The power of suggestion is profound. Everything is intricately connected; there’s no separation between me and all human beings, between me and the air I’m breathing, or between you and life itself. The birds, trees, plants, and the universe—all are intricately connected. This interconnectedness is why suggestion holds so much power for us as human …
Category Archives: Die Before You Die
Fasting Stories
So, we don’t want to get lost in all this fabulous spiritual stuff and forget our story of me getting inflammatory breast cancer! Right? There I was with the diagnosis, and I decided to start fasting. Fasting to survive cancer has some really good scientific proof behind it right now. This relates to life itself. …
Sufi Heart With Wings
In the art of Being, Hazrat Inayat Khan says that the Sufi flies with wings on his heart. This is a Sufi teaching about being free from the nafs, from the ego, from your misconceptions. You’ll notice that I used the pronoun “he” very specifically. I’ll talk about that later because that’s very important, but …
We Belong Here
We belong here. I mean you and me, all humans. Gosh, everybody else as well—spiders, snakes—we all belong here because we are the Earth. It’s not like we’re ‘part’ of the earth; we are the Earth itself. Every cell, every molecule, the electricity that runs through our bodies, everything is the earth and the universe …
Fasting
When I was diagnosed with cancer, of course, I started Googling it, right? I found some great new information coming into the knowledge of humans about cancer: what causes it, and what we can do about it. I discovered new research on fasting and cancer. It’s diving into the question of what causes cancer to …
Fear of Death
Fear of death is one of the biggest motivations people have to get involved in spirituality. Our brains are really smart; this is a problem because we are able to understand that each of us is going to die, and because the stories we’ve been given about that don’t quite make sense, it creates a …
Die Before You Die
Die before you die is a Sufi teaching that has more to do with life than it does with death. Sidebar: We don’t need to teach dead people how to be dead. Right? They’re pretty good at it already. The teaching “Die before you die,” is more about how to live than it is about …