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“Is This Real?”
The single most asked question during and immediately after the Navajo family reunion has been, “Is this real?” And it’s variations that...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 8, 20142 min read
Who Says Words with My Mouth?
Who Says Words With My Mouth? All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 29, 20143 min read


Question o’ the day: Are you Reiki trained?
The bouncing red ball that started it all. Today’s question is from an email received last night. DM wrote: “Are you reiki trained? What...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 29, 20145 min read
Traveling Lightly to the Blackfeet Nation
Traveling Light has officially begun. Helena, Montana the aim. It was merely the first stop in Big Sky Country but it’s still two...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 19, 20146 min read


The Drumming of a Heart
This began calling me 16 months ago: Beginning the weekend of October 2012 and through a period of nearly two and a half months, I...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 16, 20144 min read
Belief in Healing, Part II
When I put out there on Facebook that I was inspired to write about faith & belief in healing, I asked for folks to share their questions...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 3, 20145 min read
The Mystical Experiences of a Misfit Explained
From a dude on a dating site: “How can you call yourself a mystic but not be spiritual?” From a friend: “Isn’t a vision just a...
Ingrid Oliphant
Oct 23, 20134 min read
More on my Own Transformation
Since my own significant personal transition began just about three years ago, I’ve experienced the world in a magnificent manner than...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 11, 20135 min read
The Way That Moves as You Move
Some commentary on the verse, As you start on the way, the way appears. When you cease to be, real being comes. Zuleikha shut every door,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 8, 20132 min read
A Thousand Brilliant Lies
Someone Should Start Laughing I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 10, 20131 min read
On Race & My Experience of it
I’ve been asked my opinion of the Travyon Martin case a few times the past week and have not really given a response other than, “I...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jul 25, 20136 min read
My Prayer
Maybe, somewhere burbling within I do have a message. I dunno. Here’s what came through today. My prayer is that you hear the Divine...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 31, 20131 min read
More Merton
“Since no man every can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 24, 20131 min read
The Love Lobotomy
“In a society at war with man and nature, a religion of peace and love might be fantasized into creed, rituals & otherworlds while it’s...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 24, 20123 min read
Only Breath
This is a prelude to a new post coming tomorrow about the recognition of my loss of identity and others’ need for ‘the story’. Not ...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 19, 20121 min read
Love on Fire Experience in Another’s words
I often can’t find the words to describe the UnCommon Touch experience. So, I’ll let another tell you a little about it!...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 16, 20121 min read
Know ye not that ye are Gods. ~ Moses (the dude, not the dog)
Thomas Merton to Aldous Huxley during their discussion about genuine & pseudo-mysticism: What I would call a supernatural and mystical...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 12, 20125 min read
I Don’t Know Jack
I really don’t know jack about some shit. What follows, naturally, is I don’t know Jack Shit. In particular, I don’t know Jack about a...
Ingrid Oliphant
Oct 4, 20114 min read
Becoming Horse
I don’t share with many folk the experiences I have with some frequency; almost daily. I’m not quite sure why I tend to keep them to...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 31, 20114 min read
“Life is like a Mirror…”
“Life is like a mirror: If I smile, the mirror returns to me a smile. The attitude I take toward life is the same that life will take...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 16, 20112 min read

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