to me, is more than a date on the calendar or a ritual of cards and roses; it is a gentle, annual bell that rings to remind us who we are at the deepest level. It calls us back to our true nature — an identity not defined by accolades, possessions, or social
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Reflections on Occult Gazette
I’ve been unpacking my office since moving from California to Bothell, and each box has felt like a treasure chest of forgotten things. Among the stacks of paper and folders, I found a trove of publications from the nontraditional spiritual world—pamphlets, articles, and newsletters that I hadn’t seen in decades. I sat down and spent
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Reconnecting With Jennifer
Jennifer Shiloe Murphy Lowell was born in September 1976 in Mount Vernon, Washington, delivered naturally by Winnie Bradford. Her arrival was a family celebration: her brother Jason, sister Tonya, father Larry, grandmother Ann Marie and I were all there to welcome her. I had called her Shiloe throughout my pregnancy, but Larry chose Jennifer for
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How I Controlled My Life with Lucid Dreams
How I Controlled My Life with Lucid Dreams. There have been stretches of my life when waking and sleeping braided together so closely that my days felt like a string of lucid dreams—each one vivid, intentional, and packed with meaning. At first, it was disorienting: moments when the world tilted, and I sensed the soft,
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My Sister Dee Dees Doll Collection
Dee Dee’s Dolls began as a small, private world tucked into the corners of our childhood home and quietly grew into a lifetime of devotion. From an early age, my sister collected dolls with an almost reverent attention: tiny tears that fit in the palm, McCalls with delicate painted faces, bisque and composition beauties with