The Challenge of Being Visionary and Heart-Led: Thirty Years Later

February 18, 2026 7:47am

The Personal Challenge of Being Visionary and Heart-Led Dreams become concrete. The road continues. And I never escaped my humanity. I Never Escaped My Humanity I’ve used my abilities to recreate narratives, images, roles, and ways of being. I’ve learned how to adapt in rooms, how to lead in circles, how to align with visions mine and others’. But no matter how much I refined the narrative, I never escaped my humanity. And I no longer want to. The Old Way Was Fun Profitable and the Costs Were Still Too Great There was a time in my life when selling…

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Successful Lifestyle vs Successful Human: The Difference That Shifts Everything

February 15, 2026 7:30am

by Chris Albaugh

Successful Lifestyle vs Successful Human: The Difference That Shifts Everything Isn’t there a difference between having a successful lifestyle and being a successful human? I’ve lived through enough to see the polarities between these perspectives… and to bridge the gap between them. A successful lifestyle can be built. It can be marketed. It can be photographed. It can be performed. It has metrics. Income. Property. Body composition. Influence. Visibility. Recognition. None of those are wrong. But we’ve all met people with all of it who couldn’t sit alone in a quiet room without needing noise to escape themselves. And we’ve…

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We Came Here to Have a Human Experience: Stewardship, Compassion, and Nurturing Each Other

February 14, 2026 7:14am

by Chris Albaugh

We Came Here to Have a Human Experience We came here to have a human experience and to relate through stewardship, compassion, and nurturing each other. To feel full and to feel hungry. To feel thirsty and the satisfaction of quenching it. To live the contrast without making it a curse. To let the formless meet the formed not as a battle, but as a practice. Not as a performance, but as a way of being. The River Teaches Us How to Trust The darker depths only consume us if we don’t trust the in the river. The free fall…

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The Healer in Flip-Flops

February 11, 2026 10:10am

by Chris Albaugh

The Healer in Flip-Flops On conscious choice, judgment, and the art of being human. When the Image Doesn’t Match the Medicine I once read a story about someone who searched the world for the best healer. They traveled deep into the mountains, following whispers of a man known for profound healing abilities. The kind of healer spoken about in quiet reverence. When they finally found him, they were confused. Standing before them was a tiny man in flip-flops, cut-off jean shorts, no shirt, belly hanging out… smoking a cigarette. No robes. No performance. No curated holiness. Just a human being…

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Beyond Identity: Many Expressions, One Living Field

February 10, 2026 7:32am

by Chris Albaugh

Beyond Identity: Many Expressions, One Living Field We’ve all been told directly and indirectly how we should, could, or would be a better version of ourselves in relation to how someone else chooses to live. Belonging offered conditionally. Improvement framed through comparison. Worth measured against another person’s beliefs, values, or comfort. Much of this comes wrapped in authority from preachers, teachers, priests, leaders, experts, and systems that speak as if they stand above the human condition. Through my own lived experiences with them, I was reminded of something simple and unavoidable: No one is above being human. No title, robe,…

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Legally Right vs. Being Right

February 3, 2026 7:53am

by Chris Albaugh

Legally Right vs. Being Right When the Art of Life Is Co-Created Through Shared Visions and Agreements There are moments in life when our belief in systemsequality, fairness, justice, unity. Quietly fails us. Not because the systems don’t work as designed, but because they were never built to hold the full complexity of being human. It’s funny, in a way, being birthed into this life as a Libra. An archetype associated with balance and justice only to learn that harmony isn’t something you think your way into. It’s something you experience by living both sides of duality. Both polarities of…

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The Certainty of Uncertainty: In-Formation, Identity, and Remembering We Are One

January 31, 2026 6:22am

by Chris Albaugh

The Certainty of Uncertainty: In-Formation, Identity, and Remembering We Are One There is a quiet certainty inside uncertainty. One we often resist until experience teaches us what information alone never could. We live in a world saturated with ideas: what is right, who is right, which side to stand on, what success looks like, who we should be, and how healing is supposed to appear. Much of this comes through education, mass media, culture, and well-intended teachings passed down without embodiment. So we try them on. Not because we are foolish. Not because we are broken. But because this is…

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Consciousness, Time, and the Art of Returning | Subconscious, Presence & Free Will

January 29, 2026 7:10am

by Chris Albaugh

Consciousness, Time, and the Art of Returning How the Subconscious Runs Faster Than Awareness and the Superconscious Brings Us Home There was a long time in my life when I believed I was present and yet my body kept proving otherwise. I could sit in a room, look someone in the eyes, speak calmly, even offer guidance… and still feel a tightening in my chest, a readiness to defend, a subtle urgency to control outcomes. Nothing was happening in the moment. And yet everything was happening inside me. That contradiction became one of my greatest teachers. It led me to…

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From Power to Presence: Acceptance, Mis-Guidance, and Life Beyond Identity

January 28, 2026 9:44am

by Chris Albaugh

From Power to Presence: Acceptance, Mis-Guidance, and Life Beyond Identity As a teenager, I studied magic, the occult, secret societies, and personal leadership not out of curiosity alone, but out of survival. I was trying to understand power. My power. What made me feel so different, so intense, so out of place in the world I was born into. Those years were rough. Cutting, fighting, running from the police those weren’t phases, they were patterns. I didn’t feel safe in my home, in my body, or in my future. By my late teens, I dropped out of high school and…

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Division Through “Love”: Fear, Power, Profit, and the Union That Creates New Life

January 25, 2026 6:37am

by Chris Albaugh

Division Through “Love”: Fear, Power, Profit, and the Union That Creates New Life On the world’s stage, many of us are watching a painful contradiction unfold: division justified through teachings of love. Words like protection, righteousness, safety, freedom, and “the greater good” are often used to excuse harm, consolidate control, and normalize suffering. And somewhere between ideology and impact, innocent bystanders pay the price. This isn’t only political. It’s energetic. It’s psychological. It’s deeply human. To understand what’s happening without becoming consumed by it, we have to look beneath the surface beneath headlines, slogans, and identities into polarity, fear, and…

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