In this dialogue with an expectant mother, John describes how best to nurture her child both in utero and after the birth, describing the gift of being-to-being connectivity available to her in pregnancy.
Location: The Netherlands
Q: I would like to deepen the connection between me and my child, and be more aware in it. Can you help me to do that? John: Be really seen. Reveal your heart and give your heart without embellishment, so that when you’re giving…
Q: I want to ask you about gentleness in the face of injustice or inappropriate behaviour. I’ve been told in the past that I should toughen-up, but I struggle with how to articulate with clarity when I see something that is wrong. How can…
Q: For some time I’ve been feeling that my purpose on earth is to help people heal, not as much physically as spiritually. What inside of me needs to open or develop to be able to do so? John: You’re wanting to help people…
Though it’s true that walking a spiritual path can get you closer to what you’re searching for, it may be the very thing that ultimately separates you from returning to your true home.
Q: It’s a rare opportunity to sit with someone like you and I’m trying to think of the best question. Is there a benefit in verbally asking a question and being answered? John: Anything that is real is worth it. Q: I’ve read…
Q: How can I best support my daughter through her parents’ splitting-up and through all the changing outer circumstances, like moving house? John: By enjoying her. Q: “Enjoying” … do you mean loving? John: “Loving” can become complicated. Q: What do you mean by…
Q: I recently retired from work. I’m sixty-two. I intend to live beyond ninety and am thinking what to do with the remaining thirty years of my life. The question is about focus and choice. What is my task for these remaining thirty years…
This questioner can feel daunted by the effects she fears her changing orientation might have on those she loves. How to live it in the workplace, too? There is a cost, John agrees, but with a gift just beneath it. He clarifies for her how to be in her changes with others.
This questioner feels frustrated in her wish to be of help to the world, to address the environmental problems and human suffering. John explains to her that frustration only makes matters worse – that the planet will thrive when we live and relate to it instead from our innermost being.
How can we manifest the divine? Before you can ascend, you must descend and remain in the quiet deep. As you sustain this in your life you dissolve the barrier between the conscious and the subconscious, eliminating the polarity of what fundamentally drives you; hope and fear. Existing beyond hope and fear, gently letting go of the neediness in the self, leaves you being everything that you’ve been looking for.
How can we find joy in life? Isn’t that what life is all about? In this dialogue, John explains that when you believe the noise in your self, you’re fundamentally unhappy because you’re not being what you really are. Joy is actually the beingness of the real you, and the manifestation of that is as simple as falling asleep.
