America’s Sacred Code
Spiritual circles have long believed that each of us incarnates with a set of intentions, a design for how we want to grow, and what we want to accomplish in this lifetime. Every entity, even an individual country, has some kind of similar guidance system. America has a guiding template for what we can become, the seeds of which are planted in our founding documents. “Liberty and justice for all,” is a founding code, for example, as is E pluribus unum (“out of many, one”). Ou


Why Standing Rock is Important for All of Humanity
The news of the first victory from this weekend at Standing Rock marks an important moment of celebration, but also an opportunity for reflecting on what is next. The danger is to have our attention divert elsewhere even though the struggle of Standing Rock will almost surely continue. The most lasting victory, I believe, still lies in the future. That’s because drilling for the pipeline is very likely to continue. Energy Transfer Partners can pay only $29M or so in fines for