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[Guest guest]

Hi Harsha,

 

I'm more interested right now in working with the identity questions and

spiritual implications of this. I believe I set this up before birth for

a reason. I'm still struggling to "get it". It's all I can do to get

through each day, preparing lessons, delivering them, etc. I'm

exploring some options - perhaps the Spiritual Lifestyle Program at

Kripalu, if I can get in. Perhaps packing my stuff up, driving off to a

place I'd like to live, renting an apartment and pounding the pavement

for work to survive and then thinking about the longer term. I seem to

need to break out of the "career" game. I've always had a plan and a

back up plan, and people pulling strings to make the plan work. That's

fine, but I'm seeking a new experience. The ideas of doing research, or

teaching engineering are very distasteful right now. I don't want to

just move horizontally, I want a major rebirth here.

 

thanks for the support,

Mark

[Guest guest]

Mark -- thank you so much for sharing your process with the Satsangh. We all

benefit greatly.

 

I pretty much walked away from a private practice in psychology after a

kundalini awakening some years ago. So much about the field had become

unpalatable. But the biggest shift was from active to receptive -- I decided

to trust that if I stopped and watched and considered deeply, Life would

carry me along in a joyful and fruitful way, instead of my deliberately

engineering everything (or so I thought at the time). I can tell you my

experiment has been wonderful, engendering 2 major moves (the latest to New

Mexico), a remarriage, and, lately, multiple new paths. I now see, too, that

many of these seemingly serendipitous events reflect deeply held dreams I

could only barely acknowledge to myself earlier. What was necessary was a

lot of time in retreat (at least 2 years) to incubate them. And learning how

to take the time required an enormous amount of cultural deconditioning.

Your considering dropping the whole idea of career for awhile is ringing BIG

bells with me! Love, Holly

[Guest guest]

Dear Mark, if you come by Victoria you are welcome...

Some coffee, deserts, what else?

Chopping wood? Nah, that would make too much Zense. But I got plenty of wood

to chop...

 

Maybe my special breakfast, if you deserve it.... No no, not that, jakkes,

that thread is over...

 

I won't try to talk you out of what you are in...it might just be the place

for a major rebirth or not...

 

Lynette is good isn't she. Some of the stuff she is figuring out, so good to

witness that.

You do, do you?

 

Much Love, Wim

And a special hug, my man...