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              Is This My Last Incarnation? A Question Softened Into Peace
            
            
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                ✨ Introduction 
As I walk into my 80th year and the stage of Spiritual Elderhood, certain questions rise from the depth of my being, asking to be m...
              
             
 
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              ✨ AI is not the enemy — the greater danger is our own “robot mind” that forgets to listen to the heart.
            
            
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                🌱 AI Is Not the Enemy 🌱
A few days ago, Maya Christobel’s Open Letter to Gregg Braden appeared in my Facebook feed. Her words reminded me that AI i...
              
             
 
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              How can grandmothers help this whole generation of children growing up under the weight of performance, comparison and pressure to excel!!!!
            
            
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                1. By Holding, Not Adding Pressure
The first task of the grandmother is to withhold the subtle pressure to excel that even loving families pass on ...
              
             
 
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              The Art of Holding: Stories, Soul Contracts, and the Mycelium of Earth
            
            
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                As elders, we know that no soul contract is unchanging.At its essence, a soul contract may be as simple as the promise to be a presence of good wit...
              
             
 
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              🌿 Lineage, Colonizers, and the Paradoxes We Hold
            
            
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                At our recent circle, one grandmother shared a dilemma close to her heart: Should I attend my white family reunion, or distance myself completely? ...
              
             
 
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              My Process of Integration at 80
            
            
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                Turning 80 is no small thing. According to Wilbert Alix’s map of the 12 Mystical Stages of Spiritual & Physical Evolution, I now walk in the st...
              
             
 
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              🌿 Colonizers, Colonized, and the Field We Hold Together
            
            
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                Last night, our storytelling and deep listening circle gathered around the theme of paradox in Spiritual Elderhood:
“Perhaps this is the essence of...
              
             
 
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              🌿 Integrating Seeming Paradoxes in Spiritual Elderhood
            
            
              by Lian Henriksen
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                This morning, as I entered reflection on what Wilbert Alix calls the 11th Stage of Evolution — Spiritual Elderhood, I found myself wrestling with a...
              
             
 
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              Speaking the Truth Across Family Faultlines
            
            
              by Lian Henriksen
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                For weeks I wrestled with a simple but not-so-simple question: Should I tell my siblings that my new book, A Listening Grandmother, has been publis...
              
             
 
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              Family Estrangement, the Mirroring Patterns Between Fathers and Sons, and My Role as the Grandmother Holding a Wider Energetic View
            
            
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                On 13th August 2025, my daughter JoAnn wrote to me from Malaysia, where she had spent the past few weeks — first caring for her father through a br...
              
             
 
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              Reflections on Circles, Grandmothers, and Discernment
            
            
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                14th August 2025
 Intro:Sometimes the threads are spun so fine you almost miss them — a word here, a look there, a shared breath in a circle. And y...
              
             
 
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              Calling All Grandmothers: How Do You Protect The Spirit of Your Grandchildren?
            
            
              by Lian Henriksen
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                When I meet other grandmothers, I am always moved by the quiet strength and wisdom they carry. Recently, at a Silvers gathering, I met a photograph...
              
             
 
 
 
    
    
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