Recently, I've been doing some powerful magical work (with some trepidation) on shattering my illusions. The magic shattering my illusions all right, and now I'm asking myself, "Now what?" Here's the answer I've come up with on this New Year's Day... "Take a good look around at the shards of your self-deception, and set about recreating your life. Again. With the intention that this time the creation process will be more conscious and more connected to God Soul. Again. Wit

...If you dismantle your emotional triggers, other people can get close to you SAFELY Emotional triggers are those little land mines that people can step on by saying or doing the wrong thing, "causing" an avalanche of old emotional garbage to come cascading down into your psyche. Overwhelmed, you go into unconscious defensiveness, where you react angrily or put up walls. Meanwhile, the poor soul who stepped on the mine is ripped up by shrapnel and/or left out in the cold. If

...self-Mastery attracts GOOD LUCK! Most of the time, I've noticed that my luck is directly related to my attitude... if one is good, so is the other, and the luck follows the attitude, not the other way around! Here's an example: One Saturday morning not long ago I woke up to no water (i.e. it's before dawn and I shat and the toilet didn't flush). I was just awake enough to think "Ok, I have a choice here. I can be really pissed off that instead of going back to my bed on

...It's past time to forgive your parents, and their parents, AND GET ON WITH IT! I just had a conversation with some friends this morning about how hard it is to look forward to seeing your birth family over the holidays when you're holding your breath waiting for them to apologize for those big hurtful things you're holding onto from the past. What if they never do? What if they're doing the best they can? Are you big enough to show them mercy (forgiving and loving them e

...People who are masters of themselves attract friends, coworkers, bosses, and lovers who are masters of themselves, too. No, you can't change the annoying tendency of the people around you to criticize, complain, shirk their work, stand you up, succumb to their addictive patterns, or otherwise fall short of self-Mastery. But if you take full responsibility for your own behavior, you'll find that those relationships do shift, those people annoy you less, and new people appe

...It works better to control yourself, NOT OTHER PEOPLE! Do you want more money, security, vitality, sobriety, fun, sex, power, respect, love, music, focus, insight, ecstasy, joy, or peace in 2015? If so, whose behavior (primarily) needs to change in order for that goal to be realized? Would it be easier for you to do what needs to be done in order to manifest the life you want if you could Stay focused on what's really important to you, and what you have the power to change