Sublime

to die to identification with one’s ordinary level of functioning, and to be reborn to the experience of another dimension, another world.

The essential conditions for transformation in workshops are co-created by the leader and the participants. As an embodied leader, you form an intentional community where people can meet, join, and belong. Your holistic view honors the inherent worth of each person, and you believe that everyone already has what they need to live a purposeful life.

The chapters of this book follow the stages of spiritual work as I see and have experienced them. This is, fundamentally, the journey from the outermost layers of our consciousness, through the obstructions, into our innermost core. Chapter 1 encourages us to accept our flawed human nature and to honor our spiritual longing. Chapter 2 reinforces

Either I am imprisoned by my ordinary sense of “I,” which prevents any contact with my real self, or I have a nostalgia for the “divine” that I feel at the root of my being, which shows me what I must serve. My

If you seek a healer, analyst, therapist, or counselor, make certain they derive from a discipline that has solid predecessors, that they truly know how to do what they hold themselves out as able to do. Ask friends, relatives, and co-workers whom you trust for their recommendations. Make certain whichever teacher you choose is trained, and