Tag: Jesus

• On Not Throwing Stones

  

  Thinking about Jesus’ dictum that we not throw stones.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 16, 2025

  Healing, Landscape, Nature, Psychotherapy, self care, Shamanism, spirituality, spring, Stories, Teaching

  anger, healing, Jesus, judgement, nature, Shamanism, springtime, stories, throwing stones

• Easter

  

  First, a Joyous Easter to all who celebrate the day! Today dawned warmish and grumpy, with a fierce blow out of the northwest. Now the sky has cleared and stiff breeze that moves branches around. Lately I notice myself having next administration revenge fantasies which reminds me that trauma always begets trauma, and that what…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 20, 2025

  First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, Hungry Ghosts, self care, Shamanism, Social issues, spirituality, spring

  Easter, healing, Jesus, Native American, Shamanism, trauma

• What Would Jesus Do?

  

  The afternoon turned sunny; now, a couple of hours before sunset, high, thin clouds have spread across the sky. The day’s bright sun has brought unseasonably warm temperatures and snow melt. Somewhere close, I’m sure, someone is sugaring. Sugaring has long been a sacred, celebratory time here in the U.S. Northeast. It marks the last…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 23, 2017

  native american, Sacred Lands, Social issues, spirituality

  Jesus, Native American, Social Change

• Advent: Joy, Hope, and Suffering

  So we wait. A child will be born. Hope will return to the world. Suffering, even genocide will follow. Then, after a period of longing, a child will be born.

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 18, 2011

  Shamanism

  Advent, Christmas, Jesus, Joy, Shamanism