An excellent series Guy. So fascinating to see the journey and everything that I explored myself (as so many of us did) as to what the hell was happening. Our 'safe' western culture went mad and suddenly to be on the side of 'the other' was a life changing experience and a valuable lesson. To be able to get the most from this lesson we have to be able to zoom out from the personal experiences and see the bigger picture to understand why we are here. These essays do that so very well and I feel that you have a book here. I would love to see this put together with chapters interspersed by your yoga journey of compassion and understanding in order to express to people that these experiences are a rare opportunity to understand and to grow and to properly heal ourselves. (I hope you don't mind me suggesting this idea 🙏)
(Unfortunately a lot of the Youtube video links do not show up now and are marked as private so I think they must have been taken down!)
A belated thankyou for this whole series. I confess to skim reading parts, solely as I found your thoughts wandering along well worn tracks my own have followed for decades. I did not get anywhere near close to being able to articulate my thoughts this cohesively, which is why your efforts have particular value for me. Thanks again.
PS. I found my way here because this comment also resonated:
"Your very sound and 'rational' argument with AMD reminded me exactly of the awake discussions with the asleep that go something like 'Aren't you curious about how .... ?' 'Sorry. Not interested. The story is that I'm safe, and so I am and I am not interested in your bullshit.' Door closed."
An excellent series Guy. So fascinating to see the journey and everything that I explored myself (as so many of us did) as to what the hell was happening. Our 'safe' western culture went mad and suddenly to be on the side of 'the other' was a life changing experience and a valuable lesson. To be able to get the most from this lesson we have to be able to zoom out from the personal experiences and see the bigger picture to understand why we are here. These essays do that so very well and I feel that you have a book here. I would love to see this put together with chapters interspersed by your yoga journey of compassion and understanding in order to express to people that these experiences are a rare opportunity to understand and to grow and to properly heal ourselves. (I hope you don't mind me suggesting this idea 🙏)
(Unfortunately a lot of the Youtube video links do not show up now and are marked as private so I think they must have been taken down!)
A belated thankyou for this whole series. I confess to skim reading parts, solely as I found your thoughts wandering along well worn tracks my own have followed for decades. I did not get anywhere near close to being able to articulate my thoughts this cohesively, which is why your efforts have particular value for me. Thanks again.
PS. I found my way here because this comment also resonated:
"Your very sound and 'rational' argument with AMD reminded me exactly of the awake discussions with the asleep that go something like 'Aren't you curious about how .... ?' 'Sorry. Not interested. The story is that I'm safe, and so I am and I am not interested in your bullshit.' Door closed."