Author Archives | Chris LaFontaine

Fear? Pointless.

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: February 1, 2010
This morning I found myself reflecting on personal experiences lived over the past 30 years. Or so. I can now say that fully half my life has been spent actively engaging in the large-scale change of consciousness I agreed to assist before I arrived. A large group of baby boomers came in as transforming agents, and I dutifully took [...]
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2010, Oh Mama

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: January 1, 2010
A decade ago we were concerned about Y2K and the end of the world as we knew it. Perhaps we were right about the outcome, even though Y2K itself turned out to be a minor event for most people. Still, that possibility of radical change did ignite an awareness of our global interconnectedness and the possibility that our lives could [...]
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Checking the Alignment

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: December 1, 2009
It is now three years until December of 2012, and no matter your beliefs about that date you are probably feeling the acceleration of change. I would have written exhilaration, but that may not be how you see it, given the wild ride these past months. If you consider yourself a person who is moving into the new experience on [...]
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In Transition: Mid Lives Crisis

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: November 1, 2009
I'm wondering what goes through the mind of a caterpillar as it turns to mush in the chrysalis. No longer a caterpillar, not yet a butterfly. I don't mean to overwork a cliché, but the metaphor is apt as I sit on the cusp of my 61st year and my second life this time around. From the outside [...]
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Pause…Reflection

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: October 1, 2009
For this writer, today is 09-09-09, and I just returned from a much-appreciated vacation away from the routines connected with running one's own business. For many in the New Age community, today was purported to represent another major moment in our grand adventure of personal and planetary transformation. Perhaps the numbers representing this date do mean [...]
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A Special Comment: on Community

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: September 1, 2009
I once knew of a respected visionary who articulated a concept about how people in the future would gather together. Details escape me, but I seem to remember something about being grouped in threes and creating overlapping circles. Soon I was reading about workshops designed to teach people how to gather in threes and create overlapping circles. I'm stretching [...]
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Two Realities : One Life

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: August 1, 2009
Holy moly, welcome to August already and the on-going, ever-morphing energies of 2009. The late spring and early summer energies were pushy, demanding, relentless, unequivocal and challenging on multiple levels. I hesitate to say were, since plenty of challenges remain, but at least I'm starting to feel like things are moving into my life again. I would [...]
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Don’t Even Think About It

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: July 1, 2009
Some of us spent years exploring whatever spiritual pathway drew our attention, trying to find something that answered our questions or matched what we were feeling. We may have shifted focus several times as we continued to grow past the limiting dogma of any particular practice. In my case, I left behind a typical religious upbringing as soon as I [...]
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It’s Not What You Expect

By Chris LaFontaine | Published: June 1, 2009
I recently heard from the mother of a newborn that her baby was considered underweight because her pediatrician's statistic tables didn't match her child's reality. I joked that her child had her first opportunity to practice not living up to the expectations of others. The mother returned the humor, asking where was I when she was growing [...]
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