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EPISODE 130: Our Life with The Invisible

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Dear friends,

“There’s a benevolent plot afoot, and the conspirators are everywhere, visible and invisible.
Their mission: the complete destruction of my fears and limitations, and the complete fulfillment of my life purposes.” – from The New Kitchen Mystic

Oh! I’m enjoying doing this podcast so much, and I hope you are enjoying this meaty storytelling I am allowing myself to shamelessly indulge in.

This week we continue our appreciation of the weird and wonderful

as we explore our interface with other beings in the Invisible:
animal spirits, angels, and special places in Nature, as I tell about some of my spiritual adventures in my wild 40 acres.

Can the spirit of a bear roam the woods?

Did the spirit of the former landowner guide my husband around to show him his uncompleted tasks?

Did Jack the dog have and invisible friend, a white wolf?

Was it really my mother’s ghostly hand on my back on Mother’s Day, come back to thank me for something?

Are there 12 Step meetings in heaven? (What?!) My Dad’s spirit told me that there are.

I hope that when you listen to this week’s podcast you will remember
how enchanted and precious this world is, and how filled with love.

Much love to you,
Mary and Erin

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EPISODE 130: Our Life with The Invisible

We belong to a Mystery,

and it’s our joyous duty to learn how to honor it, enjoy it, and create with it.

The spirit world is right next to, and woven into and throughout the physical world.
We are in relationship with people that we know, and spirits who we sense.

And we’re all citizens of The Benevolent Universe,
a point of view that is really worth subscribing to.

Mary and Erin are hot now, into a stream of storytelling about our life with the Invisible world.

Enjoy Mary’s comfort level with the easy ebb and flow between the seen and the unseen, and Erin’s enthusiasm to become comfortable with it.

Posted on October 23, 2015 | Discuss on Facebook

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EPISODE 129: GHOST STORIES!

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Hi friends,

 

Well, we got on a roll with this storytelling thing, and so we thought we’d do a podcast about a certain special genre of stories – ghost stories!

Who doesn’t love a good ghost story?
(Especially if it’s for real.)

I’ve got a handful of ghost stories to share with you, from the era of my life where I engaged in the weird and noble art of “ghostbusting,” which is more accurately described as “ghost therapy.”

Are you scared?     Don’t be.
As I explained to Erin, most ghosts are just extremely ordinary people who died but stayed on Earth in their usual “haunts,” so to speak, instead of moving on.

And a study has shown that fully 68% of Americans report that they had a visit from a dearly departed person, and that this spirit experience was actually a comforting, purposeful event in their life.

Ghosts, ancestors, guides, animal spirits, nature spirits, angels, and Master teachers ….

the spirit world is a friendly mystery that is fun to talk about,

so tune in this week and next week to enjoy contemplating our life with the Invisible.

It’s all good!
Mary and Erin

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EPISODE 129: GHOST STORIES!

Ghost stories are a perennial, much-loved genre of storytelling,
and as a mystic, Mary has had enough encounters with ghosts and other spirits, that she can say with confidence,

“This is just part of life, and basically it’s all pretty normal and nice.”

Erin’s not so sure! (scared!!)

but as ever, she is open-minded and curious, and willing to go where Mary leads, in this unique conversation about interacting with ghosts.

Does a ghost attend their own funeral, to communicate with the living? Can a ghost make toast in the kitchen?

Is the spirit world right here, with us, all the time?

How does it influence us?

This week’s podcast is the first of two that explore our life with the Invisible.

 

Posted on October 17, 2015 | Discuss on Facebook

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EPISODE 128: RE-FRAMING YOUR OWN STORY

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Hi friends,

Are you having a good time inside the story of your life these days?

We live near an ocean of stories, and we are laying down a narrative of who we are in the world.

Are you living a hero’s journey, traveling through strange lands with a golden nugget of faith and your bright sword of will for truth and goodness?

Here’s our latest and greatest podcast about storytelling – the one that reminds us of the importance of saying

“This will be good!” in the middle of a bad life moment.

That’s what I said when my house got almost completely flooded one time, and ….

some stories take a little while to unfold …

five months later ….

I was right! It all turned out well.

Enjoy!
Mary & Erin 

EPISODE 128: RE-FRAMING YOUR OWN STORY

Did you know that there is a Sea of Stories,

and that The Universe issues each storyteller their own story water faucet, when it’s time to tell a tale?

So they tell us in “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” by Salman Rushdie.

The hero story is a story of a person on the path of self mastery, and there are features that are applicable to the sturdy spiritual seeker:

– the challenge to use your will, (or surrender it to a Higher Will)

– the need to turn to your mighty companions,

– the magical gift from the mystery advisor,

– the nugget of faith that keeps us going forward.

 It’s important to affirm,
“This will be good,” when you’re in a bad moment.

To be strong and positive, with only a little bit of whining when you’re just overdone with it all. (Tho sensitive people will need to whine more often.)

Hear the story of the unexpected flood that destroyed Mary’s house. It turned out well.

And the story of a woman who is cheerful about having been raised by a mother who was utterly evil. She chuckles?

Forgiving and healing a bad story is as possible as laundering your muddy clothes so they are clean and bright again.

Enjoy this conversation in which Mary visits the local shaman, and Erin exercises her screenwriter chops to show us

the classic arc of storytelling in the hero tale….

and what that mirrors for each of us, spiritually.

 

Posted on October 9, 2015 | Discuss on Facebook

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