I hold you in my mind reading these words long before you will read them. Of course, it’s not quite you I imagine. Unless you’re a friend, relative or colleague, we’ve never met. And I don’t really hold you “long before,” but right now: You’re in my mind reading this in the present, while I’m [...]
Choose a term: change, recovery, healing, expansiveness, realization, actualization, wholeness, fulfillment etc., etc., etc. With each, you can be certain about one thing: the events of human transformation are completely uncertain. You can also feel certain that our growth is quickly perturbed and even damaged when we become certain about how it will go, our [...]
Human transformation as art, and a new form of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy... Deep within the Lascaux Caves more than 500 kilometers southwest of Paris lies an awe-inspiring collection of ancient art created by prehistoric cave dwellers more than 17,000 years ago. Paleontologists believe these remarkable cave paintings were part of a sacred space, christening the domed [...]
How to Think About Sacredness There are two ways people typically address sacredness: First, how we behave and think about things we deem sacred. Examples include extrinsic religious symbols, flags and movements that exist independent of our responses. Second, via our “sacred experience.” In other words, the intrinsic feelings and mindsets within ourselves that we [...]
"There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we’ve discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In [...]
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