The Vibe And Shine

Someone I met and briefly engaged with a handful of times in the conscious community here in Cape Town took her own life a few days ago. While I didn't know her well, news of her opting out of life has brought up several things for my consideration. This woman was 32, just a few years younger than me. She climbed the mountain and lept from a cliff to her death. A helicopter was sent to retrieve her body from the slopes of the mountain. My observations of what it has brought up in me are thus: Leaping off of a cliff at a height great enough to kill you takes and enormous amount of braveness. That she would rather summon that amount of courage and do something as scary as jump off of a cliff instead of continue on with life is huge internal process to move through. The darkness must have been strong for her to opt out at all, let alone in such a spectacularly courageous way. I understand and have great compassion for where she must have been with her relati...

I decided to do a light and fun post this week. Not everything has to be "serious" all the time... We are allowed having fun with the work we're doing too. This week is ' The Matrix ' Appreciation Week. At least in my universe it is... If you haven't seen 'The Matrix', do yourself a favour and watch it. I watched it the first installment when it originally came out, with no clue of how 'in your face' it was, parading around as a Box Office science-fiction smash hit when in truth it's actual genre is more 'Science-Fact'. That movie premiered on big screens around the world and millions of people flocked to see each installment, and as a young 20-year-old, my friends and I thought 'The Wachowskis' had the most incredible imagination ever for coming up with such a fantastic storyline.  The plot would thicken with each installment of the trilogy and it would just get more and more mindblowing and everyone raved about how ...