The Artist of
POSSIBILITY
Magazine
The Spontaneous Writing Circle is a peer-led group in The Mystery School.
In timed sessions, a member will read a poem or excerpt of prose after which the group write what's present to each of them, unedited and uncensored. The intention is to have the words appear while any effort to create them is surrendered. Each person then reads their writing to each other, and no critique is offered. This absence of distinctions and value judgments has created an open and lively space of ease, appreciation and creativity and a constant experience of wonder. This piece was written in one of these circles.
When I first came across this phrase of Virginia Woolf’s
with what I know
It seemed the fitting phrase that stands out about her.
Her famous struggles are the ones we’ve revisited
and are famous to us.
We women have inherited all the doubts –
and confuse all matters that we think are arising.
All matters arising
cannot be confused with the odds against us.
Our shock-receiving capacity allows the artist in us to want more
beyond measure …
more than being the feelers and sensors –
the empaths and patient givers.
The same force that drives the universe is driving us as creators.
Life is created through us
we , the birthers –
we are shock-receiving witnesses.
I have turned trauma into art and cruelty and shame into beauty.
Step outside and there is only wonder.
I dig into the soul of the earth
to find what germinates there.
I plant the way my life will grow
I birth beauty with my face to the desperation and fear around me.
As it is all one thing happening
I dive into the shallows
to shape anything with crude metals
and love
as a witness shaper.
Interviews
From False Identity to Divine Truth
An interview with Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
Living Transmission: The Full Spectrum of Vedantic Awakening
An interview with Acharya Shunya
Let Your Awakening Be a Force for Change
An interview with Jac O’Keeffe
Thinking the Impossible: New Myths for a Future Consciousness
An interview with Dr. Jeffrey Kripal
Mapping the Noosphere: Science, Mysticism, and the Geometry of Consciousness
An Interview with Shelli Renée JoyeBook Reviews
A Summary of the Fetzer Institute’s Sharing Spiritual Heritage Report: An review by Ariela Cohen and Robin Beck
By Ariela Cohen
Choosing Earth, Choosing Us: A book review of Choosing Earth
By Robin Beck
Monk and Robot: A book review
By Robin Beck
No Pallatives. No Promises: Radical acceptance as one woman's path to living with grief
By Amy Edelstein
