What’s in the Water?

Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream

In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.

Molly Gordon
Recent articles

What I got wrong about the Three Principles

When I first came across the Three Principles as articulated by theosopher Sydney Banks, I thought I had found the escape hatch for everything stressful and painful in life. I was both right and wrong. This video is a first shot at pointing at what I misunderstood and...

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One universal problem; one universal hope

The Three Principles account for two things that every human being has in common with every other human being: The infinite potential for new thought in every moment. The only thing any of us is ever up against is our own thinking. As we see this more deeply, we...

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How to rock the game of life

This video is a bit longer than usual. It's all about the freedom we have to make up whatever game we choose to play in life from what matters to what we create to how we keep score. We can't control the outcomes, but we have infinite choice over the inputs. When we...

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It’s not life that’s going so fast, it’s your thinking

It's easy to think that life speeds up and slows down--that sometimes it's just nuts "out there" and sometimes it's not. But life doesn't go fast or slow; life simply unfolds moment to moment. What speeds up and slows down is our thinking. There's nothing to fix here,...

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Step into miracle

In January, 2016, I wrote: Miracles begin when you do. So often we look for the right place to begin. And like trying to figure out how to get out of bed or how to write, looking for the place to begin is precisely what keeps you from doing so. The beginning is here...

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How to clear a mental logjam

When we don't know what to do it is easy to get caught up in a mental logjam. The harder we think and the more things we come up with, the worse it gets. What's happening is that we're trying to shift gears without going into neutral. The remedy is to see what we're...

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How the 3 Principles help: It’s probably not what you think

It's common for those new to the Three Principles to get caught up in how precisely the Principles help. The implicit assumption is that "help" means "deliver a different experience." But as we come to understand how Mind, Consciousness, and Thought produce our moment...

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