People Pleasing
Waking up this morning to a message from Teal Swan, has forced me to face a part of my shadow that has been bubbling up to the surface these last few weeks. She spoke of futility and our self-denial of this futility in our life right now. These last few weeks has seen me carry…
Walking the Path
It’s been about two years since I last wrote a blog and about three years since the start of my awakening journey. So much has happened in these last two years; my world has been torn apart and rebuilt so many times it almost seems redundant to call it an awakening. And now here I…
Dakini Mountain
“Are you going to Ladakh with us?” That’s how this whole trip started. A timely text message from yogi Tashi on an afternoon tea break, where I was able to immediately turn around to my boss and demand politely state “I have two questions for you. Why are you going to Ladakh and why didn’t…
The Oracle
Those of you who have been following my blogs would have already read a little bit about a man I refer to as Pachen. Translated as “the brave one” in Tibetan; Pachen’s official title is Neyenchen Tanghla Kuten and he holds the esteemed role of personal oracle to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala,…
My Dark Night of the Soul
My dark night of the soul happened not long after what most people refer to as their ‘awakening’. It was a couple of days before New Year’s Eve and I was still recovering from a party session that I had gone way too hard on. My persistent hangover and depleted reserves became the catalyst for…
My Spiritual Awakening
My spiritual awakening happened not so very long ago. If you read my first blog ‘An Aussie in Dharamshala’ you would already know part of this story. For those that haven’t; here are the salient points. It was July 2016, I was working in a job that was eating my soul alive, little by little.…
Walking in the Shadows
“Soul work is not a high road. It is a deep fall into an unforgiving darkness that won’t let you go until you find the song that sings you home” McCall Erickson In what seems like an ever-increasing time of confusion and political turmoil we, as a society have come to a crossroads. Do we…