Q: My father died last year and since then my mother has become very unhappy and dependent on me. I’m with her a lot. I often feel her unhappiness and it makes me physically ill. John: She doesn’t need you. She needs to be…
Year: 2015
Q: I told you long ago about my sleeplessness. I’m only able to sleep with strong medicines and even then it’s difficult. I feel weak and there are long periods when I feel completely empty: no thoughts and emotions, only emptiness and fear. John:…
Q: I have a question about raising children and enjoying them in the way you’ve been describing. I have two daughters. John: How old are they? Q: Five and nine. I enjoyed the first child from the beginning, and it has been easy. The second is…
Q: My question is about how to be in the ending of a relationship. My partner has decided it’s not right for him to be with me and I’m ready to let go, to see the good in what is there between us and…
Q: I think my young son is testing boundaries, and he sometimes quite intentionally does things we’ve asked him not to do. He seems to want our reaction or response. John: He wants to play with power, so you need to play back to him…
John’s core teachings refer to knowing, and being true to what we know. Here’s an introduction to what he means by knowing, and what makes it different from understanding.
Q: I notice in my intimate, sexual relationships that I can be in a moment of openness, comfort and radiance, and then if I’m spoken to in a way that feels aggressive, unkind or mean I’m very quick to close my heart and my…
Q: You speak of awareness and knowing as one, and its movement being love. It doesn’t always have to be spoken in words – just being what we know is enough. Yet words are necessary in this world and you speak them so finely….
Q: I’m trying to get pregnant and for a few years I’ve been having fertility treatments. It’s not happening, and I wonder how to deal with that. It feels like it’s taken everything from me. John: It’s taken everything from you because you’re making…
Q: When physical death comes, what are the actual consequences of how we’ve used the opportunity of this life? John: Don’t wait for that! The real consequence is that you will have forfeited your real, magnificent opportunity to evolve as awareness. You’re in this…
Q: I’d love you to speak more about the relationship of the being, the soul, the spirit, and love. John: What matters more than anything – what matters more than your self, what matters more than your whole life, what matters more than your…
Q: Earlier this year I had a vision of having a wife and two children in about ten years’ time. Now, my girlfriend and I are four months into her pregnancy – a little earlier than expected – and it’s pushing our evolution, for…
