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Newsletter - December 2025
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At Groking Wholeness, we believe in the transformative power of integrating mind, body, and spirit to foster balance within oneself and one's surroundings. Changing oneself is a prerequisite to changing one’s surroundings or society because personal growth creates the foundation for the broader impact.
Happy Holidays to the Family of Humankind
One Consciousness, One Spirit, One Humanity
by the founders of Groking Wholeness
As we all celebrate this holiday season, let us all remember our interconnectedness and our oneness, weaving together the holiday cheer with this universal spiritual truth. We are all a part of a shared source of life, light and consciousness that binds all humanity and all living creatures on our fragile but beautiful planet. Beyond our individual identities, this singular, overarching Consciousness unites every living being. The consciousness emanating from this Universal Mind connects us all through an intricate web of thought and experience that transcends geographical, religious, racial and political boundaries. In our oneness our individual lives are not isolated but deeply intertwined.
Let us remind ourselves that the overall message of this holiday season must be one of profound harmony and shared existence. Despite our varied cultures, locations, beliefs and personal narratives, we must remember that we are all branches of the same tree, nourished by that same underlying Consciousness. Compassion, understanding, and the recognition of our shared humanity are the true gifts of the season, extending far beyond any single holiday to encompass the deep and everlasting connection that unites us all.
Cosmic Consciousness for the Holidays?
Bob Staretz
During this holiday season, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the notion of Cosmic Consciousness. This idea is the spiritual realization that refers to a higher state of being that can be experienced and practiced by any of us on a personal level. It is a state of expanded awareness and enlightenment embodying love, peace, compassion, wisdom, harmony and unity with all existence. It is also a state of consciousness that transcends the ego, selfishness, greed and materialistic concerns, our failings, our doubts and fears, and aligns all of us with the unity and Oneness of the Divine.
Cosmic Consciousness is accessible to anyone regardless of religious affiliation, tradition or formal religious practices. It has no spiritual leader, guru, or institution other than the enlightened self. It is the realization of one's true nature as an aspect of Oneness, a state of metaphysical integration where the human and divine aspects within each of us are harmonized and integrated. It is not limited to any specific religion or religious practice but is the universal truth found at the core of most religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and indigenous mysticism. It is sometimes known as a state of samadhi or self-realization. It is the non-dualistic awareness that unites our inner subjective experiences, our consciousness, with our outer objective experiences.
Holidays
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807-1882
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
White as the gleam of a receding sail,
White as a cloud that floats and fades in air,
White as the whitest lily on a stream,
These tender memories are;--a fairy tale
Of some enchanted land we know not where,
But lovely as a landscape in a dream.
Opening to the Possible
Carol Roberts, MD
Here’s a confession: I’m a YouTube addict. My favorite shows are the ones about channelers, mediums and other psychics who can do remarkable things. They all claim we can all do this, but someone once told us that our “friend” was “imaginary” and we shut down that possibility.
I am always open to the unlikely and the metaphysical, especially when it costs nothing but a little effort to prove or disprove the premise - I am psychic too.
I have been waking at four AM for years. My dogs are not dog friendly and it is easier to walk them when no sane person is awake and we don’t risk the frenzied encounter. But now I’m getting up instead at four to meditate, to raise my vibrations and to see if I can contact “the other side”.
I had a very dear friend, a Spanish woman, Oly, who was a gifted medical intuitive. I had her working in my practice part time, where she would see the complicated patients and guide the therapy in an often unexpected direction. She was always right. She died five years ago at the age of 53.
Soul Musings
Douglas Bonar
Feeding the Homeless
Christ Consciousness for the Holidays
Note: I use the terms Christ Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness interchangeably. I may even write God(dess), the Buddha Mind, Allah, the quantum field or the noosphere. Groking oneness, wholeness and interbeing allows for such adventures out of a limited worldview and the space time continuum. There is but one. I mostly like to call it Love.
An initial experience that I have at the start of the winter holiday season, when first hearing Christmas music playing in stores, malls and plazas, etc. is yucky! I’m thinking, “It’s too early!” “It’s become all about marketing and profit!” “How can we celebrate so joyously when so many people are suffering?” I swiftly retreat to my mindfulness practice to change my thinking and attitude, and to appreciate the finer and sacred aspects of the season. Truly, I enjoy the merriment and messages of the various religious and earth-based traditions, including, but not limited to, Christianity.
Precious Memories in the Spirit of Christmas
Linda Sechrist
In the spirit of Christmas, I find myself returning to the earliest memory of sensing that Consciousness was awakening within me. It was 1994, and I was journaling—simply writing a handwritten account of my day—when suddenly the word LIFE appeared on the page, printed in large capital letters. I hadn’t consciously written it.
I remember staring at it for a long time, struck by how odd it looked amid my flowing cursive, how boldly it stood out as if placed there with intention. I felt mystified, almost as though a force other than myself had taken hold of my hand, trying to get my attention. But what was the message? And why? I carried those questions with me for months. Even now, thirty-two years later, the memory of that single printed word remains vivid—like a photo tucked into a scrapbook of my soul.
The previous year, 1993, had been one of profound upheaval. I had lost my home and job as a result of the Savings & Loan scandal in New England. My seven-year love relationship had ended, my daughter had taken a job at sea, and I was wrestling with a painful mother-daughter dynamic. In the span of months, I moved from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania and then to Ohio. It felt as if I’d been struck by the Cosmic 2x4 while simultaneously experiencing the collapse of my ego. I was afraid to fall asleep, convinced I might simply disappear—a terrifying thought I could neither shake nor explain. All of it together ushered me straight into what is often called the Dark Night of the Soul.
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