Alchemy Pathways Lorena Colarusso

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When the heart is ready for a fresh beginning, unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this is exactly what a beginning does. It is an opening for surpris...es. Surrounding the intention and the act of beginning, there are always exciting possibilities. Such beginnings have their own mind, and they invite and unveil new gifts and arrivals in one's life. Beginnings are new horizons that want to be seen; they are not regressions or repetitions. Somehow they win clearance and become fiercely free of the grip of the past. What is the new horizon in you that wants to be seen? JOHN O'DONOHUE Excerpt from his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US) Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store Cliffs of Moher Coastal Walk - Co. Clare, Ireland Photo: Ann Cahill

In 1948 George McLaurin was the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma. He was forced to sit in a corner far from his white classmates.

Forgiveness is one of the really difficult things in life. The logic of receiving hurt seems to run in the direction of never forgetting either the hurt or the ...hurter. When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes over. When you can forgive, then you are free. When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you. If you are really disappointed in someone and you become embittered, you become incarcerated inside that feeling. Only the grace of forgiveness can break the straight logic of hurt and embitterment. It gives you a way out, because it places the conflict on a completely different level. In a strange way, it keeps the whole conflict human. You begin to see and understand the conditions, circumstances, or weakness that made the other person act as they did. JOHN O'DONOHUE Excerpt from his book, Eternal Echoes Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store County Galway, Ireland Photo: Ann Cahill

A group of Havana schoolboys. The boy with the lolipop is Fidel Castro, 1937.

Climate change prediction from 1912

Hello Everyone, please let us know if you wish to join us on January 9 for a three-part online series on Ancestral Connections. Details of the workshop are below.

ANAM CARA In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the ol...d Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend." In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal. JOHN O'DONOHUE Excerpts from his book, Anam Cara Ordering Info: https://www.johnodonohue.com/store Co. Clare, Ireland Photo: Ann Cahill

Munay Ki Wisdom Circle, free online series Hello, if you have not received the Munay Ki Rites or would like to go deeper into the Munay Ki as a personal evolution pathway, message me. I will add you to the Munay Ki Wisdom Circle, it is a private, free series that I offer.