During a recent 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 …
How do caring human beings meaningfully relate to the future?
From the Video Classically, one of the ways you know that a paradigm of existence is over is when all of the solutions that have worked before are no longer solving the problems at hand. Let me explain… When you are at the beginning of a paradigm, or an era of existence, new ideas, potentials, inventions, realities come alive …
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 …
Matrix Wisdom & Our Evolutionary Future
I hope you’ve had a chance to read my recent blog “ARE YOU A MYSTIC?” It points to an important set of distinctions that can really make a difference in how you approach your life and your particular path. It’s worth a read if you haven’t yet done so. You don’t need to identify as a mystic to intimately experience …
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, …
Love as Demand, as Calling Forth
DEMAND – a forceful statement in which you say that something must be done or given to you; a strong need for something; something claimed as due; a seeking or state of being sought after; urgent need CALLING FORTH – to call to someone to come out or come forward; to draw a particular quality or induce a particular behavior. Often when we think of love, what comes …
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 …
Evolutionary Belonging – Let’s Misfit Together…
“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 …
2022: 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 …
The Emergent Potential of InterBeing – A Story about Roseto, Pennsylvania
Groups of people have collective identities, and the identities of the groups that we are a part of have a profound effect over us. There is a new emergent possibility of ‘InterBeing’ and how the field of relatedness can become a living organism of shared communion. Being on the edge – arrow of evolution – is powerful and empowering even …
Valentine’s Day Love Story
It’s Valentine’s Day. I’m sitting by the fire and came across this story about 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 …
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 …
“Your Whole Being Becomes a Thanksgiving”
As many of us move into our American tradition of Thanksgiving, even in these strange times that allow most of us to join together with our families, may we find our relationship with something greater and deeper. May we uncover the truth of our unity. Especially now, may we remind each other of our love and desire to have a …
Evolutionary Love & the Evolution of Love
“There’s not enough unconditional love in the universe to heal the level of pain created from being separate. The love we need is being given through evolutionary love – what I call spondic love.” – Patricia Albere Have you ever considered that love itself is evolving? At a recent event, I spoke about the evolution of love and then pointed …
