As sad as the world outside of you is proving to be, keep up your inner happiness, your inner change, your inner striving for good and loving expression of all that you have learned about human spirit potential. Look upon all beings as spirits of perfection, just as you are learning to look upon yourself. What makes people do the crazy things they do, you might ask. First, look to yourself. Perhaps you already know what makes you do the crazy things you do, or perhaps you have not been ready to know. Something inside you is always ready to teach you. When you are ready, open the door that will lead you into a greater understanding of all of life, and within that understanding crazy will be explained and possibility will be revealed. That then becomes your next big step to take, into new possibility.
As 2025 comes to an end and the New Year begins, we would like to thank everyone who has traveled with us, those who are new to our work and those who have followed our work for a long time. We are full of gratitude for the journey we have all taken together.
Some of you have accompanied us from the very beginning, when we first created and launched our website, and others have found your way to us through word of mouth or happenstance. Riverwalker Press has been around now for twenty years! Wow!
It is always our pleasure to share what we learn about life, to make some small but hopefully meaningful contributions as we figure out the worlds we inhabit, our mysterious inner world and our equally mysterious outer world as well.
As we step into 2026, we bring you a new offering. Our Soulbytes will be published every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays, so there will be no interruptions in guidance from the Universe. The Universe is always ready to communicate. So are we!
As we all pull back into the quietude of the season, we wish everyone a calm and peaceful holiday season, ringed round with joy and permeated with love. May the New Year bring the gift of good fortune and good will to everyone, at home and around the world, in all worlds.
When you tap into your spirit self, in whatever way that happens for you, you also have access to a part of yourself that is all-knowing, all-feeling, all-seeing, all-loving. This is that perfect spirit self that, if you let it guide you, will bring you one day closer to your true abilities, to your true talents, to your true gifts. Can you let yourself be truly gifted? Can you allow that you are more than your body and your mind, that you are indeed spirit perfection? The more you allow this notion of self as something other than what you see in the mirror, the more you will be able to tap into your fuller potential. Let some of your true gifts shine through today. Even just putting a smile on your face will show the world that you are more than just your physical body.
As you work on yourself keep a friendly and open attitude toward yourself. No one is perfect all the time, though the real truth is that you are spirit and spirit is perfection, thus you too are perfection. It’s time to bring that awareness to the forefront of your intentions, that you are spirit and thus you are perfection. Try that hat on today and see how it feels. Ah, perfection!
A Christmas story. Like Jung, Jeanne and I had no heartfelt attachment to any spiritual tradition but, with raising children, felt the responsibility to embody the magic of life through participation in some spiritual tradition. Like many befuddled parents we brought Spirit to life in living the myth of Santa Claus with our young children.
One of our sons was so deeply living the myth of Santa that he was impervious to the inevitable growing doubts of his peers, who were experiencing the primal wounding to their innocence, that right of passage, that ushers in the ascendence of the rational mind with its logical protection of the self from future deceptions and woundings.
As I recall, after a Tae Kwon Do class, when the truth of Santa had broken through to my son, he pointblank asked his mother why she had lied to him? Without skipping a beat, Jeanne explained that, though Santa was a myth, the magic was real, and that Christmas honored the truth of that magic, through Santa, for children, until they were ready to take charge of the magic within themselves.
So what is the magic? Christianity projected a divine savior for humanity onto the God/human personhood of Jesus Christ. The New Thought philosophical tradition came to understand this story as the awakening in humanity to the fact of our own divinity, ready to be claimed by taking charge of the relationship between our conscious and subconscious minds.
The human mind is divine. The magic is that everything we believe becomes suggestions to the subconscious mind, which then has the power to manifest those beliefs into the actual ‘flesh and blood’ of our lives. What we believe always serves as the architect of our ongoing lives.
To take conscious command of those beliefs is the key to abundance, in all areas of existence. To exercise that ability for the greater good of self, and all, is to fully ground one’s divine potential in truth.
Whatever we believe, good or bad, is an exercise of our divine power and will lead to actual manifestation. However, to fully benefit, one must be in alignment with truth; versus the errors of illusion that manifest in chaos, such as is grossly evident upon the world stage of now.
Last week, my blog pondered the question, “What is the matter with me?” The answer was, and is, the spirit, or thought, that is behind the matter, or current physical manifestation, of my life. The answer to this week’s question—”What is right with me?”—is the prescription for positive manifestation.
Every time I answer the question—”What is right with me?”—I define for my subconscious mind the fullness and brightness of self that I intend to manifest, via suggestion, to my magical subconscious mind. It is equally possible to reinforce a more limited version of self, through reciting and reinforcing negative beliefs about myself, those which I might habitually repeat daily. We are indeed magical beings, capable of manifesting either our heart’s desire or our greatest fears.
The trick is to consistently convert those limited habitual thoughts of self into expansively positive and life-enhancing thoughts of unlimited possibilities. Best to exercise the magic in emphasizing what is truly right with me! In this way, the magic still lives on in Santa’s gifts to self!
Ultimately, it’s all good. We will grow from all we manifest, and eventually find our way home to the fullness and magic of self.
