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Reiki Part 2: Religious Aftershocks

Quick update! At least I’m gonna try to make it quick. My personal life still exists, and I suppose it’s worth mentioning now and again. In January (way back under the last administration – ya know, 17 years ago) I completed my second level of reiki training, and since then things in my life have […]

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Healing Personal

Wheels of Life: Solar Plexus

Oh, what a week/month/year. I seem to have been freed from the unpleasant aspects of the reiki attunement’s effects this time around – or at least I’m not noticing them. It seems the gunk has been removed and now my main emotion is a pressing sense of urgency – a desperate hunger for my own […]

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Healing Personal

Wheels of Life: Root Chakra

The reiki attunement cycle begins anew! For the second time, I’m sitting with my root chakra, and let me tell you, it’s . . . better. I sent an email that would’ve been quite hard for me before all of this: I laid bare my needs with clarity, and didn’t even break a sweat. I […]

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Third Eye Myopia

At noon today my crown will join the ranks of freshly-stimulated chakras. It’s kind of been a roller coaster, with my throat chakra’s “relapse” involving a bottle of hard cider and two hand-rolled cigarettes, which my body now clearly rejects (in true throat chakra form) with volume. After spending a night mentally muddled, unable to […]

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Throat Chakra Day

I’m not gonna lie: it’s been quite a week. Exactly 7 days ago I gave up caffeine. ALL caffeine. Not quite on a whim, but close enough. And its probably not in my best interest right now to be writing this at 4 in morning, but when inspirations strikes ya just gotta seize the day/morning/night. […]