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Letter to a young boyA letter from Coyote to his younger self, revealing how decades of suffering as a queer person — including suicide attempts and profound loss — transform into the very ground of compassion, purpose, and radical aliveness.
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Whose story are you living? Diabolical Distraction DevicesPut down your Diabolical Distraction Devices and return to your own story through journaling, presence, and real connection — before external narratives with different agendas take over your life.
What Operating System are you running?Our minds run on operating systems just like computers—either Fear OS or Loving-Kindness OS—with different default 'apps' that shape how we experience everything from productivity to relationships.
Unfolding your Personal CosmosYour Personal Cosmos is your unique expression of wisdom and altruistic lineages. Following your heart's calling doesn't require changing circumstances — it requires choosing into what you already are, despite resistance and fear of judgment.
Enlightenment- the big scary wordEnlightenment isn't a distant goal but 'happiness on Earth' — achieved by aligning with your heart's calling once you put away the fears that block you from hearing it.
Introducing the Architecture of Fear - a Channeled Wisdom TeachingLin-kat-vi is the channeled name for the force of separation that builds walls when we fear difference within togetherness, creating ever-smaller 'fear castles' that destroy union in the name of safety through sameness.
Stepping into Clarity by Taking the Path of Fearlessness: Basic Goodness Training Part 4Opening to basic goodness reveals a genuine heart of sadness for all the suffering caused by human confusion, which becomes a clarion call to train in piercing through that confusion—not because anything is wrong, but because we have the precious opportunity to connect from the ground of basic goodness.
How We Create Worlds to Avoid Our Deepest Fears: Smash the Walls That Keep Love OutWe unconsciously create worlds designed to avoid our deepest fears, building walls that keep out the very love and connection we long for. The practice is to feel the fear directly and let the walls come down.
How to Move from Anxiety and Fear to Peace: Loving Kindness WinsA practical teaching on interrupting anxiety and fear by returning to our fundamental nature as loving-kindness, offered as both immediate practice and daily discipline for navigating difficult times.
How We Create Scarcity, and How to Step Into Abundance: The Reality Creation LoopThrough encountering a man who has lost everything, this teaching reveals how we create artificial scarcity to fuel consumption, contracting away from the abundance that's actually here. It offers the Reality Creation Loop—Notice, Become Willing, Place Attention on What You Want—as the practice for shifting from scarcity consciousness to abundance.
Loving Kindness WinsA urgent practice instruction for our polarized times: consistently return to 'Loving Kindness Wins' as both truth and active practice, taking radical responsibility for what world you create with your attention in each moment.
Friendship Is Not a Scoreboard. Or, Why is it Always Me?Friendship isn't about keeping score of who calls whom - it's about recognizing what you want (connection) and creating it. Real transformation happens through vulnerable conversation, not through texts and tallying.
The Power of Beginning Again: A Practice for Peace and TransformationBegin Again is the universal practice containing all transformation—not failure but the practice itself. In any moment we can release judgments, choose what aligns with loving-kindness, and start fresh, changing our world and the world of everyone we touch.
Introduction to Channeled BeingsAbel, a channeled being speaking through Coyote, delivers an urgent yet compassionate call for immediate personal transformation — insisting that each reader must embody the change they wish to see in the world by examining their allegiance to consumerism versus their heart's knowledge of what creates true happiness through connection and kindness.
When You're Overwhelmed - Part 2: Dancing the Path of Snow LionSnow Lion teaches joyful discipline as an act of self-love rather than self-punishment. Through five practical steps — developing clarity, choosing priorities, creating structure, maintaining consistency, and remembering to dance — we transform overwhelm into the joy of focused action.
When You're Overwhelmed - Part 1: Walking The Path of TigerA visceral journey through paralyzing overwhelm using the Tiger archetype — shifting attention from crushing fear to indestructible inner strength, taking one tiny action at a time, knowing mood follows action.
Reclaim Your Trust in Humanity: Basic Goodness Training Part 3Extends basic goodness practice to the societal level, inviting contemplation that society is basically good despite media narratives of division, and emphasizing that we create society through every interaction.
Reclaim Your Freedom and Trust: Basic Goodness Training Part 2Expanding Basic Goodness recognition from self to all beings through the 'just like me' practice, revealing how trusting universal goodness creates the foundation for fearlessness and freedom from defensive patterns.
Reclaim Your Peace and Self-Worth: Basic Goodness Training Part 1Basic Goodness is the unconditional worth inherent in all beings — not 'good versus bad' but the simple right to exist, like appreciating a daisy without needing it to become an oak tree. Disconnection from this truth creates self-hatred, inability to set boundaries, and shame spirals.
From Obese to Triathlete: The Step by Step Method Behind My 100+ lb Body TransformationCoyote's 105-pound transformation story reveals how conscious creation works: not by fixing what's wrong but by embodying who you choose to be. Being Athlete came first; the body followed.
How Quickly We Get Lost in Our Stories: Come Back to the Richness of Real LifeA drive through Aspen becomes a stark demonstration of how we construct elaborate mental realities from story fragments, missing the bright, direct world right in front of us—and how meditation trains us to pop these bubbles and return to presence.
An Unexpected Lesson in Humility and Self-Love: What I learned from pooping my pantsA profoundly vulnerable story about losing bowel control that becomes a teaching on radical self-love, demonstrating how years of inner work transform our response to humiliation from shame to compassion.
The Trap of “They”: A Pattern of DisempowermentThe mind's construction of 'they' as an abstract enemy is a fear-based pattern that creates division where none exists. By noticing this habit and feeling what's underneath our complaints, we can shift from victimhood to creative cooperation and appreciation.
Walking with Tiger: Finding Freedom on the Other Side of Agoraphobia, Panic and IsolationA visceral account of surviving severe agoraphobia through discovering 'Tiger' — the indefatigable inner force that keeps walking even when consciousness is obliterated by panic — and the transformation from a world contracted to one corner of a sofa to walking with joy.
Why Nature Feels Better: Reclaim Your Sense of Belonging in an Over-Built and Over-Processed WorldHuman-built environments mirror our mind's tendency to create fixed, rigid structures, causing suffering through their quantized, unchanging nature — while nature's infinite variability and processual flow allows us to experience 'right-sizedness' and belonging.
When You’re In A Funk And Can’t Get Out: Three Keys to Exiting FunkA practical guide to escaping deep funk through three keys: Speak (sharing your truth with committed listeners), Willingness (the gentle insistence to keep trying), and Move (taking physical action even when you don't want to).
Sloggy Days: What To Do When You Don't Want To Do AnythingSloggy days — when everything feels effortful and resistance is high — are reframed as valuable training opportunities where everyday tasks become chances to practice moving through resistance with gentleness, curiosity, and awareness.
Snow Falls Like An Army: A PoemA poem witnessing snow as loving-kindness itself — a gentle, unstoppable force that dissolves all hard edges and boundaries, inviting surrender rather than resistance.
Vision Web: Creating Integration Through Visual PracticeA powerful visual journaling practice that reveals how different life areas (work, spirituality, relationships, creativity, etc.) can support rather than compete with each other, creating integration and balance through contemplative drawing and imagination.
Licking the Blade of Nowness: the Courage to Say Yes and the Life-Changing Choice of a Single MomentKnife edge moments are critical choice-points where we must decide to engage with life or retreat into habitual patterns - illustrated through a powerful story of overcoming decades of body shame to ask for the physical play and healing the heart desperately desires.
Antidotes to Apathy: How To Return to Well-Being from DepressionDepression and apathy create cycles of stagnation and hiding, but four elements can shift us back to well-being: faith in impermanence, non-aggression toward self, vulnerability with qualified others, and journaling to slow thoughts into clarity.
If You Struggle With Feeling Like An OutsiderA transformative reframe of community from noun to verb - shifting from trying to get 'inside' pre-existing groups to recognizing that community is created through the act of communing, dissolving the painful illusion of being an outsider.
The MOST Important Transformation: Coming to Know Your Basic GoodnessBasic Goodness - the unconditional, inherent goodness all beings possess - is the most fundamental transformation available. Like delighting in a daisy's perfect 'daisy-ness,' we can learn to perceive this primordial goodness in ourselves and others, dissolving the belief in basic badness that drives our endless self-improvement and shame.
Living with Childhood Trauma, PTSD, Agoraphobia: And A Path to HealingA raw account of childhood in war-torn Northern Ireland, the resulting PTSD and agoraphobia, and the profound transformation from being unable to go outside to living in wonder and freedom through patient healing work.
How to Hear Your Heart’s True Voice (And What Happens When You Follow It)A powerful account of learning to hear, trust, and follow your heart's true voice – the signal of your authentic direction – and how committing to this inner GPS leads to synchronicities, rapid transformation, and a life aligned with who you really are.
Committing to the Spiritual Journey: A PoemA poem capturing the moment of spiritual awakening when we first hear the 'bells' of our heart signal through the deafening silence of unconscious living, and the practice of listening and stepping that follows.
Wonder: The Ultimate Nourishment for a Hungry SoulWonder is soul-food — discovered through taking new roads, seeing with fresh eyes, and allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed by the infinite marvels in any single thing. A practice of nourishment available through the simplest shift in routine.
Coming Out and Coming Alive: From Terror to Joy on Grafton StreetA raw, transformative story of coming out — from decades of 'WHAT IF THEY FIND OUT' to the freedom of carrying flowers down Grafton Street, demonstrating how walking through our deepest fears dissolves the walls between who we are and who we show the world.
Minimalism: Releasing 98% of Everything I Owned brought Deep Clarity and AbundanceThrough the intense practice of releasing 98% of his possessions, Coyote reveals how physical objects create an energetic field that obscures clarity and maintains false identities, demonstrating minimalism as a profound spiritual practice of dissolving fear's architecture.
The Grooves of Our Lives: How Routine Can Trap Us—and the Benefits of Stepping OutOur daily routines and judgments create deep grooves that offer perceived safety while limiting our experience. Stepping out of these grooves—literally changing our patterns—reveals a vast landscape of possibility and the discovery that everywhere can be home.
Facing Hunger Monster: For Anyone Struggling with Food, Diets, Body Shame, and WeightA real-time exploration of how the Architecture of Fear manifests through food and body shame, revealing the 'Hunger Monster' as a decades-old structure of terror that makes even ordering dinner an ordeal of contradictory voices and childhood wounds.
A Summary of Everything We Need To Know For Personal Transformation And Freedom!Through his personal spiritual totem, Coyote reveals how reality operates as energy forming discrete moments, each containing seeds for what comes next based on where we place our awareness—offering both the cosmic view and practical mechanism for transformation.
How to Create the Courage to Follow Your Calling: The Path of FearlessnessFearlessness is not the absence of fear but the trained capacity to act despite it, essential for following your heart signal and manifesting purpose in the world through recognizing and melting your unique 'fearprint' with compassion.
When life breaks down: Be Uplifted in the Cradle of Loving KindnessA teaching born from severe illness that reveals how even in extreme physical limitation, we can practice 'upliftedness'—turning toward life's rising sun through tiny acts of awareness like making a bed or sitting up slightly, discovering choice and dignity within constraint.
Feeling Bad About Yourself? Read this out loudA guided meditation revealing how our thoughts don't define us, grounding basic goodness in our elemental nature as beings of earth, and inviting us to feel—not think about—our fundamental okayness beneath all shame and self-judgment.
Care How You FeelA practice of making 'Care How You Feel' your core guiding principle, emphasizing that real decisions require committed action - not just thoughts or talk - and that being 'full of yourself' is actually necessary for authentic living.
Leaving the Job and Becoming Ourself: Spiritual Clarity with Be, Do, HaveA vivid account of leaving corporate life that demonstrates the Be-Do-Have reversal - how choosing to be who you are first creates immediate abundance, rather than waiting to have enough before you can be happy.
The Practice of Choosing Magic Over Misery - Tales from the Edge of DeathA near-death experience on New Year's Day becomes a teaching about the fundamental practice of choosing magic over misery - revealing how what we focus on creates our reality and how transformation allows us to meet even death with joy.
How self-worth gets all screwed upA boat ride to Yelapa reveals how the analytical mind constantly calculates our worth through imagined external perspectives — a survival mechanism from childhood that becomes a prison, until we recognize there's nothing we need to protect ourselves from anymore.
Perspective and Scale: Shift Your View to Find Peace in Any MomentShifting perspective and scale transforms how we experience any situation — what looks like conflict at one level reveals harmony at another, offering a practical path to peace and playfulness in daily life.
Trust Yourself: Freedom, Self-Worth, and the Joy of the Inner JourneyA transmission about how true freedom of movement in the world emerges only after doing the inner work to find self-trust and self-worth — when you know everything you need is already within you, you can travel light with only a daypack and infinite joy.
Fear means GO not STOP! Make your Heart SingFear is not a stop sign but a 'heart miaow'—an urgent signal that you're not in alignment because you're not taking action. Like a cat who keeps miaowing until actually eating, fear persists through planning and preparation, dissolving only when you take embodied action aligned with your heart's calling.
We Have Death Backwards - Grief, Death, and the Courage to Keep MovingThrough experiences of letting go — possessions, a dying hospice patient, his beloved cat — Coyote reveals that dying is not the opposite of living but its continuation, and that staying close to death illuminates both life's preciousness and our fundamental nature as beings in constant motion.
Letting Go of Every Thing: The Fear of SimplicityA raw, real-time account of selling all possessions and releasing home and companion animal, revealing how the fear of losing everything transforms into recognition of what is eternally present — the love that travels with us always.
Diving into the Tsunami of Change: Abundance comes from Giving AwayA pivotal realization that renunciation brings abundance, not loss—captured through the metaphor of turning from false safety toward an approaching tsunami and discovering magic visible only when facing forward into change.
From Shame to Joy: Leave your Inner Critic BehindA personal account of transformation from decades of shame and self-loathing to embodied joy through the direct experience of basic goodness—showing how intellectual understanding differs radically from lived realization.
Remembering or Reinventing? How our Stories Shape our RealityWe don't remember the past – we recreate it in each moment, and these acts of creation shape our current reality. By becoming aware of this mechanism and choosing to create from the present rather than recreating the past, we can fundamentally change our world.
Tonight I am manA powerful awakening story of reclaiming masculine identity after a lifetime of rejection — both rejecting self as 'not man enough' and rejecting men for their violence — transforming internalized homophobia into an expansive appreciation for the love men bring to the world.
Life is not in the understanding, it’s in the experience. Embrace being an Astrocreature!A raw account of how grief created 135 pounds of protective armor, and how recognizing one's true nature as an experience-seeking 'astrocreature' dissolves decades of shame to reveal the adventurer waiting underneath.