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 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 …
“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 …
“Face-to-face awareness with now-naked life..”
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of vast ranges of experience, like the humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. Oh when man has escaped from the barbed-wire entanglement of his own ideas and his own mechanical devices there is a marvelous rich world of contact and sheer fluid beauty and fearless face-to-face awareness of …
How (and why) human beings can move beyond separateness
In a recent meeting with Carolyne Mathlin, the Evolutionary Collective Executive Director, we were talking about my upcoming Beyond Me to We Workshop on Monday, September 28th. Then she asked me: In light of these times and all the challenges we are facing in the world, why, particularly, is what you’ll be talking about so relevant to people, especially if …
Creative Union
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of vast ranges of experience, like the humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. Oh when man has escaped from the barbed-wire entanglement of his own ideas and his own mechanical devices there is a marvellous rich world of contact and sheer fluid beauty and fearless face-to-face awareness of …
“Tied together in the single garment of destiny” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you …
My sweet crushed angel
For all of us, who, with sincere and imperfect hearts, relentlessly throw ourselves on God’s doorstep – for one more dance… My Sweet, Crushed Angel by Hafiz You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One. You have waltzed with great style, My sweet, crushed angel, To have ever neared God’s Heart at …
Our need to give ourselves deeply…
As human beings, our default setting is to be focused on ourselves, what we want, what we think, what captures our interest, what we are pushing away, creating for ourselves, etc. Even when we are focused on other human beings it’s in a self-referential way – how they relate to us, our needs, experiences and interests. In the work we …
Love is stronger than death
This kind of love “is distinguished from other types of love by a greater intensity, by a more engrossing character, and by the possibility of a more complete overall reciprocity. Only this love can lead to the real and indissoluble union of two lives into one.” ~ Vladimir Solovyov My lineage, without question, is Christian, and I’ve had a …
Essential Uniqueness
Unity and Uniqueness is a key component of the consciousness we are bringing through. This short excerpt is from my book … “The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight …
The Land of Truth
I first heard this story by Indries Shah during a Diamond Heart retreat, on a snowy day in heart of the Rocky Mountains. It has the power to stop the mind and cause us to open in new ways to receive the teaching inherent within it. Please read it and I will share more after… THE LAND OF THE TRUTH …
The Birth of Mutual Awakening
This book introduces a spiritual practice called Mutual Awakening. For me it’s strange to think of mutual awakening as a practice, because that’s not how it originally appeared in my life. Spiritual practices don’t appear as practices usually anyway. They arrive as revelation. If you trace back to the source of any spiritual discipline you will find its origin as …
“I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart….
I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.” ~Rumi Often when we think of love, what comes to mind is unconditional love, acceptance, caring, sweetness, warmth, forgiveness, generosity and kindness. Sometimes …