Tag: healing
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At the Bird Feeder

This post was published earlier this month in Into the Bardo, an online magazine. I hope you will take at look at the zine, and maybe say “hi” to the wonderful people who work so hard to being it to us! Earlier today I went out back to refill the bird feeder. I walked through…
Michael Watson PhD
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A Great Mystery
I’ve been contemplating the mystery of life, and how very lucky we are to experience it. This is a good thing to do as winter wanes and spring has yet to bloom across the landscape. We do not know how frequently life develops; we know only that planets like our own seem to be quite…
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

A few days ago, I found myself in a conversation with a young visionary. Somehow the subject of what a shaman might be came up, as it so often does, and I found myself reminiscing about some of the things my teachers taught me about the tasks of the shaman. Listening to my own stories,…
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Dreaming an Alternative to Blame
It is a lovely, chilly day, one of those almost perfect late winter days filled with sun and cloud, a day when one can see a long way. I’ve been having conversations with folks recently about responsibility and blame. Mostly these discussions happen around the painful moments in people’s lives. In our culture, the prevailing…
Michael Watson PhD
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