Eric"Aspen"Marley

The Owls: A Warrior Society, was conceived in its current form when my friend Julia asked me to do something to help her give her...

Geoff’s Station The sun beat translucent light into the room where Geoff still slept, snoring. How long he had been there was anyone’s...

I am a white man that performs Lakota ceremonies. So what? There are a lot of people that say that, these days. I guess I just want to...

An insecure person is afraid of failure. They can’t take one more hit to their self-perception, so they avoid it all costs. This is...

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It’s thought experiment time. And this time we’re looking at a spiritual concept. It’s tricky business, performing thought experiments...

NOTE: The word “prayer” is used throughout this essay. This is what we call a “charged” word because most of us were taught at an early...

Two notes about this particular missive. First, I use the word, “God” interchangeably with Creator, the Lakota title “Tungashila,” the...

I saw him walk out of the shadows of a deep cave where I suddenly found myself, sitting in an overstuffed leather chair. A fire that...

We’re putting a man on the hill, today. I won’t divulge his identity out of respect, but I’ll call him “Charley” if I need to refer to...

Where do impulses come from? And what does a conscious person do with them? I believe the truth of the matter is that they come from many...

I've been remiss. Anyone following my blog knows that I've made a few changes in my life. This includes "burning the boats" by moving my...

I felt a twinge of fear today. For the last several months, I have had every need taken care of as I’ve chased my dream of creating a...

Today it came to me to inhale abundance and exhale gratitude. Receiving and accepting on the one hand, thanking and serving on the other....

So, the mosquitos have arrived. It’s not surprising. The Pacific Crest Trail is only a few miles away, and I’ve heard horrific tales...

We find ourselves near the bottom of the exhalation of Creator. All that we see here in the physical plane, the canvas of the natural...

For those who read this essay and don’t know me, I recently decided to move out to the wilderness in the mountains of California. There...

Last night I had a good idea and I wanted to share it. Usually, if I need to be understood in a precise way, I choose to write the...

What if it's becoming passe' to ingest plant medicine as a means to gain spiritual perspective? What if the plants are saying, in...