The Translucent View

In the spring of 2012 two very significant changes came into our lives… The first thing was that my son got a dog. We didn’t have a lot of advanced planning around this, so one day, suddenly there was a small and very adorable puppy in our house. I had never lived with a dog [...]

      Here’s a passage from my book Leap Before You Look: Scan your body with awareness. Seek out a place of tension or discomfort, And rest there with your attention. Feel this place exactly as it is. Feel it, be with it, just as it is. Feel it not so that it will [...]

A few weeks ago I was in Tucson AZ, for a meeting of the Transformational Leadership Council.  Before the conference began, I gave a talk at the local Unity Church.  When he picked me up from the airport, my organizer told me an interesting story.  He had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy a few years [...]

    I haven’t blogged for a while, and there is a good reason why. Here it is. if you have been following my ramblings on line, you probably know that my wife Chameli and I have stumbled upon a way of being in marriage that is something close to a religious experience. We have [...]

Most everyone is familiar with John Gray’s book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, which came out more than 20 years ago. It brought the issue of differences between men and women to a much wider audience than had ever happened before, and has to date sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. [...]

How does nutrition effect the body and the spirit? Many times we sit to meditate, or practice yoga, or we simply want to drop in and be present, and the mind is just too busy.  We may come up with all kinds of metaphysical reasons why this is so:  is it old impressions in the [...]

Ok, friends, listen up, as this is seriously interesting stuff. A couple of years ago, I got introduced to a supplement (that’s capsules in a bottle, like at the health food store) by my friend John Gray.  The effects have been remarkable over this time, and the implications for the relationship of brain chemistry and [...]

Well, dear friends, I’ve blogged about a lot of topics on this site over the last months, ranging from spiritual awakening, to the state of the economy, to how to deal with depression, etc.  But today there is really only one thing on my mind that I want to talk about with you more than [...]