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.
There’s soft music playing quietly in the background, belying the silence of my home. I sit at my kitchen counter writing, as David does loops around the island. We call this his bathroom dance. He never goes directly to the bathroom, but makes these loops for a while until he either sits back down on the couch or stops in front of the bathroom door, waiting for assistance. As I watch him now, with his head bowed as he walks slowly and silently by, he reminds me of a Zen monk engrossed in walking meditation.
Perhaps David was a monk in a prior life. I used to call him my silent Buddha. I even gave a talk about him once with that title. Living with David has brought me to my knees. He has challenged aspects of myself that cry out for things to be different, aspects of myself that fight against what is. For years I allowed these aspects to have their voice, to rage against the past, the present and the future. But as I have matured and faced these aspects, I have fallen to my knees, opened my heart and bowed my head before the vast silence of what is.
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
