Tarot and Oracle Cards: Good or Evil?
I had a friend, a very devout Catholic, tell me once that if I was going to use tarot cards that I mustn’t call them “tarot,” since the name has been co-opted for evil purposes. Now, if I refused to call myself a Catholic because evil things have been done in the name of Catholicism,…
All Are Saved
I’m reading a book by the Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, whose work I continually return to. It’s called The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching. He makes the point that individual consciousness is inseparable from collective consciousness and that collective consciousness is comprised of individual consciousnesses. To me what this implies is that one person…
Making Peace with Religion
It’s funny the turns our lives take. Mine took a drastic turn during the summer before my senior year in college. My boyfriend at the time and I were driving in his hometown, discussing spiritual paths. He was going to Japan and would be interning at a Buddhist temple. I mentioned my interest in Buddhism,…
A New Direction
It’s been over a month since my last post. I’ve taken this long hiatus to rethink the direction I want to take in my life, including what I hope to accomplish with this blog. My original idea with The Power of One is that one person’s transformation can transform the world. I am now of…
Finding Abundance in Rest
As I tweak my post on war–definitely a heavier topic–I wanted to do a quick post on something lighter. I was discerning what to write about today, and it came to me that something I struggle with is resting well. Being in the midst of American culture, I’m inundated with media pushing perpetual productivity and…
What is The Power of One?
The Power of One is a philosophy of life and a movement of people who live by that philosophy.