Connie Kaplan, Author at The Invisible Garment

By Connie Kaplan|2017-03-30T09:23:56+00:00July 20th, 2016|Categories: Spiritual Parenting|

I’ll start with Steve, a child who falls within the autism spectrum. I’m starting with him because there are so many “Steves” right now that the conversation about the special needs of autistic children seems to dominate parenting conversations. Steve’s parents divorced when he was seven. Prior to the divorce, they didn’t notice anything particularly unusual about Steve, other than he was a loner in the family. But almost immediately when the parents separated he began dissociating at home and his teachers noticed that he was disorganized and unable to attend to the details of his schoolwork. However, his story-telling abilities and his creative use of language flourished. He began demonstrating [...]

The Soul Tree

By Connie Kaplan|2017-03-30T09:23:56+00:00July 8th, 2016|Categories: Spiritual Principles|Tags: ascending principles, containing principles, descending principles|

First let’s discuss the three distinctions that exist within the thirty principles: Ascending, Containing and Descending. I often use a tree as an analogy for these categories. The first 10 principles (numbered 0-9) compose the root system; the second 10 (numbered 10-19) create the trunk; the last 10 (numbered 20-29) constitute the branches and leaves. This visual helps us imagine the human soul as one unified field made up of many unique elements. Each principle has an inner focus and an outer focus. This means that each spiritual principle bridges the “in here” and the “out there” in a specific way, and therefore each principle in your garment pattern influences [...]

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