My late aunt came through with a message recently: “Leave nature alone.” She came through while I was standing in my kitchen reaching for cleaner to spray a trail of ants marching across my counter toward a tiny drop of spilled honey left behind from the lemon and honey drink I had made the night before. And believe me, my first thought was not, “Oh, a spiritual message from my beloved aunt.” It was more along the lines of: “Get out of my kitchen, you pests!” But interestingl

Over the years, I have filled journals with tarot spreads, handwritten reflections, spiritual study notes, dreams, synchronized events, snippets of conversations, and the occasional insight scribbled down before I forgot it five minutes later. Some of it emerged while studying texts like the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras, A Course in Miracles, or A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. Other insights arrived through much more ordinary experiences: grief, work, illness, surgery recovery,

There is something amusing about the phrase, “be spiritual.” Whenever I hear it, I get a buoyant feeling and suddenly want to sit with friendly people over a cup of coffee. Strange, perhaps, considering how spirituality is so often portrayed as serious, detached, and elevated above ordinary life. Yet, in my experience, the deeper one moves into alignment, the more natural life becomes — not less. In the early stages of spiritual practice, alignment takes effort. One learns to