Introduction
I was twenty-two years old when I fell in love with Spirit. I had felt the presence of this mysterious, ineffable other dimension many times throughout my childhood and teenage years, mostly during times spent in nature hiking, rock climbing, or swimming in the ocean. During these times of communion with the natural world, I remember a sometimes vague, sometimes acute sense that there was something indescribably sacred, huge, and mysterious that permeated everything in the world. I would at once feel both a great longing to know it, as well as a deep knowing that even if I didn’t understand what it is, that it most certainly is. Like a child fascinated by things in the adult world that I did not understand, I resolved to not try to figure it out, but to simply enjoy knowing it was there. Growing up not going to church and not having “Spirit” or “God” ever come up in conversation at home, I didn’t have much encouragement to pursue my personal relationship with this mystery. Therefore, my relationship stayed at this childlike level until, at twenty-two, after two years of teaching yoga in college, I began my national certification as a yoga teacher in order to deepen my own practice and my teaching.
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The dark night of the soul–An initiation into spiritual adulthood
Posted in Scholarly Papers on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Stop spiritual windowshopping! Holistic spiritual mentoring in support of practice spirituality
Posted in Scholarly Papers on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These spiritual windowshoppers,
who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.
What is spent is love, and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.
Where did you go? “Nowhere.”
What did you [...]
Community of Spirit: Mapping Relational Spirituality
Posted in Scholarly Papers on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Serving the Earth: Deep ecology and spiritual education
Posted in Scholarly Papers, tagged Add new tag on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have reached a point of near eco-catastrophe; the development of a global technological society has caused widespread and drastic destruction of the natural world as we humans have become farther removed from nature. Not unrelated, we have also reached a point of near ego-castastrophe, as well, which, depending on the perspective taken, is both [...]
