Mother’s day has just passed, and it always makes me think of holiday brunches with my mother at The Goose Egg Inn just west of Casper, Wyoming where she lived. The inn was named after the nearby Goose Egg Ranch featured in Owen Wister’s novel, The Virginian, which, sadly, was torn down in 1960. My mother made her transition in March of 2001 so we no longer brunch at the Goose Egg.

I was adopted at birth, so I know almost nothing about my birth parents or my ancestry except that I was told I am half Italian. My parents told me I was adopted as soon as I was old enough to understand, and for the longest time, I never thought of my birth parents or my ancestry. I had loving parents and a happy childhood.

After Jill Kuykendall talked about soul loss and soul retrieval during my first Visionseeker, I had the feeling that I needed to have a soul retrieval done. I didn’t quite know why at the time as I had never really had any of the classic symptoms, or any significant personal traumas during my life – at least as far as I could remember. Jill asks clients to answer some questions to let her know about themselves, and to let her know why they think they may have soul loss. My only answer to that question was to say I didn’t know, I just felt I did.

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My friend Frank DeMarco recently posted one of his debriefs from a September 2000 “black box” session at The Monroe Institute on his blog. The black box is a small, shielded room in the TMI lab with a water bed where TMI graduates, with the assistance of one of the experienced TMI lab technicians, can have a customized Hemi-sync session. The black box was originally designed for TMI research and development, but for the past couple decades or so, they have also offered its use to TMI graduates, and Guidelines participants get a lab session in the black box as part of the program.

In the debrief Skip Atwater, the head of the lab, mentioned research that suggests we all have the ability look into the future; that our now moment is larger than we realize. The same day I read Frank’s post, I found an article in a UK online publication (via schwartzreport.net), which cites additional studies also suggesting we can see into the future.

If you think about it this makes perfect sense because we live in a time-space environment. We literally create our own reality moment by moment and need to know what is directly in front of us on our life path so we can maintain continuity and an uninterrupted flow. In other words as Skip says, our now is larger than we expect. This is another one of those things that happen automatically and seamlessly.

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Early this afternoon I took a drive up into the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains (my back yard). Spring officially announced its arrival about a week ago, and the foothills are changing out their winter coats of brown and snowy white for their finest spring greens, and here and there the first wildflowers are shaking off their long winter sleep in bursts of lavender. Since this trip into the foothills was a whim on my way to the grocery store (did not make it there) I did not have my camera, but I’m making another trip tomorrow, so I’ll edit this post and put in a picture or two in a couple days.

I find that I naturally follow the seasons of mother nature – her rhythms – when not tied to a normal 8-5 job, and spring is a time of rebirth and renewal; a time to get underway. Late last year I signed up for a photographic workshop this June with an outstanding landscape photographer, Rodney Lough Jr., in Grand Teton National Park near Yellowstone. Three solid days of taking photos and trekking up and down mountains and trails in one of the most beautiful areas America has to offer.

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