Six Blind Men and The Elephant

My first spiritual teacher, Royce Morales, shared a story one night in the class she taught in her living room in Hollywood, California. It is an old story that has it's roots in India, yet many versions exist in other cultures and religions. It is the story of the "Six Blind Men and an Elephant." It goes something like this:

Six blind men were asked to describe an elephant. In order to do so, they had to feel the elephant. One man felt the elephant's trunk. The next one felt the elephant's tail. Another man felt the elephants ear, another the elephants side, one felt it's leg and the last one, the elephant's tusk.

The first man said, "An elephant is like a giant snake". The next one said, "No. You are wrong. An elephant is like a rope". The man who had felt the elephants side said, "No you are both wrong. It is like a rough wall." The one who had felt the elephant's leg said, "An elephant is like a tree trunk." The man who felt the tusk said, "You're all wrong. It's like a spear." they were in complete disagreement.

The story is used to indicate that reality may be viewed differently depending upon one's perspective, suggesting that what seems an absolute truth may be relative due to the deceptive nature of half-truths. They were each correct according to their piece of the elephant, yet all so wrong about the whole or holistic point of view.

Goal Setting

What do you want? Where do you want to be in twelve months? Two years? Five years? Ten years? How do you want to feel? What do you want your state of health to be like? What kind of work would you like to be doing? What will your social life be like? How do you want your personal relationships to look?
Without a destination in mind, how will you plan your journey?

In the beginning.....

In mid 1980, when I decided to become a healer, there was a great deal of trepidation about announcing that decision. Society at large was not exactly open to psychic work or Reiki, Feng Shui or mindful practices. Certainly the seeds for expanded consciousness in had been planted in the 60s with the LSD movement and the introduction of Transcendental Meditation to America, but much of the momentum for enlightened living was derailed in the 70s when the un-enlightened misused and misunderstood the purpose of mind expanding experiences.

Today, there are psychic shows on every channel and "Channels" on thousands of websites. Some are phonies, of course, but many more are attuned to receive intuitive guidance and wisdom. Lightworkers are everywhere. We have organized groups, a Holistic Chamber of Commerce, Lightworkers.org, Yoga masters teaching in local high schools and Centers for Spiritual Living popping up in the most unexpected places. Times have changed, indeed.

In the beginning we kept our gifts and talents a secret, even from ourselves. We hid in a closet of our own making. In 2010, we are coming out of those closets and giving birth to a new awareness of who we really are. Are you ready to "Know thyself"? Are you feeling a desire to live a more enlightened purposeful life? If you are, you are being called to awaken from your unconscious living. There are many Ascended Masters, Angels, Archangels, Guides and Teachers here because the veil between this 3rd dimension reality and the 4th and 5th dimensions has thinned. We are not alone on our journey through this Global Consciousness Shift. In the 60s we called it the New Age, the Age of Aquarius. It has arrived.

Healing the Wounds That Bind.

We are bound by our resistance to feel that which we judge uncomfortable or painful. Who wants to feel pain and grief? Who wants to experience anger and fear? We resist those emotions through denial, judgment and mind numbing habits whenever possible. Most of us would rather watch mind numbing television than feel our pain. We drink to avoid them, shop to avoid them, have sex to avoid them and eat to suppress them. However, it is not the experience of the emotions we're resisting that causes the pain and suffering. It is the resistance itself that is the cause of our inner turmoil. It is the resistance to feeling that keeps us stuck, unable to move forward to our desired experiences.

Healing the wounds of the heart and soul requires courage, the same courage needed to jump out of a plane or ride your first roller coaster. The fear is primal, it feels like our survival is at stake. The ego jumps in to rescues us with lots of excuses and ideas to squander our time with projects or addictions. I say we cannot move forward until we look back and unbind the ties of resistance to that which we perceive to be "negative" emotions because, in truth, there are no "bad" emotions. Emotions are simply energy in motion. Not good, not bad, just energy.


According to the Chinese Zodiac, this is the Year of the Golden Tiger, which symbolizes courage. It requires courage to allow all of our feelings to come to the surface for full expression in order for the energy to be transmuted. Feeling them, without resistance is the work of the Spiritual Warrior.