The idea that enlightenment is dependent on getting rid of all our patterns and conditioning proves not to be true, and John explains what really stands in the way.
Location: Byron Bay
John responds to a woman who has begun to fear her sexuality when it comes up around others, knowing that her way of controlling it isn’t true.
The great, unseen potential of real relationship is opened up in this conversation. Exquisite, with no need of understanding, here is how two people can explore and be together in depths of meaning beyond themselves.
Q: I’ve been going to workshops on awareness, and it excited me a lot. Awareness is my utmost interest or priority, and yet it seems to have drifted into a flattened place, so I wonder if I am putting up a defence or I…
Q: I work with people who suffer from chronic pain and I’m wondering what would assist them in dealing with it. John: To have no personal issue with chronic pain. For the most part, people who have chronic pain are attached to it. Only profound…
Is it okay to be acutely sensitive to the pain of others? As we awaken, do we continue to feel this much pain? John describes the difference between a clean piercing of the heart, and sensitivity that’s really about our own issues and stories.
Q: I have a close friend who’s very ill with multiple sclerosis. We were talking together today and wondering how it’s possible to trust totally; to accept and be grateful when you’re hoping to heal from a terminal disease, and are afraid of dying….
A talk about integrating male energy, hormones, desire, and the way beyond boyhood into real sexual maturity.
Q: You’ve recently spoken about what being woman is and I’ve been wondering whether it’s really the same to be a man. John: At the very base of it, yes. When awareness integrates consciousness, it doesn’t just enter into being both man and…
Speaking to a woman about her bi-polar disorder, John describes how relating exclusively to what is unshakeable within her is the key to not only weathering the storms of her condition, but to her evolution as awareness.
How did I get to feel so trapped in my self when I know there’s more to me? John describes the way to our deeper self, past practised methods of coping and ideas of self-esteem – all the way in to the real, unshakable you.
Q: I have a burning question about a relationship with a man I’ve been with for some time. I dread being with him, basically. I shut down, and I don’t know if that signifies an ending. When I’m away from him I have space…
