By Cathy Eck The Rope Illusion Last week, my improv class was given an assignment. Half of the people lined up, one behind the other, on one side of the room; the other half lined up facing the first group on the other side of the room. We were told that…
By Cathy Eck Since holiday time is here, most people spend time with family and friends. If you don't celebrate holidays then you’ll be going to see “Big Eyes” and “Unbroken” at the theater with all the Jews like me. But if you're obligated to do family visits, it's likely…
By Cathy Eck Going Harder and Deeper Yes, I chose that title on purpose. I imagined some poor guy looking for porn; and he types in “harder and deeper,” and up comes my blog article. Instead of going harder and deeper outside of him, he just might turn around…
By Cathy Eck The return trip to our True Self is crazy. We move forward toward freedom; and then, we hit blockages, caused by the false self, that usually feel like we've gone backwards. That's normal. We're meeting every belief that we accepted as true in the past. Stopping…
By Cathy Eck Warning: This is a long one. I just didn't want to break it up into pieces. So put on your pajamas and get your popcorn. Roles and Power I was just watching a program on television that exposed methods used by sales people to trick customers into…
By Cathy Eck Fight or Flight Response Science tells us that the fight or flight response is real. They say it's a normal reaction to all the scary things out there...things that we can't protect ourselves from. We label the fight or flight condition stress. Medicine admits that most…
By Cathy Eck Competition and Comparison Competition is insanely normal in our life. Or perhaps, I should say insane and normal. We compete for jobs. Teams compete in all kinds of sports. Wanna be artists compete on reality television shows for record deals, modeling jobs, and the right to…
By Cathy Eck To Fall or Not to Fall; That is the Question Even if you are very non-religious, as I am, you have to realize that we live in a culture and marinate in a soup of beliefs that stem from the story of Adam and Eve. That…
By Cathy Eck Improvisational Comedy This is my 100th post on Gateway To Gold....Wahoo! I decided that this post should be an all encompassing post. I wanted to write about something that I love and enjoy; and as always, I wanted to use that experience to poke at some old…
By Cathy Eck Other Worldly Channels I bet you thought I was going to write about turning off your TV. Hell no! People put their creative ideas on television; and you and I have complete freedom to watch them or turn them off. I am an awful follower, but I'm…