Meehl Foundation

10/31/2025

September 21 1954- October 29,2025

Mark Meehl was a combination of leprechaun, and Peter Pan all stirred into a pot with a dash of hedonism and deep spirituality.
His greatest goal in life was to be a full-time retired housewife but that came with a hard price of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 45 years old. For 14 years, he was the housewife as I ran the Meehl foundation for bipolar and borderline personality disorder. He was full-time and deeply commitment to the healing and to the people that came to the Meehl house . He was without a doubt, my greatest champion he always believed in me and knew the healing capability and potential that I had to help others.
When I fully stepped into shamanism he was all in 100% as he knew without a shadow a doubt, what I was capable of even though I doubted it many many times. To say that he was the wind beneath my wings is a deep understatement. He was the champion behind me all the time.
Mark deeply believed that the after life was “the next great adventure” he hope it was like sky-diving or skiing at 80mph down a mountain , which was two of he’s greatest joys. He was one of the most intelligent, gifted, spiritual men I have ever known (believing in the Goddess) - He will be deeply missed but we know he will be with us in spirit and in ceremony, continuing his loving legacy of nourishing the healing mission he initiated through The Meehl Foundation.
Official obit to come …

10/30/2025

Samhain: Born Into Life Born Into Death

Love is death’s most precious gift to us. Love, not money, possessions, career, social esteem and the many other alluring outer trappings of life, is the balm that soothes us in the face of death. Love is what connects us to those who have passed on. Love calls us to reach out and hold each other in our grief. Love is what joins us heart to heart and soul to soul to another. Love is our best offering from our Deep Self to the world.

Samhain is a time to contemplate the mysteries of death, not from a place of fear and resistance, but from an acceptance of death as a teacher and guide for the living. Yes we are born into life and born into death, and it is this very, inescapable fact that makes every moment so precious, fragile and bittersweet beautiful.
Death isn’t a summons to fear, it is an invitation to love, deeply, wildly, joyfully. And when death seeks us out at the end of our days, let our last breath be a prayer to love.

Celebrate Samhain with The Path of She Book of Sabbats. Available in paperback and e-books: https://amzn.to/3UqXbIU

Artwork by SarembaArt

10/30/2025

For the ancient Celts, all boundaries were liminal, magical places; whether the boundaries between day and night (dawn, dusk), between the water and the land, or the portals between summer and winter (Beltaine and Samhain).

The same applied to boundaries in the landscape. Offerings such as bog butter were often left for the Spirits of Place, at the spot where two landholdings meet. In Scottish tradition, it was important to saine (sanctify or purify) the boundaries of your land yearly by "walking the bounds" with a flaming torch, making a sun-wise circuit. The house, the barn, the herds, and the land could also be sained with salt or salt water, especially water taken from the ninth wave of the sea.

According to ancient Irish Brehon laws, a boundary could be marked by a standing stone, a large natural rock, a ditch, a tree, water, or a roadway. Another sturdy boundary marker was the living hedge or hedgerow.

The name "Hedge Witch" comes from days of old when villages were separated by forests. The edge of a village where the forest began was called the hedge. In most villages, there was an herbal practitioner who lived in the forest or near the edge of the forest. This was the person the villagers appealed to when there was no doctor, or the doctor couldn't cure them. The practitioner who lived by the hedge and practiced herbal arts was called a Hedge Witch.

The word "hedge witch" is a direct translation from the Saxon word "haegtessa," which means hedge-rider. Now, many people seem to think that the "hedge" in hedge witch means a "fence" of plants and forests. This is not what is meant. In those days, wise women or healers lived inside a forest or just before a forest. Forests were considered the "unknown" because they contained all the spirits and creatures. Thus, it was meant that the witch or hedge witch is on the border of both worlds (physical realm and the realm of the Fae, the mythical creatures, etc.). Hedge witches were said to be able to communicate and interact with both worlds.

Hedge witches would enter a trance by either hallucinogens, meditation, dancing, or chanting. When they enter this trance, they are able to communicate with the spirits and other beings, obtaining information. This process of entering the trance was called "hedge riding," meaning traveling in the other world.

They would then use this information to heal others or become closer to nature and make brews or potions. Hedge witches generally practiced shamanism and herbalism. They knew about nature, the cycles of nature, the moon phases, etc.
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10/25/2025

10/23/2025

Yes… your bones !

Write to reveal what you have to offer the world. To Language Your Message. To mend wounds. Clarify your purpose. Strengthen your Voice. Tell your true story.

10/19/2025

Hecate’s Hearth Fire

We stop at the shadowed edge of the firelight. The space appears empty, except for the scarlet and amber flames, and the golden edged heat waves rising to lick the black night sky. A base primal rhythm sounds in my upper chest, like the heartbeat of the living earth. I scent the airand discern Hecate’s presence in the quickening of the power place in my solar plexus, but I cannot see Her.

Kayla’s lips are slightly parted, and an intense energy rises from her skin.

“We’ve found Hecate’s hearth fire,” she says, her voice husky and eager, “Come, She is waiting for us.”

I pause, with my upper torso extended forward and the rest of me frozen in place. Do I want this? My heart pounds within the narrow confines of my rib cage — yes, more than anything else in the world, yes I want this.

A rush of warmth floods me and an overwhelming longing, like a lost traveler who has finally found her way home, as I step from the darkness into the light of Hecate’s realm.

Excerpt from Tale of the Lost Daughter. Available in paperback and e-book: http://goo.gl/D8urFS

Artwork by Nona Limmen

10/16/2025

10/14/2025

“We have unleashed some kind of process that is inimical to the planet, and very very final,” said the visitor. With the session closing on three hours, the laughter subsides as the speaker is at home inside a narrative of mounting tragedy, a turbulent story as familiar to him as it surely is to...

10/12/2025

Many people taking GLP-1 medications find that they’ve suddenly released their desires for food, alcohol, to***co, shopping, and more—how Buddhists have been contemplating this exact transition for centuries. But if renunciation of desire is the key to enlightenment, Shayla Love wrote in 2024, “why does the medication version of Nirvana seem relatively lackluster?” https://theatln.tc/JnMZ8w3I

Scientists are still determining how people respond psychologically to GLP-1 drugs. While many express elation at the effects of weight loss, others report feeling uninterested in activities they once enjoyed. If you’re suddenly stripped of strong feelings of wanting, “you have to reestablish what your behavioral drivers should be,” one neuroscientist told Love.

This mirrored what Love heard from Sister True Vow, a Buddhist nun at a New York monastery. Buddhism recommends contemplating your cravings over a period of years to loosen your grip on them; but GLP-1 drugs “do it in a chemical way, without the psychology of us coming along with it,” Sister True Vow said. The jarring feeling of abruptly losing your cravings “can also be an opportunity to uncover the roots of our desire in order to eventually let them go in a more deliberate way, Sister True Vow said. This doesn’t mean people have to forgo enjoyment of the present moment—in fact, Buddhism encourages such pleasures.”

The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way, in which enlightenment is approached not by breaking completely free from desire, but by gaining awareness of how and why you want things. After many months on the drugs, some GLP-1 users appear to be finding their own Middle Way. “I have had to learn more about what desire is, how it works,” one user told Love.

Modern American life is accused of overloading our dopamine system, such that some influencers and psychologists have endorsed “dopamine fasting.” “Desire, in other words, is a monster to be tamed,” Love continued. “Yet people’s emotional responses to GLP-1 drugs reveal that our relationship with wanting is more complex. If an overattachment to every craving can bring suffering, a total renunciation of them can be unsatisfying too.”

🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty.