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Stephen Shelley

To Give is To Shift

Most men and women arrive onto their spiritual path carrying pain and trauma. For many of us, we will initially seek the support of ‘quick fix’ outer resources such as drugs or alcohol, sex, gambling, smoking…you name it. The lures of the outside world are our first search for healing, which never work. Once these …

Stephen Sofia Ucluelet

To “Shift” is to Embody

To “shift” is to move from the posture of disempowered victim (or receiver of life and experience) into a powerfully conscious creator of one’s life. It points to the most dramatic and empowered decision a person can make. For the very few, this happens in a flash. One goes from being deeply asleep to having …

Stephen in Zion

Where Am I In “The Shift”?

Since I am writing a lot about “the shift”, you might wonder…where am I in relation to making “the shift”? ~ Am I fully empowered, living sourcefully and joyfully, each and every moment? ~ Am I full of BS, simply talking about something that I have no true experience of? Just another internet wonk spouting …

The Impotence Of Knowledge in Making “The Shift”

Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. We are born makers, and creativity is the ultimate act of integration — it is how we fold our experiences into our being… The Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea …

Have You Made The Shift

Have You Made “The Shift”?

Throughout this blog, I plan to write extensively about something I refer to as “the shift”. What I am pointing to can be described in a variety of ways. The simplest being the shift in focus from being externally referenced to internally referenced. Or, more specifically, am I solely focused on shifting the appearance of …

The Shift

What Is “The Shift”?

Below, I have listed the various ways that I describe “the shift” to others. It can be tricky and complex to discuss subtle, yet immensely powerful, spiritual ideas and concepts to others as our language is so ineffective in doing so. So, I have listed quite a few different definitions and points of view about …