Dear friends, the Amazon Kindle/ electronic version of my
book, The Path Is Everywhere, is now available. You can find it here. I hope you enjoy the book and find
it helpful.
Drawing on my personal journey as well as my work with
others as a therapist and guide, I wrote The Path Is Everywhere with the
intention that it serve as a provocative, alive, and compassionate invitation
to re-enchant our ideas about healing and spiritual awakening in the modern
world.
Weaving together the wisdom streams of contemplative
spirituality, relational and somatic psychotherapy, and the poetic imagination,
The Path Is Everywhere reminds us that the depth and magic of the sacred world
is always already here, buried in our emotions, bodies, relationships, and in
the natural world itself.
Many have grown weary from a long search, exhausted from an
endless quest to improve, hold it all together, heal all their wounds, and
complete some mythical spiritual journey. But you are not a project to be
solved. You are a mystery coming into form, and you have the raw materials that
you need, right now, to live a life of profound depth, purpose, and meaning.
We hear much about healing and spiritual awakening, and the
deep joy, clarity, and peace that are its promised fruits. Often ignored,
however, are the disappointments of awakening and the ways it can shatter our
hearts, breaking us open to the reality of the crucifixion, resurrection, and
transfiguration we are likely to encounter along the way.
In the rush to convert the negative to the positive,
manifest everything we believe we want, and manage our lives into some
permanent state of "happiness," we lose contact with the reality that
there is no transfiguration without embodiment to the dark cross within. The
journey of becoming a true human person is messy by nature, as it emerges
directly out of the unknown and requires compassionate confrontation with the
entirety of what we are.
As we journey together as fellow travelers, let us commit
to embracing both the joy and the heartbreak of the path, and bear witness to
the wisdom shining out of our immediate experience, whether it appears as
sadness, bliss, despair, or great joy. Grace will appear in both sweet and
fierce forms but it is still grace, sent from beyond to open us to the radiant
fullness of being.
It is my hope that these words, as limited as all words
are, will somehow ignite a fire within you, spreading in the four directions,
seeding everyone and everything in its wake with the erupting and outrageously
creative energies of pure love. And that this book will make even a minuscule
contribution to the reduction of suffering in our world.
