The Translucent View

I wonder if you’ve ever had the experience that you had a really grade-A, fantastic, unbeatable idea? Maybe it was the best screenplay ever. Period. Maybe you just got the download for the greatest novel of the century, while you were laying in the bathtub. Perhaps you just figured out a completely new way to [...]

In honor of Valentine’s Day next week, here is a passage about sex from my book The Translucent Revolution. All sex, in fact all life everywhere, is about the meeting of masculine and feminine energy, the meeting of consciousness and light. This does not mean that men always represent the masculine, or that women always [...]

We all know that when there’s a crime somewhere, the police come as quickly as possible to take fingerprints. If they can get a good print off a door handle or a glass or something, computers can compare this print to every fingerprint that’s ever been taken, both from people alive and dead, to see [...]

We’re coming up on Valentine’s Day, which is a time when all of us give a little extra nurturing to intimate relationship. If you’ve been married for 40 years, this might be a time to express your gratitude for all that’s been shared. If you’re newly together, this is the season to commit more deeply. [...]

Here is a passage from my book The Translucent Revolution. People who live translucently enter into an evolutionary process of feeling more and more, while becoming less and less reactive. They can feel without a story, without justifications. Usually, we need to say: “I am angry because of what so-and-so did.” Most of our energy [...]

About 40 years ago, I was at a boarding school in Canterbury, England. It is what is confusingly known in England as a “public school,” although in fact that actually means it’s a private school. The school was founded in the 13th century, and many of the old stone buildings have hardly been touched since [...]

Here is practice from my book Leap Before You Look. Sit together with your intimate partner Or a close friend. Decide who will be partner A, And who will be B. Partner A, You are going to share five withholds: Something significant And relevant to your relationship That has not been said. This could be [...]

I just got back from 10 days in isolation from my usual life.  No phone, no internet, no news, no Facebook or Twitter. Just …. Next week I will share with you more about what I discovered. But for now, I’d love to hear your experience of being in retreat from the world. Share with [...]

It’s 4 PM on December 31, 2011. Eight hours to go, and it’s 2012. The aliens will be landing, the tidal waves will be crashing in,  even in our little town in the foothills of the mountains, the supermarkets will have no food, money won’t be worth anything anymore, and solar flares will make your [...]

The word belief originates with the Old English word leof, which means “to hold dear.” The Encarta World English Dictionary defines it as “acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty.” But we only develop beliefs about certain things. There are many aspects [...]