Wednesday, July 25, 2007









I found that when I eventually got to grips with my feelings,
or started to,
that I began to grow as a human person.

I became an adult when I was about forty years old.
That was part of my discovery because I journey inward.
The opening of a new life
to a new life
and the owning of those vivid experiences which seem to influence life so powerfully
...... negative or positive.

"The unreflected life is not worth living"
Socrates

I have led a groups of many different kinds into this this journey.
In a group - I experience the most powerful kind of learning.
I ask questions of others in the group before me
always rehearsed on myself
cutting deep
.... the question was one which outside of the normal chit chat .............
An example is "When did you become an adult?"

.... fantastic level of sharing bursts forth
I can tell you - it is beautiful
And the answer touches all humans within the listening ear
Who manage their ears
all around the risk taker.

What pleased me was the honesty in terms of sharing feelings.
Raw and to the bone.
Because it is not only the listeners who feel the impact
it is the the one, also, who fumbles and stumble as they describes their real life experiences.

"We become fully conscious of what we are able to express to someone else.
We may already have had the inner intuition about it but it must remain vague so long as it is unformulated.”
Paul Tournier ‘
The Meaning of Persons’

When you work with people who have had massive disasters in their childhood's
followed by later crippling blows,
it is something special to hear their stories
and the story telling is a release.
All the pressure
capped in their volcano soul
defused.


Beautifully so, I can see and feel humans moving all around me ............
.......so many are progressing in their spiritual/wholistic/human potential/emotional life.
Some of them building on that self knowledge and growing in stature.
I love it
and it means I am reaching out my finger tip and being touched by a shalom finger tip.

I have to stretch
Comforting the disturbed
Disturbing the comfortable
and within me .............. too.

I experience beauty and pain and refuse neither.



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