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September 23, 2026
Scott McRae
Following the Golden Thread: The Awareness V Map

The Awareness V Map helps us return to the golden thread of awareness. It gives us a way to recognize our patterns of awareness and notice the dynamics shaping our lives at any given moment…

Scott McRae
November 6, 2026

The Shift That Changed Modern Spirituality: Teilhard de Chardin's Evolutionary Awakening

Scott McRae
November 6, 2026

We get weighed down by the past and present, as it becomes a weight that we drag behind us. But what if instead life was drawing us forward?

Scott McRae
October 30, 2026

Where Spirituality Meets Politics: We Are the River, Not the Rocks

Scott McRae
October 30, 2026

Rocks may obstruct the current, but they cannot command it. Water finds its way around, over, and sometimes through whatever stands in its path. It adapts. It persists. It keeps moving…

Scott McRae
October 23, 2026

Trick or Treat at the Threshold: Samhain, Shadow, and the Sanctum Sanctorum

Scott McRae
October 23, 2026

The sacred is often is seen more clearly in the shadows…

Scott McRae
October 9, 2026

The Sacred Current: A Journey Through the Seven Chakras

Scott McRae
October 9, 2026

Throughout this series, we’ve been exploring models of awareness. This week’s map is an ancient one: the seven chakras of the human energy system…

Scott McRae
October 2, 2026

The Figure 8 Cycle of Renewal

Scott McRae
October 2, 2026

The Figure 8 Cycle of Renewal above provides a mirror for noticing our outward and inward patterns. It contrasts two essential movements of life: doing and being, expression and reflection…

Scott McRae
September 23, 2026

Following the Golden Thread: The Awareness V Map

Scott McRae
September 23, 2026

The Awareness V Map helps us return to the golden thread of awareness. It gives us a way to recognize our patterns of awareness and notice the dynamics shaping our lives at any given moment…

Scott McRae
September 18, 2026

Why the Abundance Mindset Matters in a Scarcity-Driven World

Scott McRae
September 18, 2026

We all have been indoctrinated into a scarcity-driven world. An abundance orientation flips the script. It offers another way and another world…

Scott McRae
September 11, 2026

The Three Instincts That Shrink Us

Scott McRae
September 11, 2026

Sacred living invites us to notice when our aperture is narrowing, become curious about what is driving it, and discover that we are capable of opening again to a wider world…

Scott McRae
September 4, 2026

The Chain Reactions Within the Small Self, and the Pathway Back to Presence

Scott McRae
September 4, 2026

In the Enneagram, our predictable patterns are captured by the peculiar geometry within the Enneagram symbol. It gives us a fascinating map of these stress currents and the pathways back to wholeness…

Scott McRae
August 28, 2026

The Three Strands of Personality

Scott McRae
August 28, 2026

What comes to mind when you hear the word personality? We usually think of the unique traits that make us who we are. Our personalities hold many gifts, and they have a shadow side…

Scott McRae
August 21, 2026

The Body as Sacred Text: Coming Home to Our Senses

Scott McRae
August 21, 2026

Rumi said: Your heart is an ocean. Your body is the beach. If you want to go to the ocean, you go to the beach…

Scott McRae
August 14, 2026

Dark Night of the Soul: The Alchemy of Disorientation

Scott McRae
August 14, 2026

What looks like loss, when held with patience and presence, can become a soulful passage into something new, something more. The invitation is not to fight the darkness, nor to manage our way out of it, but to hold it as sacred potential…

Scott McRae
August 5, 2026

When Dreams and the Muse Speak

Scott McRae
August 5, 2026

What if dreaming isn't merely the brain tidying up the events of the day, but one of the oldest languages of the soul? What if it’s one of the channels through which the Muse speaks?

Scott McRae
July 31, 2026

The Imaginal Realm & Synchronicity: Learning to Read the Invisible

Scott McRae
July 31, 2026

Every space, every gathering, every conversation carries an energetic quality. A mood, a texture, a signature. This is the imaginal realm making itself known…

Scott McRae
July 24, 2026

The Stars, Soccer, & the New Masculinity

Scott McRae
July 24, 2026

In this year’s men’s World Cup, we saw a humble, divine form of masculinity on display. Here’s how it might spark a larger shift in consciousness…

Scott McRae
July 18, 2026

The Holy Human Trinity: Fueling the Flow Between Ego, Soul & Spirit

Scott McRae
July 18, 2026

Ego, soul, and Spirit are not three separate rooms in us, competing for territory. They are one circulatory system, one life moving through three forms…

Scott McRae
July 10, 2026

The Sky Is Speaking: Listening to the Celestial Invitations of July 2026

Scott McRae
July 10, 2026

Something is converging overhead this month, and it resonates with everything we've been exploring in our Ego, Soul, and Spirit and Spiral Dynamics series…

Scott McRae
July 3, 2026

Evil, Cruelty, and Hell – When “Live” Turns Backwards

Scott McRae
July 3, 2026

The contemplative response is not to excuse evil and cruelty, but to understand them. To listen first is not weakness. It is the refusal to meet fear with more fear…

Scott McRae
June 26, 2026

The Momentous Leap: The great upgrade in Sacred Living

Scott McRae
June 26, 2026

These are the stages of the growing edge of human consciousness - Yellow and Turquoise - the newest and rarest turns of the spiral, and the place where sacred living becomes possible in a wholly new way…

Scott McRae
June 19, 2026

The Spiral Enters the Modern World: Order, Achievement, and Harmony

Scott McRae
June 19, 2026

Now the spiral turns toward something new: the long human project of refining the world. Order, progress, and connection - the three stages we explore this week are the major dynamics at play in modern life…

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