Hey Friends,

May has brought with it a full roster of deep healing retreats and with it a plethora of insights about the nature of mind and healing.

I’m feeling tremendously privileged to be at the forefront of this high art, and to be sharing the jewels that come along the way.

Here are a few high-level notes to spice up your weekend.

Visionary Cartography: The Inner Art of Healing, Transformation, and Mastery

In recent times, I’ve had doubts about using the metaphor of cartography, but I find it true to the territory time and again.

We humans intuitively draw upon our most artful and scientific inner maps to guide our inner journeys. Like living legends (double meaning intended), we put our inner world on the table to discuss the path forward.

In doing so, we make the invisible world known so we can navigate the complexities of the inner world together. This beautiful, simple, and timeless mode of communication is the way we come into resonance, coherence, and get to the heart of where the healing is at.

In-Between Lands: Ephemeral States

If you are anything like me, you are mystified by the transient nature of phenomena!

I’ve been deeply studying the Buddhist view of emptiness (shunyata) and challenging myself to consistently look directly into the nature of arising, abiding, and passing.

Like clouds in the sky or a dreamer in a dream, lucidity just happens when ephemeral experience is seen clearly for what it actually is.

This insight practice is consistently mind-blowing, and surprisingly calming!

The Great Embrace: Complete Acceptance

These kinds of insights can seem like dated spiritual platitudes. Or, in the infamous words of Michael Pollan, our greatest realizations born of psychedelic hyperspace often read like corny Hallmark cards!

Nonetheless, awareness has the very nature of complete acceptance. When we embrace everything as it is, we naturally dissolve resistances and align with reality.

This disintegrates fragmentary, illusory selves in opposition to reality and reunites us with fundamental unity.

That realization is as healing and liberating as it sounds!

The Bliss of Incarnation: Fundamental Life Questions

After pretense and the artifices of a complex world are melted down into the open-hearted, warm embrace of basic goodness, what do we often come back to?

Fundamental, childlike questions of awe, wonder, and beauty.

Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?

Holding these moments in vulnerability is the genuine, life-giving nourishment out of which true development emerges.

While journey work is inherently unpredictable in what contents will arise – Arriving into this kind of shared relational space is predictably extremely healing!

The Journey Forward

The journey of healing, transformation, and mastery calls us forward. The calling of our dharma has an onward current. Said another way… Its going places.

As we embrace the path, embrace reality for what it is, and embrace the weird and the wonderful, we can find ourselves instinctively wired for continuous bliss, growth, and expansion.

This is the natural progression into realizing our full potential, again and again, as we deepen our true Self-understanding and live in harmony with creation.

To your infinite game creation,

~DHR