The Rot
The Rot is a core evolutionary process of the cocooning chrysalis. It is a composting of withered fruits. It is the foundation for the integration of the whole person with Consciousness. Decomposed matter yields energy.
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My Story
Against a bland and uninspiring middle class background, with its unremarkable pleasures, pains, and suppressed emotions, I held a romantic ideal of the perfect love relationship which would lift me beyond my drabness into the Divine. Since this perfect lover never appeared, I necessarily relinquished him to the background and went on to the ordinary…
Writings to Share
Pele’s Way (written after my husband Tony’s death) The volcano erupts suddenly without warning. Its fiery energy sweeps over the landscape of my life, reducing my world to ashes. No crystalline forms remain. No concepts, no judgments, no rights, and no wrongs, no past and no perceived future remain. Only the stark emptiness in the…
The Divinity of an Ordinary Life
This life and this world often seem so beautiful and compelling that I am swept up in intensities of absorption in – the moment, the environment, the beloved. Something that is intoxicating and challenging at once. As I walk down a friend’s gravel driveway each stone shifts slightly beneath my feet as I move and each…
Spirituality and Trauma
Our Divinely Human Animal Nature: Healing Trauma through Embodied Awakening and Somatic Experiencing In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that trauma resolution must include the body as an essential part of the healing process. In Somatic Experiencing, a profoundly freeing modality developed by Dr. Peter Levine, trauma is understood to be held in…
Testimonials & Appreciation
“Margit Bantowsky offers online group experiences for participants pursuing and integrating embodied awakening. She is a very skilled individual who side-steps the traditional role of teacher/instructor for the more artful role of “attuned facilitator.” She asks participants to explore intelligent and philosophically rich questions relevant to awakened life and then draws out each individual’s unique…
Engage!
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!…