Drunk on Possiblilities Feel Alive, Change the Game, Enjoy the Spoils
I crave experiences of deep intimacy with people, creative collaborations beyond ego, and states of causal or non-dual awareness because they make me feel truly alive. I am graced with these experiences too infrequently to sustain my needs and just frequently enough to make me feel that an ordinary day, in contrast to them, is mediocrity. Waah, waah, poor me, right? First world problems, s h u t…
Yoga of Aliveness
by Geri Portnoy
I feel truly alive when I surrender and let go into the evolutionary invitation of life beckoning me to step out of hiding and come closer – to touch reality in a new sensual way. Beyond my ego’s insistence on completing my to-do-list, out beyond the edges of living in the safety of my conceptual mind thinking about life. Aliveness happens when my body softens -- I let down my…
The Cycles of Life, Nature and Law
Several years ago I attended a healing/teaching gathering with my daughter and my mother out of which came profound healing and personal healing for us all. It was a follow on gathering from one we had all individually attended where the focus was on living from a heart centred will. I awoke on the last morning of the gathering with my teacher's voice in my head telling me I had to 'go back to my…
The Emerging New Earth
Our precious planet has been on a journey longer than our minds can rationally grasp, yet surprisingly our heart instinctively understands. In a dance of the elements, infinite transitions and transformations are always underway. Intrinsically designed to continue a natural and sustainable evolution, these countless interactions are forever providing sustenance and opportunity for innumerable…
What Makes You Feel Truly Alive?
This. There is more to this than this. Dimensions in “Life” itself, not being countable, while unaccountable, infinite, raison d’être. To be is not a question: we are, we are one, we are together in this. Here as one, as one being in one place. Earth. It makes me feel truly alive, happy, when I sense that we are in this together, with everyone on earth harmonious. I feel truly alive with a life…
Cultural Re-evolution
In Mexico I caught a bug. It didn't make me sick to my stomach, but it did affect my brain.
We were living in a mountain town and had driven down a rutted dirt road to tour the property of an acquaintance living off the grid. My wife and I were just beginning to talk about reducing our ecological footprint and that afternoon we saw tangible examples of practices that were still mysterious to…
What Blocks Aliveness?
In 2011, I received by what I refer to as a “divine download,” the Enough Message. It completely changed how I perceive not only myself but the world around me. In five simple sentences, it told me that from a worldview based in lack, humanity creates mostly lack. What we create is the hoarding and greed that decimate the natural world upon which all life depends. What we create is the belief…
Love Letter to Blue
Last March I attended a lecture about dream work by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat. I had been encountering the color Blue with some frequency, especially in dreams, and something happened in that lecture that changed the way I relate to Blue. I had always loved Blue, but before that experience, I would have said, “I’ve always loved blue.”
Dr. Aizenstat is a psychologist for whom not only the waking…
Requiem and Resurrection
What a blessing to enjoy the gifts of mortality and death.
Before you write me off as morbid, consider that life is precious precisely because it ends. If life were to stretch on indefinitely, there would be an all-too-human tendency to take it entirely for granted as hedonic adaptation and even boredom settles in. After all, it’s an easy mental pitfall to fail to recognize the miraculous in…
To be a citizen of the new world
Prospecting to be a citizen of the world, we need to open widely the book of nature to understand and embrace the grand truth that if everybody, only desire, obtain and practice, the universal chaos disappears.
Let us examine our human anatomy to picture out the most humble part of our body. When it comes to humility, among our body parts, nothing can compare with our feet. Precisely, I would…