Did you know that, similar to tv ads, we have subliminal messages all over our home? Since we live, breathe, eat, and work in our home, it becomes one of those environments where we start to lose objectivity of our surroundings. Perhaps there is a lamp in the corner that you don’t particularly like, but have just gotten used to it to where you don’t even notice it anymore. Or do you? Your conscious mind may not, but your subconscious...

It seems like lately everything I read stresses the importance of ‘being’.  What used to be words of only the enlightened masters has crept into all areas, including the business world.   The “do, do, do” mentality of the 80s and 90s has become “be, be, be” of the 2000s. While I can sit and ‘be’ with the best of them, my practical side eventually rears its head saying, “with all this ‘being’, how do you ever get...

Over the years as the East has met the West there has been an influx of spiritual teachings from Eastern religions and thought.  With this emergence, the idea of a guru has become more and more commonplace in our language and culture.   And it has predominantly been the Eastern gurus that have introduced to the West the ideas of enlightenment, self-realization, meditation, and zen.   Likewise, many have followed the guidance of a guru,...

I was recently reading Napolean Hill’s classic, Think and Grow Rich, and was instantly struck by the fact that it was written in 1937…a time not to unlike our current economic landscape. Napolean Hill wrote this book as a result of studying and interviewing the 500 richest men at that time. He found that they all had one thing in common. That one thing became known as The Secret. The Secret, which has reinvented itself into the...

Ghosts are like dreams: We all experience them but no one really understands them. Songs are even written about them and movies love them. In fact, two of my favorite artists have songs written about ghosts, Patty Griffin’s Living With Ghosts and Indigo Girls’ Ghost. But, exactly what kind of ghosts are we talking about, or does it matter? There are many different explanations of what ghosts are. Many believe ghosts are lost souls...