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It seems you are attracting the skills to help you on that very personal journey of refinement you described earlier. This particular form at that particular time establishes communication on all levels of ‘life’ with the ‘anti-life’ in our core. Sanctifies intention rather than belief.

I look forward to see how you integrate and articulate…[Read more]

You’re in the right forum (: Deep regards, Barry

Well said. I see this playing out in my personal life all the time as decisions are made that go seemingly ‘against’ what would be more comfortable. In relationships with others and with myself. As if the inner threshold and what is at stake are now rising together to create opportunities woven from new fabric. Bar

SO many definitions of happiness. It is hard to tell what this man means. Usually meditators don’t quantify happiness on just ‘post natal completions’ but a sense of being part of but witnessing their lives at a higher threshold of capability and metabolism of emotion.

It appears he is making the point that happiness is something we shape…[Read more]

Wendy, I am so happy you are on this forum. My partner, a woman, insists she just doesn’t see polarity in the world but comes from a wholeness without differentiation. This boils my male mind of construct and pleases me to no end for structure does lead back to if it doesn’t lead from fascist thinking of rigidity.

It doesn’t mean I can act…[Read more]

“There is an energy building in me that appears to be trying to resonate with the icosa-dodecahedron of the earth grid”

This sentence stood out for me and the way you present the inner experiences did not sound like mental masturbation. That is your call.

I hear a pure intention for completion first and understanding as an ally but…[Read more]

Congrats. I found my happy divorce this last year and had my run in with underlying emotions around breaking this long bond. Each of us found new partners to grow intimately with in a rather odd and synchronistic way. Things are moving faster and with alchemical centering one must suspend convention.

I hope the separation cracks open new…[Read more]

Captured my attention. He says some very affirming and realistic things…discerning what is important to focus on. Thanks for the link,Barry

Hey A.

Very similar to a technique I have been using this past week, pretty synchronistic. There is one big difference though that is crucial and part of what I am getting mirrored back from our exchanges.

The importance of rooting and trusting the body as alchemical cauldron. I noticed much movement in my formal practice and…[Read more]

Yes, I am now just making friends with this pattern, allowing it to emerge with less apology to whatever forces I have internalized as ‘normal’. I am doing this grounded in intimate relationship as well and not just therapy or workshops which is really the true edge I have been looking for. Space for reality.

I like the term ‘making this…[Read more]

Thanks A. Yes, I am not only utilizing mucho standing practices but have moved to a side of the world whose earth energies feel safe to me. A deep embracing quiet running charged under my feet.

It isn’t easy. I tend towards a pattern of self oppression and explosion which makes my trip a little less graceful than your words imagine,…[Read more]

Good point A. I patched that defintion together culling Michael’s POV on the Inner Smile. I like the words but here is my experience.

I spent mucho years in the yoga trenches of the 80’s where witness conscioiusnesss was the be all end all of meditation. We did it via chanting, asana, devotion, service. Life developed around and was…[Read more]

“How’s this sound to you?”

It sounds to me an attitude embodying the spirit of our practice and one producing good results for you on and off the practice floor. It both arises from and strengthens your earth center and as such I feel touched and strengthened to hear you voice it.

It sounds like an orientation you are developing…[Read more]

Yes, Happy new year to all and thanks for all the stimulation. Thanks for the community, barry

Wow, great answers to your question above. Inspiring. I only want to add my experience of these repressed emotions. They are there and believe it or not provide safety to the psyche/ or provided such in the past. If I approach them with the intention to change there is resistance and the practice becomes a struggle. Like trying to eat my own…[Read more]

No you have it right!! It is what makes humans so complex. Or at least human communities. I live nearby this particular Amish community and how many of them came together and moved on is a testament for all of us.

Yes they are very strict when it comes to being ‘in’ the community and ‘out’. When young adults come of age they are allowed…[Read more]

Hey. Could you let us know where and who the selection is from? It helps me have some context.

As to the information channeled the empowering thing I take away from it is to continue to bring forward those shame based, secretive, power driven places in my own psyche into the ‘light’ of awareness. This is the best way to affect the human…[Read more]