Category Archives: Spirit

“All Shall Be Well”

Posted on April 13, 2024 by jenny

The combination of early trauma and the possibility of cancer has been totally disruptive. I have been having a very hard time sleeping.  At least three nights when I didn’t sleep at all, and most nights waking at 2 or … Continue reading →

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Amazing Conclusion from Horrendous Experience

Posted on March 23, 2024 by jenny

I’ve just been rereading a blog post containing a long passage from 1996. It comes from the journal volumes that I wrote but stopped typing in 1995, because I realized that the book I was putting together from journal entries, … Continue reading →

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Wanting to be Connected to Spirit

Posted on March 12, 2024 by jenny

From my journal for Saturday, March 9 I realized, walking Mocha, that it’s not dying I’m afraid of but living.  After two months with a sore knee, having to use a walker and a cane, and now facing an operation, … Continue reading →

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“What have I done with my life?”

Posted on March 8, 2024 by jenny

Last week, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I talked to the surgeon and liked her very much. I also trusted her. The surgery will happen at the end of this month. It sounds like it will be just a … Continue reading →

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Turning Toward What’s Difficult

Posted on March 5, 2024 by jenny

I listened to a podcast of Tami Simon interviewing Tsultrim Allione, who started a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, and did a lot of work to bring the feminine into Buddhism.  She talked about facing and incorporating the bad, a practice … Continue reading →

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An “Emanation” of a Great Being

Posted on March 3, 2024 by jenny

The Sounds True podcast of Tami Simon interviewing Lama Tsultrim Allione was quite amazing, in fact I’ve read the transcript more than once. Tsultrim Allione talks about being told she was an “emanation” of an 11th century Tibetan yogini named Machig Lahdrön. … Continue reading →

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Confusing, Difficult Time

Posted on January 31, 2024 by jenny

I’ve been having a really hard confusing time. Excerpts from some relevant journal entries: Friday, January 26   … this odd realization.  Something to do with if God is in everything, then I “am” God, if god feels my pain then … Continue reading →

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Help from Inner Teacher

Posted on January 19, 2024 by jenny

Dear Inner Teacher, I’m feeling lost, confused, disconnected, uncomfortable, irritable.  I really need some help! Dear Jenny, relax.  Your meditation of imagining a prostration on the out breath, of emptying your self, or demonstrating “Thy will be done” — with … Continue reading →

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The Within of the Web…

Posted on January 10, 2024 by jenny

I’ve been rereading The Phenomenon of Man, because it was very important to me a while back. I don’t list it in the Bibliography of The Feminine of History is Mystery, but I can see its influence in the passage … Continue reading →

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The Dance of Hope

Posted on January 5, 2024 by jenny

This was today’s post from the Center for Action and Contemplation. It interested me because he talks about a circle dance and the Ghost Dance. My understanding is that the “Ghost Dance” was intended to call the ancestors. In our … Continue reading →

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