Stardust Dancer

[Editor’s notes: David sent this piece to NASA and was proud to learn that it was read to the families of the fallen astronauts…] As we know, today seven astronauts burned to death as the Space Shuttle Columbia burst into a ball of fire, horrifying onlookers, and spreading large pieces of molten debris across thousands of square miles. […]

In our Western culture, I do not believe that a true “mind/body” perception has yet arisen. Certainly it hasn’t in our healthcare model, where we seem to think that mind/body health means having a multi-clinic with practitioners who, in turn and separately, treat a patient’s mind, body, spirit, etc. […]

Star Trek and its various generations were a cultural archetype, expressing motifs of the collective human consciousness, teaching us about ourselves in the most imaginative ways. In the tradition of great classic literature, often its plot raised timeless moral, ethical, and even spiritual questions […]

The greatest distance is not from Earth to the farthest star. The longest distance is the journey from the mind to the heart. […]

The action of speaking from our heart integrates mind and heart..[…]

Many people “believe” in a spiritual world or in God. But believing is not the same as perceiving, and we do not only perceive with our six senses. When you live in a cave and never go outside, you may “believe” in the sun but you never feel its warmth on your skin. […]

We do not stop at our skin. Our life energy pulses in our cells, moves outward to our skin in waves, and beyond, filling space and forming the medium of our intimate connections.

When we kiss someone we love, we actually “kiss” before our lips touch! […]

Most religions believe man is meant to suffer because of “original sin” or “bad karma” from “past incarnations.” Suffering is believed to be part of the “human condition” which is “sinful,” “imperfect,” or “unenlightened.” Religion generally believes man must “repent,” “do penance,” to receive “God’s forgiveness,” […]

We all carry pain from our past. Repressed pain surfaces in situations that trigger it, in dreams, our relationships, and in therapy. Very often we spend our lives re-living our painful patterns of behaviour and emotion over and over….

Sometimes past pain surfaces for a very different purpose […]

I am the Journey, which is essentially marrying mind with heart: Intellect with emotion, reason with intuition, control with creativity, strength with gentleness, masculine with feminine…in a “concert” of dynamic harmony within oneself. […]

Finding your archetypes helps you become conscious that you are on your Journey and then realize that you are your Journey. Some practical ways to find your archetypes include: Jungian psychotherapy, art therapy, meditation in which you invite Silence to speak, doing art or writing poetry, writing down your dreams […]