Dr. Dohn’s Blog

            I attended a Tibetan Buddhist Workshop on Death and Dying. This was facilitated by Murshida (movewithmurshida.com) at a retreat center in East San Diego County. In addition to extensive meditation and yoga we were taught the Phowa Course of Buddhist teachings of our spiritual existence.             My takeaway so […]

Since the early 1990’s I have participated in a mythopoetic men’s drumming and story-telling group. We are the Wide Sky Men’s Council. Sometime in the early 90’s we were visited by an African Medicine Man who went by the name Patrice Malidoma Some’. He had recently completed a pHd at […]

Grief, high blood pressure, My best friend passed on, Bonded for 64 years Teen age troubles and joys Gone forever Whatever forever is All in Divine Right Order God’s got us all where we ought to be Challenges and changes Equally for you and me. High blood pressure challenged me, […]

It’s 3:00 in the morning at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. 225 people have been in this conference room since 9:00 AM  with a couple of breaks. I am alternating between nodding out and bright joy. The leader has been engaging us in discussions about how we know what we […]

4:00 AM, New Years Eve, World Meditation for Peace Sponsored by Lakewood’s “Living Beyond Limits” Zoom Event, Open to Everyone, Quietly Contemplating Peace, For All, Including those 6 people that hate me, for good reason, And will not talk to me, Of course those that I will not talk to […]

“How come every time I wake up and walk outside I seem to be leaning toward the South?” Mother Killingsworth asked to “No One in Particular”. No One in Particular was the name of the clever midget, a really short person that she called husband. Although they never married they […]

         We went to Descanso Gardens Enchanted Forest of Lights this year. In addition to marvelous light shows, there were classical musicians and singers performing. We came upon a quartette from the Duarte High School Choral Group singing Christmas standards. I became totally entranced by their singing. I got up […]

Click the image to watch the video. I am in Italy and spent the last two days touring the glory that was Rome, the Coliseum, The Forums, a lot of it.  I also have been reading “The Storm before the Storm” about the fall of the Roman Empire. All the […]

         A patient of mine is now housebound with a difficult muscle wasting disease. She has trouble walking, seeing and coordinating her movements. Even speaking and eating are compromised. I see her at home and gently work on her back and neck and we talk. During this visit she said […]

I often feel like an imposter Doctor. The “practice” part of what I do reflects how uncertain most of our accepted procedures can be. Built into every Human Being is the magic of being alive, growing and healing. We all grow, heal and create to our hearts desire and sometimes […]