In this dialogue a questioner asks John about how to heal depression. Recorded at ABC Carpet & Home in New York.
Topic: Feelings & Emotions
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…
Q: I have tapped into a consciousness of grief that I feel is not mine. It comes through me like a pipeline. I would like to let that go, because it does affect me, but I’m not sure how to go about it. John:…
John de-mystifies the dark, dead experience of depression and how to be free of it.
Q: I have a question about what it is to be in your heart. I feel it’s difficult to connect to it, and I’d like to know how to do it. John: When you open and soften, that naturally brings you right into your…
Q: Can sex be a pure expression of love? Whenever I have a relationship and it involves sex, something always goes wrong. I don’t know how to solve this. John: By being in your sexuality without connecting the movement of your sexual energy to…
Q: For a long time, I have felt defeated in some way by my self and wanting it to be different. I would like your help to avoid getting so triggered and to stay in my heart. John: Deeply surrender to using no negative phrasing…
JdR Audio 299
“Instead of watching the truth that you know in your heart, be taken by the cosmic truth that’s just beneath that. It doesn’t offer an understanding. It does offer a sense of context within which your opened humanness sits.”
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January 21, 2016
“You don’t need to understand your being; you know your being. Without any label, you still know. What you know is depth and quality that’s the same as what you really are. When you are in response to that, you are one.” Open unconditionally,…
