Ascension Updates
The Age of Transparency and the Spiritual Warrior Archetype
by Samantha Orthlieb“We are powerful beyond measure, and so deeply vulnerable at the same time. This may seem like a dichotomy, but it isn’t. We have misunderstood real power. It has been something assertive, non-surrendering, pushing on through. This is not real power. This is simply willfulness. Real power is something else- receptivity, openness, the courage to […]
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Laos and Living Your Life Deeply
by Samantha OrthliebAfter attempting to write this blog about my Laos experience several times, I have surmised that whatever I say will be enormously inadequate. Trying to convey in intellect and words what emotions and experiences teach us is never enough. The amount of poverty and corruption in the Laos orphanages and villages that I visited, when […]
Purifying into Sacred LOVE
by Samantha Orthlieb“Spirituality begins when you decide that you will never stop trying. Spirituality is the commitment to go beyond no matter what it takes…A spiritual being feels as though they are always against the edge, and they are constantly being pushed through it”. Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul “What would happen if you stopped fighting, […]
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The Dawn of Conscious Evolution
by Samantha Orthlieb“In the past our glorious visions of the future – heaven, paradise, nirvana – were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in […]
2013: The Year of Possibility and Transformation
by Samantha Orthlieb“Wrap our souls in the shroud of rapture and sound. Create in us everything which has been lost and all which is unknowable.” – From Song of the End, Christine Fortuin “I dwell in possibility…The spreading wide my narrow Hands, To gather Paradise” – From I dwell in Possibility, Emily Dickinson 2012 heralded the largest […]
The Final Universal Lesson
by Samantha Orthlieb“One love, one heart, one destiny.” – Bob Marley “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” ― Sara Teasdale The irrevocable cleansing and purging of humanity’s collective consciousness is in its final phase as we approach Dec 21, 2012. The ultimate objective is to shift to […]
Faith in Darkness
by Samantha OrthliebAs we sit in collective despair following yesterday’s tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary please consider these words to ponder about the state of humanity and of yourself at this present Dark Night of the Soul: “Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along […]
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Rediscovering Ourselves
by Samantha Orthlieb“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” ~Alan Alda “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ” ~Dr. Alexis Carrel “Be patient toward all that is […]
December: A tentative time of Hope
by Samantha OrthliebHurrah, today is the end of Mercury Retrograde! – so celebrate the fact that you made it through the toughest and most internally transforming time of 2012!! Many on our sacred planet did not stay with us in this reality and passed on, so take a moment to send them love and peace. We still […]
Our Human Renovation
by Samantha OrthliebLet the gifts stitch or cut the web, let what needs to come together or break apart, come together and break apart. Let the miracles, even the ones we don’t want or see, unfold. – Mark Nepo The shopping plaza where my store and clinic are located is undergoing a total renovation. As I drive […]
The Rise of the Co-creative Feminine
by Samantha Orthlieb“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” ― Denis Waitley The heinous, attempted murder of 14 year old Malala Yousufzai in Pakistan this past week should give all of us pause to reflect on the state of our relationship with our […]
My Confession
by Samantha OrthliebI have a confession to make – Since April of this year I have violently thrown up four times. None of these physical happenings were related to “illness”. The first time lasted for an entire day which then gradually decreased to the fourth time of just a few minutes. It always happens in the morning, […]