John sorts out the growing sense this person has of being lost in her self and going crazy. Are any of her experiences real, and who is she, really?
Location: Munich
The woman in this dialogue receives encouragement from John to keep moving forward in what she knows deep within, even when there’s a fear of not being strong enough to continue.
John responds to a person longing to find home within, yet repeatedly caught in patterned ways. He explains how we can move on two different levels, forming a living bridge that heals the split, within.
The experience of emptiness and openness on the path of integration can feel like a no-man’s land. John explains why that is, how to avoid a spiritual ego, and what to trust … even if you feel like a fool.
The sense of having nothing to hold onto allows a moment of communion, an experience of being. John explains when holding has value and when it is merely conditioning, coming between us and what we really are.
Q: Right after that last meeting I felt as if a little door opened in me. It had to do with what you said about experience being a messenger. Openness and softness took on new meaning. My body started opening and there was more…
Q: I’ve just had an operation for breast cancer and the doctors tell me I should do chemotherapy. I’ve decided not to because if I don’t learn to love and respect myself I will have cancer again in a few years, anyway. I’m hoping…
Others’ anger in his relationships or at work always leaves this person feeling hurt and guilty. Why is this, and how can he live with his super-sensitivity?
Q: When I saw you a few days ago with some other people, I saw something embodied that struck me. I can clearly see essential qualities and beings in people. It’s an unearthly quality, as if it would need the whole world to sustain…
A decision taken in childhood that it is not safe to love is opened up in this dialogue. John reveals the mechanism and the role of emotion in its creation, and we discover how the whole structure can transform.
Q: I can see clearly essential qualities and essential beings in people. This quality seems to be not an earthly quality. I had the impression maybe there is even more if I go deeper. Can you say more about that? John: Not deep into…
In life, we really have only this moment to be what we came here to be. Life will bring both great and small events from which we can learn, creating opportunities to realize and match our highest calling.
