Intermezzo 3: Enlightenment

Enlightenment The popular view is that in order to become enlightened we have to become something other than what we already are. Somehow what or how we are is inferior and gross. To become enlightened we have to get rid of all our imperfections and change

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Intermezzo 2: Potatoes

An offering to all therapists. Spring is coming, believe me, it always does, in whatever form it chooses to take and I look forward to a period of enormous activity in my vegetable plot. Traditionally early potatoes go in on Easter Monday. That is of course, if

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Article: Awareness

Who I Really Am No beginning, only Process. The Spirit reincarnates. Birth and Life The meeting of the unfolding and the experience. Layer upon layer of delusion. I have become I and forgotten. Yesterday was and tomorrow will be-or so it seems. No now. A tide there is, An ocean then. Beneath the waves, There is only still. The Mother. Pure awareness, And I remember who I am. The Ocean stirs, There is only process. The essence of what I am trying to say here is that work at a deep level, the level which we are calling the level of the Spirit is an exercise in coming from a very deep place in our Being not an exercise in refining what we do with greater and greater anatomical precision. Many of the statements below would warrant articles to themselves, as we go along but this is where I begin to lay out my stall and invite collaboration. We do not do this level of work with the other - let us call him or her, the client, friend or colleague - it is quite simply the revealed outcome of the synergy created in the relationship that does the work. Let me break this sentence down and explain

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