http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress The Tale of Runninghawlk's Journey Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:30:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Life After Death Journey From Patricia Diane Cota-Robles © 2006 Spirit of Maat   As you read these words, go within to the Divinity of your heart. Ask your I AM Presence to help you follow this near-death experience as though you were on this sacred journey yourself. This is truly ... http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/04/30/a-near-death-experience-recanted/ "So many times, people turn their backs to you 'cause they don't wanna see, what's inside of you 'cause lookin' inside of you they might realize there's something inside of them they might not wanna find..."  -- Michael Franti Mirrors! A corollary thought has been fluttering around the caverns of my mind the ... http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/04/24/mirrors/ For me spirituality is deeply rooted in nature.  The principle of and belief in "Mitakuye Oyasin" or even from an extended perspective of "Ohana" relates that everything in this physical reality is interrelated.  Therefore, I believe that one cannot truly care for and respect themselves without extending this care and ... http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/04/22/earth-day-spirituality/ For a graduate level class in Ecotheology, we undertook a visualization described as "The One-Earth Activity," which is akin to a guided journey.  For all you shamanic types out there, here's my experience:  As I settled in feeling the hard and cold steel of the ladder, I was apprehensive and elated ... http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/04/15/one-earth/ "Here (in nature) is a calm so deep, grasses cease waving...  Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us, as if truly part and parents of us.  The sun shines not on us, but in us.  The rivers flow not past us, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating ... http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/04/05/separation-myth/ "There is only one religion, the religion of Love. There is only one cast, the caste of Humanity. There is only one race, the Human Race." "Begin the day with Love, Spend the day with Love, End the day with Love." ~ Sathya Sai Baba ~ http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/04/03/love-2/ Click on the image below, it will open a fairy tale of sorts that I wrote back in January. Enjoy! http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/03/31/a-shamanic-journey-begins/ http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/03/25/love/ http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/03/22/message-from-one-elder/ A thousand half loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home... Lovers don't finally meet Somewhere.  They're in each other all along... In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one else sees, but sometimes I do and that sight becomes art... http://runninghawlk.com/wordpress/2009/03/17/143/