Some people adopt cats, dogs, even snakes or ferrets. I adopt a butterfly.

It begins late afternoon, a gorgeous Indian Summer day in Norman, Oklahoma. The sun gets in my eyes. As I turn to step down heavily from the curb, I glimpse a disconcerting splotch of color: a living Monarch butterfly, wings slowly flexing, sitting upon an oil stain.

Kind soul that I am, I bend to free it from the tar pit, but coming closer I recognize the degree of his plight. “Oh, no wonder.” A break in the leading edge its left forewing leaves it shredding and useless for flight. “He’s not going anywhere.”

I want to move it to a safer place, away from crushing wheels or heels, but as I look around, I see no place suitable to place him. He puts up little resistance as I carefully scoop him up onto my index finger. I imagine he was hit by a car and flung by the force of wind to this very spot. Legs collapsed on his left side, both antennae gone, I’m thinking, “this is one ******-up butterfly!” Continue Reading →

The Law of Attraction (aka The Law of Resonance, The Law of Vibrational Coherence) is actually the law of consciousness and energy relationship.

According to the Law of Attraction, that which is like unto itself is drawn. Everybody’s individual and collective life experience is a perfect vibrational match to the condition of vibratory coherence being expressed from the core of our being. Consciousness provides the creative source-signal that universal energy responds to and takes shape accordingly. Continue Reading →

I want to find the positive direction from here, but I’m having a bit of trouble. Any interpretation is welcome, but I think something needs to happen here, and I haven’t yet surmounted the challenge.

Well, last I heard, we are coming up on about day 80 of the oil volcano still gushing out from the seafloor into the Gulf of Mexico from what appear to be multiple fractures in the seabed itself – seabed which has been gently resting atop a huge bubble of methane gas for a VERY long time – and due to it’s having been disturbed by the ingratious prodding and poking and monkeying about with the strategic balance points of an extremely large system (of which we are a part) and energy levels which are way above of the scope of humanity’s current maturity to use wisely or engineering capacities to safely turn down, is shaping up to become a worthy contender for an old-school 2012 extinction-level-event. I am not pleased. Continue Reading →

“Hearts for Peace”: International Day of Peace Movie

The closure to the fantastic series of events occurred on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at the Medieval Fair at 4pm. It was amazing.

There are photos online at http://picasaweb.google.com/RichardandDara

Falling somewhere beyond the dualism of credulous acceptance and rabid pseudo-skepticism, there exist approaches to culture which have at their heart a recognition of the individual as inseparable from nature – the nested levels of natural and socio-political organization within which the individual exists – from the nuclear family on up to the interdependent ecosystems of the biosphere, and inclusive of as yet unacknowledged interconnections within the universe. The wisdom of our ancients is returning to us full-circle, manifesting through new sciences, and new willingness to consider and utilize ancient methodologies. Continue Reading →