by Hiro Boga | Energy Alchemy
When I was a child I loathed the bitter foods that our cook served up several times each week. Karela, also known as bitter gourd. Tittori—a variety of bitter lentil. Methi bhaji, a particularly mouth-puckering species of spinach. Bitter foods had their place in my...
by Hiro Boga | Creativity, Energy Alchemy
I don’t compress my desires into a “word of the year” but I do ask the spirit of the new year what it wants from me. I also talk with it about what is whispering, rumbling, sparking in my heart; what I would love to create, in partnership with it. Spirit of 2020,...
by Hiro Boga | Energy Alchemy
Unhealed wounds leave us vulnerable to manipulation. At their extremity, unhealed wounds are portals through which ideologues and fundamentalists (of every stripe) recruit, program, and weaponize people to serve their own agendas of dominance and control. Healing is a...
by Hiro Boga | Energy Alchemy
Whenever you create something new, you alter the topography of your inner being as well as the shape of your life and the world around you. Creativity destabilizes the existing order — or disorder — in ways you cannot predict or control. That liminal time...
by Hiro Boga | Energy Alchemy, Soul Business
It’s June, and here in the Pacific Northwest, summer’s waving her golden arms from across the horizon. There’s a radiance that illuminates this part of the world as the days grow longer and light returns in all her splendor. The ruffling leaves of the maple trees...
by Hiro Boga | Energy Alchemy, Soul Alchemy
Over the past three months, I’ve dropped thirty pounds of excess weight. And the weight continues to drop steadily, at the rate of one or two pounds each week. This did not happen by dieting (which I don’t believe in) or vigorous exercise (I walk every day, but...
