Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Jonathan Van Valin has arrived back in Seattle after his travels and sends along a booklet describing his original experience that explains his wisdom and humor. Here’s a teaser from his book. Jonathan is recovering from a super painful operation when he feels his life force ebbing away: “… then came the third recognition which […]
Nov 27, 2022 https://www.assistthespirit.com/a-doorway-within-wide-open/ I stood at the end of a pier, drinking it in… The snow-capped Olympics glistened over Puget Sound from end to end on this particularly warm evening in April. Rigging on hundreds of boats tinkled casually amid an occasional seagull’s cry, and in the distance … as is common if you […]
Oct 8, 2021 (https://www.assistthespirit.com/poetry-of-the-incarcerated/) Perhaps it’s been years and years since one has even thought of it… yet, at some point there arose a curious thought about the distant past: That one had put oneself in the cage. Put oneself there?!? It had always seemed like it was just the way it was. That one […]
How Does Awakening & Healing Really Happen? Feb 20, 2021 (https://www.assistthespirit.com/how-does-healing-happen/) What appears to be a healing process is like a lighthouse guiding a ship to safety. The lighthouse doesn’t choose where it’s light falls… In fact, it doesn’t do much of anything. It just shines. It doesn’t really have any “will” of its own. […]
There is a way of “looking past” all the stories a person might be telling themselves, past their “egoic structure,” and past all their pain and suffering and contracted self-concept. To what then? What is there? This is why music and art can be so powerful… They can embody what is there without resorting to […]
