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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
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…

Scott McRae
June 12, 2026

Surviving and Belonging: The Sacred Roots of the Spiral

Scott McRae
June 12, 2026

This week we begin walking the spiral in Spiral Dynamics at its very beginning - its three oldest layers, the deep roots from which everything else grows…

Scott McRae
June 5, 2026

Coming Alive Together: How Human Consciousness Is Evolving

Scott McRae
June 5, 2026

Now we turn outward. We explore how humanity is collectively coming alive as its consciousness is evolving…

Scott McRae
May 29, 2026

The Soul’s Journey into Life After Death

Scott McRae
May 29, 2026

The soul does not end. It continues, guided and accompanied, into widening levels of light, love, and freedom. This is not merely comfort for the dying. It is an invitation for the living…

Scott McRae
May 22, 2026

Coming Alive in the Life after Life

Scott McRae
May 22, 2026

Howard Thurman’s great invitation doesn’t end at the boundary of this life. It extends beyond it. Coming alive is not only a this-life project. It is the soul’s ongoing work, carried forward after our deaths in our lives beyond life…

Scott McRae
May 15, 2026

Coming Alive Lifts Us Into the Spiritual

Scott McRae
May 15, 2026

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman

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