This Is For You
In the slowly brightening light of the high desert morning, the new moon a day away, the azure sky alight with the remaining visible stars, I feel the footsteps of…
My Heart Is Breaking
My heart is breaking for the next episode of the “Final Solution” to be broadcast live on Tik Tok and InstagramMy heart is breaking for the beautiful young artist whose…
A Better Way
We all know there is a better way, a way that nurtures blossoms and celebrates the songs of birds without leaving a trail of thorns for 30 years. We all…
Crossing The Threshold
When I was a kid, my two-year old brother contracted a bad case of eczema. My father, a fanatical renegade Mormon, believed that my brother’s affliction was a test of…
Dinosaurs and Raindrops
Dear Reader, Once again the world has shifted, a cultural tsunami if you will, this time in the form of a judicial coup upending 50 years of precedent with the…
Trauma And Spiritual Awakening
I’ve been silent for a while, marveling at the intersection between trauma and spiritual awakening, wondering how it is that with even the most profound insights into the unity of…
Abuse, Trauma and Cults
47 years ago I was at the end of a month in the wilderness planting trees, living communally, reading Krishnamurti and smoking way too much cannabis when something snapped. I wound…
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
This morning I remembered an old saying that gives me hope during chaotic times, "Not a thousand armies can oppose an idea whose time has come." This saying comes back…
Messenger
"Messenger" © 2016 by Richard Welker Like millions of people around the world, I have been fixated on the coronavirus pandemic. I have watched in outrage at the refusal of…
Fire and Paradigm Shift
Moose Dreaming Recently I have been on hyper alert following the progress of the catastrophic fires in New South Wales, Australia. My daughter and her husband are directly in the path…