![Rightly or wrongly, I have always thought of myself as a bit of an empath. It’s a loaded term, really. It can give impressions of every claim from the psychic to the emotional. I am somewhere toward the latter on the spectrum. It’s hard to tell sometimes whether my emotional experiences are those of others […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sen-l-Darcangelo-3.jpg?w=58 "Rightly or wrongly, I have always thought of myself as a bit of an empath. It’s a loaded term, really. It can give impressions of every claim from the psychic to the emotional. I am somewhere toward the latter on the spectrum. It’s hard to tell sometimes whether my emotional experiences are those of others […]")
Whose feelings are whose? Empathy is good, but there is a limit
Rightly or wrongly, I have always thought of myself as a bit of an empath. It’s a loaded term, really. It can give impressions of every claim from the psychic...
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![We live much — if not all — of our lives according to a set of rules that someone else usually came up with. However, we often don’t realize it is we who pick and choose the rules we decide we will follow. We may not feel we have much choice in the matter sometimes. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sen-l-Darcangelo-1.jpg?w=58 "We live much — if not all — of our lives according to a set of rules that someone else usually came up with. However, we often don’t realize it is we who pick and choose the rules we decide we will follow. We may not feel we have much choice in the matter sometimes. […]")
Says who? What if you were your own prophet?
We live much — if not all — of our lives according to a set of rules that someone else usually came up with. However, we often don’t realize it...
![What exactly is a transcendent experience? To transcend means to go beyond expectation. To go past what has previously been experienced. To transcend is to evolve as a result of either a single powerful moment or a series of transformative experiences, or both. Like a light bulb over our heads or a ground-breaking discovery. An […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sen-l-Darcangelo-7.jpg?w=58 "What exactly is a transcendent experience? To transcend means to go beyond expectation. To go past what has previously been experienced. To transcend is to evolve as a result of either a single powerful moment or a series of transformative experiences, or both. Like a light bulb over our heads or a ground-breaking discovery. An […]")
Don’t change the bricks, change the mortar
What exactly is a transcendent experience? To transcend means to go beyond expectation. To go past what has previously been experienced. To transcend is to evolve as a result of...
![This upcoming week, we celebrate and honor the harvest. We recognize the miraculousness that we have the knowledge to grow and gather nourishment. It is a miracle that we have the technology to feed the entire world — once we’re ready. When humanity has evolved to the point where it empowers people rather than suppresses […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sen-l-Darcangelo-5.jpg?w=58 "This upcoming week, we celebrate and honor the harvest. We recognize the miraculousness that we have the knowledge to grow and gather nourishment. It is a miracle that we have the technology to feed the entire world — once we’re ready. When humanity has evolved to the point where it empowers people rather than suppresses […]")
Smile and be glad, for it’s Thanksgiving
This upcoming week, we celebrate and honor the harvest. We recognize the miraculousness that we have the knowledge to grow and gather nourishment. It is a miracle that we have...
![A world begins in fits and starts. There are many legends of the beginnings of this world, and of every thing, even the beginning of light. The creation of a world, in both the literal and metaphoric sense, is fraught with success and failure. But is failure something that goes wrong, or something that goes […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sen-l-Darcangelo-3.jpg?w=58 "A world begins in fits and starts. There are many legends of the beginnings of this world, and of every thing, even the beginning of light. The creation of a world, in both the literal and metaphoric sense, is fraught with success and failure. But is failure something that goes wrong, or something that goes […]")
Is right always good, and wrong always bad?
A world begins in fits and starts. There are many legends of the beginnings of this world, and of every thing, even the beginning of light. The creation of a...
![I love the play on words of whirled peas. It makes me think of all the peas as people, and we are whirling around together in an attempt to make a batch of sacred people soup. It’s a deep and abiding hope. And one I believe will, in time, symbolically at least, come to pass. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sen-l-Darcangelo-1.jpg?w=58 "I love the play on words of whirled peas. It makes me think of all the peas as people, and we are whirling around together in an attempt to make a batch of sacred people soup. It’s a deep and abiding hope. And one I believe will, in time, symbolically at least, come to pass. […]")
One grain of sand is as important as billions of others
I love the play on words of whirled peas. It makes me think of all the peas as people, and we are whirling around together in an attempt to make...
![In my own faith tradition, Unitarian Universalism, we have a series of seven principles that guide our actions and hearts. As this country steps forward into what will likely prove to be one of the most contentious presidential election weeks in our country’s history, the fifth principle, in particular, seems most relevant. The words of […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sen-l-Darcangelo-3.jpg?w=58 "In my own faith tradition, Unitarian Universalism, we have a series of seven principles that guide our actions and hearts. As this country steps forward into what will likely prove to be one of the most contentious presidential election weeks in our country’s history, the fifth principle, in particular, seems most relevant. The words of […]")
The fifth principle, and why it matters
In my own faith tradition, Unitarian Universalism, we have a series of seven principles that guide our actions and hearts. As this country steps forward into what will likely prove...
![The ritual of walking across hot coals, or firewalking, is a spiritual act recorded as far back as the Iron Age, but it comes from traditions much older than written records. It is a rite of passage, a test of strength, and of faith. One walks barefoot across a lengthy pad of red-hot burning embers. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sen-l-Darcangelo-1.jpg?w=58 "The ritual of walking across hot coals, or firewalking, is a spiritual act recorded as far back as the Iron Age, but it comes from traditions much older than written records. It is a rite of passage, a test of strength, and of faith. One walks barefoot across a lengthy pad of red-hot burning embers. […]")
Go ahead, walk across red-hot coals of life
The ritual of walking across hot coals, or firewalking, is a spiritual act recorded as far back as the Iron Age, but it comes from traditions much older than written...
Don’t be afraid of the dark — embrace it
Every system on this planet is currently under evaluation by humanity. Every rock is being overturned. Every ruler questioned. Especially those who require unquestionable authority. The pandemic has further made...
Adversity is the mother of intention — use it
Adversity breeds innovation. It’s the only way it has ever happened, really. It’s generally not until our backs are up against a wall that we finally see the entirety of...