by Cate Montana | Aug 21, 2025 | the E-Blog
We all have them. Rituals, I mean. To this day I almost always put my left shoe on first because, back when I was twelve, I read that the British aristocrats always pulled their left riding boot on first for luck before getting on their horses to ride to the hounds...
by Cate Montana | Jul 18, 2025 | the E-Blog
Recently I spoke of the dangers surrounding over-dependence on and obsession with the intellect. At the end, I evoked the potent scene in James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar where Neytiri saves Jake from the pack of viperwolves drawn to the light of his torch as he...
by Cate Montana | Jun 11, 2025 | the E-Blog
Avid curiosity has always been one of the hallmarks of my character. Aside from my birth ( I can see the operating room now from the position of being lifted out of my mother’s unconscious body by the doctor. The most potent sensation was that even the sounds in the...
by Cate Montana | May 17, 2025 | the E-Blog
Years ago, when I was in the early throes of a passionate love affair, it looked like my new beloved was going to succumb to the “thrall of the ex” and go back to a previous partner. Devastated, I remember getting up one morning and, in tears, walking down...
by Cate Montana | Apr 9, 2025 | the E-Blog
Let me say upfront, I am no stranger to plant medicines. Or a lot of other substances, for that matter. In my late teens and early twenties, I did different drugs, including plants like mushrooms, peyote and mescaline, for all the wrong reasons. Between ages 43 and...
