The words we use are very important. We forget sometimes that words are vessels encasing energy. Not long ago, I gave a psychic reading to a friend of mine. During the reading, she received a beautiful visit from loved ones on the Other Side. The message was simple, direct, and deeply compassionate: Let go of your self-image. This beautiful woman’s eyes filled with tears. Our culture gives a thumbs up to certain appearances: thin, shapely, athletic, youthful, fashionable, pol

My late aunt came through with a message recently: “Leave nature alone.” She came through while I was standing in my kitchen reaching for cleaner to spray a trail of ants marching across my counter toward a tiny drop of spilled honey left behind from the lemon and honey drink I had made the night before. And believe me, my first thought was not, “Oh, a spiritual message from my beloved aunt.” It was more along the lines of: “Get out of my kitchen, you pests!” But interestingl

Over the years, I have filled journals with tarot spreads, handwritten reflections, spiritual study notes, dreams, synchronized events, snippets of conversations, and the occasional insight scribbled down before I forgot it five minutes later. Some of it emerged while studying texts like the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras, A Course in Miracles, or A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. Other insights arrived through much more ordinary experiences: grief, work, illness, surgery recovery,