“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because …
Matrix Wisdom & Our Evolutionary Future
I recently revisited the original Matrix movie. Like the main character Neo, we can’t know the future right now, and it’s a bit scary to see what is ending. What matters is to find out how to begin – how to engage and participate in the evolutionary potentials that are possible for the future, instead of remaining inside the momentum …
Love As Demand
Often, when we think of love, what comes to mind is acceptance, caring, sweetness, warmth, forgiveness, generosity, and kindness. Most spiritual traditions and spiritual teachers have taught us the value of unconditional love – a love that doesn’t ask anything from the other, a love that is compassionate and embracing. We need to discover our capacity to love with this …
Valentine’s Day Love Story
It’s Valentine’s Day. I came across some writing about my relationship with Peter from many years ago… Seemed the appropriate day to share this story of true love. Enjoy… In my previous writings I described what it had cost me to leave my marriage and my life and be in the position of finding Peter. I had lost all the …
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
As a kid born in 1950’s, I had strange tastes in entertainment. As a very young child I much preferred Liberace with all his glitter, sparkle and classical music to the soothing, simplicity of dear Mr. Rogers. When I imagined what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was Shirley Temple with her charm and chutzpah. She could …
The Heretical Call of the Future
HERETIC: someone whose ideas are in fundamental disagreement with the status quo A number of years ago, in Berkeley, I attended an event with a popular spiritual teacher who began his address to an eager, sophisticated crowd of spiritual practitioners by pointing to our need to intensify our ability to meditate and practice being deeply awake in the middle of …
ARE YOU A MYSTIC?
Having worked intimately with thousands of people, it is vividly clear to me that each person is profoundly unique and distinctly different in how spiritual awakening and expression arise for that particular person. Sometimes, we can (and do) waste enormous amounts of time trying to awaken in a path that may be ancient and powerful but innately has nothing to …
Post-Ambivalence
In the Hierarchy of Human Needs: Maslow’s Model of Motivation – Abraham Maslow added to his model late in his life a 6th level called Self-Transcendence. His model is one of the many I have used to understand and illuminate the possibility of a higher order of human relatedness. Maslow beautifully describes how, as our needs are fulfilled on lower …
An Unexpected Epilogue: SHOCKING MIRACLES
Soon after I sent my message to you about the shock of having 4th stage metastatic cancer and the imminence of leaving this world (2 – 6 months) I met with my doctor. For the first time in eight months, I was starting to feel almost normal. My body was comfortable and I had the energy to be with people, …
Personal message – SHOCKS & MIRACLES
Every year, I send out a communication to our extended Evolutionary Collective community about where we are and what the year promises. Given this work is sourced by the evolutionary forces of the future, it is emergent and always revealing new dimensions and potentials. I also appreciate the chance to share with you all more personally. As I write to …
LONGING & HAVING EVOLUTIONARY FAITH
During a workshop titled Beyond Me to We: Activating Our Highest Potentials Through Mutual Awakening one of the topics we explored was the power of longing and having faith in evolution. I thought you might enjoy a part of that teaching and wanted to share it with you here… Opening yourself to longing activates powerful forces that will move your life …
HOW DO WE LET GO OF OUR STORY?
During a recent workshop titled Beyond Me to We: Activating Our Highest Potentials Through Mutual Awakening I shared about a new reality of shared unity and the practice we call Mutual Awakening that facilitates our access to it. I also took questions from those in attendance. One question came through the chat box that I think perfectly encapsulates a question …
Answering a Question No One is Asking
Some of you may be able to relate to this.. It’s the plight of visionaries, heretics, prophets, revolutionaries, scientists, artists and innovators exploring the creative edges of existence. Some of you, don’t identify with those labels, but never-the-less you feel the beat of a different drum, the call of something you can’t quite put your finger on. To varying degrees, …
Haven’t Got Time for the Pain…….
While driving across the Richmond Bridge from Berkeley to Marin County in California I had a random 70’s song list playing on iTunes. (I know… I can hear my DJ son rolling his eyes). Anyway, Carly Simon came on singing an old favorite… ‘Cause I haven’t got time for the pain I haven’t got room for the pain I haven’t …
The Wheel of Time…
While I was a student of A.H. Almaas for 8 years, one of the teachings that caught my attention was his teaching on the wheel of time. It indicates that at certain times in history, spirituality emerges to respond to what is needed at a particular time. We are living in one of those times. A new kind of consciousness …
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