Positive experience, negative experience, no experience. John shares why experience doesn’t matter, and the value of being quietly at peace, within.
Topic: Feelings & Emotions
In this talk John talks about how to bring your spiritual awakening into your everyday life. He describes moving from within your heart, through the difficulties experienced on the surface levels, when bringing your awakening into form.
John speaks about deepening our spiritual awakening even while we’re feeling inadequate. Nothing needs to stop our spiritual awakening. It doesn’t matter if it temporarily makes us socially inept.
“You may lose their confidence in you and your confidence in your self, while you are really fattening up on beingness.”
John continues by saying “You’re losing what you don’t need while the roots of awareness are growing.”
This is a great introductory talk for people who are experiencing a lack of emotions but who wish to find deeper levels of consciousness and spiritual awakening.
John talks about how to relate to trauma during a crisis. He speaks to the repetitive nature of trauma as it re-occurs like in the movie “Groundhog Day”, and how we can open and love within that trauma, or get lost in “The Matrix”.
Does the presence of tears mean that you’re being emotional? No, says John, and he goes on to explain what emotions are for and what to look for when we’re deeply touched.
Q1: When I’m feeling lonely, I often find diversions – watching movies or doing housework – to keep my self occupied. Can you say something about this? John: If you’re lonely, it’s because you are coldly alone. Q1: Coldly alone? John: Yes, instead of…
John describes how inner peace is not dependent on no one mistreating you, and it’s possible to exist in a level that isn’t dependent on experience.
In this dialogue a questioner asks John about how to heal depression. Recorded at ABC Carpet & Home in New York.
A fundamental topic: the healing effect of no longer relating by positive or negative emotion instead of the connectivity of beingness.
John responds to this person’s search for the cause of her anxiety and sense of separation, even from God.
Q: I grew up during the Second World War, and we had a philosophy that it’s safest to be quiet and not ask too many questions. Very late in life I realized that I’m really part of an interaction with everything in this world…
Q: I was very touched by the image you gave of a sail boat. I can relate to that because I’ve done a lot of sailing, but I would like to know more about being in touch with the keel, and how to stay…
