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Category: Spirtuality

"Rune" a #SymbolWork by EMWe Art (Elizabeth Mullen Matteson)
Body & Health

Title remains silent

She wanted her confection, her conception to be a “good good.” This is because the truth of her experience had told her if there was “good” there was…

September 21, 2024April 7, 2025 · 6 min read

Creativity

Truthiness and tricks: the authoritative voice

Ooops. I did it again. Spoke with the “royal we” from the stance of collective truth teller, and my husband called me out on it over pour over…

September 20, 2024September 27, 2024 · 3 min read

Screenshot of a gallery I will never show you instead inserted as a single image for sake of digital integrity
Best of Mommess

Seeing: a creative’s guide to the senses

philosophical practices in nature -|- the art of trusting your senses The idea to put together this series came this morning in the woods. Most days, I walk…

September 13, 2024September 17, 2024 · 5 min read

PhoneMarkupArt #SymbolWork
Creativity

Body knowledge for the hopelessly articulate

What if your body was talking to you in myths and symbols? What if the myths you know, the dreams you have, the stories playing out in front…

September 8, 2024September 13, 2024 · 6 min read

photo by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Body & Health

Spirits of the Medicine Women

Last time I was up at the hospital getting a routine mammogram, the test happened “behind the veil.” The experience was like a dip into the world of…

September 6, 2024September 6, 2024 · 5 min read

Mommess

“non-specified spiritual experience “

And the origin of new beliefs: a head-on, common-sense take on cracking up “Non-specified spiritual experience” (NSSE) was the language my chiropractor used to describe what I’d been…

August 25, 2024September 4, 2024 · 6 min read

Best of Mommess

Tracking Freedom

Tracking is an ancient and natural art that brings the tracker physically into the pattern of nature, by materially connecting the seeker and the sought. When tracking has…

August 19, 2024September 4, 2024 · 3 min read

EMWe Art “Moon / RUNE”
Coaching

always be moonlighting

I’ve had many jobs in my life. Usually two at once. Sometimes even three. It’s been helpful to always be moonlighting at all my jobs, because it offered…

August 9, 2024August 9, 2024 · 3 min read

Art by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. C 1989
Mommess

On citing self: academic v. experiential knowing

The greatest teachers of all time rarely cite others to enhance their lessons or prove their validity. Their knowledge comes from experience, and mostly inner experience at that.…

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024 · 4 min read

Mommess

Hemingway, quantum mechanics, and personal inquiry

I think it was Earnest Hemingway who said to write well, start with one true sentence. My true sentences come from my raw, emotional questions and experiences —…

July 13, 2024July 15, 2024 · 4 min read

Don't get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen
Quotes

What you see is what you can free

Don’t get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen

July 7, 2024July 7, 2024 · 1 min read

Creativity

Donut Holes & Superpowers:

probing the philosophy of nothingness in daily life How consciousness works, how it lives, dies, and transforms has been a preoccupation of mine since I was a girl…

June 28, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

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