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Have you ever wondered why YOU are uniquely YOU? It doesn’t have to do with name–in my case there is another Shirley Ann Koritnik on the planet but we are very different from each other. Even identical twins who share so much genetically are each unique personalities–even when they grow up in the same home, …
This past week I’ve successfully moved through seven tough days following an unexpected and life-changing loss. In all the decades of my life I’ve never managed to let go of something so dramatic and so emotionally exhausting so quickly. Not only that, but because I’m newly clear about my purpose in life, I was able …
There’s just something about Spring, right? There’s newness everywhere, often in bursting colors and wonderful scents. The browns and grays of Nature transform into fresh and bright and clean. We humans get into the spirit of it all, too. Among other things, we put away winter clothes, wash windows to let in the sun, zip …
This week’s free course called PRESENTATIONS That Impact and Convert turns from personal growth to business growth. Join us to get tips on how to present any idea in a way that really connects with people, getting past all the noise and millions of choices everyone has these days! Covid time has convinced a lot …
Barriers exist all around us. The MASTER KEY EXPERIENCE has been my key to learning finally how to master my mind and my thinking. Maybe it will be your key as well. How to get a free scholarship is below! [Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay]
Week 23 in the Master Key Experience made me laugh in delight and dance–and I was not expecting that! You see, we’re almost at commencement–there’s one more week to go in our six-month master level class. So I’ve been struggling with sadness that the relationships we have as we’ve worked together will change. I have …
I have to admit I was quite startled to hear our MKE assignment on February 29. We were asked, if possible, to go into a time of complete silence for at least 24 hours—much more if possible—sometime in the next two weeks. It was highly suggested that we find ways to remove ourselves from our …
This week in the MKE we juxtaposed two readings to help us think about the possibility of perfect health, ease not dis-ease. We’re applying what we’ve learned about mind and thought and emotion and vibration to still another aspect of life: health. Again it’s clear that “authentic” magic exists and is available to every one …
In the last several weeks I’ve confirmed something I’ve suspected but didn’t know for sure. I have the right compass for my Hero’s Journey! I AM THRILLED TO CONFIRM THAT. No looking back now. I think a story I heard tonight says it best. A young piano student was super frustrated with her piano teacher. …
The words I am are powerful, aren’t they? People from my religious tradition will recognize them as what God gave as his name when Moses asked. I discovered the power of these words during my pre-school playtime as I’d pretend to be Cinderella or Snow White or Dale Evans or Peter Pan. To remind myself …
For 19 weeks I’ve been saying “Do it now!” 25 times out loud twice a day. It’s part of our practice in the Master Key Experience. It’s amazing what changes that little phrase has brought about. I pause to think whether to do this or that before the other when I hear the now ingrained …
One of our recent daily assignments in the Master Key Experience has been to read one or more local obituaries, especially those with photographs of the deceased. We’re in the 2nd week of doing this. So many are younger than I am. So many were hampered by a difficult and/or painful illness when I am …
Last week was Week 17 in the Master Key Experience. This week, interestingly, is being called Week 17 HJ. That’s because four months in we’re taking a bit of extra time to make sure we each have all we need for the challenges that are ahead in the Hero’s Journey. I’m double-checking the helmet of …
This past year I’ve learned a lot about food–food for my body, and food for my spirit. I’ve been amused to realize that food is food–whether it’s physical to feed my body, or in the form of words and thoughts that feed my soul. Either way, food is crucial–whether I avoid it and don’t perform …
Have you, like me, never thought of the word spell as having to do with spiritual power, as in “casting a spell?” Clearly people closer to the origins of language knew the power of words in a way we moderns don’t connect with. My Master Key Experience is showing me we ignore the power of …
I’m someone who has tried for a lifetime to manipulate time and push against boundaries. Time and limits were the enemy. I’ve lost most of those battles from a young age yet I’ve kept coming back for more. In grade school I’d stomp angrily at having to stop playing on summer nights because it got …
As a change of pace in the Master Key Experience, we were given a list of movies to choose from and watch over the holidays. We were encouraged to see how the principles we’ve been learning and putting into action are brought to life in each movie. A definite major purpose. A positive mental attitude. …
One of the joys of the Master Key Experience is the Master Mind Alliance. That means that there are hundreds of us on our own individual journeys but sharing the journey with others who are on their individual journey. Here is the latest report from the Hero’s Journey of my fellow traveler Linda Slaughter. As …
I know through the principle of auto-suggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it, therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of SELF-CONFIDENCE. I have clearly written down a description of my …
This is Week 12 (three months) of the Master Key Experience. From day one we’ve been working to come up with words that will describe our future Self who is living out our Definite Major Purpose or DMP. Every week we try to capture our DMP in 400 words that hold the weight of our …
This week Lesson 11 started out talking about deductive reasoning and seemed extra hard to get into. But it ended inviting us to sit with this compelling statement from the Bible in Mark 11-24. I wonder how I could have heard this ALL MY LIFE and not really had it soak in as far as …
One of the first things I learned in the Master Key Experience was that I had been skimming the surface of many things in my life–books I had read, people I had met, ideas I had come across, and more. I’m forgiving myself because I know, like all of us, I brought to all those …
For me, this week in the Master Key Experience has been all about internalizing all the ways I’m reminded to “Be Present.” To take future tense out of Scroll II that we are reading this month from THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD, we marked out the word “will.” The subtle difference is powerful. “I …
![Barriers exist all around us. The MASTER KEY EXPERIENCE has been my key to learning finally how to master my mind and my thinking. Maybe it will be your key as well. How to get a free scholarship is below! [Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay]](https://detectiveofmagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/eye-2005661_1920-EDIT-1200-x-630-400x300.jpg)
