Healing and Holding the Holy
You are touched by the whole world, as you are. You need neither permission nor to be healed to be held. When healed, though, and in the...
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Ingrid Oliphant
- Jul 19, 2016
- 2 min
The State of the World
The world hasn’t suddenly changed, isn’t spinning out of control, and it isn’t ending. The kind of violence that has ignited recent...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Jul 3, 2016
- 1 min
Reflecting on Voices
Elie Wiesel died yesterday. His passing led to my reflection on all the beautiful voices that inspire us, give us hope, and teach peace,...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Jun 24, 2016
- 3 min
Self Segregation and Subjugation of Other
For eons, we have sliced, diced and otherwise organized ourselves and the world in attempts to understand the same. We’ve adopted...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Dec 29, 2015
- 11 min
Martin Luther King’s Last Christmas Sermon
I was introduced to this after Christmas when I finally got around to reading an OnBeing piece I’d saved. I think everyone should read...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Jul 1, 2015
- 9 min
Denial of
There is something unique about being denied by one’s father that cannot quite be expressed. It cuts differently than other pain. Or,...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 16, 2012
- 1 min
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
- Jan 12, 2012
- 5 min
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
- Aug 31, 2011
- 4 min
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 14, 2011
- 3 min
What if it really is “In Between the Stories”?
Inspired by Rumi, blog posts about hate, love and god; and 24 hours steeped in connection with all that is. In Between Stories ~ Rumi Did...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Jun 1, 2011
- 4 min
Spiritual Naivety?
There are those who think of me as ‘merely’ naive when it comes to things of spirit. Here, I ask they consider their own limitation of...
Ingrid Oliphant
- May 29, 2011
- 2 min
Sunday Prayer
I hope your day is bright and brimming w/ pools of overflowing joy!! Sunday anthem: Move Any Mountain by the Shamen...
Ingrid Oliphant
- May 25, 2011
- 3 min
Inspired by Fucking-Sharing a Twitter experience of Being Ing (Get it? Be-Ing?)
Unknot the knickers, unpinch the panties; it’s not in the nikked sense of the word, it’s in the George Carlin sense. Not exactly rated-G...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Apr 23, 2011
- 2 min
This Morning Say I AM You
When I woke up this morning, I felt my body pulsing in a manner not entirely my own. It’s not an unusual thing for me. I always know...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 22, 2011
- 1 min
Inspired Prayer for Today
Inspired by a local listserve’s back-n-forth about prayer–the belief in, efficacy of, purpose for, and belly-aching about it not being...
Ingrid Oliphant
- Mar 1, 2011
- 3 min
Finding my voice
Simplicity seems to baffles many folks. Because we want to understaaand stuff. The hows of stuff. The whys of stuff. How does it fit...
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