What's Arising?

Blogs & Podcasts

Reflections, conversations, and explorations on the journey toward wholeness.

The Walled Garden

By J. Richard Schultz

Published on: 01/09/2026

What if the walls you've built to protect yourself are also keeping you from wholeness? Discover how opening the gate to your inner garden transforms shame into freedom.

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Could Life Be a Dream? Waking Up Inside the Story of Life

By Richard Schultz

Published on: 24/10/2023

A reflection on life as a dream, symbolism, suffering, forgiveness, and how becoming more lucid in our waking life may open us to love, freedom, and peace.

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The Power of Desire: From Ego Wanting to Soul Aliveness

Richard Schultz

Published on: 07/03/2019

A reflection on desire, purpose, consciousness, entropy, and how soul-aligned desire can expand aliveness, fulfillment, love, and authentic power.

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Life is but a dream

Richard Schultz

Published on: 10/07/2018

A reflection on life as a dream, lucid awareness, forgiveness, shadow integration, and how awakening from our stories can return us to love and freedom.

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