#peace

Apr 25, 2020
1 min

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 act of healing you begin to feel that touch, those tendrils of all things, and you open to them Allowing your skin to widen enough for the love to flow in and out effortlessly for you and all others unafraid. healed, whole Touching as you are touched Holding the holy. #connection #Divine #peace #soulfulpoetry

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 fears has been around as long as we have. It’s grown to be part of our nature and entirely within our control to perpetuate it or end it. It’s so prevalent that we ignore it, forget long-term conflicts, and tend to be unaware that measures of violence around the globe show it is at some of the lowest levels in recorded history, though it feels l

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, forgiveness, and justice. There are many. They were as wise as they were varied, speaking a singular message with different accents. And I smiled. This morning I was watching a video about Brexit and read a plaque commemorating a manufacturer’s strike in Northern England. The plaque read “Never Forget. Never Forgive.” And I cried. We have

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 parlance, accepted philosophies, and constructed ways to structure our individual nature, each other and the systems around us. Human, self, ego, soul. Super-human, super ego, over soul, higher or deeper self. Personality, intellect, intuition; weird, normal, spiritual or notso. Angel, evil; human and nature. Consciousness that separates that human

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 it. Peace on Earth… This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is sick with war; everywhere we turn we see its ominous possibilities. And yet, my friends, the Christmas hope for peace and goodw

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, maybe it’s not the cut itself. Maybe it’s the emptiness, the tangible void of a such a thing missing, that’s left after the cut. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’ve recently been to see my father after not having any contact in five years. On April 24, I was led to Philadelphia, Mississippi, to find a particular Choctaw medicine man. I di

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! #energetichealing #inspired #spiritualhealing #self #peace #love #Grace #innerpeace #connection #uncommontouch #emotional #healing #testimonial

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 experience…has in it very essence some note of a direct spiritual contact of two liberties, a kind of flash or spark which ignites an intuition…plus something much more which I can only describe as “personal”, in which God I known not as an “object’ or and “Him up there” or “Him in Everything” nor as “the All” but as—the biblical expression—I

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 myself. I think there are a combination of factors. They are at once deeply moving, awe-inspiring, sometimes physically taxing, some more ‘ecstatic’ than others, and seem just for me. I don’t often try to understand, figure ’em out or connect the dots. I also don’t connect them to life-stuff, psychic-stuff, spiritual-stuff and other whatnot

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 you hear that? It’s the man who was looking for treasure. He wants me to finish his story. You didn’t hear him? Then, he must be inside me yelling, “Over Here! Come over here!” Don’t think of him as a seeker, though. Whatever he’s looking for, he is that himself. How can a lover be anything other than the beloved? Every second he’s bowing t

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 expression that appears bound by others’ ideas & ideals. The string of logic posed by quite a few is that I’ve not studied spiritualism, metaphysics, any aspect of any religion, and not living/speaking/healing/BE-ing within the bounds of someone else’s playbook. I’ve not sought out sages or saddhus, not read from mystics and mages, not wors

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfoFSTf6jw0 Different Ways to Pray (from Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye) There was the method of kneeling, a fine method, if you lived in a country where stones were smooth. The women dreamed wistfully of bleached courtyards, hidden corners where knee fit rock. Their prayers were weathered rib bones, small calcium

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 but not porn. So, I had an inspirational experience this morning on Twitter. Because it’s one way I communicate w/ the world and because I believe in putting all of me out there in every way, I posted, “I’m fucking frustrated!”. Oh. My. Yup, I said it. Folks seemed a little taken aback that a “spiritual” (whatever that really means) someon

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 I’m connected to you, he, she, that thing both within and without that connects us all. It’s not unusual for me to feel another’s heartbeat alongside mine, feel another’s pain in my own body, know another’s joy in some quiet moments. Today, though, the rythmn that moved in and around me developed a special meaning that I could not divine or

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 the ‘proper’ platform to discuss such matters–I felt this. My Prayer for Today That you hear the Divine both within silence and a child’s laughter, That you see the Divine both in yourself and another, That you touch the Divine both in a blade of grass and burbling water, That you feel the Divine both in the sting of the wind and touch of a lo

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 with what I think I already know? Which box of life-data do I put this information in so that it makes sense to me? This concept has become stronger over the course of the past few weeks as I moved through a strain of viral yuck. As I recovered, I moved from literally losing my voice (sounding far too much like a toad for my liking) to figu

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