The Many Faces of Heroic Journeys …
Yeah, though I walk through the Valley of Death … Made a decision to turn my will and life over to a higher power … The way out is through…
To me, there’s a consistent message here.
The first dispatch comes from the 23rd Psalm: “Yea, though I walk through the Valley of Death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with… Read More »
The Many Faces of Heroic Journeys….
The very first time I experienced this Holotropic-like breathwork, the music began, I started doing connected circular breathing, and I rapidly became very agitated. I was miserable… frustrated, angry and simultaneously hopeless, and shortly I was thrashing and rocking side to side. One of the sitters who considered himself adept at doing body work on people breathing came over and started pressing on my… Read More »
Recovering from surgery recently, I came home with a catheter. Before this, I might have said I had “no idea” what that experience was like. But that phrasing is misleading. I had plenty of ideas about it — abstract notions, mental pictures, secondhand descriptions. But I lacked a sense of it: the physical reality, discomfort, and vulnerability, the way the body responds when something foreign is introduced to it. Ideas… Read More »
Immersing ourselves in Nature, with its “harsh and exciting” landscapes and forces, moves us beyond the polarities of good and evil, the polarities of daily life. Heavens, whether they be on puffy clouds with everyone dressed in white or filled with two hundred virgins, and hells – usually below the earth and fiery – are irrelevant. Everything is right here, and the urge to make some parts of it good… Read More »
I was at a retreat this past weekend, where our group addressed and explored the third and final stage of the heroic journey – the Return. After the first stage, where our protagonists respond to a “Call to Adventure,” for a time leaving the familiarity of their previously-known lives to explore all that might be beyond that – fluid and shifting, emotionally rich and challenging… inspiring, frightening and freeing –… Read More »
