“To love is to be happy with” This is the 5th principle of Urban Shamanism. Days ago riding a cab home, I hear a layman counseling a couple. This was a radio program being listened to by the cab driver.

No romantic script. No dogmatic sermon either. I was amazed at how the layman personalized/customized things for a very angry wife and the husband who kept interrupting.

The 5th principle has corollaries: “Love increases as judgment decreases” and “Everything is alive, aware and responsive.”

the hectic schedules of Emil, which i thought I had fully accepted during our March 5 to 9 vacation in Singapore caused havoc early this Sunday morning.

I was caught by surprise and how I just hate surprises! I was not expecting that he would be fetched as early as 6:45 in the morning. This upset the entire household routine and on a Sunday. Worse, he was still looking for things when the security called that the car was already waiting for him.

I could have been warned the night before. He usually does. I could have helped him get ready. I am still committed to letting him follow his own spiritual pathway but not at the expense of my health protocols which have not been working since we returned from Singapore.

Ironically I was still awake after 8:30 last night. When I woke up at around 11:30 P.M. I saw gifts from his students neatly stacked on the dining table for me. By then Emil was asleep; sad over the loss of GINEBRA. Was he disoriented?

Well, according to my spiritual pathway, blaming is not a solution. I remain commited to my decision to allow Emil to follow his own chosen pathway which is to be a human developer.

My lower self has a question: “Am I not included among the humans to be developed?
I am as yet not at peace but I believe the 7th Principle is the solution.