Evil has come close to the earth—it is present

One of the Madonna’s central messages is that evil has come close to the earth—it is present. This opens a conversation I rarely bring into workshops, because I do not invite discussions of evil lightly. But it is essential, because it belongs to your inner theology. What is your understanding of God? What is your understanding of good? And what is the presence of good and evil in your own life?

Please enjoy this session from my live workshop “Sacred Mysteries on Sacred Ground,” from 2016.  If you’d like to see the rest of this workshop, you can click here to learn more »

This recorded session reflects on the idea of pilgrimage—not as a physical journey, but as an inner orientation toward the sacred. It opens by exploring prayer as a living, cross-tradition practice and as a doorway into relationship with the invisible world. From there, the workshop considers the mystical meaning of prayer and why it remains one of the most powerful ways human beings enter into communion with the Sacred.

The teaching then turns toward what is happening in our world today, particularly around sacred phenomena and moments of divine encounter. Rather than questioning whether such experiences are real, this session asks what has changed in us. It examines how modern consciousness has altered our capacity to perceive and trust the sacred, even as our longing for it has grown stronger.

At its heart, this workshop speaks to a shared human desire for authentic grace—for contact with something greater than ourselves, and for the assurance that our lives matter. In confusing and painful times, faith in the invisible can feel fragile, yet the sacred mysteries endure. Prayer still works. Miracles are real. And the Sacred continues to respond.