The Translucent View

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share This is the last post I write in 2011, before we enter cautiously into the most hyped year in human history: two thousand and twelve. Rather like the latest Star Wars film, or Harry Potter book, the anticipation builds us up into such a state of frenzy that we may have no choice but [...]

Share Neal Rogin has been involved in countless movie scripts, books and social and political action campaigns for many decades. He wrote the script for the “Awaken the Dreamer” movie for the Pachamama Alliance, and recently worked on the movie “Thrive”. So this week, as a special holiday celebration, here is the very best of [...]

Share We’re four weeks into the current Awakening Coaching Training, and it’s been inspiring, gratifying, and deeply touching, to be sharing shifting consciousness with people from all over the world. Our participants this time come from Paraguay, Chile, Germany, Sweden, England, Canada, and all over the United States. Now here’s a wonderful little miracle that [...]

Share The top news story today is that scientists at CERN, the Swiss organization which oversees the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider beneath the Swiss-French border, may have final proof for the “God Particle,” which would mysteriously and magically explain everything else in the Universe. It’s not quite right to call these infinitesimally small building blocks [...]

Share This is the last week of the How to Thrive in the New Economy tele-seminar series. We’ve had a wonderful time talking to people like Genpo Roshi, Danielle Laporte, Jack Canfield, and Mark Gafni. If you missed some, or all, of the series, you can buy the entire collection for $25, and we give [...]