2013 – The Year of Remagination
Welcome to 2013, and to what might very well be one of the most pivotal, exciting and sometimes perhaps even downright terrifying years of our lives, if not in human history. Everywhere, it seems, we are approaching a cliff or a wall. Due to the failure of its leaders to reach real compromise, the...
Screaming for a clue – The minotaur myth part 2
In the first part of this series I examined the sale of the painting “The Scream” by Edvard Munch in light of the ancient greek myth of the Minotaur. In this entry, we look to decode the myth in more depth, and look at the messages it offers us on how to navigate the world...
“The only way out of our collective addiction is the spiritual path.” Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Speaking at the recent International Indigenous Leadership Gathering in Lilloet, BC, Chief Phil Lane Jr weaves a compelling talk on the fulfillment of prophecies, the Alberta tar sands, Rio +20, and the upcoming “Avatar Moment.” Also, watch the complete talk from Dr. Lee Brown who compares the four rounds of the sweat lodge and the...
Screaming for a clue – The Minotaur Myth Part 1
Two months ago, a painting titled “The Scream”, by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, was sold at a sothebys auction for a whopping $120,000,000( I have included the zero’s just to give an effect of the magnitude of the price-tag). The painting comes with a hand-painted frame with a poem on it written by the artist. In...
Wash the dust off your soul: 2012 West Coast Festivals
This post was inspired by Sunset Labs amazing list of 2012 festivals upcoming on the West Coast. Pablo Picasso once said: “art washes the soul of the dust from everyday life”. His insight into the power of art to cleanse the soul sheds light on the battle for the arts that is being waged in...
Thomas Hubl: What is humanity’s new story?
What is the power of story? Is the old story breaking down, and do we, in fact, need a new story? The following is a short excerpt from my interview with spiritual teacher Thomas Hubl, who visited Vancouver last April.
We Come From The Future
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung APOCALYPTICISM is an actual word. According to Wikipedia, it is “the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God’s will, but now usually refers to belief...
