Ban single-use plastics? Ban single-use stories! — The world we live in is built out of story. When we moved on from the trees and the mountains and the fields and into homes and cities, we built them out of story. Tales of who we are, how we live and love and breed. We left nature behind…

Beyond Romance: Decisions, Values, and the Lovers Card in Tarot — I asked Chat GPT the meaning behind The Lovers tarot card. Emphasis (bold and italic) are mine. The subtitle is one of eight great choices GPT provided me with including my second favourite, “Balancing Act: The Lovers Card and the Art of Integration in Tarot.” Personally and based on my…

Transmuting judgement into discernment sets us free — One of the most self-limiting beliefs is that one’s own view of reality is the only view of reality. The Universe is a holographic playing field and everything that presents itself to us in this field is for our growth. Everything. There is no morality to the field. It has…

Are you listening? — Growing up in and around Vancouver, Canada (unceded Coast Salish Territory), Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller has always been a part of my consciousness. Science World (pictured above) is one of the most iconic landmarks in the city and is one of the many geodesic domes around the world inspired by Bucky…

What the Two of Swords teaches us about control — A woman sits blindfolded in front of the ocean, behind her rocky crags and an island off in the distance. With waxing crescent moon overhead, she holds two swords in her hands, arms crossed just below the wrists. This is the classic Waite-Smith image, replicated in decks around the world. …

Saying goodbye to the Multiverse — Back in 2016 when I first started telling stories in the Multiverse, not everyone knew what the Multiverse was. Explaining the concept to one collaborator (justifying how we could switch out one actor for another in the middle of the pilot episode of our web series), I was surprised…

Reading Sarah Polley’s “The Woman Who Stayed Silent” — Change is the only constant. The human mind forgets this. Preferring to normalize, regulate, and otherwise maintain comfort and the illusion of safety, the human’s forgetfulness often manifests itself as apathy, ignorance, consumption, and the phrase, “That’s just the way things are.” Similar but different to “It is what it…

Like drinking borrowed energy from the future — August 11th, 2022 Gibsons, BC Over the weekend, I ate 2.5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and went on a 8+ hour “trip.” Different from any psychedelic experience I’d had before, I felt discomfort in my body throughout and especially at the beginning. …

Learning to tell the difference between intuition and impulse — August 25th, 2022 Strathcona, Vancouver, Canada I had a session with an intuitive yesterday and I asked her about my health. In prepping questions for our session, asking about caffeine or sugar or weed never crossed my mind. Work. Love. Money. Travel. All the usual suspects. But my own embodied…