Living on the Edge of Evolution

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In my blog entry of October 26, 2008 titled Global Crises: We Don’t Have to Hit Bottom, I shared my own intention for interacting with our times:

I am dynamically linked to a number of inspiring people, treatment centers and healing organizations. It will be my mission to engage a conversation with them in the days and weeks ahead about how we can organically meet our collective challenge in ways that allow us to move forward with grace and dignity and at the same time benefit all. Never before in history has our human, global inter-connectedness been so tangibly obvious — to have a blind spot to this and not seize the moment would be a tragedy.

This intention is being fulfilled while I am experiencing a new aliveness and thriving connections from conscious interactions. Since October of last year, I have engaged with many very bright people, along with pioneering institutions, and the results continue to manifest gratification of my desire. In the photo above, I am in my office with Lynn McKnight, the Clinical Director for Crossroads Antigua, an international non-profit recovery center founded by Eric Clapton.  Together, we are envisioning programs for their new renewal center. The photo was taken by Lisa Baruch, Crossroad's local community relations official.  The Meadow’s, a renowned treatment center in Arizona has honored me with an invitation to share a free introduction on Tuesday evening, October 13th to the Reinventing Ourselves Naturally course that is the cutting edge of my research. This event in New York City is open to all. Find out if the next course starting in late January in New York might be a good fit for you or someone you care about. Click here for details and to reserve complimentary limited space.

 I am also very psyched by the emerging results of the 2^nd session of this fall’s 10-week “Reinventing…” course in NYC. The participants are already sensing a new relationship with their own evolution that is pleasurable, beyond any preconceptions they have ever had. It is very exciting! In this version of the course we’ve included the simple yet elegant methods of Focusing. Developed by Eugene Gendlin 30 years ago, Focusing is the never-aging grandfather of my own Focalizing, and it makes the process even more accessible to participants. Enlarge photo (above left) for a metaphorical image and text on Gene's work. 

Lastly, a big thank you to my friend Jay Tyrrell for his beautiful photographs of nature's solemnity displayed in my new space.

Happy autumn to all, Michael