Morgan’s Blog

  • Waking up from war and violence into our true nature

    Conversations with The Muse In this thought-provoking dialogue, Morgan and The Muse explore the idea that all experiences, even the most painful and destructive ones, serve a greater purpose in human evolution. Using historical examples like World War I, The Muse explains how societal learning is often non-linear, shaped by cycles of violence and change, […]

  • Karma’s Hidden Purpose: Understanding Crisis as a Catalyst for Growth

    Conversations with The Muse Will Karma come back to bite people in the ass who are creating all the current mayhem in the US? Is Karma even a real thing? Those are some of the questions I’ve had about the topic of Karma. In the past, I thought it seemed kind of weird that in […]

  • How to deal with it when things are going haywire?

    Conversations with The Muse Morgan: As I was having a late-night worry session, three words came to me: hope, love, detachment. It just seems like things are going haywire, and I wasn’t sure what to do with all that energy of worry. Those words, hope, love, detachment: how do they help, when it seems like […]

  • Coming out of the closet isn’t easy

    It involves sharing something with the world that you think could result in rejection by those you most care about and by your community. Something that will had the potential for massive upheaval in your life. I’ve gone through this process a couple of times in my life, and it was gut-wrenchingly scary to “put […]

  • Ever Feel Like You’re Lazy? It’s the Quantitative Trap.

    For much of my life, I thought I was lazy, and berated myself for not being less lazy than I seem to be. (I also sometimes berate myself for using double negatives in my writing, so maybe I just like berating myself). Anyhow, I don’t think I’m alone. When I’ve taken the time to consciously […]

  • Anxiety about what’s going on, and a turnaround…

    Woke up today, another day of feeling anxiety and working to tame it. It would be easy to say I’ve succumbed to exactly what “they” — meaning the haters, the authoritarians, the shortsighted — want. Yesterday I read yet another opinion piece, by a salty male making the same now tired claim that “men can’t […]