What's Arising?

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

When Our Values Carry a Shadow

By J. Richard Schultz

Published on: 30/10/2026

Even our most cherished values can become entangled with hidden fears and protective patterns. Explore how shadow integration helps us express our gifts with greater freedom and authenticity.

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What Matters—and What Gets in the Way?

By J. Richard Schultz

Published on: 07/10/2026

We can know what matters deeply to us and still struggle to live it. Explore how beliefs, shadow and protective patterns can become entangled with our values—and what it means to free what matters.

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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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