Gary's Blog
This blog contains reflections from my journal. I am always interested in where others are in their lives in these matters of the soul, so if you are moved to share, please do so. Simply go to the Contact page, or leave a comment at the end of any of my entries. Meanwhile, blessings on your journey.
Below are links to the ten most recent entries. To view more, use the pagination menu at the bottom of each listing page.
Just Where Are We "Going" on our Spiritual Path?
I had several helpful/clarifying/confusing responses to my previous blog, Those “Amazingly Modern” Pathwork Lectures. I add “confusing” to “helpful/clarifying” just to confess my own naiveté and limited experience with the subject matter. (Let’s explore!)
Those "Amazingly Modern" Pathwork Lectures
…my amazement of, thrill with, and my deep appreciation for this Pathwork material grows daily. Yes, daily, now as I work nearly every day as the “Happy Philosopher Monk” in creating the Devotional Format of the Pathwork Lectures.
The Pathwork Lectures — A Mystical Text
…how I experience the body of 258 Pathwork Lectures as a Mystical Text…
Enlivened by Confronting My Fear of My Self
“The more you surrender to what is YOUR LIFE, as you are doing here, not comparing yourself to others or to the expectations of Mom or Dad or others, this action of being OK with your life as it is, opens things up!”
Dancing with the Work of PathWork, Take 2
We chatted more about resisting pain and turned to how I resist pain in our, Pat’s and my, relationship specifically.
What Purpose Inspires Life's Forward Movement?
I found myself reflecting on the past several days and realizing that nearly all of my experiences in these recent days and weeks have been quite enlivening for me.
Dancing With The Work of PathWork
…Yes, a cloud of darkness and anxiety was coming in on my evening. I wasn’t sure what was in my anxiety and the darkness rolling in, but there it was, and I was very aware of it.
Grieving For Not Feeling Grief — AND For So Many Years
While she spoke this with tenderness and love, I noticed that I could not really take in her words, I could not bring myself to believe her words.
When Light Meets Darkness
To my amazement and delight (OK, and at first to my panic) Marjorie Bair had read not only my write up on the April 14-17 Trust Workshop that she had led, but she also read both of my two previous blog entries on Pat’s and my experience at Sage’s workshop on Divine Sexuality last weekend,
Moving Forward in Couplehood after Divine Sexuality Workshop
Wednesday morning, following the couples workshop, I commented to Pat about my sense of stuckness in our relating. Was I resigning myself to not being fulfilled in the sexual/physical dimensions of our otherwise beautiful relationship?