What if Icarus returned with the Sun?
What if her wings carried her
all the way there,
beyond her imagination,
and back?
What if her heart
could actually bear the Heat?
And what if the Sun was generous,
met her longing,
and said “YES!”…
what would that make possible?
Engage! — a spoken presentation for the Feast of Sittings, Fairfield, May 30, 2016 Imagine this talk as the culmination of a wonderful Spring event, a living room full of bright enlivened participants. Afterwards, someone says, this felt like a graduation talk–and perhaps it has that character–at least it comes at that time of year!…
Several middle school principals independently came to me in 2000 to see if I could use my performance skills to put together a program on character development to enhance their own initiatives in that area. After presenting several thousand of these character programs across the Midwest during the last decade, I began to see similarities…
Embodied awakening is a deeply incarnated and humanizing process that simultaneously anchors our identity in our unbounded nature. As unconscious material arises for integration and healing our awakening deepens, and we begin to realize the paradox of being both a unique body-mind and the Totality Itself. While this paradox calls us into a more intimate…
A collage I made. This one is all about claiming Whole Being Realization. One thing I like about this collage is the background images were taken from photos I took in Ireland. You will see the window of an old Abby we visited on the west coast of Ireland – that place had some great…
Trillium Awakening as expressed by Fax Gilbert For me awakening is a movement into who we are as consciousness, who we are as a person and who we are in relationship. A whole being awakening. This movement can have specific transition points (recognitions, peak experiences) or can emerge as more of a flow, where the…
Communing with the moon and stars (and all pieces of nature) is very special to me and is a direct connection to the Divine and all of its magical glory. Are you saying that you are feeling this as devotional? If you don’t mind could you say a little more? Yes, I can say more…
