Using everyday examples, John explains how to come into and sustain the meaning we really belong to, describing in detail how we can continue to realize and respond.
Topic: Introductory
A cancer diagnosis has raised many questions and an avalanche of fear for this person. From John’s perspective, it comes with many opportunities for an unusual depth of healing.
Only the subtlest resonance may remain from awareness in the sleep state, but John describes its power to connect us to what we really are – if we trust it unconditionally.
John meets questions and difficulties from experiences of a deeper reality, where it can be hard to distinguish the real from the imaginary. Do I even belong in this world?
Angry, frustrated or annoyed? In that moment, help is at hand. These feelings are lovely messengers bringing an invitation that can be easy to miss.
Is it possible to invest a lot of time and energy in a project and not be caught up with its success or failure? There’s a quality of being that makes all the difference, and John explains.
Is there a way to stay connected to the deep while under pressure? John describes it as an all-weather beingness and explains how to become stabilized in its quiet nurture.
A question about enlightenment develops into an astonishing revelation of what our potential as consciousness really is, and it all begins with being given to the sweetest touch of tenderness.
Is “nothingness” the void that it seems? From a deeper perspective, the stillness is full of movement, the emptiness full of qualities of our being that can manifest in the midst of the self we’ve become.
“The truth within is first all romanticized, until you’re in the desert, where all self-consolation, self-promise, self-hope has expired, and there you are in the quietude of your heart in a depth of listening within. You need no results. You need no fruit. You need no light at the end of the tunnel. You need no promise of anything. All you are is true. There’s nothing else to you, and the beingness of that is love. Love, all on its own, naturally undaunted by absolutely anything. That’s what you really are.”
We have enormous power, and what we do with it defines us in a way that’s readable even after death. John emphasizes the role of clarity in becoming all we’re able to be in this life.
The soul is shrouded in mystery, yet it can evolve massively while we are in this life. How does that happen, and what is the dark night of the soul?
