Sublime

The normal shrine at these rituals is a water shrine. Water is the element of healing and renewal in many traditions. On this occasion, however, the element of fire was also being called in. Fire is the energy of passion and ignition, and it is often associated with the ancestors. People needed an energy field large enough to fully receive their pr

feeling energized, calmed and restored by being engaged, effortlessly

The primary challenge in a psychologically liminal space is to allow yourself to feel empty. In a liminal realm, your emptiness and your potential are the exact same thing. When you block your emptiness from existing, you block your potential from developing. Lao Tzu’s famous quote reflecting this truth was the title I gave to the very first blog p

Something warm, like contentment, floods through Cameron as he slips into bed.

The only way to consciously access our healing resources is through sensation and the felt sense.

A taste of the eternal is tangible in such moments. These creative acts connect us to our being, attaching us to something moving in the world, welcoming and holding in tension that we are open and closed, individual and relational, that we are free as will and spirit. In such moments, minutes and hours are more fluid and yet full. We feel time not

conceptualized. I could now ‘be with’ the wind as it traveled through the jungle, just as the trees did—simply swaying in its presence with nothing to do but be. Whenever sitting around a fire, I no longer just saw its flames; instead, I could ‘be with’ its essence, feeling its warmth wrap around me like an embrace, its flickering dance speaking a

The best time to body-heat someone close to you is, oddly, not when you are with them physically. In their presence the best use of your senses is to engage fully with the other person in an interactive, immediate way. The best time to use body heat is in moments of wholeness and calm.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the natural expressions of awareness because genuine expressions of an open heart transcend conceptual ideas and attitudes,