A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: While Meg reviewed her life, the Mages waited in the cave, Ibris and Dax sized each other up in the Temple, Stryker pondered the map and Aaron sat on his throne, an ocean away. Plotting his next move. Aaron smirked to himself. Perhaps other people wondered if what they were [...]
While walking one morning, I had a magical experience. As I turned the corner onto the next street, the world went silent. Not nature. The world. I made no sound. My feet were silent. My breath was silent. It was if the person I call me wasn’t there. I was a camera moving through the [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Spiritual Perception Spiritual Perception reveals that there is nothing going on but God, Good. Instead of thinking that there will be a time that the tares will be separated from the wheat, we know that as we gain spiritual awareness, what appears to be [...]
A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win? Dax stood at the back of the Temple watching Ibris as he stared out the window at the storm. Ibris didn’t move, acting as if he hadn’t felt Dax’s presence. They both stood there lost in their thoughts until [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Is There A God Or Isn’t There? I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.—Albert Einstein Hasn’t everyone wondered, at [...]
<img src="https://www.becalewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WhoDoWeFollow-1024x536.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="536" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3837" / Leadership lessons from Harry the squirrel. We name our squirrels. Harry Peanut is a young gray squirrel with a bounce in her step and a very distinctive way of approaching and eating the peanuts we leave out for her. But most importantly, she is a wise [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Three Habit Stories Story One: For over 6 years, I had eaten peanuts in the shell for breakfast. This may be a crazy breakfast, but I loved it all the same. However, every time I cracked a peanut, little peanut pieces flew around which [...]
A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: When betrayal is the name of the game, can anyone win? As the tyrannical, man-made religion of Aaron-Lem spreads across the world like wildfire, banished shapeshifter Meg Portia struggles to come to terms with the weakening of her own powers. Her shapeshifting powers were what made her unique and special. [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. “Use this book as a handy life guide. I think of a guide as something, or someone, that keeps us aiming in the direction we want to be going. A guide has traveled ahead of us and has seen the dangers and the glories [...]
A Metaphysical, visionary, fantasy, adventure: “I saw that woman again today,” Wren said. She didn’t need to tell Roar and Ruth who she meant. They had been taking turns watching her. The newcomer had arrived in Woald a week before. No one knew where she had come from, but they suspected that it was not [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. —Yogi Berra When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator! —Pat Riley Ready—Set—Shift. Why not change our point of view? After all, who really wants to live in a [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Part Four: What we perceive to be reality magnifies. Before we can go anywhere, we need to know our starting point. Self‐truth is the first truth. Since we are the dreamers [...]
A Perception Parable Once upon a time there was a very handsome and proud bullfrog that lived on a lily pad in the middle of a large silver lake. He was known throughout all the land as the frog with the prettiest skin and the most beautiful eyes and he was very proud of both. [...]
It’s an interesting term: Sheltering in place. What place? That is the question. Where in our thinking are we sheltering? What are we believing? What are we accepting as truth? Are we allowing ourselves to fall into this current pandemic of fear? Because that’s what this is. Fear attempting to force us into separation. Shelter [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part three. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Part [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part two. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Part [...]
For years, while sitting in a tiny church in Venice, CA, I stared at this quote on the wall. “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.“— Mary Baker Eddy. I did not truly understand what that meant. But more than anything I wanted to. It was a promise, and I [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. In this episode of Shifting Stories listen to Chapter Two in Living in Grace: The Shift To Spiritual Perception. And because it is a long chapter, this is part one. Click to find Living In Grace at your favorite Book Store Chapter Two: Principles [...]
Shifting Stories: Sampling Books, One (or 2) Chapters at a time. How did it all begin? Where is it going? Learn more about the bored brothers on the snake-shaped spaceship, Hannah in the Earth Realm, Suzanne from Erda, and Meg’s adventures in Thamon. Author Note: Although The Experiment stands alone as a short story, it [...]
With a date like 2020, there is no way to not go to the symbol of seeing clearly. Maybe this year could begin a whole decade of seeing clearly. As a human race, we certainly need clear sight to heal separations between people and nations, and to repair the damage we have done to our [...]
As much as we might wish it, nothing stays the same. It never did. And now, everything changes so quickly, and often, it may feel impossible to keep up both physically and emotionally. Often we pretend it isn’t happening, thinking that if change doesn’t affect us directly, perhaps we can sit it out. We may [...]
You’ve seen them everywhere. Storage units. Places to store our stuff. The stuff we aren’t using. The stuff we are afraid to throw away. The stuff we have no idea what to do with, so we keep it. We pay for it to sit there. Perhaps never to be seen again. But Life Storage is [...]
(Mom and dad right after they met in 1945. They were married a few weeks later.) If my dad were still with us, he would be ninety-nine today, October 8, 2019. Many things have changed since my father passed away ten years ago. One thing that has changed is I have written many more books [...]
Standing in the middle of cornstalks over eight feet high, I was feeling quite content. It was the end of the corn’s growing season, and I was removing all the cornstalks that had already produced corn. I wanted the remaining stalks to have more light, air, and nutrients so they could complete what they started. [...]
Discouragement is something everyone faces from time to time. In my last post, I talked about the need to shift, or pivot, or change our minds. But something that often gets in the way of doing that is the feeling of discouragement. So, as promised, here are some ways that have helped me, and my [...]