Letting the Holidays Unfold

It seems clear in the Christmas story of the birth of Jesus that God functions outside the boundaries of conventional thinking. An illegtimate child is born in unsanitary conditions without social connections. What was God thinking? Perhaps the message from God is to appreciate the value of “letting be.” In the Christmas story the issues [...]

Angels

Angels we have heard on high. . . Angels have appeared to many of the Hebrew Prophets as well as to the shepherds of Bethlehem and to Mary, the mother of Jesus. But what are angels? and what do they mean to us today? In Metapsychiatry we recognize angels as messages(not messengers) from God. We [...]

Giving

This is the season of gift giving. When gifts are given and received there is often an underlying dynamic that boils down to the formula: Giving = Getting. In giving there is often something wanted in return – even if it is a “thank you.” When a gift is received there is also something expected [...]

Joy of the Season

Join me on a journey of joy through the holidays using some of the healing concepts of Metapsychiatry as our guide to going beyond the flurries of fears and frustrations that are constantly tempting us to succumb to the holiday frenzy. Rejoice in the joy that comes from understanding the spiritual meaning of the rituals, [...]

Does The Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease?

I grew up hearing my mother use this phrase often. She offered up many examples confirming it through her encounters with school administrators, health bureaucracies, etc. But, is it a guide to harmonious living? Is it a right idea? Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that there are more and more “squeaky wheels” in [...]

What if “God” is a Typo?”

With all the misunderstandings, confusion and violence centered on the single word “God” perhaps the word itself is the problem. This word has baggage. It is confusing. It’s easy to misuse and assume that everyone knows what we’re talking about when we use it, but we don’t. And we suffer from this. With just one [...]

Floating with Spiritual Awareness over the Quicksand of Problems

Many seem to be suffering from a lack of resources. Do we pray and/or visualize in order to “attract” what we need? Do we attempt to be satisfied with what we have and be content? The transcendent approach recognizes that the problem may be our habit of seeing the situation from a “problem” mentality. Like [...]

Healing Violence

Violence is the willful interference of one individual upon another, and it seems to be everywhere. In political, social, commercial and environmental spheres, violent interference in the unfolding of life seems to be a constant. A particularly hateful violence was brought to attention by the work of Eve Ensler, as summarized in her article that [...]

Transformation: Report from the annual PAGL Conference in NYC

Thank you Janice for requesting that the PAGL conference held this past Sunday in New York City be reviewed and summarized here. The topic for this year’s conference was Transformation. The call went out several months ago inviting essays that help us understand how the ideas and concepts of Metapsychiatry have resulted in transformations in [...]

The MetaView on Gates-Gate

The MetaView does not ask the question: “Why did these men go after each other,” nor does it ask “Who is to blame?” or “What should they have done?”

The MetaView asks the question: What does it mean that this incident triggered such intense national scrutiny, going immediately to the top of all news reports and dominating the national interest for several days, and continues to be the subject of essays and opinions?

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