Music as an Answer to the Primal Call for Union
Well, as I come to the pages of MARsocial, I contemplate what it is that music means to me in my life and how it has been the number one guiding medium in my life. I believe music has the power to...
View ArticleBeacons of Light
For me, the most compelling part of the Ramakrishna story begins when he started attracting his own full-time devotees. In the last decade of his life a stream of followers approached him desiring...
View ArticleGreeting the Mystery with Yantras for Optimum Health
QUESTION: Sarah, I have been battling with a series of physical health issues that I cannot seem to resolve. Medical outlets are giving me no real solutions. I feel I have tried everything and I am in...
View ArticleInTune With My Son
I have a young son with some blocks. We all have blocks, I understand that, but sometimes I think he has a few more than average (whatever average is). He’s afraid to try new things, new foods, meet...
View ArticleInterpreting Dreams, Signs & Symbols
Many indigenous peoples believe we have two dream states – the asleep dreamtime and the awake dreamtime. In these two states, we are constantly receiving information to assist us in our personal...
View ArticleReconnecting With Our Sacred Waters
The topic of water has been more in my awareness for several months. The recent World Water Day on March 22 jarred into memory the messages and insights I have been receiving about this precious...
View ArticleSex-Conscious and Healing the World
I recently read an article by a fellow author which took me a bit by surprise and went in direct opposition to how I, personally, perceive the incredible act of sex. This piece came out of the need, I...
View ArticleRelax and Enjoy the Ride
In 2009 I lost a friend. We talked on the phone the night before, the next morning he was no longer there for me to talk to. I miss him daily, sometimes profoundly. I believe that in his passing,...
View ArticleThe Fool’s Journey
“You must follow your path to wherever it may take you and trust that you will be looked after along the way. Do not be held back by people who say you are a “dreamer” and nothing good will come of...
View ArticleWhat is Really Hidden in the Blood of Woman?
I am a forty-one year old woman by the world’s clock. I have been bleeding every month since I was 12 years old, which adds up to approximately 348 menstrual cycles (minus roughly 40 months during...
View ArticleDNA Demystified – A Review
If you thought your DNA was a mystery before, Kishori Aird is about to blow your mind and ground your sense of intimate knowledge with your own Deoxyribonucleic acid. Before picking up her book I had...
View ArticleBefore You Die
She always had an ear to ear grin. The hospice team called her “pleasantly confused.” The doctor diagnosed it as Alzheimer’s. When I came to visit, Sylvia would be sitting in her chair, looking out the...
View ArticleWakeful Sleep Can Be More Restful than Restless
How often have you laid there, wide awake, for countless hours trying everything you could think of to fall asleep again? The hours passing by, tossing, turning, wrestling the covers for comfort and...
View ArticleHow Gratitude Can Make You Feel like This
It’s no secret, being thankful makes everyone feel good. You know it’s true. Telling someone how much you appreciate something they have done for you or how wonderful of a person they are can...
View ArticleHealing the Masculine By Remembering This…
One need only look around at the state of the world and world leaders, the economic status and presiding view of God to recognize that we are living on a severely imbalanced, male-dominated Earth. For...
View ArticleThe Alchemy of Relationship – A Series – Intro
“Sacred Relationship is not for everyone. In fact, I suspect that there are far fewer persons capable or even willing to undertake it than there are those who prefer to play emotional card games.”...
View ArticleBasil Makes Me Bigger
I was thinking today as I worked with a client at the hospice I do massage for, that I love having knowledge of how my essential oils work to support a person physically and emotionally. I love knowing...
View ArticleHow Do Trees Grow In The Shade?
“Mama, how do trees grow in the shade?” I asked. There was silence. I didn’t look at my mother who was driving. For many trips and scenic-routes-to-nowhere in the Pacific Northwest, she would insist...
View ArticleSimplest Yoga on the Planet
By now, many of us are familiar with yoga, or at least we think we are. We have taken a class, known someone who has, heard the word (at the very least), or are stalwartly engaged in a regular...
View ArticleThe Importance of Self Massage
My partner has been encouraging me to get in shape, something I voice on a regular basis about doing for myself and sometimes have trouble following through. I have been hanging on the gymnastics bar...
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