I mentored an Afghan newcomer last year. One fall day when we met, she was visibly upset. When I asked her why, she said, “There are monsters everywhere! My neighbors have dead people on their grass and they scream whenever someone walks by. It is so scary!” I had never looked at American Halloween through…
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When I went, I went cold turkey. Five years ago I grew so jaded by the riptides of negativity and algorithmic platters of content that I quit social media altogether. I closed all my accounts and was happy about it. Then came coronavirus when we all found ourselves in a sort of socio-cultural aspic—dampened, suspended,…
Read moreI remember it as a moat, but it could have been a deep gap between two castle walls. I was 20 years old and was showing my dad around France, the country I’d called home for all of my not-yet-complete sophomore year in college. We were exploring Carcassonne, the Medieval hilltop citadel, and there was…
Read moreWe were the strong ones, or the brave. Or maybe we just needed connection so much that we came despite the heat and the to-do lists and the brush fire over there. Whether we could pinpoint our motivations or not, we showed up on that sweltering mid-August evening after work to meet with strangers at…
Read moreIt is actually quite common for people in a regression or Life Between Lives session to discover that they lived lives on other planets in other solar systems or in other dimensions—with bodies, brains, systems, and chakras entirely different than our own here on Earth. For some people, this can be quite a shock. For…
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