yes, human evolution can be funny: norwegian medieval “helpdesk” skit is proof (video 2:46)

October 4, 2010 by rachel

Given what I feel and what I read and what I know (you know?), this week’s energy carries with it some hard edges and potential for heaviness. I’ve already felt the flames licking up the past few days, so I’m lying low and nurturing myself in all the ways that help me remain focused, centered, and balanced. Since my current labors of love include creating a small public library in my tiny rural town and, as a spinoff, wading into […]

Categories: eclectica, humor, video • Tags: change, comedy, Norweigan humor

woman! what are you waiting for? come see me in springfield, massachusetts march 26

March 18, 2009 by rachel

I’ll be making a personal appearance at Tower Square in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Thursday, March 26, kicking things up with my “Woman! What Are You Waiting For?” presentation. The event is sponsored by “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, a series of The Republican, (Springfield’s newspaper, not a political statement), with significant support by Nuvo Bank of Springfield. The collaboration was born November 2008, in sunny Cozumel, Mexico, and took off from there. You can read a bit more about the […]

Categories: eclectica, inspiration, Rachel Snyder, women • Tags: inspiration, inspirational speaker, inspiring women, life, March 2009 event, motivational speaker, Rachel Snyder, speaker, Springfield MA, Tower Square, women

india arie, rumi, writing, automotivology, forgiveness, & remembering who you are: favorite posts of 2008

January 6, 2009 by rachel

Even though be whole now is not yet a year old (like me, my blog is a Piscean), the start of this sure-to-be-unforgettable new year is a good time to unearth and recycle some memorable posts from 2008. Here are a few of my favorites, based on a purely non-scientific selection process. 1. I never tire of watching diva India Arie sing the James Taylor classic, The Secret O’ Life. Every word speaks directly to my soul. Maybe yours, too? […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, eclectica, inspiration, love, ordinary oracles, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video, writing & creativity • Tags: awakening, body mind & spirit, consciousness, creativity, ecstatic union, forgiveness, India Arie, inspiration, James Taylor, life, love, new paradigm, ordinary oracles, personal growth, poetry, prayer, radical forgiveness, Rumi, The Secret of Life, transformation, video, wisdom, writer, writing, your inner writer

great gift ideas from creative folks i am proud to know

December 11, 2008 by rachel

One of life’s greatest pleasures as a “creative” person, is getting to know other creative types. One can only toot one’s own horn for so long, so herewith, some enormously talented and creative individuals, each of whom I am proud to call “friend.” Carlos Smith I first met Carlos on the labyrinth, which he considers a gift from Mother Earth, a pattern for wholeness, a path to transformation and healing of the human spirit. Later, I learned more about this […]

Categories: eclectica, inspiration • Tags: Add new tag, art, body form workshop, Carlos Smith, creativity, fine photography, gifts, Indie Traffic Jam Radio Show, inspiration, labyrinth, life coach, music, photography, Renewall Coaching, Richard Cummings, sacred art, Scott Von, Tisha Pletcher

where in the heck has rachel been?

December 7, 2008 by rachel

While my blog remained dormant for over a month, I was anything but. The good news is that people continued to explore the site, with or without me. It’s like having a storefront and even if you’re away, everyone can find the key under the mat and just let themselves in. My November journey covered thousands of air miles, hundreds of road miles, and untold miles on the endless journey of self-knowing and integration.  Along the way, my father, a […]

Categories: blogkeeping, eclectica

is higher consciousness the litmus test for the 2008 presidential election?

October 8, 2008 by rachel

In the world of be whole now, the mantra is splashed across the top of the Home page every single day: Journey Deep Listen Well Make Peace Evolve As well as a personal checklist for your own movement in the direction of a more integrated – and ultimately, more productive, empowered, and joyously satisfying existence – these four key points might be an effective rubric against which to observe and evaluate our current crop of U.S. political aspirants. Why not […]

Categories: barack obama, body mind & spirit, eclectica, inspiration, planetary shifts, spirituality • Tags: 2008 presidential election, awakening, barack obama, be whole now, consciousness, election, higher consciousness, leadership, Michele Obama, Obama family, paradigm, paradigm shift, Sen. Obama, US politics, vote

what barack and michele obama can teach america about conscious loving

September 30, 2008 by rachel

Although I make no claim to being a political pundit, this is my second post focusing on Sen. Barack Obama — from a non-policy, non-strategy, be whole now point of view. If you missed my earlier post, “can i talk about barack obama without you thinking it’s political?” click here to see my take on Sen. Obama as a reflection of the evolving new paradigm. Here, I’m linking to a recent piece in The Huffington Post, in which authors and […]

Categories: barack obama, eclectica, inspiration, love • Tags: America, barack obama, conscious loving, conscious relationships, Gay Hendricks, inspiration, Kathlyn Hendricks, love, marriage, Michelle Obama, relationships, Sen. Obama, The Hendricks Institute, The Huffington Post

apostrophe catastrophe – and it’s getting possessively(sic) worse!

September 1, 2008 by rachel

Forgive me for turning my attention away from the larger issues of the day, but as a writer, I can no longer avert my gaze! Pity the poor apostrophe, who seems doomed to live an existence of misuse, misalignment, misappropriation, and a torturous life of being utterly misunderstood. It’s as though it’s one minute before midnight — and an egg sac the size of the Milky Way has suddenly burst and spewed countless numbers of these once-sparse punctuation marks in […]

Categories: eclectica, humor, poetry, Rachel Snyder, writing & creativity • Tags: apostrophe, English, grammar, humor, language, poetry, punctuation, Rachel Snyder, writing

what do obama, oracles, polygamy, NASA, and the secret life of words have in common?

August 10, 2008 by rachel

They’re all part of this admittedly eclectic post celebrating the 5-month bloggiversary of be whole now and unashamedly testing a new frontier of search engine optimization. Total Views To Date 5,600 (certified by the firm of Me, Myself & I): This number would have been much, much higher if it weren’t for skabillions of people choosing to do something other than visit my blog! Top Posts To Date: Other than some of the Pages at right that answer the questions, […]

Categories: barack obama, body mind & spirit, eclectica, health/healing, humor, inspiration, ordinary oracles, personal growth, writing & creativity • Tags: barack obama, body mind & spirit, eclectica, Eldorado Texas, Gustav Klimt, inspiration, NASA photo, new paradigm, oracles, ordinary oracles, secret life of words, words

gregory colbert’s ashes and snow: nature at her most sublime

August 7, 2008 by rachel

To balance out the abundance of words in the recently posted, eight-part Making Love To God series, here are two stunning videos of near-unspeakable beauty. They are taken from the “Ashes and Snow” photographic and film exhibition by Gregory Colbert, which has been seen by over 10 million people in five cities worldwide. Part I runs for 2:32 minutes; Part II for 8:32. Click here for more on this unparalleled work of art, which has become the most attended exhibition […]

Categories: eclectica, inspiration, spirituality, video • Tags: Ashes and Snow exhibition, Earth, film, Flying Elephants Productions, Gregory Colbert, inspiration, Nature, Nomadic Museum, photography, video

catching breath at the rest stop of existence!

July 17, 2008 by rachel

For those of you who have wondered whether my roadtrip buddy (Michael) and I were trapped in some 9th-dimensional slot canyon, you’re right! For those of you who took the high road, presuming that we were safe and well and having the experience of several lifetimes, you, too, are correct! After 24 days on the road, we have landed in the Denver/Boulder area, where we have been blessed for several days with a beautiful house in which to slowly re-assimilate […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, eclectica, health/healing, inspiration, spirituality, transformation, uncategorized • Tags: body mind & spirit, road trip, southwest US, spirituality, transformation

can i talk about barack obama without you thinking it’s political?

June 9, 2008 by rachel

This is not a political blog, but I want to say a few words about Sen. Barack Obama. Words like “Be Whole Now, America!“ If you don’t see Sen. Obama as a reflection of our collective leap into a “new age” of consciousness and a new paradigm, you may not be looking beyond the surface of what passes for political discourse in this country. Right now, we are in the midst of massively significant change as evolving humans. It is […]

Categories: barack obama, body mind & spirit, eclectica, health/healing, inspiration, spirituality, transformation • Tags: barack obama, body mind & spirit, change, higher consciousness, inspiration, multidimensional, national, new paradigm, personal, planetary, politics, Sen. Obama, Senator Barack Obama, shifts, transformation

stretch break: support for awakening souls

June 2, 2008 by rachel

I like to call what I do “intelligent inspiration and illumined insight,” but that’s only one small piece in a rapidly expanding universe of tools and information regarding high-vibration living, ascension, DNA activation, quantum awakenings, cellular transformation, and much, much more. If you’re feeling that your three-dimensional existence isn’t quite large enough for you anymore; if you’re wanting to bust out and see things from a vaster, energetic, even galactic, perspective; if the words “lightworker, starseed, indigo” and others pique […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, eclectica, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, really out there!, spirituality, stretch break, transformation • Tags: accelerator art, Ascended Masters, ascension, awakening, channelling, consciousness, DNA, DNA activation, eclectica, galactic, healing, higher consciousness, higher vibrational realms, life, metaphysical, New Age, quantum, resources, soul, transformation

i love my blog so much there ought to be a law

May 21, 2008 by rachel

If there isn’t already a commemorative holiday called I LOVE MY BLOG DAY, someone should just proclaim it and get the ball rolling. (Oh wait, I think I just did!) Yeah, I know it would get more attention if I called it I HEART MY BLOG DAY, but OMGIJUSTCANT! Sorry. My blog and I have been together for not even two and a half months yet, but we are totally, you know, committed. We spend time together every day – […]

Categories: blogkeeping, eclectica, inspiration • Tags: blog, blog romance, blogerotica, blogging, creativity, humor, inspiration, joy of blogging, love, love my blog

as the page turns: minus the unforgettable smell of old paper & ink

May 14, 2008 by rachel

This is a stretch break that’s bound to inspire the writer, artist, genius, seeker, and lover of writing, words, and books in you. If you’re not able to pop over to London’s magnificent British Library, visit their extraordinary website here. Using your mouse, you can “turn the pages” of the personal notebooks of Mozart, William Blake, Leonardo DaVinci, and more (complete with audio explanations, selections read aloud, musical snippets, sketches, etc.) A selection of sacred texts from a variety of […]

Categories: eclectica, inspiration, stretch break, writing & creativity • Tags: art, bibliophiles, Blake, booklovers, books, British Library, DaVinci, genius, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Lindisfarne Gospels, Mozart, Qur'an, rare manuscripts, sacred texts, virtual page-turner, writing

happy bloggiversary: we’re one month new!

April 8, 2008 by rachel

1 MONTH since be whole now was unveiled to the world (March 9, 2008) 1,653 TOTAL PAGE VIEWS to date (not counting the 47,382 times I peeked!) MVP (MOST VISITED POST/PAGE) ordinary oracles: the tao of automobiles (Thunderous applause!) Revisit the post here, check out the comments, and request your very own AutoMotiveOracle reading! (Impress your friends and ditch your therapist!) #2 MVP the beauty of a restraining order, and other gifts (Sweet smiles and gentle nodding of heads) Grace […]

Categories: blogkeeping, eclectica, inspiration, men • Tags: AutoMotiveOracle, bloggiversary, eclectica, grace, inspiration, manifesto, men, ordinary oracles, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation

eclectica: by the numbers v.2

March 23, 2008 by rachel

Another wrap-up of interesting numbers from this week: 12,000 words represented by these 12 photos from Reuters — their pick of the best of the week worldwide. If you turn up the volume, you also hear a brief note on what makes the images particularly notable. The whole world at your fingertips! 12 days to go under the influence of the March 21 full moon. Robert Wilkinson’s ginormous astrology website counsels: “…Re-shape your expectations and beliefs as you get a […]

Categories: buy more rachel now!, eclectica • Tags: eclectica, writing

eclectica by the numbers

March 15, 2008 by rachel

This blog is a tad over a week old, so let’s have soup! Herewith, some bits of this and pieces of that: 609 Pageviews on this blog in its first week. It could be that I paid one person to click and click for days, but I’m so much more optimistic (and frugal) than that. Thanks for your out-of-the-starting-gate support, and keep on visiting! 93 Comments (and counting) snagged when San Francisco literary agent Nathan Bransford posed the question, “How […]

Categories: eclectica • Tags: greeting cards, politics, writing