No Path, No Way: Perfect
Photo by Rob Wicks “This focus of ‘inward path’ and ‘outward path’ is as limiting a belief as any. As if one is more ‘righteous’ or...
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Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 11, 2021
- 3 min
Another Truth about Suicide
photo by Barry Weatherall via Unsplash So. Here we are. Today is Thursday. All day long. I began the day with rhinos knocking on the...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Sep 16, 2020
- 3 min
Marriage, no Proposal
On Thursday, February 9, 2017, I was minding my own business with Bastest and yogifying to work out the kinks remaining from Standing...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
They’ve Made Me Write Before
More on Into the Lion’s Den: The second time, I was pushed to write was in February 2017, while recovering from Standing Rock at a...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Insincerity of Spirituality and Authenticness
I used to practice with Peter Elbow calls methodological believing. For those of you who don’t know his work, methodological believing is...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Nearer, My God, to Thee
There is no Separation You have never been separated. Between the idea of your birth and last breath You have been wrapped in the air of...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
There is no Separation
You have never been separated. Between the idea of your birth and last breath You have been wrapped in the air of the Divine even as it...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 21, 2020
- 1 min
Corona-Inspired Empath Myth-Tip #2
Like the other gift that keeps on giving, it can cause great unseen harm and reinforces fears and trauma response. It is this: “you are...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 15, 2020
- 1 min
Head in the Clouds?
They said your head was in the clouds. It was actually in the stars. You still are. You just made yourself small, to feel seen and forgot...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
They Come
They come, the Old Ones and the newly dead ones They come on the wind They come on the rivers From the ground they cleaved and called...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Nov 20, 2019
- 1 min
Quiet Friend
#Rilke #soulfulpoetry
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 13, 2019
- 2 min
Are ‘They’ Spiritually Ill?
A recent exchange on Facebook began with something like this: “Are racists and xenophobes mentally ill? No, they are ‘sick people’ who...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Aug 12, 2019
- 2 min
We’re the Dark Force
There is no secret occult, invisible evil, or supernatural Dark Force spinning a web of entrapment and sexual slavery. It’s us. Solid...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Jun 13, 2019
- 1 min
Talking about Worship of Idols and Sexual Abuse
Gentlemen, we need to talk. We need to talk about your worship of the Virgin (she wasn’t), the Holy Mother, Durga, Shakti, Tara,...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 18, 2019
- 8 min
The Empath and Walmart, Part 2
Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 16, 2019
- 6 min
The Empath and Walmart; Part 1
“Walmart is the seventh level of hell” ~ a few hundred empaths “We live a story that originates in our autonomic state, is sent through...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
Exploring All Things Empath–beyond the bullshit: Part 2
If you missed the introduction to this deep dive, you may want to read this first. At the end of the introduction, there are links to my...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 22, 2019
- 4 min
Undoing Some Empath Bullshit
See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” ~ Buddha One of the reasons I began the empath myth-busting task...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 25, 2019
- 2 min
My secret is safe with your secret….
I’ve shared before the confusion and despair felt when ignored by tribal leadership I’ve reached out to across the continent. Whether the...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 23, 2019
- 4 min
Principles and Visitations from the Mother
I’m reading a book called Benediction by Kent Haruf. It’s one of those that I’m forcing myself to finish for reasons I can’t comprehend....
