This is an article I wrote for a talk I gave at the Paradoxica Nondual Psychology Conference at Lethbridge University, in June 2014. It provoked a very powerful and vulnerable conversation with everyone there.
I am challenging a lot of the unspoken assumptions we have about what spiritual practice really is, and how our relationships with the teacher and with each other, can support our healing, awakening and evolution.
I feel it’s time for us to enter a much deeper understanding of how to integrate our human nature with our approach to spirituality. Please read my article, and let me know your own insights, experiences and challenges in this area. Thank you!
Evolving-the-Sangha. Final Edit
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Thank you Shayla! I feel a sister energy here with you. I love the small group meetings and the opportunities they provide to be real with one another. Not so much in email which lacks the intensity of meeting that Martin Buber and you are speaking to.
Recently I noticed from several sources – meetings – that beyond the labels that we might fear having placed on us, we’re right there with the “trauma” people because we’re all coming from the same human ground. So how can we make it safe to be the ordinary and screwed up one that we are, the one and only – tah dah! (Since I’m laughing now I’ll quit while I’m ahead! :))