Coming Home Tomorrow at Noon EST and My Talk with Ali Beiner/KAINOS
Our group meditation is on, as usual, tomorrow from 12-1p EST
Hello Friends,
My interview with
of is live. If you feel interested, you can watch it here. It’s short and sweet. The theme of the talk is “Life as art.”In his newsletter yesterday, Ali wrote:
I left that interview [with Yanis Varoufakis] feeling that there’s no going back to the golden age of social and political stability I grew up in. Schuyler Brown spoke to this in our session with her, when she said we have to stop pretending we can go back to normal, because normal is gone. Her line stuck with me for days, because it felt both true and uncomfortable. As Ram Dass said, “The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
This happens early in the dialogue. We started the session by showing a brief AI transmission that my beloved,
, and I made called GO TIME. The video showcases a series of portals. Ari and I have been working with the portal motif in our art for months…a year or more? He paints portals and I dream and write them. That morning before the call with Ali, I thought about it and realized I’ve been waiting for the portal to come…in the future…but, what if we already walked through it? How would we know? Well, it seems to me that one way we’d know is that there would be nowhere to “go back to.”If this moment on earth, this moment in your life, this moment right now, is a real initiation—a real threshold-crossing—there is no walking back through it…a.k.a. there is no return to what we previously experienced as “normal.” Your portal will “look” different than mine because your portal will be designed perfectly to strip you of what cannot come through to the other side and mine will be made of what strips me.
This week the stripping—my portal—has been about illness, motherhood, caretaking, and taming my mind. About 10 days ago, my daughter fell ill with a bad flu. I followed her down that rabbit hole a few days later and we wound up spending seven days together alone in our little house. Fortunately, it was her winter break, so there was no school anyway. We cancelled all our plans—we had to. And we dedicated ourselves to being sick and getting well. It was grueling. It was brutal. And in moments it was transcedent and even fun. Love and faith carried us through.
There are many lovely moments in the video. As I rewatch it, I have this funny sense that Ali is interviewing me on the other side of the portal, kind of asking me what it’s like over here. I hope it touches or reaches you in ways that give you insight or comfort or hope tonight or whenever you see this.
Coming Home Meditation Is Tomorrow at Noon EST
I hope you’ll join us at 12-1p EST tomorrow for our Coming Home weekly sit. It’s all levels and drop-in. We spend 30 minutes in a deep space of sharing and receiving each other and then 30 minutes in a deep medicinal meditative state—guided journey—where we integrate and receive the medicine we are for each other. If you’ve never tried this, I highly recommend joining us. It’s a special practice with a special group of people.
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