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Love Found, Love Lost

LOVE FOUND, LOVE LOST By Dr. Steven Farmer Ah! The joys inherent in loving another human being! Our hearts leap as we step into the welcoming space of another, one who returns that affection in kind. The bliss, the obsessive thoughts, the racing heart, the warm...

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Lessons from Officer Bob

Okay, so I’m driving down a side street in Laguna Beach name of Glenneyre. My Irish friend Tony says it’s pronounced “Glenn-IRE,” but most people who live here pronounce it “Glenn-AIRY.” So what does Tony know anyway? So as I was saying, or more accurately writing, I...

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Men, Spirituality, and Power Animals

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D Men can’t help but be spiritual. The fact of being alive is a spiritual experience, yet many have lost their conscious awareness of this fundamental truth. Gradually over the past several centuries, the rational, logical mind has usurped the...

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Power Animals: Connecting with Your Animal Spirit Guide

What Are Power Animals? Power animals are spirit guides in animal form, valuable allies who can help you navigate through life’s challenges and transitions. Perceptive and trustworthy oracles, you can turn to them for advice and counsel on any questions or...

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A Sunset, A Whisper, AND A SHOUT

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. I had just come home running some errands that included a trip to the gym for a short but very enlivening workout, had put away the groceries, threw the day’s mail on the usual spot amidst the organized clutter that covered my desk, and sat...

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Jasper the Hawk Pays a Visit

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. The day before Christmas Doreen and I were saying our morning prayers, a sacred ritual we do every morning before we get up and get going into the day, when I caught the flutter of wings out of the corner of my eye and watched as all of the...

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If You Talk with the Animals…

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. Joanne is talking with a friend in her back yard and a hummingbird flies up to her and hovers about half a meter in front of her face for several seconds and looks right into her eyes. Talking with her friend about the experience she...

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Animal Spirit Guides and Scuba Diving

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. (additional contributions by Elephant, Beaver and Whale) Scuba diving was always something that other people did, so I never gave it much thought until my wife, Doreen, gradually and unexpectedly became an avid diver. At one point about a...

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The Art of Shapeshifting

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. “I feel the wind flowing around my wing feathers as I float in the air suspended by the invisible breeze. I look down and see the forest below me, then briefly toward the horizon. I flap my wings a few times, moving into the flow of air and...

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The Artist and the Snake

By Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D. You either love them or hate/fear them, but what can’t be denied is that snakes are embedded deeply in our consciousness, a powerful spiritual reality and symbol of major transformation. People that have never seen a snake will dream of...

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