Tag: spiritual teacher

• I’m A Very Lucky Dad

  

  One of the most powerful enduring memories I have of my daughter is when her birth mother placed her in my arms. New Jersey adoption law requires that a birth mother directly place her child in the arms of the adoptive parents under the supervision of the attending medical staff. This exchange took place just…

  Gary Merel

  January 23, 2023

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  adoption, adulthood, childhood, consciously and unconsciously, curcumstances of childhood, deepend sense of being, father daughter, gift of my life, Grace, internal dialog, love, mentor, mother, psycho emotional, self naritive, sense of loss, seperation anxiety, spiritual teacher, truth of our story, unconscious influences, voice in your head, womb

• A Bit About My Spiritual Journey.

  

  My spiritual journey is and continues to be the focal point of my life. I did not follow a specific path tied to a specific linage or teachings. My journey is specific to me and has been unfolding over the last 54 years. One of my favorite movies is the Razors Edge with Bill Murray. …

  Gary Merel

  October 24, 2022

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  Andes, Be HEre Now, Bhagavad Gita, Bill Murray, Buddist monastery, community of freinds, daughter, divorse, freinds, granddaughters, Herman Hesse, Huichol Indians, India, married, mediation practice, mescaline, messiness of life, Napal, plant medicine, put your attention, rain forest, ram dass, reality of life, reality of my life, Sidhartha, spiritual awakening, spiritual teacher, The Razors Edge, yoga, yoga ashsram

• Restoring My Sense of Wellbeing

  

  It is fairly accurate to say that we live in some very stressful times. There are influences that feel outside our control that can have a direct and sometimes immediate impact on the outcome and quality of our lives. There is a lot of uncertainly in the world we live in. Financial uncertainty. Inflation. The…

  Gary Merel

  October 18, 2022

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  agenda, anxiety, bicycle, bike, challenges, doom, ear in Ukraine, ego, egoic, fear, fight or flight, financial, finanial uncertainty, fire circle, freinds, human beings, illness, inflation, left leaning, love, Man Kind Project, meal, nervous system, news, outcome of our lives, pending doom, perpetuate fear, physcial body, psilocybin muchrooms, pushes agenda, release fear, right leaning, ritual use, ritual use of psilocybin, safety, sense of safety, share meal, spiritual teacher, stress, stressful times, Ukraine, war, wellbeing, withdraw, withdraw from life

• Can you really speak to God?

  

  On one of my trips to Ecuador, I was relaxing in a hotel room my friend Craig.  Two days prior we had landed in Quito the capital of Ecuador.  A good place to start most trips to visit the country. It was the beginning of a two-week vacation. We were feeling the need to take…

  Gary Merel

  September 26, 2022

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  7.7 billion beings, awakening, co-creation, conscious intelligence, creation, creative intelligence, Ecuador, Grace, human mind, humanity, intelligence, Machu Picchu, mind dropped away, operating sysytem, public interface, public interface of god, Quito, spiritual teacher, unknowable intelligence