Divorce: can being with a different partner fulfil all it seems to promise? Is there any truth to what feels like a soul connection? A dialogue full of big questions, deeply and delicately answered.
Location: Israel
All the ways that we can be honest – but only so far – show up in this dialogue, but it’s only core-splitting honesty that takes us all the way to what we really are. It’s the end of reality as we’ve known it, and the beginning of a very different life.
Q: I feel such openness in every cell of my body. Why am I not falling like a drop into the ocean? John: Because the drop has investments not in the ocean. The drop has things that matter to it that are not in…
Questioning the truth of an awakening experience she had, the woman in this dialogue wants to know how she can be sure it was real. John gives a somewhat surprising answer and explains the difference between certainty in your self and real knowledge.
Q: I want to talk to you about control. I really know I need to let go of control in my life, in particular my controlling of other people. I’m always telling my partner what to do, and not believing he’s doing his best….
Q: I have issues with my weight and my body. It seems like there’s a program that says when I wake in the morning “wow, you ate a lot yesterday” or things like that. I see it and I do nothing, but what I…
Q: What is the calling and how does one surrender completely? What is the right expression of it? It seems that anything else is irrelevant. John: Why do you bring up the calling? What is it to you? Q: There’s something that I awakened…
How is it that we can experience being ‘home’ within, and then suddenly lose it? John takes this young man through what’s happening in his nervous system and how, through the experience of a hot or a cold shower, he can realize and remember the code to the quiet okayness of home.
Q: I experience my self as a very shy person. How I can adjust my shyness so that it doesn’t restrict me in certain situations? John: Don’t adjust it or change it. Don’t cover it. Don’t be ashamed of it, and whatever that restricts…
A painful physical experience has woken this man up to his body and the power of love in healing. He’s shocked to see how he’s neglected his body and wants to change, but how? John encourages him to let his feelings of guilt create a love-relationship with his body starting with the simple enjoyment of being in it “in the little things”.
Q: I have a hard time relaxing. Lately, we’ve been living in a combat zone near the Gaza strip and we have a lot of bombing days. Recently there was bombing in the night, with rockets falling from both sides. That night I tried…
John’s response to this woman’s call for help with what to do with her anger goes straight to the point. His practical suggestion is followed by a full explanation of what’s really happening when we’re angry.
