Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior
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The Toxic Feminine and the Divine Feminine: What They Are and What They Are Not
The words “feminine” and “womanhood” are often used as if they mean the same thing, but they do not. Feminine energy is not limited to gender. It is a universal force found in all people, just as masculine energy is. The problem begins when the feminine is twisted into something manipulative, fearful, or self‑erasing. That twisted version is what many people call the toxic feminine. It is not the same as the divine feminine, which is the healthy, grounded, and life‑giving expression of feminine energy found in spiritual traditions around the world. Understanding the difference helps us see that the issue is not femininity itself, but the systems and beliefs that distort it.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout 7 hours ago in Humans
Toxic Patriarchy and Divine Masculinity: Understanding the Difference
The words “masculinity” and “patriarchy” get used so often that people sometimes forget they are not the same thing. Masculinity itself is not harmful. It is a natural expression of strength, protection, clarity, and grounded presence. The problem begins when masculinity is twisted into something controlling, fearful, or dominating. That twisted version is what many people call toxic patriarchy. It is not the same as divine masculinity, which is the healthy, balanced, and life‑giving expression of masculine energy found in spiritual traditions around the world. Understanding the difference helps us see that the issue is not men or masculinity itself, but the systems and beliefs that distort it.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout 7 hours ago in Humans
Why Heaven and Hell Don’t Exist: How Ancient Teachings Became Misunderstood
Most of us grew up with some version of the same story. If you are good, you go to heaven. If you are bad, you go to hell. Heaven is perfect and bright. Hell is dark and full of fire. The story is simple, clear, and easy to use as a warning. It is also, when you look closely at history and sacred texts, not actually what the earliest teachers said. Heaven and hell as physical places of eternal reward and eternal punishment are not ancient universal truths. They are later ideas, built from misunderstandings, mistranslations, and, at times, deliberate choices by people in power who found fear to be a useful tool.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout 7 hours ago in Humans
Reincarnation And The Return To The Self
Reincarnation is often understood as a linear procession of lifetimes, each one unfolding in a new body, a new culture, a new set of circumstances. Yet many mystics, channelers, and spiritual teachers have long suggested a more intricate pattern beneath the surface, one in which the soul does not simply leap from form to form but returns to the same body across alternate timelines until its deepest lessons are fully integrated. This understanding, sometimes called Reincarnation into the Same Body (RSB), reframes the journey of the soul as a spiral rather than a ladder, circling through variations of the self until clarity emerges.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout 12 hours ago in Humans
Sarcasm Is Not Funny: How the Unhealed Ego Uses Irony to Pretend Relevance and Mask Prejudice
Sarcasm is widely treated as wit: a quick retort, a social lubricant, a way to “keep things light.” But beneath the laugh and the eye-roll, sarcasm often functions as a defensive maneuver of an unhealed ego—a way to claim relevance, avoid vulnerability, and disguise contempt or prejudice as cleverness. This article restates that argument with evidence, direct quotations from the literature, and practical alternatives for people and organizations that want to stop mistaking sarcasm for moral sophistication.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 days ago in Humans
Fergie and Andy: The Long Fall of Two Public Lives
They arrived in the public eye as a fairy‑tale couple: a young bride with a ready laugh and a naval officer who seemed to embody duty and charm. Over decades, the story of Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor became something else — a slow, public unraveling in which private mistakes, financial desperation, and dangerous friendships collided with the glare of tabloids and the machinery of modern scandal. This article traces the arc of their travails, separating what is documented from what is rumor, and asking how two people who once symbolized royal glamour came to be defined by controversy.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 days ago in Humans
Humor That Harms
Laughter can be a bridge. It can loosen tension, reframe pain, and make strangers feel like friends. But not all laughter is the same. When amusement depends on insulting, degrading, or humiliating another person, it is not a bridge — it is a weapon disguised as play. This article explores why insult‑based humor and contemptuous sarcasm are not true humor in the humane, connective sense; how psychological research and social studies explain their effects; and what individuals and communities can do to keep laughter from becoming harm.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 days ago in Humans
Death Is an Echo of Ego The Energy Moves
Death, in the deepest sense, is not an absolute cessation but a transformation of form. What we call “death” names the end of a body’s organization, not the end of the animating reality that gave the body life. Seen this way, endings become mirrors: they reveal the posture of the ego that met them. Whether a life ends by illness, accident, violence, or self‑directed choice, the event is a surface on which the soul’s relationship to control, attachment, and surrender is reflected. This piece explores that view through scripture, physics, clinical reports, depth psychology, and contemporary spiritual testimony, arguing that death does not finally exist as annihilation; energy moves, and the quality of the movement is shaped by ego.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 days ago in Humans
