Lineages of Inspiration
The Streams That Flow Into My Work
My writing and coaching practice emerges from several streams of wisdom that have shaped my understanding of human transformation, attachment, and our relationship with reality. While I weave these perspectives together in my own way, I want to honor the teachers and traditions whose insights have been fundamental to my work.
Primary Influences
CosmoErotic Humanism
The work of the egregore David J Temple forms perhaps the deepest foundation of my thinking. CosmoErotic Humanism offers a profound framework for understanding our relationship with the field of values—truth, beauty, and goodness as living realities we can participate in. This perspective understands our current planetary crisis as fundamentally rooted in disorders of intimacy, both personal and collective.
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Monastic Academy Training
Soryu Forall's teachings and my six years of intensive training at the Monastic Academy (including 200+ days on solitary retreat) provided a foundation in embodied contemplative practice. This experience impressed upon me the necessity of wisdom in addressing our planetary crisis and the radical nature of transformation required to overcome systemic patterns of suffering and delusion.
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Attachment Theory & The Ideal Parent Figure Protocol
Dr. Daniel P. Brown's groundbreaking work on attachment repair has revolutionized our understanding of how early experiences shape our perception of reality and how we can heal these patterns through deliberate practice. His Ideal Parent Figure Protocol provides a powerful methodology for securing the attachment system.
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Planetary Dharma
John Churchill's extension of Brown's attachment work into the domain of sacred world has been pivotal in my understanding of spirituality as secure attachment with reality. Churchill's work explores how securing the attachment system opens pathways to experiencing reality as fundamentally welcoming and meaningful.
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Aletheia Unfolding
Steve March's transformational framework integrates embodied awareness with sophisticated conceptual understanding. His work on the "technological attunement" and how we become trapped in mechanical ways of relating to ourselves and others has deeply informed my understanding of modern suffering.
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Focusing and Felt Sensing
Eugene Gendlin's work on Focusing and the embodied "felt sense" provides a fundamental methodology for working with bodily knowing. This approach to tracking the body's wisdom has been essential to my understanding of authentic transformation.
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Soulmaking Dharma
Rob Burbea's profound exploration of how we can work with perception and imagination in spiritual practice has influenced my understanding of how meaning emerges through our relationship with experience. His work on "ways of looking" and the imaginal provides crucial insights into how we can engage with reality more creatively and meaningfully.
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The Divided Brain
Iain McGilchrist's research on the divided brain has provided a neurological basis for understanding how we've become disconnected from direct knowing. His work illuminates how our cultural emphasis on left-hemisphere dominance has contributed to our crisis of meaning.
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Integration and Practice
My work attempts to weave these streams together, finding where they converge and illuminate each other. I believe these perspectives, taken together, offer a coherent understanding of both our current predicament and the path toward healing—personally and collectively.
This integration isn't merely theoretical—it emerges from practice, from direct experience, and from working with these frameworks in my own life and with others. The understanding I share is constantly evolving through this lived engagement.
Acknowledging Limitations
While I draw deeply from these traditions, I recognize the limitations in my own understanding and expression of these teachings. Any misrepresentations or oversimplifications are my own. I encourage readers who resonate with these themes to explore the original sources directly and to develop their own relationship with these streams of wisdom.
Ongoing Exploration
This network of influences continues to grow and evolve. I remain a student of these traditions while actively exploring where they lead. If you're drawn to any of these streams, I encourage you to investigate them directly—each contains depths that my writing can only hint at.
I offer this overview not as a comprehensive map but as an invitation to explore these lineages yourself. My hope is that by acknowledging these streams, I can both honor my teachers and provide pathways for readers to deepen their own understanding beyond what my writing alone can offer.
Work with me: I offer one-on-one guidance helping people develop secure attachment with reality through deep unfoldment work. If this resonates, explore working together