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Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 21: The Heart Of A Warrior (Surviving Ascension)
You are a warrior, you have the heart of a lion, or you would still be asleep. You have what it takes to survive ascension. Face what is before you, and truly live!
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 20: The Time Of Gathering
weave together the tapestry of a better tomorrow.
Transformation: Attitude Is Everything (Audio)
Real change means taking a good look at everything.... including what you are looking through.
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 19: Transformation. Attitude Is Everything
Real change means taking a good look at everything.... including what you are looking through.
Holding, And Being Held: Learning To Receive
Holding, And Being Held Let Love In, Allow It To Heal you, And Send It To Others Dec 27, 2024- -Life on Earth is intended to be challenging, and, sometimes, as we meet our challenges, we can forget the glory of our true being, we can be overcome with fear, pain, and suffering, and respond …
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To Have Free Will
July 23, 2023- To Have Free Will What does it mean to have free will? Where do I begin? It has been twisted in this age to make us think that it means that we can do anything that we want, good, bad, or indifferent, and not worry about the consequences. But that is a …
Take The Red Pill
Take The Red Pill Once you know the truth, you can never go back. Can you envision Zion, Heaven on Earth? Can you see what it looks like? What it feels like? Is there an image, a feeling, a knowing, that you carry always in your heart, of the promised land? Have you been seeking …
A Sip From Your Cup
A Sip From Your Cup There is a cup before you. Lift it, and take a sip. What is there for you to drink? Is it sweet? Is it welcoming? Is it warm, and nourishing, and do you crave more of the elixir within? Or is your cup bitter? Or bland? Does it seem thick? …
Everyday Heaven
Everyday Heaven There is beauty in everything, but it is up to us to find it and honor it. To see the beauty of the world, the beauty of ourselves, is to live in heaven every day. The heaven I speak of is not some far-off, floaty place with clouds, angel wings, and a bearded …
Relax Into Life
Relax Into Life -Select the role you wish to play, and proceed with boldness and confidence. Relax into life, and embrace the Truth of your being, holding at all times an awareness of your beingness, for this determines your impact in the moment. Consciously choose what you feel is appropriate for whatever you are facing, …
Growing Pains
Growing Pains When we are trying to shape something new and different for ourselves, one of the greatest challenges we face is giving ourselves enough space to hold the new energy long enough, explore the new direction far enough, for it to begin to take shape, to gather substance, and become real, our new reality, …
Meet Your Inner Demons
Meet Your Inner Demons March 25, 2024- - Change is happening. It is upon us. Find yourself solid ground to stand upon, so that you may weather the approaching storm without losing your footing. Begin the work where it must begin, inside of you. Don’t try to fix anyone else, don’t try to save the …
Statement of Purpose
Statement of Purpose I AM here today I AM alive How will I live right now? I Will choose what I want I Will picture it I Will move toward it I Will block out distractions I Will find the joy in each moment I Will Love without limit I Will be honest, intentional, present …
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 18: You Are Not A Slave To Your Emotions
In life, there are going to be bumps. If you hit one, don't just fall on your face, do something to regain your balance, so you can continue on your merry way.
Being Silver
Being Silver Silver, unlike gold, requires our participation to retain its sheen. Gold can hold its reflecting surface on its own, but silver tarnishes, and we must polish it to keep its mirror shine. We will one day be golden, transmuted into an irreducible light, but until we achieve that state, we must do the …
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 17: Getting Rid Of Negative Self-Talk
Negative self-talk can be a killer, but you don't have to be stuck listening to it. Here are some methods to use to quiet it, divert it, or maybe even shut it down.
Flying Turtle Podcast Episode 16: Baptism By Moonlight
Our reality shifted during the eclipse. The Earth is ascending, and we are all ascending with Her, like it or not. Buckle up.
Black Clouds
Black Clouds The clouds are black, and pregnant, waiting, ready to deliver life, to the Earth below them. Moving into position, roiling, shifting, bumping one another, in their slow rush to destiny. Lightning flash illuminates, showing off, backlighting the softly jagged outlines of the individuals within the herd, moving in unison, the front line of …
Standstill: Winter Solstice (Audio)
To honor the day when the sun stands still, and the change of seasons, I offer a fresh perspective. Enjoy!
Sit With It (Audio)
The poem, "Sit With It", as read by the author.
Freezing Fog (Audio)
I wrote this poem after walking in the fog one freezing night. Both beautiful, and unsettling. Do not fear the fog.... let it open your eyes!
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 15: Life Is Surfing. Find Your Balance
Stay in the "water" and get pushed around by life, or get up on top and make a ride of it! Your choice.
Feel The Fear, And Go Further Anyway!
September 3, 2023 Feel The Fear, And Go Further Anyway! - In finding our way through life, and through the ever unfolding process of growth, awakening, and spiritual ascension, the pathway lies through mastery of the self, and attunement and mastery of our vessel as we strengthen and come to feel at-home in our natural …
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 14: You Can’t Solve The Madness
Are you feeling a little like Cinderella? Self-love is how we allow the energy of life to enter our bodies, and recharge us! And trying to solve the Madness is just going to create more madness.
A New Script For Earth
A New Script For Earth If I don’t play my role, there is no one else to do it. “If I don’t do it, it won’t get done”! Each of us has a role to play, and all are necessary for the great plan to play out. We can begin by seeing that we …
Standstill: Winter Solstice 2023
Standstill: Winter Solstice 2023 Can you take a day out of time? Can you turn your gaze, not just to the Sun, but expansively, to the rhythms that play out as the Sun and Earth dance together over the course of seasons, running and twisting, this way and that, spinning , and laughing. Having gone …
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 13: Freezing Fog
This episode was recorded live at The Clubhouse in Salt Lake City, UT, on December 19, 2023. A freezing fog settled over my neighborhood a couple of nights ago, and I couldn't resist going out in it. As I wandered, I began to think about icy coatings, why we might have them, and what they …
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Freezing Fog
Freezing Fog Terry Tischmak 12/18/2023 All Rights Reserved The freezing fog envelops me, wrapping me in an embrace that is sticky, yet sharp as a knife, cutting through to my core, while it shrouds the world as I pass through it. Dense, impenetrable, I must open, and trust what I know, to make my way. …
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 12: “Watching The Fire”, and “Sit With It”
This episode was recorded live at The Clubhouse in Salt Lake City, UT, on December 5, 2023. It includes two poems I wrote, and both can be found on my website, terrytischmak.com . The first, "Watching The Fire", begins with a dream someone described to me about the world being on fire. The second, "Sit …
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Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 11: The Power Of Alchemy
Recorded live at The Clubhouse in Salt Lake City, UT. Find your place of Magic, and discover what it is to go beyond simply transforming what is in your life. With the power of alchemy, we can transmute what is within us, what is around us, and what we bring into this world, and change …
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Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 10: Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Each one of us lives in a world that is shaped by our beliefs. What you believe you will get from life is probably what you will end up with, and will also how you feel about it. All beliefs are limiting, including the belief that you are not on your path. When does life …
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Flying Turtle Podcast Episode 9: What is Freedom, and What Will You Do With It?
What is real freedom? What would you do with it if you had it? You have free will, and the freedom to choose, so you have it. The real question is, are you using your freedom just to survive, or are you going deeper than that, and exercising your freedom to live the way you …
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Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 8: My Old Ways Can’t Take Me Home
Our old ways of thinking and of being will just keep taking us back to where we've already been. They don't know how to take us home. Let them go, and find a new way, a better way.
Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 7: Forgiveness Sets Us Free
Anyone can find themselves in crisis, emotionally or spiritually, when life seems extra hard. Maybe we have lost someone we care about, we can't find our way through a problem, or maybe we've just had too much of whatever we've been getting without a chance to recharge. If you are in that place and you …
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Flying Turtle Podcast, Episode 6: Start at the Beginning
Meditation is for everyone, especially beginners. It does not need to be complicated, there is no "right" or "wrong" way to do it, and it is really about taking some time for yourself in your busy life. This is a stop-everything-and-look-inside meditation with a spiritual flavor but I invite everyone to listen in and take …
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Which Wolf: The Bridge, Episode 1
In order to create a new way of life, we each must build a bridge to what we want, and then we must walk across it. We manifest the life we want by living it. We all have two wolves living inside us: an angry wolf , and a happy wolf, and we can only …
Sit With It
Sit With It Terry Tischmak January 29, 2022 Sit with it. What you can't face, what you can't bear........ what overpowers you, and makes you feel like a helpless child........ Sit with it, and let it rise........... until it fills you. Reaches your nose, and cuts off your breath......... choking, suffocating, suffusing everything. Sit with …
The Bridge, Episode 2: Just Woke Up? Maybe This Will Help
Are you feeling like you just woke up in a crowded movie theater, and everyone around you is still lost in the movie, but you are wondering what the hell is going on? Maybe this will help.
Standstill: Winter Solstice 2021
Can you take a day out of time? Can you turn your gaze, not just to the Sun, but expansively, to the rhythms that play out as the Sun and Earth dance together over the course of seasons, running and twisting, this way and that, spinning , and laughing. Having gone all the way to …
Watching The Fire: Flying Turtle Blog 11/12/2021
Watching The Fire: Flying Turtle Blog 11/12/2021 Last night someone I care deeply about had a dream that the world was on fire, and that “...we were waiting to burn up”. Then they woke up. It seems a rather frightening concept on its face: the world being on fire, and simply awaiting the moment when …
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Which Wolf: The Bridge, Episode 1
In order to create a new way of life, we each must build a bridge to what we want, and then we must walk across it. We manifest the life we want by living it. We all have two wolves living inside us: an angry wolf , and a happy wolf, and we can only …
Destiny, and The Pear (Audio)
What is destiny, how does one go about finding it, and what is the best way to achieve it? The pear knows. A meditation that may help you find yours is included in this podcast. About 30 minutes. Enjoy.
A Place To Bloom (Audio)
I wish to share with you an audio recording of my poem, "A Place To Bloom". I hope you find it peaceful and meditative. It may even help you sleep. Enjoy .
Opening Sacred Space (Audio)
Hello, and welcome. I open a space of sacred intention for us, for this website and for you to return to anytime you wish. May this place of sharing and exchange be in service to the greater good.
Trust, and Fire
Trust, and Fire My place of trust shut down in youth, attacked whenever I showed vulnerability. Layers of armor, defense, piled up until I could no longer see the beautiful soul, the connection to god. Left lonely, shut out, unable or unwilling to give because I was afraid to receive. Love hurt. It felt like …
A Place To Bloom
A Place To Bloom Relax……. And set free The bangles and the barbs, The scene, and the colors on the flags. Markers of who you are, and where you’ve been. They all pull you off… Tugged by the current Flowing past to somewhere else. Motion without end, That leads To where others are going. Release……………… …
Welcome To The Turtle’s Shell
Greetings all! This is my first post, and it’s a little hard to say where things will go from here. This is mostly just a test so I have a page to play with in the editor. Stay tuned for posts containing poetry, bits of advice, product reviews, and maybe even some soul-baring. Thanks for …
