“Where a philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks, and speaks the disconcerting language of first hand-experience.” Evelyn Underhill 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
