From The Reiki Magazine International
November, 2003

In my first job after graduating from college, I was a nurse’s aid at a state-run, residential, mental health center in Iowa.  During my employment there, I witnessed the medical staff treating people according to their diagnoses rather than seeing them as individuals.  Many people suffered from this treatment.  Some years later, as I was contemplating my life’s work, I realized that I wanted to be with people and treat their individual needs rather than their diagnoses.  Later on, I realized that I wished the same for myself.

from The Reiki Magazine International
March, 2003

While visiting the cathedral of Montserrat near Barcelona, I listened to the boy’s choir sing to the glorification of a higher essence, to another way of being.  I think of the people in those long-ago years who envisioned the cathedral, and of the laborers and craftsmen who responded to the work.  Did they seek a path to heaven?  Were they exalted simply from working on the building?  Did the spiritual essence that they sought outside of themselves come into them as they stood back and gazed at their work?

from The Reiki Magazine International
January, 2003

“I noticed as I treated myself and others that my mind became a flow; filling and emptying.  Eventually, I began to see that I had used my mind to build defenses for self-preservation and to retain vast amounts of information.  I thought that this was the function of my mind, and I was satisfied with my ability to exercise my mind.  We were friends.  Then something began to happen.  I began to sense that there was another quality of experience I could have with my mind.  I came to believe that my mind's true function is to allow me the experience of creation.  I see this experience of creation as the process of compiling conscious and unconscious elements, then leaping the mysterious gap into a unique experience.  This unique experience is a moment of creation.  This moment changes the quality of my life forever.  The more moments I have of this nature, the more I feel the vast possibilities of my life as a human being."